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Georg Brandld8fb6ac2009-04-01 00:04:33 +00001+++++++++++
2Python News
Skip Montanaroe5d7f7f2002-09-20 14:16:59 +00003+++++++++++
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Benjamin Petersone3c10452010-07-03 14:51:25 +00005What's New in Python 2.7.1?
6===========================
7
8*Release date: XXXX-XX-XX*
9
10Core and Builtins
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12
Benjamin Petersonbf775542010-10-16 19:20:12 +000013- Issue #10125: Don't segfault when the iterator passed to ``file.writelines()``
14 closes the file.
15
Benjamin Petersonf99f33d2010-10-24 03:00:35 +000016- Issue #10186: Fix the SyntaxError caret when the offset is equal to the length
17 of the offending line.
18
Benjamin Petersonf76942d2010-10-16 03:51:38 +000019- Issue #9997: Don't let the name "top" have special significance in scope
20 resolution.
21
R. David Murray1d9d16e2010-10-16 00:43:13 +000022- Issue #9862: Compensate for broken PIPE_BUF in AIX by hard coding
23 its value as the default 512 when compiling on AIX.
24
Benjamin Petersondc954242010-10-12 23:02:35 +000025- Issue #10068: Global objects which have reference cycles with their module's
26 dict are now cleared again. This causes issue #7140 to appear again.
27
Mark Dickinsoncb61e5d2010-09-26 10:37:12 +000028- Issue #9869: Make long() and PyNumber_Long return something of type
29 long for a class whose __long__ method returns a plain int. This
30 fixes an interpreter crash when initializing an instance of a long
31 subclass from an object whose __long__ method returns a plain int.
32
Benjamin Petersona5d5cc42010-10-02 00:08:58 +000033- Issue #10006: type.__abstractmethods__ now raises an AttributeError.
34
Antoine Pitrou0a7b65b2010-09-08 12:40:49 +000035- Issue #9797: pystate.c wrongly assumed that zero couldn't be a valid
36 thread-local storage key.
37
Victor Stinnercaafd772010-09-08 10:51:01 +000038- Issue #4947: The write() method of sys.stdout and sys.stderr uses their
39 encoding and errors attributes instead of using utf-8 in strict mode, to get
40 the same behaviour than the print statement.
41
Antoine Pitrou9cf85f12010-09-01 21:17:34 +000042- Issue #9737: Fix a crash when trying to delete a slice or an item from
43 a memoryview object.
44
Martin v. Löwis6086b0d2010-08-19 09:09:04 +000045- Restore GIL in nis_cat in case of error.
46
Benjamin Peterson6f3d6a92010-08-25 23:17:42 +000047- Issue #9688: __basicsize__ and __itemsize__ must be accessed as Py_ssize_t.
48
Florent Xicluna172e15f2010-08-09 20:02:00 +000049- Issue #8530: Prevent stringlib fastsearch from reading beyond the front
50 of an array.
51
Raymond Hettinger3ad323e2010-08-06 10:18:56 +000052- Issue #83755: Implicit set-to-frozenset conversion was not thread-safe.
53
Mark Dickinsonaad57bd2010-08-01 10:45:15 +000054- Issue #9416: Fix some issues with complex formatting where the
55 output with no type specifier failed to match the str output:
56
57 - format(complex(-0.0, 2.0), '-') omitted the real part from the output,
58 - format(complex(0.0, 2.0), '-') included a sign and parentheses.
59
Antoine Pitrou32669782010-07-11 12:14:05 +000060- Issue #7616: Fix copying of overlapping memoryview slices with the Intel
61 compiler.
Benjamin Petersone3c10452010-07-03 14:51:25 +000062
63Library
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65
Brian Curtin4cc54032010-10-21 14:48:22 +000066- Issue #10163: Skip unreadable registry keys during mimetypes
67 initialization.
68
Hirokazu Yamamoto50f7d7e2010-10-18 13:55:29 +000069- Issue #5117: Fixed root directory related issue on posixpath.relpath() and
70 ntpath.relpath().
71
Florent Xiclunab67660f2010-10-14 21:10:45 +000072- Issue 9409: Fix the regex to match all kind of filenames, for interactive
73 debugging in doctests.
74
Victor Stinnerd2f6ae62010-10-12 22:53:51 +000075- Issue #6612: Fix site and sysconfig to catch os.getcwd() error, eg. if the
76 current directory was deleted. Patch written by W. Trevor King.
77
Fred Drake577acb42010-10-11 19:13:04 +000078- Issue #10045: Improved performance when writing after seeking past the
79 end of the "file" in cStringIO.
80
Vinay Sajip5e8349e2010-10-10 20:36:04 +000081- Issue #9948: Fixed problem of losing filename case information.
82
Antoine Pitrou58dab672010-10-10 09:54:59 +000083- Issue #9437: Fix building C extensions with non-default LDFLAGS.
84
Antoine Pitrou76a66aa2010-10-06 21:26:52 +000085- Issue #9759: GzipFile now raises ValueError when an operation is attempted
86 after the file is closed. Patch by Jeffrey Finkelstein.
87
Éric Araujoc17776f2010-10-04 23:59:35 +000088- Issue #9042: Fix interaction of custom translation classes and caching in
89 gettext.
90
Lars Gustäbel6aab8d02010-10-04 15:37:53 +000091- Issue #9065: tarfile no longer uses "root" as the default for the uname and
92 gname field.
93
R. David Murray10a86762010-10-02 16:26:05 +000094- Issue #1050268: parseaddr now correctly quotes double quote and backslash
95 characters that appear inside quoted strings in email addresses.
96
R. David Murray20ad3632010-10-01 15:48:49 +000097- Issue #10004: quoprimime no longer generates a traceback when confronted
98 with invalid characters after '=' in a Q-encoded word.
99
Antoine Pitrou66b5df62010-09-27 18:16:46 +0000100- Issue #9950: Fix socket.sendall() crash or misbehaviour when a signal is
101 received. Now sendall() properly calls signal handlers if necessary,
102 and retries sending if these returned successfully, including on sockets
103 with a timeout.
104
Vinay Sajip3eac5912010-09-25 17:48:25 +0000105- Issue #9947: logging: Fixed locking bug in stopListening.
106
Vinay Sajip546885e2010-09-25 17:42:36 +0000107- Issue #9945: logging: Fixed locking bugs in addHandler/removeHandler.
108
Alexander Belopolsky517185e2010-09-24 18:14:18 +0000109- Issue #9936: Fixed executable lines' search in the trace module.
110
Antoine Pitrou2c7d6852010-09-23 19:55:24 +0000111- Issue #9928: Properly initialize the types exported by the bz2 module.
112
Antoine Pitrou6391b342010-09-14 18:48:19 +0000113- Issue #9854: The default read() implementation in io.RawIOBase now
114 handles non-blocking readinto() returning None correctly.
115
Antoine Pitrouf7f390a2010-09-14 14:37:18 +0000116- Issue #9729: Fix the signature of SSLSocket.recvfrom() and
117 SSLSocket.sendto() to match the corresponding socket methods. Also,
118 fix various SSLSocket methods to raise socket.error rather than an
119 unhelpful TypeError when called on an unconnected socket. Original patch
120 by Andrew Bennetts.
121
Raymond Hettinger74f869e2010-09-13 22:14:36 +0000122- Issue #9826: OrderedDict.__repr__ can now handle self-referential
123 values: d['x'] = d.
124
Victor Stinner8fc843b2010-09-17 23:35:50 +0000125- Issue #767645: Set os.path.supports_unicode_filenames to True on Mac OS X.
Victor Stinner46287f52010-09-13 20:31:34 +0000126
Antoine Pitroue4195e82010-09-12 14:56:27 +0000127- Issue #9837: The read() method of ZipExtFile objects (as returned by
128 ZipFile.open()) could return more bytes than requested.
129
Raymond Hettinger20397532010-09-12 02:11:45 +0000130- Issue #9825: removed __del__ from the definition of collections.OrderedDict.
131 This prevents user-created self-referencing ordered dictionaries from
132 becoming permanently uncollectable GC garbage. The downside is that
133 removing __del__ means that the internal doubly-linked list has to wait for
134 GC collection rather than freeing memory immediately when the refcnt drops
135 to zero.
136
Raymond Hettingerffd2a422010-09-10 10:47:22 +0000137- Issue #9816: random.Random.jumpahead(n) did not produce a sufficiently
Victor Stinnerd2f6ae62010-10-12 22:53:51 +0000138 different internal state for small values of n. Fixed by salting the
Raymond Hettingerffd2a422010-09-10 10:47:22 +0000139 value.
140
Antoine Pitrouc818ed42010-09-07 21:40:25 +0000141- Issue #9792: In case of connection failure, socket.create_connection()
142 would swallow the exception and raise a new one, making it impossible
143 to fetch the original errno, or to filter timeout errors. Now the
144 original error is re-raised.
145
Antoine Pitrouf4f61712010-09-07 16:34:47 +0000146- Issue #9758: When fcntl.ioctl() was called with mutable_flag set to True,
147 and the passed buffer was exactly 1024 bytes long, the buffer wouldn't
148 be updated back after the system call. Original patch by Brian Brazil.
149
Antoine Pitroudca9de92010-09-04 17:52:26 +0000150- Issue #1100562: Fix deep-copying of objects derived from the list and
151 dict types. Patch by Michele Orrù and Björn Lindqvist.
152
Fred Drakea1e627d2010-09-03 03:55:50 +0000153- Issue #7005: Fixed output of None values for RawConfigParser.write and
154 ConfigParser.write.
155
Daniel Stutzbach66c981b2010-08-31 20:29:39 +0000156- Issue #808164: Fixed socket.close to avoid references to globals, to
157 avoid issues when socket.close is called from a __del__ method.
158
Senthil Kumaran7e8fd5e2010-08-26 06:20:13 +0000159- Issue #8797: urllib2 does a retry for Basic Authentication failure instead of
160 falling into recursion.
161
R. David Murray7c4bf552010-08-25 01:45:57 +0000162- Issue #1194222: email.utils.parsedate now returns RFC2822 compliant four
163 character years even if the message contains RFC822 two character years.
164
Daniel Stutzbach91287322010-08-24 21:09:30 +0000165- Issue #8750: Fixed MutableSet's methods to correctly handle
166 reflexive operations, namely x -= x and x ^= x.
167
Victor Stinnercaafd772010-09-08 10:51:01 +0000168- Issue #9129: smtpd.py is vulnerable to DoS attacks deriving from missing
Giampaolo Rodolà8664d742010-08-23 22:48:51 +0000169 error handling when accepting a new connection.
170
Giampaolo Rodolà63308d72010-08-23 21:58:47 +0000171- Issue #658749: asyncore's connect() method now correctly interprets winsock
172 errors.
173
Vinay Sajip1ddd51f2010-08-23 17:50:30 +0000174- Issue #9501: Fixed logging regressions in cleanup code.
175
Raymond Hettinger917bba12010-08-22 08:01:58 +0000176- Issue #9214: Set operations on KeysView or ItemsView in the collections
177 module now correctly return a set. (Patch by Eli Bendersky.)
178
Antoine Pitrou3ebaed62010-08-21 19:17:25 +0000179- Issue #9617: Signals received during a low-level write operation aren't
180 ignored by the buffered IO layer anymore.
181
Benjamin Peterson52c36052010-08-21 03:03:22 +0000182- Issue #2521: Use weakrefs on for caching in the abc module, so that classes
183 are not held onto after they are deleted elsewhere.
184
Raymond Hettingera54b2da2010-08-17 19:03:06 +0000185- Issue #9626: the view methods for collections.OrderedDict() were returning
186 the unordered versions inherited from dict. Those methods are now
187 overridden to provide ordered views.
188
Éric Araujo0389ae62010-08-14 03:07:46 +0000189- Issue #8688: MANIFEST files created by distutils now include a magic
190 comment indicating they are generated. Manually maintained MANIFESTs
191 without this marker will not be overwritten or removed.
192
Antoine Pitroue1436d12010-08-12 15:25:51 +0000193- Issue #7467: when reading a file from a ZIP archive, its CRC is checked
194 and a BadZipfile error is raised if it doesn't match (as used to be the
195 case in Python 2.5 and earlier).
196
Antoine Pitroucb4f47c2010-08-11 13:40:17 +0000197- Issue #9550: a BufferedReader could issue an additional read when the
198 original read request had been satisfied, which could block indefinitely
199 when the underlying raw IO channel was e.g. a socket. Report and original
200 patch by Jason V. Miller.
201
Fred Drake0a1fa0e2010-08-10 13:09:54 +0000202- Issue #9551: Don't raise TypeError when setting the value to None for
203 SafeConfigParser instances constructed with allow_no_value == True.
204
Antoine Pitrou8cdede42010-08-10 00:04:13 +0000205- Issue #6915: Under Windows, os.listdir() didn't release the Global
206 Interpreter Lock around all system calls. Original patch by Ryan Kelly.
207
Antoine Pitrou99009162010-08-09 22:51:24 +0000208- Issue #3757: thread-local objects now support cyclic garbage collection.
209 Thread-local objects involved in reference cycles will be deallocated
210 timely by the cyclic GC, even if the underlying thread is still running.
211
Florent Xicluna2f1b1ff2010-08-09 20:46:49 +0000212- Issue #6231: Fix xml.etree.ElementInclude to include the tail of the
213 current node.
214
Thomas Heller5c7589c2010-08-08 18:28:59 +0000215- Issue #6869: Fix a refcount problem in the _ctypes extension.
216
Thomas Heller001d3a12010-08-08 17:56:41 +0000217- Issue5504 - ctypes should now work with systems where mmap can't be
218 PROT_WRITE and PROT_EXEC.
219
Senthil Kumarane677ecf2010-08-08 11:56:31 +0000220- Fix Issue8280 - urllib2's Request method will remove fragements in the url.
221 This is how it is supposed to work, wget and curl do the same. Previous
222 behavior was wrong.
223
Giampaolo Rodolà47617ab2010-08-04 08:35:25 +0000224- Issue #2944: asyncore doesn't handle connection refused correctly.
225
R. David Murray75a292e2010-08-04 00:05:50 +0000226- Issue #3196: email header decoding is now forgiving if an RFC2047
227 encoded word encoded in base64 is lacking padding.
228
R. David Murray1cbf78e2010-08-03 18:14:01 +0000229- Issue #9444: Argparse now uses the first element of prefix_chars as
230 the option character for the added 'h/help' option if prefix_chars
231 does not contain a '-', instead of raising an error.
232
Georg Brandl7f0c3ff2010-08-01 21:18:52 +0000233- Issue #9354: Provide getsockopt() in asyncore's file_wrapper.
234
Florent Xicluna92847452010-09-13 17:36:36 +0000235- Issue #9428: Fix running scripts with the profile/cProfile modules from
236 the command line.
237
Georg Brandl9c5efad2010-08-02 21:29:14 +0000238- Issue #7781: Fix restricting stats by entry counts in the pstats
239 interactive browser.
240
241- Issue #9209: Do not crash in the pstats interactive browser on invalid
242 regular expressions.
243
Georg Brandla2a92cf2010-08-02 17:34:58 +0000244- Issue #7372: Fix pstats regression when stripping paths from profile
245 data generated with the profile module.
246
Georg Brandl2bd953e2010-08-01 20:59:03 +0000247- Issue #4108: In urllib.robotparser, if there are multiple 'User-agent: *'
248 entries, consider the first one.
249
Antoine Pitrou39703012010-08-01 20:13:11 +0000250- Issue #8397: Raise an error when attempting to mix iteration and regular
251 reads on a BZ2File object, rather than returning incorrect results.
252
Georg Brandl50775992010-08-01 19:33:15 +0000253- Issue #5294: Fix the behavior of pdb's "continue" command when called
254 in the top-level debugged frame.
255
256- Issue #5727: Restore the ability to use readline when calling into pdb
257 in doctests.
258
259- Issue #6719: In pdb, do not stop somewhere in the encodings machinery
260 if the source file to be debugged is in a non-builtin encoding.
261
262- Issue #8048: Prevent doctests from failing when sys.displayhook has
263 been reassigned.
264
265- Issue #8015: In pdb, do not crash when an empty line is entered as
266 a breakpoint command.
267
Antoine Pitrou607951d2010-08-01 16:57:17 +0000268- Issue #9448: Fix a leak of OS resources (mutexes or semaphores) when
269 re-initializing a buffered IO object by calling its ``__init__`` method.
270
Georg Brandle2773252010-08-01 19:14:56 +0000271- Issue #7909: Do not touch paths with the special prefixes ``\\.\``
272 or ``\\?\`` in ntpath.normpath().
273
Georg Brandl004c74d2010-08-01 19:06:51 +0000274- Issue #5146: Handle UID THREAD command correctly in imaplib.
275
276- Issue #5147: Fix the header generated for cookie files written by
277 http.cookiejar.MozillaCookieJar.
278
279- Issue #8198: In pydoc, output all help text to the correct stream
280 when sys.stdout is reassigned.
281
Georg Brandl0347c712010-08-01 19:02:09 +0000282- Issue #7395: Fix tracebacks in pstats interactive browser.
283
284- Issue #8230: Fix Lib/test/sortperf.py.
285
Georg Brandl78e69572010-08-01 18:52:52 +0000286- Issue #1713: Fix os.path.ismount(), which returned true for symbolic links
287 across devices.
288
289- Issue #8826: Properly load old-style "expires" attribute in http.cookies.
290
291- Issue #1690103: Fix initial namespace for code run with trace.main().
292
Georg Brandl1f05e2e2010-08-01 08:22:05 +0000293- Issue #8471: In doctest, properly reset the output stream to an empty
294 string when Unicode was previously output.
295
R. David Murray58f15b62010-08-01 04:04:03 +0000296- Issue #8620: when a Cmd is fed input that reaches EOF without a final
297 newline, it no longer truncates the last character of the last command line.
298
Victor Stinner73363e82010-07-28 01:39:45 +0000299- Issue #6213: Implement getstate() and setstate() methods of utf-8-sig and
300 utf-16 incremental encoders.
301
Brian Curtinb2ec2322010-07-26 02:40:17 +0000302- Issue #7113: Speed up loading in ConfigParser. Patch by Łukasz Langa.
303
Gregory P. Smith2a91ce82010-07-25 19:11:36 +0000304- Issue #3704: cookielib was not properly handling URLs with a / in the
305 parameters.
306
Victor Stinner8b0d84e2010-07-24 02:51:49 +0000307- Issue #9032: XML-RPC client retries the request on EPIPE error. The EPIPE
308 error occurs when the server closes the socket and the client sends a big
309 XML-RPC request.
310
Victor Stinner2c6aee92010-07-24 02:46:16 +0000311- Issue #5542: Remove special logic that closes HTTPConnection socket on EPIPE.
312
Victor Stinner4c16d122010-07-24 01:07:52 +0000313- Issue #4629: getopt raises an error if an argument ends with = whereas getopt
314 doesn't except a value (eg. --help= is rejected if getopt uses ['help='] long
315 options).
316
Ronald Oussoren3a04a252010-07-23 12:41:00 +0000317- Issue #7895: platform.mac_ver() no longer crashes after calling os.fork()
318
Antoine Pitrou7a7013e2010-07-21 16:47:28 +0000319- Issue #5395: array.fromfile() would raise a spurious EOFError when an
320 I/O error occurred. Now an IOError is raised instead. Patch by chuck
321 (Jan Hosang).
322
R. David Murrayf6cbdcb2010-07-09 13:25:56 +0000323- Issue #7646: The fnmatch pattern cache no longer grows without bound.
324
Mark Dickinson7ea29b02010-07-08 21:28:31 +0000325- Issue #9136: Fix 'dictionary changed size during iteration'
326 RuntimeError produced when profiling the decimal module. This was
327 due to a dangerous iteration over 'locals()' in Context.__init__.
328
329- Fix extreme speed issue in Decimal.pow when the base is an exact
330 power of 10 and the exponent is tiny (for example,
331 Decimal(10) ** Decimal('1e-999999999')).
332
R. David Murray3caf7b92010-07-05 16:06:05 +0000333- Issue #9161: Fix regression in optparse's acceptance of unicode
334 strings in add_option calls.
335
Mark Dickinson75b44b32010-07-04 16:47:56 +0000336- Issue #9130: Fix validation of relative imports in parser module.
337
Mark Dickinsona7ee59b2010-07-04 16:23:54 +0000338- Issue #9128: Fix validation of class decorators in parser module.
Benjamin Petersone3c10452010-07-03 14:51:25 +0000339
Ronald Oussoren75956202010-07-11 08:52:52 +0000340- Issue #9164: Ensure sysconfig handles dupblice archs while building on OSX
341
Alexander Belopolsky9d17da32010-09-13 16:45:02 +0000342- Issue #9315: Fix for the trace module to record correct class name
343 for tracing methods.
344
Benjamin Petersone3c10452010-07-03 14:51:25 +0000345Extension Modules
346-----------------
347
Georg Brandl67c27332010-10-24 14:16:05 +0000348- Issue #9054: Fix a crash occurring when using the pyexpat module
349 with expat version 2.0.1.
350
Brian Curtin1390dd72010-10-01 16:44:03 +0000351- Issue #10003: Allow handling of SIGBREAK on Windows. Fixes a regression
Victor Stinnerd2f6ae62010-10-12 22:53:51 +0000352 introduced by issue #9324.
Brian Curtin1390dd72010-10-01 16:44:03 +0000353
Antoine Pitroue6ebcda2010-09-04 21:24:42 +0000354- Issue #8734: Avoid crash in msvcrt.get_osfhandle() when an invalid file
355 descriptor is provided. Patch by Pascal Chambon.
356
Antoine Pitrou247e2fd2010-09-04 17:27:10 +0000357- Issue #7736: Release the GIL around calls to opendir() and closedir()
358 in the posix module. Patch by Marcin Bachry.
359
Benjamin Peterson52c36052010-08-21 03:03:22 +0000360- As a result of issue #2521, the _weakref module is now compiled into the
361 interpreter by default.
362
Brian Curtin24af0e92010-08-06 19:41:01 +0000363- Issue #9324: Add parameter validation to signal.signal on Windows in order
364 to prevent crashes.
365
Mark Dickinson5e684332010-08-06 09:44:48 +0000366- Issue #9526: Remove some outdated (int) casts that were preventing
367 the array module from working correctly with arrays of more than
368 2**31 elements.
369
Mark Dickinsonf38d8882010-08-03 18:46:28 +0000370- Fix memory leak in ssl._ssl._test_decode_cert.
371
Mark Dickinson0f981282010-08-03 16:54:19 +0000372- Issue #8065: Fix memory leak in readline module (from failure to
373 free the result of history_get_history_state()).
374
Mark Dickinson4ee98532010-08-03 16:18:39 +0000375- Issue #9450: Fix memory leak in readline.replace_history_item and
376 readline.remove_history_item for readline version >= 5.0.
377
Brian Curtinba6c08e2010-08-01 15:47:53 +0000378- Issue #8105: Validate file descriptor passed to mmap.mmap on Windows.
379
Georg Brandla4917272010-07-31 21:22:36 +0000380- Issue #1019882: Fix IndexError when loading certain hotshot stats.
381
Mark Dickinson96527c32010-07-29 21:44:47 +0000382- Issue #9422: Fix memory leak when re-initializing a struct.Struct object.
383
Ronald Oussoren9e7ffae2010-07-24 09:46:41 +0000384- Issue #7900: The getgroups(2) system call on MacOSX behaves rather oddly
385 compared to other unix systems. In particular, os.getgroups() does
386 not reflect any changes made using os.setgroups() but basicly always
387 returns the same information as the id command.
388
389 os.getgroups() can now return more than 16 groups on MacOSX.
390
Mark Dickinsoncac0b832010-07-18 07:55:55 +0000391- Issue #9277: Fix bug in struct.pack for bools in standard mode
392 (e.g., struct.pack('>?')): if conversion to bool raised an exception
393 then that exception wasn't properly propagated on machines where
394 char is unsigned.
395
Matthias Klose6e86bf72010-07-30 21:27:18 +0000396- Issue #7567: Don't call `setupterm' twice.
397
Antoine Pitrou2fba0b32010-09-08 21:12:36 +0000398Tools/Demos
399-----------
400
Benjamin Peterson4de6b062010-10-13 22:07:17 +0000401- Issue #7287: Demo/imputil/knee.py was removed.
402
Antoine Pitrou2fba0b32010-09-08 21:12:36 +0000403- Issue #9188: The gdb extension now handles correctly narrow (UCS2) as well
404 as wide (UCS4) unicode builds for both the host interpreter (embedded
405 inside gdb) and the interpreter under test.
406
Benjamin Peterson4082d9b2010-07-17 20:41:16 +0000407Build
408-----
409
Antoine Pitrou7be5a652010-10-10 08:14:41 +0000410- Issue #10054: Some platforms provide uintptr_t in inttypes.h. Patch by
411 Akira Kitada.
412
Antoine Pitrou22ad2452010-10-09 15:28:59 +0000413- Issue #10055: Make json C89-compliant in UCS4 mode.
414
Antoine Pitrou285cd162010-09-21 15:23:17 +0000415- Issue #1633863: Don't ignore $CC under AIX.
416
Hirokazu Yamamotoc4caa9c2010-09-18 22:33:33 +0000417- Issue #9810: Compile bzip2 source files in python's project file
418 directly. It used to be built with bzip2's makefile.
419
Antoine Pitrouaabdceb2010-09-10 20:03:17 +0000420- Issue #941346: Improve the build process under AIX and allow Python to
421 be built as a shared library. Patch by Sébastien Sablé.
422
Antoine Pitrou85729812010-09-07 14:55:24 +0000423- Issue #4026: Make the fcntl extension build under AIX. Patch by Sébastien
424 Sablé.
425
Antoine Pitroua74c3342010-09-03 16:15:17 +0000426- Issue #3101: Helper functions _add_one_to_index_C() and
427 _add_one_to_index_F() become _Py_add_one_to_index_C() and
428 _Py_add_one_to_index_F(), respectively.
Antoine Pitrou1fcdba82010-09-01 13:02:50 +0000429
430- Issue #9700: define HAVE_BROKEN_POSIX_SEMAPHORES under AIX 6.x. Patch by
431 Sébastien Sablé.
432
Benjamin Peterson4082d9b2010-07-17 20:41:16 +0000433- Issue #9280: Make sharedinstall depend on sharedmods.
434
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +0000435- Issue #9275: The OSX installer once again installs links to binaries in
436 ``/usr/local/bin``.
Ronald Oussoren8a14db82010-07-23 11:13:03 +0000437
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +0000438- Issue #9392: A framework build on OSX will once again use a versioned name
439 of the ``2to3`` tool, that is you can use ``2to3-2.7`` to select the Python
440 2.7 edition of 2to3.
Ronald Oussoren0969c672010-07-29 13:18:19 +0000441
Ronald Oussorenec2fe002010-09-28 14:01:49 +0000442- Issue #9701: The MacOSX installer can patch the shell profile to ensure that
443 the "bin" directory inside the framework is on the shell's search path. This
444 feature now also supports the ZSH shell.
445
Ronald Oussoren24215252010-10-20 13:11:46 +0000446- Issue #7473: avoid link errors when building a framework with a different
447 set of architectures than the one that is currently installed.
Ronald Oussorenec2fe002010-09-28 14:01:49 +0000448
Antoine Pitrou22db7352010-07-08 18:54:04 +0000449Tests
450-----
451
Hirokazu Yamamoto1f504f12010-10-08 09:41:13 +0000452- Issue #9978: Wait until subprocess completes initialization. (Win32KillTests
453 in test_os)
454
Antoine Pitrou767cbc42010-09-18 18:15:33 +0000455- Issue #9894: Do not hardcode ENOENT in test_subprocess.
456
Florent Xicluna92847452010-09-13 17:36:36 +0000457- Issue #9323: Make test.regrtest.__file__ absolute, this was not always the
458 case when running profile or trace, for example.
459
Alexander Belopolsky9d17da32010-09-13 16:45:02 +0000460- Issue #9315: Added tests for the trace module. Patch by Eli Bendersky.
Florent Xicluna92847452010-09-13 17:36:36 +0000461
Florent Xiclunac0c0b142010-09-13 08:53:00 +0000462- Strengthen test_unicode with explicit type checking for assertEqual tests.
463
Giampaolo Rodolà633e4742010-08-14 17:04:46 +0000464- Issue #8857: Provide a test case for socket.getaddrinfo.
465
Florent Xicluna172e15f2010-08-09 20:02:00 +0000466- Issue #7564: Skip test_ioctl if another process is attached to /dev/tty.
467
Mark Dickinson28669332010-08-07 13:07:11 +0000468- Issue #8433: Fix test_curses failure with newer versions of ncurses.
469
Antoine Pitrou185fae72010-08-04 15:54:33 +0000470- Issue #9496: Provide a test suite for the rlcompleter module. Patch by
471 Michele Orrù.
472
Antoine Pitrou22db7352010-07-08 18:54:04 +0000473- Issue #8605: Skip test_gdb if Python is compiled with optimizations.
474
Ronald Oussoren8928e322010-09-28 14:43:59 +0000475- Issue #9568: Fix test_urllib2_localnet on OS X 10.3.
476
Brett Cannon8c4fa112010-07-21 09:52:10 +0000477Documentation
478-------------
479
Matthias Klose3e8230d2010-09-12 16:51:29 +0000480- Issue #9817: Add expat COPYING file; add expat, libffi and expat licenses
481 to Doc/license.rst.
482
Brian Curtin4d808892010-08-05 19:00:45 +0000483- Issue #9524: Document that two CTRL* signals are meant for use only
484 with os.kill.
485
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +0000486- Issue #9255: Document that the 'test' package is for internal Python use
487 only.
Brett Cannon9ae2cb72010-07-23 12:07:27 +0000488
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +0000489- Issue #7829: Document in dis that bytecode is an implementation detail.
Brett Cannon8c4fa112010-07-21 09:52:10 +0000490
Benjamin Petersone3c10452010-07-03 14:51:25 +0000491
Benjamin Peterson4f612592010-06-21 17:28:30 +0000492What's New in Python 2.7?
493=========================
494
Benjamin Petersonc60082d2010-07-03 13:56:13 +0000495*Release date: 2010-07-03*
Benjamin Peterson4f612592010-06-21 17:28:30 +0000496
497Core and Builtins
498-----------------
499
Benjamin Peterson947ce582010-06-24 00:12:40 +0000500- Prevent assignment to set literals.
501
Benjamin Peterson4f612592010-06-21 17:28:30 +0000502Library
503-------
504
Antoine Pitroua4083502010-08-28 18:29:13 +0000505- Issue #1868: Eliminate subtle timing issues in thread-local objects by
506 getting rid of the cached copy of thread-local attribute dictionary.
507
Benjamin Peterson6a336f62010-07-03 13:57:30 +0000508- Issue #9125: Add recognition of 'except ... as ...' syntax to parser module.
509
510Extension Modules
511-----------------
512
Benjamin Petersonc670b7e2010-07-03 13:49:23 +0000513- Issue #7673: Fix security vulnerability (CVE-2010-2089) in the audioop module,
514 ensure that the input string length is a multiple of the frame size.
Victor Stinner15e5b1b2010-07-03 13:36:19 +0000515
Antoine Pitrou0dddf602010-06-25 00:03:21 +0000516- Issue #9075: In the ssl module, remove the setting of a ``debug`` flag
517 on an OpenSSL structure.
518
Benjamin Peterson00633672010-07-03 13:56:56 +0000519
Michael Foord83d35762010-06-10 16:32:00 +0000520What's New in Python 2.7 release candidate 2?
521=============================================
Benjamin Peterson2f3d9f92010-06-06 02:09:33 +0000522
Benjamin Petersonbfcedf42010-06-21 15:57:57 +0000523*Release date: 2010-06-20*
Benjamin Peterson2f3d9f92010-06-06 02:09:33 +0000524
525Core and Builtins
526-----------------
527
Benjamin Petersonb9133892010-06-22 19:16:37 +0000528- Issue #9058: Remove assertions about INT_MAX in UnicodeDecodeError.
529
Nick Coghlan8842c352010-06-13 06:50:39 +0000530- Issue #8202: Previous change to ``sys.argv[0]`` handling for -m command line
531 option reverted due to unintended side effects on handling of ``sys.path``.
532 See tracker issue for details.
533
Antoine Pitroucca3a3f2010-06-11 21:42:26 +0000534- Issue #8941: decoding big endian UTF-32 data in UCS-2 builds could crash
535 the interpreter with characters outside the Basic Multilingual Plane
536 (higher than 0x10000).
537
Benjamin Petersonfa4c59f2010-06-08 14:53:29 +0000538- In the unicode/str.format(), raise a ValueError when indexes to arguments are
539 too large.
Benjamin Peterson13e934a2010-06-07 22:23:23 +0000540
Benjamin Petersonafa1b302010-06-21 15:27:46 +0000541Build
542-----
543
544- Issue #8854: Fix finding Visual Studio 2008 on Windows x64.
545
Benjamin Peterson2f3d9f92010-06-06 02:09:33 +0000546Library
547-------
Mark Dickinsone979ec82010-06-13 10:50:29 +0000548
Victor Stinner15e5b1b2010-07-03 13:36:19 +0000549- Issue #6589: cleanup asyncore.socket_map in case smtpd.SMTPServer constructor
Giampaolo Rodolàe00e2f02010-06-30 17:38:28 +0000550 raises an exception.
551
Thomas Hellerf1800992010-06-21 14:00:24 +0000552- Issue #8959: fix regression caused by using unmodified libffi
553 library on Windows. ctypes does now again check the stack before
554 and after calling foreign functions.
555
R. David Murraydf1cf302010-06-17 01:36:52 +0000556- Issue #8720: fix regression caused by fix for #4050 by making getsourcefile
557 smart enough to find source files in the linecache.
558
Mark Dickinsone979ec82010-06-13 10:50:29 +0000559- Issue #8986: math.erfc was incorrectly raising OverflowError for
560 values between -27.3 and -30.0 on some platforms.
561
Vinay Sajip936efc72010-06-11 22:56:50 +0000562- Issue #8924: logging: Improved error handling for Unicode in exception text.
Benjamin Peterson2f3d9f92010-06-06 02:09:33 +0000563
Michael Foord83d35762010-06-10 16:32:00 +0000564- Issue #8948: cleanup functions and class / module setups and teardowns are
565 now honored in unittest debug methods.
566
Tarek Ziadé770fd152010-06-06 20:05:20 +0000567Documentation
568-------------
569
570- Issues #8909: Added the size of the bitmap used in the installer created by
571 distutils' bdist_wininst. Patch by Anatoly Techtonik.
572
Victor Stinnerb65bd2e2010-06-11 19:22:28 +0000573Misc
574----
575
576- Issue #8362: Add maintainers.rst: list of module maintainers
577
Benjamin Peterson2f3d9f92010-06-06 02:09:33 +0000578
Antoine Pitrou6001b0b2010-05-09 18:32:48 +0000579What's New in Python 2.7 Release Candidate 1?
580=============================================
Benjamin Peterson534b8de2010-05-08 18:53:42 +0000581
Benjamin Peterson77d534e2010-06-06 00:22:09 +0000582*Release date: 2010-06-05*
Benjamin Peterson534b8de2010-05-08 18:53:42 +0000583
584Core and Builtins
585-----------------
586
Ezio Melottiab2eb0e2010-06-05 19:21:32 +0000587- Issue #8271: during the decoding of an invalid UTF-8 byte sequence, only the
588 start byte and the continuation byte(s) are now considered invalid, instead
589 of the number of bytes specified by the start byte.
590 E.g.: '\xf1\x80AB'.decode('utf-8', 'replace') now returns u'\ufffdAB' and
591 replaces with U+FFFD only the start byte ('\xf1') and the continuation byte
592 ('\x80') even if '\xf1' is the start byte of a 4-bytes sequence.
593 Previous versions returned a single u'\ufffd'.
594
Mark Dickinson23f0d6b2010-06-05 11:52:24 +0000595- Issue #8627: Remove bogus "Overriding __cmp__ blocks inheritance of
Mark Dickinsone4b83e02010-06-05 12:14:43 +0000596 __hash__ in 3.x" warning. Also fix "XXX undetected error" that
597 arises from the "Overriding __eq__ blocks inheritance ..." warning
598 when turned into an exception: in this case the exception simply
599 gets ignored.
Mark Dickinson23f0d6b2010-06-05 11:52:24 +0000600
Mark Dickinson4ca7c3c2010-05-30 13:18:10 +0000601- Issue #8748: Fix two issues with comparisons between complex and integer
602 objects. (1) The comparison could incorrectly return True in some cases
603 (2**53+1 == complex(2**53) == 2**53), breaking transivity of equality.
604 (2) The comparison raised an OverflowError for large integers, leading
605 to unpredictable exceptions when combining integers and complex objects
606 in sets or dicts.
607
Mark Dickinson81336372010-05-30 12:12:25 +0000608- Issue #5211: Implicit coercion for the complex type is now completely
609 removed. (Coercion for arithmetic operations was already removed in 2.7
610 alpha 4, but coercion for rich comparisons was accidentally left in.)
611
Victor Stinnerc49dfcc2010-05-25 22:30:32 +0000612- Issue #3798: Write sys.exit() message to sys.stderr to use stderr encoding
613 and error handler, instead of writing to the C stderr file in utf-8
614
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000615- Issue #7902: When using explicit relative import syntax, don't try implicit
616 relative import semantics.
Brett Cannoneb3cd302010-05-20 18:37:55 +0000617
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000618- Issue #7079: Fix a possible crash when closing a file object while using it
619 from another thread. Patch by Daniel Stutzbach.
Antoine Pitrou83137c22010-05-17 19:56:59 +0000620
Victor Stinnerb65bd2e2010-06-11 19:22:28 +0000621- Issue #8868: Fix that ensures that python scripts have access to the
Ronald Oussoren27c72e92010-06-02 03:47:14 +0000622 Window Server again in a framework build on MacOSX 10.5 or earlier.
623
Antoine Pitrou6a265602010-05-21 17:12:38 +0000624C-API
625-----
626
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000627- Issue #5753: A new C API function, :cfunc:`PySys_SetArgvEx`, allows embedders
628 of the interpreter to set sys.argv without also modifying sys.path. This
629 helps fix `CVE-2008-5983
Antoine Pitrou6a265602010-05-21 17:12:38 +0000630 <http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-5983>`_.
631
Benjamin Peterson534b8de2010-05-08 18:53:42 +0000632Library
633-------
634
Michael Foordd8918592010-06-05 19:51:38 +0000635- Issue #8302: SkipTest in unittest.TestCase.setUpClass or setUpModule is now
636 reported as a skip rather than an error.
637
638- Issue #8351: Excessively large diffs due to
639 unittest.TestCase.assertSequenceEqual are no longer included in failure
640 reports.
641
Alexander Belopolsky3b818bf2010-06-05 14:54:26 +0000642- Issue #8899: time.struct_time now has class and atribute docstrings.
643
R. David Murraye7e505b2010-06-04 19:51:06 +0000644- Issue #4487: email now accepts as charset aliases all codec aliases
645 accepted by the codecs module.
646
Martin v. Löwiseba67c02010-06-04 19:39:07 +0000647- Issue #6470: Drop UNC prefix in FixTk.
648
R. David Murray61746d52010-06-03 15:43:20 +0000649- Issue #5610: feedparser no longer eats extra characters at the end of
650 a body part if the body part ends with a \r\n.
651
Lars Gustäbel2ee9c6f2010-06-03 09:56:22 +0000652- Issue #8833: tarfile created hard link entries with a size field != 0 by
653 mistake.
654
R. David Murray52dcd452010-06-02 22:03:15 +0000655- Issue #1368247: set_charset (and therefore MIMEText) now automatically
656 encodes a unicode _payload to the output_charset.
657
Alexander Belopolsky9292ee02010-05-27 20:55:27 +0000658- Issue #7150: Raise OverflowError if the result of adding or subtracting
659 timedelta from date or datetime falls outside of the MINYEAR:MAXYEAR range.
660
Victor Stinner04ee3372010-05-24 21:37:28 +0000661- Issue #6662: Fix parsing of malformatted charref (&#bad;), patch written by
662 Fredrik Håård
Victor Stinner554a3b82010-05-24 21:33:24 +0000663
Georg Brandlf0757a22010-05-24 21:29:07 +0000664- Issue #8016: Add the CP858 codec.
665
Georg Brandl5d0ca2c2010-05-22 11:29:19 +0000666- Issue #3924: Ignore cookies with invalid "version" field in cookielib.
667
Victor Stinner7df55da2010-05-22 13:37:56 +0000668- Issue #6268: Fix seek() method of codecs.open(), don't read or write the BOM
669 twice after seek(0). Fix also reset() method of codecs, UTF-16, UTF-32 and
670 StreamWriter classes.
Victor Stinner262be5e2010-05-22 02:11:07 +0000671
Victor Stinnerd6703b52010-05-21 22:50:28 +0000672- Issue #5640: Fix Shift-JIS incremental encoder for error handlers different
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000673 than 'strict'.
Victor Stinnerd6703b52010-05-21 22:50:28 +0000674
Benjamin Peterson266e4542010-05-21 21:31:24 +0000675- Issue #8782: Add a trailing newline in linecache.updatecache to the last line
676 of files without one.
677
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000678- Issue #8729: Return NotImplemented from ``collections.Mapping.__eq__()`` when
Benjamin Petersoneb318d32010-05-21 20:51:45 +0000679 comparing to a non-mapping.
680
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000681- Issue #8759: Fix user paths in sysconfig for posix and os2 schemes.
Tarek Ziadé8f692272010-05-19 22:20:14 +0000682
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000683- Issue #1285086: Speed up ``urllib.quote()`` and urllib.unquote for simple
684 cases.
Florent Xiclunaaf87f9f2010-05-17 13:35:09 +0000685
Tarek Ziadé422545f2010-05-17 10:06:20 +0000686- Issue #8688: Distutils now recalculates MANIFEST everytime.
687
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000688- Issue #5099: The ``__del__()`` method of ``subprocess.Popen`` (and the methods
689 it calls) referenced global objects, causing errors to pop up during
690 interpreter shutdown.
Brett Cannon42a0ba72010-05-14 00:21:48 +0000691
Mark Dickinson932e1622010-05-10 16:07:42 +0000692Extension Modules
693-----------------
694
Stefan Krah449aa862010-06-03 12:39:50 +0000695- Issue #7384: If the system readline library is linked against ncurses,
696 the curses module must be linked against ncurses as well. Otherwise it
697 is not safe to load both the readline and curses modules in an application.
698
Brian Curtinb64c89b2010-05-25 15:06:15 +0000699- Issue #2810: Fix cases where the Windows registry API returns
700 ERROR_MORE_DATA, requiring a re-try in order to get the complete result.
701
Mark Dickinson932e1622010-05-10 16:07:42 +0000702- Issue #8674: Fixed a number of incorrect or undefined-behaviour-inducing
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000703 overflow checks in the ``audioop`` module.
Benjamin Peterson534b8de2010-05-08 18:53:42 +0000704
Brett Cannonda9af752010-05-13 23:59:41 +0000705Tests
706-----
707
R. David Murray4653fb52010-06-03 20:19:25 +0000708- Issue #8889: test_support.transient_internet rewritten so that the new
709 checks also work on FreeBSD, which lacks EAI_NODATA.
710
711- Issue #8835: test_support.transient_internet() catches gaierror(EAI_NONAME)
Victor Stinner03883622010-05-27 22:29:48 +0000712 and gaierror(EAI_NODATA)
713
Victor Stinner708c0722010-05-26 17:25:28 +0000714- Issue #7449: Skip test_socketserver if threading support is disabled
715
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000716- On darwin, ``test_site`` assumed that a framework build was being used,
717 leading to a failure where four directories were expected for site-packages
718 instead of two in a non-framework build.
Brett Cannonda9af752010-05-13 23:59:41 +0000719
Martin v. Löwisb41afb52010-05-28 15:28:47 +0000720Build
721-----
722
Martin v. Löwis16b2a5e2010-06-04 19:15:32 +0000723- Display installer warning that Windows 2000 won't be supported in future
724 releases.
725
Victor Stinnerb65bd2e2010-06-11 19:22:28 +0000726- Issues #1759169, #8864: Drop _XOPEN_SOURCE on Solaris, define it for
Martin v. Löwis26eec582010-06-04 17:18:42 +0000727 multiprocessing only.
Brett Cannonda9af752010-05-13 23:59:41 +0000728
Martin v. Löwis5aafc172010-06-04 18:04:42 +0000729Tools/Demos
730-----------
731
732- Issue #5464: Implement plural forms in msgfmt.py.
733
734
Antoine Pitrouab5ce722010-04-11 22:45:47 +0000735What's New in Python 2.7 beta 2?
736================================
Benjamin Peterson12409062010-04-10 18:53:58 +0000737
Benjamin Petersonc2516072010-05-08 17:08:17 +0000738*Release date: 2010-05-08*
Benjamin Peterson12409062010-04-10 18:53:58 +0000739
740Core and Builtins
741-----------------
742
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000743- Run Clang 2.7's static analyzer for ``Objects/`` and ``Python/``.
Brett Cannon5fb89df2010-05-05 20:54:53 +0000744
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000745- Issue #1533: Fix inconsistency in range function argument processing: any
746 non-float non-integer argument is now converted to an integer (if possible)
747 using its __int__ method. Previously, only small arguments were treated this
748 way; larger arguments (those whose __int__ was outside the range of a C long)
749 would produce a TypeError.
Mark Dickinsona8d26682010-05-04 16:18:25 +0000750
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000751- Issue #8202: ``sys.argv[0]`` is now set to '-m' instead of '-c' when searching
752 for the module file to be executed with the -m command line option.
Nick Coghlanc5e44852010-04-28 14:51:08 +0000753
Brett Cannon19949692010-04-25 22:33:36 +0000754- Issue #7319: When -Q is used, do not silence DeprecationWarning.
755
Antoine Pitrou18e63fb2010-04-21 22:53:29 +0000756- Issue #7332: Remove the 16KB stack-based buffer in
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000757 ``PyMarshal_ReadLastObjectFromFile``, which doesn't bring any noticeable
Antoine Pitrou18e63fb2010-04-21 22:53:29 +0000758 benefit compared to the dynamic memory allocation fallback. Patch by
759 Charles-François Natali.
760
Benjamin Peterson821a8ea2010-04-16 22:35:38 +0000761- Issue #8417: Raise an OverflowError when an integer larger than sys.maxsize is
762 passed to bytearray.
763
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000764- Issue #7072: ``isspace(0xa0)`` is true on Mac OS X.
Ronald Oussoren37805e52010-04-18 13:47:49 +0000765
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000766- Issue #8404: Fix set operations on dictionary views.
Alexandre Vassalotti268e4872010-05-04 03:21:51 +0000767
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000768- Issue #8084: PEP 370 now conforms to system conventions for framework builds
769 on MacOS X. That is, ``python setup.py install --user`` will install into
770 ``~/Library/Python/2.7`` instead of ``~/.local``.
Ronald Oussoren2f88bfd2010-05-08 10:29:06 +0000771
Benjamin Peterson12409062010-04-10 18:53:58 +0000772Library
773-------
774
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000775- Issue #8681: Make the zlib module's error messages more informative when the
776 zlib itself doesn't give any detailed explanation.
Antoine Pitroufc3bfad2010-05-11 23:42:28 +0000777
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000778- Issue #8571: Fix an internal error when compressing or decompressing a chunk
779 larger than 1GB with the zlib module's compressor and decompressor objects.
Antoine Pitrou3843cd82010-05-07 16:50:34 +0000780
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000781- Issue #8573: asyncore ``_strerror()`` function might throw ValueError.
Giampaolo Rodolàf7454fa2010-05-06 17:57:06 +0000782
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000783- Issue #8483: asyncore.dispatcher's __getattr__ method produced confusing error
784 messages when accessing undefined class attributes because of the cheap
785 inheritance with the underlying socket object. The cheap inheritance has been
786 deprecated.
Giampaolo Rodolàf7454fa2010-05-06 17:57:06 +0000787
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000788- Issue #4265: ``shutil.copyfile()`` was leaking file descriptors when disk
789 fills. Patch by Tres Seaver.
Tarek Ziadé38f81222010-05-05 22:15:31 +0000790
Barry Warsaw8efa8672010-05-05 16:17:22 +0000791- Issue #7755: Use an unencumbered audio file for tests.
792
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000793- Issue #8621: ``uuid.uuid4()`` returned the same sequence of values in the
794 parent and any children created using ``os.fork`` on Mac OS X 10.6.
Ronald Oussoren33206962010-05-05 14:48:37 +0000795
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000796- Issue #8313: ``traceback.format_exception_only()`` encodes unicode message to
797 ASCII with backslashreplace error handler if ``str(value)`` failed.
Victor Stinner926fd4e2010-05-05 12:40:49 +0000798
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000799- Issue #8567: Fix precedence of signals in Decimal module: when a Decimal
800 operation raises multiple signals and more than one of those signals is
801 trapped, the specification determines the order in which the signals should be
802 handled. In many cases this order wasn't being followed, leading to the wrong
803 Python exception being raised.
Mark Dickinson4f96f5f2010-05-04 14:25:50 +0000804
Antoine Pitrouf7fd8e42010-05-03 16:25:33 +0000805- Issue #7865: The close() method of :mod:`io` objects should not swallow
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000806 exceptions raised by the implicit flush(). Also ensure that calling close()
807 several times is supported. Patch by Pascal Chambon.
Antoine Pitrouf7fd8e42010-05-03 16:25:33 +0000808
Vinay Sajip27a13702010-05-03 15:11:53 +0000809- Issue #8576: logging updated to remove usage of find_unused_port().
810
Antoine Pitrou951919f2010-05-02 19:51:14 +0000811- Issue #4687: Fix accuracy of garbage collection runtimes displayed with
812 gc.DEBUG_STATS.
813
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000814- Issue #8354: The siginterrupt setting is now preserved for all signals, not
815 just SIGCHLD.
Jean-Paul Calderonee54ddf12010-05-08 20:06:02 +0000816
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000817- Issue #7192: ``webbrowser.get("firefox")`` now works on Mac OS X, as does
818 ``webbrowser.get("safari")``.
Ronald Oussoren4ef1c7e2010-05-02 09:48:21 +0000819
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000820- Issue #8577: ``distutils.sysconfig.get_python_inc()`` now makes a difference
Tarek Ziadéa5cd1822010-04-30 12:15:12 +0000821 between the build dir and the source dir when looking for "python.h" or
822 "Include".
823
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000824- Issue #8464: tarfile no longer creates files with execute permissions set when
825 mode="w|" is used.
Lars Gustäbel5c4c4612010-04-29 15:23:38 +0000826
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000827- Issue #7834: Fix connect() of Bluetooth L2CAP sockets with recent versions of
828 the Linux kernel. Patch by Yaniv Aknin.
Antoine Pitrouf56a2882010-04-29 10:05:40 +0000829
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000830- Issue #6312: Fix http HEAD request when the transfer encoding is chunked. It
831 should correctly return an empty response now.
Senthil Kumaraned9204342010-04-28 17:20:43 +0000832
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000833- Issue #7490: To facilitate sharing of doctests between 2.x and 3.x test
834 suites, the ``IGNORE_EXCEPTION_DETAIL`` directive now also ignores the module
835 location of the raised exception. Based on initial patch by Lennart Regebro.
Nick Coghlandfb45df2010-04-28 14:29:06 +0000836
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000837- Issue #8086: In :func:`ssl.DER_cert_to_PEM_cert()`, fix missing newline before
838 the certificate footer. Patch by Kyle VanderBeek.
Antoine Pitrou4c7bcf12010-04-27 22:03:37 +0000839
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000840- Issue #8546: Reject None given as the buffering argument to ``_pyio.open()``.
Benjamin Petersona9bd6d52010-04-27 21:01:54 +0000841
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000842- Issue #8549: Fix compiling the _ssl extension under AIX. Patch by Sridhar
843 Ratnakumar.
Antoine Pitrou1dc6b082010-04-27 19:09:59 +0000844
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000845- Issue #6656: Fix locale.format_string to handle escaped percents and mappings.
R. David Murray3939dcd2010-04-26 21:17:14 +0000846
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000847- Issue #2302: Fix a race condition in SocketServer.BaseServer.shutdown, where
848 the method could block indefinitely if called just before the event loop
849 started running. This also fixes the occasional freezes witnessed in
850 test_httpservers.
Antoine Pitroua6240402010-04-25 21:40:32 +0000851
Antoine Pitroufc69af12010-04-24 20:04:58 +0000852- Issue #5103: SSL handshake would ignore the socket timeout and block
853 indefinitely if the other end didn't respond.
854
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000855- The do_handshake() method of SSL objects now adjusts the blocking mode of the
856 SSL structure if necessary (as other methods already do).
Antoine Pitrou4d3e3722010-04-24 19:57:01 +0000857
Georg Brandl4341e542010-04-24 09:08:10 +0000858- Issue #7507: Quote "!" in pipes.quote(); it is special to some shells.
859
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000860- Issue #5238: Calling makefile() on an SSL object would prevent the underlying
861 socket from being closed until all objects get truely destroyed.
Antoine Pitroub558f172010-04-23 23:25:45 +0000862
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000863- Issue #7943: Fix circular reference created when instantiating an SSL socket.
864 Initial patch by Péter Szabó.
Antoine Pitroudfb299b2010-04-23 22:54:59 +0000865
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000866- Issue #8451: Syslog module now uses basename(sys.argv[0]) instead of the
867 string "python" as the *ident*. openlog() arguments are all optional and
868 keywords.
Sean Reifscheiderf6ce3cb2010-04-23 08:31:55 +0000869
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000870- Issue #8108: Fix the unwrap() method of SSL objects when the socket has a
871 non-infinite timeout. Also make that method friendlier with applications
Antoine Pitroua5c4b552010-04-22 23:33:02 +0000872 wanting to continue using the socket in clear-text mode, by disabling
873 OpenSSL's internal readahead. Thanks to Darryl Miles for guidance.
874
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000875- Issue #8484: Load all ciphers and digest algorithms when initializing the _ssl
876 extension, such that verification of some SSL certificates doesn't fail
877 because of an "unknown algorithm".
Antoine Pitrouc715a9e2010-04-21 19:28:03 +0000878
Victor Stinnera92e81b2010-04-20 22:28:31 +0000879- Issue #8437: Fix test_gdb failures, patch written by Dave Malcolm
880
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000881- Issue #4814: The timeout parameter is now applied also for connections
882 resulting from PORT/EPRT commands.
Giampaolo Rodolà607f7c02010-04-19 21:46:28 +0000883
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000884- Issue #8463: Add missing reference to bztar in shutil's documentation.
Tarek Ziadé8a12f942010-04-19 21:28:21 +0000885
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000886- Issue #8438: Remove reference to the missing "surrogateescape" encoding error
887 handler from the new IO library.
Antoine Pitrou7c587bf2010-04-19 18:52:43 +0000888
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000889- Issue #3817: ftplib.FTP.abort() method now considers 225 a valid response code
890 as stated in RFC-959 at chapter 5.4.
Giampaolo Rodolàcf445fc2010-04-18 12:55:03 +0000891
Martin v. Löwis24f09fd2010-04-17 22:40:40 +0000892- Issue #8279: Fix test_gdb failures.
893
Antoine Pitrou0a6373c2010-04-17 17:10:38 +0000894- Issue #8322: Add a *ciphers* argument to SSL sockets, so as to change the
895 available cipher list. Helps fix test_ssl with OpenSSL 1.0.0.
896
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000897- Issue #2987: RFC 2732 support for urlparse (IPv6 addresses). Patch by Tony
Senthil Kumaran8c6d9d72010-04-16 02:46:46 +0000898 Locke and Hans Ulrich Niedermann.
899
R. David Murray1a14d3d2010-04-12 16:35:19 +0000900- Issue #7585: difflib context and unified diffs now place a tab between
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000901 filename and date, conforming to the 'standards' they were originally designed
902 to follow. This improves compatibility with patch tools.
R. David Murray1a14d3d2010-04-12 16:35:19 +0000903
R. David Murray27ef9372010-04-12 14:26:06 +0000904- Issue #7472: Fixed typo in email.encoders module; messages using ISO-2022
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000905 character sets will now consistently use a Content-Transfer-Encoding of 7bit
906 rather than sometimes being marked as 8bit.
R. David Murray27ef9372010-04-12 14:26:06 +0000907
Martin v. Löwis7f7765c2010-04-12 05:18:16 +0000908- Issue #8330: Fix expected output in test_gdb.
909
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000910- Issue #8374: Update the internal alias table in the :mod:`locale` module to
911 cover recent locale changes and additions.
Antoine Pitrouab5ce722010-04-11 22:45:47 +0000912
Matthias Klose8a96d202010-04-21 22:18:52 +0000913Extension Modules
914-----------------
915
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000916- Issue #8644: Improved accuracy of ``timedelta.total_seconds()``.
Mark Dickinson7000e9e2010-05-09 09:30:06 +0000917
Brett Cannon945df9a2010-05-04 01:04:53 +0000918- Use Clang 2.7's static analyzer to find places to clean up some code.
919
Matthias Klose8a96d202010-04-21 22:18:52 +0000920- Build the ossaudio extension on GNU/kFreeBSD.
921
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000922- On Windows, ctypes does no longer check the stack before and after calling a
923 foreign function. This allows to use the unmodified libffi library.
Thomas Heller06a7e202010-05-04 18:44:42 +0000924
Antoine Pitroua5c4b552010-04-22 23:33:02 +0000925Tests
926-----
927
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000928- Issue #8672: Add a zlib test ensuring that an incomplete stream can be handled
929 by a decompressor object without errors (it returns incomplete uncompressed
930 data).
Antoine Pitrou37ffc3e2010-05-11 23:32:31 +0000931
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000932- Issue #8490: asyncore now has a more solid test suite which actually tests its
933 API.
Giampaolo Rodolàff46d6e2010-05-10 15:33:22 +0000934
Antoine Pitrou54f9f832010-04-30 23:08:48 +0000935- Issue #8576: Remove use of find_unused_port() in test_smtplib and
936 test_multiprocessing. Patch by Paul Moore.
937
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000938- Issue #7449: Fix many tests to support Python compiled without thread support.
939 Patches written by Jerry Seutter.
Victor Stinnerd9d147b2010-04-27 21:46:03 +0000940
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000941- Issue #8108: test_ftplib's non-blocking SSL server now has proper handling of
942 SSL shutdowns.
Antoine Pitroua5c4b552010-04-22 23:33:02 +0000943
Matthias Klose5183ebd2010-04-24 16:38:36 +0000944Build
945-----
946
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000947- Issue #8625: Turn off optimization in ``--with-pydebug`` builds with gcc.
Mark Dickinsond2f3e3f2010-05-05 22:23:58 +0000948 (Optimization was unintentionally turned on in gcc --with-pydebug builds in
949 2.7 beta1 as a result of the issue #1628484 fix, combined with autoconf's
950 strange choice of default CFLAGS produced by AC_PROG_CC for gcc.)
951
Matthias Klose5183ebd2010-04-24 16:38:36 +0000952- Issue #8509: Fix quoting in help strings and code snippets in configure.in.
953
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000954- Issue #3646: It is now easily possible to install a Python framework into your
955 home directory on Mac OS X, see Mac/README for more information.
Ronald Oussoren01d149f2010-04-30 11:20:14 +0000956
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000957- Issue #8510: Update to autoconf 2.65.
Matthias Klosea0bea5d2010-05-08 10:00:28 +0000958
Brett Cannonc1f5c2f2010-05-02 21:51:23 +0000959Misc
960----
961
962- Update the Vim syntax highlight file.
963
Benjamin Peterson12409062010-04-10 18:53:58 +0000964
Benjamin Peterson5da7e7c2010-03-06 22:44:07 +0000965What's New in Python 2.7 beta 1?
966================================
967
Benjamin Petersonfbac6c12010-04-10 16:22:05 +0000968*Release date: 2010-04-10*
Benjamin Peterson5da7e7c2010-03-06 22:44:07 +0000969
970Core and Builtins
971-----------------
972
Philip Jenveyaebbaeb2010-04-06 23:24:45 +0000973- Issue #7301: Add environment variable $PYTHONWARNINGS.
974
Benjamin Peterson3a1dfa22010-04-06 21:50:00 +0000975- Issue #8329: Don't return the same lists from select.select when no fds are
976 changed.
977
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000978- Issue #8259: ``1L << (2**31)`` no longer produces an 'outrageous shift error'
Mark Dickinson82791672010-04-06 16:47:55 +0000979 on 64-bit machines. The shift count for either left or right shift is
980 permitted to be up to sys.maxsize.
981
Benjamin Peterson4ceeeb02010-04-03 22:48:51 +0000982- Ensure that tokenization of identifiers is not affected by locale.
983
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000984- Issue #1222585: Added LDCXXSHARED for C++ support. Patch by Arfrever.
Tarek Ziadé00002952010-04-03 08:37:59 +0000985
Benjamin Peterson1c7c11e2010-04-03 01:28:57 +0000986- Raise a TypeError when trying to delete a T_STRING_INPLACE struct member.
987
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000988- Issue #7994: Issue a PendingDeprecationWarning if object.__format__ is called
989 with a non-empty format string. This is an effort to future-proof user
990 code. If a derived class does not currently implement __format__ but later
991 adds its own __format__, it would most likely break user code that had
992 supplied a format string. This will be changed to a DeprecationWaring in
993 Python 3.3 and it will be an error in Python 3.4.
Eric Smithd44b2fc2010-04-02 12:30:56 +0000994
Antoine Pitroua57df2c2010-03-31 21:32:15 +0000995- Issue #8268: Old-style classes (not just instances) now support weak
996 references.
997
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000998- Issue #8211: Save/restore CFLAGS around AC_PROG_CC in configure.in, in case it
999 is set.
Victor Stinner6cbf90f2010-03-25 00:21:53 +00001000
Victor Stinnerc7790ed2010-03-22 12:36:28 +00001001- Issue #1583863: An unicode subclass can now override the __unicode__ method
Victor Stinner95affc42010-03-22 12:24:37 +00001002
Benjamin Peterson96545892010-03-21 20:21:00 +00001003- Issue #6474: Make error message from passing an inadequate number of keyword
1004 arguments to a function correct.
1005
Benjamin Peterson0dee9c12010-03-17 20:41:42 +00001006- Issue #8164: Don't allow lambda functions to have a docstring.
1007
Victor Stinner66644262010-03-10 22:30:19 +00001008- Issue #3137: Don't ignore errors at startup, especially a keyboard interrupt
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001009 (SIGINT). If an error occurs while importing the site module, the error is
1010 printed and Python exits. Initialize the GIL before importing the site
Victor Stinner66644262010-03-10 22:30:19 +00001011 module.
1012
Collin Winter001a3952010-03-18 21:54:01 +00001013- Code objects now support weak references.
1014
Benjamin Peterson5da7e7c2010-03-06 22:44:07 +00001015Library
1016-------
1017
R. David Murray661303f2010-04-13 20:57:40 +00001018- Issue #5277: Fix quote counting when parsing RFC 2231 encoded parameters.
1019
Antoine Pitrouf9de5342010-04-05 21:35:07 +00001020- Issue #8321: Give access to OpenSSL version numbers from the `ssl` module,
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001021 using the new attributes `ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION`, `ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION_INFO` and
1022 `ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION_NUMBER`.
Antoine Pitrouf9de5342010-04-05 21:35:07 +00001023
Benjamin Peterson76a23c12010-04-04 23:23:22 +00001024- Issue #8310: Allow dis to examine new style classes.
1025
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001026- Issue #8257: The Decimal construct now accepts a float instance directly,
1027 converting that float to a Decimal of equal value:
Mark Dickinson8a950712010-04-03 15:47:46 +00001028
1029 >>> Decimal(1.1)
1030 Decimal('1.100000000000000088817841970012523233890533447265625')
1031
Raymond Hettinger34c35b22010-04-03 10:22:00 +00001032- collections.Counter() now supports a subtract() method.
1033
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001034- The functools module now has a total_ordering() class decorator to simplify
1035 the specification of rich comparisons.
Raymond Hettingera551f312010-04-04 18:34:45 +00001036
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001037- The functools module also adds cmp_to_key() as a tool to transition old-style
1038 comparison functions to new-style key-functions.
Raymond Hettingera551f312010-04-04 18:34:45 +00001039
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001040- Issue #8294: The Fraction constructor now accepts Decimal and float instances
1041 directly.
Mark Dickinson7c63eee2010-04-02 22:27:36 +00001042
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001043- Issue #7279: Comparisons involving a Decimal signaling NaN now signal
1044 InvalidOperation instead of returning False. (Comparisons involving a quiet
1045 NaN are unchanged.) Also, Decimal quiet NaNs are now hashable; Decimal
1046 signaling NaNs remain unhashable.
Mark Dickinsone096e822010-04-02 10:17:07 +00001047
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001048- Issue #2531: Comparison operations between floats and Decimal instances now
1049 return a result based on the numeric values of the operands; previously they
1050 returned an arbitrary result based on the relative ordering of id(float) and
1051 id(Decimal).
Mark Dickinson99d80962010-04-02 08:53:22 +00001052
Barry Warsawf7f2d6f2010-03-31 21:07:16 +00001053- Issue #8233: When run as a script, py_compile.py optionally takes a single
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001054 argument `-` which tells it to read files to compile from stdin. Each line is
1055 read on demand and the named file is compiled immediately. (Original patch by
1056 Piotr Ożarowski).
Barry Warsawf7f2d6f2010-03-31 21:07:16 +00001057
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001058- Issue #3135: Add ``inspect.getcallargs()``, which binds arguments to a
1059 function like a normal call.
Benjamin Peterson7e213252010-03-30 17:58:13 +00001060
Florent Xicluna58b65662010-03-30 16:29:03 +00001061- Backwards incompatible change: Unicode codepoints line tabulation (0x0B) and
1062 form feed (0x0C) are now considered linebreaks, as specified in Unicode
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001063 Standard Annex #14. See issue #7643. http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr14/
Florent Xicluna22b24382010-03-30 08:24:06 +00001064
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001065- Comparisons using one of <, <=, >, >= between a complex instance and a
1066 Fractions instance now raise TypeError instead of returning True/False. This
1067 makes Fraction <=> complex comparisons consistent with int <=> complex, float
1068 <=> complex, and complex <=> complex comparisons.
Mark Dickinson9588d992010-03-27 11:14:37 +00001069
Michael Foorde6410c52010-03-29 20:04:23 +00001070- Addition of ``WeakSet`` to the ``weakref`` module.
1071
Vinay Sajipb0623d62010-03-24 14:31:21 +00001072- logging: Added LOG_FTP to SysLogHandler and updated documentation.
1073
Florent Xicluna176cda12010-03-22 22:52:11 +00001074- Issue #8205: Remove the "Modules" directory from sys.path when Python is
1075 running from the build directory (POSIX only).
1076
Florent Xiclunae1f4c922010-03-22 22:45:50 +00001077- Issue #7667: Fix doctest failures with non-ASCII paths.
1078
Antoine Pitrou513d9ae2010-03-22 19:59:46 +00001079- Issue #7512: shutil.copystat() could raise an OSError when the filesystem
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001080 didn't support chflags() (for example ZFS under FreeBSD). The error is now
1081 silenced.
Antoine Pitrou513d9ae2010-03-22 19:59:46 +00001082
Florent Xicluna9e7a4c92010-03-22 16:07:38 +00001083- Issue #7703: ctypes supports both buffer() and memoryview(). The former is
1084 deprecated.
1085
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001086- Issue #7860: platform.uname now reports the correct 'machine' type when Python
1087 is running in WOW64 mode on 64 bit Windows.
R. David Murrayc9d1a782010-03-22 15:55:09 +00001088
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001089- logging: Added getChild utility method to Logger and added isEnabledFor method
1090 to LoggerAdapter.
Vinay Sajip804899b2010-03-22 15:29:01 +00001091
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001092- Issue #8201: logging: Handle situation of non-ASCII and Unicode logger names
1093 existing at the same time, causing a Unicode error when configuration code
1094 attempted to sort the existing loggers.
Vinay Sajip31e928e2010-03-22 13:02:28 +00001095
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001096- Issue #8200: logging: Handle errors when multiprocessing is not fully loaded
1097 when logging occurs.
Vinay Sajip3017a7b2010-03-22 12:33:08 +00001098
Antoine Pitroueee91cd2010-03-26 19:27:16 +00001099- Issue #3890, #8222: Fix recv() and recv_into() on non-blocking SSL sockets.
1100 Also, enable the SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY flag on SSL sockets, so that blocking
1101 reads and writes are always retried by OpenSSL itself.
Antoine Pitrou448da712010-03-21 19:33:38 +00001102
Florent Xiclunacf82fa62010-03-21 12:27:20 +00001103- Issue #8179: Fix macpath.realpath() on a non-existing path.
1104
Florent Xicluna2e0a53f2010-03-18 21:50:06 +00001105- Issue #8024: Update the Unicode database to 5.2.
1106
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001107- Issue #8104: socket.recv_into() and socket.recvfrom_into() now support writing
1108 into objects supporting the new buffer API, for example bytearrays or
1109 memoryviews.
Antoine Pitroud7b731d2010-03-17 22:45:39 +00001110
Matthias Klose8b411682010-03-16 10:48:52 +00001111- Issue #4961: Inconsistent/wrong result of askyesno function in tkMessageBox
1112 with Tcl/Tk-8.5.
1113
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001114- Issue #8140: Extend compileall to compile single files. Add -i option.
Matthias Kloseb13d04c2010-03-15 17:44:12 +00001115
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001116- Issue #7356: ctypes.util: Make parsing of ldconfig output independent of the
1117 locale.
Matthias Klose358e7ff2010-03-15 13:42:23 +00001118
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001119- Issue #7774: Set sys.executable to an empty string if ``argv[0]`` has been set
1120 to an non existent program name and Python is unable to retrieve the real
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001121 program name.
Victor Stinner75227342010-03-12 14:30:26 +00001122
Vinay Sajipecfa08f2010-03-12 09:16:10 +00001123- Issue #8117: logging: Improved algorithm for computing initial rollover time
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001124 for ``TimedRotatingFileHandler`` by using the modification time of an existing
1125 log file to compute the next rollover time. If the log file does not exist,
1126 the current time is used as the basis for the computation.
Vinay Sajip9098ee42010-03-12 06:01:21 +00001127
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001128- Issue #6472: The ``xml.etree`` package is updated to ElementTree 1.3. The
Florent Xicluna3e8c1892010-03-11 14:36:19 +00001129 cElementTree module is updated too.
1130
Florent Xicluna85677612010-03-10 23:58:42 +00001131- Issue #7880: Fix sysconfig when the python executable is a symbolic link.
1132
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001133- Issue #7624: Fix ``isinstance(foo(), collections.Callable)`` for old-style
Florent Xicluna47627d52010-03-08 15:20:28 +00001134 classes.
1135
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001136- Issue #7143: email: ``get_payload()`` used to strip any trailing newline from
1137 a base64 transfer-encoded payload *after* decoding it; it no longer does.
1138 This is a behavior change, so email's minor version number is now bumped, to
1139 version 4.0.2, for the 2.7 release.
R. David Murray4617e502010-03-08 02:04:06 +00001140
Larry Hastings3b958e32010-04-02 11:18:17 +00001141- Issue #8235: _socket: Add the constant ``SO_SETFIB``. SO_SETFIB is
1142 a socket option available on FreeBSD 7.1 and newer.
1143
Michael Foorda04c7a02010-04-02 22:55:59 +00001144- Issue #8038: unittest.TestCase.assertNotRegexpMatches
1145
1146- Addition of -b command line option to unittest for buffering stdout / stderr
1147 during test runs.
1148
Victor Stinnerdb990922010-05-15 21:00:59 +00001149- Issue #1220212: Added os.kill support for Windows, including support for
Brian Curtin85108e62010-04-02 23:31:28 +00001150 sending CTRL+C and CTRL+BREAK events to console subprocesses.
1151
Mark Dickinson154b7ad2010-03-07 16:24:45 +00001152Extension Modules
1153-----------------
1154
Martin v. Löwis16ea5482010-04-07 11:01:46 +00001155- Issue #8314: Fix unsigned long long bug in libffi on Sparc v8.
1156
Matthias Klosee9fbf2b2010-03-19 14:45:06 +00001157- Issue #1039, #8154: Fix os.execlp() crash with missing 2nd argument.
1158
Jesus Cea6557aac2010-03-22 14:22:26 +00001159- Issue #8156: bsddb module updated to version 4.8.4.
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001160 http://www.jcea.es/programacion/pybsddb.htm#bsddb3-4.8.4. This update drops
1161 support for Berkeley DB 4.0, and adds support for 4.8.
Matthias Klose54cc5392010-03-15 12:46:18 +00001162
Jesus Cea616de772010-04-28 10:32:30 +00001163- Issue #3928: os.mknod() now available in Solaris, also.
1164
Matthias Klose817acef2010-03-15 00:02:36 +00001165- Issue #8142: Update libffi to the 3.0.9 release.
1166
Mark Dickinson4846a8e2010-04-03 14:05:10 +00001167- Issue #8300: When passing a non-integer argument to struct.pack with any
1168 integer format code, struct.pack first attempts to convert the non-integer
1169 using its __index__ method. If that method is non-existent or raises
1170 TypeError it goes on to try the __int__ method, as described below.
1171
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001172- Issue #1530559: When passing a non-integer argument to struct.pack with *any*
1173 integer format code (one of 'bBhHiIlLqQ'), struct.pack attempts to use the
1174 argument's __int__ method to convert to an integer before packing. It also
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001175 produces a DeprecationWarning in this case. (In Python 2.6, the behaviour was
1176 inconsistent: __int__ was used for some integer codes but not for others, and
1177 the set of integer codes for which it was used differed between native packing
1178 and standard packing.)
Mark Dickinson154b7ad2010-03-07 16:24:45 +00001179
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001180- Issue #7347: _winreg: Add CreateKeyEx and DeleteKeyEx, as well as fix a bug in
1181 the return value of QueryReflectionKey.
Brian Curtin19479fa2010-04-02 21:51:37 +00001182
Antoine Pitrou02b3f0a2010-03-13 21:21:30 +00001183Tools/Demos
1184-----------
1185
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001186- Issue #7993: Add a test of IO packet processing bandwidth to ccbench. It
1187 measures the number of UDP packets processed per second depending on the
1188 number of background CPU-bound Python threads.
Benjamin Peterson5da7e7c2010-03-06 22:44:07 +00001189
Collin Wintera70f3492010-03-19 00:08:44 +00001190- python-config now supports multiple options on the same command line.
1191
Benjamin Peterson11d93232010-03-14 14:24:31 +00001192Build
1193-----
1194
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001195- Issue #8032: For gdb7, a python-gdb.py file is added to the build, allowing to
1196 use advanced gdb features when debugging Python.
Martin v. Löwisbf0dfb32010-04-01 07:40:51 +00001197
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001198- Issue #1628484: The Makefile doesn't ignore the CFLAGS environment variable
1199 anymore. It also forwards the LDFLAGS settings to the linker when building a
1200 shared library.
Antoine Pitrouf83b3082010-03-21 19:19:41 +00001201
Martin v. Löwis24e4e162010-03-15 13:00:17 +00001202- Issue #6716: Quote -x arguments of compileall in MSI installer.
1203
Benjamin Peterson11d93232010-03-14 14:24:31 +00001204- Issue #7705: Fix linking on FreeBSD.
1205
Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven6d22cfc2010-04-07 16:34:08 +00001206- Make sure that the FreeBSD build of the included libffi uses the proper
1207 assembly file.
1208
Larry Hastings402b73f2010-03-25 00:54:54 +00001209C-API
1210-----
1211
Antoine Pitrou76c86492010-04-01 16:42:11 +00001212- Issue #8276: PyEval_CallObject() is now only available in macro form. The
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001213 function declaration, which was kept for backwards compatibility reasons, is
1214 now removed (the macro was introduced in 1997!).
Antoine Pitrou76c86492010-04-01 16:42:11 +00001215
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001216- Issue #7992: A replacement PyCObject API, PyCapsule, has been backported from
1217 Python 3.1. All existing Python CObjects in the main distribution have been
1218 converted to capsules. To address backwards-compatibility concerns,
1219 PyCObject_AsVoidPtr() was changed to understand capsules.
Larry Hastings402b73f2010-03-25 00:54:54 +00001220
Florent Xicluna3cc8f212010-03-15 18:08:58 +00001221Tests
1222-----
1223
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001224- Issue #3864: Skip three test_signal tests on freebsd6 because they fail if any
1225 thread was previously started, most likely due to a platform bug.
R. David Murraye0e8a872010-04-17 05:26:26 +00001226
Antoine Pitrouab5ce722010-04-11 22:45:47 +00001227- Issue #8348: Fix test ftp url in test_urllib2net.
1228
1229- Issue #8204: Fix test_ttk notebook test by forcing focus.
1230
1231- Issue #8344: Fix test_ttk bug on FreeBSD.
1232
Antoine Pitrou3b4c9892010-04-06 17:21:09 +00001233- Issue #8193: Fix test_zlib failure with zlib 1.2.4.
1234
Antoine Pitrou6032c252010-03-30 18:49:45 +00001235- Issue #8248: Add some tests for the bool type. Patch by Gregory Nofi.
1236
Florent Xicluna75c66762010-03-30 16:31:14 +00001237- Issue #8263: Now regrtest.py will report a failure if it receives a
1238 KeyboardInterrupt (SIGINT).
1239
Florent Xicluna8aa5a582010-03-25 20:33:49 +00001240- Issue #8180 and #8207: Fix test_pep277 on OS X and add more tests for special
1241 Unicode normalization cases.
Florent Xicluna77a88492010-03-21 18:00:38 +00001242
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001243- Issue #7783: test.test_support.open_urlresource invalidates the outdated files
1244 from the local cache.
Florent Xicluna3cc8f212010-03-15 18:08:58 +00001245
R. David Murray4617e502010-03-08 02:04:06 +00001246
Benjamin Peterson2d798ac2010-02-06 18:26:27 +00001247What's New in Python 2.7 alpha 4?
1248=================================
1249
Benjamin Peterson8e7c1172010-03-06 20:34:14 +00001250*Release date: 2010-03-06*
Benjamin Peterson2d798ac2010-02-06 18:26:27 +00001251
1252Core and Builtins
1253-----------------
1254
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001255- Issue #7544: Preallocate thread memory before creating the thread to avoid a
1256 fatal error in low memory condition.
Victor Stinner71fb87e2010-03-03 23:20:25 +00001257
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001258- Issue #7820: The parser tokenizer restores all bytes in the right if the BOM
1259 check fails.
Victor Stinnerd23d3932010-03-02 23:20:02 +00001260
Eric Smith2d9856d2010-02-24 14:15:36 +00001261- Issue #7309: Fix unchecked attribute access when converting
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001262 UnicodeEncodeError, UnicodeDecodeError, and UnicodeTranslateError to strings.
Eric Smith2d9856d2010-02-24 14:15:36 +00001263
Ezio Melotti32125152010-02-25 17:36:04 +00001264- Issue #7649: "u'%c' % char" now behaves like "u'%s' % char" and raises a
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001265 UnicodeDecodeError if 'char' is a byte string that can't be decoded using the
1266 default encoding.
Victor Stinnerf20f9c22010-02-23 23:16:07 +00001267
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001268- Issue #6902: Fix problem with built-in types format incorrectly with 0
1269 padding.
Eric Smith87bcb242010-02-23 00:11:16 +00001270
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001271- Issue #2560: Remove an unnecessary 'for' loop from ``my_fgets()`` in
Andrew M. Kuchlingb64d6132010-02-22 22:48:41 +00001272 Parser/myreadline.c.
1273
Eric Smithf32d4ac2010-02-22 18:33:47 +00001274- Issue #7988: Fix default alignment to be right aligned for
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001275 ``complex.__format__``. Now it matches other numeric types.
Eric Smithf32d4ac2010-02-22 18:33:47 +00001276
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001277- Issue #5211: The complex type no longer uses implicit coercion in mixed-type
1278 binary arithmetic operations.
Mark Dickinson82b34c52010-02-21 12:57:35 +00001279
Benjamin Peterson2d798ac2010-02-06 18:26:27 +00001280Library
1281-------
Georg Brandl7f0c3ff2010-08-01 21:18:52 +00001282
R. David Murray05b76312010-07-17 01:35:16 +00001283- Issue #1555570: email no longer inserts extra blank lines when a \r\n
1284 combo crosses an 8192 byte boundary.
Benjamin Peterson2d798ac2010-02-06 18:26:27 +00001285
Florent Xicluna0b9a18a2010-03-06 11:01:08 +00001286- Issue #6906: Tk should not set Unicode environment variables on Windows.
1287
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001288- Issue #1054943: Fix ``unicodedata.normalize('NFC', text)`` for the Public
Ezio Melotti8122bdd2010-03-14 10:13:49 +00001289 Review Issue #29 (http://unicode.org/review/pr-29.html).
Victor Stinner7c924ec2010-03-04 12:09:33 +00001290
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001291- Issue #7494: Fix a crash in ``_lsprof`` (cProfile) after clearing the profiler,
Victor Stinner56a51532010-03-04 00:10:12 +00001292 reset also the pointer to the current pointer context.
1293
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001294- Issue #7232: Add support for the context manager protocol to the
1295 ``tarfile.TarFile`` class.
Lars Gustäbel64581042010-03-03 11:55:48 +00001296
Barry Warsaw08a8fb32010-03-01 21:46:51 +00001297- Issue #7250: Fix info leak of os.environ across multi-run uses of
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001298 ``wsgiref.handlers.CGIHandler``.
Barry Warsaw08a8fb32010-03-01 21:46:51 +00001299
Florent Xiclunae7901c52010-03-01 20:45:01 +00001300- Issue #1729305: Fix doctest to handle encode error with "backslashreplace".
Florent Xicluna2a903b22010-02-27 13:31:23 +00001301
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001302- Issue #691291: ``codecs.open()`` should not convert end of lines on reading
1303 and writing.
Florent Xicluna82aa01f2010-02-27 11:19:18 +00001304
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001305- Issue #7975: Correct regression in dict methods supported by bsddb.dbshelve.
R. David Murray48605be2010-02-24 02:31:27 +00001306
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001307- Issue #7959: ctypes callback functions are now registered correctly with the
1308 cycle garbage collector.
Thomas Heller92bd0592010-02-23 20:11:44 +00001309
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001310- Issue #7970: ``email.Generator.flatten`` now correctly flattens
1311 message/rfc822 messages parsed by ``email.Parser.HeaderParser``.
R. David Murray51f12042010-02-21 04:23:00 +00001312
Ezio Melotti4cc80ca2010-02-20 08:09:39 +00001313- Issue #3426: ``os.path.abspath`` now returns unicode when its arg is unicode.
1314
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001315- Issue #7633: In the decimal module, ``Context`` class methods (with the
1316 exception of canonical and is_canonical) now accept instances of int and long
1317 wherever a Decimal instance is accepted, and implicitly convert that argument
1318 to Decimal. Previously only some arguments were converted.
Mark Dickinson6d8effb2010-02-18 14:27:02 +00001319
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001320- Issue #6003: Add an argument to ``zipfile.Zipfile.writestr`` to specify the
1321 compression type.
Ezio Melotti8f6a2872010-02-10 21:40:33 +00001322
Michael Foorddb43b5a2010-02-10 14:25:12 +00001323- Issue #7893: ``unittest.TextTestResult`` is made public and a ``resultclass``
1324 argument added to the TextTestRunner constructor allowing a different result
1325 class to be used without having to subclass.
Ezio Melotti8f6a2872010-02-10 21:40:33 +00001326
Ezio Melotti4cc80ca2010-02-20 08:09:39 +00001327- Issue #7588: ``unittest.TextTestResult.getDescription`` now includes the test
Michael Foorddb43b5a2010-02-10 14:25:12 +00001328 name in failure reports even if the test has a docstring.
Ronald Oussorendd25e862010-02-07 20:18:02 +00001329
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001330- Issue #5801: Remove spurious empty lines in wsgiref.
Tarek Ziadéb8708a22010-02-23 05:53:05 +00001331
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001332- Issue #1537721: Add a ``writeheader()`` method to ``csv.DictWriter``.
Dirkjan Ochtman86148172010-02-23 21:09:52 +00001333
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001334- Issue #7427: Improve the representation of httplib.BadStatusLine exceptions.
Dirkjan Ochtmanebc73dc2010-02-24 04:49:00 +00001335
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001336- Issue #7481: When a ``threading.Thread`` failed to start it would leave the
1337 instance stuck in initial state and present in ``threading.enumerate()``.
Gregory P. Smith613c7a52010-02-28 18:36:09 +00001338
Gregory P. Smithcce211f2010-03-01 00:05:08 +00001339- Issue #1068268: The subprocess module now handles EINTR in internal
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001340 ``os.waitpid()`` and ``os.read()`` system calls where appropriate.
Gregory P. Smithcce211f2010-03-01 00:05:08 +00001341
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001342- Issue #6729: Add ``ctypes.c_ssize_t`` to represent ssize_t.
Gregory P. Smith3c699d32010-03-01 04:56:12 +00001343
Steven Betharde9330e72010-03-02 08:38:09 +00001344- Issue #6247: The argparse module has been added to the standard library.
1345
Martin v. Löwis413fabc2010-02-18 09:22:20 +00001346Extension Modules
1347-----------------
1348
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001349- The sqlite3 module was updated to pysqlite 2.6.0. This fixes several obscure
Gerhard Häring3bbb6722010-03-05 09:12:37 +00001350 bugs and allows loading SQLite extensions from shared libraries.
1351
Florent Xiclunae7901c52010-03-01 20:45:01 +00001352- Issue #7808: Fix reference leaks in _bsddb and related tests.
1353
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001354- Issue #6544: Fix a reference leak in the kqueue implementation's error
Georg Brandlea370a92010-02-23 21:48:57 +00001355 handling.
1356
Martin v. Löwis413fabc2010-02-18 09:22:20 +00001357- Stop providing crtassem.h symbols when compiling with Visual Studio 2010, as
1358 msvcr100.dll is not a platform assembly anymore.
Benjamin Peterson2d798ac2010-02-06 18:26:27 +00001359
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001360- Issue #7242: On Solaris 9 and earlier calling ``os.fork()`` from within a
Gregory P. Smith9e5d1322010-03-01 01:22:39 +00001361 thread could raise an incorrect RuntimeError about not holding the import
1362 lock. The import lock is now reinitialized after fork.
1363
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001364- Issue #7999: ``os.setreuid()`` and ``os.setregid()`` would refuse to accept a
1365 -1 parameter on some platforms such as OS X.
Gregory P. Smith6a65f852010-03-01 05:43:43 +00001366
Ezio Melotti8f6a2872010-02-10 21:40:33 +00001367Tests
1368-----
1369
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001370- Issue #7849: The utility ``test.test_support.check_warnings()`` verifies if
1371 warnings are effectively raised. A new utility ``check_py3k_warnings()`` is
1372 available.
Florent Xicluna6de9e932010-03-07 12:18:33 +00001373
Florent Xicluna985478d2010-03-06 18:52:52 +00001374- The four path modules (genericpath, macpath, ntpath, posixpath) share a
1375 common TestCase for some tests: test_genericpath.CommonTest.
1376
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001377- Print platform information when running the whole test suite, or using the
1378 ``--verbose`` flag.
Florent Xicluna58526412010-03-06 17:24:36 +00001379
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001380- Issue #767675: Enable test_pep277 on POSIX platforms with Unicode-friendly
Florent Xiclunac0a9d412010-03-02 22:34:11 +00001381 filesystem encoding.
Florent Xicluna2db61fb2010-03-02 21:34:45 +00001382
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001383- Issue #6292: For the moment at least, the test suite runs cleanly if python
R. David Murrayf28fd242010-02-23 00:24:49 +00001384 is run with the -OO flag. Tests requiring docstrings are skipped.
1385
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001386- Issue #7712: test_support gained a new ``temp_cwd`` context manager which is
1387 now also used by regrtest to run all the tests in a temporary directory. The
1388 original CWD is saved in ``test.test_support.SAVEDCWD``. Thanks to Florent
1389 Xicluna who helped with the patch.
Ezio Melotti8f6a2872010-02-10 21:40:33 +00001390
Martin v. Löwis5e2dd862010-02-15 08:32:00 +00001391Build
1392-----
1393
Martin v. Löwis7875ef62010-02-15 21:41:12 +00001394- Issue #3920, #7903: Define _BSD_SOURCE on OpenBSD 4.4 through 4.9.
Martin v. Löwis5e2dd862010-02-15 08:32:00 +00001395
Ezio Melotti8f6a2872010-02-10 21:40:33 +00001396
Benjamin Petersondd6d92a2010-01-09 17:30:31 +00001397What's New in Python 2.7 alpha 3?
1398=================================
1399
Benjamin Petersona7be9d22010-02-06 16:37:32 +00001400*Release date: 2010-02-06*
Benjamin Petersondd6d92a2010-01-09 17:30:31 +00001401
1402Core and Builtins
1403-----------------
1404
Antoine Pitroubb445a12010-02-05 17:05:54 +00001405- Issue #5677: Explicitly forbid write operations on read-only file objects,
1406 and read operations on write-only file objects. On Windows, the system C
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001407 library would return a bogus result; on Solaris, it was possible to crash the
1408 interpreter. Patch by Stefan Krah.
Antoine Pitroubb445a12010-02-05 17:05:54 +00001409
Barry Warsawb1e66ee2010-02-05 18:45:25 +00001410- Issue #7853: Normalize exceptions before they are passed to a context
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001411 manager's ``__exit__()`` method.
Benjamin Peterson565d7852010-02-05 02:12:14 +00001412
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001413- Issue #7385: Fix a crash in ``PyMemoryView_FromObject()`` when
1414 ``PyObject_GetBuffer()`` fails. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
Antoine Pitrou526e4212010-02-02 22:36:17 +00001415
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001416- Issue #7819: Check ``sys.call_tracing()`` arguments types.
Victor Stinnerb4b0a292010-01-31 22:32:15 +00001417
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001418- Issue #7788: Fix an interpreter crash produced by deleting a list slice with
1419 very large step value.
Mark Dickinson36ecd672010-01-29 17:11:39 +00001420
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001421- Issue #7766: Change ``sys.getwindowsversion()`` return value to a named tuple
1422 and add the additional members returned in an OSVERSIONINFOEX structure. The
1423 new members are service_pack_major, service_pack_minor, suite_mask, and
1424 product_type.
Eric Smithee931b72010-01-27 00:28:29 +00001425
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001426- Issue #7561: Operations on empty bytearrays (such as ``int(bytearray())``)
1427 could crash in many places because of the ``PyByteArray_AS_STRING()`` macro
1428 returning NULL. The macro now returns a statically allocated empty string
1429 instead.
Antoine Pitroue80a6a42010-01-17 12:26:20 +00001430
Antoine Pitrou64672132010-01-13 07:55:48 +00001431- Issue #7622: Improve the split(), rsplit(), splitlines() and replace()
1432 methods of bytes, bytearray and unicode objects by using a common
1433 implementation based on stringlib's fast search. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
1434
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001435- Issue #7632: Fix various str -> float conversion bugs present in 2.7 alpha 2,
1436 including:
Mark Dickinson8efef5c2010-01-12 22:23:56 +00001437
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001438 (1) a serious 'wrong output' bug that could occur for long (> 40 digit) input
1439 strings,
1440 (2) a crash in dtoa.c that occurred in debug builds when parsing certain long
1441 numeric strings corresponding to subnormal values,
1442 (3) a memory leak for some values large enough to cause overflow, and
1443 (4) a number of flaws that could lead to incorrectly rounded results.
1444
1445- Issue #7319, #7770: Silence ``DeprecationWarning`` by default when the -3
1446 option is not used.
Brett Cannon6fdd3dc2010-01-10 02:56:19 +00001447
Alexandre Vassalottiee936a22010-01-09 23:35:54 +00001448- Issue #2335: Backport set literals syntax from Python 3.x.
1449
Alexandre Vassalotti7a8df802010-01-11 23:13:49 +00001450- Issue #2333: Backport set and dict comprehensions syntax from Python 3.x.
1451
Alexandre Vassalotti69eb5162010-01-11 23:17:10 +00001452- Issue #1967: Backport dictionary views from Python 3.x.
1453
Benjamin Petersondd6d92a2010-01-09 17:30:31 +00001454Library
1455-------
1456
Mark Dickinson42add992010-07-11 19:17:28 +00001457- Issue #9137: Fix issue in MutableMapping.update, which incorrectly
1458 treated keyword arguments called 'self' or 'other' specially.
1459
R. David Murray63e4fd72010-02-10 22:42:04 +00001460- Issue #7835: shelve should no longer produce mysterious warnings during
1461 interpreter shutdown.
1462
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001463- Issue #2746: Don't escape ampersands and angle brackets ("&", "<", ">") in
1464 XML processing instructions and comments. These raw characters are allowed
1465 by the XML specification, and are necessary when outputting e.g. PHP code in
1466 a processing instruction. Patch by Neil Muller.
Antoine Pitrou42fb6ab2010-02-09 17:08:05 +00001467
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001468- Issue #7869: logging: Improved diagnostic for format-time errors.
Vinay Sajip64e8b972010-02-07 12:56:54 +00001469
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001470- Issue #7868: logging: Added loggerClass attribute to Manager.
Vinay Sajip657514a2010-02-07 01:37:08 +00001471
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001472- Issue #7851: logging: Clarification on logging configuration files.
Vinay Sajip0e6e97d2010-02-04 20:23:45 +00001473
Antoine Pitroud840e512010-02-04 20:20:18 +00001474- Issue #4772: Raise a ValueError when an unknown Bluetooth protocol is
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001475 specified, rather than fall through to AF_PACKET (in the ``socket`` module).
Antoine Pitroud840e512010-02-04 20:20:18 +00001476 Also, raise ValueError rather than TypeError when an unknown TIPC address
1477 type is specified. Patch by Brian Curtin.
1478
Vinay Sajip28c382f2010-02-04 18:48:53 +00001479- logging: Implemented PEP 391.
1480
Antoine Pitrouf3fa0742010-01-31 22:26:04 +00001481- Issue #6939: Fix file I/O objects in the `io` module to keep the original
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001482 file position when calling `truncate()`. It would previously change the file
1483 position to the given argument, which goes against the tradition of
Antoine Pitrouf3fa0742010-01-31 22:26:04 +00001484 ftruncate() and other truncation APIs. Patch by Pascal Chambon.
1485
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001486- Issue #7610: Reworked implementation of the internal ``zipfile.ZipExtFile``
1487 class used to represent files stored inside an archive. The new
1488 implementation is significantly faster and can be wrapped in a
1489 ``io.BufferedReader`` object for more speedups. It also solves an issue
1490 where interleaved calls to ``read()`` and ``readline()`` give wrong results.
1491 Patch by Nir Aides.
Antoine Pitrou94c33eb2010-01-27 20:59:50 +00001492
Benjamin Peterson2deb5c72010-01-27 02:16:42 +00001493- Issue #7792: Registering non-classes to ABCs raised an obscure error.
1494
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001495- Removed the deprecated functions ``verify()`` and ``vereq()`` from
1496 Lib/test/test_support.py.
Ezio Melotti82230f92010-01-25 12:37:02 +00001497
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001498- Issue #7773: Fix an UnboundLocalError in ``platform.linux_distribution()``
1499 when the release file is empty.
Benjamin Petersona43f34c2010-01-25 03:31:13 +00001500
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001501- Issue #7748: Since unicode values are supported for some metadata options in
1502 Distutils, the DistributionMetadata get_* methods will now return an utf-8
1503 encoded string for them. This ensures that the upload and register commands
1504 send the correct values to PyPI without any error.
Tarek Ziadéf14c7fc2010-01-24 00:33:32 +00001505
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001506- Issue #1670765: Prevent ``email.generator.Generator`` from re-wrapping
R. David Murrayed44dfa2010-01-16 05:15:17 +00001507 headers in multipart/signed MIME parts, which fixes one of the sources of
1508 invalid modifications to such parts by Generator.
1509
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001510- Issue #7701: Fix crash in ``binascii.b2a_uu()`` in debug mode when given a
Antoine Pitrouc391ad02010-01-15 00:18:00 +00001511 1-byte argument. Patch by Victor Stinner.
1512
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001513- Issue #3299: Fix possible crash in the _sre module when given bad argument
1514 values in debug mode. Patch by Victor Stinner.
Antoine Pitrouefdddd32010-01-14 17:25:24 +00001515
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001516- Issue #7703: Add support for the new buffer API to functions of the binascii
1517 module. Backported from py3k by Florent Xicluna, with some additional tests.
Antoine Pitroufd3a60d2010-01-14 16:27:09 +00001518
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001519- Issue #2846: Add support for gzip.GzipFile reading zero-padded files. Patch
1520 by Brian Curtin.
Antoine Pitrou5a9112c2010-01-13 14:32:10 +00001521
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001522- Issue #5827: Make sure that normpath preserves unicode. Initial patch by
1523 Matt Giuca.
Ezio Melottib5689de2010-01-12 03:32:05 +00001524
Tarek Ziadédc0f4872010-01-11 22:50:29 +00001525- Issue #5372: Drop the reuse of .o files in Distutils' ccompiler (since
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001526 Extension extra options may change the output without changing the .c file).
1527 Initial patch by Collin Winter.
Tarek Ziadédc0f4872010-01-11 22:50:29 +00001528
Matthias Klose0d948ac2010-01-22 00:39:04 +00001529Extension Modules
1530-----------------
1531
1532- Expat: Fix DoS via XML document with malformed UTF-8 sequences
1533 (CVE_2009_3560).
1534
Antoine Pitrou8c510e72010-01-13 11:47:49 +00001535Build
1536-----
1537
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001538- Issue #7632: When Py_USING_MEMORY_DEBUGGER is defined, disable the private
1539 memory allocation scheme in dtoa.c and use PyMem_Malloc and PyMem_Free
1540 instead. Also disable caching of powers of 5.
Mark Dickinson9481c572010-01-17 20:57:56 +00001541
Ronald Oussorena55af9a2010-01-17 16:25:57 +00001542- Issue #7658: Ensure that the new pythonw executable works on OSX 10.4
1543
1544- Issue #7714: Use ``gcc -dumpversion`` to detect the version of GCC on
1545 MacOSX.
1546
Antoine Pitrou8c510e72010-01-13 11:47:49 +00001547- Issue #7661: Allow ctypes to be built from a non-ASCII directory path.
1548 Patch by Florent Xicluna.
1549
Antoine Pitrouc07336c2010-01-18 21:15:21 +00001550Tools/Demos
1551-----------
1552
1553- iobench (a file I/O benchmark) and ccbench (a concurrency benchmark) were
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001554 added to the ``Tools`` directory. They were previously living in the
Antoine Pitrouc07336c2010-01-18 21:15:21 +00001555 sandbox.
1556
R. David Murrayce6e4b02010-02-06 04:27:21 +00001557Tests
1558-----
1559
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001560- issue #7728: test_timeout was changed to use ``test_support.bind_port()``
R. David Murrayce6e4b02010-02-06 04:27:21 +00001561 instead of a hard coded port.
1562
Matthias Klose626d92a2010-01-31 16:05:13 +00001563Documentation
1564-------------
Victor Stinnerf20f9c22010-02-23 23:16:07 +00001565
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001566- Updated "Using Python" documentation to include description of CPython's -J,
1567 -U and -X options.
Barry Warsawb1e66ee2010-02-05 18:45:25 +00001568
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001569- Updated Python manual page (options -B, -O0, -s, environment variables
Matthias Klose626d92a2010-01-31 16:05:13 +00001570 PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE, PYTHONNOUSERSITE).
1571
Benjamin Petersondd6d92a2010-01-09 17:30:31 +00001572
Benjamin Peterson4f51baf2009-12-05 18:40:02 +00001573What's New in Python 2.7 alpha 2?
1574=================================
1575
Benjamin Petersonaa7e51f2010-01-09 16:34:06 +00001576*Release date: 2010-01-09*
Benjamin Peterson4f51baf2009-12-05 18:40:02 +00001577
1578Core and Builtins
1579-----------------
1580
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001581- The ``__complex__()`` method is now looked up on the class of instances to
1582 make it consistent with other special methods.
Benjamin Petersonecdae192010-01-04 00:43:01 +00001583
Antoine Pitrou5b7139a2010-01-02 21:12:58 +00001584- Issue #7462: Implement the stringlib fast search algorithm for the `rfind`,
1585 `rindex`, `rsplit` and `rpartition` methods. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
1586
Mark Dickinson1b34d252010-01-01 17:27:30 +00001587- Issue #5080: A number of functions and methods previously produced a
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001588 DeprecationWarning when passed a float argument where an integer was expected.
1589 These functions and methods now raise TypeError instead. The majority of the
1590 effects of this change are in the extension modules, but some core functions
1591 and methods are affected: notably the 'chr', 'range' and 'xrange' builtins,
1592 and many unicode/str methods.
Mark Dickinson1b34d252010-01-01 17:27:30 +00001593
Benjamin Peterson0f02d392009-12-30 19:34:10 +00001594- Issue #7604: Deleting an unset slotted attribute did not raise an
1595 AttributeError.
1596
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001597- Issue #7534: Fix handling of IEEE specials (infinities, nans, negative zero)
1598 in ** operator. The behaviour now conforms to that described in C99 Annex F.
Mark Dickinson99d652e2009-12-30 12:12:23 +00001599
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001600- Issue #7579: The msvcrt module now has docstrings for all its functions.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcc8a2ce72009-12-29 23:06:17 +00001601
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc8645a5c2009-12-29 22:03:38 +00001602- Issue #7413: Passing '\0' as the separator to datetime.datetime.isoformat()
1603 used to drop the time part of the result.
1604
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001605- Issue #1811: Improve accuracy and cross-platform consistency for true division
1606 of integers: the result of a/b is now correctly rounded for ints a and b (at
1607 least on IEEE 754 platforms), and in particular does not depend on the
1608 internal representation of a long.
Mark Dickinson46572832009-12-27 14:55:57 +00001609
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001610- Issue #6108: ``unicode(exception)`` and ``str(exception)`` should return the
1611 same message when only ``__str__()`` (and not ``__unicode__()``) is overridden
1612 in the subclass.
Ezio Melottif84caf42009-12-24 22:25:17 +00001613
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001614- Issue #6834: Replace the implementation for the 'python' and 'pythonw'
Ronald Oussoren92919a62009-12-24 13:30:58 +00001615 executables on OSX.
1616
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001617 These executables now work properly with the arch(1) command: ``arch -ppc
1618 python`` will start a universal binary version of python in PPC mode (unlike
1619 previous releases).
Ronald Oussoren92919a62009-12-24 13:30:58 +00001620
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001621- Issue #1680159: Unicode coercion during an 'in' operation no longer masks the
1622 underlying error when the coercion fails for the left hand operand.
R. David Murray0a0a1a82009-12-14 16:28:26 +00001623
Benjamin Peterson4895af42009-12-13 16:36:53 +00001624- Issue #7491: Metaclass's __cmp__ method was ignored.
1625
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001626- Issue #7466: Segmentation fault when the garbage collector is called in the
1627 middle of populating a tuple. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
Antoine Pitrou2a08b422009-12-13 16:18:14 +00001628
R. David Murrayc7298ff2009-12-14 21:57:39 +00001629
Benjamin Peterson4f51baf2009-12-05 18:40:02 +00001630Library
1631-------
1632
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001633- Issue #6963: Added "maxtasksperchild" argument to ``multiprocessing.Pool``,
1634 allowing for a maximum number of tasks within the pool to be completed by the
1635 worker before that worker is terminated, and a new one created to replace it.
Jesse Noller654ade32010-01-27 03:05:57 +00001636
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001637- Issue #7617: Make sure distutils.unixccompiler.UnixCCompiler recognizes gcc
1638 when it has a fully qualified configuration prefix. Initial patch by
1639 Arfrever.
Tarek Ziadéc25417f2010-01-08 23:42:23 +00001640
Antoine Pitrou80157252010-01-08 19:20:17 +00001641- Issue #7092: Remove py3k warning when importing cPickle. 2to3 handles
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001642 renaming of `cPickle` to `pickle`. The warning was annoying since there's no
1643 alternative to cPickle if you care about performance. Patch by Florent
Antoine Pitrou80157252010-01-08 19:20:17 +00001644 Xicluna.
1645
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001646- Issue #7455: Fix possible crash in cPickle on invalid input. Patch by Victor
1647 Stinner.
Antoine Pitrou0d423b82010-01-07 17:46:49 +00001648
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001649- Issue #7092: Fix the DeprecationWarnings emitted by the standard library when
1650 using the -3 flag. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
Antoine Pitroub9d49632010-01-04 23:22:44 +00001651
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001652- Issue #7471: Improve the performance of GzipFile's buffering mechanism, and
1653 make it implement the ``io.BufferedIOBase`` ABC to allow for further speedups
1654 by wrapping it in an ``io.BufferedReader``. Patch by Nir Aides.
Antoine Pitrou673ddf92010-01-03 22:29:56 +00001655
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001656- Issue #3972: ``httplib.HTTPConnection`` now accepts an optional source_address
Gregory P. Smith9d325212010-01-03 02:06:07 +00001657 parameter to allow specifying where your connections come from.
1658
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001659- ``socket.create_connection()`` now accepts an optional source_address
1660 parameter.
Gregory P. Smith79a3eb12010-01-03 01:29:44 +00001661
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001662- Issue #5511: ``zipfile.ZipFile`` can now be used as a context manager.
Ezio Melotti569e61f2009-12-30 06:14:51 +00001663 Initial patch by Brian Curtin.
1664
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001665- Distutils now correctly identifies the build architecture as "x86_64" when
1666 building on OSX 10.6 without "-arch" flags.
Ronald Oussorenca8e7ec2009-12-24 14:50:35 +00001667
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001668- Issue #7556: Distutils' msvc9compiler now opens the MSVC Manifest file in text
1669 mode.
Tarek Ziadé0479eb52009-12-21 23:37:44 +00001670
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001671- Issue #7552: Removed line feed in the base64 Authorization header in the
1672 Distutils upload command to avoid an error when PyPI reads it. This occurs on
1673 long passwords. Initial patch by JP St. Pierre.
Tarek Ziadé2421d562009-12-20 23:23:34 +00001674
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001675- Issue #7231: urllib2 cannot handle https with proxy requiring auth. Patch by
1676 Tatsuhiro Tsujikawa.
Senthil Kumaran7713acf2009-12-20 06:05:13 +00001677
Benjamin Petersonddd392c2009-12-13 19:19:07 +00001678- Issue #7349: Make methods of file objects in the io module accept None as an
1679 argument where file-like objects (ie StringIO and BytesIO) accept them to mean
1680 the same as passing no argument.
1681
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001682- Issue #7348: ``StringIO.StringIO.readline(-1)`` now acts as if it got no
1683 argument like other file objects.
Benjamin Petersonc4771d22009-12-13 17:31:31 +00001684
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001685- Issue #7357: tarfile no longer suppresses fatal extraction errors by default.
Lars Gustäbel92ca7562009-12-13 11:32:27 +00001686
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001687- Issue #7470: logging: Fix bug in Unicode encoding fallback.
Vinay Sajip5cc4e2a2009-12-11 09:16:01 +00001688
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001689- Issue #5949: Fixed IMAP4_SSL hang when the IMAP server response is missing
1690 proper end-of-line termination.
R. David Murray93321f32009-12-09 15:15:31 +00001691
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001692- Issue #7457: Added a read_pkg_file method to
1693 ``distutils.dist.DistributionMetadata``.
Benjamin Peterson4f51baf2009-12-05 18:40:02 +00001694
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001695- Issue #3745: Undo the 2.7a1 change to have hashlib to reject unicode and non
1696 buffer API supporting objects as input. That behavior is for 3.x only.
Gregory P. Smithfe32d302010-01-02 22:42:50 +00001697
Georg Brandl740cdc32009-12-28 08:34:58 +00001698C-API
1699-----
1700
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001701- Issue #7767: New function ``PyLong_AsLongLongAndOverflow()`` added, analogous
1702 to ``PyLong_AsLongAndOverflow()``.
Mark Dickinsona36507c2010-01-30 10:08:33 +00001703
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001704- Issue #5080: The argument parsing functions ``PyArg_ParseTuple()``,
1705 ``PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords()``, ``PyArg_VaParse()``,
1706 ``PyArg_VaParseTupleAndKeywords()`` and ``PyArg_Parse()`` no longer accept
1707 float arguments for integer format codes (other than 'L'): previously an
1708 attempt to pass a float resulted in a DeprecationWarning; now it gives a
1709 TypeError. For the 'L' format code (which previously had no warning) there is
1710 now a DeprecationWarning.
Mark Dickinson1b34d252010-01-01 17:27:30 +00001711
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001712- Issue #7033: Function ``PyErr_NewExceptionWithDoc()`` added.
Georg Brandl740cdc32009-12-28 08:34:58 +00001713
Martin v. Löwisb4261d52009-12-21 19:29:59 +00001714Build
1715-----
1716
Benjamin Petersonedfe72f2010-01-01 15:21:13 +00001717- Issue #6491: Allow --with-dbmliborder to specify that no dbms will be built.
1718
Benjamin Petersonb4abef62010-01-01 15:18:38 +00001719- Issue #6943: Use pkg-config to find the libffi headers when the
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001720 ``--with-system-ffi`` flag is used.
Benjamin Petersonb4abef62010-01-01 15:18:38 +00001721
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001722- Issue #7609: Add a ``--with-system-expat`` option that causes the system's
1723 expat library to be used for the pyexpat module instead of the one included
1724 with Python.
Benjamin Peterson2c196742009-12-31 03:17:18 +00001725
Benjamin Peterson500ce232009-12-30 02:58:50 +00001726- Issue #7589: Only build the nis module when the correct header files are
1727 found.
1728
Martin v. Löwisf477b932010-01-02 09:25:21 +00001729- Switch to OpenSSL 0.9.8l and sqlite 3.6.21 on Windows.
R. David Murray93321f32009-12-09 15:15:31 +00001730
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001731- Issue #7541: when using ``python-config`` with a framework install the
1732 compiler might use the wrong library.
Ronald Oussorenb5afe542009-12-24 14:17:19 +00001733
R. David Murrayc7298ff2009-12-14 21:57:39 +00001734Tests
1735-----
1736
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001737- Issue #7376: Instead of running a self-test (which was failing) when called
R. David Murray77e48ba2009-12-20 16:46:06 +00001738 with no arguments, doctest.py now gives a usage message.
1739
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001740- Issue #7396: Fix regrtest -s, which was broken by the -j enhancement.
R. David Murray98e3df32009-12-16 11:49:46 +00001741
R. David Murrayc7298ff2009-12-14 21:57:39 +00001742- Issue #7498: test_multiprocessing now uses test_support.find_unused_port
1743 instead of a hardcoded port number in test_rapid_restart.
1744
1745
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +00001746What's New in Python 2.7 alpha 1
1747================================
1748
Benjamin Peterson3513c872009-12-05 18:48:13 +00001749*Release date: 2009-12-05*
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +00001750
1751Core and Builtins
1752-----------------
1753
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001754- Issue #7419: ``locale.setlocale()`` could crash the interpreter on Windows
1755 when called with invalid values.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd7288712009-12-01 21:51:04 +00001756
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001757- Issue #3382: 'F' formatting for float and complex now convert the result to
1758 upper case. This only affects 'inf' and 'nan', since 'f' no longer converts
1759 to 'g' for large values.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd7288712009-12-01 21:51:04 +00001760
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001761- Remove switch from "%f" formatting to "%g" formatting for floats larger than
1762 1e50 in absolute value.
Mark Dickinson9dd5e162009-11-23 20:54:09 +00001763
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001764- Remove restrictions on precision when formatting floats. E.g., "%.120g" %
1765 1e-100 used to raise OverflowError, but now gives the requested 120
1766 significant digits instead.
Mark Dickinson18cfada2009-11-23 18:46:41 +00001767
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001768- Add Py3k warnings for parameter names in parentheses.
Benjamin Peterson89b1a5c2009-11-19 22:58:01 +00001769
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001770- Issue #7362: Give a proper error message for ``def f((x)=3): pass``.
Benjamin Peterson89b1a5c2009-11-19 22:58:01 +00001771
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001772- Issue #7085: Fix crash when importing some extensions in a thread on MacOSX
1773 10.6.
Ronald Oussoren315cd0c2009-11-19 16:25:21 +00001774
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001775- Issue #7117: ``repr(x)`` for a float x returns a result based on the shortest
1776 decimal string that's guaranteed to round back to x under correct rounding
1777 (with round-half-to-even rounding mode). Previously it gave a string based on
1778 rounding x to 17 decimal digits. repr(x) for a complex number behaves
1779 similarly. On platforms where the correctly-rounded strtod and dtoa code is
1780 not supported (see below), repr is unchanged.
Mark Dickinsonb678de82009-11-19 18:41:49 +00001781
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001782- Issue #7117: On almost all platforms: float-to-string and string-to-float
1783 conversions within Python are now correctly rounded. Places these conversions
1784 occur include: str for floats and complex numbers; the float and complex
1785 constructors; old-style and new-style numeric formatting; serialization and
1786 deserialization of floats and complex numbers using marshal, pickle and json;
1787 parsing of float and imaginary literals in Python code; Decimal-to-float
1788 conversion.
Mark Dickinsonb678de82009-11-19 18:41:49 +00001789
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001790 The conversions use a Python-adapted version of David Gay's well-known dtoa.c,
1791 providing correctly-rounded strtod and dtoa C functions. This code is
1792 supported on Windows, and on Unix-like platforms using gcc, icc or suncc as
1793 the C compiler. There may be a small number of platforms on which correct
1794 operation of this code cannot be guaranteed, so the code is not used: notably,
1795 this applies to platforms where the C double format is not IEEE 754 binary64,
1796 and to platforms on x86 hardware where the x87 FPU is set to 64-bit precision
1797 and Python's configure script is unable to determine how to change the FPU
1798 precision. On these platforms conversions use the platform strtod and dtoa,
1799 as before.
Mark Dickinsonb678de82009-11-19 18:41:49 +00001800
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001801- Issue #7117: Backport round implementation from Python 3.x. ``round()`` now
1802 uses the correctly-rounded string <-> float conversions described above (when
1803 available), and so produces correctly rounded results that will display nicely
1804 under the float repr. There are two related small changes: (1) round now
1805 accepts any class with an ``__index__()`` method for its second argument (but
1806 no longer accepts floats for the second argument), and (2) an excessively
1807 large second integer argument (e.g., ``round(1.234, 10**100)``) no longer
1808 raises an exception.
Mark Dickinsonbd15a062009-11-18 19:33:35 +00001809
Philip Jenveyfab8be22009-11-17 02:42:26 +00001810- Issue #1757126: Fix the cyrillic-asian alias for the ptcp154 encoding.
1811
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001812- Fix several issues with ``compile()``. The input can now contain Windows and
1813 Mac newlines and is no longer required to end in a newline.
Benjamin Petersone36199b2009-11-12 23:39:44 +00001814
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001815- Remove length limitation when constructing a complex number from a unicode
1816 string.
Mark Dickinsonc04c7c52009-10-26 22:28:14 +00001817
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001818- Issue #7244: ``itertools.izip_longest()`` no longer ignores exceptions raised
1819 during the formation of an output tuple.
Raymond Hettingerfa7dadd2009-11-01 20:45:16 +00001820
Mark Dickinson8d87dc02009-10-25 20:39:06 +00001821- Issue #1087418: Boost performance of bitwise operations for longs.
1822
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001823- Issue #1722344: ``threading._shutdown()`` is now called in ``Py_Finalize()``,
1824 which fixes the problem of some exceptions being thrown at shutdown when the
1825 interpreter is killed. Patch by Adam Olsen.
Antoine Pitrouefb60c02009-10-20 21:29:37 +00001826
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001827- Issue #7168: Document ``PyFloat_AsString()`` and ``PyFloat_AsReprString()``,
1828 and note that they are unsafe and deprecated.
Eric Smithc12781a2009-10-19 14:38:14 +00001829
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001830- Issue #7120: logging: Remove import of multiprocessing which is causing crash
1831 in GAE.
Vinay Sajip03d5c342009-10-16 14:06:44 +00001832
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001833- Issue #7140: The ``__dict__`` of a module should not be cleared unless the
1834 module is the only object holding a reference to it.
Benjamin Peterson196b0922009-10-15 15:44:46 +00001835
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001836- Issue #1754094: Improve the stack depth calculation in the compiler. There
1837 should be no other effect than a small decrease in memory use. Patch by
1838 Christopher Tur Lesniewski-Laas.
Neil Schemenauer7fdd1cb2009-10-14 17:17:14 +00001839
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001840- Issue #7084: Fix a (very unlikely) crash when printing a list from one thread,
1841 and mutating it from another one. Patch by Scott Dial.
Antoine Pitroubeaf6a02009-10-11 21:03:26 +00001842
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd0052d12009-10-06 19:56:32 +00001843- Issue #1571184: The Unicode database contains properties for more characters.
1844 The tables for code points representing numeric values, white spaces or line
1845 breaks are now generated from the official Unicode Character Database files,
1846 and include information from the Unihan.txt file.
1847
Benjamin Peterson7adbb5a2009-10-03 20:23:24 +00001848- Issue #7050: Fix a SystemError when trying to use unpacking and augmented
1849 assignment.
1850
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001851- Issue #5329: Fix ``os.popen*`` regression from 2.5 with commands as a sequence
1852 running through the shell. Patch by Jean-Paul Calderone and Jani Hakala.
Philip Jenvey8b902042009-09-29 19:10:15 +00001853
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001854- Issue #7019: Raise ValueError when unmarshalling bad long data, instead of
1855 producing internally inconsistent Python longs.
Mark Dickinson7e7a3ec2009-09-29 19:01:06 +00001856
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001857- Issue #6990: Fix ``threading.local`` subclasses leaving old state around after
1858 a reference cycle GC which could be recycled by new locals.
Philip Jenveydbf3b252009-09-29 04:32:44 +00001859
Benjamin Peterson9db55402009-09-18 21:47:27 +00001860- Issue #6300: unicode.encode, unicode.decode, str.decode, and str.encode now
Benjamin Peterson332d7212009-09-18 21:14:55 +00001861 take keyword arguments.
1862
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001863- Issue #6922: Fix an infinite loop when trying to decode an invalid UTF-32
1864 stream with a non-raising error handler like "replace" or "ignore".
Georg Brandle9741f32009-09-17 11:28:09 +00001865
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001866- Issue #6713: Improve performance of base 10 int -> string and long -> string
1867 conversions.
Mark Dickinsonaa2adc82009-09-16 22:10:56 +00001868
Thomas Wouters2920adb2009-09-16 20:36:34 +00001869- Issue #1590864: Fix potential deadlock when mixing threads and fork().
1870
Georg Brandl0674d3f2009-09-16 20:30:09 +00001871- Issue #6844: Do not emit DeprecationWarnings when accessing a "message"
1872 attribute on exceptions that was set explicitly.
1873
Mark Dickinsonc8a7c7c2009-09-06 10:03:31 +00001874- Issue #6846: Fix bug where bytearray.pop() returns negative integers.
1875
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001876- ``classmethod()`` no longer checks if its argument is callable.
Benjamin Peterson6fcf9b52009-09-01 22:27:57 +00001877
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001878- Issue #6750: A text file opened with ``io.open()`` could duplicate its output
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfff896b2009-08-29 18:14:40 +00001879 when writing from multiple threads at the same time.
1880
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001881- Issue #6704: Improve the col_offset in AST for "for" statements with a target
1882 of tuple unpacking.
Benjamin Petersonc0ba8282009-08-15 22:59:21 +00001883
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001884- Issue #6707: ``dir()`` on an uninitialized module caused a crash.
Benjamin Peterson4c6e8082009-08-15 13:16:38 +00001885
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001886- Issue #6540: Fixed crash for ``bytearray.translate()`` with invalid parameters.
Georg Brandlec812ca2009-07-22 11:57:15 +00001887
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001888- Issue #6573: ``set.union()`` stopped processing inputs if an instance of self
Raymond Hettingerc2b9e1a2009-07-27 20:32:04 +00001889 occurred in the argument chain.
1890
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc9d11fef2009-07-13 20:03:21 +00001891- Issue #1616979: Added the cp720 (Arabic DOS) encoding.
1892
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001893- Issue #6070: On posix platforms import no longer copies the execute bit from
1894 the .py file to the .pyc file if it is set. Patch by Marco N.
R. David Murray23a736a2009-07-07 01:06:13 +00001895
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001896- Issue #4618: When unicode arguments are passed to ``print()``, the default
Benjamin Peterson753d1622009-07-02 18:16:45 +00001897 separator and end should be unicode also.
1898
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00001899- Issue #6119: Fixed an incorrect Py3k warning about order comparisons of
1900 built-in functions and methods.
Benjamin Peterson1bf47652009-07-02 17:06:17 +00001901
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001902- Issue #6347: Include inttypes.h as well as stdint.h in pyport.h. This fixes a
1903 build failure on HP-UX: int32_t and uint32_t are defined in inttypes.h instead
1904 of stdint.h on that platform.
Mark Dickinson2f865b92009-06-30 15:32:30 +00001905
Hirokazu Yamamotoa3c56092009-06-28 10:23:00 +00001906- Issue #4856: Remove checks for win NT.
1907
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc595f7a52009-06-25 22:29:29 +00001908- Issue #2016: Fixed a crash in a corner case where the dictionary of keyword
1909 arguments could be modified during the function call setup.
1910
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc14fc6732009-06-23 21:09:09 +00001911- Removed the ipaddr module.
1912
Raymond Hettinger62641e92009-06-23 20:59:43 +00001913- Issue #6329: Fixed iteration for memoryview objects (it was being blocked
1914 because it wasn't recognized as a sequence).
1915
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001916- Issue #6289: Encoding errors from ``compile()`` were being masked.
Benjamin Peterson08a0bbc2009-06-16 00:29:31 +00001917
Benjamin Petersona72be3b2009-06-13 20:23:33 +00001918- When no module is given in a relative import, the module field of the
1919 ImportFrom AST node is now None instead of an empty string.
1920
Benjamin Peterson565e1b62009-06-13 03:46:30 +00001921- Assignment to None using import statements now raises a SyntaxError.
1922
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001923- Issue #4547: When debugging a very large function, it was not always possible
1924 to update the lineno attribute of the current frame.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcb02ceda2009-06-01 20:53:18 +00001925
Antoine Pitrou46dbe272009-05-30 21:27:00 +00001926- Issue #5330: C functions called with keyword arguments were not reported by
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001927 the various profiling modules (profile, cProfile). Patch by Hagen Fürstenau.
Antoine Pitrou46dbe272009-05-30 21:27:00 +00001928
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001929- Issue #5982: staticmethod and classmethod now expose the wrapped function with
1930 ``__func__``.
Raymond Hettinger578a2282009-05-29 04:58:52 +00001931
Raymond Hettinger822b87f2009-05-29 01:46:48 +00001932- Added support for multiple context managers in the same with-statement.
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001933 Deprecated ``contextlib.nested()`` which is no longer needed.
Georg Brandl944f6842009-05-25 21:02:56 +00001934
Benjamin Peterson1880d8b2009-05-25 13:13:44 +00001935- Issue #6101: A new opcode, SETUP_WITH, has been added to speed up the with
1936 statement and correctly lookup the __enter__ and __exit__ special methods.
1937
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001938- Issue #5829: complex("1e500") no longer raises OverflowError. This makes it
1939 consistent with float("1e500") and interpretation of real and imaginary
1940 literals.
Mark Dickinsona4e0efa2009-05-20 18:43:07 +00001941
Hirokazu Yamamotoa4f90182009-05-17 02:58:36 +00001942- Issue #3527: Removed Py_WIN_WIDE_FILENAMES which is not used any more.
1943
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001944- ``__instancecheck__()`` and ``__subclasscheck__()`` are now completely ignored
1945 on classic classes and instances.
Benjamin Petersoneb9fb2c2009-05-16 22:46:11 +00001946
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001947- Issue #5994: The marshal module now has docstrings.
R. David Murray525cffc2009-05-13 13:07:14 +00001948
Mark Dickinsonb1d45852009-05-11 15:33:08 +00001949- Issue #5981: Fix three minor inf/nan issues in float.fromhex:
Mark Dickinsonb1d45852009-05-11 15:33:08 +00001950
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001951 (1) inf and nan strings with trailing whitespace were incorrectly rejected;
1952 (2) parsing of strings representing infinities and nans was locale aware; and
1953 (3) the interpretation of fromhex('-nan') didn't match that of float('-nan').
Eric Smitha985a3a2009-05-05 18:26:08 +00001954
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001955- Issue #5920: For ``float.__format__()``, change the behavior with the empty
1956 presentation type (that is, not one of 'e', 'f', 'g', or 'n') to be like 'g'
1957 but with at least one decimal point and with a default precision
1958 of 12. Previously, the behavior the same but with a default precision of 6.
1959 This more closely matches ``str()``, and reduces surprises when adding
1960 alignment flags to the empty presentation type. This also affects the new
1961 complex.__format__ in the same way.
1962
1963- Issue #5890: In subclasses of 'property' the __doc__ attribute was shadowed by
1964 classtype's, even if it was None. property now inserts the __doc__ into the
1965 subclass instance __dict__.
R. David Murray7ba8e1c2009-05-04 22:16:24 +00001966
Antoine Pitrou653dece2009-05-04 18:32:32 +00001967- Issue #4426: The UTF-7 decoder was too strict and didn't accept some legal
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001968 sequences. Patch by Nick Barnes and Victor Stinner.
Antoine Pitrou653dece2009-05-04 18:32:32 +00001969
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001970- Issue #1588: Add complex.__format__. For example, ``format(complex(1, 2./3),
1971 '.5')`` now produces a sensible result.
Eric Smith9139cc62009-04-30 00:58:58 +00001972
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001973- Issue #5864: Fix empty format code formatting for floats so that it never
1974 gives more than the requested number of significant digits.
Mark Dickinson92fcc9c2009-04-29 20:41:00 +00001975
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001976- Issue #5793: Rationalize isdigit / isalpha / tolower, etc. Includes new
1977 Py_ISDIGIT / Py_ISALPHA / Py_TOLOWER, etc. in pctypes.h.
Eric Smithcac7af62009-04-27 19:04:37 +00001978
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001979- Issue #4971: Fix titlecase for characters that are their own titlecase, but
1980 not their own uppercase.
Martin v. Löwis99f27792009-04-26 00:53:18 +00001981
Eric Smith068f0652009-04-25 21:40:15 +00001982- Issue #5835: Deprecate PyOS_ascii_formatd and replace it with
1983 _PyOS_double_to_string or PyOS_double_to_string.
1984
Benjamin Peterson5083dc52009-04-25 00:41:22 +00001985- Issue #5283: Setting __class__ in __del__ caused a segfault.
1986
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001987- Issue #5816: ``complex(repr(z))`` now recovers z exactly, even when z involves
1988 nans, infs or negative zeros.
Mark Dickinson95bc9802009-04-24 12:46:53 +00001989
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001990- Implement PEP 378, Format Specifier for Thousands Separator, for floats, ints,
1991 and longs.
Eric Smithaca19e62009-04-22 13:29:05 +00001992
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001993- Issue #5515: 'n' formatting for ints, longs, and floats handles leading zero
1994 formatting poorly.
Eric Smithaca19e62009-04-22 13:29:05 +00001995
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001996- Issue #5772: For float.__format__, don't add a trailing ".0" if we're using no
1997 type code and we have an exponent.
Eric Smithaca19e62009-04-22 13:29:05 +00001998
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001999- Issue #3166: Make long -> float (and int -> float) conversions correctly
2000 rounded.
Mark Dickinson6736cf82009-04-20 21:13:33 +00002001
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002002- Issue #5787: ``object.__getattribute__(some_type, "__bases__")`` segfaulted on
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00002003 some built-in types.
Benjamin Petersond4d400c2009-04-18 20:12:47 +00002004
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002005- Issue #1869: Fix a couple of minor round() issues. ``round(5e15+1)`` was
2006 giving 5e15+2; ``round(-0.0)`` was losing the sign of the zero.
Mark Dickinson1bdf7e92009-04-18 14:59:42 +00002007
Benjamin Peterson99d36f12009-04-15 21:26:36 +00002008- Issue #5759: float() didn't call __float__ on str subclasses.
2009
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002010- Issue #5704: The "-3" command-line option now implies "-t".
Georg Brandl3c4a5462009-04-12 12:08:12 +00002011
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002012- Issue #2170: Refactored ``xml.dom.minidom.normalize``, increasing both its
2013 clarity and its speed.
R. David Murray0374a822009-04-09 21:54:50 +00002014
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002015- Issue #2396: The memoryview object was backported from Python 3.1.
Antoine Pitrou789be0c2009-04-02 21:18:34 +00002016
Georg Brandld3f03fa2009-04-02 18:09:04 +00002017- Fix a problem in PyErr_NormalizeException that leads to "undetected errors"
2018 when hitting the recursion limit under certain circumstances.
2019
Brett Cannon15ba4da2009-04-01 18:03:59 +00002020- Issue #1665206: Remove the last eager import in _warnings.c and make it lazy.
2021
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002022- Issue #4865: On MacOSX /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages is added to the end
2023 sys.path, for compatibility with the system install of Python.
Ronald Oussorene0154ed2009-03-30 23:10:35 +00002024
Antoine Pitrouf8387af2009-03-23 18:41:45 +00002025- Issue #4688: Add a heuristic so that tuples and dicts containing only
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002026 untrackable objects are not tracked by the garbage collector. This can reduce
2027 the size of collections and therefore the garbage collection overhead on
2028 long-running programs, depending on their particular use of datatypes.
Antoine Pitrouf8387af2009-03-23 18:41:45 +00002029
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002030- Issue #5512: Rewrite PyLong long division algorithm (x_divrem) to improve its
2031 performance. Long divisions and remainder operations are now between 50% and
2032 150% faster.
Mark Dickinson0b666bf2009-03-23 18:25:13 +00002033
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002034- Issue #4258: Make it possible to use base 2**30 instead of base 2**15 for the
2035 internal representation of integers, for performance reasons. Base 2**30 is
2036 enabled by default on 64-bit machines. Add --enable-big-digits option to
2037 configure, which overrides the default. Add sys.long_info structseq to
2038 provide information about the internal format.
Mark Dickinsonefc82f72009-03-20 15:51:55 +00002039
Benjamin Peterson6ffe8522009-03-18 20:52:15 +00002040- Issue #4034: Fix weird attribute error messages of the traceback object. (As a
2041 result traceback.__members__ no longer exists.)
2042
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002043- Issue #4474: PyUnicode_FromWideChar now converts characters outside the BMP to
2044 surrogate pairs, on systems with sizeof(wchar_t) == 4 and sizeof(Py_UNICODE)
2045 == 2.
Mark Dickinson6b265f12009-03-18 16:07:26 +00002046
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002047- Issue #5237: Allow auto-numbered fields in str.format(). For example: ``'{}
2048 {}'.format(1, 2) == '1 2'``.
Eric Smith6f42edb2009-03-14 11:57:26 +00002049
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002050- Issue #3652: Make the 'line' argument for ``warnings.showwarning()`` a
Brett Cannon6c4cff02009-03-11 04:51:06 +00002051 requirement. Means the DeprecationWarning from Python 2.6 can go away.
2052
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002053- Issue #5247: Improve error message when unknown format codes are used when
2054 using ``str.format()`` with str, unicode, long, int, and float arguments.
Eric Smithe9fb6862009-02-20 14:02:36 +00002055
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002056- Running Python with the -3 option now also warns about classic division for
2057 ints and longs.
Raymond Hettinger08259e82009-02-18 23:10:19 +00002058
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002059- Issue #5260: Long integers now consume less memory: average saving is 2 bytes
2060 per long on a 32-bit system and 6 bytes per long on a 64-bit system.
Mark Dickinson2ffb26f2009-02-15 10:13:41 +00002061
Antoine Pitrou76a4b892009-02-13 13:52:33 +00002062- Issue #5186: Reduce hash collisions for objects with no __hash__ method by
2063 rotating the object pointer by 4 bits to the right.
2064
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002065- Issue #4575: Fix Py_IS_INFINITY macro to work correctly on x87 FPUs: it now
2066 forces its argument to double before testing for infinity.
Mark Dickinsonc97c9092009-02-09 14:18:43 +00002067
Benjamin Petersone18ef192009-01-20 14:21:16 +00002068- Issue #4978: Passing keyword arguments as unicode strings is now allowed.
2069
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +00002070- Issue #1242657: the __len__() and __length_hint__() calls in several tools
Raymond Hettingerb5163702009-02-02 21:50:13 +00002071 were suppressing all exceptions. These include list(), filter(), map(),
2072 zip(), and bytearray().
2073
Benjamin Peterson596d3062009-01-19 15:42:23 +00002074- os.ftruncate raises OSErrors instead of IOErrors for consistency with other os
2075 functions.
2076
Benjamin Peterson5848d1f2009-01-19 00:08:08 +00002077- Issue #4991: Passing invalid file descriptors to io.FileIO now raises an
2078 OSError.
2079
Amaury Forgeot d'Arca18392a2009-01-13 23:19:08 +00002080- Issue #4807: Port the _winreg module to Windows CE.
2081
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002082- Issue #4935: The overflow checking code in the expandtabs() method common to
2083 str, bytes and bytearray could be optimized away by the compiler, letting the
2084 interpreter segfault instead of raising an error.
Antoine Pitrouc2f02212009-01-13 23:13:52 +00002085
Amaury Forgeot d'Arca40d5732009-01-12 23:36:55 +00002086- Issue #3720: Fix a crash when an iterator modifies its class and removes its
2087 __next__ method.
2088
Martin v. Löwise3422fa2009-01-12 08:11:24 +00002089- Issue #4893: Use NT threading on CE.
2090
Martin v. Löwis1b3bef22009-01-12 07:57:11 +00002091- Issue #4915: Port sysmodule to Windows CE.
2092
Antoine Pitrou4c5ecb72009-01-09 21:40:55 +00002093- Issue #4074: Change the criteria for doing a full garbage collection (i.e.
2094 collecting the oldest generation) so that allocating lots of objects without
2095 destroying them does not show quadratic performance. Based on a proposal by
Benjamin Petersond50a5d52009-07-13 00:03:20 +00002096 Martin von Löwis at
Antoine Pitrou4c5ecb72009-01-09 21:40:55 +00002097 http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2008-June/080579.html.
2098
Martin v. Löwisb90304a2009-01-07 18:40:40 +00002099- Issue #4850: Change COUNT_ALLOCS variables to Py_ssize_t.
2100
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002101- Issue #1180193: When importing a module from a .pyc (or .pyo) file with an
2102 existing .py counterpart, override the co_filename attributes of all code
2103 objects if the original filename is obsolete (which can happen if the file has
2104 been renamed, moved, or if it is accessed through different paths). Patch by
2105 Ziga Seilnacht and Jean-Paul Calderone.
Antoine Pitroue96d4ea2009-01-06 18:10:47 +00002106
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002107- Issue #4075: Use ``OutputDebugStringW()`` in Py_FatalError.
Martin v. Löwis5344c992009-01-02 20:32:55 +00002108
Hirokazu Yamamoto99a1b202009-01-01 15:45:39 +00002109- Issue #4797: IOError.filename was not set when _fileio.FileIO failed to open
2110 file with `str' filename on Windows.
2111
Antoine Pitrouaa687902009-01-01 14:11:22 +00002112- Issue #3680: Reference cycles created through a dict, set or deque iterator
2113 did not get collected.
2114
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002115- Issue #4701: PyObject_Hash now implicitly calls PyType_Ready on types where
2116 the tp_hash and tp_dict slots are both NULL.
Nick Coghlan180e4002008-12-30 01:18:48 +00002117
Benjamin Peterson7af65562008-12-29 17:56:58 +00002118- Issue #4764: With io.open, IOError.filename is set when trying to open a
2119 directory on POSIX systems.
2120
Benjamin Petersonfe231b02008-12-29 17:47:42 +00002121- Issue #4764: IOError.filename is set when trying to open a directory on POSIX
2122 systems.
2123
Georg Brandl6425a2f2008-12-28 11:54:53 +00002124- Issue #4759: None is now allowed as the first argument of
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002125 ``bytearray.translate()``. It was always allowed for ``bytes.translate()``.
Georg Brandl6425a2f2008-12-28 11:54:53 +00002126
Skip Montanarof205c132008-12-23 03:30:15 +00002127- Added test case to ensure attempts to read from a file opened for writing
2128 fail.
2129
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002130- Issue #2467: gc.DEBUG_STATS reported invalid elapsed times. Also, always print
2131 elapsed times, not only when some objects are uncollectable/unreachable.
2132 Original patch by Neil Schemenauer.
Antoine Pitrou73c0e652008-12-17 22:46:54 +00002133
Mark Dickinson1a707982008-12-17 16:14:37 +00002134- Issue #3439: Add a bit_length method to int and long.
2135
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002136- Issue #2183: Simplify and optimize bytecode for list comprehensions. Original
2137 patch by Neal Norwitz.
Antoine Pitroud0c35152008-12-17 00:38:28 +00002138
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002139- Issue #4597: Fixed exception handling when the __exit__ function of a context
2140 manager returns a value that cannot be converted to a bool.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcad9b5992008-12-10 23:22:49 +00002141
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002142- Issue #4597: Fixed several opcodes that weren't always propagating exceptions.
Jeffrey Yasskinffd42cf2008-12-10 07:35:02 +00002143
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002144- Issue #4445: Replace ``sizeof(PyStringObject)`` with
2145 ``offsetof(PyStringObject, ob_sval) + 1`` when allocating memory for str
2146 instances. On a typical machine this saves 3 bytes of memory (on average) per
2147 string allocation.
Mark Dickinson826f3fe2008-12-05 21:55:28 +00002148
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcdc619012008-11-22 20:01:18 +00002149- Issue #3996: On Windows, the PyOS_CheckStack function would cause the
2150 interpreter to abort ("Fatal Python error: Could not reset the stack!")
2151 instead of throwing a MemoryError.
2152
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002153- Issue #3689: The list reversed iterator now supports __length_hint__ instead
2154 of __len__. Behavior now matches other reversed iterators.
Raymond Hettinger7989a4d2008-12-03 15:42:10 +00002155
Benjamin Petersonc078f922008-11-21 22:27:24 +00002156- Issue #4367: Python would segfault during compiling when the unicodedata
2157 module couldn't be imported and \N escapes were present.
2158
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002159- Issue #4233: Changed semantic of ``_fileio.FileIO``'s ``close()`` method on
2160 file objects with closefd=False. The file descriptor is still kept open but
2161 the file object behaves like a closed file. The ``FileIO`` object also got a
2162 new readonly attribute ``closefd``.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc32265652008-11-20 23:34:31 +00002163
Benjamin Peterson46cc6d12008-11-19 21:49:09 +00002164- Issue #4348: Some bytearray methods returned that didn't cause any change to
2165 the bytearray, returned the same bytearray instead of a copy.
2166
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002167- Issue #4317: Fixed a crash in the ``imageop.rgb2rgb8()`` function.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc7cfe7ea2008-11-18 22:19:37 +00002168
Benjamin Peterson273c2332008-11-17 22:39:09 +00002169- Issue #4230: If ``__getattr__`` is a descriptor, it now functions correctly.
2170
Benjamin Peterson6624a9f2008-11-03 15:14:51 +00002171- Issue #4048: The parser module now correctly validates relative imports.
2172
Benjamin Petersondcee09d2008-10-31 02:16:05 +00002173- Issue #4225: ``from __future__ import unicode_literals`` didn't work in an
2174 exec statement.
2175
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002176- Issue #4176: Fixed a crash when pickling an object which ``__reduce__`` method
2177 does not return iterators for the 4th and 5th items.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc69a9c5b2008-10-30 21:18:34 +00002178
Benjamin Petersonbdca9422008-10-26 20:21:13 +00002179- Issue #4209: Enabling unicode_literals and the print_function in the same
2180 __future__ import didn't work.
2181
Benjamin Peterson399b1fe2008-10-25 02:53:28 +00002182- Using ``nonlocal`` as a variable name will now raise a Py3k SyntaxWarning
Georg Brandl7fb00ad2008-10-25 07:00:52 +00002183 because it is a reserved word in 3.x.
Benjamin Peterson399b1fe2008-10-25 02:53:28 +00002184
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002185- On windows, ``os.chdir()`` given unicode was not working if
2186 GetCurrentDirectoryW returned a path longer than MAX_PATH. (But It's doubtful
2187 this code path is really executed because I cannot move to such directory on
2188 win2k)
Hirokazu Yamamoto10a018c2008-10-09 10:00:30 +00002189
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002190- Issue #4069: When ``set.remove(element)`` is used with a set element, the
2191 element is temporarily replaced with an equivalent frozenset. But the
2192 eventual KeyError would always report the empty ``frozenset()`` as the missing
2193 key. Now it correctly refers to the initial element.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd78b9dc2008-10-07 20:32:10 +00002194
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002195- Issue #4509: Various issues surrounding resize of bytearray objects to which
2196 there are buffer exports.
Antoine Pitrouae5bece2008-12-06 21:29:24 +00002197
Benjamin Peterson8d5934b2008-12-27 18:24:11 +00002198- Issue #4748: Lambda generators no longer return a value.
2199
Kristján Valur Jónsson6220e412009-01-12 09:20:34 +00002200- Issue #3582: Use native TLS functions on Windows
2201
Gregory P. Smithae91d092009-03-02 05:13:57 +00002202- The re.sub(), re.subn() and re.split() functions now accept a flags parameter.
2203
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002204- Issue #3845: In PyRun_SimpleFileExFlags avoid invalid memory access with short
2205 file names.
Matthias Kloseedb5e1e2009-04-04 14:18:13 +00002206
Matthias Klose91a3b9e2009-04-05 21:19:13 +00002207- Issue #1113244: Py_XINCREF, Py_DECREF, Py_XDECREF: Add `do { ... } while (0)'
2208 to avoid compiler warnings.
Matthias Klose0610e082009-04-05 12:43:08 +00002209
Gregory P. Smith2b3eb372009-04-05 23:48:26 +00002210- Issue #5705: os.setuid() would not accept values > 2**31-1 but pwd.getpwnam()
2211 returned them on 64bit platforms.
2212
Walter Dörwalded960ac2009-05-03 22:36:33 +00002213- Issue #5108: Handle %s like %S and %R in PyUnicode_FromFormatV(): Call
2214 PyUnicode_DecodeUTF8() once, remember the result and output it in a second
2215 step. This avoids problems with counting UTF-8 bytes that ignores the effect
2216 of using the replace error handler in PyUnicode_DecodeUTF8().
2217
Walter Dörwald726ba8e2009-05-06 14:32:35 +00002218- Issue #3739: The unicode-internal encoder now reports the number of characters
2219 consumed like any other encoder (instead of the number of bytes).
2220
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002221- Issue #2422: When compiled with the ``--with-valgrind`` option, the pymalloc
2222 allocator will be automatically disabled when running under Valgrind. This
2223 gives improved memory leak detection when running under Valgrind, while taking
2224 advantage of pymalloc at other times.
Benjamin Peterson91c12eb2009-12-03 02:52:39 +00002225
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +00002226Library
2227-------
Benjamin Petersonb3dd5482009-02-26 19:07:18 +00002228
Raymond Hettinger5f516ed2010-04-03 18:10:37 +00002229- Add count() and reverse() methods to collections.deque().
Raymond Hettingera5fd24e2009-12-10 06:42:54 +00002230
Raymond Hettinger0b3263b2009-12-10 06:00:33 +00002231- Fix variations of extending deques: d.extend(d) d.extendleft(d) d+=d
2232
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002233- Issue #6986: Fix crash in the JSON C accelerator when called with the wrong
2234 parameter types. Patch by Victor Stinner.
Antoine Pitrou187177f2009-12-08 15:40:51 +00002235
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002236- logging: Added optional "secure" parameter to SMTPHandler, to enable use of
Vinay Sajip48305662009-12-06 17:57:11 +00002237 TLS with authentication credentials.
2238
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002239- Issue #1923: Fixed the removal of meaningful spaces when PKG-INFO is generated
2240 in Distutils. Patch by Stephen Emslie.
Tarek Ziadé4f383172009-12-06 09:22:40 +00002241
Martin v. Löwisc218a2f2009-12-03 20:53:51 +00002242- Issue #4120: Drop reference to CRT from manifest when building extensions with
2243 msvc9compiler.
2244
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002245- Issue #7333: The ``posix`` module gains an ``initgroups()`` function providing
2246 access to the initgroups(3) C library call on Unix systems which implement it.
2247 Patch by Jean-Paul Calderone.
Antoine Pitrou30b3b352009-12-02 20:37:54 +00002248
Tarek Ziadéa5076a22009-11-29 22:20:30 +00002249- Issue #7408: Fixed distutils.tests.sdist so it doesn't check for group
2250 ownership when the group is not forced, because the group may be different
2251 from the user's group and inherit from its container when the test is run.
2252
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002253- Issue #1515: Enable use of deepcopy() with instance methods. Patch by Robert
2254 Collins.
Antoine Pitroud16f57b2009-11-28 15:55:58 +00002255
Vinay Sajip01801d12009-11-27 14:03:36 +00002256- Issue #7403: logging: Fixed possible race condition in lock creation.
2257
Antoine Pitrouacbe3bd2009-11-27 13:18:34 +00002258- Issue #6845: Add restart support for binary upload in ftplib. The
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002259 ``storbinary()`` method of FTP and FTP_TLS objects gains an optional "rest"
Antoine Pitrouacbe3bd2009-11-27 13:18:34 +00002260 argument. Patch by Pablo Mouzo.
2261
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002262- Issue #5788: ``datetime.timedelta`` objects get a new ``total_seconds()``
2263 method returning the total number of seconds in the duration. Patch by Brian
2264 Quinlan.
Antoine Pitroubcfaf802009-11-25 22:59:36 +00002265
Vinay Sajipc470d682009-11-25 09:03:30 +00002266- Issue #6615: logging: Used weakrefs in internal handler list.
2267
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002268- Issue #1488943: ``difflib.Differ`` doesn't always add hints for tab
2269 characters.
Senthil Kumaran5c456e62009-11-23 18:41:31 +00002270
Lars Gustäbeldd866d52009-11-22 18:30:53 +00002271- Issue #6123: tarfile now opens empty archives correctly and consistently
2272 raises ReadError on empty files.
2273
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002274- Issue #7354: distutils.tests.test_msvc9compiler - dragfullwindows can be 2.
Tarek Ziadé39de1fc2009-11-19 05:33:16 +00002275
Ezio Melotti3373a3a2010-01-16 18:38:01 +00002276- Issue #5037: Proxy the __unicode__ special method to __unicode__ instead of
2277 __str__.
Benjamin Petersondc3c2392009-11-19 03:00:02 +00002278
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002279- Issue #7341: Close the internal file object in the TarFile constructor in case
2280 of an error.
Lars Gustäbel355538e2009-11-18 20:24:54 +00002281
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002282- Issue #7293: ``distutils.test_msvc9compiler`` is fixed to work on any fresh
2283 Windows box. Help provided by David Bolen.
Tarek Ziadéacccafc2009-11-18 08:46:56 +00002284
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002285- Issue #7328: pydoc no longer corrupts sys.path when run with the '-m' switch.
Nick Coghlan11db64e2009-11-15 22:36:47 +00002286
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002287- Issue #2054: ftplib now provides an FTP_TLS class to do secure FTP using TLS
2288 or SSL. Patch by Giampaolo Rodola'.
Antoine Pitrouccd5e022009-11-15 17:22:09 +00002289
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002290- Issue #4969: The mimetypes module now reads the MIME database from the
2291 registry under Windows. Patch by Gabriel Genellina.
Antoine Pitroud5b34d42009-11-15 14:10:48 +00002292
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002293- Issue #6816: runpy now provides a run_path function that allows Python code to
2294 execute file paths that refer to source or compiled Python files as well as
2295 zipfiles, directories and other valid sys.path entries that contain a
Nick Coghlan49868cb2009-11-15 07:30:34 +00002296 __main__.py file. This allows applications that run other Python scripts to
2297 support the same flexibility as the CPython command line itself.
2298
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002299- Issue #7318: multiprocessing now uses a timeout when it fails to establish a
2300 connection with another process, rather than looping endlessly. The default
2301 timeout is 20 seconds, which should be amply sufficient for local connections.
Antoine Pitrouc562ca42009-11-13 22:31:18 +00002302
Antoine Pitrou0734c632009-11-10 20:49:30 +00002303- Issue #7197: Allow unittest.TextTestRunner objects to be pickled and
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002304 unpickled. This fixes crashes under Windows when trying to run
Antoine Pitrou0734c632009-11-10 20:49:30 +00002305 test_multiprocessing in verbose mode.
2306
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002307- Issue #7282: Fix a memory leak when an RLock was used in a thread other than
2308 those started through ``threading.Thread`` (for example, using
2309 ``thread.start_new_thread()``.
Antoine Pitroud7158d42009-11-09 16:00:11 +00002310
Antoine Pitrou99c160b2009-11-05 13:42:29 +00002311- Issue #7264: Fix a possible deadlock when deallocating thread-local objects
2312 which are part of a reference cycle.
2313
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002314- Issue #7211: Allow 64-bit values for the ``ident`` and ``data`` fields of
2315 kevent objects on 64-bit systems. Patch by Michael Broghton.
Antoine Pitrou323b9da2009-11-04 19:25:14 +00002316
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002317- Issue #6896: ``mailbox.Maildir`` now invalidates its internal cache each time
Antoine Pitrouaec41242009-11-02 11:34:27 +00002318 a modification is done through it. This fixes inconsistencies and test
2319 failures on systems with slightly bogus mtime behaviour.
2320
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002321- Issue #7246 & Issue #7208: getpass now properly flushes input before reading
2322 from stdin so that existing input does not confuse it and lead to incorrect
2323 entry or an IOError. It also properly flushes it afterwards to avoid the
2324 terminal echoing the input afterwards on OSes such as Solaris.
Gregory P. Smith38f5d8f2009-11-01 18:33:55 +00002325
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002326- Issue #7233: Fix a number of two-argument Decimal methods to make sure that
2327 they accept an int or long as the second argument. Also fix buggy handling of
2328 large arguments (those with coefficient longer than the current precision) in
2329 shift and rotate.
Mark Dickinson0c673122009-10-29 12:04:00 +00002330
Lars Gustäbel8c06ccc2009-10-29 09:15:00 +00002331- Issue #4750: Store the basename of the original filename in the gzip FNAME
2332 header as required by RFC 1952.
2333
Tarek Ziadé40b998b2009-10-27 23:06:10 +00002334- Issue #1180: Added a new global option to ignore ~/.pydistutils.cfg in
2335 Distutils.
2336
Tarek Ziadéd24cab82009-10-27 21:20:27 +00002337- Issue #7218: Fix test_site for win32, the directory comparison was done with
2338 an uppercase.
2339
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002340- Issue #7205: Fix a possible deadlock when using a BZ2File object from several
2341 threads at once.
Antoine Pitroudd629662009-10-27 17:41:58 +00002342
Tarek Ziadéb9c1cfc2009-10-24 15:10:37 +00002343- Issue #7071: byte-compilation in Distutils is now done with respect to
2344 sys.dont_write_bytecode.
2345
Vinay Sajipc470d682009-11-25 09:03:30 +00002346- Issue #7066: archive_util.make_archive now restores the cwd if an error is
Tarek Ziadé672422a2009-10-24 13:29:44 +00002347 raised. Initial patch by Ezio Melotti.
2348
Antoine Pitroufa94e802009-10-24 12:23:18 +00002349- Issue #6218: io.StringIO and io.BytesIO instances are now picklable with
2350 protocol 2.
2351
Vinay Sajip5ac65282009-10-21 20:22:14 +00002352- Issue #7077: logging: SysLogHandler now treats Unicode as per RFC 5424.
2353
Mark Dickinsona7a52ab2009-10-20 13:33:03 +00002354- Issue #7099: Decimal.is_normal now returns True for numbers with exponent
2355 larger than emax.
2356
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002357- Issue #5833: Fix extra space character in readline completion with the GNU
2358 readline library version 6.0.
Antoine Pitroue0899802009-10-19 18:20:21 +00002359
Antoine Pitrou5ba84912009-10-19 17:59:07 +00002360- Issue #7133: SSL objects now support the new buffer API.
2361
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002362- Issue #7149: urllib fails on OSX in the proxy detection code.
Ronald Oussoren31802d02009-10-18 07:07:00 +00002363
Benjamin Petersonc63457b2009-10-15 03:06:55 +00002364- Issue #7069: Make inspect.isabstract() return a boolean.
2365
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002366- Add support to the ``ihooks`` module for relative imports.
Neil Schemenauere6039f02009-10-14 19:23:53 +00002367
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002368- Issue #6894: Fixed the issue urllib2 doesn't respect "no_proxy" environment.
Senthil Kumaran27468662009-10-11 02:00:07 +00002369
Vinay Sajip1c77b7f2009-10-10 20:32:36 +00002370- Issue #7086: Added TCP support to SysLogHandler, and tidied up some
2371 anachronisms in the code which were a relic of 1.5.2 compatibility.
Vinay Sajip03d5c342009-10-16 14:06:44 +00002372
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002373- Issue #7082: When falling back to the MIME 'name' parameter, the correct place
2374 to look for it is the Content-Type header.
R. David Murray0c8bee62009-10-09 21:50:54 +00002375
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002376- Issue #7048: Force Decimal.logb to round its result when that result is too
2377 large to fit in the current precision.
Mark Dickinson15ae41c2009-10-07 19:22:05 +00002378
Vinay Sajip03d5c342009-10-16 14:06:44 +00002379- Issue #6516: Added owner/group support when creating tar archives in
Tarek Ziadé1b486712009-10-02 23:49:48 +00002380 Distutils.
2381
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002382- Issue #7031: Add ``TestCase.assert(Not)IsInstance()`` methods.
Georg Brandl12fafe62009-10-01 21:02:39 +00002383
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002384- Issue #6790: Make it possible again to pass an ``array.array`` to
2385 ``httplib.HTTPConnection.send``. Patch by Kirk McDonald.
Antoine Pitrou72481782009-09-29 17:48:18 +00002386
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002387- Issue #6236, #6348: Fix various failures in the `io` module under AIX and
2388 other platforms, when using a non-gcc compiler. Patch by egreen.
Antoine Pitrou2a466582009-09-21 21:17:48 +00002389
Tarek Ziadé99773352009-09-21 13:41:08 +00002390- Issue #6954: Fixed crash when using DISTUTILS_DEBUG flag in Distutils.
2391
Ronald Oussoren51f06332009-09-20 10:31:22 +00002392- Issue #6851: Fix urllib.urlopen crash on secondairy threads on OSX 10.6
2393
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002394- Issue #4606: Passing 'None' if ctypes argtype is set to POINTER(...) does now
2395 always result in NULL.
Thomas Heller6be522b2009-09-18 20:05:44 +00002396
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002397- Issue #5042: ctypes Structure sub-subclass does now initialize correctly with
2398 base class positional arguments.
Thomas Heller7a352c02009-09-18 18:55:17 +00002399
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002400- Issue #6938: Fix a TypeError in string formatting of a multiprocessing debug
2401 message.
Georg Brandlc40e60e2009-09-18 09:18:27 +00002402
Matthias Klose924eab62009-09-13 15:09:24 +00002403- Issue #6635: Fix profiler printing usage message.
2404
Lars Gustäbel21121e62009-09-12 10:28:15 +00002405- Issue #6856: Add a filter keyword argument to TarFile.add().
2406
Tarek Ziadébed26a32009-09-09 08:14:20 +00002407- Issue #6163: Fixed HP-UX runtime library dir options in
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002408 distutils.unixcompiler. Initial patch by Sridhar Ratnakumar and Michael
2409 Haubenwallner.
Tarek Ziadébed26a32009-09-09 08:14:20 +00002410
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002411- Issue #6857: Default format() alignment should be '>' for Decimal instances.
Mark Dickinson5cfa8042009-09-08 20:20:19 +00002412
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002413- Issue #6795: int(Decimal('nan')) now raises ValueError instead of returning
2414 NaN or raising InvalidContext. Also, fix infinite recursion in
2415 long(Decimal('nan')).
Mark Dickinson968f1692009-09-07 18:04:58 +00002416
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002417- Issue #6850: Fix bug in Decimal._parse_format_specifier for formats with no
2418 type specifier.
Mark Dickinson491ea552009-09-07 16:17:41 +00002419
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002420- Issue #4937: plat-mac/bundlebuilder refers to non-existing version.plist.
Ronald Oussoren626faeb2009-09-06 12:23:18 +00002421
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002422- Issue #6838: Use a list to accumulate the value instead of repeatedly
2423 concatenating strings in httplib's HTTPResponse._read_chunked providing a
2424 significant speed increase when downloading large files servend with a
2425 Transfer-Encoding of 'chunked'.
Chris Withers7f3ea6a2009-09-04 16:32:22 +00002426
Georg Brandld22b9512009-09-04 08:17:04 +00002427- Issue #5275: In Cookie's Cookie.load(), properly handle non-string arguments
2428 as documented.
2429
Georg Brandl2e1308f2009-09-04 06:59:20 +00002430- Issue #2666: Handle BROWSER environment variable properly for unknown browser
2431 names in the webbrowser module.
2432
Lars Gustäbelf7cda522009-08-28 19:23:44 +00002433- Issue #6054: Do not normalize stored pathnames in tarfile.
2434
Mark Dickinson7a7739d2009-08-28 13:25:02 +00002435- Issue #6794: Fix Decimal.compare_total and Decimal.compare_total_mag: NaN
2436 payloads are now ordered by integer value rather than lexicographically.
2437
Tarek Ziadé764fc232009-08-20 21:23:13 +00002438- Issue #6693: New functions in site.py to get user/global site packages paths.
2439
Gregory P. Smith4e63d542009-08-20 09:39:38 +00002440- The thread.lock type now supports weak references.
2441
Guilherme Polo7b50c4f2009-08-18 14:46:57 +00002442- Issue #1356969: Add missing info methods in Tix.HList.
2443
Guilherme Polo6b3c7092009-08-18 14:23:00 +00002444- Issue #1522587: New constants and methods for the Tix.Grid widget.
2445
Guilherme Polo6c823f82009-08-18 13:29:20 +00002446- Issue #1250469: Fix the return value of Tix.PanedWindow.panes.
2447
Guilherme Polod3e6e4b2009-08-18 13:23:08 +00002448- Issue #1119673: Do not override Tkinter.Text methods when creating a
2449 ScrolledText.
2450
Gregory P. Smithb98d6b22009-08-16 18:52:58 +00002451- Issue #6665: Fix fnmatch to properly match filenames with newlines in them.
2452
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002453- Issue #1135: Add the XView and YView mix-ins to avoid duplicating the xview*
2454 and yview* methods.
Guilherme Poloe45f0172009-08-14 14:36:45 +00002455
Antoine Pitrou20e1f932009-08-06 20:18:29 +00002456- Issue #6629: Fix a data corruption issue in the new `io` package, which could
2457 occur when writing to a BufferedRandom object (e.g. a file opened in "rb+" or
2458 "wb+" mode) after having buffered a certain amount of data for reading. This
2459 bug was not present in the pure Python implementation.
2460
Jesse Noller8497efe2009-08-06 02:05:56 +00002461- Issue #4660: If a multiprocessing.JoinableQueue.put() was preempted, it was
2462 possible to get a spurious 'task_done() called too many times' error.
2463
Gregory P. Smithc4ad0342009-08-13 18:54:50 +00002464- Issue #1628205: Socket file objects returned by socket.socket.makefile() now
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002465 properly handles EINTR within the read, readline, write & flush methods. The
2466 socket.sendall() method now properly handles interrupted system calls.
Gregory P. Smithc4ad0342009-08-13 18:54:50 +00002467
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002468- Issue #6595: The Decimal constructor now allows arbitrary Unicode decimal
2469 digits in input, as recommended by the standard. Previously it was restricted
2470 to accepting [0-9].
Mark Dickinson4326ad82009-08-02 10:59:36 +00002471
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc3e5b0272009-07-28 22:15:30 +00002472- Issue #6511: ZipFile now raises BadZipfile (instead of an IOError) when
2473 opening an empty or very small file.
2474
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc74b30162009-07-23 19:26:02 +00002475- Issue #6553: Fixed a crash in cPickle.load(), when given a file-like object
2476 containing incomplete data.
2477
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002478- Issue #6545: Removed assert statements in distutils.Extension, so the behavior
2479 is similar when used with -O.
Tarek Ziadéaf2406f2009-07-22 08:55:19 +00002480
Benjamin Petersond7b0eeb2009-07-19 20:18:21 +00002481- unittest has been split up into a package. All old names should still work.
2482
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002483- Issue #6431: Make Fraction type return NotImplemented when it doesn't know how
2484 to handle a comparison without loss of precision. Also add correct handling
2485 of infinities and nans for comparisons with float.
Mark Dickinson88a0a2e2009-07-18 15:18:18 +00002486
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc74b30162009-07-23 19:26:02 +00002487- Issue #6415: Fixed warnings.warn segfault on bad formatted string.
Hirokazu Yamamoto1a3d0852009-07-17 06:26:54 +00002488
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002489- Issue #6466: Now distutils.cygwinccompiler and distutils.emxccompiler uses the
2490 same refactored function to get gcc/ld/dllwrap versions numbers. It's
2491 ``distutils.util.get_compiler_versions()``. Added deprecation warnings for
2492 the obsolete get_versions() functions.
Tarek Ziadéa99dedf2009-07-16 15:35:45 +00002493
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002494- Issue #6433: Fixed issues with multiprocessing.pool.map hanging on empty list.
Jesse Noller7530e472009-07-16 14:23:04 +00002495
Vinay Sajipcbb24b32009-07-13 11:21:05 +00002496- Issue #6314: logging: Extra checks on the "level" argument in more places.
2497
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc74b8d332009-07-11 14:33:51 +00002498- Issue #2622: Fixed an ImportError when importing email.messsage from a
2499 standalone application built with py2exe or py2app.
2500
Vinay Sajipcbb24b32009-07-13 11:21:05 +00002501- Issue #6455: Fixed test_build_ext under win32.
Tarek Ziadé8c400012009-07-10 09:10:33 +00002502
Vinay Sajipcbb24b32009-07-13 11:21:05 +00002503- Issue #6377: Enabled the compiler option, and deprecate its usage as an
Tarek Ziadée670e5a2009-07-06 12:50:46 +00002504 attribute.
2505
Tarek Ziadé63f17382009-07-04 02:02:41 +00002506- Issue #6413: Fixed the log level in distutils.dist for announce.
2507
Gregory P. Smithc197d0a2009-07-04 01:55:11 +00002508- Issue #3392: The subprocess communicate() method no longer fails in select()
2509 when file descriptors are large; communicate() now uses poll() when possible.
2510
Tarek Ziadé65ec61e2009-07-03 08:22:56 +00002511- Issue #6403: Fixed package path usage in build_ext.
2512
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002513- Issues #5155, #5313, #5331: multiprocessing.Process._bootstrap was
Jesse Noller1b90efb2009-06-30 17:11:52 +00002514 unconditionally calling "os.close(sys.stdin.fileno())" resulting in file
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002515 descriptor errors.
Jesse Noller1b90efb2009-06-30 17:11:52 +00002516
Vinay Sajipcbb24b32009-07-13 11:21:05 +00002517- Issue #6365: Distutils build_ext inplace mode was copying the compiled
Tarek Ziadé3fbcc602009-06-29 16:13:39 +00002518 extension in a subdirectory if the extension name had dots.
2519
Hirokazu Yamamoto99ebc632009-06-29 14:29:31 +00002520- Issue #6344: Fixed a crash of mmap.read() when passed a negative argument.
2521
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002522- Issue #5230: pydoc would report no documentation found if a module generated a
2523 'not found' import error when loaded; it now reports the import errors.
R. David Murrayef087da2009-06-23 18:02:46 +00002524 Thanks to Lucas Prado Melo for initial fix and collaboration on the tests.
2525
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002526- Issue #6314: ``logging.basicConfig()`` performs extra checks on the "level"
Vinay Sajip603fb6d2009-06-21 17:37:27 +00002527 argument.
2528
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002529- Issue #6164: Added an AIX specific linker argument in Distutils unixcompiler.
2530 Original patch by Sridhar Ratnakumar.
Tarek Ziadé439bf932009-06-20 13:57:20 +00002531
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002532- Issue #6274: Fixed possible file descriptors leak in subprocess.py.
Facundo Batista8c826b72009-06-19 18:02:28 +00002533
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc5fe420e2009-06-18 22:32:50 +00002534- Issue #6189: Restored compatibility of subprocess.py with Python 2.2.
2535
Tarek Ziadéfdefc0a2009-06-16 07:29:52 +00002536- Issue #6287: Added the license field in Distutils documentation.
2537
Tarek Ziadéa1cc0402009-06-15 23:30:13 +00002538- Issue #6286: Now Distutils upload command is based on urllib2 instead of
2539 httplib, allowing the usage of http_proxy.
2540
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002541- Issue #6271: mmap tried to close invalid file handle (-1) for anonymous maps
2542 on Unix.
Hirokazu Yamamoto983a4652009-06-14 03:53:55 +00002543
Antoine Pitrou19690592009-06-12 20:14:08 +00002544- Issue #6215: All bug fixes and enhancements from the Python 3.1 io library
2545 (including the fast C implementation) have been backported to the standard
2546 ``io`` module.
2547
Martin v. Löwis2dcd7a02009-06-12 17:28:31 +00002548- Issue #6258: Support AMD64 in bdist_msi.
2549
Vinay Sajip334ffe82010-01-15 23:27:05 +00002550- Issue #6252: Fixed bug in next rollover time computation in
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00002551 TimedRotatingFileHandler.
2552
Tarek Ziadéc7498f52009-06-11 09:13:36 +00002553- Issue #6263: Fixed syntax error in distutils.cygwincompiler.
2554
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002555- Issue #5201: distutils.sysconfig.parse_makefile() now understands ``$$`` in
2556 Makefiles. This prevents compile errors when using syntax like:
2557 ``LDFLAGS='-rpath=\$$LIB:/some/other/path'``. Patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
Tarek Ziadé25d2bae2009-06-11 08:12:20 +00002558
Georg Brandle6632b42009-06-04 08:58:32 +00002559- Issue #5767: Removed sgmlop support from xmlrpclib.
2560
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002561- Issue #6131: test_modulefinder leaked when run after test_distutils. Patch by
2562 Hirokazu Yamamoto.
Tarek Ziadé3e3eace2009-05-29 08:08:07 +00002563
Tarek Ziadé9e5d2dc2009-05-28 12:53:54 +00002564- Issue #6048: Now Distutils uses the tarfile module in archive_util.
2565
Raymond Hettingerb4d2d312009-05-29 01:36:26 +00002566- Issue #5150: IDLE's format menu now has an option to strip trailing
2567 whitespace.
2568
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002569- Issue #6121: pydoc now ignores leading and trailing spaces in the argument to
2570 the 'help' function.
R. David Murrayd67ea7d2009-05-27 20:07:21 +00002571
Benjamin Peterson176a56c2009-05-25 00:48:58 +00002572- In unittest, using a skipping decorator on a class is now equivalent to
2573 skipping every test on the class. The ClassTestSuite class has been removed.
2574
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002575- Issue #6050: Don't fail extracting a directory from a zipfile if the directory
2576 already exists.
Martin v. Löwis0b09c422009-05-24 19:30:52 +00002577
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002578- Issue #5311: bdist_msi can now build packages that do not depend on a specific
2579 Python version.
Martin v. Löwis53b578e2009-05-24 19:10:52 +00002580
Antoine Pitroud49e3752009-05-24 15:40:09 +00002581- Issue #1309352: fcntl now converts its third arguments to a C `long` rather
2582 than an int, which makes some operations possible under 64-bit Linux (e.g.
2583 DN_MULTISHOT with F_NOTIFY).
2584
Senthil Kumarane266f252009-05-24 09:14:50 +00002585- Issue #1424152: Fix for httplib, urllib2 to support SSL while working through
2586 proxy. Original patch by Christopher Li, changes made by Senthil Kumaran.
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00002587
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002588- Issue #1983: Fix functions taking or returning a process identifier to use the
2589 dedicated C type ``pid_t`` instead of a C ``int``. Some platforms have a
2590 process identifier type wider than the standard C integer type.
Antoine Pitrou5e858fe2009-05-23 15:37:45 +00002591
R. David Murrayad3058e2009-05-23 00:48:58 +00002592- Issue #4066: smtplib.SMTP_SSL._get_socket now correctly returns the socket.
2593 Patch by Farhan Ahmad, test by Marcin Bachry.
2594
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002595- Issue #6062: In distutils, fixed the package option of build_ext. Feedback
Tarek Ziadé7d7127d2009-05-19 16:17:21 +00002596 and tests on pywin32 by Tim Golden.
2597
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002598- Issue #6053: Fixed distutils tests on win32. Patch by Hirokazu Yamamoto.
Tarek Ziadé07bbfcc2009-05-18 12:21:26 +00002599
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002600- Issue #6046: Fixed the library extension when distutils build_ext is used in
2601 place. Initial patch by Roumen Petrov.
Tarek Ziadéfcc7f032009-05-18 08:03:37 +00002602
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00002603- Issue #6041: Now distutils `sdist` and `register` commands use `check` as a
Tarek Ziadécb768042009-05-16 16:37:06 +00002604 subcommand.
2605
Antoine Pitrou775fd662009-05-15 16:54:52 +00002606- Issue #2116: Weak references and weak dictionaries now support copy()ing and
2607 deepcopy()ing.
2608
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002609- Issue #1655: Make imaplib IPv6-capable. Patch by Derek Morr.
Antoine Pitrou52035a02009-05-15 11:50:29 +00002610
Antoine Pitrou42b5bcf2009-05-14 21:48:09 +00002611- Issue #5918: Fix a crash in the parser module.
2612
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002613- Issue #1664: Make nntplib IPv6-capable. Patch by Derek Morr.
Antoine Pitroueed30d82009-05-14 21:22:08 +00002614
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002615- Issue #6022: A test file was created in the current working directory by
Tarek Ziadécbb4f9e2009-05-14 20:14:13 +00002616 test_get_outputs in Distutils.
2617
R. David Murray996ba022009-05-13 17:14:11 +00002618- Issue #4050: inspect.findsource/getsource now raise an IOError if the 'source'
2619 file is a binary. Patch by Brodie Rao, tests by Daniel Diniz.
2620
Tarek Ziadé972480d2009-05-12 17:07:14 +00002621- Issue #5977: distutils build_ext.get_outputs was not taking into account the
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002622 inplace option. Initial patch by kxroberto.
Tarek Ziadé972480d2009-05-12 17:07:14 +00002623
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002624- Issue #5984: distutils.command.build_ext.check_extensions_list checks were
2625 broken for old-style extensions.
Tarek Ziadéd5d83422009-05-10 10:12:08 +00002626
Vinay Sajipf9b01fe2009-05-09 12:07:17 +00002627- Issue #5971: StreamHandler.handleError now swallows IOErrors which occur when
2628 trying to print a traceback.
2629
Tarek Ziadé812d7712009-05-09 10:06:00 +00002630- Issue #5976: Fixed Distutils test_check_environ.
2631
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002632- Issue #5900: Ensure RUNPATH is added to extension modules with RPATH if GNU ld
2633 is used. Original patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
Tarek Ziadée2be83d2009-05-09 08:28:53 +00002634
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002635- Issue #5941: Distutils build_clib command was not working anymore because of
2636 an incomplete costumization of the archiver command. Added ARFLAGS in the
2637 Makefile besides AR and make Distutils use it. Original patch by David
Tarek Ziadé99f660a2009-05-07 21:20:34 +00002638 Cournapeau.
2639
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00002640- Issue #5955: aifc's close method did not close the file it wrapped, now it
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002641 does. This also means getfp method now returns the real fp.
R. David Murrayd3bf34c2009-05-07 16:29:19 +00002642
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002643- Issue #4875: On win32, ctypes.util.find_library does no longer return
2644 directories.
Thomas Hellera57773e2009-05-05 18:55:47 +00002645
Georg Brandl4d4313d2009-05-05 08:54:11 +00002646- Issue #5142: Add the ability to skip modules while stepping to pdb.
2647
Georg Brandle3869c42009-05-05 08:30:28 +00002648- Issue #1309567: Fix linecache behavior of stripping subdirectories when
2649 looking for files given by a relative filename.
2650
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002651- Issue #5692: In ``zipfile.Zipfile``, fix wrong path calculation when
Antoine Pitrou97377bf2009-05-04 21:17:17 +00002652 extracting a file to the root directory.
2653
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002654- Issue #5913: ``os.listdir()`` should fail for empty path on windows.
Hirokazu Yamamoto406d7aa2009-05-04 05:28:39 +00002655
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002656- Issue #5084: Unpickling now interns the attribute names of pickled objects,
2657 saving memory and avoiding growth in size of subsequent pickles. Proposal and
2658 original patch by Jake McGuire.
Antoine Pitrou74309892009-05-02 21:13:23 +00002659
Antoine Pitrou1fc02312009-05-01 20:55:35 +00002660- Issue #3002: ``shutil.copyfile()`` and ``shutil.copytree()`` now raise an
2661 error when a named pipe is encountered, rather than blocking infinitely.
2662
Gregory P. Smith1d499262009-05-01 19:59:52 +00002663- Issue #3959: The ipaddr module has been added to the standard library.
2664 Contributed by Google.
2665
R. David Murray25b4add2009-04-29 13:17:37 +00002666- Issue #2245: aifc now skips chunk types it doesn't recognize, per spec.
2667
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002668- Issue #5874: distutils.tests.test_config_cmd is not locale-sensitive anymore.
Tarek Ziadéa1b91d92009-04-29 08:03:46 +00002669
Thomas Heller90c61a22009-04-28 19:23:41 +00002670- Issue #4305: ctypes should now build again on mipsel-linux-gnu
2671
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002672- Issue #1734234: Massively speedup ``unicodedata.normalize()`` when the string
2673 is already in normalized form, by performing a quick check beforehand.
Antoine Pitroue988e282009-04-27 21:53:26 +00002674 Original patch by Rauli Ruohonen.
2675
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002676- Issue #5853: Calling a function of the mimetypes module from several threads
Antoine Pitrouf2651e12009-04-27 20:50:20 +00002677 at once could hit the recursion limit if the mimetypes database hadn't been
2678 initialized before.
2679
Vinay Sajipe34d6aa2009-04-27 13:44:27 +00002680- Issue #5854: Updated __all__ to include some missing names and remove some
2681 names which should not be exported.
2682
2683- Issue #5810: Fixed Distutils test_build_scripts so it uses
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002684 ``sysconfig.get_config_vars()``.
Tarek Ziadébcddf672009-04-25 12:51:59 +00002685
Tarek Ziadéd567c382009-04-25 12:38:08 +00002686- Issue #4951: Fixed failure in test_httpservers.
2687
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002688- Issue #3102: All global symbols that the _ctypes extension defines are now
2689 prefixed with 'Py' or '_ctypes'.
Thomas Heller5c6af802009-04-24 20:31:47 +00002690
Thomas Hellerec21ccd2009-04-24 20:00:41 +00002691- Issue #5041: ctypes does now allow pickling wide character.
2692
Mark Dickinson4af8e742009-04-24 13:56:07 +00002693- Issue #5812: For the two-argument form of the Fraction constructor,
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002694 ``Fraction(m, n)``, m and n are permitted to be arbitrary Rational instances.
Mark Dickinson4af8e742009-04-24 13:56:07 +00002695
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002696- Issue #5812: Fraction('1e6') is valid: more generally, any string that's valid
2697 for float() is now valid for Fraction(), with the exception of strings
2698 representing NaNs and infinities.
Mark Dickinson8100bd82009-04-22 18:15:25 +00002699
Tarek Ziadé31559b62009-04-20 14:29:42 +00002700- Issue #5795: Fixed test_distutils failure on Debian ppc.
2701
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +00002702- Issue #5768: Fixed bug in Unicode output logic and test case for same.
2703
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002704- Issue #1161031: Fix readwrite select flag handling: POLLPRI now results in a
2705 handle_expt_event call, not handle_read_event, and POLLERR and POLLNVAL now
2706 call handle_close, not handle_expt_event. Also, dispatcher now has an
2707 'ignore_log_types' attribute for suppressing log messages, which is set to
2708 'warning' by default.
R. David Murrayabc26602009-04-13 16:56:32 +00002709
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002710- Issue #5607: Fixed Distutils test_get_platform for Mac OS X fat binaries.
Tarek Ziadé156c31a2009-04-13 12:34:01 +00002711
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002712- Issue #5741: Don't disallow "%%" (which is an escape for "%") when setting a
2713 value in SafeConfigParser.
Georg Brandl21cf5ee2009-04-12 17:24:11 +00002714
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002715- Issue #5732: Added a new command in Distutils: check.
Tarek Ziadé942825f2009-04-11 14:55:07 +00002716
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +00002717- Issue #5731: Distutils bdist_wininst no longer worked on non-Windows
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002718 platforms. Initial patch by Paul Moore.
Tarek Ziadéad958262009-04-09 21:36:44 +00002719
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002720- Issue #2254: Fix CGIHTTPServer information disclosure. Relative paths are now
2721 collapsed within the url properly before looking in cgi_directories.
Gregory P. Smith923ba362009-04-06 06:33:26 +00002722
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002723- Issue #5095: Added bdist_msi to the list of bdist supported formats. Initial
2724 fix by Steven Bethard.
Tarek Ziadé64408fb2009-04-05 22:51:09 +00002725
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002726- Issue #1491431: Fixed distutils.filelist.glob_to_re for edge cases. Initial
2727 fix by Wayne Davison.
Tarek Ziadéfaa6b122009-04-05 21:44:08 +00002728
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002729- Issue #5693: TestSuite.__iter__ can now be consistently overridden in
2730 subclasses.
Michael Foordf2dfef12009-04-05 19:19:28 +00002731
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002732- Issue #5694: Removed spurious test output in Distutils (test_clean).
Tarek Ziadé453d9532009-04-05 18:31:24 +00002733
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +00002734- Issue #5471: Fix os.path.expanduser() for $HOME set to '/'.
Georg Brandl3f0ef202009-04-05 14:48:49 +00002735
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002736- Issue #1326077: Fix the formatting of SyntaxErrors by the traceback module.
Georg Brandl1956d5c2009-04-05 14:25:41 +00002737
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002738- Issue #1726172: Fix IndexError in the case of and empty response in ftplib.
Georg Brandl50ba6e12009-04-05 10:48:47 +00002739
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002740- Issue #2625: Added missing iteritems() call to the for loop in
R. David Murray52720c52009-04-02 14:05:35 +00002741 mailbox.MH.get_message().
2742
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002743- Issue #5585: Add the ability to call an initializer to
2744 mulitiprocessing.manager so that users can install custom handlers/etc.
Jesse Noller7152f6d2009-04-02 05:17:26 +00002745
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002746- Issue #3551: Patch multiprocessing to raise a proper exception if the size of
2747 the object when writefile is called causes a ERROR_NO_SYSTEM_RESOURCES. Added
2748 docs to note the limitation.
Jesse Noller5053fbb2009-04-02 04:22:09 +00002749
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002750- unittest.assertNotEqual() now uses the inequality operator (!=) instead of the
2751 equality operator.
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00002752
2753- Issue #6001: Test discovery for unittest. Implemented in
Michael Foordb4a81c82009-05-29 20:33:46 +00002754 unittest.TestLoader.discover and from the command line.
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +00002755
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002756- Issue #5679: The methods unittest.TestCase.addCleanup and doCleanups were
2757 added. addCleanup allows you to add cleanup functions that will be called
Michael Foord07ef4872009-05-02 22:43:34 +00002758 unconditionally (after setUp if setUp fails, otherwise after tearDown). This
2759 allows for much simpler resource allocation and deallocation during tests.
2760
2761- Issue #3379: unittest.main now takes an optional exit argument. If False main
2762 doesn't call sys.exit allowing it to be used from the interactive interpreter.
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00002763
2764- Issue #5995: unittest.main now takes an optional verbosity argument allowing
Michael Foord5d31e052009-05-11 17:59:43 +00002765 test modules to be run with a higher than default verbosity.
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00002766
2767- Issue #5995: A fix to allow you to run "python -m unittest test_module" or
Michael Foord5d31e052009-05-11 17:59:43 +00002768 "python -m unittest test_module.TestClass" from the command line.
Michael Foord07ef4872009-05-02 22:43:34 +00002769
2770- Issue #5728: unittest.TestResult has new startTestRun and stopTestRun methods;
2771 called immediately before and after a test run.
2772
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002773- Issue #5663: Better failure messages for unittest asserts. Default assertTrue
Michael Foord345b2fe2009-04-02 03:20:38 +00002774 and assertFalse messages are now useful. TestCase has a longMessage attribute.
2775 This defaults to False, but if set to True useful error messages are shown in
2776 addition to explicit messages passed to assert methods.
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +00002777
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002778- Issue #3110: Add additional protect around SEM_VALUE_MAX for multiprocessing.
Jesse Nollerb502bc72009-04-02 02:32:55 +00002779
Georg Brandl58b8b952009-04-01 21:54:21 +00002780- In Pdb, prevent the reassignment of __builtin__._ by sys.displayhook on
2781 printing out values.
2782
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002783- Issue #4572: Added SEEK_* symbolic constants to io module.
Georg Brandl5942b912009-04-01 21:05:44 +00002784
Brett Cannonad078a02009-04-01 16:00:34 +00002785- Issue #1665206 (partially): Move imports in cgitb to the top of the module
2786 instead of performing them in functions. Helps prevent import deadlocking in
2787 threads.
2788
Raymond Hettinger66c4a6b2009-04-01 18:50:56 +00002789- Issue #5647: MutableSet.__iand__() no longer mutates self during iteration.
2790
Georg Brandle92d4b62009-04-01 04:21:14 +00002791- Actually make the SimpleXMLRPCServer CGI handler work.
2792
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002793- Issue #2522: locale.format() now checks its first argument to ensure it has
R. David Murraya83da352009-04-01 03:21:43 +00002794 been passed only one pattern, avoiding mysterious errors where it appeared
2795 that it was failing to do localization.
2796
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002797- Issue #5583: Added optional extensions in Distutils. Initial patch by Georg
Tarek Ziadé9e47ce42009-03-31 22:27:23 +00002798 Brandl.
2799
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002800- Issue #5619: Multiprocessing children disobey the debug flag and causes popups
2801 on windows buildbots. Patch applied to work around this issue.
Jesse Noller42f9b4e2009-03-31 22:20:35 +00002802
Benjamin Petersond906ea62009-03-31 21:34:42 +00002803- Issue #5632: Thread.ident was None for the main thread and threads not created
2804 with the threading module.
2805
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002806- Issue #5400: Added patch for multiprocessing on netbsd compilation/support.
Jesse Noller1f0a5552009-03-31 18:27:14 +00002807
Hirokazu Yamamoto9d2ee5d2009-03-31 13:13:05 +00002808- Issue #5387: Fixed mmap.move crash by integer overflow.
2809
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002810- Issue #5261: Patch multiprocessing's semaphore.c to support context manager
2811 use: "with multiprocessing.Lock()" works now.
Jesse Noller82eb5902009-03-30 23:29:31 +00002812
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +00002813- Issue #5177: Multiprocessing's SocketListener class now uses
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002814 socket.SO_REUSEADDR on all connections so that the user no longer needs to
2815 wait 120 seconds for the socket to expire.
Jesse Noller459a6482009-03-30 15:50:42 +00002816
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002817- Adjusted _tkinter to compile without warnings when WITH_THREAD is not defined
2818 (part of issue #5035).
Guilherme Polo1972d162009-03-27 21:43:08 +00002819
Marc-André Lemburgcbdf15b2009-03-25 19:45:33 +00002820- Issue #5561: Removed the sys.version_info shortcuts from platform's
2821 python_version() and python_version_tuple() since they produced different
2822 output compared to previous Python versions.
2823
Benjamin Peterson692428e2009-03-23 21:50:21 +00002824- Issue #1034053: unittest now supports skipping tests and expected failures.
2825
Gregory P. Smith28399852009-03-31 16:54:10 +00002826- The unittest.TestCase.assertRaises() method now returns a context manager when
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002827 not given a callable so that code to be tested can be written inline using a
2828 with statement.
Gregory P. Smith28399852009-03-31 16:54:10 +00002829
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002830- Issue #2578: The unittest.TestCase.assertEqual() now displays the differences
2831 in lists, tuples, dicts and sets on failure. Many new handy type and
2832 comparison specific assert* methods have been added that fail with error
2833 messages actually useful for debugging. Contributed in part by Google.
Gregory P. Smith28399852009-03-31 16:54:10 +00002834
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002835- Issue #5068: Fixed the tarfile._BZ2Proxy.read() method that would loop forever
2836 on incomplete input. That caused tarfile.open() to hang when used with mode
2837 'r' or 'r:bz2' and a fileobj argument that contained no data or partial bzip2
2838 compressed data.
Lars Gustäbel2020a592009-03-22 20:09:33 +00002839
Benjamin Petersonb364bfe2009-03-22 17:45:11 +00002840- Issue #5536: urllib.urlretrieve makes sure to close the file it's writing to
2841 even if an exception occurs.
2842
Raymond Hettinger91852ca2009-03-19 19:19:03 +00002843- Issue #5381: Added object_pairs_hook to the json module. This allows
2844 OrderedDicts to be built by the decoder.
2845
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002846- Issue #2110: Add support for thousands separator and 'n' type specifier to
2847 ``Decimal.__format__()``.
Mark Dickinson277859d2009-03-17 23:03:46 +00002848
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002849- Fix Decimal.__format__ bug that swapped the meanings of the '<' and '>'
2850 alignment characters.
Mark Dickinsonb065e522009-03-17 18:01:03 +00002851
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002852- Issue #1222: ``locale.format()`` bug when the thousands separator is a space
Antoine Pitroufeeafff2009-03-14 00:07:21 +00002853 character.
2854
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002855- Issue #5472: Fixed distutils.test_util tear down. Original patch by Tim
2856 Golden.
Tarek Ziadé61585c22009-03-11 12:48:04 +00002857
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002858- collections.deque objects now have a read-only attribute called maxlen.
Raymond Hettinger56411aa2009-03-10 12:50:59 +00002859
Guilherme Polo15d57652009-03-07 02:14:38 +00002860- Issue #2638: Show a window constructed with tkSimpleDialog.Dialog only after
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002861 it is has been populated and properly configured in order to prevent window
2862 flashing.
Guilherme Polo15d57652009-03-07 02:14:38 +00002863
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002864- Issue #4792: Prevent a segfault in _tkinter by using the guaranteed to be safe
2865 interp argument given to the PythonCmd in place of the Tcl interpreter taken
2866 from a PythonCmd_ClientData.
Guilherme Polo3768b2f2009-03-07 01:47:49 +00002867
Guilherme Polo6d6c1fd2009-03-07 01:19:12 +00002868- Issue #5193: Guarantee that Tkinter.Text.search returns a string.
2869
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002870- Issue #5394: Removed > 2.3 syntax from distutils.msvc9compiler.
Tarek Ziadé943b24e2009-03-07 00:32:45 +00002871 Original patch by Akira Kitada.
2872
Hirokazu Yamamoto264fc122009-03-05 14:21:12 +00002873- Issue #5385: Fixed mmap crash after resize failure on windows.
2874
Hirokazu Yamamotoeacbbdf2009-03-03 22:18:14 +00002875- Issue #5179: Fixed subprocess handle leak on failure on windows.
2876
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002877- PEP 372: Added collections.OrderedDict().
Raymond Hettingerbc512d32009-03-03 04:45:34 +00002878
Raymond Hettinger88a91642009-03-03 04:51:24 +00002879- The _asdict() for method for namedtuples now returns an OrderedDict().
2880
Raymond Hettingere89b8e92009-03-03 05:00:37 +00002881- The configparser module now defaults to using an ordered dictionary.
2882
Benjamin Peterson7d49bba2009-03-02 22:41:42 +00002883- Issue #4308: httplib.IncompleteRead's repr doesn't include all of the data all
2884 ready received.
2885
Benjamin Petersonad58b7c2009-03-02 03:35:12 +00002886- Issue #5401: Fixed a performance problem in mimetypes when ``from mimetypes
2887 import guess_extension`` was used.
2888
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002889- Issue #1733986: Fixed mmap crash on Windows in accessing elements of second
2890 map object with same tagname but larger size than first map.
Hirokazu Yamamotob0e10c72009-02-28 12:13:07 +00002891
Hirokazu Yamamotof2dc8852009-02-28 10:31:54 +00002892- Issue #5386: mmap.write_byte didn't check map size, so it could cause buffer
2893 overrun.
2894
Tarek Ziadé73347352009-02-28 10:08:02 +00002895- Issue #1533164: Installed but not listed *.pyo was breaking Distutils
2896 bdist_rpm command.
2897
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002898- Issue #5378: Added --quiet option to Distutils bdist_rpm command.
Tarek Ziadé73347352009-02-28 10:08:02 +00002899
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002900- Issue #5052: Make Distutils compatible with 2.3 again.
Tarek Ziadédda92f72009-02-27 12:53:34 +00002901
Benjamin Petersonb3dd5482009-02-26 19:07:18 +00002902- Deprecated methods of symtable.Symbol have been removed: is_keywordarg(),
2903 is_vararg(), and is_in_tuple().
2904
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002905- Issue #5316: Fixed buildbot failures introduced by multiple inheritance in
2906 Distutils tests.
Tarek Ziadée3bc0ef2009-02-25 22:29:27 +00002907
Vinay Sajip1a0d2be2009-02-19 12:31:32 +00002908- Issue #5287: Add exception handling around findCaller() call to help out
2909 IronPython.
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +00002910
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002911- Issue #5282: Fixed mmap resize on 32bit Windows and Unix. When ``offset >
2912 0``, the file was resized to wrong size.
Hirokazu Yamamoto17a837e2009-02-17 13:17:26 +00002913
Hirokazu Yamamotof6bbd0e2009-02-17 10:12:10 +00002914- Issue #5292: Fixed mmap crash on its boundary access m[len(m)].
2915
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002916- Issue #2279: distutils.sdist.add_defaults now add files from the package_data
2917 and the data_files metadata.
Tarek Ziadé7dd53392009-02-16 21:38:01 +00002918
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002919- Issue #5257: Refactored all tests in distutils, so they use
Tarek Ziadé13699002009-02-14 14:10:23 +00002920 support.TempdirManager, to avoid writing in the tests directory.
2921
Tarek Ziadé2432b0b2009-02-13 23:00:43 +00002922- Issue #4524: distutils build_script command failed with --with-suffix=3.
2923 Initial patch by Amaury Forgeot d'Arc.
2924
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002925- Issue #2461: Added tests for distutils.util.
Tarek Ziadé275958a2009-02-13 22:22:03 +00002926
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002927- Issue #1008086: Fixed socket.inet_aton() to always return 4 bytes even on LP64
2928 platforms (most 64-bit Linux, bsd, unix systems).
Gregory P. Smith3605b5c2009-02-11 23:45:25 +00002929
Thomas Heller3689ae22009-02-10 18:43:01 +00002930- Issue #5203: Fixed ctypes segfaults when passing a unicode string to a
2931 function without argtypes (only occurs if HAVE_USABLE_WCHAR_T is false).
2932
Tarek Ziadé74fbf602009-02-10 12:31:09 +00002933- Issue #3386: distutils.sysconfig.get_python_lib prefix argument was ignored
2934 under NT and OS2. Patch by Philip Jenvey.
2935
Brett Cannon28d10882009-02-10 02:07:38 +00002936- Issue #5128: Make compileall properly inspect bytecode to determine if needs
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002937 to be recreated. This avoids a timing hole thanks to the old reliance on the
Brett Cannon28d10882009-02-10 02:07:38 +00002938 ctime of the files involved.
2939
Guilherme Poloa66cf5b2009-02-09 20:50:27 +00002940- Issue #5122: Synchronize tk load failure check to prevent a potential
2941 deadlock.
2942
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002943- Issue #1818: collections.namedtuple() now supports a keyword argument 'rename'
2944 which lets invalid fieldnames be automatically converted to positional names
2945 in the form, _1, _2, ...
Raymond Hettinger322daea2009-02-10 01:24:05 +00002946
Guilherme Polod2ea0332009-02-09 16:41:09 +00002947- Issue #4890: Handle empty text search pattern in Tkinter.Text.search.
2948
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002949- Issue #5170: Fixed Unicode output bug in logging and added test case. This is
2950 a regression which did not occur in 2.5.
Vinay Sajipb20af942009-02-08 19:06:08 +00002951
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002952- Issue #4512 (part 2): Promote ``ZipImporter._get_filename()`` to be a public
2953 documented method ``ZipImporter.get_filename()``.
Nick Coghlan0194f5b2009-02-08 03:17:00 +00002954
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002955- Issue #4195: The ``runpy`` module (and the ``-m`` switch) now support the
2956 execution of packages by looking for and executing a ``__main__`` submodule
2957 when a package name is supplied. Initial patch by Andi Vajda.
Nick Coghland39600e2009-02-08 01:26:34 +00002958
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002959- Issue #1731706: Call Tcl_ConditionFinalize for Tcl_Conditions that will not be
2960 used again (this requires Tcl/Tk 8.3.1), also fix a memory leak in Tkapp_Call
2961 when calling from a thread different than the one that created the Tcl
2962 interpreter. Patch by Robert Hancock.
Guilherme Polo14ff18d2009-02-06 22:26:22 +00002963
Vinay Sajipb20af942009-02-08 19:06:08 +00002964- Issue #1520877: Now distutils.sysconfig reads $AR from the
Tarek Ziadé05adf072009-02-06 01:15:51 +00002965 environment/Makefile. Patch by Douglas Greiman.
2966
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002967- Issue #4285: Change sys.version_info to be a named tuple. Patch by Ross
2968 Light.
Eric Smith81fe0932009-02-06 00:48:26 +00002969
Tarek Ziadéd5eb9852009-02-06 00:31:59 +00002970- Issue #1276768: The verbose option was not used in the code of
2971 distutils.file_util and distutils.dir_util.
2972
Vinay Sajipb20af942009-02-08 19:06:08 +00002973- Issue #5132: Fixed trouble building extensions under Solaris with
Tarek Ziadé0d4fd342009-02-05 22:52:52 +00002974 --enabled-shared activated. Initial patch by Dave Peterson.
2975
Guilherme Polod7bb4d42009-02-02 21:14:14 +00002976- Issue #1581476: Always use the Tcl global namespace when calling into Tcl.
2977
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002978- Issue #2047: shutil.move() could believe that its destination path was inside
2979 its source path if it began with the same letters (e.g. "src" vs. "src.new").
Antoine Pitrou707c5932009-01-29 20:19:34 +00002980
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002981- Issue #4920: Fixed .next() vs .__next__() issues in the ABCs for Iterator and
2982 MutableSet.
Raymond Hettingerf779e6f2009-01-28 23:02:26 +00002983
Guilherme Polocda93aa2009-01-28 13:09:03 +00002984- Added the ttk module. See issue #2983: Ttk support for Tkinter.
2985
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002986- Issue #5021: doctest.testfile() did not create __name__ and
Raymond Hettingerecf252a2009-01-27 10:03:04 +00002987 collections.namedtuple() relied on __name__ being defined.
2988
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002989- Backport importlib from Python 3.1. Only the import_module() function has been
2990 backported to help facilitate transitions from 2.7 to 3.1.
Brett Cannon93881c62009-01-26 01:16:50 +00002991
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002992- Issue #1885: distutils: When running sdist with --formats=tar,gztar the tar
2993 file was overriden by the gztar one.
Tarek Ziadéaaedcef2009-01-25 23:34:00 +00002994
Tarek Ziadéef249b12009-01-25 18:19:25 +00002995- Issue #4863: distutils.mwerkscompiler has been removed.
2996
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002997- Added new itertools functions: combinations_with_replacement() and compress().
Raymond Hettinger2bcb8e92009-01-25 21:04:14 +00002998
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002999- Issue #5032: Added a step argument to itertools.count() and allowed
3000 non-integer arguments.
Raymond Hettinger31c769c2009-02-12 05:39:46 +00003001
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003002- Fix and properly document the multiprocessing module's logging support, expose
3003 the internal levels and provide proper usage examples.
Jesse Nollerb5a4b0a2009-01-25 03:36:13 +00003004
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003005- Issue #1672332: Fix unpickling of subnormal floats, which was
Mark Dickinsona3ecd2c2009-01-24 16:40:29 +00003006 producing a ValueError on some platforms.
3007
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003008- Issue #3881: Help Tcl to load even when started through the unreadable local
3009 symlink to "Program Files" on Vista.
Martin v. Löwisf081e1c2009-01-24 15:47:27 +00003010
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003011- Issue #4710: Extract directories properly in the zipfile module; allow adding
3012 directories to a zipfile.
Martin v. Löwis0dfcfc82009-01-24 14:00:33 +00003013
Vinay Sajipb20af942009-02-08 19:06:08 +00003014- Issue #3807: _multiprocessing build fails when configure is passed
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003015 --without-threads argument. When this occurs, _multiprocessing will be
3016 disabled, and not compiled.
Jesse Nollerf6da8d12009-01-23 14:04:41 +00003017
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003018- Issue #5008: When a file is opened in append mode with the new IO library, do
3019 an explicit seek to the end of file (so that e.g. tell() returns the file size
3020 rather than 0). This is consistent with the behaviour of the traditional 2.x
3021 file object.
Antoine Pitroue741cc62009-01-21 00:45:36 +00003022
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +00003023- Issue #5013: Fixed a bug in FileHandler which occurred when the delay
3024 parameter was set.
3025
Raymond Hettinger933d3a72009-01-20 20:34:19 +00003026- Issue #4998: The memory saving effect of __slots__ had been lost on Fractions
3027 which inherited from numbers.py which did not have __slots__ defined. The
Mark Dickinson39c6f7f2009-02-12 17:55:42 +00003028 numbers hierarchy now has its own __slots__ declarations.
Raymond Hettinger933d3a72009-01-20 20:34:19 +00003029
Jesse Noller9a5b2ad2009-01-19 15:12:22 +00003030- Issue #3321: _multiprocessing.Connection() doesn't check handle; added checks
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003031 for *nix machines for negative handles and large int handles. Without this
3032 check it is possible to segfault the interpreter.
Jesse Noller9a5b2ad2009-01-19 15:12:22 +00003033
Jesse Noller6ab22152009-01-18 02:45:38 +00003034- Issue #4449: AssertionError in mp_benchmarks.py, caused by an underlying issue
3035 in sharedctypes.py.
3036
Benjamin Peterson5e5fbb62009-01-17 22:27:54 +00003037- Issue #1225107: inspect.isclass() returned True for instances with a custom
3038 __getattr__.
3039
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003040- Issue #3997: Zipfiles generated with more than 65536 files could not be opened
3041 with other applications.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd25f87a2009-01-17 16:40:17 +00003042
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003043- Issue #1162154: ``inspect.getmembers()`` now skips attributes that raise
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcb54447f2009-01-13 23:39:22 +00003044 AttributeError, e.g. a __slots__ attribute which has not been set.
3045
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003046- Issue #1696199: Add collections.Counter() for rapid and convenient counting.
Raymond Hettingerf94d7fa2009-01-12 22:58:41 +00003047
Antoine Pitroubd4b5f22009-01-10 16:15:24 +00003048- Issue #3860: GzipFile and BZ2File now support the context manager protocol.
3049
Antoine Pitrouf0d2c3f2009-01-04 21:29:23 +00003050- Issue #4272: Add an optional argument to the GzipFile constructor to override
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003051 the timestamp in the gzip stream. The default value remains the current time.
3052 The information can be used by e.g. gunzip when decompressing. Patch by
Antoine Pitrouf0d2c3f2009-01-04 21:29:23 +00003053 Jacques Frechet.
3054
Mark Dickinson514d4832009-01-04 21:25:40 +00003055- Restore Python 2.3 compatibility for decimal.py.
3056
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +00003057- Issue #1702551: distutils sdist was not excluding VCS directories under
Tarek Ziadé85d6fb52009-01-04 00:04:49 +00003058 Windows. Inital solution by Guy Dalberto.
3059
Guilherme Poloe7f14032009-01-03 21:51:09 +00003060- The _tkinter module functions "createfilehandler", "deletefilehandler",
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003061 "createtimerhandler", "mainloop", "dooneevent" and "quit" have been deprecated
3062 for removal in 3.x
Guilherme Poloe7f14032009-01-03 21:51:09 +00003063
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003064- Issue #4796: Added Decimal.from_float() and
3065 Context.create_decimal_from_float() to the decimal module.
Raymond Hettingerf4d85972009-01-03 19:02:23 +00003066
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003067- Issue #4812: Add missing underscore prefix to some internal-use-only constants
3068 in the decimal module. (Dec_0 becomes _Dec_0, etc.)
Mark Dickinsonc5de0962009-01-02 23:07:08 +00003069
Benjamin Peterson8ad09a42008-12-31 23:48:39 +00003070- Issue #4795: inspect.isgeneratorfunction() returns False instead of None when
3071 the function is not a generator.
3072
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003073- Issue #4702: Throwing a DistutilsPlatformError instead of IOError in case no
3074 MSVC compiler is found under Windows. Original patch by Philip Jenvey.
Tarek Ziadéb1a85412008-12-30 23:03:41 +00003075
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003076- Issue #4646: distutils was choking on empty options arg in the setup function.
3077 Original patch by Thomas Heller.
Tarek Ziadéc13acb12008-12-29 22:23:53 +00003078
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003079- Fractions.from_float() no longer loses precision for integers too big to cast
3080 as floats.
Georg Brandlfe427892009-01-03 22:03:11 +00003081
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003082- Issue #4790: The nsmallest() and nlargest() functions in the heapq module did
3083 unnecessary work in the common case where no key function was specified.
Georg Brandlfe427892009-01-03 22:03:11 +00003084
Martin v. Löwis732479f2008-12-29 16:22:25 +00003085- Issue #3767: Convert Tk object to string in tkColorChooser.
3086
Martin v. Löwise2eb2b42008-12-29 15:51:01 +00003087- Issue #3248: Allow placing ScrolledText in a PanedWindow.
3088
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003089- Issue #4444: Allow assertRaises() to be used as a context handler, so that the
3090 code under test can be written inline if more practical.
Antoine Pitrou697ca3d2008-12-28 14:09:36 +00003091
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003092- Issue #4739: Add pydoc help topics for symbols, so that e.g. help('@') works
3093 as expected in the interactive environment.
Georg Brandlc3a98032008-12-27 18:20:04 +00003094
Antoine Pitrou6f193e02008-12-27 15:43:12 +00003095- Issue #4756: zipfile.is_zipfile() now supports file-like objects. Patch by
3096 Gabriel Genellina.
3097
Tarek Ziadée4c75bb2008-12-24 19:10:05 +00003098- Issue #4400: .pypirc default generated file was broken in distutils.
3099
Benjamin Peterson54686e32008-12-24 15:10:27 +00003100- Issue #4736: io.BufferedRWPair's closed property now functions properly.
3101
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003102- Issue #3954: Fix a potential SystemError in _hotshot.logreader error handling.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc31949b92008-12-15 21:47:57 +00003103
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003104- Issue #4574: Fix a crash in io.IncrementalNewlineDecoder when a carriage
3105 return encodes to more than one byte in the source encoding (e.g. UTF-16) and
3106 gets split on a chunk boundary.
Antoine Pitrou655fbf12008-12-14 17:40:51 +00003107
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003108- Issue #4223: inspect.getsource() will now correctly display source code for
3109 packages loaded via zipimport (or any other conformant PEP 302
Nick Coghlana2053472008-12-14 10:54:50 +00003110 loader). Original patch by Alexander Belopolsky.
3111
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003112- Issue #4201: pdb can now access and display source code loaded via zipimport
3113 (or any other conformant PEP 302 loader). Original patch by Alexander
3114 Belopolsky.
Nick Coghlana2053472008-12-14 10:54:50 +00003115
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003116- Issue #4197: Doctests in modules loaded via zipimport (or any other PEP 302
3117 conformant loader) will now work correctly in most cases (they are still
3118 subject to the constraints that exist for all code running from inside a
3119 module loaded via a PEP 302 loader and attempting to perform IO operations
3120 based on __file__). Original patch by Alexander Belopolsky.
Nick Coghlana2053472008-12-14 10:54:50 +00003121
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003122- Issues #4082 and #4512: Add runpy support to zipimport in a manner that allows
3123 backporting to maintenance branches. Original patch by Alexander Belopolsky.
Nick Coghlana2053472008-12-14 10:54:50 +00003124
Antoine Pitrou74af3bb2008-12-13 23:12:30 +00003125- Issue #4163: Use unicode-friendly word splitting in the textwrap functions
3126 when given an unicode string.
3127
Lars Gustäbel3b027422008-12-12 13:58:03 +00003128- Issue #4616: TarFile.utime(): Restore directory times on Windows.
3129
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003130- Issue #4084: Fix max, min, max_mag and min_mag Decimal methods to give correct
3131 results in the case where one argument is a quiet NaN and the other is a
3132 finite number that requires rounding.
Facundo Batistae29d4352008-12-11 04:19:46 +00003133
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003134- Issue #1030250: Distutils created directories even when run with the --dry-run
3135 option.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc240028c2008-12-11 00:03:42 +00003136
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003137- Issue #4483: _dbm module now builds on systems with gdbm & gdbm_compat libs.
Skip Montanaro45313fe2008-12-06 17:43:30 +00003138
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003139- Issue #4529: Fix the parser module's validation of try-except-finally
Georg Brandlfe879e82008-12-05 12:09:41 +00003140 statements.
3141
Georg Brandla07435d2008-12-05 09:23:14 +00003142- Issue #4458: getopt.gnu_getopt() now recognizes a single "-" as an argument,
3143 not a malformed option.
3144
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003145- Added the subprocess.check_output() convenience function to get output from a
3146 subprocess on success or raise an exception on error.
Gregory P. Smith97f49f42008-12-04 20:21:09 +00003147
Fred Drake52481032008-12-04 18:25:17 +00003148- Issue #1055234: cgi.parse_header(): Fixed parsing of header parameters to
3149 support unusual filenames (such as those containing semi-colons) in
3150 Content-Disposition headers.
3151
Vinay Sajip6831d6b2008-12-04 20:32:18 +00003152- Issue #4384: Added logging integration with warnings module using
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003153 captureWarnings(). This change includes a NullHandler which does nothing; it
3154 will be of use to library developers who want to avoid the "No handlers could
3155 be found for logger XXX" message which can appear if the library user doesn't
3156 configure logging.
Vinay Sajip213faca2008-12-03 23:22:58 +00003157
Christian Heimesaa674712008-11-28 11:02:32 +00003158- Issue #3741: DISTUTILS_USE_SDK set causes msvc9compiler.py to raise an
3159 exception.
3160
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003161- Issue #4363: The uuid.uuid1() and uuid.uuid4() functions now work even if the
3162 ctypes module is not present.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd4294172008-11-21 22:05:48 +00003163
Benjamin Petersonbfc51562008-11-22 01:59:15 +00003164- FileIO's mode attribute now always includes ``"b"``.
3165
Martin v. Löwisbb9b1f12008-11-19 09:09:41 +00003166- Issue #4116: Resolve member name conflict in ScrolledCanvas.__init__.
3167
Brett Cannone3d0bf72008-11-15 22:40:44 +00003168- httplib.HTTPConnection.putheader() now accepts an arbitrary number of values
3169 for any header, matching what the documentation has claimed for a while.
3170
Hirokazu Yamamotob9828f62008-11-03 18:03:06 +00003171- Issue #3774: Fixed an error when create a Tkinter menu item without command
3172 and then remove it.
3173
Thomas Heller1fac5a42008-10-30 20:18:13 +00003174- Fixed a modulefinder crash on certain relative imports.
3175
Benjamin Petersonc18574c2008-10-22 21:16:34 +00003176- Issue #4150: Pdb's "up" command now works for generator frames in post-mortem
3177 debugging.
3178
Benjamin Petersone4dc1752008-10-21 22:20:31 +00003179- Issue #4092: Return ArgInfo as promised in the documentation from
3180 inspect.getargvalues.
3181
Georg Brandlf3776a12008-10-08 18:47:17 +00003182- Issue #3935: Properly support list subclasses in bisect's C implementation.
3183
Martin v. Löwis96a9f232008-10-06 15:15:40 +00003184- Issue #4014: Don't claim that Python has an Alpha release status, in addition
3185 to claiming it is Mature.
3186
Alexandre Vassalotti6067f782008-12-27 07:13:01 +00003187- Issue #4730: Fixed the cPickle module to handle correctly astral characters
3188 when protocol 0 is used.
3189
Ronald Oussoren0238497e2009-01-02 14:10:20 +00003190- Issue #1594: MacOS.GetCreatorAndType now always returns a big-endian result,
3191 to be consistent with Apple tools.
3192
Ronald Oussoren63b74fe2009-01-02 14:46:19 +00003193- Issue #900949: plat-mac/videoreader.py no longer relies on a non-existing
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +00003194 module.
Ronald Oussoren63b74fe2009-01-02 14:46:19 +00003195
Ronald Oussoren7f8cbf02009-01-02 14:48:17 +00003196- Issue #16278952: plat-mac/videoreader.py now correctly imports MediaDescr
3197
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003198- Issue #1737832: plat-mac/EasyDialog.py no longer uses the broken aepack
Ronald Oussoren919697c2009-01-02 14:52:09 +00003199 module.
3200
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003201- Issue #1149804: macostools.mkdirs now even works when another process creates
3202 one of the needed subdirectories.
Ronald Oussorenabcc1682009-01-02 15:00:05 +00003203
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003204- Issue #900506: added --no-zipimport flag to the bundlebuilder script.
Ronald Oussoren072bb402009-01-02 15:25:36 +00003205
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003206- Issue #841800: bundlebuilder now works with 'python -O'.
Ronald Oussoren072bb402009-01-02 15:25:36 +00003207
Matthias Klose43723e22009-01-10 17:00:42 +00003208- Issue #4861: ctypes.util.find_library(): Robustify. Fix library detection on
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003209 biarch systems. Try to rely on ldconfig only, without using objdump and gcc.
Matthias Klose43723e22009-01-10 17:00:42 +00003210
Gregory P. Smithde1a8b72009-01-31 22:57:30 +00003211- Issue #5104: The socket module now raises OverflowError when 16-bit port and
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003212 protocol numbers are supplied outside the allowed 0-65536 range on bind() and
3213 getservbyport().
Gregory P. Smithde1a8b72009-01-31 22:57:30 +00003214
Neil Schemenauer92c3b212009-02-07 00:54:41 +00003215- Issue #999042: The Python compiler now handles explict global statements
3216 correctly (should be assigned using STORE_GLOBAL opcode).
3217
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003218- Issue #2703: SimpleXMLRPCDispatcher.__init__: Provide default values for new
3219 arguments introduced in 2.5.
Matthias Klosea5d58c82009-04-05 21:00:48 +00003220
Walter Dörwald5d98ec72009-04-25 14:03:16 +00003221- Issue #5828 (Invalid behavior of unicode.lower): Fixed bogus logic in
3222 makeunicodedata.py and regenerated the Unicode database (This fixes
3223 u'\u1d79'.lower() == '\x00').
3224
Jeroen Ruigrok van der Wervenb87b3342009-05-08 14:11:23 +00003225- Windows locale mapping updated to Vista.
3226
Antoine Pitroue555f582008-12-27 20:34:52 +00003227Tools/Demos
3228-----------
3229
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003230- Ttk demos added in Demo/tkinter/ttk/.
Guilherme Polo4eae0782009-01-28 15:56:01 +00003231
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003232- Issue #4677: Add two list comprehension tests to pybench.
Antoine Pitroue555f582008-12-27 20:34:52 +00003233
Brett Cannon60b15d22008-10-06 22:44:37 +00003234Build
3235-----
3236
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003237- Issue #6603: Change READ_TIMESTAMP macro in ceval.c so that it compiles
3238 correctly under gcc on x86-64. This fixes a reported problem with the
3239 --with-tsc build on x86-64.
Mark Dickinson504a1512009-10-31 10:11:28 +00003240
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003241- Add 2 new options to ``--with-universal-archs`` on MacOSX: ``intel`` builds a
3242 distribution with ``i386`` and ``x86_64`` architectures, while ``3-way``
3243 builds a distribution with the ``ppc``, ``i386`` and ``x86_64`` architectures.
Vinay Sajip03d5c342009-10-16 14:06:44 +00003244
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003245- Issue #6802: Fix build issues on MacOSX 10.6.
Ronald Oussoren25967582009-09-06 10:00:26 +00003246
Guilherme Polo1ce2d532009-08-16 14:38:57 +00003247- Issue #6244: Allow detect_tkinter to look for Tcl/Tk 8.6.
3248
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00003249- Issue #5390: Add uninstall icon independent of whether file extensions are
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003250 installed.
Martin v. Löwisecb4f952009-06-28 09:32:39 +00003251
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00003252- Issue #5809: Specifying both --enable-framework and --enable-shared is an
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003253 error. Configure now explicity tells you about this.
Ronald Oussoren450d5612009-06-08 21:12:41 +00003254
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003255- Issue #3585: Add pkg-config support. It creates a python-2.7.pc file and a
3256 python.pc symlink in the $(LIBDIR)/pkgconfig directory. Patch by Clinton Roy.
Antoine Pitrouf2caeed2009-05-24 20:23:57 +00003257
Benjamin Petersone5afa3b2009-05-23 19:24:37 +00003258- Issue #6094: Build correctly with Subversion 1.7.
3259
Martin v. Löwis588b54b2009-05-05 16:10:16 +00003260- Issue #5847: Remove -n switch on "Edit with IDLE" menu item.
3261
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003262- Issue #5726: Make Modules/ld_so_aix return the actual exit code of the linker,
3263 rather than always exit successfully. Patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
Antoine Pitrou3fd4ea92009-05-01 21:16:14 +00003264
Matthias Klose10cbe482009-04-29 17:18:19 +00003265- Issue #4587: Add configure option --with-dbmliborder=db1:db2:... to specify
Vinay Sajipf9b01fe2009-05-09 12:07:17 +00003266 the order that backends for the dbm extension are checked.
Matthias Klose10cbe482009-04-29 17:18:19 +00003267
Matthias Klose8ad554f2009-02-22 23:14:26 +00003268- Link the shared python library with $(MODLIBS).
3269
Martin v. Löwisa3e3cb72009-02-10 13:09:19 +00003270- Issue #5134: Silence compiler warnings when compiling sqlite with VC++.
3271
Martin v. Löwisfee1c7f2009-02-02 14:23:16 +00003272- Issue #4494: Fix build with Py_NO_ENABLE_SHARED on Windows.
3273
Martin v. Löwiseefda272009-01-11 09:43:55 +00003274- Issue #4895: Use _strdup on Windows CE.
3275
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003276- Issue #4472: ``configure --enable-shared`` now works on OSX.
Ronald Oussorenf7d54052009-01-02 10:48:31 +00003277
Benjamin Petersonfd9633e2008-12-28 15:37:31 +00003278- Issues #4728 and #4060: WORDS_BIGEDIAN is now correct in Universal builds.
3279
Martin v. Löwiscb6c3592008-11-30 11:08:26 +00003280- Issue #4389: Add icon to the uninstall entry in "add-and-remove-programs".
3281
Martin v. Löwis63470982008-11-19 13:51:44 +00003282- Issue #4289: Remove Cancel button from AdvancedDlg.
3283
Martin v. Löwis3d6f8ff2008-11-07 18:51:50 +00003284- Issue #1656675: Register a drop handler for .py* files on Windows.
3285
Martin v. Löwis692c2f82008-11-06 16:43:00 +00003286- Issue #4120: Exclude manifest from extension modules in VS2008.
3287
Martin v. Löwis0f3e7692008-10-17 13:43:01 +00003288- Issue #4091: Install pythonxy.dll in system32 again.
3289
Martin v. Löwiseba774b2008-10-13 11:23:35 +00003290- Issue #4018: Disable "for me" installations on Vista.
3291
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003292- Issue #3758: Add ``patchcheck`` build target to ``.PHONY``.
Brett Cannon60b15d22008-10-06 22:44:37 +00003293
Martin v. Löwisbb86d832008-11-04 20:40:09 +00003294- Issue #4204: Fixed module build errors on FreeBSD 4.
3295
Tarek Ziadéc4a4aeb2009-08-21 14:28:38 +00003296Documentation
3297-------------
3298
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003299- Issue #6556: Fixed the Distutils configuration files location explanation for
3300 Windows.
Tarek Ziadéc4a4aeb2009-08-21 14:28:38 +00003301
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003302- Issue #6801: symmetric_difference_update also accepts ``|``. Thanks to Carl
3303 Chenet.
Tarek Ziadé3092ed92009-08-29 13:33:21 +00003304
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc07d539d2008-10-14 21:47:22 +00003305C-API
3306-----
3307
Mark Dickinsone31d3002009-12-21 11:21:25 +00003308- Issue #7528: Add PyLong_AsLongAndOverflow (backported from py3k).
3309
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003310- Issue #7228: Add '%lld' and '%llu' support to PyString_FromFormat(V) and
3311 PyErr_Format, on machines with HAVE_LONG_LONG defined.
Mark Dickinson82864d12009-11-15 16:18:58 +00003312
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003313- Add new C-API function PyOS_string_to_double, and deprecated PyOS_ascii_atof
3314 and PyOS_ascii_strtod.
Mark Dickinson09823a22009-10-31 09:42:39 +00003315
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003316- Removed _PyOS_double_to_string. Use PyOS_double_to_string instead. This is in
3317 preparation for (but not strictly related to) issue #7117, short float repr.
Mark Dickinsonba26b392009-10-31 09:28:12 +00003318
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003319- Issue #6624: PyArg_ParseTuple with "s" format when parsing argument with NULL:
3320 Bogus TypeError detail string.
Sean Reifscheider9279e7d2009-08-01 23:54:55 +00003321
Jeffrey Yasskinf7f858d2009-05-08 22:23:21 +00003322- Issue #5954: Add a PyFrame_GetLineNumber() function to replace most uses of
3323 PyCode_Addr2Line().
3324
Jeffrey Yasskin1aa47002009-05-08 21:51:06 +00003325- Issue #5959: Add a PyCode_NewEmpty() function to create a new empty code
3326 object at a specified file, function, and line number.
3327
Brett Cannonc4f90eb2009-04-02 03:17:39 +00003328- Issue #1419652: Change the first argument to PyImport_AppendInittab() to
3329 ``const char *`` as the string is stored beyond the call.
3330
Benjamin Peterson5781f322009-02-16 21:09:09 +00003331- Some PyBytes_* aliases have been removed because they don't exist in 3.x.
3332
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003333- Issue #5175: PyLong_AsUnsignedLongLong now raises OverflowError for negative
3334 arguments. Previously, it raised TypeError.
Mark Dickinson4015f622009-02-10 15:46:50 +00003335
Benjamin Petersoncf2ce242008-12-22 20:52:53 +00003336- Issue #4720: The format for PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords can begin with '|'.
3337
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003338- Issue #3632: From the gdb debugger, the 'pyo' macro can now be called when the
3339 GIL is released, or owned by another thread.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc3538a312008-12-15 22:29:14 +00003340
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc07d539d2008-10-14 21:47:22 +00003341- Issue #4122: On Windows, fix a compilation error when using the
3342 Py_UNICODE_ISSPACE macro in an extension module.
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +00003343
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003344- Issue #4293: Py_AddPendingCall() is now thread safe and can be used for
Kristján Valur Jónssonc22ab182009-01-12 09:24:04 +00003345 asynchronous notifications to python from any thread. Documentation added.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc07d539d2008-10-14 21:47:22 +00003346
Benjamin Peterson9dfe6a82008-11-24 04:09:03 +00003347Extension Modules
3348-----------------
3349
Martin v. Löwis50ea4562009-11-27 13:56:01 +00003350- Issue #6508: Add posix.{getresuid,getresgid,setresuid,setresgid}.
3351
Mark Dickinson3d830822009-10-08 15:54:10 +00003352- Issue #7078: Set struct.__doc__ from _struct.__doc__.
3353
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003354- Issue #3366: Add erf, erfc, expm1, gamma, lgamma functions to math module.
Mark Dickinsonb93fff02009-09-28 18:54:55 +00003355
Brett Cannon4d947432009-09-22 00:29:48 +00003356- Issue #6823: Allow time.strftime() to accept a tuple with a isdst field
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003357 outside of the range of [-1, 1] by normalizing the value to within that range.
Brett Cannon4d947432009-09-22 00:29:48 +00003358
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003359- Issue #6877: Make it possible to link the readline extension to libedit on
3360 OSX.
Ronald Oussoren9f20d9d2009-09-20 14:18:15 +00003361
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003362- Issue #6944: Fix a SystemError when socket.getnameinfo() was called with
3363 something other than a tuple as first argument.
Georg Brandlab849892009-09-19 07:35:07 +00003364
Benjamin Peterson7f6d0832009-09-08 23:04:22 +00003365- Issue #6865: Fix reference counting issue in the initialization of the pwd
3366 module.
3367
Mark Dickinson6b3f1ef2009-09-06 21:21:05 +00003368- Issue #6848: Fix curses module build failure on OS X 10.6.
3369
Brett Cannon764465f2009-08-13 19:27:12 +00003370- Fix a segfault in expat when given a specially crafted input lead to the
Matthias Klose3b0f9b02010-01-22 00:34:48 +00003371 tokenizer not stopping. CVE-2009-3720.
Brett Cannon764465f2009-08-13 19:27:12 +00003372
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003373- Issue #6561: '\d' in a regex now matches only characters with Unicode category
3374 'Nd' (Number, Decimal Digit). Previously it also matched characters with
3375 category 'No'.
Mark Dickinsonfe67bd92009-07-28 20:35:03 +00003376
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003377- Issue #1523: Remove deprecated overflow wrapping for struct.pack with an
3378 integer format code ('bBhHiIlLqQ'). Packing an out-of-range integer now
3379 consistently raises struct.error.
Mark Dickinson5fd3af22009-07-07 15:08:28 +00003380
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003381- Issues #1530559, #1741130: Fix various struct.pack inconsistencies for the
3382 integer formats ('bBhHiIlLqQ'). In the following, '*' represents any of '=',
3383 '<', '>'.
Mark Dickinson463dc4b2009-07-05 10:01:24 +00003384
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003385 - Packing a float now always gives a Deprecation Warning. Previously it
3386 only warned for 'I', 'L', '*B', '*H', '*I', '*L'.
Mark Dickinson463dc4b2009-07-05 10:01:24 +00003387
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003388 - If x is not an int, long or float, then packing x will always result in
3389 struct.error. Previously an x with an __int__ method could be packed by
3390 'b', 'B', 'h', 'H', 'i', 'l', '*b', '*h' ,'*i', '*l', and an x with a
3391 __long__ method could be packed by 'q', 'Q', '*q', '*Q'; for x with
3392 neither __int__ nor __long__, TypeError used to be raised (with a
3393 confusing error message) for 'I', 'L', '*B', '*H', '*I', '*L', and
3394 struct.error in other cases.
Mark Dickinson463dc4b2009-07-05 10:01:24 +00003395
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003396 Note: as of Python 2.7 beta 1, the above is out of date. In 2.7 beta 1, any
3397 argument with an __int__ method can be packed, but use of this feature
3398 triggers a DeprecationWarning.
Mark Dickinson154b7ad2010-03-07 16:24:45 +00003399
Martin v. Löwis4f16d3b2009-05-29 15:58:08 +00003400- Issue #4873: Fix resource leaks in error cases of pwd and grp.
3401
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003402- Issue #4751: For hashlib algorithms provided by OpenSSL, the Python GIL is now
3403 released during computation on data lengths >= 2048 bytes.
Gregory P. Smithd02eeda2009-05-04 00:16:49 +00003404
Gregory P. Smithea388262009-02-13 03:00:00 +00003405- Issue #3745: Fix hashlib to always reject unicode and non buffer-api
3406 supporting objects as input no matter how it was compiled (built in
Gregory P. Smithfe32d302010-01-02 22:42:50 +00003407 implementations or external openssl library). NOTE: Undone in 2.7a2.
Gregory P. Smithea388262009-02-13 03:00:00 +00003408
Mark Dickinsona200dd52009-01-15 15:17:43 +00003409- Issue #4397: Fix occasional test_socket failure on OS X.
Mark Dickinsone82cdae2009-01-15 14:54:37 +00003410
Martin v. Löwisb3b7d852009-01-11 09:26:54 +00003411- Issue #4279: Fix build of parsermodule under Cygwin.
3412
Martin v. Löwis9ac49272009-01-02 20:40:14 +00003413- Issue #4051: Prevent conflict of UNICODE macros in cPickle.
3414
Georg Brandl6269fec2009-01-01 12:15:31 +00003415- Issue #4228: Pack negative values the same way as 2.4 in struct's L format.
3416
Martin v. Löwis03824e42008-12-29 18:17:34 +00003417- Issue #1040026: Fix os.times result on systems where HZ is incorrect.
3418
Mark Dickinson4c96fa52008-12-11 19:28:08 +00003419- Issues #3167, #3682: Fix test_math failures for log, log10 on Solaris,
3420 OpenBSD.
3421
Martin v. Löwisbcb017f2008-11-30 19:28:27 +00003422- Issue #4365: Add crtassem.h constants to the msvcrt module.
3423
Benjamin Peterson9dfe6a82008-11-24 04:09:03 +00003424- Issue #4396: The parser module now correctly validates the with statement.
3425
Jack Diederichd60c29e2009-03-31 23:46:48 +00003426- Issue #5228: Make functools.partial objects can now be pickled.
3427
Guilherme Polob1a98de2009-01-28 20:03:26 +00003428Tests
3429-----
3430
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003431- Issue #7431: Use TESTFN in test_linecache instead of trying to create a file
3432 in the Lib/test directory, which might be read-only for the user running the
3433 tests.
R. David Murray820b0ea2009-12-03 23:57:59 +00003434
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003435- Issue #7324: Add a sanity check to regrtest argument parsing to catch the case
3436 of an option with no handler.
R. David Murrayda826892009-11-15 00:04:32 +00003437
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003438- Issue #7312: Add a -F flag to run the selected tests in a loop until a test
3439 fails. Can be combined with -j.
R. David Murray7f7eea62009-11-14 15:18:22 +00003440
Antoine Pitrou310c9fe2009-11-11 20:55:07 +00003441- Issue #7295: Do not use a hardcoded file name in test_tarfile.
3442
Antoine Pitrouc98efe02009-11-06 22:34:35 +00003443- Issue #7270: Add some dedicated unit tests for multi-thread synchronization
3444 primitives such as Lock, RLock, Condition, Event and Semaphore.
3445
Antoine Pitrou59c44f32009-10-30 17:07:08 +00003446- Issue #7222: Make thread "reaping" more reliable so that reference
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003447 leak-chasing test runs give sensible results. The previous method of reaping
3448 threads could return successfully while some Thread objects were still
3449 referenced. This also introduces a new private function: ``thread._count()``.
Antoine Pitrou59c44f32009-10-30 17:07:08 +00003450
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003451- Issue #7151: Fixed regrtest -j so that output to stderr from a test no longer
3452 runs the risk of causing the worker thread to fail.
R. David Murray282396f2009-10-18 21:12:37 +00003453
Antoine Pitrou58d2f262009-10-10 20:52:11 +00003454- Issue #7055: test___all__ now greedily detects all modules which have an
3455 __all__ attribute, rather than using a hardcoded and incomplete list.
3456
R. David Murray14dcd432009-10-14 13:58:07 +00003457- Issue #7058: Added save/restore for things like sys.argv and cwd to
3458 runtest_inner in regrtest, with warnings if the called test modifies them,
3459 and a new section in the summary report at the end.
R. David Murrayabe3d3e2009-10-05 17:03:09 +00003460
Mark Dickinson245d9152009-10-04 18:38:39 +00003461- Issue #7042: Fix test_signal (test_itimer_virtual) failure on OS X 10.6.
3462
Brett Cannone7e941e2009-09-03 21:25:21 +00003463- Issue #6806: test_platform failed under OS X 10.6.0 because ``sw_ver`` leaves
3464 off the trailing 0 in the version number.
3465
Guilherme Polo7f146ab2009-06-21 17:22:50 +00003466- Issue #5450: Moved tests involving loading tk from Lib/test/test_tcl to
3467 Lib/lib-tk/test/test_tkinter/test_loadtk. With this, these tests demonstrate
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003468 the same behaviour as test_ttkguionly (and now also test_tk) which is to skip
3469 the tests if DISPLAY is defined but can't be used.
Guilherme Polo7f146ab2009-06-21 17:22:50 +00003470
Antoine Pitrou4698d992009-05-31 14:20:14 +00003471- Issue #6152: New option '-j'/'--multiprocess' for regrtest allows running
3472 regression tests in parallel, shortening the total runtime.
3473
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003474- Issue #5354: New test support function import_fresh_module() makes it easy to
3475 import both normal and optimised versions of modules. test_heapq and
3476 test_warnings have been adjusted to use it, tests for other modules with both
3477 C and Python implementations in the stdlib can be adjusted to use it over
3478 time.
Nick Coghlan5533ff62009-04-22 15:26:04 +00003479
Brett Cannonce3d2212009-04-01 20:25:48 +00003480- Fix test_warnings to no longer reset the warnings filter.
3481
Brett Cannon2da4d622009-04-01 19:57:10 +00003482- Fix test_logging to no longer reset the warnings filter.
3483
Georg Brandld8fb6ac2009-04-01 00:04:33 +00003484- Issue #5635: Fix running test_sys with tracing enabled.
3485
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003486- regrtest no longer treats ImportError as equivalent to SkipTest. Imports that
3487 should cause a test to be skipped are now done using import_module from test
3488 support, which does the conversion.
R. David Murray41448c52009-03-31 19:57:24 +00003489
Guilherme Polob1a98de2009-01-28 20:03:26 +00003490- Issue #5083: New 'gui' resource for regrtest.
3491
Walter Dörwalda1453172009-04-25 12:15:07 +00003492- Issue #5837: Certain sequences of calls to set() and unset() for
3493 support.EnvironmentVarGuard objects restored the environment variables
3494 incorrectly on __exit__.
3495
Alexandre Vassalotti999ecc02009-07-15 18:19:47 +00003496- Issue #2389: Array objects are now pickled in a portable manner.
3497
Brett Cannon813c43a2009-11-08 21:35:28 +00003498Misc
3499----
3500
3501- Issue #5611: Auto-detect whether a C file uses tabs or spaces in Vim.
3502
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +00003503
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +00003504What's New in Python 2.6 final
3505==============================
3506
Barry Warsawafa14362008-10-01 21:46:40 +00003507*Release date: 01-Oct-2008*
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +00003508
3509Core and Builtins
3510-----------------
3511
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfc5ea392008-09-26 22:34:08 +00003512- Issue #3967: Fixed a crash in the count() and find() methods of string-like
3513 objects, when the "start" parameter is a huge value.
3514
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc17617a02008-09-25 20:52:56 +00003515- Issue #3965: Fixed a crash on Windows when open() is given an invalid
3516 filename or mode, and the filename is a unicode string.
3517
Martin v. Löwise86b07c2008-09-25 04:12:50 +00003518- Bug #3951: Py_USING_MEMORY_DEBUGGER should not be enabled by default.
3519
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +00003520Library
3521-------
3522
Martin v. Löwise563aa42008-09-29 22:09:07 +00003523- Issue #3965: Allow repeated calls to turtle.Screen, by making it a
3524 true singleton object.
3525
Brett Cannonb2d61bd2008-09-29 03:41:21 +00003526- Issue #3895: It was possible to crash the interpreter when an external timer
3527 was used with cProfile that returned an object that could not be converted
3528 into a float.
3529
Benjamin Peterson22d3c922008-09-25 20:35:45 +00003530- Issue #3950: Made turtle respect scale factors.
3531
Thomas Hellera85c95d2008-09-24 18:26:05 +00003532- Issue #3547: Fixed ctypes structures bitfields of varying integer
3533 sizes.
3534
Benjamin Peterson2c7470d2008-09-21 21:27:51 +00003535- Issue #3879: A regression in urllib.getproxies_enviroment was fixed.
3536
Gregory P. Smith08067492008-09-30 20:41:13 +00003537- Issue #3863: Disabled a unit test of fork being called from a thread
3538 when running on platforms known to exhibit OS bugs when attempting that.
3539
Martin v. Löwis175d0072008-09-19 15:21:07 +00003540Build
3541-----
3542
Martin v. Löwisd69c9042008-10-01 11:19:50 +00003543- Bug #3989: Package the 2to3 script (as 2to3.py) in the Windows
3544 installer.
3545
Martin v. Löwis175d0072008-09-19 15:21:07 +00003546- Bug #3887: Package x64 version of CRT for AMD64 Windows binaries.
3547
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +00003548
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +00003549What's New in Python 2.6 release candidate 2?
3550=============================================
3551
Barry Warsaw6af16192008-09-18 04:33:43 +00003552*Release date: 17-Sep-2008*
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +00003553
3554Core and Builtins
3555-----------------
3556
Benjamin Peterson8c2b7dc2008-09-18 01:22:16 +00003557Extension Modules
3558-----------------
3559
Benjamin Peterson8d77d442008-09-30 01:31:49 +00003560- Security Issue #2: imageop did not validate arguments correctly and could
3561 segfault as a result.
3562
Benjamin Peterson8c2b7dc2008-09-18 01:22:16 +00003563- Issue #3886: Possible integer overflows in the _hashopenssl module were
3564 closed.
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +00003565
Antoine Pitrou3c9f5412008-09-13 20:30:30 +00003566Tools/Demos
3567-----------
3568
Georg Brandl2bd92a52009-10-11 21:10:07 +00003569- Issue #3850: recursion tests in Tools/scripts/find_recursion_limit.py can raise
Antoine Pitrou3c9f5412008-09-13 20:30:30 +00003570 AttributeError instead of RuntimeError, depending in which C API call
3571 exactly the recursion limit is exceeded. Consequently, both exception types
3572 are caught and silenced.
3573
Martin v. Löwis4eb18f92008-09-14 20:22:39 +00003574Build
3575-----
3576
3577- Issue #3617: Include a licensing statement regarding the Microsoft
3578 C runtime in the Windows installer.
3579
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +00003580
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +00003581What's New in Python 2.6 release candidate 1?
3582=============================================
3583
Barry Warsaw1e62aec2008-09-12 23:25:57 +00003584*Release date: 12-Sep-2008*
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +00003585
3586Core and Builtins
3587-----------------
3588
Martin v. Löwis9fa5a282008-09-11 06:53:30 +00003589- Issue #3642: Suppress warning in obmalloc when size_t is larger than uint.
3590
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc05e34492008-09-10 22:04:45 +00003591- Issue #3743: In a few places, PY_FORMAT_SIZE_T was incorrectly used with
3592 PyString_FromFormat or PyErr_Format to display size_t values. The macro
3593 PY_FORMAT_SIZE_T is designed to select the correct format for the OS
3594 ``printf`` function, whereas PyString_FromFormat has an independent
3595 implementation and uses "%zd" on all platforms for size_t values.
3596 This makes a difference on win64, where ``printf`` needs "%Id" to display
3597 64bit values.
3598
Benjamin Peterson97179b02008-09-09 20:55:01 +00003599- Issue #3634: _weakref.ref(Exception).__init__() gave invalid return value on
3600 error.
3601
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd3ffb892008-09-09 07:24:30 +00003602- Issue #3777: long() applied to a float object now always return a long
3603 object; previously an int would be returned for small values. the __long__
3604 method is allowed to return either an int or a long, but the behaviour of
3605 float objects should not change to respect backward compatibility.
3606
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc3571fbf2008-09-01 19:52:00 +00003607- Issue #3751: str.rpartition would perform a left-partition when called with
3608 a unicode argument.
3609
Benjamin Peterson17f03ca2008-09-01 14:18:30 +00003610- Issue #3683: Fix compilation when --without-threads is given.
3611
Antoine Pitroud4ae97b2008-08-29 18:39:48 +00003612- Issue #3668: Fix a memory leak with the "s*" argument parser in
Vinay Sajip35e3b032008-09-01 14:33:59 +00003613 PyArg_ParseTuple and friends, which occurred when the argument for "s*"
Antoine Pitroud4ae97b2008-08-29 18:39:48 +00003614 was correctly parsed but parsing of subsequent arguments failed.
3615
Vinay Sajip35e3b032008-09-01 14:33:59 +00003616- Issue #2534: speed up isinstance() and issubclass() by 50-70%, so as to
Antoine Pitrou0668c622008-08-26 22:42:08 +00003617 match Python 2.5 speed despite the __instancecheck__ / __subclasscheck__
3618 mechanism. In the process, fix a bug where isinstance() and issubclass(),
3619 when given a tuple of classes as second argument, were looking up
3620 __instancecheck__ / __subclasscheck__ on the tuple rather than on each
3621 type object.
3622
Neal Norwitz18aa3882008-08-24 05:04:52 +00003623- Fix crashes on memory allocation failure found with failmalloc.
3624
3625- Fix memory leaks found with valgrind and update suppressions file.
3626
3627- Fix compiler warnings in opt mode which would lead to invalid memory reads.
3628
3629- Fix problem using wrong name in decimal module reported by pychecker.
3630
Christian Heimes7d4c3172008-08-22 19:47:25 +00003631- Silenced another compiler warning about a used but not defined
3632 function 'stringlib_contains_obj'.
3633
Benjamin Peterson712ee922008-08-24 18:10:20 +00003634- Added warnings on the use of ``__getslice__``, ``__setslice__``, or
3635 ``__delslice__``.
3636
Gregory P. Smith2bb25cc2008-09-02 05:29:51 +00003637- Issue #3678: Correctly pass LDFLAGS and LDLAST to the linker on shared
3638 library targets in the Makefile.
3639
Gregory P. Smith980b99b2008-09-07 05:15:18 +00003640- Issue #1204: The configure script now tests for additional libraries
3641 that may be required when linking against readline. This fixes issues
3642 with x86_64 builds on some platforms (a few Linux flavors and OpenBSD).
3643
Benjamin Peterson14cb6bc2008-08-26 17:08:40 +00003644C-API
3645-----
3646
3647- Aliased PyObject_Bytes to PyObject_Str.
3648
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +00003649Library
3650-------
3651
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc24cb3822008-09-11 20:56:13 +00003652- Issue #3640: Pickling a list or a dict uses less local variables, to reduce
3653 stack usage in the case of deeply nested objects.
3654
Guido van Rossume3c4fd92008-09-10 14:27:00 +00003655- Issue #3629: Fix sre "bytecode" validator for an end case.
3656
Martin v. Löwis24329ba2008-09-10 13:38:12 +00003657- Issue #3811: The Unicode database was updated to 5.1.
3658
Nick Coghland2e09382008-09-11 12:11:06 +00003659- Issue #3781: Further warnings.catch_warnings() cleanup to prevent
3660 silent misbehaviour when a single instance is nested in multiple
3661 with statements, or when the methods are invoked in the wrong order.
3662
Vinay Sajip844f7412008-09-09 13:42:08 +00003663- Issue #3809: Fixed spurious 'test.blah' file left behind by test_logging.
3664
Nick Coghland2e09382008-09-11 12:11:06 +00003665- Issue #3781: Clean up the API for warnings.catch_warnings() by having it
Brett Cannon672237d2008-09-09 00:49:16 +00003666 return a list or None rather than a custom object.
3667
Benjamin Peterson6ac7d7c2008-09-06 19:28:11 +00003668- Issue #1638033: Cookie.Morsel gained the httponly attribute.
3669
Antoine Pitrouebcd0ce2008-09-05 23:30:23 +00003670- Issue #3535: zipfile couldn't read some zip files larger than 2GB.
3671
3672- Issue #3776: Deprecate the bsddb package for removal in 3.0.
Brett Cannon32476fc2008-09-05 18:33:51 +00003673
Hirokazu Yamamoto42e459e2008-09-04 14:25:30 +00003674- Issue #3762: platform.architecture() fails if python is lanched via
3675 its symbolic link.
3676
Vinay Sajip65d66e12008-09-04 07:31:21 +00003677- Issue #3772: Fixed regression problem in StreamHandler.emit().
3678
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00003679- Issue #600362: Relocated parse_qs() and parse_qsl(), from the cgi module
Facundo Batistac585df92008-09-03 22:35:50 +00003680 to the urlparse one. Added a PendingDeprecationWarning in the old
3681 module, it will be deprecated in the future.
3682
Marc-André Lemburgb339b2a2008-09-03 11:13:56 +00003683- Issue #2562: Fix distutils PKG-INFO writing logic to allow having
3684 non-ascii characters and Unicode in setup.py meta-data.
3685
3686- Issue #3726: Allow spaces in separators in logging configuration files.
Vinay Sajip6a2fd812008-09-03 09:20:05 +00003687
Marc-André Lemburg31a0a142008-09-02 12:11:19 +00003688- Issue #3719: platform.architecture() fails if there are spaces in the
3689 path to the Python binary.
3690
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00003691- Issue #3602: Moved test.test_support.catch_warning() to
Brett Cannon1eaf0742008-09-02 01:25:16 +00003692 warnings.catch_warnings() along with some API cleanup. Expanding the tests
3693 for catch_warnings() also led to an improvement in the raising of a
3694 DeprecationWarning related to warnings.warn_explicit().
3695
Benjamin Peterson973e6c22008-09-01 23:12:58 +00003696- The deprecation warnings for the old camelCase threading API were removed.
3697
Vinay Sajip35e3b032008-09-01 14:33:59 +00003698- logging: fixed lack of use of encoding attribute specified on a stream.
3699
Christian Heimesa27a62e2008-08-22 19:55:54 +00003700- Silenced a trivial compiler warning in the sqlite module.
3701
Christian Heimes1cc69632008-08-22 20:10:27 +00003702- Fixed two format strings in the _collections module.
3703
Benjamin Peterson17f03ca2008-09-01 14:18:30 +00003704- Issue #3703: _fileio.FileIO gave unhelpful error message when trying to open a
3705 directory.
Benjamin Petersonf22c26e2008-09-01 14:13:43 +00003706
Gregory P. Smithd7122032008-09-02 05:36:11 +00003707- Issue #3708: os.urandom no longer goes into an infinite loop when passed a
3708 non-integer floating point number.
3709
Vinay Sajip65d66e12008-09-04 07:31:21 +00003710- Issue #3110: multiprocessing fails to compiel on solaris 10 due to missing
Jesse Nollerb814d6a2008-09-03 18:10:30 +00003711 SEM_VALUE_MAX.
3712
Benjamin Peterson37346b22008-08-23 20:27:43 +00003713Extension Modules
3714-----------------
3715
Jesse Noller438195f2009-01-18 21:04:36 +00003716- Issue #4301: Patch the logging module to add processName support, remove
3717 _check_logger_class from multiprocessing.
3718
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc293924b2008-09-02 23:19:56 +00003719- Issue #2975: When compiling several extension modules with Visual Studio 2008
3720 from the same python interpreter, some environment variables would grow
3721 without limit.
3722
Benjamin Peterson37346b22008-08-23 20:27:43 +00003723- Issue #3643: Added a few more checks to _testcapi to prevent segfaults by
3724 exploitation of poor argument checking.
3725
Gerhard Häringef2276b2008-09-12 13:54:06 +00003726- sqlite3: Changed docstring of iterdump() to mark method as "Non-standard".
3727
Gerhard Häring6e1afcf2008-09-12 18:58:57 +00003728- Issue #3103: Reduced globals symbols used by sqlite3 module and made sure all
3729 remaining ones have "pysqlite_" prefix.
3730
Gerhard Häringe6872eb2008-09-12 22:33:22 +00003731- Issue #3846: Release the GIL during sqlite3_prepare calls. This improves
3732 concurrent access to the same SQLite database from multiple
3733 threads/processes.
3734
Brett Cannona0b74442008-09-03 22:45:11 +00003735Tests
3736-----
3737
Nick Coghland2e09382008-09-11 12:11:06 +00003738- Issue #3781: Add test.test_support.check_warnings() as a convenience
3739 wrapper for warnings.catch_warnings() that makes it easier to check
3740 that expected warning messages are being reported.
3741
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfeb8cad2008-09-06 20:53:51 +00003742- Issue #3796: Some tests functions were not enabled in test_float.
3743
3744- Issue #3768: Move test_py3kwarn over to the new API for catch_warnings().
Brett Cannona0b74442008-09-03 22:45:11 +00003745
Brett Cannoncdeb24b2008-09-05 22:59:17 +00003746Build
3747-----
3748
Martin v. Löwisab0b29b2008-09-13 08:11:57 +00003749- Issue #3833: Use a different upgrade code for Win64 installers.
3750
Martin v. Löwis3f5fda82008-09-08 13:50:10 +00003751- Issue #2271: Set SecureCustomProperties so that installation will properly
3752 use the TARGETDIR even for unprivileged users.
3753
Martin v. Löwis67543a92008-09-08 12:02:45 +00003754- Allow passing the MSI file name to merge.py.
3755
Vinay Sajip844f7412008-09-09 13:42:08 +00003756- Issue #3758: Rename the 'check' target to 'patchcheck' so as to not clash
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfeb8cad2008-09-06 20:53:51 +00003757 with GNU build target guidelines.
Brett Cannoncdeb24b2008-09-05 22:59:17 +00003758
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +00003759
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00003760What's New in Python 2.6 beta 3?
3761================================
3762
Barry Warsaw07a4a382008-08-21 01:15:08 +00003763*Release date: 20-Aug-2008*
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00003764
3765Core and Builtins
3766-----------------
3767
Guido van Rossumf8402962008-08-20 15:01:50 +00003768- Issue #1878: Remove Py_TPFLAGS_HAVE_VERSION_TAG from
3769 Py_TPFLAGS_DEFAULT when not building the core. This means 3rd party
3770 extensions do not automatically benefit from the class attribute
3771 cache; they will have to explicitly add Py_TPFLAGS_HAVE_VERSION_TAG
3772 to their tp_flags field if they care. This is a backwards
3773 compatibility feature; in 3.0, all types will use the cache by
3774 default.
3775
Benjamin Petersonf647dc12008-08-20 01:27:30 +00003776- Keyword arguments can now follow starred arguments. (``f(a, *args,
3777 keyword=23)`` is now valid syntax.)
3778
Thomas Heller0ad5ae02008-08-19 19:25:04 +00003779- ctypes function pointers that are COM methods have a boolean True
3780 value again.
3781
Martin v. Löwisf91d46a2008-08-12 14:49:50 +00003782- Issue #3139: Make buffer-interface thread-safe wrt. PyArg_ParseTuple,
3783 by denying s# to parse objects that have a releasebuffer procedure,
3784 and introducing s*.
3785
Georg Brandl1e13ea92008-08-11 09:07:59 +00003786- Issue #3537: Fix an assertion failure when an empty but presized dict
3787 object was stored in the freelist.
3788
Mark Dickinsonb6467572008-08-04 21:30:09 +00003789- Issue #1481296: Make long(float('nan')) and int(float('nan')) raise
3790 ValueError consistently across platforms.
3791
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc39fd6722008-07-31 21:28:03 +00003792- Issue #3479: On platforms where sizeof(int) is smaller than sizeof(long)
3793 (64bit Unix, for example), unichr() would truncate its argument and return
3794 u'\x00' for unichr(2**32). Now it properly raises an OverflowError.
3795
Neal Norwitze7d8be82008-07-31 17:17:14 +00003796- Apply security patches from Apple.
3797
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc246daed2008-07-31 00:42:16 +00003798- Issue #2542: Now that issubclass() may call arbitrary code, ensure that
3799 PyErr_ExceptionMatches returns 0 when an exception occurs there.
3800
Antoine Pitrou92f82162008-07-25 22:22:08 +00003801- Issue #1819: function calls with several named parameters are now on
3802 average 35% faster (as measured by pybench).
3803
Amaury Forgeot d'Arce4921fe2008-07-21 22:00:38 +00003804- Issue #2378: An unexpected UnboundLocalError or NameError could appear when
3805 the python debugger steps into a class statement: the free variables (local
3806 variables defined in an outer scope) would be deleted from the outer scope.
3807
Gregory P. Smith0470bab2008-07-22 04:46:32 +00003808- Issue #2620: Overflow checking when allocating or reallocating memory
3809 was not always being done properly in some python types and extension
3810 modules. PyMem_MALLOC, PyMem_REALLOC, PyMem_NEW and PyMem_RESIZE have
3811 all been updated to perform better checks and places in the code that
3812 would previously leak memory on the error path when such an allocation
3813 failed have been fixed.
3814
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00003815Library
3816-------
3817
Hirokazu Yamamoto838c79f2008-08-20 13:14:07 +00003818- Issue #3612: Added some missing basic types in ctypes.wintypes.
3819
Benjamin Petersone977ad42008-08-20 01:42:01 +00003820- The methods ``is_in_tuple()``, ``is_vararg()``, and ``is_keywordarg()`` of
3821 symtable.Symbol have been deprecated for removal in 3.0 and the next release.
3822
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc351ffb82008-08-18 19:23:47 +00003823- Issue #2234: distutils failed for some versions of the cygwin compiler. The
3824 version reported by these tools does not necessarily follow the python
3825 version numbering scheme, so the module is less strict when parsing it.
3826
Nick Coghlanf70385a2008-08-18 12:42:46 +00003827- Issue #2235: Added Py3k warnings for types which will become unhashable
3828 under the stricter __hash__ inheritance rules in 3.0. Several types
3829 which did not meet the rules for hash invariants and were already
3830 unhashable in 3.0 have now been explicitly flagged as unhashable in
3831 2.6 as well (collections.Mapping, collections.Set, unittest.TestSuite,
3832 xml.dom.minidom.NamedNodeMap, numbers.Number, UserList.UserList)
3833
Brett Cannon88f801d2008-08-18 00:46:22 +00003834- Update __all__ for cookielib, csv, os, urllib2, and weakref to include things
3835 imported into the module but exposed as part of the module's API.
3836
Brett Cannon7b96f072008-08-18 00:41:11 +00003837- Remove an unneeded import of abc.ABCMeta from 'inspect'.
3838
Brett Cannon46225e72008-08-18 00:36:52 +00003839- Remove unneeded imports of 'sys' and 'warnings' from 'io'.
3840
Brett Cannon25c9d6a2008-08-17 22:10:11 +00003841- Remove unneeded imports of 'warnings' from shelve, filecmp, and dummy_thread.
3842
Hirokazu Yamamoto41a81eb2008-08-17 13:10:46 +00003843- Issue #3575: Incremental decoder's decode function now takes bytearray
3844 by using 's*' instead of 't#'.
3845
Mark Dickinson3e4caeb2009-02-21 20:27:01 +00003846- Issue #2222: Fixed reference leak when occurred os.rename()
Hirokazu Yamamoto7f30a682008-08-17 09:46:56 +00003847 fails unicode conversion on 2nd parameter. (windows only)
3848
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00003849- Issue #2464: urllib2 now supports a malformation in the URL received
Facundo Batista94f243a2008-08-17 03:38:39 +00003850 in a redirect.
3851
Brett Cannonabe423e2008-08-16 21:47:07 +00003852- Silence the DeprecationWarning raised when importing mimetools in
Brett Cannon721b1452008-08-16 22:00:27 +00003853 BaseHTTPServer, cgi (and rfc822), httplib.
Brett Cannonabe423e2008-08-16 21:47:07 +00003854
Facundo Batistaeb90b782008-08-16 14:44:07 +00003855- Issue #2776: fixed small issue when handling an URL with double slash
3856 after a 302 response in the case of not going through a proxy.
3857
Antoine Pitroub90a8be2008-08-15 21:03:21 +00003858- Issue #2676: in the email package, content-type parsing was hanging on
3859 pathological input because of quadratic or exponential behaviour of a
3860 regular expression.
3861
Antoine Pitrou11ec65d2008-08-14 21:04:30 +00003862- Issue #3476: binary buffered reading through the new "io" library is now
3863 thread-safe.
3864
Brett Cannonbf3157b2008-08-14 05:00:03 +00003865- Silence the DeprecationWarning of rfc822 when it is imported by mimetools
3866 since mimetools itself is deprecated. Because modules are cached, all
3867 subsequent imports of rfc822 will not raise a visible DeprecationWarning.
3868
Antoine Pitrou9fcd4b32008-08-11 17:21:36 +00003869- Issue #3134: shutil referenced undefined WindowsError symbol.
3870
Robert Schuppenies14646332008-08-10 11:01:53 +00003871- Issue #1342811: Fix leak in Tkinter.Menu.delete. Commands associated to
3872 menu entries were not deleted.
3873
Brett Cannon83e81842008-08-09 23:30:55 +00003874- Copied the implementation of reduce() to _functools.reduce() to have a
3875 version that did not raise a DeprecationWarning under -3.
3876
Antoine Pitrou76b8bee2008-08-09 17:27:23 +00003877- Issue #3205: When iterating over a BZ2File fails allocating memory, raise
3878 a MemoryError rather than silently stop the iteration.
3879
Guido van Rossum59ce9012008-08-09 14:55:34 +00003880- Issue #3487: sre "bytecode" validator. Passing invalid "re-bytecode"
3881 to _sre.compile() will now be rejected. This should not affect anybody
3882 since the re.compile() function never generates invalid re-bytecode.
3883
Skip Montanaroa032bf42008-08-08 22:52:51 +00003884- Issue #3436: Make csv.DictReader's fieldnames attribute a property so that
3885 upon first access it can be automatically initialized from the csv file if
3886 it wasn't initialized during instantiation.
3887
Brett Cannon3aa2a492008-08-06 22:28:09 +00003888- Issue #2338: Create imp.reload() to help with transitioning to Python 3.0 as
3889 the reload() built-in has been removed.
3890
Brett Cannon7e30b672008-08-04 21:52:25 +00003891- Changed code in the following modules/packages to remove warnings raised
Brett Cannonc1b76e42008-08-09 23:06:16 +00003892 while running under the ``-3`` flag: aifc, asynchat, asyncore, bdb, bsddb,
Brett Cannon047e4a92008-08-17 04:16:04 +00003893 ConfigParser, cookielib, csv, difflib, distutils, DocXMLRPCServer, email,
3894 filecmp, fileinput, inspect, logging, modulefinder, pdb, pickle, profile,
3895 pstats, pydoc, re, rlcompleter, SimpleXMLRPCServer, shelve, socket,
3896 subprocess, sqlite3, tarfile, Tkinter, test.test_support, textwrap,
3897 threading, tokenize, traceback, urlparse, wsgiref, xml, xmlrpclib.
Brett Cannon7e30b672008-08-04 21:52:25 +00003898
Lars Gustäbel727bd0b2008-08-02 11:26:39 +00003899- Issue #3039: Fix tarfile.TarFileCompat.writestr() which always
3900 raised an AttributeError.
3901
Benjamin Peterson01a24322008-07-28 23:35:27 +00003902- Issue #2523: Fix quadratic behaviour when read()ing a binary file without
Antoine Pitroude781a42008-08-09 12:43:23 +00003903 asking for a specific length. This problem only affected files opened
3904 using the new "io" module, not the built-in open() function.
Benjamin Peterson01a24322008-07-28 23:35:27 +00003905
Mark Dickinsonfe84cce2008-07-27 06:39:07 +00003906- Issue #3449: Update decimal module to use most recent specification
3907 (v. 1.68) and tests (v. 2.58) from IBM.
3908
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00003909- Issue #3437: Bug fix in robotparser parsing of Allow: lines.
Skip Montanarof9ac43f2008-07-27 00:50:41 +00003910
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00003911- Issue #1592: Improve error reporting when operations are attempted
Raymond Hettinger8c664e82008-07-25 18:43:33 +00003912 on a closed shelf.
3913
Georg Brandlf9efabb2008-07-23 15:16:45 +00003914- Deprecate the "ast" parser function aliases.
3915
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00003916- Issue #3120: On 64-bit Windows the subprocess module was truncating handles.
3917
3918- Issue #3303: Fix a crash in locale.strcoll() when calling it with
3919 invalid arguments.
3920
3921- Issue #3302: Fix several crashes when calling locale's gettext functions
3922 with None arguments.
3923
3924- Issue #3389: Allow resolving dotted names for handlers in logging
3925 configuration files.
3926
3927- Deprecate the sunaudio module for removal in Python 3.0.
3928
Antoine Pitrou5fdfa3e2008-07-25 19:42:26 +00003929- Issue #3394: zipfile.writestr sets external attributes when passed a
3930 file name rather than a ZipInfo instance, so files are extracted with
3931 mode 0600 rather than 000 under Unix.
3932
Gregory P. Smitha36f8fe2008-08-04 00:13:29 +00003933- Issue #1857: subprocess.Popen.poll gained an additional _deadstate keyword
3934 argument in python 2.5, this broke code that subclassed Popen to include its
3935 own poll method. Fixed my moving _deadstate to an _internal_poll method.
3936
Martin v. Löwis8dbf3642008-08-01 14:10:26 +00003937Build
3938-----
3939
3940- Generate the PatternGrammar pickle during "make install".
3941
Nick Coghlan2a0c2b12008-08-04 12:47:17 +00003942Documentation
3943-------------
3944
Nick Coghlan6e8fef02008-08-18 13:14:22 +00003945- Issue #2235: the C API function PyObject_HashNotImplemented and its
3946 interaction with the tp_hash slot (added in 2.6b2) are now documented
3947
Nick Coghlan2a0c2b12008-08-04 12:47:17 +00003948- Issue #643841: The language reference now provides more detailed
3949 coverage of the lookup process for special methods. The disclaimers
3950 regarding lack of coverage of new-style classes have also been
3951 removed, since the coverage is now fairly reasonable.
3952
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00003953
Raymond Hettingere3ae6552008-06-20 04:18:15 +00003954What's New in Python 2.6 beta 2?
3955================================
3956
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00003957*Release date: 17-Jul-2008*
3958
Raymond Hettingere3ae6552008-06-20 04:18:15 +00003959Core and Builtins
3960-----------------
3961
Georg Brandl3e483f62008-07-16 22:57:41 +00003962- Issue #3156: Fix inconsistent behavior of the bytearray type: all
3963 its methods now allow for items objects that can be converted to
3964 an integer using operator.index().
3965
Mark Dickinson64b7e502008-07-16 09:40:03 +00003966- Issue #3360: Fix incorrect parsing of '020000000000.0', which
3967 produced a ValueError instead of giving the correct float.
3968
Eric Smitha5fa5a22008-07-16 00:11:49 +00003969- Issue #3083: Add alternate (#) formatting for bin, oct, hex output
3970 for str.format(). This adds the prefix 0b, 0o, or 0x, respectively.
3971
Mark Dickinson7103aa42008-07-15 19:08:33 +00003972- Issue #3008: the float type has a new instance method 'float.hex'
3973 and a new class method 'float.fromhex' to convert floating-point
3974 numbers to and from hexadecimal strings, respectively.
3975
Nick Coghlan6d6bd442008-07-15 15:40:22 +00003976- Issue #2235: __hash__ is once again inherited by default. To allow
3977 collections.Hashable to remain meaningful in the presence of the
3978 default hash implementation (object.__hash__), it is now possible
3979 to explicit block inheritance of hash by setting __hash__=None at
3980 the Python level, or tp_hash=PyObject_HashNotImplemented at the C
3981 level.
3982
Nick Coghlanb028f502008-07-13 14:52:36 +00003983- Issue #3221: Issue a RuntimeWarning instead of raising SystemError if
3984 the parent module cannot be found while performing an absolute import.
3985 This means that an incorrectly defined __package__ attribute will
3986 now only prevent relative imports in that module rather than causing
3987 all imports from that module to fail.
3988
Nick Coghlan14ff9942008-07-08 14:21:42 +00003989- Issue #2517: Allow unicode messages in Exceptions again by correctly
3990 bypassing the instance dictionary when looking up __unicode__ on
3991 new-style classes.
3992
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcbdd941f2008-07-01 20:38:04 +00003993- Issue #3242: Fix a crash inside the print statement, if sys.stdout is
3994 set to a custom object whose write() method happens to install
3995 another file in sys.stdout.
3996
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc1f40c8a2008-06-30 22:42:40 +00003997- Issue #3088: Corrected a race condition in classes derived from
3998 threading.local: the first member set by a thread could be saved in
3999 another thread's dictionary.
4000
Mark Dickinson1ec2fcd2008-06-20 14:53:43 +00004001- Issue #3004: Minor change to slice.indices(): the start and stop
4002 arguments are now treated identically, making the behaviour easier
4003 to describe and understand. For example, slice(None, -10,
4004 1).indices(9) now returns (0, 0, 1) instead of (0, -1, 1), and
4005 slice(None, 10, -1).indices(10) returns (9, 9, -1) instead of (9,
4006 10, -1).
4007
Georg Brandl278fc502008-07-19 12:46:12 +00004008- Issue #3219: Calling a function with repeated keyword arguments,
4009 f(a=2, a=23), would not cause a syntax error. This was a regression
4010 from 2.4 caused by the switch to the new compiler.
Benjamin Peterson175e4d92008-07-01 19:34:52 +00004011
Georg Brandl278fc502008-07-19 12:46:12 +00004012- Issue #2862: Make int and float freelist management consistent with
4013 other freelists. Changes their CompactFreeList apis into
4014 ClearFreeList apis and calls them via gc.collect().
Gregory P. Smith2fe77062008-07-06 03:35:58 +00004015
Brett Cannon8bb8fa52008-07-02 01:57:08 +00004016Library
4017-------
4018
Thomas Heller57adf222008-08-14 19:10:48 +00004019- Issue #3554: ctypes.string_at and ctypes.wstring_at did call Python
4020 api functions without holding the GIL, which could lead to a fatal
4021 error when they failed.
4022
Martin v. Löwisaabf4042008-08-02 07:20:25 +00004023- Issue #799428: Fix Tkinter.Misc._nametowidget to unwrap Tcl command objects.
4024
Jesse Noller7fb96402008-07-17 21:01:05 +00004025- Issue #3395: fix reference in test_multiprocessing to old debugInfo method
4026
Georg Brandla24869a2008-07-16 22:33:18 +00004027- Issue #3312: Fix two crashes in sqlite3.
4028
Georg Brandl86cbf812008-07-16 21:31:41 +00004029- Issue #1608818: Fix misbehavior in os.listdir() if readdir() fails.
4030
Jesse Noller13e9d582008-07-16 14:32:36 +00004031- Issue #3125: Remove copy_reg in multiprocessing and replace it with
4032 ForkingPickler.register() to resolve conflict with ctypes.
4033
Vinay Sajip51e65192008-07-18 09:01:10 +00004034- Issue #3090: Fixed ARCHFLAGS parsing on OS/X
Jesse Noller13e9d582008-07-16 14:32:36 +00004035
Thomas Heller880f5292008-07-15 19:39:38 +00004036- Issue #3313: Fixed a crash when a failed dlopen() call does not set
4037 a valid dlerror() message.
4038
Thomas Heller2bad6572008-07-15 17:19:50 +00004039- Issue #3258: Fixed a crash when a ctypes POINTER type to an
4040 incomplete structure was created.
4041
Brett Cannon3d0b9f02008-07-13 01:15:07 +00004042- Issue #3339: dummy_thread.acquire() should not return None.
4043
Raymond Hettingerb01713e2008-07-10 14:34:57 +00004044- Issue #3285: Fractions from_float() and from_decimal() accept Integral arguments.
4045
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +00004046- Issue #3301: Bisect module behaved badly when lo was negative.
Raymond Hettinger3cd1e422008-07-10 14:03:19 +00004047
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc0f7cddc2008-07-06 21:34:39 +00004048- Issue #839496: SimpleHTTPServer used to open text files in text mode. This is
4049 both unnecessary (HTTP allows text content to be sent in several forms) and
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +00004050 wrong because the actual transmitted size could differ from the
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc0f7cddc2008-07-06 21:34:39 +00004051 content-length. The problem had been corrected in the 2.4 branch, but never
4052 merged into trunk.
4053
Georg Brandle78fbcc2008-07-05 10:13:36 +00004054- Issue #2663: add filtering capability to shutil.copytree().
4055
Martin v. Löwis8c436412008-07-03 12:51:14 +00004056- Issue #1622: Correct interpretation of various ZIP header fields.
4057
4058- Issue #1526: Allow more than 64k files to be added to Zip64 file.
4059
4060- Issue #1746: Correct handling of zipfile archive comments (previously
4061 archives with comments over 4k were flagged as invalid). Allow writing
Vinay Sajip51e65192008-07-18 09:01:10 +00004062 Zip files with archives by setting the 'comment' attribute of a ZipFile.
Martin v. Löwis8c436412008-07-03 12:51:14 +00004063
Vinay Sajip51e65192008-07-18 09:01:10 +00004064- Issue #449227: The rlcompleter module now adds "(" to callable objects
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +00004065 when completed.
Facundo Batista66c52772008-07-02 16:52:55 +00004066
Nick Coghlanc060b0e2008-07-02 13:09:19 +00004067- Issue #3190: Pydoc now hides the automatic module attribute __package__ (the
4068 handling is now the same as that of other special attributes like __name__).
4069
Brett Cannon8bb8fa52008-07-02 01:57:08 +00004070- Issue #2885 (partial): The urllib.urlopen() function has been deprecated for
4071 removal in Python 3.0 in favor of urllib2.urlopen().
4072
Gregory P. Smithf4140642008-07-06 07:16:40 +00004073- Issue #2113: Fix error in subprocess.Popen if the select system call is
4074 interrupted by a signal.
4075
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +00004076- Issue #3309: Fix bz2.BZFile iterator to release its internal lock
Gregory P. Smith3b1e6b22008-07-07 04:31:58 +00004077 properly when raising an exception due to the bz2file being closed.
4078 Prevents a deadlock.
4079
Gregory P. Smithc4691ec2008-07-07 05:09:12 +00004080- Issue #3094: httplib.HTTPSConnection Host: headers no longer include the
4081 redundant ":443" port number designation when the connection is using the
4082 default https port (443).
4083
Gregory P. Smithdb3409c2008-07-17 03:13:05 +00004084- Issue #874900: after an os.fork() call the threading module state is cleaned
4085 up in the child process to prevent deadlock and report proper thread counts
4086 if the new process uses the threading module.
4087
Nick Coghlan38469e22008-07-13 12:23:47 +00004088Tests
4089-----
4090
4091- test.test_support.catch_warning now keeps track of all warnings it sees
4092 and is now better documented. Explicit unit tests for this context manager
4093 have been added to test_warnings.
4094
Martin v. Löwisd84fd952008-06-30 06:57:39 +00004095Build
4096-----
4097
4098- Issue #3215: Build sqlite3 as sqlite3.dll, not sqlite3.pyd.
4099
Brett Cannon8bb8fa52008-07-02 01:57:08 +00004100
Brett Cannon97aa1ae2008-07-11 00:12:52 +00004101Documentation
4102-------------
4103
Brett Cannonfeef51d2008-07-11 00:50:01 +00004104- Document that robotparser has been renamed to urllib.robotparser in
Brett Cannon963ffdb2008-07-11 00:48:57 +00004105 Python 3.0.
4106
Brett Cannonf6afa332008-07-11 00:16:30 +00004107- Document that urlparse has been renamed to urllib.parse in Python 3.0.
4108
Brett Cannon97aa1ae2008-07-11 00:12:52 +00004109- Document that urllib2 is split across multiple modules and renamed in
4110 Python 3.0.
4111
4112- Document that urllib is split across multiple modules and renamed in
4113 Python 3.0.
4114
4115
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00004116What's New in Python 2.6 beta 1?
4117================================
4118
Barry Warsawb5d17402008-06-19 01:48:07 +00004119*Release date: 18-June-2008*
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00004120
4121Core and Builtins
4122-----------------
4123
Brett Cannondea1b562008-06-27 00:31:13 +00004124- Issue #3211: warnings.warn_explicit() did not guard against its 'registry'
4125 argument being anything other than a dict or None. Also fixed a bug in error
4126 handling when 'message' and 'category' were both set to None, triggering a
4127 bus error.
4128
Amaury Forgeot d'Arca8919fe2008-06-16 19:12:42 +00004129- Issue #3100: Corrected a crash on deallocation of a subclassed weakref which
4130 holds the last (strong) reference to its referent.
4131
Georg Brandl89f48872008-06-11 18:55:38 +00004132- Add future_builtins.ascii().
4133
Raymond Hettinger5c4d3d02008-06-09 13:07:27 +00004134- Several set methods now accept multiple arguments: update(), union(),
Raymond Hettinger4267be62008-06-11 10:30:54 +00004135 intersection(), intersection_update(), difference(), and difference_update().
Raymond Hettingeree4bcad2008-06-09 08:33:37 +00004136
Robert Schuppenies51df0642008-06-01 16:16:17 +00004137- Issue #2898: Added sys.getsizeof() to retrieve size of objects in bytes.
4138
Martin v. Löwis99815892008-06-01 07:20:46 +00004139- New environment variable PYTHONIOENCODING.
4140
Martin v. Löwis4dd019f2008-05-20 08:11:19 +00004141- Patch #2488: Add sys.maxsize.
4142
Georg Brandla9916b52008-05-17 22:11:54 +00004143- Issue #2353: file.xreadlines() now emits a Py3k warning.
4144
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004145- Issue #2863: generators now have a ``gen.__name__`` attribute that
4146 equals ``gen.gi_code.co_name``, like ``func.__name___`` that equals
4147 ``func.func_code.co_name``. The repr() of a generator now also
4148 contains this name.
Georg Brandlc91210c2008-05-15 15:08:32 +00004149
Georg Brandlbd85eb12008-05-14 06:34:15 +00004150- Issue #2831: enumerate() now has a ``start`` argument.
4151
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004152- Issue #2801: fix bug in the float.is_integer method where a
4153 ValueError was sometimes incorrectly raised.
Mark Dickinsone81c3762008-05-09 16:14:15 +00004154
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004155- Issue #2790: sys.flags was not properly exposing its bytes_warning
4156 attribute.
Brett Cannon3c1d50a2008-05-08 20:23:54 +00004157
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004158- Issue #2196: hasattr() now lets exceptions which do not inherit
4159 Exception (KeyboardInterrupt, and SystemExit) propagate instead of
4160 ignoring them.
Benjamin Petersonb9030f42008-05-12 00:41:23 +00004161
Gregory P. Smith9d534572008-06-11 07:41:16 +00004162- Added checks for integer overflows, contributed by Google. Some are
4163 only available if asserts are left in the code, in cases where they
4164 can't be triggered from Python code.
4165
4166
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00004167Extension Modules
4168-----------------
Guido van Rossum84b1e0f2008-08-20 14:57:20 +00004169- Issue #1179: [CVE-2007-4965] Integer overflow in imageop module.
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00004170
Raymond Hettinger305480c2008-06-16 01:42:40 +00004171- Issue #3116: marshal.dumps() had quadratic behavior for strings > 32Mb.
4172
Andrew M. Kuchling2126bab2008-06-22 13:39:11 +00004173- Issue #2138: Add factorial() to the math module.
Raymond Hettingerecbdd2e2008-06-09 06:54:45 +00004174
Raymond Hettinger6d7702e2008-05-31 03:24:31 +00004175- The heapq module does comparisons using LT instead of LE. This
4176 makes its implementation match that used by list.sort().
4177
Mark Dickinson99dfe922008-05-23 01:35:30 +00004178- Issue #2819: add full-precision summation function to math module,
4179 based on Hettinger's ASPN Python Cookbook recipe.
4180
Georg Brandl88659b02008-05-20 08:40:43 +00004181- Issue #2592: delegate nb_index and the floor/truediv slots in
4182 weakref.proxy.
4183
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004184- Support os.O_ASYNC and fcntl.FASYNC if the constants exist on the
4185 platform.
Georg Brandl5049a852008-05-16 13:10:15 +00004186
Brett Cannon044616a2008-05-15 02:33:55 +00004187- Support for Windows 9x has been removed from the winsound module.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcf9b54c22008-05-12 21:30:24 +00004188
Jesus Cea09c01782008-09-28 23:24:19 +00004189- bsddb module updated to version 4.7.3.
Jesus Cea4907d272008-08-31 14:00:51 +00004190 http://www.jcea.es/programacion/pybsddb.htm#bsddb3-4.7.3. This
4191 code should be compatible with Python 3.0.
Jesus Ceaef9764f2008-05-13 18:45:46 +00004192
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004193- Issue #2858: Fix potential memory corruption when
4194 bsddb.db.DBEnv.lock_get and other bsddb.db object constructors
4195 raised an exception.
Gregory P. Smith664782e2008-05-17 06:12:02 +00004196
Gregory P. Smith5d7d6c32008-05-25 08:32:04 +00004197- Issue #2669: bsddb/__init__.py iteration no longer silently fails when
4198 the database has changed size during iteration. It now raises a
4199 RuntimeError in the same manner as a dictionary.
4200
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004201- Issue #2870: cmathmodule.c compile error.
Christian Heimes0bd23c02008-05-16 10:23:31 +00004202
Benjamin Petersond8a89722008-08-18 16:40:03 +00004203- Added a threading.Thread.ident property.
Gregory P. Smith8856dda2008-06-01 23:48:47 +00004204
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00004205Library
4206-------
4207
Vinay Sajip1e022682008-06-29 21:27:15 +00004208- logging.config: Removed out-of-date comment in _install_handlers and
4209 used issubclass in place of equality comparison of classes.
4210
Facundo Batista5596b0c2008-06-22 13:36:20 +00004211- Issue #2722: Now the os.getcwd() supports very long path names.
4212
Facundo Batista2da91c32008-06-21 17:43:56 +00004213- Issue #2888: Fixed the behaviour of pprint when working with nested
4214 structures, to match the behaviour of 2.5 and 3.0 (now follows the common
4215 sense).
4216
Facundo Batistaa6a4d502008-06-21 18:58:04 +00004217- Issue #1817: cgi now correctly handles the querystring on POST requests
4218
Vinay Sajip8dc20fd2008-06-19 22:41:08 +00004219- Issue #3136: fileConfig()'s disabling of old loggers is now conditional via
4220 an optional disable_existing_loggers parameter, but the default value is
4221 such that the old behaviour is preserved. Thanks to Leandro Lucarella for
4222 the patch.
4223
Vinay Sajip9828b7e2008-06-17 11:04:02 +00004224- Issue #3126: StreamHandler and FileHandler check before calling "flush" and
4225 "close" that the stream object has these, using hasattr (thanks to bobf for
4226 the patch).
4227
Benjamin Peterson5c0be322008-06-13 15:11:50 +00004228- Issue #2912: platform.uname now tries to determine unknown information even if
4229 os.uname exists.
4230
Benjamin Peterson26305a02008-06-12 22:33:06 +00004231- The rfc822 module has been deprecated for removal in 3.0.
4232
Benjamin Petersona03722f2008-06-12 14:23:49 +00004233- The mimetools module has been deprecated for removal in 3.0.
4234
Thomas Heller1cec7aa2008-06-10 14:07:12 +00004235- The ctypes.byref function now takes an optional second parameter
4236 which allows to specify an offset in bytes for the constructed
4237 pointer-like object.
4238
Georg Brandl8509db52008-06-10 07:45:28 +00004239- Added the ast module.
4240
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00004241- Added the multiprocessing module, PEP 371.
Benjamin Peterson6f7ae692008-06-11 20:04:30 +00004242
Georg Brandl7be19aa2008-06-07 15:59:10 +00004243- Factored out the indentation cleaning from inspect.getdoc() into
4244 inspect.cleandoc() to ease standalone use.
4245
Thomas Hellerfbb9c0b2008-06-06 08:33:46 +00004246- Issue #1798: Add ctypes calling convention that allows safe access
4247 to errno.
4248
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00004249- Issue #2404: ctypes objects support the new pep3118 buffer interface.
Thomas Heller59475e92008-06-05 17:52:59 +00004250
Vinay Sajip9828b7e2008-06-17 11:04:02 +00004251- Patch #2125: Add GetInteger and GetString methods for
Martin v. Löwisffe62ed2008-06-02 08:40:06 +00004252 msilib.Record objects.
4253
Gregory P. Smith137d8242008-06-02 04:05:52 +00004254- Issue #2782: The datetime module's strftime methods now accept
4255 unicode format strings just as time.strftime always has.
4256
Georg Brandlac19d852008-06-01 21:19:14 +00004257- The sgmllib and htmllib modules have been deprecated for removal
4258 in Python 3.0.
4259
4260- Issue #3011: locale module alias table was updated to the latest
4261 version from the X.org locale.alias file.
Marc-André Lemburgadff65b2008-05-30 20:52:18 +00004262
Thomas Heller9287acf2008-05-29 19:42:34 +00004263- Issue #1797 (partial fix): ctypes NULL function pointers have a
4264 False boolean value now.
4265
Georg Brandld0b592f2008-05-29 07:45:26 +00004266- Issue #2985: Allow 64-bit integer responses (``<i8>``) in XMLRPC
4267 transfers.
4268
4269- Issue #2877: The UserString.MutableString class has been removed in
4270 Python 3.0.
Brett Cannonabb34fe2008-05-29 05:08:50 +00004271
Lars Gustäbelb1a54a32008-05-27 12:39:23 +00004272- Do not close external file objects passed to tarfile.open(mode='w:bz2')
4273 when the TarFile is closed.
4274
Georg Brandle08e3d02008-05-25 08:07:37 +00004275- Issue #2959: For consistency with other file-like objects, gzip's
4276 GzipFile.close() can now be called multiple times without raising
4277 an exception.
4278
Martin v. Löwis27e4a172008-05-23 15:18:28 +00004279- Issue #1390: Raise ValueError in toxml when an invalid comment would
4280 otherwise be produced.
4281
Vinay Sajipc0128832008-05-20 15:37:22 +00004282- Issue #2914: TimedRotatingFileHandler now takes an optional keyword
4283 argument "utc" to use UTC time rather than local time.
4284
4285- Issue #2929: TimedRotatingFileHandler was using the wrong path when
4286 deleting old log files (filename only instead of full path).
4287
Georg Brandl112aa502008-05-20 08:25:48 +00004288- Issue #1775025: You can now specify zipfile members to open(),
4289 read() or extract() via a ZipInfo instance. This allows handling
4290 duplicate filenames in zipfiles.
4291
Georg Brandl28fdfa92008-05-17 17:57:01 +00004292- Issue #961805: Fix Text.edit_modified() in Tkinter.
4293
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004294- Issue #1793: Function ctypes.util.find_msvcrt() added that returns
Thomas Heller95ba13f2008-05-16 20:06:31 +00004295 the name of the C runtime library that Python uses.
4296 ctypes.util.find_library(name) now call this function when name is
4297 'm' or 'c'.
4298
Brett Cannonfa40bbf2008-05-16 00:50:02 +00004299- The statvfs module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
4300
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004301- The sunaudiodev and SUNAUDIODEV modules have been deprecated for
4302 removal in Python 3.0.
4303
4304- The WAIT module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
4305 3.0.
4306
4307- The torgb module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
4308 3.0.
4309
4310- The SV module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
4311 3.0.
4312
4313- The readcd module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
Brett Cannon22248172008-05-16 00:10:24 +00004314 Python 3.0.
4315
Brett Cannon11ae6e72008-05-15 03:49:00 +00004316- The panelparser module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
4317 Python 3.0.
4318
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004319- The panel module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
4320 3.0.
Brett Cannon7e375862008-05-15 03:46:27 +00004321
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004322- The jpeg module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
4323 3.0.
Brett Cannon89f5d9c2008-05-15 03:44:00 +00004324
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004325- The IOCTL module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
4326 3.0.
Brett Cannond8c41ec2008-05-15 03:41:55 +00004327
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004328- The IN module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
4329 3.0.
Brett Cannon6328b292008-05-15 03:36:13 +00004330
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004331- The imgfile module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
Brett Cannon178582e2008-05-15 03:20:36 +00004332 Python 3.0.
4333
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004334- The GLWS module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
4335 3.0.
Brett Cannon72ccc402008-05-15 03:17:24 +00004336
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004337- The GET module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
4338 3.0.
Brett Cannon2773b6f2008-05-15 03:14:57 +00004339
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004340- The fm module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
4341 3.0.
4342
4343- The FL, flp, and fl modules from IRIX have been deprecated for
4344 removal in Python 3.0.
4345
4346- The FILE module on IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
4347 3.0.
4348
4349- The ERRNO module on IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
4350 3.0.
4351
4352- The DEVICE, GL, gl, and cgen modules (which indirectly includes
4353 cgensupport) have been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
Brett Cannon044616a2008-05-15 02:33:55 +00004354
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004355- The CL, CL_old, and cl modules for IRIX have been deprecated for
4356 removal in Python 3.0.
4357
4358- The cdplayer module for IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
Brett Cannon650f5162008-05-14 21:12:12 +00004359 Python 3.0.
4360
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004361- The cddb module for IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
4362 3.0.
Brett Cannon9eebe492008-05-14 20:34:22 +00004363
Brett Cannonddf949f2008-05-14 20:31:38 +00004364- The cd and CD modules for IRIX have been deprecated for removal in
4365 Python 3.0.
4366
Brett Cannon34721d52008-05-14 01:08:21 +00004367- The al and AL modules for IRIX have been deprecated for removal in
4368 Python 3.0.
4369
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004370- Issue #1713041: fix pprint's handling of maximum depth.
Georg Brandl23da6e62008-05-12 16:26:52 +00004371
Brett Cannonbb141bb2008-05-12 03:47:47 +00004372- The timing module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
4373
Brett Cannonac861b52008-05-12 03:45:59 +00004374- The sv module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
4375
Brett Cannon43e5ef42008-05-12 03:19:20 +00004376- The multifile module has been deprecated as per PEP 4.
4377
Brett Cannon42bfa902008-05-12 00:08:34 +00004378- The imageop module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
4379
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004380- Issue #2250: Exceptions raised during evaluation of names in
4381 rlcompleter's ``Completer.complete()`` method are now caught and
4382 ignored.
Georg Brandl627a6662008-05-11 21:03:42 +00004383
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004384- Issue #2659: Added ``break_on_hyphens`` option to textwrap
4385 TextWrapper class.
Georg Brandl6f95ae52008-05-11 10:42:28 +00004386
Brett Cannon2a869132008-05-11 03:01:47 +00004387- The mhlib module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
4388
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004389- The linuxaudiodev module has been deprecated for removal in Python
4390 3.0.
Brett Cannondf0a7172008-05-11 00:50:51 +00004391
Brett Cannon27508d42008-05-10 22:45:07 +00004392- The ihooks module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
4393
Brett Cannonfe598512008-05-10 22:11:45 +00004394- The fpformat module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
4395
Brett Cannone35a3a12008-05-10 21:22:43 +00004396- The dl module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
4397
Brett Cannond5a09852008-05-10 03:14:32 +00004398- The Canvas module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
4399
Brett Cannon6192df12008-05-10 02:58:26 +00004400- The compiler package has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
4401
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004402- The Bastion and rexec modules have been deprecated for removal in
4403 Python 3.0.
Brett Cannoncda73a42008-05-10 02:53:46 +00004404
Brett Cannon768d44f2008-05-10 02:47:54 +00004405- The bsddb185 module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
4406
Brett Cannon9ac39742008-05-09 22:51:58 +00004407- The pure module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
4408
Mark Dickinsonf8476c12008-05-09 17:54:23 +00004409- Issue #2487: change the semantics of math.ldexp(x, n) when n is too
4410 large to fit in a C long. ldexp(x, n) now returns a zero (with
4411 suitable sign) if n is large and negative; previously, it raised
4412 OverflowError.
4413
Brett Cannonfa24d9a2008-05-09 05:32:42 +00004414- The toaiff module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
4415
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004416- The test.testall module has been deprecated for removal in Python
4417 3.0.
Brett Cannon3c759142008-05-09 05:25:37 +00004418
Brett Cannond7265d62008-05-09 05:18:40 +00004419- The new module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
4420
Brett Cannone3b19402008-05-08 20:36:09 +00004421- The user module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
4422
Brett Cannon6071cc82008-05-08 19:52:45 +00004423- The stringold module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
4424
4425- The mutex module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
Brett Cannon9d441822008-05-08 19:26:08 +00004426
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00004427- The imputil module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
4428
Brett Cannoncae4f5f2008-05-08 20:24:43 +00004429- test.test_support.catch_warning() gained a 'record' argument.
4430
Benjamin Peterson0893a0a2008-05-09 00:27:01 +00004431- os.path.walk is deprecated in favor of os.walk.
4432
Georg Brandl9020ff82008-05-11 14:17:13 +00004433- pdb gained the "until" command.
Benjamin Peterson98353942008-05-11 14:13:25 +00004434
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004435- The Mac Modules (including Carbon) have been deprecated for removal
4436 in Python 3.0.
Benjamin Peterson23681932008-05-12 21:42:13 +00004437
Vinay Sajip9828b7e2008-06-17 11:04:02 +00004438- Library: on MacOS X you can now set ``ARCHFLAGS`` in the shell
Ronald Oussoren5640ce22008-06-05 12:58:24 +00004439 environment to control the '-arch' flags that are used to build
4440 an extension. This was added for compatibility with Apple's build
4441 of Python.
4442
4443- The bundled OSX-specific copy of libbffi is now in sync with the version
4444 shipped with PyObjC 2.0 and includes support for x86_64 and ppc64 platforms.
4445
Georg Brandl25c34082008-08-18 23:09:49 +00004446- The threading module gained aliases for names that will be removed in the
4447 3.x series.
Benjamin Peterson0fbcf692008-06-11 17:27:50 +00004448
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00004449Build
4450-----
4451
Martin v. Löwiscc0f2b22008-06-13 18:12:51 +00004452- 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 +00004453
Martin v. Löwis8c255e42008-05-23 15:06:50 +00004454- Patch #1722225: Support QNX 6.
4455
Brett Cannonb61d8012008-05-11 23:39:04 +00004456- ``Lib/lib-old`` is now added to sys.path.
4457
Ronald Oussoren5640ce22008-06-05 12:58:24 +00004458- On MacOS X it is now possible to install the framework in 64-bit
4459 mode or even as a 4-way universal binary (that is, PPC, i386,
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00004460 PPC64 and x86_64 support in one binary).
Ronald Oussoren5640ce22008-06-05 12:58:24 +00004461
4462 This is controlled by the configure argument ``--with-universal-archs``:
4463
4464 - ``--with-universal-archs=all``: install 4-way universal
4465
4466 - ``--with-universal-archs=32-bit``: install 2-way universal, 32-bit (the default)
4467
4468 - ``--with-universal-archs=64-bit``: install 2-way universal, 64-bit
4469
4470 This option should be used in combination with ``--enable-universalsdk=``.
4471
4472 NOTE: 64-bit and 4-way builds are only suppported on Mac OS X 10.5 (or later).
4473
4474
Christian Heimes7a990612008-05-26 13:15:11 +00004475C API
4476-----
4477
Georg Brandl74a1dea2008-05-28 11:21:39 +00004478- Add ``PyType_Modified()`` as a public API to clear the type cache.
4479
4480- The PyBytes functions have been renamed to PyByteArray.
Christian Heimes7a990612008-05-26 13:15:11 +00004481
4482- The PyString functions have been renamed to PyBytes. A batch of
4483 defines were added so that the linker still sees the original
4484 PyString names.
4485
Georg Brandl5e7b1c02008-05-16 17:40:23 +00004486
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00004487What's New in Python 2.6 alpha 3?
Barry Warsaw65475fd2008-03-01 17:11:41 +00004488=================================
4489
Barry Warsaw6cc79402008-05-08 13:16:19 +00004490*Release date: 08-May-2008*
Barry Warsaw65475fd2008-03-01 17:11:41 +00004491
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd21fb4c2008-03-05 01:50:33 +00004492Core and builtins
4493-----------------
Georg Brandl80055f62008-03-25 07:56:27 +00004494
Georg Brandl28e08732008-04-30 19:47:09 +00004495- Issue #2719: backported the ``next()`` builtin from Python 3.
4496
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004497- Issue #2681: The octal literal ``0o8`` was incorrecly acctepted. Now
4498 it properly raises a SyntaxError.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc52167212008-04-24 18:07:05 +00004499
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004500- Issue #2617: Reserved -J and -X arguments for Jython, IronPython and
4501 other implementations of Python.
Christian Heimes7a98d272008-04-12 13:03:03 +00004502
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004503- Implemented PEP 370: Per user site-packages directory.
Christian Heimesaf748c32008-05-06 22:41:46 +00004504
Andrew M. Kuchling46d6b682008-04-30 16:19:55 +00004505Extension Modules
4506-----------------
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00004507
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004508- Issue #2670: Fix a failure in urllib2.build_opener(), when passed
4509 two handlers that derive the same default base class.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc96865852008-04-22 21:14:41 +00004510
Christian Heimese74c8f22008-04-19 02:23:57 +00004511- Added kill, terminate and send_signal(sig) to subprocess.Popen.
4512
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004513- Added phase(z) -> phi, polar(z) -> r, phi and rect(r, phi) -> z to
4514 the cmath module.
Christian Heimes6f341092008-04-18 23:13:07 +00004515
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004516- Four new methods were added to the math and cmath modules: acosh,
4517 asinh, atanh and log1p.
Christian Heimes6f341092008-04-18 23:13:07 +00004518
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004519- zlib.decompressobj().flush(value) no longer crashes the interpreter
4520 when passed a value less than or equal to zero.
Gregory P. Smith671c5d92008-04-09 18:18:43 +00004521
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004522- Issue #1631171: Re-implement the 'warnings' module in C (the
4523 original Python code has been kept as backup). This will allow for
4524 using the 'warning's machinery in such places as the parser where
4525 use of pure Python code is not possible. Both the ``showarning()``
4526 and ``formatwarning()`` gain an optional 'line' argument which is
4527 not called by default for backwards-compatibility reasons. Setting
4528 ``warnings.showwarning()`` to an implementation that lacks support
4529 for the ``line`` argument will raise a DeprecationWarning.
Brett Cannone9746892008-04-12 23:44:07 +00004530
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00004531Library
4532-------
4533
Brett Cannonf8436822008-05-06 23:41:32 +00004534- The audiodev module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
4535
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004536- Issue #2750: Add the 'json' package. Based on simplejson 1.9 and
4537 contributed by Bob Ippolito.
Brett Cannon4b964f92008-05-05 20:21:38 +00004538
Martin v. Löwis471617d2008-05-05 17:16:58 +00004539- Issue #1734346: Support Unicode file names for zipfiles.
4540
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004541- Issue #2581: distutils: Vista UAC/elevation support for
4542 bdist_wininst.
Mark Hammond7c5c8e62008-05-02 12:48:15 +00004543
Mark Dickinsonfe536f52008-04-25 16:59:09 +00004544- Issue #2635: Fix bug in 'fix_sentence_endings' textwrap.fill option,
4545 where an extra space was added after a word containing (but not
4546 ending in) '.', '!' or '?'.
4547
Thomas Heller6ad5fbb2008-04-25 15:44:16 +00004548- Add from_buffer() and from_buffer_copy() class methods to ctypes
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00004549 data types.
Thomas Heller6ad5fbb2008-04-25 15:44:16 +00004550
Neal Norwitz2b0bea52008-04-25 03:40:17 +00004551- Issue #2682: ctypes callback functions no longer contain a cyclic
Thomas Hellerbf027c42008-04-24 18:14:19 +00004552 reference to themselves.
4553
Gregory P. Smithd59fefb2008-04-22 08:11:33 +00004554- The getpass module has been improved on Unix. It now uses /dev/tty
4555 by default and uses stderr instead of stdout. A GetPassWarning is
4556 issued when input echo cannot be controlled.
Gregory P. Smith41e30182008-04-21 21:31:08 +00004557
Skip Montanarob131f042008-04-18 20:35:46 +00004558- Issue #2014: Allow XML-RPC datetime objects to have dates before
4559 1900-01-01.
4560
Nick Coghlan106fc482008-04-15 10:25:31 +00004561- Issue #2439: Added new function pkgutil.get_data(), which is a
4562 convenience wrapper for the PEP 302 get_data() API.
4563
Thomas Heller046e6a42008-04-14 16:10:07 +00004564- Issue #2616: The ctypes.pointer() and ctypes.POINTER() functions are
4565 now implemented in C for better performance.
4566
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004567- Issue #2408: The ``_types`` module, which was used as in
4568 implementation detail of the public ``types`` module, has been
4569 removed and replaced by pure python code.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc02f33b42008-04-08 23:10:07 +00004570
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004571- Issue #2513: distutils on Windows is now capable of cross-compiling
Mark Hammond495cf992008-04-07 01:53:39 +00004572 extension modules between 32 and 64 bit platforms. See the distutls
4573 build documentation for more information.
4574
Gregory P. Smithaa63d0d2008-04-06 23:11:17 +00004575- Issue #815646: Individual file objects may now be used from multiple
4576 threads at once without fear of crashing the Python interpreter. If
4577 file.close() is called while an object is in use by another thread
4578 an IOError exception will be raised and the file will not be closed.
4579
Thomas Hellerf7906482008-04-04 19:43:25 +00004580- The bundled libffi copy is now in sync with the recently released
4581 libffi3.0.5 version, apart from some small changes to
4582 Modules/_ctypes/libffi/configure.ac.
4583
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004584- Issue #2385: distutils.core.run_script() makes __file__ available,
4585 so the controlled environment will more closely mirror the typical
4586 script environment. This supports setup.py scripts that refer to
4587 data files.
Fred Drake46c58c12008-04-04 05:41:30 +00004588
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00004589Tests
4590-----
Trent Nelsone41b0062008-04-08 23:47:30 +00004591
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004592- Issue #2550: The approach used by client/server code for obtaining
4593 ports to listen on in network-oriented tests has been refined in an
4594 effort to facilitate running multiple instances of the entire
4595 regression test suite in parallel without issue.
4596 test_support.bind_port() has been fixed such that it will always
4597 return a unique port -- which wasn't always the case with the
4598 previous implementation, especially if socket options had been set
4599 that affected address reuse (i.e. SO_REUSEADDR, SO_REUSEPORT). The
4600 new implementation of bind_port() will actually raise an exception
4601 if it is passed an AF_INET/SOCK_STREAM socket with either the
4602 SO_REUSEADDR or SO_REUSEPORT socket option set. Furthermore, if
4603 available, bind_port() will set the SO_EXCLUSIVEADDRUSE option on
4604 the socket it's been passed. This currently only applies to
4605 Windows. This option prevents any other sockets from binding to the
4606 host/port we've bound to, thus removing the possibility of the
4607 'non-deterministic' behaviour, as Microsoft puts it, that occurs
4608 when a second SOCK_STREAM socket binds and accepts to a host/port
4609 that's already been bound by another socket. The optional preferred
4610 port parameter to bind_port() has been removed. Under no
4611 circumstances should tests be hard coding ports!
4612
4613 test_support.find_unused_port() has also been introduced, which will
4614 pass a temporary socket object to bind_port() in order to obtain an
4615 unused port. The temporary socket object is then closed and
4616 deleted, and the port is returned. This method should only be used
4617 for obtaining an unused port in order to pass to an external program
4618 (i.e. the -accept [port] argument to openssl's s_server mode) or as
4619 a parameter to a server-oriented class that doesn't give you direct
4620 access to the underlying socket used.
4621
4622 Finally, test_support.HOST has been introduced, which should be used
4623 for the host argument of any relevant socket calls (i.e. bind and
4624 connect).
Trent Nelsone41b0062008-04-08 23:47:30 +00004625
4626 The following tests were updated to following the new conventions:
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004627 test_socket, test_smtplib, test_asyncore, test_ssl, test_httplib,
Trent Nelsone41b0062008-04-08 23:47:30 +00004628 test_poplib, test_ftplib, test_telnetlib, test_socketserver,
4629 test_asynchat and test_socket_ssl.
4630
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004631 It is now possible for multiple instances of the regression test
4632 suite to run in parallel without issue.
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00004633
4634Build
4635-----
4636
Mark Dickinson65134662008-04-25 16:11:04 +00004637- Issue #1496032: On alpha, use -mieee when gcc is the compiler.
4638
Thomas Hellerdc96a772008-04-04 10:07:55 +00004639- Issue #2544: On HP-UX systems, use 'gcc -shared' for linking when
4640 gcc is used as compiler.
4641
Ronald Oussoren580c7fe2008-05-02 19:45:11 +00004642- Issue #2573: On MacOS X it is now possible to install the framework
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004643 with a different name using --with-framework-name=NAME.
Ronald Oussoren580c7fe2008-05-02 19:45:11 +00004644
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00004645C API
4646-----
4647
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004648- Added implementation of copysign, acosh, asinh, atanh and log1p to
4649 the new files Include/pymath.h and Python/pymath.h for platforms
4650 which provide the functions through their libm. The files also
4651 contains several helpers and constants for math.
Christian Heimes6f341092008-04-18 23:13:07 +00004652
Benjamin Petersondacde0d2008-05-26 17:43:53 +00004653- Added a new convenience macro, PyErr_WarnPy3k, for issuing Py3k warnings.
Benjamin Petersona692c4d2008-04-27 02:28:02 +00004654
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00004655
4656What's New in Python 2.6 alpha 2?
4657=================================
4658
4659*Release date: 02-Apr-2008*
4660
4661Core and builtins
4662-----------------
4663
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004664- Issue #1733757: The interpreter would hang on shutdown if the
4665 tracing function set by sys.settrace is still active and happens to
4666 call threading.currentThread().
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd7a26512008-04-03 23:07:55 +00004667
Georg Brandl91e0cda2008-03-29 01:50:06 +00004668- Patch #1442: properly report exceptions when the PYTHONSTARTUP file
4669 cannot be executed.
4670
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc69b747b2008-03-28 20:30:50 +00004671- The compilation of a class nested in another class used to leak one
4672 reference on the outer class name.
4673
Georg Brandlfc8eef32008-03-28 12:11:56 +00004674- Patch #1810: compile() can now compile _ast trees as returned by
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004675 ``compile(..., PyCF_ONLY_AST)``.
Georg Brandlfc8eef32008-03-28 12:11:56 +00004676
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004677- Patch #2426: Added sqlite3.Connection.iterdump method to allow easy
4678 dumping of databases. Contributed by Paul Kippes at PyCon 2008.
Gregory P. Smithb9803422008-03-28 08:32:09 +00004679
Georg Brandldeaf2ca2008-03-27 13:27:31 +00004680- Patch #2477: Added from __future__ import unicode_literals.
Christian Heimes3c608332008-03-26 22:01:37 +00004681
Christian Heimes8c78cc32008-03-26 12:53:58 +00004682- Added backport of bytearray type.
4683
Georg Brandl80055f62008-03-25 07:56:27 +00004684- Issue #2355: add Py3k warning for buffer().
4685
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc9a0d3462008-03-23 09:55:29 +00004686- Issue #1477: With narrow Unicode builds, the unicode escape sequence
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004687 \Uxxxxxxxx did not accept values outside the Basic Multilingual
4688 Plane. This affected raw unicode literals and the
4689 'raw-unicode-escape' codec. Now UTF-16 surrogates are generated in
4690 this case, like normal unicode literals and the 'unicode-escape'
4691 codec.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc9a0d3462008-03-23 09:55:29 +00004692
Georg Brandl65bb42d2008-03-21 20:38:24 +00004693- Issue #2348: add Py3k warning for file.softspace.
4694
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004695- Issue #2346/#2347: add Py3k warnings for __methods__ and
4696 __members__.
Georg Brandl07e56812008-03-21 20:21:46 +00004697
Georg Brandl5a444242008-03-21 20:11:46 +00004698- Issue #2358: Add a Py3k warning on sys.exc_clear() usage.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd21fb4c2008-03-05 01:50:33 +00004699
Martin v. Löwisa4d77892008-03-19 04:39:13 +00004700- Issue #2400: Allow relative imports to "import *".
4701
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004702- Issue #1745: Backport print function with ``from __future__ import
4703 print_function``.
Eric Smith7c478942008-03-18 23:45:49 +00004704
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004705- Issue #2332: add new attribute names for instance method objects.
4706 The two changes are: im_self -> __self__ and im_func -> __func__
Neal Norwitzb1d3d962008-03-18 04:46:00 +00004707
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004708- Issue #2379: Raise a Py3K warning for __getitem__ or __getslice__ on
Guido van Rossum6d91be32008-03-18 04:42:22 +00004709 exception instances.
4710
Guido van Rossum04edb522008-03-18 02:49:46 +00004711- Issue #2371: Add a Py3k warning when catching an exception that
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004712 doesn't derive from BaseException.
4713
4714- Issue #2341: Add a Py3k warning when raising an exception that
4715 doesn't derive from BaseException.
Guido van Rossum04edb522008-03-18 02:49:46 +00004716
Neal Norwitz419fd492008-03-17 20:22:43 +00004717- Issue #2321: use pymalloc for unicode object string data to reduce
4718 memory usage in some circumstances.
4719
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004720- PEP 3127: octal literals now start with "0o". Old-style octal
4721 literals are still valid. There are binary literals with a prefix of
4722 "0b". This also affects int(x, 0).
Eric Smith0aed07a2008-03-17 19:43:40 +00004723
Georg Brandl1e7c3752008-03-25 08:37:23 +00004724- Issue #2359: Adding deprecation warnings for array.{read,write}.
4725
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004726- Issue #1779871: GNU gcc can now build Python on OS X because the
Jeffrey Yasskin1b4e45b2008-03-17 14:40:53 +00004727 flags -Wno-long-double, -no-cpp-precomp, and -mno-fused-madd are no
4728 longer passed.
4729
Neal Norwitz400aeda2008-03-15 22:03:18 +00004730- Add a warning when asserting a non-empty tuple which is always true.
4731
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004732- Issue #2179: speed up with statement execution by storing the exit
4733 method on the stack instead of in a temporary variable (patch by
4734 Jeffrey Yaskin)
Nick Coghlan7af53be2008-03-07 14:13:28 +00004735
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004736- Issue #2238: Some syntax errors in *args and **kwargs expressions
4737 could give bogus error messages.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd21fb4c2008-03-05 01:50:33 +00004738
Sean Reifscheider68fa8e62008-03-20 00:50:07 +00004739- Issue #2143: Fix embedded readline() hang on SSL socket EOF.
4740
Andrew M. Kuchling46d6b682008-04-30 16:19:55 +00004741Extension Modules
4742-----------------
Martin v. Löwisaef18b12008-03-24 13:31:16 +00004743
4744- Patch #2240: Implement signal.setitimer and signal.getitimer.
4745
Thomas Heller78b8f442008-03-05 14:53:39 +00004746Library
4747-------
4748
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004749- Issue #2315: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now accounts
4750 for daylight savings time in calculating the next rollover.
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00004751
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004752- Issue #2316: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now
4753 calculates rollovers correctly even when nothing is logged for a
4754 while.
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00004755
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004756- Issue #2317: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now uses
4757 improved logic for removing old files.
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00004758
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004759- Issue #2495: tokenize.untokenize now inserts a space between two
4760 consecutive string literals; previously, ["" ""] was rendered as
4761 [""""], which is incorrect python code.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcda0c0252008-03-27 23:23:54 +00004762
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004763- Issue #2248: return the result of the QUIT command. from
4764 SMTP.quit().
Georg Brandldeaf2ca2008-03-27 13:27:31 +00004765
Christian Heimes8c78cc32008-03-26 12:53:58 +00004766- Backport of Python 3.0's io module.
4767
Mark Dickinson8e85ffa2008-03-25 18:47:59 +00004768- Issue #2482: Make sure that the coefficient of a Decimal is always
4769 stored as a str instance, not as a unicode instance. This ensures
4770 that str(Decimal) is always an instance of str.
4771
Mark Dickinson3b24ccb2008-03-25 14:33:23 +00004772- Issue #2478: fix failure of decimal.Decimal(0).sqrt()
4773
Georg Brandl77354cf2008-03-21 20:01:51 +00004774- Issue #2432: give DictReader the dialect and line_num attributes
4775 advertised in the docs.
4776
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004777- Issue #2460: Make Ellipsis object copyable.
Raymond Hettingerb72233c2008-03-24 08:17:39 +00004778
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004779- Issue #1681432: Add triangular distribution to the random module
Raymond Hettingerbbc50ea2008-03-23 13:32:32 +00004780
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004781- Issue #2136: urllib2's auth handler now allows single-quoted realms
4782 in the WWW-Authenticate header.
Georg Brandl33124322008-03-21 19:54:00 +00004783
Marc-André Lemburga1867752008-03-20 18:08:00 +00004784- Issue #2434: Enhanced platform.win32_ver() to also work on Python
4785 installation which do not have the win32all package installed.
4786
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004787- Added support to platform.uname() to also report the machine and
4788 processor information on Windows XP and later. As a result,
Marc-André Lemburga1867752008-03-20 18:08:00 +00004789 platform.machine() and platform.processor() will report this
4790 information as well.
4791
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004792- The library implementing the 2to3 conversion, lib2to3, was added to
4793 the standard distribution.
Martin v. Löwis5e37bae2008-03-19 04:43:46 +00004794
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004795- Issue #1747858: Fix chown to work with large uid's and gid's on
4796 64-bit platforms.
Gregory P. Smith37f3f432008-03-18 20:40:01 +00004797
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004798- Issue #1202: zlib.crc32 and zlib.adler32 no longer return different
4799 values on 32-bit vs. 64-bit python interpreters. Both were correct,
4800 but they now both return a signed integer object for consistency.
Gregory P. Smithf48f9d32008-03-17 18:48:05 +00004801
Skip Montanaro32ed8c22008-03-15 16:07:11 +00004802- Issue #1158: add %f format (fractions of a second represented as
4803 microseconds) to datetime objects. Understood by both strptime and
4804 strftime.
4805
Mark Dickinsonc23b8a72008-03-14 14:23:37 +00004806- Issue #705836: struct.pack(">f", x) now raises OverflowError on all
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004807 platforms when x is too large to fit into an IEEE 754 float;
4808 previously it only raised OverflowError on non IEEE 754 platforms.
Mark Dickinsonc23b8a72008-03-14 14:23:37 +00004809
Andrew M. Kuchlingaac5c862008-05-11 14:00:00 +00004810- Issues #2166, #1741 and #1531505: now distutils deals with HOME
4811 correctly under win32
4812
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004813- Patch #1858: distutils: added multiple server support in .pypirc
Andrew M. Kuchlingaac5c862008-05-11 14:00:00 +00004814
Facundo Batistac54aec12008-03-08 16:50:27 +00004815- Issue #1106316: pdb.post_mortem()'s parameter, "traceback", is now
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004816 optional: it defaults to the traceback of the exception that is
4817 currently being handled (is mandatory to be in the middle of an
4818 exception, otherwise it raises ValueError).
Facundo Batistac54aec12008-03-08 16:50:27 +00004819
Jeffrey Yasskine75f59a2008-03-07 06:22:15 +00004820- Issue #1193577: A .shutdown() method has been added to SocketServers
4821 which terminates the .serve_forever() loop.
4822
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004823- Issue #2220: handle rlcompleter attribute match failure more
4824 gracefully.
Georg Brandl98aa8052008-03-06 07:45:52 +00004825
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004826- Issue #2225: py_compile, when executed as a script, now returns a
4827 non- zero status code if not all files could be compiled
4828 successfully.
Georg Brandla7bd27f2008-03-06 07:41:16 +00004829
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004830- Bug #1725737: In distutils' sdist, exclude RCS, CVS etc. also in the
Georg Brandl810ea292008-03-06 07:34:52 +00004831 root directory, and also exclude .hg, .git, .bzr, and _darcs.
4832
Thomas Hellerf3c05592008-03-05 15:34:29 +00004833- Issue #1872: The struct module typecode for _Bool has been changed
4834 from 't' to '?'.
4835
Thomas Heller78b8f442008-03-05 14:53:39 +00004836- The bundled libffi copy is now in sync with the recently released
4837 libffi3.0.4 version, apart from some small changes to
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004838 Modules/_ctypes/libffi/configure.ac. On OS X, preconfigured libffi
4839 files are used. On all linux systems the --with-system-ffi
4840 configure option defaults to "yes".
Thomas Heller78b8f442008-03-05 14:53:39 +00004841
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004842- Issue #1577: shutil.move() now calls os.rename() if the destination
4843 is a directory instead of copying-then-remove-source.
Sean Reifscheider493894c2008-03-18 17:24:12 +00004844
Martin v. Löwisd2bbe522008-03-06 06:55:22 +00004845Tests
4846-----
4847
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004848- test_nis no longer fails when test.test_support.verbose is true and
4849 NIS is not set up on the testing machine.
Brett Cannon7919d982008-03-19 16:50:13 +00004850
Brett Cannona5573b32008-03-18 04:16:06 +00004851- Output comparison tests are no longer supported.
4852
Brett Cannonb7ec8e52008-03-18 03:46:22 +00004853- Rewrite test_errno to use unittest and no longer be a no-op.
4854
Brett Cannon0bb79502008-03-18 01:58:56 +00004855- GHOP 234: Convert test_extcall to doctest.
4856
Brett Cannonba17cfc2008-03-18 01:50:25 +00004857- GHOP 290: Convert test_dbm and test_dummy_threading to unittest.
4858
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004859- GHOP 293: Convert test_strftime, test_getargs, and test_pep247 to
4860 unittest.
Brett Cannon6eeaddc2008-03-18 01:00:07 +00004861
Brett Cannon1f5182b2008-03-13 21:09:28 +00004862- Issue #2055: Convert test_fcntl to unittest.
4863
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00004864- Issue #1960: Convert test_gdbm to unittest.
Brett Cannon4a6e8d62008-03-13 21:02:16 +00004865
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004866- GHOP 294: Convert test_contains, test_crypt, and test_select to
4867 unittest.
Brett Cannon2e0f9f32008-03-13 20:47:41 +00004868
Brett Cannonb8d37352008-03-13 20:33:10 +00004869- GHOP 238: Convert test_tokenize to use doctest.
4870
Brett Cannon66865d22008-03-13 20:27:00 +00004871- GHOP 237: Rewrite test_thread using unittest.
4872
Martin v. Löwisd2bbe522008-03-06 06:55:22 +00004873- Patch #2232: os.tmpfile might fail on Windows if the user has no
4874 permission to create files in the root directory.
4875
Martin v. Löwisbf7b0b72008-03-14 13:56:09 +00004876Build
4877-----
4878
Martin v. Löwiscdbc9772008-03-24 12:57:53 +00004879- A new script 2to3 is now installed, to run the 2.x to 3.x converter.
4880
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004881- Python/memmove.c and Python/strerror.c have been removed; both
4882 functions are in the C89 standard library.
Brett Cannonaa5778d2008-03-18 04:09:00 +00004883
Martin v. Löwisbf7b0b72008-03-14 13:56:09 +00004884- Patch #2284: Add -x64 option to rt.bat.
Barry Warsaw65475fd2008-03-01 17:11:41 +00004885
Christian Heimes3c608332008-03-26 22:01:37 +00004886C API
4887-----
4888
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00004889- Patch #2477: Added PyParser_ParseFileFlagsEx() and
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004890 PyParser_ParseStringFlagsFilenameEx().
4891
Christian Heimes3c608332008-03-26 22:01:37 +00004892
Nick Coghlanbb0996c2006-09-03 01:20:46 +00004893What's New in Python 2.6 alpha 1?
4894=================================
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00004895
Barry Warsaw7c075232008-03-01 02:53:36 +00004896*Release date: 29-Feb-2008*
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00004897
4898Core and builtins
4899-----------------
4900
Fred Drakea8ee94b2008-03-01 02:45:07 +00004901- Issue #2051: pyc and pyo files are no longer created with permission
Barry Warsaw52973612008-03-01 02:23:38 +00004902 644. The mode is now inherited from the py file.
Christian Heimes40346852008-02-23 17:52:07 +00004903
Georg Brandlad61bc82008-02-23 15:11:18 +00004904- Issue #2067: file.__exit__() now calls subclasses' close() method.
4905
4906- Patch #1759: Backport of PEP 3129 class decorators.
Christian Heimes5224d282008-02-23 15:01:05 +00004907
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00004908- Issue #1881: An internal parser limit has been increased. Also see
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00004909 issue #215555 for a discussion.
Facundo Batistafc2d0102008-02-23 12:01:13 +00004910
Eric Smitha73fbe72008-02-23 03:09:44 +00004911- Added the future_builtins module, which contains hex() and oct().
4912 These are the PEP 3127 version of these functions, designed to be
4913 compatible with the hex() and oct() builtins from Python 3.0. They
4914 differ slightly in their output formats from the existing, unchanged
4915 Python 2.6 builtins. The expected usage of the future_builtins
4916 module is:
4917 from future_builtins import hex, oct
4918
Eric Smith7ef40bf2008-02-20 23:34:22 +00004919- Issue #1600: Modifed PyOS_ascii_formatd to use at most 2 digit
4920 exponents for exponents with absolute value < 100. Follows C99
4921 standard. This is a change on Windows, which would use 3 digits.
4922 Also, added 'n' to the formats that PyOS_ascii_formatd understands,
4923 so that any alterations it does to the resulting string will be
4924 available in stringlib/formatter.h (for float.__format__).
4925
Eric Smith5a3c1352008-02-19 13:21:56 +00004926- Implemented PEP 3101, Advanced String Formatting. This adds a new
4927 builtin format(); a format() method for str and unicode; a
4928 __format__() method to object, str, unicode, int, long, float, and
4929 datetime; the class string.Formatter; and the C API
4930 PyObject_Format().
4931
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004932- Fixed several potential crashes, all caused by specially crafted
4933 __del__ methods exploiting objects in temporarily inconsistent
4934 state.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc632fad32008-02-16 20:55:24 +00004935
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00004936- Issue #2115: Important speedup in setting __slot__ attributes. Also
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004937 prevent a possible crash: an Abstract Base Class would try to access
4938 a slot on a registered virtual subclass.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc60d6c7f2008-02-15 21:22:45 +00004939
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004940- Fixed repr() and str() of complex numbers with infinity or nan as
4941 real or imaginary part.
Christian Heimes2f0da532008-02-15 06:57:08 +00004942
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004943- Clear all free lists during a gc.collect() of the highest generation
4944 in order to allow pymalloc to free more arenas. Python may give back
4945 memory to the OS earlier.
Christian Heimes3b718a72008-02-14 12:47:33 +00004946
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004947- Issue #2045: Fix an infinite recursion triggered when printing a
4948 subclass of collections.defaultdict, if its default_factory is set
4949 to a bound method.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcb01aa432008-02-08 00:56:02 +00004950
Christian Heimesf75dbef2008-02-08 00:11:31 +00004951- Fixed a minor memory leak in dictobject.c. The content of the free
4952 list was not freed on interpreter shutdown.
4953
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00004954- Limit free list of method and built-in function objects to 256
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004955 entries each.
Christian Heimes6075a822008-02-06 12:44:34 +00004956
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004957- Patch #1953: Added ``sys._compact_freelists()`` and the C API
4958 functions ``PyInt_CompactFreeList`` and ``PyFloat_CompactFreeList``
Christian Heimes422051a2008-02-04 18:00:12 +00004959 to compact the internal free lists of pre-allocted ints and floats.
4960
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004961- Issue #1983: Fixed return type of fork(), fork1() and forkpty()
4962 calls. Python expected the return type int but the fork familie
4963 returns pi_t.
Christian Heimes951cc0f2008-01-31 23:08:23 +00004964
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004965- Issue #1678380: Fix a bug that identifies 0j and -0j when they
4966 appear in the same code unit.
Mark Dickinson105be772008-01-31 22:17:37 +00004967
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004968- Issue #2025: Add tuple.count() and tuple.index() methods to comply
4969 with the collections.Sequence API.
Raymond Hettinger5b07ebc2008-02-07 00:54:20 +00004970
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004971- Patch #1970 by Antoine Pitrou: Speedup unicode whitespace and
4972 linebreak detection
Christian Heimes4d4f2702008-01-30 11:32:37 +00004973
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004974- Added ``PyType_ClearCache()`` and ``sys._clear_type_cache`` to clear
4975 the internal lookup cache for ref leak tests.
Christian Heimes908caac2008-01-27 23:34:59 +00004976
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004977- Patch #1473257: generator objects gain a gi_code attribute. This is
4978 the same object as the func_code attribute of the function that
4979 produced the generator.
Georg Brandl0cdf9a32008-01-26 14:14:20 +00004980
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004981- Issue #1920: "while 0" statements were completely removed by the
4982 compiler, even in the presence of an "else" clause, which is
4983 supposed to be run when the condition is false. Now the compiler
4984 correctly emits bytecode for the "else" suite.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc31eaafe2008-01-24 22:59:25 +00004985
Guido van Rossumeead05f2008-01-24 18:21:02 +00004986- A few crashers fixed: weakref_in_del.py (issue #1377858);
4987 loosing_dict_ref.py (issue #1303614, test67.py);
4988 borrowed_ref_[34].py (not in tracker).
4989
Vinay Sajipd7cf32e2008-01-24 12:43:33 +00004990- Issue #1069410: The "can't load dll" message box on Windows is
Christian Heimesb2302ba2008-01-23 17:15:06 +00004991 suppressed while an extension is loaded by calling SetErrorMode in
4992 dynload_win.c. The error is still reported properly.
4993
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004994- Issue #1915: Python compiles with --enable-unicode=no again. However
Christian Heimes082c9b02008-01-23 14:20:50 +00004995 several extension methods and modules do not work without unicode
4996 support.
4997
Georg Brandl26543b12008-01-21 18:36:51 +00004998- Issue #1882: when compiling code from a string, encoding cookies in the
4999 second line of code were not always recognized correctly.
5000
Georg Brandl14404b62008-01-19 19:27:05 +00005001- Issue #1679: "0x" was taken as a valid integer literal.
5002
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00005003- Issue #1865: ``bytes`` as an alias for ``str`` and b"" as an alias "" were
Christian Heimes288e89a2008-01-18 18:24:07 +00005004 added.
5005
Christian Heimesc94e2b52008-01-14 04:13:37 +00005006- sys.float_info / PyFloat_GetInfo: The floating point information
5007 object was converted from a dict to a specialized structseq object.
5008
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005009- Patch #1816: Added sys.flags structseq. It exposes the status of
5010 most command line arguments and PYTHON* environment variables.
Christian Heimesf31b69f2008-01-14 03:42:48 +00005011
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005012- Objects/structseq.c: Implemented new structseq representation. The
5013 patch makes structseqs (e.g. the return value of os.stat) more
5014 readable.
Christian Heimes9c201962008-01-14 03:33:52 +00005015
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005016- Patch #1700288: added a type attribute cache that caches method
5017 accesses, resulting in speedups in heavily object-oriented code.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arce4c270c2008-01-14 00:29:41 +00005018
Neal Norwitz3fc15b82008-01-10 05:42:58 +00005019- Bug #1776: __import__() no longer accepts filenames on any platform.
5020 The first parameter to __import__() must be a valid module name.
Christian Heimes3403f152008-01-09 19:56:33 +00005021
Georg Brandlaed6c662008-01-07 17:25:53 +00005022- Patch #1668: renamed THREADDEBUG envvar to PYTHONTHREADDEBUG.
5023
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005024- Patch #602345: Add -B command line option, PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE
5025 envvar and sys.dont_write_bytecode attribute. All these can be set
5026 to forbid Python to attempt to write compiled bytecode files.
Georg Brandl2da0fce2008-01-07 17:09:35 +00005027
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005028- Improve some exception messages when Windows fails to load an
5029 extension module. Now we get for example '%1 is not a valid Win32
5030 application' instead of 'error code 193'.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arce0b76952008-01-04 02:04:15 +00005031
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005032- Bug #1481296: Fixed long(float('nan')) != 0L.
Christian Heimes8267d1d2008-01-04 00:37:34 +00005033
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005034- Issue #1640: Added math.isinf(x), math.isnan(x) and math.copysign(x,
5035 y) functions.
Christian Heimese2ca4242008-01-03 20:23:15 +00005036
Christian Heimes0a8143f2007-12-18 23:22:54 +00005037- Issue #1635: Platform independent creation and representation of NaN
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005038 and INF. float("nan"), float("inf") and float("-inf") now work on
5039 every platform with IEEE 754 semantics.
Christian Heimes0a8143f2007-12-18 23:22:54 +00005040
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005041- Compiler now generates simpler and faster code for dictionary
5042 literals. The oparg for BUILD_MAP now indicates an estimated
5043 dictionary size. There is a new opcode, STORE_MAP, for adding
5044 entries to the dictionary.
Raymond Hettingerfd7ed402007-12-18 21:24:09 +00005045
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005046- Issue #1638: %zd configure test fails on Linux.
Christian Heimesdb3d6cb2007-12-16 21:39:43 +00005047
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005048- Issue #1620: New property decorator syntax was modifying the
5049 decorator in place instead of creating a new decorator object.
Christian Heimes90e10e72007-12-14 02:35:23 +00005050
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005051- Issue #1538: Avoid copying string in split/rsplit if the split char
5052 is not found.
Skip Montanaro26015492007-12-08 15:33:24 +00005053
Andrew M. Kuchling395fe442007-12-05 13:27:20 +00005054- Issue #1553: An erroneous __length_hint__ can make list() raise a
Christian Heimes7cc1c6f2007-12-05 12:52:34 +00005055 SystemError.
5056
Nick Coghlanef01d822007-12-03 12:55:17 +00005057- PEP 366: Allow explicit relative imports when executing modules
5058 inside packages with the -m switch via a new module level
5059 __package__ attribute.
5060
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005061- Issue #1402: Fix a crash on exit, when another thread is still
5062 running, and if the deallocation of its frames somehow calls the
5063 PyGILState_Ensure() / PyGILState_Release() functions.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcbe49a902007-11-30 20:37:22 +00005064
Christian Heimes28104c52007-11-27 23:16:44 +00005065- Expose the Py_Py3kWarningFlag as sys.py3kwarning.
5066
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00005067- Issue #1445: Fix a SystemError when accessing the ``cell_contents``
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcce7d10c2007-11-24 13:44:17 +00005068 attribute of an empty cell object.
5069
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005070- Issue #1460: The utf-7 incremental decoder did not accept truncated
5071 input. It now correctly saves its state between chunks of data.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcf57375a2007-11-21 01:38:26 +00005072
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005073- Patch #1739468: Directories and zipfiles containing a __main__.py
5074 file can now be directly executed by passing their name to the
5075 interpreter. The directory/zipfile is automatically inserted as the
5076 first entry in sys.path.
Nick Coghlan327a39b2007-11-18 11:56:28 +00005077
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005078- Issue #1265: Fix a problem with sys.settrace, if the tracing
5079 function uses a generator expression when at the same time the
5080 executed code is closing a paused generator.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc0d75f092007-11-13 21:54:28 +00005081
Raymond Hettinger1760c8a2007-11-08 02:52:43 +00005082- sets and frozensets now have an isdisjoint() method.
5083
Raymond Hettinger3f8caa32007-10-24 01:28:33 +00005084- optimize the performance of builtin.sum().
5085
Neal Norwitz44f326e2007-10-05 05:29:17 +00005086- Fix warnings found by the new version of the Coverity checker.
5087
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00005088- The enumerate() built-in function is no longer bounded to sequences
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005089 smaller than LONG_MAX. Formerly, it raised an OverflowError. Now,
5090 automatically shifts from ints to longs.
Raymond Hettinger8f669372007-10-03 21:18:11 +00005091
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005092- Issue #1686386: Tuple's tp_repr did not take into account the
5093 possibility of having a self-referential tuple, which is possible
5094 from C code. Nor did object's tp_str consider that a type's tp_str
5095 could do something that could lead to an inifinite recursion.
5096 Py_ReprEnter() and Py_EnterRecursiveCall(), respectively, fixed the
5097 issues.
Brett Cannon0b14f242007-09-30 19:45:10 +00005098
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005099- Issue #1164: It was possible to trigger deadlock when using the
5100 'print' statement to write to a file since the GIL was not released
5101 as needed. Now PyObject_Print() does the right thing along with
5102 various tp_print implementations of the built-in types and those in
5103 the collections module.
Brett Cannon01531592007-09-17 03:28:34 +00005104
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005105- Issue #1147: Exceptions were directly allowing string exceptions in
5106 their throw() method even though string exceptions no longer
5107 allowed.
Brett Cannon4c20bc42007-09-11 21:02:28 +00005108
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005109- Issue #1096: Prevent a segfault from getting the repr of a very
5110 deeply nested list by using the recursion counter.
Brett Cannona0c05512007-09-10 21:38:27 +00005111
Brett Cannon1e534b52007-09-07 04:18:30 +00005112- Issue #1202533: Fix infinite recursion calls triggered by calls to
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005113 PyObject_Call() never calling back out to Python code to trigger
5114 recursion depth updates/checks. Required the creation of a static
5115 RuntimeError instance in case normalizing an exception put the
5116 recursion check value past its limit. Fixes crashers
5117 infinite_rec_(1|2|4|5).py.
Brett Cannon1e534b52007-09-07 04:18:30 +00005118
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005119- Patch #1031213: Decode source line in SyntaxErrors back to its
5120 original source encoding.
Martin v. Löwisa5136192007-09-04 14:19:28 +00005121
Georg Brandl7c3b50d2007-07-12 08:38:00 +00005122- Patch #1673759: add a missing overflow check when formatting floats
5123 with %G.
5124
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005125- Prevent expandtabs() on string and unicode objects from causing a
5126 segfault when a large width is passed on 32-bit platforms.
Neal Norwitz7dbd2a32007-06-09 03:36:34 +00005127
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005128- Issue #1733488: Fix compilation of bufferobject.c on AIX.
Martin v. Löwisda587ab2007-06-08 17:29:20 +00005129
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005130- Issue #1722485: remove docstrings again when running with -OO.
Georg Brandla5ea6892007-06-01 11:33:33 +00005131
Neal Norwitz0ac60192007-05-27 04:08:54 +00005132- Add new attribute names for function objects. All the func_* become
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005133 __*__ attributes. (Some already existed, e.g., __doc__ and
5134 __name__.)
Neal Norwitz0ac60192007-05-27 04:08:54 +00005135
Neal Norwitz8b2bfbc2007-05-23 06:35:32 +00005136- Add -3 option to the interpreter to warn about features that are
5137 deprecated and will be changed/removed in Python 3.0.
5138
Georg Brandl2134e752007-05-21 20:34:16 +00005139- Patch #1686487: you can now pass any mapping after '**' in function
5140 calls.
5141
Collin Winter62903052007-05-18 23:11:24 +00005142- except clauses may now be spelled either "except E, target:" or
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005143 "except E as target:". This is to provide forwards compatibility
5144 with Python 3.0.
Collin Winter62903052007-05-18 23:11:24 +00005145
Brett Cannon229cee22007-05-05 01:34:02 +00005146- Deprecate BaseException.message as per PEP 352.
5147
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005148- Issue #1303614: don't expose object's __dict__ when the dict is
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00005149 inherited from a built-in base.
Armin Rigo9790a272007-05-02 19:23:31 +00005150
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00005151- When __slots__ are set to a unicode string, make it work the same as
Neal Norwitzcbd9ee62007-04-14 05:25:50 +00005152 setting a plain string, ie don't expand to single letter identifiers.
5153
Raymond Hettinger13936692007-04-11 18:40:58 +00005154- Request #1191699: Slices can now be pickled.
5155
Raymond Hettinger4db5fe92007-04-12 04:10:00 +00005156- Request #1193128: str.translate() now allows a None argument for
5157 translations that only remove characters without re-mapping the
5158 remaining characters.
5159
Georg Brandl5cb76c12007-03-21 09:00:39 +00005160- Patch #1682205: a TypeError while unpacking an iterable is no longer
5161 masked by a generic one with the message "unpack non-sequence".
5162
Neal Norwitzaa754b72007-03-21 06:39:48 +00005163- Remove unused file Python/fmod.c.
5164
Guido van Rossum143b5642007-03-23 04:58:42 +00005165- Bug #1683368: The object.__init__() and object.__new__() methods are
5166 now stricter in rejecting excess arguments. The only time when
5167 either allows excess arguments is when it is not overridden and the
5168 other one is. For backwards compatibility, when both are
5169 overridden, it is a deprecation warning (for now; maybe a Py3k
Guido van Rossum234b1ff2007-03-23 19:39:01 +00005170 warning later). Also, type.__init__() insists on the same signature
5171 as supported by type.__new__().
Guido van Rossum143b5642007-03-23 04:58:42 +00005172
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005173- Patch #1675423: PyComplex_AsCComplex() now tries to convert an
5174 object to complex using its __complex__() method before falling back
5175 to the __float__() method. Therefore, the functions in the cmath
5176 module now can operate on objects that define a __complex__()
5177 method.
Georg Brandl2b869942007-03-17 16:08:45 +00005178
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005179- Patch #1623563: allow __class__ assignment for classes with
5180 __slots__. The old and the new class are still required to have the
5181 same slot names.
Žiga Seilnacht6f2d09c2007-03-16 11:59:38 +00005182
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005183- Patch #1642547: Fix an error/crash when encountering syntax errors
5184 in complex if statements.
Collin Winter77c67bd2007-03-16 04:11:30 +00005185
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005186- Patch #1462488: Python no longer segfaults when
5187 ``object.__reduce_ex__()`` is called with an object that is faking
5188 its type.
Žiga Seilnacht20f43d32007-03-15 11:44:55 +00005189
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005190- Patch #1680015: Don't modify __slots__ tuple if it contains an
5191 unicode name.
Žiga Seilnacht71436f02007-03-14 12:24:09 +00005192
Georg Brandl5240d742007-03-13 20:46:32 +00005193- Patch #1444529: the builtin compile() now accepts keyword arguments.
5194
Georg Brandl7b9c5552007-03-12 14:30:05 +00005195- Bug #1678647: write a newline after printing an exception in any
5196 case, even when converting the value to a string failed.
5197
Georg Brandl871f1bc2007-03-12 13:17:36 +00005198- The dir() function has been extended to call the __dir__() method on
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005199 its argument, if it exists. If not, it will work like before. This
5200 allows customizing the output of dir() in the presence of a
5201 __getattr__().
Georg Brandl871f1bc2007-03-12 13:17:36 +00005202
Collin Winter276887b2007-03-12 16:11:39 +00005203- Patch #922167: Python no longer segfaults when faced with infinitely
5204 self-recursive reload() calls (as reported by bug #742342).
5205
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005206- Patch #1675981: remove unreachable code from ``type.__new__()``
5207 method.
Žiga Seilnacht89032082007-03-11 15:54:54 +00005208
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005209- Patch #1491866: change the complex() constructor to allow
5210 parthensized forms. This means complex(repr(x)) now works instead of
5211 raising a ValueError.
Collin Wintere38051d2007-03-09 20:33:07 +00005212
Georg Brandlaa2321b2007-03-07 00:40:28 +00005213- Patch #703779: unset __file__ in __main__ after running a file. This
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005214 makes the filenames the warning module prints much more sensible
5215 when a PYTHONSTARTUP file is used.
Georg Brandlaa2321b2007-03-07 00:40:28 +00005216
Georg Brandl49aafc92007-03-07 00:34:46 +00005217- Variant of patch #697613: don't exit the interpreter on a SystemExit
5218 exception if the -i command line option or PYTHONINSPECT environment
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005219 variable is given, but break into the interactive interpreter just
5220 like on other exceptions or normal program exit.
Georg Brandl49aafc92007-03-07 00:34:46 +00005221
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005222- Patch #1638879: don't accept strings with embedded NUL bytes in
5223 long().
Georg Brandl00cd8182007-03-06 18:41:12 +00005224
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005225- Bug #1674503: close the file opened by execfile() in an error
5226 condition.
Georg Brandl098cd692007-03-06 12:17:50 +00005227
Georg Brandl0fca97a2007-03-05 22:28:08 +00005228- Patch #1674228: when assigning a slice (old-style), check for the
5229 sq_ass_slice instead of the sq_slice slot.
5230
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005231- When printing an unraisable error, don't print exceptions. before
5232 the name. This duplicates the behavior whening normally printing
5233 exceptions.
Neal Norwitz88516a62007-02-26 22:41:45 +00005234
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005235- Bug #1653736: Properly discard third argument to
5236 slot_nb_inplace_power.
Martin v. Löwisfd963262007-02-09 12:19:32 +00005237
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005238- PEP 352: Raising a string exception now triggers a TypeError.
5239 Attempting to catch a string exception raises DeprecationWarning.
Brett Cannon129bd522007-01-30 21:34:36 +00005240
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005241- Bug #1377858: Fix the segfaulting of the interpreter when an object
5242 created a weakref on itself during a __del__ call for new-style
5243 classes (classic classes still have the bug).
Brett Cannonf5bee302007-01-23 23:21:22 +00005244
Martin v. Löwis6c5c5022007-01-23 21:11:47 +00005245- Bug #1579370: Make PyTraceBack_Here use the current thread, not the
5246 frame's thread state.
5247
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005248- patch #1630975: Fix crash when replacing sys.stdout in
5249 sitecustomize.py.
Thomas Wouters6ed19652007-01-23 13:50:49 +00005250
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005251- Prevent seg fault on shutdown which could occur if an object raised
5252 a warning.
Neal Norwitz72cd02c2007-01-05 05:25:22 +00005253
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005254- Bug #1566280: Explicitly invoke threading._shutdown from Py_Main, to
5255 avoid relying on atexit.
Martin v. Löwis7b7c9d42007-01-04 21:06:12 +00005256
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005257- Bug #1590891: random.randrange don't return correct value for big
5258 number.
Raymond Hettinger94547f72006-12-20 06:42:06 +00005259
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005260- Patch #1586791: Better exception messages for some operations on
5261 strings, tuples and lists.
Georg Brandl283a1352006-11-19 08:48:30 +00005262
Martin v. Löwis056dac12006-11-12 18:24:26 +00005263- Bug #1067760: Deprecate passing floats to file.seek.
5264
Martin v. Löwisa346c092006-11-08 06:48:36 +00005265- Bug #1591996: Correctly forward exception in instance_contains().
5266
Neal Norwitz85dbec62006-11-04 19:25:22 +00005267- Bug #1588287: fix invalid assertion for `1,2` in debug builds.
5268
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005269- Bug #1576657: when setting a KeyError for a tuple key, make sure
5270 that the tuple isn't used as the "exception arguments tuple".
Georg Brandlb9f4ad32006-10-29 18:31:42 +00005271
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005272- Bug #1565514: SystemError not raised on too many nested blocks.
Neal Norwitz21997af2006-10-28 21:19:07 +00005273
Thomas Hellerdf08f0b2006-10-27 18:31:36 +00005274- Bug #1576174: WindowsError now displays the windows error code
5275 again, no longer the posix error code.
5276
Martin v. Löwisb5bc5372006-10-27 06:16:31 +00005277- Patch #1549049: Support long values in structmember, issue warnings
5278 if the assigned value for structmember fields gets truncated.
5279
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005280- Update the peephole optimizer to remove more dead code (jumps after
5281 returns) and inline unconditional jumps to returns.
Neal Norwitzcbeb6872006-10-14 21:33:38 +00005282
Georg Brandl2c1375c2006-10-12 11:27:59 +00005283- Bug #1545497: when given an explicit base, int() did ignore NULs
5284 embedded in the string to convert.
5285
Georg Brandl846f73a2006-10-08 07:11:54 +00005286- Bug #1569998: break inside a try statement (outside a loop) is now
5287 recognized and rejected.
5288
Armin Rigo7ccbca92006-10-04 12:17:45 +00005289- list.pop(x) accepts any object x following the __index__ protocol.
5290
Armin Rigo7ccbca92006-10-04 12:17:45 +00005291- A number of places, including integer negation and absolute value,
5292 were fixed to not rely on undefined behaviour of the C compiler
5293 anymore.
Martin v. Löwis820d6ac2006-10-04 05:47:34 +00005294
Georg Brandl3267d282006-09-30 09:03:42 +00005295- Bug #1566800: make sure that EnvironmentError can be called with any
5296 number of arguments, as was the case in Python 2.4.
5297
Georg Brandl5d59c092006-09-30 08:43:30 +00005298- Patch #1567691: super() and new.instancemethod() now don't accept
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005299 keyword arguments any more (previously they accepted them, but
5300 didn't use them).
Georg Brandl5d59c092006-09-30 08:43:30 +00005301
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005302- Fix a bug in the parser's future statement handling that led to
5303 "with" not being recognized as a keyword after, e.g., this
5304 statement: from __future__ import division, with_statement
Georg Brandla10d3af2006-09-24 12:35:36 +00005305
Neal Norwitz3a230172006-09-22 08:18:10 +00005306- Bug #1557232: fix seg fault with def f((((x)))) and def f(((x),)).
5307
Neal Norwitz4a8fbdb2006-09-22 08:16:26 +00005308- Fix %zd string formatting on Mac OS X so it prints negative numbers.
5309
Brett Cannonf6aa86e2006-09-20 18:43:13 +00005310- Allow exception instances to be directly sliced again.
5311
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005312- Bug #1551432: Exceptions do not define an explicit __unicode__
5313 method. This allows calling unicode() on exceptions classes
5314 directly to succeed.
Brett Cannon9adeab72006-09-20 18:34:28 +00005315
Georg Brandl4e933132006-09-06 20:05:58 +00005316- Bug #1542051: Exceptions now correctly call PyObject_GC_UnTrack.
5317 Also make sure that every exception class has __module__ set to
5318 'exceptions'.
5319
Georg Brandl98775df2006-09-06 06:09:31 +00005320- Bug #1550983: emit better error messages for erroneous relative
5321 imports (if not in package and if beyond toplevel package).
5322
Tim Petersc10c9d02006-09-05 02:18:09 +00005323- Overflow checking code in integer division ran afoul of new gcc
5324 optimizations. Changed to be more standard-conforming.
5325
Neal Norwitz4f096d92006-08-21 19:47:08 +00005326- Patch #1542451: disallow continue anywhere under a finally.
5327
Neal Norwitza22975f2006-09-05 02:24:03 +00005328- Patch #1546288: fix seg fault in dict_equal due to ref counting bug.
5329
Neal Norwitzd34e4272006-09-05 02:36:20 +00005330- The return tuple from str.rpartition(sep) is (tail, sep, head) where
5331 head is the original string if sep was not found.
5332
Neal Norwitzdac090d2006-09-05 03:53:08 +00005333- Bug #1520864: unpacking singleton tuples in list comprehensions and
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005334 generator expressions (x for x, in ... ) works again. Fixing this
5335 problem required changing the .pyc magic number. This means that
5336 .pyc files generated before 2.5c2 will be regenerated.
Neal Norwitzdac090d2006-09-05 03:53:08 +00005337
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00005338- ``with`` and ``as`` are now keywords.
Neal Norwitzca460d92006-09-06 06:28:06 +00005339
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005340- Bug #1664966: Fix crash in exec if Unicode filename can't be
5341 decoded.
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00005342
Guido van Rossumcad37242008-01-15 17:59:29 +00005343- Issue #1537: Changed GeneratorExit's base class from Exception to
5344 BaseException.
Christian Heimes44eeaec2007-12-03 20:01:02 +00005345
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005346- Issue #1703448: A joined thread could show up in the
Gregory P. Smith95cd5c02008-01-22 01:20:42 +00005347 threading.enumerate() list after the join() for a brief period until
5348 it actually exited.
5349
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00005350
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00005351Library
5352-------
5353
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005354- Patch #2274: Add heapq.heappushpop().
Raymond Hettinger53bdf092008-03-13 19:03:51 +00005355
Christian Heimes608c1d82008-03-03 18:28:04 +00005356- Add inspect.isabstract(object) to fix bug #2223
5357
Mark Dickinson1ddf1d82008-02-29 02:16:37 +00005358- Add a __format__ method to Decimal, to support PEP 3101.
5359
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005360- Add a timing parameter when using trace.Trace to print out
5361 timestamps.
Neal Norwitzca376612008-02-26 08:21:28 +00005362
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005363- Issue #1627: httplib now ignores negative Content-Length headers.
Georg Brandl8c460d52008-02-24 00:14:24 +00005364
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005365- Issue #900744: If an invalid chunked-encoding header is sent by a
5366 server, httplib will now raise IncompleteRead and close the
5367 connection instead of raising ValueError.
Georg Brandl23635032008-02-24 00:03:22 +00005368
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005369- Issue #1492: The content type of BaseHTTPServer error messages can
5370 now be overridden.
Georg Brandl16479232008-02-23 15:02:28 +00005371
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005372- Issue #1781: ConfigParser now does not let you add the "default" section
Facundo Batistab12f0b52008-02-23 12:46:10 +00005373 (ignore-case)
5374
Guido van Rossum8bc09652008-02-21 18:18:37 +00005375- Removed uses of dict.has_key() from distutils, and uses of
5376 callable() from copy_reg.py, so the interpreter now starts up
5377 without warnings when '-3' is given. More work like this needs to
5378 be done in the rest of the stdlib.
5379
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005380- Issue #1916: added isgenerator() and isgeneratorfunction() to
5381 inspect.py.
Facundo Batista759bfc62008-02-18 03:43:43 +00005382
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005383- Issue #1224: Fixed bad url parsing when path begins with double
5384 slash.
Facundo Batistad14600e2008-02-18 12:48:43 +00005385
Thomas Hellera06a1a82008-02-13 20:21:53 +00005386- ctypes instances that are not or do not contain pointers can now be
5387 pickled.
5388
Martin v. Löwisdad88dc2008-02-12 18:47:34 +00005389- Patch #1966: Break infinite loop in httplib when the servers
5390 implements the chunked encoding incorrectly.
5391
Mark Dickinsond058cd22008-02-10 21:29:51 +00005392- Rename rational.py to fractions.py and the rational.Rational class
5393 to fractions.Fraction, to avoid the name clash with the abstract
5394 base class numbers.Rational. See discussion in issue #1682.
5395
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005396- The pickletools module now provides an optimize() function that
5397 eliminates unused PUT opcodes from a pickle string.
Raymond Hettingerda614dc2008-02-10 20:35:16 +00005398
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005399- Patch #2021: Allow tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile and
5400 SpooledTemporaryFile to be used in with statements by correctly
5401 supporting the context management protocol.
Nick Coghlanac094dc2008-02-10 07:32:52 +00005402
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005403- Patch #1979: Add rich comparisons to Decimal, and make Decimal
5404 comparisons involving a NaN follow the IEEE 754 standard.
Mark Dickinson2fc92632008-02-06 22:10:50 +00005405
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005406- Issue #2004: tarfile.py: Use mode 0700 for temporary directories and
5407 default permissions for missing directories.
Lars Gustäbel0192e432008-02-05 11:51:40 +00005408
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005409- Issue #175006: The debugger used to skip the condition of a "while"
5410 statement after the first iteration. Now it correctly steps on the
5411 expression, and breakpoints on the "while" statement are honored on
5412 each loop.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc6fd03bb2008-02-04 21:45:05 +00005413
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005414- Issue #1765140: add an optional delay argument to FileHandler and
5415 its subclasses. Defaults to false (existing behaviour), but if true,
Vinay Sajipd7cf32e2008-01-24 12:43:33 +00005416 defers opening the file until the first call to emit().
5417
Raymond Hettingerc226c312008-01-23 00:04:40 +00005418- The pprint module now supports sets and frozensets.
5419
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005420- Issue #1221598: add optional callbacks to ftplib.FTP's storbinary()
5421 and storlines() methods. (Contributed by Phil Schwartz)
Gregory P. Smithc64386b2008-01-22 00:19:41 +00005422
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005423- Issue #1715: include sub-extension modules in pydoc's text output.
Georg Brandlf2dae0e2008-01-21 21:05:49 +00005424
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005425- Issue #1836: fix an off-by-one bug in TimedRotatingHandler's
5426 rollover time calculation.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00005427
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005428- Issue #1021: fix a bug to allow basicConfig to accept NOTSET as a
5429 level.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00005430
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005431- Issue #932563: add LoggerAdapter convenience class to make it easier
5432 to add contextual information in logging output.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00005433
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005434- Issue #1760556: fix a bug to avoid FileHandler throwing an exception
5435 in flush().
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00005436
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005437- Bug #1530959: distutils' build command now uses different build
5438 directory when building extension modules against versions of Python
5439 compiled with ``--with-pydebug``.
Georg Brandl50160152008-01-21 17:42:40 +00005440
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005441- Issue #1555501: move plistlib from plat-mac directory to general
5442 library.
Georg Brandl864de822008-01-21 16:34:07 +00005443
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005444- Issue #1269: fix a bug in pstats.add_callers() and add a unit test
5445 file for pstats.
Georg Brandl66e73632008-01-21 10:24:59 +00005446
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005447- Issue #1669: don't allow shutil.rmtree() to be called on a symlink
5448 to a directory.
Georg Brandl52353982008-01-20 14:17:42 +00005449
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005450- Issue #1664522: in urllib, don't read non-existing directories in
5451 ftp mode, returning a 0-byte file -- raise an IOError instead.
Georg Brandld5e6cf22008-01-20 12:18:17 +00005452
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005453- Issue #856047: respect the ``no_proxy`` environment variable when
5454 using the ``http_proxy`` etc. environment variables in urllib.
Georg Brandl22350112008-01-20 12:05:43 +00005455
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005456- Issue #1178141: add a getcode() method to the addinfourls that
5457 urllib.open() returns so that you can retrieve the HTTP status code.
Georg Brandl9b0d46d2008-01-20 11:43:03 +00005458
Gregory P. Smithf25680a2008-01-20 01:26:04 +00005459- Issue #1003: Fix zipfile decryption check, it would fail zip files
5460 with extended local headers.
5461
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005462- Issue #1189216: Fix the zipfile module to work on archives with
5463 headers past the 2**31 byte boundary.
Gregory P. Smith350d03b2008-01-19 23:10:52 +00005464
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005465- Issue #1336: fix a race condition in subprocess.Popen if the garbage
Gregory P. Smithb9ba0752008-01-19 21:00:37 +00005466 collector kicked in at the wrong time that would cause the process
5467 to hang when the child wrote to stderr.
5468
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005469- Issue #1146: fix how textwrap breaks a long word that would start in
5470 the last column of a line.
Georg Brandlc6fde722008-01-19 19:48:19 +00005471
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005472- Issue #1693149: trace.py --ignore-module - accept multiple
5473 comma-separated modules to be given.
Skip Montanaro562133b2008-01-19 18:47:24 +00005474
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005475- Issue #1822: MIMEMultipart.is_multipart() behaves correctly for a
5476 just-created (and empty) instance. Thanks Jonathan Share.
Facundo Batista2b1b1952008-01-19 12:32:27 +00005477
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005478- Issue #1861: Added an attribute to the sched module which returns an
5479 ordered list of upcoming events (displayed as named tuples).
Raymond Hettinger44bd6c02008-01-17 19:31:38 +00005480
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005481- Issue #1837: The queue module now also supports a LIFO queue and a
5482 priority queue.
Raymond Hettinger3ad2acc82008-01-16 23:49:35 +00005483
Andrew M. Kuchling4a2762d2008-01-20 00:00:38 +00005484- Patch #1048820: Add insert-mode editing to curses.textpad.Textbox
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00005485 (patch by Stefan Wehr). Also, fix an off-by-one bug in
Andrew M. Kuchling4a2762d2008-01-20 00:00:38 +00005486 Textbox.gather().
5487
Thomas Heller02ec2892008-01-16 19:37:33 +00005488- Issue #1831: ctypes now raises a TypeError if conflicting positional
5489 and named arguments are passed to a Structure or Union initializer.
Thomas Heller415c1e32008-01-16 19:45:51 +00005490 When too many positional arguments are passed, also a TypeError is
5491 raised instead of a ValueError.
Thomas Heller02ec2892008-01-16 19:37:33 +00005492
Thomas Heller902d3072008-01-16 19:16:27 +00005493- Convert the internal ctypes array type cache to a WeakValueDict so
5494 that array types do not live longer than needed.
5495
Guido van Rossumcad37242008-01-15 17:59:29 +00005496- Issue #1786: pdb should use its own stdin/stdout around an exec call
5497 and when creating a recursive instance.
5498
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005499- Issue #1698398: ZipFile.printdir() crashed because the format string
5500 expected a tuple type of length six instead of time.struct_time
5501 object.
Raymond Hettinger351e1a32008-01-14 22:58:05 +00005502
Mark Dickinson59bc20b2008-01-12 01:56:00 +00005503- Issue #1780: The Decimal constructor now accepts arbitrary leading
5504 and trailing whitespace when constructing from a string.
5505 Context.create_decimal no longer accepts trailing newlines.
5506
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005507- Decimal.as_tuple(), difflib.find_longest_match() and inspect
5508 functions that returned a tuple now return a named tuple.
Georg Brandl2f32c392008-01-11 09:20:58 +00005509
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00005510- Doctest now returns results as a named tuple for readability:
Raymond Hettingerfff4e6e2008-01-11 01:25:54 +00005511 (0, 7) --> TestResults(failed=0, attempted=7)
5512
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005513- Issue #846388:q re.match is interruptible now, which is particularly
Facundo Batista4473d222008-01-08 21:10:12 +00005514 good for long regular expression matches.
5515
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005516- Patch #1137: allow setting buffer_size attribute on pyexpat Parser
5517 objects to set the character data buffer size.
Andrew M. Kuchlinge0a49b62008-01-08 14:30:55 +00005518
Facundo Batista52b25792008-01-08 12:25:20 +00005519- Issue #1757: The hash of a Decimal instance is no longer affected by
5520 the current context.
5521
Georg Brandl62416bc2008-01-07 18:47:44 +00005522- Patch #467924: add ZipFile.extract() and ZipFile.extractall() in the
5523 zipfile module.
5524
Christian Heimesfb2d25a2008-01-07 16:12:44 +00005525- Issue #1646: Make socket support the TIPC protocol.
5526
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005527- Bug #1742: return os.curdir from os.path.relpath() if both arguments
5528 are equal instead of raising an exception.
Georg Brandl183a0842008-01-06 14:27:15 +00005529
Guido van Rossumc6a04c22008-01-05 22:19:06 +00005530- Patch #1637: fix urlparse for URLs like 'http://x.com?arg=/foo'.
5531
Guido van Rossumced4eb02008-01-05 01:21:57 +00005532- Patch #1698: allow '@' in username parsed by urlparse.py.
5533
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005534- Issue #1735: TarFile.extractall() now correctly sets directory
5535 permissions and times.
Lars Gustäbel2ee1c762008-01-04 14:00:33 +00005536
Christian Heimes06875612008-01-04 13:21:07 +00005537- Bug #1713: posixpath.ismount() claims symlink to a mountpoint is a mountpoint.
5538
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005539- Bug #1687: Fxed plistlib.py restricts <integer> to Python int when
5540 writing
Christian Heimes06131882008-01-04 00:04:52 +00005541
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005542- Issue #1700: Regular expression inline flags incorrectly handle
5543 certain unicode characters.
Guido van Rossumae04c332008-01-03 19:12:44 +00005544
Jeffrey Yasskin2f3c16b2008-01-03 02:21:52 +00005545- Issue #1689: PEP 3141, numeric abstract base classes.
5546
Martin v. Löwis84b9aab2008-01-01 21:09:07 +00005547- Tk issue #1851526: Return results from Python callbacks to Tcl as
5548 Tcl objects.
5549
Thomas Heller153038e2007-12-18 19:00:34 +00005550- Issue #1642: Fix segfault in ctypes when trying to delete attributes.
5551
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005552- Issue #1727780: Support loading pickles of random.Random objects
5553 created on 32-bit systems on 64-bit systems, and vice versa. As a
5554 consequence of the change, Random pickles created by Python 2.6
5555 cannot be loaded in Python 2.5.
Martin v. Löwis6b449f42007-12-03 19:20:02 +00005556
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005557- Issue #1455: The distutils package now supports VS 2005 and VS 2008
5558 for both the msvccompiler and cygwincompiler.
Christian Heimesc654fc22007-12-03 13:55:16 +00005559
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005560- Issue #1531: tarfile.py: Read fileobj from the current offset, do
5561 not seek to the start.
Lars Gustäbel77b2d632007-12-01 21:02:12 +00005562
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005563- Issue #1534: Added a dictionary sys.float_info with information
5564 about the internal floating point type to the sys module.
Christian Heimesdfdfaab2007-12-01 11:20:10 +00005565
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005566- Issue #1429818: patch for trace and doctest modules so they play
5567 nicely together.
Skip Montanaro58a6f442007-11-24 14:30:47 +00005568
Brett Cannon43e53f82007-11-21 00:47:36 +00005569- doctest made a bad assumption that a package's __loader__.get_data()
5570 method used universal newlines.
5571
Nick Coghlan90b858e2007-11-07 11:57:51 +00005572- Issue #1705170: contextlib.contextmanager was still swallowing
5573 StopIteration in some cases. This should no longer happen.
5574
Thomas Heller486b1b02007-11-02 19:10:24 +00005575- Issue #1292: On alpha, arm, ppc, and s390 linux systems the
5576 --with-system-ffi configure option defaults to "yes".
5577
Hye-Shik Changa838a802007-10-28 11:19:02 +00005578- IN module for FreeBSD 8 is added and preexisting FreeBSD 6 and 7
5579 files are updated.
5580
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005581- Issues #1181, #1287: unsetenv() is now called when the
5582 os.environ.pop() and os.environ.clear() methods are used.
Georg Brandl1a94ec22007-10-24 21:40:38 +00005583
Thomas Heller91ac4222007-10-19 18:11:41 +00005584- ctypes will now work correctly on 32-bit systems when Python is
5585 configured with --with-system-ffi.
5586
Thomas Heller7fee6dd2007-10-11 19:51:32 +00005587- Patch #1203: ctypes now does work on OS X when Python is built with
Georg Brandl1a94ec22007-10-24 21:40:38 +00005588 --disable-toolbox-glue.
Thomas Heller7fee6dd2007-10-11 19:51:32 +00005589
Raymond Hettingera7fc4b12007-10-05 02:47:07 +00005590- collections.deque() now supports a "maxlen" argument.
5591
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005592- itertools.count() is no longer bounded to LONG_MAX. Formerly, it
5593 raised an OverflowError. Now, automatically shifts from ints to
5594 longs.
Raymond Hettinger50e90e22007-10-04 00:20:27 +00005595
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005596- Added itertools.product() which forms the Cartesian product of the
5597 input iterables.
Raymond Hettingerc5705a82008-02-22 19:50:06 +00005598
Raymond Hettinger66f91ea2008-03-05 20:59:58 +00005599- Added itertools.combinations() and itertools.permutations().
Raymond Hettinger93e804d2008-02-26 23:40:50 +00005600
Georg Brandlaff85e22007-09-20 16:06:07 +00005601- Patch #1541463: optimize performance of cgi.FieldStorage operations.
5602
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005603- Decimal is fully updated to the latest Decimal Specification
5604 (v1.66).
Facundo Batistab67da232007-09-17 16:26:50 +00005605
Georg Brandl8fd3ecf2007-09-12 19:00:07 +00005606- Bug #1153: repr.repr() now doesn't require set and dictionary items
5607 to be orderable to properly represent them.
5608
Thomas Heller2825b2e2007-09-07 06:32:17 +00005609- A 'c_longdouble' type was added to the ctypes module.
5610
Martin v. Löwis7dcb83c2007-08-30 19:04:09 +00005611- Bug #1709599: Run test_1565150 only if the file system is NTFS.
5612
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005613- When encountering a password-protected robots.txt file the
5614 RobotFileParser no longer prompts interactively for a username and
5615 password (bug 813986).
Skip Montanaro3e275362007-08-29 01:33:45 +00005616
Lars Gustäbel0f4a14b2007-08-28 12:31:09 +00005617- TarFile.__init__() no longer fails if no name argument is passed and
5618 the fileobj argument has no usable name attribute (e.g. StringIO).
5619
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005620- The functools module now provides 'reduce', for forward
5621 compatibility with Python 3000.
Guido van Rossum95f1a1b2007-08-27 20:52:10 +00005622
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005623- Server-side SSL support and cert verification added, by Bill
5624 Janssen.
Guido van Rossum4f2c3dd2007-08-25 15:08:43 +00005625
Bill Janssenf413fb02007-08-30 18:08:06 +00005626- socket.ssl deprecated; use new ssl module instead.
5627
Georg Brandl8ec57542007-08-24 06:10:01 +00005628- uuid creation is now threadsafe.
5629
Hye-Shik Chang23901042007-08-20 06:49:18 +00005630- EUC-KR codec now handles the cheot-ga-keut composed make-up hangul
5631 syllables.
5632
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005633- GB18030 codec now can encode additional two-byte characters that are
5634 missing in GBK.
Hye-Shik Changf3e93a02007-08-04 04:10:18 +00005635
Walter Dörwald6e390802007-08-17 16:41:28 +00005636- Add new codecs for UTF-32, UTF-32-LE and UTF-32-BE.
5637
Martin v. Löwisf1e0b3f2007-07-28 07:03:05 +00005638- Bug #1704793: Return UTF-16 pair if unicodedata.lookup cannot
5639 represent the result in a single character.
5640
Martin v. Löwisf25e35b2007-07-27 18:28:22 +00005641- Bug #978833: Close https sockets by releasing the _ssl object.
5642
Martin v. Löwis254b8f92007-07-25 16:24:23 +00005643- Change location of the package index to pypi.python.org/pypi
5644
Thomas Hellerfa704c62007-07-13 17:12:23 +00005645- Bug #1701409: Fix a segfault in printing ctypes.c_char_p and
5646 ctypes.c_wchar_p when they point to an invalid location. As a
5647 sideeffect the representation of these instances has changed.
5648
Lars Gustäbel104490e2007-06-18 11:42:11 +00005649- tarfile.py: Added "exclude" keyword argument to TarFile.add().
5650
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005651- Bug #1734723: Fix repr.Repr() so it doesn't ignore the maxtuple
5652 attribute.
Neal Norwitzc161cb92007-06-11 07:29:43 +00005653
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005654- The urlopen function of urllib2 now has an optional timeout
5655 parameter (note that it actually works with HTTP, HTTPS, FTP and
5656 FTPS connections).
Facundo Batista10951d52007-06-06 17:15:23 +00005657
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005658- In ftplib, the FTP.ntransfercmd method, when in passive mode, now
5659 uses the socket.create_connection function, using the timeout
5660 specified at connection time.
Facundo Batista92493122007-06-06 15:13:37 +00005661
Hye-Shik Chang9b541402007-06-05 18:58:51 +00005662- Bug #1728403: Fix a bug that CJKCodecs StreamReader hangs when it
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005663 reads a file that ends with incomplete sequence and sizehint
5664 argument for .read() is specified.
Hye-Shik Chang9b541402007-06-05 18:58:51 +00005665
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005666- Bug #1730389: Change time.strptime() to use ``\s+`` instead of
5667 ``\s*`` when matching spaces in the specified format argument.
Brett Cannonf7188ce2007-06-03 23:13:41 +00005668
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005669- Bugs #1668596/#1720897: distutils now copies data files even if
5670 package_dir is empty.
Neal Norwitz4a700bb2007-06-01 07:29:12 +00005671
Brett Cannonc2aa09a2007-05-31 19:20:00 +00005672- sha now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
5673
Brett Cannon7eec2172007-05-30 22:24:28 +00005674- md5 now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
5675
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005676- Issue #1385: The hmac module now computes the correct hmac when
5677 using hashes with a block size other than 64 bytes (such as sha384
5678 and sha512).
Gregory P. Smithe1ac4f12007-11-06 00:19:03 +00005679
Brett Cannonc249bda2007-05-30 21:48:58 +00005680- mimify now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
5681
Brett Cannon90134c92007-05-30 20:46:26 +00005682- MimeWriter now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
5683
Lars Gustäbela0fcb932007-05-27 19:49:30 +00005684- tarfile.py: Improved unicode support. Unicode input names are now
5685 officially supported. Added "errors" argument to the TarFile class.
5686
Facundo Batista711a54e2007-05-24 17:50:54 +00005687- urllib.ftpwrapper class now accepts an optional timeout.
5688
Georg Brandlc90bc752007-05-24 16:49:29 +00005689- shlex.split() now has an optional "posix" parameter.
5690
Brett Cannon41bf2fa2007-05-20 23:57:38 +00005691- The posixfile module now raises a DeprecationWarning.
5692
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005693- Remove the gopherlib module. This also leads to the removal of
5694 gopher support in urllib/urllib2.
Brett Cannond75f0432007-05-16 22:42:29 +00005695
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005696- Fix bug in marshal where bad data would cause a segfault due to lack
5697 of an infinite recursion check.
Neal Norwitzb1a9b372007-05-16 20:05:11 +00005698
Neal Norwitze0e70a42007-05-16 05:06:33 +00005699- Removed plat-freebsd2 and plat-freebsd3 directories (and IN.py in
5700 the directories).
5701
Georg Brandla09a96a2007-05-15 20:19:34 +00005702- HTML-escape the plain traceback in cgitb's HTML output, to prevent
5703 the traceback inadvertently or maliciously closing the comment and
5704 injecting HTML into the error page.
5705
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005706- The popen2 module and os.popen* are deprecated. Use the subprocess
5707 module.
Neal Norwitz42dd86b2007-05-11 06:57:33 +00005708
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005709- Added an optional credentials argument to SMTPHandler, for use with
5710 SMTP servers which require authentication.
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00005711
5712- Patch #1695948: Added optional timeout parameter to SocketHandler.
5713
5714- Bug #1652788: Minor fix for currentframe.
5715
5716- Patch #1598415: Added WatchedFileHandler to better support external
5717 log file rotation using e.g. newsyslog or logrotate. This handler is
5718 only useful in Unix/Linux environments.
5719
Georg Brandlfb4b3b72007-04-24 15:27:13 +00005720- Bug #1706381: Specifying the SWIG option "-c++" in the setup.py file
5721 (as opposed to the command line) will now write file names ending in
5722 ".cpp" too.
5723
Facundo Batistad918a652007-04-24 13:54:38 +00005724- As specified in RFC 2616, an HTTP response like 2xx indicates that
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005725 the client's request was successfully received, understood, and
5726 accepted. Now in these cases no error is raised in urllib (issue
5727 #1177) and urllib2.
Facundo Batistad918a652007-04-24 13:54:38 +00005728
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005729- Bug #1290505: time.strptime's internal cache of locale information
5730 is now properly recreated when the locale is changed.
Brett Cannonc6906652007-04-01 18:47:27 +00005731
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005732- Patch #1685563: remove (don't add) duplicate paths in
5733 distutils.MSVCCompiler.
Neal Norwitz8f35f442007-04-01 18:24:22 +00005734
Facundo Batistab6a5c9d2007-03-29 18:22:35 +00005735- Added a timeout parameter to the constructor of other protocols
5736 (telnetlib, ftplib, smtplib and poplib). This is second part of the
5737 work started with create_connection() and timeout in httplib, and
5738 closes patch #723312.
5739
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00005740- Patch #1676823: Added create_connection() to socket.py, which may be
5741 called with a timeout, and use it from httplib (whose HTTPConnection
Facundo Batista70f996b2007-05-21 17:32:32 +00005742 and HTTPSConnection now accept an optional timeout).
Facundo Batista07c78be2007-03-23 18:54:07 +00005743
Martin v. Löwis0af33882007-03-23 13:27:15 +00005744- Bug #978833: Revert r50844, as it broke _socketobject.dup.
5745
Žiga Seilnacht7492e422007-03-21 20:07:56 +00005746- Bug #1675967: re patterns pickled with Python 2.4 and earlier can
5747 now be unpickled with Python 2.5 and newer.
5748
Collin Wintera8785cc2007-03-19 18:52:08 +00005749- Patch #1630118: add a SpooledTemporaryFile class to tempfile.py.
5750
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005751- Patch #1273829: os.walk() now has a "followlinks" parameter. If set
5752 to True (which is not the default), it visits symlinks pointing to
Georg Brandlcae9f3d2007-03-21 09:10:29 +00005753 directories.
5754
Georg Brandl8f06d022007-03-16 07:55:09 +00005755- Bug #1681228: the webbrowser module now correctly uses the default
5756 GNOME or KDE browser, depending on whether there is a session of one
5757 of those present. Also, it tries the Windows default browser before
5758 trying Mozilla variants.
5759
Collin Winter6f187742007-03-16 22:16:08 +00005760- Patch #1339796: add a relpath() function to os.path.
5761
Georg Brandlab1f4672007-03-15 07:41:30 +00005762- Patch #1681153: the wave module now closes a file object it opened if
5763 initialization failed.
5764
Georg Brandlf66b6032007-03-14 08:27:52 +00005765- Bug #767111: fix long-standing bug in urllib which caused an
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005766 AttributeError instead of an IOError when the server's response
5767 didn't contain a valid HTTP status line.
Georg Brandlf66b6032007-03-14 08:27:52 +00005768
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005769- Patch #957650: "%var%" environment variable references are now
5770 properly expanded in ntpath.expandvars(), also "~user" home
5771 directory references are recognized and handled on Windows.
Georg Brandl03b90d82007-03-13 22:07:36 +00005772
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005773- Patch #1429539: pdb now correctly initializes the __main__ module
5774 for the debugged script, which means that imports from __main__ work
Georg Brandlb6ae6aa2007-03-13 21:58:44 +00005775 correctly now.
5776
Georg Brandlbad6f192007-03-13 21:32:56 +00005777- The nonobvious commands.getstatus() function is now deprecated.
5778
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005779- Patch #1393667: pdb now has a "run" command which restarts the
5780 debugged Python program, optionally with different arguments.
Georg Brandl8e84c652007-03-13 21:08:15 +00005781
Thomas Heller5dc4fe02007-03-13 20:42:52 +00005782- Patch #1649190: Adding support for _Bool to ctypes as c_bool.
5783
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005784- Patch #1530482: add pydoc.render_doc() which returns the
5785 documentation for a thing instead of paging it to stdout, which
5786 pydoc.doc() does.
Georg Brandl8441f152007-03-13 20:02:57 +00005787
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005788- Patch #1533909: the timeit module now accepts callables in addition
5789 to strings for the code to time and the setup code. Also added two
5790 convenience functions for instantiating a Timer and calling its
5791 methods.
Georg Brandld9bef352007-03-13 19:32:21 +00005792
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005793- Patch #1537850: tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile now has a "delete"
5794 parameter which can be set to False to prevent the default
5795 delete-on-close behavior.
Georg Brandl35ef9c12007-03-13 18:31:49 +00005796
Georg Brandl9e6b4702007-03-13 18:15:41 +00005797- Patch #1581073: add a flag to textwrap that prevents the dropping of
5798 whitespace while wrapping.
5799
Georg Brandl92a6bae2007-03-13 17:43:32 +00005800- Patch #1603688: ConfigParser.SafeConfigParser now checks values that
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005801 are set for invalid interpolation sequences that would lead to
5802 errors on reading back those values.
Georg Brandl92a6bae2007-03-13 17:43:32 +00005803
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005804- Added support for the POSIX.1-2001 (pax) format to
5805 tarfile.py. Extended and cleaned up the test suite. Added a new
5806 testtar.tar.
Lars Gustäbelc64e4022007-03-13 10:47:19 +00005807
Martin v. Löwisbdd0f392007-03-13 10:24:00 +00005808- Patch #1449244: Support Unicode strings in
5809 email.message.Message.{set_charset,get_content_charset}.
5810
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005811- Patch #1542681: add entries for "with", "as" and "CONTEXTMANAGERS"
5812 to pydoc's help keywords.
Georg Brandlb6a87542007-03-13 10:06:48 +00005813
Georg Brandl4ffc8f52007-03-13 09:41:31 +00005814- Patch #1555098: use str.join() instead of repeated string
5815 concatenation in robotparser.
5816
Georg Brandl94fe3f52007-03-13 09:32:11 +00005817- Patch #1635454: the csv.DictWriter class now includes the offending
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005818 field names in its exception message if you try to write a record
5819 with a dictionary containing fields not in the CSV field names list.
Georg Brandl94fe3f52007-03-13 09:32:11 +00005820
Georg Brandlceede5c2007-03-13 08:14:27 +00005821- Patch #1668100: urllib2 now correctly raises URLError instead of
5822 OSError if accessing a local file via the file:// protocol fails.
5823
Martin v. Löwis2681beb2007-03-12 11:01:10 +00005824- Patch #1677862: Require a space or tab after import in .pth files.
5825
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005826- Patch #1192590: Fix pdb's "ignore" and "condition" commands so they
5827 trap the IndexError caused by passing in an invalid breakpoint
5828 number.
Collin Winter2faa9e12007-03-11 16:00:20 +00005829
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005830- Patch #1599845: Add an option to disable the implicit calls to
5831 server_bind() and server_activate() in the constructors for
5832 TCPServer, SimpleXMLRPCServer and DocXMLRPCServer.
Collin Winterae041062007-03-10 14:41:48 +00005833
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005834- Bug #1531963: Make SocketServer.TCPServer's server_address always be
5835 equal to calling getsockname() on the server's socket. Fixed by
Collin Winterfaaa2042007-03-10 03:35:34 +00005836 patch #1545011.
Collin Winter22c42ba2007-03-10 02:51:26 +00005837
Andrew M. Kuchlinge45a77a2008-01-19 16:26:13 +00005838- Patch #742598: Add .timeout attribute to SocketServer that calls
5839 .handle_timeout() when no requests are received.
5840
Thomas Heller2456a3c2007-03-09 20:39:22 +00005841- Bug #1651235: When a tuple was passed to a ctypes function call,
5842 Python would crash instead of raising an error.
5843
Thomas Hellerc2f77252007-03-09 19:21:28 +00005844- Bug #1646630: ctypes.string_at(buf, 0) and ctypes.wstring_at(buf, 0)
5845 returned string up to the first NUL character.
5846
Martin v. Löwis1190a382007-03-09 15:35:55 +00005847- Patch #957003: Implement smtplib.LMTP.
5848
Collin Winterfb728de2007-03-09 03:26:32 +00005849- Patch #1481079: add support for HTTP_REFERER to CGIHTTPServer.
5850
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005851- Patch #1675424: Added tests for uncovered code in the zipfile
5852 module. The KeyError raised by Zipfile.getinfo for nonexistent
5853 names now has a descriptive message.
Georg Brandl4b3ab6f2007-07-12 09:59:22 +00005854
Martin v. Löwis05c075d2007-03-07 11:04:33 +00005855- Bug #1115886: os.path.splitext('.cshrc') gives now ('.cshrc', '').
5856
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005857- unittest now verifies more of its assumptions. In particular,
5858 TestCase and TestSuite subclasses (not instances) are no longer
5859 accepted in TestSuite.addTest(). This should cause no
5860 incompatibility since it never made sense with ordinary subclasses
5861 -- the failure just occurred later, with a more cumbersome
5862 exception.
Georg Brandl9caadf82007-03-08 18:37:31 +00005863
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005864- Patch #787789: allow to pass custom TestRunner instances to
5865 unittest's main() function.
Georg Brandld0a96252007-03-07 09:21:06 +00005866
Georg Brandl15c5ce92007-03-07 09:09:40 +00005867- Patches #1550273, #1550272: fix a few bugs in unittest and add a
5868 comprehensive test suite for the module.
5869
Georg Brandl71ff6462007-03-07 08:31:51 +00005870- Patch #1001604: glob.glob() now returns unicode filenames if it was
5871 given a unicode argument and os.listdir() returns unicode filenames.
5872
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005873- Patch #1673619: setup.py identifies extension modules it doesn't
5874 know how to build and those it knows how to build but that fail to
5875 build.
Skip Montanarod1287322007-03-06 15:41:38 +00005876
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00005877- Patch #912410: Replace HTML entity references for attribute values
Martin v. Löwisab8a6bb2007-03-06 14:43:00 +00005878 in HTMLParser.
5879
Georg Brandlff432e62007-03-06 13:37:45 +00005880- Patch #1663234: you can now run doctest on test files and modules
5881 using "python -m doctest [-v] filename ...".
5882
Martin v. Löwis3eb76482007-03-06 10:41:24 +00005883- Patch #1121142: Implement ZipFile.open.
5884
Skip Montanarof694b1b2007-03-04 20:54:12 +00005885- Taught setup.py how to locate Berkeley DB on Macs using MacPorts.
5886
Raymond Hettinger00166c52007-02-19 04:08:43 +00005887- Added heapq.merge() for merging sorted input streams.
5888
Raymond Hettingercd3c1082007-10-23 21:23:07 +00005889- Added collections.namedtuple() for assigning field names to tuples.
Raymond Hettingerc37e5e02007-03-01 06:16:43 +00005890
Raymond Hettingerd36862c2007-02-21 05:20:38 +00005891- Added itertools.izip_longest().
5892
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005893- Have the encoding package's search function dynamically import using
5894 absolute import semantics.
Brett Cannon971a0122007-02-15 22:54:39 +00005895
Lars Gustäbel5b1a7852007-02-13 16:09:24 +00005896- Patch #1647484: Renamed GzipFile's filename attribute to name.
5897
Martin v. Löwis84f6de92007-02-13 10:10:39 +00005898- Patch #1517891: Mode 'a' for ZipFile now creates the file if it
5899 doesn't exist.
5900
Martin v. Löwisc6d626e2007-02-13 09:49:38 +00005901- Patch #698833: Support file decryption in zipfile.
5902
Martin v. Löwis07aa3ed2007-02-13 08:34:45 +00005903- Patch #685268: Consider a package's __path__ in imputil.
5904
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005905- Patch #1463026: Support default namespace in XMLGenerator.
Martin v. Löwis2bad58f2007-02-12 12:21:10 +00005906
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005907- Patch #1571379: Make trace's --ignore-dir facility work in the face
5908 of relative directory names.
Skip Montanaro691acf22007-02-11 18:24:37 +00005909
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005910- Bug #1600860: Search for shared python library in LIBDIR, not
5911 lib/python/config, on "linux" and "gnu" systems.
Martin v. Löwis0a203262007-02-09 12:36:48 +00005912
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005913- Patch #1652681: tarfile.py: create nonexistent files in append mode
5914 and allow appending to empty files.
Lars Gustäbel3f8aca12007-02-06 18:38:13 +00005915
Peter Astrand5f9c6ae2007-02-06 15:37:50 +00005916- Bug #1124861: Automatically create pipes if GetStdHandle fails in
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00005917 subprocess.
Peter Astrand5f9c6ae2007-02-06 15:37:50 +00005918
Georg Brandl4ba9e5b2007-01-27 17:59:42 +00005919- Patch #1634778: add missing encoding aliases for iso8859_15 and
5920 iso8859_16.
5921
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005922- Patch #1638243: the compiler package is now able to correctly
5923 compile a with statement; previously, executing code containing a
5924 with statement compiled by the compiler package crashed the
5925 interpreter.
Georg Brandlab496842007-01-27 17:43:02 +00005926
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00005927- Bug #1643943: Fix time.strptime's support for the %U directive.
5928
Lars Gustäbel0713a682007-02-19 09:54:47 +00005929- Patch #1507247: tarfile.py: use current umask for intermediate
5930 directories.
5931
Georg Brandldd7b0522007-01-21 10:35:10 +00005932- Patch #1627441: close sockets properly in urllib2.
5933
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005934- Bug #494589: make ntpath.expandvars behave according to its
5935 docstring.
Sjoerd Mullender33a0a062007-01-16 16:42:38 +00005936
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00005937- Changed platform module API python_version_tuple() to actually
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00005938 return a tuple (it used to return a list).
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00005939
5940- Added new platform module APIs python_branch(), python_revision(),
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00005941 python_implementation() and linux_distribution().
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00005942
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00005943- Added support for IronPython and Jython to the platform module.
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00005944
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005945- The sets module has been deprecated. Use the built-in set/frozenset
5946 types instead.
Brett Cannon093b6702007-01-13 00:29:49 +00005947
Thomas Heller6fd45492007-01-12 20:21:53 +00005948- Bug #1610795: make ctypes.util.find_library work on BSD systems.
5949
Thomas Heller8138c262007-01-11 21:18:56 +00005950- Fixes for 64-bit Windows: In ctypes.wintypes, correct the
5951 definitions of HANDLE, WPARAM, LPARAM data types. Make
5952 parameterless foreign function calls work.
5953
Thomas Hellerfb9d7872007-01-10 20:12:13 +00005954- The version number of the ctypes package changed to "1.1.0".
5955
Vinay Sajipab41c102007-01-09 14:51:36 +00005956- Bug #1627575: logging: Added _open() method to FileHandler which can
5957 be used to reopen files. The FileHandler instance now saves the
5958 encoding (which can be None) in an attribute called "encoding".
5959
Vinay Sajipc9137262007-01-08 18:52:36 +00005960- Bug #411881: logging.handlers: bare except clause removed from
5961 SMTPHandler.emit. Now, only ImportError is trapped.
5962
5963- Bug #411881: logging.handlers: bare except clause removed from
5964 SocketHandler.createSocket. Now, only socket.error is trapped.
5965
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005966- Bug #411881: logging: bare except clause removed from
5967 LogRecord.__init__. Now, only ValueError, TypeError and
5968 AttributeError are trapped.
Vinay Sajipc9137262007-01-08 18:52:36 +00005969
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005970- Patch #1504073: Fix tarfile.open() for mode "r" with a fileobj
5971 argument.
Lars Gustäbela7ba6fc2006-12-27 10:30:46 +00005972
Andrew M. Kuchling71662322006-12-27 03:31:24 +00005973- Patch #1182394 from Shane Holloway: speed up HMAC.hexdigest.
5974
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005975- Patch #1262036: Prevent TarFiles from being added to themselves
5976 under certain conditions.
Lars Gustäbela4b23812006-12-23 17:57:23 +00005977
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005978- Patch #1230446: tarfile.py: fix ExFileObject so that read() and
5979 tell() work correctly together with readline().
Lars Gustäbel6baa5022006-12-23 16:40:13 +00005980
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005981- Patch #1484695: The tarfile module now raises a HeaderError
5982 exception if a buffer given to frombuf() is invalid.
Georg Brandlebbeed72006-12-19 22:06:46 +00005983
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00005984- Bug #1503765: Fix a problem in logging.config with spaces in comma-
5985 separated lists read from logging config files.
5986
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005987- Patch #1604907: Fix problems in logging.handlers caused at logging
5988 shutdown when syslog handlers fail to initialize because of syslogd
5989 problems.
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00005990
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005991- Patch #1608267: fix a race condition in os.makedirs() if the
5992 directory to be created is already there.
Georg Brandlb1307432006-12-09 09:08:29 +00005993
Georg Brandl87fa5592006-12-06 22:21:18 +00005994- Patch #1610437: fix a tarfile bug with long filename headers.
5995
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005996- Patch #1371075: Make ConfigParser accept optional dict type for
5997 ordering, sorting, etc.
Martin v. Löwisa00bcac2006-12-03 12:01:53 +00005998
Thomas Helleref583a42006-11-28 20:21:54 +00005999- Bug #1563807: _ctypes built on AIX fails with ld ffi error.
6000
Thomas Heller25d208b2006-11-24 18:45:39 +00006001- Bug #1598620: A ctypes Structure cannot contain itself.
6002
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006003- Patch #1070046: Marshal new-style objects like InstanceType in
6004 xmlrpclib.
Martin v. Löwis07529352006-11-19 18:51:54 +00006005
Martin v. Löwiscffcc8b2006-11-19 10:41:41 +00006006- cStringIO.truncate(-1) now raises an IOError, like StringIO and
6007 regular files.
6008
Martin v. Löwisbba003e2006-11-18 18:42:11 +00006009- Patch #1472877: Fix Tix subwidget name resolution.
6010
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006011- Patch #1594554: Always close a tkSimpleDialog on ok(), even if an
6012 exception occurs.
Martin v. Löwisef5fd3e2006-11-18 18:05:35 +00006013
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006014- Patch #1538878: Don't make tkSimpleDialog dialogs transient if the
6015 parent window is withdrawn.
Martin v. Löwisc73a4a42006-11-18 18:00:23 +00006016
Georg Brandl54082112006-11-16 16:50:59 +00006017- Bug #1597824: return the registered function from atexit.register()
6018 to facilitate usage as a decorator.
6019
Martin v. Löwis45cd4ff2006-11-12 18:56:03 +00006020- Patch #1360200: Use unmangled_version RPM spec field to deal with
6021 file name mangling.
6022
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006023- Patch #1359217: Process 2xx response in an ftplib transfer that
6024 precedes an 1xx response.
Martin v. Löwis36cbc082006-11-12 18:48:13 +00006025
Martin v. Löwis065f0c82006-11-12 10:41:39 +00006026- Patch #1355023: support whence argument for GzipFile.seek.
6027
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00006028- Patch #1065257: Support passing open files as body in
Martin v. Löwis040a9272006-11-12 10:32:47 +00006029 HTTPConnection.request().
6030
Andrew M. Kuchlinga3e5d372006-11-09 13:27:07 +00006031- Bug #1569790: mailbox.py: Maildir.get_folder() and MH.get_folder()
6032 weren't passing the message factory on to newly created Maildir/MH
6033 objects.
6034
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006035- Patch #1514543: mailbox.py: In the Maildir class, report errors if
6036 there's a filename clash instead of possibly losing a message.
6037 (Patch by David Watson.)
Andrew M. Kuchling978d8282006-11-09 21:16:46 +00006038
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006039- Patch #1514544: Try to ensure that messages/indexes have been
6040 physically written to disk after calling .flush() or
6041 .close(). (Patch by David Watson.)
Andrew M. Kuchlingb5686da2006-11-09 13:51:14 +00006042
Guido van Rossumaf16ece2008-02-21 19:46:35 +00006043- Patch #1592250: Add elide argument to Tkinter.Text.search.
Martin v. Löwis038cad72006-11-09 11:27:32 +00006044
Guido van Rossumaf16ece2008-02-21 19:46:35 +00006045- Patch #838546: Make terminal become controlling in pty.fork().
Martin v. Löwisb2bba732006-11-09 11:06:03 +00006046
Martin v. Löwis5361e9a2006-11-08 07:35:55 +00006047- Patch #1351744: Add askyesnocancel helper for tkMessageBox.
6048
Martin v. Löwis5310e502006-11-04 18:14:06 +00006049- Patch #1060577: Extract list of RPM files from spec file in
Guido van Rossumaf16ece2008-02-21 19:46:35 +00006050 bdist_rpm.
Martin v. Löwis5310e502006-11-04 18:14:06 +00006051
Georg Brandl2c9838e2006-10-29 14:39:09 +00006052- Bug #1586613: fix zlib and bz2 codecs' incremental en/decoders.
6053
Georg Brandl3354f282006-10-29 09:16:12 +00006054- Patch #1583880: fix tarfile's problems with long names and posix/
6055 GNU modes.
6056
Georg Brandl5addf702006-10-29 08:53:06 +00006057- Bug #1586448: the compiler module now emits the same bytecode for
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00006058 list comprehensions as the built-in compiler, using the LIST_APPEND
Georg Brandl5addf702006-10-29 08:53:06 +00006059 opcode.
6060
Georg Brandl8f99f812006-10-29 08:39:22 +00006061- Fix codecs.EncodedFile which did not use file_encoding in 2.5.0, and
6062 fix all codecs file wrappers to work correctly with the "with"
6063 statement (bug #1586513).
6064
Thomas Heller112d1a62006-10-27 19:05:53 +00006065- Lib/modulefinder.py now handles absolute and relative imports
6066 correctly.
6067
Martin v. Löwisee82c0e2006-10-27 07:13:28 +00006068- Patch #1567274: Support SMTP over TLS.
6069
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006070- Patch #1560695: Add .note.GNU-stack to ctypes' sysv.S so that ctypes
6071 isn't considered as requiring executable stacks.
Martin v. Löwis1b2f6272006-10-22 10:55:15 +00006072
Thomas Hellerd2ea4a22006-10-17 19:30:48 +00006073- ctypes callback functions only support 'fundamental' data types as
6074 result type. Raise an error when something else is used. This is a
6075 partial fix for Bug #1574584.
6076
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006077- Fix turtle so that time.sleep is imported for the entire library.
6078 Allows the demo2 function to be executed on its own instead of only
6079 when the module is run as a script.
Brett Cannond80e0c82006-10-16 03:09:52 +00006080
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006081- Bug #813342: Start the IDLE subprocess with -Qnew if the parent is
6082 started with that option.
Georg Brandld0761532006-10-12 07:57:21 +00006083
Martin v. Löwisf43893a2006-10-09 20:44:25 +00006084- Bug #1565150: Fix subsecond processing for os.utime on Windows.
6085
Martin v. Löwis8b274262006-10-04 15:25:28 +00006086- Support for MSVC 8 was added to bdist_wininst.
6087
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006088- Bug #1446043: correctly raise a LookupError if an encoding name
6089 given to encodings.search_function() contains a dot.
Georg Brandla92979a2006-09-30 11:22:28 +00006090
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006091- Bug #1560617: in pyclbr, return full module name not only for
6092 classes, but also for functions.
Georg Brandl154324a2006-09-30 11:06:47 +00006093
Georg Brandl05b3c452006-09-30 10:58:01 +00006094- Bug #1457823: cgi.(Sv)FormContentDict's constructor now takes
6095 keep_blank_values and strict_parsing keyword arguments.
6096
Georg Brandl8d1e5bf2006-09-30 09:13:21 +00006097- Bug #1566602: correct failure of posixpath unittest when $HOME ends
6098 with a slash.
6099
Georg Brandl8c667452006-09-30 07:31:57 +00006100- Bug #1565661: in webbrowser, split() the command for the default
6101 GNOME browser in case it is a command with args.
6102
Georg Brandl5a85d5c2009-06-24 06:41:19 +00006103- Made the error message for time.strptime when the data and
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006104 format do match be more clear.
Brett Cannon11b35352006-09-26 23:38:24 +00006105
Georg Brandlc7986ce2006-09-24 12:50:24 +00006106- Fix a bug in traceback.format_exception_only() that led to an error
6107 being raised when print_exc() was called without an exception set.
6108 In version 2.4, this printed "None", restored that behavior.
6109
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006110- Make webbrowser.BackgroundBrowser usable in Windows (it wasn't
6111 because the close_fds arg to subprocess.Popen is not supported).
Georg Brandl2c94bf72006-09-24 10:36:01 +00006112
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006113- Reverted patch #1504333 to sgmllib because it introduced an infinite
6114 loop.
Neal Norwitzbcc119a2006-09-11 04:24:09 +00006115
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006116- Patch #1553314: Fix the inspect.py slowdown that was hurting IPython
6117 & SAGE by adding smarter caching in inspect.getmodule()
Nick Coghlanb3c18f82006-09-08 10:04:38 +00006118
Georg Brandl4e933132006-09-06 20:05:58 +00006119- Fix missing import of the types module in logging.config.
6120
Nick Coghlanbb0996c2006-09-03 01:20:46 +00006121- Patch #1550886: Fix decimal module context management implementation
Neal Norwitza22975f2006-09-05 02:24:03 +00006122 to match the localcontext() example from PEP 343.
Nick Coghlanbb0996c2006-09-03 01:20:46 +00006123
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006124- Bug #1545341: The 'classifier' keyword argument to the Distutils
6125 setup() function now accepts tuples as well as lists.
Andrew M. Kuchling99994792006-10-09 17:10:12 +00006126
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006127- Bug #1541863: uuid.uuid1 failed to generate unique identifiers on
6128 systems with low clock resolution.
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00006129
Gustavo Niemeyerc36bede2006-09-07 00:48:33 +00006130- Bug #1531862: Do not close standard file descriptors in subprocess.
6131
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006132- idle: Honor the "Cancel" action in the save dialog (Debian bug
6133 #299092).
Matthias Klosea398e2d2007-01-11 11:44:04 +00006134
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006135- Fix utf-8-sig incremental decoder, which didn't recognise a BOM when
6136 the first chunk fed to the decoder started with a BOM, but was
6137 longer than 3 bytes.
Georg Brandl27562782006-10-27 20:39:43 +00006138
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006139- The implementation of UnicodeError objects has been simplified
6140 (start and end attributes are now stored directly as Py_ssize_t
6141 members).
Walter Dörwald84a3efe2007-06-13 16:57:12 +00006142
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006143- Issue #829951: In the smtplib module, SMTP.starttls() now complies
6144 with RFC 3207 and forgets any knowledge obtained from the server not
6145 obtained from the TLS negotiation itself. Patch contributed by Bill
6146 Fenner.
Gregory P. Smith2b3ba582008-01-17 08:03:17 +00006147
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006148- Issue #1339: The smtplib.SMTP class has been refactored a bit such
Gregory P. Smithbde4ae42008-01-17 08:35:49 +00006149 that the SMTP.starttls() caller no longer needs to call ehlo()
6150 beforehand. SMTP.starttls() now raises an exception of the server
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006151 does not claim to support starttls. Adds the
6152 SMTP.ehlo_or_helo_if_needed() method. Patch contributed by Bill
6153 Fenner.
Gregory P. Smithbde4ae42008-01-17 08:35:49 +00006154
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006155- Patch #1089358: Add signal.siginterrupt, a wrapper around
6156 siginterrupt(3).
Georg Brandl29604a12008-01-26 14:03:47 +00006157
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00006158Extension Modules
6159-----------------
6160
Georg Brandl392c6fc2008-05-25 07:25:25 +00006161- Patch #1657: added select.epoll and select.kqueue.
Christian Heimes0e9ab5f2008-03-21 23:49:44 +00006162
Georg Brandlebcfd112008-02-23 23:04:35 +00006163- Patch #1506171: added operator.methodcaller().
6164
Georg Brandle2065c62008-02-23 23:02:23 +00006165- Patch #1826: operator.attrgetter() now supports dotted attribute paths.
6166
Georg Brandl392c6fc2008-05-25 07:25:25 +00006167- Patch #1957: syslogmodule: Release GIL when calling syslog(3).
Christian Heimesf0476e82008-02-23 17:42:31 +00006168
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006169- Bug #2112: mmap.error is now a subclass of EnvironmentError and not
6170 a direct EnvironmentError.
Facundo Batistae1396882008-02-17 18:59:29 +00006171
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006172- Bug #2111: mmap segfaults when trying to write a block opened with
6173 PROT_READ.
Christian Heimes7adfad82008-02-15 08:20:11 +00006174
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006175- Bug #2063: correct order of utime and stime in os.times() result on
6176 Windows.
Georg Brandl0a40ffb2008-02-13 07:20:22 +00006177
Martin v. Löwise0d30ef2008-02-12 13:47:26 +00006178- Patch #1736: Fix file name handling of _msi.FCICreate.
6179
Hye-Shik Chang01612e72008-02-08 17:10:20 +00006180- Updated ``big5hkscs`` codec to the HKSCS revision of 2004.
6181
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006182- Issue #1940: make it possible to use curses.filter() before
6183 curses.initscr() as the documentation says.
Georg Brandl29604a12008-01-26 14:03:47 +00006184
Christian Heimes7f39c9f2008-01-25 12:18:43 +00006185- Backport of _fileio module from Python 3.0.
6186
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006187- Patch #1087741: mmap.mmap is now a class, not a factory function. It
6188 is also subclassable now.
Georg Brandl5ca3fd82008-01-21 14:18:14 +00006189
Georg Brandl56112892008-01-20 13:59:46 +00006190- Patch #1648: added ``sys.getprofile()`` and ``sys.gettrace()``.
6191
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006192- Patch #1663329: added ``os.closerange()`` function to quickly close
6193 a range of file descriptors without considering errors.
Georg Brandl309501a2008-01-19 20:22:13 +00006194
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006195- Patch #976880: ``mmap`` objects now have an ``rfind`` method that
Andrew M. Kuchling5c60bfc2008-01-19 18:18:41 +00006196 works as expected. ``mmap.find`` also takes an optional ``end``
6197 parameter.
6198
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006199- _winreg's HKEY object has gained __enter__ and __exit__ methods to
6200 support the context manager protocol. The _winreg module also
6201 gained a new function ``ExpandEnvironmentStrings`` to expand
6202 REG_EXPAND_SZ keys.
Christian Heimesb39a7562008-01-08 15:46:10 +00006203
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006204- itertools.starmap() now accepts any iterable input. Previously, it
6205 required the function inputs to be tuples.
Raymond Hettinger47317092008-01-17 03:02:14 +00006206
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006207- itertools.chain() now has an alternate constructor,
6208 chain.from_iterable().
Raymond Hettingerb4cbc982008-02-28 22:46:41 +00006209
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006210- Issue #1646: Make socket support TIPC. The socket module now has
6211 support for TIPC under Linux, see http://tipc.sf.net/ for more
6212 information.
Christian Heimesfb2d25a2008-01-07 16:12:44 +00006213
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006214- Added interface for Windows' WSAIoctl to socket object and added an
6215 example for a simple network sniffer.
Christian Heimes04ae9162008-01-04 15:23:30 +00006216
Guido van Rossum076d9ee2008-01-03 23:54:04 +00006217- Bug #1301: Bad assert in _tkinter fixed.
6218
Christian Heimescdaa2cb2007-12-31 14:47:07 +00006219- Added bdist_wininst executable for VS 2008.
6220
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006221- Bug #1604: collections.deque.__init__(iterable) now clears any prior
6222 contents before adding elements from the iterable. This fix brings
6223 the behavior into line with that for list.__init__().
Raymond Hettingeradf9ffd2007-12-13 00:08:37 +00006224
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006225- Added wide char functions to msvcrt module: getwch, getwche, putwch
6226 and ungetwch. The functions accept or return unicode.
Christian Heimes7c7f6af2007-12-10 15:12:41 +00006227
Martin v. Löwis69233e82007-12-04 08:39:16 +00006228- os.access now returns True on Windows for any existing directory.
6229
Christian Heimes28104c52007-11-27 23:16:44 +00006230- Added warnpy3k function to the warnings module.
6231
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006232- Marshal.dumps() now expects exact type matches for int, long, float,
6233 complex, tuple, list, dict, set, and frozenset. Formerly, it would
6234 silently miscode subclasses of those types. Now, it raises a
6235 ValueError instead.
Raymond Hettinger12e94202007-11-07 01:13:09 +00006236
Martin v. Löwis58bd49f2007-09-04 13:13:14 +00006237- Patch #1388440: Add set_completion_display_matches_hook and
6238 get_completion_type to readline.
6239
Thomas Helleref4fff32007-07-13 17:46:54 +00006240- Bug #1649098: Avoid declaration of zero-sized array declaration in
6241 structure.
6242
Brett Cannondc48b742007-05-20 07:09:50 +00006243- Removed the rgbimg module; been deprecated since Python 2.5.
6244
Neal Norwitz59f58aa2007-05-19 03:48:47 +00006245- Bug #1721309: prevent bsddb module from freeing random memory.
6246
Gregory P. Smith82eafe62007-10-18 17:17:57 +00006247- Bug #1233: fix bsddb.dbshelve.DBShelf append method to work as
6248 intended for RECNO databases.
6249
Gregory P. Smithec10a4a2007-11-05 02:32:26 +00006250- pybsddb.sf.net Bug #477182: Load the database flags at database open
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006251 time so that opening a database previously created with the DB_DUP
6252 or DB_DUPSORT flag set will keep the proper behavior on subsequent
6253 opens. Specifically: dictionary assignment to a DB object will
6254 replace all values for a given key when the database allows
6255 duplicate values. DB users should use DB.put(k, v) when they want
6256 to store duplicates; not DB[k] = v.
Gregory P. Smithec10a4a2007-11-05 02:32:26 +00006257
Gregory P. Smithac11e022007-11-05 02:56:31 +00006258- Add the bsddb.db.DBEnv.lock_id_free method.
6259
Martin v. Löwis3bf573f2007-04-04 18:30:36 +00006260- Bug #1686475: Support stat'ing open files on Windows again.
6261
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006262- Patch #1185447: binascii.b2a_qp() now correctly quotes binary
6263 characters with ASCII value less than 32. Also, it correctly quotes
6264 dots only if they occur on a single line, as opposed to the previous
6265 behavior of quoting dots if they are the second character of any
6266 line.
Georg Brandl4aef7272007-03-13 22:49:43 +00006267
Georg Brandla47337f2007-03-13 12:34:25 +00006268- Bug #1622896: fix a rare corner case where the bz2 module raised an
6269 error in spite of a succesful compression.
6270
Georg Brandl40c62612007-03-06 18:59:11 +00006271- Patch #1654417: make operator.{get,set,del}slice use the full range
6272 of Py_ssize_t.
6273
Guido van Rossum2054ee92007-03-06 15:50:01 +00006274- Patch #1646728: datetime.fromtimestamp fails with negative
6275 fractional times. With unittest.
6276
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006277- Patch #1490190: posixmodule now includes os.chflags() and
6278 os.lchflags() functions on platforms where the underlying system
6279 calls are available.
Martin v. Löwis382abef2007-02-19 10:55:19 +00006280
Georg Brandl983d1002007-02-15 11:29:04 +00006281- Patch #1494140: Add documentation for the new struct.Struct object.
6282
Martin v. Löwis45423a72007-02-14 10:07:37 +00006283- Patch #1432399: Support the HCI protocol for bluetooth sockets
6284
Martin v. Löwisb1cc1d42007-02-13 12:14:19 +00006285- Patch #1657276: Make NETLINK_DNRTMSG conditional.
6286
Martin v. Löwis4c11a922007-02-08 09:13:36 +00006287- Bug #1653736: Complain about keyword arguments to time.isoformat.
6288
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006289- Bug #1486663: don't reject keyword arguments for subclasses of
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00006290 built-in types.
Georg Brandlb84c1372007-01-21 10:28:43 +00006291
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006292- Patch #1610575: The struct module now supports the 't' code, for C99
6293 _Bool.
Martin v. Löwisaef4c6b2007-01-21 09:33:07 +00006294
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006295- Patch #1635058: ensure that htonl and friends never accept or return
6296 negative numbers, per the underlying C implementation.
Guido van Rossumbb2cc692007-01-14 17:03:32 +00006297
Martin v. Löwis046c4d12006-12-03 11:23:45 +00006298- Patch #1544279: Improve thread-safety of the socket module by moving
6299 the sock_addr_t storage out of the socket object.
6300
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006301- Patch #1019808: fix bug that causes an incorrect error to be
6302 returned when a socket timeout is set and a connection attempt
6303 fails.
Andrew M. Kuchling060e6852008-01-19 20:47:59 +00006304
Neal Norwitz45e230a2006-11-19 21:26:53 +00006305- Speed up function calls into the math module.
6306
Georg Brandl25aabf42006-11-16 17:08:45 +00006307- Bug #1588217: don't parse "= " as a soft line break in binascii's
6308 a2b_qp() function, instead leave it in the string as quopri.decode()
6309 does.
6310
Neal Norwitz4fe44232006-11-21 05:26:22 +00006311- Bug #1599782: Fix segfault on bsddb.db.DB().type().
6312
Martin v. Löwis012bc722006-10-15 09:43:39 +00006313- Bug #1567666: Emulate GetFileAttributesExA for Win95.
6314
Martin v. Löwis18aaa562006-10-15 08:43:33 +00006315- Patch #1576166: Support os.utime for directories on Windows NT+.
6316
Georg Brandl412a9ea2006-10-09 19:03:06 +00006317- Patch #1572724: fix typo ('=' instead of '==') in _msi.c.
6318
Hye-Shik Changb7883462006-10-08 13:48:34 +00006319- Bug #1572832: fix a bug in ISO-2022 codecs which may cause segfault
6320 when encoding non-BMP unicode characters.
6321
Georg Brandl4ddfcd32006-09-30 11:17:34 +00006322- Bug #1556784: allow format strings longer than 127 characters in
6323 datetime's strftime function.
6324
Jack Diederichd10a0f72006-09-21 20:34:49 +00006325- Fix itertools.count(n) to work with negative numbers again.
6326
Martin v. Löwis43fd99c2006-09-16 17:36:37 +00006327- RLIMIT_SBSIZE was added to the resource module where available.
6328
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006329- Bug #1551427: fix a wrong NULL pointer check in the win32 version of
6330 os.urandom().
Georg Brandl74bb7832006-09-06 06:03:59 +00006331
Neal Norwitz6aefa912006-09-02 02:50:35 +00006332- Bug #1548092: fix curses.tparm seg fault on invalid input.
6333
Andrew M. Kuchling62182c82008-01-08 14:56:02 +00006334- Patch #1114: fix curses module compilation on 64-bit AIX, & possibly
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006335 other 64-bit LP64 platforms where attr_t is not the same size as a
6336 long. (Contributed by Luke Mewburn.)
Andrew M. Kuchling62182c82008-01-08 14:56:02 +00006337
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006338- Bug #1550714: fix SystemError from itertools.tee on negative value
6339 for n.
Neal Norwitz69e88972006-09-02 02:58:13 +00006340
Hye-Shik Chang199f1db2006-09-05 12:07:09 +00006341- Fixed a few bugs on cjkcodecs:
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006342 - gbk and gb18030 codec now handle U+30FB KATAKANA MIDDLE DOT
6343 correctly.
Hye-Shik Chang199f1db2006-09-05 12:07:09 +00006344 - iso2022_jp_2 codec now encodes into G0 for KS X 1001, GB2312
6345 codepoints to conform the standard.
Hye-Shik Chang2cad3e92006-09-05 12:14:57 +00006346 - iso2022_jp_3 and iso2022_jp_2004 codec can encode JIS X 0213:2
Hye-Shik Chang199f1db2006-09-05 12:07:09 +00006347 codepoints now.
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00006348
Andrew M. Kuchling43889c02006-09-27 16:37:30 +00006349- Bug #1552726: in readline.c, avoid repeatedly polling in interactive
6350 mode by only placing a timeout on the select() if an input hook has
6351 been defined. This prevents an interactive Python from waking up 10
6352 times per second. Patch by Richard Boulton.
6353
Gregory P. Smithf09c6262007-03-17 22:33:35 +00006354- fixed a bug with bsddb.DB.stat: the flags and txn keyword arguments
6355 were transposed.
6356
Jesus Cea4907d272008-08-31 14:00:51 +00006357- Added support for linking the bsddb module against BerkeleyDB 4.5.x,
6358 4.6.x and 4.7.x.
Gregory P. Smith8b96a352007-01-05 01:59:42 +00006359
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006360- Bug #1633621: if curses.resizeterm() or curses.resize_term() is
6361 called, update _curses.LINES, _curses.COLS, curses.LINES and
6362 curses.COLS.
Andrew M. Kuchling43889c02006-09-27 16:37:30 +00006363
Matthias Klosee19e0c22007-04-03 04:35:59 +00006364- Fix an off-by-one bug in locale.strxfrm().
6365
Matthias Klose38336402007-09-04 20:46:02 +00006366- Fix libffi configure for hppa*-*-linux* | parisc*-*-linux*.
6367
Matthias Klose9afb9852007-10-24 20:00:44 +00006368- Build using system ffi library on arm*-linux*.
6369
Christian Heimes3f065a42007-11-21 01:17:28 +00006370- Bug #1372: zlibmodule.c: int overflow in PyZlib_decompress
Matthias Klosee19e0c22007-04-03 04:35:59 +00006371
Gregory P. Smitheeed5b72008-02-03 07:20:53 +00006372- bsddb module: Fix memory leak when using database cursors on
6373 databases without a DBEnv.
6374
Gerhard Häring11ab8072008-03-02 13:12:27 +00006375- The sqlite3 module was updated to pysqlite 2.4.1.
6376
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00006377Tests
6378-----
6379
Brett Cannon56c4deb2008-03-03 00:38:58 +00006380- Refactor test_logging to use unittest.
Brett Cannonf9db8a32008-02-17 01:59:18 +00006381
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006382- Refactor test_profile and test_cprofile to use the same code to
6383 profile.
Georg Brandlb7090772008-02-05 19:58:17 +00006384
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006385- Make test_runpy reentrant by fixing _check_module to clear out any
6386 module being tested. Was causing an error by __import__ doing a
6387 reload on the second run and thus suppressing bytecode recreation.
Brett Cannondbed7a72007-08-23 14:53:17 +00006388
Brett Cannonea2835a2007-03-14 21:44:15 +00006389- Capture socket connection resets and timeouts in test_socket_ssl and
6390 test_urllib2net and raise test.test_support.ResourceDenied.
Brett Cannoned001842007-03-14 21:40:13 +00006391
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006392- Patch #1559413: Fix test_cmd_line if sys.executable contains a
6393 space.
Martin v. Löwiscd1210a2007-03-14 20:02:31 +00006394
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006395- Added test.test_support.TransientResource which is a context manager
6396 to surround calls to resources that are not guaranteed to work even
6397 if test.test_support.requires says that the resource should exist.
Brett Cannona30fcb42007-03-08 23:58:11 +00006398
Brett Cannone05e6b02007-01-29 04:41:44 +00006399- Added a test for slicing of an exception.
6400
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006401- Added test.test_support.EnvironmentVarGuard. It's a class that
6402 provides a context manager so that one can temporarily set or unset
6403 environment variables.
Brett Cannon92d54d52007-01-04 00:23:49 +00006404
Thomas Heller112d1a62006-10-27 19:05:53 +00006405- Added some tests for modulefinder.
6406
Brett Cannon373d90b2006-10-03 23:23:14 +00006407- Converted test_imp to use unittest.
6408
Neal Norwitz919d5cc2006-09-05 02:35:08 +00006409- Fix bsddb test_basics.test06_Transactions to check the version
6410 number properly.
6411
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006412- test.test_support.catch_warning is a new context manager that can be
6413 used to catch the warnings issued by the warning framework.
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00006414
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00006415Tools
6416-----
6417
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006418- Tools/scripts/reindent.py now creates the backup file using
6419 shutil.copy to preserve user/group and permissions. Added also a
6420 --nobackup option to not create the backup if the user is concerned
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00006421 regarding this. Check issue #1050828 for more details.
Facundo Batistaf88a0772008-02-17 16:21:13 +00006422
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006423- Tools/scripts/win_add2path.py was added. The simple script modifes
6424 the PATH environment var of the HKCU tree and adds the python bin
6425 and script directory.
Christian Heimesbd865db2008-01-18 11:58:50 +00006426
Skip Montanaro3e275362007-08-29 01:33:45 +00006427- Tools/18n/pygettext.py was added to the list of scripts installed by
6428 Tools/scripts/setup.py (tracker item 642309).
6429
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006430- Added IronPython and Jython support to pybench (part of which was
6431 patch #1563844).
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00006432
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006433- Made some minor changes to pybench output to allow the user to see
6434 which Python version is running pybench.
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00006435
6436- Added support for the new platform module feature
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006437 platform.python_implementation(); this will now be saved in the
6438 benchmark pickle.
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00006439
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00006440
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00006441Documentation
6442-------------
6443
Vinay Sajipd7cf32e2008-01-24 12:43:33 +00006444- RFE #1765140: Updated documentation on FileHandler and subclasses to
6445 include new optional delay argument.
6446
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006447- Bug #932563: Added section on getting contextual information into
6448 logging output, and added documentation for the new LoggerAdapter
6449 class.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00006450
6451- Bug #1295: Added information about caching of formatted exception
6452 information in the LogRecord by Formatter.format().
6453
Georg Brandl9467bc52007-07-12 09:37:49 +00006454- Bug #1637365: add subsection about "__name__ == __main__" to the
6455 Python tutorial.
6456
Georg Brandl3dc6e902007-04-25 06:24:59 +00006457- Patch #1698768: updated the "using Python on the Mac" intro.
6458
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006459- Bug #1569057: Document that calling file.next() when the file is
6460 open for writing is undefined.
Brett Cannon55a18642007-04-08 04:29:32 +00006461
Žiga Seilnachtc64ad482007-03-24 14:24:26 +00006462- Patch #1489771: the syntax rules in Python Reference Manual were
6463 updated to reflect the current Python syntax.
6464
Martin v. Löwis2f401d72007-03-23 10:35:49 +00006465- Patch #1686451: Fix return type for
6466 PySequence_{Count,Index,Fast_GET_SIZE}.
6467
Georg Brandl0692a262007-03-13 07:50:57 +00006468- Patch #1679379: add documentation for fnmatch.translate().
6469
Collin Winterb7b2b4e2007-03-09 18:09:10 +00006470- Bug #1629566: clarify the docs on the return values of parsedate()
6471 and parsedate_tz() in email.utils and rfc822.
6472
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00006473- Patch #1671450: add a section about subclassing built-in types to the
Georg Brandld28b9fc2007-03-06 10:02:47 +00006474 "extending and embedding" tutorial.
6475
Georg Brandlb26b1c62007-01-17 21:19:58 +00006476- Bug #1629125: fix wrong data type (int -> Py_ssize_t) in PyDict_Next
6477 docs.
6478
Georg Brandla4c8e322006-10-12 08:22:53 +00006479- Bug #1565919: document set types in the Language Reference.
6480
Georg Brandl44a7b3a2006-09-30 12:02:57 +00006481- Bug #1546052: clarify that PyString_FromString(AndSize) copies the
6482 string pointed to by its parameter.
6483
Georg Brandlfb257732006-09-30 09:06:45 +00006484- Bug #1566663: remove obsolete example from datetime docs.
6485
Georg Brandl648c1102006-08-18 07:27:59 +00006486- Bug #1541682: Fix example in the "Refcount details" API docs.
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006487 Additionally, remove a faulty example showing PySequence_SetItem
6488 applied to a newly created list object and add notes that this isn't
6489 a good idea.
Georg Brandl648c1102006-08-18 07:27:59 +00006490
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00006491
Georg Brandl27562782006-10-27 20:39:43 +00006492Tools/Demos
6493-----------
6494
6495- Patch #1552024: add decorator support to unparse.py demo script.
Marc-André Lemburg96148682006-09-06 20:40:22 +00006496
Brett Cannonc8939d22006-09-20 19:28:35 +00006497- Make auto-generated python.vim file list built-ins and exceptions in
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006498 alphatbetical order. Makes output more deterministic and easier to
6499 tell if the file is stale or not.
Brett Cannonc8939d22006-09-20 19:28:35 +00006500
Marc-André Lemburg96148682006-09-06 20:40:22 +00006501- Bug #1546372: Fixed small bugglet in pybench that caused a missing
6502 file not to get reported properly.
6503
6504
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00006505Build
6506-----
6507
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006508- Have the search path for building extensions follow the declared
6509 order in $CPPFLAGS and $LDFLAGS when adding directories from those
6510 environment variables.
Brett Cannon70c0c022008-02-03 09:59:21 +00006511
Christian Heimes951cc0f2008-01-31 23:08:23 +00006512- Bug #1983: Added a check to pyport to verify that sizeof(pid_t) is
6513 smaller or equal sizeof(long).
6514
Christian Heimescba36bb2008-01-30 22:54:18 +00006515- Bug #1234: Fixed semaphore errors on AIX 5.2
6516
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006517- Issue #1726: Remove Python/atof.c from PCBuild/pythoncore.vcproj.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00006518
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006519- Removed PCbuild8/ directory and added a new build directory for VS
6520 2005 based on the VS 2008 build directory to PC/VS8.0. The script
6521 PCbuild/vs8to9.py was added to sync changes from PCbuild to
6522 PC/VS8.0.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00006523
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006524- Moved PCbuild/ directory for VS 2003 to PC/VS7.1 and renamed
6525 PCBuild9/ directory to PCBuild/.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00006526
Martin v. Löwiscb78de62007-12-29 18:49:21 +00006527- Bug #1699: Define _BSD_SOURCE only on OpenBSD.
6528
Guido van Rossum7c862f82007-12-13 20:50:10 +00006529- Bug #1608: use -fwrapv when GCC supports it. This is important,
6530 newer GCC versions may optimize away overflow buffer overflow checks
6531 without this option!
6532
Martin v. Löwis63bf1492007-11-12 05:14:05 +00006533- Patch #1418: Make the AC_REPLACE_FUNCS object files actually work.
6534
Raymond Hettingerdc1d1ba2007-11-07 02:45:46 +00006535- Add a FAST_LOOPS build option that speeds-up looping by trading away
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006536 periodic threadstate and signal checking in tight loops. By
6537 default, this option is turned-off. It should only be enabled in
6538 debugged, performance critical applications.
Raymond Hettingerdc1d1ba2007-11-07 02:45:46 +00006539
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006540- Patch #786737: Allow building in a tree of symlinks pointing to a
6541 readonly source.
Martin v. Löwisd44a4e92007-09-05 11:47:34 +00006542
Martin v. Löwis8bc77e42007-09-01 06:36:03 +00006543- Bug #1737210: Change Manufacturer of Windows installer to PSF.
6544
Martin v. Löwis75c23bd2007-08-30 18:25:47 +00006545- Bug #1746880: Correctly install DLLs into system32 folder on Win64.
6546
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006547- Define _BSD_SOURCE, to get access to POSIX extensions on OpenBSD
6548 4.1+.
Martin v. Löwis76760b02007-07-31 19:57:56 +00006549
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006550- Stop supporting AtheOS and cause a build error in configure for the
6551 platform.
Brett Cannon19fab762007-06-02 03:02:29 +00006552
Georg Brandldb846032007-03-31 18:56:11 +00006553- Bug #1655392: don't add -L/usr/lib/pythonX.Y/config to the LDFLAGS
6554 returned by python-config if Python was built with --enable-shared
6555 because that prevented the shared library from being used.
6556
Georg Brandl18c47f62007-03-13 10:19:22 +00006557- Patch #1569798: fix a bug in distutils when building Python from a
6558 directory within sys.exec_prefix.
6559
Martin v. Löwiseb623572007-03-12 10:50:39 +00006560- Bug #1675511: Use -Kpic instead of -xcode=pic32 on Solaris/x86.
6561
Martin v. Löwis4d542ec2006-11-25 15:39:19 +00006562- Disable _XOPEN_SOURCE on NetBSD 1.x.
6563
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006564- configure now checks whether gcc supports the PyArg_ParseTuple
6565 format attribute.
Martin v. Löwisaac13162006-10-19 10:58:46 +00006566
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00006567- Bug #1578513: Cross compilation was broken by a change to configure.
Martin v. Löwisfefbc202006-10-17 18:59:23 +00006568 Repair so that it's back to how it was in 2.4.3.
6569
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006570- Patch #1576954: Update VC6 build directory; remove redundant files
6571 in VC7.
Martin v. Löwisc9e82f62006-10-15 07:54:40 +00006572
Martin v. Löwisebe26702006-10-02 14:55:51 +00006573- Bug #1568842: Fix test for uintptr_t.
6574
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006575- Patch #1540470: for OpenBSD 4.0.
Neal Norwitz4bc2c092006-09-05 02:57:01 +00006576
Matthias Klosed149d0c2006-12-03 17:16:41 +00006577- Fix build failure on kfreebsd and on the hurd.
6578
Matthias Kloseebde1492006-12-09 12:15:27 +00006579- Fix the build of the library reference in info format.
6580
Matthias Kloseeb8ff672007-08-02 21:33:13 +00006581- Allow Emacs 22 for building the documentation in info format.
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00006582
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006583- Makefile.pre.in(buildbottest): Run an optional script
6584 pybuildbot.identify to include some information about the build
6585 environment.
Matthias Klose642ac852007-09-04 18:17:36 +00006586
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00006587
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00006588C API
6589-----
6590
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006591- Unified naming convention for free lists and their limits. All free
6592 lists in Object/ are named ``free_list``, the counter ``numfree``
6593 and the upper limit is a macro ``PyName_MAXFREELIST`` inside an
6594 #ifndef block.
Christian Heimes5b970ad2008-02-06 13:33:44 +00006595
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006596- ``PySet_Add()`` can now modify a newly created frozenset. Similarly
6597 to ``PyTuple_SetItem``, it can be used to populate a brand new
6598 frozenset; but it does not steal a reference to the added item.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arccab3d982008-02-03 22:51:43 +00006599
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00006600- Added ``PySet_Check()`` and ``PyFrozenSet_Check()`` to the set API.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arccab3d982008-02-03 22:51:43 +00006601
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006602- Backport of PyUnicode_FromString(), _FromStringAndSize(), _Format
6603 and _FormatV from Python 3.0. Made PyLong_AsSsize_t and
6604 PyLong_FromSsize_t public functions.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00006605
6606- Patch #1720595: add T_BOOL to the range of structmember types.
6607
6608- Issue #1534: Added ``PyFloat_GetMax()``, ``PyFloat_GetMin()`` and
6609 ``PyFloat_GetInfo()`` to the float API.
6610
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006611- Issue #1521: On 64bit platforms, using PyArgs_ParseTuple with the t#
6612 of w# format code incorrectly truncated the length to an int, even
6613 when PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN is set. The str.decode method used to return
6614 incorrect results with huge strings.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00006615
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006616- Issue #1629: Renamed Py_Size, Py_Type and Py_Refcnt to Py_SIZE,
6617 Py_TYPE and Py_REFCNT.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00006618
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006619- PEP 3123: Provide forward compatibility with Python 3.0, while
6620 keeping backwards compatibility. Add Py_Refcnt, Py_Type, Py_Size,
6621 and PyVarObject_HEAD_INIT.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00006622
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006623- Py_ssize_t fields work in structmember when HAVE_LONG_LONG is not
6624 defined.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00006625
6626- Patch #1733960: Allow T_LONGLONG to accept ints.
6627
6628- T_PYSSIZET can now be used in PyMemberDef lists for Py_ssize_t members.
6629
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00006630- Added a new API function ``PyImport_ImportModuleNoBlock``.
6631
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00006632- Bug #1637022: Prefix AST symbols with _Py_.
6633
6634- Fix some leftovers from the conversion from int to Py_ssize_t
6635 (relevant to strings and sequences of more than 2**31 items).
6636
6637- Make _PyGILState_NoteThreadState() static, it was not used anywhere
6638 outside of pystate.c and should not be necessary.
6639
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006640- ``PyImport_Import`` and ``PyImport_ImportModule`` now always do
6641 absolute imports. In earlier versions they might have used relative
6642 imports under some conditions.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00006643
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006644- Added case insensitive comparison methods ``PyOS_stricmp(char*,
6645 char*)`` and ``PyOS_strnicmp(char*, char*, Py_ssize_t)``.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00006646
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006647- Bug #1542693: remove semi-colon at end of PyImport_ImportModuleEx
6648 macro so it can be used as an expression.
Neal Norwitz8a267062006-08-19 04:25:29 +00006649
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00006650
Martin v. Löwis2607e6c2006-11-21 18:20:25 +00006651Windows
6652-------
6653
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006654- Patch #1706: Drop support for Win9x, WinME and NT4. Python now
6655 requires Windows 2000 or greater. The _WINVER and NTDDI_VERSION
6656 macros are set to Win2k for x86/32bit builds and WinXP for AMD64
6657 builds.
Christian Heimes95d64472008-02-09 19:55:22 +00006658
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006659- Conditionalize definition of _CRT_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE and
6660 _CRT_NONSTDC_NO_DEPRECATE.
Martin v. Löwis2607e6c2006-11-21 18:20:25 +00006661
Martin v. Löwisd476a402007-10-12 08:56:52 +00006662- Bug #1216: Restore support for Visual Studio 2002.
6663
Martin v. Löwis2607e6c2006-11-21 18:20:25 +00006664
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00006665Mac
6666---
6667
Brett Cannonf0cb1d72007-05-31 20:01:11 +00006668- cfmfile now raises a DeprecationWarning.
6669
Brett Cannon791d56f2007-05-31 19:40:42 +00006670- buildtools now raises a DeprecationWarning.
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Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006672- Removed the macfs module. It had been deprecated since Python 2.5.
6673 This lead to the deprecation of macostools.touched() as it relied
6674 solely on macfs and was a no-op under OS X.
Brett Cannon5e263512007-05-20 23:17:38 +00006675
Skip Montanaroe5d7f7f2002-09-20 14:16:59 +00006676----
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