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Benjamin Peterson4f51baf2009-12-05 18:40:02 +00007What's New in Python 2.7 alpha 2?
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9
10*Release date: XXXX-XX-XX*
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12Core and Builtins
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14
Mark Dickinson46572832009-12-27 14:55:57 +000015- Issue #1811: improve accuracy and cross-platform consistency for
16 true division of integers: the result of a/b is now correctly
17 rounded for ints a and b (at least on IEEE 754 platforms), and in
18 particular does not depend on the internal representation of a long.
19
Ezio Melottif84caf42009-12-24 22:25:17 +000020- Issue #6108: unicode(exception) and str(exception) should return the same
21 message when only __str__ (and not __unicode__) is overridden in the subclass.
22
Ronald Oussoren92919a62009-12-24 13:30:58 +000023- Issue #6834: replace the implementation for the 'python' and 'pythonw'
24 executables on OSX.
25
26 These executables now work properly with the arch(1) command:
27 ``arch -ppc python`` will start a universal binary version of python
28 in PPC mode (unlike previous releases).
29
R. David Murray0a0a1a82009-12-14 16:28:26 +000030- Issue #1680159: unicode coercion during an 'in' operation no longer masks
31 the underlying error when the coercion fails for the left hand operand.
32
Benjamin Peterson4895af42009-12-13 16:36:53 +000033- Issue #7491: Metaclass's __cmp__ method was ignored.
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Antoine Pitrou2a08b422009-12-13 16:18:14 +000035- Issue #7466: segmentation fault when the garbage collector is called
36 in the middle of populating a tuple. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
37
R. David Murrayc7298ff2009-12-14 21:57:39 +000038
Benjamin Peterson4f51baf2009-12-05 18:40:02 +000039Library
40-------
41
Ronald Oussorenca8e7ec2009-12-24 14:50:35 +000042- Distutils now correctly identifies the build architecture as "x86_64"
43 when building on OSX 10.6 without "-arch" flags.
44
Tarek Ziadé0479eb52009-12-21 23:37:44 +000045- Issue #7556: Distutils' msvc9compiler now opens the MSVC Manifest
46 file in text mode.
47
Tarek Ziadé2421d562009-12-20 23:23:34 +000048- Issue #7552: Removed line feed in the base64 Authorization header in
49 the Distutils upload command to avoid an error when PyPI reads it.
50 This occurs on long passwords. Initial patch by JP St. Pierre.
51
52- Issue #7231: urllib2 cannot handle https with proxy requiring auth.
Senthil Kumaran7713acf2009-12-20 06:05:13 +000053 Patch by Tatsuhiro Tsujikawa.
54
Benjamin Petersonddd392c2009-12-13 19:19:07 +000055- Issue #7349: Make methods of file objects in the io module accept None as an
56 argument where file-like objects (ie StringIO and BytesIO) accept them to mean
57 the same as passing no argument.
58
Benjamin Petersonc4771d22009-12-13 17:31:31 +000059- Issue #7348: StringIO.StringIO.readline(-1) now acts as if it got no argument
60 like other file objects.
61
Lars Gustäbel92ca7562009-12-13 11:32:27 +000062- Issue #7357: tarfile no longer suppresses fatal extraction errors by
63 default.
64
Vinay Sajip5cc4e2a2009-12-11 09:16:01 +000065- Issue #7470: logging: fix bug in Unicode encoding fallback.
66
R. David Murray93321f32009-12-09 15:15:31 +000067- Issue #5949: fixed IMAP4_SSL hang when the IMAP server response is
68 missing proper end-of-line termination.
69
Tarek Ziadé2421d562009-12-20 23:23:34 +000070- Issue #7457: added a read_pkg_file method to
Tarek Ziadéa939ecd2009-12-08 08:56:49 +000071 distutils.dist.DistributionMetadata.
Benjamin Peterson4f51baf2009-12-05 18:40:02 +000072
Georg Brandl740cdc32009-12-28 08:34:58 +000073C-API
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76- Issue #7033: function ``PyErr_NewExceptionWithDoc()`` added.
77
Martin v. Löwisb4261d52009-12-21 19:29:59 +000078Build
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81- Switch to OpenSSL 0.9.8l on Windows.
R. David Murray93321f32009-12-09 15:15:31 +000082
Ronald Oussorenb5afe542009-12-24 14:17:19 +000083- Issue #7541: when using ``python-config`` with a framework install the compiler might
84 use the wrong library.
85
R. David Murrayc7298ff2009-12-14 21:57:39 +000086Tests
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R. David Murray77e48ba2009-12-20 16:46:06 +000089- Issue #7376: instead of running a self-test (which was failing) when called
90 with no arguments, doctest.py now gives a usage message.
91
R. David Murray98e3df32009-12-16 11:49:46 +000092- Issue #7396: fix regrtest -s, which was broken by the -j enhancement.
93
R. David Murrayc7298ff2009-12-14 21:57:39 +000094- Issue #7498: test_multiprocessing now uses test_support.find_unused_port
95 instead of a hardcoded port number in test_rapid_restart.
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Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +000099What's New in Python 2.7 alpha 1
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101
Benjamin Peterson3513c872009-12-05 18:48:13 +0000102*Release date: 2009-12-05*
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +0000103
104Core and Builtins
105-----------------
106
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd7288712009-12-01 21:51:04 +0000107- Issue #7419: setlocale() could crash the interpreter on Windows when called
108 with invalid values.
109
Eric Smithc4ab8332009-11-29 17:40:57 +0000110- Issue #3382: 'F' formatting for float and complex now convert the
111 result to upper case. This only affects 'inf' and 'nan', since 'f'
112 no longer converts to 'g' for large values.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd7288712009-12-01 21:51:04 +0000113
Mark Dickinson9dd5e162009-11-23 20:54:09 +0000114- Remove switch from "%f" formatting to "%g" formatting for floats
115 larger than 1e50 in absolute value.
116
Mark Dickinson18cfada2009-11-23 18:46:41 +0000117- Remove restrictions on precision when formatting floats. E.g.,
118 "%.120g" % 1e-100 used to raise OverflowError, but now gives the
119 requested 120 significant digits instead.
120
Benjamin Peterson89b1a5c2009-11-19 22:58:01 +0000121- Add Py3k warnings for parameter names in parenthesis.
122
Benjamin Peterson48f0a8d2009-11-19 23:19:29 +0000123- Issue #7362: Give a proper error message for def f((x)=3): pass.
Benjamin Peterson89b1a5c2009-11-19 22:58:01 +0000124
Ronald Oussoren315cd0c2009-11-19 16:25:21 +0000125- Issue #7085: Fix crash when importing some extensions in a thread
126 on MacOSX 10.6.
127
Mark Dickinsonb678de82009-11-19 18:41:49 +0000128- Issue #7117: repr(x) for a float x returns a result based on the
129 shortest decimal string that's guaranteed to round back to x under
130 correct rounding (with round-half-to-even rounding mode).
131 Previously it gave a string based on rounding x to 17 decimal digits.
132 repr(x) for a complex number behaves similarly. On platforms where
133 the correctly-rounded strtod and dtoa code is not supported (see below),
134 repr is unchanged.
135
136- Issue #7117: On almost all platforms: float-to-string and
137 string-to-float conversions within Python are now correctly rounded.
138 Places these conversions occur include: str for floats and complex
139 numbers; the float and complex constructors; old-style and new-style
140 numeric formatting; serialization and deserialization of floats and
141 complex numbers using marshal, pickle and json; parsing of float and
142 imaginary literals in Python code; Decimal-to-float conversion.
143
144 The conversions use a Python-adapted version of David Gay's
145 well-known dtoa.c, providing correctly-rounded strtod and dtoa C
146 functions. This code is supported on Windows, and on Unix-like
147 platforms using gcc, icc or suncc as the C compiler. There may be a
148 small number of platforms on which correct operation of this code
149 cannot be guaranteed, so the code is not used: notably, this applies
150 to platforms where the C double format is not IEEE 754 binary64, and
151 to platforms on x86 hardware where the x87 FPU is set to 64-bit
152 precision and Python's configure script is unable to determine how
153 to change the FPU precision. On these platforms conversions use the
154 platform strtod and dtoa, as before.
155
Mark Dickinsonbd15a062009-11-18 19:33:35 +0000156- Issue #7117: Backport round implementation from Python 3.x. round
Mark Dickinsonb678de82009-11-19 18:41:49 +0000157 now uses the correctly-rounded string <-> float conversions
158 described above (when available), and so produces correctly rounded
159 results that will display nicely under the float repr. There are
160 two related small changes: (1) round now accepts any class with an
161 __index__ method for its second argument (but no longer accepts
Mark Dickinsonbd15a062009-11-18 19:33:35 +0000162 floats for the second argument), and (2) an excessively large second
163 integer argument (e.g., round(1.234, 10**100)) no longer raises an
164 exception.
165
Philip Jenveyfab8be22009-11-17 02:42:26 +0000166- Issue #1757126: Fix the cyrillic-asian alias for the ptcp154 encoding.
167
Benjamin Petersone36199b2009-11-12 23:39:44 +0000168- Fix several issues with compile(). The input can now contain Windows and Mac
169 newlines and is no longer required to end in a newline.
170
Mark Dickinsonc04c7c52009-10-26 22:28:14 +0000171- Remove length limitation when constructing a complex number from a
172 unicode string.
173
Raymond Hettingerfa7dadd2009-11-01 20:45:16 +0000174- Issue #7244: itertools.izip_longest() no longer ignores exceptions
175 raised during the formation of an output tuple.
176
Mark Dickinson8d87dc02009-10-25 20:39:06 +0000177- Issue #1087418: Boost performance of bitwise operations for longs.
178
Antoine Pitrouefb60c02009-10-20 21:29:37 +0000179- Issue #1722344: threading._shutdown() is now called in Py_Finalize(), which
180 fixes the problem of some exceptions being thrown at shutdown when the
181 interpreter is killed. Patch by Adam Olsen.
182
Eric Smithc12781a2009-10-19 14:38:14 +0000183- Issue #7168: Document PyFloat_AsString and PyFloat_AsReprString, and
184 note that they are unsafe and deprecated.
185
Vinay Sajip03d5c342009-10-16 14:06:44 +0000186- Issue #7120: logging: Removed import of multiprocessing which is causing
187 crash in GAE.
188
Benjamin Peterson196b0922009-10-15 15:44:46 +0000189- Issue #7140: The __dict__ of a module should not be cleared unless the module
190 is the only object holding a reference to it.
191
Neil Schemenauer7fdd1cb2009-10-14 17:17:14 +0000192- Issue #1754094: Improve the stack depth calculation in the compiler.
193 There should be no other effect than a small decrease in memory use.
194 Patch by Christopher Tur Lesniewski-Laas.
195
Antoine Pitroubeaf6a02009-10-11 21:03:26 +0000196- Issue #7084: Fix a (very unlikely) crash when printing a list from one
197 thread, and mutating it from another one. Patch by Scott Dial.
198
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd0052d12009-10-06 19:56:32 +0000199- Issue #1571184: The Unicode database contains properties for more characters.
200 The tables for code points representing numeric values, white spaces or line
201 breaks are now generated from the official Unicode Character Database files,
202 and include information from the Unihan.txt file.
203
Benjamin Peterson7adbb5a2009-10-03 20:23:24 +0000204- Issue #7050: Fix a SystemError when trying to use unpacking and augmented
205 assignment.
206
Philip Jenvey8b902042009-09-29 19:10:15 +0000207- Issue #5329: Fix os.popen* regression from 2.5 with commands as a
208 sequence running through the shell. Patch by Jean-Paul Calderone
209 and Jani Hakala.
210
Mark Dickinson7e7a3ec2009-09-29 19:01:06 +0000211- Issue #7019: Raise ValueError when unmarshalling bad long data, instead
212 of producing internally inconsistent Python longs.
213
Philip Jenveydbf3b252009-09-29 04:32:44 +0000214- Issue #6990: Fix threading.local subclasses leaving old state around
215 after a reference cycle GC which could be recycled by new locals.
216
Benjamin Peterson9db55402009-09-18 21:47:27 +0000217- Issue #6300: unicode.encode, unicode.decode, str.decode, and str.encode now
Benjamin Peterson332d7212009-09-18 21:14:55 +0000218 take keyword arguments.
219
Georg Brandle9741f32009-09-17 11:28:09 +0000220- Issue #6922: Fix an infinite loop when trying to decode an invalid
221 UTF-32 stream with a non-raising error handler like "replace" or "ignore".
222
Mark Dickinson4b9d4732009-09-27 16:05:21 +0000223- Issue #6713: Improve performance of base 10 int -> string and
224 long -> string conversions.
Mark Dickinsonaa2adc82009-09-16 22:10:56 +0000225
Thomas Wouters2920adb2009-09-16 20:36:34 +0000226- Issue #1590864: Fix potential deadlock when mixing threads and fork().
227
Georg Brandl0674d3f2009-09-16 20:30:09 +0000228- Issue #6844: Do not emit DeprecationWarnings when accessing a "message"
229 attribute on exceptions that was set explicitly.
230
Mark Dickinsonc8a7c7c2009-09-06 10:03:31 +0000231- Issue #6846: Fix bug where bytearray.pop() returns negative integers.
232
Benjamin Peterson6fcf9b52009-09-01 22:27:57 +0000233- classmethod no longer checks if its argument is callable.
234
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfff896b2009-08-29 18:14:40 +0000235- Issue #6750: A text file opened with io.open() could duplicate its output
236 when writing from multiple threads at the same time.
237
Benjamin Petersonc0ba8282009-08-15 22:59:21 +0000238- Issue #6704: Improve the col_offset in AST for "for" statements with
239 a target of tuple unpacking.
240
Benjamin Peterson4c6e8082009-08-15 13:16:38 +0000241- Issue #6707: dir() on an uninitialized module caused a crash.
242
Georg Brandlec812ca2009-07-22 11:57:15 +0000243- Issue #6540: Fixed crash for bytearray.translate() with invalid parameters.
244
Raymond Hettingerc2b9e1a2009-07-27 20:32:04 +0000245- Issue #6573: set.union() stopped processing inputs if an instance of self
246 occurred in the argument chain.
247
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc9d11fef2009-07-13 20:03:21 +0000248- Issue #1616979: Added the cp720 (Arabic DOS) encoding.
249
250- Issue #6070: On posix platforms import no longer copies the execute bit
R. David Murray23a736a2009-07-07 01:06:13 +0000251 from the .py file to the .pyc file if it is set. Patch by Marco N.
252
Benjamin Peterson753d1622009-07-02 18:16:45 +0000253- Issue #4618: When unicode arguments are passed to print(), the default
254 separator and end should be unicode also.
255
Benjamin Peterson1bf47652009-07-02 17:06:17 +0000256- Issue #6119: Fixed a incorrect Py3k warning about order comparisons of builtin
257 functions and methods.
258
Mark Dickinson2f865b92009-06-30 15:32:30 +0000259- Issue #6347: Include inttypes.h as well as stdint.h in pyport.h.
260 This fixes a build failure on HP-UX: int32_t and uint32_t are
261 defined in inttypes.h instead of stdint.h on that platform.
262
Hirokazu Yamamotoa3c56092009-06-28 10:23:00 +0000263- Issue #4856: Remove checks for win NT.
264
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc595f7a52009-06-25 22:29:29 +0000265- Issue #2016: Fixed a crash in a corner case where the dictionary of keyword
266 arguments could be modified during the function call setup.
267
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc14fc6732009-06-23 21:09:09 +0000268- Removed the ipaddr module.
269
Raymond Hettinger62641e92009-06-23 20:59:43 +0000270- Issue #6329: Fixed iteration for memoryview objects (it was being blocked
271 because it wasn't recognized as a sequence).
272
Benjamin Peterson08a0bbc2009-06-16 00:29:31 +0000273- Issue #6289: Encoding errors from compile() were being masked.
274
Benjamin Petersona72be3b2009-06-13 20:23:33 +0000275- When no module is given in a relative import, the module field of the
276 ImportFrom AST node is now None instead of an empty string.
277
Benjamin Peterson565e1b62009-06-13 03:46:30 +0000278- Assignment to None using import statements now raises a SyntaxError.
279
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcb02ceda2009-06-01 20:53:18 +0000280- Issue #4547: When debugging a very large function, it was not always
281 possible to update the lineno attribute of the current frame.
282
Antoine Pitrou46dbe272009-05-30 21:27:00 +0000283- Issue #5330: C functions called with keyword arguments were not reported by
Benjamin Peterson95e5ebe2009-07-12 23:56:18 +0000284 the various profiling modules (profile, cProfile). Patch by Hagen Fürstenau.
Antoine Pitrou46dbe272009-05-30 21:27:00 +0000285
Raymond Hettinger578a2282009-05-29 04:58:52 +0000286- Issue #5982: staticmethod and classmethod now expose the wrapped
287 function with __func__.
288
Raymond Hettinger822b87f2009-05-29 01:46:48 +0000289- Added support for multiple context managers in the same with-statement.
290 Deprecated contextlib.nested() which is no longer needed.
Georg Brandl944f6842009-05-25 21:02:56 +0000291
Benjamin Peterson1880d8b2009-05-25 13:13:44 +0000292- Issue #6101: A new opcode, SETUP_WITH, has been added to speed up the with
293 statement and correctly lookup the __enter__ and __exit__ special methods.
294
Mark Dickinsona4e0efa2009-05-20 18:43:07 +0000295- Issue #5829: complex("1e500") no longer raises OverflowError. This
296 makes it consistent with float("1e500") and interpretation of real
297 and imaginary literals.
298
Hirokazu Yamamotoa4f90182009-05-17 02:58:36 +0000299- Issue #3527: Removed Py_WIN_WIDE_FILENAMES which is not used any more.
300
Benjamin Peterson0c3b4c62009-05-16 23:34:19 +0000301- __instancecheck__ and __subclasscheck__ are now completely ignored on classic
302 classes and instances.
Benjamin Petersoneb9fb2c2009-05-16 22:46:11 +0000303
R. David Murray525cffc2009-05-13 13:07:14 +0000304- Issue #5994: the marshal module now has docstrings.
305
Mark Dickinsonb1d45852009-05-11 15:33:08 +0000306- Issue #5981: Fix three minor inf/nan issues in float.fromhex:
307 (1) inf and nan strings with trailing whitespace were incorrectly
308 rejected; (2) parsing of strings representing infinities and nans
309 was locale aware; and (3) the interpretation of fromhex('-nan')
310 didn't match that of float('-nan').
311
Eric Smitha985a3a2009-05-05 18:26:08 +0000312- Issue #5920: For float.__format__, change the behavior with the
313 empty presentation type (that is, not one of 'e', 'f', 'g', or 'n')
314 to be like 'g' but with at least one decimal point and with a
315 default precision of 12. Previously, the behavior the same but with
316 a default precision of 6. This more closely matches str(), and
317 reduces surprises when adding alignment flags to the empty
318 presentation type. This also affects the new complex.__format__ in
319 the same way.
320
R. David Murray7ba8e1c2009-05-04 22:16:24 +0000321- Issue #5890: in subclasses of 'property' the __doc__ attribute was
322 shadowed by classtype's, even if it was None. property now
323 inserts the __doc__ into the subclass instance __dict__.
324
Antoine Pitrou653dece2009-05-04 18:32:32 +0000325- Issue #4426: The UTF-7 decoder was too strict and didn't accept some legal
326 sequences. Patch by Nick Barnes and Victor Stinner.
327
Vinay Sajipf9b01fe2009-05-09 12:07:17 +0000328- Issue #1588: Add complex.__format__. For example,
Eric Smith9139cc62009-04-30 00:58:58 +0000329 format(complex(1, 2./3), '.5') now produces a sensible result.
330
Mark Dickinson92fcc9c2009-04-29 20:41:00 +0000331- Issue #5864: Fix empty format code formatting for floats so that it
332 never gives more than the requested number of significant digits.
333
Eric Smithcac7af62009-04-27 19:04:37 +0000334- Issue #5793: Rationalize isdigit / isalpha / tolower, etc. Includes
335 new Py_ISDIGIT / Py_ISALPHA / Py_TOLOWER, etc. in pctypes.h.
336
Martin v. Löwis99f27792009-04-26 00:53:18 +0000337- Issue #4971: Fix titlecase for characters that are their own
338 titlecase, but not their own uppercase.
339
Eric Smith068f0652009-04-25 21:40:15 +0000340- Issue #5835: Deprecate PyOS_ascii_formatd and replace it with
341 _PyOS_double_to_string or PyOS_double_to_string.
342
Benjamin Peterson5083dc52009-04-25 00:41:22 +0000343- Issue #5283: Setting __class__ in __del__ caused a segfault.
344
Mark Dickinson95bc9802009-04-24 12:46:53 +0000345- Issue #5816: complex(repr(z)) now recovers z exactly, even when
346 z involves nans, infs or negative zeros.
347
Eric Smithaca19e62009-04-22 13:29:05 +0000348- Implement PEP 378, Format Specifier for Thousands Separator, for
349 floats, ints, and longs.
350
351- Issue #5515: 'n' formatting for ints, longs, and floats handles
352 leading zero formatting poorly.
353
354- Issue #5772: For float.__format__, don't add a trailing ".0" if
355 we're using no type code and we have an exponent.
356
Mark Dickinson6736cf82009-04-20 21:13:33 +0000357- Issue #3166: Make long -> float (and int -> float) conversions
358 correctly rounded.
359
Benjamin Petersond4d400c2009-04-18 20:12:47 +0000360- Issue #5787: object.__getattribute__(some_type, "__bases__") segfaulted on
361 some builtin types.
362
Mark Dickinson1bdf7e92009-04-18 14:59:42 +0000363- Issue #1869: fix a couple of minor round() issues. round(5e15+1)
Eric Smith9139cc62009-04-30 00:58:58 +0000364 was giving 5e15+2; round(-0.0) was losing the sign of the zero.
Mark Dickinson1bdf7e92009-04-18 14:59:42 +0000365
Benjamin Peterson99d36f12009-04-15 21:26:36 +0000366- Issue #5759: float() didn't call __float__ on str subclasses.
367
Georg Brandl3c4a5462009-04-12 12:08:12 +0000368- Issue #5704: the "-3" command-line option now implies "-t".
369
R. David Murray0374a822009-04-09 21:54:50 +0000370- Issue #2170: refactored xml.dom.minidom.normalize, increasing both
371 its clarity and its speed.
372
Antoine Pitrou789be0c2009-04-02 21:18:34 +0000373- Issue #2396: the memoryview object was backported from Python 3.1.
374
Georg Brandld3f03fa2009-04-02 18:09:04 +0000375- Fix a problem in PyErr_NormalizeException that leads to "undetected errors"
376 when hitting the recursion limit under certain circumstances.
377
Brett Cannon15ba4da2009-04-01 18:03:59 +0000378- Issue #1665206: Remove the last eager import in _warnings.c and make it lazy.
379
Ronald Oussorene0154ed2009-03-30 23:10:35 +0000380- Issue #4865: On MacOSX /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages is added to
381 the end sys.path, for compatibility with the system install of Python.
382
Antoine Pitrouf8387af2009-03-23 18:41:45 +0000383- Issue #4688: Add a heuristic so that tuples and dicts containing only
384 untrackable objects are not tracked by the garbage collector. This can
385 reduce the size of collections and therefore the garbage collection overhead
386 on long-running programs, depending on their particular use of datatypes.
387
Mark Dickinson0b666bf2009-03-23 18:25:13 +0000388- Issue #5512: Rewrite PyLong long division algorithm (x_divrem) to
389 improve its performance. Long divisions and remainder operations
390 are now between 50% and 150% faster.
391
Mark Dickinsonefc82f72009-03-20 15:51:55 +0000392- Issue #4258: Make it possible to use base 2**30 instead of base
393 2**15 for the internal representation of integers, for performance
394 reasons. Base 2**30 is enabled by default on 64-bit machines. Add
395 --enable-big-digits option to configure, which overrides the
396 default. Add sys.long_info structseq to provide information about
397 the internal format.
398
Benjamin Peterson6ffe8522009-03-18 20:52:15 +0000399- Issue #4034: Fix weird attribute error messages of the traceback object. (As a
400 result traceback.__members__ no longer exists.)
401
Mark Dickinson6b265f12009-03-18 16:07:26 +0000402- Issue #4474: PyUnicode_FromWideChar now converts characters outside
403 the BMP to surrogate pairs, on systems with sizeof(wchar_t) == 4
404 and sizeof(Py_UNICODE) == 2.
405
Eric Smith6f42edb2009-03-14 11:57:26 +0000406- Issue #5237: Allow auto-numbered fields in str.format(). For
407 example: '{} {}'.format(1, 2) == '1 2'.
408
Brett Cannon6c4cff02009-03-11 04:51:06 +0000409- Issue #3652: Make the 'line' argument for warnings.showwarning() a
410 requirement. Means the DeprecationWarning from Python 2.6 can go away.
411
Eric Smithe9fb6862009-02-20 14:02:36 +0000412- Issue #5247: Improve error message when unknown format codes are
413 used when using str.format() with str, unicode, long, int, and
414 float arguments.
415
Raymond Hettinger08259e82009-02-18 23:10:19 +0000416- Running Python with the -3 option now also warns about classic division
417 for ints and longs.
418
Mark Dickinson2ffb26f2009-02-15 10:13:41 +0000419- Issue #5260: Long integers now consume less memory: average
420 saving is 2 bytes per long on a 32-bit system and 6 bytes per long
421 on a 64-bit system.
422
Antoine Pitrou76a4b892009-02-13 13:52:33 +0000423- Issue #5186: Reduce hash collisions for objects with no __hash__ method by
424 rotating the object pointer by 4 bits to the right.
425
Mark Dickinsonc97c9092009-02-09 14:18:43 +0000426- Issue #4575: Fix Py_IS_INFINITY macro to work correctly on x87 FPUs:
427 it now forces its argument to double before testing for infinity.
428
Benjamin Petersone18ef192009-01-20 14:21:16 +0000429- Issue #4978: Passing keyword arguments as unicode strings is now allowed.
430
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +0000431- Issue #1242657: the __len__() and __length_hint__() calls in several tools
Raymond Hettingerb5163702009-02-02 21:50:13 +0000432 were suppressing all exceptions. These include list(), filter(), map(),
433 zip(), and bytearray().
434
Benjamin Peterson596d3062009-01-19 15:42:23 +0000435- os.ftruncate raises OSErrors instead of IOErrors for consistency with other os
436 functions.
437
Benjamin Peterson5848d1f2009-01-19 00:08:08 +0000438- Issue #4991: Passing invalid file descriptors to io.FileIO now raises an
439 OSError.
440
Amaury Forgeot d'Arca18392a2009-01-13 23:19:08 +0000441- Issue #4807: Port the _winreg module to Windows CE.
442
Antoine Pitrouc2f02212009-01-13 23:13:52 +0000443- Issue #4935: The overflow checking code in the expandtabs() method common
444 to str, bytes and bytearray could be optimized away by the compiler, letting
445 the interpreter segfault instead of raising an error.
446
Amaury Forgeot d'Arca40d5732009-01-12 23:36:55 +0000447- Issue #3720: Fix a crash when an iterator modifies its class and removes its
448 __next__ method.
449
Martin v. Löwise3422fa2009-01-12 08:11:24 +0000450- Issue #4893: Use NT threading on CE.
451
Martin v. Löwis1b3bef22009-01-12 07:57:11 +0000452- Issue #4915: Port sysmodule to Windows CE.
453
Antoine Pitrou4c5ecb72009-01-09 21:40:55 +0000454- Issue #4074: Change the criteria for doing a full garbage collection (i.e.
455 collecting the oldest generation) so that allocating lots of objects without
456 destroying them does not show quadratic performance. Based on a proposal by
Benjamin Petersond50a5d52009-07-13 00:03:20 +0000457 Martin von Löwis at
Antoine Pitrou4c5ecb72009-01-09 21:40:55 +0000458 http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2008-June/080579.html.
459
Martin v. Löwisb90304a2009-01-07 18:40:40 +0000460- Issue #4850: Change COUNT_ALLOCS variables to Py_ssize_t.
461
Antoine Pitroue96d4ea2009-01-06 18:10:47 +0000462- Issue #1180193: When importing a module from a .pyc (or .pyo) file with
463 an existing .py counterpart, override the co_filename attributes of all
464 code objects if the original filename is obsolete (which can happen if the
465 file has been renamed, moved, or if it is accessed through different paths).
466 Patch by Ziga Seilnacht and Jean-Paul Calderone.
467
Martin v. Löwis5344c992009-01-02 20:32:55 +0000468- Issue #4075: Use OutputDebugStringW in Py_FatalError.
469
Hirokazu Yamamoto99a1b202009-01-01 15:45:39 +0000470- Issue #4797: IOError.filename was not set when _fileio.FileIO failed to open
471 file with `str' filename on Windows.
472
Antoine Pitrouaa687902009-01-01 14:11:22 +0000473- Issue #3680: Reference cycles created through a dict, set or deque iterator
474 did not get collected.
475
Nick Coghlan180e4002008-12-30 01:18:48 +0000476- Issue #4701: PyObject_Hash now implicitly calls PyType_Ready on types
477 where the tp_hash and tp_dict slots are both NULL.
478
Benjamin Peterson7af65562008-12-29 17:56:58 +0000479- Issue #4764: With io.open, IOError.filename is set when trying to open a
480 directory on POSIX systems.
481
Benjamin Petersonfe231b02008-12-29 17:47:42 +0000482- Issue #4764: IOError.filename is set when trying to open a directory on POSIX
483 systems.
484
Georg Brandl6425a2f2008-12-28 11:54:53 +0000485- Issue #4759: None is now allowed as the first argument of
486 bytearray.translate(). It was always allowed for bytes.translate().
487
Skip Montanarof205c132008-12-23 03:30:15 +0000488- Added test case to ensure attempts to read from a file opened for writing
489 fail.
490
Antoine Pitrou73c0e652008-12-17 22:46:54 +0000491- Issue #2467: gc.DEBUG_STATS reported invalid elapsed times. Also, always
492 print elapsed times, not only when some objects are uncollectable /
493 unreachable. Original patch by Neil Schemenauer.
494
Mark Dickinson1a707982008-12-17 16:14:37 +0000495- Issue #3439: Add a bit_length method to int and long.
496
Antoine Pitroud0c35152008-12-17 00:38:28 +0000497- Issue #2183: Simplify and optimize bytecode for list comprehensions.
498 Original patch by Neal Norwitz.
499
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcad9b5992008-12-10 23:22:49 +0000500- Issue #4597: Fixed exception handling when the __exit__ function of a
501 context manager returns a value that cannot be converted to a bool.
502
Jeffrey Yasskinffd42cf2008-12-10 07:35:02 +0000503- Issue #4597: Fixed several opcodes that weren't always propagating
504 exceptions.
505
Mark Dickinson826f3fe2008-12-05 21:55:28 +0000506- Issue #4445: Replace "sizeof(PyStringObject)" with
507 "offsetof(PyStringObject, ob_sval) + 1" when allocating memory for
508 str instances. On a typical machine this saves 3 bytes of memory
509 (on average) per string allocation.
510
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcdc619012008-11-22 20:01:18 +0000511- Issue #3996: On Windows, the PyOS_CheckStack function would cause the
512 interpreter to abort ("Fatal Python error: Could not reset the stack!")
513 instead of throwing a MemoryError.
514
Raymond Hettinger7989a4d2008-12-03 15:42:10 +0000515- Issue #3689: The list reversed iterator now supports __length_hint__
516 instead of __len__. Behavior now matches other reversed iterators.
517
Benjamin Petersonc078f922008-11-21 22:27:24 +0000518- Issue #4367: Python would segfault during compiling when the unicodedata
519 module couldn't be imported and \N escapes were present.
520
Vinay Sajip213faca2008-12-03 23:22:58 +0000521- Issue #4233: Changed semantic of ``_fileio.FileIO``'s ``close()``
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc32265652008-11-20 23:34:31 +0000522 method on file objects with closefd=False. The file descriptor is still
523 kept open but the file object behaves like a closed file. The ``FileIO``
524 object also got a new readonly attribute ``closefd``.
525
Benjamin Peterson46cc6d12008-11-19 21:49:09 +0000526- Issue #4348: Some bytearray methods returned that didn't cause any change to
527 the bytearray, returned the same bytearray instead of a copy.
528
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc7cfe7ea2008-11-18 22:19:37 +0000529- Issue #4317: Fixed a crash in the imageop.rgb2rgb8() function.
530
Benjamin Peterson273c2332008-11-17 22:39:09 +0000531- Issue #4230: If ``__getattr__`` is a descriptor, it now functions correctly.
532
Benjamin Peterson6624a9f2008-11-03 15:14:51 +0000533- Issue #4048: The parser module now correctly validates relative imports.
534
Benjamin Petersondcee09d2008-10-31 02:16:05 +0000535- Issue #4225: ``from __future__ import unicode_literals`` didn't work in an
536 exec statement.
537
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc69a9c5b2008-10-30 21:18:34 +0000538- Issue #4176: Fixed a crash when pickling an object which ``__reduce__``
539 method does not return iterators for the 4th and 5th items.
540
Benjamin Petersonbdca9422008-10-26 20:21:13 +0000541- Issue #4209: Enabling unicode_literals and the print_function in the same
542 __future__ import didn't work.
543
Benjamin Peterson399b1fe2008-10-25 02:53:28 +0000544- Using ``nonlocal`` as a variable name will now raise a Py3k SyntaxWarning
Georg Brandl7fb00ad2008-10-25 07:00:52 +0000545 because it is a reserved word in 3.x.
Benjamin Peterson399b1fe2008-10-25 02:53:28 +0000546
Hirokazu Yamamoto10a018c2008-10-09 10:00:30 +0000547- On windows, os.chdir given unicode was not working if GetCurrentDirectoryW
548 returned a path longer than MAX_PATH. (But It's doubtful this code path is
549 really executed because I cannot move to such directory on win2k)
550
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd78b9dc2008-10-07 20:32:10 +0000551- Issue #4069: When set.remove(element) is used with a set element, the element
552 is temporarily replaced with an equivalent frozenset. But the eventual
553 KeyError would always report the empty frozenset([]) as the missing key. Now
554 it correctly refers to the initial element.
555
Antoine Pitrouae5bece2008-12-06 21:29:24 +0000556- Issue #4509: Various issues surrounding resize of bytearray objects to
557 which there are buffer exports.
558
Benjamin Peterson8d5934b2008-12-27 18:24:11 +0000559- Issue #4748: Lambda generators no longer return a value.
560
Kristján Valur Jónsson6220e412009-01-12 09:20:34 +0000561- Issue #3582: Use native TLS functions on Windows
562
Gregory P. Smithae91d092009-03-02 05:13:57 +0000563- The re.sub(), re.subn() and re.split() functions now accept a flags parameter.
564
Matthias Kloseedb5e1e2009-04-04 14:18:13 +0000565- Issue #3845: In PyRun_SimpleFileExFlags avoid invalid memory access with
566 short file names.
567
Matthias Klose91a3b9e2009-04-05 21:19:13 +0000568- Issue #1113244: Py_XINCREF, Py_DECREF, Py_XDECREF: Add `do { ... } while (0)'
569 to avoid compiler warnings.
Matthias Klose0610e082009-04-05 12:43:08 +0000570
Gregory P. Smith2b3eb372009-04-05 23:48:26 +0000571- Issue #5705: os.setuid() would not accept values > 2**31-1 but pwd.getpwnam()
572 returned them on 64bit platforms.
573
Walter Dörwalded960ac2009-05-03 22:36:33 +0000574- Issue #5108: Handle %s like %S and %R in PyUnicode_FromFormatV(): Call
575 PyUnicode_DecodeUTF8() once, remember the result and output it in a second
576 step. This avoids problems with counting UTF-8 bytes that ignores the effect
577 of using the replace error handler in PyUnicode_DecodeUTF8().
578
Walter Dörwald726ba8e2009-05-06 14:32:35 +0000579- Issue #3739: The unicode-internal encoder now reports the number of characters
580 consumed like any other encoder (instead of the number of bytes).
581
Benjamin Peterson91c12eb2009-12-03 02:52:39 +0000582- Issue #2422: When compiled with the ``--with-valgrind`` option, the
583 pymalloc allocator will be automatically disabled when running under
584 Valgrind. This gives improved memory leak detection when running
585 under Valgrind, while taking advantage of pymalloc at other times.
586
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +0000587Library
588-------
Benjamin Petersonb3dd5482009-02-26 19:07:18 +0000589
Raymond Hettingera5fd24e2009-12-10 06:42:54 +0000590- Add a reverse() method to collections.deque().
591
Raymond Hettinger0b3263b2009-12-10 06:00:33 +0000592- Fix variations of extending deques: d.extend(d) d.extendleft(d) d+=d
593
Antoine Pitrou187177f2009-12-08 15:40:51 +0000594- Issue #6986: Fix crash in the JSON C accelerator when called with the
595 wrong parameter types. Patch by Victor Stinner.
596
Vinay Sajip48305662009-12-06 17:57:11 +0000597- logging: Added optional `secure` parameter to SMTPHandler, to enable use of
598 TLS with authentication credentials.
599
Tarek Ziadé2421d562009-12-20 23:23:34 +0000600- Issue #1923: Fixed the removal of meaningful spaces when PKG-INFO is
Tarek Ziadé4f383172009-12-06 09:22:40 +0000601 generated in Distutils. Patch by Stephen Emslie.
602
Martin v. Löwisc218a2f2009-12-03 20:53:51 +0000603- Issue #4120: Drop reference to CRT from manifest when building extensions with
604 msvc9compiler.
605
Antoine Pitrou30b3b352009-12-02 20:37:54 +0000606- Issue #7333: The `posix` module gains an `initgroups()` function providing
607 access to the initgroups(3) C library call on Unix systems which implement
608 it. Patch by Jean-Paul Calderone.
609
Tarek Ziadéa5076a22009-11-29 22:20:30 +0000610- Issue #7408: Fixed distutils.tests.sdist so it doesn't check for group
611 ownership when the group is not forced, because the group may be different
612 from the user's group and inherit from its container when the test is run.
613
Antoine Pitroud16f57b2009-11-28 15:55:58 +0000614- Issue #1515: Enable use of deepcopy() with instance methods. Patch by
615 Robert Collins.
616
Vinay Sajip01801d12009-11-27 14:03:36 +0000617- Issue #7403: logging: Fixed possible race condition in lock creation.
618
Antoine Pitrouacbe3bd2009-11-27 13:18:34 +0000619- Issue #6845: Add restart support for binary upload in ftplib. The
620 `storbinary()` method of FTP and FTP_TLS objects gains an optional `rest`
621 argument. Patch by Pablo Mouzo.
622
Antoine Pitroubcfaf802009-11-25 22:59:36 +0000623- Issue #5788: `datetime.timedelta` objects get a new `total_seconds()`
624 method returning the total number of seconds in the duration. Patch by
625 Brian Quinlan.
626
Vinay Sajipc470d682009-11-25 09:03:30 +0000627- Issue #6615: logging: Used weakrefs in internal handler list.
628
Senthil Kumaran5c456e62009-11-23 18:41:31 +0000629- Issue #1488943: difflib.Differ() doesn't always add hints for tab characters
630
Lars Gustäbeldd866d52009-11-22 18:30:53 +0000631- Issue #6123: tarfile now opens empty archives correctly and consistently
632 raises ReadError on empty files.
633
Vinay Sajipc470d682009-11-25 09:03:30 +0000634- Issue #7354: distutils.tests.test_msvc9compiler - dragfullwindows can
Tarek Ziadé39de1fc2009-11-19 05:33:16 +0000635 be 2.
636
Benjamin Petersondc3c2392009-11-19 03:00:02 +0000637- Issue #5037: Proxy the __unicode__ special method instead to __unicode__
638 instead of __str__.
639
Lars Gustäbel355538e2009-11-18 20:24:54 +0000640- Issue #7341: Close the internal file object in the TarFile constructor in
641 case of an error.
642
Tarek Ziadéacccafc2009-11-18 08:46:56 +0000643- Issue #7293: distutils.test_msvc9compiler is fixed to work on any fresh
644 Windows box. Help provided by David Bolen.
645
Nick Coghlan11db64e2009-11-15 22:36:47 +0000646- Issue #7328: pydoc no longer corrupts sys.path when run with the '-m' switch
647
Antoine Pitrouccd5e022009-11-15 17:22:09 +0000648- Issue #2054: ftplib now provides an FTP_TLS class to do secure FTP using
649 TLS or SSL. Patch by Giampaolo Rodola'.
650
Antoine Pitroud5b34d42009-11-15 14:10:48 +0000651- Issue #4969: The mimetypes module now reads the MIME database from
652 the registry under Windows. Patch by Gabriel Genellina.
653
Nick Coghlan49868cb2009-11-15 07:30:34 +0000654- Issue #6816: runpy now provides a run_path function that allows Python code
655 to execute file paths that refer to source or compiled Python files as well
656 as zipfiles, directories and other valid sys.path entries that contain a
657 __main__.py file. This allows applications that run other Python scripts to
658 support the same flexibility as the CPython command line itself.
659
Antoine Pitrouc562ca42009-11-13 22:31:18 +0000660- Issue #7318: multiprocessing now uses a timeout when it fails to establish
661 a connection with another process, rather than looping endlessly. The
662 default timeout is 20 seconds, which should be amply sufficient for
663 local connections.
664
Antoine Pitrou0734c632009-11-10 20:49:30 +0000665- Issue #7197: Allow unittest.TextTestRunner objects to be pickled and
666 unpickled. This fixes crashes under Windows when trying to run
667 test_multiprocessing in verbose mode.
668
Antoine Pitroud7158d42009-11-09 16:00:11 +0000669- Issue #7282: Fix a memory leak when an RLock was used in a thread other
670 than those started through `threading.Thread` (for example, using
671 `thread.start_new_thread()`.
672
Antoine Pitrou99c160b2009-11-05 13:42:29 +0000673- Issue #7264: Fix a possible deadlock when deallocating thread-local objects
674 which are part of a reference cycle.
675
Antoine Pitrou323b9da2009-11-04 19:25:14 +0000676- Issue #7211: Allow 64-bit values for the `ident` and `data` fields of kevent
677 objects on 64-bit systems. Patch by Michael Broghton.
678
Antoine Pitrouaec41242009-11-02 11:34:27 +0000679- Issue #6896: mailbox.Maildir now invalidates its internal cache each time
680 a modification is done through it. This fixes inconsistencies and test
681 failures on systems with slightly bogus mtime behaviour.
682
Gregory P. Smith38f5d8f2009-11-01 18:33:55 +0000683- Issue #7246 & Issue #7208: getpass now properly flushes input before
684 reading from stdin so that existing input does not confuse it and
685 lead to incorrect entry or an IOError. It also properly flushes it
686 afterwards to avoid the terminal echoing the input afterwards on
687 OSes such as Solaris.
688
Mark Dickinson6f390012009-10-29 12:11:18 +0000689- Issue #7233: Fix a number of two-argument Decimal methods to make
690 sure that they accept an int or long as the second argument. Also
691 fix buggy handling of large arguments (those with coefficient longer
692 than the current precision) in shift and rotate.
Mark Dickinson0c673122009-10-29 12:04:00 +0000693
Lars Gustäbel8c06ccc2009-10-29 09:15:00 +0000694- Issue #4750: Store the basename of the original filename in the gzip FNAME
695 header as required by RFC 1952.
696
Tarek Ziadé40b998b2009-10-27 23:06:10 +0000697- Issue #1180: Added a new global option to ignore ~/.pydistutils.cfg in
698 Distutils.
699
Tarek Ziadéd24cab82009-10-27 21:20:27 +0000700- Issue #7218: Fix test_site for win32, the directory comparison was done with
701 an uppercase.
702
Antoine Pitroudd629662009-10-27 17:41:58 +0000703- Issue #7205: Fix a possible deadlock when using a BZ2File object from
704 several threads at once.
705
Tarek Ziadéb9c1cfc2009-10-24 15:10:37 +0000706- Issue #7071: byte-compilation in Distutils is now done with respect to
707 sys.dont_write_bytecode.
708
Vinay Sajipc470d682009-11-25 09:03:30 +0000709- Issue #7066: archive_util.make_archive now restores the cwd if an error is
Tarek Ziadé672422a2009-10-24 13:29:44 +0000710 raised. Initial patch by Ezio Melotti.
711
Antoine Pitroufa94e802009-10-24 12:23:18 +0000712- Issue #6218: io.StringIO and io.BytesIO instances are now picklable with
713 protocol 2.
714
Vinay Sajip5ac65282009-10-21 20:22:14 +0000715- Issue #7077: logging: SysLogHandler now treats Unicode as per RFC 5424.
716
Mark Dickinsona7a52ab2009-10-20 13:33:03 +0000717- Issue #7099: Decimal.is_normal now returns True for numbers with exponent
718 larger than emax.
719
Antoine Pitroue0899802009-10-19 18:20:21 +0000720- Issue #5833: Fix extra space character in readline completion with the
721 GNU readline library version 6.0.
722
Antoine Pitrou5ba84912009-10-19 17:59:07 +0000723- Issue #7133: SSL objects now support the new buffer API.
724
Ronald Oussoren31802d02009-10-18 07:07:00 +0000725- Issue #7149: urllib fails on OSX in the proxy detection code
726
Benjamin Petersonc63457b2009-10-15 03:06:55 +0000727- Issue #7069: Make inspect.isabstract() return a boolean.
728
Neil Schemenauere6039f02009-10-14 19:23:53 +0000729- Add support to the `ihooks` module for relative imports.
730
Vinay Sajip03d5c342009-10-16 14:06:44 +0000731- Issue #6894: Fixed the issue urllib2 doesn't respect "no_proxy" environment
Senthil Kumaran27468662009-10-11 02:00:07 +0000732
Vinay Sajip1c77b7f2009-10-10 20:32:36 +0000733- Issue #7086: Added TCP support to SysLogHandler, and tidied up some
734 anachronisms in the code which were a relic of 1.5.2 compatibility.
Vinay Sajip03d5c342009-10-16 14:06:44 +0000735
R. David Murray0c8bee62009-10-09 21:50:54 +0000736- Issue #7082: When falling back to the MIME 'name' parameter, the
737 correct place to look for it is the Content-Type header.
738
Mark Dickinson15ae41c2009-10-07 19:22:05 +0000739- Issue #7048: Force Decimal.logb to round its result when that result
740 is too large to fit in the current precision.
741
Vinay Sajip03d5c342009-10-16 14:06:44 +0000742- Issue #6516: Added owner/group support when creating tar archives in
Tarek Ziadé1b486712009-10-02 23:49:48 +0000743 Distutils.
744
Georg Brandl12fafe62009-10-01 21:02:39 +0000745- Issue #7031: Add TestCase.assert(Not)IsInstance() methods.
746
Antoine Pitrou72481782009-09-29 17:48:18 +0000747- Issue #6790: Make it possible again to pass an `array.array` to
748 `httplib.HTTPConnection.send`. Patch by Kirk McDonald.
749
Antoine Pitrou2a466582009-09-21 21:17:48 +0000750- Issue #6236, #6348: Fix various failures in the `io` module under AIX
751 and other platforms, when using a non-gcc compiler. Patch by egreen.
752
Tarek Ziadé99773352009-09-21 13:41:08 +0000753- Issue #6954: Fixed crash when using DISTUTILS_DEBUG flag in Distutils.
754
Ronald Oussoren51f06332009-09-20 10:31:22 +0000755- Issue #6851: Fix urllib.urlopen crash on secondairy threads on OSX 10.6
756
Thomas Heller6be522b2009-09-18 20:05:44 +0000757- Issue #4606: Passing 'None' if ctypes argtype is set to POINTER(...)
758 does now always result in NULL.
759
760- Issue #5042: ctypes Structure sub-subclass does now initialize
761 correctly with base class positional arguments.
Thomas Heller7a352c02009-09-18 18:55:17 +0000762
Georg Brandlc40e60e2009-09-18 09:18:27 +0000763- Issue #6938: Fix a TypeError in string formatting of a multiprocessing
764 debug message.
765
Matthias Klose924eab62009-09-13 15:09:24 +0000766- Issue #6635: Fix profiler printing usage message.
767
Lars Gustäbel21121e62009-09-12 10:28:15 +0000768- Issue #6856: Add a filter keyword argument to TarFile.add().
769
Tarek Ziadébed26a32009-09-09 08:14:20 +0000770- Issue #6163: Fixed HP-UX runtime library dir options in
771 distutils.unixcompiler. Initial patch by Sridhar Ratnakumar and
772 Michael Haubenwallner.
773
Mark Dickinson5cfa8042009-09-08 20:20:19 +0000774- Issue #6857: Default format() alignment should be '>' for Decimal
775 instances.
776
Mark Dickinson968f1692009-09-07 18:04:58 +0000777- Issue #6795: int(Decimal('nan')) now raises ValueError instead of
778 returning NaN or raising InvalidContext. Also, fix infinite recursion
779 in long(Decimal('nan')).
780
Mark Dickinson491ea552009-09-07 16:17:41 +0000781- Issue #6850: Fix bug in Decimal._parse_format_specifier for formats
782 with no type specifier.
783
Ronald Oussoren626faeb2009-09-06 12:23:18 +0000784- Issue #4937: plat-mac/bundlebuilder revers to non-existing version.plist
785
Chris Withers7f3ea6a2009-09-04 16:32:22 +0000786- Issue #6838: Use a list to accumulate the value instead of
787 repeatedly concatenating strings in httplib's
788 HTTPResponse._read_chunked providing a significant speed increase
789 when downloading large files servend with a Transfer-Encoding of 'chunked'.
790
Georg Brandld22b9512009-09-04 08:17:04 +0000791- Issue #5275: In Cookie's Cookie.load(), properly handle non-string arguments
792 as documented.
793
Georg Brandl2e1308f2009-09-04 06:59:20 +0000794- Issue #2666: Handle BROWSER environment variable properly for unknown browser
795 names in the webbrowser module.
796
Lars Gustäbelf7cda522009-08-28 19:23:44 +0000797- Issue #6054: Do not normalize stored pathnames in tarfile.
798
Mark Dickinson7a7739d2009-08-28 13:25:02 +0000799- Issue #6794: Fix Decimal.compare_total and Decimal.compare_total_mag: NaN
800 payloads are now ordered by integer value rather than lexicographically.
801
Tarek Ziadé764fc232009-08-20 21:23:13 +0000802- Issue #6693: New functions in site.py to get user/global site packages paths.
803
Gregory P. Smith4e63d542009-08-20 09:39:38 +0000804- The thread.lock type now supports weak references.
805
Guilherme Polo7b50c4f2009-08-18 14:46:57 +0000806- Issue #1356969: Add missing info methods in Tix.HList.
807
Guilherme Polo6b3c7092009-08-18 14:23:00 +0000808- Issue #1522587: New constants and methods for the Tix.Grid widget.
809
Guilherme Polo6c823f82009-08-18 13:29:20 +0000810- Issue #1250469: Fix the return value of Tix.PanedWindow.panes.
811
Guilherme Polod3e6e4b2009-08-18 13:23:08 +0000812- Issue #1119673: Do not override Tkinter.Text methods when creating a
813 ScrolledText.
814
Gregory P. Smithb98d6b22009-08-16 18:52:58 +0000815- Issue #6665: Fix fnmatch to properly match filenames with newlines in them.
816
Guilherme Poloe45f0172009-08-14 14:36:45 +0000817- Issue #1135: Add the XView and YView mix-ins to avoid duplicating
818 the xview* and yview* methods.
819
Antoine Pitrou20e1f932009-08-06 20:18:29 +0000820- Issue #6629: Fix a data corruption issue in the new `io` package, which could
821 occur when writing to a BufferedRandom object (e.g. a file opened in "rb+" or
822 "wb+" mode) after having buffered a certain amount of data for reading. This
823 bug was not present in the pure Python implementation.
824
Jesse Noller8497efe2009-08-06 02:05:56 +0000825- Issue #4660: If a multiprocessing.JoinableQueue.put() was preempted, it was
826 possible to get a spurious 'task_done() called too many times' error.
827
Gregory P. Smithc4ad0342009-08-13 18:54:50 +0000828- Issue #1628205: Socket file objects returned by socket.socket.makefile() now
829 properly handles EINTR within the read, readline, write & flush methods.
830 The socket.sendall() method now properly handles interrupted system calls.
831
Mark Dickinson4326ad82009-08-02 10:59:36 +0000832- Issue #6595: The Decimal constructor now allows arbitrary Unicode
833 decimal digits in input, as recommended by the standard. Previously
834 it was restricted to accepting [0-9].
835
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc3e5b0272009-07-28 22:15:30 +0000836- Issue #6511: ZipFile now raises BadZipfile (instead of an IOError) when
837 opening an empty or very small file.
838
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc74b30162009-07-23 19:26:02 +0000839- Issue #6553: Fixed a crash in cPickle.load(), when given a file-like object
840 containing incomplete data.
841
842- Issue #6545: Removed assert statements in distutils.Extension, so the
Tarek Ziadéaf2406f2009-07-22 08:55:19 +0000843 behavior is similar when used with -O.
844
Benjamin Petersond7b0eeb2009-07-19 20:18:21 +0000845- unittest has been split up into a package. All old names should still work.
846
Mark Dickinson88a0a2e2009-07-18 15:18:18 +0000847- Issue #6431: Make Fraction type return NotImplemented when it doesn't
848 know how to handle a comparison without loss of precision. Also add
849 correct handling of infinities and nans for comparisons with float.
850
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc74b30162009-07-23 19:26:02 +0000851- Issue #6415: Fixed warnings.warn segfault on bad formatted string.
Hirokazu Yamamoto1a3d0852009-07-17 06:26:54 +0000852
Tarek Ziadéa99dedf2009-07-16 15:35:45 +0000853- Issue #6466: now distutils.cygwinccompiler and distutils.emxccompiler
854 uses the same refactored function to get gcc/ld/dllwrap versions numbers.
855 It's `distutils.util.get_compiler_versions`. Added deprecation warnings
856 for the obsolete get_versions() functions.
857
Jesse Noller7530e472009-07-16 14:23:04 +0000858- Issue #6433: fixed issues with multiprocessing.pool.map hanging on empty list
859
Vinay Sajipcbb24b32009-07-13 11:21:05 +0000860- Issue #6314: logging: Extra checks on the "level" argument in more places.
861
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc74b8d332009-07-11 14:33:51 +0000862- Issue #2622: Fixed an ImportError when importing email.messsage from a
863 standalone application built with py2exe or py2app.
864
Vinay Sajipcbb24b32009-07-13 11:21:05 +0000865- Issue #6455: Fixed test_build_ext under win32.
Tarek Ziadé8c400012009-07-10 09:10:33 +0000866
Vinay Sajipcbb24b32009-07-13 11:21:05 +0000867- Issue #6377: Enabled the compiler option, and deprecate its usage as an
Tarek Ziadée670e5a2009-07-06 12:50:46 +0000868 attribute.
869
Tarek Ziadé63f17382009-07-04 02:02:41 +0000870- Issue #6413: Fixed the log level in distutils.dist for announce.
871
Gregory P. Smithc197d0a2009-07-04 01:55:11 +0000872- Issue #3392: The subprocess communicate() method no longer fails in select()
873 when file descriptors are large; communicate() now uses poll() when possible.
874
Tarek Ziadé65ec61e2009-07-03 08:22:56 +0000875- Issue #6403: Fixed package path usage in build_ext.
876
Vinay Sajipcbb24b32009-07-13 11:21:05 +0000877- Issues #5155, 5313, 5331: multiprocessing.Process._bootstrap was
Jesse Noller1b90efb2009-06-30 17:11:52 +0000878 unconditionally calling "os.close(sys.stdin.fileno())" resulting in file
879 descriptor errors
880
Vinay Sajipcbb24b32009-07-13 11:21:05 +0000881- Issue #6365: Distutils build_ext inplace mode was copying the compiled
Tarek Ziadé3fbcc602009-06-29 16:13:39 +0000882 extension in a subdirectory if the extension name had dots.
883
Hirokazu Yamamoto99ebc632009-06-29 14:29:31 +0000884- Issue #6344: Fixed a crash of mmap.read() when passed a negative argument.
885
R. David Murrayef087da2009-06-23 18:02:46 +0000886- Issue #5230: pydoc would report no documentation found if a module generated
887 a 'not found' import error when loaded; it now reports the import errors.
888 Thanks to Lucas Prado Melo for initial fix and collaboration on the tests.
889
Vinay Sajip603fb6d2009-06-21 17:37:27 +0000890- Issue #6314: logging.basicConfig() performs extra checks on the "level"
891 argument.
892
893- Issue #6164: Added an AIX specific linker argument in Distutils
Tarek Ziadé439bf932009-06-20 13:57:20 +0000894 unixcompiler. Original patch by Sridhar Ratnakumar.
895
Facundo Batista8c826b72009-06-19 18:02:28 +0000896- Issue #6274: Fixed possible file descriptors leak in subprocess.py
897
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc5fe420e2009-06-18 22:32:50 +0000898- Issue #6189: Restored compatibility of subprocess.py with Python 2.2.
899
Tarek Ziadéfdefc0a2009-06-16 07:29:52 +0000900- Issue #6287: Added the license field in Distutils documentation.
901
Tarek Ziadéa1cc0402009-06-15 23:30:13 +0000902- Issue #6286: Now Distutils upload command is based on urllib2 instead of
903 httplib, allowing the usage of http_proxy.
904
Hirokazu Yamamoto983a4652009-06-14 03:53:55 +0000905- Issue #6271: mmap tried to close invalid file handle (-1) when annonymous.
906 (On Unix)
907
Antoine Pitrou19690592009-06-12 20:14:08 +0000908- Issue #6215: All bug fixes and enhancements from the Python 3.1 io library
909 (including the fast C implementation) have been backported to the standard
910 ``io`` module.
911
Martin v. Löwis2dcd7a02009-06-12 17:28:31 +0000912- Issue #6258: Support AMD64 in bdist_msi.
913
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +0000914- Issue #5262: Fixed bug in next rollover time computation in
915 TimedRotatingFileHandler.
916
Tarek Ziadéc7498f52009-06-11 09:13:36 +0000917- Issue #6263: Fixed syntax error in distutils.cygwincompiler.
918
Tarek Ziadé25d2bae2009-06-11 08:12:20 +0000919- Issue #5201: distutils.sysconfig.parse_makefile() now understands `$$`
920 in Makefiles. This prevents compile errors when using syntax like:
921 `LDFLAGS='-rpath=\$$LIB:/some/other/path'`. Patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
922
Georg Brandle6632b42009-06-04 08:58:32 +0000923- Issue #5767: Removed sgmlop support from xmlrpclib.
924
Tarek Ziadé3e3eace2009-05-29 08:08:07 +0000925- Issue #6131: test_modulefinder leaked when run after test_distutils.
926 Patch by Hirokazu Yamamoto.
927
Tarek Ziadé9e5d2dc2009-05-28 12:53:54 +0000928- Issue #6048: Now Distutils uses the tarfile module in archive_util.
929
Raymond Hettingerb4d2d312009-05-29 01:36:26 +0000930- Issue #5150: IDLE's format menu now has an option to strip trailing
931 whitespace.
932
R. David Murrayd67ea7d2009-05-27 20:07:21 +0000933- Issue #6121: pydoc now ignores leading and trailing spaces in the
934 argument to the 'help' function.
935
Benjamin Peterson176a56c2009-05-25 00:48:58 +0000936- In unittest, using a skipping decorator on a class is now equivalent to
937 skipping every test on the class. The ClassTestSuite class has been removed.
938
Martin v. Löwis0b09c422009-05-24 19:30:52 +0000939- Issue #6050: Don't fail extracting a directory from a zipfile if
940 the directory already exists.
941
Martin v. Löwis53b578e2009-05-24 19:10:52 +0000942- Issue #5311: bdist_msi can now build packages that do not depend on a
943 specific Python version.
944
Antoine Pitroud49e3752009-05-24 15:40:09 +0000945- Issue #1309352: fcntl now converts its third arguments to a C `long` rather
946 than an int, which makes some operations possible under 64-bit Linux (e.g.
947 DN_MULTISHOT with F_NOTIFY).
948
Senthil Kumarane266f252009-05-24 09:14:50 +0000949- Issue #1424152: Fix for httplib, urllib2 to support SSL while working through
950 proxy. Original patch by Christopher Li, changes made by Senthil Kumaran.
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +0000951
Antoine Pitrou5e858fe2009-05-23 15:37:45 +0000952- Issue #1983: Fix functions taking or returning a process identifier to use
953 the dedicated C type ``pid_t`` instead of a C ``int``. Some platforms have
954 a process identifier type wider than the standard C integer type.
955
R. David Murrayad3058e2009-05-23 00:48:58 +0000956- Issue #4066: smtplib.SMTP_SSL._get_socket now correctly returns the socket.
957 Patch by Farhan Ahmad, test by Marcin Bachry.
958
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +0000959- Issue #6062: In distutils, fixed the package option of build_ext. Feedback
Tarek Ziadé7d7127d2009-05-19 16:17:21 +0000960 and tests on pywin32 by Tim Golden.
961
Tarek Ziadé07bbfcc2009-05-18 12:21:26 +0000962- Issue #6053: Fixed distutils tests on win32. patch by Hirokazu Yamamoto.
963
Tarek Ziadéfcc7f032009-05-18 08:03:37 +0000964- Issue #6046: Fixed the library extension when distutils build_ext is used
965 inplace. Initial patch by Roumen Petrov.
966
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +0000967- Issue #6041: Now distutils `sdist` and `register` commands use `check` as a
Tarek Ziadécb768042009-05-16 16:37:06 +0000968 subcommand.
969
Antoine Pitrou775fd662009-05-15 16:54:52 +0000970- Issue #2116: Weak references and weak dictionaries now support copy()ing and
971 deepcopy()ing.
972
Antoine Pitrou52035a02009-05-15 11:50:29 +0000973- Issue #1655: Make imaplib IPv6-capable. Patch by Derek Morr.
974
Antoine Pitrou42b5bcf2009-05-14 21:48:09 +0000975- Issue #5918: Fix a crash in the parser module.
976
Antoine Pitroueed30d82009-05-14 21:22:08 +0000977- Issue #1664: Make nntplib IPv6-capable. Patch by Derek Morr.
978
Tarek Ziadécbb4f9e2009-05-14 20:14:13 +0000979- Issue #6022: a test file was created in the current working directory by
980 test_get_outputs in Distutils.
981
R. David Murray996ba022009-05-13 17:14:11 +0000982- Issue #4050: inspect.findsource/getsource now raise an IOError if the 'source'
983 file is a binary. Patch by Brodie Rao, tests by Daniel Diniz.
984
Tarek Ziadé972480d2009-05-12 17:07:14 +0000985- Issue #5977: distutils build_ext.get_outputs was not taking into account the
986 inplace option. Initial patch by kxroberto.
987
Tarek Ziadéd5d83422009-05-10 10:12:08 +0000988- Issue #5984: distutils.command.build_ext.check_extensions_list checks were broken
989 for old-style extensions.
990
Vinay Sajipf9b01fe2009-05-09 12:07:17 +0000991- Issue #5971: StreamHandler.handleError now swallows IOErrors which occur when
992 trying to print a traceback.
993
Tarek Ziadé812d7712009-05-09 10:06:00 +0000994- Issue #5976: Fixed Distutils test_check_environ.
995
Vinay Sajipf9b01fe2009-05-09 12:07:17 +0000996- Issue #5900: Ensure RUNPATH is added to extension modules with RPATH if GNU
Tarek Ziadée2be83d2009-05-09 08:28:53 +0000997 ld is used. Original patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
998
Tarek Ziadé99f660a2009-05-07 21:20:34 +0000999- Issue #5941: Distutils build_clib command was not working anymore because
1000 of an incomplete costumization of the archiver command. Added ARFLAGS in the
1001 Makefile besides AR and make Distutils use it. Original patch by David
1002 Cournapeau.
1003
R. David Murrayd3bf34c2009-05-07 16:29:19 +00001004- Issue 5955: aifc's close method did not close the file it wrapped,
1005 now it does. This also means getfp method now returns the real fp.
1006
Thomas Hellera57773e2009-05-05 18:55:47 +00001007- Issue #4875: On win32, ctypes.util.find_library does no longer
1008 return directories.
1009
Georg Brandl4d4313d2009-05-05 08:54:11 +00001010- Issue #5142: Add the ability to skip modules while stepping to pdb.
1011
Georg Brandle3869c42009-05-05 08:30:28 +00001012- Issue #1309567: Fix linecache behavior of stripping subdirectories when
1013 looking for files given by a relative filename.
1014
Antoine Pitrou97377bf2009-05-04 21:17:17 +00001015- Issue #5692: In :class:`zipfile.Zipfile`, fix wrong path calculation when
1016 extracting a file to the root directory.
1017
Hirokazu Yamamoto406d7aa2009-05-04 05:28:39 +00001018- Issue #5913: os.listdir() should fail for empty path on windows.
1019
Antoine Pitrou74309892009-05-02 21:13:23 +00001020- Issue #5084: unpickling now interns the attribute names of pickled objects,
1021 saving memory and avoiding growth in size of subsequent pickles. Proposal
1022 and original patch by Jake McGuire.
1023
Antoine Pitrou1fc02312009-05-01 20:55:35 +00001024- Issue #3002: ``shutil.copyfile()`` and ``shutil.copytree()`` now raise an
1025 error when a named pipe is encountered, rather than blocking infinitely.
1026
Gregory P. Smith1d499262009-05-01 19:59:52 +00001027- Issue #3959: The ipaddr module has been added to the standard library.
1028 Contributed by Google.
1029
R. David Murray25b4add2009-04-29 13:17:37 +00001030- Issue #2245: aifc now skips chunk types it doesn't recognize, per spec.
1031
Vinay Sajipf9b01fe2009-05-09 12:07:17 +00001032- Issue #5874: distutils.tests.test_config_cmd is not locale-sensitive
Tarek Ziadéa1b91d92009-04-29 08:03:46 +00001033 anymore.
1034
Thomas Heller90c61a22009-04-28 19:23:41 +00001035- Issue #4305: ctypes should now build again on mipsel-linux-gnu
1036
Antoine Pitroue988e282009-04-27 21:53:26 +00001037- Issue #1734234: Massively speedup ``unicodedata.normalize()`` when the
1038 string is already in normalized form, by performing a quick check beforehand.
1039 Original patch by Rauli Ruohonen.
1040
Antoine Pitrouf2651e12009-04-27 20:50:20 +00001041- Issue #5853: calling a function of the mimetypes module from several threads
1042 at once could hit the recursion limit if the mimetypes database hadn't been
1043 initialized before.
1044
Vinay Sajipe34d6aa2009-04-27 13:44:27 +00001045- Issue #5854: Updated __all__ to include some missing names and remove some
1046 names which should not be exported.
1047
1048- Issue #5810: Fixed Distutils test_build_scripts so it uses
Tarek Ziadébcddf672009-04-25 12:51:59 +00001049 sysconfig.get_config_vars.
1050
Tarek Ziadéd567c382009-04-25 12:38:08 +00001051- Issue #4951: Fixed failure in test_httpservers.
1052
Thomas Heller5c6af802009-04-24 20:31:47 +00001053- Issue #3102: All global symbols that the _ctypes extension defines
1054 are now prefixed with 'Py' or '_ctypes'.
1055
Thomas Hellerec21ccd2009-04-24 20:00:41 +00001056- Issue #5041: ctypes does now allow pickling wide character.
1057
Mark Dickinson4af8e742009-04-24 13:56:07 +00001058- Issue #5812: For the two-argument form of the Fraction constructor,
1059 Fraction(m, n), m and n are permitted to be arbitrary Rational
1060 instances.
1061
Mark Dickinson8100bd82009-04-22 18:15:25 +00001062- Issue #5812: Fraction('1e6') is valid: more generally, any string
1063 that's valid for float() is now valid for Fraction(), with the
1064 exception of strings representing NaNs and infinities.
1065
Tarek Ziadé31559b62009-04-20 14:29:42 +00001066- Issue #5795: Fixed test_distutils failure on Debian ppc.
1067
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +00001068- Issue #5768: Fixed bug in Unicode output logic and test case for same.
1069
R. David Murrayabc26602009-04-13 16:56:32 +00001070- Issue #1161031: fix readwrite select flag handling: POLLPRI now
1071 results in a handle_expt_event call, not handle_read_event, and POLLERR
1072 and POLLNVAL now call handle_close, not handle_expt_event. Also,
1073 dispatcher now has an 'ignore_log_types' attribute for suppressing
1074 log messages, which is set to 'warning' by default.
1075
Tarek Ziadé156c31a2009-04-13 12:34:01 +00001076- Issue #5607: fixed Distutils test_get_platform for Mac OS X fat binaries.
1077
Georg Brandl21cf5ee2009-04-12 17:24:11 +00001078- Issue #5741: don't disallow "%%" (which is an escape for "%") when setting
1079 a value in SafeConfigParser.
1080
Tarek Ziadé942825f2009-04-11 14:55:07 +00001081- Issue #5732: added a new command in Distutils: check.
1082
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +00001083- Issue #5731: Distutils bdist_wininst no longer worked on non-Windows
Tarek Ziadéad958262009-04-09 21:36:44 +00001084 platforms. Initial patch by Paul Moore.
1085
Gregory P. Smith923ba362009-04-06 06:33:26 +00001086- Issue #2254: Fix CGIHTTPServer information disclosure. Relative paths are
1087 now collapsed within the url properly before looking in cgi_directories.
1088
Tarek Ziadé64408fb2009-04-05 22:51:09 +00001089- Issue #5095: Added bdist_msi to the list of bdist supported formats.
1090 Initial fix by Steven Bethard.
1091
Tarek Ziadéfaa6b122009-04-05 21:44:08 +00001092- Issue #1491431: Fixed distutils.filelist.glob_to_re for edge cases.
1093 Initial fix by Wayne Davison.
1094
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +00001095- Issue #5693: TestSuite.__iter__ can now be consistently overridden in subclasses.
Michael Foordf2dfef12009-04-05 19:19:28 +00001096
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +00001097- Issue #5694: removed spurious test output in Distutils (test_clean).
Tarek Ziadé453d9532009-04-05 18:31:24 +00001098
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +00001099- Issue #5471: Fix os.path.expanduser() for $HOME set to '/'.
Georg Brandl3f0ef202009-04-05 14:48:49 +00001100
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +00001101- Issue #1326077: fix the formatting of SyntaxErrors by the traceback module.
Georg Brandl1956d5c2009-04-05 14:25:41 +00001102
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +00001103- Issue #1726172: fix IndexError in the case of and empty response in ftplib.
Georg Brandl50ba6e12009-04-05 10:48:47 +00001104
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +00001105- Issue #2625: added missing iteritems() call to the for loop in
R. David Murray52720c52009-04-02 14:05:35 +00001106 mailbox.MH.get_message().
1107
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +00001108- Issue #5585: Add the ability to call an initializer to mulitiprocessing.manager
Andrew M. Kuchling59631852009-04-09 11:23:36 +00001109 so that users can install custom handlers/etc.
Jesse Noller7152f6d2009-04-02 05:17:26 +00001110
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +00001111- Issue #3551: Patch multiprocessing to raise a proper exception if the size of the
Jesse Noller5053fbb2009-04-02 04:22:09 +00001112 object when writefile is called causes a ERROR_NO_SYSTEM_RESOURCES. Added docs
1113 to note the limitation
1114
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +00001115- unittest.assertNotEqual() now uses the inequality operator (!=) instead
Michael Foord345b2fe2009-04-02 03:20:38 +00001116 of the equality operator.
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00001117
1118- Issue #6001: Test discovery for unittest. Implemented in
Michael Foordb4a81c82009-05-29 20:33:46 +00001119 unittest.TestLoader.discover and from the command line.
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +00001120
Michael Foord07ef4872009-05-02 22:43:34 +00001121- Issue #5679: The methods unittest.TestCase.addCleanup and doCleanups were added.
1122 addCleanup allows you to add cleanup functions that will be called
1123 unconditionally (after setUp if setUp fails, otherwise after tearDown). This
1124 allows for much simpler resource allocation and deallocation during tests.
1125
1126- Issue #3379: unittest.main now takes an optional exit argument. If False main
1127 doesn't call sys.exit allowing it to be used from the interactive interpreter.
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00001128
1129- Issue #5995: unittest.main now takes an optional verbosity argument allowing
Michael Foord5d31e052009-05-11 17:59:43 +00001130 test modules to be run with a higher than default verbosity.
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00001131
1132- Issue #5995: A fix to allow you to run "python -m unittest test_module" or
Michael Foord5d31e052009-05-11 17:59:43 +00001133 "python -m unittest test_module.TestClass" from the command line.
Michael Foord07ef4872009-05-02 22:43:34 +00001134
1135- Issue #5728: unittest.TestResult has new startTestRun and stopTestRun methods;
1136 called immediately before and after a test run.
1137
Michael Foord345b2fe2009-04-02 03:20:38 +00001138- Issue #5663: better failure messages for unittest asserts. Default assertTrue
1139 and assertFalse messages are now useful. TestCase has a longMessage attribute.
1140 This defaults to False, but if set to True useful error messages are shown in
1141 addition to explicit messages passed to assert methods.
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +00001142
Jesse Nollerb502bc72009-04-02 02:32:55 +00001143- Issue #3110: Add additional protect around SEM_VALUE_MAX for multiprocessing
1144
Georg Brandl58b8b952009-04-01 21:54:21 +00001145- In Pdb, prevent the reassignment of __builtin__._ by sys.displayhook on
1146 printing out values.
1147
Georg Brandl5942b912009-04-01 21:05:44 +00001148- Issue #4572: added SEEK_* symbolic constants to io module.
1149
Brett Cannonad078a02009-04-01 16:00:34 +00001150- Issue #1665206 (partially): Move imports in cgitb to the top of the module
1151 instead of performing them in functions. Helps prevent import deadlocking in
1152 threads.
1153
Raymond Hettinger66c4a6b2009-04-01 18:50:56 +00001154- Issue #5647: MutableSet.__iand__() no longer mutates self during iteration.
1155
Georg Brandle92d4b62009-04-01 04:21:14 +00001156- Actually make the SimpleXMLRPCServer CGI handler work.
1157
R. David Murraya83da352009-04-01 03:21:43 +00001158- Issue #2522: locale.format now checks its first argument to ensure it has
1159 been passed only one pattern, avoiding mysterious errors where it appeared
1160 that it was failing to do localization.
1161
Tarek Ziadé9e47ce42009-03-31 22:27:23 +00001162- Issue #5583: Added optional Extensions in Distutils. Initial patch by Georg
1163 Brandl.
1164
Jesse Noller42f9b4e2009-03-31 22:20:35 +00001165- Issue #5619: Multiprocessing children disobey the debug flag and causes
1166 popups on windows buildbots. Patch applied to work around this issue.
1167
Benjamin Petersond906ea62009-03-31 21:34:42 +00001168- Issue #5632: Thread.ident was None for the main thread and threads not created
1169 with the threading module.
1170
Jesse Noller1f0a5552009-03-31 18:27:14 +00001171- Issue #5400: Added patch for multiprocessing on netbsd compilation/support
1172
Hirokazu Yamamoto9d2ee5d2009-03-31 13:13:05 +00001173- Issue #5387: Fixed mmap.move crash by integer overflow.
1174
Jesse Noller82eb5902009-03-30 23:29:31 +00001175- Issue #5261: Patch multiprocessing's semaphore.c to support context
1176 manager use: "with multiprocessing.Lock()" works now.
1177
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +00001178- Issue #5177: Multiprocessing's SocketListener class now uses
Jesse Noller459a6482009-03-30 15:50:42 +00001179 socket.SO_REUSEADDR on all connections so that the user no longer needs
1180 to wait 120 seconds for the socket to expire.
1181
Guilherme Polo1972d162009-03-27 21:43:08 +00001182- Adjusted _tkinter to compile without warnings when WITH_THREAD is not
1183 defined (part of issue #5035).
1184
Marc-André Lemburgcbdf15b2009-03-25 19:45:33 +00001185- Issue #5561: Removed the sys.version_info shortcuts from platform's
1186 python_version() and python_version_tuple() since they produced different
1187 output compared to previous Python versions.
1188
Benjamin Peterson692428e2009-03-23 21:50:21 +00001189- Issue #1034053: unittest now supports skipping tests and expected failures.
1190
Gregory P. Smith28399852009-03-31 16:54:10 +00001191- The unittest.TestCase.assertRaises() method now returns a context manager when
1192 not given a callable so that code to be tested can be written inline using
1193 a with statement.
1194
1195- The unittest.TestCase.assertEqual() now displays the differences in lists,
1196 tuples, dicts and sets on failure. Many new handy type and comparison
1197 specific assert* methods have been added that fail with error messages
1198 actually useful for debugging. Contributed in part by Google. [Issue #2578]
1199
Lars Gustäbel2020a592009-03-22 20:09:33 +00001200- Issue #5068: Fixed the tarfile._BZ2Proxy.read() method that would loop
1201 forever on incomplete input. That caused tarfile.open() to hang when used
1202 with mode 'r' or 'r:bz2' and a fileobj argument that contained no data or
1203 partial bzip2 compressed data.
1204
Benjamin Petersonb364bfe2009-03-22 17:45:11 +00001205- Issue #5536: urllib.urlretrieve makes sure to close the file it's writing to
1206 even if an exception occurs.
1207
Raymond Hettinger91852ca2009-03-19 19:19:03 +00001208- Issue #5381: Added object_pairs_hook to the json module. This allows
1209 OrderedDicts to be built by the decoder.
1210
Mark Dickinson277859d2009-03-17 23:03:46 +00001211- Issue #2110: Add support for thousands separator and 'n' type
1212 specifier to Decimal.__format__
1213
Mark Dickinsonb065e522009-03-17 18:01:03 +00001214- Fix Decimal.__format__ bug that swapped the meanings of the '<' and
1215 '>' alignment characters.
1216
Antoine Pitroufeeafff2009-03-14 00:07:21 +00001217- Issue #1222: locale.format() bug when the thousands separator is a space
1218 character.
1219
Tarek Ziadé61585c22009-03-11 12:48:04 +00001220- Issue #5472: Fixed distutils.test_util tear down. Original patch by
1221 Tim Golden.
1222
Raymond Hettinger56411aa2009-03-10 12:50:59 +00001223- collections.deque() objects now have a read-only attribute called maxlen.
1224
Guilherme Polo15d57652009-03-07 02:14:38 +00001225- Issue #2638: Show a window constructed with tkSimpleDialog.Dialog only after
1226 it is has been populated and properly configured in order to prevent
1227 window flashing.
1228
Guilherme Polo3768b2f2009-03-07 01:47:49 +00001229- Issue #4792: Prevent a segfault in _tkinter by using the
1230 guaranteed to be safe interp argument given to the PythonCmd in place of
1231 the Tcl interpreter taken from a PythonCmd_ClientData.
1232
Guilherme Polo6d6c1fd2009-03-07 01:19:12 +00001233- Issue #5193: Guarantee that Tkinter.Text.search returns a string.
1234
Tarek Ziadé943b24e2009-03-07 00:32:45 +00001235- Issue #5394: removed > 2.3 syntax from distutils.msvc9compiler.
1236 Original patch by Akira Kitada.
1237
Hirokazu Yamamoto264fc122009-03-05 14:21:12 +00001238- Issue #5385: Fixed mmap crash after resize failure on windows.
1239
Hirokazu Yamamotoeacbbdf2009-03-03 22:18:14 +00001240- Issue #5179: Fixed subprocess handle leak on failure on windows.
1241
Raymond Hettingerbc512d32009-03-03 04:45:34 +00001242- PEP 372: Added collections.OrderedDict().
1243
Raymond Hettinger88a91642009-03-03 04:51:24 +00001244- The _asdict() for method for namedtuples now returns an OrderedDict().
1245
Raymond Hettingere89b8e92009-03-03 05:00:37 +00001246- The configparser module now defaults to using an ordered dictionary.
1247
Benjamin Peterson7d49bba2009-03-02 22:41:42 +00001248- Issue #4308: httplib.IncompleteRead's repr doesn't include all of the data all
1249 ready received.
1250
Benjamin Petersonad58b7c2009-03-02 03:35:12 +00001251- Issue #5401: Fixed a performance problem in mimetypes when ``from mimetypes
1252 import guess_extension`` was used.
1253
Hirokazu Yamamotob0e10c72009-02-28 12:13:07 +00001254- Issue #1733986: Fixed mmap crash in accessing elements of second map object
1255 with same tagname but larger size than first map. (Windows)
1256
Hirokazu Yamamotof2dc8852009-02-28 10:31:54 +00001257- Issue #5386: mmap.write_byte didn't check map size, so it could cause buffer
1258 overrun.
1259
Tarek Ziadé73347352009-02-28 10:08:02 +00001260- Issue #1533164: Installed but not listed *.pyo was breaking Distutils
1261 bdist_rpm command.
1262
1263- Issue #5378: added --quiet option to Distutils bdist_rpm command.
1264
Tarek Ziadédda92f72009-02-27 12:53:34 +00001265- Issue #5052: make Distutils compatible with 2.3 again.
1266
Benjamin Petersonb3dd5482009-02-26 19:07:18 +00001267- Deprecated methods of symtable.Symbol have been removed: is_keywordarg(),
1268 is_vararg(), and is_in_tuple().
1269
Tarek Ziadée3bc0ef2009-02-25 22:29:27 +00001270- Issue #5316: Fixed buildbot failures introduced by multiple inheritance
1271 in Distutils tests.
1272
Vinay Sajip1a0d2be2009-02-19 12:31:32 +00001273- Issue #5287: Add exception handling around findCaller() call to help out
1274 IronPython.
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +00001275
Hirokazu Yamamoto17a837e2009-02-17 13:17:26 +00001276- Issue #5282: Fixed mmap resize on 32bit windows and unix. When offset > 0,
1277 The file was resized to wrong size.
1278
Hirokazu Yamamotof6bbd0e2009-02-17 10:12:10 +00001279- Issue #5292: Fixed mmap crash on its boundary access m[len(m)].
1280
Vinay Sajip1a0d2be2009-02-19 12:31:32 +00001281- Issue #2279: distutils.sdist.add_defaults now add files
Tarek Ziadé7dd53392009-02-16 21:38:01 +00001282 from the package_data and the data_files metadata.
1283
Vinay Sajip1a0d2be2009-02-19 12:31:32 +00001284- Issue #5257: refactored all tests in distutils, so they use
Tarek Ziadé13699002009-02-14 14:10:23 +00001285 support.TempdirManager, to avoid writing in the tests directory.
1286
Tarek Ziadé2432b0b2009-02-13 23:00:43 +00001287- Issue #4524: distutils build_script command failed with --with-suffix=3.
1288 Initial patch by Amaury Forgeot d'Arc.
1289
Tarek Ziadé275958a2009-02-13 22:22:03 +00001290- Issue #2461: added tests for distutils.util
1291
Gregory P. Smith3605b5c2009-02-11 23:45:25 +00001292- Issue #1008086: Fixed socket.inet_aton() to always return 4 bytes even on
1293 LP64 platforms (most 64-bit Linux, bsd, unix systems).
1294
Thomas Heller3689ae22009-02-10 18:43:01 +00001295- Issue #5203: Fixed ctypes segfaults when passing a unicode string to a
1296 function without argtypes (only occurs if HAVE_USABLE_WCHAR_T is false).
1297
Tarek Ziadé74fbf602009-02-10 12:31:09 +00001298- Issue #3386: distutils.sysconfig.get_python_lib prefix argument was ignored
1299 under NT and OS2. Patch by Philip Jenvey.
1300
Brett Cannon28d10882009-02-10 02:07:38 +00001301- Issue #5128: Make compileall properly inspect bytecode to determine if needs
1302 to be recreated. This avoids a timing hole thanks to the old reliance on the
1303 ctime of the files involved.
1304
Guilherme Poloa66cf5b2009-02-09 20:50:27 +00001305- Issue #5122: Synchronize tk load failure check to prevent a potential
1306 deadlock.
1307
Raymond Hettinger322daea2009-02-10 01:24:05 +00001308- Issue #1818: collections.namedtuple() now supports a keyword argument
1309 'rename' which lets invalid fieldnames be automatically converted to
1310 positional names in the form, _1, _2, ...
1311
Guilherme Polod2ea0332009-02-09 16:41:09 +00001312- Issue #4890: Handle empty text search pattern in Tkinter.Text.search.
1313
Vinay Sajipb20af942009-02-08 19:06:08 +00001314- Issue #5170: Fixed Unicode output bug in logging and added test case.
1315 This is a regression which did not occur in 2.5.
1316
Nick Coghlan0194f5b2009-02-08 03:17:00 +00001317- Issue #4512 (part 2): Promote ``ZipImporter._get_filename()`` to be a
1318 public documented method ``ZipImporter.get_filename()``.
1319
Nick Coghland39600e2009-02-08 01:26:34 +00001320- Issue #4195: The ``runpy`` module (and the ``-m`` switch) now support
1321 the execution of packages by looking for and executing a ``__main__``
Nick Coghlanc3623b12009-02-08 01:46:01 +00001322 submodule when a package name is supplied. Initial patch by Andi
1323 Vajda.
Nick Coghland39600e2009-02-08 01:26:34 +00001324
Guilherme Polo363161a2009-02-06 22:48:07 +00001325- Issue #1731706: Call Tcl_ConditionFinalize for Tcl_Conditions that will
1326 not be used again (this requires Tcl/Tk 8.3.1), also fix a memory leak in
1327 Tkapp_Call when calling from a thread different than the one that created
1328 the Tcl interpreter. Patch by Robert Hancock.
Guilherme Polo14ff18d2009-02-06 22:26:22 +00001329
Vinay Sajipb20af942009-02-08 19:06:08 +00001330- Issue #1520877: Now distutils.sysconfig reads $AR from the
Tarek Ziadé05adf072009-02-06 01:15:51 +00001331 environment/Makefile. Patch by Douglas Greiman.
1332
Eric Smith81fe0932009-02-06 00:48:26 +00001333- Issue #4285: Change sys.version_info to be a named tuple. Patch by
1334 Ross Light.
1335
Tarek Ziadéd5eb9852009-02-06 00:31:59 +00001336- Issue #1276768: The verbose option was not used in the code of
1337 distutils.file_util and distutils.dir_util.
1338
Vinay Sajipb20af942009-02-08 19:06:08 +00001339- Issue #5132: Fixed trouble building extensions under Solaris with
Tarek Ziadé0d4fd342009-02-05 22:52:52 +00001340 --enabled-shared activated. Initial patch by Dave Peterson.
1341
Guilherme Polod7bb4d42009-02-02 21:14:14 +00001342- Issue #1581476: Always use the Tcl global namespace when calling into Tcl.
1343
Antoine Pitrou707c5932009-01-29 20:19:34 +00001344- Issue #2047: shutil.move() could believe that its destination path was
1345 inside its source path if it began with the same letters (e.g. "src" vs.
1346 "src.new").
1347
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +00001348- Issue #4920: Fixed .next() vs .__next__() issues in the ABCs for
Raymond Hettingerf779e6f2009-01-28 23:02:26 +00001349 Iterator and MutableSet.
1350
Guilherme Polocda93aa2009-01-28 13:09:03 +00001351- Added the ttk module. See issue #2983: Ttk support for Tkinter.
1352
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +00001353- Issue #5021: doctest.testfile() did not create __name__ and
Raymond Hettingerecf252a2009-01-27 10:03:04 +00001354 collections.namedtuple() relied on __name__ being defined.
1355
Brett Cannon93881c62009-01-26 01:16:50 +00001356- Backport importlib from Python 3.1. Only the import_module() function has
1357 been backported to help facilitate transitions from 2.7 to 3.1.
1358
Tarek Ziadéaaedcef2009-01-25 23:34:00 +00001359- Issue #1885: distutils. When running sdist with --formats=tar,gztar
1360 the tar file was overriden by the gztar one.
1361
Tarek Ziadéef249b12009-01-25 18:19:25 +00001362- Issue #4863: distutils.mwerkscompiler has been removed.
1363
Raymond Hettingerd081abc2009-01-27 02:58:49 +00001364- Added a new itertools functions: combinations_with_replacement()
1365 and compress().
Raymond Hettinger2bcb8e92009-01-25 21:04:14 +00001366
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +00001367- Issue #5032: added a step argument to itertools.count() and
Raymond Hettinger31c769c2009-02-12 05:39:46 +00001368 allowed non-integer arguments.
1369
Jesse Nollerb5a4b0a2009-01-25 03:36:13 +00001370- Fix and properly document the multiprocessing module's logging
1371 support, expose the internal levels and provide proper usage
1372 examples.
1373
Mark Dickinsona3ecd2c2009-01-24 16:40:29 +00001374- Issue #1672332: fix unpickling of subnormal floats, which was
1375 producing a ValueError on some platforms.
1376
Martin v. Löwisf081e1c2009-01-24 15:47:27 +00001377- Issue #3881: Help Tcl to load even when started through the
1378 unreadable local symlink to "Program Files" on Vista.
1379
Martin v. Löwis0dfcfc82009-01-24 14:00:33 +00001380- Issue #4710: Extract directories properly in the zipfile module;
1381 allow adding directories to a zipfile.
1382
Vinay Sajipb20af942009-02-08 19:06:08 +00001383- Issue #3807: _multiprocessing build fails when configure is passed
Jesse Nollerf6da8d12009-01-23 14:04:41 +00001384 --without-threads argument. When this occurs, _multiprocessing will
1385 be disabled, and not compiled.
1386
Antoine Pitroue741cc62009-01-21 00:45:36 +00001387- Issue #5008: When a file is opened in append mode with the new IO library,
1388 do an explicit seek to the end of file (so that e.g. tell() returns the
1389 file size rather than 0). This is consistent with the behaviour of the
1390 traditional 2.x file object.
1391
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +00001392- Issue #5013: Fixed a bug in FileHandler which occurred when the delay
1393 parameter was set.
1394
Raymond Hettinger933d3a72009-01-20 20:34:19 +00001395- Issue #4998: The memory saving effect of __slots__ had been lost on Fractions
1396 which inherited from numbers.py which did not have __slots__ defined. The
Mark Dickinson39c6f7f2009-02-12 17:55:42 +00001397 numbers hierarchy now has its own __slots__ declarations.
Raymond Hettinger933d3a72009-01-20 20:34:19 +00001398
Jesse Noller9a5b2ad2009-01-19 15:12:22 +00001399- Issue #3321: _multiprocessing.Connection() doesn't check handle; added checks
1400 for *nix machines for negative handles and large int handles. Without this check
1401 it is possible to segfault the interpreter.
1402
Jesse Noller6ab22152009-01-18 02:45:38 +00001403- Issue #4449: AssertionError in mp_benchmarks.py, caused by an underlying issue
1404 in sharedctypes.py.
1405
Benjamin Peterson5e5fbb62009-01-17 22:27:54 +00001406- Issue #1225107: inspect.isclass() returned True for instances with a custom
1407 __getattr__.
1408
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd25f87a2009-01-17 16:40:17 +00001409- Issue #3997: zipfiles generated with more than 65536 files could not be
1410 opened with other applications.
1411
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcb54447f2009-01-13 23:39:22 +00001412- Issue #1162154: inspect.getmembers() now skips attributes that raise
1413 AttributeError, e.g. a __slots__ attribute which has not been set.
1414
1415- Issue #1696199: Add collections.Counter() for rapid and convenient
Raymond Hettingerf94d7fa2009-01-12 22:58:41 +00001416 counting.
1417
Antoine Pitroubd4b5f22009-01-10 16:15:24 +00001418- Issue #3860: GzipFile and BZ2File now support the context manager protocol.
1419
Antoine Pitrouf0d2c3f2009-01-04 21:29:23 +00001420- Issue #4272: Add an optional argument to the GzipFile constructor to override
1421 the timestamp in the gzip stream. The default value remains the current time.
1422 The information can be used by e.g. gunzip when decompressing. Patch by
1423 Jacques Frechet.
1424
Mark Dickinson514d4832009-01-04 21:25:40 +00001425- Restore Python 2.3 compatibility for decimal.py.
1426
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +00001427- Issue #1702551: distutils sdist was not excluding VCS directories under
Tarek Ziadé85d6fb52009-01-04 00:04:49 +00001428 Windows. Inital solution by Guy Dalberto.
1429
Guilherme Poloe7f14032009-01-03 21:51:09 +00001430- The _tkinter module functions "createfilehandler", "deletefilehandler",
1431 "createtimerhandler", "mainloop", "dooneevent" and "quit" have been
1432 deprecated for removal in 3.x
1433
Raymond Hettingerf4d85972009-01-03 19:02:23 +00001434- Issue #4796: Added Decimal.from_float() and Context.create_decimal_from_float()
1435 to the decimal module.
1436
Mark Dickinsonc5de0962009-01-02 23:07:08 +00001437- Issue #4812: add missing underscore prefix to some internal-use-only
1438 constants in the decimal module. (Dec_0 becomes _Dec_0, etc.)
1439
Benjamin Peterson8ad09a42008-12-31 23:48:39 +00001440- Issue #4795: inspect.isgeneratorfunction() returns False instead of None when
1441 the function is not a generator.
1442
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +00001443- Issue #4702: Throwing a DistutilsPlatformError instead of IOError in case
1444 no MSVC compiler is found under Windows. Original patch by Philip Jenvey.
Tarek Ziadéb1a85412008-12-30 23:03:41 +00001445
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +00001446- Issue #4646: distutils was choking on empty options arg in the setup
Tarek Ziadéc13acb12008-12-29 22:23:53 +00001447 function. Original patch by Thomas Heller.
1448
Georg Brandlfe427892009-01-03 22:03:11 +00001449- Fractions.from_float() no longer loses precision for integers too big to
1450 cast as floats.
1451
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +00001452- Issue #4790: The nsmallest() and nlargest() functions in the heapq module
Georg Brandlfe427892009-01-03 22:03:11 +00001453 did unnecessary work in the common case where no key function was specified.
1454
Martin v. Löwis732479f2008-12-29 16:22:25 +00001455- Issue #3767: Convert Tk object to string in tkColorChooser.
1456
Martin v. Löwise2eb2b42008-12-29 15:51:01 +00001457- Issue #3248: Allow placing ScrolledText in a PanedWindow.
1458
Antoine Pitrou697ca3d2008-12-28 14:09:36 +00001459- Issue #4444: Allow assertRaises() to be used as a context handler, so that
1460 the code under test can be written inline if more practical.
1461
Georg Brandlc3a98032008-12-27 18:20:04 +00001462- Issue #4739: Add pydoc help topics for symbols, so that e.g. help('@')
1463 works as expected in the interactive environment.
1464
Antoine Pitrou6f193e02008-12-27 15:43:12 +00001465- Issue #4756: zipfile.is_zipfile() now supports file-like objects. Patch by
1466 Gabriel Genellina.
1467
Tarek Ziadée4c75bb2008-12-24 19:10:05 +00001468- Issue #4400: .pypirc default generated file was broken in distutils.
1469
Benjamin Peterson54686e32008-12-24 15:10:27 +00001470- Issue #4736: io.BufferedRWPair's closed property now functions properly.
1471
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc31949b92008-12-15 21:47:57 +00001472- Issue #3954: Fix a potential SystemError in _hotshot.logreader error
1473 handling.
1474
Antoine Pitrou655fbf12008-12-14 17:40:51 +00001475- Issue #4574: fix a crash in io.IncrementalNewlineDecoder when a carriage
1476 return encodes to more than one byte in the source encoding (e.g. UTF-16)
1477 and gets split on a chunk boundary.
1478
Nick Coghlana2053472008-12-14 10:54:50 +00001479- Issue #4223: inspect.getsource() will now correctly display source code
1480 for packages loaded via zipimport (or any other conformant PEP 302
1481 loader). Original patch by Alexander Belopolsky.
1482
1483- Issue #4201: pdb can now access and display source code loaded via
1484 zipimport (or any other conformant PEP 302 loader). Original patch by
1485 Alexander Belopolsky.
1486
1487- Issue #4197: doctests in modules loaded via zipimport (or any other PEP
1488 302 conformant loader) will now work correctly in most cases (they
1489 are still subject to the constraints that exist for all code running
1490 from inside a module loaded via a PEP 302 loader and attempting to
1491 perform IO operations based on __file__). Original patch by
1492 Alexander Belopolsky.
1493
1494- Issues #4082 and #4512: Add runpy support to zipimport in a manner that
1495 allows backporting to maintenance branches. Original patch by
1496 Alexander Belopolsky.
1497
Antoine Pitrou74af3bb2008-12-13 23:12:30 +00001498- Issue #4163: Use unicode-friendly word splitting in the textwrap functions
1499 when given an unicode string.
1500
Lars Gustäbel3b027422008-12-12 13:58:03 +00001501- Issue #4616: TarFile.utime(): Restore directory times on Windows.
1502
Facundo Batistae29d4352008-12-11 04:19:46 +00001503- Issue #4084: Fix max, min, max_mag and min_mag Decimal methods to
1504 give correct results in the case where one argument is a quiet NaN
1505 and the other is a finite number that requires rounding.
1506
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc240028c2008-12-11 00:03:42 +00001507- Issue #1030250: Distutils created directories even when run with the
1508 --dry-run option.
1509
Skip Montanaro45313fe2008-12-06 17:43:30 +00001510- Issue #4483: _dbm module now builds on systems with gdbm & gdbm_compat
1511 libs.
1512
Georg Brandlfe879e82008-12-05 12:09:41 +00001513- Issue #4529: fix the parser module's validation of try-except-finally
1514 statements.
1515
Georg Brandla07435d2008-12-05 09:23:14 +00001516- Issue #4458: getopt.gnu_getopt() now recognizes a single "-" as an argument,
1517 not a malformed option.
1518
Gregory P. Smith26576802008-12-05 02:27:01 +00001519- Added the subprocess.check_output() convenience function to get output
Gregory P. Smith97f49f42008-12-04 20:21:09 +00001520 from a subprocess on success or raise an exception on error.
1521
Fred Drake52481032008-12-04 18:25:17 +00001522- Issue #1055234: cgi.parse_header(): Fixed parsing of header parameters to
1523 support unusual filenames (such as those containing semi-colons) in
1524 Content-Disposition headers.
1525
Vinay Sajip6831d6b2008-12-04 20:32:18 +00001526- Issue #4384: Added logging integration with warnings module using
1527 captureWarnings(). This change includes a NullHandler which does nothing;
1528 it will be of use to library developers who want to avoid the "No handlers
1529 could be found for logger XXX" message which can appear if the library user
1530 doesn't configure logging.
Vinay Sajip213faca2008-12-03 23:22:58 +00001531
Christian Heimesaa674712008-11-28 11:02:32 +00001532- Issue #3741: DISTUTILS_USE_SDK set causes msvc9compiler.py to raise an
1533 exception.
1534
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd4294172008-11-21 22:05:48 +00001535- Issue #4363: The uuid.uuid1() and uuid.uuid4() functions now work even if
1536 the ctypes module is not present.
1537
Benjamin Petersonbfc51562008-11-22 01:59:15 +00001538- FileIO's mode attribute now always includes ``"b"``.
1539
Martin v. Löwisbb9b1f12008-11-19 09:09:41 +00001540- Issue #4116: Resolve member name conflict in ScrolledCanvas.__init__.
1541
Brett Cannone3d0bf72008-11-15 22:40:44 +00001542- httplib.HTTPConnection.putheader() now accepts an arbitrary number of values
1543 for any header, matching what the documentation has claimed for a while.
1544
Hirokazu Yamamotob9828f62008-11-03 18:03:06 +00001545- Issue #3774: Fixed an error when create a Tkinter menu item without command
1546 and then remove it.
1547
Thomas Heller1fac5a42008-10-30 20:18:13 +00001548- Fixed a modulefinder crash on certain relative imports.
1549
Benjamin Petersonc18574c2008-10-22 21:16:34 +00001550- Issue #4150: Pdb's "up" command now works for generator frames in post-mortem
1551 debugging.
1552
Benjamin Petersone4dc1752008-10-21 22:20:31 +00001553- Issue #4092: Return ArgInfo as promised in the documentation from
1554 inspect.getargvalues.
1555
Georg Brandlf3776a12008-10-08 18:47:17 +00001556- Issue #3935: Properly support list subclasses in bisect's C implementation.
1557
Martin v. Löwis96a9f232008-10-06 15:15:40 +00001558- Issue #4014: Don't claim that Python has an Alpha release status, in addition
1559 to claiming it is Mature.
1560
Alexandre Vassalotti6067f782008-12-27 07:13:01 +00001561- Issue #4730: Fixed the cPickle module to handle correctly astral characters
1562 when protocol 0 is used.
1563
Ronald Oussoren0238497e2009-01-02 14:10:20 +00001564- Issue #1594: MacOS.GetCreatorAndType now always returns a big-endian result,
1565 to be consistent with Apple tools.
1566
Ronald Oussoren63b74fe2009-01-02 14:46:19 +00001567- Issue #900949: plat-mac/videoreader.py no longer relies on a non-existing
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +00001568 module.
Ronald Oussoren63b74fe2009-01-02 14:46:19 +00001569
Ronald Oussoren7f8cbf02009-01-02 14:48:17 +00001570- Issue #16278952: plat-mac/videoreader.py now correctly imports MediaDescr
1571
Ronald Oussoren919697c2009-01-02 14:52:09 +00001572- Issue #1737832 : plat-mac/EasyDialog.py no longer uses the broken aepack
1573 module.
1574
Ronald Oussorenabcc1682009-01-02 15:00:05 +00001575- Issue #1149804: macostools.mkdirs now even works when another process
1576 creates one of the needed subdirectories.
1577
Ronald Oussoren072bb402009-01-02 15:25:36 +00001578- Issue #900506: added --no-zipimport flag to the bundlebuilder script
1579
1580- Issue #841800: bundlebuilder now works with 'python -O'
1581
Matthias Klose43723e22009-01-10 17:00:42 +00001582- Issue #4861: ctypes.util.find_library(): Robustify. Fix library detection on
1583 biarch systems. Try to rely on ldconfig only, without using objdump and gcc.
1584
Gregory P. Smithde1a8b72009-01-31 22:57:30 +00001585- Issue #5104: The socket module now raises OverflowError when 16-bit port and
1586 protocol numbers are supplied outside the allowed 0-65536 range on bind()
1587 and getservbyport().
1588
Neil Schemenauer92c3b212009-02-07 00:54:41 +00001589- Issue #999042: The Python compiler now handles explict global statements
1590 correctly (should be assigned using STORE_GLOBAL opcode).
1591
Matthias Klosea5d58c82009-04-05 21:00:48 +00001592- Issue #2703: SimpleXMLRPCDispatcher.__init__: Provide default values for
1593 new arguments introduced in 2.5.
1594
Walter Dörwald5d98ec72009-04-25 14:03:16 +00001595- Issue #5828 (Invalid behavior of unicode.lower): Fixed bogus logic in
1596 makeunicodedata.py and regenerated the Unicode database (This fixes
1597 u'\u1d79'.lower() == '\x00').
1598
Jeroen Ruigrok van der Wervenb87b3342009-05-08 14:11:23 +00001599- Windows locale mapping updated to Vista.
1600
Antoine Pitroue555f582008-12-27 20:34:52 +00001601Tools/Demos
1602-----------
1603
Guilherme Polo4eae0782009-01-28 15:56:01 +00001604- Ttk demos added in Demo/tkinter/ttk/
1605
Antoine Pitroue555f582008-12-27 20:34:52 +00001606- Issue #4677: add two list comprehension tests to pybench.
1607
Brett Cannon60b15d22008-10-06 22:44:37 +00001608Build
1609-----
1610
Mark Dickinson504a1512009-10-31 10:11:28 +00001611- Issue #6603: Change READ_TIMESTAMP macro in ceval.c so that it
1612 compiles correctly under gcc on x86-64. This fixes a reported
1613 problem with the --with-tsc build on x86-64.
1614
Vinay Sajip03d5c342009-10-16 14:06:44 +00001615- Add 2 new options to ``--with-universal-archs`` on MacOSX:
Ronald Oussoren626faeb2009-09-06 12:23:18 +00001616 ``intel`` builds a distribution with ``i386`` and ``x86_64`` architectures,
Vinay Sajip03d5c342009-10-16 14:06:44 +00001617 while ``3-way`` builds a distribution with the ``ppc``, ``i386``
1618 and ``x86_64`` architectures.
1619
Ronald Oussoren25967582009-09-06 10:00:26 +00001620- Issue #6802: Fix build issues on MacOSX 10.6
1621
Guilherme Polo1ce2d532009-08-16 14:38:57 +00001622- Issue #6244: Allow detect_tkinter to look for Tcl/Tk 8.6.
1623
Martin v. Löwisecb4f952009-06-28 09:32:39 +00001624- Issue 5390: Add uninstall icon independent of whether file
1625 extensions are installed.
1626
Ronald Oussoren450d5612009-06-08 21:12:41 +00001627- Issue 5809: Specifying both --enable-framework and --enable-shared is
1628 an error. Configure now explicity tells you about this.
1629
Antoine Pitrouf2caeed2009-05-24 20:23:57 +00001630- Issue #3585: Add pkg-config support. It creates a python-2.7.pc file
1631 and a python.pc symlink in the $(LIBDIR)/pkgconfig directory. Patch by
1632 Clinton Roy.
1633
Benjamin Petersone5afa3b2009-05-23 19:24:37 +00001634- Issue #6094: Build correctly with Subversion 1.7.
1635
Martin v. Löwis588b54b2009-05-05 16:10:16 +00001636- Issue #5847: Remove -n switch on "Edit with IDLE" menu item.
1637
Antoine Pitrou3fd4ea92009-05-01 21:16:14 +00001638- Issue #5726: Make Modules/ld_so_aix return the actual exit code of the
1639 linker, rather than always exit successfully. Patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
1640
Matthias Klose10cbe482009-04-29 17:18:19 +00001641- Issue #4587: Add configure option --with-dbmliborder=db1:db2:... to specify
Vinay Sajipf9b01fe2009-05-09 12:07:17 +00001642 the order that backends for the dbm extension are checked.
Matthias Klose10cbe482009-04-29 17:18:19 +00001643
Matthias Klose8ad554f2009-02-22 23:14:26 +00001644- Link the shared python library with $(MODLIBS).
1645
Martin v. Löwisa3e3cb72009-02-10 13:09:19 +00001646- Issue #5134: Silence compiler warnings when compiling sqlite with VC++.
1647
Martin v. Löwisfee1c7f2009-02-02 14:23:16 +00001648- Issue #4494: Fix build with Py_NO_ENABLE_SHARED on Windows.
1649
Martin v. Löwiseefda272009-01-11 09:43:55 +00001650- Issue #4895: Use _strdup on Windows CE.
1651
Ronald Oussorenf7d54052009-01-02 10:48:31 +00001652- Issue #4472: "configure --enable-shared" now works on OSX
1653
Benjamin Petersonfd9633e2008-12-28 15:37:31 +00001654- Issues #4728 and #4060: WORDS_BIGEDIAN is now correct in Universal builds.
1655
Martin v. Löwiscb6c3592008-11-30 11:08:26 +00001656- Issue #4389: Add icon to the uninstall entry in "add-and-remove-programs".
1657
Martin v. Löwis63470982008-11-19 13:51:44 +00001658- Issue #4289: Remove Cancel button from AdvancedDlg.
1659
Martin v. Löwis3d6f8ff2008-11-07 18:51:50 +00001660- Issue #1656675: Register a drop handler for .py* files on Windows.
1661
Martin v. Löwis692c2f82008-11-06 16:43:00 +00001662- Issue #4120: Exclude manifest from extension modules in VS2008.
1663
Martin v. Löwis0f3e7692008-10-17 13:43:01 +00001664- Issue #4091: Install pythonxy.dll in system32 again.
1665
Martin v. Löwiseba774b2008-10-13 11:23:35 +00001666- Issue #4018: Disable "for me" installations on Vista.
1667
Brett Cannon60b15d22008-10-06 22:44:37 +00001668- Issue #3758: Add ``patchcheck`` build target to .PHONY.
1669
Martin v. Löwisbb86d832008-11-04 20:40:09 +00001670- Issue #4204: Fixed module build errors on FreeBSD 4.
1671
Tarek Ziadéc4a4aeb2009-08-21 14:28:38 +00001672Documentation
1673-------------
1674
1675- Issue #6556: Fixed the Distutils configuration files location explanation
1676 for Windows.
1677
Tarek Ziadé3092ed92009-08-29 13:33:21 +00001678- Issue #6801 : symmetric_difference_update also accepts |.
Vinay Sajip03d5c342009-10-16 14:06:44 +00001679 Thanks to Carl Chenet.
Tarek Ziadé3092ed92009-08-29 13:33:21 +00001680
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc07d539d2008-10-14 21:47:22 +00001681C-API
1682-----
1683
Mark Dickinsone31d3002009-12-21 11:21:25 +00001684- Issue #7528: Add PyLong_AsLongAndOverflow (backported from py3k).
1685
Mark Dickinson26285902009-12-04 11:30:16 +00001686- Issue #7228: Add '%lld' and '%llu' support to PyString_FromFormat(V)
Mark Dickinson82864d12009-11-15 16:18:58 +00001687 and PyErr_Format, on machines with HAVE_LONG_LONG defined.
1688
Mark Dickinson09823a22009-10-31 09:42:39 +00001689- Add new C-API function PyOS_string_to_double, and deprecated
1690 PyOS_ascii_atof and PyOS_ascii_strtod.
1691
Mark Dickinsonba26b392009-10-31 09:28:12 +00001692- Removed _PyOS_double_to_string. Use PyOS_double_to_string
1693 instead. This is in preparation for (but not strictly related to)
1694 issue #7117, short float repr.
1695
Vinay Sajip03d5c342009-10-16 14:06:44 +00001696- Issue #6624: PyArg_ParseTuple with "s" format when parsing argument with
Benjamin Petersonfe8745d2009-08-17 13:39:41 +00001697 NULL: Bogus TypeError detail string.
Sean Reifscheider9279e7d2009-08-01 23:54:55 +00001698
Jeffrey Yasskinf7f858d2009-05-08 22:23:21 +00001699- Issue #5954: Add a PyFrame_GetLineNumber() function to replace most uses of
1700 PyCode_Addr2Line().
1701
Jeffrey Yasskin1aa47002009-05-08 21:51:06 +00001702- Issue #5959: Add a PyCode_NewEmpty() function to create a new empty code
1703 object at a specified file, function, and line number.
1704
Brett Cannonc4f90eb2009-04-02 03:17:39 +00001705- Issue #1419652: Change the first argument to PyImport_AppendInittab() to
1706 ``const char *`` as the string is stored beyond the call.
1707
Benjamin Peterson5781f322009-02-16 21:09:09 +00001708- Some PyBytes_* aliases have been removed because they don't exist in 3.x.
1709
Mark Dickinson4015f622009-02-10 15:46:50 +00001710- Issue #5175: PyLong_AsUnsignedLongLong now raises OverflowError
1711 for negative arguments. Previously, it raised TypeError.
1712
Benjamin Petersoncf2ce242008-12-22 20:52:53 +00001713- Issue #4720: The format for PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords can begin with '|'.
1714
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc3538a312008-12-15 22:29:14 +00001715- Issue #3632: from the gdb debugger, the 'pyo' macro can now be called when
1716 the GIL is released, or owned by another thread.
1717
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc07d539d2008-10-14 21:47:22 +00001718- Issue #4122: On Windows, fix a compilation error when using the
1719 Py_UNICODE_ISSPACE macro in an extension module.
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +00001720
Kristján Valur Jónssonc22ab182009-01-12 09:24:04 +00001721- Issue #4293: Py_AddPendingCall is now thread safe and can be used for
1722 asynchronous notifications to python from any thread. Documentation added.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc07d539d2008-10-14 21:47:22 +00001723
Benjamin Peterson9dfe6a82008-11-24 04:09:03 +00001724Extension Modules
1725-----------------
1726
Martin v. Löwis50ea4562009-11-27 13:56:01 +00001727- Issue #6508: Add posix.{getresuid,getresgid,setresuid,setresgid}.
1728
Mark Dickinson3d830822009-10-08 15:54:10 +00001729- Issue #7078: Set struct.__doc__ from _struct.__doc__.
1730
Mark Dickinson5ff37ae2009-12-19 11:07:23 +00001731- Issue #3366: Add erf, erfc, expm1, gamma, lgamma functions to math
1732 module.
Mark Dickinsonb93fff02009-09-28 18:54:55 +00001733
Brett Cannon4d947432009-09-22 00:29:48 +00001734- Issue #6823: Allow time.strftime() to accept a tuple with a isdst field
1735 outside of the range of [-1, 1] by normalizing the value to within that
1736 range.
1737
Ronald Oussoren9f20d9d2009-09-20 14:18:15 +00001738- Issue #6877: Make it possible to link the readline extension to libedit
1739 on OSX.
1740
Georg Brandlab849892009-09-19 07:35:07 +00001741- Issue #6944: Fix a SystemError when socket.getnameinfo() was called
1742 with something other than a tuple as first argument.
1743
Benjamin Peterson7f6d0832009-09-08 23:04:22 +00001744- Issue #6865: Fix reference counting issue in the initialization of the pwd
1745 module.
1746
Mark Dickinson6b3f1ef2009-09-06 21:21:05 +00001747- Issue #6848: Fix curses module build failure on OS X 10.6.
1748
Brett Cannon764465f2009-08-13 19:27:12 +00001749- Fix a segfault in expat when given a specially crafted input lead to the
1750 tokenizer not stopping.
1751
Mark Dickinsonfe67bd92009-07-28 20:35:03 +00001752- Issue #6561: '\d' in a regex now matches only characters with
1753 Unicode category 'Nd' (Number, Decimal Digit). Previously it also
1754 matched characters with category 'No'.
1755
Mark Dickinson5fd3af22009-07-07 15:08:28 +00001756- Issue #1523: Remove deprecated overflow wrapping for struct.pack
1757 with an integer format code ('bBhHiIlLqQ'). Packing an out-of-range
1758 integer now consistently raises struct.error.
1759
Mark Dickinson463dc4b2009-07-05 10:01:24 +00001760- Issues #1530559, #1741130: Fix various struct.pack inconsistencies
1761 for the integer formats ('bBhHiIlLqQ'). In the following, '*'
1762 represents any of '=', '<', '>'.
1763
1764 - Packing a float now always gives a Deprecation Warning.
1765 Previously it only warned for 'I', 'L', '*B', '*H', '*I', '*L'.
1766
1767 - If x is not an int, long or float, then packing x will always
1768 result in struct.error. Previously an x with an __int__ method
1769 could be packed by 'b', 'B', 'h', 'H', 'i', 'l', '*b', '*h'
1770 ,'*i', '*l', and an x with a __long__ method could be packed by
1771 'q', 'Q', '*q', '*Q'; for x with neither __int__ nor __long__,
1772 TypeError used to be raised (with a confusing error message) for
1773 'I', 'L', '*B', '*H', '*I', '*L', and struct.error in other cases.
1774
Martin v. Löwis4f16d3b2009-05-29 15:58:08 +00001775- Issue #4873: Fix resource leaks in error cases of pwd and grp.
1776
Gregory P. Smithd02eeda2009-05-04 00:16:49 +00001777- Issue #4751: For hashlib algorithms provided by OpenSSL, the Python
1778 GIL is now released during computation on data lengths >= 2048 bytes.
1779
Gregory P. Smithea388262009-02-13 03:00:00 +00001780- Issue #3745: Fix hashlib to always reject unicode and non buffer-api
1781 supporting objects as input no matter how it was compiled (built in
1782 implementations or external openssl library).
1783
Mark Dickinsona200dd52009-01-15 15:17:43 +00001784- Issue #4397: Fix occasional test_socket failure on OS X.
Mark Dickinsone82cdae2009-01-15 14:54:37 +00001785
Martin v. Löwisb3b7d852009-01-11 09:26:54 +00001786- Issue #4279: Fix build of parsermodule under Cygwin.
1787
Martin v. Löwis9ac49272009-01-02 20:40:14 +00001788- Issue #4051: Prevent conflict of UNICODE macros in cPickle.
1789
Georg Brandl6269fec2009-01-01 12:15:31 +00001790- Issue #4228: Pack negative values the same way as 2.4 in struct's L format.
1791
Martin v. Löwis03824e42008-12-29 18:17:34 +00001792- Issue #1040026: Fix os.times result on systems where HZ is incorrect.
1793
Mark Dickinson4c96fa52008-12-11 19:28:08 +00001794- Issues #3167, #3682: Fix test_math failures for log, log10 on Solaris,
1795 OpenBSD.
1796
Martin v. Löwisbcb017f2008-11-30 19:28:27 +00001797- Issue #4365: Add crtassem.h constants to the msvcrt module.
1798
Benjamin Peterson9dfe6a82008-11-24 04:09:03 +00001799- Issue #4396: The parser module now correctly validates the with statement.
1800
Jack Diederichd60c29e2009-03-31 23:46:48 +00001801- Issue #5228: Make functools.partial objects can now be pickled.
1802
Guilherme Polob1a98de2009-01-28 20:03:26 +00001803Tests
1804-----
1805
Tarek Ziadé2421d562009-12-20 23:23:34 +00001806- Issue #7431: use TESTFN in test_linecache instead of trying to create a
R. David Murray820b0ea2009-12-03 23:57:59 +00001807 file in the Lib/test directory, which might be read-only for the
1808 user running the tests.
1809
R. David Murrayda826892009-11-15 00:04:32 +00001810- Issue #7324: add a sanity check to regrtest argument parsing to
1811 catch the case of an option with no handler.
1812
R. David Murray7f7eea62009-11-14 15:18:22 +00001813- Issue #7312: Add a -F flag to run the selected tests in a loop until
1814 a test fails. Can be combined with -j.
1815
Antoine Pitrou310c9fe2009-11-11 20:55:07 +00001816- Issue #7295: Do not use a hardcoded file name in test_tarfile.
1817
Antoine Pitrouc98efe02009-11-06 22:34:35 +00001818- Issue #7270: Add some dedicated unit tests for multi-thread synchronization
1819 primitives such as Lock, RLock, Condition, Event and Semaphore.
1820
Antoine Pitrou59c44f32009-10-30 17:07:08 +00001821- Issue #7222: Make thread "reaping" more reliable so that reference
1822 leak-chasing test runs give sensible results. The previous method of
1823 reaping threads could return successfully while some Thread objects were
1824 still referenced. This also introduces a new private function:
1825 :func:`thread._count()`.
1826
R. David Murray282396f2009-10-18 21:12:37 +00001827- Issue #7151: fixed regrtest -j so that output to stderr from a test no
1828 longer runs the risk of causing the worker thread to fail.
1829
Antoine Pitrou58d2f262009-10-10 20:52:11 +00001830- Issue #7055: test___all__ now greedily detects all modules which have an
1831 __all__ attribute, rather than using a hardcoded and incomplete list.
1832
R. David Murray14dcd432009-10-14 13:58:07 +00001833- Issue #7058: Added save/restore for things like sys.argv and cwd to
1834 runtest_inner in regrtest, with warnings if the called test modifies them,
1835 and a new section in the summary report at the end.
R. David Murrayabe3d3e2009-10-05 17:03:09 +00001836
Mark Dickinson245d9152009-10-04 18:38:39 +00001837- Issue #7042: Fix test_signal (test_itimer_virtual) failure on OS X 10.6.
1838
Brett Cannone7e941e2009-09-03 21:25:21 +00001839- Issue #6806: test_platform failed under OS X 10.6.0 because ``sw_ver`` leaves
1840 off the trailing 0 in the version number.
1841
Guilherme Polo7f146ab2009-06-21 17:22:50 +00001842- Issue #5450: Moved tests involving loading tk from Lib/test/test_tcl to
1843 Lib/lib-tk/test/test_tkinter/test_loadtk. With this, these tests demonstrate
1844 the same behaviour as test_ttkguionly (and now also test_tk) which is to
1845 skip the tests if DISPLAY is defined but can't be used.
1846
Antoine Pitrou4698d992009-05-31 14:20:14 +00001847- Issue #6152: New option '-j'/'--multiprocess' for regrtest allows running
1848 regression tests in parallel, shortening the total runtime.
1849
Nick Coghlan5533ff62009-04-22 15:26:04 +00001850- Issue #5354: New test support function import_fresh_module() makes
1851 it easy to import both normal and optimised versions of modules.
1852 test_heapq and test_warnings have been adjusted to use it, tests for
1853 other modules with both C and Python implementations in the stdlib
1854 can be adjusted to use it over time.
1855
Brett Cannonce3d2212009-04-01 20:25:48 +00001856- Fix test_warnings to no longer reset the warnings filter.
1857
Brett Cannon2da4d622009-04-01 19:57:10 +00001858- Fix test_logging to no longer reset the warnings filter.
1859
Georg Brandld8fb6ac2009-04-01 00:04:33 +00001860- Issue #5635: Fix running test_sys with tracing enabled.
1861
R. David Murray41448c52009-03-31 19:57:24 +00001862- regrtest no longer treats ImportError as equivalent to SkipTest. Imports
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +00001863 that should cause a test to be skipped are now done using import_module
R. David Murray41448c52009-03-31 19:57:24 +00001864 from test support, which does the conversion.
1865
Guilherme Polob1a98de2009-01-28 20:03:26 +00001866- Issue #5083: New 'gui' resource for regrtest.
1867
Walter Dörwalda1453172009-04-25 12:15:07 +00001868- Issue #5837: Certain sequences of calls to set() and unset() for
1869 support.EnvironmentVarGuard objects restored the environment variables
1870 incorrectly on __exit__.
1871
Alexandre Vassalotti999ecc02009-07-15 18:19:47 +00001872- Issue #2389: Array objects are now pickled in a portable manner.
1873
Brett Cannon813c43a2009-11-08 21:35:28 +00001874Misc
1875----
1876
1877- Issue #5611: Auto-detect whether a C file uses tabs or spaces in Vim.
1878
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +00001879
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +00001880What's New in Python 2.6 final
1881==============================
1882
Barry Warsawafa14362008-10-01 21:46:40 +00001883*Release date: 01-Oct-2008*
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +00001884
1885Core and Builtins
1886-----------------
1887
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfc5ea392008-09-26 22:34:08 +00001888- Issue #3967: Fixed a crash in the count() and find() methods of string-like
1889 objects, when the "start" parameter is a huge value.
1890
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc17617a02008-09-25 20:52:56 +00001891- Issue #3965: Fixed a crash on Windows when open() is given an invalid
1892 filename or mode, and the filename is a unicode string.
1893
Martin v. Löwise86b07c2008-09-25 04:12:50 +00001894- Bug #3951: Py_USING_MEMORY_DEBUGGER should not be enabled by default.
1895
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +00001896Library
1897-------
1898
Martin v. Löwise563aa42008-09-29 22:09:07 +00001899- Issue #3965: Allow repeated calls to turtle.Screen, by making it a
1900 true singleton object.
1901
Brett Cannonb2d61bd2008-09-29 03:41:21 +00001902- Issue #3895: It was possible to crash the interpreter when an external timer
1903 was used with cProfile that returned an object that could not be converted
1904 into a float.
1905
Benjamin Peterson22d3c922008-09-25 20:35:45 +00001906- Issue #3950: Made turtle respect scale factors.
1907
Thomas Hellera85c95d2008-09-24 18:26:05 +00001908- Issue #3547: Fixed ctypes structures bitfields of varying integer
1909 sizes.
1910
Benjamin Peterson2c7470d2008-09-21 21:27:51 +00001911- Issue #3879: A regression in urllib.getproxies_enviroment was fixed.
1912
Gregory P. Smith08067492008-09-30 20:41:13 +00001913- Issue #3863: Disabled a unit test of fork being called from a thread
1914 when running on platforms known to exhibit OS bugs when attempting that.
1915
Martin v. Löwis175d0072008-09-19 15:21:07 +00001916Build
1917-----
1918
Martin v. Löwisd69c9042008-10-01 11:19:50 +00001919- Bug #3989: Package the 2to3 script (as 2to3.py) in the Windows
1920 installer.
1921
Martin v. Löwis175d0072008-09-19 15:21:07 +00001922- Bug #3887: Package x64 version of CRT for AMD64 Windows binaries.
1923
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +00001924
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +00001925What's New in Python 2.6 release candidate 2?
1926=============================================
1927
Barry Warsaw6af16192008-09-18 04:33:43 +00001928*Release date: 17-Sep-2008*
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +00001929
1930Core and Builtins
1931-----------------
1932
Benjamin Peterson8c2b7dc2008-09-18 01:22:16 +00001933Extension Modules
1934-----------------
1935
Benjamin Peterson8d77d442008-09-30 01:31:49 +00001936- Security Issue #2: imageop did not validate arguments correctly and could
1937 segfault as a result.
1938
Benjamin Peterson8c2b7dc2008-09-18 01:22:16 +00001939- Issue #3886: Possible integer overflows in the _hashopenssl module were
1940 closed.
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +00001941
Antoine Pitrou3c9f5412008-09-13 20:30:30 +00001942Tools/Demos
1943-----------
1944
Georg Brandl2bd92a52009-10-11 21:10:07 +00001945- Issue #3850: recursion tests in Tools/scripts/find_recursion_limit.py can raise
Antoine Pitrou3c9f5412008-09-13 20:30:30 +00001946 AttributeError instead of RuntimeError, depending in which C API call
1947 exactly the recursion limit is exceeded. Consequently, both exception types
1948 are caught and silenced.
1949
Martin v. Löwis4eb18f92008-09-14 20:22:39 +00001950Build
1951-----
1952
1953- Issue #3617: Include a licensing statement regarding the Microsoft
1954 C runtime in the Windows installer.
1955
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +00001956
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +00001957What's New in Python 2.6 release candidate 1?
1958=============================================
1959
Barry Warsaw1e62aec2008-09-12 23:25:57 +00001960*Release date: 12-Sep-2008*
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +00001961
1962Core and Builtins
1963-----------------
1964
Martin v. Löwis9fa5a282008-09-11 06:53:30 +00001965- Issue #3642: Suppress warning in obmalloc when size_t is larger than uint.
1966
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc05e34492008-09-10 22:04:45 +00001967- Issue #3743: In a few places, PY_FORMAT_SIZE_T was incorrectly used with
1968 PyString_FromFormat or PyErr_Format to display size_t values. The macro
1969 PY_FORMAT_SIZE_T is designed to select the correct format for the OS
1970 ``printf`` function, whereas PyString_FromFormat has an independent
1971 implementation and uses "%zd" on all platforms for size_t values.
1972 This makes a difference on win64, where ``printf`` needs "%Id" to display
1973 64bit values.
1974
Benjamin Peterson97179b02008-09-09 20:55:01 +00001975- Issue #3634: _weakref.ref(Exception).__init__() gave invalid return value on
1976 error.
1977
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd3ffb892008-09-09 07:24:30 +00001978- Issue #3777: long() applied to a float object now always return a long
1979 object; previously an int would be returned for small values. the __long__
1980 method is allowed to return either an int or a long, but the behaviour of
1981 float objects should not change to respect backward compatibility.
1982
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc3571fbf2008-09-01 19:52:00 +00001983- Issue #3751: str.rpartition would perform a left-partition when called with
1984 a unicode argument.
1985
Benjamin Peterson17f03ca2008-09-01 14:18:30 +00001986- Issue #3683: Fix compilation when --without-threads is given.
1987
Antoine Pitroud4ae97b2008-08-29 18:39:48 +00001988- Issue #3668: Fix a memory leak with the "s*" argument parser in
Vinay Sajip35e3b032008-09-01 14:33:59 +00001989 PyArg_ParseTuple and friends, which occurred when the argument for "s*"
Antoine Pitroud4ae97b2008-08-29 18:39:48 +00001990 was correctly parsed but parsing of subsequent arguments failed.
1991
Vinay Sajip35e3b032008-09-01 14:33:59 +00001992- Issue #2534: speed up isinstance() and issubclass() by 50-70%, so as to
Antoine Pitrou0668c622008-08-26 22:42:08 +00001993 match Python 2.5 speed despite the __instancecheck__ / __subclasscheck__
1994 mechanism. In the process, fix a bug where isinstance() and issubclass(),
1995 when given a tuple of classes as second argument, were looking up
1996 __instancecheck__ / __subclasscheck__ on the tuple rather than on each
1997 type object.
1998
Neal Norwitz18aa3882008-08-24 05:04:52 +00001999- Fix crashes on memory allocation failure found with failmalloc.
2000
2001- Fix memory leaks found with valgrind and update suppressions file.
2002
2003- Fix compiler warnings in opt mode which would lead to invalid memory reads.
2004
2005- Fix problem using wrong name in decimal module reported by pychecker.
2006
Christian Heimes7d4c3172008-08-22 19:47:25 +00002007- Silenced another compiler warning about a used but not defined
2008 function 'stringlib_contains_obj'.
2009
Benjamin Peterson712ee922008-08-24 18:10:20 +00002010- Added warnings on the use of ``__getslice__``, ``__setslice__``, or
2011 ``__delslice__``.
2012
Gregory P. Smith2bb25cc2008-09-02 05:29:51 +00002013- Issue #3678: Correctly pass LDFLAGS and LDLAST to the linker on shared
2014 library targets in the Makefile.
2015
Gregory P. Smith980b99b2008-09-07 05:15:18 +00002016- Issue #1204: The configure script now tests for additional libraries
2017 that may be required when linking against readline. This fixes issues
2018 with x86_64 builds on some platforms (a few Linux flavors and OpenBSD).
2019
Benjamin Peterson14cb6bc2008-08-26 17:08:40 +00002020C-API
2021-----
2022
2023- Aliased PyObject_Bytes to PyObject_Str.
2024
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +00002025Library
2026-------
2027
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc24cb3822008-09-11 20:56:13 +00002028- Issue #3640: Pickling a list or a dict uses less local variables, to reduce
2029 stack usage in the case of deeply nested objects.
2030
Guido van Rossume3c4fd92008-09-10 14:27:00 +00002031- Issue #3629: Fix sre "bytecode" validator for an end case.
2032
Martin v. Löwis24329ba2008-09-10 13:38:12 +00002033- Issue #3811: The Unicode database was updated to 5.1.
2034
Nick Coghland2e09382008-09-11 12:11:06 +00002035- Issue #3781: Further warnings.catch_warnings() cleanup to prevent
2036 silent misbehaviour when a single instance is nested in multiple
2037 with statements, or when the methods are invoked in the wrong order.
2038
Vinay Sajip844f7412008-09-09 13:42:08 +00002039- Issue #3809: Fixed spurious 'test.blah' file left behind by test_logging.
2040
Nick Coghland2e09382008-09-11 12:11:06 +00002041- Issue #3781: Clean up the API for warnings.catch_warnings() by having it
Brett Cannon672237d2008-09-09 00:49:16 +00002042 return a list or None rather than a custom object.
2043
Benjamin Peterson6ac7d7c2008-09-06 19:28:11 +00002044- Issue #1638033: Cookie.Morsel gained the httponly attribute.
2045
Antoine Pitrouebcd0ce2008-09-05 23:30:23 +00002046- Issue #3535: zipfile couldn't read some zip files larger than 2GB.
2047
2048- Issue #3776: Deprecate the bsddb package for removal in 3.0.
Brett Cannon32476fc2008-09-05 18:33:51 +00002049
Hirokazu Yamamoto42e459e2008-09-04 14:25:30 +00002050- Issue #3762: platform.architecture() fails if python is lanched via
2051 its symbolic link.
2052
Vinay Sajip65d66e12008-09-04 07:31:21 +00002053- Issue #3772: Fixed regression problem in StreamHandler.emit().
2054
Facundo Batistac585df92008-09-03 22:35:50 +00002055- Issue 600362: Relocated parse_qs() and parse_qsl(), from the cgi module
2056 to the urlparse one. Added a PendingDeprecationWarning in the old
2057 module, it will be deprecated in the future.
2058
Marc-André Lemburgb339b2a2008-09-03 11:13:56 +00002059- Issue #2562: Fix distutils PKG-INFO writing logic to allow having
2060 non-ascii characters and Unicode in setup.py meta-data.
2061
2062- Issue #3726: Allow spaces in separators in logging configuration files.
Vinay Sajip6a2fd812008-09-03 09:20:05 +00002063
Marc-André Lemburg31a0a142008-09-02 12:11:19 +00002064- Issue #3719: platform.architecture() fails if there are spaces in the
2065 path to the Python binary.
2066
Brett Cannon1eaf0742008-09-02 01:25:16 +00002067- Issue 3602: Moved test.test_support.catch_warning() to
2068 warnings.catch_warnings() along with some API cleanup. Expanding the tests
2069 for catch_warnings() also led to an improvement in the raising of a
2070 DeprecationWarning related to warnings.warn_explicit().
2071
Benjamin Peterson973e6c22008-09-01 23:12:58 +00002072- The deprecation warnings for the old camelCase threading API were removed.
2073
Vinay Sajip35e3b032008-09-01 14:33:59 +00002074- logging: fixed lack of use of encoding attribute specified on a stream.
2075
Christian Heimesa27a62e2008-08-22 19:55:54 +00002076- Silenced a trivial compiler warning in the sqlite module.
2077
Christian Heimes1cc69632008-08-22 20:10:27 +00002078- Fixed two format strings in the _collections module.
2079
Benjamin Peterson17f03ca2008-09-01 14:18:30 +00002080- Issue #3703: _fileio.FileIO gave unhelpful error message when trying to open a
2081 directory.
Benjamin Petersonf22c26e2008-09-01 14:13:43 +00002082
Gregory P. Smithd7122032008-09-02 05:36:11 +00002083- Issue #3708: os.urandom no longer goes into an infinite loop when passed a
2084 non-integer floating point number.
2085
Vinay Sajip65d66e12008-09-04 07:31:21 +00002086- Issue #3110: multiprocessing fails to compiel on solaris 10 due to missing
Jesse Nollerb814d6a2008-09-03 18:10:30 +00002087 SEM_VALUE_MAX.
2088
Benjamin Peterson37346b22008-08-23 20:27:43 +00002089Extension Modules
2090-----------------
2091
Jesse Noller438195f2009-01-18 21:04:36 +00002092- Issue #4301: Patch the logging module to add processName support, remove
2093 _check_logger_class from multiprocessing.
2094
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc293924b2008-09-02 23:19:56 +00002095- Issue #2975: When compiling several extension modules with Visual Studio 2008
2096 from the same python interpreter, some environment variables would grow
2097 without limit.
2098
Benjamin Peterson37346b22008-08-23 20:27:43 +00002099- Issue #3643: Added a few more checks to _testcapi to prevent segfaults by
2100 exploitation of poor argument checking.
2101
Gerhard Häringef2276b2008-09-12 13:54:06 +00002102- sqlite3: Changed docstring of iterdump() to mark method as "Non-standard".
2103
Gerhard Häring6e1afcf2008-09-12 18:58:57 +00002104- Issue #3103: Reduced globals symbols used by sqlite3 module and made sure all
2105 remaining ones have "pysqlite_" prefix.
2106
Gerhard Häringe6872eb2008-09-12 22:33:22 +00002107- Issue #3846: Release the GIL during sqlite3_prepare calls. This improves
2108 concurrent access to the same SQLite database from multiple
2109 threads/processes.
2110
Brett Cannona0b74442008-09-03 22:45:11 +00002111Tests
2112-----
2113
Nick Coghland2e09382008-09-11 12:11:06 +00002114- Issue #3781: Add test.test_support.check_warnings() as a convenience
2115 wrapper for warnings.catch_warnings() that makes it easier to check
2116 that expected warning messages are being reported.
2117
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfeb8cad2008-09-06 20:53:51 +00002118- Issue #3796: Some tests functions were not enabled in test_float.
2119
2120- Issue #3768: Move test_py3kwarn over to the new API for catch_warnings().
Brett Cannona0b74442008-09-03 22:45:11 +00002121
Brett Cannoncdeb24b2008-09-05 22:59:17 +00002122Build
2123-----
2124
Martin v. Löwisab0b29b2008-09-13 08:11:57 +00002125- Issue #3833: Use a different upgrade code for Win64 installers.
2126
Martin v. Löwis3f5fda82008-09-08 13:50:10 +00002127- Issue #2271: Set SecureCustomProperties so that installation will properly
2128 use the TARGETDIR even for unprivileged users.
2129
Martin v. Löwis67543a92008-09-08 12:02:45 +00002130- Allow passing the MSI file name to merge.py.
2131
Vinay Sajip844f7412008-09-09 13:42:08 +00002132- Issue #3758: Rename the 'check' target to 'patchcheck' so as to not clash
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfeb8cad2008-09-06 20:53:51 +00002133 with GNU build target guidelines.
Brett Cannoncdeb24b2008-09-05 22:59:17 +00002134
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +00002135
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00002136What's New in Python 2.6 beta 3?
2137================================
2138
Barry Warsaw07a4a382008-08-21 01:15:08 +00002139*Release date: 20-Aug-2008*
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00002140
2141Core and Builtins
2142-----------------
2143
Guido van Rossumf8402962008-08-20 15:01:50 +00002144- Issue #1878: Remove Py_TPFLAGS_HAVE_VERSION_TAG from
2145 Py_TPFLAGS_DEFAULT when not building the core. This means 3rd party
2146 extensions do not automatically benefit from the class attribute
2147 cache; they will have to explicitly add Py_TPFLAGS_HAVE_VERSION_TAG
2148 to their tp_flags field if they care. This is a backwards
2149 compatibility feature; in 3.0, all types will use the cache by
2150 default.
2151
Benjamin Petersonf647dc12008-08-20 01:27:30 +00002152- Keyword arguments can now follow starred arguments. (``f(a, *args,
2153 keyword=23)`` is now valid syntax.)
2154
Thomas Heller0ad5ae02008-08-19 19:25:04 +00002155- ctypes function pointers that are COM methods have a boolean True
2156 value again.
2157
Martin v. Löwisf91d46a2008-08-12 14:49:50 +00002158- Issue #3139: Make buffer-interface thread-safe wrt. PyArg_ParseTuple,
2159 by denying s# to parse objects that have a releasebuffer procedure,
2160 and introducing s*.
2161
Georg Brandl1e13ea92008-08-11 09:07:59 +00002162- Issue #3537: Fix an assertion failure when an empty but presized dict
2163 object was stored in the freelist.
2164
Mark Dickinsonb6467572008-08-04 21:30:09 +00002165- Issue #1481296: Make long(float('nan')) and int(float('nan')) raise
2166 ValueError consistently across platforms.
2167
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc39fd6722008-07-31 21:28:03 +00002168- Issue #3479: On platforms where sizeof(int) is smaller than sizeof(long)
2169 (64bit Unix, for example), unichr() would truncate its argument and return
2170 u'\x00' for unichr(2**32). Now it properly raises an OverflowError.
2171
Neal Norwitze7d8be82008-07-31 17:17:14 +00002172- Apply security patches from Apple.
2173
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc246daed2008-07-31 00:42:16 +00002174- Issue #2542: Now that issubclass() may call arbitrary code, ensure that
2175 PyErr_ExceptionMatches returns 0 when an exception occurs there.
2176
Antoine Pitrou92f82162008-07-25 22:22:08 +00002177- Issue #1819: function calls with several named parameters are now on
2178 average 35% faster (as measured by pybench).
2179
Amaury Forgeot d'Arce4921fe2008-07-21 22:00:38 +00002180- Issue #2378: An unexpected UnboundLocalError or NameError could appear when
2181 the python debugger steps into a class statement: the free variables (local
2182 variables defined in an outer scope) would be deleted from the outer scope.
2183
Gregory P. Smith0470bab2008-07-22 04:46:32 +00002184- Issue #2620: Overflow checking when allocating or reallocating memory
2185 was not always being done properly in some python types and extension
2186 modules. PyMem_MALLOC, PyMem_REALLOC, PyMem_NEW and PyMem_RESIZE have
2187 all been updated to perform better checks and places in the code that
2188 would previously leak memory on the error path when such an allocation
2189 failed have been fixed.
2190
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00002191Library
2192-------
2193
Hirokazu Yamamoto838c79f2008-08-20 13:14:07 +00002194- Issue #3612: Added some missing basic types in ctypes.wintypes.
2195
Benjamin Petersone977ad42008-08-20 01:42:01 +00002196- The methods ``is_in_tuple()``, ``is_vararg()``, and ``is_keywordarg()`` of
2197 symtable.Symbol have been deprecated for removal in 3.0 and the next release.
2198
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc351ffb82008-08-18 19:23:47 +00002199- Issue #2234: distutils failed for some versions of the cygwin compiler. The
2200 version reported by these tools does not necessarily follow the python
2201 version numbering scheme, so the module is less strict when parsing it.
2202
Nick Coghlanf70385a2008-08-18 12:42:46 +00002203- Issue #2235: Added Py3k warnings for types which will become unhashable
2204 under the stricter __hash__ inheritance rules in 3.0. Several types
2205 which did not meet the rules for hash invariants and were already
2206 unhashable in 3.0 have now been explicitly flagged as unhashable in
2207 2.6 as well (collections.Mapping, collections.Set, unittest.TestSuite,
2208 xml.dom.minidom.NamedNodeMap, numbers.Number, UserList.UserList)
2209
Brett Cannon88f801d2008-08-18 00:46:22 +00002210- Update __all__ for cookielib, csv, os, urllib2, and weakref to include things
2211 imported into the module but exposed as part of the module's API.
2212
Brett Cannon7b96f072008-08-18 00:41:11 +00002213- Remove an unneeded import of abc.ABCMeta from 'inspect'.
2214
Brett Cannon46225e72008-08-18 00:36:52 +00002215- Remove unneeded imports of 'sys' and 'warnings' from 'io'.
2216
Brett Cannon25c9d6a2008-08-17 22:10:11 +00002217- Remove unneeded imports of 'warnings' from shelve, filecmp, and dummy_thread.
2218
Hirokazu Yamamoto41a81eb2008-08-17 13:10:46 +00002219- Issue #3575: Incremental decoder's decode function now takes bytearray
2220 by using 's*' instead of 't#'.
2221
Mark Dickinson3e4caeb2009-02-21 20:27:01 +00002222- Issue #2222: Fixed reference leak when occurred os.rename()
Hirokazu Yamamoto7f30a682008-08-17 09:46:56 +00002223 fails unicode conversion on 2nd parameter. (windows only)
2224
Facundo Batista94f243a2008-08-17 03:38:39 +00002225- Issue 2464. urllib2 now supports a malformation in the URL received
2226 in a redirect.
2227
Brett Cannonabe423e2008-08-16 21:47:07 +00002228- Silence the DeprecationWarning raised when importing mimetools in
Brett Cannon721b1452008-08-16 22:00:27 +00002229 BaseHTTPServer, cgi (and rfc822), httplib.
Brett Cannonabe423e2008-08-16 21:47:07 +00002230
Facundo Batistaeb90b782008-08-16 14:44:07 +00002231- Issue #2776: fixed small issue when handling an URL with double slash
2232 after a 302 response in the case of not going through a proxy.
2233
Antoine Pitroub90a8be2008-08-15 21:03:21 +00002234- Issue #2676: in the email package, content-type parsing was hanging on
2235 pathological input because of quadratic or exponential behaviour of a
2236 regular expression.
2237
Antoine Pitrou11ec65d2008-08-14 21:04:30 +00002238- Issue #3476: binary buffered reading through the new "io" library is now
2239 thread-safe.
2240
Brett Cannonbf3157b2008-08-14 05:00:03 +00002241- Silence the DeprecationWarning of rfc822 when it is imported by mimetools
2242 since mimetools itself is deprecated. Because modules are cached, all
2243 subsequent imports of rfc822 will not raise a visible DeprecationWarning.
2244
Antoine Pitrou9fcd4b32008-08-11 17:21:36 +00002245- Issue #3134: shutil referenced undefined WindowsError symbol.
2246
Robert Schuppenies14646332008-08-10 11:01:53 +00002247- Issue #1342811: Fix leak in Tkinter.Menu.delete. Commands associated to
2248 menu entries were not deleted.
2249
Brett Cannon83e81842008-08-09 23:30:55 +00002250- Copied the implementation of reduce() to _functools.reduce() to have a
2251 version that did not raise a DeprecationWarning under -3.
2252
Antoine Pitrou76b8bee2008-08-09 17:27:23 +00002253- Issue #3205: When iterating over a BZ2File fails allocating memory, raise
2254 a MemoryError rather than silently stop the iteration.
2255
Guido van Rossum59ce9012008-08-09 14:55:34 +00002256- Issue #3487: sre "bytecode" validator. Passing invalid "re-bytecode"
2257 to _sre.compile() will now be rejected. This should not affect anybody
2258 since the re.compile() function never generates invalid re-bytecode.
2259
Skip Montanaroa032bf42008-08-08 22:52:51 +00002260- Issue #3436: Make csv.DictReader's fieldnames attribute a property so that
2261 upon first access it can be automatically initialized from the csv file if
2262 it wasn't initialized during instantiation.
2263
Brett Cannon3aa2a492008-08-06 22:28:09 +00002264- Issue #2338: Create imp.reload() to help with transitioning to Python 3.0 as
2265 the reload() built-in has been removed.
2266
Brett Cannon7e30b672008-08-04 21:52:25 +00002267- Changed code in the following modules/packages to remove warnings raised
Brett Cannonc1b76e42008-08-09 23:06:16 +00002268 while running under the ``-3`` flag: aifc, asynchat, asyncore, bdb, bsddb,
Brett Cannon047e4a92008-08-17 04:16:04 +00002269 ConfigParser, cookielib, csv, difflib, distutils, DocXMLRPCServer, email,
2270 filecmp, fileinput, inspect, logging, modulefinder, pdb, pickle, profile,
2271 pstats, pydoc, re, rlcompleter, SimpleXMLRPCServer, shelve, socket,
2272 subprocess, sqlite3, tarfile, Tkinter, test.test_support, textwrap,
2273 threading, tokenize, traceback, urlparse, wsgiref, xml, xmlrpclib.
Brett Cannon7e30b672008-08-04 21:52:25 +00002274
Lars Gustäbel727bd0b2008-08-02 11:26:39 +00002275- Issue #3039: Fix tarfile.TarFileCompat.writestr() which always
2276 raised an AttributeError.
2277
Benjamin Peterson01a24322008-07-28 23:35:27 +00002278- Issue #2523: Fix quadratic behaviour when read()ing a binary file without
Antoine Pitroude781a42008-08-09 12:43:23 +00002279 asking for a specific length. This problem only affected files opened
2280 using the new "io" module, not the built-in open() function.
Benjamin Peterson01a24322008-07-28 23:35:27 +00002281
Mark Dickinsonfe84cce2008-07-27 06:39:07 +00002282- Issue #3449: Update decimal module to use most recent specification
2283 (v. 1.68) and tests (v. 2.58) from IBM.
2284
Skip Montanarof9ac43f2008-07-27 00:50:41 +00002285- Issue 3437: Bug fix in robotparser parsing of Allow: lines.
2286
Raymond Hettinger8c664e82008-07-25 18:43:33 +00002287- Issue 1592: Improve error reporting when operations are attempted
2288 on a closed shelf.
2289
Georg Brandlf9efabb2008-07-23 15:16:45 +00002290- Deprecate the "ast" parser function aliases.
2291
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00002292- Issue #3120: On 64-bit Windows the subprocess module was truncating handles.
2293
2294- Issue #3303: Fix a crash in locale.strcoll() when calling it with
2295 invalid arguments.
2296
2297- Issue #3302: Fix several crashes when calling locale's gettext functions
2298 with None arguments.
2299
2300- Issue #3389: Allow resolving dotted names for handlers in logging
2301 configuration files.
2302
2303- Deprecate the sunaudio module for removal in Python 3.0.
2304
Antoine Pitrou5fdfa3e2008-07-25 19:42:26 +00002305- Issue #3394: zipfile.writestr sets external attributes when passed a
2306 file name rather than a ZipInfo instance, so files are extracted with
2307 mode 0600 rather than 000 under Unix.
2308
Gregory P. Smitha36f8fe2008-08-04 00:13:29 +00002309- Issue #1857: subprocess.Popen.poll gained an additional _deadstate keyword
2310 argument in python 2.5, this broke code that subclassed Popen to include its
2311 own poll method. Fixed my moving _deadstate to an _internal_poll method.
2312
Martin v. Löwis8dbf3642008-08-01 14:10:26 +00002313Build
2314-----
2315
2316- Generate the PatternGrammar pickle during "make install".
2317
Nick Coghlan2a0c2b12008-08-04 12:47:17 +00002318Documentation
2319-------------
2320
Nick Coghlan6e8fef02008-08-18 13:14:22 +00002321- Issue #2235: the C API function PyObject_HashNotImplemented and its
2322 interaction with the tp_hash slot (added in 2.6b2) are now documented
2323
Nick Coghlan2a0c2b12008-08-04 12:47:17 +00002324- Issue #643841: The language reference now provides more detailed
2325 coverage of the lookup process for special methods. The disclaimers
2326 regarding lack of coverage of new-style classes have also been
2327 removed, since the coverage is now fairly reasonable.
2328
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00002329
Raymond Hettingere3ae6552008-06-20 04:18:15 +00002330What's New in Python 2.6 beta 2?
2331================================
2332
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00002333*Release date: 17-Jul-2008*
2334
Raymond Hettingere3ae6552008-06-20 04:18:15 +00002335Core and Builtins
2336-----------------
2337
Georg Brandl3e483f62008-07-16 22:57:41 +00002338- Issue #3156: Fix inconsistent behavior of the bytearray type: all
2339 its methods now allow for items objects that can be converted to
2340 an integer using operator.index().
2341
Mark Dickinson64b7e502008-07-16 09:40:03 +00002342- Issue #3360: Fix incorrect parsing of '020000000000.0', which
2343 produced a ValueError instead of giving the correct float.
2344
Eric Smitha5fa5a22008-07-16 00:11:49 +00002345- Issue #3083: Add alternate (#) formatting for bin, oct, hex output
2346 for str.format(). This adds the prefix 0b, 0o, or 0x, respectively.
2347
Mark Dickinson7103aa42008-07-15 19:08:33 +00002348- Issue #3008: the float type has a new instance method 'float.hex'
2349 and a new class method 'float.fromhex' to convert floating-point
2350 numbers to and from hexadecimal strings, respectively.
2351
Nick Coghlan6d6bd442008-07-15 15:40:22 +00002352- Issue #2235: __hash__ is once again inherited by default. To allow
2353 collections.Hashable to remain meaningful in the presence of the
2354 default hash implementation (object.__hash__), it is now possible
2355 to explicit block inheritance of hash by setting __hash__=None at
2356 the Python level, or tp_hash=PyObject_HashNotImplemented at the C
2357 level.
2358
Nick Coghlanb028f502008-07-13 14:52:36 +00002359- Issue #3221: Issue a RuntimeWarning instead of raising SystemError if
2360 the parent module cannot be found while performing an absolute import.
2361 This means that an incorrectly defined __package__ attribute will
2362 now only prevent relative imports in that module rather than causing
2363 all imports from that module to fail.
2364
Nick Coghlan14ff9942008-07-08 14:21:42 +00002365- Issue #2517: Allow unicode messages in Exceptions again by correctly
2366 bypassing the instance dictionary when looking up __unicode__ on
2367 new-style classes.
2368
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcbdd941f2008-07-01 20:38:04 +00002369- Issue #3242: Fix a crash inside the print statement, if sys.stdout is
2370 set to a custom object whose write() method happens to install
2371 another file in sys.stdout.
2372
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc1f40c8a2008-06-30 22:42:40 +00002373- Issue #3088: Corrected a race condition in classes derived from
2374 threading.local: the first member set by a thread could be saved in
2375 another thread's dictionary.
2376
Mark Dickinson1ec2fcd2008-06-20 14:53:43 +00002377- Issue #3004: Minor change to slice.indices(): the start and stop
2378 arguments are now treated identically, making the behaviour easier
2379 to describe and understand. For example, slice(None, -10,
2380 1).indices(9) now returns (0, 0, 1) instead of (0, -1, 1), and
2381 slice(None, 10, -1).indices(10) returns (9, 9, -1) instead of (9,
2382 10, -1).
2383
Georg Brandl278fc502008-07-19 12:46:12 +00002384- Issue #3219: Calling a function with repeated keyword arguments,
2385 f(a=2, a=23), would not cause a syntax error. This was a regression
2386 from 2.4 caused by the switch to the new compiler.
Benjamin Peterson175e4d92008-07-01 19:34:52 +00002387
Georg Brandl278fc502008-07-19 12:46:12 +00002388- Issue #2862: Make int and float freelist management consistent with
2389 other freelists. Changes their CompactFreeList apis into
2390 ClearFreeList apis and calls them via gc.collect().
Gregory P. Smith2fe77062008-07-06 03:35:58 +00002391
Brett Cannon8bb8fa52008-07-02 01:57:08 +00002392Library
2393-------
2394
Thomas Heller57adf222008-08-14 19:10:48 +00002395- Issue #3554: ctypes.string_at and ctypes.wstring_at did call Python
2396 api functions without holding the GIL, which could lead to a fatal
2397 error when they failed.
2398
Martin v. Löwisaabf4042008-08-02 07:20:25 +00002399- Issue #799428: Fix Tkinter.Misc._nametowidget to unwrap Tcl command objects.
2400
Jesse Noller7fb96402008-07-17 21:01:05 +00002401- Issue #3395: fix reference in test_multiprocessing to old debugInfo method
2402
Georg Brandla24869a2008-07-16 22:33:18 +00002403- Issue #3312: Fix two crashes in sqlite3.
2404
Georg Brandl86cbf812008-07-16 21:31:41 +00002405- Issue #1608818: Fix misbehavior in os.listdir() if readdir() fails.
2406
Jesse Noller13e9d582008-07-16 14:32:36 +00002407- Issue #3125: Remove copy_reg in multiprocessing and replace it with
2408 ForkingPickler.register() to resolve conflict with ctypes.
2409
Vinay Sajip51e65192008-07-18 09:01:10 +00002410- Issue #3090: Fixed ARCHFLAGS parsing on OS/X
Jesse Noller13e9d582008-07-16 14:32:36 +00002411
Thomas Heller880f5292008-07-15 19:39:38 +00002412- Issue #3313: Fixed a crash when a failed dlopen() call does not set
2413 a valid dlerror() message.
2414
Thomas Heller2bad6572008-07-15 17:19:50 +00002415- Issue #3258: Fixed a crash when a ctypes POINTER type to an
2416 incomplete structure was created.
2417
Brett Cannon3d0b9f02008-07-13 01:15:07 +00002418- Issue #3339: dummy_thread.acquire() should not return None.
2419
Raymond Hettingerb01713e2008-07-10 14:34:57 +00002420- Issue #3285: Fractions from_float() and from_decimal() accept Integral arguments.
2421
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +00002422- Issue #3301: Bisect module behaved badly when lo was negative.
Raymond Hettinger3cd1e422008-07-10 14:03:19 +00002423
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc0f7cddc2008-07-06 21:34:39 +00002424- Issue #839496: SimpleHTTPServer used to open text files in text mode. This is
2425 both unnecessary (HTTP allows text content to be sent in several forms) and
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +00002426 wrong because the actual transmitted size could differ from the
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc0f7cddc2008-07-06 21:34:39 +00002427 content-length. The problem had been corrected in the 2.4 branch, but never
2428 merged into trunk.
2429
Georg Brandle78fbcc2008-07-05 10:13:36 +00002430- Issue #2663: add filtering capability to shutil.copytree().
2431
Martin v. Löwis8c436412008-07-03 12:51:14 +00002432- Issue #1622: Correct interpretation of various ZIP header fields.
2433
2434- Issue #1526: Allow more than 64k files to be added to Zip64 file.
2435
2436- Issue #1746: Correct handling of zipfile archive comments (previously
2437 archives with comments over 4k were flagged as invalid). Allow writing
Vinay Sajip51e65192008-07-18 09:01:10 +00002438 Zip files with archives by setting the 'comment' attribute of a ZipFile.
Martin v. Löwis8c436412008-07-03 12:51:14 +00002439
Vinay Sajip51e65192008-07-18 09:01:10 +00002440- Issue #449227: The rlcompleter module now adds "(" to callable objects
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +00002441 when completed.
Facundo Batista66c52772008-07-02 16:52:55 +00002442
Nick Coghlanc060b0e2008-07-02 13:09:19 +00002443- Issue #3190: Pydoc now hides the automatic module attribute __package__ (the
2444 handling is now the same as that of other special attributes like __name__).
2445
Brett Cannon8bb8fa52008-07-02 01:57:08 +00002446- Issue #2885 (partial): The urllib.urlopen() function has been deprecated for
2447 removal in Python 3.0 in favor of urllib2.urlopen().
2448
Gregory P. Smithf4140642008-07-06 07:16:40 +00002449- Issue #2113: Fix error in subprocess.Popen if the select system call is
2450 interrupted by a signal.
2451
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +00002452- Issue #3309: Fix bz2.BZFile iterator to release its internal lock
Gregory P. Smith3b1e6b22008-07-07 04:31:58 +00002453 properly when raising an exception due to the bz2file being closed.
2454 Prevents a deadlock.
2455
Gregory P. Smithc4691ec2008-07-07 05:09:12 +00002456- Issue #3094: httplib.HTTPSConnection Host: headers no longer include the
2457 redundant ":443" port number designation when the connection is using the
2458 default https port (443).
2459
Gregory P. Smithdb3409c2008-07-17 03:13:05 +00002460- Issue #874900: after an os.fork() call the threading module state is cleaned
2461 up in the child process to prevent deadlock and report proper thread counts
2462 if the new process uses the threading module.
2463
Nick Coghlan38469e22008-07-13 12:23:47 +00002464Tests
2465-----
2466
2467- test.test_support.catch_warning now keeps track of all warnings it sees
2468 and is now better documented. Explicit unit tests for this context manager
2469 have been added to test_warnings.
2470
Martin v. Löwisd84fd952008-06-30 06:57:39 +00002471Build
2472-----
2473
2474- Issue #3215: Build sqlite3 as sqlite3.dll, not sqlite3.pyd.
2475
Brett Cannon8bb8fa52008-07-02 01:57:08 +00002476
Brett Cannon97aa1ae2008-07-11 00:12:52 +00002477Documentation
2478-------------
2479
Brett Cannonfeef51d2008-07-11 00:50:01 +00002480- Document that robotparser has been renamed to urllib.robotparser in
Brett Cannon963ffdb2008-07-11 00:48:57 +00002481 Python 3.0.
2482
Brett Cannonf6afa332008-07-11 00:16:30 +00002483- Document that urlparse has been renamed to urllib.parse in Python 3.0.
2484
Brett Cannon97aa1ae2008-07-11 00:12:52 +00002485- Document that urllib2 is split across multiple modules and renamed in
2486 Python 3.0.
2487
2488- Document that urllib is split across multiple modules and renamed in
2489 Python 3.0.
2490
2491
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00002492What's New in Python 2.6 beta 1?
2493================================
2494
Barry Warsawb5d17402008-06-19 01:48:07 +00002495*Release date: 18-June-2008*
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00002496
2497Core and Builtins
2498-----------------
2499
Brett Cannondea1b562008-06-27 00:31:13 +00002500- Issue #3211: warnings.warn_explicit() did not guard against its 'registry'
2501 argument being anything other than a dict or None. Also fixed a bug in error
2502 handling when 'message' and 'category' were both set to None, triggering a
2503 bus error.
2504
Amaury Forgeot d'Arca8919fe2008-06-16 19:12:42 +00002505- Issue #3100: Corrected a crash on deallocation of a subclassed weakref which
2506 holds the last (strong) reference to its referent.
2507
Georg Brandl89f48872008-06-11 18:55:38 +00002508- Add future_builtins.ascii().
2509
Raymond Hettinger5c4d3d02008-06-09 13:07:27 +00002510- Several set methods now accept multiple arguments: update(), union(),
Raymond Hettinger4267be62008-06-11 10:30:54 +00002511 intersection(), intersection_update(), difference(), and difference_update().
Raymond Hettingeree4bcad2008-06-09 08:33:37 +00002512
Robert Schuppenies51df0642008-06-01 16:16:17 +00002513- Issue #2898: Added sys.getsizeof() to retrieve size of objects in bytes.
2514
Martin v. Löwis99815892008-06-01 07:20:46 +00002515- New environment variable PYTHONIOENCODING.
2516
Martin v. Löwis4dd019f2008-05-20 08:11:19 +00002517- Patch #2488: Add sys.maxsize.
2518
Georg Brandla9916b52008-05-17 22:11:54 +00002519- Issue #2353: file.xreadlines() now emits a Py3k warning.
2520
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002521- Issue #2863: generators now have a ``gen.__name__`` attribute that
2522 equals ``gen.gi_code.co_name``, like ``func.__name___`` that equals
2523 ``func.func_code.co_name``. The repr() of a generator now also
2524 contains this name.
Georg Brandlc91210c2008-05-15 15:08:32 +00002525
Georg Brandlbd85eb12008-05-14 06:34:15 +00002526- Issue #2831: enumerate() now has a ``start`` argument.
2527
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002528- Issue #2801: fix bug in the float.is_integer method where a
2529 ValueError was sometimes incorrectly raised.
Mark Dickinsone81c3762008-05-09 16:14:15 +00002530
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002531- Issue #2790: sys.flags was not properly exposing its bytes_warning
2532 attribute.
Brett Cannon3c1d50a2008-05-08 20:23:54 +00002533
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002534- Issue #2196: hasattr() now lets exceptions which do not inherit
2535 Exception (KeyboardInterrupt, and SystemExit) propagate instead of
2536 ignoring them.
Benjamin Petersonb9030f42008-05-12 00:41:23 +00002537
Gregory P. Smith9d534572008-06-11 07:41:16 +00002538- Added checks for integer overflows, contributed by Google. Some are
2539 only available if asserts are left in the code, in cases where they
2540 can't be triggered from Python code.
2541
2542
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00002543Extension Modules
2544-----------------
Guido van Rossum84b1e0f2008-08-20 14:57:20 +00002545- Issue #1179: [CVE-2007-4965] Integer overflow in imageop module.
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00002546
Raymond Hettinger305480c2008-06-16 01:42:40 +00002547- Issue #3116: marshal.dumps() had quadratic behavior for strings > 32Mb.
2548
Andrew M. Kuchling2126bab2008-06-22 13:39:11 +00002549- Issue #2138: Add factorial() to the math module.
Raymond Hettingerecbdd2e2008-06-09 06:54:45 +00002550
Raymond Hettinger6d7702e2008-05-31 03:24:31 +00002551- The heapq module does comparisons using LT instead of LE. This
2552 makes its implementation match that used by list.sort().
2553
Mark Dickinson99dfe922008-05-23 01:35:30 +00002554- Issue #2819: add full-precision summation function to math module,
2555 based on Hettinger's ASPN Python Cookbook recipe.
2556
Georg Brandl88659b02008-05-20 08:40:43 +00002557- Issue #2592: delegate nb_index and the floor/truediv slots in
2558 weakref.proxy.
2559
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002560- Support os.O_ASYNC and fcntl.FASYNC if the constants exist on the
2561 platform.
Georg Brandl5049a852008-05-16 13:10:15 +00002562
Brett Cannon044616a2008-05-15 02:33:55 +00002563- Support for Windows 9x has been removed from the winsound module.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcf9b54c22008-05-12 21:30:24 +00002564
Jesus Cea09c01782008-09-28 23:24:19 +00002565- bsddb module updated to version 4.7.3.
Jesus Cea4907d272008-08-31 14:00:51 +00002566 http://www.jcea.es/programacion/pybsddb.htm#bsddb3-4.7.3. This
2567 code should be compatible with Python 3.0.
Jesus Ceaef9764f2008-05-13 18:45:46 +00002568
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002569- Issue #2858: Fix potential memory corruption when
2570 bsddb.db.DBEnv.lock_get and other bsddb.db object constructors
2571 raised an exception.
Gregory P. Smith664782e2008-05-17 06:12:02 +00002572
Gregory P. Smith5d7d6c32008-05-25 08:32:04 +00002573- Issue #2669: bsddb/__init__.py iteration no longer silently fails when
2574 the database has changed size during iteration. It now raises a
2575 RuntimeError in the same manner as a dictionary.
2576
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002577- Issue #2870: cmathmodule.c compile error.
Christian Heimes0bd23c02008-05-16 10:23:31 +00002578
Benjamin Petersond8a89722008-08-18 16:40:03 +00002579- Added a threading.Thread.ident property.
Gregory P. Smith8856dda2008-06-01 23:48:47 +00002580
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00002581Library
2582-------
2583
Vinay Sajip1e022682008-06-29 21:27:15 +00002584- logging.config: Removed out-of-date comment in _install_handlers and
2585 used issubclass in place of equality comparison of classes.
2586
Facundo Batista5596b0c2008-06-22 13:36:20 +00002587- Issue #2722: Now the os.getcwd() supports very long path names.
2588
Facundo Batista2da91c32008-06-21 17:43:56 +00002589- Issue #2888: Fixed the behaviour of pprint when working with nested
2590 structures, to match the behaviour of 2.5 and 3.0 (now follows the common
2591 sense).
2592
Facundo Batistaa6a4d502008-06-21 18:58:04 +00002593- Issue #1817: cgi now correctly handles the querystring on POST requests
2594
Vinay Sajip8dc20fd2008-06-19 22:41:08 +00002595- Issue #3136: fileConfig()'s disabling of old loggers is now conditional via
2596 an optional disable_existing_loggers parameter, but the default value is
2597 such that the old behaviour is preserved. Thanks to Leandro Lucarella for
2598 the patch.
2599
Vinay Sajip9828b7e2008-06-17 11:04:02 +00002600- Issue #3126: StreamHandler and FileHandler check before calling "flush" and
2601 "close" that the stream object has these, using hasattr (thanks to bobf for
2602 the patch).
2603
Benjamin Peterson5c0be322008-06-13 15:11:50 +00002604- Issue #2912: platform.uname now tries to determine unknown information even if
2605 os.uname exists.
2606
Benjamin Peterson26305a02008-06-12 22:33:06 +00002607- The rfc822 module has been deprecated for removal in 3.0.
2608
Benjamin Petersona03722f2008-06-12 14:23:49 +00002609- The mimetools module has been deprecated for removal in 3.0.
2610
Thomas Heller1cec7aa2008-06-10 14:07:12 +00002611- The ctypes.byref function now takes an optional second parameter
2612 which allows to specify an offset in bytes for the constructed
2613 pointer-like object.
2614
Georg Brandl8509db52008-06-10 07:45:28 +00002615- Added the ast module.
2616
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00002617- Added the multiprocessing module, PEP 371.
Benjamin Peterson6f7ae692008-06-11 20:04:30 +00002618
Georg Brandl7be19aa2008-06-07 15:59:10 +00002619- Factored out the indentation cleaning from inspect.getdoc() into
2620 inspect.cleandoc() to ease standalone use.
2621
Thomas Hellerfbb9c0b2008-06-06 08:33:46 +00002622- Issue #1798: Add ctypes calling convention that allows safe access
2623 to errno.
2624
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00002625- Issue #2404: ctypes objects support the new pep3118 buffer interface.
Thomas Heller59475e92008-06-05 17:52:59 +00002626
Vinay Sajip9828b7e2008-06-17 11:04:02 +00002627- Patch #2125: Add GetInteger and GetString methods for
Martin v. Löwisffe62ed2008-06-02 08:40:06 +00002628 msilib.Record objects.
2629
Gregory P. Smith137d8242008-06-02 04:05:52 +00002630- Issue #2782: The datetime module's strftime methods now accept
2631 unicode format strings just as time.strftime always has.
2632
Georg Brandlac19d852008-06-01 21:19:14 +00002633- The sgmllib and htmllib modules have been deprecated for removal
2634 in Python 3.0.
2635
2636- Issue #3011: locale module alias table was updated to the latest
2637 version from the X.org locale.alias file.
Marc-André Lemburgadff65b2008-05-30 20:52:18 +00002638
Thomas Heller9287acf2008-05-29 19:42:34 +00002639- Issue #1797 (partial fix): ctypes NULL function pointers have a
2640 False boolean value now.
2641
Georg Brandld0b592f2008-05-29 07:45:26 +00002642- Issue #2985: Allow 64-bit integer responses (``<i8>``) in XMLRPC
2643 transfers.
2644
2645- Issue #2877: The UserString.MutableString class has been removed in
2646 Python 3.0.
Brett Cannonabb34fe2008-05-29 05:08:50 +00002647
Lars Gustäbelb1a54a32008-05-27 12:39:23 +00002648- Do not close external file objects passed to tarfile.open(mode='w:bz2')
2649 when the TarFile is closed.
2650
Georg Brandle08e3d02008-05-25 08:07:37 +00002651- Issue #2959: For consistency with other file-like objects, gzip's
2652 GzipFile.close() can now be called multiple times without raising
2653 an exception.
2654
Martin v. Löwis27e4a172008-05-23 15:18:28 +00002655- Issue #1390: Raise ValueError in toxml when an invalid comment would
2656 otherwise be produced.
2657
Vinay Sajipc0128832008-05-20 15:37:22 +00002658- Issue #2914: TimedRotatingFileHandler now takes an optional keyword
2659 argument "utc" to use UTC time rather than local time.
2660
2661- Issue #2929: TimedRotatingFileHandler was using the wrong path when
2662 deleting old log files (filename only instead of full path).
2663
Georg Brandl112aa502008-05-20 08:25:48 +00002664- Issue #1775025: You can now specify zipfile members to open(),
2665 read() or extract() via a ZipInfo instance. This allows handling
2666 duplicate filenames in zipfiles.
2667
Georg Brandl28fdfa92008-05-17 17:57:01 +00002668- Issue #961805: Fix Text.edit_modified() in Tkinter.
2669
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002670- Issue #1793: Function ctypes.util.find_msvcrt() added that returns
Thomas Heller95ba13f2008-05-16 20:06:31 +00002671 the name of the C runtime library that Python uses.
2672 ctypes.util.find_library(name) now call this function when name is
2673 'm' or 'c'.
2674
Brett Cannonfa40bbf2008-05-16 00:50:02 +00002675- The statvfs module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2676
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002677- The sunaudiodev and SUNAUDIODEV modules have been deprecated for
2678 removal in Python 3.0.
2679
2680- The WAIT module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
2681 3.0.
2682
2683- The torgb module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
2684 3.0.
2685
2686- The SV module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
2687 3.0.
2688
2689- The readcd module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
Brett Cannon22248172008-05-16 00:10:24 +00002690 Python 3.0.
2691
Brett Cannon11ae6e72008-05-15 03:49:00 +00002692- The panelparser module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
2693 Python 3.0.
2694
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002695- The panel module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
2696 3.0.
Brett Cannon7e375862008-05-15 03:46:27 +00002697
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002698- The jpeg module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
2699 3.0.
Brett Cannon89f5d9c2008-05-15 03:44:00 +00002700
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002701- The IOCTL module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
2702 3.0.
Brett Cannond8c41ec2008-05-15 03:41:55 +00002703
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002704- The IN module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
2705 3.0.
Brett Cannon6328b292008-05-15 03:36:13 +00002706
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002707- The imgfile module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
Brett Cannon178582e2008-05-15 03:20:36 +00002708 Python 3.0.
2709
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002710- The GLWS module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
2711 3.0.
Brett Cannon72ccc402008-05-15 03:17:24 +00002712
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002713- The GET module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
2714 3.0.
Brett Cannon2773b6f2008-05-15 03:14:57 +00002715
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002716- The fm module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
2717 3.0.
2718
2719- The FL, flp, and fl modules from IRIX have been deprecated for
2720 removal in Python 3.0.
2721
2722- The FILE module on IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
2723 3.0.
2724
2725- The ERRNO module on IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
2726 3.0.
2727
2728- The DEVICE, GL, gl, and cgen modules (which indirectly includes
2729 cgensupport) have been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
Brett Cannon044616a2008-05-15 02:33:55 +00002730
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002731- The CL, CL_old, and cl modules for IRIX have been deprecated for
2732 removal in Python 3.0.
2733
2734- The cdplayer module for IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
Brett Cannon650f5162008-05-14 21:12:12 +00002735 Python 3.0.
2736
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002737- The cddb module for IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
2738 3.0.
Brett Cannon9eebe492008-05-14 20:34:22 +00002739
Brett Cannonddf949f2008-05-14 20:31:38 +00002740- The cd and CD modules for IRIX have been deprecated for removal in
2741 Python 3.0.
2742
Brett Cannon34721d52008-05-14 01:08:21 +00002743- The al and AL modules for IRIX have been deprecated for removal in
2744 Python 3.0.
2745
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002746- Issue #1713041: fix pprint's handling of maximum depth.
Georg Brandl23da6e62008-05-12 16:26:52 +00002747
Brett Cannonbb141bb2008-05-12 03:47:47 +00002748- The timing module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2749
Brett Cannonac861b52008-05-12 03:45:59 +00002750- The sv module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2751
Brett Cannon43e5ef42008-05-12 03:19:20 +00002752- The multifile module has been deprecated as per PEP 4.
2753
Brett Cannon42bfa902008-05-12 00:08:34 +00002754- The imageop module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2755
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002756- Issue #2250: Exceptions raised during evaluation of names in
2757 rlcompleter's ``Completer.complete()`` method are now caught and
2758 ignored.
Georg Brandl627a6662008-05-11 21:03:42 +00002759
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002760- Issue #2659: Added ``break_on_hyphens`` option to textwrap
2761 TextWrapper class.
Georg Brandl6f95ae52008-05-11 10:42:28 +00002762
Brett Cannon2a869132008-05-11 03:01:47 +00002763- The mhlib module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2764
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002765- The linuxaudiodev module has been deprecated for removal in Python
2766 3.0.
Brett Cannondf0a7172008-05-11 00:50:51 +00002767
Brett Cannon27508d42008-05-10 22:45:07 +00002768- The ihooks module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2769
Brett Cannonfe598512008-05-10 22:11:45 +00002770- The fpformat module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2771
Brett Cannone35a3a12008-05-10 21:22:43 +00002772- The dl module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2773
Brett Cannond5a09852008-05-10 03:14:32 +00002774- The Canvas module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2775
Brett Cannon6192df12008-05-10 02:58:26 +00002776- The compiler package has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2777
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002778- The Bastion and rexec modules have been deprecated for removal in
2779 Python 3.0.
Brett Cannoncda73a42008-05-10 02:53:46 +00002780
Brett Cannon768d44f2008-05-10 02:47:54 +00002781- The bsddb185 module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2782
Brett Cannon9ac39742008-05-09 22:51:58 +00002783- The pure module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2784
Mark Dickinsonf8476c12008-05-09 17:54:23 +00002785- Issue #2487: change the semantics of math.ldexp(x, n) when n is too
2786 large to fit in a C long. ldexp(x, n) now returns a zero (with
2787 suitable sign) if n is large and negative; previously, it raised
2788 OverflowError.
2789
Brett Cannonfa24d9a2008-05-09 05:32:42 +00002790- The toaiff module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2791
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002792- The test.testall module has been deprecated for removal in Python
2793 3.0.
Brett Cannon3c759142008-05-09 05:25:37 +00002794
Brett Cannond7265d62008-05-09 05:18:40 +00002795- The new module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2796
Brett Cannone3b19402008-05-08 20:36:09 +00002797- The user module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2798
Brett Cannon6071cc82008-05-08 19:52:45 +00002799- The stringold module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2800
2801- The mutex module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
Brett Cannon9d441822008-05-08 19:26:08 +00002802
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00002803- The imputil module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2804
Brett Cannoncae4f5f2008-05-08 20:24:43 +00002805- test.test_support.catch_warning() gained a 'record' argument.
2806
Benjamin Peterson0893a0a2008-05-09 00:27:01 +00002807- os.path.walk is deprecated in favor of os.walk.
2808
Georg Brandl9020ff82008-05-11 14:17:13 +00002809- pdb gained the "until" command.
Benjamin Peterson98353942008-05-11 14:13:25 +00002810
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002811- The Mac Modules (including Carbon) have been deprecated for removal
2812 in Python 3.0.
Benjamin Peterson23681932008-05-12 21:42:13 +00002813
Vinay Sajip9828b7e2008-06-17 11:04:02 +00002814- Library: on MacOS X you can now set ``ARCHFLAGS`` in the shell
Ronald Oussoren5640ce22008-06-05 12:58:24 +00002815 environment to control the '-arch' flags that are used to build
2816 an extension. This was added for compatibility with Apple's build
2817 of Python.
2818
2819- The bundled OSX-specific copy of libbffi is now in sync with the version
2820 shipped with PyObjC 2.0 and includes support for x86_64 and ppc64 platforms.
2821
Georg Brandl25c34082008-08-18 23:09:49 +00002822- The threading module gained aliases for names that will be removed in the
2823 3.x series.
Benjamin Peterson0fbcf692008-06-11 17:27:50 +00002824
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00002825Build
2826-----
2827
Martin v. Löwiscc0f2b22008-06-13 18:12:51 +00002828- 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 +00002829
Martin v. Löwis8c255e42008-05-23 15:06:50 +00002830- Patch #1722225: Support QNX 6.
2831
Brett Cannonb61d8012008-05-11 23:39:04 +00002832- ``Lib/lib-old`` is now added to sys.path.
2833
Ronald Oussoren5640ce22008-06-05 12:58:24 +00002834- On MacOS X it is now possible to install the framework in 64-bit
2835 mode or even as a 4-way universal binary (that is, PPC, i386,
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00002836 PPC64 and x86_64 support in one binary).
Ronald Oussoren5640ce22008-06-05 12:58:24 +00002837
2838 This is controlled by the configure argument ``--with-universal-archs``:
2839
2840 - ``--with-universal-archs=all``: install 4-way universal
2841
2842 - ``--with-universal-archs=32-bit``: install 2-way universal, 32-bit (the default)
2843
2844 - ``--with-universal-archs=64-bit``: install 2-way universal, 64-bit
2845
2846 This option should be used in combination with ``--enable-universalsdk=``.
2847
2848 NOTE: 64-bit and 4-way builds are only suppported on Mac OS X 10.5 (or later).
2849
2850
Christian Heimes7a990612008-05-26 13:15:11 +00002851C API
2852-----
2853
Georg Brandl74a1dea2008-05-28 11:21:39 +00002854- Add ``PyType_Modified()`` as a public API to clear the type cache.
2855
2856- The PyBytes functions have been renamed to PyByteArray.
Christian Heimes7a990612008-05-26 13:15:11 +00002857
2858- The PyString functions have been renamed to PyBytes. A batch of
2859 defines were added so that the linker still sees the original
2860 PyString names.
2861
Georg Brandl5e7b1c02008-05-16 17:40:23 +00002862
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00002863What's New in Python 2.6 alpha 3?
Barry Warsaw65475fd2008-03-01 17:11:41 +00002864=================================
2865
Barry Warsaw6cc79402008-05-08 13:16:19 +00002866*Release date: 08-May-2008*
Barry Warsaw65475fd2008-03-01 17:11:41 +00002867
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd21fb4c2008-03-05 01:50:33 +00002868Core and builtins
2869-----------------
Georg Brandl80055f62008-03-25 07:56:27 +00002870
Georg Brandl28e08732008-04-30 19:47:09 +00002871- Issue #2719: backported the ``next()`` builtin from Python 3.
2872
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002873- Issue #2681: The octal literal ``0o8`` was incorrecly acctepted. Now
2874 it properly raises a SyntaxError.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc52167212008-04-24 18:07:05 +00002875
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002876- Issue #2617: Reserved -J and -X arguments for Jython, IronPython and
2877 other implementations of Python.
Christian Heimes7a98d272008-04-12 13:03:03 +00002878
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002879- Implemented PEP 370: Per user site-packages directory.
Christian Heimesaf748c32008-05-06 22:41:46 +00002880
Andrew M. Kuchling46d6b682008-04-30 16:19:55 +00002881Extension Modules
2882-----------------
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00002883
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002884- Issue #2670: Fix a failure in urllib2.build_opener(), when passed
2885 two handlers that derive the same default base class.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc96865852008-04-22 21:14:41 +00002886
Christian Heimese74c8f22008-04-19 02:23:57 +00002887- Added kill, terminate and send_signal(sig) to subprocess.Popen.
2888
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002889- Added phase(z) -> phi, polar(z) -> r, phi and rect(r, phi) -> z to
2890 the cmath module.
Christian Heimes6f341092008-04-18 23:13:07 +00002891
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002892- Four new methods were added to the math and cmath modules: acosh,
2893 asinh, atanh and log1p.
Christian Heimes6f341092008-04-18 23:13:07 +00002894
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002895- zlib.decompressobj().flush(value) no longer crashes the interpreter
2896 when passed a value less than or equal to zero.
Gregory P. Smith671c5d92008-04-09 18:18:43 +00002897
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002898- Issue #1631171: Re-implement the 'warnings' module in C (the
2899 original Python code has been kept as backup). This will allow for
2900 using the 'warning's machinery in such places as the parser where
2901 use of pure Python code is not possible. Both the ``showarning()``
2902 and ``formatwarning()`` gain an optional 'line' argument which is
2903 not called by default for backwards-compatibility reasons. Setting
2904 ``warnings.showwarning()`` to an implementation that lacks support
2905 for the ``line`` argument will raise a DeprecationWarning.
Brett Cannone9746892008-04-12 23:44:07 +00002906
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00002907Library
2908-------
2909
Brett Cannonf8436822008-05-06 23:41:32 +00002910- The audiodev module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2911
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002912- Issue #2750: Add the 'json' package. Based on simplejson 1.9 and
2913 contributed by Bob Ippolito.
Brett Cannon4b964f92008-05-05 20:21:38 +00002914
Martin v. Löwis471617d2008-05-05 17:16:58 +00002915- Issue #1734346: Support Unicode file names for zipfiles.
2916
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002917- Issue #2581: distutils: Vista UAC/elevation support for
2918 bdist_wininst.
Mark Hammond7c5c8e62008-05-02 12:48:15 +00002919
Mark Dickinsonfe536f52008-04-25 16:59:09 +00002920- Issue #2635: Fix bug in 'fix_sentence_endings' textwrap.fill option,
2921 where an extra space was added after a word containing (but not
2922 ending in) '.', '!' or '?'.
2923
Thomas Heller6ad5fbb2008-04-25 15:44:16 +00002924- Add from_buffer() and from_buffer_copy() class methods to ctypes
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00002925 data types.
Thomas Heller6ad5fbb2008-04-25 15:44:16 +00002926
Neal Norwitz2b0bea52008-04-25 03:40:17 +00002927- Issue #2682: ctypes callback functions no longer contain a cyclic
Thomas Hellerbf027c42008-04-24 18:14:19 +00002928 reference to themselves.
2929
Gregory P. Smithd59fefb2008-04-22 08:11:33 +00002930- The getpass module has been improved on Unix. It now uses /dev/tty
2931 by default and uses stderr instead of stdout. A GetPassWarning is
2932 issued when input echo cannot be controlled.
Gregory P. Smith41e30182008-04-21 21:31:08 +00002933
Skip Montanarob131f042008-04-18 20:35:46 +00002934- Issue #2014: Allow XML-RPC datetime objects to have dates before
2935 1900-01-01.
2936
Nick Coghlan106fc482008-04-15 10:25:31 +00002937- Issue #2439: Added new function pkgutil.get_data(), which is a
2938 convenience wrapper for the PEP 302 get_data() API.
2939
Thomas Heller046e6a42008-04-14 16:10:07 +00002940- Issue #2616: The ctypes.pointer() and ctypes.POINTER() functions are
2941 now implemented in C for better performance.
2942
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002943- Issue #2408: The ``_types`` module, which was used as in
2944 implementation detail of the public ``types`` module, has been
2945 removed and replaced by pure python code.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc02f33b42008-04-08 23:10:07 +00002946
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002947- Issue #2513: distutils on Windows is now capable of cross-compiling
Mark Hammond495cf992008-04-07 01:53:39 +00002948 extension modules between 32 and 64 bit platforms. See the distutls
2949 build documentation for more information.
2950
Gregory P. Smithaa63d0d2008-04-06 23:11:17 +00002951- Issue #815646: Individual file objects may now be used from multiple
2952 threads at once without fear of crashing the Python interpreter. If
2953 file.close() is called while an object is in use by another thread
2954 an IOError exception will be raised and the file will not be closed.
2955
Thomas Hellerf7906482008-04-04 19:43:25 +00002956- The bundled libffi copy is now in sync with the recently released
2957 libffi3.0.5 version, apart from some small changes to
2958 Modules/_ctypes/libffi/configure.ac.
2959
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002960- Issue #2385: distutils.core.run_script() makes __file__ available,
2961 so the controlled environment will more closely mirror the typical
2962 script environment. This supports setup.py scripts that refer to
2963 data files.
Fred Drake46c58c12008-04-04 05:41:30 +00002964
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00002965Tests
2966-----
Trent Nelsone41b0062008-04-08 23:47:30 +00002967
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002968- Issue #2550: The approach used by client/server code for obtaining
2969 ports to listen on in network-oriented tests has been refined in an
2970 effort to facilitate running multiple instances of the entire
2971 regression test suite in parallel without issue.
2972 test_support.bind_port() has been fixed such that it will always
2973 return a unique port -- which wasn't always the case with the
2974 previous implementation, especially if socket options had been set
2975 that affected address reuse (i.e. SO_REUSEADDR, SO_REUSEPORT). The
2976 new implementation of bind_port() will actually raise an exception
2977 if it is passed an AF_INET/SOCK_STREAM socket with either the
2978 SO_REUSEADDR or SO_REUSEPORT socket option set. Furthermore, if
2979 available, bind_port() will set the SO_EXCLUSIVEADDRUSE option on
2980 the socket it's been passed. This currently only applies to
2981 Windows. This option prevents any other sockets from binding to the
2982 host/port we've bound to, thus removing the possibility of the
2983 'non-deterministic' behaviour, as Microsoft puts it, that occurs
2984 when a second SOCK_STREAM socket binds and accepts to a host/port
2985 that's already been bound by another socket. The optional preferred
2986 port parameter to bind_port() has been removed. Under no
2987 circumstances should tests be hard coding ports!
2988
2989 test_support.find_unused_port() has also been introduced, which will
2990 pass a temporary socket object to bind_port() in order to obtain an
2991 unused port. The temporary socket object is then closed and
2992 deleted, and the port is returned. This method should only be used
2993 for obtaining an unused port in order to pass to an external program
2994 (i.e. the -accept [port] argument to openssl's s_server mode) or as
2995 a parameter to a server-oriented class that doesn't give you direct
2996 access to the underlying socket used.
2997
2998 Finally, test_support.HOST has been introduced, which should be used
2999 for the host argument of any relevant socket calls (i.e. bind and
3000 connect).
Trent Nelsone41b0062008-04-08 23:47:30 +00003001
3002 The following tests were updated to following the new conventions:
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003003 test_socket, test_smtplib, test_asyncore, test_ssl, test_httplib,
Trent Nelsone41b0062008-04-08 23:47:30 +00003004 test_poplib, test_ftplib, test_telnetlib, test_socketserver,
3005 test_asynchat and test_socket_ssl.
3006
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003007 It is now possible for multiple instances of the regression test
3008 suite to run in parallel without issue.
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00003009
3010Build
3011-----
3012
Mark Dickinson65134662008-04-25 16:11:04 +00003013- Issue #1496032: On alpha, use -mieee when gcc is the compiler.
3014
Thomas Hellerdc96a772008-04-04 10:07:55 +00003015- Issue #2544: On HP-UX systems, use 'gcc -shared' for linking when
3016 gcc is used as compiler.
3017
Ronald Oussoren580c7fe2008-05-02 19:45:11 +00003018- Issue #2573: On MacOS X it is now possible to install the framework
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003019 with a different name using --with-framework-name=NAME.
Ronald Oussoren580c7fe2008-05-02 19:45:11 +00003020
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00003021C API
3022-----
3023
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003024- Added implementation of copysign, acosh, asinh, atanh and log1p to
3025 the new files Include/pymath.h and Python/pymath.h for platforms
3026 which provide the functions through their libm. The files also
3027 contains several helpers and constants for math.
Christian Heimes6f341092008-04-18 23:13:07 +00003028
Benjamin Petersondacde0d2008-05-26 17:43:53 +00003029- Added a new convenience macro, PyErr_WarnPy3k, for issuing Py3k warnings.
Benjamin Petersona692c4d2008-04-27 02:28:02 +00003030
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00003031
3032What's New in Python 2.6 alpha 2?
3033=================================
3034
3035*Release date: 02-Apr-2008*
3036
3037Core and builtins
3038-----------------
3039
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003040- Issue #1733757: The interpreter would hang on shutdown if the
3041 tracing function set by sys.settrace is still active and happens to
3042 call threading.currentThread().
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd7a26512008-04-03 23:07:55 +00003043
Georg Brandl91e0cda2008-03-29 01:50:06 +00003044- Patch #1442: properly report exceptions when the PYTHONSTARTUP file
3045 cannot be executed.
3046
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc69b747b2008-03-28 20:30:50 +00003047- The compilation of a class nested in another class used to leak one
3048 reference on the outer class name.
3049
Georg Brandlfc8eef32008-03-28 12:11:56 +00003050- Patch #1810: compile() can now compile _ast trees as returned by
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003051 ``compile(..., PyCF_ONLY_AST)``.
Georg Brandlfc8eef32008-03-28 12:11:56 +00003052
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003053- Patch #2426: Added sqlite3.Connection.iterdump method to allow easy
3054 dumping of databases. Contributed by Paul Kippes at PyCon 2008.
Gregory P. Smithb9803422008-03-28 08:32:09 +00003055
Georg Brandldeaf2ca2008-03-27 13:27:31 +00003056- Patch #2477: Added from __future__ import unicode_literals.
Christian Heimes3c608332008-03-26 22:01:37 +00003057
Christian Heimes8c78cc32008-03-26 12:53:58 +00003058- Added backport of bytearray type.
3059
Georg Brandl80055f62008-03-25 07:56:27 +00003060- Issue #2355: add Py3k warning for buffer().
3061
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc9a0d3462008-03-23 09:55:29 +00003062- Issue #1477: With narrow Unicode builds, the unicode escape sequence
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003063 \Uxxxxxxxx did not accept values outside the Basic Multilingual
3064 Plane. This affected raw unicode literals and the
3065 'raw-unicode-escape' codec. Now UTF-16 surrogates are generated in
3066 this case, like normal unicode literals and the 'unicode-escape'
3067 codec.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc9a0d3462008-03-23 09:55:29 +00003068
Georg Brandl65bb42d2008-03-21 20:38:24 +00003069- Issue #2348: add Py3k warning for file.softspace.
3070
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003071- Issue #2346/#2347: add Py3k warnings for __methods__ and
3072 __members__.
Georg Brandl07e56812008-03-21 20:21:46 +00003073
Georg Brandl5a444242008-03-21 20:11:46 +00003074- Issue #2358: Add a Py3k warning on sys.exc_clear() usage.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd21fb4c2008-03-05 01:50:33 +00003075
Martin v. Löwisa4d77892008-03-19 04:39:13 +00003076- Issue #2400: Allow relative imports to "import *".
3077
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003078- Issue #1745: Backport print function with ``from __future__ import
3079 print_function``.
Eric Smith7c478942008-03-18 23:45:49 +00003080
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003081- Issue #2332: add new attribute names for instance method objects.
3082 The two changes are: im_self -> __self__ and im_func -> __func__
Neal Norwitzb1d3d962008-03-18 04:46:00 +00003083
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003084- Issue #2379: Raise a Py3K warning for __getitem__ or __getslice__ on
Guido van Rossum6d91be32008-03-18 04:42:22 +00003085 exception instances.
3086
Guido van Rossum04edb522008-03-18 02:49:46 +00003087- Issue #2371: Add a Py3k warning when catching an exception that
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003088 doesn't derive from BaseException.
3089
3090- Issue #2341: Add a Py3k warning when raising an exception that
3091 doesn't derive from BaseException.
Guido van Rossum04edb522008-03-18 02:49:46 +00003092
Neal Norwitz419fd492008-03-17 20:22:43 +00003093- Issue #2321: use pymalloc for unicode object string data to reduce
3094 memory usage in some circumstances.
3095
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003096- PEP 3127: octal literals now start with "0o". Old-style octal
3097 literals are still valid. There are binary literals with a prefix of
3098 "0b". This also affects int(x, 0).
Eric Smith0aed07a2008-03-17 19:43:40 +00003099
Georg Brandl1e7c3752008-03-25 08:37:23 +00003100- Issue #2359: Adding deprecation warnings for array.{read,write}.
3101
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003102- Issue #1779871: GNU gcc can now build Python on OS X because the
Jeffrey Yasskin1b4e45b2008-03-17 14:40:53 +00003103 flags -Wno-long-double, -no-cpp-precomp, and -mno-fused-madd are no
3104 longer passed.
3105
Neal Norwitz400aeda2008-03-15 22:03:18 +00003106- Add a warning when asserting a non-empty tuple which is always true.
3107
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003108- Issue #2179: speed up with statement execution by storing the exit
3109 method on the stack instead of in a temporary variable (patch by
3110 Jeffrey Yaskin)
Nick Coghlan7af53be2008-03-07 14:13:28 +00003111
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003112- Issue #2238: Some syntax errors in *args and **kwargs expressions
3113 could give bogus error messages.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd21fb4c2008-03-05 01:50:33 +00003114
Sean Reifscheider68fa8e62008-03-20 00:50:07 +00003115- Issue #2143: Fix embedded readline() hang on SSL socket EOF.
3116
Andrew M. Kuchling46d6b682008-04-30 16:19:55 +00003117Extension Modules
3118-----------------
Martin v. Löwisaef18b12008-03-24 13:31:16 +00003119
3120- Patch #2240: Implement signal.setitimer and signal.getitimer.
3121
Thomas Heller78b8f442008-03-05 14:53:39 +00003122Library
3123-------
3124
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003125- Issue #2315: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now accounts
3126 for daylight savings time in calculating the next rollover.
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00003127
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003128- Issue #2316: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now
3129 calculates rollovers correctly even when nothing is logged for a
3130 while.
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00003131
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003132- Issue #2317: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now uses
3133 improved logic for removing old files.
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00003134
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003135- Issue #2495: tokenize.untokenize now inserts a space between two
3136 consecutive string literals; previously, ["" ""] was rendered as
3137 [""""], which is incorrect python code.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcda0c0252008-03-27 23:23:54 +00003138
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003139- Issue #2248: return the result of the QUIT command. from
3140 SMTP.quit().
Georg Brandldeaf2ca2008-03-27 13:27:31 +00003141
Christian Heimes8c78cc32008-03-26 12:53:58 +00003142- Backport of Python 3.0's io module.
3143
Mark Dickinson8e85ffa2008-03-25 18:47:59 +00003144- Issue #2482: Make sure that the coefficient of a Decimal is always
3145 stored as a str instance, not as a unicode instance. This ensures
3146 that str(Decimal) is always an instance of str.
3147
Mark Dickinson3b24ccb2008-03-25 14:33:23 +00003148- Issue #2478: fix failure of decimal.Decimal(0).sqrt()
3149
Georg Brandl77354cf2008-03-21 20:01:51 +00003150- Issue #2432: give DictReader the dialect and line_num attributes
3151 advertised in the docs.
3152
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003153- Issue #2460: Make Ellipsis object copyable.
Raymond Hettingerb72233c2008-03-24 08:17:39 +00003154
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003155- Issue #1681432: Add triangular distribution to the random module
Raymond Hettingerbbc50ea2008-03-23 13:32:32 +00003156
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003157- Issue #2136: urllib2's auth handler now allows single-quoted realms
3158 in the WWW-Authenticate header.
Georg Brandl33124322008-03-21 19:54:00 +00003159
Marc-André Lemburga1867752008-03-20 18:08:00 +00003160- Issue #2434: Enhanced platform.win32_ver() to also work on Python
3161 installation which do not have the win32all package installed.
3162
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003163- Added support to platform.uname() to also report the machine and
3164 processor information on Windows XP and later. As a result,
Marc-André Lemburga1867752008-03-20 18:08:00 +00003165 platform.machine() and platform.processor() will report this
3166 information as well.
3167
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003168- The library implementing the 2to3 conversion, lib2to3, was added to
3169 the standard distribution.
Martin v. Löwis5e37bae2008-03-19 04:43:46 +00003170
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003171- Issue #1747858: Fix chown to work with large uid's and gid's on
3172 64-bit platforms.
Gregory P. Smith37f3f432008-03-18 20:40:01 +00003173
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003174- Issue #1202: zlib.crc32 and zlib.adler32 no longer return different
3175 values on 32-bit vs. 64-bit python interpreters. Both were correct,
3176 but they now both return a signed integer object for consistency.
Gregory P. Smithf48f9d32008-03-17 18:48:05 +00003177
Skip Montanaro32ed8c22008-03-15 16:07:11 +00003178- Issue #1158: add %f format (fractions of a second represented as
3179 microseconds) to datetime objects. Understood by both strptime and
3180 strftime.
3181
Mark Dickinsonc23b8a72008-03-14 14:23:37 +00003182- Issue #705836: struct.pack(">f", x) now raises OverflowError on all
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003183 platforms when x is too large to fit into an IEEE 754 float;
3184 previously it only raised OverflowError on non IEEE 754 platforms.
Mark Dickinsonc23b8a72008-03-14 14:23:37 +00003185
Andrew M. Kuchlingaac5c862008-05-11 14:00:00 +00003186- Issues #2166, #1741 and #1531505: now distutils deals with HOME
3187 correctly under win32
3188
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003189- Patch #1858: distutils: added multiple server support in .pypirc
Andrew M. Kuchlingaac5c862008-05-11 14:00:00 +00003190
Facundo Batistac54aec12008-03-08 16:50:27 +00003191- Issue #1106316: pdb.post_mortem()'s parameter, "traceback", is now
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003192 optional: it defaults to the traceback of the exception that is
3193 currently being handled (is mandatory to be in the middle of an
3194 exception, otherwise it raises ValueError).
Facundo Batistac54aec12008-03-08 16:50:27 +00003195
Jeffrey Yasskine75f59a2008-03-07 06:22:15 +00003196- Issue #1193577: A .shutdown() method has been added to SocketServers
3197 which terminates the .serve_forever() loop.
3198
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003199- Issue #2220: handle rlcompleter attribute match failure more
3200 gracefully.
Georg Brandl98aa8052008-03-06 07:45:52 +00003201
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003202- Issue #2225: py_compile, when executed as a script, now returns a
3203 non- zero status code if not all files could be compiled
3204 successfully.
Georg Brandla7bd27f2008-03-06 07:41:16 +00003205
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003206- Bug #1725737: In distutils' sdist, exclude RCS, CVS etc. also in the
Georg Brandl810ea292008-03-06 07:34:52 +00003207 root directory, and also exclude .hg, .git, .bzr, and _darcs.
3208
Thomas Hellerf3c05592008-03-05 15:34:29 +00003209- Issue #1872: The struct module typecode for _Bool has been changed
3210 from 't' to '?'.
3211
Thomas Heller78b8f442008-03-05 14:53:39 +00003212- The bundled libffi copy is now in sync with the recently released
3213 libffi3.0.4 version, apart from some small changes to
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003214 Modules/_ctypes/libffi/configure.ac. On OS X, preconfigured libffi
3215 files are used. On all linux systems the --with-system-ffi
3216 configure option defaults to "yes".
Thomas Heller78b8f442008-03-05 14:53:39 +00003217
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003218- Issue #1577: shutil.move() now calls os.rename() if the destination
3219 is a directory instead of copying-then-remove-source.
Sean Reifscheider493894c2008-03-18 17:24:12 +00003220
Martin v. Löwisd2bbe522008-03-06 06:55:22 +00003221Tests
3222-----
3223
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003224- test_nis no longer fails when test.test_support.verbose is true and
3225 NIS is not set up on the testing machine.
Brett Cannon7919d982008-03-19 16:50:13 +00003226
Brett Cannona5573b32008-03-18 04:16:06 +00003227- Output comparison tests are no longer supported.
3228
Brett Cannonb7ec8e52008-03-18 03:46:22 +00003229- Rewrite test_errno to use unittest and no longer be a no-op.
3230
Brett Cannon0bb79502008-03-18 01:58:56 +00003231- GHOP 234: Convert test_extcall to doctest.
3232
Brett Cannonba17cfc2008-03-18 01:50:25 +00003233- GHOP 290: Convert test_dbm and test_dummy_threading to unittest.
3234
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003235- GHOP 293: Convert test_strftime, test_getargs, and test_pep247 to
3236 unittest.
Brett Cannon6eeaddc2008-03-18 01:00:07 +00003237
Brett Cannon1f5182b2008-03-13 21:09:28 +00003238- Issue #2055: Convert test_fcntl to unittest.
3239
Brett Cannon4a6e8d62008-03-13 21:02:16 +00003240- Issue 1960: Convert test_gdbm to unittest.
3241
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003242- GHOP 294: Convert test_contains, test_crypt, and test_select to
3243 unittest.
Brett Cannon2e0f9f32008-03-13 20:47:41 +00003244
Brett Cannonb8d37352008-03-13 20:33:10 +00003245- GHOP 238: Convert test_tokenize to use doctest.
3246
Brett Cannon66865d22008-03-13 20:27:00 +00003247- GHOP 237: Rewrite test_thread using unittest.
3248
Martin v. Löwisd2bbe522008-03-06 06:55:22 +00003249- Patch #2232: os.tmpfile might fail on Windows if the user has no
3250 permission to create files in the root directory.
3251
Martin v. Löwisbf7b0b72008-03-14 13:56:09 +00003252Build
3253-----
3254
Martin v. Löwiscdbc9772008-03-24 12:57:53 +00003255- A new script 2to3 is now installed, to run the 2.x to 3.x converter.
3256
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003257- Python/memmove.c and Python/strerror.c have been removed; both
3258 functions are in the C89 standard library.
Brett Cannonaa5778d2008-03-18 04:09:00 +00003259
Martin v. Löwisbf7b0b72008-03-14 13:56:09 +00003260- Patch #2284: Add -x64 option to rt.bat.
Barry Warsaw65475fd2008-03-01 17:11:41 +00003261
Christian Heimes3c608332008-03-26 22:01:37 +00003262C API
3263-----
3264
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00003265- Patch #2477: Added PyParser_ParseFileFlagsEx() and
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003266 PyParser_ParseStringFlagsFilenameEx().
3267
Christian Heimes3c608332008-03-26 22:01:37 +00003268
Nick Coghlanbb0996c2006-09-03 01:20:46 +00003269What's New in Python 2.6 alpha 1?
3270=================================
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00003271
Barry Warsaw7c075232008-03-01 02:53:36 +00003272*Release date: 29-Feb-2008*
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00003273
3274Core and builtins
3275-----------------
3276
Fred Drakea8ee94b2008-03-01 02:45:07 +00003277- Issue #2051: pyc and pyo files are no longer created with permission
Barry Warsaw52973612008-03-01 02:23:38 +00003278 644. The mode is now inherited from the py file.
Christian Heimes40346852008-02-23 17:52:07 +00003279
Georg Brandlad61bc82008-02-23 15:11:18 +00003280- Issue #2067: file.__exit__() now calls subclasses' close() method.
3281
3282- Patch #1759: Backport of PEP 3129 class decorators.
Christian Heimes5224d282008-02-23 15:01:05 +00003283
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00003284- Issue #1881: An internal parser limit has been increased. Also see
Facundo Batistafc2d0102008-02-23 12:01:13 +00003285 issue 215555 for a discussion.
3286
Eric Smitha73fbe72008-02-23 03:09:44 +00003287- Added the future_builtins module, which contains hex() and oct().
3288 These are the PEP 3127 version of these functions, designed to be
3289 compatible with the hex() and oct() builtins from Python 3.0. They
3290 differ slightly in their output formats from the existing, unchanged
3291 Python 2.6 builtins. The expected usage of the future_builtins
3292 module is:
3293 from future_builtins import hex, oct
3294
Eric Smith7ef40bf2008-02-20 23:34:22 +00003295- Issue #1600: Modifed PyOS_ascii_formatd to use at most 2 digit
3296 exponents for exponents with absolute value < 100. Follows C99
3297 standard. This is a change on Windows, which would use 3 digits.
3298 Also, added 'n' to the formats that PyOS_ascii_formatd understands,
3299 so that any alterations it does to the resulting string will be
3300 available in stringlib/formatter.h (for float.__format__).
3301
Eric Smith5a3c1352008-02-19 13:21:56 +00003302- Implemented PEP 3101, Advanced String Formatting. This adds a new
3303 builtin format(); a format() method for str and unicode; a
3304 __format__() method to object, str, unicode, int, long, float, and
3305 datetime; the class string.Formatter; and the C API
3306 PyObject_Format().
3307
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003308- Fixed several potential crashes, all caused by specially crafted
3309 __del__ methods exploiting objects in temporarily inconsistent
3310 state.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc632fad32008-02-16 20:55:24 +00003311
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00003312- Issue #2115: Important speedup in setting __slot__ attributes. Also
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003313 prevent a possible crash: an Abstract Base Class would try to access
3314 a slot on a registered virtual subclass.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc60d6c7f2008-02-15 21:22:45 +00003315
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003316- Fixed repr() and str() of complex numbers with infinity or nan as
3317 real or imaginary part.
Christian Heimes2f0da532008-02-15 06:57:08 +00003318
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003319- Clear all free lists during a gc.collect() of the highest generation
3320 in order to allow pymalloc to free more arenas. Python may give back
3321 memory to the OS earlier.
Christian Heimes3b718a72008-02-14 12:47:33 +00003322
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003323- Issue #2045: Fix an infinite recursion triggered when printing a
3324 subclass of collections.defaultdict, if its default_factory is set
3325 to a bound method.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcb01aa432008-02-08 00:56:02 +00003326
Christian Heimesf75dbef2008-02-08 00:11:31 +00003327- Fixed a minor memory leak in dictobject.c. The content of the free
3328 list was not freed on interpreter shutdown.
3329
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003330- Limit free list of method and builtin function objects to 256
3331 entries each.
Christian Heimes6075a822008-02-06 12:44:34 +00003332
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003333- Patch #1953: Added ``sys._compact_freelists()`` and the C API
3334 functions ``PyInt_CompactFreeList`` and ``PyFloat_CompactFreeList``
Christian Heimes422051a2008-02-04 18:00:12 +00003335 to compact the internal free lists of pre-allocted ints and floats.
3336
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003337- Issue #1983: Fixed return type of fork(), fork1() and forkpty()
3338 calls. Python expected the return type int but the fork familie
3339 returns pi_t.
Christian Heimes951cc0f2008-01-31 23:08:23 +00003340
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003341- Issue #1678380: Fix a bug that identifies 0j and -0j when they
3342 appear in the same code unit.
Mark Dickinson105be772008-01-31 22:17:37 +00003343
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003344- Issue #2025: Add tuple.count() and tuple.index() methods to comply
3345 with the collections.Sequence API.
Raymond Hettinger5b07ebc2008-02-07 00:54:20 +00003346
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003347- Patch #1970 by Antoine Pitrou: Speedup unicode whitespace and
3348 linebreak detection
Christian Heimes4d4f2702008-01-30 11:32:37 +00003349
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003350- Added ``PyType_ClearCache()`` and ``sys._clear_type_cache`` to clear
3351 the internal lookup cache for ref leak tests.
Christian Heimes908caac2008-01-27 23:34:59 +00003352
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003353- Patch #1473257: generator objects gain a gi_code attribute. This is
3354 the same object as the func_code attribute of the function that
3355 produced the generator.
Georg Brandl0cdf9a32008-01-26 14:14:20 +00003356
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003357- Issue #1920: "while 0" statements were completely removed by the
3358 compiler, even in the presence of an "else" clause, which is
3359 supposed to be run when the condition is false. Now the compiler
3360 correctly emits bytecode for the "else" suite.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc31eaafe2008-01-24 22:59:25 +00003361
Guido van Rossumeead05f2008-01-24 18:21:02 +00003362- A few crashers fixed: weakref_in_del.py (issue #1377858);
3363 loosing_dict_ref.py (issue #1303614, test67.py);
3364 borrowed_ref_[34].py (not in tracker).
3365
Vinay Sajipd7cf32e2008-01-24 12:43:33 +00003366- Issue #1069410: The "can't load dll" message box on Windows is
Christian Heimesb2302ba2008-01-23 17:15:06 +00003367 suppressed while an extension is loaded by calling SetErrorMode in
3368 dynload_win.c. The error is still reported properly.
3369
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003370- Issue #1915: Python compiles with --enable-unicode=no again. However
Christian Heimes082c9b02008-01-23 14:20:50 +00003371 several extension methods and modules do not work without unicode
3372 support.
3373
Georg Brandl26543b12008-01-21 18:36:51 +00003374- Issue #1882: when compiling code from a string, encoding cookies in the
3375 second line of code were not always recognized correctly.
3376
Georg Brandl14404b62008-01-19 19:27:05 +00003377- Issue #1679: "0x" was taken as a valid integer literal.
3378
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00003379- Issue #1865: ``bytes`` as an alias for ``str`` and b"" as an alias "" were
Christian Heimes288e89a2008-01-18 18:24:07 +00003380 added.
3381
Christian Heimesc94e2b52008-01-14 04:13:37 +00003382- sys.float_info / PyFloat_GetInfo: The floating point information
3383 object was converted from a dict to a specialized structseq object.
3384
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003385- Patch #1816: Added sys.flags structseq. It exposes the status of
3386 most command line arguments and PYTHON* environment variables.
Christian Heimesf31b69f2008-01-14 03:42:48 +00003387
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003388- Objects/structseq.c: Implemented new structseq representation. The
3389 patch makes structseqs (e.g. the return value of os.stat) more
3390 readable.
Christian Heimes9c201962008-01-14 03:33:52 +00003391
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003392- Patch #1700288: added a type attribute cache that caches method
3393 accesses, resulting in speedups in heavily object-oriented code.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arce4c270c2008-01-14 00:29:41 +00003394
Neal Norwitz3fc15b82008-01-10 05:42:58 +00003395- Bug #1776: __import__() no longer accepts filenames on any platform.
3396 The first parameter to __import__() must be a valid module name.
Christian Heimes3403f152008-01-09 19:56:33 +00003397
Georg Brandlaed6c662008-01-07 17:25:53 +00003398- Patch #1668: renamed THREADDEBUG envvar to PYTHONTHREADDEBUG.
3399
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003400- Patch #602345: Add -B command line option, PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE
3401 envvar and sys.dont_write_bytecode attribute. All these can be set
3402 to forbid Python to attempt to write compiled bytecode files.
Georg Brandl2da0fce2008-01-07 17:09:35 +00003403
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003404- Improve some exception messages when Windows fails to load an
3405 extension module. Now we get for example '%1 is not a valid Win32
3406 application' instead of 'error code 193'.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arce0b76952008-01-04 02:04:15 +00003407
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003408- Bug #1481296: Fixed long(float('nan')) != 0L.
Christian Heimes8267d1d2008-01-04 00:37:34 +00003409
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003410- Issue #1640: Added math.isinf(x), math.isnan(x) and math.copysign(x,
3411 y) functions.
Christian Heimese2ca4242008-01-03 20:23:15 +00003412
Christian Heimes0a8143f2007-12-18 23:22:54 +00003413- Issue #1635: Platform independent creation and representation of NaN
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003414 and INF. float("nan"), float("inf") and float("-inf") now work on
3415 every platform with IEEE 754 semantics.
Christian Heimes0a8143f2007-12-18 23:22:54 +00003416
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003417- Compiler now generates simpler and faster code for dictionary
3418 literals. The oparg for BUILD_MAP now indicates an estimated
3419 dictionary size. There is a new opcode, STORE_MAP, for adding
3420 entries to the dictionary.
Raymond Hettingerfd7ed402007-12-18 21:24:09 +00003421
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003422- Issue #1638: %zd configure test fails on Linux.
Christian Heimesdb3d6cb2007-12-16 21:39:43 +00003423
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003424- Issue #1620: New property decorator syntax was modifying the
3425 decorator in place instead of creating a new decorator object.
Christian Heimes90e10e72007-12-14 02:35:23 +00003426
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003427- Issue #1538: Avoid copying string in split/rsplit if the split char
3428 is not found.
Skip Montanaro26015492007-12-08 15:33:24 +00003429
Andrew M. Kuchling395fe442007-12-05 13:27:20 +00003430- Issue #1553: An erroneous __length_hint__ can make list() raise a
Christian Heimes7cc1c6f2007-12-05 12:52:34 +00003431 SystemError.
3432
Nick Coghlanef01d822007-12-03 12:55:17 +00003433- PEP 366: Allow explicit relative imports when executing modules
3434 inside packages with the -m switch via a new module level
3435 __package__ attribute.
3436
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003437- Issue #1402: Fix a crash on exit, when another thread is still
3438 running, and if the deallocation of its frames somehow calls the
3439 PyGILState_Ensure() / PyGILState_Release() functions.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcbe49a902007-11-30 20:37:22 +00003440
Christian Heimes28104c52007-11-27 23:16:44 +00003441- Expose the Py_Py3kWarningFlag as sys.py3kwarning.
3442
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00003443- Issue #1445: Fix a SystemError when accessing the ``cell_contents``
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcce7d10c2007-11-24 13:44:17 +00003444 attribute of an empty cell object.
3445
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003446- Issue #1460: The utf-7 incremental decoder did not accept truncated
3447 input. It now correctly saves its state between chunks of data.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcf57375a2007-11-21 01:38:26 +00003448
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003449- Patch #1739468: Directories and zipfiles containing a __main__.py
3450 file can now be directly executed by passing their name to the
3451 interpreter. The directory/zipfile is automatically inserted as the
3452 first entry in sys.path.
Nick Coghlan327a39b2007-11-18 11:56:28 +00003453
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003454- Issue #1265: Fix a problem with sys.settrace, if the tracing
3455 function uses a generator expression when at the same time the
3456 executed code is closing a paused generator.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc0d75f092007-11-13 21:54:28 +00003457
Raymond Hettinger1760c8a2007-11-08 02:52:43 +00003458- sets and frozensets now have an isdisjoint() method.
3459
Raymond Hettinger3f8caa32007-10-24 01:28:33 +00003460- optimize the performance of builtin.sum().
3461
Neal Norwitz44f326e2007-10-05 05:29:17 +00003462- Fix warnings found by the new version of the Coverity checker.
3463
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003464- The enumerate() builtin function is no longer bounded to sequences
3465 smaller than LONG_MAX. Formerly, it raised an OverflowError. Now,
3466 automatically shifts from ints to longs.
Raymond Hettinger8f669372007-10-03 21:18:11 +00003467
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003468- Issue #1686386: Tuple's tp_repr did not take into account the
3469 possibility of having a self-referential tuple, which is possible
3470 from C code. Nor did object's tp_str consider that a type's tp_str
3471 could do something that could lead to an inifinite recursion.
3472 Py_ReprEnter() and Py_EnterRecursiveCall(), respectively, fixed the
3473 issues.
Brett Cannon0b14f242007-09-30 19:45:10 +00003474
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003475- Issue #1164: It was possible to trigger deadlock when using the
3476 'print' statement to write to a file since the GIL was not released
3477 as needed. Now PyObject_Print() does the right thing along with
3478 various tp_print implementations of the built-in types and those in
3479 the collections module.
Brett Cannon01531592007-09-17 03:28:34 +00003480
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003481- Issue #1147: Exceptions were directly allowing string exceptions in
3482 their throw() method even though string exceptions no longer
3483 allowed.
Brett Cannon4c20bc42007-09-11 21:02:28 +00003484
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003485- Issue #1096: Prevent a segfault from getting the repr of a very
3486 deeply nested list by using the recursion counter.
Brett Cannona0c05512007-09-10 21:38:27 +00003487
Brett Cannon1e534b52007-09-07 04:18:30 +00003488- Issue #1202533: Fix infinite recursion calls triggered by calls to
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003489 PyObject_Call() never calling back out to Python code to trigger
3490 recursion depth updates/checks. Required the creation of a static
3491 RuntimeError instance in case normalizing an exception put the
3492 recursion check value past its limit. Fixes crashers
3493 infinite_rec_(1|2|4|5).py.
Brett Cannon1e534b52007-09-07 04:18:30 +00003494
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003495- Patch #1031213: Decode source line in SyntaxErrors back to its
3496 original source encoding.
Martin v. Löwisa5136192007-09-04 14:19:28 +00003497
Georg Brandl7c3b50d2007-07-12 08:38:00 +00003498- Patch #1673759: add a missing overflow check when formatting floats
3499 with %G.
3500
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003501- Prevent expandtabs() on string and unicode objects from causing a
3502 segfault when a large width is passed on 32-bit platforms.
Neal Norwitz7dbd2a32007-06-09 03:36:34 +00003503
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003504- Issue #1733488: Fix compilation of bufferobject.c on AIX.
Martin v. Löwisda587ab2007-06-08 17:29:20 +00003505
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003506- Issue #1722485: remove docstrings again when running with -OO.
Georg Brandla5ea6892007-06-01 11:33:33 +00003507
Neal Norwitz0ac60192007-05-27 04:08:54 +00003508- Add new attribute names for function objects. All the func_* become
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003509 __*__ attributes. (Some already existed, e.g., __doc__ and
3510 __name__.)
Neal Norwitz0ac60192007-05-27 04:08:54 +00003511
Neal Norwitz8b2bfbc2007-05-23 06:35:32 +00003512- Add -3 option to the interpreter to warn about features that are
3513 deprecated and will be changed/removed in Python 3.0.
3514
Georg Brandl2134e752007-05-21 20:34:16 +00003515- Patch #1686487: you can now pass any mapping after '**' in function
3516 calls.
3517
Collin Winter62903052007-05-18 23:11:24 +00003518- except clauses may now be spelled either "except E, target:" or
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003519 "except E as target:". This is to provide forwards compatibility
3520 with Python 3.0.
Collin Winter62903052007-05-18 23:11:24 +00003521
Brett Cannon229cee22007-05-05 01:34:02 +00003522- Deprecate BaseException.message as per PEP 352.
3523
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003524- Issue #1303614: don't expose object's __dict__ when the dict is
Armin Rigo9790a272007-05-02 19:23:31 +00003525 inherited from a builtin base.
3526
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00003527- When __slots__ are set to a unicode string, make it work the same as
Neal Norwitzcbd9ee62007-04-14 05:25:50 +00003528 setting a plain string, ie don't expand to single letter identifiers.
3529
Raymond Hettinger13936692007-04-11 18:40:58 +00003530- Request #1191699: Slices can now be pickled.
3531
Raymond Hettinger4db5fe92007-04-12 04:10:00 +00003532- Request #1193128: str.translate() now allows a None argument for
3533 translations that only remove characters without re-mapping the
3534 remaining characters.
3535
Georg Brandl5cb76c12007-03-21 09:00:39 +00003536- Patch #1682205: a TypeError while unpacking an iterable is no longer
3537 masked by a generic one with the message "unpack non-sequence".
3538
Neal Norwitzaa754b72007-03-21 06:39:48 +00003539- Remove unused file Python/fmod.c.
3540
Guido van Rossum143b5642007-03-23 04:58:42 +00003541- Bug #1683368: The object.__init__() and object.__new__() methods are
3542 now stricter in rejecting excess arguments. The only time when
3543 either allows excess arguments is when it is not overridden and the
3544 other one is. For backwards compatibility, when both are
3545 overridden, it is a deprecation warning (for now; maybe a Py3k
Guido van Rossum234b1ff2007-03-23 19:39:01 +00003546 warning later). Also, type.__init__() insists on the same signature
3547 as supported by type.__new__().
Guido van Rossum143b5642007-03-23 04:58:42 +00003548
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003549- Patch #1675423: PyComplex_AsCComplex() now tries to convert an
3550 object to complex using its __complex__() method before falling back
3551 to the __float__() method. Therefore, the functions in the cmath
3552 module now can operate on objects that define a __complex__()
3553 method.
Georg Brandl2b869942007-03-17 16:08:45 +00003554
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003555- Patch #1623563: allow __class__ assignment for classes with
3556 __slots__. The old and the new class are still required to have the
3557 same slot names.
Žiga Seilnacht6f2d09c2007-03-16 11:59:38 +00003558
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003559- Patch #1642547: Fix an error/crash when encountering syntax errors
3560 in complex if statements.
Collin Winter77c67bd2007-03-16 04:11:30 +00003561
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003562- Patch #1462488: Python no longer segfaults when
3563 ``object.__reduce_ex__()`` is called with an object that is faking
3564 its type.
Žiga Seilnacht20f43d32007-03-15 11:44:55 +00003565
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003566- Patch #1680015: Don't modify __slots__ tuple if it contains an
3567 unicode name.
Žiga Seilnacht71436f02007-03-14 12:24:09 +00003568
Georg Brandl5240d742007-03-13 20:46:32 +00003569- Patch #1444529: the builtin compile() now accepts keyword arguments.
3570
Georg Brandl7b9c5552007-03-12 14:30:05 +00003571- Bug #1678647: write a newline after printing an exception in any
3572 case, even when converting the value to a string failed.
3573
Georg Brandl871f1bc2007-03-12 13:17:36 +00003574- The dir() function has been extended to call the __dir__() method on
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003575 its argument, if it exists. If not, it will work like before. This
3576 allows customizing the output of dir() in the presence of a
3577 __getattr__().
Georg Brandl871f1bc2007-03-12 13:17:36 +00003578
Collin Winter276887b2007-03-12 16:11:39 +00003579- Patch #922167: Python no longer segfaults when faced with infinitely
3580 self-recursive reload() calls (as reported by bug #742342).
3581
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003582- Patch #1675981: remove unreachable code from ``type.__new__()``
3583 method.
Žiga Seilnacht89032082007-03-11 15:54:54 +00003584
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003585- Patch #1491866: change the complex() constructor to allow
3586 parthensized forms. This means complex(repr(x)) now works instead of
3587 raising a ValueError.
Collin Wintere38051d2007-03-09 20:33:07 +00003588
Georg Brandlaa2321b2007-03-07 00:40:28 +00003589- Patch #703779: unset __file__ in __main__ after running a file. This
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003590 makes the filenames the warning module prints much more sensible
3591 when a PYTHONSTARTUP file is used.
Georg Brandlaa2321b2007-03-07 00:40:28 +00003592
Georg Brandl49aafc92007-03-07 00:34:46 +00003593- Variant of patch #697613: don't exit the interpreter on a SystemExit
3594 exception if the -i command line option or PYTHONINSPECT environment
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003595 variable is given, but break into the interactive interpreter just
3596 like on other exceptions or normal program exit.
Georg Brandl49aafc92007-03-07 00:34:46 +00003597
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003598- Patch #1638879: don't accept strings with embedded NUL bytes in
3599 long().
Georg Brandl00cd8182007-03-06 18:41:12 +00003600
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003601- Bug #1674503: close the file opened by execfile() in an error
3602 condition.
Georg Brandl098cd692007-03-06 12:17:50 +00003603
Georg Brandl0fca97a2007-03-05 22:28:08 +00003604- Patch #1674228: when assigning a slice (old-style), check for the
3605 sq_ass_slice instead of the sq_slice slot.
3606
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003607- When printing an unraisable error, don't print exceptions. before
3608 the name. This duplicates the behavior whening normally printing
3609 exceptions.
Neal Norwitz88516a62007-02-26 22:41:45 +00003610
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003611- Bug #1653736: Properly discard third argument to
3612 slot_nb_inplace_power.
Martin v. Löwisfd963262007-02-09 12:19:32 +00003613
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003614- PEP 352: Raising a string exception now triggers a TypeError.
3615 Attempting to catch a string exception raises DeprecationWarning.
Brett Cannon129bd522007-01-30 21:34:36 +00003616
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003617- Bug #1377858: Fix the segfaulting of the interpreter when an object
3618 created a weakref on itself during a __del__ call for new-style
3619 classes (classic classes still have the bug).
Brett Cannonf5bee302007-01-23 23:21:22 +00003620
Martin v. Löwis6c5c5022007-01-23 21:11:47 +00003621- Bug #1579370: Make PyTraceBack_Here use the current thread, not the
3622 frame's thread state.
3623
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003624- patch #1630975: Fix crash when replacing sys.stdout in
3625 sitecustomize.py.
Thomas Wouters6ed19652007-01-23 13:50:49 +00003626
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003627- Prevent seg fault on shutdown which could occur if an object raised
3628 a warning.
Neal Norwitz72cd02c2007-01-05 05:25:22 +00003629
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003630- Bug #1566280: Explicitly invoke threading._shutdown from Py_Main, to
3631 avoid relying on atexit.
Martin v. Löwis7b7c9d42007-01-04 21:06:12 +00003632
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003633- Bug #1590891: random.randrange don't return correct value for big
3634 number.
Raymond Hettinger94547f72006-12-20 06:42:06 +00003635
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003636- Patch #1586791: Better exception messages for some operations on
3637 strings, tuples and lists.
Georg Brandl283a1352006-11-19 08:48:30 +00003638
Martin v. Löwis056dac12006-11-12 18:24:26 +00003639- Bug #1067760: Deprecate passing floats to file.seek.
3640
Martin v. Löwisa346c092006-11-08 06:48:36 +00003641- Bug #1591996: Correctly forward exception in instance_contains().
3642
Neal Norwitz85dbec62006-11-04 19:25:22 +00003643- Bug #1588287: fix invalid assertion for `1,2` in debug builds.
3644
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003645- Bug #1576657: when setting a KeyError for a tuple key, make sure
3646 that the tuple isn't used as the "exception arguments tuple".
Georg Brandlb9f4ad32006-10-29 18:31:42 +00003647
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003648- Bug #1565514: SystemError not raised on too many nested blocks.
Neal Norwitz21997af2006-10-28 21:19:07 +00003649
Thomas Hellerdf08f0b2006-10-27 18:31:36 +00003650- Bug #1576174: WindowsError now displays the windows error code
3651 again, no longer the posix error code.
3652
Martin v. Löwisb5bc5372006-10-27 06:16:31 +00003653- Patch #1549049: Support long values in structmember, issue warnings
3654 if the assigned value for structmember fields gets truncated.
3655
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003656- Update the peephole optimizer to remove more dead code (jumps after
3657 returns) and inline unconditional jumps to returns.
Neal Norwitzcbeb6872006-10-14 21:33:38 +00003658
Georg Brandl2c1375c2006-10-12 11:27:59 +00003659- Bug #1545497: when given an explicit base, int() did ignore NULs
3660 embedded in the string to convert.
3661
Georg Brandl846f73a2006-10-08 07:11:54 +00003662- Bug #1569998: break inside a try statement (outside a loop) is now
3663 recognized and rejected.
3664
Armin Rigo7ccbca92006-10-04 12:17:45 +00003665- list.pop(x) accepts any object x following the __index__ protocol.
3666
Armin Rigo7ccbca92006-10-04 12:17:45 +00003667- A number of places, including integer negation and absolute value,
3668 were fixed to not rely on undefined behaviour of the C compiler
3669 anymore.
Martin v. Löwis820d6ac2006-10-04 05:47:34 +00003670
Georg Brandl3267d282006-09-30 09:03:42 +00003671- Bug #1566800: make sure that EnvironmentError can be called with any
3672 number of arguments, as was the case in Python 2.4.
3673
Georg Brandl5d59c092006-09-30 08:43:30 +00003674- Patch #1567691: super() and new.instancemethod() now don't accept
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003675 keyword arguments any more (previously they accepted them, but
3676 didn't use them).
Georg Brandl5d59c092006-09-30 08:43:30 +00003677
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003678- Fix a bug in the parser's future statement handling that led to
3679 "with" not being recognized as a keyword after, e.g., this
3680 statement: from __future__ import division, with_statement
Georg Brandla10d3af2006-09-24 12:35:36 +00003681
Neal Norwitz3a230172006-09-22 08:18:10 +00003682- Bug #1557232: fix seg fault with def f((((x)))) and def f(((x),)).
3683
Neal Norwitz4a8fbdb2006-09-22 08:16:26 +00003684- Fix %zd string formatting on Mac OS X so it prints negative numbers.
3685
Brett Cannonf6aa86e2006-09-20 18:43:13 +00003686- Allow exception instances to be directly sliced again.
3687
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003688- Bug #1551432: Exceptions do not define an explicit __unicode__
3689 method. This allows calling unicode() on exceptions classes
3690 directly to succeed.
Brett Cannon9adeab72006-09-20 18:34:28 +00003691
Georg Brandl4e933132006-09-06 20:05:58 +00003692- Bug #1542051: Exceptions now correctly call PyObject_GC_UnTrack.
3693 Also make sure that every exception class has __module__ set to
3694 'exceptions'.
3695
Georg Brandl98775df2006-09-06 06:09:31 +00003696- Bug #1550983: emit better error messages for erroneous relative
3697 imports (if not in package and if beyond toplevel package).
3698
Tim Petersc10c9d02006-09-05 02:18:09 +00003699- Overflow checking code in integer division ran afoul of new gcc
3700 optimizations. Changed to be more standard-conforming.
3701
Neal Norwitz4f096d92006-08-21 19:47:08 +00003702- Patch #1542451: disallow continue anywhere under a finally.
3703
Neal Norwitza22975f2006-09-05 02:24:03 +00003704- Patch #1546288: fix seg fault in dict_equal due to ref counting bug.
3705
Neal Norwitzd34e4272006-09-05 02:36:20 +00003706- The return tuple from str.rpartition(sep) is (tail, sep, head) where
3707 head is the original string if sep was not found.
3708
Neal Norwitzdac090d2006-09-05 03:53:08 +00003709- Bug #1520864: unpacking singleton tuples in list comprehensions and
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003710 generator expressions (x for x, in ... ) works again. Fixing this
3711 problem required changing the .pyc magic number. This means that
3712 .pyc files generated before 2.5c2 will be regenerated.
Neal Norwitzdac090d2006-09-05 03:53:08 +00003713
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00003714- ``with`` and ``as`` are now keywords.
Neal Norwitzca460d92006-09-06 06:28:06 +00003715
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003716- Bug #1664966: Fix crash in exec if Unicode filename can't be
3717 decoded.
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00003718
Guido van Rossumcad37242008-01-15 17:59:29 +00003719- Issue #1537: Changed GeneratorExit's base class from Exception to
3720 BaseException.
Christian Heimes44eeaec2007-12-03 20:01:02 +00003721
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003722- Issue #1703448: A joined thread could show up in the
Gregory P. Smith95cd5c02008-01-22 01:20:42 +00003723 threading.enumerate() list after the join() for a brief period until
3724 it actually exited.
3725
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00003726
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00003727Library
3728-------
3729
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003730- Patch #2274: Add heapq.heappushpop().
Raymond Hettinger53bdf092008-03-13 19:03:51 +00003731
Christian Heimes608c1d82008-03-03 18:28:04 +00003732- Add inspect.isabstract(object) to fix bug #2223
3733
Mark Dickinson1ddf1d82008-02-29 02:16:37 +00003734- Add a __format__ method to Decimal, to support PEP 3101.
3735
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003736- Add a timing parameter when using trace.Trace to print out
3737 timestamps.
Neal Norwitzca376612008-02-26 08:21:28 +00003738
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003739- Issue #1627: httplib now ignores negative Content-Length headers.
Georg Brandl8c460d52008-02-24 00:14:24 +00003740
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003741- Issue #900744: If an invalid chunked-encoding header is sent by a
3742 server, httplib will now raise IncompleteRead and close the
3743 connection instead of raising ValueError.
Georg Brandl23635032008-02-24 00:03:22 +00003744
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003745- Issue #1492: The content type of BaseHTTPServer error messages can
3746 now be overridden.
Georg Brandl16479232008-02-23 15:02:28 +00003747
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003748- Issue #1781: ConfigParser now does not let you add the "default" section
Facundo Batistab12f0b52008-02-23 12:46:10 +00003749 (ignore-case)
3750
Guido van Rossum8bc09652008-02-21 18:18:37 +00003751- Removed uses of dict.has_key() from distutils, and uses of
3752 callable() from copy_reg.py, so the interpreter now starts up
3753 without warnings when '-3' is given. More work like this needs to
3754 be done in the rest of the stdlib.
3755
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003756- Issue #1916: added isgenerator() and isgeneratorfunction() to
3757 inspect.py.
Facundo Batista759bfc62008-02-18 03:43:43 +00003758
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003759- Issue #1224: Fixed bad url parsing when path begins with double
3760 slash.
Facundo Batistad14600e2008-02-18 12:48:43 +00003761
Thomas Hellera06a1a82008-02-13 20:21:53 +00003762- ctypes instances that are not or do not contain pointers can now be
3763 pickled.
3764
Martin v. Löwisdad88dc2008-02-12 18:47:34 +00003765- Patch #1966: Break infinite loop in httplib when the servers
3766 implements the chunked encoding incorrectly.
3767
Mark Dickinsond058cd22008-02-10 21:29:51 +00003768- Rename rational.py to fractions.py and the rational.Rational class
3769 to fractions.Fraction, to avoid the name clash with the abstract
3770 base class numbers.Rational. See discussion in issue #1682.
3771
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003772- The pickletools module now provides an optimize() function that
3773 eliminates unused PUT opcodes from a pickle string.
Raymond Hettingerda614dc2008-02-10 20:35:16 +00003774
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003775- Patch #2021: Allow tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile and
3776 SpooledTemporaryFile to be used in with statements by correctly
3777 supporting the context management protocol.
Nick Coghlanac094dc2008-02-10 07:32:52 +00003778
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003779- Patch #1979: Add rich comparisons to Decimal, and make Decimal
3780 comparisons involving a NaN follow the IEEE 754 standard.
Mark Dickinson2fc92632008-02-06 22:10:50 +00003781
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003782- Issue #2004: tarfile.py: Use mode 0700 for temporary directories and
3783 default permissions for missing directories.
Lars Gustäbel0192e432008-02-05 11:51:40 +00003784
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003785- Issue #175006: The debugger used to skip the condition of a "while"
3786 statement after the first iteration. Now it correctly steps on the
3787 expression, and breakpoints on the "while" statement are honored on
3788 each loop.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc6fd03bb2008-02-04 21:45:05 +00003789
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003790- Issue #1765140: add an optional delay argument to FileHandler and
3791 its subclasses. Defaults to false (existing behaviour), but if true,
Vinay Sajipd7cf32e2008-01-24 12:43:33 +00003792 defers opening the file until the first call to emit().
3793
Raymond Hettingerc226c312008-01-23 00:04:40 +00003794- The pprint module now supports sets and frozensets.
3795
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003796- Issue #1221598: add optional callbacks to ftplib.FTP's storbinary()
3797 and storlines() methods. (Contributed by Phil Schwartz)
Gregory P. Smithc64386b2008-01-22 00:19:41 +00003798
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003799- Issue #1715: include sub-extension modules in pydoc's text output.
Georg Brandlf2dae0e2008-01-21 21:05:49 +00003800
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003801- Issue #1836: fix an off-by-one bug in TimedRotatingHandler's
3802 rollover time calculation.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00003803
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003804- Issue #1021: fix a bug to allow basicConfig to accept NOTSET as a
3805 level.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00003806
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003807- Issue #932563: add LoggerAdapter convenience class to make it easier
3808 to add contextual information in logging output.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00003809
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003810- Issue #1760556: fix a bug to avoid FileHandler throwing an exception
3811 in flush().
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00003812
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003813- Bug #1530959: distutils' build command now uses different build
3814 directory when building extension modules against versions of Python
3815 compiled with ``--with-pydebug``.
Georg Brandl50160152008-01-21 17:42:40 +00003816
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003817- Issue #1555501: move plistlib from plat-mac directory to general
3818 library.
Georg Brandl864de822008-01-21 16:34:07 +00003819
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003820- Issue #1269: fix a bug in pstats.add_callers() and add a unit test
3821 file for pstats.
Georg Brandl66e73632008-01-21 10:24:59 +00003822
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003823- Issue #1669: don't allow shutil.rmtree() to be called on a symlink
3824 to a directory.
Georg Brandl52353982008-01-20 14:17:42 +00003825
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003826- Issue #1664522: in urllib, don't read non-existing directories in
3827 ftp mode, returning a 0-byte file -- raise an IOError instead.
Georg Brandld5e6cf22008-01-20 12:18:17 +00003828
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003829- Issue #856047: respect the ``no_proxy`` environment variable when
3830 using the ``http_proxy`` etc. environment variables in urllib.
Georg Brandl22350112008-01-20 12:05:43 +00003831
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003832- Issue #1178141: add a getcode() method to the addinfourls that
3833 urllib.open() returns so that you can retrieve the HTTP status code.
Georg Brandl9b0d46d2008-01-20 11:43:03 +00003834
Gregory P. Smithf25680a2008-01-20 01:26:04 +00003835- Issue #1003: Fix zipfile decryption check, it would fail zip files
3836 with extended local headers.
3837
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003838- Issue #1189216: Fix the zipfile module to work on archives with
3839 headers past the 2**31 byte boundary.
Gregory P. Smith350d03b2008-01-19 23:10:52 +00003840
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003841- Issue #1336: fix a race condition in subprocess.Popen if the garbage
Gregory P. Smithb9ba0752008-01-19 21:00:37 +00003842 collector kicked in at the wrong time that would cause the process
3843 to hang when the child wrote to stderr.
3844
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003845- Issue #1146: fix how textwrap breaks a long word that would start in
3846 the last column of a line.
Georg Brandlc6fde722008-01-19 19:48:19 +00003847
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003848- Issue #1693149: trace.py --ignore-module - accept multiple
3849 comma-separated modules to be given.
Skip Montanaro562133b2008-01-19 18:47:24 +00003850
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003851- Issue #1822: MIMEMultipart.is_multipart() behaves correctly for a
3852 just-created (and empty) instance. Thanks Jonathan Share.
Facundo Batista2b1b1952008-01-19 12:32:27 +00003853
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003854- Issue #1861: Added an attribute to the sched module which returns an
3855 ordered list of upcoming events (displayed as named tuples).
Raymond Hettinger44bd6c02008-01-17 19:31:38 +00003856
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003857- Issue #1837: The queue module now also supports a LIFO queue and a
3858 priority queue.
Raymond Hettinger3ad2acc82008-01-16 23:49:35 +00003859
Andrew M. Kuchling4a2762d2008-01-20 00:00:38 +00003860- Patch #1048820: Add insert-mode editing to curses.textpad.Textbox
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00003861 (patch by Stefan Wehr). Also, fix an off-by-one bug in
Andrew M. Kuchling4a2762d2008-01-20 00:00:38 +00003862 Textbox.gather().
3863
Thomas Heller02ec2892008-01-16 19:37:33 +00003864- Issue #1831: ctypes now raises a TypeError if conflicting positional
3865 and named arguments are passed to a Structure or Union initializer.
Thomas Heller415c1e32008-01-16 19:45:51 +00003866 When too many positional arguments are passed, also a TypeError is
3867 raised instead of a ValueError.
Thomas Heller02ec2892008-01-16 19:37:33 +00003868
Thomas Heller902d3072008-01-16 19:16:27 +00003869- Convert the internal ctypes array type cache to a WeakValueDict so
3870 that array types do not live longer than needed.
3871
Guido van Rossumcad37242008-01-15 17:59:29 +00003872- Issue #1786: pdb should use its own stdin/stdout around an exec call
3873 and when creating a recursive instance.
3874
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003875- Issue #1698398: ZipFile.printdir() crashed because the format string
3876 expected a tuple type of length six instead of time.struct_time
3877 object.
Raymond Hettinger351e1a32008-01-14 22:58:05 +00003878
Mark Dickinson59bc20b2008-01-12 01:56:00 +00003879- Issue #1780: The Decimal constructor now accepts arbitrary leading
3880 and trailing whitespace when constructing from a string.
3881 Context.create_decimal no longer accepts trailing newlines.
3882
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003883- Decimal.as_tuple(), difflib.find_longest_match() and inspect
3884 functions that returned a tuple now return a named tuple.
Georg Brandl2f32c392008-01-11 09:20:58 +00003885
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00003886- Doctest now returns results as a named tuple for readability:
Raymond Hettingerfff4e6e2008-01-11 01:25:54 +00003887 (0, 7) --> TestResults(failed=0, attempted=7)
3888
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003889- Issue #846388:q re.match is interruptible now, which is particularly
Facundo Batista4473d222008-01-08 21:10:12 +00003890 good for long regular expression matches.
3891
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003892- Patch #1137: allow setting buffer_size attribute on pyexpat Parser
3893 objects to set the character data buffer size.
Andrew M. Kuchlinge0a49b62008-01-08 14:30:55 +00003894
Facundo Batista52b25792008-01-08 12:25:20 +00003895- Issue #1757: The hash of a Decimal instance is no longer affected by
3896 the current context.
3897
Georg Brandl62416bc2008-01-07 18:47:44 +00003898- Patch #467924: add ZipFile.extract() and ZipFile.extractall() in the
3899 zipfile module.
3900
Christian Heimesfb2d25a2008-01-07 16:12:44 +00003901- Issue #1646: Make socket support the TIPC protocol.
3902
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003903- Bug #1742: return os.curdir from os.path.relpath() if both arguments
3904 are equal instead of raising an exception.
Georg Brandl183a0842008-01-06 14:27:15 +00003905
Guido van Rossumc6a04c22008-01-05 22:19:06 +00003906- Patch #1637: fix urlparse for URLs like 'http://x.com?arg=/foo'.
3907
Guido van Rossumced4eb02008-01-05 01:21:57 +00003908- Patch #1698: allow '@' in username parsed by urlparse.py.
3909
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003910- Issue #1735: TarFile.extractall() now correctly sets directory
3911 permissions and times.
Lars Gustäbel2ee1c762008-01-04 14:00:33 +00003912
Christian Heimes06875612008-01-04 13:21:07 +00003913- Bug #1713: posixpath.ismount() claims symlink to a mountpoint is a mountpoint.
3914
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003915- Bug #1687: Fxed plistlib.py restricts <integer> to Python int when
3916 writing
Christian Heimes06131882008-01-04 00:04:52 +00003917
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003918- Issue #1700: Regular expression inline flags incorrectly handle
3919 certain unicode characters.
Guido van Rossumae04c332008-01-03 19:12:44 +00003920
Jeffrey Yasskin2f3c16b2008-01-03 02:21:52 +00003921- Issue #1689: PEP 3141, numeric abstract base classes.
3922
Martin v. Löwis84b9aab2008-01-01 21:09:07 +00003923- Tk issue #1851526: Return results from Python callbacks to Tcl as
3924 Tcl objects.
3925
Thomas Heller153038e2007-12-18 19:00:34 +00003926- Issue #1642: Fix segfault in ctypes when trying to delete attributes.
3927
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003928- Issue #1727780: Support loading pickles of random.Random objects
3929 created on 32-bit systems on 64-bit systems, and vice versa. As a
3930 consequence of the change, Random pickles created by Python 2.6
3931 cannot be loaded in Python 2.5.
Martin v. Löwis6b449f42007-12-03 19:20:02 +00003932
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003933- Issue #1455: The distutils package now supports VS 2005 and VS 2008
3934 for both the msvccompiler and cygwincompiler.
Christian Heimesc654fc22007-12-03 13:55:16 +00003935
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003936- Issue #1531: tarfile.py: Read fileobj from the current offset, do
3937 not seek to the start.
Lars Gustäbel77b2d632007-12-01 21:02:12 +00003938
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003939- Issue #1534: Added a dictionary sys.float_info with information
3940 about the internal floating point type to the sys module.
Christian Heimesdfdfaab2007-12-01 11:20:10 +00003941
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003942- Issue #1429818: patch for trace and doctest modules so they play
3943 nicely together.
Skip Montanaro58a6f442007-11-24 14:30:47 +00003944
Brett Cannon43e53f82007-11-21 00:47:36 +00003945- doctest made a bad assumption that a package's __loader__.get_data()
3946 method used universal newlines.
3947
Nick Coghlan90b858e2007-11-07 11:57:51 +00003948- Issue #1705170: contextlib.contextmanager was still swallowing
3949 StopIteration in some cases. This should no longer happen.
3950
Thomas Heller486b1b02007-11-02 19:10:24 +00003951- Issue #1292: On alpha, arm, ppc, and s390 linux systems the
3952 --with-system-ffi configure option defaults to "yes".
3953
Hye-Shik Changa838a802007-10-28 11:19:02 +00003954- IN module for FreeBSD 8 is added and preexisting FreeBSD 6 and 7
3955 files are updated.
3956
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003957- Issues #1181, #1287: unsetenv() is now called when the
3958 os.environ.pop() and os.environ.clear() methods are used.
Georg Brandl1a94ec22007-10-24 21:40:38 +00003959
Thomas Heller91ac4222007-10-19 18:11:41 +00003960- ctypes will now work correctly on 32-bit systems when Python is
3961 configured with --with-system-ffi.
3962
Thomas Heller7fee6dd2007-10-11 19:51:32 +00003963- Patch #1203: ctypes now does work on OS X when Python is built with
Georg Brandl1a94ec22007-10-24 21:40:38 +00003964 --disable-toolbox-glue.
Thomas Heller7fee6dd2007-10-11 19:51:32 +00003965
Raymond Hettingera7fc4b12007-10-05 02:47:07 +00003966- collections.deque() now supports a "maxlen" argument.
3967
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003968- itertools.count() is no longer bounded to LONG_MAX. Formerly, it
3969 raised an OverflowError. Now, automatically shifts from ints to
3970 longs.
Raymond Hettinger50e90e22007-10-04 00:20:27 +00003971
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003972- Added itertools.product() which forms the Cartesian product of the
3973 input iterables.
Raymond Hettingerc5705a82008-02-22 19:50:06 +00003974
Raymond Hettinger66f91ea2008-03-05 20:59:58 +00003975- Added itertools.combinations() and itertools.permutations().
Raymond Hettinger93e804d2008-02-26 23:40:50 +00003976
Georg Brandlaff85e22007-09-20 16:06:07 +00003977- Patch #1541463: optimize performance of cgi.FieldStorage operations.
3978
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003979- Decimal is fully updated to the latest Decimal Specification
3980 (v1.66).
Facundo Batistab67da232007-09-17 16:26:50 +00003981
Georg Brandl8fd3ecf2007-09-12 19:00:07 +00003982- Bug #1153: repr.repr() now doesn't require set and dictionary items
3983 to be orderable to properly represent them.
3984
Thomas Heller2825b2e2007-09-07 06:32:17 +00003985- A 'c_longdouble' type was added to the ctypes module.
3986
Martin v. Löwis7dcb83c2007-08-30 19:04:09 +00003987- Bug #1709599: Run test_1565150 only if the file system is NTFS.
3988
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003989- When encountering a password-protected robots.txt file the
3990 RobotFileParser no longer prompts interactively for a username and
3991 password (bug 813986).
Skip Montanaro3e275362007-08-29 01:33:45 +00003992
Lars Gustäbel0f4a14b2007-08-28 12:31:09 +00003993- TarFile.__init__() no longer fails if no name argument is passed and
3994 the fileobj argument has no usable name attribute (e.g. StringIO).
3995
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003996- The functools module now provides 'reduce', for forward
3997 compatibility with Python 3000.
Guido van Rossum95f1a1b2007-08-27 20:52:10 +00003998
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003999- Server-side SSL support and cert verification added, by Bill
4000 Janssen.
Guido van Rossum4f2c3dd2007-08-25 15:08:43 +00004001
Bill Janssenf413fb02007-08-30 18:08:06 +00004002- socket.ssl deprecated; use new ssl module instead.
4003
Georg Brandl8ec57542007-08-24 06:10:01 +00004004- uuid creation is now threadsafe.
4005
Hye-Shik Chang23901042007-08-20 06:49:18 +00004006- EUC-KR codec now handles the cheot-ga-keut composed make-up hangul
4007 syllables.
4008
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004009- GB18030 codec now can encode additional two-byte characters that are
4010 missing in GBK.
Hye-Shik Changf3e93a02007-08-04 04:10:18 +00004011
Walter Dörwald6e390802007-08-17 16:41:28 +00004012- Add new codecs for UTF-32, UTF-32-LE and UTF-32-BE.
4013
Martin v. Löwisf1e0b3f2007-07-28 07:03:05 +00004014- Bug #1704793: Return UTF-16 pair if unicodedata.lookup cannot
4015 represent the result in a single character.
4016
Martin v. Löwisf25e35b2007-07-27 18:28:22 +00004017- Bug #978833: Close https sockets by releasing the _ssl object.
4018
Martin v. Löwis254b8f92007-07-25 16:24:23 +00004019- Change location of the package index to pypi.python.org/pypi
4020
Thomas Hellerfa704c62007-07-13 17:12:23 +00004021- Bug #1701409: Fix a segfault in printing ctypes.c_char_p and
4022 ctypes.c_wchar_p when they point to an invalid location. As a
4023 sideeffect the representation of these instances has changed.
4024
Lars Gustäbel104490e2007-06-18 11:42:11 +00004025- tarfile.py: Added "exclude" keyword argument to TarFile.add().
4026
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004027- Bug #1734723: Fix repr.Repr() so it doesn't ignore the maxtuple
4028 attribute.
Neal Norwitzc161cb92007-06-11 07:29:43 +00004029
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004030- The urlopen function of urllib2 now has an optional timeout
4031 parameter (note that it actually works with HTTP, HTTPS, FTP and
4032 FTPS connections).
Facundo Batista10951d52007-06-06 17:15:23 +00004033
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004034- In ftplib, the FTP.ntransfercmd method, when in passive mode, now
4035 uses the socket.create_connection function, using the timeout
4036 specified at connection time.
Facundo Batista92493122007-06-06 15:13:37 +00004037
Hye-Shik Chang9b541402007-06-05 18:58:51 +00004038- Bug #1728403: Fix a bug that CJKCodecs StreamReader hangs when it
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004039 reads a file that ends with incomplete sequence and sizehint
4040 argument for .read() is specified.
Hye-Shik Chang9b541402007-06-05 18:58:51 +00004041
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004042- Bug #1730389: Change time.strptime() to use ``\s+`` instead of
4043 ``\s*`` when matching spaces in the specified format argument.
Brett Cannonf7188ce2007-06-03 23:13:41 +00004044
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004045- Bugs #1668596/#1720897: distutils now copies data files even if
4046 package_dir is empty.
Neal Norwitz4a700bb2007-06-01 07:29:12 +00004047
Brett Cannonc2aa09a2007-05-31 19:20:00 +00004048- sha now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
4049
Brett Cannon7eec2172007-05-30 22:24:28 +00004050- md5 now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
4051
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004052- Issue #1385: The hmac module now computes the correct hmac when
4053 using hashes with a block size other than 64 bytes (such as sha384
4054 and sha512).
Gregory P. Smithe1ac4f12007-11-06 00:19:03 +00004055
Brett Cannonc249bda2007-05-30 21:48:58 +00004056- mimify now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
4057
Brett Cannon90134c92007-05-30 20:46:26 +00004058- MimeWriter now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
4059
Lars Gustäbela0fcb932007-05-27 19:49:30 +00004060- tarfile.py: Improved unicode support. Unicode input names are now
4061 officially supported. Added "errors" argument to the TarFile class.
4062
Facundo Batista711a54e2007-05-24 17:50:54 +00004063- urllib.ftpwrapper class now accepts an optional timeout.
4064
Georg Brandlc90bc752007-05-24 16:49:29 +00004065- shlex.split() now has an optional "posix" parameter.
4066
Brett Cannon41bf2fa2007-05-20 23:57:38 +00004067- The posixfile module now raises a DeprecationWarning.
4068
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004069- Remove the gopherlib module. This also leads to the removal of
4070 gopher support in urllib/urllib2.
Brett Cannond75f0432007-05-16 22:42:29 +00004071
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004072- Fix bug in marshal where bad data would cause a segfault due to lack
4073 of an infinite recursion check.
Neal Norwitzb1a9b372007-05-16 20:05:11 +00004074
Neal Norwitze0e70a42007-05-16 05:06:33 +00004075- Removed plat-freebsd2 and plat-freebsd3 directories (and IN.py in
4076 the directories).
4077
Georg Brandla09a96a2007-05-15 20:19:34 +00004078- HTML-escape the plain traceback in cgitb's HTML output, to prevent
4079 the traceback inadvertently or maliciously closing the comment and
4080 injecting HTML into the error page.
4081
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004082- The popen2 module and os.popen* are deprecated. Use the subprocess
4083 module.
Neal Norwitz42dd86b2007-05-11 06:57:33 +00004084
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004085- Added an optional credentials argument to SMTPHandler, for use with
4086 SMTP servers which require authentication.
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00004087
4088- Patch #1695948: Added optional timeout parameter to SocketHandler.
4089
4090- Bug #1652788: Minor fix for currentframe.
4091
4092- Patch #1598415: Added WatchedFileHandler to better support external
4093 log file rotation using e.g. newsyslog or logrotate. This handler is
4094 only useful in Unix/Linux environments.
4095
Georg Brandlfb4b3b72007-04-24 15:27:13 +00004096- Bug #1706381: Specifying the SWIG option "-c++" in the setup.py file
4097 (as opposed to the command line) will now write file names ending in
4098 ".cpp" too.
4099
Facundo Batistad918a652007-04-24 13:54:38 +00004100- As specified in RFC 2616, an HTTP response like 2xx indicates that
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004101 the client's request was successfully received, understood, and
4102 accepted. Now in these cases no error is raised in urllib (issue
4103 #1177) and urllib2.
Facundo Batistad918a652007-04-24 13:54:38 +00004104
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004105- Bug #1290505: time.strptime's internal cache of locale information
4106 is now properly recreated when the locale is changed.
Brett Cannonc6906652007-04-01 18:47:27 +00004107
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004108- Patch #1685563: remove (don't add) duplicate paths in
4109 distutils.MSVCCompiler.
Neal Norwitz8f35f442007-04-01 18:24:22 +00004110
Facundo Batistab6a5c9d2007-03-29 18:22:35 +00004111- Added a timeout parameter to the constructor of other protocols
4112 (telnetlib, ftplib, smtplib and poplib). This is second part of the
4113 work started with create_connection() and timeout in httplib, and
4114 closes patch #723312.
4115
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00004116- Patch #1676823: Added create_connection() to socket.py, which may be
4117 called with a timeout, and use it from httplib (whose HTTPConnection
Facundo Batista70f996b2007-05-21 17:32:32 +00004118 and HTTPSConnection now accept an optional timeout).
Facundo Batista07c78be2007-03-23 18:54:07 +00004119
Martin v. Löwis0af33882007-03-23 13:27:15 +00004120- Bug #978833: Revert r50844, as it broke _socketobject.dup.
4121
Žiga Seilnacht7492e422007-03-21 20:07:56 +00004122- Bug #1675967: re patterns pickled with Python 2.4 and earlier can
4123 now be unpickled with Python 2.5 and newer.
4124
Collin Wintera8785cc2007-03-19 18:52:08 +00004125- Patch #1630118: add a SpooledTemporaryFile class to tempfile.py.
4126
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004127- Patch #1273829: os.walk() now has a "followlinks" parameter. If set
4128 to True (which is not the default), it visits symlinks pointing to
Georg Brandlcae9f3d2007-03-21 09:10:29 +00004129 directories.
4130
Georg Brandl8f06d022007-03-16 07:55:09 +00004131- Bug #1681228: the webbrowser module now correctly uses the default
4132 GNOME or KDE browser, depending on whether there is a session of one
4133 of those present. Also, it tries the Windows default browser before
4134 trying Mozilla variants.
4135
Collin Winter6f187742007-03-16 22:16:08 +00004136- Patch #1339796: add a relpath() function to os.path.
4137
Georg Brandlab1f4672007-03-15 07:41:30 +00004138- Patch #1681153: the wave module now closes a file object it opened if
4139 initialization failed.
4140
Georg Brandlf66b6032007-03-14 08:27:52 +00004141- Bug #767111: fix long-standing bug in urllib which caused an
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004142 AttributeError instead of an IOError when the server's response
4143 didn't contain a valid HTTP status line.
Georg Brandlf66b6032007-03-14 08:27:52 +00004144
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004145- Patch #957650: "%var%" environment variable references are now
4146 properly expanded in ntpath.expandvars(), also "~user" home
4147 directory references are recognized and handled on Windows.
Georg Brandl03b90d82007-03-13 22:07:36 +00004148
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004149- Patch #1429539: pdb now correctly initializes the __main__ module
4150 for the debugged script, which means that imports from __main__ work
Georg Brandlb6ae6aa2007-03-13 21:58:44 +00004151 correctly now.
4152
Georg Brandlbad6f192007-03-13 21:32:56 +00004153- The nonobvious commands.getstatus() function is now deprecated.
4154
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004155- Patch #1393667: pdb now has a "run" command which restarts the
4156 debugged Python program, optionally with different arguments.
Georg Brandl8e84c652007-03-13 21:08:15 +00004157
Thomas Heller5dc4fe02007-03-13 20:42:52 +00004158- Patch #1649190: Adding support for _Bool to ctypes as c_bool.
4159
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004160- Patch #1530482: add pydoc.render_doc() which returns the
4161 documentation for a thing instead of paging it to stdout, which
4162 pydoc.doc() does.
Georg Brandl8441f152007-03-13 20:02:57 +00004163
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004164- Patch #1533909: the timeit module now accepts callables in addition
4165 to strings for the code to time and the setup code. Also added two
4166 convenience functions for instantiating a Timer and calling its
4167 methods.
Georg Brandld9bef352007-03-13 19:32:21 +00004168
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004169- Patch #1537850: tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile now has a "delete"
4170 parameter which can be set to False to prevent the default
4171 delete-on-close behavior.
Georg Brandl35ef9c12007-03-13 18:31:49 +00004172
Georg Brandl9e6b4702007-03-13 18:15:41 +00004173- Patch #1581073: add a flag to textwrap that prevents the dropping of
4174 whitespace while wrapping.
4175
Georg Brandl92a6bae2007-03-13 17:43:32 +00004176- Patch #1603688: ConfigParser.SafeConfigParser now checks values that
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004177 are set for invalid interpolation sequences that would lead to
4178 errors on reading back those values.
Georg Brandl92a6bae2007-03-13 17:43:32 +00004179
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004180- Added support for the POSIX.1-2001 (pax) format to
4181 tarfile.py. Extended and cleaned up the test suite. Added a new
4182 testtar.tar.
Lars Gustäbelc64e4022007-03-13 10:47:19 +00004183
Martin v. Löwisbdd0f392007-03-13 10:24:00 +00004184- Patch #1449244: Support Unicode strings in
4185 email.message.Message.{set_charset,get_content_charset}.
4186
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004187- Patch #1542681: add entries for "with", "as" and "CONTEXTMANAGERS"
4188 to pydoc's help keywords.
Georg Brandlb6a87542007-03-13 10:06:48 +00004189
Georg Brandl4ffc8f52007-03-13 09:41:31 +00004190- Patch #1555098: use str.join() instead of repeated string
4191 concatenation in robotparser.
4192
Georg Brandl94fe3f52007-03-13 09:32:11 +00004193- Patch #1635454: the csv.DictWriter class now includes the offending
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004194 field names in its exception message if you try to write a record
4195 with a dictionary containing fields not in the CSV field names list.
Georg Brandl94fe3f52007-03-13 09:32:11 +00004196
Georg Brandlceede5c2007-03-13 08:14:27 +00004197- Patch #1668100: urllib2 now correctly raises URLError instead of
4198 OSError if accessing a local file via the file:// protocol fails.
4199
Martin v. Löwis2681beb2007-03-12 11:01:10 +00004200- Patch #1677862: Require a space or tab after import in .pth files.
4201
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004202- Patch #1192590: Fix pdb's "ignore" and "condition" commands so they
4203 trap the IndexError caused by passing in an invalid breakpoint
4204 number.
Collin Winter2faa9e12007-03-11 16:00:20 +00004205
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004206- Patch #1599845: Add an option to disable the implicit calls to
4207 server_bind() and server_activate() in the constructors for
4208 TCPServer, SimpleXMLRPCServer and DocXMLRPCServer.
Collin Winterae041062007-03-10 14:41:48 +00004209
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004210- Bug #1531963: Make SocketServer.TCPServer's server_address always be
4211 equal to calling getsockname() on the server's socket. Fixed by
Collin Winterfaaa2042007-03-10 03:35:34 +00004212 patch #1545011.
Collin Winter22c42ba2007-03-10 02:51:26 +00004213
Andrew M. Kuchlinge45a77a2008-01-19 16:26:13 +00004214- Patch #742598: Add .timeout attribute to SocketServer that calls
4215 .handle_timeout() when no requests are received.
4216
Thomas Heller2456a3c2007-03-09 20:39:22 +00004217- Bug #1651235: When a tuple was passed to a ctypes function call,
4218 Python would crash instead of raising an error.
4219
Thomas Hellerc2f77252007-03-09 19:21:28 +00004220- Bug #1646630: ctypes.string_at(buf, 0) and ctypes.wstring_at(buf, 0)
4221 returned string up to the first NUL character.
4222
Martin v. Löwis1190a382007-03-09 15:35:55 +00004223- Patch #957003: Implement smtplib.LMTP.
4224
Collin Winterfb728de2007-03-09 03:26:32 +00004225- Patch #1481079: add support for HTTP_REFERER to CGIHTTPServer.
4226
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004227- Patch #1675424: Added tests for uncovered code in the zipfile
4228 module. The KeyError raised by Zipfile.getinfo for nonexistent
4229 names now has a descriptive message.
Georg Brandl4b3ab6f2007-07-12 09:59:22 +00004230
Martin v. Löwis05c075d2007-03-07 11:04:33 +00004231- Bug #1115886: os.path.splitext('.cshrc') gives now ('.cshrc', '').
4232
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004233- unittest now verifies more of its assumptions. In particular,
4234 TestCase and TestSuite subclasses (not instances) are no longer
4235 accepted in TestSuite.addTest(). This should cause no
4236 incompatibility since it never made sense with ordinary subclasses
4237 -- the failure just occurred later, with a more cumbersome
4238 exception.
Georg Brandl9caadf82007-03-08 18:37:31 +00004239
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004240- Patch #787789: allow to pass custom TestRunner instances to
4241 unittest's main() function.
Georg Brandld0a96252007-03-07 09:21:06 +00004242
Georg Brandl15c5ce92007-03-07 09:09:40 +00004243- Patches #1550273, #1550272: fix a few bugs in unittest and add a
4244 comprehensive test suite for the module.
4245
Georg Brandl71ff6462007-03-07 08:31:51 +00004246- Patch #1001604: glob.glob() now returns unicode filenames if it was
4247 given a unicode argument and os.listdir() returns unicode filenames.
4248
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004249- Patch #1673619: setup.py identifies extension modules it doesn't
4250 know how to build and those it knows how to build but that fail to
4251 build.
Skip Montanarod1287322007-03-06 15:41:38 +00004252
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00004253- Patch #912410: Replace HTML entity references for attribute values
Martin v. Löwisab8a6bb2007-03-06 14:43:00 +00004254 in HTMLParser.
4255
Georg Brandlff432e62007-03-06 13:37:45 +00004256- Patch #1663234: you can now run doctest on test files and modules
4257 using "python -m doctest [-v] filename ...".
4258
Martin v. Löwis3eb76482007-03-06 10:41:24 +00004259- Patch #1121142: Implement ZipFile.open.
4260
Skip Montanarof694b1b2007-03-04 20:54:12 +00004261- Taught setup.py how to locate Berkeley DB on Macs using MacPorts.
4262
Raymond Hettinger00166c52007-02-19 04:08:43 +00004263- Added heapq.merge() for merging sorted input streams.
4264
Raymond Hettingercd3c1082007-10-23 21:23:07 +00004265- Added collections.namedtuple() for assigning field names to tuples.
Raymond Hettingerc37e5e02007-03-01 06:16:43 +00004266
Raymond Hettingerd36862c2007-02-21 05:20:38 +00004267- Added itertools.izip_longest().
4268
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004269- Have the encoding package's search function dynamically import using
4270 absolute import semantics.
Brett Cannon971a0122007-02-15 22:54:39 +00004271
Lars Gustäbel5b1a7852007-02-13 16:09:24 +00004272- Patch #1647484: Renamed GzipFile's filename attribute to name.
4273
Martin v. Löwis84f6de92007-02-13 10:10:39 +00004274- Patch #1517891: Mode 'a' for ZipFile now creates the file if it
4275 doesn't exist.
4276
Martin v. Löwisc6d626e2007-02-13 09:49:38 +00004277- Patch #698833: Support file decryption in zipfile.
4278
Martin v. Löwis07aa3ed2007-02-13 08:34:45 +00004279- Patch #685268: Consider a package's __path__ in imputil.
4280
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004281- Patch #1463026: Support default namespace in XMLGenerator.
Martin v. Löwis2bad58f2007-02-12 12:21:10 +00004282
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004283- Patch #1571379: Make trace's --ignore-dir facility work in the face
4284 of relative directory names.
Skip Montanaro691acf22007-02-11 18:24:37 +00004285
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004286- Bug #1600860: Search for shared python library in LIBDIR, not
4287 lib/python/config, on "linux" and "gnu" systems.
Martin v. Löwis0a203262007-02-09 12:36:48 +00004288
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004289- Patch #1652681: tarfile.py: create nonexistent files in append mode
4290 and allow appending to empty files.
Lars Gustäbel3f8aca12007-02-06 18:38:13 +00004291
Peter Astrand5f9c6ae2007-02-06 15:37:50 +00004292- Bug #1124861: Automatically create pipes if GetStdHandle fails in
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00004293 subprocess.
Peter Astrand5f9c6ae2007-02-06 15:37:50 +00004294
Georg Brandl4ba9e5b2007-01-27 17:59:42 +00004295- Patch #1634778: add missing encoding aliases for iso8859_15 and
4296 iso8859_16.
4297
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004298- Patch #1638243: the compiler package is now able to correctly
4299 compile a with statement; previously, executing code containing a
4300 with statement compiled by the compiler package crashed the
4301 interpreter.
Georg Brandlab496842007-01-27 17:43:02 +00004302
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00004303- Bug #1643943: Fix time.strptime's support for the %U directive.
4304
Lars Gustäbel0713a682007-02-19 09:54:47 +00004305- Patch #1507247: tarfile.py: use current umask for intermediate
4306 directories.
4307
Georg Brandldd7b0522007-01-21 10:35:10 +00004308- Patch #1627441: close sockets properly in urllib2.
4309
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004310- Bug #494589: make ntpath.expandvars behave according to its
4311 docstring.
Sjoerd Mullender33a0a062007-01-16 16:42:38 +00004312
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00004313- Changed platform module API python_version_tuple() to actually
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00004314 return a tuple (it used to return a list).
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00004315
4316- Added new platform module APIs python_branch(), python_revision(),
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00004317 python_implementation() and linux_distribution().
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00004318
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00004319- Added support for IronPython and Jython to the platform module.
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00004320
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004321- The sets module has been deprecated. Use the built-in set/frozenset
4322 types instead.
Brett Cannon093b6702007-01-13 00:29:49 +00004323
Thomas Heller6fd45492007-01-12 20:21:53 +00004324- Bug #1610795: make ctypes.util.find_library work on BSD systems.
4325
Thomas Heller8138c262007-01-11 21:18:56 +00004326- Fixes for 64-bit Windows: In ctypes.wintypes, correct the
4327 definitions of HANDLE, WPARAM, LPARAM data types. Make
4328 parameterless foreign function calls work.
4329
Thomas Hellerfb9d7872007-01-10 20:12:13 +00004330- The version number of the ctypes package changed to "1.1.0".
4331
Vinay Sajipab41c102007-01-09 14:51:36 +00004332- Bug #1627575: logging: Added _open() method to FileHandler which can
4333 be used to reopen files. The FileHandler instance now saves the
4334 encoding (which can be None) in an attribute called "encoding".
4335
Vinay Sajipc9137262007-01-08 18:52:36 +00004336- Bug #411881: logging.handlers: bare except clause removed from
4337 SMTPHandler.emit. Now, only ImportError is trapped.
4338
4339- Bug #411881: logging.handlers: bare except clause removed from
4340 SocketHandler.createSocket. Now, only socket.error is trapped.
4341
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004342- Bug #411881: logging: bare except clause removed from
4343 LogRecord.__init__. Now, only ValueError, TypeError and
4344 AttributeError are trapped.
Vinay Sajipc9137262007-01-08 18:52:36 +00004345
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004346- Patch #1504073: Fix tarfile.open() for mode "r" with a fileobj
4347 argument.
Lars Gustäbela7ba6fc2006-12-27 10:30:46 +00004348
Andrew M. Kuchling71662322006-12-27 03:31:24 +00004349- Patch #1182394 from Shane Holloway: speed up HMAC.hexdigest.
4350
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004351- Patch #1262036: Prevent TarFiles from being added to themselves
4352 under certain conditions.
Lars Gustäbela4b23812006-12-23 17:57:23 +00004353
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004354- Patch #1230446: tarfile.py: fix ExFileObject so that read() and
4355 tell() work correctly together with readline().
Lars Gustäbel6baa5022006-12-23 16:40:13 +00004356
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004357- Patch #1484695: The tarfile module now raises a HeaderError
4358 exception if a buffer given to frombuf() is invalid.
Georg Brandlebbeed72006-12-19 22:06:46 +00004359
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00004360- Bug #1503765: Fix a problem in logging.config with spaces in comma-
4361 separated lists read from logging config files.
4362
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004363- Patch #1604907: Fix problems in logging.handlers caused at logging
4364 shutdown when syslog handlers fail to initialize because of syslogd
4365 problems.
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00004366
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004367- Patch #1608267: fix a race condition in os.makedirs() if the
4368 directory to be created is already there.
Georg Brandlb1307432006-12-09 09:08:29 +00004369
Georg Brandl87fa5592006-12-06 22:21:18 +00004370- Patch #1610437: fix a tarfile bug with long filename headers.
4371
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004372- Patch #1371075: Make ConfigParser accept optional dict type for
4373 ordering, sorting, etc.
Martin v. Löwisa00bcac2006-12-03 12:01:53 +00004374
Thomas Helleref583a42006-11-28 20:21:54 +00004375- Bug #1563807: _ctypes built on AIX fails with ld ffi error.
4376
Thomas Heller25d208b2006-11-24 18:45:39 +00004377- Bug #1598620: A ctypes Structure cannot contain itself.
4378
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004379- Patch #1070046: Marshal new-style objects like InstanceType in
4380 xmlrpclib.
Martin v. Löwis07529352006-11-19 18:51:54 +00004381
Martin v. Löwiscffcc8b2006-11-19 10:41:41 +00004382- cStringIO.truncate(-1) now raises an IOError, like StringIO and
4383 regular files.
4384
Martin v. Löwisbba003e2006-11-18 18:42:11 +00004385- Patch #1472877: Fix Tix subwidget name resolution.
4386
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004387- Patch #1594554: Always close a tkSimpleDialog on ok(), even if an
4388 exception occurs.
Martin v. Löwisef5fd3e2006-11-18 18:05:35 +00004389
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004390- Patch #1538878: Don't make tkSimpleDialog dialogs transient if the
4391 parent window is withdrawn.
Martin v. Löwisc73a4a42006-11-18 18:00:23 +00004392
Georg Brandl54082112006-11-16 16:50:59 +00004393- Bug #1597824: return the registered function from atexit.register()
4394 to facilitate usage as a decorator.
4395
Martin v. Löwis45cd4ff2006-11-12 18:56:03 +00004396- Patch #1360200: Use unmangled_version RPM spec field to deal with
4397 file name mangling.
4398
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004399- Patch #1359217: Process 2xx response in an ftplib transfer that
4400 precedes an 1xx response.
Martin v. Löwis36cbc082006-11-12 18:48:13 +00004401
Martin v. Löwis065f0c82006-11-12 10:41:39 +00004402- Patch #1355023: support whence argument for GzipFile.seek.
4403
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00004404- Patch #1065257: Support passing open files as body in
Martin v. Löwis040a9272006-11-12 10:32:47 +00004405 HTTPConnection.request().
4406
Andrew M. Kuchlinga3e5d372006-11-09 13:27:07 +00004407- Bug #1569790: mailbox.py: Maildir.get_folder() and MH.get_folder()
4408 weren't passing the message factory on to newly created Maildir/MH
4409 objects.
4410
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004411- Patch #1514543: mailbox.py: In the Maildir class, report errors if
4412 there's a filename clash instead of possibly losing a message.
4413 (Patch by David Watson.)
Andrew M. Kuchling978d8282006-11-09 21:16:46 +00004414
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004415- Patch #1514544: Try to ensure that messages/indexes have been
4416 physically written to disk after calling .flush() or
4417 .close(). (Patch by David Watson.)
Andrew M. Kuchlingb5686da2006-11-09 13:51:14 +00004418
Guido van Rossumaf16ece2008-02-21 19:46:35 +00004419- Patch #1592250: Add elide argument to Tkinter.Text.search.
Martin v. Löwis038cad72006-11-09 11:27:32 +00004420
Guido van Rossumaf16ece2008-02-21 19:46:35 +00004421- Patch #838546: Make terminal become controlling in pty.fork().
Martin v. Löwisb2bba732006-11-09 11:06:03 +00004422
Martin v. Löwis5361e9a2006-11-08 07:35:55 +00004423- Patch #1351744: Add askyesnocancel helper for tkMessageBox.
4424
Martin v. Löwis5310e502006-11-04 18:14:06 +00004425- Patch #1060577: Extract list of RPM files from spec file in
Guido van Rossumaf16ece2008-02-21 19:46:35 +00004426 bdist_rpm.
Martin v. Löwis5310e502006-11-04 18:14:06 +00004427
Georg Brandl2c9838e2006-10-29 14:39:09 +00004428- Bug #1586613: fix zlib and bz2 codecs' incremental en/decoders.
4429
Georg Brandl3354f282006-10-29 09:16:12 +00004430- Patch #1583880: fix tarfile's problems with long names and posix/
4431 GNU modes.
4432
Georg Brandl5addf702006-10-29 08:53:06 +00004433- Bug #1586448: the compiler module now emits the same bytecode for
4434 list comprehensions as the builtin compiler, using the LIST_APPEND
4435 opcode.
4436
Georg Brandl8f99f812006-10-29 08:39:22 +00004437- Fix codecs.EncodedFile which did not use file_encoding in 2.5.0, and
4438 fix all codecs file wrappers to work correctly with the "with"
4439 statement (bug #1586513).
4440
Thomas Heller112d1a62006-10-27 19:05:53 +00004441- Lib/modulefinder.py now handles absolute and relative imports
4442 correctly.
4443
Martin v. Löwisee82c0e2006-10-27 07:13:28 +00004444- Patch #1567274: Support SMTP over TLS.
4445
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004446- Patch #1560695: Add .note.GNU-stack to ctypes' sysv.S so that ctypes
4447 isn't considered as requiring executable stacks.
Martin v. Löwis1b2f6272006-10-22 10:55:15 +00004448
Thomas Hellerd2ea4a22006-10-17 19:30:48 +00004449- ctypes callback functions only support 'fundamental' data types as
4450 result type. Raise an error when something else is used. This is a
4451 partial fix for Bug #1574584.
4452
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004453- Fix turtle so that time.sleep is imported for the entire library.
4454 Allows the demo2 function to be executed on its own instead of only
4455 when the module is run as a script.
Brett Cannond80e0c82006-10-16 03:09:52 +00004456
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004457- Bug #813342: Start the IDLE subprocess with -Qnew if the parent is
4458 started with that option.
Georg Brandld0761532006-10-12 07:57:21 +00004459
Martin v. Löwisf43893a2006-10-09 20:44:25 +00004460- Bug #1565150: Fix subsecond processing for os.utime on Windows.
4461
Martin v. Löwis8b274262006-10-04 15:25:28 +00004462- Support for MSVC 8 was added to bdist_wininst.
4463
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004464- Bug #1446043: correctly raise a LookupError if an encoding name
4465 given to encodings.search_function() contains a dot.
Georg Brandla92979a2006-09-30 11:22:28 +00004466
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004467- Bug #1560617: in pyclbr, return full module name not only for
4468 classes, but also for functions.
Georg Brandl154324a2006-09-30 11:06:47 +00004469
Georg Brandl05b3c452006-09-30 10:58:01 +00004470- Bug #1457823: cgi.(Sv)FormContentDict's constructor now takes
4471 keep_blank_values and strict_parsing keyword arguments.
4472
Georg Brandl8d1e5bf2006-09-30 09:13:21 +00004473- Bug #1566602: correct failure of posixpath unittest when $HOME ends
4474 with a slash.
4475
Georg Brandl8c667452006-09-30 07:31:57 +00004476- Bug #1565661: in webbrowser, split() the command for the default
4477 GNOME browser in case it is a command with args.
4478
Georg Brandl5a85d5c2009-06-24 06:41:19 +00004479- Made the error message for time.strptime when the data and
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004480 format do match be more clear.
Brett Cannon11b35352006-09-26 23:38:24 +00004481
Georg Brandlc7986ce2006-09-24 12:50:24 +00004482- Fix a bug in traceback.format_exception_only() that led to an error
4483 being raised when print_exc() was called without an exception set.
4484 In version 2.4, this printed "None", restored that behavior.
4485
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004486- Make webbrowser.BackgroundBrowser usable in Windows (it wasn't
4487 because the close_fds arg to subprocess.Popen is not supported).
Georg Brandl2c94bf72006-09-24 10:36:01 +00004488
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004489- Reverted patch #1504333 to sgmllib because it introduced an infinite
4490 loop.
Neal Norwitzbcc119a2006-09-11 04:24:09 +00004491
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004492- Patch #1553314: Fix the inspect.py slowdown that was hurting IPython
4493 & SAGE by adding smarter caching in inspect.getmodule()
Nick Coghlanb3c18f82006-09-08 10:04:38 +00004494
Georg Brandl4e933132006-09-06 20:05:58 +00004495- Fix missing import of the types module in logging.config.
4496
Nick Coghlanbb0996c2006-09-03 01:20:46 +00004497- Patch #1550886: Fix decimal module context management implementation
Neal Norwitza22975f2006-09-05 02:24:03 +00004498 to match the localcontext() example from PEP 343.
Nick Coghlanbb0996c2006-09-03 01:20:46 +00004499
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004500- Bug #1545341: The 'classifier' keyword argument to the Distutils
4501 setup() function now accepts tuples as well as lists.
Andrew M. Kuchling99994792006-10-09 17:10:12 +00004502
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004503- Bug #1541863: uuid.uuid1 failed to generate unique identifiers on
4504 systems with low clock resolution.
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00004505
Gustavo Niemeyerc36bede2006-09-07 00:48:33 +00004506- Bug #1531862: Do not close standard file descriptors in subprocess.
4507
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004508- idle: Honor the "Cancel" action in the save dialog (Debian bug
4509 #299092).
Matthias Klosea398e2d2007-01-11 11:44:04 +00004510
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004511- Fix utf-8-sig incremental decoder, which didn't recognise a BOM when
4512 the first chunk fed to the decoder started with a BOM, but was
4513 longer than 3 bytes.
Georg Brandl27562782006-10-27 20:39:43 +00004514
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004515- The implementation of UnicodeError objects has been simplified
4516 (start and end attributes are now stored directly as Py_ssize_t
4517 members).
Walter Dörwald84a3efe2007-06-13 16:57:12 +00004518
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004519- Issue #829951: In the smtplib module, SMTP.starttls() now complies
4520 with RFC 3207 and forgets any knowledge obtained from the server not
4521 obtained from the TLS negotiation itself. Patch contributed by Bill
4522 Fenner.
Gregory P. Smith2b3ba582008-01-17 08:03:17 +00004523
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004524- Issue #1339: The smtplib.SMTP class has been refactored a bit such
Gregory P. Smithbde4ae42008-01-17 08:35:49 +00004525 that the SMTP.starttls() caller no longer needs to call ehlo()
4526 beforehand. SMTP.starttls() now raises an exception of the server
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004527 does not claim to support starttls. Adds the
4528 SMTP.ehlo_or_helo_if_needed() method. Patch contributed by Bill
4529 Fenner.
Gregory P. Smithbde4ae42008-01-17 08:35:49 +00004530
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004531- Patch #1089358: Add signal.siginterrupt, a wrapper around
4532 siginterrupt(3).
Georg Brandl29604a12008-01-26 14:03:47 +00004533
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00004534Extension Modules
4535-----------------
4536
Georg Brandl392c6fc2008-05-25 07:25:25 +00004537- Patch #1657: added select.epoll and select.kqueue.
Christian Heimes0e9ab5f2008-03-21 23:49:44 +00004538
Georg Brandlebcfd112008-02-23 23:04:35 +00004539- Patch #1506171: added operator.methodcaller().
4540
Georg Brandle2065c62008-02-23 23:02:23 +00004541- Patch #1826: operator.attrgetter() now supports dotted attribute paths.
4542
Georg Brandl392c6fc2008-05-25 07:25:25 +00004543- Patch #1957: syslogmodule: Release GIL when calling syslog(3).
Christian Heimesf0476e82008-02-23 17:42:31 +00004544
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004545- Bug #2112: mmap.error is now a subclass of EnvironmentError and not
4546 a direct EnvironmentError.
Facundo Batistae1396882008-02-17 18:59:29 +00004547
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004548- Bug #2111: mmap segfaults when trying to write a block opened with
4549 PROT_READ.
Christian Heimes7adfad82008-02-15 08:20:11 +00004550
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004551- Bug #2063: correct order of utime and stime in os.times() result on
4552 Windows.
Georg Brandl0a40ffb2008-02-13 07:20:22 +00004553
Martin v. Löwise0d30ef2008-02-12 13:47:26 +00004554- Patch #1736: Fix file name handling of _msi.FCICreate.
4555
Hye-Shik Chang01612e72008-02-08 17:10:20 +00004556- Updated ``big5hkscs`` codec to the HKSCS revision of 2004.
4557
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004558- Issue #1940: make it possible to use curses.filter() before
4559 curses.initscr() as the documentation says.
Georg Brandl29604a12008-01-26 14:03:47 +00004560
Christian Heimes7f39c9f2008-01-25 12:18:43 +00004561- Backport of _fileio module from Python 3.0.
4562
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004563- Patch #1087741: mmap.mmap is now a class, not a factory function. It
4564 is also subclassable now.
Georg Brandl5ca3fd82008-01-21 14:18:14 +00004565
Georg Brandl56112892008-01-20 13:59:46 +00004566- Patch #1648: added ``sys.getprofile()`` and ``sys.gettrace()``.
4567
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004568- Patch #1663329: added ``os.closerange()`` function to quickly close
4569 a range of file descriptors without considering errors.
Georg Brandl309501a2008-01-19 20:22:13 +00004570
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004571- Patch #976880: ``mmap`` objects now have an ``rfind`` method that
Andrew M. Kuchling5c60bfc2008-01-19 18:18:41 +00004572 works as expected. ``mmap.find`` also takes an optional ``end``
4573 parameter.
4574
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004575- _winreg's HKEY object has gained __enter__ and __exit__ methods to
4576 support the context manager protocol. The _winreg module also
4577 gained a new function ``ExpandEnvironmentStrings`` to expand
4578 REG_EXPAND_SZ keys.
Christian Heimesb39a7562008-01-08 15:46:10 +00004579
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004580- itertools.starmap() now accepts any iterable input. Previously, it
4581 required the function inputs to be tuples.
Raymond Hettinger47317092008-01-17 03:02:14 +00004582
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004583- itertools.chain() now has an alternate constructor,
4584 chain.from_iterable().
Raymond Hettingerb4cbc982008-02-28 22:46:41 +00004585
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004586- Issue #1646: Make socket support TIPC. The socket module now has
4587 support for TIPC under Linux, see http://tipc.sf.net/ for more
4588 information.
Christian Heimesfb2d25a2008-01-07 16:12:44 +00004589
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004590- Added interface for Windows' WSAIoctl to socket object and added an
4591 example for a simple network sniffer.
Christian Heimes04ae9162008-01-04 15:23:30 +00004592
Guido van Rossum076d9ee2008-01-03 23:54:04 +00004593- Bug #1301: Bad assert in _tkinter fixed.
4594
Christian Heimescdaa2cb2007-12-31 14:47:07 +00004595- Added bdist_wininst executable for VS 2008.
4596
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004597- Bug #1604: collections.deque.__init__(iterable) now clears any prior
4598 contents before adding elements from the iterable. This fix brings
4599 the behavior into line with that for list.__init__().
Raymond Hettingeradf9ffd2007-12-13 00:08:37 +00004600
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004601- Added wide char functions to msvcrt module: getwch, getwche, putwch
4602 and ungetwch. The functions accept or return unicode.
Christian Heimes7c7f6af2007-12-10 15:12:41 +00004603
Martin v. Löwis69233e82007-12-04 08:39:16 +00004604- os.access now returns True on Windows for any existing directory.
4605
Christian Heimes28104c52007-11-27 23:16:44 +00004606- Added warnpy3k function to the warnings module.
4607
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004608- Marshal.dumps() now expects exact type matches for int, long, float,
4609 complex, tuple, list, dict, set, and frozenset. Formerly, it would
4610 silently miscode subclasses of those types. Now, it raises a
4611 ValueError instead.
Raymond Hettinger12e94202007-11-07 01:13:09 +00004612
Martin v. Löwis58bd49f2007-09-04 13:13:14 +00004613- Patch #1388440: Add set_completion_display_matches_hook and
4614 get_completion_type to readline.
4615
Thomas Helleref4fff32007-07-13 17:46:54 +00004616- Bug #1649098: Avoid declaration of zero-sized array declaration in
4617 structure.
4618
Brett Cannondc48b742007-05-20 07:09:50 +00004619- Removed the rgbimg module; been deprecated since Python 2.5.
4620
Neal Norwitz59f58aa2007-05-19 03:48:47 +00004621- Bug #1721309: prevent bsddb module from freeing random memory.
4622
Gregory P. Smith82eafe62007-10-18 17:17:57 +00004623- Bug #1233: fix bsddb.dbshelve.DBShelf append method to work as
4624 intended for RECNO databases.
4625
Gregory P. Smithec10a4a2007-11-05 02:32:26 +00004626- pybsddb.sf.net Bug #477182: Load the database flags at database open
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004627 time so that opening a database previously created with the DB_DUP
4628 or DB_DUPSORT flag set will keep the proper behavior on subsequent
4629 opens. Specifically: dictionary assignment to a DB object will
4630 replace all values for a given key when the database allows
4631 duplicate values. DB users should use DB.put(k, v) when they want
4632 to store duplicates; not DB[k] = v.
Gregory P. Smithec10a4a2007-11-05 02:32:26 +00004633
Gregory P. Smithac11e022007-11-05 02:56:31 +00004634- Add the bsddb.db.DBEnv.lock_id_free method.
4635
Martin v. Löwis3bf573f2007-04-04 18:30:36 +00004636- Bug #1686475: Support stat'ing open files on Windows again.
4637
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004638- Patch #1185447: binascii.b2a_qp() now correctly quotes binary
4639 characters with ASCII value less than 32. Also, it correctly quotes
4640 dots only if they occur on a single line, as opposed to the previous
4641 behavior of quoting dots if they are the second character of any
4642 line.
Georg Brandl4aef7272007-03-13 22:49:43 +00004643
Georg Brandla47337f2007-03-13 12:34:25 +00004644- Bug #1622896: fix a rare corner case where the bz2 module raised an
4645 error in spite of a succesful compression.
4646
Georg Brandl40c62612007-03-06 18:59:11 +00004647- Patch #1654417: make operator.{get,set,del}slice use the full range
4648 of Py_ssize_t.
4649
Guido van Rossum2054ee92007-03-06 15:50:01 +00004650- Patch #1646728: datetime.fromtimestamp fails with negative
4651 fractional times. With unittest.
4652
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004653- Patch #1490190: posixmodule now includes os.chflags() and
4654 os.lchflags() functions on platforms where the underlying system
4655 calls are available.
Martin v. Löwis382abef2007-02-19 10:55:19 +00004656
Georg Brandl983d1002007-02-15 11:29:04 +00004657- Patch #1494140: Add documentation for the new struct.Struct object.
4658
Martin v. Löwis45423a72007-02-14 10:07:37 +00004659- Patch #1432399: Support the HCI protocol for bluetooth sockets
4660
Martin v. Löwisb1cc1d42007-02-13 12:14:19 +00004661- Patch #1657276: Make NETLINK_DNRTMSG conditional.
4662
Martin v. Löwis4c11a922007-02-08 09:13:36 +00004663- Bug #1653736: Complain about keyword arguments to time.isoformat.
4664
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004665- Bug #1486663: don't reject keyword arguments for subclasses of
4666 builtin types.
Georg Brandlb84c1372007-01-21 10:28:43 +00004667
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004668- Patch #1610575: The struct module now supports the 't' code, for C99
4669 _Bool.
Martin v. Löwisaef4c6b2007-01-21 09:33:07 +00004670
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004671- Patch #1635058: ensure that htonl and friends never accept or return
4672 negative numbers, per the underlying C implementation.
Guido van Rossumbb2cc692007-01-14 17:03:32 +00004673
Martin v. Löwis046c4d12006-12-03 11:23:45 +00004674- Patch #1544279: Improve thread-safety of the socket module by moving
4675 the sock_addr_t storage out of the socket object.
4676
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004677- Patch #1019808: fix bug that causes an incorrect error to be
4678 returned when a socket timeout is set and a connection attempt
4679 fails.
Andrew M. Kuchling060e6852008-01-19 20:47:59 +00004680
Neal Norwitz45e230a2006-11-19 21:26:53 +00004681- Speed up function calls into the math module.
4682
Georg Brandl25aabf42006-11-16 17:08:45 +00004683- Bug #1588217: don't parse "= " as a soft line break in binascii's
4684 a2b_qp() function, instead leave it in the string as quopri.decode()
4685 does.
4686
Neal Norwitz4fe44232006-11-21 05:26:22 +00004687- Bug #1599782: Fix segfault on bsddb.db.DB().type().
4688
Martin v. Löwis012bc722006-10-15 09:43:39 +00004689- Bug #1567666: Emulate GetFileAttributesExA for Win95.
4690
Martin v. Löwis18aaa562006-10-15 08:43:33 +00004691- Patch #1576166: Support os.utime for directories on Windows NT+.
4692
Georg Brandl412a9ea2006-10-09 19:03:06 +00004693- Patch #1572724: fix typo ('=' instead of '==') in _msi.c.
4694
Hye-Shik Changb7883462006-10-08 13:48:34 +00004695- Bug #1572832: fix a bug in ISO-2022 codecs which may cause segfault
4696 when encoding non-BMP unicode characters.
4697
Georg Brandl4ddfcd32006-09-30 11:17:34 +00004698- Bug #1556784: allow format strings longer than 127 characters in
4699 datetime's strftime function.
4700
Jack Diederichd10a0f72006-09-21 20:34:49 +00004701- Fix itertools.count(n) to work with negative numbers again.
4702
Martin v. Löwis43fd99c2006-09-16 17:36:37 +00004703- RLIMIT_SBSIZE was added to the resource module where available.
4704
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004705- Bug #1551427: fix a wrong NULL pointer check in the win32 version of
4706 os.urandom().
Georg Brandl74bb7832006-09-06 06:03:59 +00004707
Neal Norwitz6aefa912006-09-02 02:50:35 +00004708- Bug #1548092: fix curses.tparm seg fault on invalid input.
4709
Andrew M. Kuchling62182c82008-01-08 14:56:02 +00004710- Patch #1114: fix curses module compilation on 64-bit AIX, & possibly
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004711 other 64-bit LP64 platforms where attr_t is not the same size as a
4712 long. (Contributed by Luke Mewburn.)
Andrew M. Kuchling62182c82008-01-08 14:56:02 +00004713
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004714- Bug #1550714: fix SystemError from itertools.tee on negative value
4715 for n.
Neal Norwitz69e88972006-09-02 02:58:13 +00004716
Hye-Shik Chang199f1db2006-09-05 12:07:09 +00004717- Fixed a few bugs on cjkcodecs:
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004718 - gbk and gb18030 codec now handle U+30FB KATAKANA MIDDLE DOT
4719 correctly.
Hye-Shik Chang199f1db2006-09-05 12:07:09 +00004720 - iso2022_jp_2 codec now encodes into G0 for KS X 1001, GB2312
4721 codepoints to conform the standard.
Hye-Shik Chang2cad3e92006-09-05 12:14:57 +00004722 - iso2022_jp_3 and iso2022_jp_2004 codec can encode JIS X 0213:2
Hye-Shik Chang199f1db2006-09-05 12:07:09 +00004723 codepoints now.
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00004724
Andrew M. Kuchling43889c02006-09-27 16:37:30 +00004725- Bug #1552726: in readline.c, avoid repeatedly polling in interactive
4726 mode by only placing a timeout on the select() if an input hook has
4727 been defined. This prevents an interactive Python from waking up 10
4728 times per second. Patch by Richard Boulton.
4729
Gregory P. Smithf09c6262007-03-17 22:33:35 +00004730- fixed a bug with bsddb.DB.stat: the flags and txn keyword arguments
4731 were transposed.
4732
Jesus Cea4907d272008-08-31 14:00:51 +00004733- Added support for linking the bsddb module against BerkeleyDB 4.5.x,
4734 4.6.x and 4.7.x.
Gregory P. Smith8b96a352007-01-05 01:59:42 +00004735
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004736- Bug #1633621: if curses.resizeterm() or curses.resize_term() is
4737 called, update _curses.LINES, _curses.COLS, curses.LINES and
4738 curses.COLS.
Andrew M. Kuchling43889c02006-09-27 16:37:30 +00004739
Matthias Klosee19e0c22007-04-03 04:35:59 +00004740- Fix an off-by-one bug in locale.strxfrm().
4741
Matthias Klose38336402007-09-04 20:46:02 +00004742- Fix libffi configure for hppa*-*-linux* | parisc*-*-linux*.
4743
Matthias Klose9afb9852007-10-24 20:00:44 +00004744- Build using system ffi library on arm*-linux*.
4745
Christian Heimes3f065a42007-11-21 01:17:28 +00004746- Bug #1372: zlibmodule.c: int overflow in PyZlib_decompress
Matthias Klosee19e0c22007-04-03 04:35:59 +00004747
Gregory P. Smitheeed5b72008-02-03 07:20:53 +00004748- bsddb module: Fix memory leak when using database cursors on
4749 databases without a DBEnv.
4750
Gerhard Häring11ab8072008-03-02 13:12:27 +00004751- The sqlite3 module was updated to pysqlite 2.4.1.
4752
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00004753Tests
4754-----
4755
Brett Cannon56c4deb2008-03-03 00:38:58 +00004756- Refactor test_logging to use unittest.
Brett Cannonf9db8a32008-02-17 01:59:18 +00004757
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004758- Refactor test_profile and test_cprofile to use the same code to
4759 profile.
Georg Brandlb7090772008-02-05 19:58:17 +00004760
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004761- Make test_runpy reentrant by fixing _check_module to clear out any
4762 module being tested. Was causing an error by __import__ doing a
4763 reload on the second run and thus suppressing bytecode recreation.
Brett Cannondbed7a72007-08-23 14:53:17 +00004764
Brett Cannonea2835a2007-03-14 21:44:15 +00004765- Capture socket connection resets and timeouts in test_socket_ssl and
4766 test_urllib2net and raise test.test_support.ResourceDenied.
Brett Cannoned001842007-03-14 21:40:13 +00004767
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004768- Patch #1559413: Fix test_cmd_line if sys.executable contains a
4769 space.
Martin v. Löwiscd1210a2007-03-14 20:02:31 +00004770
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004771- Added test.test_support.TransientResource which is a context manager
4772 to surround calls to resources that are not guaranteed to work even
4773 if test.test_support.requires says that the resource should exist.
Brett Cannona30fcb42007-03-08 23:58:11 +00004774
Brett Cannone05e6b02007-01-29 04:41:44 +00004775- Added a test for slicing of an exception.
4776
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004777- Added test.test_support.EnvironmentVarGuard. It's a class that
4778 provides a context manager so that one can temporarily set or unset
4779 environment variables.
Brett Cannon92d54d52007-01-04 00:23:49 +00004780
Thomas Heller112d1a62006-10-27 19:05:53 +00004781- Added some tests for modulefinder.
4782
Brett Cannon373d90b2006-10-03 23:23:14 +00004783- Converted test_imp to use unittest.
4784
Neal Norwitz919d5cc2006-09-05 02:35:08 +00004785- Fix bsddb test_basics.test06_Transactions to check the version
4786 number properly.
4787
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004788- test.test_support.catch_warning is a new context manager that can be
4789 used to catch the warnings issued by the warning framework.
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00004790
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00004791Tools
4792-----
4793
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004794- Tools/scripts/reindent.py now creates the backup file using
4795 shutil.copy to preserve user/group and permissions. Added also a
4796 --nobackup option to not create the backup if the user is concerned
4797 regarding this. Check issue 1050828 for more details.
Facundo Batistaf88a0772008-02-17 16:21:13 +00004798
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004799- Tools/scripts/win_add2path.py was added. The simple script modifes
4800 the PATH environment var of the HKCU tree and adds the python bin
4801 and script directory.
Christian Heimesbd865db2008-01-18 11:58:50 +00004802
Skip Montanaro3e275362007-08-29 01:33:45 +00004803- Tools/18n/pygettext.py was added to the list of scripts installed by
4804 Tools/scripts/setup.py (tracker item 642309).
4805
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004806- Added IronPython and Jython support to pybench (part of which was
4807 patch #1563844).
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00004808
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004809- Made some minor changes to pybench output to allow the user to see
4810 which Python version is running pybench.
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00004811
4812- Added support for the new platform module feature
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004813 platform.python_implementation(); this will now be saved in the
4814 benchmark pickle.
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00004815
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00004816
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00004817Documentation
4818-------------
4819
Vinay Sajipd7cf32e2008-01-24 12:43:33 +00004820- RFE #1765140: Updated documentation on FileHandler and subclasses to
4821 include new optional delay argument.
4822
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004823- Bug #932563: Added section on getting contextual information into
4824 logging output, and added documentation for the new LoggerAdapter
4825 class.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00004826
4827- Bug #1295: Added information about caching of formatted exception
4828 information in the LogRecord by Formatter.format().
4829
Georg Brandl9467bc52007-07-12 09:37:49 +00004830- Bug #1637365: add subsection about "__name__ == __main__" to the
4831 Python tutorial.
4832
Georg Brandl3dc6e902007-04-25 06:24:59 +00004833- Patch #1698768: updated the "using Python on the Mac" intro.
4834
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004835- Bug #1569057: Document that calling file.next() when the file is
4836 open for writing is undefined.
Brett Cannon55a18642007-04-08 04:29:32 +00004837
Žiga Seilnachtc64ad482007-03-24 14:24:26 +00004838- Patch #1489771: the syntax rules in Python Reference Manual were
4839 updated to reflect the current Python syntax.
4840
Martin v. Löwis2f401d72007-03-23 10:35:49 +00004841- Patch #1686451: Fix return type for
4842 PySequence_{Count,Index,Fast_GET_SIZE}.
4843
Georg Brandl0692a262007-03-13 07:50:57 +00004844- Patch #1679379: add documentation for fnmatch.translate().
4845
Collin Winterb7b2b4e2007-03-09 18:09:10 +00004846- Bug #1629566: clarify the docs on the return values of parsedate()
4847 and parsedate_tz() in email.utils and rfc822.
4848
Georg Brandld28b9fc2007-03-06 10:02:47 +00004849- Patch #1671450: add a section about subclassing builtin types to the
4850 "extending and embedding" tutorial.
4851
Georg Brandlb26b1c62007-01-17 21:19:58 +00004852- Bug #1629125: fix wrong data type (int -> Py_ssize_t) in PyDict_Next
4853 docs.
4854
Georg Brandla4c8e322006-10-12 08:22:53 +00004855- Bug #1565919: document set types in the Language Reference.
4856
Georg Brandl44a7b3a2006-09-30 12:02:57 +00004857- Bug #1546052: clarify that PyString_FromString(AndSize) copies the
4858 string pointed to by its parameter.
4859
Georg Brandlfb257732006-09-30 09:06:45 +00004860- Bug #1566663: remove obsolete example from datetime docs.
4861
Georg Brandl648c1102006-08-18 07:27:59 +00004862- Bug #1541682: Fix example in the "Refcount details" API docs.
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004863 Additionally, remove a faulty example showing PySequence_SetItem
4864 applied to a newly created list object and add notes that this isn't
4865 a good idea.
Georg Brandl648c1102006-08-18 07:27:59 +00004866
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00004867
Georg Brandl27562782006-10-27 20:39:43 +00004868Tools/Demos
4869-----------
4870
4871- Patch #1552024: add decorator support to unparse.py demo script.
Marc-André Lemburg96148682006-09-06 20:40:22 +00004872
Brett Cannonc8939d22006-09-20 19:28:35 +00004873- Make auto-generated python.vim file list built-ins and exceptions in
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004874 alphatbetical order. Makes output more deterministic and easier to
4875 tell if the file is stale or not.
Brett Cannonc8939d22006-09-20 19:28:35 +00004876
Marc-André Lemburg96148682006-09-06 20:40:22 +00004877- Bug #1546372: Fixed small bugglet in pybench that caused a missing
4878 file not to get reported properly.
4879
4880
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00004881Build
4882-----
4883
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004884- Have the search path for building extensions follow the declared
4885 order in $CPPFLAGS and $LDFLAGS when adding directories from those
4886 environment variables.
Brett Cannon70c0c022008-02-03 09:59:21 +00004887
Christian Heimes951cc0f2008-01-31 23:08:23 +00004888- Bug #1983: Added a check to pyport to verify that sizeof(pid_t) is
4889 smaller or equal sizeof(long).
4890
Christian Heimescba36bb2008-01-30 22:54:18 +00004891- Bug #1234: Fixed semaphore errors on AIX 5.2
4892
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004893- Issue #1726: Remove Python/atof.c from PCBuild/pythoncore.vcproj.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00004894
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004895- Removed PCbuild8/ directory and added a new build directory for VS
4896 2005 based on the VS 2008 build directory to PC/VS8.0. The script
4897 PCbuild/vs8to9.py was added to sync changes from PCbuild to
4898 PC/VS8.0.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00004899
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004900- Moved PCbuild/ directory for VS 2003 to PC/VS7.1 and renamed
4901 PCBuild9/ directory to PCBuild/.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00004902
Martin v. Löwiscb78de62007-12-29 18:49:21 +00004903- Bug #1699: Define _BSD_SOURCE only on OpenBSD.
4904
Guido van Rossum7c862f82007-12-13 20:50:10 +00004905- Bug #1608: use -fwrapv when GCC supports it. This is important,
4906 newer GCC versions may optimize away overflow buffer overflow checks
4907 without this option!
4908
Martin v. Löwis63bf1492007-11-12 05:14:05 +00004909- Patch #1418: Make the AC_REPLACE_FUNCS object files actually work.
4910
Raymond Hettingerdc1d1ba2007-11-07 02:45:46 +00004911- Add a FAST_LOOPS build option that speeds-up looping by trading away
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004912 periodic threadstate and signal checking in tight loops. By
4913 default, this option is turned-off. It should only be enabled in
4914 debugged, performance critical applications.
Raymond Hettingerdc1d1ba2007-11-07 02:45:46 +00004915
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004916- Patch #786737: Allow building in a tree of symlinks pointing to a
4917 readonly source.
Martin v. Löwisd44a4e92007-09-05 11:47:34 +00004918
Martin v. Löwis8bc77e42007-09-01 06:36:03 +00004919- Bug #1737210: Change Manufacturer of Windows installer to PSF.
4920
Martin v. Löwis75c23bd2007-08-30 18:25:47 +00004921- Bug #1746880: Correctly install DLLs into system32 folder on Win64.
4922
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004923- Define _BSD_SOURCE, to get access to POSIX extensions on OpenBSD
4924 4.1+.
Martin v. Löwis76760b02007-07-31 19:57:56 +00004925
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004926- Stop supporting AtheOS and cause a build error in configure for the
4927 platform.
Brett Cannon19fab762007-06-02 03:02:29 +00004928
Georg Brandldb846032007-03-31 18:56:11 +00004929- Bug #1655392: don't add -L/usr/lib/pythonX.Y/config to the LDFLAGS
4930 returned by python-config if Python was built with --enable-shared
4931 because that prevented the shared library from being used.
4932
Georg Brandl18c47f62007-03-13 10:19:22 +00004933- Patch #1569798: fix a bug in distutils when building Python from a
4934 directory within sys.exec_prefix.
4935
Martin v. Löwiseb623572007-03-12 10:50:39 +00004936- Bug #1675511: Use -Kpic instead of -xcode=pic32 on Solaris/x86.
4937
Martin v. Löwis4d542ec2006-11-25 15:39:19 +00004938- Disable _XOPEN_SOURCE on NetBSD 1.x.
4939
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004940- configure now checks whether gcc supports the PyArg_ParseTuple
4941 format attribute.
Martin v. Löwisaac13162006-10-19 10:58:46 +00004942
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00004943- Bug #1578513: Cross compilation was broken by a change to configure.
Martin v. Löwisfefbc202006-10-17 18:59:23 +00004944 Repair so that it's back to how it was in 2.4.3.
4945
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004946- Patch #1576954: Update VC6 build directory; remove redundant files
4947 in VC7.
Martin v. Löwisc9e82f62006-10-15 07:54:40 +00004948
Martin v. Löwisebe26702006-10-02 14:55:51 +00004949- Bug #1568842: Fix test for uintptr_t.
4950
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004951- Patch #1540470: for OpenBSD 4.0.
Neal Norwitz4bc2c092006-09-05 02:57:01 +00004952
Matthias Klosed149d0c2006-12-03 17:16:41 +00004953- Fix build failure on kfreebsd and on the hurd.
4954
Matthias Kloseebde1492006-12-09 12:15:27 +00004955- Fix the build of the library reference in info format.
4956
Matthias Kloseeb8ff672007-08-02 21:33:13 +00004957- Allow Emacs 22 for building the documentation in info format.
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00004958
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004959- Makefile.pre.in(buildbottest): Run an optional script
4960 pybuildbot.identify to include some information about the build
4961 environment.
Matthias Klose642ac852007-09-04 18:17:36 +00004962
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00004963
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00004964C API
4965-----
4966
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004967- Unified naming convention for free lists and their limits. All free
4968 lists in Object/ are named ``free_list``, the counter ``numfree``
4969 and the upper limit is a macro ``PyName_MAXFREELIST`` inside an
4970 #ifndef block.
Christian Heimes5b970ad2008-02-06 13:33:44 +00004971
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004972- ``PySet_Add()`` can now modify a newly created frozenset. Similarly
4973 to ``PyTuple_SetItem``, it can be used to populate a brand new
4974 frozenset; but it does not steal a reference to the added item.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arccab3d982008-02-03 22:51:43 +00004975
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00004976- Added ``PySet_Check()`` and ``PyFrozenSet_Check()`` to the set API.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arccab3d982008-02-03 22:51:43 +00004977
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004978- Backport of PyUnicode_FromString(), _FromStringAndSize(), _Format
4979 and _FormatV from Python 3.0. Made PyLong_AsSsize_t and
4980 PyLong_FromSsize_t public functions.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00004981
4982- Patch #1720595: add T_BOOL to the range of structmember types.
4983
4984- Issue #1534: Added ``PyFloat_GetMax()``, ``PyFloat_GetMin()`` and
4985 ``PyFloat_GetInfo()`` to the float API.
4986
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004987- Issue #1521: On 64bit platforms, using PyArgs_ParseTuple with the t#
4988 of w# format code incorrectly truncated the length to an int, even
4989 when PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN is set. The str.decode method used to return
4990 incorrect results with huge strings.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00004991
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004992- Issue #1629: Renamed Py_Size, Py_Type and Py_Refcnt to Py_SIZE,
4993 Py_TYPE and Py_REFCNT.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00004994
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004995- PEP 3123: Provide forward compatibility with Python 3.0, while
4996 keeping backwards compatibility. Add Py_Refcnt, Py_Type, Py_Size,
4997 and PyVarObject_HEAD_INIT.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00004998
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004999- Py_ssize_t fields work in structmember when HAVE_LONG_LONG is not
5000 defined.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00005001
5002- Patch #1733960: Allow T_LONGLONG to accept ints.
5003
5004- T_PYSSIZET can now be used in PyMemberDef lists for Py_ssize_t members.
5005
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00005006- Added a new API function ``PyImport_ImportModuleNoBlock``.
5007
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00005008- Bug #1637022: Prefix AST symbols with _Py_.
5009
5010- Fix some leftovers from the conversion from int to Py_ssize_t
5011 (relevant to strings and sequences of more than 2**31 items).
5012
5013- Make _PyGILState_NoteThreadState() static, it was not used anywhere
5014 outside of pystate.c and should not be necessary.
5015
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005016- ``PyImport_Import`` and ``PyImport_ImportModule`` now always do
5017 absolute imports. In earlier versions they might have used relative
5018 imports under some conditions.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00005019
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005020- Added case insensitive comparison methods ``PyOS_stricmp(char*,
5021 char*)`` and ``PyOS_strnicmp(char*, char*, Py_ssize_t)``.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00005022
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005023- Bug #1542693: remove semi-colon at end of PyImport_ImportModuleEx
5024 macro so it can be used as an expression.
Neal Norwitz8a267062006-08-19 04:25:29 +00005025
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00005026
Martin v. Löwis2607e6c2006-11-21 18:20:25 +00005027Windows
5028-------
5029
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005030- Patch #1706: Drop support for Win9x, WinME and NT4. Python now
5031 requires Windows 2000 or greater. The _WINVER and NTDDI_VERSION
5032 macros are set to Win2k for x86/32bit builds and WinXP for AMD64
5033 builds.
Christian Heimes95d64472008-02-09 19:55:22 +00005034
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005035- Conditionalize definition of _CRT_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE and
5036 _CRT_NONSTDC_NO_DEPRECATE.
Martin v. Löwis2607e6c2006-11-21 18:20:25 +00005037
Martin v. Löwisd476a402007-10-12 08:56:52 +00005038- Bug #1216: Restore support for Visual Studio 2002.
5039
Martin v. Löwis2607e6c2006-11-21 18:20:25 +00005040
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00005041Mac
5042---
5043
Brett Cannonf0cb1d72007-05-31 20:01:11 +00005044- cfmfile now raises a DeprecationWarning.
5045
Brett Cannon791d56f2007-05-31 19:40:42 +00005046- buildtools now raises a DeprecationWarning.
5047
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005048- Removed the macfs module. It had been deprecated since Python 2.5.
5049 This lead to the deprecation of macostools.touched() as it relied
5050 solely on macfs and was a no-op under OS X.
Brett Cannon5e263512007-05-20 23:17:38 +00005051
Skip Montanaroe5d7f7f2002-09-20 14:16:59 +00005052----
5053
5054**(For information about older versions, consult the HISTORY file.)**