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Skip Montanaroe5d7f7f2002-09-20 14:16:59 +00003+++++++++++
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Benjamin Peterson4f612592010-06-21 17:28:30 +00007What's New in Python 2.7?
8=========================
9
Benjamin Petersonc60082d2010-07-03 13:56:13 +000010*Release date: 2010-07-03*
Benjamin Peterson4f612592010-06-21 17:28:30 +000011
12Core and Builtins
13-----------------
14
Benjamin Peterson947ce582010-06-24 00:12:40 +000015- Prevent assignment to set literals.
16
Benjamin Peterson4f612592010-06-21 17:28:30 +000017Library
18-------
19
Benjamin Petersonc670b7e2010-07-03 13:49:23 +000020- Issue #7673: Fix security vulnerability (CVE-2010-2089) in the audioop module,
21 ensure that the input string length is a multiple of the frame size.
Victor Stinner15e5b1b2010-07-03 13:36:19 +000022
Antoine Pitrou0dddf602010-06-25 00:03:21 +000023- Issue #9075: In the ssl module, remove the setting of a ``debug`` flag
24 on an OpenSSL structure.
25
Mark Dickinson070f0ab2010-06-30 16:27:57 +000026- Issue #9125: Add recognition of 'except ... as ...' syntax to parser module.
Benjamin Peterson4f612592010-06-21 17:28:30 +000027
Benjamin Peterson00633672010-07-03 13:56:56 +000028
Michael Foord83d35762010-06-10 16:32:00 +000029What's New in Python 2.7 release candidate 2?
30=============================================
Benjamin Peterson2f3d9f92010-06-06 02:09:33 +000031
Benjamin Petersonbfcedf42010-06-21 15:57:57 +000032*Release date: 2010-06-20*
Benjamin Peterson2f3d9f92010-06-06 02:09:33 +000033
34Core and Builtins
35-----------------
36
Benjamin Petersonb9133892010-06-22 19:16:37 +000037- Issue #9058: Remove assertions about INT_MAX in UnicodeDecodeError.
38
Nick Coghlan8842c352010-06-13 06:50:39 +000039- Issue #8202: Previous change to ``sys.argv[0]`` handling for -m command line
40 option reverted due to unintended side effects on handling of ``sys.path``.
41 See tracker issue for details.
42
Antoine Pitroucca3a3f2010-06-11 21:42:26 +000043- Issue #8941: decoding big endian UTF-32 data in UCS-2 builds could crash
44 the interpreter with characters outside the Basic Multilingual Plane
45 (higher than 0x10000).
46
Benjamin Petersonfa4c59f2010-06-08 14:53:29 +000047- In the unicode/str.format(), raise a ValueError when indexes to arguments are
48 too large.
Benjamin Peterson13e934a2010-06-07 22:23:23 +000049
Benjamin Petersonafa1b302010-06-21 15:27:46 +000050Build
51-----
52
53- Issue #8854: Fix finding Visual Studio 2008 on Windows x64.
54
Benjamin Peterson2f3d9f92010-06-06 02:09:33 +000055Library
56-------
Mark Dickinsone979ec82010-06-13 10:50:29 +000057
Victor Stinner15e5b1b2010-07-03 13:36:19 +000058- Issue #6589: cleanup asyncore.socket_map in case smtpd.SMTPServer constructor
Giampaolo Rodolàe00e2f02010-06-30 17:38:28 +000059 raises an exception.
60
Thomas Hellerf1800992010-06-21 14:00:24 +000061- Issue #8959: fix regression caused by using unmodified libffi
62 library on Windows. ctypes does now again check the stack before
63 and after calling foreign functions.
64
R. David Murraydf1cf302010-06-17 01:36:52 +000065- Issue #8720: fix regression caused by fix for #4050 by making getsourcefile
66 smart enough to find source files in the linecache.
67
Mark Dickinsone979ec82010-06-13 10:50:29 +000068- Issue #8986: math.erfc was incorrectly raising OverflowError for
69 values between -27.3 and -30.0 on some platforms.
70
Vinay Sajip936efc72010-06-11 22:56:50 +000071- Issue #8924: logging: Improved error handling for Unicode in exception text.
Benjamin Peterson2f3d9f92010-06-06 02:09:33 +000072
Michael Foord83d35762010-06-10 16:32:00 +000073- Issue #8948: cleanup functions and class / module setups and teardowns are
74 now honored in unittest debug methods.
75
Tarek Ziadé770fd152010-06-06 20:05:20 +000076Documentation
77-------------
78
79- Issues #8909: Added the size of the bitmap used in the installer created by
80 distutils' bdist_wininst. Patch by Anatoly Techtonik.
81
Victor Stinnerb65bd2e2010-06-11 19:22:28 +000082Misc
83----
84
85- Issue #8362: Add maintainers.rst: list of module maintainers
86
Benjamin Peterson2f3d9f92010-06-06 02:09:33 +000087
Antoine Pitrou6001b0b2010-05-09 18:32:48 +000088What's New in Python 2.7 Release Candidate 1?
89=============================================
Benjamin Peterson534b8de2010-05-08 18:53:42 +000090
Benjamin Peterson77d534e2010-06-06 00:22:09 +000091*Release date: 2010-06-05*
Benjamin Peterson534b8de2010-05-08 18:53:42 +000092
93Core and Builtins
94-----------------
95
Ezio Melottiab2eb0e2010-06-05 19:21:32 +000096- Issue #8271: during the decoding of an invalid UTF-8 byte sequence, only the
97 start byte and the continuation byte(s) are now considered invalid, instead
98 of the number of bytes specified by the start byte.
99 E.g.: '\xf1\x80AB'.decode('utf-8', 'replace') now returns u'\ufffdAB' and
100 replaces with U+FFFD only the start byte ('\xf1') and the continuation byte
101 ('\x80') even if '\xf1' is the start byte of a 4-bytes sequence.
102 Previous versions returned a single u'\ufffd'.
103
Mark Dickinson23f0d6b2010-06-05 11:52:24 +0000104- Issue #8627: Remove bogus "Overriding __cmp__ blocks inheritance of
Mark Dickinsone4b83e02010-06-05 12:14:43 +0000105 __hash__ in 3.x" warning. Also fix "XXX undetected error" that
106 arises from the "Overriding __eq__ blocks inheritance ..." warning
107 when turned into an exception: in this case the exception simply
108 gets ignored.
Mark Dickinson23f0d6b2010-06-05 11:52:24 +0000109
Mark Dickinson4ca7c3c2010-05-30 13:18:10 +0000110- Issue #8748: Fix two issues with comparisons between complex and integer
111 objects. (1) The comparison could incorrectly return True in some cases
112 (2**53+1 == complex(2**53) == 2**53), breaking transivity of equality.
113 (2) The comparison raised an OverflowError for large integers, leading
114 to unpredictable exceptions when combining integers and complex objects
115 in sets or dicts.
116
Mark Dickinson81336372010-05-30 12:12:25 +0000117- Issue #5211: Implicit coercion for the complex type is now completely
118 removed. (Coercion for arithmetic operations was already removed in 2.7
119 alpha 4, but coercion for rich comparisons was accidentally left in.)
120
Victor Stinnerc49dfcc2010-05-25 22:30:32 +0000121- Issue #3798: Write sys.exit() message to sys.stderr to use stderr encoding
122 and error handler, instead of writing to the C stderr file in utf-8
123
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000124- Issue #7902: When using explicit relative import syntax, don't try implicit
125 relative import semantics.
Brett Cannoneb3cd302010-05-20 18:37:55 +0000126
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000127- Issue #7079: Fix a possible crash when closing a file object while using it
128 from another thread. Patch by Daniel Stutzbach.
Antoine Pitrou83137c22010-05-17 19:56:59 +0000129
Victor Stinnerb65bd2e2010-06-11 19:22:28 +0000130- Issue #8868: Fix that ensures that python scripts have access to the
Ronald Oussoren27c72e92010-06-02 03:47:14 +0000131 Window Server again in a framework build on MacOSX 10.5 or earlier.
132
Antoine Pitrou6a265602010-05-21 17:12:38 +0000133C-API
134-----
135
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000136- Issue #5753: A new C API function, :cfunc:`PySys_SetArgvEx`, allows embedders
137 of the interpreter to set sys.argv without also modifying sys.path. This
138 helps fix `CVE-2008-5983
Antoine Pitrou6a265602010-05-21 17:12:38 +0000139 <http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-5983>`_.
140
Benjamin Peterson534b8de2010-05-08 18:53:42 +0000141Library
142-------
143
Michael Foordd8918592010-06-05 19:51:38 +0000144- Issue #8302: SkipTest in unittest.TestCase.setUpClass or setUpModule is now
145 reported as a skip rather than an error.
146
147- Issue #8351: Excessively large diffs due to
148 unittest.TestCase.assertSequenceEqual are no longer included in failure
149 reports.
150
Alexander Belopolsky3b818bf2010-06-05 14:54:26 +0000151- Issue #8899: time.struct_time now has class and atribute docstrings.
152
R. David Murraye7e505b2010-06-04 19:51:06 +0000153- Issue #4487: email now accepts as charset aliases all codec aliases
154 accepted by the codecs module.
155
Martin v. Löwiseba67c02010-06-04 19:39:07 +0000156- Issue #6470: Drop UNC prefix in FixTk.
157
R. David Murray61746d52010-06-03 15:43:20 +0000158- Issue #5610: feedparser no longer eats extra characters at the end of
159 a body part if the body part ends with a \r\n.
160
Lars Gustäbel2ee9c6f2010-06-03 09:56:22 +0000161- Issue #8833: tarfile created hard link entries with a size field != 0 by
162 mistake.
163
R. David Murray52dcd452010-06-02 22:03:15 +0000164- Issue #1368247: set_charset (and therefore MIMEText) now automatically
165 encodes a unicode _payload to the output_charset.
166
Alexander Belopolsky9292ee02010-05-27 20:55:27 +0000167- Issue #7150: Raise OverflowError if the result of adding or subtracting
168 timedelta from date or datetime falls outside of the MINYEAR:MAXYEAR range.
169
Victor Stinner04ee3372010-05-24 21:37:28 +0000170- Issue #6662: Fix parsing of malformatted charref (&#bad;), patch written by
171 Fredrik Håård
Victor Stinner554a3b82010-05-24 21:33:24 +0000172
Georg Brandlf0757a22010-05-24 21:29:07 +0000173- Issue #8016: Add the CP858 codec.
174
Georg Brandl5d0ca2c2010-05-22 11:29:19 +0000175- Issue #3924: Ignore cookies with invalid "version" field in cookielib.
176
Victor Stinner7df55da2010-05-22 13:37:56 +0000177- Issue #6268: Fix seek() method of codecs.open(), don't read or write the BOM
178 twice after seek(0). Fix also reset() method of codecs, UTF-16, UTF-32 and
179 StreamWriter classes.
Victor Stinner262be5e2010-05-22 02:11:07 +0000180
Victor Stinnerd6703b52010-05-21 22:50:28 +0000181- Issue #5640: Fix Shift-JIS incremental encoder for error handlers different
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000182 than 'strict'.
Victor Stinnerd6703b52010-05-21 22:50:28 +0000183
Benjamin Peterson266e4542010-05-21 21:31:24 +0000184- Issue #8782: Add a trailing newline in linecache.updatecache to the last line
185 of files without one.
186
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000187- Issue #8729: Return NotImplemented from ``collections.Mapping.__eq__()`` when
Benjamin Petersoneb318d32010-05-21 20:51:45 +0000188 comparing to a non-mapping.
189
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000190- Issue #8759: Fix user paths in sysconfig for posix and os2 schemes.
Tarek Ziadé8f692272010-05-19 22:20:14 +0000191
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000192- Issue #1285086: Speed up ``urllib.quote()`` and urllib.unquote for simple
193 cases.
Florent Xiclunaaf87f9f2010-05-17 13:35:09 +0000194
Tarek Ziadé422545f2010-05-17 10:06:20 +0000195- Issue #8688: Distutils now recalculates MANIFEST everytime.
196
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000197- Issue #5099: The ``__del__()`` method of ``subprocess.Popen`` (and the methods
198 it calls) referenced global objects, causing errors to pop up during
199 interpreter shutdown.
Brett Cannon42a0ba72010-05-14 00:21:48 +0000200
Mark Dickinson932e1622010-05-10 16:07:42 +0000201Extension Modules
202-----------------
203
Stefan Krah449aa862010-06-03 12:39:50 +0000204- Issue #7384: If the system readline library is linked against ncurses,
205 the curses module must be linked against ncurses as well. Otherwise it
206 is not safe to load both the readline and curses modules in an application.
207
Brian Curtinb64c89b2010-05-25 15:06:15 +0000208- Issue #2810: Fix cases where the Windows registry API returns
209 ERROR_MORE_DATA, requiring a re-try in order to get the complete result.
210
Mark Dickinson932e1622010-05-10 16:07:42 +0000211- Issue #8674: Fixed a number of incorrect or undefined-behaviour-inducing
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000212 overflow checks in the ``audioop`` module.
Benjamin Peterson534b8de2010-05-08 18:53:42 +0000213
Brett Cannonda9af752010-05-13 23:59:41 +0000214Tests
215-----
216
R. David Murray4653fb52010-06-03 20:19:25 +0000217- Issue #8889: test_support.transient_internet rewritten so that the new
218 checks also work on FreeBSD, which lacks EAI_NODATA.
219
220- Issue #8835: test_support.transient_internet() catches gaierror(EAI_NONAME)
Victor Stinner03883622010-05-27 22:29:48 +0000221 and gaierror(EAI_NODATA)
222
Victor Stinner708c0722010-05-26 17:25:28 +0000223- Issue #7449: Skip test_socketserver if threading support is disabled
224
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000225- On darwin, ``test_site`` assumed that a framework build was being used,
226 leading to a failure where four directories were expected for site-packages
227 instead of two in a non-framework build.
Brett Cannonda9af752010-05-13 23:59:41 +0000228
Martin v. Löwisb41afb52010-05-28 15:28:47 +0000229Build
230-----
231
Martin v. Löwis16b2a5e2010-06-04 19:15:32 +0000232- Display installer warning that Windows 2000 won't be supported in future
233 releases.
234
Victor Stinnerb65bd2e2010-06-11 19:22:28 +0000235- Issues #1759169, #8864: Drop _XOPEN_SOURCE on Solaris, define it for
Martin v. Löwis26eec582010-06-04 17:18:42 +0000236 multiprocessing only.
Brett Cannonda9af752010-05-13 23:59:41 +0000237
Martin v. Löwis5aafc172010-06-04 18:04:42 +0000238Tools/Demos
239-----------
240
241- Issue #5464: Implement plural forms in msgfmt.py.
242
243
Antoine Pitrouab5ce722010-04-11 22:45:47 +0000244What's New in Python 2.7 beta 2?
245================================
Benjamin Peterson12409062010-04-10 18:53:58 +0000246
Benjamin Petersonc2516072010-05-08 17:08:17 +0000247*Release date: 2010-05-08*
Benjamin Peterson12409062010-04-10 18:53:58 +0000248
249Core and Builtins
250-----------------
251
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000252- Run Clang 2.7's static analyzer for ``Objects/`` and ``Python/``.
Brett Cannon5fb89df2010-05-05 20:54:53 +0000253
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000254- Issue #1533: Fix inconsistency in range function argument processing: any
255 non-float non-integer argument is now converted to an integer (if possible)
256 using its __int__ method. Previously, only small arguments were treated this
257 way; larger arguments (those whose __int__ was outside the range of a C long)
258 would produce a TypeError.
Mark Dickinsona8d26682010-05-04 16:18:25 +0000259
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000260- Issue #8202: ``sys.argv[0]`` is now set to '-m' instead of '-c' when searching
261 for the module file to be executed with the -m command line option.
Nick Coghlanc5e44852010-04-28 14:51:08 +0000262
Brett Cannon19949692010-04-25 22:33:36 +0000263- Issue #7319: When -Q is used, do not silence DeprecationWarning.
264
Antoine Pitrou18e63fb2010-04-21 22:53:29 +0000265- Issue #7332: Remove the 16KB stack-based buffer in
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000266 ``PyMarshal_ReadLastObjectFromFile``, which doesn't bring any noticeable
Antoine Pitrou18e63fb2010-04-21 22:53:29 +0000267 benefit compared to the dynamic memory allocation fallback. Patch by
268 Charles-François Natali.
269
Benjamin Peterson821a8ea2010-04-16 22:35:38 +0000270- Issue #8417: Raise an OverflowError when an integer larger than sys.maxsize is
271 passed to bytearray.
272
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000273- Issue #7072: ``isspace(0xa0)`` is true on Mac OS X.
Ronald Oussoren37805e52010-04-18 13:47:49 +0000274
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000275- Issue #8404: Fix set operations on dictionary views.
Alexandre Vassalotti268e4872010-05-04 03:21:51 +0000276
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000277- Issue #8084: PEP 370 now conforms to system conventions for framework builds
278 on MacOS X. That is, ``python setup.py install --user`` will install into
279 ``~/Library/Python/2.7`` instead of ``~/.local``.
Ronald Oussoren2f88bfd2010-05-08 10:29:06 +0000280
Benjamin Peterson12409062010-04-10 18:53:58 +0000281Library
282-------
283
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000284- Issue #8681: Make the zlib module's error messages more informative when the
285 zlib itself doesn't give any detailed explanation.
Antoine Pitroufc3bfad2010-05-11 23:42:28 +0000286
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000287- Issue #8571: Fix an internal error when compressing or decompressing a chunk
288 larger than 1GB with the zlib module's compressor and decompressor objects.
Antoine Pitrou3843cd82010-05-07 16:50:34 +0000289
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000290- Issue #8573: asyncore ``_strerror()`` function might throw ValueError.
Giampaolo Rodolàf7454fa2010-05-06 17:57:06 +0000291
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000292- Issue #8483: asyncore.dispatcher's __getattr__ method produced confusing error
293 messages when accessing undefined class attributes because of the cheap
294 inheritance with the underlying socket object. The cheap inheritance has been
295 deprecated.
Giampaolo Rodolàf7454fa2010-05-06 17:57:06 +0000296
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000297- Issue #4265: ``shutil.copyfile()`` was leaking file descriptors when disk
298 fills. Patch by Tres Seaver.
Tarek Ziadé38f81222010-05-05 22:15:31 +0000299
Barry Warsaw8efa8672010-05-05 16:17:22 +0000300- Issue #7755: Use an unencumbered audio file for tests.
301
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000302- Issue #8621: ``uuid.uuid4()`` returned the same sequence of values in the
303 parent and any children created using ``os.fork`` on Mac OS X 10.6.
Ronald Oussoren33206962010-05-05 14:48:37 +0000304
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000305- Issue #8313: ``traceback.format_exception_only()`` encodes unicode message to
306 ASCII with backslashreplace error handler if ``str(value)`` failed.
Victor Stinner926fd4e2010-05-05 12:40:49 +0000307
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000308- Issue #8567: Fix precedence of signals in Decimal module: when a Decimal
309 operation raises multiple signals and more than one of those signals is
310 trapped, the specification determines the order in which the signals should be
311 handled. In many cases this order wasn't being followed, leading to the wrong
312 Python exception being raised.
Mark Dickinson4f96f5f2010-05-04 14:25:50 +0000313
Antoine Pitrouf7fd8e42010-05-03 16:25:33 +0000314- Issue #7865: The close() method of :mod:`io` objects should not swallow
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000315 exceptions raised by the implicit flush(). Also ensure that calling close()
316 several times is supported. Patch by Pascal Chambon.
Antoine Pitrouf7fd8e42010-05-03 16:25:33 +0000317
Vinay Sajip27a13702010-05-03 15:11:53 +0000318- Issue #8576: logging updated to remove usage of find_unused_port().
319
Antoine Pitrou951919f2010-05-02 19:51:14 +0000320- Issue #4687: Fix accuracy of garbage collection runtimes displayed with
321 gc.DEBUG_STATS.
322
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000323- Issue #8354: The siginterrupt setting is now preserved for all signals, not
324 just SIGCHLD.
Jean-Paul Calderonee54ddf12010-05-08 20:06:02 +0000325
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000326- Issue #7192: ``webbrowser.get("firefox")`` now works on Mac OS X, as does
327 ``webbrowser.get("safari")``.
Ronald Oussoren4ef1c7e2010-05-02 09:48:21 +0000328
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000329- Issue #8577: ``distutils.sysconfig.get_python_inc()`` now makes a difference
Tarek Ziadéa5cd1822010-04-30 12:15:12 +0000330 between the build dir and the source dir when looking for "python.h" or
331 "Include".
332
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000333- Issue #8464: tarfile no longer creates files with execute permissions set when
334 mode="w|" is used.
Lars Gustäbel5c4c4612010-04-29 15:23:38 +0000335
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000336- Issue #7834: Fix connect() of Bluetooth L2CAP sockets with recent versions of
337 the Linux kernel. Patch by Yaniv Aknin.
Antoine Pitrouf56a2882010-04-29 10:05:40 +0000338
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000339- Issue #6312: Fix http HEAD request when the transfer encoding is chunked. It
340 should correctly return an empty response now.
Senthil Kumaraned9204342010-04-28 17:20:43 +0000341
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000342- Issue #7490: To facilitate sharing of doctests between 2.x and 3.x test
343 suites, the ``IGNORE_EXCEPTION_DETAIL`` directive now also ignores the module
344 location of the raised exception. Based on initial patch by Lennart Regebro.
Nick Coghlandfb45df2010-04-28 14:29:06 +0000345
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000346- Issue #8086: In :func:`ssl.DER_cert_to_PEM_cert()`, fix missing newline before
347 the certificate footer. Patch by Kyle VanderBeek.
Antoine Pitrou4c7bcf12010-04-27 22:03:37 +0000348
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000349- Issue #8546: Reject None given as the buffering argument to ``_pyio.open()``.
Benjamin Petersona9bd6d52010-04-27 21:01:54 +0000350
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000351- Issue #8549: Fix compiling the _ssl extension under AIX. Patch by Sridhar
352 Ratnakumar.
Antoine Pitrou1dc6b082010-04-27 19:09:59 +0000353
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000354- Issue #6656: Fix locale.format_string to handle escaped percents and mappings.
R. David Murray3939dcd2010-04-26 21:17:14 +0000355
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000356- Issue #2302: Fix a race condition in SocketServer.BaseServer.shutdown, where
357 the method could block indefinitely if called just before the event loop
358 started running. This also fixes the occasional freezes witnessed in
359 test_httpservers.
Antoine Pitroua6240402010-04-25 21:40:32 +0000360
Antoine Pitroufc69af12010-04-24 20:04:58 +0000361- Issue #5103: SSL handshake would ignore the socket timeout and block
362 indefinitely if the other end didn't respond.
363
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000364- The do_handshake() method of SSL objects now adjusts the blocking mode of the
365 SSL structure if necessary (as other methods already do).
Antoine Pitrou4d3e3722010-04-24 19:57:01 +0000366
Georg Brandl4341e542010-04-24 09:08:10 +0000367- Issue #7507: Quote "!" in pipes.quote(); it is special to some shells.
368
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000369- Issue #5238: Calling makefile() on an SSL object would prevent the underlying
370 socket from being closed until all objects get truely destroyed.
Antoine Pitroub558f172010-04-23 23:25:45 +0000371
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000372- Issue #7943: Fix circular reference created when instantiating an SSL socket.
373 Initial patch by Péter Szabó.
Antoine Pitroudfb299b2010-04-23 22:54:59 +0000374
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000375- Issue #8451: Syslog module now uses basename(sys.argv[0]) instead of the
376 string "python" as the *ident*. openlog() arguments are all optional and
377 keywords.
Sean Reifscheiderf6ce3cb2010-04-23 08:31:55 +0000378
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000379- Issue #8108: Fix the unwrap() method of SSL objects when the socket has a
380 non-infinite timeout. Also make that method friendlier with applications
Antoine Pitroua5c4b552010-04-22 23:33:02 +0000381 wanting to continue using the socket in clear-text mode, by disabling
382 OpenSSL's internal readahead. Thanks to Darryl Miles for guidance.
383
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000384- Issue #8484: Load all ciphers and digest algorithms when initializing the _ssl
385 extension, such that verification of some SSL certificates doesn't fail
386 because of an "unknown algorithm".
Antoine Pitrouc715a9e2010-04-21 19:28:03 +0000387
Victor Stinnera92e81b2010-04-20 22:28:31 +0000388- Issue #8437: Fix test_gdb failures, patch written by Dave Malcolm
389
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000390- Issue #4814: The timeout parameter is now applied also for connections
391 resulting from PORT/EPRT commands.
Giampaolo Rodolà607f7c02010-04-19 21:46:28 +0000392
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000393- Issue #8463: Add missing reference to bztar in shutil's documentation.
Tarek Ziadé8a12f942010-04-19 21:28:21 +0000394
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000395- Issue #8438: Remove reference to the missing "surrogateescape" encoding error
396 handler from the new IO library.
Antoine Pitrou7c587bf2010-04-19 18:52:43 +0000397
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000398- Issue #3817: ftplib.FTP.abort() method now considers 225 a valid response code
399 as stated in RFC-959 at chapter 5.4.
Giampaolo Rodolàcf445fc2010-04-18 12:55:03 +0000400
Martin v. Löwis24f09fd2010-04-17 22:40:40 +0000401- Issue #8279: Fix test_gdb failures.
402
Antoine Pitrou0a6373c2010-04-17 17:10:38 +0000403- Issue #8322: Add a *ciphers* argument to SSL sockets, so as to change the
404 available cipher list. Helps fix test_ssl with OpenSSL 1.0.0.
405
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000406- Issue #2987: RFC 2732 support for urlparse (IPv6 addresses). Patch by Tony
Senthil Kumaran8c6d9d72010-04-16 02:46:46 +0000407 Locke and Hans Ulrich Niedermann.
408
R. David Murray1a14d3d2010-04-12 16:35:19 +0000409- Issue #7585: difflib context and unified diffs now place a tab between
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000410 filename and date, conforming to the 'standards' they were originally designed
411 to follow. This improves compatibility with patch tools.
R. David Murray1a14d3d2010-04-12 16:35:19 +0000412
R. David Murray27ef9372010-04-12 14:26:06 +0000413- Issue #7472: Fixed typo in email.encoders module; messages using ISO-2022
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000414 character sets will now consistently use a Content-Transfer-Encoding of 7bit
415 rather than sometimes being marked as 8bit.
R. David Murray27ef9372010-04-12 14:26:06 +0000416
Martin v. Löwis7f7765c2010-04-12 05:18:16 +0000417- Issue #8330: Fix expected output in test_gdb.
418
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000419- Issue #8374: Update the internal alias table in the :mod:`locale` module to
420 cover recent locale changes and additions.
Antoine Pitrouab5ce722010-04-11 22:45:47 +0000421
Matthias Klose8a96d202010-04-21 22:18:52 +0000422Extension Modules
423-----------------
424
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000425- Issue #8644: Improved accuracy of ``timedelta.total_seconds()``.
Mark Dickinson7000e9e2010-05-09 09:30:06 +0000426
Brett Cannon945df9a2010-05-04 01:04:53 +0000427- Use Clang 2.7's static analyzer to find places to clean up some code.
428
Matthias Klose8a96d202010-04-21 22:18:52 +0000429- Build the ossaudio extension on GNU/kFreeBSD.
430
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000431- On Windows, ctypes does no longer check the stack before and after calling a
432 foreign function. This allows to use the unmodified libffi library.
Thomas Heller06a7e202010-05-04 18:44:42 +0000433
Antoine Pitroua5c4b552010-04-22 23:33:02 +0000434Tests
435-----
436
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000437- Issue #8672: Add a zlib test ensuring that an incomplete stream can be handled
438 by a decompressor object without errors (it returns incomplete uncompressed
439 data).
Antoine Pitrou37ffc3e2010-05-11 23:32:31 +0000440
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000441- Issue #8490: asyncore now has a more solid test suite which actually tests its
442 API.
Giampaolo Rodolàff46d6e2010-05-10 15:33:22 +0000443
Antoine Pitrou54f9f832010-04-30 23:08:48 +0000444- Issue #8576: Remove use of find_unused_port() in test_smtplib and
445 test_multiprocessing. Patch by Paul Moore.
446
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000447- Issue #7449: Fix many tests to support Python compiled without thread support.
448 Patches written by Jerry Seutter.
Victor Stinnerd9d147b2010-04-27 21:46:03 +0000449
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000450- Issue #8108: test_ftplib's non-blocking SSL server now has proper handling of
451 SSL shutdowns.
Antoine Pitroua5c4b552010-04-22 23:33:02 +0000452
Matthias Klose5183ebd2010-04-24 16:38:36 +0000453Build
454-----
455
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000456- Issue #8625: Turn off optimization in ``--with-pydebug`` builds with gcc.
Mark Dickinsond2f3e3f2010-05-05 22:23:58 +0000457 (Optimization was unintentionally turned on in gcc --with-pydebug builds in
458 2.7 beta1 as a result of the issue #1628484 fix, combined with autoconf's
459 strange choice of default CFLAGS produced by AC_PROG_CC for gcc.)
460
Matthias Klose5183ebd2010-04-24 16:38:36 +0000461- Issue #8509: Fix quoting in help strings and code snippets in configure.in.
462
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000463- Issue #3646: It is now easily possible to install a Python framework into your
464 home directory on Mac OS X, see Mac/README for more information.
Ronald Oussoren01d149f2010-04-30 11:20:14 +0000465
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000466- Issue #8510: Update to autoconf 2.65.
Matthias Klosea0bea5d2010-05-08 10:00:28 +0000467
Brett Cannonc1f5c2f2010-05-02 21:51:23 +0000468Misc
469----
470
471- Update the Vim syntax highlight file.
472
Benjamin Peterson12409062010-04-10 18:53:58 +0000473
Benjamin Peterson5da7e7c2010-03-06 22:44:07 +0000474What's New in Python 2.7 beta 1?
475================================
476
Benjamin Petersonfbac6c12010-04-10 16:22:05 +0000477*Release date: 2010-04-10*
Benjamin Peterson5da7e7c2010-03-06 22:44:07 +0000478
479Core and Builtins
480-----------------
481
Philip Jenveyaebbaeb2010-04-06 23:24:45 +0000482- Issue #7301: Add environment variable $PYTHONWARNINGS.
483
Benjamin Peterson3a1dfa22010-04-06 21:50:00 +0000484- Issue #8329: Don't return the same lists from select.select when no fds are
485 changed.
486
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000487- Issue #8259: ``1L << (2**31)`` no longer produces an 'outrageous shift error'
Mark Dickinson82791672010-04-06 16:47:55 +0000488 on 64-bit machines. The shift count for either left or right shift is
489 permitted to be up to sys.maxsize.
490
Benjamin Peterson4ceeeb02010-04-03 22:48:51 +0000491- Ensure that tokenization of identifiers is not affected by locale.
492
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000493- Issue #1222585: Added LDCXXSHARED for C++ support. Patch by Arfrever.
Tarek Ziadé00002952010-04-03 08:37:59 +0000494
Benjamin Peterson1c7c11e2010-04-03 01:28:57 +0000495- Raise a TypeError when trying to delete a T_STRING_INPLACE struct member.
496
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000497- Issue #7994: Issue a PendingDeprecationWarning if object.__format__ is called
498 with a non-empty format string. This is an effort to future-proof user
499 code. If a derived class does not currently implement __format__ but later
500 adds its own __format__, it would most likely break user code that had
501 supplied a format string. This will be changed to a DeprecationWaring in
502 Python 3.3 and it will be an error in Python 3.4.
Eric Smithd44b2fc2010-04-02 12:30:56 +0000503
Antoine Pitroua57df2c2010-03-31 21:32:15 +0000504- Issue #8268: Old-style classes (not just instances) now support weak
505 references.
506
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000507- Issue #8211: Save/restore CFLAGS around AC_PROG_CC in configure.in, in case it
508 is set.
Victor Stinner6cbf90f2010-03-25 00:21:53 +0000509
Victor Stinnerc7790ed2010-03-22 12:36:28 +0000510- Issue #1583863: An unicode subclass can now override the __unicode__ method
Victor Stinner95affc42010-03-22 12:24:37 +0000511
Benjamin Peterson96545892010-03-21 20:21:00 +0000512- Issue #6474: Make error message from passing an inadequate number of keyword
513 arguments to a function correct.
514
Benjamin Peterson0dee9c12010-03-17 20:41:42 +0000515- Issue #8164: Don't allow lambda functions to have a docstring.
516
Victor Stinner66644262010-03-10 22:30:19 +0000517- Issue #3137: Don't ignore errors at startup, especially a keyboard interrupt
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000518 (SIGINT). If an error occurs while importing the site module, the error is
519 printed and Python exits. Initialize the GIL before importing the site
Victor Stinner66644262010-03-10 22:30:19 +0000520 module.
521
Collin Winter001a3952010-03-18 21:54:01 +0000522- Code objects now support weak references.
523
Benjamin Peterson5da7e7c2010-03-06 22:44:07 +0000524Library
525-------
526
R. David Murray661303f2010-04-13 20:57:40 +0000527- Issue #5277: Fix quote counting when parsing RFC 2231 encoded parameters.
528
Antoine Pitrouf9de5342010-04-05 21:35:07 +0000529- Issue #8321: Give access to OpenSSL version numbers from the `ssl` module,
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000530 using the new attributes `ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION`, `ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION_INFO` and
531 `ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION_NUMBER`.
Antoine Pitrouf9de5342010-04-05 21:35:07 +0000532
Benjamin Peterson76a23c12010-04-04 23:23:22 +0000533- Issue #8310: Allow dis to examine new style classes.
534
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000535- Issue #8257: The Decimal construct now accepts a float instance directly,
536 converting that float to a Decimal of equal value:
Mark Dickinson8a950712010-04-03 15:47:46 +0000537
538 >>> Decimal(1.1)
539 Decimal('1.100000000000000088817841970012523233890533447265625')
540
Raymond Hettinger34c35b22010-04-03 10:22:00 +0000541- collections.Counter() now supports a subtract() method.
542
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000543- The functools module now has a total_ordering() class decorator to simplify
544 the specification of rich comparisons.
Raymond Hettingera551f312010-04-04 18:34:45 +0000545
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000546- The functools module also adds cmp_to_key() as a tool to transition old-style
547 comparison functions to new-style key-functions.
Raymond Hettingera551f312010-04-04 18:34:45 +0000548
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000549- Issue #8294: The Fraction constructor now accepts Decimal and float instances
550 directly.
Mark Dickinson7c63eee2010-04-02 22:27:36 +0000551
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000552- Issue #7279: Comparisons involving a Decimal signaling NaN now signal
553 InvalidOperation instead of returning False. (Comparisons involving a quiet
554 NaN are unchanged.) Also, Decimal quiet NaNs are now hashable; Decimal
555 signaling NaNs remain unhashable.
Mark Dickinsone096e822010-04-02 10:17:07 +0000556
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000557- Issue #2531: Comparison operations between floats and Decimal instances now
558 return a result based on the numeric values of the operands; previously they
559 returned an arbitrary result based on the relative ordering of id(float) and
560 id(Decimal).
Mark Dickinson99d80962010-04-02 08:53:22 +0000561
Barry Warsawf7f2d6f2010-03-31 21:07:16 +0000562- Issue #8233: When run as a script, py_compile.py optionally takes a single
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000563 argument `-` which tells it to read files to compile from stdin. Each line is
564 read on demand and the named file is compiled immediately. (Original patch by
565 Piotr Ożarowski).
Barry Warsawf7f2d6f2010-03-31 21:07:16 +0000566
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000567- Issue #3135: Add ``inspect.getcallargs()``, which binds arguments to a
568 function like a normal call.
Benjamin Peterson7e213252010-03-30 17:58:13 +0000569
Florent Xicluna58b65662010-03-30 16:29:03 +0000570- Backwards incompatible change: Unicode codepoints line tabulation (0x0B) and
571 form feed (0x0C) are now considered linebreaks, as specified in Unicode
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000572 Standard Annex #14. See issue #7643. http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr14/
Florent Xicluna22b24382010-03-30 08:24:06 +0000573
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000574- Comparisons using one of <, <=, >, >= between a complex instance and a
575 Fractions instance now raise TypeError instead of returning True/False. This
576 makes Fraction <=> complex comparisons consistent with int <=> complex, float
577 <=> complex, and complex <=> complex comparisons.
Mark Dickinson9588d992010-03-27 11:14:37 +0000578
Michael Foorde6410c52010-03-29 20:04:23 +0000579- Addition of ``WeakSet`` to the ``weakref`` module.
580
Vinay Sajipb0623d62010-03-24 14:31:21 +0000581- logging: Added LOG_FTP to SysLogHandler and updated documentation.
582
Florent Xicluna176cda12010-03-22 22:52:11 +0000583- Issue #8205: Remove the "Modules" directory from sys.path when Python is
584 running from the build directory (POSIX only).
585
Florent Xiclunae1f4c922010-03-22 22:45:50 +0000586- Issue #7667: Fix doctest failures with non-ASCII paths.
587
Antoine Pitrou513d9ae2010-03-22 19:59:46 +0000588- Issue #7512: shutil.copystat() could raise an OSError when the filesystem
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000589 didn't support chflags() (for example ZFS under FreeBSD). The error is now
590 silenced.
Antoine Pitrou513d9ae2010-03-22 19:59:46 +0000591
Florent Xicluna9e7a4c92010-03-22 16:07:38 +0000592- Issue #7703: ctypes supports both buffer() and memoryview(). The former is
593 deprecated.
594
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000595- Issue #7860: platform.uname now reports the correct 'machine' type when Python
596 is running in WOW64 mode on 64 bit Windows.
R. David Murrayc9d1a782010-03-22 15:55:09 +0000597
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000598- logging: Added getChild utility method to Logger and added isEnabledFor method
599 to LoggerAdapter.
Vinay Sajip804899b2010-03-22 15:29:01 +0000600
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000601- Issue #8201: logging: Handle situation of non-ASCII and Unicode logger names
602 existing at the same time, causing a Unicode error when configuration code
603 attempted to sort the existing loggers.
Vinay Sajip31e928e2010-03-22 13:02:28 +0000604
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000605- Issue #8200: logging: Handle errors when multiprocessing is not fully loaded
606 when logging occurs.
Vinay Sajip3017a7b2010-03-22 12:33:08 +0000607
Antoine Pitroueee91cd2010-03-26 19:27:16 +0000608- Issue #3890, #8222: Fix recv() and recv_into() on non-blocking SSL sockets.
609 Also, enable the SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY flag on SSL sockets, so that blocking
610 reads and writes are always retried by OpenSSL itself.
Antoine Pitrou448da712010-03-21 19:33:38 +0000611
Florent Xiclunacf82fa62010-03-21 12:27:20 +0000612- Issue #8179: Fix macpath.realpath() on a non-existing path.
613
Florent Xicluna2e0a53f2010-03-18 21:50:06 +0000614- Issue #8024: Update the Unicode database to 5.2.
615
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000616- Issue #8104: socket.recv_into() and socket.recvfrom_into() now support writing
617 into objects supporting the new buffer API, for example bytearrays or
618 memoryviews.
Antoine Pitroud7b731d2010-03-17 22:45:39 +0000619
Matthias Klose8b411682010-03-16 10:48:52 +0000620- Issue #4961: Inconsistent/wrong result of askyesno function in tkMessageBox
621 with Tcl/Tk-8.5.
622
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000623- Issue #8140: Extend compileall to compile single files. Add -i option.
Matthias Kloseb13d04c2010-03-15 17:44:12 +0000624
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000625- Issue #7356: ctypes.util: Make parsing of ldconfig output independent of the
626 locale.
Matthias Klose358e7ff2010-03-15 13:42:23 +0000627
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000628- Issue #7774: Set sys.executable to an empty string if ``argv[0]`` has been set
629 to an non existent program name and Python is unable to retrieve the real
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000630 program name.
Victor Stinner75227342010-03-12 14:30:26 +0000631
Vinay Sajipecfa08f2010-03-12 09:16:10 +0000632- Issue #8117: logging: Improved algorithm for computing initial rollover time
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000633 for ``TimedRotatingFileHandler`` by using the modification time of an existing
634 log file to compute the next rollover time. If the log file does not exist,
635 the current time is used as the basis for the computation.
Vinay Sajip9098ee42010-03-12 06:01:21 +0000636
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000637- Issue #6472: The ``xml.etree`` package is updated to ElementTree 1.3. The
Florent Xicluna3e8c1892010-03-11 14:36:19 +0000638 cElementTree module is updated too.
639
Florent Xicluna85677612010-03-10 23:58:42 +0000640- Issue #7880: Fix sysconfig when the python executable is a symbolic link.
641
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000642- Issue #7624: Fix ``isinstance(foo(), collections.Callable)`` for old-style
Florent Xicluna47627d52010-03-08 15:20:28 +0000643 classes.
644
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000645- Issue #7143: email: ``get_payload()`` used to strip any trailing newline from
646 a base64 transfer-encoded payload *after* decoding it; it no longer does.
647 This is a behavior change, so email's minor version number is now bumped, to
648 version 4.0.2, for the 2.7 release.
R. David Murray4617e502010-03-08 02:04:06 +0000649
Larry Hastings3b958e32010-04-02 11:18:17 +0000650- Issue #8235: _socket: Add the constant ``SO_SETFIB``. SO_SETFIB is
651 a socket option available on FreeBSD 7.1 and newer.
652
Michael Foorda04c7a02010-04-02 22:55:59 +0000653- Issue #8038: unittest.TestCase.assertNotRegexpMatches
654
655- Addition of -b command line option to unittest for buffering stdout / stderr
656 during test runs.
657
Victor Stinnerdb990922010-05-15 21:00:59 +0000658- Issue #1220212: Added os.kill support for Windows, including support for
Brian Curtin85108e62010-04-02 23:31:28 +0000659 sending CTRL+C and CTRL+BREAK events to console subprocesses.
660
Mark Dickinson154b7ad2010-03-07 16:24:45 +0000661Extension Modules
662-----------------
663
Martin v. Löwis16ea5482010-04-07 11:01:46 +0000664- Issue #8314: Fix unsigned long long bug in libffi on Sparc v8.
665
Matthias Klosee9fbf2b2010-03-19 14:45:06 +0000666- Issue #1039, #8154: Fix os.execlp() crash with missing 2nd argument.
667
Jesus Cea6557aac2010-03-22 14:22:26 +0000668- Issue #8156: bsddb module updated to version 4.8.4.
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000669 http://www.jcea.es/programacion/pybsddb.htm#bsddb3-4.8.4. This update drops
670 support for Berkeley DB 4.0, and adds support for 4.8.
Matthias Klose54cc5392010-03-15 12:46:18 +0000671
Jesus Cea616de772010-04-28 10:32:30 +0000672- Issue #3928: os.mknod() now available in Solaris, also.
673
Matthias Klose817acef2010-03-15 00:02:36 +0000674- Issue #8142: Update libffi to the 3.0.9 release.
675
Mark Dickinson4846a8e2010-04-03 14:05:10 +0000676- Issue #8300: When passing a non-integer argument to struct.pack with any
677 integer format code, struct.pack first attempts to convert the non-integer
678 using its __index__ method. If that method is non-existent or raises
679 TypeError it goes on to try the __int__ method, as described below.
680
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000681- Issue #1530559: When passing a non-integer argument to struct.pack with *any*
682 integer format code (one of 'bBhHiIlLqQ'), struct.pack attempts to use the
683 argument's __int__ method to convert to an integer before packing. It also
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000684 produces a DeprecationWarning in this case. (In Python 2.6, the behaviour was
685 inconsistent: __int__ was used for some integer codes but not for others, and
686 the set of integer codes for which it was used differed between native packing
687 and standard packing.)
Mark Dickinson154b7ad2010-03-07 16:24:45 +0000688
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000689- Issue #7347: _winreg: Add CreateKeyEx and DeleteKeyEx, as well as fix a bug in
690 the return value of QueryReflectionKey.
Brian Curtin19479fa2010-04-02 21:51:37 +0000691
Antoine Pitrou02b3f0a2010-03-13 21:21:30 +0000692Tools/Demos
693-----------
694
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000695- Issue #7993: Add a test of IO packet processing bandwidth to ccbench. It
696 measures the number of UDP packets processed per second depending on the
697 number of background CPU-bound Python threads.
Benjamin Peterson5da7e7c2010-03-06 22:44:07 +0000698
Collin Wintera70f3492010-03-19 00:08:44 +0000699- python-config now supports multiple options on the same command line.
700
Benjamin Peterson11d93232010-03-14 14:24:31 +0000701Build
702-----
703
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000704- Issue #8032: For gdb7, a python-gdb.py file is added to the build, allowing to
705 use advanced gdb features when debugging Python.
Martin v. Löwisbf0dfb32010-04-01 07:40:51 +0000706
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000707- Issue #1628484: The Makefile doesn't ignore the CFLAGS environment variable
708 anymore. It also forwards the LDFLAGS settings to the linker when building a
709 shared library.
Antoine Pitrouf83b3082010-03-21 19:19:41 +0000710
Martin v. Löwis24e4e162010-03-15 13:00:17 +0000711- Issue #6716: Quote -x arguments of compileall in MSI installer.
712
Benjamin Peterson11d93232010-03-14 14:24:31 +0000713- Issue #7705: Fix linking on FreeBSD.
714
Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven6d22cfc2010-04-07 16:34:08 +0000715- Make sure that the FreeBSD build of the included libffi uses the proper
716 assembly file.
717
Larry Hastings402b73f2010-03-25 00:54:54 +0000718C-API
719-----
720
Antoine Pitrou76c86492010-04-01 16:42:11 +0000721- Issue #8276: PyEval_CallObject() is now only available in macro form. The
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000722 function declaration, which was kept for backwards compatibility reasons, is
723 now removed (the macro was introduced in 1997!).
Antoine Pitrou76c86492010-04-01 16:42:11 +0000724
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000725- Issue #7992: A replacement PyCObject API, PyCapsule, has been backported from
726 Python 3.1. All existing Python CObjects in the main distribution have been
727 converted to capsules. To address backwards-compatibility concerns,
728 PyCObject_AsVoidPtr() was changed to understand capsules.
Larry Hastings402b73f2010-03-25 00:54:54 +0000729
Florent Xicluna3cc8f212010-03-15 18:08:58 +0000730Tests
731-----
732
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000733- Issue #3864: Skip three test_signal tests on freebsd6 because they fail if any
734 thread was previously started, most likely due to a platform bug.
R. David Murraye0e8a872010-04-17 05:26:26 +0000735
Antoine Pitrouab5ce722010-04-11 22:45:47 +0000736- Issue #8348: Fix test ftp url in test_urllib2net.
737
738- Issue #8204: Fix test_ttk notebook test by forcing focus.
739
740- Issue #8344: Fix test_ttk bug on FreeBSD.
741
Antoine Pitrou3b4c9892010-04-06 17:21:09 +0000742- Issue #8193: Fix test_zlib failure with zlib 1.2.4.
743
Antoine Pitrou6032c252010-03-30 18:49:45 +0000744- Issue #8248: Add some tests for the bool type. Patch by Gregory Nofi.
745
Florent Xicluna75c66762010-03-30 16:31:14 +0000746- Issue #8263: Now regrtest.py will report a failure if it receives a
747 KeyboardInterrupt (SIGINT).
748
Florent Xicluna8aa5a582010-03-25 20:33:49 +0000749- Issue #8180 and #8207: Fix test_pep277 on OS X and add more tests for special
750 Unicode normalization cases.
Florent Xicluna77a88492010-03-21 18:00:38 +0000751
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000752- Issue #7783: test.test_support.open_urlresource invalidates the outdated files
753 from the local cache.
Florent Xicluna3cc8f212010-03-15 18:08:58 +0000754
R. David Murray4617e502010-03-08 02:04:06 +0000755
Benjamin Peterson2d798ac2010-02-06 18:26:27 +0000756What's New in Python 2.7 alpha 4?
757=================================
758
Benjamin Peterson8e7c1172010-03-06 20:34:14 +0000759*Release date: 2010-03-06*
Benjamin Peterson2d798ac2010-02-06 18:26:27 +0000760
761Core and Builtins
762-----------------
763
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000764- Issue #7544: Preallocate thread memory before creating the thread to avoid a
765 fatal error in low memory condition.
Victor Stinner71fb87e2010-03-03 23:20:25 +0000766
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000767- Issue #7820: The parser tokenizer restores all bytes in the right if the BOM
768 check fails.
Victor Stinnerd23d3932010-03-02 23:20:02 +0000769
Eric Smith2d9856d2010-02-24 14:15:36 +0000770- Issue #7309: Fix unchecked attribute access when converting
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000771 UnicodeEncodeError, UnicodeDecodeError, and UnicodeTranslateError to strings.
Eric Smith2d9856d2010-02-24 14:15:36 +0000772
Ezio Melotti32125152010-02-25 17:36:04 +0000773- Issue #7649: "u'%c' % char" now behaves like "u'%s' % char" and raises a
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000774 UnicodeDecodeError if 'char' is a byte string that can't be decoded using the
775 default encoding.
Victor Stinnerf20f9c22010-02-23 23:16:07 +0000776
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000777- Issue #6902: Fix problem with built-in types format incorrectly with 0
778 padding.
Eric Smith87bcb242010-02-23 00:11:16 +0000779
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000780- Issue #2560: Remove an unnecessary 'for' loop from ``my_fgets()`` in
Andrew M. Kuchlingb64d6132010-02-22 22:48:41 +0000781 Parser/myreadline.c.
782
Eric Smithf32d4ac2010-02-22 18:33:47 +0000783- Issue #7988: Fix default alignment to be right aligned for
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000784 ``complex.__format__``. Now it matches other numeric types.
Eric Smithf32d4ac2010-02-22 18:33:47 +0000785
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000786- Issue #5211: The complex type no longer uses implicit coercion in mixed-type
787 binary arithmetic operations.
Mark Dickinson82b34c52010-02-21 12:57:35 +0000788
Benjamin Peterson2d798ac2010-02-06 18:26:27 +0000789Library
790-------
791
Florent Xicluna0b9a18a2010-03-06 11:01:08 +0000792- Issue #6906: Tk should not set Unicode environment variables on Windows.
793
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000794- Issue #1054943: Fix ``unicodedata.normalize('NFC', text)`` for the Public
Ezio Melotti8122bdd2010-03-14 10:13:49 +0000795 Review Issue #29 (http://unicode.org/review/pr-29.html).
Victor Stinner7c924ec2010-03-04 12:09:33 +0000796
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000797- Issue #7494: Fix a crash in ``_lsprof`` (cProfile) after clearing the profiler,
Victor Stinner56a51532010-03-04 00:10:12 +0000798 reset also the pointer to the current pointer context.
799
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000800- Issue #7232: Add support for the context manager protocol to the
801 ``tarfile.TarFile`` class.
Lars Gustäbel64581042010-03-03 11:55:48 +0000802
Barry Warsaw08a8fb32010-03-01 21:46:51 +0000803- Issue #7250: Fix info leak of os.environ across multi-run uses of
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000804 ``wsgiref.handlers.CGIHandler``.
Barry Warsaw08a8fb32010-03-01 21:46:51 +0000805
Florent Xiclunae7901c52010-03-01 20:45:01 +0000806- Issue #1729305: Fix doctest to handle encode error with "backslashreplace".
Florent Xicluna2a903b22010-02-27 13:31:23 +0000807
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000808- Issue #691291: ``codecs.open()`` should not convert end of lines on reading
809 and writing.
Florent Xicluna82aa01f2010-02-27 11:19:18 +0000810
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000811- Issue #7975: Correct regression in dict methods supported by bsddb.dbshelve.
R. David Murray48605be2010-02-24 02:31:27 +0000812
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000813- Issue #7959: ctypes callback functions are now registered correctly with the
814 cycle garbage collector.
Thomas Heller92bd0592010-02-23 20:11:44 +0000815
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000816- Issue #7970: ``email.Generator.flatten`` now correctly flattens
817 message/rfc822 messages parsed by ``email.Parser.HeaderParser``.
R. David Murray51f12042010-02-21 04:23:00 +0000818
Ezio Melotti4cc80ca2010-02-20 08:09:39 +0000819- Issue #3426: ``os.path.abspath`` now returns unicode when its arg is unicode.
820
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000821- Issue #7633: In the decimal module, ``Context`` class methods (with the
822 exception of canonical and is_canonical) now accept instances of int and long
823 wherever a Decimal instance is accepted, and implicitly convert that argument
824 to Decimal. Previously only some arguments were converted.
Mark Dickinson6d8effb2010-02-18 14:27:02 +0000825
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000826- Issue #6003: Add an argument to ``zipfile.Zipfile.writestr`` to specify the
827 compression type.
Ezio Melotti8f6a2872010-02-10 21:40:33 +0000828
Michael Foorddb43b5a2010-02-10 14:25:12 +0000829- Issue #7893: ``unittest.TextTestResult`` is made public and a ``resultclass``
830 argument added to the TextTestRunner constructor allowing a different result
831 class to be used without having to subclass.
Ezio Melotti8f6a2872010-02-10 21:40:33 +0000832
Ezio Melotti4cc80ca2010-02-20 08:09:39 +0000833- Issue #7588: ``unittest.TextTestResult.getDescription`` now includes the test
Michael Foorddb43b5a2010-02-10 14:25:12 +0000834 name in failure reports even if the test has a docstring.
Ronald Oussorendd25e862010-02-07 20:18:02 +0000835
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000836- Issue #5801: Remove spurious empty lines in wsgiref.
Tarek Ziadéb8708a22010-02-23 05:53:05 +0000837
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000838- Issue #1537721: Add a ``writeheader()`` method to ``csv.DictWriter``.
Dirkjan Ochtman86148172010-02-23 21:09:52 +0000839
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000840- Issue #7427: Improve the representation of httplib.BadStatusLine exceptions.
Dirkjan Ochtmanebc73dc2010-02-24 04:49:00 +0000841
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000842- Issue #7481: When a ``threading.Thread`` failed to start it would leave the
843 instance stuck in initial state and present in ``threading.enumerate()``.
Gregory P. Smith613c7a52010-02-28 18:36:09 +0000844
Gregory P. Smithcce211f2010-03-01 00:05:08 +0000845- Issue #1068268: The subprocess module now handles EINTR in internal
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000846 ``os.waitpid()`` and ``os.read()`` system calls where appropriate.
Gregory P. Smithcce211f2010-03-01 00:05:08 +0000847
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000848- Issue #6729: Add ``ctypes.c_ssize_t`` to represent ssize_t.
Gregory P. Smith3c699d32010-03-01 04:56:12 +0000849
Steven Betharde9330e72010-03-02 08:38:09 +0000850- Issue #6247: The argparse module has been added to the standard library.
851
Martin v. Löwis413fabc2010-02-18 09:22:20 +0000852Extension Modules
853-----------------
854
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000855- The sqlite3 module was updated to pysqlite 2.6.0. This fixes several obscure
Gerhard Häring3bbb6722010-03-05 09:12:37 +0000856 bugs and allows loading SQLite extensions from shared libraries.
857
Florent Xiclunae7901c52010-03-01 20:45:01 +0000858- Issue #7808: Fix reference leaks in _bsddb and related tests.
859
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000860- Issue #6544: Fix a reference leak in the kqueue implementation's error
Georg Brandlea370a92010-02-23 21:48:57 +0000861 handling.
862
Martin v. Löwis413fabc2010-02-18 09:22:20 +0000863- Stop providing crtassem.h symbols when compiling with Visual Studio 2010, as
864 msvcr100.dll is not a platform assembly anymore.
Benjamin Peterson2d798ac2010-02-06 18:26:27 +0000865
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000866- Issue #7242: On Solaris 9 and earlier calling ``os.fork()`` from within a
Gregory P. Smith9e5d1322010-03-01 01:22:39 +0000867 thread could raise an incorrect RuntimeError about not holding the import
868 lock. The import lock is now reinitialized after fork.
869
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000870- Issue #7999: ``os.setreuid()`` and ``os.setregid()`` would refuse to accept a
871 -1 parameter on some platforms such as OS X.
Gregory P. Smith6a65f852010-03-01 05:43:43 +0000872
Ezio Melotti8f6a2872010-02-10 21:40:33 +0000873Tests
874-----
875
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000876- Issue #7849: The utility ``test.test_support.check_warnings()`` verifies if
877 warnings are effectively raised. A new utility ``check_py3k_warnings()`` is
878 available.
Florent Xicluna6de9e932010-03-07 12:18:33 +0000879
Florent Xicluna985478d2010-03-06 18:52:52 +0000880- The four path modules (genericpath, macpath, ntpath, posixpath) share a
881 common TestCase for some tests: test_genericpath.CommonTest.
882
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000883- Print platform information when running the whole test suite, or using the
884 ``--verbose`` flag.
Florent Xicluna58526412010-03-06 17:24:36 +0000885
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000886- Issue #767675: Enable test_pep277 on POSIX platforms with Unicode-friendly
Florent Xiclunac0a9d412010-03-02 22:34:11 +0000887 filesystem encoding.
Florent Xicluna2db61fb2010-03-02 21:34:45 +0000888
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000889- Issue #6292: For the moment at least, the test suite runs cleanly if python
R. David Murrayf28fd242010-02-23 00:24:49 +0000890 is run with the -OO flag. Tests requiring docstrings are skipped.
891
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000892- Issue #7712: test_support gained a new ``temp_cwd`` context manager which is
893 now also used by regrtest to run all the tests in a temporary directory. The
894 original CWD is saved in ``test.test_support.SAVEDCWD``. Thanks to Florent
895 Xicluna who helped with the patch.
Ezio Melotti8f6a2872010-02-10 21:40:33 +0000896
Martin v. Löwis5e2dd862010-02-15 08:32:00 +0000897Build
898-----
899
Martin v. Löwis7875ef62010-02-15 21:41:12 +0000900- Issue #3920, #7903: Define _BSD_SOURCE on OpenBSD 4.4 through 4.9.
Martin v. Löwis5e2dd862010-02-15 08:32:00 +0000901
Ezio Melotti8f6a2872010-02-10 21:40:33 +0000902
Benjamin Petersondd6d92a2010-01-09 17:30:31 +0000903What's New in Python 2.7 alpha 3?
904=================================
905
Benjamin Petersona7be9d22010-02-06 16:37:32 +0000906*Release date: 2010-02-06*
Benjamin Petersondd6d92a2010-01-09 17:30:31 +0000907
908Core and Builtins
909-----------------
910
Antoine Pitroubb445a12010-02-05 17:05:54 +0000911- Issue #5677: Explicitly forbid write operations on read-only file objects,
912 and read operations on write-only file objects. On Windows, the system C
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000913 library would return a bogus result; on Solaris, it was possible to crash the
914 interpreter. Patch by Stefan Krah.
Antoine Pitroubb445a12010-02-05 17:05:54 +0000915
Barry Warsawb1e66ee2010-02-05 18:45:25 +0000916- Issue #7853: Normalize exceptions before they are passed to a context
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000917 manager's ``__exit__()`` method.
Benjamin Peterson565d7852010-02-05 02:12:14 +0000918
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000919- Issue #7385: Fix a crash in ``PyMemoryView_FromObject()`` when
920 ``PyObject_GetBuffer()`` fails. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
Antoine Pitrou526e4212010-02-02 22:36:17 +0000921
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000922- Issue #7819: Check ``sys.call_tracing()`` arguments types.
Victor Stinnerb4b0a292010-01-31 22:32:15 +0000923
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000924- Issue #7788: Fix an interpreter crash produced by deleting a list slice with
925 very large step value.
Mark Dickinson36ecd672010-01-29 17:11:39 +0000926
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000927- Issue #7766: Change ``sys.getwindowsversion()`` return value to a named tuple
928 and add the additional members returned in an OSVERSIONINFOEX structure. The
929 new members are service_pack_major, service_pack_minor, suite_mask, and
930 product_type.
Eric Smithee931b72010-01-27 00:28:29 +0000931
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000932- Issue #7561: Operations on empty bytearrays (such as ``int(bytearray())``)
933 could crash in many places because of the ``PyByteArray_AS_STRING()`` macro
934 returning NULL. The macro now returns a statically allocated empty string
935 instead.
Antoine Pitroue80a6a42010-01-17 12:26:20 +0000936
Antoine Pitrou64672132010-01-13 07:55:48 +0000937- Issue #7622: Improve the split(), rsplit(), splitlines() and replace()
938 methods of bytes, bytearray and unicode objects by using a common
939 implementation based on stringlib's fast search. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
940
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000941- Issue #7632: Fix various str -> float conversion bugs present in 2.7 alpha 2,
942 including:
Mark Dickinson8efef5c2010-01-12 22:23:56 +0000943
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000944 (1) a serious 'wrong output' bug that could occur for long (> 40 digit) input
945 strings,
946 (2) a crash in dtoa.c that occurred in debug builds when parsing certain long
947 numeric strings corresponding to subnormal values,
948 (3) a memory leak for some values large enough to cause overflow, and
949 (4) a number of flaws that could lead to incorrectly rounded results.
950
951- Issue #7319, #7770: Silence ``DeprecationWarning`` by default when the -3
952 option is not used.
Brett Cannon6fdd3dc2010-01-10 02:56:19 +0000953
Alexandre Vassalottiee936a22010-01-09 23:35:54 +0000954- Issue #2335: Backport set literals syntax from Python 3.x.
955
Alexandre Vassalotti7a8df802010-01-11 23:13:49 +0000956- Issue #2333: Backport set and dict comprehensions syntax from Python 3.x.
957
Alexandre Vassalotti69eb5162010-01-11 23:17:10 +0000958- Issue #1967: Backport dictionary views from Python 3.x.
959
Benjamin Petersondd6d92a2010-01-09 17:30:31 +0000960Library
961-------
962
R. David Murray63e4fd72010-02-10 22:42:04 +0000963- Issue #7835: shelve should no longer produce mysterious warnings during
964 interpreter shutdown.
965
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000966- Issue #2746: Don't escape ampersands and angle brackets ("&", "<", ">") in
967 XML processing instructions and comments. These raw characters are allowed
968 by the XML specification, and are necessary when outputting e.g. PHP code in
969 a processing instruction. Patch by Neil Muller.
Antoine Pitrou42fb6ab2010-02-09 17:08:05 +0000970
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000971- Issue #7869: logging: Improved diagnostic for format-time errors.
Vinay Sajip64e8b972010-02-07 12:56:54 +0000972
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000973- Issue #7868: logging: Added loggerClass attribute to Manager.
Vinay Sajip657514a2010-02-07 01:37:08 +0000974
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000975- Issue #7851: logging: Clarification on logging configuration files.
Vinay Sajip0e6e97d2010-02-04 20:23:45 +0000976
Antoine Pitroud840e512010-02-04 20:20:18 +0000977- Issue #4772: Raise a ValueError when an unknown Bluetooth protocol is
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000978 specified, rather than fall through to AF_PACKET (in the ``socket`` module).
Antoine Pitroud840e512010-02-04 20:20:18 +0000979 Also, raise ValueError rather than TypeError when an unknown TIPC address
980 type is specified. Patch by Brian Curtin.
981
Vinay Sajip28c382f2010-02-04 18:48:53 +0000982- logging: Implemented PEP 391.
983
Antoine Pitrouf3fa0742010-01-31 22:26:04 +0000984- Issue #6939: Fix file I/O objects in the `io` module to keep the original
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000985 file position when calling `truncate()`. It would previously change the file
986 position to the given argument, which goes against the tradition of
Antoine Pitrouf3fa0742010-01-31 22:26:04 +0000987 ftruncate() and other truncation APIs. Patch by Pascal Chambon.
988
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000989- Issue #7610: Reworked implementation of the internal ``zipfile.ZipExtFile``
990 class used to represent files stored inside an archive. The new
991 implementation is significantly faster and can be wrapped in a
992 ``io.BufferedReader`` object for more speedups. It also solves an issue
993 where interleaved calls to ``read()`` and ``readline()`` give wrong results.
994 Patch by Nir Aides.
Antoine Pitrou94c33eb2010-01-27 20:59:50 +0000995
Benjamin Peterson2deb5c72010-01-27 02:16:42 +0000996- Issue #7792: Registering non-classes to ABCs raised an obscure error.
997
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000998- Removed the deprecated functions ``verify()`` and ``vereq()`` from
999 Lib/test/test_support.py.
Ezio Melotti82230f92010-01-25 12:37:02 +00001000
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001001- Issue #7773: Fix an UnboundLocalError in ``platform.linux_distribution()``
1002 when the release file is empty.
Benjamin Petersona43f34c2010-01-25 03:31:13 +00001003
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001004- Issue #7748: Since unicode values are supported for some metadata options in
1005 Distutils, the DistributionMetadata get_* methods will now return an utf-8
1006 encoded string for them. This ensures that the upload and register commands
1007 send the correct values to PyPI without any error.
Tarek Ziadéf14c7fc2010-01-24 00:33:32 +00001008
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001009- Issue #1670765: Prevent ``email.generator.Generator`` from re-wrapping
R. David Murrayed44dfa2010-01-16 05:15:17 +00001010 headers in multipart/signed MIME parts, which fixes one of the sources of
1011 invalid modifications to such parts by Generator.
1012
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001013- Issue #7701: Fix crash in ``binascii.b2a_uu()`` in debug mode when given a
Antoine Pitrouc391ad02010-01-15 00:18:00 +00001014 1-byte argument. Patch by Victor Stinner.
1015
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001016- Issue #3299: Fix possible crash in the _sre module when given bad argument
1017 values in debug mode. Patch by Victor Stinner.
Antoine Pitrouefdddd32010-01-14 17:25:24 +00001018
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001019- Issue #7703: Add support for the new buffer API to functions of the binascii
1020 module. Backported from py3k by Florent Xicluna, with some additional tests.
Antoine Pitroufd3a60d2010-01-14 16:27:09 +00001021
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001022- Issue #2846: Add support for gzip.GzipFile reading zero-padded files. Patch
1023 by Brian Curtin.
Antoine Pitrou5a9112c2010-01-13 14:32:10 +00001024
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001025- Issue #5827: Make sure that normpath preserves unicode. Initial patch by
1026 Matt Giuca.
Ezio Melottib5689de2010-01-12 03:32:05 +00001027
Tarek Ziadédc0f4872010-01-11 22:50:29 +00001028- Issue #5372: Drop the reuse of .o files in Distutils' ccompiler (since
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001029 Extension extra options may change the output without changing the .c file).
1030 Initial patch by Collin Winter.
Tarek Ziadédc0f4872010-01-11 22:50:29 +00001031
Matthias Klose0d948ac2010-01-22 00:39:04 +00001032Extension Modules
1033-----------------
1034
1035- Expat: Fix DoS via XML document with malformed UTF-8 sequences
1036 (CVE_2009_3560).
1037
Antoine Pitrou8c510e72010-01-13 11:47:49 +00001038Build
1039-----
1040
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001041- Issue #7632: When Py_USING_MEMORY_DEBUGGER is defined, disable the private
1042 memory allocation scheme in dtoa.c and use PyMem_Malloc and PyMem_Free
1043 instead. Also disable caching of powers of 5.
Mark Dickinson9481c572010-01-17 20:57:56 +00001044
Ronald Oussorena55af9a2010-01-17 16:25:57 +00001045- Issue #7658: Ensure that the new pythonw executable works on OSX 10.4
1046
1047- Issue #7714: Use ``gcc -dumpversion`` to detect the version of GCC on
1048 MacOSX.
1049
Antoine Pitrou8c510e72010-01-13 11:47:49 +00001050- Issue #7661: Allow ctypes to be built from a non-ASCII directory path.
1051 Patch by Florent Xicluna.
1052
Antoine Pitrouc07336c2010-01-18 21:15:21 +00001053Tools/Demos
1054-----------
1055
1056- iobench (a file I/O benchmark) and ccbench (a concurrency benchmark) were
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001057 added to the ``Tools`` directory. They were previously living in the
Antoine Pitrouc07336c2010-01-18 21:15:21 +00001058 sandbox.
1059
R. David Murrayce6e4b02010-02-06 04:27:21 +00001060Tests
1061-----
1062
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001063- issue #7728: test_timeout was changed to use ``test_support.bind_port()``
R. David Murrayce6e4b02010-02-06 04:27:21 +00001064 instead of a hard coded port.
1065
Matthias Klose626d92a2010-01-31 16:05:13 +00001066Documentation
1067-------------
Victor Stinnerf20f9c22010-02-23 23:16:07 +00001068
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001069- Updated "Using Python" documentation to include description of CPython's -J,
1070 -U and -X options.
Barry Warsawb1e66ee2010-02-05 18:45:25 +00001071
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001072- Updated Python manual page (options -B, -O0, -s, environment variables
Matthias Klose626d92a2010-01-31 16:05:13 +00001073 PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE, PYTHONNOUSERSITE).
1074
Benjamin Petersondd6d92a2010-01-09 17:30:31 +00001075
Benjamin Peterson4f51baf2009-12-05 18:40:02 +00001076What's New in Python 2.7 alpha 2?
1077=================================
1078
Benjamin Petersonaa7e51f2010-01-09 16:34:06 +00001079*Release date: 2010-01-09*
Benjamin Peterson4f51baf2009-12-05 18:40:02 +00001080
1081Core and Builtins
1082-----------------
1083
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001084- The ``__complex__()`` method is now looked up on the class of instances to
1085 make it consistent with other special methods.
Benjamin Petersonecdae192010-01-04 00:43:01 +00001086
Antoine Pitrou5b7139a2010-01-02 21:12:58 +00001087- Issue #7462: Implement the stringlib fast search algorithm for the `rfind`,
1088 `rindex`, `rsplit` and `rpartition` methods. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
1089
Mark Dickinson1b34d252010-01-01 17:27:30 +00001090- Issue #5080: A number of functions and methods previously produced a
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001091 DeprecationWarning when passed a float argument where an integer was expected.
1092 These functions and methods now raise TypeError instead. The majority of the
1093 effects of this change are in the extension modules, but some core functions
1094 and methods are affected: notably the 'chr', 'range' and 'xrange' builtins,
1095 and many unicode/str methods.
Mark Dickinson1b34d252010-01-01 17:27:30 +00001096
Benjamin Peterson0f02d392009-12-30 19:34:10 +00001097- Issue #7604: Deleting an unset slotted attribute did not raise an
1098 AttributeError.
1099
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001100- Issue #7534: Fix handling of IEEE specials (infinities, nans, negative zero)
1101 in ** operator. The behaviour now conforms to that described in C99 Annex F.
Mark Dickinson99d652e2009-12-30 12:12:23 +00001102
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001103- Issue #7579: The msvcrt module now has docstrings for all its functions.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcc8a2ce72009-12-29 23:06:17 +00001104
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc8645a5c2009-12-29 22:03:38 +00001105- Issue #7413: Passing '\0' as the separator to datetime.datetime.isoformat()
1106 used to drop the time part of the result.
1107
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001108- Issue #1811: Improve accuracy and cross-platform consistency for true division
1109 of integers: the result of a/b is now correctly rounded for ints a and b (at
1110 least on IEEE 754 platforms), and in particular does not depend on the
1111 internal representation of a long.
Mark Dickinson46572832009-12-27 14:55:57 +00001112
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001113- Issue #6108: ``unicode(exception)`` and ``str(exception)`` should return the
1114 same message when only ``__str__()`` (and not ``__unicode__()``) is overridden
1115 in the subclass.
Ezio Melottif84caf42009-12-24 22:25:17 +00001116
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001117- Issue #6834: Replace the implementation for the 'python' and 'pythonw'
Ronald Oussoren92919a62009-12-24 13:30:58 +00001118 executables on OSX.
1119
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001120 These executables now work properly with the arch(1) command: ``arch -ppc
1121 python`` will start a universal binary version of python in PPC mode (unlike
1122 previous releases).
Ronald Oussoren92919a62009-12-24 13:30:58 +00001123
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001124- Issue #1680159: Unicode coercion during an 'in' operation no longer masks the
1125 underlying error when the coercion fails for the left hand operand.
R. David Murray0a0a1a82009-12-14 16:28:26 +00001126
Benjamin Peterson4895af42009-12-13 16:36:53 +00001127- Issue #7491: Metaclass's __cmp__ method was ignored.
1128
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001129- Issue #7466: Segmentation fault when the garbage collector is called in the
1130 middle of populating a tuple. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
Antoine Pitrou2a08b422009-12-13 16:18:14 +00001131
R. David Murrayc7298ff2009-12-14 21:57:39 +00001132
Benjamin Peterson4f51baf2009-12-05 18:40:02 +00001133Library
1134-------
1135
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001136- Issue #6963: Added "maxtasksperchild" argument to ``multiprocessing.Pool``,
1137 allowing for a maximum number of tasks within the pool to be completed by the
1138 worker before that worker is terminated, and a new one created to replace it.
Jesse Noller654ade32010-01-27 03:05:57 +00001139
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001140- Issue #7617: Make sure distutils.unixccompiler.UnixCCompiler recognizes gcc
1141 when it has a fully qualified configuration prefix. Initial patch by
1142 Arfrever.
Tarek Ziadéc25417f2010-01-08 23:42:23 +00001143
Antoine Pitrou80157252010-01-08 19:20:17 +00001144- Issue #7092: Remove py3k warning when importing cPickle. 2to3 handles
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001145 renaming of `cPickle` to `pickle`. The warning was annoying since there's no
1146 alternative to cPickle if you care about performance. Patch by Florent
Antoine Pitrou80157252010-01-08 19:20:17 +00001147 Xicluna.
1148
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001149- Issue #7455: Fix possible crash in cPickle on invalid input. Patch by Victor
1150 Stinner.
Antoine Pitrou0d423b82010-01-07 17:46:49 +00001151
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001152- Issue #7092: Fix the DeprecationWarnings emitted by the standard library when
1153 using the -3 flag. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
Antoine Pitroub9d49632010-01-04 23:22:44 +00001154
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001155- Issue #7471: Improve the performance of GzipFile's buffering mechanism, and
1156 make it implement the ``io.BufferedIOBase`` ABC to allow for further speedups
1157 by wrapping it in an ``io.BufferedReader``. Patch by Nir Aides.
Antoine Pitrou673ddf92010-01-03 22:29:56 +00001158
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001159- Issue #3972: ``httplib.HTTPConnection`` now accepts an optional source_address
Gregory P. Smith9d325212010-01-03 02:06:07 +00001160 parameter to allow specifying where your connections come from.
1161
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001162- ``socket.create_connection()`` now accepts an optional source_address
1163 parameter.
Gregory P. Smith79a3eb12010-01-03 01:29:44 +00001164
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001165- Issue #5511: ``zipfile.ZipFile`` can now be used as a context manager.
Ezio Melotti569e61f2009-12-30 06:14:51 +00001166 Initial patch by Brian Curtin.
1167
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001168- Distutils now correctly identifies the build architecture as "x86_64" when
1169 building on OSX 10.6 without "-arch" flags.
Ronald Oussorenca8e7ec2009-12-24 14:50:35 +00001170
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001171- Issue #7556: Distutils' msvc9compiler now opens the MSVC Manifest file in text
1172 mode.
Tarek Ziadé0479eb52009-12-21 23:37:44 +00001173
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001174- Issue #7552: Removed line feed in the base64 Authorization header in the
1175 Distutils upload command to avoid an error when PyPI reads it. This occurs on
1176 long passwords. Initial patch by JP St. Pierre.
Tarek Ziadé2421d562009-12-20 23:23:34 +00001177
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001178- Issue #7231: urllib2 cannot handle https with proxy requiring auth. Patch by
1179 Tatsuhiro Tsujikawa.
Senthil Kumaran7713acf2009-12-20 06:05:13 +00001180
Benjamin Petersonddd392c2009-12-13 19:19:07 +00001181- Issue #7349: Make methods of file objects in the io module accept None as an
1182 argument where file-like objects (ie StringIO and BytesIO) accept them to mean
1183 the same as passing no argument.
1184
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001185- Issue #7348: ``StringIO.StringIO.readline(-1)`` now acts as if it got no
1186 argument like other file objects.
Benjamin Petersonc4771d22009-12-13 17:31:31 +00001187
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001188- Issue #7357: tarfile no longer suppresses fatal extraction errors by default.
Lars Gustäbel92ca7562009-12-13 11:32:27 +00001189
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001190- Issue #7470: logging: Fix bug in Unicode encoding fallback.
Vinay Sajip5cc4e2a2009-12-11 09:16:01 +00001191
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001192- Issue #5949: Fixed IMAP4_SSL hang when the IMAP server response is missing
1193 proper end-of-line termination.
R. David Murray93321f32009-12-09 15:15:31 +00001194
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001195- Issue #7457: Added a read_pkg_file method to
1196 ``distutils.dist.DistributionMetadata``.
Benjamin Peterson4f51baf2009-12-05 18:40:02 +00001197
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001198- Issue #3745: Undo the 2.7a1 change to have hashlib to reject unicode and non
1199 buffer API supporting objects as input. That behavior is for 3.x only.
Gregory P. Smithfe32d302010-01-02 22:42:50 +00001200
Georg Brandl740cdc32009-12-28 08:34:58 +00001201C-API
1202-----
1203
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001204- Issue #7767: New function ``PyLong_AsLongLongAndOverflow()`` added, analogous
1205 to ``PyLong_AsLongAndOverflow()``.
Mark Dickinsona36507c2010-01-30 10:08:33 +00001206
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001207- Issue #5080: The argument parsing functions ``PyArg_ParseTuple()``,
1208 ``PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords()``, ``PyArg_VaParse()``,
1209 ``PyArg_VaParseTupleAndKeywords()`` and ``PyArg_Parse()`` no longer accept
1210 float arguments for integer format codes (other than 'L'): previously an
1211 attempt to pass a float resulted in a DeprecationWarning; now it gives a
1212 TypeError. For the 'L' format code (which previously had no warning) there is
1213 now a DeprecationWarning.
Mark Dickinson1b34d252010-01-01 17:27:30 +00001214
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001215- Issue #7033: Function ``PyErr_NewExceptionWithDoc()`` added.
Georg Brandl740cdc32009-12-28 08:34:58 +00001216
Martin v. Löwisb4261d52009-12-21 19:29:59 +00001217Build
1218-----
1219
Benjamin Petersonedfe72f2010-01-01 15:21:13 +00001220- Issue #6491: Allow --with-dbmliborder to specify that no dbms will be built.
1221
Benjamin Petersonb4abef62010-01-01 15:18:38 +00001222- Issue #6943: Use pkg-config to find the libffi headers when the
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001223 ``--with-system-ffi`` flag is used.
Benjamin Petersonb4abef62010-01-01 15:18:38 +00001224
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001225- Issue #7609: Add a ``--with-system-expat`` option that causes the system's
1226 expat library to be used for the pyexpat module instead of the one included
1227 with Python.
Benjamin Peterson2c196742009-12-31 03:17:18 +00001228
Benjamin Peterson500ce232009-12-30 02:58:50 +00001229- Issue #7589: Only build the nis module when the correct header files are
1230 found.
1231
Martin v. Löwisf477b932010-01-02 09:25:21 +00001232- Switch to OpenSSL 0.9.8l and sqlite 3.6.21 on Windows.
R. David Murray93321f32009-12-09 15:15:31 +00001233
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001234- Issue #7541: when using ``python-config`` with a framework install the
1235 compiler might use the wrong library.
Ronald Oussorenb5afe542009-12-24 14:17:19 +00001236
R. David Murrayc7298ff2009-12-14 21:57:39 +00001237Tests
1238-----
1239
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001240- Issue #7376: Instead of running a self-test (which was failing) when called
R. David Murray77e48ba2009-12-20 16:46:06 +00001241 with no arguments, doctest.py now gives a usage message.
1242
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001243- Issue #7396: Fix regrtest -s, which was broken by the -j enhancement.
R. David Murray98e3df32009-12-16 11:49:46 +00001244
R. David Murrayc7298ff2009-12-14 21:57:39 +00001245- Issue #7498: test_multiprocessing now uses test_support.find_unused_port
1246 instead of a hardcoded port number in test_rapid_restart.
1247
1248
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +00001249What's New in Python 2.7 alpha 1
1250================================
1251
Benjamin Peterson3513c872009-12-05 18:48:13 +00001252*Release date: 2009-12-05*
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +00001253
1254Core and Builtins
1255-----------------
1256
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001257- Issue #7419: ``locale.setlocale()`` could crash the interpreter on Windows
1258 when called with invalid values.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd7288712009-12-01 21:51:04 +00001259
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001260- Issue #3382: 'F' formatting for float and complex now convert the result to
1261 upper case. This only affects 'inf' and 'nan', since 'f' no longer converts
1262 to 'g' for large values.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd7288712009-12-01 21:51:04 +00001263
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001264- Remove switch from "%f" formatting to "%g" formatting for floats larger than
1265 1e50 in absolute value.
Mark Dickinson9dd5e162009-11-23 20:54:09 +00001266
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001267- Remove restrictions on precision when formatting floats. E.g., "%.120g" %
1268 1e-100 used to raise OverflowError, but now gives the requested 120
1269 significant digits instead.
Mark Dickinson18cfada2009-11-23 18:46:41 +00001270
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001271- Add Py3k warnings for parameter names in parentheses.
Benjamin Peterson89b1a5c2009-11-19 22:58:01 +00001272
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001273- Issue #7362: Give a proper error message for ``def f((x)=3): pass``.
Benjamin Peterson89b1a5c2009-11-19 22:58:01 +00001274
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001275- Issue #7085: Fix crash when importing some extensions in a thread on MacOSX
1276 10.6.
Ronald Oussoren315cd0c2009-11-19 16:25:21 +00001277
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001278- Issue #7117: ``repr(x)`` for a float x returns a result based on the shortest
1279 decimal string that's guaranteed to round back to x under correct rounding
1280 (with round-half-to-even rounding mode). Previously it gave a string based on
1281 rounding x to 17 decimal digits. repr(x) for a complex number behaves
1282 similarly. On platforms where the correctly-rounded strtod and dtoa code is
1283 not supported (see below), repr is unchanged.
Mark Dickinsonb678de82009-11-19 18:41:49 +00001284
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001285- Issue #7117: On almost all platforms: float-to-string and string-to-float
1286 conversions within Python are now correctly rounded. Places these conversions
1287 occur include: str for floats and complex numbers; the float and complex
1288 constructors; old-style and new-style numeric formatting; serialization and
1289 deserialization of floats and complex numbers using marshal, pickle and json;
1290 parsing of float and imaginary literals in Python code; Decimal-to-float
1291 conversion.
Mark Dickinsonb678de82009-11-19 18:41:49 +00001292
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001293 The conversions use a Python-adapted version of David Gay's well-known dtoa.c,
1294 providing correctly-rounded strtod and dtoa C functions. This code is
1295 supported on Windows, and on Unix-like platforms using gcc, icc or suncc as
1296 the C compiler. There may be a small number of platforms on which correct
1297 operation of this code cannot be guaranteed, so the code is not used: notably,
1298 this applies to platforms where the C double format is not IEEE 754 binary64,
1299 and to platforms on x86 hardware where the x87 FPU is set to 64-bit precision
1300 and Python's configure script is unable to determine how to change the FPU
1301 precision. On these platforms conversions use the platform strtod and dtoa,
1302 as before.
Mark Dickinsonb678de82009-11-19 18:41:49 +00001303
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001304- Issue #7117: Backport round implementation from Python 3.x. ``round()`` now
1305 uses the correctly-rounded string <-> float conversions described above (when
1306 available), and so produces correctly rounded results that will display nicely
1307 under the float repr. There are two related small changes: (1) round now
1308 accepts any class with an ``__index__()`` method for its second argument (but
1309 no longer accepts floats for the second argument), and (2) an excessively
1310 large second integer argument (e.g., ``round(1.234, 10**100)``) no longer
1311 raises an exception.
Mark Dickinsonbd15a062009-11-18 19:33:35 +00001312
Philip Jenveyfab8be22009-11-17 02:42:26 +00001313- Issue #1757126: Fix the cyrillic-asian alias for the ptcp154 encoding.
1314
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001315- Fix several issues with ``compile()``. The input can now contain Windows and
1316 Mac newlines and is no longer required to end in a newline.
Benjamin Petersone36199b2009-11-12 23:39:44 +00001317
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001318- Remove length limitation when constructing a complex number from a unicode
1319 string.
Mark Dickinsonc04c7c52009-10-26 22:28:14 +00001320
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001321- Issue #7244: ``itertools.izip_longest()`` no longer ignores exceptions raised
1322 during the formation of an output tuple.
Raymond Hettingerfa7dadd2009-11-01 20:45:16 +00001323
Mark Dickinson8d87dc02009-10-25 20:39:06 +00001324- Issue #1087418: Boost performance of bitwise operations for longs.
1325
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001326- Issue #1722344: ``threading._shutdown()`` is now called in ``Py_Finalize()``,
1327 which fixes the problem of some exceptions being thrown at shutdown when the
1328 interpreter is killed. Patch by Adam Olsen.
Antoine Pitrouefb60c02009-10-20 21:29:37 +00001329
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001330- Issue #7168: Document ``PyFloat_AsString()`` and ``PyFloat_AsReprString()``,
1331 and note that they are unsafe and deprecated.
Eric Smithc12781a2009-10-19 14:38:14 +00001332
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001333- Issue #7120: logging: Remove import of multiprocessing which is causing crash
1334 in GAE.
Vinay Sajip03d5c342009-10-16 14:06:44 +00001335
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001336- Issue #7140: The ``__dict__`` of a module should not be cleared unless the
1337 module is the only object holding a reference to it.
Benjamin Peterson196b0922009-10-15 15:44:46 +00001338
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001339- Issue #1754094: Improve the stack depth calculation in the compiler. There
1340 should be no other effect than a small decrease in memory use. Patch by
1341 Christopher Tur Lesniewski-Laas.
Neil Schemenauer7fdd1cb2009-10-14 17:17:14 +00001342
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001343- Issue #7084: Fix a (very unlikely) crash when printing a list from one thread,
1344 and mutating it from another one. Patch by Scott Dial.
Antoine Pitroubeaf6a02009-10-11 21:03:26 +00001345
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd0052d12009-10-06 19:56:32 +00001346- Issue #1571184: The Unicode database contains properties for more characters.
1347 The tables for code points representing numeric values, white spaces or line
1348 breaks are now generated from the official Unicode Character Database files,
1349 and include information from the Unihan.txt file.
1350
Benjamin Peterson7adbb5a2009-10-03 20:23:24 +00001351- Issue #7050: Fix a SystemError when trying to use unpacking and augmented
1352 assignment.
1353
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001354- Issue #5329: Fix ``os.popen*`` regression from 2.5 with commands as a sequence
1355 running through the shell. Patch by Jean-Paul Calderone and Jani Hakala.
Philip Jenvey8b902042009-09-29 19:10:15 +00001356
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001357- Issue #7019: Raise ValueError when unmarshalling bad long data, instead of
1358 producing internally inconsistent Python longs.
Mark Dickinson7e7a3ec2009-09-29 19:01:06 +00001359
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001360- Issue #6990: Fix ``threading.local`` subclasses leaving old state around after
1361 a reference cycle GC which could be recycled by new locals.
Philip Jenveydbf3b252009-09-29 04:32:44 +00001362
Benjamin Peterson9db55402009-09-18 21:47:27 +00001363- Issue #6300: unicode.encode, unicode.decode, str.decode, and str.encode now
Benjamin Peterson332d7212009-09-18 21:14:55 +00001364 take keyword arguments.
1365
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001366- Issue #6922: Fix an infinite loop when trying to decode an invalid UTF-32
1367 stream with a non-raising error handler like "replace" or "ignore".
Georg Brandle9741f32009-09-17 11:28:09 +00001368
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001369- Issue #6713: Improve performance of base 10 int -> string and long -> string
1370 conversions.
Mark Dickinsonaa2adc82009-09-16 22:10:56 +00001371
Thomas Wouters2920adb2009-09-16 20:36:34 +00001372- Issue #1590864: Fix potential deadlock when mixing threads and fork().
1373
Georg Brandl0674d3f2009-09-16 20:30:09 +00001374- Issue #6844: Do not emit DeprecationWarnings when accessing a "message"
1375 attribute on exceptions that was set explicitly.
1376
Mark Dickinsonc8a7c7c2009-09-06 10:03:31 +00001377- Issue #6846: Fix bug where bytearray.pop() returns negative integers.
1378
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001379- ``classmethod()`` no longer checks if its argument is callable.
Benjamin Peterson6fcf9b52009-09-01 22:27:57 +00001380
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001381- Issue #6750: A text file opened with ``io.open()`` could duplicate its output
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfff896b2009-08-29 18:14:40 +00001382 when writing from multiple threads at the same time.
1383
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001384- Issue #6704: Improve the col_offset in AST for "for" statements with a target
1385 of tuple unpacking.
Benjamin Petersonc0ba8282009-08-15 22:59:21 +00001386
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001387- Issue #6707: ``dir()`` on an uninitialized module caused a crash.
Benjamin Peterson4c6e8082009-08-15 13:16:38 +00001388
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001389- Issue #6540: Fixed crash for ``bytearray.translate()`` with invalid parameters.
Georg Brandlec812ca2009-07-22 11:57:15 +00001390
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001391- Issue #6573: ``set.union()`` stopped processing inputs if an instance of self
Raymond Hettingerc2b9e1a2009-07-27 20:32:04 +00001392 occurred in the argument chain.
1393
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc9d11fef2009-07-13 20:03:21 +00001394- Issue #1616979: Added the cp720 (Arabic DOS) encoding.
1395
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001396- Issue #6070: On posix platforms import no longer copies the execute bit from
1397 the .py file to the .pyc file if it is set. Patch by Marco N.
R. David Murray23a736a2009-07-07 01:06:13 +00001398
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001399- Issue #4618: When unicode arguments are passed to ``print()``, the default
Benjamin Peterson753d1622009-07-02 18:16:45 +00001400 separator and end should be unicode also.
1401
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00001402- Issue #6119: Fixed an incorrect Py3k warning about order comparisons of
1403 built-in functions and methods.
Benjamin Peterson1bf47652009-07-02 17:06:17 +00001404
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001405- Issue #6347: Include inttypes.h as well as stdint.h in pyport.h. This fixes a
1406 build failure on HP-UX: int32_t and uint32_t are defined in inttypes.h instead
1407 of stdint.h on that platform.
Mark Dickinson2f865b92009-06-30 15:32:30 +00001408
Hirokazu Yamamotoa3c56092009-06-28 10:23:00 +00001409- Issue #4856: Remove checks for win NT.
1410
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc595f7a52009-06-25 22:29:29 +00001411- Issue #2016: Fixed a crash in a corner case where the dictionary of keyword
1412 arguments could be modified during the function call setup.
1413
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc14fc6732009-06-23 21:09:09 +00001414- Removed the ipaddr module.
1415
Raymond Hettinger62641e92009-06-23 20:59:43 +00001416- Issue #6329: Fixed iteration for memoryview objects (it was being blocked
1417 because it wasn't recognized as a sequence).
1418
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001419- Issue #6289: Encoding errors from ``compile()`` were being masked.
Benjamin Peterson08a0bbc2009-06-16 00:29:31 +00001420
Benjamin Petersona72be3b2009-06-13 20:23:33 +00001421- When no module is given in a relative import, the module field of the
1422 ImportFrom AST node is now None instead of an empty string.
1423
Benjamin Peterson565e1b62009-06-13 03:46:30 +00001424- Assignment to None using import statements now raises a SyntaxError.
1425
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001426- Issue #4547: When debugging a very large function, it was not always possible
1427 to update the lineno attribute of the current frame.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcb02ceda2009-06-01 20:53:18 +00001428
Antoine Pitrou46dbe272009-05-30 21:27:00 +00001429- Issue #5330: C functions called with keyword arguments were not reported by
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001430 the various profiling modules (profile, cProfile). Patch by Hagen Fürstenau.
Antoine Pitrou46dbe272009-05-30 21:27:00 +00001431
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001432- Issue #5982: staticmethod and classmethod now expose the wrapped function with
1433 ``__func__``.
Raymond Hettinger578a2282009-05-29 04:58:52 +00001434
Raymond Hettinger822b87f2009-05-29 01:46:48 +00001435- Added support for multiple context managers in the same with-statement.
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001436 Deprecated ``contextlib.nested()`` which is no longer needed.
Georg Brandl944f6842009-05-25 21:02:56 +00001437
Benjamin Peterson1880d8b2009-05-25 13:13:44 +00001438- Issue #6101: A new opcode, SETUP_WITH, has been added to speed up the with
1439 statement and correctly lookup the __enter__ and __exit__ special methods.
1440
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001441- Issue #5829: complex("1e500") no longer raises OverflowError. This makes it
1442 consistent with float("1e500") and interpretation of real and imaginary
1443 literals.
Mark Dickinsona4e0efa2009-05-20 18:43:07 +00001444
Hirokazu Yamamotoa4f90182009-05-17 02:58:36 +00001445- Issue #3527: Removed Py_WIN_WIDE_FILENAMES which is not used any more.
1446
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001447- ``__instancecheck__()`` and ``__subclasscheck__()`` are now completely ignored
1448 on classic classes and instances.
Benjamin Petersoneb9fb2c2009-05-16 22:46:11 +00001449
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001450- Issue #5994: The marshal module now has docstrings.
R. David Murray525cffc2009-05-13 13:07:14 +00001451
Mark Dickinsonb1d45852009-05-11 15:33:08 +00001452- Issue #5981: Fix three minor inf/nan issues in float.fromhex:
Mark Dickinsonb1d45852009-05-11 15:33:08 +00001453
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001454 (1) inf and nan strings with trailing whitespace were incorrectly rejected;
1455 (2) parsing of strings representing infinities and nans was locale aware; and
1456 (3) the interpretation of fromhex('-nan') didn't match that of float('-nan').
Eric Smitha985a3a2009-05-05 18:26:08 +00001457
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001458- Issue #5920: For ``float.__format__()``, change the behavior with the empty
1459 presentation type (that is, not one of 'e', 'f', 'g', or 'n') to be like 'g'
1460 but with at least one decimal point and with a default precision
1461 of 12. Previously, the behavior the same but with a default precision of 6.
1462 This more closely matches ``str()``, and reduces surprises when adding
1463 alignment flags to the empty presentation type. This also affects the new
1464 complex.__format__ in the same way.
1465
1466- Issue #5890: In subclasses of 'property' the __doc__ attribute was shadowed by
1467 classtype's, even if it was None. property now inserts the __doc__ into the
1468 subclass instance __dict__.
R. David Murray7ba8e1c2009-05-04 22:16:24 +00001469
Antoine Pitrou653dece2009-05-04 18:32:32 +00001470- Issue #4426: The UTF-7 decoder was too strict and didn't accept some legal
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001471 sequences. Patch by Nick Barnes and Victor Stinner.
Antoine Pitrou653dece2009-05-04 18:32:32 +00001472
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001473- Issue #1588: Add complex.__format__. For example, ``format(complex(1, 2./3),
1474 '.5')`` now produces a sensible result.
Eric Smith9139cc62009-04-30 00:58:58 +00001475
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001476- Issue #5864: Fix empty format code formatting for floats so that it never
1477 gives more than the requested number of significant digits.
Mark Dickinson92fcc9c2009-04-29 20:41:00 +00001478
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001479- Issue #5793: Rationalize isdigit / isalpha / tolower, etc. Includes new
1480 Py_ISDIGIT / Py_ISALPHA / Py_TOLOWER, etc. in pctypes.h.
Eric Smithcac7af62009-04-27 19:04:37 +00001481
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001482- Issue #4971: Fix titlecase for characters that are their own titlecase, but
1483 not their own uppercase.
Martin v. Löwis99f27792009-04-26 00:53:18 +00001484
Eric Smith068f0652009-04-25 21:40:15 +00001485- Issue #5835: Deprecate PyOS_ascii_formatd and replace it with
1486 _PyOS_double_to_string or PyOS_double_to_string.
1487
Benjamin Peterson5083dc52009-04-25 00:41:22 +00001488- Issue #5283: Setting __class__ in __del__ caused a segfault.
1489
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001490- Issue #5816: ``complex(repr(z))`` now recovers z exactly, even when z involves
1491 nans, infs or negative zeros.
Mark Dickinson95bc9802009-04-24 12:46:53 +00001492
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001493- Implement PEP 378, Format Specifier for Thousands Separator, for floats, ints,
1494 and longs.
Eric Smithaca19e62009-04-22 13:29:05 +00001495
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001496- Issue #5515: 'n' formatting for ints, longs, and floats handles leading zero
1497 formatting poorly.
Eric Smithaca19e62009-04-22 13:29:05 +00001498
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001499- Issue #5772: For float.__format__, don't add a trailing ".0" if we're using no
1500 type code and we have an exponent.
Eric Smithaca19e62009-04-22 13:29:05 +00001501
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001502- Issue #3166: Make long -> float (and int -> float) conversions correctly
1503 rounded.
Mark Dickinson6736cf82009-04-20 21:13:33 +00001504
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001505- Issue #5787: ``object.__getattribute__(some_type, "__bases__")`` segfaulted on
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00001506 some built-in types.
Benjamin Petersond4d400c2009-04-18 20:12:47 +00001507
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001508- Issue #1869: Fix a couple of minor round() issues. ``round(5e15+1)`` was
1509 giving 5e15+2; ``round(-0.0)`` was losing the sign of the zero.
Mark Dickinson1bdf7e92009-04-18 14:59:42 +00001510
Benjamin Peterson99d36f12009-04-15 21:26:36 +00001511- Issue #5759: float() didn't call __float__ on str subclasses.
1512
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001513- Issue #5704: The "-3" command-line option now implies "-t".
Georg Brandl3c4a5462009-04-12 12:08:12 +00001514
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001515- Issue #2170: Refactored ``xml.dom.minidom.normalize``, increasing both its
1516 clarity and its speed.
R. David Murray0374a822009-04-09 21:54:50 +00001517
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001518- Issue #2396: The memoryview object was backported from Python 3.1.
Antoine Pitrou789be0c2009-04-02 21:18:34 +00001519
Georg Brandld3f03fa2009-04-02 18:09:04 +00001520- Fix a problem in PyErr_NormalizeException that leads to "undetected errors"
1521 when hitting the recursion limit under certain circumstances.
1522
Brett Cannon15ba4da2009-04-01 18:03:59 +00001523- Issue #1665206: Remove the last eager import in _warnings.c and make it lazy.
1524
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001525- Issue #4865: On MacOSX /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages is added to the end
1526 sys.path, for compatibility with the system install of Python.
Ronald Oussorene0154ed2009-03-30 23:10:35 +00001527
Antoine Pitrouf8387af2009-03-23 18:41:45 +00001528- Issue #4688: Add a heuristic so that tuples and dicts containing only
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001529 untrackable objects are not tracked by the garbage collector. This can reduce
1530 the size of collections and therefore the garbage collection overhead on
1531 long-running programs, depending on their particular use of datatypes.
Antoine Pitrouf8387af2009-03-23 18:41:45 +00001532
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001533- Issue #5512: Rewrite PyLong long division algorithm (x_divrem) to improve its
1534 performance. Long divisions and remainder operations are now between 50% and
1535 150% faster.
Mark Dickinson0b666bf2009-03-23 18:25:13 +00001536
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001537- Issue #4258: Make it possible to use base 2**30 instead of base 2**15 for the
1538 internal representation of integers, for performance reasons. Base 2**30 is
1539 enabled by default on 64-bit machines. Add --enable-big-digits option to
1540 configure, which overrides the default. Add sys.long_info structseq to
1541 provide information about the internal format.
Mark Dickinsonefc82f72009-03-20 15:51:55 +00001542
Benjamin Peterson6ffe8522009-03-18 20:52:15 +00001543- Issue #4034: Fix weird attribute error messages of the traceback object. (As a
1544 result traceback.__members__ no longer exists.)
1545
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001546- Issue #4474: PyUnicode_FromWideChar now converts characters outside the BMP to
1547 surrogate pairs, on systems with sizeof(wchar_t) == 4 and sizeof(Py_UNICODE)
1548 == 2.
Mark Dickinson6b265f12009-03-18 16:07:26 +00001549
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001550- Issue #5237: Allow auto-numbered fields in str.format(). For example: ``'{}
1551 {}'.format(1, 2) == '1 2'``.
Eric Smith6f42edb2009-03-14 11:57:26 +00001552
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001553- Issue #3652: Make the 'line' argument for ``warnings.showwarning()`` a
Brett Cannon6c4cff02009-03-11 04:51:06 +00001554 requirement. Means the DeprecationWarning from Python 2.6 can go away.
1555
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001556- Issue #5247: Improve error message when unknown format codes are used when
1557 using ``str.format()`` with str, unicode, long, int, and float arguments.
Eric Smithe9fb6862009-02-20 14:02:36 +00001558
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001559- Running Python with the -3 option now also warns about classic division for
1560 ints and longs.
Raymond Hettinger08259e82009-02-18 23:10:19 +00001561
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001562- Issue #5260: Long integers now consume less memory: average saving is 2 bytes
1563 per long on a 32-bit system and 6 bytes per long on a 64-bit system.
Mark Dickinson2ffb26f2009-02-15 10:13:41 +00001564
Antoine Pitrou76a4b892009-02-13 13:52:33 +00001565- Issue #5186: Reduce hash collisions for objects with no __hash__ method by
1566 rotating the object pointer by 4 bits to the right.
1567
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001568- Issue #4575: Fix Py_IS_INFINITY macro to work correctly on x87 FPUs: it now
1569 forces its argument to double before testing for infinity.
Mark Dickinsonc97c9092009-02-09 14:18:43 +00001570
Benjamin Petersone18ef192009-01-20 14:21:16 +00001571- Issue #4978: Passing keyword arguments as unicode strings is now allowed.
1572
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +00001573- Issue #1242657: the __len__() and __length_hint__() calls in several tools
Raymond Hettingerb5163702009-02-02 21:50:13 +00001574 were suppressing all exceptions. These include list(), filter(), map(),
1575 zip(), and bytearray().
1576
Benjamin Peterson596d3062009-01-19 15:42:23 +00001577- os.ftruncate raises OSErrors instead of IOErrors for consistency with other os
1578 functions.
1579
Benjamin Peterson5848d1f2009-01-19 00:08:08 +00001580- Issue #4991: Passing invalid file descriptors to io.FileIO now raises an
1581 OSError.
1582
Amaury Forgeot d'Arca18392a2009-01-13 23:19:08 +00001583- Issue #4807: Port the _winreg module to Windows CE.
1584
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001585- Issue #4935: The overflow checking code in the expandtabs() method common to
1586 str, bytes and bytearray could be optimized away by the compiler, letting the
1587 interpreter segfault instead of raising an error.
Antoine Pitrouc2f02212009-01-13 23:13:52 +00001588
Amaury Forgeot d'Arca40d5732009-01-12 23:36:55 +00001589- Issue #3720: Fix a crash when an iterator modifies its class and removes its
1590 __next__ method.
1591
Martin v. Löwise3422fa2009-01-12 08:11:24 +00001592- Issue #4893: Use NT threading on CE.
1593
Martin v. Löwis1b3bef22009-01-12 07:57:11 +00001594- Issue #4915: Port sysmodule to Windows CE.
1595
Antoine Pitrou4c5ecb72009-01-09 21:40:55 +00001596- Issue #4074: Change the criteria for doing a full garbage collection (i.e.
1597 collecting the oldest generation) so that allocating lots of objects without
1598 destroying them does not show quadratic performance. Based on a proposal by
Benjamin Petersond50a5d52009-07-13 00:03:20 +00001599 Martin von Löwis at
Antoine Pitrou4c5ecb72009-01-09 21:40:55 +00001600 http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2008-June/080579.html.
1601
Martin v. Löwisb90304a2009-01-07 18:40:40 +00001602- Issue #4850: Change COUNT_ALLOCS variables to Py_ssize_t.
1603
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001604- Issue #1180193: When importing a module from a .pyc (or .pyo) file with an
1605 existing .py counterpart, override the co_filename attributes of all code
1606 objects if the original filename is obsolete (which can happen if the file has
1607 been renamed, moved, or if it is accessed through different paths). Patch by
1608 Ziga Seilnacht and Jean-Paul Calderone.
Antoine Pitroue96d4ea2009-01-06 18:10:47 +00001609
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001610- Issue #4075: Use ``OutputDebugStringW()`` in Py_FatalError.
Martin v. Löwis5344c992009-01-02 20:32:55 +00001611
Hirokazu Yamamoto99a1b202009-01-01 15:45:39 +00001612- Issue #4797: IOError.filename was not set when _fileio.FileIO failed to open
1613 file with `str' filename on Windows.
1614
Antoine Pitrouaa687902009-01-01 14:11:22 +00001615- Issue #3680: Reference cycles created through a dict, set or deque iterator
1616 did not get collected.
1617
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001618- Issue #4701: PyObject_Hash now implicitly calls PyType_Ready on types where
1619 the tp_hash and tp_dict slots are both NULL.
Nick Coghlan180e4002008-12-30 01:18:48 +00001620
Benjamin Peterson7af65562008-12-29 17:56:58 +00001621- Issue #4764: With io.open, IOError.filename is set when trying to open a
1622 directory on POSIX systems.
1623
Benjamin Petersonfe231b02008-12-29 17:47:42 +00001624- Issue #4764: IOError.filename is set when trying to open a directory on POSIX
1625 systems.
1626
Georg Brandl6425a2f2008-12-28 11:54:53 +00001627- Issue #4759: None is now allowed as the first argument of
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001628 ``bytearray.translate()``. It was always allowed for ``bytes.translate()``.
Georg Brandl6425a2f2008-12-28 11:54:53 +00001629
Skip Montanarof205c132008-12-23 03:30:15 +00001630- Added test case to ensure attempts to read from a file opened for writing
1631 fail.
1632
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001633- Issue #2467: gc.DEBUG_STATS reported invalid elapsed times. Also, always print
1634 elapsed times, not only when some objects are uncollectable/unreachable.
1635 Original patch by Neil Schemenauer.
Antoine Pitrou73c0e652008-12-17 22:46:54 +00001636
Mark Dickinson1a707982008-12-17 16:14:37 +00001637- Issue #3439: Add a bit_length method to int and long.
1638
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001639- Issue #2183: Simplify and optimize bytecode for list comprehensions. Original
1640 patch by Neal Norwitz.
Antoine Pitroud0c35152008-12-17 00:38:28 +00001641
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001642- Issue #4597: Fixed exception handling when the __exit__ function of a context
1643 manager returns a value that cannot be converted to a bool.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcad9b5992008-12-10 23:22:49 +00001644
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001645- Issue #4597: Fixed several opcodes that weren't always propagating exceptions.
Jeffrey Yasskinffd42cf2008-12-10 07:35:02 +00001646
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001647- Issue #4445: Replace ``sizeof(PyStringObject)`` with
1648 ``offsetof(PyStringObject, ob_sval) + 1`` when allocating memory for str
1649 instances. On a typical machine this saves 3 bytes of memory (on average) per
1650 string allocation.
Mark Dickinson826f3fe2008-12-05 21:55:28 +00001651
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcdc619012008-11-22 20:01:18 +00001652- Issue #3996: On Windows, the PyOS_CheckStack function would cause the
1653 interpreter to abort ("Fatal Python error: Could not reset the stack!")
1654 instead of throwing a MemoryError.
1655
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001656- Issue #3689: The list reversed iterator now supports __length_hint__ instead
1657 of __len__. Behavior now matches other reversed iterators.
Raymond Hettinger7989a4d2008-12-03 15:42:10 +00001658
Benjamin Petersonc078f922008-11-21 22:27:24 +00001659- Issue #4367: Python would segfault during compiling when the unicodedata
1660 module couldn't be imported and \N escapes were present.
1661
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001662- Issue #4233: Changed semantic of ``_fileio.FileIO``'s ``close()`` method on
1663 file objects with closefd=False. The file descriptor is still kept open but
1664 the file object behaves like a closed file. The ``FileIO`` object also got a
1665 new readonly attribute ``closefd``.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc32265652008-11-20 23:34:31 +00001666
Benjamin Peterson46cc6d12008-11-19 21:49:09 +00001667- Issue #4348: Some bytearray methods returned that didn't cause any change to
1668 the bytearray, returned the same bytearray instead of a copy.
1669
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001670- Issue #4317: Fixed a crash in the ``imageop.rgb2rgb8()`` function.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc7cfe7ea2008-11-18 22:19:37 +00001671
Benjamin Peterson273c2332008-11-17 22:39:09 +00001672- Issue #4230: If ``__getattr__`` is a descriptor, it now functions correctly.
1673
Benjamin Peterson6624a9f2008-11-03 15:14:51 +00001674- Issue #4048: The parser module now correctly validates relative imports.
1675
Benjamin Petersondcee09d2008-10-31 02:16:05 +00001676- Issue #4225: ``from __future__ import unicode_literals`` didn't work in an
1677 exec statement.
1678
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001679- Issue #4176: Fixed a crash when pickling an object which ``__reduce__`` method
1680 does not return iterators for the 4th and 5th items.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc69a9c5b2008-10-30 21:18:34 +00001681
Benjamin Petersonbdca9422008-10-26 20:21:13 +00001682- Issue #4209: Enabling unicode_literals and the print_function in the same
1683 __future__ import didn't work.
1684
Benjamin Peterson399b1fe2008-10-25 02:53:28 +00001685- Using ``nonlocal`` as a variable name will now raise a Py3k SyntaxWarning
Georg Brandl7fb00ad2008-10-25 07:00:52 +00001686 because it is a reserved word in 3.x.
Benjamin Peterson399b1fe2008-10-25 02:53:28 +00001687
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001688- On windows, ``os.chdir()`` given unicode was not working if
1689 GetCurrentDirectoryW returned a path longer than MAX_PATH. (But It's doubtful
1690 this code path is really executed because I cannot move to such directory on
1691 win2k)
Hirokazu Yamamoto10a018c2008-10-09 10:00:30 +00001692
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001693- Issue #4069: When ``set.remove(element)`` is used with a set element, the
1694 element is temporarily replaced with an equivalent frozenset. But the
1695 eventual KeyError would always report the empty ``frozenset()`` as the missing
1696 key. Now it correctly refers to the initial element.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd78b9dc2008-10-07 20:32:10 +00001697
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001698- Issue #4509: Various issues surrounding resize of bytearray objects to which
1699 there are buffer exports.
Antoine Pitrouae5bece2008-12-06 21:29:24 +00001700
Benjamin Peterson8d5934b2008-12-27 18:24:11 +00001701- Issue #4748: Lambda generators no longer return a value.
1702
Kristján Valur Jónsson6220e412009-01-12 09:20:34 +00001703- Issue #3582: Use native TLS functions on Windows
1704
Gregory P. Smithae91d092009-03-02 05:13:57 +00001705- The re.sub(), re.subn() and re.split() functions now accept a flags parameter.
1706
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001707- Issue #3845: In PyRun_SimpleFileExFlags avoid invalid memory access with short
1708 file names.
Matthias Kloseedb5e1e2009-04-04 14:18:13 +00001709
Matthias Klose91a3b9e2009-04-05 21:19:13 +00001710- Issue #1113244: Py_XINCREF, Py_DECREF, Py_XDECREF: Add `do { ... } while (0)'
1711 to avoid compiler warnings.
Matthias Klose0610e082009-04-05 12:43:08 +00001712
Gregory P. Smith2b3eb372009-04-05 23:48:26 +00001713- Issue #5705: os.setuid() would not accept values > 2**31-1 but pwd.getpwnam()
1714 returned them on 64bit platforms.
1715
Walter Dörwalded960ac2009-05-03 22:36:33 +00001716- Issue #5108: Handle %s like %S and %R in PyUnicode_FromFormatV(): Call
1717 PyUnicode_DecodeUTF8() once, remember the result and output it in a second
1718 step. This avoids problems with counting UTF-8 bytes that ignores the effect
1719 of using the replace error handler in PyUnicode_DecodeUTF8().
1720
Walter Dörwald726ba8e2009-05-06 14:32:35 +00001721- Issue #3739: The unicode-internal encoder now reports the number of characters
1722 consumed like any other encoder (instead of the number of bytes).
1723
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001724- Issue #2422: When compiled with the ``--with-valgrind`` option, the pymalloc
1725 allocator will be automatically disabled when running under Valgrind. This
1726 gives improved memory leak detection when running under Valgrind, while taking
1727 advantage of pymalloc at other times.
Benjamin Peterson91c12eb2009-12-03 02:52:39 +00001728
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +00001729Library
1730-------
Benjamin Petersonb3dd5482009-02-26 19:07:18 +00001731
Raymond Hettinger5f516ed2010-04-03 18:10:37 +00001732- Add count() and reverse() methods to collections.deque().
Raymond Hettingera5fd24e2009-12-10 06:42:54 +00001733
Raymond Hettinger0b3263b2009-12-10 06:00:33 +00001734- Fix variations of extending deques: d.extend(d) d.extendleft(d) d+=d
1735
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001736- Issue #6986: Fix crash in the JSON C accelerator when called with the wrong
1737 parameter types. Patch by Victor Stinner.
Antoine Pitrou187177f2009-12-08 15:40:51 +00001738
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001739- logging: Added optional "secure" parameter to SMTPHandler, to enable use of
Vinay Sajip48305662009-12-06 17:57:11 +00001740 TLS with authentication credentials.
1741
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001742- Issue #1923: Fixed the removal of meaningful spaces when PKG-INFO is generated
1743 in Distutils. Patch by Stephen Emslie.
Tarek Ziadé4f383172009-12-06 09:22:40 +00001744
Martin v. Löwisc218a2f2009-12-03 20:53:51 +00001745- Issue #4120: Drop reference to CRT from manifest when building extensions with
1746 msvc9compiler.
1747
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001748- Issue #7333: The ``posix`` module gains an ``initgroups()`` function providing
1749 access to the initgroups(3) C library call on Unix systems which implement it.
1750 Patch by Jean-Paul Calderone.
Antoine Pitrou30b3b352009-12-02 20:37:54 +00001751
Tarek Ziadéa5076a22009-11-29 22:20:30 +00001752- Issue #7408: Fixed distutils.tests.sdist so it doesn't check for group
1753 ownership when the group is not forced, because the group may be different
1754 from the user's group and inherit from its container when the test is run.
1755
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001756- Issue #1515: Enable use of deepcopy() with instance methods. Patch by Robert
1757 Collins.
Antoine Pitroud16f57b2009-11-28 15:55:58 +00001758
Vinay Sajip01801d12009-11-27 14:03:36 +00001759- Issue #7403: logging: Fixed possible race condition in lock creation.
1760
Antoine Pitrouacbe3bd2009-11-27 13:18:34 +00001761- Issue #6845: Add restart support for binary upload in ftplib. The
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001762 ``storbinary()`` method of FTP and FTP_TLS objects gains an optional "rest"
Antoine Pitrouacbe3bd2009-11-27 13:18:34 +00001763 argument. Patch by Pablo Mouzo.
1764
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001765- Issue #5788: ``datetime.timedelta`` objects get a new ``total_seconds()``
1766 method returning the total number of seconds in the duration. Patch by Brian
1767 Quinlan.
Antoine Pitroubcfaf802009-11-25 22:59:36 +00001768
Vinay Sajipc470d682009-11-25 09:03:30 +00001769- Issue #6615: logging: Used weakrefs in internal handler list.
1770
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001771- Issue #1488943: ``difflib.Differ`` doesn't always add hints for tab
1772 characters.
Senthil Kumaran5c456e62009-11-23 18:41:31 +00001773
Lars Gustäbeldd866d52009-11-22 18:30:53 +00001774- Issue #6123: tarfile now opens empty archives correctly and consistently
1775 raises ReadError on empty files.
1776
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001777- Issue #7354: distutils.tests.test_msvc9compiler - dragfullwindows can be 2.
Tarek Ziadé39de1fc2009-11-19 05:33:16 +00001778
Ezio Melotti3373a3a2010-01-16 18:38:01 +00001779- Issue #5037: Proxy the __unicode__ special method to __unicode__ instead of
1780 __str__.
Benjamin Petersondc3c2392009-11-19 03:00:02 +00001781
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001782- Issue #7341: Close the internal file object in the TarFile constructor in case
1783 of an error.
Lars Gustäbel355538e2009-11-18 20:24:54 +00001784
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001785- Issue #7293: ``distutils.test_msvc9compiler`` is fixed to work on any fresh
1786 Windows box. Help provided by David Bolen.
Tarek Ziadéacccafc2009-11-18 08:46:56 +00001787
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001788- Issue #7328: pydoc no longer corrupts sys.path when run with the '-m' switch.
Nick Coghlan11db64e2009-11-15 22:36:47 +00001789
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001790- Issue #2054: ftplib now provides an FTP_TLS class to do secure FTP using TLS
1791 or SSL. Patch by Giampaolo Rodola'.
Antoine Pitrouccd5e022009-11-15 17:22:09 +00001792
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001793- Issue #4969: The mimetypes module now reads the MIME database from the
1794 registry under Windows. Patch by Gabriel Genellina.
Antoine Pitroud5b34d42009-11-15 14:10:48 +00001795
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001796- Issue #6816: runpy now provides a run_path function that allows Python code to
1797 execute file paths that refer to source or compiled Python files as well as
1798 zipfiles, directories and other valid sys.path entries that contain a
Nick Coghlan49868cb2009-11-15 07:30:34 +00001799 __main__.py file. This allows applications that run other Python scripts to
1800 support the same flexibility as the CPython command line itself.
1801
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001802- Issue #7318: multiprocessing now uses a timeout when it fails to establish a
1803 connection with another process, rather than looping endlessly. The default
1804 timeout is 20 seconds, which should be amply sufficient for local connections.
Antoine Pitrouc562ca42009-11-13 22:31:18 +00001805
Antoine Pitrou0734c632009-11-10 20:49:30 +00001806- Issue #7197: Allow unittest.TextTestRunner objects to be pickled and
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001807 unpickled. This fixes crashes under Windows when trying to run
Antoine Pitrou0734c632009-11-10 20:49:30 +00001808 test_multiprocessing in verbose mode.
1809
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001810- Issue #7282: Fix a memory leak when an RLock was used in a thread other than
1811 those started through ``threading.Thread`` (for example, using
1812 ``thread.start_new_thread()``.
Antoine Pitroud7158d42009-11-09 16:00:11 +00001813
Antoine Pitrou99c160b2009-11-05 13:42:29 +00001814- Issue #7264: Fix a possible deadlock when deallocating thread-local objects
1815 which are part of a reference cycle.
1816
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001817- Issue #7211: Allow 64-bit values for the ``ident`` and ``data`` fields of
1818 kevent objects on 64-bit systems. Patch by Michael Broghton.
Antoine Pitrou323b9da2009-11-04 19:25:14 +00001819
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001820- Issue #6896: ``mailbox.Maildir`` now invalidates its internal cache each time
Antoine Pitrouaec41242009-11-02 11:34:27 +00001821 a modification is done through it. This fixes inconsistencies and test
1822 failures on systems with slightly bogus mtime behaviour.
1823
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001824- Issue #7246 & Issue #7208: getpass now properly flushes input before reading
1825 from stdin so that existing input does not confuse it and lead to incorrect
1826 entry or an IOError. It also properly flushes it afterwards to avoid the
1827 terminal echoing the input afterwards on OSes such as Solaris.
Gregory P. Smith38f5d8f2009-11-01 18:33:55 +00001828
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001829- Issue #7233: Fix a number of two-argument Decimal methods to make sure that
1830 they accept an int or long as the second argument. Also fix buggy handling of
1831 large arguments (those with coefficient longer than the current precision) in
1832 shift and rotate.
Mark Dickinson0c673122009-10-29 12:04:00 +00001833
Lars Gustäbel8c06ccc2009-10-29 09:15:00 +00001834- Issue #4750: Store the basename of the original filename in the gzip FNAME
1835 header as required by RFC 1952.
1836
Tarek Ziadé40b998b2009-10-27 23:06:10 +00001837- Issue #1180: Added a new global option to ignore ~/.pydistutils.cfg in
1838 Distutils.
1839
Tarek Ziadéd24cab82009-10-27 21:20:27 +00001840- Issue #7218: Fix test_site for win32, the directory comparison was done with
1841 an uppercase.
1842
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001843- Issue #7205: Fix a possible deadlock when using a BZ2File object from several
1844 threads at once.
Antoine Pitroudd629662009-10-27 17:41:58 +00001845
Tarek Ziadéb9c1cfc2009-10-24 15:10:37 +00001846- Issue #7071: byte-compilation in Distutils is now done with respect to
1847 sys.dont_write_bytecode.
1848
Vinay Sajipc470d682009-11-25 09:03:30 +00001849- Issue #7066: archive_util.make_archive now restores the cwd if an error is
Tarek Ziadé672422a2009-10-24 13:29:44 +00001850 raised. Initial patch by Ezio Melotti.
1851
Antoine Pitroufa94e802009-10-24 12:23:18 +00001852- Issue #6218: io.StringIO and io.BytesIO instances are now picklable with
1853 protocol 2.
1854
Vinay Sajip5ac65282009-10-21 20:22:14 +00001855- Issue #7077: logging: SysLogHandler now treats Unicode as per RFC 5424.
1856
Mark Dickinsona7a52ab2009-10-20 13:33:03 +00001857- Issue #7099: Decimal.is_normal now returns True for numbers with exponent
1858 larger than emax.
1859
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001860- Issue #5833: Fix extra space character in readline completion with the GNU
1861 readline library version 6.0.
Antoine Pitroue0899802009-10-19 18:20:21 +00001862
Antoine Pitrou5ba84912009-10-19 17:59:07 +00001863- Issue #7133: SSL objects now support the new buffer API.
1864
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001865- Issue #7149: urllib fails on OSX in the proxy detection code.
Ronald Oussoren31802d02009-10-18 07:07:00 +00001866
Benjamin Petersonc63457b2009-10-15 03:06:55 +00001867- Issue #7069: Make inspect.isabstract() return a boolean.
1868
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001869- Add support to the ``ihooks`` module for relative imports.
Neil Schemenauere6039f02009-10-14 19:23:53 +00001870
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001871- Issue #6894: Fixed the issue urllib2 doesn't respect "no_proxy" environment.
Senthil Kumaran27468662009-10-11 02:00:07 +00001872
Vinay Sajip1c77b7f2009-10-10 20:32:36 +00001873- Issue #7086: Added TCP support to SysLogHandler, and tidied up some
1874 anachronisms in the code which were a relic of 1.5.2 compatibility.
Vinay Sajip03d5c342009-10-16 14:06:44 +00001875
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001876- Issue #7082: When falling back to the MIME 'name' parameter, the correct place
1877 to look for it is the Content-Type header.
R. David Murray0c8bee62009-10-09 21:50:54 +00001878
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001879- Issue #7048: Force Decimal.logb to round its result when that result is too
1880 large to fit in the current precision.
Mark Dickinson15ae41c2009-10-07 19:22:05 +00001881
Vinay Sajip03d5c342009-10-16 14:06:44 +00001882- Issue #6516: Added owner/group support when creating tar archives in
Tarek Ziadé1b486712009-10-02 23:49:48 +00001883 Distutils.
1884
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001885- Issue #7031: Add ``TestCase.assert(Not)IsInstance()`` methods.
Georg Brandl12fafe62009-10-01 21:02:39 +00001886
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001887- Issue #6790: Make it possible again to pass an ``array.array`` to
1888 ``httplib.HTTPConnection.send``. Patch by Kirk McDonald.
Antoine Pitrou72481782009-09-29 17:48:18 +00001889
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001890- Issue #6236, #6348: Fix various failures in the `io` module under AIX and
1891 other platforms, when using a non-gcc compiler. Patch by egreen.
Antoine Pitrou2a466582009-09-21 21:17:48 +00001892
Tarek Ziadé99773352009-09-21 13:41:08 +00001893- Issue #6954: Fixed crash when using DISTUTILS_DEBUG flag in Distutils.
1894
Ronald Oussoren51f06332009-09-20 10:31:22 +00001895- Issue #6851: Fix urllib.urlopen crash on secondairy threads on OSX 10.6
1896
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001897- Issue #4606: Passing 'None' if ctypes argtype is set to POINTER(...) does now
1898 always result in NULL.
Thomas Heller6be522b2009-09-18 20:05:44 +00001899
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001900- Issue #5042: ctypes Structure sub-subclass does now initialize correctly with
1901 base class positional arguments.
Thomas Heller7a352c02009-09-18 18:55:17 +00001902
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001903- Issue #6938: Fix a TypeError in string formatting of a multiprocessing debug
1904 message.
Georg Brandlc40e60e2009-09-18 09:18:27 +00001905
Matthias Klose924eab62009-09-13 15:09:24 +00001906- Issue #6635: Fix profiler printing usage message.
1907
Lars Gustäbel21121e62009-09-12 10:28:15 +00001908- Issue #6856: Add a filter keyword argument to TarFile.add().
1909
Tarek Ziadébed26a32009-09-09 08:14:20 +00001910- Issue #6163: Fixed HP-UX runtime library dir options in
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001911 distutils.unixcompiler. Initial patch by Sridhar Ratnakumar and Michael
1912 Haubenwallner.
Tarek Ziadébed26a32009-09-09 08:14:20 +00001913
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001914- Issue #6857: Default format() alignment should be '>' for Decimal instances.
Mark Dickinson5cfa8042009-09-08 20:20:19 +00001915
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001916- Issue #6795: int(Decimal('nan')) now raises ValueError instead of returning
1917 NaN or raising InvalidContext. Also, fix infinite recursion in
1918 long(Decimal('nan')).
Mark Dickinson968f1692009-09-07 18:04:58 +00001919
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001920- Issue #6850: Fix bug in Decimal._parse_format_specifier for formats with no
1921 type specifier.
Mark Dickinson491ea552009-09-07 16:17:41 +00001922
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001923- Issue #4937: plat-mac/bundlebuilder refers to non-existing version.plist.
Ronald Oussoren626faeb2009-09-06 12:23:18 +00001924
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001925- Issue #6838: Use a list to accumulate the value instead of repeatedly
1926 concatenating strings in httplib's HTTPResponse._read_chunked providing a
1927 significant speed increase when downloading large files servend with a
1928 Transfer-Encoding of 'chunked'.
Chris Withers7f3ea6a2009-09-04 16:32:22 +00001929
Georg Brandld22b9512009-09-04 08:17:04 +00001930- Issue #5275: In Cookie's Cookie.load(), properly handle non-string arguments
1931 as documented.
1932
Georg Brandl2e1308f2009-09-04 06:59:20 +00001933- Issue #2666: Handle BROWSER environment variable properly for unknown browser
1934 names in the webbrowser module.
1935
Lars Gustäbelf7cda522009-08-28 19:23:44 +00001936- Issue #6054: Do not normalize stored pathnames in tarfile.
1937
Mark Dickinson7a7739d2009-08-28 13:25:02 +00001938- Issue #6794: Fix Decimal.compare_total and Decimal.compare_total_mag: NaN
1939 payloads are now ordered by integer value rather than lexicographically.
1940
Tarek Ziadé764fc232009-08-20 21:23:13 +00001941- Issue #6693: New functions in site.py to get user/global site packages paths.
1942
Gregory P. Smith4e63d542009-08-20 09:39:38 +00001943- The thread.lock type now supports weak references.
1944
Guilherme Polo7b50c4f2009-08-18 14:46:57 +00001945- Issue #1356969: Add missing info methods in Tix.HList.
1946
Guilherme Polo6b3c7092009-08-18 14:23:00 +00001947- Issue #1522587: New constants and methods for the Tix.Grid widget.
1948
Guilherme Polo6c823f82009-08-18 13:29:20 +00001949- Issue #1250469: Fix the return value of Tix.PanedWindow.panes.
1950
Guilherme Polod3e6e4b2009-08-18 13:23:08 +00001951- Issue #1119673: Do not override Tkinter.Text methods when creating a
1952 ScrolledText.
1953
Gregory P. Smithb98d6b22009-08-16 18:52:58 +00001954- Issue #6665: Fix fnmatch to properly match filenames with newlines in them.
1955
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001956- Issue #1135: Add the XView and YView mix-ins to avoid duplicating the xview*
1957 and yview* methods.
Guilherme Poloe45f0172009-08-14 14:36:45 +00001958
Antoine Pitrou20e1f932009-08-06 20:18:29 +00001959- Issue #6629: Fix a data corruption issue in the new `io` package, which could
1960 occur when writing to a BufferedRandom object (e.g. a file opened in "rb+" or
1961 "wb+" mode) after having buffered a certain amount of data for reading. This
1962 bug was not present in the pure Python implementation.
1963
Jesse Noller8497efe2009-08-06 02:05:56 +00001964- Issue #4660: If a multiprocessing.JoinableQueue.put() was preempted, it was
1965 possible to get a spurious 'task_done() called too many times' error.
1966
Gregory P. Smithc4ad0342009-08-13 18:54:50 +00001967- Issue #1628205: Socket file objects returned by socket.socket.makefile() now
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001968 properly handles EINTR within the read, readline, write & flush methods. The
1969 socket.sendall() method now properly handles interrupted system calls.
Gregory P. Smithc4ad0342009-08-13 18:54:50 +00001970
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001971- Issue #6595: The Decimal constructor now allows arbitrary Unicode decimal
1972 digits in input, as recommended by the standard. Previously it was restricted
1973 to accepting [0-9].
Mark Dickinson4326ad82009-08-02 10:59:36 +00001974
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc3e5b0272009-07-28 22:15:30 +00001975- Issue #6511: ZipFile now raises BadZipfile (instead of an IOError) when
1976 opening an empty or very small file.
1977
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc74b30162009-07-23 19:26:02 +00001978- Issue #6553: Fixed a crash in cPickle.load(), when given a file-like object
1979 containing incomplete data.
1980
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001981- Issue #6545: Removed assert statements in distutils.Extension, so the behavior
1982 is similar when used with -O.
Tarek Ziadéaf2406f2009-07-22 08:55:19 +00001983
Benjamin Petersond7b0eeb2009-07-19 20:18:21 +00001984- unittest has been split up into a package. All old names should still work.
1985
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001986- Issue #6431: Make Fraction type return NotImplemented when it doesn't know how
1987 to handle a comparison without loss of precision. Also add correct handling
1988 of infinities and nans for comparisons with float.
Mark Dickinson88a0a2e2009-07-18 15:18:18 +00001989
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc74b30162009-07-23 19:26:02 +00001990- Issue #6415: Fixed warnings.warn segfault on bad formatted string.
Hirokazu Yamamoto1a3d0852009-07-17 06:26:54 +00001991
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001992- Issue #6466: Now distutils.cygwinccompiler and distutils.emxccompiler uses the
1993 same refactored function to get gcc/ld/dllwrap versions numbers. It's
1994 ``distutils.util.get_compiler_versions()``. Added deprecation warnings for
1995 the obsolete get_versions() functions.
Tarek Ziadéa99dedf2009-07-16 15:35:45 +00001996
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001997- Issue #6433: Fixed issues with multiprocessing.pool.map hanging on empty list.
Jesse Noller7530e472009-07-16 14:23:04 +00001998
Vinay Sajipcbb24b32009-07-13 11:21:05 +00001999- Issue #6314: logging: Extra checks on the "level" argument in more places.
2000
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc74b8d332009-07-11 14:33:51 +00002001- Issue #2622: Fixed an ImportError when importing email.messsage from a
2002 standalone application built with py2exe or py2app.
2003
Vinay Sajipcbb24b32009-07-13 11:21:05 +00002004- Issue #6455: Fixed test_build_ext under win32.
Tarek Ziadé8c400012009-07-10 09:10:33 +00002005
Vinay Sajipcbb24b32009-07-13 11:21:05 +00002006- Issue #6377: Enabled the compiler option, and deprecate its usage as an
Tarek Ziadée670e5a2009-07-06 12:50:46 +00002007 attribute.
2008
Tarek Ziadé63f17382009-07-04 02:02:41 +00002009- Issue #6413: Fixed the log level in distutils.dist for announce.
2010
Gregory P. Smithc197d0a2009-07-04 01:55:11 +00002011- Issue #3392: The subprocess communicate() method no longer fails in select()
2012 when file descriptors are large; communicate() now uses poll() when possible.
2013
Tarek Ziadé65ec61e2009-07-03 08:22:56 +00002014- Issue #6403: Fixed package path usage in build_ext.
2015
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002016- Issues #5155, #5313, #5331: multiprocessing.Process._bootstrap was
Jesse Noller1b90efb2009-06-30 17:11:52 +00002017 unconditionally calling "os.close(sys.stdin.fileno())" resulting in file
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002018 descriptor errors.
Jesse Noller1b90efb2009-06-30 17:11:52 +00002019
Vinay Sajipcbb24b32009-07-13 11:21:05 +00002020- Issue #6365: Distutils build_ext inplace mode was copying the compiled
Tarek Ziadé3fbcc602009-06-29 16:13:39 +00002021 extension in a subdirectory if the extension name had dots.
2022
Hirokazu Yamamoto99ebc632009-06-29 14:29:31 +00002023- Issue #6344: Fixed a crash of mmap.read() when passed a negative argument.
2024
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002025- Issue #5230: pydoc would report no documentation found if a module generated a
2026 'not found' import error when loaded; it now reports the import errors.
R. David Murrayef087da2009-06-23 18:02:46 +00002027 Thanks to Lucas Prado Melo for initial fix and collaboration on the tests.
2028
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002029- Issue #6314: ``logging.basicConfig()`` performs extra checks on the "level"
Vinay Sajip603fb6d2009-06-21 17:37:27 +00002030 argument.
2031
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002032- Issue #6164: Added an AIX specific linker argument in Distutils unixcompiler.
2033 Original patch by Sridhar Ratnakumar.
Tarek Ziadé439bf932009-06-20 13:57:20 +00002034
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002035- Issue #6274: Fixed possible file descriptors leak in subprocess.py.
Facundo Batista8c826b72009-06-19 18:02:28 +00002036
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc5fe420e2009-06-18 22:32:50 +00002037- Issue #6189: Restored compatibility of subprocess.py with Python 2.2.
2038
Tarek Ziadéfdefc0a2009-06-16 07:29:52 +00002039- Issue #6287: Added the license field in Distutils documentation.
2040
Tarek Ziadéa1cc0402009-06-15 23:30:13 +00002041- Issue #6286: Now Distutils upload command is based on urllib2 instead of
2042 httplib, allowing the usage of http_proxy.
2043
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002044- Issue #6271: mmap tried to close invalid file handle (-1) for anonymous maps
2045 on Unix.
Hirokazu Yamamoto983a4652009-06-14 03:53:55 +00002046
Antoine Pitrou19690592009-06-12 20:14:08 +00002047- Issue #6215: All bug fixes and enhancements from the Python 3.1 io library
2048 (including the fast C implementation) have been backported to the standard
2049 ``io`` module.
2050
Martin v. Löwis2dcd7a02009-06-12 17:28:31 +00002051- Issue #6258: Support AMD64 in bdist_msi.
2052
Vinay Sajip334ffe82010-01-15 23:27:05 +00002053- Issue #6252: Fixed bug in next rollover time computation in
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00002054 TimedRotatingFileHandler.
2055
Tarek Ziadéc7498f52009-06-11 09:13:36 +00002056- Issue #6263: Fixed syntax error in distutils.cygwincompiler.
2057
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002058- Issue #5201: distutils.sysconfig.parse_makefile() now understands ``$$`` in
2059 Makefiles. This prevents compile errors when using syntax like:
2060 ``LDFLAGS='-rpath=\$$LIB:/some/other/path'``. Patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
Tarek Ziadé25d2bae2009-06-11 08:12:20 +00002061
Georg Brandle6632b42009-06-04 08:58:32 +00002062- Issue #5767: Removed sgmlop support from xmlrpclib.
2063
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002064- Issue #6131: test_modulefinder leaked when run after test_distutils. Patch by
2065 Hirokazu Yamamoto.
Tarek Ziadé3e3eace2009-05-29 08:08:07 +00002066
Tarek Ziadé9e5d2dc2009-05-28 12:53:54 +00002067- Issue #6048: Now Distutils uses the tarfile module in archive_util.
2068
Raymond Hettingerb4d2d312009-05-29 01:36:26 +00002069- Issue #5150: IDLE's format menu now has an option to strip trailing
2070 whitespace.
2071
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002072- Issue #6121: pydoc now ignores leading and trailing spaces in the argument to
2073 the 'help' function.
R. David Murrayd67ea7d2009-05-27 20:07:21 +00002074
Benjamin Peterson176a56c2009-05-25 00:48:58 +00002075- In unittest, using a skipping decorator on a class is now equivalent to
2076 skipping every test on the class. The ClassTestSuite class has been removed.
2077
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002078- Issue #6050: Don't fail extracting a directory from a zipfile if the directory
2079 already exists.
Martin v. Löwis0b09c422009-05-24 19:30:52 +00002080
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002081- Issue #5311: bdist_msi can now build packages that do not depend on a specific
2082 Python version.
Martin v. Löwis53b578e2009-05-24 19:10:52 +00002083
Antoine Pitroud49e3752009-05-24 15:40:09 +00002084- Issue #1309352: fcntl now converts its third arguments to a C `long` rather
2085 than an int, which makes some operations possible under 64-bit Linux (e.g.
2086 DN_MULTISHOT with F_NOTIFY).
2087
Senthil Kumarane266f252009-05-24 09:14:50 +00002088- Issue #1424152: Fix for httplib, urllib2 to support SSL while working through
2089 proxy. Original patch by Christopher Li, changes made by Senthil Kumaran.
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00002090
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002091- Issue #1983: Fix functions taking or returning a process identifier to use the
2092 dedicated C type ``pid_t`` instead of a C ``int``. Some platforms have a
2093 process identifier type wider than the standard C integer type.
Antoine Pitrou5e858fe2009-05-23 15:37:45 +00002094
R. David Murrayad3058e2009-05-23 00:48:58 +00002095- Issue #4066: smtplib.SMTP_SSL._get_socket now correctly returns the socket.
2096 Patch by Farhan Ahmad, test by Marcin Bachry.
2097
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002098- Issue #6062: In distutils, fixed the package option of build_ext. Feedback
Tarek Ziadé7d7127d2009-05-19 16:17:21 +00002099 and tests on pywin32 by Tim Golden.
2100
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002101- Issue #6053: Fixed distutils tests on win32. Patch by Hirokazu Yamamoto.
Tarek Ziadé07bbfcc2009-05-18 12:21:26 +00002102
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002103- Issue #6046: Fixed the library extension when distutils build_ext is used in
2104 place. Initial patch by Roumen Petrov.
Tarek Ziadéfcc7f032009-05-18 08:03:37 +00002105
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00002106- Issue #6041: Now distutils `sdist` and `register` commands use `check` as a
Tarek Ziadécb768042009-05-16 16:37:06 +00002107 subcommand.
2108
Antoine Pitrou775fd662009-05-15 16:54:52 +00002109- Issue #2116: Weak references and weak dictionaries now support copy()ing and
2110 deepcopy()ing.
2111
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002112- Issue #1655: Make imaplib IPv6-capable. Patch by Derek Morr.
Antoine Pitrou52035a02009-05-15 11:50:29 +00002113
Antoine Pitrou42b5bcf2009-05-14 21:48:09 +00002114- Issue #5918: Fix a crash in the parser module.
2115
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002116- Issue #1664: Make nntplib IPv6-capable. Patch by Derek Morr.
Antoine Pitroueed30d82009-05-14 21:22:08 +00002117
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002118- Issue #6022: A test file was created in the current working directory by
Tarek Ziadécbb4f9e2009-05-14 20:14:13 +00002119 test_get_outputs in Distutils.
2120
R. David Murray996ba022009-05-13 17:14:11 +00002121- Issue #4050: inspect.findsource/getsource now raise an IOError if the 'source'
2122 file is a binary. Patch by Brodie Rao, tests by Daniel Diniz.
2123
Tarek Ziadé972480d2009-05-12 17:07:14 +00002124- Issue #5977: distutils build_ext.get_outputs was not taking into account the
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002125 inplace option. Initial patch by kxroberto.
Tarek Ziadé972480d2009-05-12 17:07:14 +00002126
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002127- Issue #5984: distutils.command.build_ext.check_extensions_list checks were
2128 broken for old-style extensions.
Tarek Ziadéd5d83422009-05-10 10:12:08 +00002129
Vinay Sajipf9b01fe2009-05-09 12:07:17 +00002130- Issue #5971: StreamHandler.handleError now swallows IOErrors which occur when
2131 trying to print a traceback.
2132
Tarek Ziadé812d7712009-05-09 10:06:00 +00002133- Issue #5976: Fixed Distutils test_check_environ.
2134
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002135- Issue #5900: Ensure RUNPATH is added to extension modules with RPATH if GNU ld
2136 is used. Original patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
Tarek Ziadée2be83d2009-05-09 08:28:53 +00002137
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002138- Issue #5941: Distutils build_clib command was not working anymore because of
2139 an incomplete costumization of the archiver command. Added ARFLAGS in the
2140 Makefile besides AR and make Distutils use it. Original patch by David
Tarek Ziadé99f660a2009-05-07 21:20:34 +00002141 Cournapeau.
2142
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002143- Issue 5955: aifc's close method did not close the file it wrapped, now it
2144 does. This also means getfp method now returns the real fp.
R. David Murrayd3bf34c2009-05-07 16:29:19 +00002145
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002146- Issue #4875: On win32, ctypes.util.find_library does no longer return
2147 directories.
Thomas Hellera57773e2009-05-05 18:55:47 +00002148
Georg Brandl4d4313d2009-05-05 08:54:11 +00002149- Issue #5142: Add the ability to skip modules while stepping to pdb.
2150
Georg Brandle3869c42009-05-05 08:30:28 +00002151- Issue #1309567: Fix linecache behavior of stripping subdirectories when
2152 looking for files given by a relative filename.
2153
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002154- Issue #5692: In ``zipfile.Zipfile``, fix wrong path calculation when
Antoine Pitrou97377bf2009-05-04 21:17:17 +00002155 extracting a file to the root directory.
2156
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002157- Issue #5913: ``os.listdir()`` should fail for empty path on windows.
Hirokazu Yamamoto406d7aa2009-05-04 05:28:39 +00002158
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002159- Issue #5084: Unpickling now interns the attribute names of pickled objects,
2160 saving memory and avoiding growth in size of subsequent pickles. Proposal and
2161 original patch by Jake McGuire.
Antoine Pitrou74309892009-05-02 21:13:23 +00002162
Antoine Pitrou1fc02312009-05-01 20:55:35 +00002163- Issue #3002: ``shutil.copyfile()`` and ``shutil.copytree()`` now raise an
2164 error when a named pipe is encountered, rather than blocking infinitely.
2165
Gregory P. Smith1d499262009-05-01 19:59:52 +00002166- Issue #3959: The ipaddr module has been added to the standard library.
2167 Contributed by Google.
2168
R. David Murray25b4add2009-04-29 13:17:37 +00002169- Issue #2245: aifc now skips chunk types it doesn't recognize, per spec.
2170
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002171- Issue #5874: distutils.tests.test_config_cmd is not locale-sensitive anymore.
Tarek Ziadéa1b91d92009-04-29 08:03:46 +00002172
Thomas Heller90c61a22009-04-28 19:23:41 +00002173- Issue #4305: ctypes should now build again on mipsel-linux-gnu
2174
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002175- Issue #1734234: Massively speedup ``unicodedata.normalize()`` when the string
2176 is already in normalized form, by performing a quick check beforehand.
Antoine Pitroue988e282009-04-27 21:53:26 +00002177 Original patch by Rauli Ruohonen.
2178
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002179- Issue #5853: Calling a function of the mimetypes module from several threads
Antoine Pitrouf2651e12009-04-27 20:50:20 +00002180 at once could hit the recursion limit if the mimetypes database hadn't been
2181 initialized before.
2182
Vinay Sajipe34d6aa2009-04-27 13:44:27 +00002183- Issue #5854: Updated __all__ to include some missing names and remove some
2184 names which should not be exported.
2185
2186- Issue #5810: Fixed Distutils test_build_scripts so it uses
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002187 ``sysconfig.get_config_vars()``.
Tarek Ziadébcddf672009-04-25 12:51:59 +00002188
Tarek Ziadéd567c382009-04-25 12:38:08 +00002189- Issue #4951: Fixed failure in test_httpservers.
2190
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002191- Issue #3102: All global symbols that the _ctypes extension defines are now
2192 prefixed with 'Py' or '_ctypes'.
Thomas Heller5c6af802009-04-24 20:31:47 +00002193
Thomas Hellerec21ccd2009-04-24 20:00:41 +00002194- Issue #5041: ctypes does now allow pickling wide character.
2195
Mark Dickinson4af8e742009-04-24 13:56:07 +00002196- Issue #5812: For the two-argument form of the Fraction constructor,
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002197 ``Fraction(m, n)``, m and n are permitted to be arbitrary Rational instances.
Mark Dickinson4af8e742009-04-24 13:56:07 +00002198
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002199- Issue #5812: Fraction('1e6') is valid: more generally, any string that's valid
2200 for float() is now valid for Fraction(), with the exception of strings
2201 representing NaNs and infinities.
Mark Dickinson8100bd82009-04-22 18:15:25 +00002202
Tarek Ziadé31559b62009-04-20 14:29:42 +00002203- Issue #5795: Fixed test_distutils failure on Debian ppc.
2204
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +00002205- Issue #5768: Fixed bug in Unicode output logic and test case for same.
2206
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002207- Issue #1161031: Fix readwrite select flag handling: POLLPRI now results in a
2208 handle_expt_event call, not handle_read_event, and POLLERR and POLLNVAL now
2209 call handle_close, not handle_expt_event. Also, dispatcher now has an
2210 'ignore_log_types' attribute for suppressing log messages, which is set to
2211 'warning' by default.
R. David Murrayabc26602009-04-13 16:56:32 +00002212
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002213- Issue #5607: Fixed Distutils test_get_platform for Mac OS X fat binaries.
Tarek Ziadé156c31a2009-04-13 12:34:01 +00002214
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002215- Issue #5741: Don't disallow "%%" (which is an escape for "%") when setting a
2216 value in SafeConfigParser.
Georg Brandl21cf5ee2009-04-12 17:24:11 +00002217
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002218- Issue #5732: Added a new command in Distutils: check.
Tarek Ziadé942825f2009-04-11 14:55:07 +00002219
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +00002220- Issue #5731: Distutils bdist_wininst no longer worked on non-Windows
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002221 platforms. Initial patch by Paul Moore.
Tarek Ziadéad958262009-04-09 21:36:44 +00002222
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002223- Issue #2254: Fix CGIHTTPServer information disclosure. Relative paths are now
2224 collapsed within the url properly before looking in cgi_directories.
Gregory P. Smith923ba362009-04-06 06:33:26 +00002225
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002226- Issue #5095: Added bdist_msi to the list of bdist supported formats. Initial
2227 fix by Steven Bethard.
Tarek Ziadé64408fb2009-04-05 22:51:09 +00002228
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002229- Issue #1491431: Fixed distutils.filelist.glob_to_re for edge cases. Initial
2230 fix by Wayne Davison.
Tarek Ziadéfaa6b122009-04-05 21:44:08 +00002231
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002232- Issue #5693: TestSuite.__iter__ can now be consistently overridden in
2233 subclasses.
Michael Foordf2dfef12009-04-05 19:19:28 +00002234
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002235- Issue #5694: Removed spurious test output in Distutils (test_clean).
Tarek Ziadé453d9532009-04-05 18:31:24 +00002236
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +00002237- Issue #5471: Fix os.path.expanduser() for $HOME set to '/'.
Georg Brandl3f0ef202009-04-05 14:48:49 +00002238
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002239- Issue #1326077: Fix the formatting of SyntaxErrors by the traceback module.
Georg Brandl1956d5c2009-04-05 14:25:41 +00002240
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002241- Issue #1726172: Fix IndexError in the case of and empty response in ftplib.
Georg Brandl50ba6e12009-04-05 10:48:47 +00002242
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002243- Issue #2625: Added missing iteritems() call to the for loop in
R. David Murray52720c52009-04-02 14:05:35 +00002244 mailbox.MH.get_message().
2245
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002246- Issue #5585: Add the ability to call an initializer to
2247 mulitiprocessing.manager so that users can install custom handlers/etc.
Jesse Noller7152f6d2009-04-02 05:17:26 +00002248
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002249- Issue #3551: Patch multiprocessing to raise a proper exception if the size of
2250 the object when writefile is called causes a ERROR_NO_SYSTEM_RESOURCES. Added
2251 docs to note the limitation.
Jesse Noller5053fbb2009-04-02 04:22:09 +00002252
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002253- unittest.assertNotEqual() now uses the inequality operator (!=) instead of the
2254 equality operator.
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00002255
2256- Issue #6001: Test discovery for unittest. Implemented in
Michael Foordb4a81c82009-05-29 20:33:46 +00002257 unittest.TestLoader.discover and from the command line.
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +00002258
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002259- Issue #5679: The methods unittest.TestCase.addCleanup and doCleanups were
2260 added. addCleanup allows you to add cleanup functions that will be called
Michael Foord07ef4872009-05-02 22:43:34 +00002261 unconditionally (after setUp if setUp fails, otherwise after tearDown). This
2262 allows for much simpler resource allocation and deallocation during tests.
2263
2264- Issue #3379: unittest.main now takes an optional exit argument. If False main
2265 doesn't call sys.exit allowing it to be used from the interactive interpreter.
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00002266
2267- Issue #5995: unittest.main now takes an optional verbosity argument allowing
Michael Foord5d31e052009-05-11 17:59:43 +00002268 test modules to be run with a higher than default verbosity.
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00002269
2270- Issue #5995: A fix to allow you to run "python -m unittest test_module" or
Michael Foord5d31e052009-05-11 17:59:43 +00002271 "python -m unittest test_module.TestClass" from the command line.
Michael Foord07ef4872009-05-02 22:43:34 +00002272
2273- Issue #5728: unittest.TestResult has new startTestRun and stopTestRun methods;
2274 called immediately before and after a test run.
2275
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002276- Issue #5663: Better failure messages for unittest asserts. Default assertTrue
Michael Foord345b2fe2009-04-02 03:20:38 +00002277 and assertFalse messages are now useful. TestCase has a longMessage attribute.
2278 This defaults to False, but if set to True useful error messages are shown in
2279 addition to explicit messages passed to assert methods.
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +00002280
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002281- Issue #3110: Add additional protect around SEM_VALUE_MAX for multiprocessing.
Jesse Nollerb502bc72009-04-02 02:32:55 +00002282
Georg Brandl58b8b952009-04-01 21:54:21 +00002283- In Pdb, prevent the reassignment of __builtin__._ by sys.displayhook on
2284 printing out values.
2285
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002286- Issue #4572: Added SEEK_* symbolic constants to io module.
Georg Brandl5942b912009-04-01 21:05:44 +00002287
Brett Cannonad078a02009-04-01 16:00:34 +00002288- Issue #1665206 (partially): Move imports in cgitb to the top of the module
2289 instead of performing them in functions. Helps prevent import deadlocking in
2290 threads.
2291
Raymond Hettinger66c4a6b2009-04-01 18:50:56 +00002292- Issue #5647: MutableSet.__iand__() no longer mutates self during iteration.
2293
Georg Brandle92d4b62009-04-01 04:21:14 +00002294- Actually make the SimpleXMLRPCServer CGI handler work.
2295
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002296- Issue #2522: locale.format() now checks its first argument to ensure it has
R. David Murraya83da352009-04-01 03:21:43 +00002297 been passed only one pattern, avoiding mysterious errors where it appeared
2298 that it was failing to do localization.
2299
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002300- Issue #5583: Added optional extensions in Distutils. Initial patch by Georg
Tarek Ziadé9e47ce42009-03-31 22:27:23 +00002301 Brandl.
2302
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002303- Issue #5619: Multiprocessing children disobey the debug flag and causes popups
2304 on windows buildbots. Patch applied to work around this issue.
Jesse Noller42f9b4e2009-03-31 22:20:35 +00002305
Benjamin Petersond906ea62009-03-31 21:34:42 +00002306- Issue #5632: Thread.ident was None for the main thread and threads not created
2307 with the threading module.
2308
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002309- Issue #5400: Added patch for multiprocessing on netbsd compilation/support.
Jesse Noller1f0a5552009-03-31 18:27:14 +00002310
Hirokazu Yamamoto9d2ee5d2009-03-31 13:13:05 +00002311- Issue #5387: Fixed mmap.move crash by integer overflow.
2312
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002313- Issue #5261: Patch multiprocessing's semaphore.c to support context manager
2314 use: "with multiprocessing.Lock()" works now.
Jesse Noller82eb5902009-03-30 23:29:31 +00002315
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +00002316- Issue #5177: Multiprocessing's SocketListener class now uses
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002317 socket.SO_REUSEADDR on all connections so that the user no longer needs to
2318 wait 120 seconds for the socket to expire.
Jesse Noller459a6482009-03-30 15:50:42 +00002319
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002320- Adjusted _tkinter to compile without warnings when WITH_THREAD is not defined
2321 (part of issue #5035).
Guilherme Polo1972d162009-03-27 21:43:08 +00002322
Marc-André Lemburgcbdf15b2009-03-25 19:45:33 +00002323- Issue #5561: Removed the sys.version_info shortcuts from platform's
2324 python_version() and python_version_tuple() since they produced different
2325 output compared to previous Python versions.
2326
Benjamin Peterson692428e2009-03-23 21:50:21 +00002327- Issue #1034053: unittest now supports skipping tests and expected failures.
2328
Gregory P. Smith28399852009-03-31 16:54:10 +00002329- The unittest.TestCase.assertRaises() method now returns a context manager when
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002330 not given a callable so that code to be tested can be written inline using a
2331 with statement.
Gregory P. Smith28399852009-03-31 16:54:10 +00002332
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002333- Issue #2578: The unittest.TestCase.assertEqual() now displays the differences
2334 in lists, tuples, dicts and sets on failure. Many new handy type and
2335 comparison specific assert* methods have been added that fail with error
2336 messages actually useful for debugging. Contributed in part by Google.
Gregory P. Smith28399852009-03-31 16:54:10 +00002337
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002338- Issue #5068: Fixed the tarfile._BZ2Proxy.read() method that would loop forever
2339 on incomplete input. That caused tarfile.open() to hang when used with mode
2340 'r' or 'r:bz2' and a fileobj argument that contained no data or partial bzip2
2341 compressed data.
Lars Gustäbel2020a592009-03-22 20:09:33 +00002342
Benjamin Petersonb364bfe2009-03-22 17:45:11 +00002343- Issue #5536: urllib.urlretrieve makes sure to close the file it's writing to
2344 even if an exception occurs.
2345
Raymond Hettinger91852ca2009-03-19 19:19:03 +00002346- Issue #5381: Added object_pairs_hook to the json module. This allows
2347 OrderedDicts to be built by the decoder.
2348
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002349- Issue #2110: Add support for thousands separator and 'n' type specifier to
2350 ``Decimal.__format__()``.
Mark Dickinson277859d2009-03-17 23:03:46 +00002351
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002352- Fix Decimal.__format__ bug that swapped the meanings of the '<' and '>'
2353 alignment characters.
Mark Dickinsonb065e522009-03-17 18:01:03 +00002354
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002355- Issue #1222: ``locale.format()`` bug when the thousands separator is a space
Antoine Pitroufeeafff2009-03-14 00:07:21 +00002356 character.
2357
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002358- Issue #5472: Fixed distutils.test_util tear down. Original patch by Tim
2359 Golden.
Tarek Ziadé61585c22009-03-11 12:48:04 +00002360
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002361- collections.deque objects now have a read-only attribute called maxlen.
Raymond Hettinger56411aa2009-03-10 12:50:59 +00002362
Guilherme Polo15d57652009-03-07 02:14:38 +00002363- Issue #2638: Show a window constructed with tkSimpleDialog.Dialog only after
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002364 it is has been populated and properly configured in order to prevent window
2365 flashing.
Guilherme Polo15d57652009-03-07 02:14:38 +00002366
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002367- Issue #4792: Prevent a segfault in _tkinter by using the guaranteed to be safe
2368 interp argument given to the PythonCmd in place of the Tcl interpreter taken
2369 from a PythonCmd_ClientData.
Guilherme Polo3768b2f2009-03-07 01:47:49 +00002370
Guilherme Polo6d6c1fd2009-03-07 01:19:12 +00002371- Issue #5193: Guarantee that Tkinter.Text.search returns a string.
2372
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002373- Issue #5394: Removed > 2.3 syntax from distutils.msvc9compiler.
Tarek Ziadé943b24e2009-03-07 00:32:45 +00002374 Original patch by Akira Kitada.
2375
Hirokazu Yamamoto264fc122009-03-05 14:21:12 +00002376- Issue #5385: Fixed mmap crash after resize failure on windows.
2377
Hirokazu Yamamotoeacbbdf2009-03-03 22:18:14 +00002378- Issue #5179: Fixed subprocess handle leak on failure on windows.
2379
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002380- PEP 372: Added collections.OrderedDict().
Raymond Hettingerbc512d32009-03-03 04:45:34 +00002381
Raymond Hettinger88a91642009-03-03 04:51:24 +00002382- The _asdict() for method for namedtuples now returns an OrderedDict().
2383
Raymond Hettingere89b8e92009-03-03 05:00:37 +00002384- The configparser module now defaults to using an ordered dictionary.
2385
Benjamin Peterson7d49bba2009-03-02 22:41:42 +00002386- Issue #4308: httplib.IncompleteRead's repr doesn't include all of the data all
2387 ready received.
2388
Benjamin Petersonad58b7c2009-03-02 03:35:12 +00002389- Issue #5401: Fixed a performance problem in mimetypes when ``from mimetypes
2390 import guess_extension`` was used.
2391
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002392- Issue #1733986: Fixed mmap crash on Windows in accessing elements of second
2393 map object with same tagname but larger size than first map.
Hirokazu Yamamotob0e10c72009-02-28 12:13:07 +00002394
Hirokazu Yamamotof2dc8852009-02-28 10:31:54 +00002395- Issue #5386: mmap.write_byte didn't check map size, so it could cause buffer
2396 overrun.
2397
Tarek Ziadé73347352009-02-28 10:08:02 +00002398- Issue #1533164: Installed but not listed *.pyo was breaking Distutils
2399 bdist_rpm command.
2400
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002401- Issue #5378: Added --quiet option to Distutils bdist_rpm command.
Tarek Ziadé73347352009-02-28 10:08:02 +00002402
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002403- Issue #5052: Make Distutils compatible with 2.3 again.
Tarek Ziadédda92f72009-02-27 12:53:34 +00002404
Benjamin Petersonb3dd5482009-02-26 19:07:18 +00002405- Deprecated methods of symtable.Symbol have been removed: is_keywordarg(),
2406 is_vararg(), and is_in_tuple().
2407
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002408- Issue #5316: Fixed buildbot failures introduced by multiple inheritance in
2409 Distutils tests.
Tarek Ziadée3bc0ef2009-02-25 22:29:27 +00002410
Vinay Sajip1a0d2be2009-02-19 12:31:32 +00002411- Issue #5287: Add exception handling around findCaller() call to help out
2412 IronPython.
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +00002413
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002414- Issue #5282: Fixed mmap resize on 32bit Windows and Unix. When ``offset >
2415 0``, the file was resized to wrong size.
Hirokazu Yamamoto17a837e2009-02-17 13:17:26 +00002416
Hirokazu Yamamotof6bbd0e2009-02-17 10:12:10 +00002417- Issue #5292: Fixed mmap crash on its boundary access m[len(m)].
2418
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002419- Issue #2279: distutils.sdist.add_defaults now add files from the package_data
2420 and the data_files metadata.
Tarek Ziadé7dd53392009-02-16 21:38:01 +00002421
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002422- Issue #5257: Refactored all tests in distutils, so they use
Tarek Ziadé13699002009-02-14 14:10:23 +00002423 support.TempdirManager, to avoid writing in the tests directory.
2424
Tarek Ziadé2432b0b2009-02-13 23:00:43 +00002425- Issue #4524: distutils build_script command failed with --with-suffix=3.
2426 Initial patch by Amaury Forgeot d'Arc.
2427
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002428- Issue #2461: Added tests for distutils.util.
Tarek Ziadé275958a2009-02-13 22:22:03 +00002429
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002430- Issue #1008086: Fixed socket.inet_aton() to always return 4 bytes even on LP64
2431 platforms (most 64-bit Linux, bsd, unix systems).
Gregory P. Smith3605b5c2009-02-11 23:45:25 +00002432
Thomas Heller3689ae22009-02-10 18:43:01 +00002433- Issue #5203: Fixed ctypes segfaults when passing a unicode string to a
2434 function without argtypes (only occurs if HAVE_USABLE_WCHAR_T is false).
2435
Tarek Ziadé74fbf602009-02-10 12:31:09 +00002436- Issue #3386: distutils.sysconfig.get_python_lib prefix argument was ignored
2437 under NT and OS2. Patch by Philip Jenvey.
2438
Brett Cannon28d10882009-02-10 02:07:38 +00002439- Issue #5128: Make compileall properly inspect bytecode to determine if needs
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002440 to be recreated. This avoids a timing hole thanks to the old reliance on the
Brett Cannon28d10882009-02-10 02:07:38 +00002441 ctime of the files involved.
2442
Guilherme Poloa66cf5b2009-02-09 20:50:27 +00002443- Issue #5122: Synchronize tk load failure check to prevent a potential
2444 deadlock.
2445
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002446- Issue #1818: collections.namedtuple() now supports a keyword argument 'rename'
2447 which lets invalid fieldnames be automatically converted to positional names
2448 in the form, _1, _2, ...
Raymond Hettinger322daea2009-02-10 01:24:05 +00002449
Guilherme Polod2ea0332009-02-09 16:41:09 +00002450- Issue #4890: Handle empty text search pattern in Tkinter.Text.search.
2451
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002452- Issue #5170: Fixed Unicode output bug in logging and added test case. This is
2453 a regression which did not occur in 2.5.
Vinay Sajipb20af942009-02-08 19:06:08 +00002454
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002455- Issue #4512 (part 2): Promote ``ZipImporter._get_filename()`` to be a public
2456 documented method ``ZipImporter.get_filename()``.
Nick Coghlan0194f5b2009-02-08 03:17:00 +00002457
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002458- Issue #4195: The ``runpy`` module (and the ``-m`` switch) now support the
2459 execution of packages by looking for and executing a ``__main__`` submodule
2460 when a package name is supplied. Initial patch by Andi Vajda.
Nick Coghland39600e2009-02-08 01:26:34 +00002461
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002462- Issue #1731706: Call Tcl_ConditionFinalize for Tcl_Conditions that will not be
2463 used again (this requires Tcl/Tk 8.3.1), also fix a memory leak in Tkapp_Call
2464 when calling from a thread different than the one that created the Tcl
2465 interpreter. Patch by Robert Hancock.
Guilherme Polo14ff18d2009-02-06 22:26:22 +00002466
Vinay Sajipb20af942009-02-08 19:06:08 +00002467- Issue #1520877: Now distutils.sysconfig reads $AR from the
Tarek Ziadé05adf072009-02-06 01:15:51 +00002468 environment/Makefile. Patch by Douglas Greiman.
2469
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002470- Issue #4285: Change sys.version_info to be a named tuple. Patch by Ross
2471 Light.
Eric Smith81fe0932009-02-06 00:48:26 +00002472
Tarek Ziadéd5eb9852009-02-06 00:31:59 +00002473- Issue #1276768: The verbose option was not used in the code of
2474 distutils.file_util and distutils.dir_util.
2475
Vinay Sajipb20af942009-02-08 19:06:08 +00002476- Issue #5132: Fixed trouble building extensions under Solaris with
Tarek Ziadé0d4fd342009-02-05 22:52:52 +00002477 --enabled-shared activated. Initial patch by Dave Peterson.
2478
Guilherme Polod7bb4d42009-02-02 21:14:14 +00002479- Issue #1581476: Always use the Tcl global namespace when calling into Tcl.
2480
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002481- Issue #2047: shutil.move() could believe that its destination path was inside
2482 its source path if it began with the same letters (e.g. "src" vs. "src.new").
Antoine Pitrou707c5932009-01-29 20:19:34 +00002483
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002484- Issue #4920: Fixed .next() vs .__next__() issues in the ABCs for Iterator and
2485 MutableSet.
Raymond Hettingerf779e6f2009-01-28 23:02:26 +00002486
Guilherme Polocda93aa2009-01-28 13:09:03 +00002487- Added the ttk module. See issue #2983: Ttk support for Tkinter.
2488
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002489- Issue #5021: doctest.testfile() did not create __name__ and
Raymond Hettingerecf252a2009-01-27 10:03:04 +00002490 collections.namedtuple() relied on __name__ being defined.
2491
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002492- Backport importlib from Python 3.1. Only the import_module() function has been
2493 backported to help facilitate transitions from 2.7 to 3.1.
Brett Cannon93881c62009-01-26 01:16:50 +00002494
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002495- Issue #1885: distutils: When running sdist with --formats=tar,gztar the tar
2496 file was overriden by the gztar one.
Tarek Ziadéaaedcef2009-01-25 23:34:00 +00002497
Tarek Ziadéef249b12009-01-25 18:19:25 +00002498- Issue #4863: distutils.mwerkscompiler has been removed.
2499
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002500- Added new itertools functions: combinations_with_replacement() and compress().
Raymond Hettinger2bcb8e92009-01-25 21:04:14 +00002501
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002502- Issue #5032: Added a step argument to itertools.count() and allowed
2503 non-integer arguments.
Raymond Hettinger31c769c2009-02-12 05:39:46 +00002504
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002505- Fix and properly document the multiprocessing module's logging support, expose
2506 the internal levels and provide proper usage examples.
Jesse Nollerb5a4b0a2009-01-25 03:36:13 +00002507
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002508- Issue #1672332: Fix unpickling of subnormal floats, which was
Mark Dickinsona3ecd2c2009-01-24 16:40:29 +00002509 producing a ValueError on some platforms.
2510
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002511- Issue #3881: Help Tcl to load even when started through the unreadable local
2512 symlink to "Program Files" on Vista.
Martin v. Löwisf081e1c2009-01-24 15:47:27 +00002513
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002514- Issue #4710: Extract directories properly in the zipfile module; allow adding
2515 directories to a zipfile.
Martin v. Löwis0dfcfc82009-01-24 14:00:33 +00002516
Vinay Sajipb20af942009-02-08 19:06:08 +00002517- Issue #3807: _multiprocessing build fails when configure is passed
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002518 --without-threads argument. When this occurs, _multiprocessing will be
2519 disabled, and not compiled.
Jesse Nollerf6da8d12009-01-23 14:04:41 +00002520
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002521- Issue #5008: When a file is opened in append mode with the new IO library, do
2522 an explicit seek to the end of file (so that e.g. tell() returns the file size
2523 rather than 0). This is consistent with the behaviour of the traditional 2.x
2524 file object.
Antoine Pitroue741cc62009-01-21 00:45:36 +00002525
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +00002526- Issue #5013: Fixed a bug in FileHandler which occurred when the delay
2527 parameter was set.
2528
Raymond Hettinger933d3a72009-01-20 20:34:19 +00002529- Issue #4998: The memory saving effect of __slots__ had been lost on Fractions
2530 which inherited from numbers.py which did not have __slots__ defined. The
Mark Dickinson39c6f7f2009-02-12 17:55:42 +00002531 numbers hierarchy now has its own __slots__ declarations.
Raymond Hettinger933d3a72009-01-20 20:34:19 +00002532
Jesse Noller9a5b2ad2009-01-19 15:12:22 +00002533- Issue #3321: _multiprocessing.Connection() doesn't check handle; added checks
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002534 for *nix machines for negative handles and large int handles. Without this
2535 check it is possible to segfault the interpreter.
Jesse Noller9a5b2ad2009-01-19 15:12:22 +00002536
Jesse Noller6ab22152009-01-18 02:45:38 +00002537- Issue #4449: AssertionError in mp_benchmarks.py, caused by an underlying issue
2538 in sharedctypes.py.
2539
Benjamin Peterson5e5fbb62009-01-17 22:27:54 +00002540- Issue #1225107: inspect.isclass() returned True for instances with a custom
2541 __getattr__.
2542
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002543- Issue #3997: Zipfiles generated with more than 65536 files could not be opened
2544 with other applications.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd25f87a2009-01-17 16:40:17 +00002545
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002546- Issue #1162154: ``inspect.getmembers()`` now skips attributes that raise
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcb54447f2009-01-13 23:39:22 +00002547 AttributeError, e.g. a __slots__ attribute which has not been set.
2548
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002549- Issue #1696199: Add collections.Counter() for rapid and convenient counting.
Raymond Hettingerf94d7fa2009-01-12 22:58:41 +00002550
Antoine Pitroubd4b5f22009-01-10 16:15:24 +00002551- Issue #3860: GzipFile and BZ2File now support the context manager protocol.
2552
Antoine Pitrouf0d2c3f2009-01-04 21:29:23 +00002553- Issue #4272: Add an optional argument to the GzipFile constructor to override
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002554 the timestamp in the gzip stream. The default value remains the current time.
2555 The information can be used by e.g. gunzip when decompressing. Patch by
Antoine Pitrouf0d2c3f2009-01-04 21:29:23 +00002556 Jacques Frechet.
2557
Mark Dickinson514d4832009-01-04 21:25:40 +00002558- Restore Python 2.3 compatibility for decimal.py.
2559
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +00002560- Issue #1702551: distutils sdist was not excluding VCS directories under
Tarek Ziadé85d6fb52009-01-04 00:04:49 +00002561 Windows. Inital solution by Guy Dalberto.
2562
Guilherme Poloe7f14032009-01-03 21:51:09 +00002563- The _tkinter module functions "createfilehandler", "deletefilehandler",
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002564 "createtimerhandler", "mainloop", "dooneevent" and "quit" have been deprecated
2565 for removal in 3.x
Guilherme Poloe7f14032009-01-03 21:51:09 +00002566
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002567- Issue #4796: Added Decimal.from_float() and
2568 Context.create_decimal_from_float() to the decimal module.
Raymond Hettingerf4d85972009-01-03 19:02:23 +00002569
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002570- Issue #4812: Add missing underscore prefix to some internal-use-only constants
2571 in the decimal module. (Dec_0 becomes _Dec_0, etc.)
Mark Dickinsonc5de0962009-01-02 23:07:08 +00002572
Benjamin Peterson8ad09a42008-12-31 23:48:39 +00002573- Issue #4795: inspect.isgeneratorfunction() returns False instead of None when
2574 the function is not a generator.
2575
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002576- Issue #4702: Throwing a DistutilsPlatformError instead of IOError in case no
2577 MSVC compiler is found under Windows. Original patch by Philip Jenvey.
Tarek Ziadéb1a85412008-12-30 23:03:41 +00002578
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002579- Issue #4646: distutils was choking on empty options arg in the setup function.
2580 Original patch by Thomas Heller.
Tarek Ziadéc13acb12008-12-29 22:23:53 +00002581
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002582- Fractions.from_float() no longer loses precision for integers too big to cast
2583 as floats.
Georg Brandlfe427892009-01-03 22:03:11 +00002584
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002585- Issue #4790: The nsmallest() and nlargest() functions in the heapq module did
2586 unnecessary work in the common case where no key function was specified.
Georg Brandlfe427892009-01-03 22:03:11 +00002587
Martin v. Löwis732479f2008-12-29 16:22:25 +00002588- Issue #3767: Convert Tk object to string in tkColorChooser.
2589
Martin v. Löwise2eb2b42008-12-29 15:51:01 +00002590- Issue #3248: Allow placing ScrolledText in a PanedWindow.
2591
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002592- Issue #4444: Allow assertRaises() to be used as a context handler, so that the
2593 code under test can be written inline if more practical.
Antoine Pitrou697ca3d2008-12-28 14:09:36 +00002594
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002595- Issue #4739: Add pydoc help topics for symbols, so that e.g. help('@') works
2596 as expected in the interactive environment.
Georg Brandlc3a98032008-12-27 18:20:04 +00002597
Antoine Pitrou6f193e02008-12-27 15:43:12 +00002598- Issue #4756: zipfile.is_zipfile() now supports file-like objects. Patch by
2599 Gabriel Genellina.
2600
Tarek Ziadée4c75bb2008-12-24 19:10:05 +00002601- Issue #4400: .pypirc default generated file was broken in distutils.
2602
Benjamin Peterson54686e32008-12-24 15:10:27 +00002603- Issue #4736: io.BufferedRWPair's closed property now functions properly.
2604
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002605- Issue #3954: Fix a potential SystemError in _hotshot.logreader error handling.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc31949b92008-12-15 21:47:57 +00002606
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002607- Issue #4574: Fix a crash in io.IncrementalNewlineDecoder when a carriage
2608 return encodes to more than one byte in the source encoding (e.g. UTF-16) and
2609 gets split on a chunk boundary.
Antoine Pitrou655fbf12008-12-14 17:40:51 +00002610
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002611- Issue #4223: inspect.getsource() will now correctly display source code for
2612 packages loaded via zipimport (or any other conformant PEP 302
Nick Coghlana2053472008-12-14 10:54:50 +00002613 loader). Original patch by Alexander Belopolsky.
2614
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002615- Issue #4201: pdb can now access and display source code loaded via zipimport
2616 (or any other conformant PEP 302 loader). Original patch by Alexander
2617 Belopolsky.
Nick Coghlana2053472008-12-14 10:54:50 +00002618
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002619- Issue #4197: Doctests in modules loaded via zipimport (or any other PEP 302
2620 conformant loader) will now work correctly in most cases (they are still
2621 subject to the constraints that exist for all code running from inside a
2622 module loaded via a PEP 302 loader and attempting to perform IO operations
2623 based on __file__). Original patch by Alexander Belopolsky.
Nick Coghlana2053472008-12-14 10:54:50 +00002624
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002625- Issues #4082 and #4512: Add runpy support to zipimport in a manner that allows
2626 backporting to maintenance branches. Original patch by Alexander Belopolsky.
Nick Coghlana2053472008-12-14 10:54:50 +00002627
Antoine Pitrou74af3bb2008-12-13 23:12:30 +00002628- Issue #4163: Use unicode-friendly word splitting in the textwrap functions
2629 when given an unicode string.
2630
Lars Gustäbel3b027422008-12-12 13:58:03 +00002631- Issue #4616: TarFile.utime(): Restore directory times on Windows.
2632
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002633- Issue #4084: Fix max, min, max_mag and min_mag Decimal methods to give correct
2634 results in the case where one argument is a quiet NaN and the other is a
2635 finite number that requires rounding.
Facundo Batistae29d4352008-12-11 04:19:46 +00002636
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002637- Issue #1030250: Distutils created directories even when run with the --dry-run
2638 option.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc240028c2008-12-11 00:03:42 +00002639
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002640- Issue #4483: _dbm module now builds on systems with gdbm & gdbm_compat libs.
Skip Montanaro45313fe2008-12-06 17:43:30 +00002641
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002642- Issue #4529: Fix the parser module's validation of try-except-finally
Georg Brandlfe879e82008-12-05 12:09:41 +00002643 statements.
2644
Georg Brandla07435d2008-12-05 09:23:14 +00002645- Issue #4458: getopt.gnu_getopt() now recognizes a single "-" as an argument,
2646 not a malformed option.
2647
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002648- Added the subprocess.check_output() convenience function to get output from a
2649 subprocess on success or raise an exception on error.
Gregory P. Smith97f49f42008-12-04 20:21:09 +00002650
Fred Drake52481032008-12-04 18:25:17 +00002651- Issue #1055234: cgi.parse_header(): Fixed parsing of header parameters to
2652 support unusual filenames (such as those containing semi-colons) in
2653 Content-Disposition headers.
2654
Vinay Sajip6831d6b2008-12-04 20:32:18 +00002655- Issue #4384: Added logging integration with warnings module using
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002656 captureWarnings(). This change includes a NullHandler which does nothing; it
2657 will be of use to library developers who want to avoid the "No handlers could
2658 be found for logger XXX" message which can appear if the library user doesn't
2659 configure logging.
Vinay Sajip213faca2008-12-03 23:22:58 +00002660
Christian Heimesaa674712008-11-28 11:02:32 +00002661- Issue #3741: DISTUTILS_USE_SDK set causes msvc9compiler.py to raise an
2662 exception.
2663
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002664- Issue #4363: The uuid.uuid1() and uuid.uuid4() functions now work even if the
2665 ctypes module is not present.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd4294172008-11-21 22:05:48 +00002666
Benjamin Petersonbfc51562008-11-22 01:59:15 +00002667- FileIO's mode attribute now always includes ``"b"``.
2668
Martin v. Löwisbb9b1f12008-11-19 09:09:41 +00002669- Issue #4116: Resolve member name conflict in ScrolledCanvas.__init__.
2670
Brett Cannone3d0bf72008-11-15 22:40:44 +00002671- httplib.HTTPConnection.putheader() now accepts an arbitrary number of values
2672 for any header, matching what the documentation has claimed for a while.
2673
Hirokazu Yamamotob9828f62008-11-03 18:03:06 +00002674- Issue #3774: Fixed an error when create a Tkinter menu item without command
2675 and then remove it.
2676
Thomas Heller1fac5a42008-10-30 20:18:13 +00002677- Fixed a modulefinder crash on certain relative imports.
2678
Benjamin Petersonc18574c2008-10-22 21:16:34 +00002679- Issue #4150: Pdb's "up" command now works for generator frames in post-mortem
2680 debugging.
2681
Benjamin Petersone4dc1752008-10-21 22:20:31 +00002682- Issue #4092: Return ArgInfo as promised in the documentation from
2683 inspect.getargvalues.
2684
Georg Brandlf3776a12008-10-08 18:47:17 +00002685- Issue #3935: Properly support list subclasses in bisect's C implementation.
2686
Martin v. Löwis96a9f232008-10-06 15:15:40 +00002687- Issue #4014: Don't claim that Python has an Alpha release status, in addition
2688 to claiming it is Mature.
2689
Alexandre Vassalotti6067f782008-12-27 07:13:01 +00002690- Issue #4730: Fixed the cPickle module to handle correctly astral characters
2691 when protocol 0 is used.
2692
Ronald Oussoren0238497e2009-01-02 14:10:20 +00002693- Issue #1594: MacOS.GetCreatorAndType now always returns a big-endian result,
2694 to be consistent with Apple tools.
2695
Ronald Oussoren63b74fe2009-01-02 14:46:19 +00002696- Issue #900949: plat-mac/videoreader.py no longer relies on a non-existing
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +00002697 module.
Ronald Oussoren63b74fe2009-01-02 14:46:19 +00002698
Ronald Oussoren7f8cbf02009-01-02 14:48:17 +00002699- Issue #16278952: plat-mac/videoreader.py now correctly imports MediaDescr
2700
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002701- Issue #1737832: plat-mac/EasyDialog.py no longer uses the broken aepack
Ronald Oussoren919697c2009-01-02 14:52:09 +00002702 module.
2703
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002704- Issue #1149804: macostools.mkdirs now even works when another process creates
2705 one of the needed subdirectories.
Ronald Oussorenabcc1682009-01-02 15:00:05 +00002706
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002707- Issue #900506: added --no-zipimport flag to the bundlebuilder script.
Ronald Oussoren072bb402009-01-02 15:25:36 +00002708
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002709- Issue #841800: bundlebuilder now works with 'python -O'.
Ronald Oussoren072bb402009-01-02 15:25:36 +00002710
Matthias Klose43723e22009-01-10 17:00:42 +00002711- Issue #4861: ctypes.util.find_library(): Robustify. Fix library detection on
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002712 biarch systems. Try to rely on ldconfig only, without using objdump and gcc.
Matthias Klose43723e22009-01-10 17:00:42 +00002713
Gregory P. Smithde1a8b72009-01-31 22:57:30 +00002714- Issue #5104: The socket module now raises OverflowError when 16-bit port and
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002715 protocol numbers are supplied outside the allowed 0-65536 range on bind() and
2716 getservbyport().
Gregory P. Smithde1a8b72009-01-31 22:57:30 +00002717
Neil Schemenauer92c3b212009-02-07 00:54:41 +00002718- Issue #999042: The Python compiler now handles explict global statements
2719 correctly (should be assigned using STORE_GLOBAL opcode).
2720
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002721- Issue #2703: SimpleXMLRPCDispatcher.__init__: Provide default values for new
2722 arguments introduced in 2.5.
Matthias Klosea5d58c82009-04-05 21:00:48 +00002723
Walter Dörwald5d98ec72009-04-25 14:03:16 +00002724- Issue #5828 (Invalid behavior of unicode.lower): Fixed bogus logic in
2725 makeunicodedata.py and regenerated the Unicode database (This fixes
2726 u'\u1d79'.lower() == '\x00').
2727
Jeroen Ruigrok van der Wervenb87b3342009-05-08 14:11:23 +00002728- Windows locale mapping updated to Vista.
2729
Antoine Pitroue555f582008-12-27 20:34:52 +00002730Tools/Demos
2731-----------
2732
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002733- Ttk demos added in Demo/tkinter/ttk/.
Guilherme Polo4eae0782009-01-28 15:56:01 +00002734
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002735- Issue #4677: Add two list comprehension tests to pybench.
Antoine Pitroue555f582008-12-27 20:34:52 +00002736
Brett Cannon60b15d22008-10-06 22:44:37 +00002737Build
2738-----
2739
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002740- Issue #6603: Change READ_TIMESTAMP macro in ceval.c so that it compiles
2741 correctly under gcc on x86-64. This fixes a reported problem with the
2742 --with-tsc build on x86-64.
Mark Dickinson504a1512009-10-31 10:11:28 +00002743
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002744- Add 2 new options to ``--with-universal-archs`` on MacOSX: ``intel`` builds a
2745 distribution with ``i386`` and ``x86_64`` architectures, while ``3-way``
2746 builds a distribution with the ``ppc``, ``i386`` and ``x86_64`` architectures.
Vinay Sajip03d5c342009-10-16 14:06:44 +00002747
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002748- Issue #6802: Fix build issues on MacOSX 10.6.
Ronald Oussoren25967582009-09-06 10:00:26 +00002749
Guilherme Polo1ce2d532009-08-16 14:38:57 +00002750- Issue #6244: Allow detect_tkinter to look for Tcl/Tk 8.6.
2751
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002752- Issue 5390: Add uninstall icon independent of whether file extensions are
2753 installed.
Martin v. Löwisecb4f952009-06-28 09:32:39 +00002754
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002755- Issue 5809: Specifying both --enable-framework and --enable-shared is an
2756 error. Configure now explicity tells you about this.
Ronald Oussoren450d5612009-06-08 21:12:41 +00002757
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002758- Issue #3585: Add pkg-config support. It creates a python-2.7.pc file and a
2759 python.pc symlink in the $(LIBDIR)/pkgconfig directory. Patch by Clinton Roy.
Antoine Pitrouf2caeed2009-05-24 20:23:57 +00002760
Benjamin Petersone5afa3b2009-05-23 19:24:37 +00002761- Issue #6094: Build correctly with Subversion 1.7.
2762
Martin v. Löwis588b54b2009-05-05 16:10:16 +00002763- Issue #5847: Remove -n switch on "Edit with IDLE" menu item.
2764
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002765- Issue #5726: Make Modules/ld_so_aix return the actual exit code of the linker,
2766 rather than always exit successfully. Patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
Antoine Pitrou3fd4ea92009-05-01 21:16:14 +00002767
Matthias Klose10cbe482009-04-29 17:18:19 +00002768- Issue #4587: Add configure option --with-dbmliborder=db1:db2:... to specify
Vinay Sajipf9b01fe2009-05-09 12:07:17 +00002769 the order that backends for the dbm extension are checked.
Matthias Klose10cbe482009-04-29 17:18:19 +00002770
Matthias Klose8ad554f2009-02-22 23:14:26 +00002771- Link the shared python library with $(MODLIBS).
2772
Martin v. Löwisa3e3cb72009-02-10 13:09:19 +00002773- Issue #5134: Silence compiler warnings when compiling sqlite with VC++.
2774
Martin v. Löwisfee1c7f2009-02-02 14:23:16 +00002775- Issue #4494: Fix build with Py_NO_ENABLE_SHARED on Windows.
2776
Martin v. Löwiseefda272009-01-11 09:43:55 +00002777- Issue #4895: Use _strdup on Windows CE.
2778
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002779- Issue #4472: ``configure --enable-shared`` now works on OSX.
Ronald Oussorenf7d54052009-01-02 10:48:31 +00002780
Benjamin Petersonfd9633e2008-12-28 15:37:31 +00002781- Issues #4728 and #4060: WORDS_BIGEDIAN is now correct in Universal builds.
2782
Martin v. Löwiscb6c3592008-11-30 11:08:26 +00002783- Issue #4389: Add icon to the uninstall entry in "add-and-remove-programs".
2784
Martin v. Löwis63470982008-11-19 13:51:44 +00002785- Issue #4289: Remove Cancel button from AdvancedDlg.
2786
Martin v. Löwis3d6f8ff2008-11-07 18:51:50 +00002787- Issue #1656675: Register a drop handler for .py* files on Windows.
2788
Martin v. Löwis692c2f82008-11-06 16:43:00 +00002789- Issue #4120: Exclude manifest from extension modules in VS2008.
2790
Martin v. Löwis0f3e7692008-10-17 13:43:01 +00002791- Issue #4091: Install pythonxy.dll in system32 again.
2792
Martin v. Löwiseba774b2008-10-13 11:23:35 +00002793- Issue #4018: Disable "for me" installations on Vista.
2794
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002795- Issue #3758: Add ``patchcheck`` build target to ``.PHONY``.
Brett Cannon60b15d22008-10-06 22:44:37 +00002796
Martin v. Löwisbb86d832008-11-04 20:40:09 +00002797- Issue #4204: Fixed module build errors on FreeBSD 4.
2798
Tarek Ziadéc4a4aeb2009-08-21 14:28:38 +00002799Documentation
2800-------------
2801
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002802- Issue #6556: Fixed the Distutils configuration files location explanation for
2803 Windows.
Tarek Ziadéc4a4aeb2009-08-21 14:28:38 +00002804
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002805- Issue #6801: symmetric_difference_update also accepts ``|``. Thanks to Carl
2806 Chenet.
Tarek Ziadé3092ed92009-08-29 13:33:21 +00002807
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc07d539d2008-10-14 21:47:22 +00002808C-API
2809-----
2810
Mark Dickinsone31d3002009-12-21 11:21:25 +00002811- Issue #7528: Add PyLong_AsLongAndOverflow (backported from py3k).
2812
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002813- Issue #7228: Add '%lld' and '%llu' support to PyString_FromFormat(V) and
2814 PyErr_Format, on machines with HAVE_LONG_LONG defined.
Mark Dickinson82864d12009-11-15 16:18:58 +00002815
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002816- Add new C-API function PyOS_string_to_double, and deprecated PyOS_ascii_atof
2817 and PyOS_ascii_strtod.
Mark Dickinson09823a22009-10-31 09:42:39 +00002818
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002819- Removed _PyOS_double_to_string. Use PyOS_double_to_string instead. This is in
2820 preparation for (but not strictly related to) issue #7117, short float repr.
Mark Dickinsonba26b392009-10-31 09:28:12 +00002821
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002822- Issue #6624: PyArg_ParseTuple with "s" format when parsing argument with NULL:
2823 Bogus TypeError detail string.
Sean Reifscheider9279e7d2009-08-01 23:54:55 +00002824
Jeffrey Yasskinf7f858d2009-05-08 22:23:21 +00002825- Issue #5954: Add a PyFrame_GetLineNumber() function to replace most uses of
2826 PyCode_Addr2Line().
2827
Jeffrey Yasskin1aa47002009-05-08 21:51:06 +00002828- Issue #5959: Add a PyCode_NewEmpty() function to create a new empty code
2829 object at a specified file, function, and line number.
2830
Brett Cannonc4f90eb2009-04-02 03:17:39 +00002831- Issue #1419652: Change the first argument to PyImport_AppendInittab() to
2832 ``const char *`` as the string is stored beyond the call.
2833
Benjamin Peterson5781f322009-02-16 21:09:09 +00002834- Some PyBytes_* aliases have been removed because they don't exist in 3.x.
2835
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002836- Issue #5175: PyLong_AsUnsignedLongLong now raises OverflowError for negative
2837 arguments. Previously, it raised TypeError.
Mark Dickinson4015f622009-02-10 15:46:50 +00002838
Benjamin Petersoncf2ce242008-12-22 20:52:53 +00002839- Issue #4720: The format for PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords can begin with '|'.
2840
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002841- Issue #3632: From the gdb debugger, the 'pyo' macro can now be called when the
2842 GIL is released, or owned by another thread.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc3538a312008-12-15 22:29:14 +00002843
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc07d539d2008-10-14 21:47:22 +00002844- Issue #4122: On Windows, fix a compilation error when using the
2845 Py_UNICODE_ISSPACE macro in an extension module.
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +00002846
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002847- Issue #4293: Py_AddPendingCall() is now thread safe and can be used for
Kristján Valur Jónssonc22ab182009-01-12 09:24:04 +00002848 asynchronous notifications to python from any thread. Documentation added.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc07d539d2008-10-14 21:47:22 +00002849
Benjamin Peterson9dfe6a82008-11-24 04:09:03 +00002850Extension Modules
2851-----------------
2852
Martin v. Löwis50ea4562009-11-27 13:56:01 +00002853- Issue #6508: Add posix.{getresuid,getresgid,setresuid,setresgid}.
2854
Mark Dickinson3d830822009-10-08 15:54:10 +00002855- Issue #7078: Set struct.__doc__ from _struct.__doc__.
2856
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002857- Issue #3366: Add erf, erfc, expm1, gamma, lgamma functions to math module.
Mark Dickinsonb93fff02009-09-28 18:54:55 +00002858
Brett Cannon4d947432009-09-22 00:29:48 +00002859- Issue #6823: Allow time.strftime() to accept a tuple with a isdst field
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002860 outside of the range of [-1, 1] by normalizing the value to within that range.
Brett Cannon4d947432009-09-22 00:29:48 +00002861
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002862- Issue #6877: Make it possible to link the readline extension to libedit on
2863 OSX.
Ronald Oussoren9f20d9d2009-09-20 14:18:15 +00002864
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002865- Issue #6944: Fix a SystemError when socket.getnameinfo() was called with
2866 something other than a tuple as first argument.
Georg Brandlab849892009-09-19 07:35:07 +00002867
Benjamin Peterson7f6d0832009-09-08 23:04:22 +00002868- Issue #6865: Fix reference counting issue in the initialization of the pwd
2869 module.
2870
Mark Dickinson6b3f1ef2009-09-06 21:21:05 +00002871- Issue #6848: Fix curses module build failure on OS X 10.6.
2872
Brett Cannon764465f2009-08-13 19:27:12 +00002873- Fix a segfault in expat when given a specially crafted input lead to the
Matthias Klose3b0f9b02010-01-22 00:34:48 +00002874 tokenizer not stopping. CVE-2009-3720.
Brett Cannon764465f2009-08-13 19:27:12 +00002875
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002876- Issue #6561: '\d' in a regex now matches only characters with Unicode category
2877 'Nd' (Number, Decimal Digit). Previously it also matched characters with
2878 category 'No'.
Mark Dickinsonfe67bd92009-07-28 20:35:03 +00002879
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002880- Issue #1523: Remove deprecated overflow wrapping for struct.pack with an
2881 integer format code ('bBhHiIlLqQ'). Packing an out-of-range integer now
2882 consistently raises struct.error.
Mark Dickinson5fd3af22009-07-07 15:08:28 +00002883
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002884- Issues #1530559, #1741130: Fix various struct.pack inconsistencies for the
2885 integer formats ('bBhHiIlLqQ'). In the following, '*' represents any of '=',
2886 '<', '>'.
Mark Dickinson463dc4b2009-07-05 10:01:24 +00002887
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002888 - Packing a float now always gives a Deprecation Warning. Previously it
2889 only warned for 'I', 'L', '*B', '*H', '*I', '*L'.
Mark Dickinson463dc4b2009-07-05 10:01:24 +00002890
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002891 - If x is not an int, long or float, then packing x will always result in
2892 struct.error. Previously an x with an __int__ method could be packed by
2893 'b', 'B', 'h', 'H', 'i', 'l', '*b', '*h' ,'*i', '*l', and an x with a
2894 __long__ method could be packed by 'q', 'Q', '*q', '*Q'; for x with
2895 neither __int__ nor __long__, TypeError used to be raised (with a
2896 confusing error message) for 'I', 'L', '*B', '*H', '*I', '*L', and
2897 struct.error in other cases.
Mark Dickinson463dc4b2009-07-05 10:01:24 +00002898
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002899 Note: as of Python 2.7 beta 1, the above is out of date. In 2.7 beta 1, any
2900 argument with an __int__ method can be packed, but use of this feature
2901 triggers a DeprecationWarning.
Mark Dickinson154b7ad2010-03-07 16:24:45 +00002902
Martin v. Löwis4f16d3b2009-05-29 15:58:08 +00002903- Issue #4873: Fix resource leaks in error cases of pwd and grp.
2904
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002905- Issue #4751: For hashlib algorithms provided by OpenSSL, the Python GIL is now
2906 released during computation on data lengths >= 2048 bytes.
Gregory P. Smithd02eeda2009-05-04 00:16:49 +00002907
Gregory P. Smithea388262009-02-13 03:00:00 +00002908- Issue #3745: Fix hashlib to always reject unicode and non buffer-api
2909 supporting objects as input no matter how it was compiled (built in
Gregory P. Smithfe32d302010-01-02 22:42:50 +00002910 implementations or external openssl library). NOTE: Undone in 2.7a2.
Gregory P. Smithea388262009-02-13 03:00:00 +00002911
Mark Dickinsona200dd52009-01-15 15:17:43 +00002912- Issue #4397: Fix occasional test_socket failure on OS X.
Mark Dickinsone82cdae2009-01-15 14:54:37 +00002913
Martin v. Löwisb3b7d852009-01-11 09:26:54 +00002914- Issue #4279: Fix build of parsermodule under Cygwin.
2915
Martin v. Löwis9ac49272009-01-02 20:40:14 +00002916- Issue #4051: Prevent conflict of UNICODE macros in cPickle.
2917
Georg Brandl6269fec2009-01-01 12:15:31 +00002918- Issue #4228: Pack negative values the same way as 2.4 in struct's L format.
2919
Martin v. Löwis03824e42008-12-29 18:17:34 +00002920- Issue #1040026: Fix os.times result on systems where HZ is incorrect.
2921
Mark Dickinson4c96fa52008-12-11 19:28:08 +00002922- Issues #3167, #3682: Fix test_math failures for log, log10 on Solaris,
2923 OpenBSD.
2924
Martin v. Löwisbcb017f2008-11-30 19:28:27 +00002925- Issue #4365: Add crtassem.h constants to the msvcrt module.
2926
Benjamin Peterson9dfe6a82008-11-24 04:09:03 +00002927- Issue #4396: The parser module now correctly validates the with statement.
2928
Jack Diederichd60c29e2009-03-31 23:46:48 +00002929- Issue #5228: Make functools.partial objects can now be pickled.
2930
Guilherme Polob1a98de2009-01-28 20:03:26 +00002931Tests
2932-----
2933
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002934- Issue #7431: Use TESTFN in test_linecache instead of trying to create a file
2935 in the Lib/test directory, which might be read-only for the user running the
2936 tests.
R. David Murray820b0ea2009-12-03 23:57:59 +00002937
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002938- Issue #7324: Add a sanity check to regrtest argument parsing to catch the case
2939 of an option with no handler.
R. David Murrayda826892009-11-15 00:04:32 +00002940
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002941- Issue #7312: Add a -F flag to run the selected tests in a loop until a test
2942 fails. Can be combined with -j.
R. David Murray7f7eea62009-11-14 15:18:22 +00002943
Antoine Pitrou310c9fe2009-11-11 20:55:07 +00002944- Issue #7295: Do not use a hardcoded file name in test_tarfile.
2945
Antoine Pitrouc98efe02009-11-06 22:34:35 +00002946- Issue #7270: Add some dedicated unit tests for multi-thread synchronization
2947 primitives such as Lock, RLock, Condition, Event and Semaphore.
2948
Antoine Pitrou59c44f32009-10-30 17:07:08 +00002949- Issue #7222: Make thread "reaping" more reliable so that reference
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002950 leak-chasing test runs give sensible results. The previous method of reaping
2951 threads could return successfully while some Thread objects were still
2952 referenced. This also introduces a new private function: ``thread._count()``.
Antoine Pitrou59c44f32009-10-30 17:07:08 +00002953
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002954- Issue #7151: Fixed regrtest -j so that output to stderr from a test no longer
2955 runs the risk of causing the worker thread to fail.
R. David Murray282396f2009-10-18 21:12:37 +00002956
Antoine Pitrou58d2f262009-10-10 20:52:11 +00002957- Issue #7055: test___all__ now greedily detects all modules which have an
2958 __all__ attribute, rather than using a hardcoded and incomplete list.
2959
R. David Murray14dcd432009-10-14 13:58:07 +00002960- Issue #7058: Added save/restore for things like sys.argv and cwd to
2961 runtest_inner in regrtest, with warnings if the called test modifies them,
2962 and a new section in the summary report at the end.
R. David Murrayabe3d3e2009-10-05 17:03:09 +00002963
Mark Dickinson245d9152009-10-04 18:38:39 +00002964- Issue #7042: Fix test_signal (test_itimer_virtual) failure on OS X 10.6.
2965
Brett Cannone7e941e2009-09-03 21:25:21 +00002966- Issue #6806: test_platform failed under OS X 10.6.0 because ``sw_ver`` leaves
2967 off the trailing 0 in the version number.
2968
Guilherme Polo7f146ab2009-06-21 17:22:50 +00002969- Issue #5450: Moved tests involving loading tk from Lib/test/test_tcl to
2970 Lib/lib-tk/test/test_tkinter/test_loadtk. With this, these tests demonstrate
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002971 the same behaviour as test_ttkguionly (and now also test_tk) which is to skip
2972 the tests if DISPLAY is defined but can't be used.
Guilherme Polo7f146ab2009-06-21 17:22:50 +00002973
Antoine Pitrou4698d992009-05-31 14:20:14 +00002974- Issue #6152: New option '-j'/'--multiprocess' for regrtest allows running
2975 regression tests in parallel, shortening the total runtime.
2976
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002977- Issue #5354: New test support function import_fresh_module() makes it easy to
2978 import both normal and optimised versions of modules. test_heapq and
2979 test_warnings have been adjusted to use it, tests for other modules with both
2980 C and Python implementations in the stdlib can be adjusted to use it over
2981 time.
Nick Coghlan5533ff62009-04-22 15:26:04 +00002982
Brett Cannonce3d2212009-04-01 20:25:48 +00002983- Fix test_warnings to no longer reset the warnings filter.
2984
Brett Cannon2da4d622009-04-01 19:57:10 +00002985- Fix test_logging to no longer reset the warnings filter.
2986
Georg Brandld8fb6ac2009-04-01 00:04:33 +00002987- Issue #5635: Fix running test_sys with tracing enabled.
2988
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002989- regrtest no longer treats ImportError as equivalent to SkipTest. Imports that
2990 should cause a test to be skipped are now done using import_module from test
2991 support, which does the conversion.
R. David Murray41448c52009-03-31 19:57:24 +00002992
Guilherme Polob1a98de2009-01-28 20:03:26 +00002993- Issue #5083: New 'gui' resource for regrtest.
2994
Walter Dörwalda1453172009-04-25 12:15:07 +00002995- Issue #5837: Certain sequences of calls to set() and unset() for
2996 support.EnvironmentVarGuard objects restored the environment variables
2997 incorrectly on __exit__.
2998
Alexandre Vassalotti999ecc02009-07-15 18:19:47 +00002999- Issue #2389: Array objects are now pickled in a portable manner.
3000
Brett Cannon813c43a2009-11-08 21:35:28 +00003001Misc
3002----
3003
3004- Issue #5611: Auto-detect whether a C file uses tabs or spaces in Vim.
3005
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +00003006
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +00003007What's New in Python 2.6 final
3008==============================
3009
Barry Warsawafa14362008-10-01 21:46:40 +00003010*Release date: 01-Oct-2008*
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +00003011
3012Core and Builtins
3013-----------------
3014
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfc5ea392008-09-26 22:34:08 +00003015- Issue #3967: Fixed a crash in the count() and find() methods of string-like
3016 objects, when the "start" parameter is a huge value.
3017
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc17617a02008-09-25 20:52:56 +00003018- Issue #3965: Fixed a crash on Windows when open() is given an invalid
3019 filename or mode, and the filename is a unicode string.
3020
Martin v. Löwise86b07c2008-09-25 04:12:50 +00003021- Bug #3951: Py_USING_MEMORY_DEBUGGER should not be enabled by default.
3022
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +00003023Library
3024-------
3025
Martin v. Löwise563aa42008-09-29 22:09:07 +00003026- Issue #3965: Allow repeated calls to turtle.Screen, by making it a
3027 true singleton object.
3028
Brett Cannonb2d61bd2008-09-29 03:41:21 +00003029- Issue #3895: It was possible to crash the interpreter when an external timer
3030 was used with cProfile that returned an object that could not be converted
3031 into a float.
3032
Benjamin Peterson22d3c922008-09-25 20:35:45 +00003033- Issue #3950: Made turtle respect scale factors.
3034
Thomas Hellera85c95d2008-09-24 18:26:05 +00003035- Issue #3547: Fixed ctypes structures bitfields of varying integer
3036 sizes.
3037
Benjamin Peterson2c7470d2008-09-21 21:27:51 +00003038- Issue #3879: A regression in urllib.getproxies_enviroment was fixed.
3039
Gregory P. Smith08067492008-09-30 20:41:13 +00003040- Issue #3863: Disabled a unit test of fork being called from a thread
3041 when running on platforms known to exhibit OS bugs when attempting that.
3042
Martin v. Löwis175d0072008-09-19 15:21:07 +00003043Build
3044-----
3045
Martin v. Löwisd69c9042008-10-01 11:19:50 +00003046- Bug #3989: Package the 2to3 script (as 2to3.py) in the Windows
3047 installer.
3048
Martin v. Löwis175d0072008-09-19 15:21:07 +00003049- Bug #3887: Package x64 version of CRT for AMD64 Windows binaries.
3050
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +00003051
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +00003052What's New in Python 2.6 release candidate 2?
3053=============================================
3054
Barry Warsaw6af16192008-09-18 04:33:43 +00003055*Release date: 17-Sep-2008*
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +00003056
3057Core and Builtins
3058-----------------
3059
Benjamin Peterson8c2b7dc2008-09-18 01:22:16 +00003060Extension Modules
3061-----------------
3062
Benjamin Peterson8d77d442008-09-30 01:31:49 +00003063- Security Issue #2: imageop did not validate arguments correctly and could
3064 segfault as a result.
3065
Benjamin Peterson8c2b7dc2008-09-18 01:22:16 +00003066- Issue #3886: Possible integer overflows in the _hashopenssl module were
3067 closed.
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +00003068
Antoine Pitrou3c9f5412008-09-13 20:30:30 +00003069Tools/Demos
3070-----------
3071
Georg Brandl2bd92a52009-10-11 21:10:07 +00003072- Issue #3850: recursion tests in Tools/scripts/find_recursion_limit.py can raise
Antoine Pitrou3c9f5412008-09-13 20:30:30 +00003073 AttributeError instead of RuntimeError, depending in which C API call
3074 exactly the recursion limit is exceeded. Consequently, both exception types
3075 are caught and silenced.
3076
Martin v. Löwis4eb18f92008-09-14 20:22:39 +00003077Build
3078-----
3079
3080- Issue #3617: Include a licensing statement regarding the Microsoft
3081 C runtime in the Windows installer.
3082
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +00003083
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +00003084What's New in Python 2.6 release candidate 1?
3085=============================================
3086
Barry Warsaw1e62aec2008-09-12 23:25:57 +00003087*Release date: 12-Sep-2008*
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +00003088
3089Core and Builtins
3090-----------------
3091
Martin v. Löwis9fa5a282008-09-11 06:53:30 +00003092- Issue #3642: Suppress warning in obmalloc when size_t is larger than uint.
3093
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc05e34492008-09-10 22:04:45 +00003094- Issue #3743: In a few places, PY_FORMAT_SIZE_T was incorrectly used with
3095 PyString_FromFormat or PyErr_Format to display size_t values. The macro
3096 PY_FORMAT_SIZE_T is designed to select the correct format for the OS
3097 ``printf`` function, whereas PyString_FromFormat has an independent
3098 implementation and uses "%zd" on all platforms for size_t values.
3099 This makes a difference on win64, where ``printf`` needs "%Id" to display
3100 64bit values.
3101
Benjamin Peterson97179b02008-09-09 20:55:01 +00003102- Issue #3634: _weakref.ref(Exception).__init__() gave invalid return value on
3103 error.
3104
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd3ffb892008-09-09 07:24:30 +00003105- Issue #3777: long() applied to a float object now always return a long
3106 object; previously an int would be returned for small values. the __long__
3107 method is allowed to return either an int or a long, but the behaviour of
3108 float objects should not change to respect backward compatibility.
3109
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc3571fbf2008-09-01 19:52:00 +00003110- Issue #3751: str.rpartition would perform a left-partition when called with
3111 a unicode argument.
3112
Benjamin Peterson17f03ca2008-09-01 14:18:30 +00003113- Issue #3683: Fix compilation when --without-threads is given.
3114
Antoine Pitroud4ae97b2008-08-29 18:39:48 +00003115- Issue #3668: Fix a memory leak with the "s*" argument parser in
Vinay Sajip35e3b032008-09-01 14:33:59 +00003116 PyArg_ParseTuple and friends, which occurred when the argument for "s*"
Antoine Pitroud4ae97b2008-08-29 18:39:48 +00003117 was correctly parsed but parsing of subsequent arguments failed.
3118
Vinay Sajip35e3b032008-09-01 14:33:59 +00003119- Issue #2534: speed up isinstance() and issubclass() by 50-70%, so as to
Antoine Pitrou0668c622008-08-26 22:42:08 +00003120 match Python 2.5 speed despite the __instancecheck__ / __subclasscheck__
3121 mechanism. In the process, fix a bug where isinstance() and issubclass(),
3122 when given a tuple of classes as second argument, were looking up
3123 __instancecheck__ / __subclasscheck__ on the tuple rather than on each
3124 type object.
3125
Neal Norwitz18aa3882008-08-24 05:04:52 +00003126- Fix crashes on memory allocation failure found with failmalloc.
3127
3128- Fix memory leaks found with valgrind and update suppressions file.
3129
3130- Fix compiler warnings in opt mode which would lead to invalid memory reads.
3131
3132- Fix problem using wrong name in decimal module reported by pychecker.
3133
Christian Heimes7d4c3172008-08-22 19:47:25 +00003134- Silenced another compiler warning about a used but not defined
3135 function 'stringlib_contains_obj'.
3136
Benjamin Peterson712ee922008-08-24 18:10:20 +00003137- Added warnings on the use of ``__getslice__``, ``__setslice__``, or
3138 ``__delslice__``.
3139
Gregory P. Smith2bb25cc2008-09-02 05:29:51 +00003140- Issue #3678: Correctly pass LDFLAGS and LDLAST to the linker on shared
3141 library targets in the Makefile.
3142
Gregory P. Smith980b99b2008-09-07 05:15:18 +00003143- Issue #1204: The configure script now tests for additional libraries
3144 that may be required when linking against readline. This fixes issues
3145 with x86_64 builds on some platforms (a few Linux flavors and OpenBSD).
3146
Benjamin Peterson14cb6bc2008-08-26 17:08:40 +00003147C-API
3148-----
3149
3150- Aliased PyObject_Bytes to PyObject_Str.
3151
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +00003152Library
3153-------
3154
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc24cb3822008-09-11 20:56:13 +00003155- Issue #3640: Pickling a list or a dict uses less local variables, to reduce
3156 stack usage in the case of deeply nested objects.
3157
Guido van Rossume3c4fd92008-09-10 14:27:00 +00003158- Issue #3629: Fix sre "bytecode" validator for an end case.
3159
Martin v. Löwis24329ba2008-09-10 13:38:12 +00003160- Issue #3811: The Unicode database was updated to 5.1.
3161
Nick Coghland2e09382008-09-11 12:11:06 +00003162- Issue #3781: Further warnings.catch_warnings() cleanup to prevent
3163 silent misbehaviour when a single instance is nested in multiple
3164 with statements, or when the methods are invoked in the wrong order.
3165
Vinay Sajip844f7412008-09-09 13:42:08 +00003166- Issue #3809: Fixed spurious 'test.blah' file left behind by test_logging.
3167
Nick Coghland2e09382008-09-11 12:11:06 +00003168- Issue #3781: Clean up the API for warnings.catch_warnings() by having it
Brett Cannon672237d2008-09-09 00:49:16 +00003169 return a list or None rather than a custom object.
3170
Benjamin Peterson6ac7d7c2008-09-06 19:28:11 +00003171- Issue #1638033: Cookie.Morsel gained the httponly attribute.
3172
Antoine Pitrouebcd0ce2008-09-05 23:30:23 +00003173- Issue #3535: zipfile couldn't read some zip files larger than 2GB.
3174
3175- Issue #3776: Deprecate the bsddb package for removal in 3.0.
Brett Cannon32476fc2008-09-05 18:33:51 +00003176
Hirokazu Yamamoto42e459e2008-09-04 14:25:30 +00003177- Issue #3762: platform.architecture() fails if python is lanched via
3178 its symbolic link.
3179
Vinay Sajip65d66e12008-09-04 07:31:21 +00003180- Issue #3772: Fixed regression problem in StreamHandler.emit().
3181
Facundo Batistac585df92008-09-03 22:35:50 +00003182- Issue 600362: Relocated parse_qs() and parse_qsl(), from the cgi module
3183 to the urlparse one. Added a PendingDeprecationWarning in the old
3184 module, it will be deprecated in the future.
3185
Marc-André Lemburgb339b2a2008-09-03 11:13:56 +00003186- Issue #2562: Fix distutils PKG-INFO writing logic to allow having
3187 non-ascii characters and Unicode in setup.py meta-data.
3188
3189- Issue #3726: Allow spaces in separators in logging configuration files.
Vinay Sajip6a2fd812008-09-03 09:20:05 +00003190
Marc-André Lemburg31a0a142008-09-02 12:11:19 +00003191- Issue #3719: platform.architecture() fails if there are spaces in the
3192 path to the Python binary.
3193
Brett Cannon1eaf0742008-09-02 01:25:16 +00003194- Issue 3602: Moved test.test_support.catch_warning() to
3195 warnings.catch_warnings() along with some API cleanup. Expanding the tests
3196 for catch_warnings() also led to an improvement in the raising of a
3197 DeprecationWarning related to warnings.warn_explicit().
3198
Benjamin Peterson973e6c22008-09-01 23:12:58 +00003199- The deprecation warnings for the old camelCase threading API were removed.
3200
Vinay Sajip35e3b032008-09-01 14:33:59 +00003201- logging: fixed lack of use of encoding attribute specified on a stream.
3202
Christian Heimesa27a62e2008-08-22 19:55:54 +00003203- Silenced a trivial compiler warning in the sqlite module.
3204
Christian Heimes1cc69632008-08-22 20:10:27 +00003205- Fixed two format strings in the _collections module.
3206
Benjamin Peterson17f03ca2008-09-01 14:18:30 +00003207- Issue #3703: _fileio.FileIO gave unhelpful error message when trying to open a
3208 directory.
Benjamin Petersonf22c26e2008-09-01 14:13:43 +00003209
Gregory P. Smithd7122032008-09-02 05:36:11 +00003210- Issue #3708: os.urandom no longer goes into an infinite loop when passed a
3211 non-integer floating point number.
3212
Vinay Sajip65d66e12008-09-04 07:31:21 +00003213- Issue #3110: multiprocessing fails to compiel on solaris 10 due to missing
Jesse Nollerb814d6a2008-09-03 18:10:30 +00003214 SEM_VALUE_MAX.
3215
Benjamin Peterson37346b22008-08-23 20:27:43 +00003216Extension Modules
3217-----------------
3218
Jesse Noller438195f2009-01-18 21:04:36 +00003219- Issue #4301: Patch the logging module to add processName support, remove
3220 _check_logger_class from multiprocessing.
3221
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc293924b2008-09-02 23:19:56 +00003222- Issue #2975: When compiling several extension modules with Visual Studio 2008
3223 from the same python interpreter, some environment variables would grow
3224 without limit.
3225
Benjamin Peterson37346b22008-08-23 20:27:43 +00003226- Issue #3643: Added a few more checks to _testcapi to prevent segfaults by
3227 exploitation of poor argument checking.
3228
Gerhard Häringef2276b2008-09-12 13:54:06 +00003229- sqlite3: Changed docstring of iterdump() to mark method as "Non-standard".
3230
Gerhard Häring6e1afcf2008-09-12 18:58:57 +00003231- Issue #3103: Reduced globals symbols used by sqlite3 module and made sure all
3232 remaining ones have "pysqlite_" prefix.
3233
Gerhard Häringe6872eb2008-09-12 22:33:22 +00003234- Issue #3846: Release the GIL during sqlite3_prepare calls. This improves
3235 concurrent access to the same SQLite database from multiple
3236 threads/processes.
3237
Brett Cannona0b74442008-09-03 22:45:11 +00003238Tests
3239-----
3240
Nick Coghland2e09382008-09-11 12:11:06 +00003241- Issue #3781: Add test.test_support.check_warnings() as a convenience
3242 wrapper for warnings.catch_warnings() that makes it easier to check
3243 that expected warning messages are being reported.
3244
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfeb8cad2008-09-06 20:53:51 +00003245- Issue #3796: Some tests functions were not enabled in test_float.
3246
3247- Issue #3768: Move test_py3kwarn over to the new API for catch_warnings().
Brett Cannona0b74442008-09-03 22:45:11 +00003248
Brett Cannoncdeb24b2008-09-05 22:59:17 +00003249Build
3250-----
3251
Martin v. Löwisab0b29b2008-09-13 08:11:57 +00003252- Issue #3833: Use a different upgrade code for Win64 installers.
3253
Martin v. Löwis3f5fda82008-09-08 13:50:10 +00003254- Issue #2271: Set SecureCustomProperties so that installation will properly
3255 use the TARGETDIR even for unprivileged users.
3256
Martin v. Löwis67543a92008-09-08 12:02:45 +00003257- Allow passing the MSI file name to merge.py.
3258
Vinay Sajip844f7412008-09-09 13:42:08 +00003259- Issue #3758: Rename the 'check' target to 'patchcheck' so as to not clash
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfeb8cad2008-09-06 20:53:51 +00003260 with GNU build target guidelines.
Brett Cannoncdeb24b2008-09-05 22:59:17 +00003261
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +00003262
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00003263What's New in Python 2.6 beta 3?
3264================================
3265
Barry Warsaw07a4a382008-08-21 01:15:08 +00003266*Release date: 20-Aug-2008*
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00003267
3268Core and Builtins
3269-----------------
3270
Guido van Rossumf8402962008-08-20 15:01:50 +00003271- Issue #1878: Remove Py_TPFLAGS_HAVE_VERSION_TAG from
3272 Py_TPFLAGS_DEFAULT when not building the core. This means 3rd party
3273 extensions do not automatically benefit from the class attribute
3274 cache; they will have to explicitly add Py_TPFLAGS_HAVE_VERSION_TAG
3275 to their tp_flags field if they care. This is a backwards
3276 compatibility feature; in 3.0, all types will use the cache by
3277 default.
3278
Benjamin Petersonf647dc12008-08-20 01:27:30 +00003279- Keyword arguments can now follow starred arguments. (``f(a, *args,
3280 keyword=23)`` is now valid syntax.)
3281
Thomas Heller0ad5ae02008-08-19 19:25:04 +00003282- ctypes function pointers that are COM methods have a boolean True
3283 value again.
3284
Martin v. Löwisf91d46a2008-08-12 14:49:50 +00003285- Issue #3139: Make buffer-interface thread-safe wrt. PyArg_ParseTuple,
3286 by denying s# to parse objects that have a releasebuffer procedure,
3287 and introducing s*.
3288
Georg Brandl1e13ea92008-08-11 09:07:59 +00003289- Issue #3537: Fix an assertion failure when an empty but presized dict
3290 object was stored in the freelist.
3291
Mark Dickinsonb6467572008-08-04 21:30:09 +00003292- Issue #1481296: Make long(float('nan')) and int(float('nan')) raise
3293 ValueError consistently across platforms.
3294
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc39fd6722008-07-31 21:28:03 +00003295- Issue #3479: On platforms where sizeof(int) is smaller than sizeof(long)
3296 (64bit Unix, for example), unichr() would truncate its argument and return
3297 u'\x00' for unichr(2**32). Now it properly raises an OverflowError.
3298
Neal Norwitze7d8be82008-07-31 17:17:14 +00003299- Apply security patches from Apple.
3300
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc246daed2008-07-31 00:42:16 +00003301- Issue #2542: Now that issubclass() may call arbitrary code, ensure that
3302 PyErr_ExceptionMatches returns 0 when an exception occurs there.
3303
Antoine Pitrou92f82162008-07-25 22:22:08 +00003304- Issue #1819: function calls with several named parameters are now on
3305 average 35% faster (as measured by pybench).
3306
Amaury Forgeot d'Arce4921fe2008-07-21 22:00:38 +00003307- Issue #2378: An unexpected UnboundLocalError or NameError could appear when
3308 the python debugger steps into a class statement: the free variables (local
3309 variables defined in an outer scope) would be deleted from the outer scope.
3310
Gregory P. Smith0470bab2008-07-22 04:46:32 +00003311- Issue #2620: Overflow checking when allocating or reallocating memory
3312 was not always being done properly in some python types and extension
3313 modules. PyMem_MALLOC, PyMem_REALLOC, PyMem_NEW and PyMem_RESIZE have
3314 all been updated to perform better checks and places in the code that
3315 would previously leak memory on the error path when such an allocation
3316 failed have been fixed.
3317
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00003318Library
3319-------
3320
Hirokazu Yamamoto838c79f2008-08-20 13:14:07 +00003321- Issue #3612: Added some missing basic types in ctypes.wintypes.
3322
Benjamin Petersone977ad42008-08-20 01:42:01 +00003323- The methods ``is_in_tuple()``, ``is_vararg()``, and ``is_keywordarg()`` of
3324 symtable.Symbol have been deprecated for removal in 3.0 and the next release.
3325
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc351ffb82008-08-18 19:23:47 +00003326- Issue #2234: distutils failed for some versions of the cygwin compiler. The
3327 version reported by these tools does not necessarily follow the python
3328 version numbering scheme, so the module is less strict when parsing it.
3329
Nick Coghlanf70385a2008-08-18 12:42:46 +00003330- Issue #2235: Added Py3k warnings for types which will become unhashable
3331 under the stricter __hash__ inheritance rules in 3.0. Several types
3332 which did not meet the rules for hash invariants and were already
3333 unhashable in 3.0 have now been explicitly flagged as unhashable in
3334 2.6 as well (collections.Mapping, collections.Set, unittest.TestSuite,
3335 xml.dom.minidom.NamedNodeMap, numbers.Number, UserList.UserList)
3336
Brett Cannon88f801d2008-08-18 00:46:22 +00003337- Update __all__ for cookielib, csv, os, urllib2, and weakref to include things
3338 imported into the module but exposed as part of the module's API.
3339
Brett Cannon7b96f072008-08-18 00:41:11 +00003340- Remove an unneeded import of abc.ABCMeta from 'inspect'.
3341
Brett Cannon46225e72008-08-18 00:36:52 +00003342- Remove unneeded imports of 'sys' and 'warnings' from 'io'.
3343
Brett Cannon25c9d6a2008-08-17 22:10:11 +00003344- Remove unneeded imports of 'warnings' from shelve, filecmp, and dummy_thread.
3345
Hirokazu Yamamoto41a81eb2008-08-17 13:10:46 +00003346- Issue #3575: Incremental decoder's decode function now takes bytearray
3347 by using 's*' instead of 't#'.
3348
Mark Dickinson3e4caeb2009-02-21 20:27:01 +00003349- Issue #2222: Fixed reference leak when occurred os.rename()
Hirokazu Yamamoto7f30a682008-08-17 09:46:56 +00003350 fails unicode conversion on 2nd parameter. (windows only)
3351
Facundo Batista94f243a2008-08-17 03:38:39 +00003352- Issue 2464. urllib2 now supports a malformation in the URL received
3353 in a redirect.
3354
Brett Cannonabe423e2008-08-16 21:47:07 +00003355- Silence the DeprecationWarning raised when importing mimetools in
Brett Cannon721b1452008-08-16 22:00:27 +00003356 BaseHTTPServer, cgi (and rfc822), httplib.
Brett Cannonabe423e2008-08-16 21:47:07 +00003357
Facundo Batistaeb90b782008-08-16 14:44:07 +00003358- Issue #2776: fixed small issue when handling an URL with double slash
3359 after a 302 response in the case of not going through a proxy.
3360
Antoine Pitroub90a8be2008-08-15 21:03:21 +00003361- Issue #2676: in the email package, content-type parsing was hanging on
3362 pathological input because of quadratic or exponential behaviour of a
3363 regular expression.
3364
Antoine Pitrou11ec65d2008-08-14 21:04:30 +00003365- Issue #3476: binary buffered reading through the new "io" library is now
3366 thread-safe.
3367
Brett Cannonbf3157b2008-08-14 05:00:03 +00003368- Silence the DeprecationWarning of rfc822 when it is imported by mimetools
3369 since mimetools itself is deprecated. Because modules are cached, all
3370 subsequent imports of rfc822 will not raise a visible DeprecationWarning.
3371
Antoine Pitrou9fcd4b32008-08-11 17:21:36 +00003372- Issue #3134: shutil referenced undefined WindowsError symbol.
3373
Robert Schuppenies14646332008-08-10 11:01:53 +00003374- Issue #1342811: Fix leak in Tkinter.Menu.delete. Commands associated to
3375 menu entries were not deleted.
3376
Brett Cannon83e81842008-08-09 23:30:55 +00003377- Copied the implementation of reduce() to _functools.reduce() to have a
3378 version that did not raise a DeprecationWarning under -3.
3379
Antoine Pitrou76b8bee2008-08-09 17:27:23 +00003380- Issue #3205: When iterating over a BZ2File fails allocating memory, raise
3381 a MemoryError rather than silently stop the iteration.
3382
Guido van Rossum59ce9012008-08-09 14:55:34 +00003383- Issue #3487: sre "bytecode" validator. Passing invalid "re-bytecode"
3384 to _sre.compile() will now be rejected. This should not affect anybody
3385 since the re.compile() function never generates invalid re-bytecode.
3386
Skip Montanaroa032bf42008-08-08 22:52:51 +00003387- Issue #3436: Make csv.DictReader's fieldnames attribute a property so that
3388 upon first access it can be automatically initialized from the csv file if
3389 it wasn't initialized during instantiation.
3390
Brett Cannon3aa2a492008-08-06 22:28:09 +00003391- Issue #2338: Create imp.reload() to help with transitioning to Python 3.0 as
3392 the reload() built-in has been removed.
3393
Brett Cannon7e30b672008-08-04 21:52:25 +00003394- Changed code in the following modules/packages to remove warnings raised
Brett Cannonc1b76e42008-08-09 23:06:16 +00003395 while running under the ``-3`` flag: aifc, asynchat, asyncore, bdb, bsddb,
Brett Cannon047e4a92008-08-17 04:16:04 +00003396 ConfigParser, cookielib, csv, difflib, distutils, DocXMLRPCServer, email,
3397 filecmp, fileinput, inspect, logging, modulefinder, pdb, pickle, profile,
3398 pstats, pydoc, re, rlcompleter, SimpleXMLRPCServer, shelve, socket,
3399 subprocess, sqlite3, tarfile, Tkinter, test.test_support, textwrap,
3400 threading, tokenize, traceback, urlparse, wsgiref, xml, xmlrpclib.
Brett Cannon7e30b672008-08-04 21:52:25 +00003401
Lars Gustäbel727bd0b2008-08-02 11:26:39 +00003402- Issue #3039: Fix tarfile.TarFileCompat.writestr() which always
3403 raised an AttributeError.
3404
Benjamin Peterson01a24322008-07-28 23:35:27 +00003405- Issue #2523: Fix quadratic behaviour when read()ing a binary file without
Antoine Pitroude781a42008-08-09 12:43:23 +00003406 asking for a specific length. This problem only affected files opened
3407 using the new "io" module, not the built-in open() function.
Benjamin Peterson01a24322008-07-28 23:35:27 +00003408
Mark Dickinsonfe84cce2008-07-27 06:39:07 +00003409- Issue #3449: Update decimal module to use most recent specification
3410 (v. 1.68) and tests (v. 2.58) from IBM.
3411
Skip Montanarof9ac43f2008-07-27 00:50:41 +00003412- Issue 3437: Bug fix in robotparser parsing of Allow: lines.
3413
Raymond Hettinger8c664e82008-07-25 18:43:33 +00003414- Issue 1592: Improve error reporting when operations are attempted
3415 on a closed shelf.
3416
Georg Brandlf9efabb2008-07-23 15:16:45 +00003417- Deprecate the "ast" parser function aliases.
3418
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00003419- Issue #3120: On 64-bit Windows the subprocess module was truncating handles.
3420
3421- Issue #3303: Fix a crash in locale.strcoll() when calling it with
3422 invalid arguments.
3423
3424- Issue #3302: Fix several crashes when calling locale's gettext functions
3425 with None arguments.
3426
3427- Issue #3389: Allow resolving dotted names for handlers in logging
3428 configuration files.
3429
3430- Deprecate the sunaudio module for removal in Python 3.0.
3431
Antoine Pitrou5fdfa3e2008-07-25 19:42:26 +00003432- Issue #3394: zipfile.writestr sets external attributes when passed a
3433 file name rather than a ZipInfo instance, so files are extracted with
3434 mode 0600 rather than 000 under Unix.
3435
Gregory P. Smitha36f8fe2008-08-04 00:13:29 +00003436- Issue #1857: subprocess.Popen.poll gained an additional _deadstate keyword
3437 argument in python 2.5, this broke code that subclassed Popen to include its
3438 own poll method. Fixed my moving _deadstate to an _internal_poll method.
3439
Martin v. Löwis8dbf3642008-08-01 14:10:26 +00003440Build
3441-----
3442
3443- Generate the PatternGrammar pickle during "make install".
3444
Nick Coghlan2a0c2b12008-08-04 12:47:17 +00003445Documentation
3446-------------
3447
Nick Coghlan6e8fef02008-08-18 13:14:22 +00003448- Issue #2235: the C API function PyObject_HashNotImplemented and its
3449 interaction with the tp_hash slot (added in 2.6b2) are now documented
3450
Nick Coghlan2a0c2b12008-08-04 12:47:17 +00003451- Issue #643841: The language reference now provides more detailed
3452 coverage of the lookup process for special methods. The disclaimers
3453 regarding lack of coverage of new-style classes have also been
3454 removed, since the coverage is now fairly reasonable.
3455
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00003456
Raymond Hettingere3ae6552008-06-20 04:18:15 +00003457What's New in Python 2.6 beta 2?
3458================================
3459
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00003460*Release date: 17-Jul-2008*
3461
Raymond Hettingere3ae6552008-06-20 04:18:15 +00003462Core and Builtins
3463-----------------
3464
Georg Brandl3e483f62008-07-16 22:57:41 +00003465- Issue #3156: Fix inconsistent behavior of the bytearray type: all
3466 its methods now allow for items objects that can be converted to
3467 an integer using operator.index().
3468
Mark Dickinson64b7e502008-07-16 09:40:03 +00003469- Issue #3360: Fix incorrect parsing of '020000000000.0', which
3470 produced a ValueError instead of giving the correct float.
3471
Eric Smitha5fa5a22008-07-16 00:11:49 +00003472- Issue #3083: Add alternate (#) formatting for bin, oct, hex output
3473 for str.format(). This adds the prefix 0b, 0o, or 0x, respectively.
3474
Mark Dickinson7103aa42008-07-15 19:08:33 +00003475- Issue #3008: the float type has a new instance method 'float.hex'
3476 and a new class method 'float.fromhex' to convert floating-point
3477 numbers to and from hexadecimal strings, respectively.
3478
Nick Coghlan6d6bd442008-07-15 15:40:22 +00003479- Issue #2235: __hash__ is once again inherited by default. To allow
3480 collections.Hashable to remain meaningful in the presence of the
3481 default hash implementation (object.__hash__), it is now possible
3482 to explicit block inheritance of hash by setting __hash__=None at
3483 the Python level, or tp_hash=PyObject_HashNotImplemented at the C
3484 level.
3485
Nick Coghlanb028f502008-07-13 14:52:36 +00003486- Issue #3221: Issue a RuntimeWarning instead of raising SystemError if
3487 the parent module cannot be found while performing an absolute import.
3488 This means that an incorrectly defined __package__ attribute will
3489 now only prevent relative imports in that module rather than causing
3490 all imports from that module to fail.
3491
Nick Coghlan14ff9942008-07-08 14:21:42 +00003492- Issue #2517: Allow unicode messages in Exceptions again by correctly
3493 bypassing the instance dictionary when looking up __unicode__ on
3494 new-style classes.
3495
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcbdd941f2008-07-01 20:38:04 +00003496- Issue #3242: Fix a crash inside the print statement, if sys.stdout is
3497 set to a custom object whose write() method happens to install
3498 another file in sys.stdout.
3499
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc1f40c8a2008-06-30 22:42:40 +00003500- Issue #3088: Corrected a race condition in classes derived from
3501 threading.local: the first member set by a thread could be saved in
3502 another thread's dictionary.
3503
Mark Dickinson1ec2fcd2008-06-20 14:53:43 +00003504- Issue #3004: Minor change to slice.indices(): the start and stop
3505 arguments are now treated identically, making the behaviour easier
3506 to describe and understand. For example, slice(None, -10,
3507 1).indices(9) now returns (0, 0, 1) instead of (0, -1, 1), and
3508 slice(None, 10, -1).indices(10) returns (9, 9, -1) instead of (9,
3509 10, -1).
3510
Georg Brandl278fc502008-07-19 12:46:12 +00003511- Issue #3219: Calling a function with repeated keyword arguments,
3512 f(a=2, a=23), would not cause a syntax error. This was a regression
3513 from 2.4 caused by the switch to the new compiler.
Benjamin Peterson175e4d92008-07-01 19:34:52 +00003514
Georg Brandl278fc502008-07-19 12:46:12 +00003515- Issue #2862: Make int and float freelist management consistent with
3516 other freelists. Changes their CompactFreeList apis into
3517 ClearFreeList apis and calls them via gc.collect().
Gregory P. Smith2fe77062008-07-06 03:35:58 +00003518
Brett Cannon8bb8fa52008-07-02 01:57:08 +00003519Library
3520-------
3521
Thomas Heller57adf222008-08-14 19:10:48 +00003522- Issue #3554: ctypes.string_at and ctypes.wstring_at did call Python
3523 api functions without holding the GIL, which could lead to a fatal
3524 error when they failed.
3525
Martin v. Löwisaabf4042008-08-02 07:20:25 +00003526- Issue #799428: Fix Tkinter.Misc._nametowidget to unwrap Tcl command objects.
3527
Jesse Noller7fb96402008-07-17 21:01:05 +00003528- Issue #3395: fix reference in test_multiprocessing to old debugInfo method
3529
Georg Brandla24869a2008-07-16 22:33:18 +00003530- Issue #3312: Fix two crashes in sqlite3.
3531
Georg Brandl86cbf812008-07-16 21:31:41 +00003532- Issue #1608818: Fix misbehavior in os.listdir() if readdir() fails.
3533
Jesse Noller13e9d582008-07-16 14:32:36 +00003534- Issue #3125: Remove copy_reg in multiprocessing and replace it with
3535 ForkingPickler.register() to resolve conflict with ctypes.
3536
Vinay Sajip51e65192008-07-18 09:01:10 +00003537- Issue #3090: Fixed ARCHFLAGS parsing on OS/X
Jesse Noller13e9d582008-07-16 14:32:36 +00003538
Thomas Heller880f5292008-07-15 19:39:38 +00003539- Issue #3313: Fixed a crash when a failed dlopen() call does not set
3540 a valid dlerror() message.
3541
Thomas Heller2bad6572008-07-15 17:19:50 +00003542- Issue #3258: Fixed a crash when a ctypes POINTER type to an
3543 incomplete structure was created.
3544
Brett Cannon3d0b9f02008-07-13 01:15:07 +00003545- Issue #3339: dummy_thread.acquire() should not return None.
3546
Raymond Hettingerb01713e2008-07-10 14:34:57 +00003547- Issue #3285: Fractions from_float() and from_decimal() accept Integral arguments.
3548
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +00003549- Issue #3301: Bisect module behaved badly when lo was negative.
Raymond Hettinger3cd1e422008-07-10 14:03:19 +00003550
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc0f7cddc2008-07-06 21:34:39 +00003551- Issue #839496: SimpleHTTPServer used to open text files in text mode. This is
3552 both unnecessary (HTTP allows text content to be sent in several forms) and
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +00003553 wrong because the actual transmitted size could differ from the
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc0f7cddc2008-07-06 21:34:39 +00003554 content-length. The problem had been corrected in the 2.4 branch, but never
3555 merged into trunk.
3556
Georg Brandle78fbcc2008-07-05 10:13:36 +00003557- Issue #2663: add filtering capability to shutil.copytree().
3558
Martin v. Löwis8c436412008-07-03 12:51:14 +00003559- Issue #1622: Correct interpretation of various ZIP header fields.
3560
3561- Issue #1526: Allow more than 64k files to be added to Zip64 file.
3562
3563- Issue #1746: Correct handling of zipfile archive comments (previously
3564 archives with comments over 4k were flagged as invalid). Allow writing
Vinay Sajip51e65192008-07-18 09:01:10 +00003565 Zip files with archives by setting the 'comment' attribute of a ZipFile.
Martin v. Löwis8c436412008-07-03 12:51:14 +00003566
Vinay Sajip51e65192008-07-18 09:01:10 +00003567- Issue #449227: The rlcompleter module now adds "(" to callable objects
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +00003568 when completed.
Facundo Batista66c52772008-07-02 16:52:55 +00003569
Nick Coghlanc060b0e2008-07-02 13:09:19 +00003570- Issue #3190: Pydoc now hides the automatic module attribute __package__ (the
3571 handling is now the same as that of other special attributes like __name__).
3572
Brett Cannon8bb8fa52008-07-02 01:57:08 +00003573- Issue #2885 (partial): The urllib.urlopen() function has been deprecated for
3574 removal in Python 3.0 in favor of urllib2.urlopen().
3575
Gregory P. Smithf4140642008-07-06 07:16:40 +00003576- Issue #2113: Fix error in subprocess.Popen if the select system call is
3577 interrupted by a signal.
3578
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +00003579- Issue #3309: Fix bz2.BZFile iterator to release its internal lock
Gregory P. Smith3b1e6b22008-07-07 04:31:58 +00003580 properly when raising an exception due to the bz2file being closed.
3581 Prevents a deadlock.
3582
Gregory P. Smithc4691ec2008-07-07 05:09:12 +00003583- Issue #3094: httplib.HTTPSConnection Host: headers no longer include the
3584 redundant ":443" port number designation when the connection is using the
3585 default https port (443).
3586
Gregory P. Smithdb3409c2008-07-17 03:13:05 +00003587- Issue #874900: after an os.fork() call the threading module state is cleaned
3588 up in the child process to prevent deadlock and report proper thread counts
3589 if the new process uses the threading module.
3590
Nick Coghlan38469e22008-07-13 12:23:47 +00003591Tests
3592-----
3593
3594- test.test_support.catch_warning now keeps track of all warnings it sees
3595 and is now better documented. Explicit unit tests for this context manager
3596 have been added to test_warnings.
3597
Martin v. Löwisd84fd952008-06-30 06:57:39 +00003598Build
3599-----
3600
3601- Issue #3215: Build sqlite3 as sqlite3.dll, not sqlite3.pyd.
3602
Brett Cannon8bb8fa52008-07-02 01:57:08 +00003603
Brett Cannon97aa1ae2008-07-11 00:12:52 +00003604Documentation
3605-------------
3606
Brett Cannonfeef51d2008-07-11 00:50:01 +00003607- Document that robotparser has been renamed to urllib.robotparser in
Brett Cannon963ffdb2008-07-11 00:48:57 +00003608 Python 3.0.
3609
Brett Cannonf6afa332008-07-11 00:16:30 +00003610- Document that urlparse has been renamed to urllib.parse in Python 3.0.
3611
Brett Cannon97aa1ae2008-07-11 00:12:52 +00003612- Document that urllib2 is split across multiple modules and renamed in
3613 Python 3.0.
3614
3615- Document that urllib is split across multiple modules and renamed in
3616 Python 3.0.
3617
3618
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00003619What's New in Python 2.6 beta 1?
3620================================
3621
Barry Warsawb5d17402008-06-19 01:48:07 +00003622*Release date: 18-June-2008*
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00003623
3624Core and Builtins
3625-----------------
3626
Brett Cannondea1b562008-06-27 00:31:13 +00003627- Issue #3211: warnings.warn_explicit() did not guard against its 'registry'
3628 argument being anything other than a dict or None. Also fixed a bug in error
3629 handling when 'message' and 'category' were both set to None, triggering a
3630 bus error.
3631
Amaury Forgeot d'Arca8919fe2008-06-16 19:12:42 +00003632- Issue #3100: Corrected a crash on deallocation of a subclassed weakref which
3633 holds the last (strong) reference to its referent.
3634
Georg Brandl89f48872008-06-11 18:55:38 +00003635- Add future_builtins.ascii().
3636
Raymond Hettinger5c4d3d02008-06-09 13:07:27 +00003637- Several set methods now accept multiple arguments: update(), union(),
Raymond Hettinger4267be62008-06-11 10:30:54 +00003638 intersection(), intersection_update(), difference(), and difference_update().
Raymond Hettingeree4bcad2008-06-09 08:33:37 +00003639
Robert Schuppenies51df0642008-06-01 16:16:17 +00003640- Issue #2898: Added sys.getsizeof() to retrieve size of objects in bytes.
3641
Martin v. Löwis99815892008-06-01 07:20:46 +00003642- New environment variable PYTHONIOENCODING.
3643
Martin v. Löwis4dd019f2008-05-20 08:11:19 +00003644- Patch #2488: Add sys.maxsize.
3645
Georg Brandla9916b52008-05-17 22:11:54 +00003646- Issue #2353: file.xreadlines() now emits a Py3k warning.
3647
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003648- Issue #2863: generators now have a ``gen.__name__`` attribute that
3649 equals ``gen.gi_code.co_name``, like ``func.__name___`` that equals
3650 ``func.func_code.co_name``. The repr() of a generator now also
3651 contains this name.
Georg Brandlc91210c2008-05-15 15:08:32 +00003652
Georg Brandlbd85eb12008-05-14 06:34:15 +00003653- Issue #2831: enumerate() now has a ``start`` argument.
3654
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003655- Issue #2801: fix bug in the float.is_integer method where a
3656 ValueError was sometimes incorrectly raised.
Mark Dickinsone81c3762008-05-09 16:14:15 +00003657
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003658- Issue #2790: sys.flags was not properly exposing its bytes_warning
3659 attribute.
Brett Cannon3c1d50a2008-05-08 20:23:54 +00003660
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003661- Issue #2196: hasattr() now lets exceptions which do not inherit
3662 Exception (KeyboardInterrupt, and SystemExit) propagate instead of
3663 ignoring them.
Benjamin Petersonb9030f42008-05-12 00:41:23 +00003664
Gregory P. Smith9d534572008-06-11 07:41:16 +00003665- Added checks for integer overflows, contributed by Google. Some are
3666 only available if asserts are left in the code, in cases where they
3667 can't be triggered from Python code.
3668
3669
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00003670Extension Modules
3671-----------------
Guido van Rossum84b1e0f2008-08-20 14:57:20 +00003672- Issue #1179: [CVE-2007-4965] Integer overflow in imageop module.
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00003673
Raymond Hettinger305480c2008-06-16 01:42:40 +00003674- Issue #3116: marshal.dumps() had quadratic behavior for strings > 32Mb.
3675
Andrew M. Kuchling2126bab2008-06-22 13:39:11 +00003676- Issue #2138: Add factorial() to the math module.
Raymond Hettingerecbdd2e2008-06-09 06:54:45 +00003677
Raymond Hettinger6d7702e2008-05-31 03:24:31 +00003678- The heapq module does comparisons using LT instead of LE. This
3679 makes its implementation match that used by list.sort().
3680
Mark Dickinson99dfe922008-05-23 01:35:30 +00003681- Issue #2819: add full-precision summation function to math module,
3682 based on Hettinger's ASPN Python Cookbook recipe.
3683
Georg Brandl88659b02008-05-20 08:40:43 +00003684- Issue #2592: delegate nb_index and the floor/truediv slots in
3685 weakref.proxy.
3686
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003687- Support os.O_ASYNC and fcntl.FASYNC if the constants exist on the
3688 platform.
Georg Brandl5049a852008-05-16 13:10:15 +00003689
Brett Cannon044616a2008-05-15 02:33:55 +00003690- Support for Windows 9x has been removed from the winsound module.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcf9b54c22008-05-12 21:30:24 +00003691
Jesus Cea09c01782008-09-28 23:24:19 +00003692- bsddb module updated to version 4.7.3.
Jesus Cea4907d272008-08-31 14:00:51 +00003693 http://www.jcea.es/programacion/pybsddb.htm#bsddb3-4.7.3. This
3694 code should be compatible with Python 3.0.
Jesus Ceaef9764f2008-05-13 18:45:46 +00003695
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003696- Issue #2858: Fix potential memory corruption when
3697 bsddb.db.DBEnv.lock_get and other bsddb.db object constructors
3698 raised an exception.
Gregory P. Smith664782e2008-05-17 06:12:02 +00003699
Gregory P. Smith5d7d6c32008-05-25 08:32:04 +00003700- Issue #2669: bsddb/__init__.py iteration no longer silently fails when
3701 the database has changed size during iteration. It now raises a
3702 RuntimeError in the same manner as a dictionary.
3703
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003704- Issue #2870: cmathmodule.c compile error.
Christian Heimes0bd23c02008-05-16 10:23:31 +00003705
Benjamin Petersond8a89722008-08-18 16:40:03 +00003706- Added a threading.Thread.ident property.
Gregory P. Smith8856dda2008-06-01 23:48:47 +00003707
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00003708Library
3709-------
3710
Vinay Sajip1e022682008-06-29 21:27:15 +00003711- logging.config: Removed out-of-date comment in _install_handlers and
3712 used issubclass in place of equality comparison of classes.
3713
Facundo Batista5596b0c2008-06-22 13:36:20 +00003714- Issue #2722: Now the os.getcwd() supports very long path names.
3715
Facundo Batista2da91c32008-06-21 17:43:56 +00003716- Issue #2888: Fixed the behaviour of pprint when working with nested
3717 structures, to match the behaviour of 2.5 and 3.0 (now follows the common
3718 sense).
3719
Facundo Batistaa6a4d502008-06-21 18:58:04 +00003720- Issue #1817: cgi now correctly handles the querystring on POST requests
3721
Vinay Sajip8dc20fd2008-06-19 22:41:08 +00003722- Issue #3136: fileConfig()'s disabling of old loggers is now conditional via
3723 an optional disable_existing_loggers parameter, but the default value is
3724 such that the old behaviour is preserved. Thanks to Leandro Lucarella for
3725 the patch.
3726
Vinay Sajip9828b7e2008-06-17 11:04:02 +00003727- Issue #3126: StreamHandler and FileHandler check before calling "flush" and
3728 "close" that the stream object has these, using hasattr (thanks to bobf for
3729 the patch).
3730
Benjamin Peterson5c0be322008-06-13 15:11:50 +00003731- Issue #2912: platform.uname now tries to determine unknown information even if
3732 os.uname exists.
3733
Benjamin Peterson26305a02008-06-12 22:33:06 +00003734- The rfc822 module has been deprecated for removal in 3.0.
3735
Benjamin Petersona03722f2008-06-12 14:23:49 +00003736- The mimetools module has been deprecated for removal in 3.0.
3737
Thomas Heller1cec7aa2008-06-10 14:07:12 +00003738- The ctypes.byref function now takes an optional second parameter
3739 which allows to specify an offset in bytes for the constructed
3740 pointer-like object.
3741
Georg Brandl8509db52008-06-10 07:45:28 +00003742- Added the ast module.
3743
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00003744- Added the multiprocessing module, PEP 371.
Benjamin Peterson6f7ae692008-06-11 20:04:30 +00003745
Georg Brandl7be19aa2008-06-07 15:59:10 +00003746- Factored out the indentation cleaning from inspect.getdoc() into
3747 inspect.cleandoc() to ease standalone use.
3748
Thomas Hellerfbb9c0b2008-06-06 08:33:46 +00003749- Issue #1798: Add ctypes calling convention that allows safe access
3750 to errno.
3751
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00003752- Issue #2404: ctypes objects support the new pep3118 buffer interface.
Thomas Heller59475e92008-06-05 17:52:59 +00003753
Vinay Sajip9828b7e2008-06-17 11:04:02 +00003754- Patch #2125: Add GetInteger and GetString methods for
Martin v. Löwisffe62ed2008-06-02 08:40:06 +00003755 msilib.Record objects.
3756
Gregory P. Smith137d8242008-06-02 04:05:52 +00003757- Issue #2782: The datetime module's strftime methods now accept
3758 unicode format strings just as time.strftime always has.
3759
Georg Brandlac19d852008-06-01 21:19:14 +00003760- The sgmllib and htmllib modules have been deprecated for removal
3761 in Python 3.0.
3762
3763- Issue #3011: locale module alias table was updated to the latest
3764 version from the X.org locale.alias file.
Marc-André Lemburgadff65b2008-05-30 20:52:18 +00003765
Thomas Heller9287acf2008-05-29 19:42:34 +00003766- Issue #1797 (partial fix): ctypes NULL function pointers have a
3767 False boolean value now.
3768
Georg Brandld0b592f2008-05-29 07:45:26 +00003769- Issue #2985: Allow 64-bit integer responses (``<i8>``) in XMLRPC
3770 transfers.
3771
3772- Issue #2877: The UserString.MutableString class has been removed in
3773 Python 3.0.
Brett Cannonabb34fe2008-05-29 05:08:50 +00003774
Lars Gustäbelb1a54a32008-05-27 12:39:23 +00003775- Do not close external file objects passed to tarfile.open(mode='w:bz2')
3776 when the TarFile is closed.
3777
Georg Brandle08e3d02008-05-25 08:07:37 +00003778- Issue #2959: For consistency with other file-like objects, gzip's
3779 GzipFile.close() can now be called multiple times without raising
3780 an exception.
3781
Martin v. Löwis27e4a172008-05-23 15:18:28 +00003782- Issue #1390: Raise ValueError in toxml when an invalid comment would
3783 otherwise be produced.
3784
Vinay Sajipc0128832008-05-20 15:37:22 +00003785- Issue #2914: TimedRotatingFileHandler now takes an optional keyword
3786 argument "utc" to use UTC time rather than local time.
3787
3788- Issue #2929: TimedRotatingFileHandler was using the wrong path when
3789 deleting old log files (filename only instead of full path).
3790
Georg Brandl112aa502008-05-20 08:25:48 +00003791- Issue #1775025: You can now specify zipfile members to open(),
3792 read() or extract() via a ZipInfo instance. This allows handling
3793 duplicate filenames in zipfiles.
3794
Georg Brandl28fdfa92008-05-17 17:57:01 +00003795- Issue #961805: Fix Text.edit_modified() in Tkinter.
3796
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003797- Issue #1793: Function ctypes.util.find_msvcrt() added that returns
Thomas Heller95ba13f2008-05-16 20:06:31 +00003798 the name of the C runtime library that Python uses.
3799 ctypes.util.find_library(name) now call this function when name is
3800 'm' or 'c'.
3801
Brett Cannonfa40bbf2008-05-16 00:50:02 +00003802- The statvfs module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
3803
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003804- The sunaudiodev and SUNAUDIODEV modules have been deprecated for
3805 removal in Python 3.0.
3806
3807- The WAIT module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
3808 3.0.
3809
3810- The torgb module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
3811 3.0.
3812
3813- The SV module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
3814 3.0.
3815
3816- The readcd module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
Brett Cannon22248172008-05-16 00:10:24 +00003817 Python 3.0.
3818
Brett Cannon11ae6e72008-05-15 03:49:00 +00003819- The panelparser module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
3820 Python 3.0.
3821
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003822- The panel module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
3823 3.0.
Brett Cannon7e375862008-05-15 03:46:27 +00003824
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003825- The jpeg module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
3826 3.0.
Brett Cannon89f5d9c2008-05-15 03:44:00 +00003827
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003828- The IOCTL module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
3829 3.0.
Brett Cannond8c41ec2008-05-15 03:41:55 +00003830
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003831- The IN module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
3832 3.0.
Brett Cannon6328b292008-05-15 03:36:13 +00003833
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003834- The imgfile module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
Brett Cannon178582e2008-05-15 03:20:36 +00003835 Python 3.0.
3836
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003837- The GLWS module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
3838 3.0.
Brett Cannon72ccc402008-05-15 03:17:24 +00003839
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003840- The GET module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
3841 3.0.
Brett Cannon2773b6f2008-05-15 03:14:57 +00003842
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003843- The fm module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
3844 3.0.
3845
3846- The FL, flp, and fl modules from IRIX have been deprecated for
3847 removal in Python 3.0.
3848
3849- The FILE module on IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
3850 3.0.
3851
3852- The ERRNO module on IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
3853 3.0.
3854
3855- The DEVICE, GL, gl, and cgen modules (which indirectly includes
3856 cgensupport) have been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
Brett Cannon044616a2008-05-15 02:33:55 +00003857
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003858- The CL, CL_old, and cl modules for IRIX have been deprecated for
3859 removal in Python 3.0.
3860
3861- The cdplayer module for IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
Brett Cannon650f5162008-05-14 21:12:12 +00003862 Python 3.0.
3863
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003864- The cddb module for IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
3865 3.0.
Brett Cannon9eebe492008-05-14 20:34:22 +00003866
Brett Cannonddf949f2008-05-14 20:31:38 +00003867- The cd and CD modules for IRIX have been deprecated for removal in
3868 Python 3.0.
3869
Brett Cannon34721d52008-05-14 01:08:21 +00003870- The al and AL modules for IRIX have been deprecated for removal in
3871 Python 3.0.
3872
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003873- Issue #1713041: fix pprint's handling of maximum depth.
Georg Brandl23da6e62008-05-12 16:26:52 +00003874
Brett Cannonbb141bb2008-05-12 03:47:47 +00003875- The timing module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
3876
Brett Cannonac861b52008-05-12 03:45:59 +00003877- The sv module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
3878
Brett Cannon43e5ef42008-05-12 03:19:20 +00003879- The multifile module has been deprecated as per PEP 4.
3880
Brett Cannon42bfa902008-05-12 00:08:34 +00003881- The imageop module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
3882
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003883- Issue #2250: Exceptions raised during evaluation of names in
3884 rlcompleter's ``Completer.complete()`` method are now caught and
3885 ignored.
Georg Brandl627a6662008-05-11 21:03:42 +00003886
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003887- Issue #2659: Added ``break_on_hyphens`` option to textwrap
3888 TextWrapper class.
Georg Brandl6f95ae52008-05-11 10:42:28 +00003889
Brett Cannon2a869132008-05-11 03:01:47 +00003890- The mhlib module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
3891
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003892- The linuxaudiodev module has been deprecated for removal in Python
3893 3.0.
Brett Cannondf0a7172008-05-11 00:50:51 +00003894
Brett Cannon27508d42008-05-10 22:45:07 +00003895- The ihooks module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
3896
Brett Cannonfe598512008-05-10 22:11:45 +00003897- The fpformat module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
3898
Brett Cannone35a3a12008-05-10 21:22:43 +00003899- The dl module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
3900
Brett Cannond5a09852008-05-10 03:14:32 +00003901- The Canvas module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
3902
Brett Cannon6192df12008-05-10 02:58:26 +00003903- The compiler package has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
3904
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003905- The Bastion and rexec modules have been deprecated for removal in
3906 Python 3.0.
Brett Cannoncda73a42008-05-10 02:53:46 +00003907
Brett Cannon768d44f2008-05-10 02:47:54 +00003908- The bsddb185 module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
3909
Brett Cannon9ac39742008-05-09 22:51:58 +00003910- The pure module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
3911
Mark Dickinsonf8476c12008-05-09 17:54:23 +00003912- Issue #2487: change the semantics of math.ldexp(x, n) when n is too
3913 large to fit in a C long. ldexp(x, n) now returns a zero (with
3914 suitable sign) if n is large and negative; previously, it raised
3915 OverflowError.
3916
Brett Cannonfa24d9a2008-05-09 05:32:42 +00003917- The toaiff module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
3918
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003919- The test.testall module has been deprecated for removal in Python
3920 3.0.
Brett Cannon3c759142008-05-09 05:25:37 +00003921
Brett Cannond7265d62008-05-09 05:18:40 +00003922- The new module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
3923
Brett Cannone3b19402008-05-08 20:36:09 +00003924- The user module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
3925
Brett Cannon6071cc82008-05-08 19:52:45 +00003926- The stringold module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
3927
3928- The mutex module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
Brett Cannon9d441822008-05-08 19:26:08 +00003929
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00003930- The imputil module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
3931
Brett Cannoncae4f5f2008-05-08 20:24:43 +00003932- test.test_support.catch_warning() gained a 'record' argument.
3933
Benjamin Peterson0893a0a2008-05-09 00:27:01 +00003934- os.path.walk is deprecated in favor of os.walk.
3935
Georg Brandl9020ff82008-05-11 14:17:13 +00003936- pdb gained the "until" command.
Benjamin Peterson98353942008-05-11 14:13:25 +00003937
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003938- The Mac Modules (including Carbon) have been deprecated for removal
3939 in Python 3.0.
Benjamin Peterson23681932008-05-12 21:42:13 +00003940
Vinay Sajip9828b7e2008-06-17 11:04:02 +00003941- Library: on MacOS X you can now set ``ARCHFLAGS`` in the shell
Ronald Oussoren5640ce22008-06-05 12:58:24 +00003942 environment to control the '-arch' flags that are used to build
3943 an extension. This was added for compatibility with Apple's build
3944 of Python.
3945
3946- The bundled OSX-specific copy of libbffi is now in sync with the version
3947 shipped with PyObjC 2.0 and includes support for x86_64 and ppc64 platforms.
3948
Georg Brandl25c34082008-08-18 23:09:49 +00003949- The threading module gained aliases for names that will be removed in the
3950 3.x series.
Benjamin Peterson0fbcf692008-06-11 17:27:50 +00003951
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00003952Build
3953-----
3954
Martin v. Löwiscc0f2b22008-06-13 18:12:51 +00003955- 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 +00003956
Martin v. Löwis8c255e42008-05-23 15:06:50 +00003957- Patch #1722225: Support QNX 6.
3958
Brett Cannonb61d8012008-05-11 23:39:04 +00003959- ``Lib/lib-old`` is now added to sys.path.
3960
Ronald Oussoren5640ce22008-06-05 12:58:24 +00003961- On MacOS X it is now possible to install the framework in 64-bit
3962 mode or even as a 4-way universal binary (that is, PPC, i386,
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00003963 PPC64 and x86_64 support in one binary).
Ronald Oussoren5640ce22008-06-05 12:58:24 +00003964
3965 This is controlled by the configure argument ``--with-universal-archs``:
3966
3967 - ``--with-universal-archs=all``: install 4-way universal
3968
3969 - ``--with-universal-archs=32-bit``: install 2-way universal, 32-bit (the default)
3970
3971 - ``--with-universal-archs=64-bit``: install 2-way universal, 64-bit
3972
3973 This option should be used in combination with ``--enable-universalsdk=``.
3974
3975 NOTE: 64-bit and 4-way builds are only suppported on Mac OS X 10.5 (or later).
3976
3977
Christian Heimes7a990612008-05-26 13:15:11 +00003978C API
3979-----
3980
Georg Brandl74a1dea2008-05-28 11:21:39 +00003981- Add ``PyType_Modified()`` as a public API to clear the type cache.
3982
3983- The PyBytes functions have been renamed to PyByteArray.
Christian Heimes7a990612008-05-26 13:15:11 +00003984
3985- The PyString functions have been renamed to PyBytes. A batch of
3986 defines were added so that the linker still sees the original
3987 PyString names.
3988
Georg Brandl5e7b1c02008-05-16 17:40:23 +00003989
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00003990What's New in Python 2.6 alpha 3?
Barry Warsaw65475fd2008-03-01 17:11:41 +00003991=================================
3992
Barry Warsaw6cc79402008-05-08 13:16:19 +00003993*Release date: 08-May-2008*
Barry Warsaw65475fd2008-03-01 17:11:41 +00003994
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd21fb4c2008-03-05 01:50:33 +00003995Core and builtins
3996-----------------
Georg Brandl80055f62008-03-25 07:56:27 +00003997
Georg Brandl28e08732008-04-30 19:47:09 +00003998- Issue #2719: backported the ``next()`` builtin from Python 3.
3999
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004000- Issue #2681: The octal literal ``0o8`` was incorrecly acctepted. Now
4001 it properly raises a SyntaxError.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc52167212008-04-24 18:07:05 +00004002
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004003- Issue #2617: Reserved -J and -X arguments for Jython, IronPython and
4004 other implementations of Python.
Christian Heimes7a98d272008-04-12 13:03:03 +00004005
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004006- Implemented PEP 370: Per user site-packages directory.
Christian Heimesaf748c32008-05-06 22:41:46 +00004007
Andrew M. Kuchling46d6b682008-04-30 16:19:55 +00004008Extension Modules
4009-----------------
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00004010
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004011- Issue #2670: Fix a failure in urllib2.build_opener(), when passed
4012 two handlers that derive the same default base class.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc96865852008-04-22 21:14:41 +00004013
Christian Heimese74c8f22008-04-19 02:23:57 +00004014- Added kill, terminate and send_signal(sig) to subprocess.Popen.
4015
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004016- Added phase(z) -> phi, polar(z) -> r, phi and rect(r, phi) -> z to
4017 the cmath module.
Christian Heimes6f341092008-04-18 23:13:07 +00004018
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004019- Four new methods were added to the math and cmath modules: acosh,
4020 asinh, atanh and log1p.
Christian Heimes6f341092008-04-18 23:13:07 +00004021
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004022- zlib.decompressobj().flush(value) no longer crashes the interpreter
4023 when passed a value less than or equal to zero.
Gregory P. Smith671c5d92008-04-09 18:18:43 +00004024
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004025- Issue #1631171: Re-implement the 'warnings' module in C (the
4026 original Python code has been kept as backup). This will allow for
4027 using the 'warning's machinery in such places as the parser where
4028 use of pure Python code is not possible. Both the ``showarning()``
4029 and ``formatwarning()`` gain an optional 'line' argument which is
4030 not called by default for backwards-compatibility reasons. Setting
4031 ``warnings.showwarning()`` to an implementation that lacks support
4032 for the ``line`` argument will raise a DeprecationWarning.
Brett Cannone9746892008-04-12 23:44:07 +00004033
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00004034Library
4035-------
4036
Brett Cannonf8436822008-05-06 23:41:32 +00004037- The audiodev module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
4038
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004039- Issue #2750: Add the 'json' package. Based on simplejson 1.9 and
4040 contributed by Bob Ippolito.
Brett Cannon4b964f92008-05-05 20:21:38 +00004041
Martin v. Löwis471617d2008-05-05 17:16:58 +00004042- Issue #1734346: Support Unicode file names for zipfiles.
4043
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004044- Issue #2581: distutils: Vista UAC/elevation support for
4045 bdist_wininst.
Mark Hammond7c5c8e62008-05-02 12:48:15 +00004046
Mark Dickinsonfe536f52008-04-25 16:59:09 +00004047- Issue #2635: Fix bug in 'fix_sentence_endings' textwrap.fill option,
4048 where an extra space was added after a word containing (but not
4049 ending in) '.', '!' or '?'.
4050
Thomas Heller6ad5fbb2008-04-25 15:44:16 +00004051- Add from_buffer() and from_buffer_copy() class methods to ctypes
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00004052 data types.
Thomas Heller6ad5fbb2008-04-25 15:44:16 +00004053
Neal Norwitz2b0bea52008-04-25 03:40:17 +00004054- Issue #2682: ctypes callback functions no longer contain a cyclic
Thomas Hellerbf027c42008-04-24 18:14:19 +00004055 reference to themselves.
4056
Gregory P. Smithd59fefb2008-04-22 08:11:33 +00004057- The getpass module has been improved on Unix. It now uses /dev/tty
4058 by default and uses stderr instead of stdout. A GetPassWarning is
4059 issued when input echo cannot be controlled.
Gregory P. Smith41e30182008-04-21 21:31:08 +00004060
Skip Montanarob131f042008-04-18 20:35:46 +00004061- Issue #2014: Allow XML-RPC datetime objects to have dates before
4062 1900-01-01.
4063
Nick Coghlan106fc482008-04-15 10:25:31 +00004064- Issue #2439: Added new function pkgutil.get_data(), which is a
4065 convenience wrapper for the PEP 302 get_data() API.
4066
Thomas Heller046e6a42008-04-14 16:10:07 +00004067- Issue #2616: The ctypes.pointer() and ctypes.POINTER() functions are
4068 now implemented in C for better performance.
4069
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004070- Issue #2408: The ``_types`` module, which was used as in
4071 implementation detail of the public ``types`` module, has been
4072 removed and replaced by pure python code.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc02f33b42008-04-08 23:10:07 +00004073
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004074- Issue #2513: distutils on Windows is now capable of cross-compiling
Mark Hammond495cf992008-04-07 01:53:39 +00004075 extension modules between 32 and 64 bit platforms. See the distutls
4076 build documentation for more information.
4077
Gregory P. Smithaa63d0d2008-04-06 23:11:17 +00004078- Issue #815646: Individual file objects may now be used from multiple
4079 threads at once without fear of crashing the Python interpreter. If
4080 file.close() is called while an object is in use by another thread
4081 an IOError exception will be raised and the file will not be closed.
4082
Thomas Hellerf7906482008-04-04 19:43:25 +00004083- The bundled libffi copy is now in sync with the recently released
4084 libffi3.0.5 version, apart from some small changes to
4085 Modules/_ctypes/libffi/configure.ac.
4086
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004087- Issue #2385: distutils.core.run_script() makes __file__ available,
4088 so the controlled environment will more closely mirror the typical
4089 script environment. This supports setup.py scripts that refer to
4090 data files.
Fred Drake46c58c12008-04-04 05:41:30 +00004091
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00004092Tests
4093-----
Trent Nelsone41b0062008-04-08 23:47:30 +00004094
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004095- Issue #2550: The approach used by client/server code for obtaining
4096 ports to listen on in network-oriented tests has been refined in an
4097 effort to facilitate running multiple instances of the entire
4098 regression test suite in parallel without issue.
4099 test_support.bind_port() has been fixed such that it will always
4100 return a unique port -- which wasn't always the case with the
4101 previous implementation, especially if socket options had been set
4102 that affected address reuse (i.e. SO_REUSEADDR, SO_REUSEPORT). The
4103 new implementation of bind_port() will actually raise an exception
4104 if it is passed an AF_INET/SOCK_STREAM socket with either the
4105 SO_REUSEADDR or SO_REUSEPORT socket option set. Furthermore, if
4106 available, bind_port() will set the SO_EXCLUSIVEADDRUSE option on
4107 the socket it's been passed. This currently only applies to
4108 Windows. This option prevents any other sockets from binding to the
4109 host/port we've bound to, thus removing the possibility of the
4110 'non-deterministic' behaviour, as Microsoft puts it, that occurs
4111 when a second SOCK_STREAM socket binds and accepts to a host/port
4112 that's already been bound by another socket. The optional preferred
4113 port parameter to bind_port() has been removed. Under no
4114 circumstances should tests be hard coding ports!
4115
4116 test_support.find_unused_port() has also been introduced, which will
4117 pass a temporary socket object to bind_port() in order to obtain an
4118 unused port. The temporary socket object is then closed and
4119 deleted, and the port is returned. This method should only be used
4120 for obtaining an unused port in order to pass to an external program
4121 (i.e. the -accept [port] argument to openssl's s_server mode) or as
4122 a parameter to a server-oriented class that doesn't give you direct
4123 access to the underlying socket used.
4124
4125 Finally, test_support.HOST has been introduced, which should be used
4126 for the host argument of any relevant socket calls (i.e. bind and
4127 connect).
Trent Nelsone41b0062008-04-08 23:47:30 +00004128
4129 The following tests were updated to following the new conventions:
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004130 test_socket, test_smtplib, test_asyncore, test_ssl, test_httplib,
Trent Nelsone41b0062008-04-08 23:47:30 +00004131 test_poplib, test_ftplib, test_telnetlib, test_socketserver,
4132 test_asynchat and test_socket_ssl.
4133
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004134 It is now possible for multiple instances of the regression test
4135 suite to run in parallel without issue.
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00004136
4137Build
4138-----
4139
Mark Dickinson65134662008-04-25 16:11:04 +00004140- Issue #1496032: On alpha, use -mieee when gcc is the compiler.
4141
Thomas Hellerdc96a772008-04-04 10:07:55 +00004142- Issue #2544: On HP-UX systems, use 'gcc -shared' for linking when
4143 gcc is used as compiler.
4144
Ronald Oussoren580c7fe2008-05-02 19:45:11 +00004145- Issue #2573: On MacOS X it is now possible to install the framework
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004146 with a different name using --with-framework-name=NAME.
Ronald Oussoren580c7fe2008-05-02 19:45:11 +00004147
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00004148C API
4149-----
4150
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004151- Added implementation of copysign, acosh, asinh, atanh and log1p to
4152 the new files Include/pymath.h and Python/pymath.h for platforms
4153 which provide the functions through their libm. The files also
4154 contains several helpers and constants for math.
Christian Heimes6f341092008-04-18 23:13:07 +00004155
Benjamin Petersondacde0d2008-05-26 17:43:53 +00004156- Added a new convenience macro, PyErr_WarnPy3k, for issuing Py3k warnings.
Benjamin Petersona692c4d2008-04-27 02:28:02 +00004157
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00004158
4159What's New in Python 2.6 alpha 2?
4160=================================
4161
4162*Release date: 02-Apr-2008*
4163
4164Core and builtins
4165-----------------
4166
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004167- Issue #1733757: The interpreter would hang on shutdown if the
4168 tracing function set by sys.settrace is still active and happens to
4169 call threading.currentThread().
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd7a26512008-04-03 23:07:55 +00004170
Georg Brandl91e0cda2008-03-29 01:50:06 +00004171- Patch #1442: properly report exceptions when the PYTHONSTARTUP file
4172 cannot be executed.
4173
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc69b747b2008-03-28 20:30:50 +00004174- The compilation of a class nested in another class used to leak one
4175 reference on the outer class name.
4176
Georg Brandlfc8eef32008-03-28 12:11:56 +00004177- Patch #1810: compile() can now compile _ast trees as returned by
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004178 ``compile(..., PyCF_ONLY_AST)``.
Georg Brandlfc8eef32008-03-28 12:11:56 +00004179
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004180- Patch #2426: Added sqlite3.Connection.iterdump method to allow easy
4181 dumping of databases. Contributed by Paul Kippes at PyCon 2008.
Gregory P. Smithb9803422008-03-28 08:32:09 +00004182
Georg Brandldeaf2ca2008-03-27 13:27:31 +00004183- Patch #2477: Added from __future__ import unicode_literals.
Christian Heimes3c608332008-03-26 22:01:37 +00004184
Christian Heimes8c78cc32008-03-26 12:53:58 +00004185- Added backport of bytearray type.
4186
Georg Brandl80055f62008-03-25 07:56:27 +00004187- Issue #2355: add Py3k warning for buffer().
4188
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc9a0d3462008-03-23 09:55:29 +00004189- Issue #1477: With narrow Unicode builds, the unicode escape sequence
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004190 \Uxxxxxxxx did not accept values outside the Basic Multilingual
4191 Plane. This affected raw unicode literals and the
4192 'raw-unicode-escape' codec. Now UTF-16 surrogates are generated in
4193 this case, like normal unicode literals and the 'unicode-escape'
4194 codec.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc9a0d3462008-03-23 09:55:29 +00004195
Georg Brandl65bb42d2008-03-21 20:38:24 +00004196- Issue #2348: add Py3k warning for file.softspace.
4197
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004198- Issue #2346/#2347: add Py3k warnings for __methods__ and
4199 __members__.
Georg Brandl07e56812008-03-21 20:21:46 +00004200
Georg Brandl5a444242008-03-21 20:11:46 +00004201- Issue #2358: Add a Py3k warning on sys.exc_clear() usage.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd21fb4c2008-03-05 01:50:33 +00004202
Martin v. Löwisa4d77892008-03-19 04:39:13 +00004203- Issue #2400: Allow relative imports to "import *".
4204
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004205- Issue #1745: Backport print function with ``from __future__ import
4206 print_function``.
Eric Smith7c478942008-03-18 23:45:49 +00004207
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004208- Issue #2332: add new attribute names for instance method objects.
4209 The two changes are: im_self -> __self__ and im_func -> __func__
Neal Norwitzb1d3d962008-03-18 04:46:00 +00004210
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004211- Issue #2379: Raise a Py3K warning for __getitem__ or __getslice__ on
Guido van Rossum6d91be32008-03-18 04:42:22 +00004212 exception instances.
4213
Guido van Rossum04edb522008-03-18 02:49:46 +00004214- Issue #2371: Add a Py3k warning when catching an exception that
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004215 doesn't derive from BaseException.
4216
4217- Issue #2341: Add a Py3k warning when raising an exception that
4218 doesn't derive from BaseException.
Guido van Rossum04edb522008-03-18 02:49:46 +00004219
Neal Norwitz419fd492008-03-17 20:22:43 +00004220- Issue #2321: use pymalloc for unicode object string data to reduce
4221 memory usage in some circumstances.
4222
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004223- PEP 3127: octal literals now start with "0o". Old-style octal
4224 literals are still valid. There are binary literals with a prefix of
4225 "0b". This also affects int(x, 0).
Eric Smith0aed07a2008-03-17 19:43:40 +00004226
Georg Brandl1e7c3752008-03-25 08:37:23 +00004227- Issue #2359: Adding deprecation warnings for array.{read,write}.
4228
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004229- Issue #1779871: GNU gcc can now build Python on OS X because the
Jeffrey Yasskin1b4e45b2008-03-17 14:40:53 +00004230 flags -Wno-long-double, -no-cpp-precomp, and -mno-fused-madd are no
4231 longer passed.
4232
Neal Norwitz400aeda2008-03-15 22:03:18 +00004233- Add a warning when asserting a non-empty tuple which is always true.
4234
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004235- Issue #2179: speed up with statement execution by storing the exit
4236 method on the stack instead of in a temporary variable (patch by
4237 Jeffrey Yaskin)
Nick Coghlan7af53be2008-03-07 14:13:28 +00004238
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004239- Issue #2238: Some syntax errors in *args and **kwargs expressions
4240 could give bogus error messages.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd21fb4c2008-03-05 01:50:33 +00004241
Sean Reifscheider68fa8e62008-03-20 00:50:07 +00004242- Issue #2143: Fix embedded readline() hang on SSL socket EOF.
4243
Andrew M. Kuchling46d6b682008-04-30 16:19:55 +00004244Extension Modules
4245-----------------
Martin v. Löwisaef18b12008-03-24 13:31:16 +00004246
4247- Patch #2240: Implement signal.setitimer and signal.getitimer.
4248
Thomas Heller78b8f442008-03-05 14:53:39 +00004249Library
4250-------
4251
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004252- Issue #2315: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now accounts
4253 for daylight savings time in calculating the next rollover.
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00004254
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004255- Issue #2316: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now
4256 calculates rollovers correctly even when nothing is logged for a
4257 while.
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00004258
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004259- Issue #2317: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now uses
4260 improved logic for removing old files.
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00004261
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004262- Issue #2495: tokenize.untokenize now inserts a space between two
4263 consecutive string literals; previously, ["" ""] was rendered as
4264 [""""], which is incorrect python code.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcda0c0252008-03-27 23:23:54 +00004265
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004266- Issue #2248: return the result of the QUIT command. from
4267 SMTP.quit().
Georg Brandldeaf2ca2008-03-27 13:27:31 +00004268
Christian Heimes8c78cc32008-03-26 12:53:58 +00004269- Backport of Python 3.0's io module.
4270
Mark Dickinson8e85ffa2008-03-25 18:47:59 +00004271- Issue #2482: Make sure that the coefficient of a Decimal is always
4272 stored as a str instance, not as a unicode instance. This ensures
4273 that str(Decimal) is always an instance of str.
4274
Mark Dickinson3b24ccb2008-03-25 14:33:23 +00004275- Issue #2478: fix failure of decimal.Decimal(0).sqrt()
4276
Georg Brandl77354cf2008-03-21 20:01:51 +00004277- Issue #2432: give DictReader the dialect and line_num attributes
4278 advertised in the docs.
4279
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004280- Issue #2460: Make Ellipsis object copyable.
Raymond Hettingerb72233c2008-03-24 08:17:39 +00004281
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004282- Issue #1681432: Add triangular distribution to the random module
Raymond Hettingerbbc50ea2008-03-23 13:32:32 +00004283
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004284- Issue #2136: urllib2's auth handler now allows single-quoted realms
4285 in the WWW-Authenticate header.
Georg Brandl33124322008-03-21 19:54:00 +00004286
Marc-André Lemburga1867752008-03-20 18:08:00 +00004287- Issue #2434: Enhanced platform.win32_ver() to also work on Python
4288 installation which do not have the win32all package installed.
4289
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004290- Added support to platform.uname() to also report the machine and
4291 processor information on Windows XP and later. As a result,
Marc-André Lemburga1867752008-03-20 18:08:00 +00004292 platform.machine() and platform.processor() will report this
4293 information as well.
4294
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004295- The library implementing the 2to3 conversion, lib2to3, was added to
4296 the standard distribution.
Martin v. Löwis5e37bae2008-03-19 04:43:46 +00004297
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004298- Issue #1747858: Fix chown to work with large uid's and gid's on
4299 64-bit platforms.
Gregory P. Smith37f3f432008-03-18 20:40:01 +00004300
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004301- Issue #1202: zlib.crc32 and zlib.adler32 no longer return different
4302 values on 32-bit vs. 64-bit python interpreters. Both were correct,
4303 but they now both return a signed integer object for consistency.
Gregory P. Smithf48f9d32008-03-17 18:48:05 +00004304
Skip Montanaro32ed8c22008-03-15 16:07:11 +00004305- Issue #1158: add %f format (fractions of a second represented as
4306 microseconds) to datetime objects. Understood by both strptime and
4307 strftime.
4308
Mark Dickinsonc23b8a72008-03-14 14:23:37 +00004309- Issue #705836: struct.pack(">f", x) now raises OverflowError on all
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004310 platforms when x is too large to fit into an IEEE 754 float;
4311 previously it only raised OverflowError on non IEEE 754 platforms.
Mark Dickinsonc23b8a72008-03-14 14:23:37 +00004312
Andrew M. Kuchlingaac5c862008-05-11 14:00:00 +00004313- Issues #2166, #1741 and #1531505: now distutils deals with HOME
4314 correctly under win32
4315
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004316- Patch #1858: distutils: added multiple server support in .pypirc
Andrew M. Kuchlingaac5c862008-05-11 14:00:00 +00004317
Facundo Batistac54aec12008-03-08 16:50:27 +00004318- Issue #1106316: pdb.post_mortem()'s parameter, "traceback", is now
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004319 optional: it defaults to the traceback of the exception that is
4320 currently being handled (is mandatory to be in the middle of an
4321 exception, otherwise it raises ValueError).
Facundo Batistac54aec12008-03-08 16:50:27 +00004322
Jeffrey Yasskine75f59a2008-03-07 06:22:15 +00004323- Issue #1193577: A .shutdown() method has been added to SocketServers
4324 which terminates the .serve_forever() loop.
4325
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004326- Issue #2220: handle rlcompleter attribute match failure more
4327 gracefully.
Georg Brandl98aa8052008-03-06 07:45:52 +00004328
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004329- Issue #2225: py_compile, when executed as a script, now returns a
4330 non- zero status code if not all files could be compiled
4331 successfully.
Georg Brandla7bd27f2008-03-06 07:41:16 +00004332
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004333- Bug #1725737: In distutils' sdist, exclude RCS, CVS etc. also in the
Georg Brandl810ea292008-03-06 07:34:52 +00004334 root directory, and also exclude .hg, .git, .bzr, and _darcs.
4335
Thomas Hellerf3c05592008-03-05 15:34:29 +00004336- Issue #1872: The struct module typecode for _Bool has been changed
4337 from 't' to '?'.
4338
Thomas Heller78b8f442008-03-05 14:53:39 +00004339- The bundled libffi copy is now in sync with the recently released
4340 libffi3.0.4 version, apart from some small changes to
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004341 Modules/_ctypes/libffi/configure.ac. On OS X, preconfigured libffi
4342 files are used. On all linux systems the --with-system-ffi
4343 configure option defaults to "yes".
Thomas Heller78b8f442008-03-05 14:53:39 +00004344
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004345- Issue #1577: shutil.move() now calls os.rename() if the destination
4346 is a directory instead of copying-then-remove-source.
Sean Reifscheider493894c2008-03-18 17:24:12 +00004347
Martin v. Löwisd2bbe522008-03-06 06:55:22 +00004348Tests
4349-----
4350
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004351- test_nis no longer fails when test.test_support.verbose is true and
4352 NIS is not set up on the testing machine.
Brett Cannon7919d982008-03-19 16:50:13 +00004353
Brett Cannona5573b32008-03-18 04:16:06 +00004354- Output comparison tests are no longer supported.
4355
Brett Cannonb7ec8e52008-03-18 03:46:22 +00004356- Rewrite test_errno to use unittest and no longer be a no-op.
4357
Brett Cannon0bb79502008-03-18 01:58:56 +00004358- GHOP 234: Convert test_extcall to doctest.
4359
Brett Cannonba17cfc2008-03-18 01:50:25 +00004360- GHOP 290: Convert test_dbm and test_dummy_threading to unittest.
4361
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004362- GHOP 293: Convert test_strftime, test_getargs, and test_pep247 to
4363 unittest.
Brett Cannon6eeaddc2008-03-18 01:00:07 +00004364
Brett Cannon1f5182b2008-03-13 21:09:28 +00004365- Issue #2055: Convert test_fcntl to unittest.
4366
Brett Cannon4a6e8d62008-03-13 21:02:16 +00004367- Issue 1960: Convert test_gdbm to unittest.
4368
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004369- GHOP 294: Convert test_contains, test_crypt, and test_select to
4370 unittest.
Brett Cannon2e0f9f32008-03-13 20:47:41 +00004371
Brett Cannonb8d37352008-03-13 20:33:10 +00004372- GHOP 238: Convert test_tokenize to use doctest.
4373
Brett Cannon66865d22008-03-13 20:27:00 +00004374- GHOP 237: Rewrite test_thread using unittest.
4375
Martin v. Löwisd2bbe522008-03-06 06:55:22 +00004376- Patch #2232: os.tmpfile might fail on Windows if the user has no
4377 permission to create files in the root directory.
4378
Martin v. Löwisbf7b0b72008-03-14 13:56:09 +00004379Build
4380-----
4381
Martin v. Löwiscdbc9772008-03-24 12:57:53 +00004382- A new script 2to3 is now installed, to run the 2.x to 3.x converter.
4383
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004384- Python/memmove.c and Python/strerror.c have been removed; both
4385 functions are in the C89 standard library.
Brett Cannonaa5778d2008-03-18 04:09:00 +00004386
Martin v. Löwisbf7b0b72008-03-14 13:56:09 +00004387- Patch #2284: Add -x64 option to rt.bat.
Barry Warsaw65475fd2008-03-01 17:11:41 +00004388
Christian Heimes3c608332008-03-26 22:01:37 +00004389C API
4390-----
4391
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00004392- Patch #2477: Added PyParser_ParseFileFlagsEx() and
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004393 PyParser_ParseStringFlagsFilenameEx().
4394
Christian Heimes3c608332008-03-26 22:01:37 +00004395
Nick Coghlanbb0996c2006-09-03 01:20:46 +00004396What's New in Python 2.6 alpha 1?
4397=================================
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00004398
Barry Warsaw7c075232008-03-01 02:53:36 +00004399*Release date: 29-Feb-2008*
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00004400
4401Core and builtins
4402-----------------
4403
Fred Drakea8ee94b2008-03-01 02:45:07 +00004404- Issue #2051: pyc and pyo files are no longer created with permission
Barry Warsaw52973612008-03-01 02:23:38 +00004405 644. The mode is now inherited from the py file.
Christian Heimes40346852008-02-23 17:52:07 +00004406
Georg Brandlad61bc82008-02-23 15:11:18 +00004407- Issue #2067: file.__exit__() now calls subclasses' close() method.
4408
4409- Patch #1759: Backport of PEP 3129 class decorators.
Christian Heimes5224d282008-02-23 15:01:05 +00004410
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00004411- Issue #1881: An internal parser limit has been increased. Also see
Facundo Batistafc2d0102008-02-23 12:01:13 +00004412 issue 215555 for a discussion.
4413
Eric Smitha73fbe72008-02-23 03:09:44 +00004414- Added the future_builtins module, which contains hex() and oct().
4415 These are the PEP 3127 version of these functions, designed to be
4416 compatible with the hex() and oct() builtins from Python 3.0. They
4417 differ slightly in their output formats from the existing, unchanged
4418 Python 2.6 builtins. The expected usage of the future_builtins
4419 module is:
4420 from future_builtins import hex, oct
4421
Eric Smith7ef40bf2008-02-20 23:34:22 +00004422- Issue #1600: Modifed PyOS_ascii_formatd to use at most 2 digit
4423 exponents for exponents with absolute value < 100. Follows C99
4424 standard. This is a change on Windows, which would use 3 digits.
4425 Also, added 'n' to the formats that PyOS_ascii_formatd understands,
4426 so that any alterations it does to the resulting string will be
4427 available in stringlib/formatter.h (for float.__format__).
4428
Eric Smith5a3c1352008-02-19 13:21:56 +00004429- Implemented PEP 3101, Advanced String Formatting. This adds a new
4430 builtin format(); a format() method for str and unicode; a
4431 __format__() method to object, str, unicode, int, long, float, and
4432 datetime; the class string.Formatter; and the C API
4433 PyObject_Format().
4434
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004435- Fixed several potential crashes, all caused by specially crafted
4436 __del__ methods exploiting objects in temporarily inconsistent
4437 state.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc632fad32008-02-16 20:55:24 +00004438
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00004439- Issue #2115: Important speedup in setting __slot__ attributes. Also
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004440 prevent a possible crash: an Abstract Base Class would try to access
4441 a slot on a registered virtual subclass.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc60d6c7f2008-02-15 21:22:45 +00004442
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004443- Fixed repr() and str() of complex numbers with infinity or nan as
4444 real or imaginary part.
Christian Heimes2f0da532008-02-15 06:57:08 +00004445
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004446- Clear all free lists during a gc.collect() of the highest generation
4447 in order to allow pymalloc to free more arenas. Python may give back
4448 memory to the OS earlier.
Christian Heimes3b718a72008-02-14 12:47:33 +00004449
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004450- Issue #2045: Fix an infinite recursion triggered when printing a
4451 subclass of collections.defaultdict, if its default_factory is set
4452 to a bound method.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcb01aa432008-02-08 00:56:02 +00004453
Christian Heimesf75dbef2008-02-08 00:11:31 +00004454- Fixed a minor memory leak in dictobject.c. The content of the free
4455 list was not freed on interpreter shutdown.
4456
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00004457- Limit free list of method and built-in function objects to 256
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004458 entries each.
Christian Heimes6075a822008-02-06 12:44:34 +00004459
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004460- Patch #1953: Added ``sys._compact_freelists()`` and the C API
4461 functions ``PyInt_CompactFreeList`` and ``PyFloat_CompactFreeList``
Christian Heimes422051a2008-02-04 18:00:12 +00004462 to compact the internal free lists of pre-allocted ints and floats.
4463
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004464- Issue #1983: Fixed return type of fork(), fork1() and forkpty()
4465 calls. Python expected the return type int but the fork familie
4466 returns pi_t.
Christian Heimes951cc0f2008-01-31 23:08:23 +00004467
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004468- Issue #1678380: Fix a bug that identifies 0j and -0j when they
4469 appear in the same code unit.
Mark Dickinson105be772008-01-31 22:17:37 +00004470
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004471- Issue #2025: Add tuple.count() and tuple.index() methods to comply
4472 with the collections.Sequence API.
Raymond Hettinger5b07ebc2008-02-07 00:54:20 +00004473
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004474- Patch #1970 by Antoine Pitrou: Speedup unicode whitespace and
4475 linebreak detection
Christian Heimes4d4f2702008-01-30 11:32:37 +00004476
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004477- Added ``PyType_ClearCache()`` and ``sys._clear_type_cache`` to clear
4478 the internal lookup cache for ref leak tests.
Christian Heimes908caac2008-01-27 23:34:59 +00004479
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004480- Patch #1473257: generator objects gain a gi_code attribute. This is
4481 the same object as the func_code attribute of the function that
4482 produced the generator.
Georg Brandl0cdf9a32008-01-26 14:14:20 +00004483
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004484- Issue #1920: "while 0" statements were completely removed by the
4485 compiler, even in the presence of an "else" clause, which is
4486 supposed to be run when the condition is false. Now the compiler
4487 correctly emits bytecode for the "else" suite.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc31eaafe2008-01-24 22:59:25 +00004488
Guido van Rossumeead05f2008-01-24 18:21:02 +00004489- A few crashers fixed: weakref_in_del.py (issue #1377858);
4490 loosing_dict_ref.py (issue #1303614, test67.py);
4491 borrowed_ref_[34].py (not in tracker).
4492
Vinay Sajipd7cf32e2008-01-24 12:43:33 +00004493- Issue #1069410: The "can't load dll" message box on Windows is
Christian Heimesb2302ba2008-01-23 17:15:06 +00004494 suppressed while an extension is loaded by calling SetErrorMode in
4495 dynload_win.c. The error is still reported properly.
4496
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004497- Issue #1915: Python compiles with --enable-unicode=no again. However
Christian Heimes082c9b02008-01-23 14:20:50 +00004498 several extension methods and modules do not work without unicode
4499 support.
4500
Georg Brandl26543b12008-01-21 18:36:51 +00004501- Issue #1882: when compiling code from a string, encoding cookies in the
4502 second line of code were not always recognized correctly.
4503
Georg Brandl14404b62008-01-19 19:27:05 +00004504- Issue #1679: "0x" was taken as a valid integer literal.
4505
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00004506- Issue #1865: ``bytes`` as an alias for ``str`` and b"" as an alias "" were
Christian Heimes288e89a2008-01-18 18:24:07 +00004507 added.
4508
Christian Heimesc94e2b52008-01-14 04:13:37 +00004509- sys.float_info / PyFloat_GetInfo: The floating point information
4510 object was converted from a dict to a specialized structseq object.
4511
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004512- Patch #1816: Added sys.flags structseq. It exposes the status of
4513 most command line arguments and PYTHON* environment variables.
Christian Heimesf31b69f2008-01-14 03:42:48 +00004514
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004515- Objects/structseq.c: Implemented new structseq representation. The
4516 patch makes structseqs (e.g. the return value of os.stat) more
4517 readable.
Christian Heimes9c201962008-01-14 03:33:52 +00004518
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004519- Patch #1700288: added a type attribute cache that caches method
4520 accesses, resulting in speedups in heavily object-oriented code.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arce4c270c2008-01-14 00:29:41 +00004521
Neal Norwitz3fc15b82008-01-10 05:42:58 +00004522- Bug #1776: __import__() no longer accepts filenames on any platform.
4523 The first parameter to __import__() must be a valid module name.
Christian Heimes3403f152008-01-09 19:56:33 +00004524
Georg Brandlaed6c662008-01-07 17:25:53 +00004525- Patch #1668: renamed THREADDEBUG envvar to PYTHONTHREADDEBUG.
4526
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004527- Patch #602345: Add -B command line option, PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE
4528 envvar and sys.dont_write_bytecode attribute. All these can be set
4529 to forbid Python to attempt to write compiled bytecode files.
Georg Brandl2da0fce2008-01-07 17:09:35 +00004530
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004531- Improve some exception messages when Windows fails to load an
4532 extension module. Now we get for example '%1 is not a valid Win32
4533 application' instead of 'error code 193'.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arce0b76952008-01-04 02:04:15 +00004534
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004535- Bug #1481296: Fixed long(float('nan')) != 0L.
Christian Heimes8267d1d2008-01-04 00:37:34 +00004536
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004537- Issue #1640: Added math.isinf(x), math.isnan(x) and math.copysign(x,
4538 y) functions.
Christian Heimese2ca4242008-01-03 20:23:15 +00004539
Christian Heimes0a8143f2007-12-18 23:22:54 +00004540- Issue #1635: Platform independent creation and representation of NaN
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004541 and INF. float("nan"), float("inf") and float("-inf") now work on
4542 every platform with IEEE 754 semantics.
Christian Heimes0a8143f2007-12-18 23:22:54 +00004543
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004544- Compiler now generates simpler and faster code for dictionary
4545 literals. The oparg for BUILD_MAP now indicates an estimated
4546 dictionary size. There is a new opcode, STORE_MAP, for adding
4547 entries to the dictionary.
Raymond Hettingerfd7ed402007-12-18 21:24:09 +00004548
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004549- Issue #1638: %zd configure test fails on Linux.
Christian Heimesdb3d6cb2007-12-16 21:39:43 +00004550
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004551- Issue #1620: New property decorator syntax was modifying the
4552 decorator in place instead of creating a new decorator object.
Christian Heimes90e10e72007-12-14 02:35:23 +00004553
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004554- Issue #1538: Avoid copying string in split/rsplit if the split char
4555 is not found.
Skip Montanaro26015492007-12-08 15:33:24 +00004556
Andrew M. Kuchling395fe442007-12-05 13:27:20 +00004557- Issue #1553: An erroneous __length_hint__ can make list() raise a
Christian Heimes7cc1c6f2007-12-05 12:52:34 +00004558 SystemError.
4559
Nick Coghlanef01d822007-12-03 12:55:17 +00004560- PEP 366: Allow explicit relative imports when executing modules
4561 inside packages with the -m switch via a new module level
4562 __package__ attribute.
4563
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004564- Issue #1402: Fix a crash on exit, when another thread is still
4565 running, and if the deallocation of its frames somehow calls the
4566 PyGILState_Ensure() / PyGILState_Release() functions.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcbe49a902007-11-30 20:37:22 +00004567
Christian Heimes28104c52007-11-27 23:16:44 +00004568- Expose the Py_Py3kWarningFlag as sys.py3kwarning.
4569
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00004570- Issue #1445: Fix a SystemError when accessing the ``cell_contents``
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcce7d10c2007-11-24 13:44:17 +00004571 attribute of an empty cell object.
4572
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004573- Issue #1460: The utf-7 incremental decoder did not accept truncated
4574 input. It now correctly saves its state between chunks of data.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcf57375a2007-11-21 01:38:26 +00004575
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004576- Patch #1739468: Directories and zipfiles containing a __main__.py
4577 file can now be directly executed by passing their name to the
4578 interpreter. The directory/zipfile is automatically inserted as the
4579 first entry in sys.path.
Nick Coghlan327a39b2007-11-18 11:56:28 +00004580
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004581- Issue #1265: Fix a problem with sys.settrace, if the tracing
4582 function uses a generator expression when at the same time the
4583 executed code is closing a paused generator.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc0d75f092007-11-13 21:54:28 +00004584
Raymond Hettinger1760c8a2007-11-08 02:52:43 +00004585- sets and frozensets now have an isdisjoint() method.
4586
Raymond Hettinger3f8caa32007-10-24 01:28:33 +00004587- optimize the performance of builtin.sum().
4588
Neal Norwitz44f326e2007-10-05 05:29:17 +00004589- Fix warnings found by the new version of the Coverity checker.
4590
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00004591- The enumerate() built-in function is no longer bounded to sequences
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004592 smaller than LONG_MAX. Formerly, it raised an OverflowError. Now,
4593 automatically shifts from ints to longs.
Raymond Hettinger8f669372007-10-03 21:18:11 +00004594
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004595- Issue #1686386: Tuple's tp_repr did not take into account the
4596 possibility of having a self-referential tuple, which is possible
4597 from C code. Nor did object's tp_str consider that a type's tp_str
4598 could do something that could lead to an inifinite recursion.
4599 Py_ReprEnter() and Py_EnterRecursiveCall(), respectively, fixed the
4600 issues.
Brett Cannon0b14f242007-09-30 19:45:10 +00004601
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004602- Issue #1164: It was possible to trigger deadlock when using the
4603 'print' statement to write to a file since the GIL was not released
4604 as needed. Now PyObject_Print() does the right thing along with
4605 various tp_print implementations of the built-in types and those in
4606 the collections module.
Brett Cannon01531592007-09-17 03:28:34 +00004607
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004608- Issue #1147: Exceptions were directly allowing string exceptions in
4609 their throw() method even though string exceptions no longer
4610 allowed.
Brett Cannon4c20bc42007-09-11 21:02:28 +00004611
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004612- Issue #1096: Prevent a segfault from getting the repr of a very
4613 deeply nested list by using the recursion counter.
Brett Cannona0c05512007-09-10 21:38:27 +00004614
Brett Cannon1e534b52007-09-07 04:18:30 +00004615- Issue #1202533: Fix infinite recursion calls triggered by calls to
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004616 PyObject_Call() never calling back out to Python code to trigger
4617 recursion depth updates/checks. Required the creation of a static
4618 RuntimeError instance in case normalizing an exception put the
4619 recursion check value past its limit. Fixes crashers
4620 infinite_rec_(1|2|4|5).py.
Brett Cannon1e534b52007-09-07 04:18:30 +00004621
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004622- Patch #1031213: Decode source line in SyntaxErrors back to its
4623 original source encoding.
Martin v. Löwisa5136192007-09-04 14:19:28 +00004624
Georg Brandl7c3b50d2007-07-12 08:38:00 +00004625- Patch #1673759: add a missing overflow check when formatting floats
4626 with %G.
4627
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004628- Prevent expandtabs() on string and unicode objects from causing a
4629 segfault when a large width is passed on 32-bit platforms.
Neal Norwitz7dbd2a32007-06-09 03:36:34 +00004630
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004631- Issue #1733488: Fix compilation of bufferobject.c on AIX.
Martin v. Löwisda587ab2007-06-08 17:29:20 +00004632
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004633- Issue #1722485: remove docstrings again when running with -OO.
Georg Brandla5ea6892007-06-01 11:33:33 +00004634
Neal Norwitz0ac60192007-05-27 04:08:54 +00004635- Add new attribute names for function objects. All the func_* become
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004636 __*__ attributes. (Some already existed, e.g., __doc__ and
4637 __name__.)
Neal Norwitz0ac60192007-05-27 04:08:54 +00004638
Neal Norwitz8b2bfbc2007-05-23 06:35:32 +00004639- Add -3 option to the interpreter to warn about features that are
4640 deprecated and will be changed/removed in Python 3.0.
4641
Georg Brandl2134e752007-05-21 20:34:16 +00004642- Patch #1686487: you can now pass any mapping after '**' in function
4643 calls.
4644
Collin Winter62903052007-05-18 23:11:24 +00004645- except clauses may now be spelled either "except E, target:" or
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004646 "except E as target:". This is to provide forwards compatibility
4647 with Python 3.0.
Collin Winter62903052007-05-18 23:11:24 +00004648
Brett Cannon229cee22007-05-05 01:34:02 +00004649- Deprecate BaseException.message as per PEP 352.
4650
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004651- Issue #1303614: don't expose object's __dict__ when the dict is
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00004652 inherited from a built-in base.
Armin Rigo9790a272007-05-02 19:23:31 +00004653
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00004654- When __slots__ are set to a unicode string, make it work the same as
Neal Norwitzcbd9ee62007-04-14 05:25:50 +00004655 setting a plain string, ie don't expand to single letter identifiers.
4656
Raymond Hettinger13936692007-04-11 18:40:58 +00004657- Request #1191699: Slices can now be pickled.
4658
Raymond Hettinger4db5fe92007-04-12 04:10:00 +00004659- Request #1193128: str.translate() now allows a None argument for
4660 translations that only remove characters without re-mapping the
4661 remaining characters.
4662
Georg Brandl5cb76c12007-03-21 09:00:39 +00004663- Patch #1682205: a TypeError while unpacking an iterable is no longer
4664 masked by a generic one with the message "unpack non-sequence".
4665
Neal Norwitzaa754b72007-03-21 06:39:48 +00004666- Remove unused file Python/fmod.c.
4667
Guido van Rossum143b5642007-03-23 04:58:42 +00004668- Bug #1683368: The object.__init__() and object.__new__() methods are
4669 now stricter in rejecting excess arguments. The only time when
4670 either allows excess arguments is when it is not overridden and the
4671 other one is. For backwards compatibility, when both are
4672 overridden, it is a deprecation warning (for now; maybe a Py3k
Guido van Rossum234b1ff2007-03-23 19:39:01 +00004673 warning later). Also, type.__init__() insists on the same signature
4674 as supported by type.__new__().
Guido van Rossum143b5642007-03-23 04:58:42 +00004675
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004676- Patch #1675423: PyComplex_AsCComplex() now tries to convert an
4677 object to complex using its __complex__() method before falling back
4678 to the __float__() method. Therefore, the functions in the cmath
4679 module now can operate on objects that define a __complex__()
4680 method.
Georg Brandl2b869942007-03-17 16:08:45 +00004681
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004682- Patch #1623563: allow __class__ assignment for classes with
4683 __slots__. The old and the new class are still required to have the
4684 same slot names.
Žiga Seilnacht6f2d09c2007-03-16 11:59:38 +00004685
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004686- Patch #1642547: Fix an error/crash when encountering syntax errors
4687 in complex if statements.
Collin Winter77c67bd2007-03-16 04:11:30 +00004688
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004689- Patch #1462488: Python no longer segfaults when
4690 ``object.__reduce_ex__()`` is called with an object that is faking
4691 its type.
Žiga Seilnacht20f43d32007-03-15 11:44:55 +00004692
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004693- Patch #1680015: Don't modify __slots__ tuple if it contains an
4694 unicode name.
Žiga Seilnacht71436f02007-03-14 12:24:09 +00004695
Georg Brandl5240d742007-03-13 20:46:32 +00004696- Patch #1444529: the builtin compile() now accepts keyword arguments.
4697
Georg Brandl7b9c5552007-03-12 14:30:05 +00004698- Bug #1678647: write a newline after printing an exception in any
4699 case, even when converting the value to a string failed.
4700
Georg Brandl871f1bc2007-03-12 13:17:36 +00004701- The dir() function has been extended to call the __dir__() method on
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004702 its argument, if it exists. If not, it will work like before. This
4703 allows customizing the output of dir() in the presence of a
4704 __getattr__().
Georg Brandl871f1bc2007-03-12 13:17:36 +00004705
Collin Winter276887b2007-03-12 16:11:39 +00004706- Patch #922167: Python no longer segfaults when faced with infinitely
4707 self-recursive reload() calls (as reported by bug #742342).
4708
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004709- Patch #1675981: remove unreachable code from ``type.__new__()``
4710 method.
Žiga Seilnacht89032082007-03-11 15:54:54 +00004711
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004712- Patch #1491866: change the complex() constructor to allow
4713 parthensized forms. This means complex(repr(x)) now works instead of
4714 raising a ValueError.
Collin Wintere38051d2007-03-09 20:33:07 +00004715
Georg Brandlaa2321b2007-03-07 00:40:28 +00004716- Patch #703779: unset __file__ in __main__ after running a file. This
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004717 makes the filenames the warning module prints much more sensible
4718 when a PYTHONSTARTUP file is used.
Georg Brandlaa2321b2007-03-07 00:40:28 +00004719
Georg Brandl49aafc92007-03-07 00:34:46 +00004720- Variant of patch #697613: don't exit the interpreter on a SystemExit
4721 exception if the -i command line option or PYTHONINSPECT environment
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004722 variable is given, but break into the interactive interpreter just
4723 like on other exceptions or normal program exit.
Georg Brandl49aafc92007-03-07 00:34:46 +00004724
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004725- Patch #1638879: don't accept strings with embedded NUL bytes in
4726 long().
Georg Brandl00cd8182007-03-06 18:41:12 +00004727
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004728- Bug #1674503: close the file opened by execfile() in an error
4729 condition.
Georg Brandl098cd692007-03-06 12:17:50 +00004730
Georg Brandl0fca97a2007-03-05 22:28:08 +00004731- Patch #1674228: when assigning a slice (old-style), check for the
4732 sq_ass_slice instead of the sq_slice slot.
4733
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004734- When printing an unraisable error, don't print exceptions. before
4735 the name. This duplicates the behavior whening normally printing
4736 exceptions.
Neal Norwitz88516a62007-02-26 22:41:45 +00004737
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004738- Bug #1653736: Properly discard third argument to
4739 slot_nb_inplace_power.
Martin v. Löwisfd963262007-02-09 12:19:32 +00004740
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004741- PEP 352: Raising a string exception now triggers a TypeError.
4742 Attempting to catch a string exception raises DeprecationWarning.
Brett Cannon129bd522007-01-30 21:34:36 +00004743
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004744- Bug #1377858: Fix the segfaulting of the interpreter when an object
4745 created a weakref on itself during a __del__ call for new-style
4746 classes (classic classes still have the bug).
Brett Cannonf5bee302007-01-23 23:21:22 +00004747
Martin v. Löwis6c5c5022007-01-23 21:11:47 +00004748- Bug #1579370: Make PyTraceBack_Here use the current thread, not the
4749 frame's thread state.
4750
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004751- patch #1630975: Fix crash when replacing sys.stdout in
4752 sitecustomize.py.
Thomas Wouters6ed19652007-01-23 13:50:49 +00004753
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004754- Prevent seg fault on shutdown which could occur if an object raised
4755 a warning.
Neal Norwitz72cd02c2007-01-05 05:25:22 +00004756
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004757- Bug #1566280: Explicitly invoke threading._shutdown from Py_Main, to
4758 avoid relying on atexit.
Martin v. Löwis7b7c9d42007-01-04 21:06:12 +00004759
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004760- Bug #1590891: random.randrange don't return correct value for big
4761 number.
Raymond Hettinger94547f72006-12-20 06:42:06 +00004762
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004763- Patch #1586791: Better exception messages for some operations on
4764 strings, tuples and lists.
Georg Brandl283a1352006-11-19 08:48:30 +00004765
Martin v. Löwis056dac12006-11-12 18:24:26 +00004766- Bug #1067760: Deprecate passing floats to file.seek.
4767
Martin v. Löwisa346c092006-11-08 06:48:36 +00004768- Bug #1591996: Correctly forward exception in instance_contains().
4769
Neal Norwitz85dbec62006-11-04 19:25:22 +00004770- Bug #1588287: fix invalid assertion for `1,2` in debug builds.
4771
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004772- Bug #1576657: when setting a KeyError for a tuple key, make sure
4773 that the tuple isn't used as the "exception arguments tuple".
Georg Brandlb9f4ad32006-10-29 18:31:42 +00004774
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004775- Bug #1565514: SystemError not raised on too many nested blocks.
Neal Norwitz21997af2006-10-28 21:19:07 +00004776
Thomas Hellerdf08f0b2006-10-27 18:31:36 +00004777- Bug #1576174: WindowsError now displays the windows error code
4778 again, no longer the posix error code.
4779
Martin v. Löwisb5bc5372006-10-27 06:16:31 +00004780- Patch #1549049: Support long values in structmember, issue warnings
4781 if the assigned value for structmember fields gets truncated.
4782
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004783- Update the peephole optimizer to remove more dead code (jumps after
4784 returns) and inline unconditional jumps to returns.
Neal Norwitzcbeb6872006-10-14 21:33:38 +00004785
Georg Brandl2c1375c2006-10-12 11:27:59 +00004786- Bug #1545497: when given an explicit base, int() did ignore NULs
4787 embedded in the string to convert.
4788
Georg Brandl846f73a2006-10-08 07:11:54 +00004789- Bug #1569998: break inside a try statement (outside a loop) is now
4790 recognized and rejected.
4791
Armin Rigo7ccbca92006-10-04 12:17:45 +00004792- list.pop(x) accepts any object x following the __index__ protocol.
4793
Armin Rigo7ccbca92006-10-04 12:17:45 +00004794- A number of places, including integer negation and absolute value,
4795 were fixed to not rely on undefined behaviour of the C compiler
4796 anymore.
Martin v. Löwis820d6ac2006-10-04 05:47:34 +00004797
Georg Brandl3267d282006-09-30 09:03:42 +00004798- Bug #1566800: make sure that EnvironmentError can be called with any
4799 number of arguments, as was the case in Python 2.4.
4800
Georg Brandl5d59c092006-09-30 08:43:30 +00004801- Patch #1567691: super() and new.instancemethod() now don't accept
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004802 keyword arguments any more (previously they accepted them, but
4803 didn't use them).
Georg Brandl5d59c092006-09-30 08:43:30 +00004804
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004805- Fix a bug in the parser's future statement handling that led to
4806 "with" not being recognized as a keyword after, e.g., this
4807 statement: from __future__ import division, with_statement
Georg Brandla10d3af2006-09-24 12:35:36 +00004808
Neal Norwitz3a230172006-09-22 08:18:10 +00004809- Bug #1557232: fix seg fault with def f((((x)))) and def f(((x),)).
4810
Neal Norwitz4a8fbdb2006-09-22 08:16:26 +00004811- Fix %zd string formatting on Mac OS X so it prints negative numbers.
4812
Brett Cannonf6aa86e2006-09-20 18:43:13 +00004813- Allow exception instances to be directly sliced again.
4814
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004815- Bug #1551432: Exceptions do not define an explicit __unicode__
4816 method. This allows calling unicode() on exceptions classes
4817 directly to succeed.
Brett Cannon9adeab72006-09-20 18:34:28 +00004818
Georg Brandl4e933132006-09-06 20:05:58 +00004819- Bug #1542051: Exceptions now correctly call PyObject_GC_UnTrack.
4820 Also make sure that every exception class has __module__ set to
4821 'exceptions'.
4822
Georg Brandl98775df2006-09-06 06:09:31 +00004823- Bug #1550983: emit better error messages for erroneous relative
4824 imports (if not in package and if beyond toplevel package).
4825
Tim Petersc10c9d02006-09-05 02:18:09 +00004826- Overflow checking code in integer division ran afoul of new gcc
4827 optimizations. Changed to be more standard-conforming.
4828
Neal Norwitz4f096d92006-08-21 19:47:08 +00004829- Patch #1542451: disallow continue anywhere under a finally.
4830
Neal Norwitza22975f2006-09-05 02:24:03 +00004831- Patch #1546288: fix seg fault in dict_equal due to ref counting bug.
4832
Neal Norwitzd34e4272006-09-05 02:36:20 +00004833- The return tuple from str.rpartition(sep) is (tail, sep, head) where
4834 head is the original string if sep was not found.
4835
Neal Norwitzdac090d2006-09-05 03:53:08 +00004836- Bug #1520864: unpacking singleton tuples in list comprehensions and
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004837 generator expressions (x for x, in ... ) works again. Fixing this
4838 problem required changing the .pyc magic number. This means that
4839 .pyc files generated before 2.5c2 will be regenerated.
Neal Norwitzdac090d2006-09-05 03:53:08 +00004840
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00004841- ``with`` and ``as`` are now keywords.
Neal Norwitzca460d92006-09-06 06:28:06 +00004842
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004843- Bug #1664966: Fix crash in exec if Unicode filename can't be
4844 decoded.
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00004845
Guido van Rossumcad37242008-01-15 17:59:29 +00004846- Issue #1537: Changed GeneratorExit's base class from Exception to
4847 BaseException.
Christian Heimes44eeaec2007-12-03 20:01:02 +00004848
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004849- Issue #1703448: A joined thread could show up in the
Gregory P. Smith95cd5c02008-01-22 01:20:42 +00004850 threading.enumerate() list after the join() for a brief period until
4851 it actually exited.
4852
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00004853
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00004854Library
4855-------
4856
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004857- Patch #2274: Add heapq.heappushpop().
Raymond Hettinger53bdf092008-03-13 19:03:51 +00004858
Christian Heimes608c1d82008-03-03 18:28:04 +00004859- Add inspect.isabstract(object) to fix bug #2223
4860
Mark Dickinson1ddf1d82008-02-29 02:16:37 +00004861- Add a __format__ method to Decimal, to support PEP 3101.
4862
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004863- Add a timing parameter when using trace.Trace to print out
4864 timestamps.
Neal Norwitzca376612008-02-26 08:21:28 +00004865
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004866- Issue #1627: httplib now ignores negative Content-Length headers.
Georg Brandl8c460d52008-02-24 00:14:24 +00004867
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004868- Issue #900744: If an invalid chunked-encoding header is sent by a
4869 server, httplib will now raise IncompleteRead and close the
4870 connection instead of raising ValueError.
Georg Brandl23635032008-02-24 00:03:22 +00004871
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004872- Issue #1492: The content type of BaseHTTPServer error messages can
4873 now be overridden.
Georg Brandl16479232008-02-23 15:02:28 +00004874
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004875- Issue #1781: ConfigParser now does not let you add the "default" section
Facundo Batistab12f0b52008-02-23 12:46:10 +00004876 (ignore-case)
4877
Guido van Rossum8bc09652008-02-21 18:18:37 +00004878- Removed uses of dict.has_key() from distutils, and uses of
4879 callable() from copy_reg.py, so the interpreter now starts up
4880 without warnings when '-3' is given. More work like this needs to
4881 be done in the rest of the stdlib.
4882
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004883- Issue #1916: added isgenerator() and isgeneratorfunction() to
4884 inspect.py.
Facundo Batista759bfc62008-02-18 03:43:43 +00004885
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004886- Issue #1224: Fixed bad url parsing when path begins with double
4887 slash.
Facundo Batistad14600e2008-02-18 12:48:43 +00004888
Thomas Hellera06a1a82008-02-13 20:21:53 +00004889- ctypes instances that are not or do not contain pointers can now be
4890 pickled.
4891
Martin v. Löwisdad88dc2008-02-12 18:47:34 +00004892- Patch #1966: Break infinite loop in httplib when the servers
4893 implements the chunked encoding incorrectly.
4894
Mark Dickinsond058cd22008-02-10 21:29:51 +00004895- Rename rational.py to fractions.py and the rational.Rational class
4896 to fractions.Fraction, to avoid the name clash with the abstract
4897 base class numbers.Rational. See discussion in issue #1682.
4898
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004899- The pickletools module now provides an optimize() function that
4900 eliminates unused PUT opcodes from a pickle string.
Raymond Hettingerda614dc2008-02-10 20:35:16 +00004901
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004902- Patch #2021: Allow tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile and
4903 SpooledTemporaryFile to be used in with statements by correctly
4904 supporting the context management protocol.
Nick Coghlanac094dc2008-02-10 07:32:52 +00004905
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004906- Patch #1979: Add rich comparisons to Decimal, and make Decimal
4907 comparisons involving a NaN follow the IEEE 754 standard.
Mark Dickinson2fc92632008-02-06 22:10:50 +00004908
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004909- Issue #2004: tarfile.py: Use mode 0700 for temporary directories and
4910 default permissions for missing directories.
Lars Gustäbel0192e432008-02-05 11:51:40 +00004911
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004912- Issue #175006: The debugger used to skip the condition of a "while"
4913 statement after the first iteration. Now it correctly steps on the
4914 expression, and breakpoints on the "while" statement are honored on
4915 each loop.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc6fd03bb2008-02-04 21:45:05 +00004916
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004917- Issue #1765140: add an optional delay argument to FileHandler and
4918 its subclasses. Defaults to false (existing behaviour), but if true,
Vinay Sajipd7cf32e2008-01-24 12:43:33 +00004919 defers opening the file until the first call to emit().
4920
Raymond Hettingerc226c312008-01-23 00:04:40 +00004921- The pprint module now supports sets and frozensets.
4922
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004923- Issue #1221598: add optional callbacks to ftplib.FTP's storbinary()
4924 and storlines() methods. (Contributed by Phil Schwartz)
Gregory P. Smithc64386b2008-01-22 00:19:41 +00004925
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004926- Issue #1715: include sub-extension modules in pydoc's text output.
Georg Brandlf2dae0e2008-01-21 21:05:49 +00004927
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004928- Issue #1836: fix an off-by-one bug in TimedRotatingHandler's
4929 rollover time calculation.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00004930
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004931- Issue #1021: fix a bug to allow basicConfig to accept NOTSET as a
4932 level.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00004933
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004934- Issue #932563: add LoggerAdapter convenience class to make it easier
4935 to add contextual information in logging output.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00004936
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004937- Issue #1760556: fix a bug to avoid FileHandler throwing an exception
4938 in flush().
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00004939
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004940- Bug #1530959: distutils' build command now uses different build
4941 directory when building extension modules against versions of Python
4942 compiled with ``--with-pydebug``.
Georg Brandl50160152008-01-21 17:42:40 +00004943
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004944- Issue #1555501: move plistlib from plat-mac directory to general
4945 library.
Georg Brandl864de822008-01-21 16:34:07 +00004946
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004947- Issue #1269: fix a bug in pstats.add_callers() and add a unit test
4948 file for pstats.
Georg Brandl66e73632008-01-21 10:24:59 +00004949
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004950- Issue #1669: don't allow shutil.rmtree() to be called on a symlink
4951 to a directory.
Georg Brandl52353982008-01-20 14:17:42 +00004952
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004953- Issue #1664522: in urllib, don't read non-existing directories in
4954 ftp mode, returning a 0-byte file -- raise an IOError instead.
Georg Brandld5e6cf22008-01-20 12:18:17 +00004955
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004956- Issue #856047: respect the ``no_proxy`` environment variable when
4957 using the ``http_proxy`` etc. environment variables in urllib.
Georg Brandl22350112008-01-20 12:05:43 +00004958
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004959- Issue #1178141: add a getcode() method to the addinfourls that
4960 urllib.open() returns so that you can retrieve the HTTP status code.
Georg Brandl9b0d46d2008-01-20 11:43:03 +00004961
Gregory P. Smithf25680a2008-01-20 01:26:04 +00004962- Issue #1003: Fix zipfile decryption check, it would fail zip files
4963 with extended local headers.
4964
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004965- Issue #1189216: Fix the zipfile module to work on archives with
4966 headers past the 2**31 byte boundary.
Gregory P. Smith350d03b2008-01-19 23:10:52 +00004967
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004968- Issue #1336: fix a race condition in subprocess.Popen if the garbage
Gregory P. Smithb9ba0752008-01-19 21:00:37 +00004969 collector kicked in at the wrong time that would cause the process
4970 to hang when the child wrote to stderr.
4971
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004972- Issue #1146: fix how textwrap breaks a long word that would start in
4973 the last column of a line.
Georg Brandlc6fde722008-01-19 19:48:19 +00004974
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004975- Issue #1693149: trace.py --ignore-module - accept multiple
4976 comma-separated modules to be given.
Skip Montanaro562133b2008-01-19 18:47:24 +00004977
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004978- Issue #1822: MIMEMultipart.is_multipart() behaves correctly for a
4979 just-created (and empty) instance. Thanks Jonathan Share.
Facundo Batista2b1b1952008-01-19 12:32:27 +00004980
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004981- Issue #1861: Added an attribute to the sched module which returns an
4982 ordered list of upcoming events (displayed as named tuples).
Raymond Hettinger44bd6c02008-01-17 19:31:38 +00004983
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004984- Issue #1837: The queue module now also supports a LIFO queue and a
4985 priority queue.
Raymond Hettinger3ad2acc82008-01-16 23:49:35 +00004986
Andrew M. Kuchling4a2762d2008-01-20 00:00:38 +00004987- Patch #1048820: Add insert-mode editing to curses.textpad.Textbox
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00004988 (patch by Stefan Wehr). Also, fix an off-by-one bug in
Andrew M. Kuchling4a2762d2008-01-20 00:00:38 +00004989 Textbox.gather().
4990
Thomas Heller02ec2892008-01-16 19:37:33 +00004991- Issue #1831: ctypes now raises a TypeError if conflicting positional
4992 and named arguments are passed to a Structure or Union initializer.
Thomas Heller415c1e32008-01-16 19:45:51 +00004993 When too many positional arguments are passed, also a TypeError is
4994 raised instead of a ValueError.
Thomas Heller02ec2892008-01-16 19:37:33 +00004995
Thomas Heller902d3072008-01-16 19:16:27 +00004996- Convert the internal ctypes array type cache to a WeakValueDict so
4997 that array types do not live longer than needed.
4998
Guido van Rossumcad37242008-01-15 17:59:29 +00004999- Issue #1786: pdb should use its own stdin/stdout around an exec call
5000 and when creating a recursive instance.
5001
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005002- Issue #1698398: ZipFile.printdir() crashed because the format string
5003 expected a tuple type of length six instead of time.struct_time
5004 object.
Raymond Hettinger351e1a32008-01-14 22:58:05 +00005005
Mark Dickinson59bc20b2008-01-12 01:56:00 +00005006- Issue #1780: The Decimal constructor now accepts arbitrary leading
5007 and trailing whitespace when constructing from a string.
5008 Context.create_decimal no longer accepts trailing newlines.
5009
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005010- Decimal.as_tuple(), difflib.find_longest_match() and inspect
5011 functions that returned a tuple now return a named tuple.
Georg Brandl2f32c392008-01-11 09:20:58 +00005012
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00005013- Doctest now returns results as a named tuple for readability:
Raymond Hettingerfff4e6e2008-01-11 01:25:54 +00005014 (0, 7) --> TestResults(failed=0, attempted=7)
5015
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005016- Issue #846388:q re.match is interruptible now, which is particularly
Facundo Batista4473d222008-01-08 21:10:12 +00005017 good for long regular expression matches.
5018
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005019- Patch #1137: allow setting buffer_size attribute on pyexpat Parser
5020 objects to set the character data buffer size.
Andrew M. Kuchlinge0a49b62008-01-08 14:30:55 +00005021
Facundo Batista52b25792008-01-08 12:25:20 +00005022- Issue #1757: The hash of a Decimal instance is no longer affected by
5023 the current context.
5024
Georg Brandl62416bc2008-01-07 18:47:44 +00005025- Patch #467924: add ZipFile.extract() and ZipFile.extractall() in the
5026 zipfile module.
5027
Christian Heimesfb2d25a2008-01-07 16:12:44 +00005028- Issue #1646: Make socket support the TIPC protocol.
5029
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005030- Bug #1742: return os.curdir from os.path.relpath() if both arguments
5031 are equal instead of raising an exception.
Georg Brandl183a0842008-01-06 14:27:15 +00005032
Guido van Rossumc6a04c22008-01-05 22:19:06 +00005033- Patch #1637: fix urlparse for URLs like 'http://x.com?arg=/foo'.
5034
Guido van Rossumced4eb02008-01-05 01:21:57 +00005035- Patch #1698: allow '@' in username parsed by urlparse.py.
5036
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005037- Issue #1735: TarFile.extractall() now correctly sets directory
5038 permissions and times.
Lars Gustäbel2ee1c762008-01-04 14:00:33 +00005039
Christian Heimes06875612008-01-04 13:21:07 +00005040- Bug #1713: posixpath.ismount() claims symlink to a mountpoint is a mountpoint.
5041
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005042- Bug #1687: Fxed plistlib.py restricts <integer> to Python int when
5043 writing
Christian Heimes06131882008-01-04 00:04:52 +00005044
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005045- Issue #1700: Regular expression inline flags incorrectly handle
5046 certain unicode characters.
Guido van Rossumae04c332008-01-03 19:12:44 +00005047
Jeffrey Yasskin2f3c16b2008-01-03 02:21:52 +00005048- Issue #1689: PEP 3141, numeric abstract base classes.
5049
Martin v. Löwis84b9aab2008-01-01 21:09:07 +00005050- Tk issue #1851526: Return results from Python callbacks to Tcl as
5051 Tcl objects.
5052
Thomas Heller153038e2007-12-18 19:00:34 +00005053- Issue #1642: Fix segfault in ctypes when trying to delete attributes.
5054
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005055- Issue #1727780: Support loading pickles of random.Random objects
5056 created on 32-bit systems on 64-bit systems, and vice versa. As a
5057 consequence of the change, Random pickles created by Python 2.6
5058 cannot be loaded in Python 2.5.
Martin v. Löwis6b449f42007-12-03 19:20:02 +00005059
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005060- Issue #1455: The distutils package now supports VS 2005 and VS 2008
5061 for both the msvccompiler and cygwincompiler.
Christian Heimesc654fc22007-12-03 13:55:16 +00005062
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005063- Issue #1531: tarfile.py: Read fileobj from the current offset, do
5064 not seek to the start.
Lars Gustäbel77b2d632007-12-01 21:02:12 +00005065
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005066- Issue #1534: Added a dictionary sys.float_info with information
5067 about the internal floating point type to the sys module.
Christian Heimesdfdfaab2007-12-01 11:20:10 +00005068
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005069- Issue #1429818: patch for trace and doctest modules so they play
5070 nicely together.
Skip Montanaro58a6f442007-11-24 14:30:47 +00005071
Brett Cannon43e53f82007-11-21 00:47:36 +00005072- doctest made a bad assumption that a package's __loader__.get_data()
5073 method used universal newlines.
5074
Nick Coghlan90b858e2007-11-07 11:57:51 +00005075- Issue #1705170: contextlib.contextmanager was still swallowing
5076 StopIteration in some cases. This should no longer happen.
5077
Thomas Heller486b1b02007-11-02 19:10:24 +00005078- Issue #1292: On alpha, arm, ppc, and s390 linux systems the
5079 --with-system-ffi configure option defaults to "yes".
5080
Hye-Shik Changa838a802007-10-28 11:19:02 +00005081- IN module for FreeBSD 8 is added and preexisting FreeBSD 6 and 7
5082 files are updated.
5083
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005084- Issues #1181, #1287: unsetenv() is now called when the
5085 os.environ.pop() and os.environ.clear() methods are used.
Georg Brandl1a94ec22007-10-24 21:40:38 +00005086
Thomas Heller91ac4222007-10-19 18:11:41 +00005087- ctypes will now work correctly on 32-bit systems when Python is
5088 configured with --with-system-ffi.
5089
Thomas Heller7fee6dd2007-10-11 19:51:32 +00005090- Patch #1203: ctypes now does work on OS X when Python is built with
Georg Brandl1a94ec22007-10-24 21:40:38 +00005091 --disable-toolbox-glue.
Thomas Heller7fee6dd2007-10-11 19:51:32 +00005092
Raymond Hettingera7fc4b12007-10-05 02:47:07 +00005093- collections.deque() now supports a "maxlen" argument.
5094
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005095- itertools.count() is no longer bounded to LONG_MAX. Formerly, it
5096 raised an OverflowError. Now, automatically shifts from ints to
5097 longs.
Raymond Hettinger50e90e22007-10-04 00:20:27 +00005098
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005099- Added itertools.product() which forms the Cartesian product of the
5100 input iterables.
Raymond Hettingerc5705a82008-02-22 19:50:06 +00005101
Raymond Hettinger66f91ea2008-03-05 20:59:58 +00005102- Added itertools.combinations() and itertools.permutations().
Raymond Hettinger93e804d2008-02-26 23:40:50 +00005103
Georg Brandlaff85e22007-09-20 16:06:07 +00005104- Patch #1541463: optimize performance of cgi.FieldStorage operations.
5105
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005106- Decimal is fully updated to the latest Decimal Specification
5107 (v1.66).
Facundo Batistab67da232007-09-17 16:26:50 +00005108
Georg Brandl8fd3ecf2007-09-12 19:00:07 +00005109- Bug #1153: repr.repr() now doesn't require set and dictionary items
5110 to be orderable to properly represent them.
5111
Thomas Heller2825b2e2007-09-07 06:32:17 +00005112- A 'c_longdouble' type was added to the ctypes module.
5113
Martin v. Löwis7dcb83c2007-08-30 19:04:09 +00005114- Bug #1709599: Run test_1565150 only if the file system is NTFS.
5115
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005116- When encountering a password-protected robots.txt file the
5117 RobotFileParser no longer prompts interactively for a username and
5118 password (bug 813986).
Skip Montanaro3e275362007-08-29 01:33:45 +00005119
Lars Gustäbel0f4a14b2007-08-28 12:31:09 +00005120- TarFile.__init__() no longer fails if no name argument is passed and
5121 the fileobj argument has no usable name attribute (e.g. StringIO).
5122
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005123- The functools module now provides 'reduce', for forward
5124 compatibility with Python 3000.
Guido van Rossum95f1a1b2007-08-27 20:52:10 +00005125
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005126- Server-side SSL support and cert verification added, by Bill
5127 Janssen.
Guido van Rossum4f2c3dd2007-08-25 15:08:43 +00005128
Bill Janssenf413fb02007-08-30 18:08:06 +00005129- socket.ssl deprecated; use new ssl module instead.
5130
Georg Brandl8ec57542007-08-24 06:10:01 +00005131- uuid creation is now threadsafe.
5132
Hye-Shik Chang23901042007-08-20 06:49:18 +00005133- EUC-KR codec now handles the cheot-ga-keut composed make-up hangul
5134 syllables.
5135
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005136- GB18030 codec now can encode additional two-byte characters that are
5137 missing in GBK.
Hye-Shik Changf3e93a02007-08-04 04:10:18 +00005138
Walter Dörwald6e390802007-08-17 16:41:28 +00005139- Add new codecs for UTF-32, UTF-32-LE and UTF-32-BE.
5140
Martin v. Löwisf1e0b3f2007-07-28 07:03:05 +00005141- Bug #1704793: Return UTF-16 pair if unicodedata.lookup cannot
5142 represent the result in a single character.
5143
Martin v. Löwisf25e35b2007-07-27 18:28:22 +00005144- Bug #978833: Close https sockets by releasing the _ssl object.
5145
Martin v. Löwis254b8f92007-07-25 16:24:23 +00005146- Change location of the package index to pypi.python.org/pypi
5147
Thomas Hellerfa704c62007-07-13 17:12:23 +00005148- Bug #1701409: Fix a segfault in printing ctypes.c_char_p and
5149 ctypes.c_wchar_p when they point to an invalid location. As a
5150 sideeffect the representation of these instances has changed.
5151
Lars Gustäbel104490e2007-06-18 11:42:11 +00005152- tarfile.py: Added "exclude" keyword argument to TarFile.add().
5153
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005154- Bug #1734723: Fix repr.Repr() so it doesn't ignore the maxtuple
5155 attribute.
Neal Norwitzc161cb92007-06-11 07:29:43 +00005156
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005157- The urlopen function of urllib2 now has an optional timeout
5158 parameter (note that it actually works with HTTP, HTTPS, FTP and
5159 FTPS connections).
Facundo Batista10951d52007-06-06 17:15:23 +00005160
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005161- In ftplib, the FTP.ntransfercmd method, when in passive mode, now
5162 uses the socket.create_connection function, using the timeout
5163 specified at connection time.
Facundo Batista92493122007-06-06 15:13:37 +00005164
Hye-Shik Chang9b541402007-06-05 18:58:51 +00005165- Bug #1728403: Fix a bug that CJKCodecs StreamReader hangs when it
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005166 reads a file that ends with incomplete sequence and sizehint
5167 argument for .read() is specified.
Hye-Shik Chang9b541402007-06-05 18:58:51 +00005168
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005169- Bug #1730389: Change time.strptime() to use ``\s+`` instead of
5170 ``\s*`` when matching spaces in the specified format argument.
Brett Cannonf7188ce2007-06-03 23:13:41 +00005171
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005172- Bugs #1668596/#1720897: distutils now copies data files even if
5173 package_dir is empty.
Neal Norwitz4a700bb2007-06-01 07:29:12 +00005174
Brett Cannonc2aa09a2007-05-31 19:20:00 +00005175- sha now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
5176
Brett Cannon7eec2172007-05-30 22:24:28 +00005177- md5 now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
5178
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005179- Issue #1385: The hmac module now computes the correct hmac when
5180 using hashes with a block size other than 64 bytes (such as sha384
5181 and sha512).
Gregory P. Smithe1ac4f12007-11-06 00:19:03 +00005182
Brett Cannonc249bda2007-05-30 21:48:58 +00005183- mimify now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
5184
Brett Cannon90134c92007-05-30 20:46:26 +00005185- MimeWriter now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
5186
Lars Gustäbela0fcb932007-05-27 19:49:30 +00005187- tarfile.py: Improved unicode support. Unicode input names are now
5188 officially supported. Added "errors" argument to the TarFile class.
5189
Facundo Batista711a54e2007-05-24 17:50:54 +00005190- urllib.ftpwrapper class now accepts an optional timeout.
5191
Georg Brandlc90bc752007-05-24 16:49:29 +00005192- shlex.split() now has an optional "posix" parameter.
5193
Brett Cannon41bf2fa2007-05-20 23:57:38 +00005194- The posixfile module now raises a DeprecationWarning.
5195
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005196- Remove the gopherlib module. This also leads to the removal of
5197 gopher support in urllib/urllib2.
Brett Cannond75f0432007-05-16 22:42:29 +00005198
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005199- Fix bug in marshal where bad data would cause a segfault due to lack
5200 of an infinite recursion check.
Neal Norwitzb1a9b372007-05-16 20:05:11 +00005201
Neal Norwitze0e70a42007-05-16 05:06:33 +00005202- Removed plat-freebsd2 and plat-freebsd3 directories (and IN.py in
5203 the directories).
5204
Georg Brandla09a96a2007-05-15 20:19:34 +00005205- HTML-escape the plain traceback in cgitb's HTML output, to prevent
5206 the traceback inadvertently or maliciously closing the comment and
5207 injecting HTML into the error page.
5208
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005209- The popen2 module and os.popen* are deprecated. Use the subprocess
5210 module.
Neal Norwitz42dd86b2007-05-11 06:57:33 +00005211
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005212- Added an optional credentials argument to SMTPHandler, for use with
5213 SMTP servers which require authentication.
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00005214
5215- Patch #1695948: Added optional timeout parameter to SocketHandler.
5216
5217- Bug #1652788: Minor fix for currentframe.
5218
5219- Patch #1598415: Added WatchedFileHandler to better support external
5220 log file rotation using e.g. newsyslog or logrotate. This handler is
5221 only useful in Unix/Linux environments.
5222
Georg Brandlfb4b3b72007-04-24 15:27:13 +00005223- Bug #1706381: Specifying the SWIG option "-c++" in the setup.py file
5224 (as opposed to the command line) will now write file names ending in
5225 ".cpp" too.
5226
Facundo Batistad918a652007-04-24 13:54:38 +00005227- As specified in RFC 2616, an HTTP response like 2xx indicates that
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005228 the client's request was successfully received, understood, and
5229 accepted. Now in these cases no error is raised in urllib (issue
5230 #1177) and urllib2.
Facundo Batistad918a652007-04-24 13:54:38 +00005231
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005232- Bug #1290505: time.strptime's internal cache of locale information
5233 is now properly recreated when the locale is changed.
Brett Cannonc6906652007-04-01 18:47:27 +00005234
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005235- Patch #1685563: remove (don't add) duplicate paths in
5236 distutils.MSVCCompiler.
Neal Norwitz8f35f442007-04-01 18:24:22 +00005237
Facundo Batistab6a5c9d2007-03-29 18:22:35 +00005238- Added a timeout parameter to the constructor of other protocols
5239 (telnetlib, ftplib, smtplib and poplib). This is second part of the
5240 work started with create_connection() and timeout in httplib, and
5241 closes patch #723312.
5242
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00005243- Patch #1676823: Added create_connection() to socket.py, which may be
5244 called with a timeout, and use it from httplib (whose HTTPConnection
Facundo Batista70f996b2007-05-21 17:32:32 +00005245 and HTTPSConnection now accept an optional timeout).
Facundo Batista07c78be2007-03-23 18:54:07 +00005246
Martin v. Löwis0af33882007-03-23 13:27:15 +00005247- Bug #978833: Revert r50844, as it broke _socketobject.dup.
5248
Žiga Seilnacht7492e422007-03-21 20:07:56 +00005249- Bug #1675967: re patterns pickled with Python 2.4 and earlier can
5250 now be unpickled with Python 2.5 and newer.
5251
Collin Wintera8785cc2007-03-19 18:52:08 +00005252- Patch #1630118: add a SpooledTemporaryFile class to tempfile.py.
5253
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005254- Patch #1273829: os.walk() now has a "followlinks" parameter. If set
5255 to True (which is not the default), it visits symlinks pointing to
Georg Brandlcae9f3d2007-03-21 09:10:29 +00005256 directories.
5257
Georg Brandl8f06d022007-03-16 07:55:09 +00005258- Bug #1681228: the webbrowser module now correctly uses the default
5259 GNOME or KDE browser, depending on whether there is a session of one
5260 of those present. Also, it tries the Windows default browser before
5261 trying Mozilla variants.
5262
Collin Winter6f187742007-03-16 22:16:08 +00005263- Patch #1339796: add a relpath() function to os.path.
5264
Georg Brandlab1f4672007-03-15 07:41:30 +00005265- Patch #1681153: the wave module now closes a file object it opened if
5266 initialization failed.
5267
Georg Brandlf66b6032007-03-14 08:27:52 +00005268- Bug #767111: fix long-standing bug in urllib which caused an
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005269 AttributeError instead of an IOError when the server's response
5270 didn't contain a valid HTTP status line.
Georg Brandlf66b6032007-03-14 08:27:52 +00005271
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005272- Patch #957650: "%var%" environment variable references are now
5273 properly expanded in ntpath.expandvars(), also "~user" home
5274 directory references are recognized and handled on Windows.
Georg Brandl03b90d82007-03-13 22:07:36 +00005275
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005276- Patch #1429539: pdb now correctly initializes the __main__ module
5277 for the debugged script, which means that imports from __main__ work
Georg Brandlb6ae6aa2007-03-13 21:58:44 +00005278 correctly now.
5279
Georg Brandlbad6f192007-03-13 21:32:56 +00005280- The nonobvious commands.getstatus() function is now deprecated.
5281
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005282- Patch #1393667: pdb now has a "run" command which restarts the
5283 debugged Python program, optionally with different arguments.
Georg Brandl8e84c652007-03-13 21:08:15 +00005284
Thomas Heller5dc4fe02007-03-13 20:42:52 +00005285- Patch #1649190: Adding support for _Bool to ctypes as c_bool.
5286
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005287- Patch #1530482: add pydoc.render_doc() which returns the
5288 documentation for a thing instead of paging it to stdout, which
5289 pydoc.doc() does.
Georg Brandl8441f152007-03-13 20:02:57 +00005290
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005291- Patch #1533909: the timeit module now accepts callables in addition
5292 to strings for the code to time and the setup code. Also added two
5293 convenience functions for instantiating a Timer and calling its
5294 methods.
Georg Brandld9bef352007-03-13 19:32:21 +00005295
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005296- Patch #1537850: tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile now has a "delete"
5297 parameter which can be set to False to prevent the default
5298 delete-on-close behavior.
Georg Brandl35ef9c12007-03-13 18:31:49 +00005299
Georg Brandl9e6b4702007-03-13 18:15:41 +00005300- Patch #1581073: add a flag to textwrap that prevents the dropping of
5301 whitespace while wrapping.
5302
Georg Brandl92a6bae2007-03-13 17:43:32 +00005303- Patch #1603688: ConfigParser.SafeConfigParser now checks values that
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005304 are set for invalid interpolation sequences that would lead to
5305 errors on reading back those values.
Georg Brandl92a6bae2007-03-13 17:43:32 +00005306
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005307- Added support for the POSIX.1-2001 (pax) format to
5308 tarfile.py. Extended and cleaned up the test suite. Added a new
5309 testtar.tar.
Lars Gustäbelc64e4022007-03-13 10:47:19 +00005310
Martin v. Löwisbdd0f392007-03-13 10:24:00 +00005311- Patch #1449244: Support Unicode strings in
5312 email.message.Message.{set_charset,get_content_charset}.
5313
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005314- Patch #1542681: add entries for "with", "as" and "CONTEXTMANAGERS"
5315 to pydoc's help keywords.
Georg Brandlb6a87542007-03-13 10:06:48 +00005316
Georg Brandl4ffc8f52007-03-13 09:41:31 +00005317- Patch #1555098: use str.join() instead of repeated string
5318 concatenation in robotparser.
5319
Georg Brandl94fe3f52007-03-13 09:32:11 +00005320- Patch #1635454: the csv.DictWriter class now includes the offending
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005321 field names in its exception message if you try to write a record
5322 with a dictionary containing fields not in the CSV field names list.
Georg Brandl94fe3f52007-03-13 09:32:11 +00005323
Georg Brandlceede5c2007-03-13 08:14:27 +00005324- Patch #1668100: urllib2 now correctly raises URLError instead of
5325 OSError if accessing a local file via the file:// protocol fails.
5326
Martin v. Löwis2681beb2007-03-12 11:01:10 +00005327- Patch #1677862: Require a space or tab after import in .pth files.
5328
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005329- Patch #1192590: Fix pdb's "ignore" and "condition" commands so they
5330 trap the IndexError caused by passing in an invalid breakpoint
5331 number.
Collin Winter2faa9e12007-03-11 16:00:20 +00005332
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005333- Patch #1599845: Add an option to disable the implicit calls to
5334 server_bind() and server_activate() in the constructors for
5335 TCPServer, SimpleXMLRPCServer and DocXMLRPCServer.
Collin Winterae041062007-03-10 14:41:48 +00005336
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005337- Bug #1531963: Make SocketServer.TCPServer's server_address always be
5338 equal to calling getsockname() on the server's socket. Fixed by
Collin Winterfaaa2042007-03-10 03:35:34 +00005339 patch #1545011.
Collin Winter22c42ba2007-03-10 02:51:26 +00005340
Andrew M. Kuchlinge45a77a2008-01-19 16:26:13 +00005341- Patch #742598: Add .timeout attribute to SocketServer that calls
5342 .handle_timeout() when no requests are received.
5343
Thomas Heller2456a3c2007-03-09 20:39:22 +00005344- Bug #1651235: When a tuple was passed to a ctypes function call,
5345 Python would crash instead of raising an error.
5346
Thomas Hellerc2f77252007-03-09 19:21:28 +00005347- Bug #1646630: ctypes.string_at(buf, 0) and ctypes.wstring_at(buf, 0)
5348 returned string up to the first NUL character.
5349
Martin v. Löwis1190a382007-03-09 15:35:55 +00005350- Patch #957003: Implement smtplib.LMTP.
5351
Collin Winterfb728de2007-03-09 03:26:32 +00005352- Patch #1481079: add support for HTTP_REFERER to CGIHTTPServer.
5353
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005354- Patch #1675424: Added tests for uncovered code in the zipfile
5355 module. The KeyError raised by Zipfile.getinfo for nonexistent
5356 names now has a descriptive message.
Georg Brandl4b3ab6f2007-07-12 09:59:22 +00005357
Martin v. Löwis05c075d2007-03-07 11:04:33 +00005358- Bug #1115886: os.path.splitext('.cshrc') gives now ('.cshrc', '').
5359
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005360- unittest now verifies more of its assumptions. In particular,
5361 TestCase and TestSuite subclasses (not instances) are no longer
5362 accepted in TestSuite.addTest(). This should cause no
5363 incompatibility since it never made sense with ordinary subclasses
5364 -- the failure just occurred later, with a more cumbersome
5365 exception.
Georg Brandl9caadf82007-03-08 18:37:31 +00005366
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005367- Patch #787789: allow to pass custom TestRunner instances to
5368 unittest's main() function.
Georg Brandld0a96252007-03-07 09:21:06 +00005369
Georg Brandl15c5ce92007-03-07 09:09:40 +00005370- Patches #1550273, #1550272: fix a few bugs in unittest and add a
5371 comprehensive test suite for the module.
5372
Georg Brandl71ff6462007-03-07 08:31:51 +00005373- Patch #1001604: glob.glob() now returns unicode filenames if it was
5374 given a unicode argument and os.listdir() returns unicode filenames.
5375
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005376- Patch #1673619: setup.py identifies extension modules it doesn't
5377 know how to build and those it knows how to build but that fail to
5378 build.
Skip Montanarod1287322007-03-06 15:41:38 +00005379
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00005380- Patch #912410: Replace HTML entity references for attribute values
Martin v. Löwisab8a6bb2007-03-06 14:43:00 +00005381 in HTMLParser.
5382
Georg Brandlff432e62007-03-06 13:37:45 +00005383- Patch #1663234: you can now run doctest on test files and modules
5384 using "python -m doctest [-v] filename ...".
5385
Martin v. Löwis3eb76482007-03-06 10:41:24 +00005386- Patch #1121142: Implement ZipFile.open.
5387
Skip Montanarof694b1b2007-03-04 20:54:12 +00005388- Taught setup.py how to locate Berkeley DB on Macs using MacPorts.
5389
Raymond Hettinger00166c52007-02-19 04:08:43 +00005390- Added heapq.merge() for merging sorted input streams.
5391
Raymond Hettingercd3c1082007-10-23 21:23:07 +00005392- Added collections.namedtuple() for assigning field names to tuples.
Raymond Hettingerc37e5e02007-03-01 06:16:43 +00005393
Raymond Hettingerd36862c2007-02-21 05:20:38 +00005394- Added itertools.izip_longest().
5395
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005396- Have the encoding package's search function dynamically import using
5397 absolute import semantics.
Brett Cannon971a0122007-02-15 22:54:39 +00005398
Lars Gustäbel5b1a7852007-02-13 16:09:24 +00005399- Patch #1647484: Renamed GzipFile's filename attribute to name.
5400
Martin v. Löwis84f6de92007-02-13 10:10:39 +00005401- Patch #1517891: Mode 'a' for ZipFile now creates the file if it
5402 doesn't exist.
5403
Martin v. Löwisc6d626e2007-02-13 09:49:38 +00005404- Patch #698833: Support file decryption in zipfile.
5405
Martin v. Löwis07aa3ed2007-02-13 08:34:45 +00005406- Patch #685268: Consider a package's __path__ in imputil.
5407
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005408- Patch #1463026: Support default namespace in XMLGenerator.
Martin v. Löwis2bad58f2007-02-12 12:21:10 +00005409
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005410- Patch #1571379: Make trace's --ignore-dir facility work in the face
5411 of relative directory names.
Skip Montanaro691acf22007-02-11 18:24:37 +00005412
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005413- Bug #1600860: Search for shared python library in LIBDIR, not
5414 lib/python/config, on "linux" and "gnu" systems.
Martin v. Löwis0a203262007-02-09 12:36:48 +00005415
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005416- Patch #1652681: tarfile.py: create nonexistent files in append mode
5417 and allow appending to empty files.
Lars Gustäbel3f8aca12007-02-06 18:38:13 +00005418
Peter Astrand5f9c6ae2007-02-06 15:37:50 +00005419- Bug #1124861: Automatically create pipes if GetStdHandle fails in
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00005420 subprocess.
Peter Astrand5f9c6ae2007-02-06 15:37:50 +00005421
Georg Brandl4ba9e5b2007-01-27 17:59:42 +00005422- Patch #1634778: add missing encoding aliases for iso8859_15 and
5423 iso8859_16.
5424
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005425- Patch #1638243: the compiler package is now able to correctly
5426 compile a with statement; previously, executing code containing a
5427 with statement compiled by the compiler package crashed the
5428 interpreter.
Georg Brandlab496842007-01-27 17:43:02 +00005429
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00005430- Bug #1643943: Fix time.strptime's support for the %U directive.
5431
Lars Gustäbel0713a682007-02-19 09:54:47 +00005432- Patch #1507247: tarfile.py: use current umask for intermediate
5433 directories.
5434
Georg Brandldd7b0522007-01-21 10:35:10 +00005435- Patch #1627441: close sockets properly in urllib2.
5436
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005437- Bug #494589: make ntpath.expandvars behave according to its
5438 docstring.
Sjoerd Mullender33a0a062007-01-16 16:42:38 +00005439
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00005440- Changed platform module API python_version_tuple() to actually
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00005441 return a tuple (it used to return a list).
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00005442
5443- Added new platform module APIs python_branch(), python_revision(),
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00005444 python_implementation() and linux_distribution().
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00005445
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00005446- Added support for IronPython and Jython to the platform module.
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00005447
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005448- The sets module has been deprecated. Use the built-in set/frozenset
5449 types instead.
Brett Cannon093b6702007-01-13 00:29:49 +00005450
Thomas Heller6fd45492007-01-12 20:21:53 +00005451- Bug #1610795: make ctypes.util.find_library work on BSD systems.
5452
Thomas Heller8138c262007-01-11 21:18:56 +00005453- Fixes for 64-bit Windows: In ctypes.wintypes, correct the
5454 definitions of HANDLE, WPARAM, LPARAM data types. Make
5455 parameterless foreign function calls work.
5456
Thomas Hellerfb9d7872007-01-10 20:12:13 +00005457- The version number of the ctypes package changed to "1.1.0".
5458
Vinay Sajipab41c102007-01-09 14:51:36 +00005459- Bug #1627575: logging: Added _open() method to FileHandler which can
5460 be used to reopen files. The FileHandler instance now saves the
5461 encoding (which can be None) in an attribute called "encoding".
5462
Vinay Sajipc9137262007-01-08 18:52:36 +00005463- Bug #411881: logging.handlers: bare except clause removed from
5464 SMTPHandler.emit. Now, only ImportError is trapped.
5465
5466- Bug #411881: logging.handlers: bare except clause removed from
5467 SocketHandler.createSocket. Now, only socket.error is trapped.
5468
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005469- Bug #411881: logging: bare except clause removed from
5470 LogRecord.__init__. Now, only ValueError, TypeError and
5471 AttributeError are trapped.
Vinay Sajipc9137262007-01-08 18:52:36 +00005472
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005473- Patch #1504073: Fix tarfile.open() for mode "r" with a fileobj
5474 argument.
Lars Gustäbela7ba6fc2006-12-27 10:30:46 +00005475
Andrew M. Kuchling71662322006-12-27 03:31:24 +00005476- Patch #1182394 from Shane Holloway: speed up HMAC.hexdigest.
5477
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005478- Patch #1262036: Prevent TarFiles from being added to themselves
5479 under certain conditions.
Lars Gustäbela4b23812006-12-23 17:57:23 +00005480
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005481- Patch #1230446: tarfile.py: fix ExFileObject so that read() and
5482 tell() work correctly together with readline().
Lars Gustäbel6baa5022006-12-23 16:40:13 +00005483
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005484- Patch #1484695: The tarfile module now raises a HeaderError
5485 exception if a buffer given to frombuf() is invalid.
Georg Brandlebbeed72006-12-19 22:06:46 +00005486
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00005487- Bug #1503765: Fix a problem in logging.config with spaces in comma-
5488 separated lists read from logging config files.
5489
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005490- Patch #1604907: Fix problems in logging.handlers caused at logging
5491 shutdown when syslog handlers fail to initialize because of syslogd
5492 problems.
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00005493
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005494- Patch #1608267: fix a race condition in os.makedirs() if the
5495 directory to be created is already there.
Georg Brandlb1307432006-12-09 09:08:29 +00005496
Georg Brandl87fa5592006-12-06 22:21:18 +00005497- Patch #1610437: fix a tarfile bug with long filename headers.
5498
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005499- Patch #1371075: Make ConfigParser accept optional dict type for
5500 ordering, sorting, etc.
Martin v. Löwisa00bcac2006-12-03 12:01:53 +00005501
Thomas Helleref583a42006-11-28 20:21:54 +00005502- Bug #1563807: _ctypes built on AIX fails with ld ffi error.
5503
Thomas Heller25d208b2006-11-24 18:45:39 +00005504- Bug #1598620: A ctypes Structure cannot contain itself.
5505
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005506- Patch #1070046: Marshal new-style objects like InstanceType in
5507 xmlrpclib.
Martin v. Löwis07529352006-11-19 18:51:54 +00005508
Martin v. Löwiscffcc8b2006-11-19 10:41:41 +00005509- cStringIO.truncate(-1) now raises an IOError, like StringIO and
5510 regular files.
5511
Martin v. Löwisbba003e2006-11-18 18:42:11 +00005512- Patch #1472877: Fix Tix subwidget name resolution.
5513
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005514- Patch #1594554: Always close a tkSimpleDialog on ok(), even if an
5515 exception occurs.
Martin v. Löwisef5fd3e2006-11-18 18:05:35 +00005516
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005517- Patch #1538878: Don't make tkSimpleDialog dialogs transient if the
5518 parent window is withdrawn.
Martin v. Löwisc73a4a42006-11-18 18:00:23 +00005519
Georg Brandl54082112006-11-16 16:50:59 +00005520- Bug #1597824: return the registered function from atexit.register()
5521 to facilitate usage as a decorator.
5522
Martin v. Löwis45cd4ff2006-11-12 18:56:03 +00005523- Patch #1360200: Use unmangled_version RPM spec field to deal with
5524 file name mangling.
5525
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005526- Patch #1359217: Process 2xx response in an ftplib transfer that
5527 precedes an 1xx response.
Martin v. Löwis36cbc082006-11-12 18:48:13 +00005528
Martin v. Löwis065f0c82006-11-12 10:41:39 +00005529- Patch #1355023: support whence argument for GzipFile.seek.
5530
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00005531- Patch #1065257: Support passing open files as body in
Martin v. Löwis040a9272006-11-12 10:32:47 +00005532 HTTPConnection.request().
5533
Andrew M. Kuchlinga3e5d372006-11-09 13:27:07 +00005534- Bug #1569790: mailbox.py: Maildir.get_folder() and MH.get_folder()
5535 weren't passing the message factory on to newly created Maildir/MH
5536 objects.
5537
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005538- Patch #1514543: mailbox.py: In the Maildir class, report errors if
5539 there's a filename clash instead of possibly losing a message.
5540 (Patch by David Watson.)
Andrew M. Kuchling978d8282006-11-09 21:16:46 +00005541
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005542- Patch #1514544: Try to ensure that messages/indexes have been
5543 physically written to disk after calling .flush() or
5544 .close(). (Patch by David Watson.)
Andrew M. Kuchlingb5686da2006-11-09 13:51:14 +00005545
Guido van Rossumaf16ece2008-02-21 19:46:35 +00005546- Patch #1592250: Add elide argument to Tkinter.Text.search.
Martin v. Löwis038cad72006-11-09 11:27:32 +00005547
Guido van Rossumaf16ece2008-02-21 19:46:35 +00005548- Patch #838546: Make terminal become controlling in pty.fork().
Martin v. Löwisb2bba732006-11-09 11:06:03 +00005549
Martin v. Löwis5361e9a2006-11-08 07:35:55 +00005550- Patch #1351744: Add askyesnocancel helper for tkMessageBox.
5551
Martin v. Löwis5310e502006-11-04 18:14:06 +00005552- Patch #1060577: Extract list of RPM files from spec file in
Guido van Rossumaf16ece2008-02-21 19:46:35 +00005553 bdist_rpm.
Martin v. Löwis5310e502006-11-04 18:14:06 +00005554
Georg Brandl2c9838e2006-10-29 14:39:09 +00005555- Bug #1586613: fix zlib and bz2 codecs' incremental en/decoders.
5556
Georg Brandl3354f282006-10-29 09:16:12 +00005557- Patch #1583880: fix tarfile's problems with long names and posix/
5558 GNU modes.
5559
Georg Brandl5addf702006-10-29 08:53:06 +00005560- Bug #1586448: the compiler module now emits the same bytecode for
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00005561 list comprehensions as the built-in compiler, using the LIST_APPEND
Georg Brandl5addf702006-10-29 08:53:06 +00005562 opcode.
5563
Georg Brandl8f99f812006-10-29 08:39:22 +00005564- Fix codecs.EncodedFile which did not use file_encoding in 2.5.0, and
5565 fix all codecs file wrappers to work correctly with the "with"
5566 statement (bug #1586513).
5567
Thomas Heller112d1a62006-10-27 19:05:53 +00005568- Lib/modulefinder.py now handles absolute and relative imports
5569 correctly.
5570
Martin v. Löwisee82c0e2006-10-27 07:13:28 +00005571- Patch #1567274: Support SMTP over TLS.
5572
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005573- Patch #1560695: Add .note.GNU-stack to ctypes' sysv.S so that ctypes
5574 isn't considered as requiring executable stacks.
Martin v. Löwis1b2f6272006-10-22 10:55:15 +00005575
Thomas Hellerd2ea4a22006-10-17 19:30:48 +00005576- ctypes callback functions only support 'fundamental' data types as
5577 result type. Raise an error when something else is used. This is a
5578 partial fix for Bug #1574584.
5579
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005580- Fix turtle so that time.sleep is imported for the entire library.
5581 Allows the demo2 function to be executed on its own instead of only
5582 when the module is run as a script.
Brett Cannond80e0c82006-10-16 03:09:52 +00005583
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005584- Bug #813342: Start the IDLE subprocess with -Qnew if the parent is
5585 started with that option.
Georg Brandld0761532006-10-12 07:57:21 +00005586
Martin v. Löwisf43893a2006-10-09 20:44:25 +00005587- Bug #1565150: Fix subsecond processing for os.utime on Windows.
5588
Martin v. Löwis8b274262006-10-04 15:25:28 +00005589- Support for MSVC 8 was added to bdist_wininst.
5590
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005591- Bug #1446043: correctly raise a LookupError if an encoding name
5592 given to encodings.search_function() contains a dot.
Georg Brandla92979a2006-09-30 11:22:28 +00005593
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005594- Bug #1560617: in pyclbr, return full module name not only for
5595 classes, but also for functions.
Georg Brandl154324a2006-09-30 11:06:47 +00005596
Georg Brandl05b3c452006-09-30 10:58:01 +00005597- Bug #1457823: cgi.(Sv)FormContentDict's constructor now takes
5598 keep_blank_values and strict_parsing keyword arguments.
5599
Georg Brandl8d1e5bf2006-09-30 09:13:21 +00005600- Bug #1566602: correct failure of posixpath unittest when $HOME ends
5601 with a slash.
5602
Georg Brandl8c667452006-09-30 07:31:57 +00005603- Bug #1565661: in webbrowser, split() the command for the default
5604 GNOME browser in case it is a command with args.
5605
Georg Brandl5a85d5c2009-06-24 06:41:19 +00005606- Made the error message for time.strptime when the data and
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005607 format do match be more clear.
Brett Cannon11b35352006-09-26 23:38:24 +00005608
Georg Brandlc7986ce2006-09-24 12:50:24 +00005609- Fix a bug in traceback.format_exception_only() that led to an error
5610 being raised when print_exc() was called without an exception set.
5611 In version 2.4, this printed "None", restored that behavior.
5612
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005613- Make webbrowser.BackgroundBrowser usable in Windows (it wasn't
5614 because the close_fds arg to subprocess.Popen is not supported).
Georg Brandl2c94bf72006-09-24 10:36:01 +00005615
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005616- Reverted patch #1504333 to sgmllib because it introduced an infinite
5617 loop.
Neal Norwitzbcc119a2006-09-11 04:24:09 +00005618
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005619- Patch #1553314: Fix the inspect.py slowdown that was hurting IPython
5620 & SAGE by adding smarter caching in inspect.getmodule()
Nick Coghlanb3c18f82006-09-08 10:04:38 +00005621
Georg Brandl4e933132006-09-06 20:05:58 +00005622- Fix missing import of the types module in logging.config.
5623
Nick Coghlanbb0996c2006-09-03 01:20:46 +00005624- Patch #1550886: Fix decimal module context management implementation
Neal Norwitza22975f2006-09-05 02:24:03 +00005625 to match the localcontext() example from PEP 343.
Nick Coghlanbb0996c2006-09-03 01:20:46 +00005626
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005627- Bug #1545341: The 'classifier' keyword argument to the Distutils
5628 setup() function now accepts tuples as well as lists.
Andrew M. Kuchling99994792006-10-09 17:10:12 +00005629
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005630- Bug #1541863: uuid.uuid1 failed to generate unique identifiers on
5631 systems with low clock resolution.
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00005632
Gustavo Niemeyerc36bede2006-09-07 00:48:33 +00005633- Bug #1531862: Do not close standard file descriptors in subprocess.
5634
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005635- idle: Honor the "Cancel" action in the save dialog (Debian bug
5636 #299092).
Matthias Klosea398e2d2007-01-11 11:44:04 +00005637
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005638- Fix utf-8-sig incremental decoder, which didn't recognise a BOM when
5639 the first chunk fed to the decoder started with a BOM, but was
5640 longer than 3 bytes.
Georg Brandl27562782006-10-27 20:39:43 +00005641
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005642- The implementation of UnicodeError objects has been simplified
5643 (start and end attributes are now stored directly as Py_ssize_t
5644 members).
Walter Dörwald84a3efe2007-06-13 16:57:12 +00005645
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005646- Issue #829951: In the smtplib module, SMTP.starttls() now complies
5647 with RFC 3207 and forgets any knowledge obtained from the server not
5648 obtained from the TLS negotiation itself. Patch contributed by Bill
5649 Fenner.
Gregory P. Smith2b3ba582008-01-17 08:03:17 +00005650
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005651- Issue #1339: The smtplib.SMTP class has been refactored a bit such
Gregory P. Smithbde4ae42008-01-17 08:35:49 +00005652 that the SMTP.starttls() caller no longer needs to call ehlo()
5653 beforehand. SMTP.starttls() now raises an exception of the server
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005654 does not claim to support starttls. Adds the
5655 SMTP.ehlo_or_helo_if_needed() method. Patch contributed by Bill
5656 Fenner.
Gregory P. Smithbde4ae42008-01-17 08:35:49 +00005657
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005658- Patch #1089358: Add signal.siginterrupt, a wrapper around
5659 siginterrupt(3).
Georg Brandl29604a12008-01-26 14:03:47 +00005660
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00005661Extension Modules
5662-----------------
5663
Georg Brandl392c6fc2008-05-25 07:25:25 +00005664- Patch #1657: added select.epoll and select.kqueue.
Christian Heimes0e9ab5f2008-03-21 23:49:44 +00005665
Georg Brandlebcfd112008-02-23 23:04:35 +00005666- Patch #1506171: added operator.methodcaller().
5667
Georg Brandle2065c62008-02-23 23:02:23 +00005668- Patch #1826: operator.attrgetter() now supports dotted attribute paths.
5669
Georg Brandl392c6fc2008-05-25 07:25:25 +00005670- Patch #1957: syslogmodule: Release GIL when calling syslog(3).
Christian Heimesf0476e82008-02-23 17:42:31 +00005671
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005672- Bug #2112: mmap.error is now a subclass of EnvironmentError and not
5673 a direct EnvironmentError.
Facundo Batistae1396882008-02-17 18:59:29 +00005674
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005675- Bug #2111: mmap segfaults when trying to write a block opened with
5676 PROT_READ.
Christian Heimes7adfad82008-02-15 08:20:11 +00005677
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005678- Bug #2063: correct order of utime and stime in os.times() result on
5679 Windows.
Georg Brandl0a40ffb2008-02-13 07:20:22 +00005680
Martin v. Löwise0d30ef2008-02-12 13:47:26 +00005681- Patch #1736: Fix file name handling of _msi.FCICreate.
5682
Hye-Shik Chang01612e72008-02-08 17:10:20 +00005683- Updated ``big5hkscs`` codec to the HKSCS revision of 2004.
5684
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005685- Issue #1940: make it possible to use curses.filter() before
5686 curses.initscr() as the documentation says.
Georg Brandl29604a12008-01-26 14:03:47 +00005687
Christian Heimes7f39c9f2008-01-25 12:18:43 +00005688- Backport of _fileio module from Python 3.0.
5689
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005690- Patch #1087741: mmap.mmap is now a class, not a factory function. It
5691 is also subclassable now.
Georg Brandl5ca3fd82008-01-21 14:18:14 +00005692
Georg Brandl56112892008-01-20 13:59:46 +00005693- Patch #1648: added ``sys.getprofile()`` and ``sys.gettrace()``.
5694
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005695- Patch #1663329: added ``os.closerange()`` function to quickly close
5696 a range of file descriptors without considering errors.
Georg Brandl309501a2008-01-19 20:22:13 +00005697
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005698- Patch #976880: ``mmap`` objects now have an ``rfind`` method that
Andrew M. Kuchling5c60bfc2008-01-19 18:18:41 +00005699 works as expected. ``mmap.find`` also takes an optional ``end``
5700 parameter.
5701
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005702- _winreg's HKEY object has gained __enter__ and __exit__ methods to
5703 support the context manager protocol. The _winreg module also
5704 gained a new function ``ExpandEnvironmentStrings`` to expand
5705 REG_EXPAND_SZ keys.
Christian Heimesb39a7562008-01-08 15:46:10 +00005706
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005707- itertools.starmap() now accepts any iterable input. Previously, it
5708 required the function inputs to be tuples.
Raymond Hettinger47317092008-01-17 03:02:14 +00005709
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005710- itertools.chain() now has an alternate constructor,
5711 chain.from_iterable().
Raymond Hettingerb4cbc982008-02-28 22:46:41 +00005712
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005713- Issue #1646: Make socket support TIPC. The socket module now has
5714 support for TIPC under Linux, see http://tipc.sf.net/ for more
5715 information.
Christian Heimesfb2d25a2008-01-07 16:12:44 +00005716
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005717- Added interface for Windows' WSAIoctl to socket object and added an
5718 example for a simple network sniffer.
Christian Heimes04ae9162008-01-04 15:23:30 +00005719
Guido van Rossum076d9ee2008-01-03 23:54:04 +00005720- Bug #1301: Bad assert in _tkinter fixed.
5721
Christian Heimescdaa2cb2007-12-31 14:47:07 +00005722- Added bdist_wininst executable for VS 2008.
5723
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005724- Bug #1604: collections.deque.__init__(iterable) now clears any prior
5725 contents before adding elements from the iterable. This fix brings
5726 the behavior into line with that for list.__init__().
Raymond Hettingeradf9ffd2007-12-13 00:08:37 +00005727
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005728- Added wide char functions to msvcrt module: getwch, getwche, putwch
5729 and ungetwch. The functions accept or return unicode.
Christian Heimes7c7f6af2007-12-10 15:12:41 +00005730
Martin v. Löwis69233e82007-12-04 08:39:16 +00005731- os.access now returns True on Windows for any existing directory.
5732
Christian Heimes28104c52007-11-27 23:16:44 +00005733- Added warnpy3k function to the warnings module.
5734
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005735- Marshal.dumps() now expects exact type matches for int, long, float,
5736 complex, tuple, list, dict, set, and frozenset. Formerly, it would
5737 silently miscode subclasses of those types. Now, it raises a
5738 ValueError instead.
Raymond Hettinger12e94202007-11-07 01:13:09 +00005739
Martin v. Löwis58bd49f2007-09-04 13:13:14 +00005740- Patch #1388440: Add set_completion_display_matches_hook and
5741 get_completion_type to readline.
5742
Thomas Helleref4fff32007-07-13 17:46:54 +00005743- Bug #1649098: Avoid declaration of zero-sized array declaration in
5744 structure.
5745
Brett Cannondc48b742007-05-20 07:09:50 +00005746- Removed the rgbimg module; been deprecated since Python 2.5.
5747
Neal Norwitz59f58aa2007-05-19 03:48:47 +00005748- Bug #1721309: prevent bsddb module from freeing random memory.
5749
Gregory P. Smith82eafe62007-10-18 17:17:57 +00005750- Bug #1233: fix bsddb.dbshelve.DBShelf append method to work as
5751 intended for RECNO databases.
5752
Gregory P. Smithec10a4a2007-11-05 02:32:26 +00005753- pybsddb.sf.net Bug #477182: Load the database flags at database open
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005754 time so that opening a database previously created with the DB_DUP
5755 or DB_DUPSORT flag set will keep the proper behavior on subsequent
5756 opens. Specifically: dictionary assignment to a DB object will
5757 replace all values for a given key when the database allows
5758 duplicate values. DB users should use DB.put(k, v) when they want
5759 to store duplicates; not DB[k] = v.
Gregory P. Smithec10a4a2007-11-05 02:32:26 +00005760
Gregory P. Smithac11e022007-11-05 02:56:31 +00005761- Add the bsddb.db.DBEnv.lock_id_free method.
5762
Martin v. Löwis3bf573f2007-04-04 18:30:36 +00005763- Bug #1686475: Support stat'ing open files on Windows again.
5764
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005765- Patch #1185447: binascii.b2a_qp() now correctly quotes binary
5766 characters with ASCII value less than 32. Also, it correctly quotes
5767 dots only if they occur on a single line, as opposed to the previous
5768 behavior of quoting dots if they are the second character of any
5769 line.
Georg Brandl4aef7272007-03-13 22:49:43 +00005770
Georg Brandla47337f2007-03-13 12:34:25 +00005771- Bug #1622896: fix a rare corner case where the bz2 module raised an
5772 error in spite of a succesful compression.
5773
Georg Brandl40c62612007-03-06 18:59:11 +00005774- Patch #1654417: make operator.{get,set,del}slice use the full range
5775 of Py_ssize_t.
5776
Guido van Rossum2054ee92007-03-06 15:50:01 +00005777- Patch #1646728: datetime.fromtimestamp fails with negative
5778 fractional times. With unittest.
5779
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005780- Patch #1490190: posixmodule now includes os.chflags() and
5781 os.lchflags() functions on platforms where the underlying system
5782 calls are available.
Martin v. Löwis382abef2007-02-19 10:55:19 +00005783
Georg Brandl983d1002007-02-15 11:29:04 +00005784- Patch #1494140: Add documentation for the new struct.Struct object.
5785
Martin v. Löwis45423a72007-02-14 10:07:37 +00005786- Patch #1432399: Support the HCI protocol for bluetooth sockets
5787
Martin v. Löwisb1cc1d42007-02-13 12:14:19 +00005788- Patch #1657276: Make NETLINK_DNRTMSG conditional.
5789
Martin v. Löwis4c11a922007-02-08 09:13:36 +00005790- Bug #1653736: Complain about keyword arguments to time.isoformat.
5791
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005792- Bug #1486663: don't reject keyword arguments for subclasses of
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00005793 built-in types.
Georg Brandlb84c1372007-01-21 10:28:43 +00005794
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005795- Patch #1610575: The struct module now supports the 't' code, for C99
5796 _Bool.
Martin v. Löwisaef4c6b2007-01-21 09:33:07 +00005797
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005798- Patch #1635058: ensure that htonl and friends never accept or return
5799 negative numbers, per the underlying C implementation.
Guido van Rossumbb2cc692007-01-14 17:03:32 +00005800
Martin v. Löwis046c4d12006-12-03 11:23:45 +00005801- Patch #1544279: Improve thread-safety of the socket module by moving
5802 the sock_addr_t storage out of the socket object.
5803
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005804- Patch #1019808: fix bug that causes an incorrect error to be
5805 returned when a socket timeout is set and a connection attempt
5806 fails.
Andrew M. Kuchling060e6852008-01-19 20:47:59 +00005807
Neal Norwitz45e230a2006-11-19 21:26:53 +00005808- Speed up function calls into the math module.
5809
Georg Brandl25aabf42006-11-16 17:08:45 +00005810- Bug #1588217: don't parse "= " as a soft line break in binascii's
5811 a2b_qp() function, instead leave it in the string as quopri.decode()
5812 does.
5813
Neal Norwitz4fe44232006-11-21 05:26:22 +00005814- Bug #1599782: Fix segfault on bsddb.db.DB().type().
5815
Martin v. Löwis012bc722006-10-15 09:43:39 +00005816- Bug #1567666: Emulate GetFileAttributesExA for Win95.
5817
Martin v. Löwis18aaa562006-10-15 08:43:33 +00005818- Patch #1576166: Support os.utime for directories on Windows NT+.
5819
Georg Brandl412a9ea2006-10-09 19:03:06 +00005820- Patch #1572724: fix typo ('=' instead of '==') in _msi.c.
5821
Hye-Shik Changb7883462006-10-08 13:48:34 +00005822- Bug #1572832: fix a bug in ISO-2022 codecs which may cause segfault
5823 when encoding non-BMP unicode characters.
5824
Georg Brandl4ddfcd32006-09-30 11:17:34 +00005825- Bug #1556784: allow format strings longer than 127 characters in
5826 datetime's strftime function.
5827
Jack Diederichd10a0f72006-09-21 20:34:49 +00005828- Fix itertools.count(n) to work with negative numbers again.
5829
Martin v. Löwis43fd99c2006-09-16 17:36:37 +00005830- RLIMIT_SBSIZE was added to the resource module where available.
5831
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005832- Bug #1551427: fix a wrong NULL pointer check in the win32 version of
5833 os.urandom().
Georg Brandl74bb7832006-09-06 06:03:59 +00005834
Neal Norwitz6aefa912006-09-02 02:50:35 +00005835- Bug #1548092: fix curses.tparm seg fault on invalid input.
5836
Andrew M. Kuchling62182c82008-01-08 14:56:02 +00005837- Patch #1114: fix curses module compilation on 64-bit AIX, & possibly
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005838 other 64-bit LP64 platforms where attr_t is not the same size as a
5839 long. (Contributed by Luke Mewburn.)
Andrew M. Kuchling62182c82008-01-08 14:56:02 +00005840
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005841- Bug #1550714: fix SystemError from itertools.tee on negative value
5842 for n.
Neal Norwitz69e88972006-09-02 02:58:13 +00005843
Hye-Shik Chang199f1db2006-09-05 12:07:09 +00005844- Fixed a few bugs on cjkcodecs:
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005845 - gbk and gb18030 codec now handle U+30FB KATAKANA MIDDLE DOT
5846 correctly.
Hye-Shik Chang199f1db2006-09-05 12:07:09 +00005847 - iso2022_jp_2 codec now encodes into G0 for KS X 1001, GB2312
5848 codepoints to conform the standard.
Hye-Shik Chang2cad3e92006-09-05 12:14:57 +00005849 - iso2022_jp_3 and iso2022_jp_2004 codec can encode JIS X 0213:2
Hye-Shik Chang199f1db2006-09-05 12:07:09 +00005850 codepoints now.
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00005851
Andrew M. Kuchling43889c02006-09-27 16:37:30 +00005852- Bug #1552726: in readline.c, avoid repeatedly polling in interactive
5853 mode by only placing a timeout on the select() if an input hook has
5854 been defined. This prevents an interactive Python from waking up 10
5855 times per second. Patch by Richard Boulton.
5856
Gregory P. Smithf09c6262007-03-17 22:33:35 +00005857- fixed a bug with bsddb.DB.stat: the flags and txn keyword arguments
5858 were transposed.
5859
Jesus Cea4907d272008-08-31 14:00:51 +00005860- Added support for linking the bsddb module against BerkeleyDB 4.5.x,
5861 4.6.x and 4.7.x.
Gregory P. Smith8b96a352007-01-05 01:59:42 +00005862
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005863- Bug #1633621: if curses.resizeterm() or curses.resize_term() is
5864 called, update _curses.LINES, _curses.COLS, curses.LINES and
5865 curses.COLS.
Andrew M. Kuchling43889c02006-09-27 16:37:30 +00005866
Matthias Klosee19e0c22007-04-03 04:35:59 +00005867- Fix an off-by-one bug in locale.strxfrm().
5868
Matthias Klose38336402007-09-04 20:46:02 +00005869- Fix libffi configure for hppa*-*-linux* | parisc*-*-linux*.
5870
Matthias Klose9afb9852007-10-24 20:00:44 +00005871- Build using system ffi library on arm*-linux*.
5872
Christian Heimes3f065a42007-11-21 01:17:28 +00005873- Bug #1372: zlibmodule.c: int overflow in PyZlib_decompress
Matthias Klosee19e0c22007-04-03 04:35:59 +00005874
Gregory P. Smitheeed5b72008-02-03 07:20:53 +00005875- bsddb module: Fix memory leak when using database cursors on
5876 databases without a DBEnv.
5877
Gerhard Häring11ab8072008-03-02 13:12:27 +00005878- The sqlite3 module was updated to pysqlite 2.4.1.
5879
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00005880Tests
5881-----
5882
Brett Cannon56c4deb2008-03-03 00:38:58 +00005883- Refactor test_logging to use unittest.
Brett Cannonf9db8a32008-02-17 01:59:18 +00005884
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005885- Refactor test_profile and test_cprofile to use the same code to
5886 profile.
Georg Brandlb7090772008-02-05 19:58:17 +00005887
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005888- Make test_runpy reentrant by fixing _check_module to clear out any
5889 module being tested. Was causing an error by __import__ doing a
5890 reload on the second run and thus suppressing bytecode recreation.
Brett Cannondbed7a72007-08-23 14:53:17 +00005891
Brett Cannonea2835a2007-03-14 21:44:15 +00005892- Capture socket connection resets and timeouts in test_socket_ssl and
5893 test_urllib2net and raise test.test_support.ResourceDenied.
Brett Cannoned001842007-03-14 21:40:13 +00005894
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005895- Patch #1559413: Fix test_cmd_line if sys.executable contains a
5896 space.
Martin v. Löwiscd1210a2007-03-14 20:02:31 +00005897
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005898- Added test.test_support.TransientResource which is a context manager
5899 to surround calls to resources that are not guaranteed to work even
5900 if test.test_support.requires says that the resource should exist.
Brett Cannona30fcb42007-03-08 23:58:11 +00005901
Brett Cannone05e6b02007-01-29 04:41:44 +00005902- Added a test for slicing of an exception.
5903
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005904- Added test.test_support.EnvironmentVarGuard. It's a class that
5905 provides a context manager so that one can temporarily set or unset
5906 environment variables.
Brett Cannon92d54d52007-01-04 00:23:49 +00005907
Thomas Heller112d1a62006-10-27 19:05:53 +00005908- Added some tests for modulefinder.
5909
Brett Cannon373d90b2006-10-03 23:23:14 +00005910- Converted test_imp to use unittest.
5911
Neal Norwitz919d5cc2006-09-05 02:35:08 +00005912- Fix bsddb test_basics.test06_Transactions to check the version
5913 number properly.
5914
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005915- test.test_support.catch_warning is a new context manager that can be
5916 used to catch the warnings issued by the warning framework.
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00005917
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00005918Tools
5919-----
5920
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005921- Tools/scripts/reindent.py now creates the backup file using
5922 shutil.copy to preserve user/group and permissions. Added also a
5923 --nobackup option to not create the backup if the user is concerned
5924 regarding this. Check issue 1050828 for more details.
Facundo Batistaf88a0772008-02-17 16:21:13 +00005925
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005926- Tools/scripts/win_add2path.py was added. The simple script modifes
5927 the PATH environment var of the HKCU tree and adds the python bin
5928 and script directory.
Christian Heimesbd865db2008-01-18 11:58:50 +00005929
Skip Montanaro3e275362007-08-29 01:33:45 +00005930- Tools/18n/pygettext.py was added to the list of scripts installed by
5931 Tools/scripts/setup.py (tracker item 642309).
5932
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005933- Added IronPython and Jython support to pybench (part of which was
5934 patch #1563844).
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00005935
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005936- Made some minor changes to pybench output to allow the user to see
5937 which Python version is running pybench.
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00005938
5939- Added support for the new platform module feature
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005940 platform.python_implementation(); this will now be saved in the
5941 benchmark pickle.
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00005942
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00005943
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00005944Documentation
5945-------------
5946
Vinay Sajipd7cf32e2008-01-24 12:43:33 +00005947- RFE #1765140: Updated documentation on FileHandler and subclasses to
5948 include new optional delay argument.
5949
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005950- Bug #932563: Added section on getting contextual information into
5951 logging output, and added documentation for the new LoggerAdapter
5952 class.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00005953
5954- Bug #1295: Added information about caching of formatted exception
5955 information in the LogRecord by Formatter.format().
5956
Georg Brandl9467bc52007-07-12 09:37:49 +00005957- Bug #1637365: add subsection about "__name__ == __main__" to the
5958 Python tutorial.
5959
Georg Brandl3dc6e902007-04-25 06:24:59 +00005960- Patch #1698768: updated the "using Python on the Mac" intro.
5961
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005962- Bug #1569057: Document that calling file.next() when the file is
5963 open for writing is undefined.
Brett Cannon55a18642007-04-08 04:29:32 +00005964
Žiga Seilnachtc64ad482007-03-24 14:24:26 +00005965- Patch #1489771: the syntax rules in Python Reference Manual were
5966 updated to reflect the current Python syntax.
5967
Martin v. Löwis2f401d72007-03-23 10:35:49 +00005968- Patch #1686451: Fix return type for
5969 PySequence_{Count,Index,Fast_GET_SIZE}.
5970
Georg Brandl0692a262007-03-13 07:50:57 +00005971- Patch #1679379: add documentation for fnmatch.translate().
5972
Collin Winterb7b2b4e2007-03-09 18:09:10 +00005973- Bug #1629566: clarify the docs on the return values of parsedate()
5974 and parsedate_tz() in email.utils and rfc822.
5975
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00005976- Patch #1671450: add a section about subclassing built-in types to the
Georg Brandld28b9fc2007-03-06 10:02:47 +00005977 "extending and embedding" tutorial.
5978
Georg Brandlb26b1c62007-01-17 21:19:58 +00005979- Bug #1629125: fix wrong data type (int -> Py_ssize_t) in PyDict_Next
5980 docs.
5981
Georg Brandla4c8e322006-10-12 08:22:53 +00005982- Bug #1565919: document set types in the Language Reference.
5983
Georg Brandl44a7b3a2006-09-30 12:02:57 +00005984- Bug #1546052: clarify that PyString_FromString(AndSize) copies the
5985 string pointed to by its parameter.
5986
Georg Brandlfb257732006-09-30 09:06:45 +00005987- Bug #1566663: remove obsolete example from datetime docs.
5988
Georg Brandl648c1102006-08-18 07:27:59 +00005989- Bug #1541682: Fix example in the "Refcount details" API docs.
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005990 Additionally, remove a faulty example showing PySequence_SetItem
5991 applied to a newly created list object and add notes that this isn't
5992 a good idea.
Georg Brandl648c1102006-08-18 07:27:59 +00005993
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00005994
Georg Brandl27562782006-10-27 20:39:43 +00005995Tools/Demos
5996-----------
5997
5998- Patch #1552024: add decorator support to unparse.py demo script.
Marc-André Lemburg96148682006-09-06 20:40:22 +00005999
Brett Cannonc8939d22006-09-20 19:28:35 +00006000- Make auto-generated python.vim file list built-ins and exceptions in
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006001 alphatbetical order. Makes output more deterministic and easier to
6002 tell if the file is stale or not.
Brett Cannonc8939d22006-09-20 19:28:35 +00006003
Marc-André Lemburg96148682006-09-06 20:40:22 +00006004- Bug #1546372: Fixed small bugglet in pybench that caused a missing
6005 file not to get reported properly.
6006
6007
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00006008Build
6009-----
6010
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006011- Have the search path for building extensions follow the declared
6012 order in $CPPFLAGS and $LDFLAGS when adding directories from those
6013 environment variables.
Brett Cannon70c0c022008-02-03 09:59:21 +00006014
Christian Heimes951cc0f2008-01-31 23:08:23 +00006015- Bug #1983: Added a check to pyport to verify that sizeof(pid_t) is
6016 smaller or equal sizeof(long).
6017
Christian Heimescba36bb2008-01-30 22:54:18 +00006018- Bug #1234: Fixed semaphore errors on AIX 5.2
6019
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006020- Issue #1726: Remove Python/atof.c from PCBuild/pythoncore.vcproj.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00006021
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006022- Removed PCbuild8/ directory and added a new build directory for VS
6023 2005 based on the VS 2008 build directory to PC/VS8.0. The script
6024 PCbuild/vs8to9.py was added to sync changes from PCbuild to
6025 PC/VS8.0.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00006026
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006027- Moved PCbuild/ directory for VS 2003 to PC/VS7.1 and renamed
6028 PCBuild9/ directory to PCBuild/.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00006029
Martin v. Löwiscb78de62007-12-29 18:49:21 +00006030- Bug #1699: Define _BSD_SOURCE only on OpenBSD.
6031
Guido van Rossum7c862f82007-12-13 20:50:10 +00006032- Bug #1608: use -fwrapv when GCC supports it. This is important,
6033 newer GCC versions may optimize away overflow buffer overflow checks
6034 without this option!
6035
Martin v. Löwis63bf1492007-11-12 05:14:05 +00006036- Patch #1418: Make the AC_REPLACE_FUNCS object files actually work.
6037
Raymond Hettingerdc1d1ba2007-11-07 02:45:46 +00006038- Add a FAST_LOOPS build option that speeds-up looping by trading away
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006039 periodic threadstate and signal checking in tight loops. By
6040 default, this option is turned-off. It should only be enabled in
6041 debugged, performance critical applications.
Raymond Hettingerdc1d1ba2007-11-07 02:45:46 +00006042
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006043- Patch #786737: Allow building in a tree of symlinks pointing to a
6044 readonly source.
Martin v. Löwisd44a4e92007-09-05 11:47:34 +00006045
Martin v. Löwis8bc77e42007-09-01 06:36:03 +00006046- Bug #1737210: Change Manufacturer of Windows installer to PSF.
6047
Martin v. Löwis75c23bd2007-08-30 18:25:47 +00006048- Bug #1746880: Correctly install DLLs into system32 folder on Win64.
6049
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006050- Define _BSD_SOURCE, to get access to POSIX extensions on OpenBSD
6051 4.1+.
Martin v. Löwis76760b02007-07-31 19:57:56 +00006052
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006053- Stop supporting AtheOS and cause a build error in configure for the
6054 platform.
Brett Cannon19fab762007-06-02 03:02:29 +00006055
Georg Brandldb846032007-03-31 18:56:11 +00006056- Bug #1655392: don't add -L/usr/lib/pythonX.Y/config to the LDFLAGS
6057 returned by python-config if Python was built with --enable-shared
6058 because that prevented the shared library from being used.
6059
Georg Brandl18c47f62007-03-13 10:19:22 +00006060- Patch #1569798: fix a bug in distutils when building Python from a
6061 directory within sys.exec_prefix.
6062
Martin v. Löwiseb623572007-03-12 10:50:39 +00006063- Bug #1675511: Use -Kpic instead of -xcode=pic32 on Solaris/x86.
6064
Martin v. Löwis4d542ec2006-11-25 15:39:19 +00006065- Disable _XOPEN_SOURCE on NetBSD 1.x.
6066
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006067- configure now checks whether gcc supports the PyArg_ParseTuple
6068 format attribute.
Martin v. Löwisaac13162006-10-19 10:58:46 +00006069
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00006070- Bug #1578513: Cross compilation was broken by a change to configure.
Martin v. Löwisfefbc202006-10-17 18:59:23 +00006071 Repair so that it's back to how it was in 2.4.3.
6072
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006073- Patch #1576954: Update VC6 build directory; remove redundant files
6074 in VC7.
Martin v. Löwisc9e82f62006-10-15 07:54:40 +00006075
Martin v. Löwisebe26702006-10-02 14:55:51 +00006076- Bug #1568842: Fix test for uintptr_t.
6077
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006078- Patch #1540470: for OpenBSD 4.0.
Neal Norwitz4bc2c092006-09-05 02:57:01 +00006079
Matthias Klosed149d0c2006-12-03 17:16:41 +00006080- Fix build failure on kfreebsd and on the hurd.
6081
Matthias Kloseebde1492006-12-09 12:15:27 +00006082- Fix the build of the library reference in info format.
6083
Matthias Kloseeb8ff672007-08-02 21:33:13 +00006084- Allow Emacs 22 for building the documentation in info format.
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00006085
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006086- Makefile.pre.in(buildbottest): Run an optional script
6087 pybuildbot.identify to include some information about the build
6088 environment.
Matthias Klose642ac852007-09-04 18:17:36 +00006089
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00006090
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00006091C API
6092-----
6093
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006094- Unified naming convention for free lists and their limits. All free
6095 lists in Object/ are named ``free_list``, the counter ``numfree``
6096 and the upper limit is a macro ``PyName_MAXFREELIST`` inside an
6097 #ifndef block.
Christian Heimes5b970ad2008-02-06 13:33:44 +00006098
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006099- ``PySet_Add()`` can now modify a newly created frozenset. Similarly
6100 to ``PyTuple_SetItem``, it can be used to populate a brand new
6101 frozenset; but it does not steal a reference to the added item.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arccab3d982008-02-03 22:51:43 +00006102
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00006103- Added ``PySet_Check()`` and ``PyFrozenSet_Check()`` to the set API.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arccab3d982008-02-03 22:51:43 +00006104
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006105- Backport of PyUnicode_FromString(), _FromStringAndSize(), _Format
6106 and _FormatV from Python 3.0. Made PyLong_AsSsize_t and
6107 PyLong_FromSsize_t public functions.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00006108
6109- Patch #1720595: add T_BOOL to the range of structmember types.
6110
6111- Issue #1534: Added ``PyFloat_GetMax()``, ``PyFloat_GetMin()`` and
6112 ``PyFloat_GetInfo()`` to the float API.
6113
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006114- Issue #1521: On 64bit platforms, using PyArgs_ParseTuple with the t#
6115 of w# format code incorrectly truncated the length to an int, even
6116 when PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN is set. The str.decode method used to return
6117 incorrect results with huge strings.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00006118
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006119- Issue #1629: Renamed Py_Size, Py_Type and Py_Refcnt to Py_SIZE,
6120 Py_TYPE and Py_REFCNT.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00006121
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006122- PEP 3123: Provide forward compatibility with Python 3.0, while
6123 keeping backwards compatibility. Add Py_Refcnt, Py_Type, Py_Size,
6124 and PyVarObject_HEAD_INIT.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00006125
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006126- Py_ssize_t fields work in structmember when HAVE_LONG_LONG is not
6127 defined.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00006128
6129- Patch #1733960: Allow T_LONGLONG to accept ints.
6130
6131- T_PYSSIZET can now be used in PyMemberDef lists for Py_ssize_t members.
6132
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00006133- Added a new API function ``PyImport_ImportModuleNoBlock``.
6134
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00006135- Bug #1637022: Prefix AST symbols with _Py_.
6136
6137- Fix some leftovers from the conversion from int to Py_ssize_t
6138 (relevant to strings and sequences of more than 2**31 items).
6139
6140- Make _PyGILState_NoteThreadState() static, it was not used anywhere
6141 outside of pystate.c and should not be necessary.
6142
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006143- ``PyImport_Import`` and ``PyImport_ImportModule`` now always do
6144 absolute imports. In earlier versions they might have used relative
6145 imports under some conditions.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00006146
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006147- Added case insensitive comparison methods ``PyOS_stricmp(char*,
6148 char*)`` and ``PyOS_strnicmp(char*, char*, Py_ssize_t)``.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00006149
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006150- Bug #1542693: remove semi-colon at end of PyImport_ImportModuleEx
6151 macro so it can be used as an expression.
Neal Norwitz8a267062006-08-19 04:25:29 +00006152
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00006153
Martin v. Löwis2607e6c2006-11-21 18:20:25 +00006154Windows
6155-------
6156
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006157- Patch #1706: Drop support for Win9x, WinME and NT4. Python now
6158 requires Windows 2000 or greater. The _WINVER and NTDDI_VERSION
6159 macros are set to Win2k for x86/32bit builds and WinXP for AMD64
6160 builds.
Christian Heimes95d64472008-02-09 19:55:22 +00006161
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006162- Conditionalize definition of _CRT_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE and
6163 _CRT_NONSTDC_NO_DEPRECATE.
Martin v. Löwis2607e6c2006-11-21 18:20:25 +00006164
Martin v. Löwisd476a402007-10-12 08:56:52 +00006165- Bug #1216: Restore support for Visual Studio 2002.
6166
Martin v. Löwis2607e6c2006-11-21 18:20:25 +00006167
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00006168Mac
6169---
6170
Brett Cannonf0cb1d72007-05-31 20:01:11 +00006171- cfmfile now raises a DeprecationWarning.
6172
Brett Cannon791d56f2007-05-31 19:40:42 +00006173- buildtools now raises a DeprecationWarning.
6174
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006175- Removed the macfs module. It had been deprecated since Python 2.5.
6176 This lead to the deprecation of macostools.touched() as it relied
6177 solely on macfs and was a no-op under OS X.
Brett Cannon5e263512007-05-20 23:17:38 +00006178
Skip Montanaroe5d7f7f2002-09-20 14:16:59 +00006179----
6180
6181**(For information about older versions, consult the HISTORY file.)**