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Georg Brandld8fb6ac2009-04-01 00:04:33 +00001Python News
Skip Montanaroe5d7f7f2002-09-20 14:16:59 +00002+++++++++++
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Benjamin Petersona84f4682012-03-07 19:17:57 -06004What's New in Python 2.7.4
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Victor Stinner08563d92011-05-30 23:44:13 +02006
Benjamin Petersona84f4682012-03-07 19:17:57 -06007*Release date: XXXX-XX-XX*
Victor Stinner08563d92011-05-30 23:44:13 +02008
9Core and Builtins
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11
Antoine Pitrouff0e22b2012-05-28 22:22:34 +020012- Issue #14775: Fix a potential quadratic dict build-up due to the garbage
13 collector repeatedly trying to untrack dicts.
14
Petri Lehtinen5f397062012-05-19 18:34:06 +030015- Issue #14494: Fix __future__.py and its documentation to note that
16 absolute imports are the default behavior in 3.0 instead of 2.7.
17 Patch by Sven Marnach.
18
Antoine Pitrou284fa082012-05-09 13:24:31 +020019- Issue #14761: Fix potential leak on an error case in the import machinery.
20
Benjamin Peterson042c47b2012-05-01 09:51:09 -040021- Issue #14699: Fix calling the classmethod descriptor directly.
22
Benjamin Petersond157a4c2012-04-24 11:06:25 -040023- Issue #11603 (again): Setting __repr__ to __str__ now raises a RuntimeError
24 when repr() or str() is called on such an object.
25
26- Issue #14658: Fix binding a special method to a builtin implementation of a
27 special method with a different name.
28
Benjamin Peterson76605552012-04-18 11:14:31 -040029- Issue #14612: Fix jumping around with blocks by setting f_lineno.
30
Mark Dickinson9c0baf72012-04-15 15:19:06 +010031- Issue #13889: Check and (if necessary) set FPU control word before calling
32 any of the dtoa.c string <-> float conversion functions, on MSVC builds of
33 Python. This fixes issues when embedding Python in a Delphi app.
34
Antoine Pitrou02a38012012-04-05 14:07:52 +020035- Issue #14505: Fix file descriptor leak when deallocating file objects
36 created with PyFile_FromString().
37
Benjamin Petersonf73813a2012-04-02 11:15:17 -040038- Issue #14474: Save and restore exception state in thread.start_new_thread()
39 while writing error message if the thread leaves a unhandled exception.
40
Antoine Pitroufe941772012-04-01 16:05:46 +020041- Issue #13019: Fix potential reference leaks in bytearray.extend(). Patch
42 by Suman Saha.
43
Benjamin Petersoneff19a12012-03-22 08:19:04 -040044- Issue #14378: Fix compiling ast.ImportFrom nodes with a "__future__" string as
45 the module name that was not interned.
46
Gregory P. Smithfcdf04b2012-03-18 16:07:10 -070047- Issue #14331: Use significantly less stack space when importing modules by
48 allocating path buffers on the heap instead of the stack.
49
Benjamin Peterson6e7832b2012-03-16 09:32:59 -050050- Issue #14334: Prevent in a segfault in type.__getattribute__ when it was not
Benjamin Petersondbc52f82012-03-16 10:58:46 -050051 passed strings. Also fix segfaults in the __getattribute__ and __setattr__
52 methods of old-style classes.
Benjamin Peterson6e7832b2012-03-16 09:32:59 -050053
Ezio Melotti11f8b682012-03-12 01:17:02 +020054- Issue #14161: fix the __repr__ of file objects to escape the file name.
55
Benjamin Petersona8d45852012-03-07 18:41:11 -060056- Issue #1469629: Allow cycles through an object's __dict__ slot to be
57 collected. (For example if ``x.__dict__ is x``).
58
Antoine Pitrou6a1cd1b2012-02-27 00:45:12 +010059- Issue #13521: dict.setdefault() now does only one lookup for the given key,
60 making it "atomic" for many purposes. Patch by Filip Gruszczyński.
61
krisvale479c8f82012-03-22 20:17:42 +000062- Issue #10538: When using the "s*" code with PyArg_ParseTuple() to fill a
63 Py_buffer structure with data from an object supporting only the old
64 PyBuffer interface, a reference to the source objects is now properly added
65 to the Py_buffer.obj member.
66
Benjamin Petersona84f4682012-03-07 19:17:57 -060067Library
68-------
69
Petri Lehtinen7cf66992012-06-15 20:50:51 +030070- Issue #15036: Allow removing or changing multiple items in
71 single-file mailboxes (mbox, MMDF, Babyl) flushing the mailbox
72 between the changes.
73
Richard Oudkerk926f58d2012-06-11 15:11:35 +010074- Issue #10133: Make multiprocessing deallocate buffer if socket read
75 fails. Patch by Hallvard B Furuseth.
76
Richard Oudkerk2182e052012-06-06 19:01:14 +010077- Issue #13854: Make multiprocessing properly handle non-integer
78 non-string argument to SystemExit.
79
Richard Oudkerkd44a4a22012-06-06 17:52:18 +010080- Issue #12157: Make pool.map() empty iterables correctly. Initial
81 patch by mouad.
82
Ned Deily5e247b72012-05-31 09:17:29 -070083- Issue #14962: Update text coloring in IDLE shell window after changing
84 options. Patch by Roger Serwy.
85
Ned Deily71489842012-05-29 10:42:34 -070086- Issue #10997: Prevent a duplicate entry in IDLE's "Recent Files" menu.
87
Terry Jan Reedy5525eb72012-06-07 19:50:30 -040088- Issue #12510: Attempting to get invalid tooltip no longer closes Idle.
Terry Jan Reedyd9d276b2012-05-27 21:28:42 -040089 Original patch by Roger Serwy.
90
Terry Jan Reedyeaa7e782012-05-26 20:33:32 -040091- Issue #10365: File open dialog now works instead of crashing
92 even when parent window is closed. Patch by Roger Serwy.
93
Terry Jan Reedy42f7b7e2012-05-26 16:55:43 -040094- Issue #14876: Use user-selected font for highlight configuration.
95 Patch by Roger Serwy.
96
Senthil Kumaran37484dc2012-05-24 21:54:34 +080097- Issue #14036: Add an additional check to validate that port in urlparse does
98 not go in illegal range and returns None.
99
Antoine Pitroucd8799f2012-05-23 23:16:14 +0200100- Issue #14888: Fix misbehaviour of the _md5 module when called on data
101 larger than 2**32 bytes.
102
Ezio Melottied8cf7a2012-05-21 17:46:55 -0600103- Issue #14875: Use float('inf') instead of float('1e66666') in the json module.
104
Ned Deily77e77a12012-05-19 23:35:05 -0700105- Issue #14572: Prevent build failures with pre-3.5.0 versions of
106 sqlite3, such as was shipped with Centos 5 and Mac OS X 10.4.
107
Senthil Kumaranf439a362012-05-20 12:02:44 +0800108- Issue #14426: Correct the Date format in Expires attribute of Set-Cookie
109 Header in Cookie.py.
110
Senthil Kumaran618802d2012-05-19 16:52:21 +0800111- Issue #14721: Send proper header, Content-length: 0 when the body is an empty
112 string ''. Initial Patch contributed by Arve Knudsen.
113
Ezio Melotti6d9c1b12012-05-19 17:12:17 +0300114- Issue #14072: Fix parsing of 'tel' URIs in urlparse by making the check for
115 ports stricter.
116
Senthil Kumaranea24dda2012-05-19 08:10:40 +0800117- Issue #9374: Generic parsing of query and fragment portions of url for any
118 scheme. Supported both by RFC3986 and RFC2396.
119
Petri Lehtinen280e9f72012-05-18 21:51:11 +0300120- Issue #14798: Fix the functions in pyclbr to raise an ImportError
121 when the first part of a dotted name is not a package. Patch by
122 Xavier de Gaye.
123
R David Murray69493922012-05-16 14:01:03 -0400124- Issue #14832: fixed the order of the argument references in the error
125 message produced by unittest's assertItemsEqual.
126
Antoine Pitrou38fbd792012-05-16 15:01:40 +0200127- Issue #14829: Fix bisect issues under 64-bit Windows.
128
Ned Deily724a55c2012-05-15 18:05:57 -0700129- Issue #14777: tkinter may return undecoded UTF-8 bytes as a string when
130 accessing the Tk clipboard. Modify clipboad_get() to first request type
131 UTF8_STRING when no specific type is requested in an X11 windowing
132 environment, falling back to the current default type STRING if that fails.
133 Original patch by Thomas Kluyver.
134
Senthil Kumaran6a2a6c22012-05-15 22:24:10 +0800135- Issue #12541: Be lenient with quotes around Realm field with HTTP Basic
136 Authentation in urllib2.
137
Ned Deilyacdc56d2012-05-10 17:45:49 -0700138- Issue #14662: Prevent shutil failures on OS X when destination does not
139 support chflag operations. Patch by Hynek Schlawack.
140
Antoine Pitrouc2b714c2012-05-10 20:17:46 +0200141- Issue #14157: Fix time.strptime failing without a year on February 29th.
142 Patch by Hynek Schlawack.
143
Jesus Ceaf2011e32012-05-10 05:01:11 +0200144- Issue #14768: os.path.expanduser('~/a') doesn't works correctly when HOME is '/'.
145
Senthil Kumaran7f6d4e12012-05-01 10:36:28 +0800146- Issue #13183: Fix pdb skipping frames after hitting a breakpoint and running
147 step. Patch by Xavier de Gaye.
148
Antoine Pitrou38153162012-04-25 17:31:12 +0200149- Issue #14664: It is now possible to use @unittest.skip{If,Unless} on a
150 test class that doesn't inherit from TestCase (i.e. a mixin).
151
Lars Gustäbel231d4742012-04-24 22:42:08 +0200152- Issue #14160: TarFile.extractfile() failed to resolve symbolic links when
153 the links were not located in an archive subdirectory.
154
R David Murrayc313b1d2012-04-23 13:27:11 -0400155- Issue #14638: pydoc now treats non-string __name__ values as if they
156 were missing, instead of raising an error.
157
Senthil Kumaran4c20c4e2012-04-23 23:52:40 +0800158- Issue #13684: Fix httplib tunnel issue of infinite loops for certain sites
159 which send EOF without trailing \r\n.
Ezio Melottied8cf7a2012-05-21 17:46:55 -0600160
Antoine Pitrou52849bf2012-04-19 23:55:01 +0200161- Issue #14308: Fix an exception when a "dummy" thread is in the threading
162 module's active list after a fork().
163
Ezio Melottic45868e2012-04-18 19:08:41 -0600164- Issue #14538: HTMLParser can now parse correctly start tags that contain
165 a bare '/'.
166
Vinay Sajip7e9c9d52012-04-16 14:38:23 +0100167- Issue #14452: SysLogHandler no longer inserts a UTF-8 BOM into the message.
168
Mark Dickinson0407e962012-04-15 16:43:19 +0100169- Issue #13496: Fix potential overflow in bisect.bisect algorithm when applied
170 to a collection of size > sys.maxsize / 2.
171
R David Murray9955ad42012-04-13 21:27:00 -0400172- Issue #14399: zipfile now recognizes that the archive has been modified even
173 if only the comment is changed. As a consequence of this fix, ZipFile is now
174 a new style class.
R David Murray3f4ccba2012-04-12 18:42:47 -0400175
Antoine Pitroufa1d8412012-04-09 00:47:24 +0200176- Issue #7978: SocketServer now restarts the select() call when EINTR is
177 returned. This avoids crashing the server loop when a signal is received.
178 Patch by Jerzy Kozera.
179
Andrew Svetlov8af87292012-03-31 14:34:16 +0300180- Issue #14409: IDLE now properly executes commands in the Shell window
181 when it cannot read the normal config files on startup and
182 has to use the built-in default key bindings.
183 There was previously a bug in one of the defaults.
Andrew Svetlovc37db102012-03-29 19:54:58 +0300184
Giampaolo Rodola'96cb5d12012-03-22 16:06:43 +0100185- Issue #10340: asyncore - properly handle EINVAL in dispatcher constructor on
186 OSX; avoid to call handle_connect in case of a disconnected socket which
187 was not meant to connect.
188
R David Murrayb3f95d72012-03-21 15:02:30 -0400189- Issue #12757: Fix the skipping of doctests when python is run with -OO so
190 that it works in unittest's verbose mode as well as non-verbose mode.
191
Andrew Svetlov7c010ee2012-03-21 13:35:08 +0200192- Issue #3573: IDLE hangs when passing invalid command line args
193 (directory(ies) instead of file(s)) (Patch by Guilherme Polo)
194
Giampaolo Rodola'3d3cf482012-03-20 16:46:57 +0100195- Issue #13694: asynchronous connect in asyncore.dispatcher does not set addr
196 attribute.
197
Senthil Kumaran51a65c92012-03-16 01:07:16 -0700198- Issue #10484: Fix the CGIHTTPServer's PATH_INFO handling problem.
199
Senthil Kumaran4c592112012-03-15 13:24:40 -0700200- Issue #11199: Fix the with urllib which hangs on particular ftp urls.
201
Martin v. Löwisf163efd2012-03-13 14:46:22 -0700202- Issue #5219: Prevent event handler cascade in IDLE.
203
Antoine Pitrouf60845b2012-03-11 19:29:12 +0100204- Issue #14252: Fix subprocess.Popen.terminate() to not raise an error under
205 Windows when the child process has already exited.
206
Benjamin Petersona84f4682012-03-07 19:17:57 -0600207- Issue #14195: An issue that caused weakref.WeakSet instances to incorrectly
208 return True for a WeakSet instance 'a' in both 'a < a' and 'a > a' has been
209 fixed.
210
211- Issue #14159: Fix the len() of weak sets to return a better approximation
212 when some objects are dead or dying. Moreover, the implementation is now
213 O(1) rather than O(n).
214
215- Issue #2945: Make the distutils upload command aware of bdist_rpm products.
216
217- Issue #13447: Add a test file to host regression tests for bugs in the
218 scripts found in the Tools directory.
219
220- Issue #6884: Fix long-standing bugs with MANIFEST.in parsing in distutils
221 on Windows.
222
Antoine Pitrou9945a642012-04-16 03:34:44 +0200223Tests
224-----
225
226- Issue #14589: Update certificate chain for sha256.tbs-internet.com, fixing
227 a test failure in test_ssl.
228
Antoine Pitrou4b536d42012-03-31 23:53:07 +0200229Build
230-----
231
Martin v. Löwised11a5d2012-05-20 10:42:17 +0200232- Issue #8767: Restore building with --disable-unicode.
233 Patch by Stefano Taschini.
234
Martin v. Löwisfd0afed2012-05-15 17:26:31 +0200235- Build against bzip2 1.0.6 and openssl 0.9.8x on Windows.
236
Charles-François Natali0d3db3a2012-04-12 19:11:54 +0200237- Issue #14557: Fix extensions build on HP-UX. Patch by Adi Roiban.
238
Antoine Pitrou4b536d42012-03-31 23:53:07 +0200239- Issue #14437: Fix building the _io module under Cygwin.
240
Ezio Melottie48daea2012-05-06 16:15:35 +0300241Documentation
242-------------
243
244- Issue #14034: added the argparse tutorial.
245
Benjamin Petersona84f4682012-03-07 19:17:57 -0600246
Gregory P. Smithc8ff4602012-03-14 15:28:10 -0700247What's New in Python 2.7.3 release candidate 2?
248===============================================
249
Benjamin Petersonee933ec2012-03-15 12:25:54 -0500250*Release date: 2012-03-17*
Gregory P. Smithc8ff4602012-03-14 15:28:10 -0700251
252Library
253-------
254
255- Issue #14234: CVE-2012-0876: Randomize hashes of xml attributes in the hash
256 table internal to the pyexpat module's copy of the expat library to avoid a
257 denial of service due to hash collisions. Patch by David Malcolm with some
258 modifications by the expat project.
259
260
Benjamin Petersona84f4682012-03-07 19:17:57 -0600261What's New in Python 2.7.3 release candidate 1?
262===============================================
263
264*Release date: 2012-02-23*
265
266Core and Builtins
267-----------------
268
Antoine Pitrouc66ed452012-02-15 02:51:43 +0100269- Issue #13020: Fix a reference leak when allocating a structsequence object
270 fails. Patch by Suman Saha.
271
Barry Warsaw1e13eb02012-02-20 20:42:21 -0500272- Issue #13703: oCERT-2011-003: add -R command-line option and PYTHONHASHSEED
273 environment variable, to provide an opt-in way to protect against denial of
274 service attacks due to hash collisions within the dict and set types. Patch
275 by David Malcolm, based on work by Victor Stinner.
276
Antoine Pitroud1c818a2012-01-24 17:44:06 +0100277- Issue #11235: Fix OverflowError when trying to import a source file whose
278 modification time doesn't fit in a 32-bit timestamp.
279
Jason R. Coombs042370e2011-12-26 10:15:15 -0500280- Issue #11638: Unicode strings in 'name' and 'version' no longer cause
281 UnicodeDecodeErrors.
282
Antoine Pitrou5b4b2da2011-12-15 14:15:31 +0100283- Fix the fix for issue #12149: it was incorrect, although it had the side
284 effect of appearing to resolve the issue. Thanks to Mark Shannon for
285 noticing.
286
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc4bf21e22011-12-07 21:46:48 +0100287- Issue #13546: Fixed an overflow issue that could crash the intepreter when
288 calling sys.setrecursionlimit((1<<31)-1).
289
Antoine Pitrou30402542011-11-15 01:49:40 +0100290- Issue #13333: The UTF-7 decoder now accepts lone surrogates (the encoder
291 already accepts them).
292
Petri Lehtinen8028dc22011-10-30 20:59:10 +0200293- Issue #10519: Avoid unnecessary recursive function calls in
294 setobject.c.
295
Benjamin Peterson0c0d7562011-10-27 08:21:59 -0400296- Issue #13268: Fix the assert statement when a tuple is passed as the message.
297
Petri Lehtinen8ffbab82011-10-24 20:59:29 +0300298- Issue #13018: Fix reference leaks in error paths in dictobject.c.
299 Patch by Suman Saha.
300
Senthil Kumaran797b95b2011-10-21 00:32:59 +0800301- Issue #12604: VTRACE macro expanded to no-op in _sre.c to avoid compiler
302 warnings. Patch by Josh Triplett and Petri Lehtinen.
303
Mark Hammond323b5da2011-10-17 11:05:36 +1100304- Issue #7833: Extension modules built using distutils on Windows will no
305 longer include a "manifest" to prevent them failing at import time in some
306 embedded situations.
307
Benjamin Petersona7b09762011-10-15 13:43:21 -0400308- Issue #13186: Fix __delitem__ on old-style instances when invoked through
309 PySequence_DelItem.
310
Charles-François Natali40ab0022011-10-12 22:29:09 +0200311- Issue #13156: Revert the patch for issue #10517 (reset TLS upon fork()),
312 which was only relevant for the native pthread TLS implementation.
313
Victor Stinner63c22fa2011-09-23 19:37:03 +0200314- Issue #7732: Fix a crash on importing a module if a directory has the same
315 name than a Python module (e.g. "__init__.py"): don't close the file twice.
316
Mark Dickinsondbbed042011-09-19 16:38:08 +0100317- Issue #12973: Fix overflow checks that invoked undefined behaviour in
318 int.__pow__. These overflow checks were causing int.__pow__ to produce
319 incorrect results with recent versions of Clang, as a result of the
Mark Dickinsona96b0d12011-09-24 09:01:16 +0100320 compiler optimizing the check away. Also fix similar overflow checks
321 in list_repeat (listobject.c) and islice_next (itertoolsmodule.c). These
322 bugs caused test failures with recent versions of Clang.
Mark Dickinsondbbed042011-09-19 16:38:08 +0100323
Ezio Melotti15d6b652011-08-15 09:22:24 +0300324- Issue #12266: Fix str.capitalize() to correctly uppercase/lowercase
325 titlecased and cased non-letter characters.
326
Benjamin Peterson6c18ff02011-07-22 10:41:44 -0500327- Issues #12610 and #12609: Verify that user generated AST has correct string
328 and identifier types before compiling.
329
Barry Warsawc5643282011-07-19 17:06:30 -0400330- Issue #11627: Fix segfault when __new__ on a exception returns a
331 non-exception class.
Benjamin Petersonc3349cd2011-07-15 14:15:40 -0500332
Antoine Pitrou16166452011-07-12 22:04:20 +0200333- Issue #12149: Update the method cache after a type's dictionnary gets
334 cleared by the garbage collector. This fixes a segfault when an instance
335 and its type get caught in a reference cycle, and the instance's
336 deallocator calls one of the methods on the type (e.g. when subclassing
337 IOBase). Diagnosis and patch by Davide Rizzo.
338
Florent Xiclunaa1f948b2012-01-24 21:05:10 +0100339- Issue #12501: Remove Py3k warning for callable. callable() is supported
340 again in Python 3.2.
Victor Stinnerba8b3a22011-07-08 02:07:45 +0200341
Victor Stinner59729ff2011-07-05 11:28:19 +0200342- Issue #9611, #9015: FileIO.read(), FileIO.readinto(), FileIO.write() and
343 os.write() clamp the length to INT_MAX on Windows.
344
Victor Stinnerd3c7e172011-05-30 23:49:13 +0200345- Issue #1195: my_fgets() now always clears errors before calling fgets(). Fix
Victor Stinner08563d92011-05-30 23:44:13 +0200346 the following case: sys.stdin.read() stopped with CTRL+d (end of file),
347 raw_input() interrupted by CTRL+c.
348
Łukasz Langa7a153902011-10-18 17:16:00 +0200349- Issue #10860: httplib now correctly handles an empty port after port
350 delimiter in URLs.
351
Barry Warsawc5643282011-07-19 17:06:30 -0400352- dict_proxy objects now display their contents rather than just the class
353 name.
Raymond Hettingerbf7a2662011-06-30 00:44:36 +0100354
Victor Stinner08563d92011-05-30 23:44:13 +0200355Library
356-------
Éric Araujoa13cd392011-09-10 05:39:45 +0200357
Petri Lehtinen4ab701b2012-02-21 13:58:40 +0200358- Issue #8033: sqlite3: Fix 64-bit integer handling in user functions
359 on 32-bit architectures. Initial patch by Philippe Devalkeneer.
360
Ezio Melotti36b73612012-02-21 09:22:16 +0200361- HTMLParser is now able to handle slashes in the start tag.
362
Charles-François Natali66f3cc62012-02-18 14:15:38 +0100363- Issue #14001: CVE-2012-0845: xmlrpc: Fix an endless loop in
364 SimpleXMLRPCServer upon malformed POST request.
365
Gregory P. Smith14dc5102012-02-16 00:44:50 -0800366- Issue #2489: pty.spawn could consume 100% cpu when it encountered an EOF.
367
Antoine Pitroudd7e0712012-02-15 22:25:27 +0100368- Issue #13014: Fix a possible reference leak in SSLSocket.getpeercert().
369
Ezio Melottid2307cb2012-02-15 12:44:23 +0200370- Issue #13987: HTMLParser is now able to handle EOFs in the middle of a
Ezio Melotti65d36da2012-02-15 13:19:10 +0200371 construct and malformed start tags.
Ezio Melottid2307cb2012-02-15 12:44:23 +0200372
Antoine Pitrouc39cd782012-02-15 02:42:46 +0100373- Issue #13015: Fix a possible reference leak in defaultdict.__repr__.
374 Patch by Suman Saha.
375
Meador Ingeff337cc2012-02-13 22:22:06 -0600376- Issue #13979: A bug in ctypes.util.find_library that caused
377 the wrong library name to be returned has been fixed.
378
Éric Araujoe897a742012-02-15 16:28:20 +0100379- Issue #1326113: distutils' build_ext command --libraries option now
380 correctly parses multiple values separated by whitespace or commas.
381
Ezio Melottif1174432012-02-13 16:28:54 +0200382- Issue #13993: HTMLParser is now able to handle broken end tags.
383
Ezio Melotti4b92cc32012-02-13 16:10:44 +0200384- Issue #13960: HTMLParser is now able to handle broken comments.
385
Petri Lehtinen587209f2012-02-12 21:03:02 +0200386- Issue #9750: Fix sqlite3.Connection.iterdump on tables and fields
387 with a name that is a keyword or contains quotes. Patch by Marko
388 Kohtala.
389
Florent Xiclunac2279652012-02-12 14:49:03 +0100390- Issue #13994: Earlier partial revert of Distutils enhancements in 2.7
Ned Deilyc47a4592012-02-11 20:40:24 +0100391 has left two versions of customize_compiler, the original in
392 distutils.sysconfig and another copy in distutils.ccompiler, with some
393 parts of distutils calling one and others using the other.
394 Complete the revert back to only having one in distutils.sysconfig as
395 is the case in 3.x.
396
Ned Deily0d0ea482012-02-10 12:59:06 +0100397- Issue #13590: On OS X 10.7 and 10.6 with Xcode 4.2, building
398 Distutils-based packages with C extension modules may fail because
399 Apple has removed gcc-4.2, the version used to build python.org
400 64-bit/32-bit Pythons. If the user does not explicitly override
401 the default C compiler by setting the CC environment variable,
402 Distutils will now attempt to compile extension modules with clang
403 if gcc-4.2 is required but not found. Also as a convenience, if
404 the user does explicitly set CC, substitute its value as the default
405 compiler in the Distutils LDSHARED configuration variable for OS X.
406 (Note, the python.org 32-bit-only Pythons use gcc-4.0 and the 10.4u
407 SDK, neither of which are available in Xcode 4. This change does not
408 attempt to override settings to support their use with Xcode 4.)
409
Senthil Kumaran59e7c8f2012-02-09 18:22:01 +0800410- Issue #9021: Add an introduction to the copy module documentation.
411
Senthil Kumaran607e31e2012-02-09 17:43:31 +0800412- Issue #6005: Examples in the socket library documentation use sendall, where
413 relevant, instead send method.
414
Petri Lehtinenc7fd5232011-05-09 12:24:09 +0200415- Issue #10811: Fix recursive usage of cursors. Instead of crashing,
416 raise a ProgrammingError now.
417
Ned Deily2c8bf042012-02-06 00:55:50 +0100418- Issue #10881: Fix test_site failures with OS X framework builds.
419
Terry Jan Reedyadb87e22012-02-05 15:10:55 -0500420- Issue #964437 Make IDLE help window non-modal.
421 Patch by Guilherme Polo and Roger Serwy.
422
Ned Deily61c95342012-02-04 18:35:23 +0100423- Issue #13933: IDLE auto-complete did not work with some imported
424 module, like hashlib. (Patch by Roger Serwy)
425
Ned Deilyfbc56fd2012-02-03 02:39:49 +0100426- Issue #13901: Prevent test_distutils failures on OS X with --enable-shared.
427
Petri Lehtinen0518f472012-02-01 22:20:12 +0200428- Issue #13676: Handle strings with embedded zeros correctly in sqlite3.
429
Terry Jan Reedyb98000a2012-01-31 02:09:25 -0500430- Issue #13506: Add '' to path for IDLE Shell when started and restarted with Restart Shell.
431 Original patches by Marco Scataglini and Roger Serwy.
432
Antoine Pitrou88c51e82012-01-28 22:01:59 +0100433- Issue #13806: The size check in audioop decompression functions was too
434 strict and could reject valid compressed data. Patch by Oleg Plakhotnyuk.
435
Antoine Pitroud358e052012-01-27 09:42:45 +0100436- Issue #13885: CVE-2011-3389: the _ssl module would always disable the CBC
437 IV attack countermeasure.
438
Senthil Kumaranb05f91d2012-01-21 11:45:12 +0800439- Issue #6631: Disallow relative file paths in urllib urlopen methods.
440
Nadeem Vawdad7664de2012-01-19 00:40:46 +0200441- Issue #13781: Prevent gzip.GzipFile from using the dummy filename provided by
442 file objects opened with os.fdopen().
443
Antoine Pitrou3b6a3142012-01-17 17:13:04 +0100444- Issue #13589: Fix some serialization primitives in the aifc module.
445 Patch by Oleg Plakhotnyuk.
446
Jesus Cea4a8ba192012-01-18 03:51:38 +0100447- Issue #13803: Under Solaris, distutils doesn't include bitness
448 in the directory name.
449
Senthil Kumaranbcd833f2012-01-11 00:09:24 +0800450- Issue #13642: Unquote before b64encoding user:password during Basic
451 Authentication. Patch contributed by Joonas Kuorilehto and Michele Orrù.
452
Antoine Pitroud76088d2012-01-03 22:46:48 +0100453- Issue #13636: Weak ciphers are now disabled by default in the ssl module
454 (except when SSLv2 is explicitly asked for).
455
Senthil Kumaran84c18aa2011-12-23 11:14:56 +0800456- Issue #12798: Updated the mimetypes documentation.
457
Lars Gustäbel7d4d0742011-12-21 19:27:50 +0100458- Issue #13639: Accept unicode filenames in tarfile.open(mode="w|gz").
459
Antoine Pitroub8572a12011-12-21 10:16:14 +0100460- Issue #1785: Fix inspect and pydoc with misbehaving descriptors.
461
Antoine Pitrou7a3d8ae2011-12-18 19:27:45 +0100462- Issue #7502: Fix equality comparison for DocTestCase instances. Patch by
463 Cédric Krier.
464
Charles-François Natali41616302011-12-18 18:22:24 +0100465- Issue #11870: threading: Properly reinitialize threads internal locks and
466 condition variables to avoid deadlocks in child processes.
467
Charles-François Natalif3d35f02011-12-18 15:52:48 +0100468- Issue #8035: urllib: Fix a bug where the client could remain stuck after a
469 redirection or an error.
470
Ned Deilyd8fdbad2011-12-14 15:05:42 -0800471- Issue #4625: If IDLE cannot write to its recent file or breakpoint
472 files, display a message popup and continue rather than crash.
473 (original patch by Roger Serwy)
474
Lars Gustäbel9a388632011-12-06 13:07:09 +0100475- tarfile.py: Correctly detect bzip2 compressed streams with blocksizes
476 other than 900k.
477
Raymond Hettingerf5377022011-12-11 22:31:09 -0800478- Issue #13573: The csv.writer now uses the repr() for floats rather than str().
479 This allows floats to round-trip without loss of precision.
480
Petri Lehtinen49e49a22011-12-02 21:09:30 +0200481- Issue #13439: Fix many errors in turtle docstrings.
482
Antoine Pitroua5d5bb92011-11-25 21:28:15 +0100483- Issue #12856: Ensure child processes do not inherit the parent's random
484 seed for filename generation in the tempfile module. Patch by Brian
485 Harring.
486
Antoine Pitrouaa1c9672011-11-23 01:39:19 +0100487- Issue #13458: Fix a memory leak in the ssl module when decoding a
488 certificate with a subjectAltName. Patch by Robert Xiao.
489
Victor Stinner53853c32011-11-22 22:20:13 +0100490- Issue #13415: os.unsetenv() doesn't ignore errors anymore.
491
Antoine Pitrou5aa7df32011-11-21 20:16:44 +0100492- Issue #13322: Fix BufferedWriter.write() to ensure that BlockingIOError is
493 raised when the wrapped raw file is non-blocking and the write would block.
494 Previous code assumed that the raw write() would raise BlockingIOError, but
495 RawIOBase.write() is defined to returned None when the call would block.
496 Patch by sbt.
497
Ezio Melotti00dc60b2011-11-18 18:00:40 +0200498- Issue #13358: HTMLParser now calls handle_data only once for each CDATA.
499
Ezio Melotti93bbb6a2011-11-18 17:30:28 +0200500- Issue #4147: minidom's toprettyxml no longer adds whitespace around a text
501 node when it is the only child of an element. Initial patch by Dan
502 Kenigsberg.
503
Ned Deily174c4f82011-11-15 18:29:02 -0800504- Issue #8793: Prevent IDLE crash when given strings with invalid hex escape
505 sequences.
506
Ezio Melotti0f1571c2011-11-14 18:04:05 +0200507- Issues #1745761, #755670, #13357, #12629, #1200313: HTMLParser now correctly
508 handles non-valid attributes, including adjacent and unquoted attributes.
509
Antoine Pitrou6a570d62011-11-10 00:33:50 +0100510- Issue #13373: multiprocessing.Queue.get() could sometimes block indefinitely
511 when called with a timeout. Patch by Arnaud Ysmal.
512
Petri Lehtinen416ecff2011-11-05 10:18:50 +0200513- Issue #3067: Enhance the documentation and docstring of
514 locale.setlocale().
515
Petri Lehtinen49aa72e2011-11-05 09:50:37 +0200516- Issue #13254: Fix Maildir initialization so that maildir contents
517 are read correctly.
518
Florent Xicluna5f761d72011-11-04 10:15:57 +0100519- Issue #13140: Fix the daemon_threads attribute of ThreadingMixIn.
520
Florent Xiclunac4a11bd2011-11-01 23:47:46 +0100521- Issue #2892: preserve iterparse events in case of SyntaxError.
522
Ezio Melotti7e82b272011-11-01 14:09:56 +0200523- Issue #670664: Fix HTMLParser to correctly handle the content of
524 ``<script>...</script>`` and ``<style>...</style>``.
525
526- Issue #10817: Fix urlretrieve function to raise ContentTooShortError even
Senthil Kumaran87e58552011-11-01 02:44:45 +0800527 when reporthook is None. Patch by Jyrki Pulliainen.
528
Ezio Melotti7e82b272011-11-01 14:09:56 +0200529- Issue #13296: Fix IDLE to clear compile __future__ flags on shell restart.
Ned Deily86d669b2011-10-30 19:58:04 -0700530 (Patch by Roger Serwy)
531
Florent Xicluna67d5d0e2011-10-29 03:38:56 +0200532- Issue #7334: close source files on ElementTree.parse and iterparse.
533
Vinay Sajipc515eba2011-10-24 23:26:00 +0100534- Issue #13232: logging: Improved logging of exceptions in the presence of
535 multiple encodings.
536
Charles-François Natali46f990e2011-10-24 18:43:51 +0200537- Issue #10332: multiprocessing: fix a race condition when a Pool is closed
538 before all tasks have completed.
539
Antoine Pitrou5a77fe92011-10-22 21:26:01 +0200540- Issue #1548891: The cStringIO.StringIO() constructor now encodes unicode
541 arguments with the system default encoding just like the write() method
Éric Araujob21f51a2011-10-23 04:37:51 +0200542 does, instead of converting it to a raw buffer. This also fixes handling of
543 unicode input in the shlex module (#6988, #1170).
Antoine Pitrou5a77fe92011-10-22 21:26:01 +0200544
Florent Xicluna47fb1922011-10-20 23:21:58 +0200545- Issue #9168: now smtpd is able to bind privileged port.
546
Senthil Kumaran797b95b2011-10-21 00:32:59 +0800547- Issue #12529: fix cgi.parse_header issue on strings with double-quotes and
548 semicolons together. Patch by Ben Darnell and Petri Lehtinen.
549
Senthil Kumaranddd40312011-10-20 01:38:35 +0800550- Issue #6090: zipfile raises a ValueError when a document with a timestamp
551 earlier than 1980 is provided. Patch contributed by Petri Lehtinen.
552
Nadeem Vawdadeb1ce72011-10-17 19:33:38 +0200553- Issue #13194: zlib.compressobj().copy() and zlib.decompressobj().copy() are
554 now available on Windows.
555
Éric Araujo017e5352011-10-09 07:11:19 +0200556- Issue #13114: Fix the distutils commands check and register when the
557 long description is a Unicode string with non-ASCII characters.
558
Ned Deilybd9d07c2011-10-06 14:29:49 -0700559- Issue #7367: Fix pkgutil.walk_paths to skip directories whose
560 contents cannot be read.
561
562- Issue #7425: Prevent pydoc -k failures due to module import errors.
563 (Backport to 2.7 of existing 3.x fix)
564
Antoine Pitrouace2ccf2011-10-04 13:38:04 +0200565- Issue #13099: Fix sqlite3.Cursor.lastrowid under a Turkish locale.
566 Reported and diagnosed by Thomas Kluyver.
567
Antoine Pitrou561a8212011-10-04 09:34:48 +0200568- Issue #7689: Allow pickling of dynamically created classes when their
569 metaclass is registered with copy_reg. Patch by Nicolas M. Thiéry and
570 Craig Citro.
571
Charles-François Natali564f8902011-09-29 19:43:01 +0200572- Issue #13058: ossaudiodev: fix a file descriptor leak on error. Patch by
573 Thomas Jarosch.
574
Victor Stinner51b71982011-09-23 01:15:32 +0200575- Issue #12931: xmlrpclib now encodes Unicode URI to ISO-8859-1, instead of
576 failing with a UnicodeDecodeError.
577
Éric Araujoa13cd392011-09-10 05:39:45 +0200578- Issue #8933: distutils' PKG-INFO files will now correctly report
579 Metadata-Version: 1.1 instead of 1.0 if a Classifier or Download-URL field is
580 present.
581
Éric Araujo0f2dbf32011-09-03 00:47:07 +0200582- Issue #8286: The distutils command sdist will print a warning message instead
583 of crashing when an invalid path is given in the manifest template.
Victor Stinner08563d92011-05-30 23:44:13 +0200584
Lars Gustäbel8babfdf2011-09-05 17:04:18 +0200585- Issue #12841: tarfile unnecessarily checked the existence of numerical user
586 and group ids on extraction. If one of them did not exist the respective id
587 of the current user (i.e. root) was used for the file and ownership
588 information was lost.
589
Éric Araujo429b8902011-08-30 01:48:59 +0200590- Issue #10946: The distutils commands bdist_dumb, bdist_wininst and bdist_msi
591 now respect a --skip-build option given to bdist.
592
Charles-François Natalifda7b372011-08-28 16:22:33 +0200593- Issue #12287: Fix a stack corruption in ossaudiodev module when the FD is
594 greater than FD_SETSIZE.
595
Nadeem Vawdabbabbae2011-08-28 11:23:57 +0200596- Issue #12839: Fix crash in zlib module due to version mismatch.
597 Fix by Richard M. Tew.
598
Charles-François Natali2a34eb32011-08-25 21:20:54 +0200599- Issue #12786: Set communication pipes used by subprocess.Popen CLOEXEC to
600 avoid them being inherited by other subprocesses.
601
Antoine Pitrou77657e42011-08-24 22:41:05 +0200602- Issue #4106: Fix occasional exceptions printed out by multiprocessing on
603 interpreter shutdown.
604
Antoine Pitroua1a8da82011-08-23 19:54:20 +0200605- Issue #11657: Fix sending file descriptors over 255 over a multiprocessing
606 Pipe.
607
Antoine Pitrou808cec52011-08-20 15:40:58 +0200608- Issue #12213: Fix a buffering bug with interleaved reads and writes that
609 could appear on io.BufferedRandom streams.
610
Victor Stinneracacbaa2011-08-20 14:02:38 +0200611- Issue #12326: sys.platform is now always 'linux2' on Linux, even if Python
612 is compiled on Linux 3.
613
Jesus Cead256ca12011-09-19 16:57:18 +0200614- Issue #13007: whichdb should recognize gdbm 1.9 magic numbers.
615
Éric Araujoe7329f42011-08-19 03:07:39 +0200616- Issue #9173: Let shutil._make_archive work if the logger argument is None.
617
Charles-François Natalib02302c2011-08-18 17:18:28 +0200618- Issue #12650: Fix a race condition where a subprocess.Popen could leak
619 resources (FD/zombie) when killed at the wrong time.
620
Barry Warsaw39935f42011-08-15 19:50:35 -0400621- Issue #12752: Fix regression which prevented locale.normalize() from
622 accepting unicode strings.
623
Senthil Kumaranf432aec2011-08-03 18:31:59 +0800624- Issue #12683: urlparse updated to include svn as schemes that uses relative
625 paths. (svn from 1.5 onwards support relative path).
626
Éric Araujo33af2632011-08-02 03:16:12 +0200627- Issue #11933: Fix incorrect mtime comparison in distutils.
628
Éric Araujo560bf852011-07-31 02:04:00 +0200629- Issues #11104, #8688: Fix the behavior of distutils' sdist command with
630 manually-maintained MANIFEST files.
631
Éric Araujo9a528302011-07-29 17:34:35 +0200632- Issue #8887: "pydoc somebuiltin.somemethod" (or help('somebuiltin.somemethod')
633 in Python code) now finds the doc of the method.
634
Charles-François Natali0cf7e252011-07-27 19:36:40 +0200635- Issue #12603: Fix pydoc.synopsis() on files with non-negative st_mtime.
636
Raymond Hettinger55e5e272011-07-28 23:56:38 -0700637- Issue #12514: Use try/finally to assure the timeit module restores garbage
638 collections when it is done.
639
Ross Lagerwalld8e39012011-07-27 18:54:53 +0200640- Issue #12607: In subprocess, fix issue where if stdin, stdout or stderr is
641 given as a low fd, it gets overwritten.
642
Ross Lagerwall528c4ad2011-07-25 07:23:58 +0200643- Issue #12102: Document that buffered files must be flushed before being used
644 with mmap. Patch by Steffen Daode Nurpmeso.
645
Charles-François Natali3de8c732011-07-24 22:33:35 +0200646- Issue #12560: Build libpython.so on OpenBSD. Patch by Stefan Sperling.
647
Antoine Pitrou4cfae022011-07-24 02:51:01 +0200648- Issue #1813: Fix codec lookup and setting/getting locales under Turkish
649 locales.
650
Nadeem Vawda0d2889f2011-07-23 16:13:01 +0200651- Issue #10883: Fix socket leaks in urllib when using FTP.
Nadeem Vawdab42c53e2011-07-23 15:51:16 +0200652
Charles-François Natali97781b02011-07-22 23:43:42 +0200653- Issue #12592: Make Python build on OpenBSD 5 (and future major releases).
654
Charles-François Natali4929eb92011-07-21 19:41:04 +0200655- Issue #12372: POSIX semaphores are broken on AIX: don't use them.
656
Antoine Pitrou495ee8f2011-07-20 00:26:23 +0200657- Issue #12571: Add a plat-linux3 directory mirroring the plat-linux2
658 directory, so that "import DLFCN" and other similar imports work on
659 Linux 3.0.
660
R David Murray95225952011-07-18 21:34:04 -0400661- Issue #7484: smtplib no longer puts <> around addresses in VRFY and EXPN
662 commands; they aren't required and in fact postfix doesn't support that form.
663
Antoine Pitrou304f0f92011-07-15 21:22:50 +0200664- Issue #11603: Fix a crash when __str__ is rebound as __repr__. Patch by
665 Andreas Stührk.
666
Charles-François Natali26591402011-07-14 19:49:02 +0200667- Issue #12502: asyncore: fix polling loop with AF_UNIX sockets.
668
Victor Stinnerbf547fd2011-07-13 21:47:31 +0200669- Issue #4376: ctypes now supports nested structures in a endian different than
670 the parent structure. Patch by Vlad Riscutia.
671
Victor Stinnere7901312011-07-05 14:08:01 +0200672- Issue #12493: subprocess: Popen.communicate() now also handles EINTR errors
673 if the process has only one pipe.
674
Victor Stinner65c15352011-07-04 03:05:37 +0200675- Issue #12467: warnings: fix a race condition if a warning is emitted at
676 shutdown, if globals()['__file__'] is None.
677
Charles-François Natali414d0fa2011-07-02 13:56:19 +0200678- Issue #12352: Fix a deadlock in multiprocessing.Heap when a block is freed by
679 the garbage collector while the Heap lock is held.
680
Ned Deily87e82bb2011-06-28 19:52:59 -0700681- Issue #9516: On Mac OS X, change Distutils to no longer globally attempt to
682 check or set the MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET environment variable for the
683 interpreter process. This could cause failures in non-Distutils subprocesses
684 and was unreliable since tests or user programs could modify the interpreter
685 environment after Distutils set it. Instead, have Distutils set the the
686 deployment target only in the environment of each build subprocess. It is
687 still possible to globally override the default by setting
688 MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET before launching the interpreter; its value must be
689 greater or equal to the default value, the value with which the interpreter
690 was built.
691
Raymond Hettinger2c316a32011-06-25 17:14:53 +0200692- Issue #11802: The cache in filecmp now has a maximum size of 100 so that
693 it won't grow without bound.
694
Ross Lagerwallffa8e2f2011-06-25 09:55:10 +0200695- Issue #12404: Remove C89 incompatible code from mmap module. Patch by Akira
696 Kitada.
697
R David Murrayf1138bb2011-06-17 22:23:04 -0400698- Issue #11700: mailbox proxy object close methods can now be called multiple
699 times without error, and _ProxyFile now closes the wrapped file.
700
Victor Stinnerc74a6ba2011-06-17 14:06:27 +0200701- Issue #12133: AbstractHTTPHandler.do_open() of urllib.request closes the HTTP
702 connection if its getresponse() method fails with a socket error. Patch
703 written by Ezio Melotti.
704
Benjamin Peterson0eb4ac42011-06-11 15:53:11 -0500705- Issue #9284: Allow inspect.findsource() to find the source of doctest
706 functions.
707
R David Murray873c5832011-06-09 16:01:09 -0400708- Issue #10694: zipfile now ignores garbage at the end of a zipfile.
709
Brian Curtincaea7e82011-06-08 19:29:53 -0500710- Issue #11583: Speed up os.path.isdir on Windows by using GetFileAttributes
711 instead of os.stat.
712
Mark Dickinsona493ca32011-06-04 18:24:15 +0100713- Issue #12080: Fix a performance issue in Decimal._power_exact that caused
714 some corner-case Decimal.__pow__ calls to take an unreasonably long time.
715
Raymond Hettinger45b08292011-06-02 20:40:35 -0700716- Named tuples now work correctly with vars().
717
Barry Warsawc5643282011-07-19 17:06:30 -0400718- sys.setcheckinterval() now updates the current ticker count as well as
719 updating the check interval, so if the user decreases the check interval,
720 the ticker doesn't have to wind down to zero from the old starting point
721 before the new interval takes effect. And if the user increases the
722 interval, it makes sure the new limit takes effect right away rather have an
723 early task switch before recognizing the new interval.
Raymond Hettinger19b851d2011-06-01 18:21:42 -0700724
Victor Stinner776e69b2011-06-01 01:03:00 +0200725- Issue #12085: Fix an attribute error in subprocess.Popen destructor if the
726 constructor has failed, e.g. because of an undeclared keyword argument. Patch
727 written by Oleg Oshmyan.
728
Barry Warsawc5643282011-07-19 17:06:30 -0400729Extension Modules
730-----------------
731
Meador Ingefe7aa492012-05-28 13:52:59 -0500732- Issue #9041: An issue in ctypes.c_longdouble, ctypes.c_double, and
733 ctypes.c_float that caused an incorrect exception to be returned in the
734 case of overflow has been fixed.
735
Jesus Cea23fbd8c2012-01-17 00:17:10 +0100736- bsddb module: Erratic behaviour of "DBEnv->rep_elect()" because a typo.
737 Possible crash.
738
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcdee76e62012-01-13 22:53:25 +0100739- Issue #13774: json: Fix a SystemError when a bogus encoding is passed to
740 json.loads().
741
Charles-François Natali3aa59e32012-01-02 15:38:27 +0100742- Issue #9975: socket: Fix incorrect use of flowinfo and scope_id. Patch by
743 Vilmos Nebehaj.
744
Nadeem Vawda36248152011-10-13 13:52:46 +0200745- Issue #13159: FileIO, BZ2File, and the built-in file class now use a
746 linear-time buffer growth strategy instead of a quadratic one.
747
Charles-François Natali9ffcbf72011-10-06 19:09:45 +0200748- Issue #13070: Fix a crash when a TextIOWrapper caught in a reference cycle
749 would be finalized after the reference to its underlying BufferedRWPair's
750 writer got cleared by the GC.
751
Meador Ingead349a12011-10-03 21:34:04 -0500752- Issue #12881: ctypes: Fix segfault with large structure field names.
753
Meador Ingefe150032011-09-27 20:35:28 -0500754- Issue #13013: ctypes: Fix a reference leak in PyCArrayType_from_ctype.
755 Thanks to Suman Saha for finding the bug and providing a patch.
756
Jesus Ceac23484b2011-09-21 03:47:39 +0200757- Issue #13022: Fix: _multiprocessing.recvfd() doesn't check that
758 file descriptor was actually received.
759
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc439c25e2011-09-12 20:12:09 +0200760- Issue #12483: ctypes: Fix a crash when the destruction of a callback
761 object triggers the garbage collector.
762
Jesus Cea6ebaca12011-09-10 04:35:18 +0200763- Issue #12950: Fix passing file descriptors in multiprocessing, under
764 OpenIndiana/Illumos.
765
Amaury Forgeot d'Arccf316a12011-09-02 20:32:23 +0200766- Issue #12764: Fix a crash in ctypes when the name of a Structure field is not
767 a string.
768
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc3d7f2362011-08-30 21:04:35 +0200769- Issue #9651: Fix a crash when ctypes.create_string_buffer(0) was passed to
770 some functions like file.write().
771
Barry Warsawc5643282011-07-19 17:06:30 -0400772- Issue #10309: Define _GNU_SOURCE so that mremap() gets the proper
773 signature. Without this, architectures where sizeof void* != sizeof int are
774 broken. Patch given by Hallvard B Furuseth.
775
Ned Deily43e10542011-06-27 23:41:53 -0700776Build
777-----
778
Martin v. Löwisa1b2af82012-02-21 18:12:02 +0100779- Issue #6807: Run msisupport.mak earlier.
780
Martin v. Löwisef281bd2012-02-21 17:07:32 +0100781- Issue #10580: Minor grammar change in Windows installer.
782
Ned Deilyc5df5632012-02-19 02:19:12 +0100783- Issue #12627: Implement PEP 394 for Python 2.7 ("python2").
784
Ned Deily43e10542011-06-27 23:41:53 -0700785- Issue #8746: Correct faulty configure checks so that os.chflags() and
786 os.lchflags() are once again built on systems that support these
787 functions (*BSD and OS X). Also add new stat file flags for OS X
788 (UF_HIDDEN and UF_COMPRESSED).
789
Jason R. Coombsfee77452011-07-27 14:05:37 -0400790Tools/Demos
791-----------
792
Nadeem Vawdaf00011a2012-02-22 11:40:09 +0200793- Issue #14053: patchcheck.py ("make patchcheck") now works with MQ patches.
794 Patch by Francisco Martín Brugué.
795
Gregory P. Smith12426992012-02-12 15:51:21 -0800796- Issue #13930: 2to3 is now able to write its converted output files to another
797 directory tree as well as copying unchanged files and altering the file
798 suffix. See its new -o, -W and --add-suffix options. This makes it more
799 useful in many automated code translation workflows.
800
Jason R. Coombsfee77452011-07-27 14:05:37 -0400801- Issue #10639: reindent.py no longer converts newlines and will raise
802 an error if attempting to convert a file with mixed newlines.
803
Victor Stinner99cff3f2011-12-19 13:59:58 +0100804- Issue #13628: python-gdb.py is now able to retrieve more frames in the Python
805 traceback if Python is optimized.
806
Victor Stinnerd9f52922011-05-30 23:58:21 +0200807Tests
808-----
809
Petri Lehtinen437b1492012-02-17 21:34:41 +0200810- Issue #11689: Fix a variable scoping error in an sqlite3 test.
811 Initial patch by Torsten Landschoff.
812
Ned Deily1aacd7b2011-10-31 16:14:52 -0700813- Issue #13304: Skip test case if user site-packages disabled (-s or
814 PYTHONNOUSERSITE). (Patch by Carl Meyer)
815
Barry Warsawbf0cafa2011-10-28 16:16:58 -0400816- Issue #13218: Fix test_ssl failures on Debian/Ubuntu.
817
Charles-François Natalicdaafe02011-08-23 19:42:02 +0200818- Issue #12821: Fix test_fcntl failures on OpenBSD 5.
819
Éric Araujo498da2c2011-07-31 17:59:28 +0200820- Issue #12331: The test suite for lib2to3 can now run from an installed
821 Python.
822
Ned Deily0ab67ee2011-07-13 15:05:31 -0700823- Issue #12549: Correct test_platform to not fail when OS X returns 'x86_64'
824 as the processor type on some Mac systems.
825
Antoine Pitrou4a4a0fe2011-07-09 02:34:05 +0200826- Skip network tests when getaddrinfo() returns EAI_AGAIN, meaning a temporary
827 failure in name resolution.
828
Jesus Ceacb65f322011-11-08 16:06:44 +0100829- Issue #11812: Solve transient socket failure to connect to 'localhost'
830 in test_telnetlib.py.
831
Jesus Cea71094b52011-11-08 15:54:42 +0100832- Solved a potential deadlock in test_telnetlib.py. Related to issue #11812.
833
Antoine Pitrou29603082011-07-08 19:40:15 +0200834- Avoid failing in test_robotparser when mueblesmoraleda.com is flaky and
835 an overzealous DNS service (e.g. OpenDNS) redirects to a placeholder
836 Web site.
837
Antoine Pitroua4d58d22011-07-08 19:14:19 +0200838- Avoid failing in test_urllibnet.test_bad_address when some overzealous
839 DNS service (e.g. OpenDNS) resolves a non-existent domain name. The test
840 is now skipped instead.
841
Ned Deily46268c42011-07-03 21:52:35 -0700842- Issue #8716: Avoid crashes caused by Aqua Tk on OSX when attempting to run
843 test_tk or test_ttk_guionly under a username that is not currently logged
844 in to the console windowserver (as may be the case under buildbot or ssh).
845
Ned Deily63144c62011-06-28 00:39:19 -0700846- Issue #12141: Install a copy of template C module file so that
847 test_build_ext of test_distutils is no longer silently skipped when
848 run outside of a build directory.
849
Ned Deily43e10542011-06-27 23:41:53 -0700850- Issue #8746: Add additional tests for os.chflags() and os.lchflags().
851 Patch by Garrett Cooper.
852
Ned Deily64e59952011-06-27 23:09:31 -0700853- Issue #10736: Fix test_ttk test_widgets failures with Cocoa Tk 8.5.9
854 on Mac OS X. (Patch by Ronald Oussoren)
855
Victor Stinnerd9f52922011-05-30 23:58:21 +0200856- Issue #12057: Add tests for ISO 2022 codecs (iso2022_jp, iso2022_jp_2,
857 iso2022_kr).
858
Florent Xiclunadf10d7c2011-10-23 23:07:22 +0200859Documentation
860-------------
861
Petri Lehtinena15a8d22012-03-01 21:28:00 +0200862- Issues #13491 and #13995: Fix many errors in sqlite3 documentation.
863 Initial patch for #13491 by Johannes Vogel.
Petri Lehtinen002b2022012-02-16 21:42:34 +0200864
Petri Lehtinenfe6f9d02012-02-02 21:11:28 +0200865- Issue #13402: Document absoluteness of sys.executable.
866
Brett Cannon64b2b6a2012-01-26 18:32:24 -0500867- Issue #13883: PYTHONCASEOK also works on OS X, OS/2, and RiscOS.
868
Meador Ingeda747c32012-01-19 00:17:44 -0600869- Issue #2134: The tokenize documentation has been clarified to explain why
870 all operator and delimiter tokens are treated as token.OP tokens.
871
Meador Inge52957182011-12-03 12:13:42 -0600872- Issue #13513: Fix io.IOBase documentation to correctly link to the
873 io.IOBase.readline method instead of the readline module.
874
Nick Coghlan86711572011-10-24 22:19:40 +1000875- Issue #13237: Reorganise subprocess documentation to emphasise convenience
876 functions and the most commonly needed arguments to Popen.
877
Florent Xiclunadf10d7c2011-10-23 23:07:22 +0200878- Issue #13141: Demonstrate recommended style for SocketServer examples.
879
Victor Stinner08563d92011-05-30 23:44:13 +0200880
Benjamin Peterson5ee84482010-11-28 04:49:23 +0000881What's New in Python 2.7.2?
882===========================
883
Benjamin Peterson9843ba52011-06-11 09:42:44 -0500884*Release date: 2011-06-11*
Benjamin Petersonf14e4202011-05-31 18:44:55 -0500885
Benjamin Peterson43ee1a52011-06-10 11:32:52 -0500886Library
887-------
888
889- Issue #12009: Fixed regression in netrc file comment handling.
890
Benjamin Peterson4ba009d2011-05-31 18:59:49 -0500891Extension Modules
892-----------------
893
894- Issue #1221: Make pyexpat.__version__ equal to the Python version.
895
Benjamin Petersonf14e4202011-05-31 18:44:55 -0500896
897What's New in Python 2.7.2 release candidate 1?
898===============================================
899
Benjamin Petersoncd207052011-05-29 16:50:27 -0500900*Release date: 2011-05-29*
Benjamin Peterson5ee84482010-11-28 04:49:23 +0000901
902Core and Builtins
903-----------------
904
Ned Deily482f9082011-05-28 00:11:54 -0700905- Issue #9670: Increase the default stack size for secondary threads on
906 Mac OS X and FreeBSD to reduce the chances of a crash instead of a
907 "maximum recursion depth" RuntimeError exception.
908 (patch by Ronald Oussoren)
909
Benjamin Petersonef1122c2011-06-03 16:17:22 -0500910- Correct lookup of __dir__ on objects. This allows old-style classes to have
911 __dir__. It also causes errors besides AttributeError found on lookup to be
912 propagated.
Benjamin Peterson8de87a62011-05-23 16:11:05 -0500913
Victor Stinner2c585f62011-05-10 00:22:59 +0200914- Issue #1195: Fix input() if it is interrupted by CTRL+d and then CTRL+c,
915 clear the end-of-file indicator after CTRL+d.
916
Victor Stinner0a92d182011-05-03 15:09:24 +0200917- Issue #8651: PyArg_Parse*() functions raise an OverflowError if the file
918 doesn't have PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN define and the size doesn't fit in an int
919 (length bigger than 2^31-1 bytes).
920
Victor Stinner645b9f62011-05-03 15:06:11 +0200921- Issue #8651: Fix "z#" format of PyArg_Parse*() function: the size was not
922 written if PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN is defined.
923
Victor Stinnere363ec12011-05-01 23:43:37 +0200924- Issue #9756: When calling a method descriptor or a slot wrapper descriptor,
925 the check of the object type doesn't read the __class__ attribute anymore.
926 Fix a crash if a class override its __class__ attribute (e.g. a proxy of the
Victor Stinner97cf5852011-05-01 23:51:11 +0200927 str type). Patch written by Andreas Stührk.
Victor Stinnere363ec12011-05-01 23:43:37 +0200928
Antoine Pitrou1f9eb152011-04-27 19:26:06 +0200929- Issue #10517: After fork(), reinitialize the TLS used by the PyGILState_*
930 APIs, to avoid a crash with the pthread implementation in RHEL 5. Patch
931 by Charles-François Natali.
932
Ezio Melottie3685f62011-04-26 05:12:51 +0300933- Issue #6780: fix starts/endswith error message to mention that tuples are
934 accepted too.
935
Ezio Melottic283a852011-04-15 16:14:04 +0300936- Issue #5057: fix a bug in the peepholer that led to non-portable pyc files
937 between narrow and wide builds while optimizing BINARY_SUBSCR on non-BMP
938 chars (e.g. u"\U00012345"[0]).
939
Victor Stinner5de51ac2011-04-09 16:09:08 +0200940- Issue #11650: PyOS_StdioReadline() retries fgets() if it was interrupted
941 (EINTR), for example if the program is stopped with CTRL+z on Mac OS X. Patch
942 written by Charles-Francois Natali.
943
Mark Dickinson874d59e2011-03-26 12:18:00 +0000944- Issue #11144: Ensure that int(a_float) returns an int whenever possible.
945 Previously, there were some corner cases where a long was returned even
946 though the result was within the range of an int.
947
Antoine Pitrou2ddaaff2011-03-09 12:54:00 +0100948- Issue #11450: Don't truncate hg version info in Py_GetBuildInfo() when
949 there are many tags (e.g. when using mq). Patch by Nadeem Vawda.
950
Antoine Pitrou3013b162011-01-18 19:06:19 +0000951- Issue #10451: memoryview objects could allow to mutate a readable buffer.
952 Initial patch by Ross Lagerwall.
953
Benjamin Peterson9b911ca2011-01-12 15:49:47 +0000954- Issue #10892: Don't segfault when trying to delete __abstractmethods__ from a
955 class.
956
Antoine Pitrou5a72e762011-01-07 21:49:44 +0000957- Issue #8020: Avoid a crash where the small objects allocator would read
958 non-Python managed memory while it is being modified by another thread.
959 Patch by Matt Bandy.
960
Raymond Hettinger57a86892011-01-25 21:43:29 +0000961- Issue #11004: Repaired edge case in deque.count().
962
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcac514c82011-01-03 00:50:57 +0000963- Issue #8278: On Windows and with a NTFS filesystem, os.stat() and os.utime()
964 can now handle dates after 2038.
965
R. David Murray64a1e7c2010-12-15 01:36:03 +0000966- Issue #4236: Py_InitModule4 now checks the import machinery directly
967 rather than the Py_IsInitialized flag, avoiding a Fatal Python
968 error in certain circumstances when an import is done in __del__.
969
Jesus Cea44e81682011-04-20 16:39:15 +0200970- issue #11828: startswith and endswith don't accept None as slice index.
971 Patch by Torsten Becker.
972
Benjamin Peterson07f54512010-12-11 04:25:57 +0000973- Issue #10674: Remove unused 'dictmaker' rule from grammar.
974
Mark Dickinsonecf8ec62010-12-04 12:30:41 +0000975- Issue #10596: Fix float.__mod__ to have the same behaviour as
976 float.__divmod__ with respect to signed zeros. -4.0 % 4.0 should be
977 0.0, not -0.0.
978
Eli Bendersky680e6eb2011-03-04 06:14:56 +0000979- Issue #11386: bytearray.pop() now throws IndexError when the bytearray is
980 empty, instead of OverflowError.
981
Benjamin Peterson5ee84482010-11-28 04:49:23 +0000982Library
983-------
Antoine Pitrou47900cf2010-12-17 17:45:12 +0000984
Ned Deilyd8b17232011-07-26 18:16:08 -0700985- Issue #12590: IDLE editor window now always displays the first line
986 when opening a long file. With Tk 8.5, the first line was hidden.
987
Benjamin Peterson4fa68ab2011-05-26 09:56:41 -0500988- Issue #12161: Cause StringIO.getvalue() to raise a ValueError when used on a
989 closed StringIO instance.
990
Victor Stinnerdbfba162011-05-26 13:37:25 +0200991- Issue #12182: Fix pydoc.HTMLDoc.multicolumn() if Python uses the new (true)
992 division (python -Qnew). Patch written by Ralf W. Grosse-Kunstleve.
993
Victor Stinnerdaf17e92011-05-25 22:52:37 +0200994- Issue #12175: RawIOBase.readall() now returns None if read() returns None.
995
Victor Stinner5100a402011-05-25 22:15:36 +0200996- Issue #12175: FileIO.readall() now raises a ValueError instead of an IOError
997 if the file is closed.
998
Charles-François Natalib94e0cd2011-05-24 23:10:54 +0200999- Issue #1441530: In imaplib, use makefile() to wrap the SSL socket to avoid
1000 heap fragmentation and MemoryError with some malloc implementations.
1001
Victor Stinner40b41e12011-05-24 22:29:13 +02001002- Issue #12100: Don't reset incremental encoders of CJK codecs at each call to
1003 their encode() method anymore, but continue to call the reset() method if the
1004 final argument is True.
1005
Victor Stinnerf58f1c32011-05-21 02:13:22 +02001006- Issue #12124: zipimport doesn't keep a reference to zlib.decompress() anymore
1007 to be able to unload the module.
1008
Ronald Oussorenb13cacf2011-05-17 15:13:46 +02001009- Issue #11088: don't crash when using F5 to run a script in IDLE on MacOSX
1010 with Tk 8.5.
1011
Ronald Oussoren372954e2011-05-17 13:22:30 +02001012- Issue #10154, #10090: change the normalization of UTF-8 to "UTF-8" instead
1013 of "UTF8" in the locale module as the latter is not supported MacOSX and OpenBSD.
1014
Victor Stinnerf58f1c32011-05-21 02:13:22 +02001015- Issue #9516: avoid errors in sysconfig when MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET is
Ronald Oussoren53b6a5f2011-05-15 16:51:10 +02001016 set in shell.
1017
Nadeem Vawda0cc4fd92011-05-14 14:29:07 +02001018- Issue #12050: zlib.decompressobj().decompress() now clears the unconsumed_tail
1019 attribute when called without a max_length argument.
1020
Antoine Pitrouee46a7b2011-05-13 00:31:52 +02001021- Issue #12062: In the `io` module, fix a flushing bug when doing a certain
1022 type of I/O sequence on a file opened in read+write mode (namely: reading,
1023 seeking a bit forward, writing, then seeking before the previous write but
1024 still within buffered data, and writing again).
1025
Antoine Pitrou47d1d0d2011-05-10 19:16:03 +02001026- Issue #8498: In socket.accept(), allow to specify 0 as a backlog value in
1027 order to accept exactly one connection. Patch by Daniel Evers.
1028
Victor Stinnerb1241f92011-05-10 01:52:03 +02001029- Issue #12012: ssl.PROTOCOL_SSLv2 becomes optional.
1030
Martin v. Löwis591c2df2011-05-09 08:19:13 +02001031- Issue #11164: Remove obsolete allnodes test from minidom test.
1032
Antoine Pitrou21ce8f02011-05-07 19:59:33 +02001033- Issue #11927: SMTP_SSL now uses port 465 by default as documented. Patch
1034 by Kasun Herath.
1035
R David Murray8b26c4b2011-05-06 21:56:22 -04001036- Issue 11999: fixed sporadic sync failure mailbox.Maildir due to its trying to
1037 detect mtime changes by comparing to the system clock instead of to the
1038 previous value of the mtime.
1039
Ronald Oussoren58d6b1b2011-05-06 11:31:33 +02001040- Issue #10684: shutil.move used to delete a folder on case insensitive
1041 filesystems when the source and destination name where the same except
1042 for the case.
1043
Ezio Melottidf8a8f72011-05-04 14:40:53 +03001044- Issue #11982: fix json.loads('""') to return u'' rather than ''.
1045
Victor Stinner112d48a2011-05-03 14:36:36 +02001046- Issue #11277: mmap.mmap() calls fcntl(fd, F_FULLFSYNC) on Mac OS X to get
1047 around a mmap bug with sparse files. Patch written by Steffen Daode Nurpmeso.
1048
Senthil Kumaran011525e2011-04-28 15:30:31 +08001049- Issue #10761: Fix tarfile.extractall failure when symlinked files are
1050 present. Initial patch by Scott Leerssen.
1051
Ezio Melotti34b32d62011-04-27 09:45:46 +03001052- Issue #11763: don't use difflib in TestCase.assertMultiLineEqual if the
1053 strings are too long.
1054
Senthil Kumaran5dc68682011-04-26 21:17:45 +08001055- Issue #11236: getpass.getpass responds to ctrl-c or ctrl-z on terminal.
1056
Victor Stinner33feeab2011-04-18 16:33:28 +02001057- Issue #11768: The signal handler of the signal module only calls
1058 Py_AddPendingCall() for the first signal to fix a deadlock on reentrant or
1059 parallel calls. PyErr_SetInterrupt() writes also into the wake up file.
1060
Raymond Hettingere0156c42011-04-19 09:48:39 -07001061- Issue #11875: collections.OrderedDict's __reduce__ was temporarily
1062 mutating the object instead of just working on a copy.
1063
Martin v. Löwis2d253dd2011-04-17 22:29:40 +02001064- Issue #11442: Add a charset parameter to the Content-type in SimpleHTTPServer
1065 to avoid XSS attacks.
1066
Senthil Kumaranddaea1c2011-04-15 18:07:33 +08001067- Issue #11467: Fix urlparse behavior when handling urls which contains scheme
1068 specific part only digits. Patch by Santoso Wijaya.
1069
Raymond Hettinger37c0fe52011-04-15 13:12:21 -07001070- collections.Counter().copy() now works correctly for subclasses.
1071
Senthil Kumarana99b7612011-04-14 12:54:35 +08001072- Issue #11474: Fix the bug with url2pathname() handling of '/C|/' on Windows.
1073 Patch by Santoso Wijaya.
1074
Ezio Melotti2b96f092011-04-13 05:37:29 +03001075- Issue #9233: Fix json.loads('{}') to return a dict (instead of a list), when
1076 _json is not available.
1077
1078- Issue #11703: urllib2.geturl() does not return correct url when the original
Senthil Kumaran0531d6f2011-04-13 09:47:20 +08001079 url contains #fragment.
1080
R David Murrayea8b6ef2011-04-12 21:00:26 -04001081- Issue #10019: Fixed regression in json module where an indent of 0 stopped
1082 adding newlines and acted instead like 'None'.
1083
brian.curtin16f98b72011-04-11 18:05:33 -05001084- Issue #5162: Treat services like frozen executables to allow child spawning
1085 from multiprocessing.forking on Windows.
1086
Ezio Melotti8b4367e2011-04-11 03:44:28 +03001087- Issue #4877: Fix a segfault in xml.parsers.expat while attempting to parse
1088 a closed file.
1089
Raymond Hettingere4579c32011-04-11 17:27:42 -07001090- Issue #11830: Remove unnecessary introspection code in the decimal module.
1091 It was causing a failed import in the Turkish locale where the locale
1092 sensitive str.upper() method caused a name mismatch.
1093
Antoine Pitrou7dfc8742011-04-11 00:26:42 +02001094- Issue #8428: Fix a race condition in multiprocessing.Pool when terminating
1095 worker processes: new processes would be spawned while the pool is being
1096 shut down. Patch by Charles-François Natali.
1097
Ezio Melotti8b4367e2011-04-11 03:44:28 +03001098- Issue #7311: Fix HTMLParser to accept non-ASCII attribute values.
Ezio Melotti9f1ffb22011-04-05 20:40:52 +03001099
Ross Lagerwall104c3f12011-04-05 15:24:34 +02001100- Issue #10963: Ensure that subprocess.communicate() never raises EPIPE.
1101
guido@google.com2bc23b82011-03-24 10:44:17 -07001102- Issue #11662: Make urllib and urllib2 ignore redirections if the
guido@google.comdb3080e2011-03-28 13:53:40 -07001103 scheme is not HTTP, HTTPS or FTP (CVE-2011-1521).
Antoine Pitrou47900cf2010-12-17 17:45:12 +00001104
Benjamin Peterson77d46602011-03-28 17:32:31 -05001105- Issue #11256: Fix inspect.getcallargs on functions that take only keyword
1106 arguments.
1107
Martin v. Löwis03f7e232011-03-27 20:58:52 +02001108- Issue #11696: Fix ID generation in msilib.
1109
Mark Dickinsond687be02011-03-27 16:15:24 +01001110- Issue #9696: Fix exception incorrectly raised by xdrlib.Packer.pack_int when
1111 trying to pack a negative (in-range) integer.
1112
Mark Dickinson1829e8f2011-03-27 15:32:05 +01001113- Issue #11675: multiprocessing.[Raw]Array objects created from an integer size
1114 are now zeroed on creation. This matches the behaviour specified by the
1115 documentation.
1116
Martin v. Löwis49b0ce02011-03-27 10:10:46 +02001117- Issue #7639: Fix short file name generation in bdist_msi.
1118
Raymond Hettinger9aa5a342011-03-25 16:00:13 -07001119- Issue #11666: let help() display named tuple attributes and methods
1120 that start with a leading underscore.
1121
Mark Dickinsonf9e9a6f2011-03-25 22:01:06 +00001122- Issue #11673: Fix multiprocessing Array and RawArray constructors to accept a
1123 size of type 'long', rather than only accepting 'int'.
1124
Éric Araujo374274d2011-03-19 04:29:36 +01001125- Issue #10042: Fixed the total_ordering decorator to handle cross-type
1126 comparisons that could lead to infinite recursion.
1127
Michael Foord51368672011-03-17 12:59:38 -04001128- Issue #10979: unittest stdout buffering now works with class and module
1129 setup and teardown.
1130
Ronald Oussoren2ab59942011-03-16 09:47:15 -04001131- Issue #11569: use absolute path to the sysctl command in multiprocessing to
1132 ensure that it will be found regardless of the shell PATH. This ensures
1133 that multiprocessing.cpu_count works on default installs of MacOSX.
1134
Michael Foord51368672011-03-17 12:59:38 -04001135- Issue #11500: Fixed a bug in the os x proxy bypass code for fully qualified
1136 IP addresses in the proxy exception list.
Ronald Oussoren1aa999c2011-03-14 18:53:59 -04001137
Mark Dickinson2c8c62e2011-03-12 11:05:32 +00001138- Issue #11131: Fix sign of zero in plus and minus operations when
1139 the context rounding mode is ROUND_FLOOR.
1140
Ned Deily9d4836e2011-03-09 02:31:55 -08001141- Issue #5622: Fix curses.wrapper to raise correct exception if curses
1142 initialization fails.
1143
Antoine Pitroud6f3a3e2011-03-06 02:03:34 +01001144- Issue #11391: Writing to a mmap object created with
1145 ``mmap.PROT_READ|mmap.PROT_EXEC`` would segfault instead of raising a
1146 TypeError. Patch by Charles-François Natali.
1147
R. David Murray1a337902011-03-03 18:17:40 +00001148- Issue #11306: mailbox in certain cases adapts to an inability to open
1149 certain files in read-write mode. Previously it detected this by
1150 checking for EACCES, now it also checks for EROFS.
1151
Giampaolo Rodolàd65224f2011-03-03 14:17:51 +00001152- Issue #11265: asyncore now correctly handles EPIPE, EBADF and EAGAIN errors
1153 on accept(), send() and recv().
1154
Antoine Pitroud3f6ea12011-02-26 23:35:27 +00001155- Issue #11326: Add the missing connect_ex() implementation for SSL sockets,
1156 and make it work for non-blocking connects.
1157
Antoine Pitrou6439c002011-02-25 21:35:47 +00001158- Issue #10956: Buffered I/O classes retry reading or writing after a signal
1159 has arrived and the handler returned successfully.
1160
Georg Brandl28046022011-02-25 11:01:04 +00001161- Issue #10680: Fix mutually exclusive arguments for argument groups in
1162 argparse.
1163
Antoine Pitrouf4d2b3d2011-02-21 23:59:20 +00001164- Issue #4681: Allow mmap() to work on file sizes and offsets larger than
1165 4GB, even on 32-bit builds. Initial patch by Ross Lagerwall, adapted for
1166 32-bit Windows.
1167
Georg Brandl52f83952011-02-25 10:39:23 +00001168- Issue #10360: In WeakSet, do not raise TypeErrors when testing for
1169 membership of non-weakrefable objects.
1170
1171- Issue #10549: Fix pydoc traceback when text-documenting certain classes.
1172
1173- Issue #940286: pydoc.Helper.help() ignores input/output init parameters.
1174
Barry Warsaw42bb7ca2011-02-14 20:04:00 +00001175- Issue #11171: Fix detection of config/Makefile when --prefix !=
1176 --exec-prefix, which caused Python to not start.
1177
R. David Murray008c0442011-02-11 23:03:13 +00001178- Issue #11116: any error during addition of a message to a mailbox now causes
1179 a rollback, instead of leaving the mailbox partially modified.
1180
Antoine Pitrou820021e2011-01-31 21:47:45 +00001181- Issue #8275: Fix passing of callback arguments with ctypes under Win64.
1182 Patch by Stan Mihai.
1183
Ned Deily60651532011-01-31 00:52:49 +00001184- Issue #10940: Workaround an IDLE hang on Mac OS X 10.6 when using the
1185 menu accelerators for Open Module, Go to Line, and New Indent Width.
1186 The accelerators still work but no longer appear in the menu items.
1187
Ned Deily2a6f4b32011-01-30 00:18:47 +00001188- Issue #10907: Warn OS X 10.6 IDLE users to use ActiveState Tcl/Tk 8.5, rather
1189 than the currently problematic Apple-supplied one, when running with the
1190 64-/32-bit installer variant.
1191
Ned Deilyefc527a2011-01-29 19:30:39 +00001192- Issue #11052: Correct IDLE menu accelerators on Mac OS X for Save
1193 commands.
1194
Vinay Sajipcdb83882011-01-21 23:35:57 +00001195- Issue #10949: Improved robustness of rotating file handlers.
1196
Antoine Pitrou8a0eede2011-01-20 21:20:18 +00001197- Issue #10955: Fix a potential crash when trying to mmap() a file past its
1198 length. Initial patch by Ross Lagerwall.
1199
Antoine Pitrou63a3f152011-01-19 15:27:24 +00001200- Issue #10898: Allow compiling the posix module when the C library defines
1201 a symbol named FSTAT.
1202
Ned Deily4a705502011-01-18 04:33:22 +00001203- Issue #6075: IDLE on Mac OS X now works with both Carbon AquaTk and
1204 Cocoa AquaTk.
1205
Antoine Pitrou9989d852011-01-15 16:18:57 +00001206- Issue #10916: mmap should not segfault when a file is mapped using 0 as
1207 length and a non-zero offset, and an attempt to read past the end of file
1208 is made (IndexError is raised instead). Patch by Ross Lagerwall.
1209
Terry Reedyf7dd7992011-01-10 22:15:19 +00001210- Issue #10875: Update Regular Expression HOWTO; patch by 'SilentGhost'.
1211
Antoine Pitrou5a72e762011-01-07 21:49:44 +00001212- Issue #10827: Changed the rules for 2-digit years. The time.asctime
1213 function will now format any year when ``time.accept2dyear`` is
1214 false and will accept years >= 1000 otherwise. The year range
1215 accepted by ``time.mktime`` and ``time.strftime`` is still system
1216 dependent, but ``time.mktime`` will now accept full range supported
1217 by the OS. Conversion of 2-digit years to 4-digit is deprecated.
1218
Georg Brandl6adb9792011-01-09 07:53:14 +00001219- Issue #10869: Fixed bug where ast.increment_lineno modified the root
1220 node twice.
1221
Antoine Pitrou1f1613f2011-01-06 18:30:26 +00001222- Issue #7858: Raise an error properly when os.utime() fails under Windows
1223 on an existing file.
1224
Antoine Pitrou77c1b382011-01-06 17:19:05 +00001225- Issue #3839: wsgiref should not override a Content-Length header set by
1226 the application. Initial patch by Clovis Fabricio.
1227
Antoine Pitrou91ce0d92011-01-03 18:45:09 +00001228- Issue #10806, issue #9905: Fix subprocess pipes when some of the standard
1229 file descriptors (0, 1, 2) are closed in the parent process. Initial
1230 patch by Ross Lagerwall.
1231
Antoine Pitroub0614612011-01-02 20:04:52 +00001232- Issue #4662: os.tempnam(), os.tmpfile() and os.tmpnam() now raise a py3k
1233 DeprecationWarning.
1234
Raymond Hettinger8ebebd82011-01-02 01:03:26 +00001235- Subclasses of collections.OrderedDict now work correctly with __missing__.
1236
Éric Araujo86f90742011-03-21 00:15:26 +01001237- Issue #10753 - Characters ';', '=' and ',' in the PATH_INFO environment
Senthil Kumaran559395f2010-12-29 06:30:19 +00001238 variable won't be quoted when the URI is constructed by the wsgiref.util 's
1239 request_uri method. According to RFC 3986, these characters can be a part of
1240 params in PATH component of URI and need not be quoted.
1241
Éric Araujo86f90742011-03-21 00:15:26 +01001242- Issue #10738: Fix webbrowser.Opera.raise_opts
Terry Reedy0df73672010-12-28 19:53:32 +00001243
Éric Araujo86f90742011-03-21 00:15:26 +01001244- Issue #9824: SimpleCookie now encodes , and ; in values to cater to how
R. David Murray08fc7012010-12-28 19:11:03 +00001245 browsers actually parse cookies.
1246
R. David Murray5360d002010-12-27 19:17:17 +00001247- Issue #1379416: eliminated a source of accidental unicode promotion in
1248 email.header.Header.encode.
1249
R. David Murray5874ed62010-12-26 22:29:53 +00001250- Issue #5258/#10642: if site.py encounters a .pth file that generates an error,
1251 it now prints the filename, line number, and traceback to stderr and skips
1252 the rest of that individual file, instead of stopping processing entirely.
1253
Antoine Pitroufc9ead62010-12-21 21:26:55 +00001254- Issue #10750: The ``raw`` attribute of buffered IO objects is now read-only.
1255
Daniel Stutzbach57cf0af2011-01-04 18:47:17 +00001256- Issue #10242: unittest.TestCase.assertItemsEqual makes too many assumptions
Michael Foorde6e0e262010-12-19 15:52:56 +00001257 about input.
1258
Michael Foorda17f0762010-12-19 14:53:19 +00001259- Issue #10611: SystemExit should not cause a unittest test run to exit.
1260
Antoine Pitroud7b6ac62010-12-18 18:18:21 +00001261- Issue #6791: Limit header line length (to 65535 bytes) in http.client,
1262 to avoid denial of services from the other party.
1263
R. David Murray3f752ab2010-12-18 17:22:18 +00001264- Issue #10404: Use ctl-button-1 on OSX for the context menu in Idle.
1265
1266- Issue #9907: Fix tab handling on OSX when using editline by calling
R. David Murray7a697252010-12-18 03:52:09 +00001267 rl_initialize first, then setting our custom defaults, then reading .editrc.
1268
Antoine Pitrou47900cf2010-12-17 17:45:12 +00001269- Issue #4188: Avoid creating dummy thread objects when logging operations
1270 from the threading module (with the internal verbose flag activated).
1271
Senthil Kumaran5c7fd6e2010-12-17 04:56:02 +00001272- Issue #9721: Fix the behavior of urljoin when the relative url starts with a
1273 ';' character. Patch by Wes Chow.
Benjamin Peterson5ee84482010-11-28 04:49:23 +00001274
Antoine Pitrou47d9b0e2010-12-16 17:11:34 +00001275- Issue #10714: Limit length of incoming request in http.server to 65536 bytes
1276 for security reasons. Initial patch by Ross Lagerwall.
1277
Éric Araujoe04c13c2010-12-15 21:15:25 +00001278- Issue #9558: Fix distutils.command.build_ext with VS 8.0.
1279
R. David Murraydacb8042010-12-14 14:34:16 +00001280- Issue #10695: passing the port as a string value to telnetlib no longer
1281 causes debug mode to fail.
1282
Ronald Oussoren8ec374c2010-12-07 16:02:59 +00001283- Issue #10107: Warn about unsaved files in IDLE on OSX.
1284
Ronald Oussoren517858a2010-12-07 16:13:17 +00001285- Issue #10406: Enable Rstrip IDLE extension on OSX (just like on other
1286 platforms).
1287
Antoine Pitrou4cb64ad2010-12-03 19:31:52 +00001288- Issue #10478: Reentrant calls inside buffered IO objects (for example by
1289 way of a signal handler) now raise a RuntimeError instead of freezing the
1290 current process.
1291
Éric Araujofb3de6b2010-12-03 19:24:49 +00001292- Issue #10497: Fix incorrect use of gettext in argparse.
1293
R. David Murrayd75cc912010-12-02 03:16:23 +00001294- Issue #10464: netrc now correctly handles lines with embedded '#' characters.
1295
Gregory P. Smith312efbc2010-12-14 15:02:53 +00001296- Issue #1731717: Fixed the problem where subprocess.wait() could cause an
1297 OSError exception when The OS had been told to ignore SIGCLD in our process
1298 or otherwise not wait for exiting child processes.
1299
Steven Bethardf8583ac2011-01-24 20:40:15 +00001300- Issue #9509: argparse now properly handles IOErrors raised by
1301 argparse.FileType.
1302
Steven Bethard3f69a052011-03-26 19:59:02 +01001303- Issue #9348: Raise an early error if argparse nargs and metavar don't match.
1304
1305- Issue #8982: Improve the documentation for the argparse Namespace object.
1306
Steven Bethard5e0062d2011-03-26 21:50:38 +01001307- Issue #9343: Document that argparse parent parsers must be configured before
1308 their children.
1309
Steven Bethardbc3b1042011-03-27 13:57:55 +02001310- Issue #9026: Fix order of argparse sub-commands in help messages.
1311
Steven Betharde3c11b42011-04-04 01:47:52 +02001312- Issue #9347: Fix formatting for tuples in argparse type= error messages.
1313
R. David Murray2a4b3fc2010-12-11 02:13:04 +00001314Extension Modules
1315-----------------
1316
Benjamin Peterson6116d4a2011-05-17 18:31:20 -05001317- Stop using the old interface for providing methods and attributes in the _sre
1318 module. Among other things, this gives these classes ``__class__``
1319 attributes. (See #12099)
1320
Ezio Melotti0639be62011-05-07 19:21:22 +03001321- Issue #10169: Fix argument parsing in socket.sendto() to avoid error masking.
1322
Ezio Melottic1ec7b52011-05-11 00:55:35 +03001323- Issue #12051: Fix segfault in json.dumps() while encoding highly-nested
1324 objects using the C accelerations.
1325
Ezio Melotticec46492011-05-07 17:40:23 +03001326- Issue #12017: Fix segfault in json.loads() while decoding highly-nested
1327 objects using the C accelerations.
1328
Benjamin Petersonf21ad922011-03-26 17:56:28 -05001329- Issue #1838: Prevent segfault in ctypes, when _as_parameter_ on a class is set
1330 to an instance of the class.
1331
R. David Murray2a4b3fc2010-12-11 02:13:04 +00001332- Issue #678250: Make mmap flush a noop on ACCESS_READ and ACCESS_COPY.
1333
Antoine Pitrouf11d1832011-01-02 19:37:45 +00001334Build
1335-----
1336
Ned Deily22f63b52011-05-28 05:56:14 -07001337- Issue #11217: For 64-bit/32-bit Mac OS X universal framework builds,
1338 ensure "make install" creates symlinks in --prefix bin for the "-32"
1339 files in the framework bin directory like the installer does.
1340
Thomas Wouters5edae7e2011-03-06 11:48:05 -08001341- Issue #11411: Fix 'make DESTDIR=' with a relative destination.
1342
Georg Brandl94800df2011-02-25 11:09:02 +00001343- Issue #10709: Add updated AIX notes in Misc/README.AIX.
1344
1345- Issue #11184: Fix large-file support on AIX.
1346
Georg Brandl71f4fbb2011-02-25 11:04:50 +00001347- Issue #941346: Fix broken shared library build on AIX.
1348
Ned Deilye6cc7d62011-02-21 21:00:09 +00001349- Issue #11268: Prevent Mac OS X Installer failure if Documentation
1350 package had previously been installed.
1351
Ned Deily68adfdc2011-02-07 16:52:25 +00001352- Issue #11079: The /Applications/Python x.x folder created by the Mac
1353 OS X installers now includes a link to the installed documentation.
1354
Ned Deily53c460d2011-01-30 01:43:40 +00001355- Issue #11054: Allow Mac OS X installer builds to again work on 10.5 with
1356 the system-provided Python.
1357
1358- Issue #10843: Update third-party library versions used in OS X
1359 32-bit installer builds: bzip2 1.0.6, readline 6.1.2, SQLite 3.7.4
1360 (with FTS3/FTS4 and RTREE enabled), and ncursesw 5.5 (wide-char
1361 support enabled).
1362
Antoine Pitrou9828b562011-01-03 19:11:32 +00001363- Don't run pgen twice when using make -j.
1364
Antoine Pitrou31e85952011-01-03 18:57:14 +00001365- Issue #7716: Under Solaris, don't assume existence of /usr/xpg4/bin/grep in
1366 the configure script but use $GREP instead. Patch by Fabian Groffen.
1367
Antoine Pitrouf11d1832011-01-02 19:37:45 +00001368- Issue #10475: Don't hardcode compilers for LDSHARED/LDCXXSHARED on NetBSD
1369 and DragonFly BSD. Patch by Nicolas Joly.
1370
David Malcolm4c29e1c2011-01-06 17:39:24 +00001371- Issue #10655: Fix the build on PowerPC on Linux with GCC when building with
1372 timestamp profiling (--with-tsc): the preprocessor test for the PowerPC
1373 support now looks for "__powerpc__" as well as "__ppc__": the latter seems to
1374 only be present on OS X; the former is the correct one for Linux with GCC.
1375
Ronald Oussoren19199832011-03-14 11:57:39 -04001376- Issue #1099: Fix the build on MacOSX when building a framework with pydebug
1377 using GCC 4.0.
1378
Raymond Hettinger179816d2011-04-12 18:54:46 -07001379IDLE
1380----
1381
1382- Issue #11718: IDLE's open module dialog couldn't find the __init__.py
1383 file in a package.
1384
R. David Murray0960bc52010-12-04 17:24:46 +00001385Tests
1386-----
1387
Ned Deilyc4f97f42011-05-29 02:36:17 -07001388- Issue #12205: Fix test_subprocess failure due to uninstalled test data.
1389
Ezio Melottie3992eb2011-05-14 06:24:53 +03001390- Issue #5723: Improve json tests to be executed with and without accelerations.
1391
Ezio Melotti5c5d7e22011-05-09 06:54:53 +03001392- Issue #11910: Fix test_heapq to skip the C tests when _heapq is missing.
1393
Nadeem Vawdabafc6a92011-04-19 01:35:58 +02001394- Fix test_startfile to wait for child process to terminate before finishing.
1395
Ross Lagerwallfe2f1ad2011-04-09 20:39:50 +02001396- Issue #11719: Fix message about unexpected test_msilib skip on non-Windows
1397 platforms. Patch by Nadeem Vawda.
1398
Ned Deily5f511822011-04-05 17:16:09 -07001399- Issue #7108: Fix test_commands to not fail when special attributes ('@'
1400 or '.') appear in 'ls -l' output.
1401
R David Murraycdd5fc92011-03-13 22:37:18 -04001402- Issue #11490: test_subprocess:test_leaking_fds_on_error no longer gives a
1403 false positive if the last directory in the path is inaccessible.
1404
Antoine Pitrou8bc59fa2011-01-12 18:56:09 +00001405- Issue #10822: Fix test_posix:test_getgroups failure under Solaris. Patch
1406 by Ross Lagerwall.
1407
Antoine Pitrou8c688be2011-01-03 20:49:01 +00001408- Issue #6293: Have regrtest.py echo back sys.flags. This is done by default
1409 in whole runs and enabled selectively using ``--header`` when running an
1410 explicit list of tests. Original patch by Collin Winter.
1411
R. David Murrayf8a63912010-12-14 16:26:30 +00001412- Issue #775964: test_grp now skips YP/NIS entries instead of failing when
1413 encountering them.
1414
R. David Murray0960bc52010-12-04 17:24:46 +00001415- Issue #7110: regrtest now sends test failure reports and single-failure
1416 tracebacks to stderr rather than stdout.
1417
Benjamin Peterson5ee84482010-11-28 04:49:23 +00001418
Benjamin Petersondb4c3342010-11-13 23:32:58 +00001419What's New in Python 2.7.1?
1420===========================
1421
Benjamin Peterson3e0fa422010-11-27 14:40:29 +00001422*Release date: 2010-11-27*
Benjamin Petersondb4c3342010-11-13 23:32:58 +00001423
1424Library
1425-------
1426
Éric Araujo54274ad2011-02-03 00:12:18 +00001427- Issue #2236: distutils' mkpath ignored the mode parameter.
1428
1429- Fix typo in one sdist option (medata-check).
1430
Raymond Hettinger061bf7a2010-11-30 03:15:35 +00001431- Issue #10323: itertools.islice() now consumes the minimum number of
1432 inputs before stopping. Formerly, the final state of the underlying
1433 iterator was undefined.
1434
Alexander Belopolsky1fea5c42010-11-30 01:18:17 +00001435- Issue #10565: The collections.Iterator ABC now checks for both
1436 ``__iter__`` and ``next``.
1437
Georg Brandl79f096a2010-11-26 07:57:57 +00001438- Issue #10092: Properly reset locale in calendar.Locale*Calendar classes.
1439
Martin v. Löwise03c7782010-11-22 10:53:46 +00001440- Issue #10459: Update CJK character names to Unicode 5.2.
1441
Georg Brandl5ded7912010-11-26 07:35:31 +00001442- Issue #6098: Don't claim DOM level 3 conformance in minidom.
1443
Senthil Kumaran9a5897b2010-11-29 12:41:03 +00001444- Issue #10561: In pdb, clear the breakpoints by the breakpoint number.
1445
Georg Brandl5ded7912010-11-26 07:35:31 +00001446- Issue #5762: Fix AttributeError raised by ``xml.dom.minidom`` when an empty
1447 XML namespace attribute is encountered.
1448
Georg Brandl86e0c892010-11-26 07:22:28 +00001449- Issue #1710703: Write structures for an empty ZIP archive when a ZipFile is
1450 created in modes 'a' or 'w' and then closed without adding any files. Raise
1451 BadZipfile (rather than IOError) when opening small non-ZIP files.
1452
Senthil Kumaran0b7cac12010-11-22 05:04:33 +00001453- Issue #4493: urllib2 adds '/' in front of path components which does not
1454 start with '/. Common behavior exhibited by browsers and other clients.
1455
Brian Curtin2d011ed2010-11-21 23:50:51 +00001456- Issue #6378: idle.bat now runs with the appropriate Python version rather than
1457 the system default. Patch by Sridhar Ratnakumar.
1458
Éric Araujo4fadd532010-11-20 20:02:41 +00001459- Issue #10407: Fix one NameError in distutils.
1460
Georg Brandl839c1132010-11-20 11:29:38 +00001461- Issue #10198: fix duplicate header written to wave files when writeframes()
1462 is called without data.
1463
Benjamin Peterson4fec9ce2010-11-20 17:31:08 +00001464- Issue #10467: Fix BytesIO.readinto() after seeking into a position after the
1465 end of the file.
1466
Senthil Kumaran501bfd82010-11-14 03:31:52 +00001467- Issue #5111: IPv6 Host in the Header is wrapped inside [ ]. Patch by Chandru.
1468
Martin v. Löwiseebd0172010-11-14 18:17:39 +00001469Build
1470-----
1471
Brian Curtin69a106a2010-11-22 02:08:49 +00001472- Backport r83399 to allow test_distutils to pass on installed versions.
1473
Martin v. Löwiseebd0172010-11-14 18:17:39 +00001474- Issue #1303434: Generate ZIP file containing all PDBs.
1475
Ezio Melotti2623a372010-11-21 13:34:58 +00001476Tests
1477-----
1478
1479- Issue #9424: Replace deprecated assert* methods in the Python test suite.
1480
Ezio Melottibf8484e2010-11-24 21:54:47 +00001481Documentation
1482-------------
1483
1484- Issue #10299: List the built-in functions in a table in functions.rst.
1485
Benjamin Petersondb4c3342010-11-13 23:32:58 +00001486
Benjamin Petersoncc214172010-11-13 17:33:04 +00001487What's New in Python 2.7.1 release candidate 1?
1488===============================================
Benjamin Petersone3c10452010-07-03 14:51:25 +00001489
Benjamin Petersoncc214172010-11-13 17:33:04 +00001490*Release date: 2010-11-13*
Benjamin Petersone3c10452010-07-03 14:51:25 +00001491
1492Core and Builtins
1493-----------------
1494
Raymond Hettinger2ad17e12010-10-30 08:17:46 +00001495- Issue #10221: dict.pop(k) now has a key error message that includes the
1496 missing key (same message d[k] returns for missing keys).
1497
Barry Warsawfa658272010-11-02 21:03:09 +00001498- Issue #10125: Don't segfault when the iterator passed to
1499 ``file.writelines()`` closes the file.
Benjamin Petersonbf775542010-10-16 19:20:12 +00001500
Barry Warsawfa658272010-11-02 21:03:09 +00001501- Issue #10186: Fix the SyntaxError caret when the offset is equal to the
1502 length of the offending line.
Benjamin Petersonf99f33d2010-10-24 03:00:35 +00001503
Benjamin Petersonf76942d2010-10-16 03:51:38 +00001504- Issue #9997: Don't let the name "top" have special significance in scope
1505 resolution.
1506
R. David Murray1d9d16e2010-10-16 00:43:13 +00001507- Issue #9862: Compensate for broken PIPE_BUF in AIX by hard coding
1508 its value as the default 512 when compiling on AIX.
1509
Jesus Cea33c722b2010-11-04 21:39:52 +00001510- Issue #9675: CObject use is marked as a Py3k warning, not a deprecation
1511 warning.
1512
Benjamin Petersondc954242010-10-12 23:02:35 +00001513- Issue #10068: Global objects which have reference cycles with their module's
1514 dict are now cleared again. This causes issue #7140 to appear again.
1515
Mark Dickinsoncb61e5d2010-09-26 10:37:12 +00001516- Issue #9869: Make long() and PyNumber_Long return something of type
1517 long for a class whose __long__ method returns a plain int. This
1518 fixes an interpreter crash when initializing an instance of a long
1519 subclass from an object whose __long__ method returns a plain int.
1520
Benjamin Petersona5d5cc42010-10-02 00:08:58 +00001521- Issue #10006: type.__abstractmethods__ now raises an AttributeError.
1522
Antoine Pitrou0a7b65b2010-09-08 12:40:49 +00001523- Issue #9797: pystate.c wrongly assumed that zero couldn't be a valid
1524 thread-local storage key.
1525
Victor Stinnercaafd772010-09-08 10:51:01 +00001526- Issue #4947: The write() method of sys.stdout and sys.stderr uses their
1527 encoding and errors attributes instead of using utf-8 in strict mode, to get
1528 the same behaviour than the print statement.
1529
Antoine Pitrou9cf85f12010-09-01 21:17:34 +00001530- Issue #9737: Fix a crash when trying to delete a slice or an item from
1531 a memoryview object.
1532
Martin v. Löwis6086b0d2010-08-19 09:09:04 +00001533- Restore GIL in nis_cat in case of error.
1534
Benjamin Peterson6f3d6a92010-08-25 23:17:42 +00001535- Issue #9688: __basicsize__ and __itemsize__ must be accessed as Py_ssize_t.
1536
Florent Xicluna172e15f2010-08-09 20:02:00 +00001537- Issue #8530: Prevent stringlib fastsearch from reading beyond the front
1538 of an array.
1539
Raymond Hettinger3ad323e2010-08-06 10:18:56 +00001540- Issue #83755: Implicit set-to-frozenset conversion was not thread-safe.
1541
Mark Dickinsonaad57bd2010-08-01 10:45:15 +00001542- Issue #9416: Fix some issues with complex formatting where the
1543 output with no type specifier failed to match the str output:
1544
1545 - format(complex(-0.0, 2.0), '-') omitted the real part from the output,
1546 - format(complex(0.0, 2.0), '-') included a sign and parentheses.
1547
Antoine Pitrou32669782010-07-11 12:14:05 +00001548- Issue #7616: Fix copying of overlapping memoryview slices with the Intel
1549 compiler.
Benjamin Petersone3c10452010-07-03 14:51:25 +00001550
1551Library
1552-------
1553
Éric Araujo86f90742011-03-21 00:15:26 +01001554- Issue #9926: Wrapped TestSuite subclass does not get __call__ executed
Michael Foord75152ea2010-11-20 17:40:49 +00001555
Antoine Pitrou7eaa4482010-11-09 23:15:18 +00001556- Issue #4471: Properly shutdown socket in IMAP.shutdown(). Patch by
1557 Lorenzo M. Catucci.
1558
Éric Araujo2f0a0402010-11-06 15:46:46 +00001559- Issue #10126: Fix distutils' test_build when Python was built with
1560 --enable-shared.
Michael Foord75152ea2010-11-20 17:40:49 +00001561
Éric Araujo2f0a0402010-11-06 15:46:46 +00001562- Fix typo in one sdist option (medata-check).
1563
1564- Issue #9199: Fix incorrect use of distutils.cmd.Command.announce.
1565
1566- Issue #1718574: Fix options that were supposed to accept arguments but did
1567 not in build_clib.
1568
Éric Araujoe9954b52010-11-06 04:53:42 +00001569- Issue #9281: Prevent race condition with mkdir in distutils. Patch by
1570 Arfrever.
1571
Éric Araujoe28665a2010-11-06 04:36:28 +00001572- Issue #10229: Fix caching error in gettext.
1573
Éric Araujod1feff72010-11-06 04:06:18 +00001574- Issue #10252: Close file objects in a timely manner in distutils code and
1575 tests. Patch by Brian Brazil, completed by Éric Araujo.
1576
Antoine Pitrou6b1167c2010-11-05 19:55:02 +00001577- Issue #10311: The signal module now restores errno before returning from
1578 its low-level signal handler. Patch by Hallvard B Furuseth.
1579
Barry Warsawfa658272010-11-02 21:03:09 +00001580- Issue #10038: json.loads() on str should always return unicode (regression
1581 from Python 2.6). Patch by Walter Dörwald.
Michael Foorde5dc24e2010-11-01 22:11:53 +00001582
Barry Warsawfa658272010-11-02 21:03:09 +00001583- Issue #120176: Wrapped TestSuite subclass does not get __call__ executed.
1584
1585- Issue #6706: asyncore accept() method no longer raises
1586 EWOULDBLOCK/ECONNABORTED on incomplete connection attempt but returns None
1587 instead.
Giampaolo Rodolà19e9fef2010-11-01 15:07:14 +00001588
Antoine Pitrou61d14b72010-10-31 16:17:36 +00001589- Issue #10266: uu.decode didn't close in_file explicitly when it was given
1590 as a filename. Patch by Brian Brazil.
1591
Antoine Pitrou3917c092010-10-31 13:12:48 +00001592- Issue #10246: uu.encode didn't close file objects explicitly when filenames
1593 were given to it. Patch by Brian Brazil.
1594
Antoine Pitrou594a0462010-10-31 13:05:48 +00001595- Issue #10253: FileIO leaks a file descriptor when trying to open a file
1596 for append that isn't seekable. Patch by Brian Brazil.
1597
Raymond Hettingercbba8d42010-10-30 07:29:44 +00001598- Issue #6105: json.dumps now respects OrderedDict's iteration order.
1599
Antoine Pitrou638cee62010-10-28 14:50:57 +00001600- Issue #9295: Fix a crash under Windows when calling close() on a file
1601 object with custom buffering from two threads at once.
1602
Antoine Pitrou7f081022010-10-27 18:43:21 +00001603- Issue #5027: The standard ``xml`` namespace is now understood by
1604 xml.sax.saxutils.XMLGenerator as being bound to
1605 http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace. Patch by Troy J. Farrell.
1606
Brian Curtin4cc54032010-10-21 14:48:22 +00001607- Issue #10163: Skip unreadable registry keys during mimetypes
1608 initialization.
1609
Hirokazu Yamamoto50f7d7e2010-10-18 13:55:29 +00001610- Issue #5117: Fixed root directory related issue on posixpath.relpath() and
1611 ntpath.relpath().
1612
Éric Araujo86f90742011-03-21 00:15:26 +01001613- Issue #9409: Fix the regex to match all kind of filenames, for interactive
Florent Xiclunab67660f2010-10-14 21:10:45 +00001614 debugging in doctests.
1615
Victor Stinnerd2f6ae62010-10-12 22:53:51 +00001616- Issue #6612: Fix site and sysconfig to catch os.getcwd() error, eg. if the
1617 current directory was deleted. Patch written by W. Trevor King.
1618
Fred Drake577acb42010-10-11 19:13:04 +00001619- Issue #10045: Improved performance when writing after seeking past the
1620 end of the "file" in cStringIO.
1621
Vinay Sajip5e8349e2010-10-10 20:36:04 +00001622- Issue #9948: Fixed problem of losing filename case information.
1623
Antoine Pitrou58dab672010-10-10 09:54:59 +00001624- Issue #9437: Fix building C extensions with non-default LDFLAGS.
1625
Antoine Pitrou76a66aa2010-10-06 21:26:52 +00001626- Issue #9759: GzipFile now raises ValueError when an operation is attempted
1627 after the file is closed. Patch by Jeffrey Finkelstein.
1628
Éric Araujoc17776f2010-10-04 23:59:35 +00001629- Issue #9042: Fix interaction of custom translation classes and caching in
1630 gettext.
1631
Lars Gustäbel6aab8d02010-10-04 15:37:53 +00001632- Issue #9065: tarfile no longer uses "root" as the default for the uname and
1633 gname field.
1634
R. David Murray10a86762010-10-02 16:26:05 +00001635- Issue #1050268: parseaddr now correctly quotes double quote and backslash
1636 characters that appear inside quoted strings in email addresses.
1637
R. David Murray20ad3632010-10-01 15:48:49 +00001638- Issue #10004: quoprimime no longer generates a traceback when confronted
1639 with invalid characters after '=' in a Q-encoded word.
1640
Antoine Pitrou66b5df62010-09-27 18:16:46 +00001641- Issue #9950: Fix socket.sendall() crash or misbehaviour when a signal is
1642 received. Now sendall() properly calls signal handlers if necessary,
1643 and retries sending if these returned successfully, including on sockets
1644 with a timeout.
1645
Vinay Sajip3eac5912010-09-25 17:48:25 +00001646- Issue #9947: logging: Fixed locking bug in stopListening.
1647
Vinay Sajip546885e2010-09-25 17:42:36 +00001648- Issue #9945: logging: Fixed locking bugs in addHandler/removeHandler.
1649
Alexander Belopolsky517185e2010-09-24 18:14:18 +00001650- Issue #9936: Fixed executable lines' search in the trace module.
1651
Antoine Pitrou2c7d6852010-09-23 19:55:24 +00001652- Issue #9928: Properly initialize the types exported by the bz2 module.
1653
Antoine Pitrou6391b342010-09-14 18:48:19 +00001654- Issue #9854: The default read() implementation in io.RawIOBase now
1655 handles non-blocking readinto() returning None correctly.
1656
Antoine Pitrouf7f390a2010-09-14 14:37:18 +00001657- Issue #9729: Fix the signature of SSLSocket.recvfrom() and
1658 SSLSocket.sendto() to match the corresponding socket methods. Also,
1659 fix various SSLSocket methods to raise socket.error rather than an
1660 unhelpful TypeError when called on an unconnected socket. Original patch
1661 by Andrew Bennetts.
1662
Raymond Hettinger74f869e2010-09-13 22:14:36 +00001663- Issue #9826: OrderedDict.__repr__ can now handle self-referential
1664 values: d['x'] = d.
1665
Victor Stinner8fc843b2010-09-17 23:35:50 +00001666- Issue #767645: Set os.path.supports_unicode_filenames to True on Mac OS X.
Victor Stinner46287f52010-09-13 20:31:34 +00001667
Antoine Pitroue4195e82010-09-12 14:56:27 +00001668- Issue #9837: The read() method of ZipExtFile objects (as returned by
1669 ZipFile.open()) could return more bytes than requested.
1670
Raymond Hettinger20397532010-09-12 02:11:45 +00001671- Issue #9825: removed __del__ from the definition of collections.OrderedDict.
1672 This prevents user-created self-referencing ordered dictionaries from
1673 becoming permanently uncollectable GC garbage. The downside is that
1674 removing __del__ means that the internal doubly-linked list has to wait for
1675 GC collection rather than freeing memory immediately when the refcnt drops
1676 to zero.
1677
Raymond Hettingerffd2a422010-09-10 10:47:22 +00001678- Issue #9816: random.Random.jumpahead(n) did not produce a sufficiently
Victor Stinnerd2f6ae62010-10-12 22:53:51 +00001679 different internal state for small values of n. Fixed by salting the
Raymond Hettingerffd2a422010-09-10 10:47:22 +00001680 value.
1681
Antoine Pitrouc818ed42010-09-07 21:40:25 +00001682- Issue #9792: In case of connection failure, socket.create_connection()
1683 would swallow the exception and raise a new one, making it impossible
1684 to fetch the original errno, or to filter timeout errors. Now the
1685 original error is re-raised.
1686
Antoine Pitrouf4f61712010-09-07 16:34:47 +00001687- Issue #9758: When fcntl.ioctl() was called with mutable_flag set to True,
1688 and the passed buffer was exactly 1024 bytes long, the buffer wouldn't
1689 be updated back after the system call. Original patch by Brian Brazil.
1690
Antoine Pitroudca9de92010-09-04 17:52:26 +00001691- Issue #1100562: Fix deep-copying of objects derived from the list and
1692 dict types. Patch by Michele Orrù and Björn Lindqvist.
1693
Fred Drakea1e627d2010-09-03 03:55:50 +00001694- Issue #7005: Fixed output of None values for RawConfigParser.write and
1695 ConfigParser.write.
1696
Daniel Stutzbach66c981b2010-08-31 20:29:39 +00001697- Issue #808164: Fixed socket.close to avoid references to globals, to
1698 avoid issues when socket.close is called from a __del__ method.
1699
Terry Reedyd2d2ae92010-11-11 23:22:19 +00001700- Issue #2986: difflib.SequenceMatcher gets a new parameter, autojunk, which
1701 can be set to False to turn off the previously undocumented 'popularity'
1702 heuristic. Patch by Terry Reedy and Eli Bendersky
1703
Senthil Kumaran7e8fd5e2010-08-26 06:20:13 +00001704- Issue #8797: urllib2 does a retry for Basic Authentication failure instead of
1705 falling into recursion.
1706
R. David Murray7c4bf552010-08-25 01:45:57 +00001707- Issue #1194222: email.utils.parsedate now returns RFC2822 compliant four
1708 character years even if the message contains RFC822 two character years.
1709
Daniel Stutzbach91287322010-08-24 21:09:30 +00001710- Issue #8750: Fixed MutableSet's methods to correctly handle
1711 reflexive operations, namely x -= x and x ^= x.
1712
Victor Stinnercaafd772010-09-08 10:51:01 +00001713- Issue #9129: smtpd.py is vulnerable to DoS attacks deriving from missing
Giampaolo Rodolà8664d742010-08-23 22:48:51 +00001714 error handling when accepting a new connection.
1715
Giampaolo Rodolà63308d72010-08-23 21:58:47 +00001716- Issue #658749: asyncore's connect() method now correctly interprets winsock
1717 errors.
1718
Vinay Sajip1ddd51f2010-08-23 17:50:30 +00001719- Issue #9501: Fixed logging regressions in cleanup code.
1720
Raymond Hettinger917bba12010-08-22 08:01:58 +00001721- Issue #9214: Set operations on KeysView or ItemsView in the collections
1722 module now correctly return a set. (Patch by Eli Bendersky.)
1723
Antoine Pitrou3ebaed62010-08-21 19:17:25 +00001724- Issue #9617: Signals received during a low-level write operation aren't
1725 ignored by the buffered IO layer anymore.
1726
Benjamin Peterson52c36052010-08-21 03:03:22 +00001727- Issue #2521: Use weakrefs on for caching in the abc module, so that classes
1728 are not held onto after they are deleted elsewhere.
1729
Raymond Hettingera54b2da2010-08-17 19:03:06 +00001730- Issue #9626: the view methods for collections.OrderedDict() were returning
1731 the unordered versions inherited from dict. Those methods are now
1732 overridden to provide ordered views.
1733
Éric Araujo0389ae62010-08-14 03:07:46 +00001734- Issue #8688: MANIFEST files created by distutils now include a magic
1735 comment indicating they are generated. Manually maintained MANIFESTs
1736 without this marker will not be overwritten or removed.
1737
Antoine Pitroue1436d12010-08-12 15:25:51 +00001738- Issue #7467: when reading a file from a ZIP archive, its CRC is checked
1739 and a BadZipfile error is raised if it doesn't match (as used to be the
1740 case in Python 2.5 and earlier).
1741
Antoine Pitroucb4f47c2010-08-11 13:40:17 +00001742- Issue #9550: a BufferedReader could issue an additional read when the
1743 original read request had been satisfied, which could block indefinitely
1744 when the underlying raw IO channel was e.g. a socket. Report and original
1745 patch by Jason V. Miller.
1746
Fred Drake0a1fa0e2010-08-10 13:09:54 +00001747- Issue #9551: Don't raise TypeError when setting the value to None for
1748 SafeConfigParser instances constructed with allow_no_value == True.
1749
Antoine Pitrou8cdede42010-08-10 00:04:13 +00001750- Issue #6915: Under Windows, os.listdir() didn't release the Global
1751 Interpreter Lock around all system calls. Original patch by Ryan Kelly.
1752
Antoine Pitrou99009162010-08-09 22:51:24 +00001753- Issue #3757: thread-local objects now support cyclic garbage collection.
1754 Thread-local objects involved in reference cycles will be deallocated
1755 timely by the cyclic GC, even if the underlying thread is still running.
1756
Florent Xicluna2f1b1ff2010-08-09 20:46:49 +00001757- Issue #6231: Fix xml.etree.ElementInclude to include the tail of the
1758 current node.
1759
Thomas Heller5c7589c2010-08-08 18:28:59 +00001760- Issue #6869: Fix a refcount problem in the _ctypes extension.
1761
Thomas Heller001d3a12010-08-08 17:56:41 +00001762- Issue5504 - ctypes should now work with systems where mmap can't be
1763 PROT_WRITE and PROT_EXEC.
1764
Senthil Kumarane677ecf2010-08-08 11:56:31 +00001765- Fix Issue8280 - urllib2's Request method will remove fragements in the url.
1766 This is how it is supposed to work, wget and curl do the same. Previous
1767 behavior was wrong.
1768
Giampaolo Rodolà47617ab2010-08-04 08:35:25 +00001769- Issue #2944: asyncore doesn't handle connection refused correctly.
1770
R. David Murray75a292e2010-08-04 00:05:50 +00001771- Issue #3196: email header decoding is now forgiving if an RFC2047
1772 encoded word encoded in base64 is lacking padding.
1773
R. David Murray1cbf78e2010-08-03 18:14:01 +00001774- Issue #9444: Argparse now uses the first element of prefix_chars as
1775 the option character for the added 'h/help' option if prefix_chars
1776 does not contain a '-', instead of raising an error.
1777
Georg Brandl7f0c3ff2010-08-01 21:18:52 +00001778- Issue #9354: Provide getsockopt() in asyncore's file_wrapper.
1779
Florent Xicluna92847452010-09-13 17:36:36 +00001780- Issue #9428: Fix running scripts with the profile/cProfile modules from
1781 the command line.
1782
Georg Brandl9c5efad2010-08-02 21:29:14 +00001783- Issue #7781: Fix restricting stats by entry counts in the pstats
1784 interactive browser.
1785
1786- Issue #9209: Do not crash in the pstats interactive browser on invalid
1787 regular expressions.
1788
Georg Brandla2a92cf2010-08-02 17:34:58 +00001789- Issue #7372: Fix pstats regression when stripping paths from profile
1790 data generated with the profile module.
1791
Georg Brandl2bd953e2010-08-01 20:59:03 +00001792- Issue #4108: In urllib.robotparser, if there are multiple 'User-agent: *'
1793 entries, consider the first one.
1794
Antoine Pitrou39703012010-08-01 20:13:11 +00001795- Issue #8397: Raise an error when attempting to mix iteration and regular
1796 reads on a BZ2File object, rather than returning incorrect results.
1797
Georg Brandl50775992010-08-01 19:33:15 +00001798- Issue #5294: Fix the behavior of pdb's "continue" command when called
1799 in the top-level debugged frame.
1800
1801- Issue #5727: Restore the ability to use readline when calling into pdb
1802 in doctests.
1803
1804- Issue #6719: In pdb, do not stop somewhere in the encodings machinery
1805 if the source file to be debugged is in a non-builtin encoding.
1806
1807- Issue #8048: Prevent doctests from failing when sys.displayhook has
1808 been reassigned.
1809
1810- Issue #8015: In pdb, do not crash when an empty line is entered as
1811 a breakpoint command.
1812
Antoine Pitrou607951d2010-08-01 16:57:17 +00001813- Issue #9448: Fix a leak of OS resources (mutexes or semaphores) when
1814 re-initializing a buffered IO object by calling its ``__init__`` method.
1815
Georg Brandle2773252010-08-01 19:14:56 +00001816- Issue #7909: Do not touch paths with the special prefixes ``\\.\``
1817 or ``\\?\`` in ntpath.normpath().
1818
Georg Brandl004c74d2010-08-01 19:06:51 +00001819- Issue #5146: Handle UID THREAD command correctly in imaplib.
1820
1821- Issue #5147: Fix the header generated for cookie files written by
1822 http.cookiejar.MozillaCookieJar.
1823
1824- Issue #8198: In pydoc, output all help text to the correct stream
1825 when sys.stdout is reassigned.
1826
Georg Brandl0347c712010-08-01 19:02:09 +00001827- Issue #7395: Fix tracebacks in pstats interactive browser.
1828
1829- Issue #8230: Fix Lib/test/sortperf.py.
1830
Georg Brandl78e69572010-08-01 18:52:52 +00001831- Issue #1713: Fix os.path.ismount(), which returned true for symbolic links
1832 across devices.
1833
1834- Issue #8826: Properly load old-style "expires" attribute in http.cookies.
1835
1836- Issue #1690103: Fix initial namespace for code run with trace.main().
1837
Georg Brandl1f05e2e2010-08-01 08:22:05 +00001838- Issue #8471: In doctest, properly reset the output stream to an empty
1839 string when Unicode was previously output.
1840
R. David Murray58f15b62010-08-01 04:04:03 +00001841- Issue #8620: when a Cmd is fed input that reaches EOF without a final
1842 newline, it no longer truncates the last character of the last command line.
1843
Victor Stinner73363e82010-07-28 01:39:45 +00001844- Issue #6213: Implement getstate() and setstate() methods of utf-8-sig and
1845 utf-16 incremental encoders.
1846
Brian Curtinb2ec2322010-07-26 02:40:17 +00001847- Issue #7113: Speed up loading in ConfigParser. Patch by Łukasz Langa.
1848
Gregory P. Smith2a91ce82010-07-25 19:11:36 +00001849- Issue #3704: cookielib was not properly handling URLs with a / in the
1850 parameters.
1851
Victor Stinner8b0d84e2010-07-24 02:51:49 +00001852- Issue #9032: XML-RPC client retries the request on EPIPE error. The EPIPE
1853 error occurs when the server closes the socket and the client sends a big
1854 XML-RPC request.
1855
Victor Stinner2c6aee92010-07-24 02:46:16 +00001856- Issue #5542: Remove special logic that closes HTTPConnection socket on EPIPE.
1857
Victor Stinner4c16d122010-07-24 01:07:52 +00001858- Issue #4629: getopt raises an error if an argument ends with = whereas getopt
1859 doesn't except a value (eg. --help= is rejected if getopt uses ['help='] long
1860 options).
1861
Ronald Oussoren3a04a252010-07-23 12:41:00 +00001862- Issue #7895: platform.mac_ver() no longer crashes after calling os.fork()
1863
Antoine Pitrou7a7013e2010-07-21 16:47:28 +00001864- Issue #5395: array.fromfile() would raise a spurious EOFError when an
1865 I/O error occurred. Now an IOError is raised instead. Patch by chuck
1866 (Jan Hosang).
1867
R. David Murrayf6cbdcb2010-07-09 13:25:56 +00001868- Issue #7646: The fnmatch pattern cache no longer grows without bound.
1869
Mark Dickinson7ea29b02010-07-08 21:28:31 +00001870- Issue #9136: Fix 'dictionary changed size during iteration'
1871 RuntimeError produced when profiling the decimal module. This was
1872 due to a dangerous iteration over 'locals()' in Context.__init__.
1873
1874- Fix extreme speed issue in Decimal.pow when the base is an exact
1875 power of 10 and the exponent is tiny (for example,
1876 Decimal(10) ** Decimal('1e-999999999')).
1877
R. David Murray3caf7b92010-07-05 16:06:05 +00001878- Issue #9161: Fix regression in optparse's acceptance of unicode
1879 strings in add_option calls.
1880
Mark Dickinson75b44b32010-07-04 16:47:56 +00001881- Issue #9130: Fix validation of relative imports in parser module.
1882
Mark Dickinsona7ee59b2010-07-04 16:23:54 +00001883- Issue #9128: Fix validation of class decorators in parser module.
Benjamin Petersone3c10452010-07-03 14:51:25 +00001884
Ronald Oussoren75956202010-07-11 08:52:52 +00001885- Issue #9164: Ensure sysconfig handles dupblice archs while building on OSX
1886
Alexander Belopolsky9d17da32010-09-13 16:45:02 +00001887- Issue #9315: Fix for the trace module to record correct class name
1888 for tracing methods.
1889
Benjamin Petersone3c10452010-07-03 14:51:25 +00001890Extension Modules
1891-----------------
1892
Georg Brandl67c27332010-10-24 14:16:05 +00001893- Issue #9054: Fix a crash occurring when using the pyexpat module
1894 with expat version 2.0.1.
1895
Brian Curtin1390dd72010-10-01 16:44:03 +00001896- Issue #10003: Allow handling of SIGBREAK on Windows. Fixes a regression
Victor Stinnerd2f6ae62010-10-12 22:53:51 +00001897 introduced by issue #9324.
Brian Curtin1390dd72010-10-01 16:44:03 +00001898
Antoine Pitroue6ebcda2010-09-04 21:24:42 +00001899- Issue #8734: Avoid crash in msvcrt.get_osfhandle() when an invalid file
1900 descriptor is provided. Patch by Pascal Chambon.
1901
Antoine Pitrou247e2fd2010-09-04 17:27:10 +00001902- Issue #7736: Release the GIL around calls to opendir() and closedir()
1903 in the posix module. Patch by Marcin Bachry.
1904
Benjamin Peterson52c36052010-08-21 03:03:22 +00001905- As a result of issue #2521, the _weakref module is now compiled into the
1906 interpreter by default.
1907
Brian Curtin24af0e92010-08-06 19:41:01 +00001908- Issue #9324: Add parameter validation to signal.signal on Windows in order
1909 to prevent crashes.
1910
Mark Dickinson5e684332010-08-06 09:44:48 +00001911- Issue #9526: Remove some outdated (int) casts that were preventing
1912 the array module from working correctly with arrays of more than
1913 2**31 elements.
1914
Mark Dickinsonf38d8882010-08-03 18:46:28 +00001915- Fix memory leak in ssl._ssl._test_decode_cert.
1916
Mark Dickinson0f981282010-08-03 16:54:19 +00001917- Issue #8065: Fix memory leak in readline module (from failure to
1918 free the result of history_get_history_state()).
1919
Mark Dickinson4ee98532010-08-03 16:18:39 +00001920- Issue #9450: Fix memory leak in readline.replace_history_item and
1921 readline.remove_history_item for readline version >= 5.0.
1922
Brian Curtinba6c08e2010-08-01 15:47:53 +00001923- Issue #8105: Validate file descriptor passed to mmap.mmap on Windows.
1924
Georg Brandla4917272010-07-31 21:22:36 +00001925- Issue #1019882: Fix IndexError when loading certain hotshot stats.
1926
Mark Dickinson96527c32010-07-29 21:44:47 +00001927- Issue #9422: Fix memory leak when re-initializing a struct.Struct object.
1928
Ronald Oussoren9e7ffae2010-07-24 09:46:41 +00001929- Issue #7900: The getgroups(2) system call on MacOSX behaves rather oddly
1930 compared to other unix systems. In particular, os.getgroups() does
1931 not reflect any changes made using os.setgroups() but basicly always
1932 returns the same information as the id command.
1933
1934 os.getgroups() can now return more than 16 groups on MacOSX.
1935
Mark Dickinsoncac0b832010-07-18 07:55:55 +00001936- Issue #9277: Fix bug in struct.pack for bools in standard mode
1937 (e.g., struct.pack('>?')): if conversion to bool raised an exception
1938 then that exception wasn't properly propagated on machines where
1939 char is unsigned.
1940
Matthias Klose6e86bf72010-07-30 21:27:18 +00001941- Issue #7567: Don't call `setupterm' twice.
1942
Ronald Oussoren19199832011-03-14 11:57:39 -04001943
Antoine Pitrou2fba0b32010-09-08 21:12:36 +00001944Tools/Demos
1945-----------
1946
Benjamin Peterson4de6b062010-10-13 22:07:17 +00001947- Issue #7287: Demo/imputil/knee.py was removed.
1948
Antoine Pitrou2fba0b32010-09-08 21:12:36 +00001949- Issue #9188: The gdb extension now handles correctly narrow (UCS2) as well
1950 as wide (UCS4) unicode builds for both the host interpreter (embedded
1951 inside gdb) and the interpreter under test.
1952
Benjamin Peterson4082d9b2010-07-17 20:41:16 +00001953Build
1954-----
1955
Antoine Pitroue0c5f3c2010-10-27 20:35:26 +00001956- Issue #8852: Allow the socket module to build on OpenSolaris.
1957
Antoine Pitrou7be5a652010-10-10 08:14:41 +00001958- Issue #10054: Some platforms provide uintptr_t in inttypes.h. Patch by
1959 Akira Kitada.
1960
Antoine Pitrou22ad2452010-10-09 15:28:59 +00001961- Issue #10055: Make json C89-compliant in UCS4 mode.
1962
Antoine Pitrou285cd162010-09-21 15:23:17 +00001963- Issue #1633863: Don't ignore $CC under AIX.
1964
Hirokazu Yamamotoc4caa9c2010-09-18 22:33:33 +00001965- Issue #9810: Compile bzip2 source files in python's project file
1966 directly. It used to be built with bzip2's makefile.
1967
Antoine Pitrouaabdceb2010-09-10 20:03:17 +00001968- Issue #941346: Improve the build process under AIX and allow Python to
1969 be built as a shared library. Patch by Sébastien Sablé.
1970
Antoine Pitrou85729812010-09-07 14:55:24 +00001971- Issue #4026: Make the fcntl extension build under AIX. Patch by Sébastien
1972 Sablé.
1973
Antoine Pitroua74c3342010-09-03 16:15:17 +00001974- Issue #3101: Helper functions _add_one_to_index_C() and
1975 _add_one_to_index_F() become _Py_add_one_to_index_C() and
1976 _Py_add_one_to_index_F(), respectively.
Antoine Pitrou1fcdba82010-09-01 13:02:50 +00001977
1978- Issue #9700: define HAVE_BROKEN_POSIX_SEMAPHORES under AIX 6.x. Patch by
1979 Sébastien Sablé.
1980
Benjamin Peterson4082d9b2010-07-17 20:41:16 +00001981- Issue #9280: Make sharedinstall depend on sharedmods.
1982
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00001983- Issue #9275: The OSX installer once again installs links to binaries in
1984 ``/usr/local/bin``.
Ronald Oussoren8a14db82010-07-23 11:13:03 +00001985
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00001986- Issue #9392: A framework build on OSX will once again use a versioned name
1987 of the ``2to3`` tool, that is you can use ``2to3-2.7`` to select the Python
1988 2.7 edition of 2to3.
Ronald Oussoren0969c672010-07-29 13:18:19 +00001989
Ronald Oussorenec2fe002010-09-28 14:01:49 +00001990- Issue #9701: The MacOSX installer can patch the shell profile to ensure that
1991 the "bin" directory inside the framework is on the shell's search path. This
1992 feature now also supports the ZSH shell.
1993
Ronald Oussoren24215252010-10-20 13:11:46 +00001994- Issue #7473: avoid link errors when building a framework with a different
1995 set of architectures than the one that is currently installed.
Ronald Oussorenec2fe002010-09-28 14:01:49 +00001996
Antoine Pitrou22db7352010-07-08 18:54:04 +00001997Tests
1998-----
1999
Hirokazu Yamamoto1f504f12010-10-08 09:41:13 +00002000- Issue #9978: Wait until subprocess completes initialization. (Win32KillTests
2001 in test_os)
2002
Antoine Pitrou767cbc42010-09-18 18:15:33 +00002003- Issue #9894: Do not hardcode ENOENT in test_subprocess.
2004
Florent Xicluna92847452010-09-13 17:36:36 +00002005- Issue #9323: Make test.regrtest.__file__ absolute, this was not always the
2006 case when running profile or trace, for example.
2007
Alexander Belopolsky9d17da32010-09-13 16:45:02 +00002008- Issue #9315: Added tests for the trace module. Patch by Eli Bendersky.
Florent Xicluna92847452010-09-13 17:36:36 +00002009
Florent Xiclunac0c0b142010-09-13 08:53:00 +00002010- Strengthen test_unicode with explicit type checking for assertEqual tests.
2011
Giampaolo Rodolà633e4742010-08-14 17:04:46 +00002012- Issue #8857: Provide a test case for socket.getaddrinfo.
2013
Florent Xicluna172e15f2010-08-09 20:02:00 +00002014- Issue #7564: Skip test_ioctl if another process is attached to /dev/tty.
2015
Mark Dickinson28669332010-08-07 13:07:11 +00002016- Issue #8433: Fix test_curses failure with newer versions of ncurses.
2017
Antoine Pitrou185fae72010-08-04 15:54:33 +00002018- Issue #9496: Provide a test suite for the rlcompleter module. Patch by
2019 Michele Orrù.
2020
Antoine Pitrou22db7352010-07-08 18:54:04 +00002021- Issue #8605: Skip test_gdb if Python is compiled with optimizations.
2022
Ronald Oussoren8928e322010-09-28 14:43:59 +00002023- Issue #9568: Fix test_urllib2_localnet on OS X 10.3.
2024
Brett Cannon8c4fa112010-07-21 09:52:10 +00002025Documentation
2026-------------
2027
Matthias Klose3e8230d2010-09-12 16:51:29 +00002028- Issue #9817: Add expat COPYING file; add expat, libffi and expat licenses
2029 to Doc/license.rst.
2030
Brian Curtin4d808892010-08-05 19:00:45 +00002031- Issue #9524: Document that two CTRL* signals are meant for use only
2032 with os.kill.
2033
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00002034- Issue #9255: Document that the 'test' package is for internal Python use
2035 only.
Brett Cannon9ae2cb72010-07-23 12:07:27 +00002036
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00002037- Issue #7829: Document in dis that bytecode is an implementation detail.
Brett Cannon8c4fa112010-07-21 09:52:10 +00002038
Benjamin Petersone3c10452010-07-03 14:51:25 +00002039
Benjamin Peterson4f612592010-06-21 17:28:30 +00002040What's New in Python 2.7?
2041=========================
2042
Benjamin Petersonc60082d2010-07-03 13:56:13 +00002043*Release date: 2010-07-03*
Benjamin Peterson4f612592010-06-21 17:28:30 +00002044
2045Core and Builtins
2046-----------------
2047
Benjamin Peterson947ce582010-06-24 00:12:40 +00002048- Prevent assignment to set literals.
2049
Benjamin Peterson4f612592010-06-21 17:28:30 +00002050Library
2051-------
2052
Antoine Pitroua4083502010-08-28 18:29:13 +00002053- Issue #1868: Eliminate subtle timing issues in thread-local objects by
2054 getting rid of the cached copy of thread-local attribute dictionary.
2055
Benjamin Peterson6a336f62010-07-03 13:57:30 +00002056- Issue #9125: Add recognition of 'except ... as ...' syntax to parser module.
2057
2058Extension Modules
2059-----------------
2060
Benjamin Petersonc670b7e2010-07-03 13:49:23 +00002061- Issue #7673: Fix security vulnerability (CVE-2010-2089) in the audioop module,
2062 ensure that the input string length is a multiple of the frame size.
Victor Stinner15e5b1b2010-07-03 13:36:19 +00002063
Antoine Pitrou0dddf602010-06-25 00:03:21 +00002064- Issue #9075: In the ssl module, remove the setting of a ``debug`` flag
2065 on an OpenSSL structure.
2066
Benjamin Peterson00633672010-07-03 13:56:56 +00002067
Michael Foord83d35762010-06-10 16:32:00 +00002068What's New in Python 2.7 release candidate 2?
2069=============================================
Benjamin Peterson2f3d9f92010-06-06 02:09:33 +00002070
Benjamin Petersonbfcedf42010-06-21 15:57:57 +00002071*Release date: 2010-06-20*
Benjamin Peterson2f3d9f92010-06-06 02:09:33 +00002072
2073Core and Builtins
2074-----------------
2075
Benjamin Petersonb9133892010-06-22 19:16:37 +00002076- Issue #9058: Remove assertions about INT_MAX in UnicodeDecodeError.
2077
Nick Coghlan8842c352010-06-13 06:50:39 +00002078- Issue #8202: Previous change to ``sys.argv[0]`` handling for -m command line
2079 option reverted due to unintended side effects on handling of ``sys.path``.
2080 See tracker issue for details.
2081
Antoine Pitroucca3a3f2010-06-11 21:42:26 +00002082- Issue #8941: decoding big endian UTF-32 data in UCS-2 builds could crash
2083 the interpreter with characters outside the Basic Multilingual Plane
2084 (higher than 0x10000).
2085
Benjamin Petersonfa4c59f2010-06-08 14:53:29 +00002086- In the unicode/str.format(), raise a ValueError when indexes to arguments are
2087 too large.
Benjamin Peterson13e934a2010-06-07 22:23:23 +00002088
Benjamin Petersonafa1b302010-06-21 15:27:46 +00002089Build
2090-----
2091
2092- Issue #8854: Fix finding Visual Studio 2008 on Windows x64.
2093
Benjamin Peterson2f3d9f92010-06-06 02:09:33 +00002094Library
2095-------
Mark Dickinsone979ec82010-06-13 10:50:29 +00002096
Victor Stinner15e5b1b2010-07-03 13:36:19 +00002097- Issue #6589: cleanup asyncore.socket_map in case smtpd.SMTPServer constructor
Giampaolo Rodolàe00e2f02010-06-30 17:38:28 +00002098 raises an exception.
2099
Thomas Hellerf1800992010-06-21 14:00:24 +00002100- Issue #8959: fix regression caused by using unmodified libffi
2101 library on Windows. ctypes does now again check the stack before
2102 and after calling foreign functions.
2103
R. David Murraydf1cf302010-06-17 01:36:52 +00002104- Issue #8720: fix regression caused by fix for #4050 by making getsourcefile
2105 smart enough to find source files in the linecache.
2106
Mark Dickinsone979ec82010-06-13 10:50:29 +00002107- Issue #8986: math.erfc was incorrectly raising OverflowError for
2108 values between -27.3 and -30.0 on some platforms.
2109
Vinay Sajip936efc72010-06-11 22:56:50 +00002110- Issue #8924: logging: Improved error handling for Unicode in exception text.
Benjamin Peterson2f3d9f92010-06-06 02:09:33 +00002111
Michael Foord83d35762010-06-10 16:32:00 +00002112- Issue #8948: cleanup functions and class / module setups and teardowns are
2113 now honored in unittest debug methods.
2114
Tarek Ziadé770fd152010-06-06 20:05:20 +00002115Documentation
2116-------------
2117
2118- Issues #8909: Added the size of the bitmap used in the installer created by
2119 distutils' bdist_wininst. Patch by Anatoly Techtonik.
2120
Victor Stinnerb65bd2e2010-06-11 19:22:28 +00002121Misc
2122----
2123
2124- Issue #8362: Add maintainers.rst: list of module maintainers
2125
Benjamin Peterson2f3d9f92010-06-06 02:09:33 +00002126
Antoine Pitrou6001b0b2010-05-09 18:32:48 +00002127What's New in Python 2.7 Release Candidate 1?
2128=============================================
Benjamin Peterson534b8de2010-05-08 18:53:42 +00002129
Benjamin Peterson77d534e2010-06-06 00:22:09 +00002130*Release date: 2010-06-05*
Benjamin Peterson534b8de2010-05-08 18:53:42 +00002131
2132Core and Builtins
2133-----------------
2134
Ezio Melottiab2eb0e2010-06-05 19:21:32 +00002135- Issue #8271: during the decoding of an invalid UTF-8 byte sequence, only the
2136 start byte and the continuation byte(s) are now considered invalid, instead
2137 of the number of bytes specified by the start byte.
2138 E.g.: '\xf1\x80AB'.decode('utf-8', 'replace') now returns u'\ufffdAB' and
2139 replaces with U+FFFD only the start byte ('\xf1') and the continuation byte
2140 ('\x80') even if '\xf1' is the start byte of a 4-bytes sequence.
2141 Previous versions returned a single u'\ufffd'.
2142
Mark Dickinson23f0d6b2010-06-05 11:52:24 +00002143- Issue #8627: Remove bogus "Overriding __cmp__ blocks inheritance of
Mark Dickinsone4b83e02010-06-05 12:14:43 +00002144 __hash__ in 3.x" warning. Also fix "XXX undetected error" that
2145 arises from the "Overriding __eq__ blocks inheritance ..." warning
2146 when turned into an exception: in this case the exception simply
2147 gets ignored.
Mark Dickinson23f0d6b2010-06-05 11:52:24 +00002148
Mark Dickinson4ca7c3c2010-05-30 13:18:10 +00002149- Issue #8748: Fix two issues with comparisons between complex and integer
2150 objects. (1) The comparison could incorrectly return True in some cases
2151 (2**53+1 == complex(2**53) == 2**53), breaking transivity of equality.
2152 (2) The comparison raised an OverflowError for large integers, leading
2153 to unpredictable exceptions when combining integers and complex objects
2154 in sets or dicts.
2155
Mark Dickinson81336372010-05-30 12:12:25 +00002156- Issue #5211: Implicit coercion for the complex type is now completely
2157 removed. (Coercion for arithmetic operations was already removed in 2.7
2158 alpha 4, but coercion for rich comparisons was accidentally left in.)
2159
Victor Stinnerc49dfcc2010-05-25 22:30:32 +00002160- Issue #3798: Write sys.exit() message to sys.stderr to use stderr encoding
2161 and error handler, instead of writing to the C stderr file in utf-8
2162
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002163- Issue #7902: When using explicit relative import syntax, don't try implicit
2164 relative import semantics.
Brett Cannoneb3cd302010-05-20 18:37:55 +00002165
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002166- Issue #7079: Fix a possible crash when closing a file object while using it
2167 from another thread. Patch by Daniel Stutzbach.
Antoine Pitrou83137c22010-05-17 19:56:59 +00002168
Victor Stinnerb65bd2e2010-06-11 19:22:28 +00002169- Issue #8868: Fix that ensures that python scripts have access to the
Ronald Oussoren27c72e92010-06-02 03:47:14 +00002170 Window Server again in a framework build on MacOSX 10.5 or earlier.
2171
Antoine Pitrou6a265602010-05-21 17:12:38 +00002172C-API
2173-----
2174
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002175- Issue #5753: A new C API function, :cfunc:`PySys_SetArgvEx`, allows embedders
2176 of the interpreter to set sys.argv without also modifying sys.path. This
2177 helps fix `CVE-2008-5983
Antoine Pitrou6a265602010-05-21 17:12:38 +00002178 <http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-5983>`_.
2179
Benjamin Peterson534b8de2010-05-08 18:53:42 +00002180Library
2181-------
2182
Michael Foordd8918592010-06-05 19:51:38 +00002183- Issue #8302: SkipTest in unittest.TestCase.setUpClass or setUpModule is now
2184 reported as a skip rather than an error.
2185
2186- Issue #8351: Excessively large diffs due to
2187 unittest.TestCase.assertSequenceEqual are no longer included in failure
2188 reports.
2189
Alexander Belopolsky3b818bf2010-06-05 14:54:26 +00002190- Issue #8899: time.struct_time now has class and atribute docstrings.
2191
R. David Murraye7e505b2010-06-04 19:51:06 +00002192- Issue #4487: email now accepts as charset aliases all codec aliases
2193 accepted by the codecs module.
2194
Martin v. Löwiseba67c02010-06-04 19:39:07 +00002195- Issue #6470: Drop UNC prefix in FixTk.
2196
R. David Murray61746d52010-06-03 15:43:20 +00002197- Issue #5610: feedparser no longer eats extra characters at the end of
2198 a body part if the body part ends with a \r\n.
2199
Lars Gustäbel2ee9c6f2010-06-03 09:56:22 +00002200- Issue #8833: tarfile created hard link entries with a size field != 0 by
2201 mistake.
2202
R. David Murray52dcd452010-06-02 22:03:15 +00002203- Issue #1368247: set_charset (and therefore MIMEText) now automatically
2204 encodes a unicode _payload to the output_charset.
2205
Alexander Belopolsky9292ee02010-05-27 20:55:27 +00002206- Issue #7150: Raise OverflowError if the result of adding or subtracting
2207 timedelta from date or datetime falls outside of the MINYEAR:MAXYEAR range.
2208
Victor Stinner04ee3372010-05-24 21:37:28 +00002209- Issue #6662: Fix parsing of malformatted charref (&#bad;), patch written by
2210 Fredrik Håård
Victor Stinner554a3b82010-05-24 21:33:24 +00002211
Georg Brandlf0757a22010-05-24 21:29:07 +00002212- Issue #8016: Add the CP858 codec.
2213
Georg Brandl5d0ca2c2010-05-22 11:29:19 +00002214- Issue #3924: Ignore cookies with invalid "version" field in cookielib.
2215
Victor Stinner7df55da2010-05-22 13:37:56 +00002216- Issue #6268: Fix seek() method of codecs.open(), don't read or write the BOM
2217 twice after seek(0). Fix also reset() method of codecs, UTF-16, UTF-32 and
2218 StreamWriter classes.
Victor Stinner262be5e2010-05-22 02:11:07 +00002219
Victor Stinnerd6703b52010-05-21 22:50:28 +00002220- Issue #5640: Fix Shift-JIS incremental encoder for error handlers different
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002221 than 'strict'.
Victor Stinnerd6703b52010-05-21 22:50:28 +00002222
Benjamin Peterson266e4542010-05-21 21:31:24 +00002223- Issue #8782: Add a trailing newline in linecache.updatecache to the last line
2224 of files without one.
2225
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002226- Issue #8729: Return NotImplemented from ``collections.Mapping.__eq__()`` when
Benjamin Petersoneb318d32010-05-21 20:51:45 +00002227 comparing to a non-mapping.
2228
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002229- Issue #8759: Fix user paths in sysconfig for posix and os2 schemes.
Tarek Ziadé8f692272010-05-19 22:20:14 +00002230
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002231- Issue #1285086: Speed up ``urllib.quote()`` and urllib.unquote for simple
2232 cases.
Florent Xiclunaaf87f9f2010-05-17 13:35:09 +00002233
Tarek Ziadé422545f2010-05-17 10:06:20 +00002234- Issue #8688: Distutils now recalculates MANIFEST everytime.
2235
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002236- Issue #5099: The ``__del__()`` method of ``subprocess.Popen`` (and the methods
2237 it calls) referenced global objects, causing errors to pop up during
2238 interpreter shutdown.
Brett Cannon42a0ba72010-05-14 00:21:48 +00002239
Mark Dickinson932e1622010-05-10 16:07:42 +00002240Extension Modules
2241-----------------
2242
Stefan Krah449aa862010-06-03 12:39:50 +00002243- Issue #7384: If the system readline library is linked against ncurses,
2244 the curses module must be linked against ncurses as well. Otherwise it
2245 is not safe to load both the readline and curses modules in an application.
2246
Brian Curtinb64c89b2010-05-25 15:06:15 +00002247- Issue #2810: Fix cases where the Windows registry API returns
2248 ERROR_MORE_DATA, requiring a re-try in order to get the complete result.
2249
Mark Dickinson932e1622010-05-10 16:07:42 +00002250- Issue #8674: Fixed a number of incorrect or undefined-behaviour-inducing
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002251 overflow checks in the ``audioop`` module.
Benjamin Peterson534b8de2010-05-08 18:53:42 +00002252
Brett Cannonda9af752010-05-13 23:59:41 +00002253Tests
2254-----
2255
R. David Murray4653fb52010-06-03 20:19:25 +00002256- Issue #8889: test_support.transient_internet rewritten so that the new
2257 checks also work on FreeBSD, which lacks EAI_NODATA.
2258
2259- Issue #8835: test_support.transient_internet() catches gaierror(EAI_NONAME)
Victor Stinner03883622010-05-27 22:29:48 +00002260 and gaierror(EAI_NODATA)
2261
Victor Stinner708c0722010-05-26 17:25:28 +00002262- Issue #7449: Skip test_socketserver if threading support is disabled
2263
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002264- On darwin, ``test_site`` assumed that a framework build was being used,
2265 leading to a failure where four directories were expected for site-packages
2266 instead of two in a non-framework build.
Brett Cannonda9af752010-05-13 23:59:41 +00002267
Martin v. Löwisb41afb52010-05-28 15:28:47 +00002268Build
2269-----
2270
Martin v. Löwis16b2a5e2010-06-04 19:15:32 +00002271- Display installer warning that Windows 2000 won't be supported in future
2272 releases.
2273
Victor Stinnerb65bd2e2010-06-11 19:22:28 +00002274- Issues #1759169, #8864: Drop _XOPEN_SOURCE on Solaris, define it for
Martin v. Löwis26eec582010-06-04 17:18:42 +00002275 multiprocessing only.
Brett Cannonda9af752010-05-13 23:59:41 +00002276
Martin v. Löwis5aafc172010-06-04 18:04:42 +00002277Tools/Demos
2278-----------
2279
2280- Issue #5464: Implement plural forms in msgfmt.py.
2281
2282
Antoine Pitrouab5ce722010-04-11 22:45:47 +00002283What's New in Python 2.7 beta 2?
2284================================
Benjamin Peterson12409062010-04-10 18:53:58 +00002285
Benjamin Petersonc2516072010-05-08 17:08:17 +00002286*Release date: 2010-05-08*
Benjamin Peterson12409062010-04-10 18:53:58 +00002287
2288Core and Builtins
2289-----------------
2290
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002291- Run Clang 2.7's static analyzer for ``Objects/`` and ``Python/``.
Brett Cannon5fb89df2010-05-05 20:54:53 +00002292
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002293- Issue #1533: Fix inconsistency in range function argument processing: any
2294 non-float non-integer argument is now converted to an integer (if possible)
2295 using its __int__ method. Previously, only small arguments were treated this
2296 way; larger arguments (those whose __int__ was outside the range of a C long)
2297 would produce a TypeError.
Mark Dickinsona8d26682010-05-04 16:18:25 +00002298
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002299- Issue #8202: ``sys.argv[0]`` is now set to '-m' instead of '-c' when searching
2300 for the module file to be executed with the -m command line option.
Nick Coghlanc5e44852010-04-28 14:51:08 +00002301
Brett Cannon19949692010-04-25 22:33:36 +00002302- Issue #7319: When -Q is used, do not silence DeprecationWarning.
2303
Antoine Pitrou18e63fb2010-04-21 22:53:29 +00002304- Issue #7332: Remove the 16KB stack-based buffer in
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002305 ``PyMarshal_ReadLastObjectFromFile``, which doesn't bring any noticeable
Antoine Pitrou18e63fb2010-04-21 22:53:29 +00002306 benefit compared to the dynamic memory allocation fallback. Patch by
2307 Charles-François Natali.
2308
Benjamin Peterson821a8ea2010-04-16 22:35:38 +00002309- Issue #8417: Raise an OverflowError when an integer larger than sys.maxsize is
2310 passed to bytearray.
2311
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002312- Issue #7072: ``isspace(0xa0)`` is true on Mac OS X.
Ronald Oussoren37805e52010-04-18 13:47:49 +00002313
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002314- Issue #8404: Fix set operations on dictionary views.
Alexandre Vassalotti268e4872010-05-04 03:21:51 +00002315
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002316- Issue #8084: PEP 370 now conforms to system conventions for framework builds
2317 on MacOS X. That is, ``python setup.py install --user`` will install into
2318 ``~/Library/Python/2.7`` instead of ``~/.local``.
Ronald Oussoren2f88bfd2010-05-08 10:29:06 +00002319
Benjamin Peterson12409062010-04-10 18:53:58 +00002320Library
2321-------
2322
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002323- Issue #8681: Make the zlib module's error messages more informative when the
2324 zlib itself doesn't give any detailed explanation.
Antoine Pitroufc3bfad2010-05-11 23:42:28 +00002325
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002326- Issue #8571: Fix an internal error when compressing or decompressing a chunk
2327 larger than 1GB with the zlib module's compressor and decompressor objects.
Antoine Pitrou3843cd82010-05-07 16:50:34 +00002328
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002329- Issue #8573: asyncore ``_strerror()`` function might throw ValueError.
Giampaolo Rodolàf7454fa2010-05-06 17:57:06 +00002330
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002331- Issue #8483: asyncore.dispatcher's __getattr__ method produced confusing error
2332 messages when accessing undefined class attributes because of the cheap
2333 inheritance with the underlying socket object. The cheap inheritance has been
2334 deprecated.
Giampaolo Rodolàf7454fa2010-05-06 17:57:06 +00002335
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002336- Issue #4265: ``shutil.copyfile()`` was leaking file descriptors when disk
2337 fills. Patch by Tres Seaver.
Tarek Ziadé38f81222010-05-05 22:15:31 +00002338
Barry Warsaw8efa8672010-05-05 16:17:22 +00002339- Issue #7755: Use an unencumbered audio file for tests.
2340
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002341- Issue #8621: ``uuid.uuid4()`` returned the same sequence of values in the
2342 parent and any children created using ``os.fork`` on Mac OS X 10.6.
Ronald Oussoren33206962010-05-05 14:48:37 +00002343
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002344- Issue #8313: ``traceback.format_exception_only()`` encodes unicode message to
2345 ASCII with backslashreplace error handler if ``str(value)`` failed.
Victor Stinner926fd4e2010-05-05 12:40:49 +00002346
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002347- Issue #8567: Fix precedence of signals in Decimal module: when a Decimal
2348 operation raises multiple signals and more than one of those signals is
2349 trapped, the specification determines the order in which the signals should be
2350 handled. In many cases this order wasn't being followed, leading to the wrong
2351 Python exception being raised.
Mark Dickinson4f96f5f2010-05-04 14:25:50 +00002352
Antoine Pitrouf7fd8e42010-05-03 16:25:33 +00002353- Issue #7865: The close() method of :mod:`io` objects should not swallow
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002354 exceptions raised by the implicit flush(). Also ensure that calling close()
2355 several times is supported. Patch by Pascal Chambon.
Antoine Pitrouf7fd8e42010-05-03 16:25:33 +00002356
Vinay Sajip27a13702010-05-03 15:11:53 +00002357- Issue #8576: logging updated to remove usage of find_unused_port().
2358
Antoine Pitrou951919f2010-05-02 19:51:14 +00002359- Issue #4687: Fix accuracy of garbage collection runtimes displayed with
2360 gc.DEBUG_STATS.
2361
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002362- Issue #8354: The siginterrupt setting is now preserved for all signals, not
2363 just SIGCHLD.
Jean-Paul Calderonee54ddf12010-05-08 20:06:02 +00002364
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002365- Issue #7192: ``webbrowser.get("firefox")`` now works on Mac OS X, as does
2366 ``webbrowser.get("safari")``.
Ronald Oussoren4ef1c7e2010-05-02 09:48:21 +00002367
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002368- Issue #8577: ``distutils.sysconfig.get_python_inc()`` now makes a difference
Tarek Ziadéa5cd1822010-04-30 12:15:12 +00002369 between the build dir and the source dir when looking for "python.h" or
2370 "Include".
2371
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002372- Issue #8464: tarfile no longer creates files with execute permissions set when
2373 mode="w|" is used.
Lars Gustäbel5c4c4612010-04-29 15:23:38 +00002374
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002375- Issue #7834: Fix connect() of Bluetooth L2CAP sockets with recent versions of
2376 the Linux kernel. Patch by Yaniv Aknin.
Antoine Pitrouf56a2882010-04-29 10:05:40 +00002377
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002378- Issue #6312: Fix http HEAD request when the transfer encoding is chunked. It
2379 should correctly return an empty response now.
Senthil Kumaraned9204342010-04-28 17:20:43 +00002380
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002381- Issue #7490: To facilitate sharing of doctests between 2.x and 3.x test
2382 suites, the ``IGNORE_EXCEPTION_DETAIL`` directive now also ignores the module
2383 location of the raised exception. Based on initial patch by Lennart Regebro.
Nick Coghlandfb45df2010-04-28 14:29:06 +00002384
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002385- Issue #8086: In :func:`ssl.DER_cert_to_PEM_cert()`, fix missing newline before
2386 the certificate footer. Patch by Kyle VanderBeek.
Antoine Pitrou4c7bcf12010-04-27 22:03:37 +00002387
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002388- Issue #8546: Reject None given as the buffering argument to ``_pyio.open()``.
Benjamin Petersona9bd6d52010-04-27 21:01:54 +00002389
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002390- Issue #8549: Fix compiling the _ssl extension under AIX. Patch by Sridhar
2391 Ratnakumar.
Antoine Pitrou1dc6b082010-04-27 19:09:59 +00002392
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002393- Issue #6656: Fix locale.format_string to handle escaped percents and mappings.
R. David Murray3939dcd2010-04-26 21:17:14 +00002394
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002395- Issue #2302: Fix a race condition in SocketServer.BaseServer.shutdown, where
2396 the method could block indefinitely if called just before the event loop
2397 started running. This also fixes the occasional freezes witnessed in
2398 test_httpservers.
Antoine Pitroua6240402010-04-25 21:40:32 +00002399
Antoine Pitroufc69af12010-04-24 20:04:58 +00002400- Issue #5103: SSL handshake would ignore the socket timeout and block
2401 indefinitely if the other end didn't respond.
2402
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002403- The do_handshake() method of SSL objects now adjusts the blocking mode of the
2404 SSL structure if necessary (as other methods already do).
Antoine Pitrou4d3e3722010-04-24 19:57:01 +00002405
Georg Brandl4341e542010-04-24 09:08:10 +00002406- Issue #7507: Quote "!" in pipes.quote(); it is special to some shells.
2407
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002408- Issue #5238: Calling makefile() on an SSL object would prevent the underlying
2409 socket from being closed until all objects get truely destroyed.
Antoine Pitroub558f172010-04-23 23:25:45 +00002410
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002411- Issue #7943: Fix circular reference created when instantiating an SSL socket.
2412 Initial patch by Péter Szabó.
Antoine Pitroudfb299b2010-04-23 22:54:59 +00002413
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002414- Issue #8451: Syslog module now uses basename(sys.argv[0]) instead of the
2415 string "python" as the *ident*. openlog() arguments are all optional and
2416 keywords.
Sean Reifscheiderf6ce3cb2010-04-23 08:31:55 +00002417
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002418- Issue #8108: Fix the unwrap() method of SSL objects when the socket has a
2419 non-infinite timeout. Also make that method friendlier with applications
Antoine Pitroua5c4b552010-04-22 23:33:02 +00002420 wanting to continue using the socket in clear-text mode, by disabling
2421 OpenSSL's internal readahead. Thanks to Darryl Miles for guidance.
2422
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002423- Issue #8484: Load all ciphers and digest algorithms when initializing the _ssl
2424 extension, such that verification of some SSL certificates doesn't fail
2425 because of an "unknown algorithm".
Antoine Pitrouc715a9e2010-04-21 19:28:03 +00002426
Victor Stinnera92e81b2010-04-20 22:28:31 +00002427- Issue #8437: Fix test_gdb failures, patch written by Dave Malcolm
2428
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002429- Issue #4814: The timeout parameter is now applied also for connections
2430 resulting from PORT/EPRT commands.
Giampaolo Rodolà607f7c02010-04-19 21:46:28 +00002431
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002432- Issue #8463: Add missing reference to bztar in shutil's documentation.
Tarek Ziadé8a12f942010-04-19 21:28:21 +00002433
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002434- Issue #8438: Remove reference to the missing "surrogateescape" encoding error
2435 handler from the new IO library.
Antoine Pitrou7c587bf2010-04-19 18:52:43 +00002436
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002437- Issue #3817: ftplib.FTP.abort() method now considers 225 a valid response code
2438 as stated in RFC-959 at chapter 5.4.
Giampaolo Rodolàcf445fc2010-04-18 12:55:03 +00002439
Martin v. Löwis24f09fd2010-04-17 22:40:40 +00002440- Issue #8279: Fix test_gdb failures.
2441
Antoine Pitrou0a6373c2010-04-17 17:10:38 +00002442- Issue #8322: Add a *ciphers* argument to SSL sockets, so as to change the
2443 available cipher list. Helps fix test_ssl with OpenSSL 1.0.0.
2444
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002445- Issue #2987: RFC 2732 support for urlparse (IPv6 addresses). Patch by Tony
Senthil Kumaran8c6d9d72010-04-16 02:46:46 +00002446 Locke and Hans Ulrich Niedermann.
2447
R. David Murray1a14d3d2010-04-12 16:35:19 +00002448- Issue #7585: difflib context and unified diffs now place a tab between
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002449 filename and date, conforming to the 'standards' they were originally designed
2450 to follow. This improves compatibility with patch tools.
R. David Murray1a14d3d2010-04-12 16:35:19 +00002451
R. David Murray27ef9372010-04-12 14:26:06 +00002452- Issue #7472: Fixed typo in email.encoders module; messages using ISO-2022
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002453 character sets will now consistently use a Content-Transfer-Encoding of 7bit
2454 rather than sometimes being marked as 8bit.
R. David Murray27ef9372010-04-12 14:26:06 +00002455
Martin v. Löwis7f7765c2010-04-12 05:18:16 +00002456- Issue #8330: Fix expected output in test_gdb.
2457
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002458- Issue #8374: Update the internal alias table in the :mod:`locale` module to
2459 cover recent locale changes and additions.
Antoine Pitrouab5ce722010-04-11 22:45:47 +00002460
Matthias Klose8a96d202010-04-21 22:18:52 +00002461Extension Modules
2462-----------------
2463
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002464- Issue #8644: Improved accuracy of ``timedelta.total_seconds()``.
Mark Dickinson7000e9e2010-05-09 09:30:06 +00002465
Brett Cannon945df9a2010-05-04 01:04:53 +00002466- Use Clang 2.7's static analyzer to find places to clean up some code.
2467
Matthias Klose8a96d202010-04-21 22:18:52 +00002468- Build the ossaudio extension on GNU/kFreeBSD.
2469
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002470- On Windows, ctypes does no longer check the stack before and after calling a
2471 foreign function. This allows to use the unmodified libffi library.
Thomas Heller06a7e202010-05-04 18:44:42 +00002472
Antoine Pitroua5c4b552010-04-22 23:33:02 +00002473Tests
2474-----
2475
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002476- Issue #8672: Add a zlib test ensuring that an incomplete stream can be handled
2477 by a decompressor object without errors (it returns incomplete uncompressed
2478 data).
Antoine Pitrou37ffc3e2010-05-11 23:32:31 +00002479
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002480- Issue #8490: asyncore now has a more solid test suite which actually tests its
2481 API.
Giampaolo Rodolàff46d6e2010-05-10 15:33:22 +00002482
Antoine Pitrou54f9f832010-04-30 23:08:48 +00002483- Issue #8576: Remove use of find_unused_port() in test_smtplib and
2484 test_multiprocessing. Patch by Paul Moore.
2485
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002486- Issue #7449: Fix many tests to support Python compiled without thread support.
2487 Patches written by Jerry Seutter.
Victor Stinnerd9d147b2010-04-27 21:46:03 +00002488
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002489- Issue #8108: test_ftplib's non-blocking SSL server now has proper handling of
2490 SSL shutdowns.
Antoine Pitroua5c4b552010-04-22 23:33:02 +00002491
Matthias Klose5183ebd2010-04-24 16:38:36 +00002492Build
2493-----
2494
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002495- Issue #8625: Turn off optimization in ``--with-pydebug`` builds with gcc.
Mark Dickinsond2f3e3f2010-05-05 22:23:58 +00002496 (Optimization was unintentionally turned on in gcc --with-pydebug builds in
2497 2.7 beta1 as a result of the issue #1628484 fix, combined with autoconf's
2498 strange choice of default CFLAGS produced by AC_PROG_CC for gcc.)
2499
Matthias Klose5183ebd2010-04-24 16:38:36 +00002500- Issue #8509: Fix quoting in help strings and code snippets in configure.in.
2501
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002502- Issue #3646: It is now easily possible to install a Python framework into your
2503 home directory on Mac OS X, see Mac/README for more information.
Ronald Oussoren01d149f2010-04-30 11:20:14 +00002504
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002505- Issue #8510: Update to autoconf 2.65.
Matthias Klosea0bea5d2010-05-08 10:00:28 +00002506
Brett Cannonc1f5c2f2010-05-02 21:51:23 +00002507Misc
2508----
2509
2510- Update the Vim syntax highlight file.
2511
Benjamin Peterson12409062010-04-10 18:53:58 +00002512
Benjamin Peterson5da7e7c2010-03-06 22:44:07 +00002513What's New in Python 2.7 beta 1?
2514================================
2515
Benjamin Petersonfbac6c12010-04-10 16:22:05 +00002516*Release date: 2010-04-10*
Benjamin Peterson5da7e7c2010-03-06 22:44:07 +00002517
2518Core and Builtins
2519-----------------
2520
Philip Jenveyaebbaeb2010-04-06 23:24:45 +00002521- Issue #7301: Add environment variable $PYTHONWARNINGS.
2522
Benjamin Peterson3a1dfa22010-04-06 21:50:00 +00002523- Issue #8329: Don't return the same lists from select.select when no fds are
2524 changed.
2525
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002526- Issue #8259: ``1L << (2**31)`` no longer produces an 'outrageous shift error'
Mark Dickinson82791672010-04-06 16:47:55 +00002527 on 64-bit machines. The shift count for either left or right shift is
2528 permitted to be up to sys.maxsize.
2529
Benjamin Peterson4ceeeb02010-04-03 22:48:51 +00002530- Ensure that tokenization of identifiers is not affected by locale.
2531
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002532- Issue #1222585: Added LDCXXSHARED for C++ support. Patch by Arfrever.
Tarek Ziadé00002952010-04-03 08:37:59 +00002533
Benjamin Peterson1c7c11e2010-04-03 01:28:57 +00002534- Raise a TypeError when trying to delete a T_STRING_INPLACE struct member.
2535
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002536- Issue #7994: Issue a PendingDeprecationWarning if object.__format__ is called
2537 with a non-empty format string. This is an effort to future-proof user
2538 code. If a derived class does not currently implement __format__ but later
2539 adds its own __format__, it would most likely break user code that had
Antoine Pitrou01a196a2011-01-02 20:05:11 +00002540 supplied a format string. This will be changed to a DeprecationWarning in
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002541 Python 3.3 and it will be an error in Python 3.4.
Eric Smithd44b2fc2010-04-02 12:30:56 +00002542
Antoine Pitroua57df2c2010-03-31 21:32:15 +00002543- Issue #8268: Old-style classes (not just instances) now support weak
2544 references.
2545
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002546- Issue #8211: Save/restore CFLAGS around AC_PROG_CC in configure.in, in case it
2547 is set.
Victor Stinner6cbf90f2010-03-25 00:21:53 +00002548
Victor Stinnerc7790ed2010-03-22 12:36:28 +00002549- Issue #1583863: An unicode subclass can now override the __unicode__ method
Victor Stinner95affc42010-03-22 12:24:37 +00002550
Benjamin Peterson96545892010-03-21 20:21:00 +00002551- Issue #6474: Make error message from passing an inadequate number of keyword
2552 arguments to a function correct.
2553
Benjamin Peterson0dee9c12010-03-17 20:41:42 +00002554- Issue #8164: Don't allow lambda functions to have a docstring.
2555
Victor Stinner66644262010-03-10 22:30:19 +00002556- Issue #3137: Don't ignore errors at startup, especially a keyboard interrupt
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002557 (SIGINT). If an error occurs while importing the site module, the error is
2558 printed and Python exits. Initialize the GIL before importing the site
Victor Stinner66644262010-03-10 22:30:19 +00002559 module.
2560
Collin Winter001a3952010-03-18 21:54:01 +00002561- Code objects now support weak references.
2562
Benjamin Peterson5da7e7c2010-03-06 22:44:07 +00002563Library
2564-------
2565
R. David Murray661303f2010-04-13 20:57:40 +00002566- Issue #5277: Fix quote counting when parsing RFC 2231 encoded parameters.
2567
Antoine Pitrouf9de5342010-04-05 21:35:07 +00002568- Issue #8321: Give access to OpenSSL version numbers from the `ssl` module,
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002569 using the new attributes `ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION`, `ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION_INFO` and
2570 `ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION_NUMBER`.
Antoine Pitrouf9de5342010-04-05 21:35:07 +00002571
Benjamin Peterson76a23c12010-04-04 23:23:22 +00002572- Issue #8310: Allow dis to examine new style classes.
2573
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002574- Issue #8257: The Decimal construct now accepts a float instance directly,
2575 converting that float to a Decimal of equal value:
Mark Dickinson8a950712010-04-03 15:47:46 +00002576
2577 >>> Decimal(1.1)
2578 Decimal('1.100000000000000088817841970012523233890533447265625')
2579
Raymond Hettinger34c35b22010-04-03 10:22:00 +00002580- collections.Counter() now supports a subtract() method.
2581
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002582- The functools module now has a total_ordering() class decorator to simplify
2583 the specification of rich comparisons.
Raymond Hettingera551f312010-04-04 18:34:45 +00002584
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002585- The functools module also adds cmp_to_key() as a tool to transition old-style
2586 comparison functions to new-style key-functions.
Raymond Hettingera551f312010-04-04 18:34:45 +00002587
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002588- Issue #8294: The Fraction constructor now accepts Decimal and float instances
2589 directly.
Mark Dickinson7c63eee2010-04-02 22:27:36 +00002590
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002591- Issue #7279: Comparisons involving a Decimal signaling NaN now signal
2592 InvalidOperation instead of returning False. (Comparisons involving a quiet
2593 NaN are unchanged.) Also, Decimal quiet NaNs are now hashable; Decimal
2594 signaling NaNs remain unhashable.
Mark Dickinsone096e822010-04-02 10:17:07 +00002595
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002596- Issue #2531: Comparison operations between floats and Decimal instances now
2597 return a result based on the numeric values of the operands; previously they
2598 returned an arbitrary result based on the relative ordering of id(float) and
2599 id(Decimal).
Mark Dickinson99d80962010-04-02 08:53:22 +00002600
Barry Warsawf7f2d6f2010-03-31 21:07:16 +00002601- Issue #8233: When run as a script, py_compile.py optionally takes a single
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002602 argument `-` which tells it to read files to compile from stdin. Each line is
2603 read on demand and the named file is compiled immediately. (Original patch by
2604 Piotr Ożarowski).
Barry Warsawf7f2d6f2010-03-31 21:07:16 +00002605
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002606- Issue #3135: Add ``inspect.getcallargs()``, which binds arguments to a
2607 function like a normal call.
Benjamin Peterson7e213252010-03-30 17:58:13 +00002608
Florent Xicluna58b65662010-03-30 16:29:03 +00002609- Backwards incompatible change: Unicode codepoints line tabulation (0x0B) and
2610 form feed (0x0C) are now considered linebreaks, as specified in Unicode
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002611 Standard Annex #14. See issue #7643. http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr14/
Florent Xicluna22b24382010-03-30 08:24:06 +00002612
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002613- Comparisons using one of <, <=, >, >= between a complex instance and a
2614 Fractions instance now raise TypeError instead of returning True/False. This
2615 makes Fraction <=> complex comparisons consistent with int <=> complex, float
2616 <=> complex, and complex <=> complex comparisons.
Mark Dickinson9588d992010-03-27 11:14:37 +00002617
Michael Foorde6410c52010-03-29 20:04:23 +00002618- Addition of ``WeakSet`` to the ``weakref`` module.
2619
Vinay Sajipb0623d62010-03-24 14:31:21 +00002620- logging: Added LOG_FTP to SysLogHandler and updated documentation.
2621
Florent Xicluna176cda12010-03-22 22:52:11 +00002622- Issue #8205: Remove the "Modules" directory from sys.path when Python is
2623 running from the build directory (POSIX only).
2624
Florent Xiclunae1f4c922010-03-22 22:45:50 +00002625- Issue #7667: Fix doctest failures with non-ASCII paths.
2626
Antoine Pitrou513d9ae2010-03-22 19:59:46 +00002627- Issue #7512: shutil.copystat() could raise an OSError when the filesystem
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002628 didn't support chflags() (for example ZFS under FreeBSD). The error is now
2629 silenced.
Antoine Pitrou513d9ae2010-03-22 19:59:46 +00002630
Florent Xicluna9e7a4c92010-03-22 16:07:38 +00002631- Issue #7703: ctypes supports both buffer() and memoryview(). The former is
2632 deprecated.
2633
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002634- Issue #7860: platform.uname now reports the correct 'machine' type when Python
2635 is running in WOW64 mode on 64 bit Windows.
R. David Murrayc9d1a782010-03-22 15:55:09 +00002636
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002637- logging: Added getChild utility method to Logger and added isEnabledFor method
2638 to LoggerAdapter.
Vinay Sajip804899b2010-03-22 15:29:01 +00002639
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002640- Issue #8201: logging: Handle situation of non-ASCII and Unicode logger names
2641 existing at the same time, causing a Unicode error when configuration code
2642 attempted to sort the existing loggers.
Vinay Sajip31e928e2010-03-22 13:02:28 +00002643
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002644- Issue #8200: logging: Handle errors when multiprocessing is not fully loaded
2645 when logging occurs.
Vinay Sajip3017a7b2010-03-22 12:33:08 +00002646
Antoine Pitroueee91cd2010-03-26 19:27:16 +00002647- Issue #3890, #8222: Fix recv() and recv_into() on non-blocking SSL sockets.
2648 Also, enable the SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY flag on SSL sockets, so that blocking
2649 reads and writes are always retried by OpenSSL itself.
Antoine Pitrou448da712010-03-21 19:33:38 +00002650
Florent Xiclunacf82fa62010-03-21 12:27:20 +00002651- Issue #8179: Fix macpath.realpath() on a non-existing path.
2652
Florent Xicluna2e0a53f2010-03-18 21:50:06 +00002653- Issue #8024: Update the Unicode database to 5.2.
2654
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002655- Issue #8104: socket.recv_into() and socket.recvfrom_into() now support writing
2656 into objects supporting the new buffer API, for example bytearrays or
2657 memoryviews.
Antoine Pitroud7b731d2010-03-17 22:45:39 +00002658
Matthias Klose8b411682010-03-16 10:48:52 +00002659- Issue #4961: Inconsistent/wrong result of askyesno function in tkMessageBox
2660 with Tcl/Tk-8.5.
2661
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002662- Issue #8140: Extend compileall to compile single files. Add -i option.
Matthias Kloseb13d04c2010-03-15 17:44:12 +00002663
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002664- Issue #7356: ctypes.util: Make parsing of ldconfig output independent of the
2665 locale.
Matthias Klose358e7ff2010-03-15 13:42:23 +00002666
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002667- Issue #7774: Set sys.executable to an empty string if ``argv[0]`` has been set
2668 to an non existent program name and Python is unable to retrieve the real
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002669 program name.
Victor Stinner75227342010-03-12 14:30:26 +00002670
Vinay Sajipecfa08f2010-03-12 09:16:10 +00002671- Issue #8117: logging: Improved algorithm for computing initial rollover time
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002672 for ``TimedRotatingFileHandler`` by using the modification time of an existing
2673 log file to compute the next rollover time. If the log file does not exist,
2674 the current time is used as the basis for the computation.
Vinay Sajip9098ee42010-03-12 06:01:21 +00002675
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002676- Issue #6472: The ``xml.etree`` package is updated to ElementTree 1.3. The
Florent Xicluna3e8c1892010-03-11 14:36:19 +00002677 cElementTree module is updated too.
2678
Florent Xicluna85677612010-03-10 23:58:42 +00002679- Issue #7880: Fix sysconfig when the python executable is a symbolic link.
2680
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002681- Issue #7624: Fix ``isinstance(foo(), collections.Callable)`` for old-style
Florent Xicluna47627d52010-03-08 15:20:28 +00002682 classes.
2683
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002684- Issue #7143: email: ``get_payload()`` used to strip any trailing newline from
2685 a base64 transfer-encoded payload *after* decoding it; it no longer does.
2686 This is a behavior change, so email's minor version number is now bumped, to
2687 version 4.0.2, for the 2.7 release.
R. David Murray4617e502010-03-08 02:04:06 +00002688
Larry Hastings3b958e32010-04-02 11:18:17 +00002689- Issue #8235: _socket: Add the constant ``SO_SETFIB``. SO_SETFIB is
2690 a socket option available on FreeBSD 7.1 and newer.
2691
Michael Foorda04c7a02010-04-02 22:55:59 +00002692- Issue #8038: unittest.TestCase.assertNotRegexpMatches
2693
2694- Addition of -b command line option to unittest for buffering stdout / stderr
2695 during test runs.
2696
Victor Stinnerdb990922010-05-15 21:00:59 +00002697- Issue #1220212: Added os.kill support for Windows, including support for
Brian Curtin85108e62010-04-02 23:31:28 +00002698 sending CTRL+C and CTRL+BREAK events to console subprocesses.
2699
Mark Dickinson154b7ad2010-03-07 16:24:45 +00002700Extension Modules
2701-----------------
2702
Martin v. Löwis16ea5482010-04-07 11:01:46 +00002703- Issue #8314: Fix unsigned long long bug in libffi on Sparc v8.
2704
Matthias Klosee9fbf2b2010-03-19 14:45:06 +00002705- Issue #1039, #8154: Fix os.execlp() crash with missing 2nd argument.
2706
Jesus Cea6557aac2010-03-22 14:22:26 +00002707- Issue #8156: bsddb module updated to version 4.8.4.
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002708 http://www.jcea.es/programacion/pybsddb.htm#bsddb3-4.8.4. This update drops
2709 support for Berkeley DB 4.0, and adds support for 4.8.
Matthias Klose54cc5392010-03-15 12:46:18 +00002710
Jesus Cea616de772010-04-28 10:32:30 +00002711- Issue #3928: os.mknod() now available in Solaris, also.
2712
Matthias Klose817acef2010-03-15 00:02:36 +00002713- Issue #8142: Update libffi to the 3.0.9 release.
2714
Mark Dickinson4846a8e2010-04-03 14:05:10 +00002715- Issue #8300: When passing a non-integer argument to struct.pack with any
2716 integer format code, struct.pack first attempts to convert the non-integer
2717 using its __index__ method. If that method is non-existent or raises
2718 TypeError it goes on to try the __int__ method, as described below.
2719
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002720- Issue #1530559: When passing a non-integer argument to struct.pack with *any*
2721 integer format code (one of 'bBhHiIlLqQ'), struct.pack attempts to use the
2722 argument's __int__ method to convert to an integer before packing. It also
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002723 produces a DeprecationWarning in this case. (In Python 2.6, the behaviour was
2724 inconsistent: __int__ was used for some integer codes but not for others, and
2725 the set of integer codes for which it was used differed between native packing
2726 and standard packing.)
Mark Dickinson154b7ad2010-03-07 16:24:45 +00002727
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002728- Issue #7347: _winreg: Add CreateKeyEx and DeleteKeyEx, as well as fix a bug in
2729 the return value of QueryReflectionKey.
Brian Curtin19479fa2010-04-02 21:51:37 +00002730
Antoine Pitrou02b3f0a2010-03-13 21:21:30 +00002731Tools/Demos
2732-----------
2733
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002734- Issue #7993: Add a test of IO packet processing bandwidth to ccbench. It
2735 measures the number of UDP packets processed per second depending on the
2736 number of background CPU-bound Python threads.
Benjamin Peterson5da7e7c2010-03-06 22:44:07 +00002737
Collin Wintera70f3492010-03-19 00:08:44 +00002738- python-config now supports multiple options on the same command line.
2739
Benjamin Peterson11d93232010-03-14 14:24:31 +00002740Build
2741-----
2742
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002743- Issue #8032: For gdb7, a python-gdb.py file is added to the build, allowing to
2744 use advanced gdb features when debugging Python.
Martin v. Löwisbf0dfb32010-04-01 07:40:51 +00002745
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002746- Issue #1628484: The Makefile doesn't ignore the CFLAGS environment variable
2747 anymore. It also forwards the LDFLAGS settings to the linker when building a
2748 shared library.
Antoine Pitrouf83b3082010-03-21 19:19:41 +00002749
Martin v. Löwis24e4e162010-03-15 13:00:17 +00002750- Issue #6716: Quote -x arguments of compileall in MSI installer.
2751
Benjamin Peterson11d93232010-03-14 14:24:31 +00002752- Issue #7705: Fix linking on FreeBSD.
2753
Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven6d22cfc2010-04-07 16:34:08 +00002754- Make sure that the FreeBSD build of the included libffi uses the proper
2755 assembly file.
2756
Larry Hastings402b73f2010-03-25 00:54:54 +00002757C-API
2758-----
2759
Antoine Pitrou76c86492010-04-01 16:42:11 +00002760- Issue #8276: PyEval_CallObject() is now only available in macro form. The
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002761 function declaration, which was kept for backwards compatibility reasons, is
2762 now removed (the macro was introduced in 1997!).
Antoine Pitrou76c86492010-04-01 16:42:11 +00002763
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002764- Issue #7992: A replacement PyCObject API, PyCapsule, has been backported from
2765 Python 3.1. All existing Python CObjects in the main distribution have been
2766 converted to capsules. To address backwards-compatibility concerns,
2767 PyCObject_AsVoidPtr() was changed to understand capsules.
Larry Hastings402b73f2010-03-25 00:54:54 +00002768
Florent Xicluna3cc8f212010-03-15 18:08:58 +00002769Tests
2770-----
2771
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002772- Issue #3864: Skip three test_signal tests on freebsd6 because they fail if any
2773 thread was previously started, most likely due to a platform bug.
R. David Murraye0e8a872010-04-17 05:26:26 +00002774
Antoine Pitrouab5ce722010-04-11 22:45:47 +00002775- Issue #8348: Fix test ftp url in test_urllib2net.
2776
2777- Issue #8204: Fix test_ttk notebook test by forcing focus.
2778
2779- Issue #8344: Fix test_ttk bug on FreeBSD.
2780
Antoine Pitrou3b4c9892010-04-06 17:21:09 +00002781- Issue #8193: Fix test_zlib failure with zlib 1.2.4.
2782
Antoine Pitrou6032c252010-03-30 18:49:45 +00002783- Issue #8248: Add some tests for the bool type. Patch by Gregory Nofi.
2784
Florent Xicluna75c66762010-03-30 16:31:14 +00002785- Issue #8263: Now regrtest.py will report a failure if it receives a
2786 KeyboardInterrupt (SIGINT).
2787
Florent Xicluna8aa5a582010-03-25 20:33:49 +00002788- Issue #8180 and #8207: Fix test_pep277 on OS X and add more tests for special
2789 Unicode normalization cases.
Florent Xicluna77a88492010-03-21 18:00:38 +00002790
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002791- Issue #7783: test.test_support.open_urlresource invalidates the outdated files
2792 from the local cache.
Florent Xicluna3cc8f212010-03-15 18:08:58 +00002793
R. David Murray4617e502010-03-08 02:04:06 +00002794
Benjamin Peterson2d798ac2010-02-06 18:26:27 +00002795What's New in Python 2.7 alpha 4?
2796=================================
2797
Benjamin Peterson8e7c1172010-03-06 20:34:14 +00002798*Release date: 2010-03-06*
Benjamin Peterson2d798ac2010-02-06 18:26:27 +00002799
2800Core and Builtins
2801-----------------
2802
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002803- Issue #7544: Preallocate thread memory before creating the thread to avoid a
2804 fatal error in low memory condition.
Victor Stinner71fb87e2010-03-03 23:20:25 +00002805
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002806- Issue #7820: The parser tokenizer restores all bytes in the right if the BOM
2807 check fails.
Victor Stinnerd23d3932010-03-02 23:20:02 +00002808
Eric Smith2d9856d2010-02-24 14:15:36 +00002809- Issue #7309: Fix unchecked attribute access when converting
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002810 UnicodeEncodeError, UnicodeDecodeError, and UnicodeTranslateError to strings.
Eric Smith2d9856d2010-02-24 14:15:36 +00002811
Ezio Melotti32125152010-02-25 17:36:04 +00002812- Issue #7649: "u'%c' % char" now behaves like "u'%s' % char" and raises a
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002813 UnicodeDecodeError if 'char' is a byte string that can't be decoded using the
2814 default encoding.
Victor Stinnerf20f9c22010-02-23 23:16:07 +00002815
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002816- Issue #6902: Fix problem with built-in types format incorrectly with 0
2817 padding.
Eric Smith87bcb242010-02-23 00:11:16 +00002818
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002819- Issue #2560: Remove an unnecessary 'for' loop from ``my_fgets()`` in
Andrew M. Kuchlingb64d6132010-02-22 22:48:41 +00002820 Parser/myreadline.c.
2821
Eric Smithf32d4ac2010-02-22 18:33:47 +00002822- Issue #7988: Fix default alignment to be right aligned for
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002823 ``complex.__format__``. Now it matches other numeric types.
Eric Smithf32d4ac2010-02-22 18:33:47 +00002824
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002825- Issue #5211: The complex type no longer uses implicit coercion in mixed-type
2826 binary arithmetic operations.
Mark Dickinson82b34c52010-02-21 12:57:35 +00002827
Benjamin Peterson2d798ac2010-02-06 18:26:27 +00002828Library
2829-------
Georg Brandl7f0c3ff2010-08-01 21:18:52 +00002830
Senthil Kumaranc1d0ed22010-12-04 09:58:29 +00002831- Issue #7904: Changes to urllib.parse.urlsplit to handle schemes as defined by
2832 RFC3986. Anything before :// is considered a scheme and is followed by an
2833 authority (or netloc) and by '/' led path, which is optional.
2834
R. David Murray05b76312010-07-17 01:35:16 +00002835- Issue #1555570: email no longer inserts extra blank lines when a \r\n
2836 combo crosses an 8192 byte boundary.
Benjamin Peterson2d798ac2010-02-06 18:26:27 +00002837
Florent Xicluna0b9a18a2010-03-06 11:01:08 +00002838- Issue #6906: Tk should not set Unicode environment variables on Windows.
2839
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002840- Issue #1054943: Fix ``unicodedata.normalize('NFC', text)`` for the Public
Ezio Melotti8122bdd2010-03-14 10:13:49 +00002841 Review Issue #29 (http://unicode.org/review/pr-29.html).
Victor Stinner7c924ec2010-03-04 12:09:33 +00002842
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002843- Issue #7494: Fix a crash in ``_lsprof`` (cProfile) after clearing the profiler,
Victor Stinner56a51532010-03-04 00:10:12 +00002844 reset also the pointer to the current pointer context.
2845
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002846- Issue #7232: Add support for the context manager protocol to the
2847 ``tarfile.TarFile`` class.
Lars Gustäbel64581042010-03-03 11:55:48 +00002848
Barry Warsaw08a8fb32010-03-01 21:46:51 +00002849- Issue #7250: Fix info leak of os.environ across multi-run uses of
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002850 ``wsgiref.handlers.CGIHandler``.
Barry Warsaw08a8fb32010-03-01 21:46:51 +00002851
Florent Xiclunae7901c52010-03-01 20:45:01 +00002852- Issue #1729305: Fix doctest to handle encode error with "backslashreplace".
Florent Xicluna2a903b22010-02-27 13:31:23 +00002853
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002854- Issue #691291: ``codecs.open()`` should not convert end of lines on reading
2855 and writing.
Florent Xicluna82aa01f2010-02-27 11:19:18 +00002856
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002857- Issue #7975: Correct regression in dict methods supported by bsddb.dbshelve.
R. David Murray48605be2010-02-24 02:31:27 +00002858
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002859- Issue #7959: ctypes callback functions are now registered correctly with the
2860 cycle garbage collector.
Thomas Heller92bd0592010-02-23 20:11:44 +00002861
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002862- Issue #7970: ``email.Generator.flatten`` now correctly flattens
2863 message/rfc822 messages parsed by ``email.Parser.HeaderParser``.
R. David Murray51f12042010-02-21 04:23:00 +00002864
Ezio Melotti4cc80ca2010-02-20 08:09:39 +00002865- Issue #3426: ``os.path.abspath`` now returns unicode when its arg is unicode.
2866
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002867- Issue #7633: In the decimal module, ``Context`` class methods (with the
2868 exception of canonical and is_canonical) now accept instances of int and long
2869 wherever a Decimal instance is accepted, and implicitly convert that argument
2870 to Decimal. Previously only some arguments were converted.
Mark Dickinson6d8effb2010-02-18 14:27:02 +00002871
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002872- Issue #6003: Add an argument to ``zipfile.Zipfile.writestr`` to specify the
2873 compression type.
Ezio Melotti8f6a2872010-02-10 21:40:33 +00002874
Michael Foorddb43b5a2010-02-10 14:25:12 +00002875- Issue #7893: ``unittest.TextTestResult`` is made public and a ``resultclass``
2876 argument added to the TextTestRunner constructor allowing a different result
2877 class to be used without having to subclass.
Ezio Melotti8f6a2872010-02-10 21:40:33 +00002878
Ezio Melotti4cc80ca2010-02-20 08:09:39 +00002879- Issue #7588: ``unittest.TextTestResult.getDescription`` now includes the test
Michael Foorddb43b5a2010-02-10 14:25:12 +00002880 name in failure reports even if the test has a docstring.
Ronald Oussorendd25e862010-02-07 20:18:02 +00002881
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002882- Issue #5801: Remove spurious empty lines in wsgiref.
Tarek Ziadéb8708a22010-02-23 05:53:05 +00002883
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002884- Issue #1537721: Add a ``writeheader()`` method to ``csv.DictWriter``.
Dirkjan Ochtman86148172010-02-23 21:09:52 +00002885
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002886- Issue #7427: Improve the representation of httplib.BadStatusLine exceptions.
Dirkjan Ochtmanebc73dc2010-02-24 04:49:00 +00002887
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002888- Issue #7481: When a ``threading.Thread`` failed to start it would leave the
2889 instance stuck in initial state and present in ``threading.enumerate()``.
Gregory P. Smith613c7a52010-02-28 18:36:09 +00002890
Gregory P. Smithcce211f2010-03-01 00:05:08 +00002891- Issue #1068268: The subprocess module now handles EINTR in internal
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002892 ``os.waitpid()`` and ``os.read()`` system calls where appropriate.
Gregory P. Smithcce211f2010-03-01 00:05:08 +00002893
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002894- Issue #6729: Add ``ctypes.c_ssize_t`` to represent ssize_t.
Gregory P. Smith3c699d32010-03-01 04:56:12 +00002895
Steven Betharde9330e72010-03-02 08:38:09 +00002896- Issue #6247: The argparse module has been added to the standard library.
2897
Martin v. Löwis413fabc2010-02-18 09:22:20 +00002898Extension Modules
2899-----------------
2900
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002901- The sqlite3 module was updated to pysqlite 2.6.0. This fixes several obscure
Gerhard Häring3bbb6722010-03-05 09:12:37 +00002902 bugs and allows loading SQLite extensions from shared libraries.
2903
Florent Xiclunae7901c52010-03-01 20:45:01 +00002904- Issue #7808: Fix reference leaks in _bsddb and related tests.
2905
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002906- Issue #6544: Fix a reference leak in the kqueue implementation's error
Georg Brandlea370a92010-02-23 21:48:57 +00002907 handling.
2908
Martin v. Löwis413fabc2010-02-18 09:22:20 +00002909- Stop providing crtassem.h symbols when compiling with Visual Studio 2010, as
2910 msvcr100.dll is not a platform assembly anymore.
Benjamin Peterson2d798ac2010-02-06 18:26:27 +00002911
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002912- Issue #7242: On Solaris 9 and earlier calling ``os.fork()`` from within a
Gregory P. Smith9e5d1322010-03-01 01:22:39 +00002913 thread could raise an incorrect RuntimeError about not holding the import
2914 lock. The import lock is now reinitialized after fork.
2915
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002916- Issue #7999: ``os.setreuid()`` and ``os.setregid()`` would refuse to accept a
2917 -1 parameter on some platforms such as OS X.
Gregory P. Smith6a65f852010-03-01 05:43:43 +00002918
Ezio Melotti8f6a2872010-02-10 21:40:33 +00002919Tests
2920-----
2921
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002922- Issue #7849: The utility ``test.test_support.check_warnings()`` verifies if
2923 warnings are effectively raised. A new utility ``check_py3k_warnings()`` is
2924 available.
Florent Xicluna6de9e932010-03-07 12:18:33 +00002925
Florent Xicluna985478d2010-03-06 18:52:52 +00002926- The four path modules (genericpath, macpath, ntpath, posixpath) share a
2927 common TestCase for some tests: test_genericpath.CommonTest.
2928
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002929- Print platform information when running the whole test suite, or using the
2930 ``--verbose`` flag.
Florent Xicluna58526412010-03-06 17:24:36 +00002931
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002932- Issue #767675: Enable test_pep277 on POSIX platforms with Unicode-friendly
Florent Xiclunac0a9d412010-03-02 22:34:11 +00002933 filesystem encoding.
Florent Xicluna2db61fb2010-03-02 21:34:45 +00002934
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002935- Issue #6292: For the moment at least, the test suite runs cleanly if python
R. David Murrayf28fd242010-02-23 00:24:49 +00002936 is run with the -OO flag. Tests requiring docstrings are skipped.
2937
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002938- Issue #7712: test_support gained a new ``temp_cwd`` context manager which is
2939 now also used by regrtest to run all the tests in a temporary directory. The
2940 original CWD is saved in ``test.test_support.SAVEDCWD``. Thanks to Florent
2941 Xicluna who helped with the patch.
Ezio Melotti8f6a2872010-02-10 21:40:33 +00002942
Martin v. Löwis5e2dd862010-02-15 08:32:00 +00002943Build
2944-----
2945
Martin v. Löwis7875ef62010-02-15 21:41:12 +00002946- Issue #3920, #7903: Define _BSD_SOURCE on OpenBSD 4.4 through 4.9.
Martin v. Löwis5e2dd862010-02-15 08:32:00 +00002947
Ezio Melotti8f6a2872010-02-10 21:40:33 +00002948
Benjamin Petersondd6d92a2010-01-09 17:30:31 +00002949What's New in Python 2.7 alpha 3?
2950=================================
2951
Benjamin Petersona7be9d22010-02-06 16:37:32 +00002952*Release date: 2010-02-06*
Benjamin Petersondd6d92a2010-01-09 17:30:31 +00002953
2954Core and Builtins
2955-----------------
2956
Antoine Pitroubb445a12010-02-05 17:05:54 +00002957- Issue #5677: Explicitly forbid write operations on read-only file objects,
2958 and read operations on write-only file objects. On Windows, the system C
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002959 library would return a bogus result; on Solaris, it was possible to crash the
2960 interpreter. Patch by Stefan Krah.
Antoine Pitroubb445a12010-02-05 17:05:54 +00002961
Barry Warsawb1e66ee2010-02-05 18:45:25 +00002962- Issue #7853: Normalize exceptions before they are passed to a context
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002963 manager's ``__exit__()`` method.
Benjamin Peterson565d7852010-02-05 02:12:14 +00002964
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002965- Issue #7385: Fix a crash in ``PyMemoryView_FromObject()`` when
2966 ``PyObject_GetBuffer()`` fails. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
Antoine Pitrou526e4212010-02-02 22:36:17 +00002967
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002968- Issue #7819: Check ``sys.call_tracing()`` arguments types.
Victor Stinnerb4b0a292010-01-31 22:32:15 +00002969
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002970- Issue #7788: Fix an interpreter crash produced by deleting a list slice with
2971 very large step value.
Mark Dickinson36ecd672010-01-29 17:11:39 +00002972
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002973- Issue #7766: Change ``sys.getwindowsversion()`` return value to a named tuple
2974 and add the additional members returned in an OSVERSIONINFOEX structure. The
2975 new members are service_pack_major, service_pack_minor, suite_mask, and
2976 product_type.
Eric Smithee931b72010-01-27 00:28:29 +00002977
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002978- Issue #7561: Operations on empty bytearrays (such as ``int(bytearray())``)
2979 could crash in many places because of the ``PyByteArray_AS_STRING()`` macro
2980 returning NULL. The macro now returns a statically allocated empty string
2981 instead.
Antoine Pitroue80a6a42010-01-17 12:26:20 +00002982
Antoine Pitrou64672132010-01-13 07:55:48 +00002983- Issue #7622: Improve the split(), rsplit(), splitlines() and replace()
2984 methods of bytes, bytearray and unicode objects by using a common
2985 implementation based on stringlib's fast search. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
2986
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002987- Issue #7632: Fix various str -> float conversion bugs present in 2.7 alpha 2,
2988 including:
Mark Dickinson8efef5c2010-01-12 22:23:56 +00002989
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002990 (1) a serious 'wrong output' bug that could occur for long (> 40 digit) input
2991 strings,
2992 (2) a crash in dtoa.c that occurred in debug builds when parsing certain long
2993 numeric strings corresponding to subnormal values,
2994 (3) a memory leak for some values large enough to cause overflow, and
2995 (4) a number of flaws that could lead to incorrectly rounded results.
2996
2997- Issue #7319, #7770: Silence ``DeprecationWarning`` by default when the -3
2998 option is not used.
Brett Cannon6fdd3dc2010-01-10 02:56:19 +00002999
Alexandre Vassalottiee936a22010-01-09 23:35:54 +00003000- Issue #2335: Backport set literals syntax from Python 3.x.
3001
Alexandre Vassalotti7a8df802010-01-11 23:13:49 +00003002- Issue #2333: Backport set and dict comprehensions syntax from Python 3.x.
3003
Alexandre Vassalotti69eb5162010-01-11 23:17:10 +00003004- Issue #1967: Backport dictionary views from Python 3.x.
3005
Benjamin Petersondd6d92a2010-01-09 17:30:31 +00003006Library
3007-------
3008
Mark Dickinson42add992010-07-11 19:17:28 +00003009- Issue #9137: Fix issue in MutableMapping.update, which incorrectly
3010 treated keyword arguments called 'self' or 'other' specially.
3011
R. David Murray63e4fd72010-02-10 22:42:04 +00003012- Issue #7835: shelve should no longer produce mysterious warnings during
3013 interpreter shutdown.
3014
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003015- Issue #2746: Don't escape ampersands and angle brackets ("&", "<", ">") in
3016 XML processing instructions and comments. These raw characters are allowed
3017 by the XML specification, and are necessary when outputting e.g. PHP code in
3018 a processing instruction. Patch by Neil Muller.
Antoine Pitrou42fb6ab2010-02-09 17:08:05 +00003019
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003020- Issue #7869: logging: Improved diagnostic for format-time errors.
Vinay Sajip64e8b972010-02-07 12:56:54 +00003021
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003022- Issue #7868: logging: Added loggerClass attribute to Manager.
Vinay Sajip657514a2010-02-07 01:37:08 +00003023
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003024- Issue #7851: logging: Clarification on logging configuration files.
Vinay Sajip0e6e97d2010-02-04 20:23:45 +00003025
Antoine Pitroud840e512010-02-04 20:20:18 +00003026- Issue #4772: Raise a ValueError when an unknown Bluetooth protocol is
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003027 specified, rather than fall through to AF_PACKET (in the ``socket`` module).
Antoine Pitroud840e512010-02-04 20:20:18 +00003028 Also, raise ValueError rather than TypeError when an unknown TIPC address
3029 type is specified. Patch by Brian Curtin.
3030
Vinay Sajip28c382f2010-02-04 18:48:53 +00003031- logging: Implemented PEP 391.
3032
Antoine Pitrouf3fa0742010-01-31 22:26:04 +00003033- Issue #6939: Fix file I/O objects in the `io` module to keep the original
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003034 file position when calling `truncate()`. It would previously change the file
3035 position to the given argument, which goes against the tradition of
Antoine Pitrouf3fa0742010-01-31 22:26:04 +00003036 ftruncate() and other truncation APIs. Patch by Pascal Chambon.
3037
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003038- Issue #7610: Reworked implementation of the internal ``zipfile.ZipExtFile``
3039 class used to represent files stored inside an archive. The new
3040 implementation is significantly faster and can be wrapped in a
3041 ``io.BufferedReader`` object for more speedups. It also solves an issue
3042 where interleaved calls to ``read()`` and ``readline()`` give wrong results.
3043 Patch by Nir Aides.
Antoine Pitrou94c33eb2010-01-27 20:59:50 +00003044
Benjamin Peterson2deb5c72010-01-27 02:16:42 +00003045- Issue #7792: Registering non-classes to ABCs raised an obscure error.
3046
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003047- Removed the deprecated functions ``verify()`` and ``vereq()`` from
3048 Lib/test/test_support.py.
Ezio Melotti82230f92010-01-25 12:37:02 +00003049
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003050- Issue #7773: Fix an UnboundLocalError in ``platform.linux_distribution()``
3051 when the release file is empty.
Benjamin Petersona43f34c2010-01-25 03:31:13 +00003052
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003053- Issue #7748: Since unicode values are supported for some metadata options in
3054 Distutils, the DistributionMetadata get_* methods will now return an utf-8
3055 encoded string for them. This ensures that the upload and register commands
3056 send the correct values to PyPI without any error.
Tarek Ziadéf14c7fc2010-01-24 00:33:32 +00003057
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003058- Issue #1670765: Prevent ``email.generator.Generator`` from re-wrapping
R. David Murrayed44dfa2010-01-16 05:15:17 +00003059 headers in multipart/signed MIME parts, which fixes one of the sources of
3060 invalid modifications to such parts by Generator.
3061
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003062- Issue #7701: Fix crash in ``binascii.b2a_uu()`` in debug mode when given a
Antoine Pitrouc391ad02010-01-15 00:18:00 +00003063 1-byte argument. Patch by Victor Stinner.
3064
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003065- Issue #3299: Fix possible crash in the _sre module when given bad argument
3066 values in debug mode. Patch by Victor Stinner.
Antoine Pitrouefdddd32010-01-14 17:25:24 +00003067
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003068- Issue #7703: Add support for the new buffer API to functions of the binascii
3069 module. Backported from py3k by Florent Xicluna, with some additional tests.
Antoine Pitroufd3a60d2010-01-14 16:27:09 +00003070
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003071- Issue #2846: Add support for gzip.GzipFile reading zero-padded files. Patch
3072 by Brian Curtin.
Antoine Pitrou5a9112c2010-01-13 14:32:10 +00003073
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003074- Issue #5827: Make sure that normpath preserves unicode. Initial patch by
3075 Matt Giuca.
Ezio Melottib5689de2010-01-12 03:32:05 +00003076
Tarek Ziadédc0f4872010-01-11 22:50:29 +00003077- Issue #5372: Drop the reuse of .o files in Distutils' ccompiler (since
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003078 Extension extra options may change the output without changing the .c file).
3079 Initial patch by Collin Winter.
Tarek Ziadédc0f4872010-01-11 22:50:29 +00003080
Matthias Klose0d948ac2010-01-22 00:39:04 +00003081Extension Modules
3082-----------------
3083
3084- Expat: Fix DoS via XML document with malformed UTF-8 sequences
3085 (CVE_2009_3560).
3086
Antoine Pitrou8c510e72010-01-13 11:47:49 +00003087Build
3088-----
3089
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003090- Issue #7632: When Py_USING_MEMORY_DEBUGGER is defined, disable the private
3091 memory allocation scheme in dtoa.c and use PyMem_Malloc and PyMem_Free
3092 instead. Also disable caching of powers of 5.
Mark Dickinson9481c572010-01-17 20:57:56 +00003093
Ronald Oussorena55af9a2010-01-17 16:25:57 +00003094- Issue #7658: Ensure that the new pythonw executable works on OSX 10.4
3095
3096- Issue #7714: Use ``gcc -dumpversion`` to detect the version of GCC on
3097 MacOSX.
3098
Antoine Pitrou8c510e72010-01-13 11:47:49 +00003099- Issue #7661: Allow ctypes to be built from a non-ASCII directory path.
3100 Patch by Florent Xicluna.
3101
Antoine Pitrouc07336c2010-01-18 21:15:21 +00003102Tools/Demos
3103-----------
3104
3105- iobench (a file I/O benchmark) and ccbench (a concurrency benchmark) were
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003106 added to the ``Tools`` directory. They were previously living in the
Antoine Pitrouc07336c2010-01-18 21:15:21 +00003107 sandbox.
3108
R. David Murrayce6e4b02010-02-06 04:27:21 +00003109Tests
3110-----
3111
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003112- issue #7728: test_timeout was changed to use ``test_support.bind_port()``
R. David Murrayce6e4b02010-02-06 04:27:21 +00003113 instead of a hard coded port.
3114
Matthias Klose626d92a2010-01-31 16:05:13 +00003115Documentation
3116-------------
Victor Stinnerf20f9c22010-02-23 23:16:07 +00003117
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003118- Updated "Using Python" documentation to include description of CPython's -J,
3119 -U and -X options.
Barry Warsawb1e66ee2010-02-05 18:45:25 +00003120
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003121- Updated Python manual page (options -B, -O0, -s, environment variables
Matthias Klose626d92a2010-01-31 16:05:13 +00003122 PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE, PYTHONNOUSERSITE).
3123
Benjamin Petersondd6d92a2010-01-09 17:30:31 +00003124
Benjamin Peterson4f51baf2009-12-05 18:40:02 +00003125What's New in Python 2.7 alpha 2?
3126=================================
3127
Benjamin Petersonaa7e51f2010-01-09 16:34:06 +00003128*Release date: 2010-01-09*
Benjamin Peterson4f51baf2009-12-05 18:40:02 +00003129
3130Core and Builtins
3131-----------------
3132
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003133- The ``__complex__()`` method is now looked up on the class of instances to
3134 make it consistent with other special methods.
Benjamin Petersonecdae192010-01-04 00:43:01 +00003135
Antoine Pitrou5b7139a2010-01-02 21:12:58 +00003136- Issue #7462: Implement the stringlib fast search algorithm for the `rfind`,
3137 `rindex`, `rsplit` and `rpartition` methods. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
3138
Mark Dickinson1b34d252010-01-01 17:27:30 +00003139- Issue #5080: A number of functions and methods previously produced a
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003140 DeprecationWarning when passed a float argument where an integer was expected.
3141 These functions and methods now raise TypeError instead. The majority of the
3142 effects of this change are in the extension modules, but some core functions
3143 and methods are affected: notably the 'chr', 'range' and 'xrange' builtins,
3144 and many unicode/str methods.
Mark Dickinson1b34d252010-01-01 17:27:30 +00003145
Benjamin Peterson0f02d392009-12-30 19:34:10 +00003146- Issue #7604: Deleting an unset slotted attribute did not raise an
3147 AttributeError.
3148
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003149- Issue #7534: Fix handling of IEEE specials (infinities, nans, negative zero)
3150 in ** operator. The behaviour now conforms to that described in C99 Annex F.
Mark Dickinson99d652e2009-12-30 12:12:23 +00003151
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003152- Issue #7579: The msvcrt module now has docstrings for all its functions.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcc8a2ce72009-12-29 23:06:17 +00003153
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc8645a5c2009-12-29 22:03:38 +00003154- Issue #7413: Passing '\0' as the separator to datetime.datetime.isoformat()
3155 used to drop the time part of the result.
3156
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003157- Issue #1811: Improve accuracy and cross-platform consistency for true division
3158 of integers: the result of a/b is now correctly rounded for ints a and b (at
3159 least on IEEE 754 platforms), and in particular does not depend on the
3160 internal representation of a long.
Mark Dickinson46572832009-12-27 14:55:57 +00003161
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003162- Issue #6108: ``unicode(exception)`` and ``str(exception)`` should return the
3163 same message when only ``__str__()`` (and not ``__unicode__()``) is overridden
3164 in the subclass.
Ezio Melottif84caf42009-12-24 22:25:17 +00003165
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003166- Issue #6834: Replace the implementation for the 'python' and 'pythonw'
Ronald Oussoren92919a62009-12-24 13:30:58 +00003167 executables on OSX.
3168
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003169 These executables now work properly with the arch(1) command: ``arch -ppc
3170 python`` will start a universal binary version of python in PPC mode (unlike
3171 previous releases).
Ronald Oussoren92919a62009-12-24 13:30:58 +00003172
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003173- Issue #1680159: Unicode coercion during an 'in' operation no longer masks the
3174 underlying error when the coercion fails for the left hand operand.
R. David Murray0a0a1a82009-12-14 16:28:26 +00003175
Benjamin Peterson4895af42009-12-13 16:36:53 +00003176- Issue #7491: Metaclass's __cmp__ method was ignored.
3177
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003178- Issue #7466: Segmentation fault when the garbage collector is called in the
3179 middle of populating a tuple. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
Antoine Pitrou2a08b422009-12-13 16:18:14 +00003180
R. David Murrayc7298ff2009-12-14 21:57:39 +00003181
Benjamin Peterson4f51baf2009-12-05 18:40:02 +00003182Library
3183-------
3184
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003185- Issue #6963: Added "maxtasksperchild" argument to ``multiprocessing.Pool``,
3186 allowing for a maximum number of tasks within the pool to be completed by the
3187 worker before that worker is terminated, and a new one created to replace it.
Jesse Noller654ade32010-01-27 03:05:57 +00003188
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003189- Issue #7617: Make sure distutils.unixccompiler.UnixCCompiler recognizes gcc
3190 when it has a fully qualified configuration prefix. Initial patch by
3191 Arfrever.
Tarek Ziadéc25417f2010-01-08 23:42:23 +00003192
Antoine Pitrou80157252010-01-08 19:20:17 +00003193- Issue #7092: Remove py3k warning when importing cPickle. 2to3 handles
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003194 renaming of `cPickle` to `pickle`. The warning was annoying since there's no
3195 alternative to cPickle if you care about performance. Patch by Florent
Antoine Pitrou80157252010-01-08 19:20:17 +00003196 Xicluna.
3197
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003198- Issue #7455: Fix possible crash in cPickle on invalid input. Patch by Victor
3199 Stinner.
Antoine Pitrou0d423b82010-01-07 17:46:49 +00003200
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003201- Issue #7092: Fix the DeprecationWarnings emitted by the standard library when
3202 using the -3 flag. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
Antoine Pitroub9d49632010-01-04 23:22:44 +00003203
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003204- Issue #7471: Improve the performance of GzipFile's buffering mechanism, and
3205 make it implement the ``io.BufferedIOBase`` ABC to allow for further speedups
3206 by wrapping it in an ``io.BufferedReader``. Patch by Nir Aides.
Antoine Pitrou673ddf92010-01-03 22:29:56 +00003207
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003208- Issue #3972: ``httplib.HTTPConnection`` now accepts an optional source_address
Gregory P. Smith9d325212010-01-03 02:06:07 +00003209 parameter to allow specifying where your connections come from.
3210
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003211- ``socket.create_connection()`` now accepts an optional source_address
3212 parameter.
Gregory P. Smith79a3eb12010-01-03 01:29:44 +00003213
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003214- Issue #5511: ``zipfile.ZipFile`` can now be used as a context manager.
Ezio Melotti569e61f2009-12-30 06:14:51 +00003215 Initial patch by Brian Curtin.
3216
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003217- Distutils now correctly identifies the build architecture as "x86_64" when
3218 building on OSX 10.6 without "-arch" flags.
Ronald Oussorenca8e7ec2009-12-24 14:50:35 +00003219
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003220- Issue #7556: Distutils' msvc9compiler now opens the MSVC Manifest file in text
3221 mode.
Tarek Ziadé0479eb52009-12-21 23:37:44 +00003222
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003223- Issue #7552: Removed line feed in the base64 Authorization header in the
3224 Distutils upload command to avoid an error when PyPI reads it. This occurs on
3225 long passwords. Initial patch by JP St. Pierre.
Tarek Ziadé2421d562009-12-20 23:23:34 +00003226
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003227- Issue #7231: urllib2 cannot handle https with proxy requiring auth. Patch by
3228 Tatsuhiro Tsujikawa.
Senthil Kumaran7713acf2009-12-20 06:05:13 +00003229
Benjamin Petersonddd392c2009-12-13 19:19:07 +00003230- Issue #7349: Make methods of file objects in the io module accept None as an
3231 argument where file-like objects (ie StringIO and BytesIO) accept them to mean
3232 the same as passing no argument.
3233
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003234- Issue #7348: ``StringIO.StringIO.readline(-1)`` now acts as if it got no
3235 argument like other file objects.
Benjamin Petersonc4771d22009-12-13 17:31:31 +00003236
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003237- Issue #7357: tarfile no longer suppresses fatal extraction errors by default.
Lars Gustäbel92ca7562009-12-13 11:32:27 +00003238
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003239- Issue #7470: logging: Fix bug in Unicode encoding fallback.
Vinay Sajip5cc4e2a2009-12-11 09:16:01 +00003240
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003241- Issue #5949: Fixed IMAP4_SSL hang when the IMAP server response is missing
3242 proper end-of-line termination.
R. David Murray93321f32009-12-09 15:15:31 +00003243
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003244- Issue #7457: Added a read_pkg_file method to
3245 ``distutils.dist.DistributionMetadata``.
Benjamin Peterson4f51baf2009-12-05 18:40:02 +00003246
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003247- Issue #3745: Undo the 2.7a1 change to have hashlib to reject unicode and non
3248 buffer API supporting objects as input. That behavior is for 3.x only.
Gregory P. Smithfe32d302010-01-02 22:42:50 +00003249
Georg Brandl740cdc32009-12-28 08:34:58 +00003250C-API
3251-----
3252
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003253- Issue #7767: New function ``PyLong_AsLongLongAndOverflow()`` added, analogous
3254 to ``PyLong_AsLongAndOverflow()``.
Mark Dickinsona36507c2010-01-30 10:08:33 +00003255
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003256- Issue #5080: The argument parsing functions ``PyArg_ParseTuple()``,
3257 ``PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords()``, ``PyArg_VaParse()``,
3258 ``PyArg_VaParseTupleAndKeywords()`` and ``PyArg_Parse()`` no longer accept
3259 float arguments for integer format codes (other than 'L'): previously an
3260 attempt to pass a float resulted in a DeprecationWarning; now it gives a
3261 TypeError. For the 'L' format code (which previously had no warning) there is
3262 now a DeprecationWarning.
Mark Dickinson1b34d252010-01-01 17:27:30 +00003263
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003264- Issue #7033: Function ``PyErr_NewExceptionWithDoc()`` added.
Georg Brandl740cdc32009-12-28 08:34:58 +00003265
Martin v. Löwisb4261d52009-12-21 19:29:59 +00003266Build
3267-----
3268
Benjamin Petersonedfe72f2010-01-01 15:21:13 +00003269- Issue #6491: Allow --with-dbmliborder to specify that no dbms will be built.
3270
Benjamin Petersonb4abef62010-01-01 15:18:38 +00003271- Issue #6943: Use pkg-config to find the libffi headers when the
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003272 ``--with-system-ffi`` flag is used.
Benjamin Petersonb4abef62010-01-01 15:18:38 +00003273
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003274- Issue #7609: Add a ``--with-system-expat`` option that causes the system's
3275 expat library to be used for the pyexpat module instead of the one included
3276 with Python.
Benjamin Peterson2c196742009-12-31 03:17:18 +00003277
Benjamin Peterson500ce232009-12-30 02:58:50 +00003278- Issue #7589: Only build the nis module when the correct header files are
3279 found.
3280
Martin v. Löwisf477b932010-01-02 09:25:21 +00003281- Switch to OpenSSL 0.9.8l and sqlite 3.6.21 on Windows.
R. David Murray93321f32009-12-09 15:15:31 +00003282
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003283- Issue #7541: when using ``python-config`` with a framework install the
3284 compiler might use the wrong library.
Ronald Oussorenb5afe542009-12-24 14:17:19 +00003285
R. David Murrayc7298ff2009-12-14 21:57:39 +00003286Tests
3287-----
3288
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003289- Issue #7376: Instead of running a self-test (which was failing) when called
R. David Murray77e48ba2009-12-20 16:46:06 +00003290 with no arguments, doctest.py now gives a usage message.
3291
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003292- Issue #7396: Fix regrtest -s, which was broken by the -j enhancement.
R. David Murray98e3df32009-12-16 11:49:46 +00003293
R. David Murrayc7298ff2009-12-14 21:57:39 +00003294- Issue #7498: test_multiprocessing now uses test_support.find_unused_port
3295 instead of a hardcoded port number in test_rapid_restart.
3296
3297
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +00003298What's New in Python 2.7 alpha 1
3299================================
3300
Benjamin Peterson3513c872009-12-05 18:48:13 +00003301*Release date: 2009-12-05*
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +00003302
3303Core and Builtins
3304-----------------
3305
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003306- Issue #7419: ``locale.setlocale()`` could crash the interpreter on Windows
3307 when called with invalid values.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd7288712009-12-01 21:51:04 +00003308
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003309- Issue #3382: 'F' formatting for float and complex now convert the result to
3310 upper case. This only affects 'inf' and 'nan', since 'f' no longer converts
3311 to 'g' for large values.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd7288712009-12-01 21:51:04 +00003312
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003313- Remove switch from "%f" formatting to "%g" formatting for floats larger than
3314 1e50 in absolute value.
Mark Dickinson9dd5e162009-11-23 20:54:09 +00003315
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003316- Remove restrictions on precision when formatting floats. E.g., "%.120g" %
3317 1e-100 used to raise OverflowError, but now gives the requested 120
3318 significant digits instead.
Mark Dickinson18cfada2009-11-23 18:46:41 +00003319
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003320- Add Py3k warnings for parameter names in parentheses.
Benjamin Peterson89b1a5c2009-11-19 22:58:01 +00003321
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003322- Issue #7362: Give a proper error message for ``def f((x)=3): pass``.
Benjamin Peterson89b1a5c2009-11-19 22:58:01 +00003323
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003324- Issue #7085: Fix crash when importing some extensions in a thread on MacOSX
3325 10.6.
Ronald Oussoren315cd0c2009-11-19 16:25:21 +00003326
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003327- Issue #7117: ``repr(x)`` for a float x returns a result based on the shortest
3328 decimal string that's guaranteed to round back to x under correct rounding
3329 (with round-half-to-even rounding mode). Previously it gave a string based on
3330 rounding x to 17 decimal digits. repr(x) for a complex number behaves
3331 similarly. On platforms where the correctly-rounded strtod and dtoa code is
3332 not supported (see below), repr is unchanged.
Mark Dickinsonb678de82009-11-19 18:41:49 +00003333
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003334- Issue #7117: On almost all platforms: float-to-string and string-to-float
3335 conversions within Python are now correctly rounded. Places these conversions
3336 occur include: str for floats and complex numbers; the float and complex
3337 constructors; old-style and new-style numeric formatting; serialization and
3338 deserialization of floats and complex numbers using marshal, pickle and json;
3339 parsing of float and imaginary literals in Python code; Decimal-to-float
3340 conversion.
Mark Dickinsonb678de82009-11-19 18:41:49 +00003341
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003342 The conversions use a Python-adapted version of David Gay's well-known dtoa.c,
3343 providing correctly-rounded strtod and dtoa C functions. This code is
3344 supported on Windows, and on Unix-like platforms using gcc, icc or suncc as
3345 the C compiler. There may be a small number of platforms on which correct
3346 operation of this code cannot be guaranteed, so the code is not used: notably,
3347 this applies to platforms where the C double format is not IEEE 754 binary64,
3348 and to platforms on x86 hardware where the x87 FPU is set to 64-bit precision
3349 and Python's configure script is unable to determine how to change the FPU
3350 precision. On these platforms conversions use the platform strtod and dtoa,
3351 as before.
Mark Dickinsonb678de82009-11-19 18:41:49 +00003352
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003353- Issue #7117: Backport round implementation from Python 3.x. ``round()`` now
3354 uses the correctly-rounded string <-> float conversions described above (when
3355 available), and so produces correctly rounded results that will display nicely
3356 under the float repr. There are two related small changes: (1) round now
3357 accepts any class with an ``__index__()`` method for its second argument (but
3358 no longer accepts floats for the second argument), and (2) an excessively
3359 large second integer argument (e.g., ``round(1.234, 10**100)``) no longer
3360 raises an exception.
Mark Dickinsonbd15a062009-11-18 19:33:35 +00003361
Philip Jenveyfab8be22009-11-17 02:42:26 +00003362- Issue #1757126: Fix the cyrillic-asian alias for the ptcp154 encoding.
3363
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003364- Fix several issues with ``compile()``. The input can now contain Windows and
3365 Mac newlines and is no longer required to end in a newline.
Benjamin Petersone36199b2009-11-12 23:39:44 +00003366
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003367- Remove length limitation when constructing a complex number from a unicode
3368 string.
Mark Dickinsonc04c7c52009-10-26 22:28:14 +00003369
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003370- Issue #7244: ``itertools.izip_longest()`` no longer ignores exceptions raised
3371 during the formation of an output tuple.
Raymond Hettingerfa7dadd2009-11-01 20:45:16 +00003372
Mark Dickinson8d87dc02009-10-25 20:39:06 +00003373- Issue #1087418: Boost performance of bitwise operations for longs.
3374
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003375- Issue #1722344: ``threading._shutdown()`` is now called in ``Py_Finalize()``,
3376 which fixes the problem of some exceptions being thrown at shutdown when the
3377 interpreter is killed. Patch by Adam Olsen.
Antoine Pitrouefb60c02009-10-20 21:29:37 +00003378
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003379- Issue #7168: Document ``PyFloat_AsString()`` and ``PyFloat_AsReprString()``,
3380 and note that they are unsafe and deprecated.
Eric Smithc12781a2009-10-19 14:38:14 +00003381
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003382- Issue #7120: logging: Remove import of multiprocessing which is causing crash
3383 in GAE.
Vinay Sajip03d5c342009-10-16 14:06:44 +00003384
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003385- Issue #7140: The ``__dict__`` of a module should not be cleared unless the
3386 module is the only object holding a reference to it.
Benjamin Peterson196b0922009-10-15 15:44:46 +00003387
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003388- Issue #1754094: Improve the stack depth calculation in the compiler. There
3389 should be no other effect than a small decrease in memory use. Patch by
3390 Christopher Tur Lesniewski-Laas.
Neil Schemenauer7fdd1cb2009-10-14 17:17:14 +00003391
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003392- Issue #7084: Fix a (very unlikely) crash when printing a list from one thread,
3393 and mutating it from another one. Patch by Scott Dial.
Antoine Pitroubeaf6a02009-10-11 21:03:26 +00003394
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd0052d12009-10-06 19:56:32 +00003395- Issue #1571184: The Unicode database contains properties for more characters.
3396 The tables for code points representing numeric values, white spaces or line
3397 breaks are now generated from the official Unicode Character Database files,
3398 and include information from the Unihan.txt file.
3399
Benjamin Peterson7adbb5a2009-10-03 20:23:24 +00003400- Issue #7050: Fix a SystemError when trying to use unpacking and augmented
3401 assignment.
3402
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003403- Issue #5329: Fix ``os.popen*`` regression from 2.5 with commands as a sequence
3404 running through the shell. Patch by Jean-Paul Calderone and Jani Hakala.
Philip Jenvey8b902042009-09-29 19:10:15 +00003405
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003406- Issue #7019: Raise ValueError when unmarshalling bad long data, instead of
3407 producing internally inconsistent Python longs.
Mark Dickinson7e7a3ec2009-09-29 19:01:06 +00003408
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003409- Issue #6990: Fix ``threading.local`` subclasses leaving old state around after
3410 a reference cycle GC which could be recycled by new locals.
Philip Jenveydbf3b252009-09-29 04:32:44 +00003411
Benjamin Peterson9db55402009-09-18 21:47:27 +00003412- Issue #6300: unicode.encode, unicode.decode, str.decode, and str.encode now
Benjamin Peterson332d7212009-09-18 21:14:55 +00003413 take keyword arguments.
3414
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003415- Issue #6922: Fix an infinite loop when trying to decode an invalid UTF-32
3416 stream with a non-raising error handler like "replace" or "ignore".
Georg Brandle9741f32009-09-17 11:28:09 +00003417
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003418- Issue #6713: Improve performance of base 10 int -> string and long -> string
3419 conversions.
Mark Dickinsonaa2adc82009-09-16 22:10:56 +00003420
Thomas Wouters2920adb2009-09-16 20:36:34 +00003421- Issue #1590864: Fix potential deadlock when mixing threads and fork().
3422
Georg Brandl0674d3f2009-09-16 20:30:09 +00003423- Issue #6844: Do not emit DeprecationWarnings when accessing a "message"
3424 attribute on exceptions that was set explicitly.
3425
Mark Dickinsonc8a7c7c2009-09-06 10:03:31 +00003426- Issue #6846: Fix bug where bytearray.pop() returns negative integers.
3427
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003428- ``classmethod()`` no longer checks if its argument is callable.
Benjamin Peterson6fcf9b52009-09-01 22:27:57 +00003429
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003430- Issue #6750: A text file opened with ``io.open()`` could duplicate its output
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfff896b2009-08-29 18:14:40 +00003431 when writing from multiple threads at the same time.
3432
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003433- Issue #6704: Improve the col_offset in AST for "for" statements with a target
3434 of tuple unpacking.
Benjamin Petersonc0ba8282009-08-15 22:59:21 +00003435
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003436- Issue #6707: ``dir()`` on an uninitialized module caused a crash.
Benjamin Peterson4c6e8082009-08-15 13:16:38 +00003437
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003438- Issue #6540: Fixed crash for ``bytearray.translate()`` with invalid parameters.
Georg Brandlec812ca2009-07-22 11:57:15 +00003439
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003440- Issue #6573: ``set.union()`` stopped processing inputs if an instance of self
Raymond Hettingerc2b9e1a2009-07-27 20:32:04 +00003441 occurred in the argument chain.
3442
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc9d11fef2009-07-13 20:03:21 +00003443- Issue #1616979: Added the cp720 (Arabic DOS) encoding.
3444
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003445- Issue #6070: On posix platforms import no longer copies the execute bit from
3446 the .py file to the .pyc file if it is set. Patch by Marco N.
R. David Murray23a736a2009-07-07 01:06:13 +00003447
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003448- Issue #4618: When unicode arguments are passed to ``print()``, the default
Benjamin Peterson753d1622009-07-02 18:16:45 +00003449 separator and end should be unicode also.
3450
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00003451- Issue #6119: Fixed an incorrect Py3k warning about order comparisons of
3452 built-in functions and methods.
Benjamin Peterson1bf47652009-07-02 17:06:17 +00003453
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003454- Issue #6347: Include inttypes.h as well as stdint.h in pyport.h. This fixes a
3455 build failure on HP-UX: int32_t and uint32_t are defined in inttypes.h instead
3456 of stdint.h on that platform.
Mark Dickinson2f865b92009-06-30 15:32:30 +00003457
Hirokazu Yamamotoa3c56092009-06-28 10:23:00 +00003458- Issue #4856: Remove checks for win NT.
3459
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc595f7a52009-06-25 22:29:29 +00003460- Issue #2016: Fixed a crash in a corner case where the dictionary of keyword
3461 arguments could be modified during the function call setup.
3462
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc14fc6732009-06-23 21:09:09 +00003463- Removed the ipaddr module.
3464
Raymond Hettinger62641e92009-06-23 20:59:43 +00003465- Issue #6329: Fixed iteration for memoryview objects (it was being blocked
3466 because it wasn't recognized as a sequence).
3467
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003468- Issue #6289: Encoding errors from ``compile()`` were being masked.
Benjamin Peterson08a0bbc2009-06-16 00:29:31 +00003469
Benjamin Petersona72be3b2009-06-13 20:23:33 +00003470- When no module is given in a relative import, the module field of the
3471 ImportFrom AST node is now None instead of an empty string.
3472
Benjamin Peterson565e1b62009-06-13 03:46:30 +00003473- Assignment to None using import statements now raises a SyntaxError.
3474
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003475- Issue #4547: When debugging a very large function, it was not always possible
3476 to update the lineno attribute of the current frame.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcb02ceda2009-06-01 20:53:18 +00003477
Antoine Pitrou46dbe272009-05-30 21:27:00 +00003478- Issue #5330: C functions called with keyword arguments were not reported by
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003479 the various profiling modules (profile, cProfile). Patch by Hagen Fürstenau.
Antoine Pitrou46dbe272009-05-30 21:27:00 +00003480
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003481- Issue #5982: staticmethod and classmethod now expose the wrapped function with
3482 ``__func__``.
Raymond Hettinger578a2282009-05-29 04:58:52 +00003483
Raymond Hettinger822b87f2009-05-29 01:46:48 +00003484- Added support for multiple context managers in the same with-statement.
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003485 Deprecated ``contextlib.nested()`` which is no longer needed.
Georg Brandl944f6842009-05-25 21:02:56 +00003486
Benjamin Peterson1880d8b2009-05-25 13:13:44 +00003487- Issue #6101: A new opcode, SETUP_WITH, has been added to speed up the with
3488 statement and correctly lookup the __enter__ and __exit__ special methods.
3489
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003490- Issue #5829: complex("1e500") no longer raises OverflowError. This makes it
3491 consistent with float("1e500") and interpretation of real and imaginary
3492 literals.
Mark Dickinsona4e0efa2009-05-20 18:43:07 +00003493
Hirokazu Yamamotoa4f90182009-05-17 02:58:36 +00003494- Issue #3527: Removed Py_WIN_WIDE_FILENAMES which is not used any more.
3495
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003496- ``__instancecheck__()`` and ``__subclasscheck__()`` are now completely ignored
3497 on classic classes and instances.
Benjamin Petersoneb9fb2c2009-05-16 22:46:11 +00003498
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003499- Issue #5994: The marshal module now has docstrings.
R. David Murray525cffc2009-05-13 13:07:14 +00003500
Mark Dickinsonb1d45852009-05-11 15:33:08 +00003501- Issue #5981: Fix three minor inf/nan issues in float.fromhex:
Mark Dickinsonb1d45852009-05-11 15:33:08 +00003502
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003503 (1) inf and nan strings with trailing whitespace were incorrectly rejected;
3504 (2) parsing of strings representing infinities and nans was locale aware; and
3505 (3) the interpretation of fromhex('-nan') didn't match that of float('-nan').
Eric Smitha985a3a2009-05-05 18:26:08 +00003506
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003507- Issue #5920: For ``float.__format__()``, change the behavior with the empty
3508 presentation type (that is, not one of 'e', 'f', 'g', or 'n') to be like 'g'
3509 but with at least one decimal point and with a default precision
3510 of 12. Previously, the behavior the same but with a default precision of 6.
3511 This more closely matches ``str()``, and reduces surprises when adding
3512 alignment flags to the empty presentation type. This also affects the new
3513 complex.__format__ in the same way.
3514
3515- Issue #5890: In subclasses of 'property' the __doc__ attribute was shadowed by
3516 classtype's, even if it was None. property now inserts the __doc__ into the
3517 subclass instance __dict__.
R. David Murray7ba8e1c2009-05-04 22:16:24 +00003518
Antoine Pitrou653dece2009-05-04 18:32:32 +00003519- Issue #4426: The UTF-7 decoder was too strict and didn't accept some legal
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003520 sequences. Patch by Nick Barnes and Victor Stinner.
Antoine Pitrou653dece2009-05-04 18:32:32 +00003521
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003522- Issue #1588: Add complex.__format__. For example, ``format(complex(1, 2./3),
3523 '.5')`` now produces a sensible result.
Eric Smith9139cc62009-04-30 00:58:58 +00003524
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003525- Issue #5864: Fix empty format code formatting for floats so that it never
3526 gives more than the requested number of significant digits.
Mark Dickinson92fcc9c2009-04-29 20:41:00 +00003527
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003528- Issue #5793: Rationalize isdigit / isalpha / tolower, etc. Includes new
3529 Py_ISDIGIT / Py_ISALPHA / Py_TOLOWER, etc. in pctypes.h.
Eric Smithcac7af62009-04-27 19:04:37 +00003530
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003531- Issue #4971: Fix titlecase for characters that are their own titlecase, but
3532 not their own uppercase.
Martin v. Löwis99f27792009-04-26 00:53:18 +00003533
Eric Smith068f0652009-04-25 21:40:15 +00003534- Issue #5835: Deprecate PyOS_ascii_formatd and replace it with
3535 _PyOS_double_to_string or PyOS_double_to_string.
3536
Benjamin Peterson5083dc52009-04-25 00:41:22 +00003537- Issue #5283: Setting __class__ in __del__ caused a segfault.
3538
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003539- Issue #5816: ``complex(repr(z))`` now recovers z exactly, even when z involves
3540 nans, infs or negative zeros.
Mark Dickinson95bc9802009-04-24 12:46:53 +00003541
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003542- Implement PEP 378, Format Specifier for Thousands Separator, for floats, ints,
3543 and longs.
Eric Smithaca19e62009-04-22 13:29:05 +00003544
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003545- Issue #5515: 'n' formatting for ints, longs, and floats handles leading zero
3546 formatting poorly.
Eric Smithaca19e62009-04-22 13:29:05 +00003547
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003548- Issue #5772: For float.__format__, don't add a trailing ".0" if we're using no
3549 type code and we have an exponent.
Eric Smithaca19e62009-04-22 13:29:05 +00003550
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003551- Issue #3166: Make long -> float (and int -> float) conversions correctly
3552 rounded.
Mark Dickinson6736cf82009-04-20 21:13:33 +00003553
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003554- Issue #5787: ``object.__getattribute__(some_type, "__bases__")`` segfaulted on
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00003555 some built-in types.
Benjamin Petersond4d400c2009-04-18 20:12:47 +00003556
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003557- Issue #1869: Fix a couple of minor round() issues. ``round(5e15+1)`` was
3558 giving 5e15+2; ``round(-0.0)`` was losing the sign of the zero.
Mark Dickinson1bdf7e92009-04-18 14:59:42 +00003559
Benjamin Peterson99d36f12009-04-15 21:26:36 +00003560- Issue #5759: float() didn't call __float__ on str subclasses.
3561
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003562- Issue #5704: The "-3" command-line option now implies "-t".
Georg Brandl3c4a5462009-04-12 12:08:12 +00003563
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003564- Issue #2170: Refactored ``xml.dom.minidom.normalize``, increasing both its
3565 clarity and its speed.
R. David Murray0374a822009-04-09 21:54:50 +00003566
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003567- Issue #2396: The memoryview object was backported from Python 3.1.
Antoine Pitrou789be0c2009-04-02 21:18:34 +00003568
Georg Brandld3f03fa2009-04-02 18:09:04 +00003569- Fix a problem in PyErr_NormalizeException that leads to "undetected errors"
3570 when hitting the recursion limit under certain circumstances.
3571
Brett Cannon15ba4da2009-04-01 18:03:59 +00003572- Issue #1665206: Remove the last eager import in _warnings.c and make it lazy.
3573
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003574- Issue #4865: On MacOSX /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages is added to the end
3575 sys.path, for compatibility with the system install of Python.
Ronald Oussorene0154ed2009-03-30 23:10:35 +00003576
Antoine Pitrouf8387af2009-03-23 18:41:45 +00003577- Issue #4688: Add a heuristic so that tuples and dicts containing only
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003578 untrackable objects are not tracked by the garbage collector. This can reduce
3579 the size of collections and therefore the garbage collection overhead on
3580 long-running programs, depending on their particular use of datatypes.
Antoine Pitrouf8387af2009-03-23 18:41:45 +00003581
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003582- Issue #5512: Rewrite PyLong long division algorithm (x_divrem) to improve its
3583 performance. Long divisions and remainder operations are now between 50% and
3584 150% faster.
Mark Dickinson0b666bf2009-03-23 18:25:13 +00003585
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003586- Issue #4258: Make it possible to use base 2**30 instead of base 2**15 for the
3587 internal representation of integers, for performance reasons. Base 2**30 is
3588 enabled by default on 64-bit machines. Add --enable-big-digits option to
3589 configure, which overrides the default. Add sys.long_info structseq to
3590 provide information about the internal format.
Mark Dickinsonefc82f72009-03-20 15:51:55 +00003591
Benjamin Peterson6ffe8522009-03-18 20:52:15 +00003592- Issue #4034: Fix weird attribute error messages of the traceback object. (As a
3593 result traceback.__members__ no longer exists.)
3594
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003595- Issue #4474: PyUnicode_FromWideChar now converts characters outside the BMP to
3596 surrogate pairs, on systems with sizeof(wchar_t) == 4 and sizeof(Py_UNICODE)
3597 == 2.
Mark Dickinson6b265f12009-03-18 16:07:26 +00003598
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003599- Issue #5237: Allow auto-numbered fields in str.format(). For example: ``'{}
3600 {}'.format(1, 2) == '1 2'``.
Eric Smith6f42edb2009-03-14 11:57:26 +00003601
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003602- Issue #3652: Make the 'line' argument for ``warnings.showwarning()`` a
Brett Cannon6c4cff02009-03-11 04:51:06 +00003603 requirement. Means the DeprecationWarning from Python 2.6 can go away.
3604
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003605- Issue #5247: Improve error message when unknown format codes are used when
3606 using ``str.format()`` with str, unicode, long, int, and float arguments.
Eric Smithe9fb6862009-02-20 14:02:36 +00003607
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003608- Running Python with the -3 option now also warns about classic division for
3609 ints and longs.
Raymond Hettinger08259e82009-02-18 23:10:19 +00003610
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003611- Issue #5260: Long integers now consume less memory: average saving is 2 bytes
3612 per long on a 32-bit system and 6 bytes per long on a 64-bit system.
Mark Dickinson2ffb26f2009-02-15 10:13:41 +00003613
Antoine Pitrou76a4b892009-02-13 13:52:33 +00003614- Issue #5186: Reduce hash collisions for objects with no __hash__ method by
3615 rotating the object pointer by 4 bits to the right.
3616
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003617- Issue #4575: Fix Py_IS_INFINITY macro to work correctly on x87 FPUs: it now
3618 forces its argument to double before testing for infinity.
Mark Dickinsonc97c9092009-02-09 14:18:43 +00003619
Benjamin Petersone18ef192009-01-20 14:21:16 +00003620- Issue #4978: Passing keyword arguments as unicode strings is now allowed.
3621
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +00003622- Issue #1242657: the __len__() and __length_hint__() calls in several tools
Raymond Hettingerb5163702009-02-02 21:50:13 +00003623 were suppressing all exceptions. These include list(), filter(), map(),
3624 zip(), and bytearray().
3625
Benjamin Peterson596d3062009-01-19 15:42:23 +00003626- os.ftruncate raises OSErrors instead of IOErrors for consistency with other os
3627 functions.
3628
Benjamin Peterson5848d1f2009-01-19 00:08:08 +00003629- Issue #4991: Passing invalid file descriptors to io.FileIO now raises an
3630 OSError.
3631
Amaury Forgeot d'Arca18392a2009-01-13 23:19:08 +00003632- Issue #4807: Port the _winreg module to Windows CE.
3633
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003634- Issue #4935: The overflow checking code in the expandtabs() method common to
3635 str, bytes and bytearray could be optimized away by the compiler, letting the
3636 interpreter segfault instead of raising an error.
Antoine Pitrouc2f02212009-01-13 23:13:52 +00003637
Amaury Forgeot d'Arca40d5732009-01-12 23:36:55 +00003638- Issue #3720: Fix a crash when an iterator modifies its class and removes its
3639 __next__ method.
3640
Martin v. Löwise3422fa2009-01-12 08:11:24 +00003641- Issue #4893: Use NT threading on CE.
3642
Martin v. Löwis1b3bef22009-01-12 07:57:11 +00003643- Issue #4915: Port sysmodule to Windows CE.
3644
Antoine Pitrou4c5ecb72009-01-09 21:40:55 +00003645- Issue #4074: Change the criteria for doing a full garbage collection (i.e.
3646 collecting the oldest generation) so that allocating lots of objects without
3647 destroying them does not show quadratic performance. Based on a proposal by
Benjamin Petersond50a5d52009-07-13 00:03:20 +00003648 Martin von Löwis at
Antoine Pitrou4c5ecb72009-01-09 21:40:55 +00003649 http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2008-June/080579.html.
3650
Martin v. Löwisb90304a2009-01-07 18:40:40 +00003651- Issue #4850: Change COUNT_ALLOCS variables to Py_ssize_t.
3652
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003653- Issue #1180193: When importing a module from a .pyc (or .pyo) file with an
3654 existing .py counterpart, override the co_filename attributes of all code
3655 objects if the original filename is obsolete (which can happen if the file has
3656 been renamed, moved, or if it is accessed through different paths). Patch by
3657 Ziga Seilnacht and Jean-Paul Calderone.
Antoine Pitroue96d4ea2009-01-06 18:10:47 +00003658
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003659- Issue #4075: Use ``OutputDebugStringW()`` in Py_FatalError.
Martin v. Löwis5344c992009-01-02 20:32:55 +00003660
Hirokazu Yamamoto99a1b202009-01-01 15:45:39 +00003661- Issue #4797: IOError.filename was not set when _fileio.FileIO failed to open
3662 file with `str' filename on Windows.
3663
Antoine Pitrouaa687902009-01-01 14:11:22 +00003664- Issue #3680: Reference cycles created through a dict, set or deque iterator
3665 did not get collected.
3666
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003667- Issue #4701: PyObject_Hash now implicitly calls PyType_Ready on types where
3668 the tp_hash and tp_dict slots are both NULL.
Nick Coghlan180e4002008-12-30 01:18:48 +00003669
Benjamin Peterson7af65562008-12-29 17:56:58 +00003670- Issue #4764: With io.open, IOError.filename is set when trying to open a
3671 directory on POSIX systems.
3672
Benjamin Petersonfe231b02008-12-29 17:47:42 +00003673- Issue #4764: IOError.filename is set when trying to open a directory on POSIX
3674 systems.
3675
Georg Brandl6425a2f2008-12-28 11:54:53 +00003676- Issue #4759: None is now allowed as the first argument of
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003677 ``bytearray.translate()``. It was always allowed for ``bytes.translate()``.
Georg Brandl6425a2f2008-12-28 11:54:53 +00003678
Skip Montanarof205c132008-12-23 03:30:15 +00003679- Added test case to ensure attempts to read from a file opened for writing
3680 fail.
3681
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003682- Issue #2467: gc.DEBUG_STATS reported invalid elapsed times. Also, always print
3683 elapsed times, not only when some objects are uncollectable/unreachable.
3684 Original patch by Neil Schemenauer.
Antoine Pitrou73c0e652008-12-17 22:46:54 +00003685
Mark Dickinson1a707982008-12-17 16:14:37 +00003686- Issue #3439: Add a bit_length method to int and long.
3687
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003688- Issue #2183: Simplify and optimize bytecode for list comprehensions. Original
3689 patch by Neal Norwitz.
Antoine Pitroud0c35152008-12-17 00:38:28 +00003690
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003691- Issue #4597: Fixed exception handling when the __exit__ function of a context
3692 manager returns a value that cannot be converted to a bool.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcad9b5992008-12-10 23:22:49 +00003693
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003694- Issue #4597: Fixed several opcodes that weren't always propagating exceptions.
Jeffrey Yasskinffd42cf2008-12-10 07:35:02 +00003695
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003696- Issue #4445: Replace ``sizeof(PyStringObject)`` with
3697 ``offsetof(PyStringObject, ob_sval) + 1`` when allocating memory for str
3698 instances. On a typical machine this saves 3 bytes of memory (on average) per
3699 string allocation.
Mark Dickinson826f3fe2008-12-05 21:55:28 +00003700
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcdc619012008-11-22 20:01:18 +00003701- Issue #3996: On Windows, the PyOS_CheckStack function would cause the
3702 interpreter to abort ("Fatal Python error: Could not reset the stack!")
3703 instead of throwing a MemoryError.
3704
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003705- Issue #3689: The list reversed iterator now supports __length_hint__ instead
3706 of __len__. Behavior now matches other reversed iterators.
Raymond Hettinger7989a4d2008-12-03 15:42:10 +00003707
Benjamin Petersonc078f922008-11-21 22:27:24 +00003708- Issue #4367: Python would segfault during compiling when the unicodedata
3709 module couldn't be imported and \N escapes were present.
3710
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003711- Issue #4233: Changed semantic of ``_fileio.FileIO``'s ``close()`` method on
3712 file objects with closefd=False. The file descriptor is still kept open but
3713 the file object behaves like a closed file. The ``FileIO`` object also got a
3714 new readonly attribute ``closefd``.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc32265652008-11-20 23:34:31 +00003715
Benjamin Peterson46cc6d12008-11-19 21:49:09 +00003716- Issue #4348: Some bytearray methods returned that didn't cause any change to
3717 the bytearray, returned the same bytearray instead of a copy.
3718
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003719- Issue #4317: Fixed a crash in the ``imageop.rgb2rgb8()`` function.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc7cfe7ea2008-11-18 22:19:37 +00003720
Benjamin Peterson273c2332008-11-17 22:39:09 +00003721- Issue #4230: If ``__getattr__`` is a descriptor, it now functions correctly.
3722
Benjamin Peterson6624a9f2008-11-03 15:14:51 +00003723- Issue #4048: The parser module now correctly validates relative imports.
3724
Benjamin Petersondcee09d2008-10-31 02:16:05 +00003725- Issue #4225: ``from __future__ import unicode_literals`` didn't work in an
3726 exec statement.
3727
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003728- Issue #4176: Fixed a crash when pickling an object which ``__reduce__`` method
3729 does not return iterators for the 4th and 5th items.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc69a9c5b2008-10-30 21:18:34 +00003730
Benjamin Petersonbdca9422008-10-26 20:21:13 +00003731- Issue #4209: Enabling unicode_literals and the print_function in the same
3732 __future__ import didn't work.
3733
Benjamin Peterson399b1fe2008-10-25 02:53:28 +00003734- Using ``nonlocal`` as a variable name will now raise a Py3k SyntaxWarning
Georg Brandl7fb00ad2008-10-25 07:00:52 +00003735 because it is a reserved word in 3.x.
Benjamin Peterson399b1fe2008-10-25 02:53:28 +00003736
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003737- On windows, ``os.chdir()`` given unicode was not working if
3738 GetCurrentDirectoryW returned a path longer than MAX_PATH. (But It's doubtful
3739 this code path is really executed because I cannot move to such directory on
3740 win2k)
Hirokazu Yamamoto10a018c2008-10-09 10:00:30 +00003741
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003742- Issue #4069: When ``set.remove(element)`` is used with a set element, the
3743 element is temporarily replaced with an equivalent frozenset. But the
3744 eventual KeyError would always report the empty ``frozenset()`` as the missing
3745 key. Now it correctly refers to the initial element.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd78b9dc2008-10-07 20:32:10 +00003746
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003747- Issue #4509: Various issues surrounding resize of bytearray objects to which
3748 there are buffer exports.
Antoine Pitrouae5bece2008-12-06 21:29:24 +00003749
Benjamin Peterson8d5934b2008-12-27 18:24:11 +00003750- Issue #4748: Lambda generators no longer return a value.
3751
Kristján Valur Jónsson6220e412009-01-12 09:20:34 +00003752- Issue #3582: Use native TLS functions on Windows
3753
Gregory P. Smithae91d092009-03-02 05:13:57 +00003754- The re.sub(), re.subn() and re.split() functions now accept a flags parameter.
3755
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003756- Issue #3845: In PyRun_SimpleFileExFlags avoid invalid memory access with short
3757 file names.
Matthias Kloseedb5e1e2009-04-04 14:18:13 +00003758
Matthias Klose91a3b9e2009-04-05 21:19:13 +00003759- Issue #1113244: Py_XINCREF, Py_DECREF, Py_XDECREF: Add `do { ... } while (0)'
3760 to avoid compiler warnings.
Matthias Klose0610e082009-04-05 12:43:08 +00003761
Gregory P. Smith2b3eb372009-04-05 23:48:26 +00003762- Issue #5705: os.setuid() would not accept values > 2**31-1 but pwd.getpwnam()
3763 returned them on 64bit platforms.
3764
Walter Dörwalded960ac2009-05-03 22:36:33 +00003765- Issue #5108: Handle %s like %S and %R in PyUnicode_FromFormatV(): Call
3766 PyUnicode_DecodeUTF8() once, remember the result and output it in a second
3767 step. This avoids problems with counting UTF-8 bytes that ignores the effect
3768 of using the replace error handler in PyUnicode_DecodeUTF8().
3769
Walter Dörwald726ba8e2009-05-06 14:32:35 +00003770- Issue #3739: The unicode-internal encoder now reports the number of characters
3771 consumed like any other encoder (instead of the number of bytes).
3772
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003773- Issue #2422: When compiled with the ``--with-valgrind`` option, the pymalloc
3774 allocator will be automatically disabled when running under Valgrind. This
3775 gives improved memory leak detection when running under Valgrind, while taking
3776 advantage of pymalloc at other times.
Benjamin Peterson91c12eb2009-12-03 02:52:39 +00003777
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +00003778Library
3779-------
Benjamin Petersonb3dd5482009-02-26 19:07:18 +00003780
Raymond Hettinger5f516ed2010-04-03 18:10:37 +00003781- Add count() and reverse() methods to collections.deque().
Raymond Hettingera5fd24e2009-12-10 06:42:54 +00003782
Raymond Hettinger0b3263b2009-12-10 06:00:33 +00003783- Fix variations of extending deques: d.extend(d) d.extendleft(d) d+=d
3784
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003785- Issue #6986: Fix crash in the JSON C accelerator when called with the wrong
3786 parameter types. Patch by Victor Stinner.
Antoine Pitrou187177f2009-12-08 15:40:51 +00003787
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003788- logging: Added optional "secure" parameter to SMTPHandler, to enable use of
Vinay Sajip48305662009-12-06 17:57:11 +00003789 TLS with authentication credentials.
3790
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003791- Issue #1923: Fixed the removal of meaningful spaces when PKG-INFO is generated
3792 in Distutils. Patch by Stephen Emslie.
Tarek Ziadé4f383172009-12-06 09:22:40 +00003793
Martin v. Löwisc218a2f2009-12-03 20:53:51 +00003794- Issue #4120: Drop reference to CRT from manifest when building extensions with
3795 msvc9compiler.
3796
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003797- Issue #7333: The ``posix`` module gains an ``initgroups()`` function providing
3798 access to the initgroups(3) C library call on Unix systems which implement it.
3799 Patch by Jean-Paul Calderone.
Antoine Pitrou30b3b352009-12-02 20:37:54 +00003800
Tarek Ziadéa5076a22009-11-29 22:20:30 +00003801- Issue #7408: Fixed distutils.tests.sdist so it doesn't check for group
3802 ownership when the group is not forced, because the group may be different
3803 from the user's group and inherit from its container when the test is run.
3804
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003805- Issue #1515: Enable use of deepcopy() with instance methods. Patch by Robert
3806 Collins.
Antoine Pitroud16f57b2009-11-28 15:55:58 +00003807
Vinay Sajip01801d12009-11-27 14:03:36 +00003808- Issue #7403: logging: Fixed possible race condition in lock creation.
3809
Antoine Pitrouacbe3bd2009-11-27 13:18:34 +00003810- Issue #6845: Add restart support for binary upload in ftplib. The
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003811 ``storbinary()`` method of FTP and FTP_TLS objects gains an optional "rest"
Antoine Pitrouacbe3bd2009-11-27 13:18:34 +00003812 argument. Patch by Pablo Mouzo.
3813
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003814- Issue #5788: ``datetime.timedelta`` objects get a new ``total_seconds()``
3815 method returning the total number of seconds in the duration. Patch by Brian
3816 Quinlan.
Antoine Pitroubcfaf802009-11-25 22:59:36 +00003817
Vinay Sajipc470d682009-11-25 09:03:30 +00003818- Issue #6615: logging: Used weakrefs in internal handler list.
3819
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003820- Issue #1488943: ``difflib.Differ`` doesn't always add hints for tab
3821 characters.
Senthil Kumaran5c456e62009-11-23 18:41:31 +00003822
Lars Gustäbeldd866d52009-11-22 18:30:53 +00003823- Issue #6123: tarfile now opens empty archives correctly and consistently
3824 raises ReadError on empty files.
3825
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003826- Issue #7354: distutils.tests.test_msvc9compiler - dragfullwindows can be 2.
Tarek Ziadé39de1fc2009-11-19 05:33:16 +00003827
Ezio Melotti3373a3a2010-01-16 18:38:01 +00003828- Issue #5037: Proxy the __unicode__ special method to __unicode__ instead of
3829 __str__.
Benjamin Petersondc3c2392009-11-19 03:00:02 +00003830
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003831- Issue #7341: Close the internal file object in the TarFile constructor in case
3832 of an error.
Lars Gustäbel355538e2009-11-18 20:24:54 +00003833
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003834- Issue #7293: ``distutils.test_msvc9compiler`` is fixed to work on any fresh
3835 Windows box. Help provided by David Bolen.
Tarek Ziadéacccafc2009-11-18 08:46:56 +00003836
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003837- Issue #7328: pydoc no longer corrupts sys.path when run with the '-m' switch.
Nick Coghlan11db64e2009-11-15 22:36:47 +00003838
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003839- Issue #2054: ftplib now provides an FTP_TLS class to do secure FTP using TLS
3840 or SSL. Patch by Giampaolo Rodola'.
Antoine Pitrouccd5e022009-11-15 17:22:09 +00003841
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003842- Issue #4969: The mimetypes module now reads the MIME database from the
3843 registry under Windows. Patch by Gabriel Genellina.
Antoine Pitroud5b34d42009-11-15 14:10:48 +00003844
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003845- Issue #6816: runpy now provides a run_path function that allows Python code to
3846 execute file paths that refer to source or compiled Python files as well as
3847 zipfiles, directories and other valid sys.path entries that contain a
Nick Coghlan49868cb2009-11-15 07:30:34 +00003848 __main__.py file. This allows applications that run other Python scripts to
3849 support the same flexibility as the CPython command line itself.
3850
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003851- Issue #7318: multiprocessing now uses a timeout when it fails to establish a
3852 connection with another process, rather than looping endlessly. The default
3853 timeout is 20 seconds, which should be amply sufficient for local connections.
Antoine Pitrouc562ca42009-11-13 22:31:18 +00003854
Antoine Pitrou0734c632009-11-10 20:49:30 +00003855- Issue #7197: Allow unittest.TextTestRunner objects to be pickled and
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003856 unpickled. This fixes crashes under Windows when trying to run
Antoine Pitrou0734c632009-11-10 20:49:30 +00003857 test_multiprocessing in verbose mode.
3858
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003859- Issue #7282: Fix a memory leak when an RLock was used in a thread other than
3860 those started through ``threading.Thread`` (for example, using
3861 ``thread.start_new_thread()``.
Antoine Pitroud7158d42009-11-09 16:00:11 +00003862
Antoine Pitrou99c160b2009-11-05 13:42:29 +00003863- Issue #7264: Fix a possible deadlock when deallocating thread-local objects
3864 which are part of a reference cycle.
3865
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003866- Issue #7211: Allow 64-bit values for the ``ident`` and ``data`` fields of
3867 kevent objects on 64-bit systems. Patch by Michael Broghton.
Antoine Pitrou323b9da2009-11-04 19:25:14 +00003868
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003869- Issue #6896: ``mailbox.Maildir`` now invalidates its internal cache each time
Antoine Pitrouaec41242009-11-02 11:34:27 +00003870 a modification is done through it. This fixes inconsistencies and test
3871 failures on systems with slightly bogus mtime behaviour.
3872
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003873- Issue #7246 & Issue #7208: getpass now properly flushes input before reading
3874 from stdin so that existing input does not confuse it and lead to incorrect
3875 entry or an IOError. It also properly flushes it afterwards to avoid the
3876 terminal echoing the input afterwards on OSes such as Solaris.
Gregory P. Smith38f5d8f2009-11-01 18:33:55 +00003877
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003878- Issue #7233: Fix a number of two-argument Decimal methods to make sure that
3879 they accept an int or long as the second argument. Also fix buggy handling of
3880 large arguments (those with coefficient longer than the current precision) in
3881 shift and rotate.
Mark Dickinson0c673122009-10-29 12:04:00 +00003882
Lars Gustäbel8c06ccc2009-10-29 09:15:00 +00003883- Issue #4750: Store the basename of the original filename in the gzip FNAME
3884 header as required by RFC 1952.
3885
Tarek Ziadé40b998b2009-10-27 23:06:10 +00003886- Issue #1180: Added a new global option to ignore ~/.pydistutils.cfg in
3887 Distutils.
3888
Tarek Ziadéd24cab82009-10-27 21:20:27 +00003889- Issue #7218: Fix test_site for win32, the directory comparison was done with
3890 an uppercase.
3891
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003892- Issue #7205: Fix a possible deadlock when using a BZ2File object from several
3893 threads at once.
Antoine Pitroudd629662009-10-27 17:41:58 +00003894
Tarek Ziadéb9c1cfc2009-10-24 15:10:37 +00003895- Issue #7071: byte-compilation in Distutils is now done with respect to
3896 sys.dont_write_bytecode.
3897
Vinay Sajipc470d682009-11-25 09:03:30 +00003898- Issue #7066: archive_util.make_archive now restores the cwd if an error is
Tarek Ziadé672422a2009-10-24 13:29:44 +00003899 raised. Initial patch by Ezio Melotti.
3900
Antoine Pitroufa94e802009-10-24 12:23:18 +00003901- Issue #6218: io.StringIO and io.BytesIO instances are now picklable with
3902 protocol 2.
3903
Vinay Sajip5ac65282009-10-21 20:22:14 +00003904- Issue #7077: logging: SysLogHandler now treats Unicode as per RFC 5424.
3905
Mark Dickinsona7a52ab2009-10-20 13:33:03 +00003906- Issue #7099: Decimal.is_normal now returns True for numbers with exponent
3907 larger than emax.
3908
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003909- Issue #5833: Fix extra space character in readline completion with the GNU
3910 readline library version 6.0.
Antoine Pitroue0899802009-10-19 18:20:21 +00003911
Antoine Pitrou5ba84912009-10-19 17:59:07 +00003912- Issue #7133: SSL objects now support the new buffer API.
3913
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003914- Issue #7149: urllib fails on OSX in the proxy detection code.
Ronald Oussoren31802d02009-10-18 07:07:00 +00003915
Benjamin Petersonc63457b2009-10-15 03:06:55 +00003916- Issue #7069: Make inspect.isabstract() return a boolean.
3917
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003918- Add support to the ``ihooks`` module for relative imports.
Neil Schemenauere6039f02009-10-14 19:23:53 +00003919
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003920- Issue #6894: Fixed the issue urllib2 doesn't respect "no_proxy" environment.
Senthil Kumaran27468662009-10-11 02:00:07 +00003921
Vinay Sajip1c77b7f2009-10-10 20:32:36 +00003922- Issue #7086: Added TCP support to SysLogHandler, and tidied up some
3923 anachronisms in the code which were a relic of 1.5.2 compatibility.
Vinay Sajip03d5c342009-10-16 14:06:44 +00003924
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003925- Issue #7082: When falling back to the MIME 'name' parameter, the correct place
3926 to look for it is the Content-Type header.
R. David Murray0c8bee62009-10-09 21:50:54 +00003927
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003928- Issue #7048: Force Decimal.logb to round its result when that result is too
3929 large to fit in the current precision.
Mark Dickinson15ae41c2009-10-07 19:22:05 +00003930
Vinay Sajip03d5c342009-10-16 14:06:44 +00003931- Issue #6516: Added owner/group support when creating tar archives in
Tarek Ziadé1b486712009-10-02 23:49:48 +00003932 Distutils.
3933
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003934- Issue #7031: Add ``TestCase.assert(Not)IsInstance()`` methods.
Georg Brandl12fafe62009-10-01 21:02:39 +00003935
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003936- Issue #6790: Make it possible again to pass an ``array.array`` to
3937 ``httplib.HTTPConnection.send``. Patch by Kirk McDonald.
Antoine Pitrou72481782009-09-29 17:48:18 +00003938
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003939- Issue #6236, #6348: Fix various failures in the `io` module under AIX and
3940 other platforms, when using a non-gcc compiler. Patch by egreen.
Antoine Pitrou2a466582009-09-21 21:17:48 +00003941
Tarek Ziadé99773352009-09-21 13:41:08 +00003942- Issue #6954: Fixed crash when using DISTUTILS_DEBUG flag in Distutils.
3943
Ronald Oussoren51f06332009-09-20 10:31:22 +00003944- Issue #6851: Fix urllib.urlopen crash on secondairy threads on OSX 10.6
3945
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003946- Issue #4606: Passing 'None' if ctypes argtype is set to POINTER(...) does now
3947 always result in NULL.
Thomas Heller6be522b2009-09-18 20:05:44 +00003948
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003949- Issue #5042: ctypes Structure sub-subclass does now initialize correctly with
3950 base class positional arguments.
Thomas Heller7a352c02009-09-18 18:55:17 +00003951
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003952- Issue #6938: Fix a TypeError in string formatting of a multiprocessing debug
3953 message.
Georg Brandlc40e60e2009-09-18 09:18:27 +00003954
Matthias Klose924eab62009-09-13 15:09:24 +00003955- Issue #6635: Fix profiler printing usage message.
3956
Lars Gustäbel21121e62009-09-12 10:28:15 +00003957- Issue #6856: Add a filter keyword argument to TarFile.add().
3958
Tarek Ziadébed26a32009-09-09 08:14:20 +00003959- Issue #6163: Fixed HP-UX runtime library dir options in
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003960 distutils.unixcompiler. Initial patch by Sridhar Ratnakumar and Michael
3961 Haubenwallner.
Tarek Ziadébed26a32009-09-09 08:14:20 +00003962
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003963- Issue #6857: Default format() alignment should be '>' for Decimal instances.
Mark Dickinson5cfa8042009-09-08 20:20:19 +00003964
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003965- Issue #6795: int(Decimal('nan')) now raises ValueError instead of returning
3966 NaN or raising InvalidContext. Also, fix infinite recursion in
3967 long(Decimal('nan')).
Mark Dickinson968f1692009-09-07 18:04:58 +00003968
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003969- Issue #6850: Fix bug in Decimal._parse_format_specifier for formats with no
3970 type specifier.
Mark Dickinson491ea552009-09-07 16:17:41 +00003971
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003972- Issue #4937: plat-mac/bundlebuilder refers to non-existing version.plist.
Ronald Oussoren626faeb2009-09-06 12:23:18 +00003973
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003974- Issue #6838: Use a list to accumulate the value instead of repeatedly
3975 concatenating strings in httplib's HTTPResponse._read_chunked providing a
3976 significant speed increase when downloading large files servend with a
3977 Transfer-Encoding of 'chunked'.
Chris Withers7f3ea6a2009-09-04 16:32:22 +00003978
Georg Brandld22b9512009-09-04 08:17:04 +00003979- Issue #5275: In Cookie's Cookie.load(), properly handle non-string arguments
3980 as documented.
3981
Georg Brandl2e1308f2009-09-04 06:59:20 +00003982- Issue #2666: Handle BROWSER environment variable properly for unknown browser
3983 names in the webbrowser module.
3984
Lars Gustäbelf7cda522009-08-28 19:23:44 +00003985- Issue #6054: Do not normalize stored pathnames in tarfile.
3986
Mark Dickinson7a7739d2009-08-28 13:25:02 +00003987- Issue #6794: Fix Decimal.compare_total and Decimal.compare_total_mag: NaN
3988 payloads are now ordered by integer value rather than lexicographically.
3989
Tarek Ziadé764fc232009-08-20 21:23:13 +00003990- Issue #6693: New functions in site.py to get user/global site packages paths.
3991
Gregory P. Smith4e63d542009-08-20 09:39:38 +00003992- The thread.lock type now supports weak references.
3993
Guilherme Polo7b50c4f2009-08-18 14:46:57 +00003994- Issue #1356969: Add missing info methods in Tix.HList.
3995
Guilherme Polo6b3c7092009-08-18 14:23:00 +00003996- Issue #1522587: New constants and methods for the Tix.Grid widget.
3997
Guilherme Polo6c823f82009-08-18 13:29:20 +00003998- Issue #1250469: Fix the return value of Tix.PanedWindow.panes.
3999
Guilherme Polod3e6e4b2009-08-18 13:23:08 +00004000- Issue #1119673: Do not override Tkinter.Text methods when creating a
4001 ScrolledText.
4002
Gregory P. Smithb98d6b22009-08-16 18:52:58 +00004003- Issue #6665: Fix fnmatch to properly match filenames with newlines in them.
4004
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004005- Issue #1135: Add the XView and YView mix-ins to avoid duplicating the xview*
4006 and yview* methods.
Guilherme Poloe45f0172009-08-14 14:36:45 +00004007
Antoine Pitrou20e1f932009-08-06 20:18:29 +00004008- Issue #6629: Fix a data corruption issue in the new `io` package, which could
4009 occur when writing to a BufferedRandom object (e.g. a file opened in "rb+" or
4010 "wb+" mode) after having buffered a certain amount of data for reading. This
4011 bug was not present in the pure Python implementation.
4012
Jesse Noller8497efe2009-08-06 02:05:56 +00004013- Issue #4660: If a multiprocessing.JoinableQueue.put() was preempted, it was
4014 possible to get a spurious 'task_done() called too many times' error.
4015
Gregory P. Smithc4ad0342009-08-13 18:54:50 +00004016- Issue #1628205: Socket file objects returned by socket.socket.makefile() now
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004017 properly handles EINTR within the read, readline, write & flush methods. The
4018 socket.sendall() method now properly handles interrupted system calls.
Gregory P. Smithc4ad0342009-08-13 18:54:50 +00004019
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004020- Issue #6595: The Decimal constructor now allows arbitrary Unicode decimal
4021 digits in input, as recommended by the standard. Previously it was restricted
4022 to accepting [0-9].
Mark Dickinson4326ad82009-08-02 10:59:36 +00004023
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc3e5b0272009-07-28 22:15:30 +00004024- Issue #6511: ZipFile now raises BadZipfile (instead of an IOError) when
4025 opening an empty or very small file.
4026
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc74b30162009-07-23 19:26:02 +00004027- Issue #6553: Fixed a crash in cPickle.load(), when given a file-like object
4028 containing incomplete data.
4029
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004030- Issue #6545: Removed assert statements in distutils.Extension, so the behavior
4031 is similar when used with -O.
Tarek Ziadéaf2406f2009-07-22 08:55:19 +00004032
Benjamin Petersond7b0eeb2009-07-19 20:18:21 +00004033- unittest has been split up into a package. All old names should still work.
4034
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004035- Issue #6431: Make Fraction type return NotImplemented when it doesn't know how
4036 to handle a comparison without loss of precision. Also add correct handling
4037 of infinities and nans for comparisons with float.
Mark Dickinson88a0a2e2009-07-18 15:18:18 +00004038
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc74b30162009-07-23 19:26:02 +00004039- Issue #6415: Fixed warnings.warn segfault on bad formatted string.
Hirokazu Yamamoto1a3d0852009-07-17 06:26:54 +00004040
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004041- Issue #6466: Now distutils.cygwinccompiler and distutils.emxccompiler uses the
4042 same refactored function to get gcc/ld/dllwrap versions numbers. It's
4043 ``distutils.util.get_compiler_versions()``. Added deprecation warnings for
4044 the obsolete get_versions() functions.
Tarek Ziadéa99dedf2009-07-16 15:35:45 +00004045
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004046- Issue #6433: Fixed issues with multiprocessing.pool.map hanging on empty list.
Jesse Noller7530e472009-07-16 14:23:04 +00004047
Vinay Sajipcbb24b32009-07-13 11:21:05 +00004048- Issue #6314: logging: Extra checks on the "level" argument in more places.
4049
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc74b8d332009-07-11 14:33:51 +00004050- Issue #2622: Fixed an ImportError when importing email.messsage from a
4051 standalone application built with py2exe or py2app.
4052
Vinay Sajipcbb24b32009-07-13 11:21:05 +00004053- Issue #6455: Fixed test_build_ext under win32.
Tarek Ziadé8c400012009-07-10 09:10:33 +00004054
Vinay Sajipcbb24b32009-07-13 11:21:05 +00004055- Issue #6377: Enabled the compiler option, and deprecate its usage as an
Tarek Ziadée670e5a2009-07-06 12:50:46 +00004056 attribute.
4057
Tarek Ziadé63f17382009-07-04 02:02:41 +00004058- Issue #6413: Fixed the log level in distutils.dist for announce.
4059
Gregory P. Smithc197d0a2009-07-04 01:55:11 +00004060- Issue #3392: The subprocess communicate() method no longer fails in select()
4061 when file descriptors are large; communicate() now uses poll() when possible.
4062
Tarek Ziadé65ec61e2009-07-03 08:22:56 +00004063- Issue #6403: Fixed package path usage in build_ext.
4064
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004065- Issues #5155, #5313, #5331: multiprocessing.Process._bootstrap was
Jesse Noller1b90efb2009-06-30 17:11:52 +00004066 unconditionally calling "os.close(sys.stdin.fileno())" resulting in file
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004067 descriptor errors.
Jesse Noller1b90efb2009-06-30 17:11:52 +00004068
Vinay Sajipcbb24b32009-07-13 11:21:05 +00004069- Issue #6365: Distutils build_ext inplace mode was copying the compiled
Tarek Ziadé3fbcc602009-06-29 16:13:39 +00004070 extension in a subdirectory if the extension name had dots.
4071
Hirokazu Yamamoto99ebc632009-06-29 14:29:31 +00004072- Issue #6344: Fixed a crash of mmap.read() when passed a negative argument.
4073
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004074- Issue #5230: pydoc would report no documentation found if a module generated a
4075 'not found' import error when loaded; it now reports the import errors.
R. David Murrayef087da2009-06-23 18:02:46 +00004076 Thanks to Lucas Prado Melo for initial fix and collaboration on the tests.
4077
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004078- Issue #6314: ``logging.basicConfig()`` performs extra checks on the "level"
Vinay Sajip603fb6d2009-06-21 17:37:27 +00004079 argument.
4080
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004081- Issue #6164: Added an AIX specific linker argument in Distutils unixcompiler.
4082 Original patch by Sridhar Ratnakumar.
Tarek Ziadé439bf932009-06-20 13:57:20 +00004083
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004084- Issue #6274: Fixed possible file descriptors leak in subprocess.py.
Facundo Batista8c826b72009-06-19 18:02:28 +00004085
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc5fe420e2009-06-18 22:32:50 +00004086- Issue #6189: Restored compatibility of subprocess.py with Python 2.2.
4087
Tarek Ziadéfdefc0a2009-06-16 07:29:52 +00004088- Issue #6287: Added the license field in Distutils documentation.
4089
Tarek Ziadéa1cc0402009-06-15 23:30:13 +00004090- Issue #6286: Now Distutils upload command is based on urllib2 instead of
4091 httplib, allowing the usage of http_proxy.
4092
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004093- Issue #6271: mmap tried to close invalid file handle (-1) for anonymous maps
4094 on Unix.
Hirokazu Yamamoto983a4652009-06-14 03:53:55 +00004095
Antoine Pitrou19690592009-06-12 20:14:08 +00004096- Issue #6215: All bug fixes and enhancements from the Python 3.1 io library
4097 (including the fast C implementation) have been backported to the standard
4098 ``io`` module.
4099
Martin v. Löwis2dcd7a02009-06-12 17:28:31 +00004100- Issue #6258: Support AMD64 in bdist_msi.
4101
Vinay Sajip334ffe82010-01-15 23:27:05 +00004102- Issue #6252: Fixed bug in next rollover time computation in
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00004103 TimedRotatingFileHandler.
4104
Tarek Ziadéc7498f52009-06-11 09:13:36 +00004105- Issue #6263: Fixed syntax error in distutils.cygwincompiler.
4106
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004107- Issue #5201: distutils.sysconfig.parse_makefile() now understands ``$$`` in
4108 Makefiles. This prevents compile errors when using syntax like:
4109 ``LDFLAGS='-rpath=\$$LIB:/some/other/path'``. Patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
Tarek Ziadé25d2bae2009-06-11 08:12:20 +00004110
Georg Brandle6632b42009-06-04 08:58:32 +00004111- Issue #5767: Removed sgmlop support from xmlrpclib.
4112
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004113- Issue #6131: test_modulefinder leaked when run after test_distutils. Patch by
4114 Hirokazu Yamamoto.
Tarek Ziadé3e3eace2009-05-29 08:08:07 +00004115
Tarek Ziadé9e5d2dc2009-05-28 12:53:54 +00004116- Issue #6048: Now Distutils uses the tarfile module in archive_util.
4117
Raymond Hettingerb4d2d312009-05-29 01:36:26 +00004118- Issue #5150: IDLE's format menu now has an option to strip trailing
4119 whitespace.
4120
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004121- Issue #6121: pydoc now ignores leading and trailing spaces in the argument to
4122 the 'help' function.
R. David Murrayd67ea7d2009-05-27 20:07:21 +00004123
Benjamin Peterson176a56c2009-05-25 00:48:58 +00004124- In unittest, using a skipping decorator on a class is now equivalent to
4125 skipping every test on the class. The ClassTestSuite class has been removed.
4126
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004127- Issue #6050: Don't fail extracting a directory from a zipfile if the directory
4128 already exists.
Martin v. Löwis0b09c422009-05-24 19:30:52 +00004129
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004130- Issue #5311: bdist_msi can now build packages that do not depend on a specific
4131 Python version.
Martin v. Löwis53b578e2009-05-24 19:10:52 +00004132
Antoine Pitroud49e3752009-05-24 15:40:09 +00004133- Issue #1309352: fcntl now converts its third arguments to a C `long` rather
4134 than an int, which makes some operations possible under 64-bit Linux (e.g.
4135 DN_MULTISHOT with F_NOTIFY).
4136
Senthil Kumarane266f252009-05-24 09:14:50 +00004137- Issue #1424152: Fix for httplib, urllib2 to support SSL while working through
4138 proxy. Original patch by Christopher Li, changes made by Senthil Kumaran.
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00004139
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004140- Issue #1983: Fix functions taking or returning a process identifier to use the
4141 dedicated C type ``pid_t`` instead of a C ``int``. Some platforms have a
4142 process identifier type wider than the standard C integer type.
Antoine Pitrou5e858fe2009-05-23 15:37:45 +00004143
R. David Murrayad3058e2009-05-23 00:48:58 +00004144- Issue #4066: smtplib.SMTP_SSL._get_socket now correctly returns the socket.
4145 Patch by Farhan Ahmad, test by Marcin Bachry.
4146
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004147- Issue #6062: In distutils, fixed the package option of build_ext. Feedback
Tarek Ziadé7d7127d2009-05-19 16:17:21 +00004148 and tests on pywin32 by Tim Golden.
4149
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004150- Issue #6053: Fixed distutils tests on win32. Patch by Hirokazu Yamamoto.
Tarek Ziadé07bbfcc2009-05-18 12:21:26 +00004151
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004152- Issue #6046: Fixed the library extension when distutils build_ext is used in
4153 place. Initial patch by Roumen Petrov.
Tarek Ziadéfcc7f032009-05-18 08:03:37 +00004154
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00004155- Issue #6041: Now distutils `sdist` and `register` commands use `check` as a
Tarek Ziadécb768042009-05-16 16:37:06 +00004156 subcommand.
4157
Antoine Pitrou775fd662009-05-15 16:54:52 +00004158- Issue #2116: Weak references and weak dictionaries now support copy()ing and
4159 deepcopy()ing.
4160
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004161- Issue #1655: Make imaplib IPv6-capable. Patch by Derek Morr.
Antoine Pitrou52035a02009-05-15 11:50:29 +00004162
Antoine Pitrou42b5bcf2009-05-14 21:48:09 +00004163- Issue #5918: Fix a crash in the parser module.
4164
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004165- Issue #1664: Make nntplib IPv6-capable. Patch by Derek Morr.
Antoine Pitroueed30d82009-05-14 21:22:08 +00004166
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004167- Issue #6022: A test file was created in the current working directory by
Tarek Ziadécbb4f9e2009-05-14 20:14:13 +00004168 test_get_outputs in Distutils.
4169
R. David Murray996ba022009-05-13 17:14:11 +00004170- Issue #4050: inspect.findsource/getsource now raise an IOError if the 'source'
4171 file is a binary. Patch by Brodie Rao, tests by Daniel Diniz.
4172
Tarek Ziadé972480d2009-05-12 17:07:14 +00004173- Issue #5977: distutils build_ext.get_outputs was not taking into account the
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004174 inplace option. Initial patch by kxroberto.
Tarek Ziadé972480d2009-05-12 17:07:14 +00004175
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004176- Issue #5984: distutils.command.build_ext.check_extensions_list checks were
4177 broken for old-style extensions.
Tarek Ziadéd5d83422009-05-10 10:12:08 +00004178
Vinay Sajipf9b01fe2009-05-09 12:07:17 +00004179- Issue #5971: StreamHandler.handleError now swallows IOErrors which occur when
4180 trying to print a traceback.
4181
Tarek Ziadé812d7712009-05-09 10:06:00 +00004182- Issue #5976: Fixed Distutils test_check_environ.
4183
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004184- Issue #5900: Ensure RUNPATH is added to extension modules with RPATH if GNU ld
4185 is used. Original patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
Tarek Ziadée2be83d2009-05-09 08:28:53 +00004186
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004187- Issue #5941: Distutils build_clib command was not working anymore because of
4188 an incomplete costumization of the archiver command. Added ARFLAGS in the
4189 Makefile besides AR and make Distutils use it. Original patch by David
Tarek Ziadé99f660a2009-05-07 21:20:34 +00004190 Cournapeau.
4191
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00004192- Issue #5955: aifc's close method did not close the file it wrapped, now it
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004193 does. This also means getfp method now returns the real fp.
R. David Murrayd3bf34c2009-05-07 16:29:19 +00004194
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004195- Issue #4875: On win32, ctypes.util.find_library does no longer return
4196 directories.
Thomas Hellera57773e2009-05-05 18:55:47 +00004197
Georg Brandl4d4313d2009-05-05 08:54:11 +00004198- Issue #5142: Add the ability to skip modules while stepping to pdb.
4199
Georg Brandle3869c42009-05-05 08:30:28 +00004200- Issue #1309567: Fix linecache behavior of stripping subdirectories when
4201 looking for files given by a relative filename.
4202
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004203- Issue #5692: In ``zipfile.Zipfile``, fix wrong path calculation when
Antoine Pitrou97377bf2009-05-04 21:17:17 +00004204 extracting a file to the root directory.
4205
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004206- Issue #5913: ``os.listdir()`` should fail for empty path on windows.
Hirokazu Yamamoto406d7aa2009-05-04 05:28:39 +00004207
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004208- Issue #5084: Unpickling now interns the attribute names of pickled objects,
4209 saving memory and avoiding growth in size of subsequent pickles. Proposal and
4210 original patch by Jake McGuire.
Antoine Pitrou74309892009-05-02 21:13:23 +00004211
Antoine Pitrou1fc02312009-05-01 20:55:35 +00004212- Issue #3002: ``shutil.copyfile()`` and ``shutil.copytree()`` now raise an
4213 error when a named pipe is encountered, rather than blocking infinitely.
4214
Gregory P. Smith1d499262009-05-01 19:59:52 +00004215- Issue #3959: The ipaddr module has been added to the standard library.
4216 Contributed by Google.
4217
R. David Murray25b4add2009-04-29 13:17:37 +00004218- Issue #2245: aifc now skips chunk types it doesn't recognize, per spec.
4219
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004220- Issue #5874: distutils.tests.test_config_cmd is not locale-sensitive anymore.
Tarek Ziadéa1b91d92009-04-29 08:03:46 +00004221
Thomas Heller90c61a22009-04-28 19:23:41 +00004222- Issue #4305: ctypes should now build again on mipsel-linux-gnu
4223
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004224- Issue #1734234: Massively speedup ``unicodedata.normalize()`` when the string
4225 is already in normalized form, by performing a quick check beforehand.
Antoine Pitroue988e282009-04-27 21:53:26 +00004226 Original patch by Rauli Ruohonen.
4227
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004228- Issue #5853: Calling a function of the mimetypes module from several threads
Antoine Pitrouf2651e12009-04-27 20:50:20 +00004229 at once could hit the recursion limit if the mimetypes database hadn't been
4230 initialized before.
4231
Vinay Sajipe34d6aa2009-04-27 13:44:27 +00004232- Issue #5854: Updated __all__ to include some missing names and remove some
4233 names which should not be exported.
4234
4235- Issue #5810: Fixed Distutils test_build_scripts so it uses
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004236 ``sysconfig.get_config_vars()``.
Tarek Ziadébcddf672009-04-25 12:51:59 +00004237
Tarek Ziadéd567c382009-04-25 12:38:08 +00004238- Issue #4951: Fixed failure in test_httpservers.
4239
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004240- Issue #3102: All global symbols that the _ctypes extension defines are now
4241 prefixed with 'Py' or '_ctypes'.
Thomas Heller5c6af802009-04-24 20:31:47 +00004242
Thomas Hellerec21ccd2009-04-24 20:00:41 +00004243- Issue #5041: ctypes does now allow pickling wide character.
4244
Mark Dickinson4af8e742009-04-24 13:56:07 +00004245- Issue #5812: For the two-argument form of the Fraction constructor,
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004246 ``Fraction(m, n)``, m and n are permitted to be arbitrary Rational instances.
Mark Dickinson4af8e742009-04-24 13:56:07 +00004247
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004248- Issue #5812: Fraction('1e6') is valid: more generally, any string that's valid
4249 for float() is now valid for Fraction(), with the exception of strings
4250 representing NaNs and infinities.
Mark Dickinson8100bd82009-04-22 18:15:25 +00004251
Tarek Ziadé31559b62009-04-20 14:29:42 +00004252- Issue #5795: Fixed test_distutils failure on Debian ppc.
4253
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +00004254- Issue #5768: Fixed bug in Unicode output logic and test case for same.
4255
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004256- Issue #1161031: Fix readwrite select flag handling: POLLPRI now results in a
4257 handle_expt_event call, not handle_read_event, and POLLERR and POLLNVAL now
4258 call handle_close, not handle_expt_event. Also, dispatcher now has an
4259 'ignore_log_types' attribute for suppressing log messages, which is set to
4260 'warning' by default.
R. David Murrayabc26602009-04-13 16:56:32 +00004261
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004262- Issue #5607: Fixed Distutils test_get_platform for Mac OS X fat binaries.
Tarek Ziadé156c31a2009-04-13 12:34:01 +00004263
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004264- Issue #5741: Don't disallow "%%" (which is an escape for "%") when setting a
4265 value in SafeConfigParser.
Georg Brandl21cf5ee2009-04-12 17:24:11 +00004266
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004267- Issue #5732: Added a new command in Distutils: check.
Tarek Ziadé942825f2009-04-11 14:55:07 +00004268
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +00004269- Issue #5731: Distutils bdist_wininst no longer worked on non-Windows
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004270 platforms. Initial patch by Paul Moore.
Tarek Ziadéad958262009-04-09 21:36:44 +00004271
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004272- Issue #2254: Fix CGIHTTPServer information disclosure. Relative paths are now
4273 collapsed within the url properly before looking in cgi_directories.
Gregory P. Smith923ba362009-04-06 06:33:26 +00004274
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004275- Issue #5095: Added bdist_msi to the list of bdist supported formats. Initial
4276 fix by Steven Bethard.
Tarek Ziadé64408fb2009-04-05 22:51:09 +00004277
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004278- Issue #1491431: Fixed distutils.filelist.glob_to_re for edge cases. Initial
4279 fix by Wayne Davison.
Tarek Ziadéfaa6b122009-04-05 21:44:08 +00004280
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004281- Issue #5693: TestSuite.__iter__ can now be consistently overridden in
4282 subclasses.
Michael Foordf2dfef12009-04-05 19:19:28 +00004283
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004284- Issue #5694: Removed spurious test output in Distutils (test_clean).
Tarek Ziadé453d9532009-04-05 18:31:24 +00004285
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +00004286- Issue #5471: Fix os.path.expanduser() for $HOME set to '/'.
Georg Brandl3f0ef202009-04-05 14:48:49 +00004287
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004288- Issue #1326077: Fix the formatting of SyntaxErrors by the traceback module.
Georg Brandl1956d5c2009-04-05 14:25:41 +00004289
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004290- Issue #1726172: Fix IndexError in the case of and empty response in ftplib.
Georg Brandl50ba6e12009-04-05 10:48:47 +00004291
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004292- Issue #2625: Added missing iteritems() call to the for loop in
R. David Murray52720c52009-04-02 14:05:35 +00004293 mailbox.MH.get_message().
4294
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004295- Issue #5585: Add the ability to call an initializer to
4296 mulitiprocessing.manager so that users can install custom handlers/etc.
Jesse Noller7152f6d2009-04-02 05:17:26 +00004297
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004298- Issue #3551: Patch multiprocessing to raise a proper exception if the size of
4299 the object when writefile is called causes a ERROR_NO_SYSTEM_RESOURCES. Added
4300 docs to note the limitation.
Jesse Noller5053fbb2009-04-02 04:22:09 +00004301
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004302- unittest.assertNotEqual() now uses the inequality operator (!=) instead of the
4303 equality operator.
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00004304
4305- Issue #6001: Test discovery for unittest. Implemented in
Michael Foordb4a81c82009-05-29 20:33:46 +00004306 unittest.TestLoader.discover and from the command line.
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +00004307
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004308- Issue #5679: The methods unittest.TestCase.addCleanup and doCleanups were
4309 added. addCleanup allows you to add cleanup functions that will be called
Michael Foord07ef4872009-05-02 22:43:34 +00004310 unconditionally (after setUp if setUp fails, otherwise after tearDown). This
4311 allows for much simpler resource allocation and deallocation during tests.
4312
4313- Issue #3379: unittest.main now takes an optional exit argument. If False main
4314 doesn't call sys.exit allowing it to be used from the interactive interpreter.
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00004315
4316- Issue #5995: unittest.main now takes an optional verbosity argument allowing
Michael Foord5d31e052009-05-11 17:59:43 +00004317 test modules to be run with a higher than default verbosity.
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00004318
4319- Issue #5995: A fix to allow you to run "python -m unittest test_module" or
Michael Foord5d31e052009-05-11 17:59:43 +00004320 "python -m unittest test_module.TestClass" from the command line.
Michael Foord07ef4872009-05-02 22:43:34 +00004321
4322- Issue #5728: unittest.TestResult has new startTestRun and stopTestRun methods;
4323 called immediately before and after a test run.
4324
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004325- Issue #5663: Better failure messages for unittest asserts. Default assertTrue
Michael Foord345b2fe2009-04-02 03:20:38 +00004326 and assertFalse messages are now useful. TestCase has a longMessage attribute.
4327 This defaults to False, but if set to True useful error messages are shown in
4328 addition to explicit messages passed to assert methods.
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +00004329
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004330- Issue #3110: Add additional protect around SEM_VALUE_MAX for multiprocessing.
Jesse Nollerb502bc72009-04-02 02:32:55 +00004331
Georg Brandl58b8b952009-04-01 21:54:21 +00004332- In Pdb, prevent the reassignment of __builtin__._ by sys.displayhook on
4333 printing out values.
4334
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004335- Issue #4572: Added SEEK_* symbolic constants to io module.
Georg Brandl5942b912009-04-01 21:05:44 +00004336
Brett Cannonad078a02009-04-01 16:00:34 +00004337- Issue #1665206 (partially): Move imports in cgitb to the top of the module
4338 instead of performing them in functions. Helps prevent import deadlocking in
4339 threads.
4340
Raymond Hettinger66c4a6b2009-04-01 18:50:56 +00004341- Issue #5647: MutableSet.__iand__() no longer mutates self during iteration.
4342
Georg Brandle92d4b62009-04-01 04:21:14 +00004343- Actually make the SimpleXMLRPCServer CGI handler work.
4344
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004345- Issue #2522: locale.format() now checks its first argument to ensure it has
R. David Murraya83da352009-04-01 03:21:43 +00004346 been passed only one pattern, avoiding mysterious errors where it appeared
4347 that it was failing to do localization.
4348
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004349- Issue #5583: Added optional extensions in Distutils. Initial patch by Georg
Tarek Ziadé9e47ce42009-03-31 22:27:23 +00004350 Brandl.
4351
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004352- Issue #5619: Multiprocessing children disobey the debug flag and causes popups
4353 on windows buildbots. Patch applied to work around this issue.
Jesse Noller42f9b4e2009-03-31 22:20:35 +00004354
Benjamin Petersond906ea62009-03-31 21:34:42 +00004355- Issue #5632: Thread.ident was None for the main thread and threads not created
4356 with the threading module.
4357
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004358- Issue #5400: Added patch for multiprocessing on netbsd compilation/support.
Jesse Noller1f0a5552009-03-31 18:27:14 +00004359
Hirokazu Yamamoto9d2ee5d2009-03-31 13:13:05 +00004360- Issue #5387: Fixed mmap.move crash by integer overflow.
4361
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004362- Issue #5261: Patch multiprocessing's semaphore.c to support context manager
4363 use: "with multiprocessing.Lock()" works now.
Jesse Noller82eb5902009-03-30 23:29:31 +00004364
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +00004365- Issue #5177: Multiprocessing's SocketListener class now uses
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004366 socket.SO_REUSEADDR on all connections so that the user no longer needs to
4367 wait 120 seconds for the socket to expire.
Jesse Noller459a6482009-03-30 15:50:42 +00004368
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004369- Adjusted _tkinter to compile without warnings when WITH_THREAD is not defined
4370 (part of issue #5035).
Guilherme Polo1972d162009-03-27 21:43:08 +00004371
Marc-André Lemburgcbdf15b2009-03-25 19:45:33 +00004372- Issue #5561: Removed the sys.version_info shortcuts from platform's
4373 python_version() and python_version_tuple() since they produced different
4374 output compared to previous Python versions.
4375
Benjamin Peterson692428e2009-03-23 21:50:21 +00004376- Issue #1034053: unittest now supports skipping tests and expected failures.
4377
Gregory P. Smith28399852009-03-31 16:54:10 +00004378- The unittest.TestCase.assertRaises() method now returns a context manager when
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004379 not given a callable so that code to be tested can be written inline using a
4380 with statement.
Gregory P. Smith28399852009-03-31 16:54:10 +00004381
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004382- Issue #2578: The unittest.TestCase.assertEqual() now displays the differences
4383 in lists, tuples, dicts and sets on failure. Many new handy type and
4384 comparison specific assert* methods have been added that fail with error
4385 messages actually useful for debugging. Contributed in part by Google.
Gregory P. Smith28399852009-03-31 16:54:10 +00004386
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004387- Issue #5068: Fixed the tarfile._BZ2Proxy.read() method that would loop forever
4388 on incomplete input. That caused tarfile.open() to hang when used with mode
4389 'r' or 'r:bz2' and a fileobj argument that contained no data or partial bzip2
4390 compressed data.
Lars Gustäbel2020a592009-03-22 20:09:33 +00004391
Benjamin Petersonb364bfe2009-03-22 17:45:11 +00004392- Issue #5536: urllib.urlretrieve makes sure to close the file it's writing to
4393 even if an exception occurs.
4394
Raymond Hettinger91852ca2009-03-19 19:19:03 +00004395- Issue #5381: Added object_pairs_hook to the json module. This allows
4396 OrderedDicts to be built by the decoder.
4397
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004398- Issue #2110: Add support for thousands separator and 'n' type specifier to
4399 ``Decimal.__format__()``.
Mark Dickinson277859d2009-03-17 23:03:46 +00004400
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004401- Fix Decimal.__format__ bug that swapped the meanings of the '<' and '>'
4402 alignment characters.
Mark Dickinsonb065e522009-03-17 18:01:03 +00004403
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004404- Issue #1222: ``locale.format()`` bug when the thousands separator is a space
Antoine Pitroufeeafff2009-03-14 00:07:21 +00004405 character.
4406
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004407- Issue #5472: Fixed distutils.test_util tear down. Original patch by Tim
4408 Golden.
Tarek Ziadé61585c22009-03-11 12:48:04 +00004409
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004410- collections.deque objects now have a read-only attribute called maxlen.
Raymond Hettinger56411aa2009-03-10 12:50:59 +00004411
Guilherme Polo15d57652009-03-07 02:14:38 +00004412- Issue #2638: Show a window constructed with tkSimpleDialog.Dialog only after
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004413 it is has been populated and properly configured in order to prevent window
4414 flashing.
Guilherme Polo15d57652009-03-07 02:14:38 +00004415
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004416- Issue #4792: Prevent a segfault in _tkinter by using the guaranteed to be safe
4417 interp argument given to the PythonCmd in place of the Tcl interpreter taken
4418 from a PythonCmd_ClientData.
Guilherme Polo3768b2f2009-03-07 01:47:49 +00004419
Guilherme Polo6d6c1fd2009-03-07 01:19:12 +00004420- Issue #5193: Guarantee that Tkinter.Text.search returns a string.
4421
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004422- Issue #5394: Removed > 2.3 syntax from distutils.msvc9compiler.
Tarek Ziadé943b24e2009-03-07 00:32:45 +00004423 Original patch by Akira Kitada.
4424
Hirokazu Yamamoto264fc122009-03-05 14:21:12 +00004425- Issue #5385: Fixed mmap crash after resize failure on windows.
4426
Hirokazu Yamamotoeacbbdf2009-03-03 22:18:14 +00004427- Issue #5179: Fixed subprocess handle leak on failure on windows.
4428
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004429- PEP 372: Added collections.OrderedDict().
Raymond Hettingerbc512d32009-03-03 04:45:34 +00004430
Raymond Hettinger88a91642009-03-03 04:51:24 +00004431- The _asdict() for method for namedtuples now returns an OrderedDict().
4432
Raymond Hettingere89b8e92009-03-03 05:00:37 +00004433- The configparser module now defaults to using an ordered dictionary.
4434
Benjamin Peterson7d49bba2009-03-02 22:41:42 +00004435- Issue #4308: httplib.IncompleteRead's repr doesn't include all of the data all
4436 ready received.
4437
Benjamin Petersonad58b7c2009-03-02 03:35:12 +00004438- Issue #5401: Fixed a performance problem in mimetypes when ``from mimetypes
4439 import guess_extension`` was used.
4440
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004441- Issue #1733986: Fixed mmap crash on Windows in accessing elements of second
4442 map object with same tagname but larger size than first map.
Hirokazu Yamamotob0e10c72009-02-28 12:13:07 +00004443
Hirokazu Yamamotof2dc8852009-02-28 10:31:54 +00004444- Issue #5386: mmap.write_byte didn't check map size, so it could cause buffer
4445 overrun.
4446
Tarek Ziadé73347352009-02-28 10:08:02 +00004447- Issue #1533164: Installed but not listed *.pyo was breaking Distutils
4448 bdist_rpm command.
4449
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004450- Issue #5378: Added --quiet option to Distutils bdist_rpm command.
Tarek Ziadé73347352009-02-28 10:08:02 +00004451
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004452- Issue #5052: Make Distutils compatible with 2.3 again.
Tarek Ziadédda92f72009-02-27 12:53:34 +00004453
Benjamin Petersonb3dd5482009-02-26 19:07:18 +00004454- Deprecated methods of symtable.Symbol have been removed: is_keywordarg(),
4455 is_vararg(), and is_in_tuple().
4456
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004457- Issue #5316: Fixed buildbot failures introduced by multiple inheritance in
4458 Distutils tests.
Tarek Ziadée3bc0ef2009-02-25 22:29:27 +00004459
Vinay Sajip1a0d2be2009-02-19 12:31:32 +00004460- Issue #5287: Add exception handling around findCaller() call to help out
4461 IronPython.
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +00004462
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004463- Issue #5282: Fixed mmap resize on 32bit Windows and Unix. When ``offset >
4464 0``, the file was resized to wrong size.
Hirokazu Yamamoto17a837e2009-02-17 13:17:26 +00004465
Hirokazu Yamamotof6bbd0e2009-02-17 10:12:10 +00004466- Issue #5292: Fixed mmap crash on its boundary access m[len(m)].
4467
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004468- Issue #2279: distutils.sdist.add_defaults now add files from the package_data
4469 and the data_files metadata.
Tarek Ziadé7dd53392009-02-16 21:38:01 +00004470
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004471- Issue #5257: Refactored all tests in distutils, so they use
Tarek Ziadé13699002009-02-14 14:10:23 +00004472 support.TempdirManager, to avoid writing in the tests directory.
4473
Tarek Ziadé2432b0b2009-02-13 23:00:43 +00004474- Issue #4524: distutils build_script command failed with --with-suffix=3.
4475 Initial patch by Amaury Forgeot d'Arc.
4476
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004477- Issue #2461: Added tests for distutils.util.
Tarek Ziadé275958a2009-02-13 22:22:03 +00004478
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004479- Issue #1008086: Fixed socket.inet_aton() to always return 4 bytes even on LP64
4480 platforms (most 64-bit Linux, bsd, unix systems).
Gregory P. Smith3605b5c2009-02-11 23:45:25 +00004481
Thomas Heller3689ae22009-02-10 18:43:01 +00004482- Issue #5203: Fixed ctypes segfaults when passing a unicode string to a
4483 function without argtypes (only occurs if HAVE_USABLE_WCHAR_T is false).
4484
Tarek Ziadé74fbf602009-02-10 12:31:09 +00004485- Issue #3386: distutils.sysconfig.get_python_lib prefix argument was ignored
4486 under NT and OS2. Patch by Philip Jenvey.
4487
Brett Cannon28d10882009-02-10 02:07:38 +00004488- Issue #5128: Make compileall properly inspect bytecode to determine if needs
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004489 to be recreated. This avoids a timing hole thanks to the old reliance on the
Brett Cannon28d10882009-02-10 02:07:38 +00004490 ctime of the files involved.
4491
Guilherme Poloa66cf5b2009-02-09 20:50:27 +00004492- Issue #5122: Synchronize tk load failure check to prevent a potential
4493 deadlock.
4494
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004495- Issue #1818: collections.namedtuple() now supports a keyword argument 'rename'
4496 which lets invalid fieldnames be automatically converted to positional names
4497 in the form, _1, _2, ...
Raymond Hettinger322daea2009-02-10 01:24:05 +00004498
Guilherme Polod2ea0332009-02-09 16:41:09 +00004499- Issue #4890: Handle empty text search pattern in Tkinter.Text.search.
4500
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004501- Issue #5170: Fixed Unicode output bug in logging and added test case. This is
4502 a regression which did not occur in 2.5.
Vinay Sajipb20af942009-02-08 19:06:08 +00004503
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004504- Issue #4512 (part 2): Promote ``ZipImporter._get_filename()`` to be a public
4505 documented method ``ZipImporter.get_filename()``.
Nick Coghlan0194f5b2009-02-08 03:17:00 +00004506
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004507- Issue #4195: The ``runpy`` module (and the ``-m`` switch) now support the
4508 execution of packages by looking for and executing a ``__main__`` submodule
4509 when a package name is supplied. Initial patch by Andi Vajda.
Nick Coghland39600e2009-02-08 01:26:34 +00004510
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004511- Issue #1731706: Call Tcl_ConditionFinalize for Tcl_Conditions that will not be
4512 used again (this requires Tcl/Tk 8.3.1), also fix a memory leak in Tkapp_Call
4513 when calling from a thread different than the one that created the Tcl
4514 interpreter. Patch by Robert Hancock.
Guilherme Polo14ff18d2009-02-06 22:26:22 +00004515
Vinay Sajipb20af942009-02-08 19:06:08 +00004516- Issue #1520877: Now distutils.sysconfig reads $AR from the
Tarek Ziadé05adf072009-02-06 01:15:51 +00004517 environment/Makefile. Patch by Douglas Greiman.
4518
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004519- Issue #4285: Change sys.version_info to be a named tuple. Patch by Ross
4520 Light.
Eric Smith81fe0932009-02-06 00:48:26 +00004521
Tarek Ziadéd5eb9852009-02-06 00:31:59 +00004522- Issue #1276768: The verbose option was not used in the code of
4523 distutils.file_util and distutils.dir_util.
4524
Vinay Sajipb20af942009-02-08 19:06:08 +00004525- Issue #5132: Fixed trouble building extensions under Solaris with
Tarek Ziadé0d4fd342009-02-05 22:52:52 +00004526 --enabled-shared activated. Initial patch by Dave Peterson.
4527
Guilherme Polod7bb4d42009-02-02 21:14:14 +00004528- Issue #1581476: Always use the Tcl global namespace when calling into Tcl.
4529
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004530- Issue #2047: shutil.move() could believe that its destination path was inside
4531 its source path if it began with the same letters (e.g. "src" vs. "src.new").
Antoine Pitrou707c5932009-01-29 20:19:34 +00004532
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004533- Issue #4920: Fixed .next() vs .__next__() issues in the ABCs for Iterator and
4534 MutableSet.
Raymond Hettingerf779e6f2009-01-28 23:02:26 +00004535
Guilherme Polocda93aa2009-01-28 13:09:03 +00004536- Added the ttk module. See issue #2983: Ttk support for Tkinter.
4537
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004538- Issue #5021: doctest.testfile() did not create __name__ and
Raymond Hettingerecf252a2009-01-27 10:03:04 +00004539 collections.namedtuple() relied on __name__ being defined.
4540
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004541- Backport importlib from Python 3.1. Only the import_module() function has been
4542 backported to help facilitate transitions from 2.7 to 3.1.
Brett Cannon93881c62009-01-26 01:16:50 +00004543
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004544- Issue #1885: distutils: When running sdist with --formats=tar,gztar the tar
4545 file was overriden by the gztar one.
Tarek Ziadéaaedcef2009-01-25 23:34:00 +00004546
Tarek Ziadéef249b12009-01-25 18:19:25 +00004547- Issue #4863: distutils.mwerkscompiler has been removed.
4548
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004549- Added new itertools functions: combinations_with_replacement() and compress().
Raymond Hettinger2bcb8e92009-01-25 21:04:14 +00004550
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004551- Issue #5032: Added a step argument to itertools.count() and allowed
4552 non-integer arguments.
Raymond Hettinger31c769c2009-02-12 05:39:46 +00004553
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004554- Fix and properly document the multiprocessing module's logging support, expose
4555 the internal levels and provide proper usage examples.
Jesse Nollerb5a4b0a2009-01-25 03:36:13 +00004556
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004557- Issue #1672332: Fix unpickling of subnormal floats, which was
Mark Dickinsona3ecd2c2009-01-24 16:40:29 +00004558 producing a ValueError on some platforms.
4559
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004560- Issue #3881: Help Tcl to load even when started through the unreadable local
4561 symlink to "Program Files" on Vista.
Martin v. Löwisf081e1c2009-01-24 15:47:27 +00004562
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004563- Issue #4710: Extract directories properly in the zipfile module; allow adding
4564 directories to a zipfile.
Martin v. Löwis0dfcfc82009-01-24 14:00:33 +00004565
Vinay Sajipb20af942009-02-08 19:06:08 +00004566- Issue #3807: _multiprocessing build fails when configure is passed
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004567 --without-threads argument. When this occurs, _multiprocessing will be
4568 disabled, and not compiled.
Jesse Nollerf6da8d12009-01-23 14:04:41 +00004569
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004570- Issue #5008: When a file is opened in append mode with the new IO library, do
4571 an explicit seek to the end of file (so that e.g. tell() returns the file size
4572 rather than 0). This is consistent with the behaviour of the traditional 2.x
4573 file object.
Antoine Pitroue741cc62009-01-21 00:45:36 +00004574
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +00004575- Issue #5013: Fixed a bug in FileHandler which occurred when the delay
4576 parameter was set.
4577
Raymond Hettinger933d3a72009-01-20 20:34:19 +00004578- Issue #4998: The memory saving effect of __slots__ had been lost on Fractions
4579 which inherited from numbers.py which did not have __slots__ defined. The
Mark Dickinson39c6f7f2009-02-12 17:55:42 +00004580 numbers hierarchy now has its own __slots__ declarations.
Raymond Hettinger933d3a72009-01-20 20:34:19 +00004581
Jesse Noller9a5b2ad2009-01-19 15:12:22 +00004582- Issue #3321: _multiprocessing.Connection() doesn't check handle; added checks
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004583 for *nix machines for negative handles and large int handles. Without this
4584 check it is possible to segfault the interpreter.
Jesse Noller9a5b2ad2009-01-19 15:12:22 +00004585
Jesse Noller6ab22152009-01-18 02:45:38 +00004586- Issue #4449: AssertionError in mp_benchmarks.py, caused by an underlying issue
4587 in sharedctypes.py.
4588
Benjamin Peterson5e5fbb62009-01-17 22:27:54 +00004589- Issue #1225107: inspect.isclass() returned True for instances with a custom
4590 __getattr__.
4591
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004592- Issue #3997: Zipfiles generated with more than 65536 files could not be opened
4593 with other applications.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd25f87a2009-01-17 16:40:17 +00004594
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004595- Issue #1162154: ``inspect.getmembers()`` now skips attributes that raise
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcb54447f2009-01-13 23:39:22 +00004596 AttributeError, e.g. a __slots__ attribute which has not been set.
4597
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004598- Issue #1696199: Add collections.Counter() for rapid and convenient counting.
Raymond Hettingerf94d7fa2009-01-12 22:58:41 +00004599
Antoine Pitroubd4b5f22009-01-10 16:15:24 +00004600- Issue #3860: GzipFile and BZ2File now support the context manager protocol.
4601
Antoine Pitrouf0d2c3f2009-01-04 21:29:23 +00004602- Issue #4272: Add an optional argument to the GzipFile constructor to override
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004603 the timestamp in the gzip stream. The default value remains the current time.
4604 The information can be used by e.g. gunzip when decompressing. Patch by
Antoine Pitrouf0d2c3f2009-01-04 21:29:23 +00004605 Jacques Frechet.
4606
Mark Dickinson514d4832009-01-04 21:25:40 +00004607- Restore Python 2.3 compatibility for decimal.py.
4608
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +00004609- Issue #1702551: distutils sdist was not excluding VCS directories under
Tarek Ziadé85d6fb52009-01-04 00:04:49 +00004610 Windows. Inital solution by Guy Dalberto.
4611
Guilherme Poloe7f14032009-01-03 21:51:09 +00004612- The _tkinter module functions "createfilehandler", "deletefilehandler",
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004613 "createtimerhandler", "mainloop", "dooneevent" and "quit" have been deprecated
4614 for removal in 3.x
Guilherme Poloe7f14032009-01-03 21:51:09 +00004615
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004616- Issue #4796: Added Decimal.from_float() and
4617 Context.create_decimal_from_float() to the decimal module.
Raymond Hettingerf4d85972009-01-03 19:02:23 +00004618
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004619- Issue #4812: Add missing underscore prefix to some internal-use-only constants
4620 in the decimal module. (Dec_0 becomes _Dec_0, etc.)
Mark Dickinsonc5de0962009-01-02 23:07:08 +00004621
Benjamin Peterson8ad09a42008-12-31 23:48:39 +00004622- Issue #4795: inspect.isgeneratorfunction() returns False instead of None when
4623 the function is not a generator.
4624
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004625- Issue #4702: Throwing a DistutilsPlatformError instead of IOError in case no
4626 MSVC compiler is found under Windows. Original patch by Philip Jenvey.
Tarek Ziadéb1a85412008-12-30 23:03:41 +00004627
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004628- Issue #4646: distutils was choking on empty options arg in the setup function.
4629 Original patch by Thomas Heller.
Tarek Ziadéc13acb12008-12-29 22:23:53 +00004630
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004631- Fractions.from_float() no longer loses precision for integers too big to cast
4632 as floats.
Georg Brandlfe427892009-01-03 22:03:11 +00004633
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004634- Issue #4790: The nsmallest() and nlargest() functions in the heapq module did
4635 unnecessary work in the common case where no key function was specified.
Georg Brandlfe427892009-01-03 22:03:11 +00004636
Martin v. Löwis732479f2008-12-29 16:22:25 +00004637- Issue #3767: Convert Tk object to string in tkColorChooser.
4638
Martin v. Löwise2eb2b42008-12-29 15:51:01 +00004639- Issue #3248: Allow placing ScrolledText in a PanedWindow.
4640
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004641- Issue #4444: Allow assertRaises() to be used as a context handler, so that the
4642 code under test can be written inline if more practical.
Antoine Pitrou697ca3d2008-12-28 14:09:36 +00004643
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004644- Issue #4739: Add pydoc help topics for symbols, so that e.g. help('@') works
4645 as expected in the interactive environment.
Georg Brandlc3a98032008-12-27 18:20:04 +00004646
Antoine Pitrou6f193e02008-12-27 15:43:12 +00004647- Issue #4756: zipfile.is_zipfile() now supports file-like objects. Patch by
4648 Gabriel Genellina.
4649
Tarek Ziadée4c75bb2008-12-24 19:10:05 +00004650- Issue #4400: .pypirc default generated file was broken in distutils.
4651
Benjamin Peterson54686e32008-12-24 15:10:27 +00004652- Issue #4736: io.BufferedRWPair's closed property now functions properly.
4653
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004654- Issue #3954: Fix a potential SystemError in _hotshot.logreader error handling.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc31949b92008-12-15 21:47:57 +00004655
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004656- Issue #4574: Fix a crash in io.IncrementalNewlineDecoder when a carriage
4657 return encodes to more than one byte in the source encoding (e.g. UTF-16) and
4658 gets split on a chunk boundary.
Antoine Pitrou655fbf12008-12-14 17:40:51 +00004659
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004660- Issue #4223: inspect.getsource() will now correctly display source code for
4661 packages loaded via zipimport (or any other conformant PEP 302
Nick Coghlana2053472008-12-14 10:54:50 +00004662 loader). Original patch by Alexander Belopolsky.
4663
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004664- Issue #4201: pdb can now access and display source code loaded via zipimport
4665 (or any other conformant PEP 302 loader). Original patch by Alexander
4666 Belopolsky.
Nick Coghlana2053472008-12-14 10:54:50 +00004667
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004668- Issue #4197: Doctests in modules loaded via zipimport (or any other PEP 302
4669 conformant loader) will now work correctly in most cases (they are still
4670 subject to the constraints that exist for all code running from inside a
4671 module loaded via a PEP 302 loader and attempting to perform IO operations
4672 based on __file__). Original patch by Alexander Belopolsky.
Nick Coghlana2053472008-12-14 10:54:50 +00004673
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004674- Issues #4082 and #4512: Add runpy support to zipimport in a manner that allows
4675 backporting to maintenance branches. Original patch by Alexander Belopolsky.
Nick Coghlana2053472008-12-14 10:54:50 +00004676
Antoine Pitrou74af3bb2008-12-13 23:12:30 +00004677- Issue #4163: Use unicode-friendly word splitting in the textwrap functions
4678 when given an unicode string.
4679
Lars Gustäbel3b027422008-12-12 13:58:03 +00004680- Issue #4616: TarFile.utime(): Restore directory times on Windows.
4681
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004682- Issue #4084: Fix max, min, max_mag and min_mag Decimal methods to give correct
4683 results in the case where one argument is a quiet NaN and the other is a
4684 finite number that requires rounding.
Facundo Batistae29d4352008-12-11 04:19:46 +00004685
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004686- Issue #1030250: Distutils created directories even when run with the --dry-run
4687 option.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc240028c2008-12-11 00:03:42 +00004688
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004689- Issue #4483: _dbm module now builds on systems with gdbm & gdbm_compat libs.
Skip Montanaro45313fe2008-12-06 17:43:30 +00004690
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004691- Issue #4529: Fix the parser module's validation of try-except-finally
Georg Brandlfe879e82008-12-05 12:09:41 +00004692 statements.
4693
Georg Brandla07435d2008-12-05 09:23:14 +00004694- Issue #4458: getopt.gnu_getopt() now recognizes a single "-" as an argument,
4695 not a malformed option.
4696
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004697- Added the subprocess.check_output() convenience function to get output from a
4698 subprocess on success or raise an exception on error.
Gregory P. Smith97f49f42008-12-04 20:21:09 +00004699
Fred Drake52481032008-12-04 18:25:17 +00004700- Issue #1055234: cgi.parse_header(): Fixed parsing of header parameters to
4701 support unusual filenames (such as those containing semi-colons) in
4702 Content-Disposition headers.
4703
Vinay Sajip6831d6b2008-12-04 20:32:18 +00004704- Issue #4384: Added logging integration with warnings module using
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004705 captureWarnings(). This change includes a NullHandler which does nothing; it
4706 will be of use to library developers who want to avoid the "No handlers could
4707 be found for logger XXX" message which can appear if the library user doesn't
4708 configure logging.
Vinay Sajip213faca2008-12-03 23:22:58 +00004709
Christian Heimesaa674712008-11-28 11:02:32 +00004710- Issue #3741: DISTUTILS_USE_SDK set causes msvc9compiler.py to raise an
4711 exception.
4712
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004713- Issue #4363: The uuid.uuid1() and uuid.uuid4() functions now work even if the
4714 ctypes module is not present.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd4294172008-11-21 22:05:48 +00004715
Benjamin Petersonbfc51562008-11-22 01:59:15 +00004716- FileIO's mode attribute now always includes ``"b"``.
4717
Martin v. Löwisbb9b1f12008-11-19 09:09:41 +00004718- Issue #4116: Resolve member name conflict in ScrolledCanvas.__init__.
4719
Brett Cannone3d0bf72008-11-15 22:40:44 +00004720- httplib.HTTPConnection.putheader() now accepts an arbitrary number of values
4721 for any header, matching what the documentation has claimed for a while.
4722
Hirokazu Yamamotob9828f62008-11-03 18:03:06 +00004723- Issue #3774: Fixed an error when create a Tkinter menu item without command
4724 and then remove it.
4725
Thomas Heller1fac5a42008-10-30 20:18:13 +00004726- Fixed a modulefinder crash on certain relative imports.
4727
Benjamin Petersonc18574c2008-10-22 21:16:34 +00004728- Issue #4150: Pdb's "up" command now works for generator frames in post-mortem
4729 debugging.
4730
Benjamin Petersone4dc1752008-10-21 22:20:31 +00004731- Issue #4092: Return ArgInfo as promised in the documentation from
4732 inspect.getargvalues.
4733
Georg Brandlf3776a12008-10-08 18:47:17 +00004734- Issue #3935: Properly support list subclasses in bisect's C implementation.
4735
Martin v. Löwis96a9f232008-10-06 15:15:40 +00004736- Issue #4014: Don't claim that Python has an Alpha release status, in addition
4737 to claiming it is Mature.
4738
Alexandre Vassalotti6067f782008-12-27 07:13:01 +00004739- Issue #4730: Fixed the cPickle module to handle correctly astral characters
4740 when protocol 0 is used.
4741
Ronald Oussoren0238497e2009-01-02 14:10:20 +00004742- Issue #1594: MacOS.GetCreatorAndType now always returns a big-endian result,
4743 to be consistent with Apple tools.
4744
Ronald Oussoren63b74fe2009-01-02 14:46:19 +00004745- Issue #900949: plat-mac/videoreader.py no longer relies on a non-existing
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +00004746 module.
Ronald Oussoren63b74fe2009-01-02 14:46:19 +00004747
Ronald Oussoren7f8cbf02009-01-02 14:48:17 +00004748- Issue #16278952: plat-mac/videoreader.py now correctly imports MediaDescr
4749
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004750- Issue #1737832: plat-mac/EasyDialog.py no longer uses the broken aepack
Ronald Oussoren919697c2009-01-02 14:52:09 +00004751 module.
4752
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004753- Issue #1149804: macostools.mkdirs now even works when another process creates
4754 one of the needed subdirectories.
Ronald Oussorenabcc1682009-01-02 15:00:05 +00004755
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004756- Issue #900506: added --no-zipimport flag to the bundlebuilder script.
Ronald Oussoren072bb402009-01-02 15:25:36 +00004757
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004758- Issue #841800: bundlebuilder now works with 'python -O'.
Ronald Oussoren072bb402009-01-02 15:25:36 +00004759
Matthias Klose43723e22009-01-10 17:00:42 +00004760- Issue #4861: ctypes.util.find_library(): Robustify. Fix library detection on
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004761 biarch systems. Try to rely on ldconfig only, without using objdump and gcc.
Matthias Klose43723e22009-01-10 17:00:42 +00004762
Gregory P. Smithde1a8b72009-01-31 22:57:30 +00004763- Issue #5104: The socket module now raises OverflowError when 16-bit port and
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004764 protocol numbers are supplied outside the allowed 0-65536 range on bind() and
4765 getservbyport().
Gregory P. Smithde1a8b72009-01-31 22:57:30 +00004766
Neil Schemenauer92c3b212009-02-07 00:54:41 +00004767- Issue #999042: The Python compiler now handles explict global statements
4768 correctly (should be assigned using STORE_GLOBAL opcode).
4769
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004770- Issue #2703: SimpleXMLRPCDispatcher.__init__: Provide default values for new
4771 arguments introduced in 2.5.
Matthias Klosea5d58c82009-04-05 21:00:48 +00004772
Walter Dörwald5d98ec72009-04-25 14:03:16 +00004773- Issue #5828 (Invalid behavior of unicode.lower): Fixed bogus logic in
4774 makeunicodedata.py and regenerated the Unicode database (This fixes
4775 u'\u1d79'.lower() == '\x00').
4776
Jeroen Ruigrok van der Wervenb87b3342009-05-08 14:11:23 +00004777- Windows locale mapping updated to Vista.
4778
Antoine Pitroue555f582008-12-27 20:34:52 +00004779Tools/Demos
4780-----------
4781
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004782- Ttk demos added in Demo/tkinter/ttk/.
Guilherme Polo4eae0782009-01-28 15:56:01 +00004783
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004784- Issue #4677: Add two list comprehension tests to pybench.
Antoine Pitroue555f582008-12-27 20:34:52 +00004785
Brett Cannon60b15d22008-10-06 22:44:37 +00004786Build
4787-----
4788
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004789- Issue #6603: Change READ_TIMESTAMP macro in ceval.c so that it compiles
4790 correctly under gcc on x86-64. This fixes a reported problem with the
4791 --with-tsc build on x86-64.
Mark Dickinson504a1512009-10-31 10:11:28 +00004792
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004793- Add 2 new options to ``--with-universal-archs`` on MacOSX: ``intel`` builds a
4794 distribution with ``i386`` and ``x86_64`` architectures, while ``3-way``
4795 builds a distribution with the ``ppc``, ``i386`` and ``x86_64`` architectures.
Vinay Sajip03d5c342009-10-16 14:06:44 +00004796
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004797- Issue #6802: Fix build issues on MacOSX 10.6.
Ronald Oussoren25967582009-09-06 10:00:26 +00004798
Guilherme Polo1ce2d532009-08-16 14:38:57 +00004799- Issue #6244: Allow detect_tkinter to look for Tcl/Tk 8.6.
4800
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00004801- Issue #5390: Add uninstall icon independent of whether file extensions are
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004802 installed.
Martin v. Löwisecb4f952009-06-28 09:32:39 +00004803
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00004804- Issue #5809: Specifying both --enable-framework and --enable-shared is an
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004805 error. Configure now explicity tells you about this.
Ronald Oussoren450d5612009-06-08 21:12:41 +00004806
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004807- Issue #3585: Add pkg-config support. It creates a python-2.7.pc file and a
4808 python.pc symlink in the $(LIBDIR)/pkgconfig directory. Patch by Clinton Roy.
Antoine Pitrouf2caeed2009-05-24 20:23:57 +00004809
Benjamin Petersone5afa3b2009-05-23 19:24:37 +00004810- Issue #6094: Build correctly with Subversion 1.7.
4811
Martin v. Löwis588b54b2009-05-05 16:10:16 +00004812- Issue #5847: Remove -n switch on "Edit with IDLE" menu item.
4813
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004814- Issue #5726: Make Modules/ld_so_aix return the actual exit code of the linker,
4815 rather than always exit successfully. Patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
Antoine Pitrou3fd4ea92009-05-01 21:16:14 +00004816
Matthias Klose10cbe482009-04-29 17:18:19 +00004817- Issue #4587: Add configure option --with-dbmliborder=db1:db2:... to specify
Vinay Sajipf9b01fe2009-05-09 12:07:17 +00004818 the order that backends for the dbm extension are checked.
Matthias Klose10cbe482009-04-29 17:18:19 +00004819
Matthias Klose8ad554f2009-02-22 23:14:26 +00004820- Link the shared python library with $(MODLIBS).
4821
Martin v. Löwisa3e3cb72009-02-10 13:09:19 +00004822- Issue #5134: Silence compiler warnings when compiling sqlite with VC++.
4823
Martin v. Löwisfee1c7f2009-02-02 14:23:16 +00004824- Issue #4494: Fix build with Py_NO_ENABLE_SHARED on Windows.
4825
Martin v. Löwiseefda272009-01-11 09:43:55 +00004826- Issue #4895: Use _strdup on Windows CE.
4827
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004828- Issue #4472: ``configure --enable-shared`` now works on OSX.
Ronald Oussorenf7d54052009-01-02 10:48:31 +00004829
Benjamin Petersonfd9633e2008-12-28 15:37:31 +00004830- Issues #4728 and #4060: WORDS_BIGEDIAN is now correct in Universal builds.
4831
Martin v. Löwiscb6c3592008-11-30 11:08:26 +00004832- Issue #4389: Add icon to the uninstall entry in "add-and-remove-programs".
4833
Martin v. Löwis63470982008-11-19 13:51:44 +00004834- Issue #4289: Remove Cancel button from AdvancedDlg.
4835
Martin v. Löwis3d6f8ff2008-11-07 18:51:50 +00004836- Issue #1656675: Register a drop handler for .py* files on Windows.
4837
Martin v. Löwis692c2f82008-11-06 16:43:00 +00004838- Issue #4120: Exclude manifest from extension modules in VS2008.
4839
Martin v. Löwis0f3e7692008-10-17 13:43:01 +00004840- Issue #4091: Install pythonxy.dll in system32 again.
4841
Martin v. Löwiseba774b2008-10-13 11:23:35 +00004842- Issue #4018: Disable "for me" installations on Vista.
4843
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004844- Issue #3758: Add ``patchcheck`` build target to ``.PHONY``.
Brett Cannon60b15d22008-10-06 22:44:37 +00004845
Martin v. Löwisbb86d832008-11-04 20:40:09 +00004846- Issue #4204: Fixed module build errors on FreeBSD 4.
4847
Tarek Ziadéc4a4aeb2009-08-21 14:28:38 +00004848Documentation
4849-------------
4850
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004851- Issue #6556: Fixed the Distutils configuration files location explanation for
4852 Windows.
Tarek Ziadéc4a4aeb2009-08-21 14:28:38 +00004853
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004854- Issue #6801: symmetric_difference_update also accepts ``|``. Thanks to Carl
4855 Chenet.
Tarek Ziadé3092ed92009-08-29 13:33:21 +00004856
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc07d539d2008-10-14 21:47:22 +00004857C-API
4858-----
4859
Mark Dickinsone31d3002009-12-21 11:21:25 +00004860- Issue #7528: Add PyLong_AsLongAndOverflow (backported from py3k).
4861
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004862- Issue #7228: Add '%lld' and '%llu' support to PyString_FromFormat(V) and
4863 PyErr_Format, on machines with HAVE_LONG_LONG defined.
Mark Dickinson82864d12009-11-15 16:18:58 +00004864
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004865- Add new C-API function PyOS_string_to_double, and deprecated PyOS_ascii_atof
4866 and PyOS_ascii_strtod.
Mark Dickinson09823a22009-10-31 09:42:39 +00004867
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004868- Removed _PyOS_double_to_string. Use PyOS_double_to_string instead. This is in
4869 preparation for (but not strictly related to) issue #7117, short float repr.
Mark Dickinsonba26b392009-10-31 09:28:12 +00004870
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004871- Issue #6624: PyArg_ParseTuple with "s" format when parsing argument with NULL:
4872 Bogus TypeError detail string.
Sean Reifscheider9279e7d2009-08-01 23:54:55 +00004873
Jeffrey Yasskinf7f858d2009-05-08 22:23:21 +00004874- Issue #5954: Add a PyFrame_GetLineNumber() function to replace most uses of
4875 PyCode_Addr2Line().
4876
Jeffrey Yasskin1aa47002009-05-08 21:51:06 +00004877- Issue #5959: Add a PyCode_NewEmpty() function to create a new empty code
4878 object at a specified file, function, and line number.
4879
Brett Cannonc4f90eb2009-04-02 03:17:39 +00004880- Issue #1419652: Change the first argument to PyImport_AppendInittab() to
4881 ``const char *`` as the string is stored beyond the call.
4882
Benjamin Peterson5781f322009-02-16 21:09:09 +00004883- Some PyBytes_* aliases have been removed because they don't exist in 3.x.
4884
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004885- Issue #5175: PyLong_AsUnsignedLongLong now raises OverflowError for negative
4886 arguments. Previously, it raised TypeError.
Mark Dickinson4015f622009-02-10 15:46:50 +00004887
Benjamin Petersoncf2ce242008-12-22 20:52:53 +00004888- Issue #4720: The format for PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords can begin with '|'.
4889
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004890- Issue #3632: From the gdb debugger, the 'pyo' macro can now be called when the
4891 GIL is released, or owned by another thread.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc3538a312008-12-15 22:29:14 +00004892
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc07d539d2008-10-14 21:47:22 +00004893- Issue #4122: On Windows, fix a compilation error when using the
4894 Py_UNICODE_ISSPACE macro in an extension module.
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +00004895
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004896- Issue #4293: Py_AddPendingCall() is now thread safe and can be used for
Kristján Valur Jónssonc22ab182009-01-12 09:24:04 +00004897 asynchronous notifications to python from any thread. Documentation added.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc07d539d2008-10-14 21:47:22 +00004898
Benjamin Peterson9dfe6a82008-11-24 04:09:03 +00004899Extension Modules
4900-----------------
4901
Martin v. Löwis50ea4562009-11-27 13:56:01 +00004902- Issue #6508: Add posix.{getresuid,getresgid,setresuid,setresgid}.
4903
Mark Dickinson3d830822009-10-08 15:54:10 +00004904- Issue #7078: Set struct.__doc__ from _struct.__doc__.
4905
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004906- Issue #3366: Add erf, erfc, expm1, gamma, lgamma functions to math module.
Mark Dickinsonb93fff02009-09-28 18:54:55 +00004907
Brett Cannon4d947432009-09-22 00:29:48 +00004908- Issue #6823: Allow time.strftime() to accept a tuple with a isdst field
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004909 outside of the range of [-1, 1] by normalizing the value to within that range.
Brett Cannon4d947432009-09-22 00:29:48 +00004910
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004911- Issue #6877: Make it possible to link the readline extension to libedit on
4912 OSX.
Ronald Oussoren9f20d9d2009-09-20 14:18:15 +00004913
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004914- Issue #6944: Fix a SystemError when socket.getnameinfo() was called with
4915 something other than a tuple as first argument.
Georg Brandlab849892009-09-19 07:35:07 +00004916
Benjamin Peterson7f6d0832009-09-08 23:04:22 +00004917- Issue #6865: Fix reference counting issue in the initialization of the pwd
4918 module.
4919
Mark Dickinson6b3f1ef2009-09-06 21:21:05 +00004920- Issue #6848: Fix curses module build failure on OS X 10.6.
4921
Brett Cannon764465f2009-08-13 19:27:12 +00004922- Fix a segfault in expat when given a specially crafted input lead to the
Matthias Klose3b0f9b02010-01-22 00:34:48 +00004923 tokenizer not stopping. CVE-2009-3720.
Brett Cannon764465f2009-08-13 19:27:12 +00004924
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004925- Issue #6561: '\d' in a regex now matches only characters with Unicode category
4926 'Nd' (Number, Decimal Digit). Previously it also matched characters with
4927 category 'No'.
Mark Dickinsonfe67bd92009-07-28 20:35:03 +00004928
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004929- Issue #1523: Remove deprecated overflow wrapping for struct.pack with an
4930 integer format code ('bBhHiIlLqQ'). Packing an out-of-range integer now
4931 consistently raises struct.error.
Mark Dickinson5fd3af22009-07-07 15:08:28 +00004932
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004933- Issues #1530559, #1741130: Fix various struct.pack inconsistencies for the
4934 integer formats ('bBhHiIlLqQ'). In the following, '*' represents any of '=',
4935 '<', '>'.
Mark Dickinson463dc4b2009-07-05 10:01:24 +00004936
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004937 - Packing a float now always gives a Deprecation Warning. Previously it
4938 only warned for 'I', 'L', '*B', '*H', '*I', '*L'.
Mark Dickinson463dc4b2009-07-05 10:01:24 +00004939
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004940 - If x is not an int, long or float, then packing x will always result in
4941 struct.error. Previously an x with an __int__ method could be packed by
4942 'b', 'B', 'h', 'H', 'i', 'l', '*b', '*h' ,'*i', '*l', and an x with a
4943 __long__ method could be packed by 'q', 'Q', '*q', '*Q'; for x with
4944 neither __int__ nor __long__, TypeError used to be raised (with a
4945 confusing error message) for 'I', 'L', '*B', '*H', '*I', '*L', and
4946 struct.error in other cases.
Mark Dickinson463dc4b2009-07-05 10:01:24 +00004947
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004948 Note: as of Python 2.7 beta 1, the above is out of date. In 2.7 beta 1, any
4949 argument with an __int__ method can be packed, but use of this feature
4950 triggers a DeprecationWarning.
Mark Dickinson154b7ad2010-03-07 16:24:45 +00004951
Martin v. Löwis4f16d3b2009-05-29 15:58:08 +00004952- Issue #4873: Fix resource leaks in error cases of pwd and grp.
4953
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004954- Issue #4751: For hashlib algorithms provided by OpenSSL, the Python GIL is now
4955 released during computation on data lengths >= 2048 bytes.
Gregory P. Smithd02eeda2009-05-04 00:16:49 +00004956
Gregory P. Smithea388262009-02-13 03:00:00 +00004957- Issue #3745: Fix hashlib to always reject unicode and non buffer-api
4958 supporting objects as input no matter how it was compiled (built in
Gregory P. Smithfe32d302010-01-02 22:42:50 +00004959 implementations or external openssl library). NOTE: Undone in 2.7a2.
Gregory P. Smithea388262009-02-13 03:00:00 +00004960
Mark Dickinsona200dd52009-01-15 15:17:43 +00004961- Issue #4397: Fix occasional test_socket failure on OS X.
Mark Dickinsone82cdae2009-01-15 14:54:37 +00004962
Martin v. Löwisb3b7d852009-01-11 09:26:54 +00004963- Issue #4279: Fix build of parsermodule under Cygwin.
4964
Martin v. Löwis9ac49272009-01-02 20:40:14 +00004965- Issue #4051: Prevent conflict of UNICODE macros in cPickle.
4966
Georg Brandl6269fec2009-01-01 12:15:31 +00004967- Issue #4228: Pack negative values the same way as 2.4 in struct's L format.
4968
Martin v. Löwis03824e42008-12-29 18:17:34 +00004969- Issue #1040026: Fix os.times result on systems where HZ is incorrect.
4970
Mark Dickinson4c96fa52008-12-11 19:28:08 +00004971- Issues #3167, #3682: Fix test_math failures for log, log10 on Solaris,
4972 OpenBSD.
4973
Martin v. Löwisbcb017f2008-11-30 19:28:27 +00004974- Issue #4365: Add crtassem.h constants to the msvcrt module.
4975
Benjamin Peterson9dfe6a82008-11-24 04:09:03 +00004976- Issue #4396: The parser module now correctly validates the with statement.
4977
Jack Diederichd60c29e2009-03-31 23:46:48 +00004978- Issue #5228: Make functools.partial objects can now be pickled.
4979
Guilherme Polob1a98de2009-01-28 20:03:26 +00004980Tests
4981-----
4982
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004983- Issue #7431: Use TESTFN in test_linecache instead of trying to create a file
4984 in the Lib/test directory, which might be read-only for the user running the
4985 tests.
R. David Murray820b0ea2009-12-03 23:57:59 +00004986
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004987- Issue #7324: Add a sanity check to regrtest argument parsing to catch the case
4988 of an option with no handler.
R. David Murrayda826892009-11-15 00:04:32 +00004989
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004990- Issue #7312: Add a -F flag to run the selected tests in a loop until a test
4991 fails. Can be combined with -j.
R. David Murray7f7eea62009-11-14 15:18:22 +00004992
Antoine Pitrou310c9fe2009-11-11 20:55:07 +00004993- Issue #7295: Do not use a hardcoded file name in test_tarfile.
4994
Antoine Pitrouc98efe02009-11-06 22:34:35 +00004995- Issue #7270: Add some dedicated unit tests for multi-thread synchronization
4996 primitives such as Lock, RLock, Condition, Event and Semaphore.
4997
Antoine Pitrou59c44f32009-10-30 17:07:08 +00004998- Issue #7222: Make thread "reaping" more reliable so that reference
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004999 leak-chasing test runs give sensible results. The previous method of reaping
5000 threads could return successfully while some Thread objects were still
5001 referenced. This also introduces a new private function: ``thread._count()``.
Antoine Pitrou59c44f32009-10-30 17:07:08 +00005002
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005003- Issue #7151: Fixed regrtest -j so that output to stderr from a test no longer
5004 runs the risk of causing the worker thread to fail.
R. David Murray282396f2009-10-18 21:12:37 +00005005
Antoine Pitrou58d2f262009-10-10 20:52:11 +00005006- Issue #7055: test___all__ now greedily detects all modules which have an
5007 __all__ attribute, rather than using a hardcoded and incomplete list.
5008
R. David Murray14dcd432009-10-14 13:58:07 +00005009- Issue #7058: Added save/restore for things like sys.argv and cwd to
5010 runtest_inner in regrtest, with warnings if the called test modifies them,
5011 and a new section in the summary report at the end.
R. David Murrayabe3d3e2009-10-05 17:03:09 +00005012
Mark Dickinson245d9152009-10-04 18:38:39 +00005013- Issue #7042: Fix test_signal (test_itimer_virtual) failure on OS X 10.6.
5014
Brett Cannone7e941e2009-09-03 21:25:21 +00005015- Issue #6806: test_platform failed under OS X 10.6.0 because ``sw_ver`` leaves
5016 off the trailing 0 in the version number.
5017
Guilherme Polo7f146ab2009-06-21 17:22:50 +00005018- Issue #5450: Moved tests involving loading tk from Lib/test/test_tcl to
5019 Lib/lib-tk/test/test_tkinter/test_loadtk. With this, these tests demonstrate
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005020 the same behaviour as test_ttkguionly (and now also test_tk) which is to skip
5021 the tests if DISPLAY is defined but can't be used.
Guilherme Polo7f146ab2009-06-21 17:22:50 +00005022
Antoine Pitrou4698d992009-05-31 14:20:14 +00005023- Issue #6152: New option '-j'/'--multiprocess' for regrtest allows running
5024 regression tests in parallel, shortening the total runtime.
5025
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005026- Issue #5354: New test support function import_fresh_module() makes it easy to
5027 import both normal and optimised versions of modules. test_heapq and
5028 test_warnings have been adjusted to use it, tests for other modules with both
5029 C and Python implementations in the stdlib can be adjusted to use it over
5030 time.
Nick Coghlan5533ff62009-04-22 15:26:04 +00005031
Brett Cannonce3d2212009-04-01 20:25:48 +00005032- Fix test_warnings to no longer reset the warnings filter.
5033
Brett Cannon2da4d622009-04-01 19:57:10 +00005034- Fix test_logging to no longer reset the warnings filter.
5035
Georg Brandld8fb6ac2009-04-01 00:04:33 +00005036- Issue #5635: Fix running test_sys with tracing enabled.
5037
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005038- regrtest no longer treats ImportError as equivalent to SkipTest. Imports that
5039 should cause a test to be skipped are now done using import_module from test
5040 support, which does the conversion.
R. David Murray41448c52009-03-31 19:57:24 +00005041
Guilherme Polob1a98de2009-01-28 20:03:26 +00005042- Issue #5083: New 'gui' resource for regrtest.
5043
Walter Dörwalda1453172009-04-25 12:15:07 +00005044- Issue #5837: Certain sequences of calls to set() and unset() for
5045 support.EnvironmentVarGuard objects restored the environment variables
5046 incorrectly on __exit__.
5047
Alexandre Vassalotti999ecc02009-07-15 18:19:47 +00005048- Issue #2389: Array objects are now pickled in a portable manner.
5049
Brett Cannon813c43a2009-11-08 21:35:28 +00005050Misc
5051----
5052
5053- Issue #5611: Auto-detect whether a C file uses tabs or spaces in Vim.
5054
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +00005055
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +00005056What's New in Python 2.6 final
5057==============================
5058
Barry Warsawafa14362008-10-01 21:46:40 +00005059*Release date: 01-Oct-2008*
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +00005060
5061Core and Builtins
5062-----------------
5063
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfc5ea392008-09-26 22:34:08 +00005064- Issue #3967: Fixed a crash in the count() and find() methods of string-like
5065 objects, when the "start" parameter is a huge value.
5066
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc17617a02008-09-25 20:52:56 +00005067- Issue #3965: Fixed a crash on Windows when open() is given an invalid
5068 filename or mode, and the filename is a unicode string.
5069
Martin v. Löwise86b07c2008-09-25 04:12:50 +00005070- Bug #3951: Py_USING_MEMORY_DEBUGGER should not be enabled by default.
5071
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +00005072Library
5073-------
5074
Martin v. Löwise563aa42008-09-29 22:09:07 +00005075- Issue #3965: Allow repeated calls to turtle.Screen, by making it a
5076 true singleton object.
5077
Brett Cannonb2d61bd2008-09-29 03:41:21 +00005078- Issue #3895: It was possible to crash the interpreter when an external timer
5079 was used with cProfile that returned an object that could not be converted
5080 into a float.
5081
Benjamin Peterson22d3c922008-09-25 20:35:45 +00005082- Issue #3950: Made turtle respect scale factors.
5083
Thomas Hellera85c95d2008-09-24 18:26:05 +00005084- Issue #3547: Fixed ctypes structures bitfields of varying integer
5085 sizes.
5086
Benjamin Peterson2c7470d2008-09-21 21:27:51 +00005087- Issue #3879: A regression in urllib.getproxies_enviroment was fixed.
5088
Gregory P. Smith08067492008-09-30 20:41:13 +00005089- Issue #3863: Disabled a unit test of fork being called from a thread
5090 when running on platforms known to exhibit OS bugs when attempting that.
5091
Martin v. Löwis175d0072008-09-19 15:21:07 +00005092Build
5093-----
5094
Martin v. Löwisd69c9042008-10-01 11:19:50 +00005095- Bug #3989: Package the 2to3 script (as 2to3.py) in the Windows
5096 installer.
5097
Martin v. Löwis175d0072008-09-19 15:21:07 +00005098- Bug #3887: Package x64 version of CRT for AMD64 Windows binaries.
5099
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +00005100
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +00005101What's New in Python 2.6 release candidate 2?
5102=============================================
5103
Barry Warsaw6af16192008-09-18 04:33:43 +00005104*Release date: 17-Sep-2008*
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +00005105
5106Core and Builtins
5107-----------------
5108
Benjamin Peterson8c2b7dc2008-09-18 01:22:16 +00005109Extension Modules
5110-----------------
5111
Benjamin Peterson8d77d442008-09-30 01:31:49 +00005112- Security Issue #2: imageop did not validate arguments correctly and could
5113 segfault as a result.
5114
Benjamin Peterson8c2b7dc2008-09-18 01:22:16 +00005115- Issue #3886: Possible integer overflows in the _hashopenssl module were
5116 closed.
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +00005117
Antoine Pitrou3c9f5412008-09-13 20:30:30 +00005118Tools/Demos
5119-----------
5120
Georg Brandl2bd92a52009-10-11 21:10:07 +00005121- Issue #3850: recursion tests in Tools/scripts/find_recursion_limit.py can raise
Antoine Pitrou3c9f5412008-09-13 20:30:30 +00005122 AttributeError instead of RuntimeError, depending in which C API call
5123 exactly the recursion limit is exceeded. Consequently, both exception types
5124 are caught and silenced.
5125
Martin v. Löwis4eb18f92008-09-14 20:22:39 +00005126Build
5127-----
5128
5129- Issue #3617: Include a licensing statement regarding the Microsoft
5130 C runtime in the Windows installer.
5131
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +00005132
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +00005133What's New in Python 2.6 release candidate 1?
5134=============================================
5135
Barry Warsaw1e62aec2008-09-12 23:25:57 +00005136*Release date: 12-Sep-2008*
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +00005137
5138Core and Builtins
5139-----------------
5140
Martin v. Löwis9fa5a282008-09-11 06:53:30 +00005141- Issue #3642: Suppress warning in obmalloc when size_t is larger than uint.
5142
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc05e34492008-09-10 22:04:45 +00005143- Issue #3743: In a few places, PY_FORMAT_SIZE_T was incorrectly used with
5144 PyString_FromFormat or PyErr_Format to display size_t values. The macro
5145 PY_FORMAT_SIZE_T is designed to select the correct format for the OS
5146 ``printf`` function, whereas PyString_FromFormat has an independent
5147 implementation and uses "%zd" on all platforms for size_t values.
5148 This makes a difference on win64, where ``printf`` needs "%Id" to display
5149 64bit values.
5150
Benjamin Peterson97179b02008-09-09 20:55:01 +00005151- Issue #3634: _weakref.ref(Exception).__init__() gave invalid return value on
5152 error.
5153
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd3ffb892008-09-09 07:24:30 +00005154- Issue #3777: long() applied to a float object now always return a long
5155 object; previously an int would be returned for small values. the __long__
5156 method is allowed to return either an int or a long, but the behaviour of
5157 float objects should not change to respect backward compatibility.
5158
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc3571fbf2008-09-01 19:52:00 +00005159- Issue #3751: str.rpartition would perform a left-partition when called with
5160 a unicode argument.
5161
Benjamin Peterson17f03ca2008-09-01 14:18:30 +00005162- Issue #3683: Fix compilation when --without-threads is given.
5163
Antoine Pitroud4ae97b2008-08-29 18:39:48 +00005164- Issue #3668: Fix a memory leak with the "s*" argument parser in
Vinay Sajip35e3b032008-09-01 14:33:59 +00005165 PyArg_ParseTuple and friends, which occurred when the argument for "s*"
Antoine Pitroud4ae97b2008-08-29 18:39:48 +00005166 was correctly parsed but parsing of subsequent arguments failed.
5167
Vinay Sajip35e3b032008-09-01 14:33:59 +00005168- Issue #2534: speed up isinstance() and issubclass() by 50-70%, so as to
Antoine Pitrou0668c622008-08-26 22:42:08 +00005169 match Python 2.5 speed despite the __instancecheck__ / __subclasscheck__
5170 mechanism. In the process, fix a bug where isinstance() and issubclass(),
5171 when given a tuple of classes as second argument, were looking up
5172 __instancecheck__ / __subclasscheck__ on the tuple rather than on each
5173 type object.
5174
Neal Norwitz18aa3882008-08-24 05:04:52 +00005175- Fix crashes on memory allocation failure found with failmalloc.
5176
5177- Fix memory leaks found with valgrind and update suppressions file.
5178
5179- Fix compiler warnings in opt mode which would lead to invalid memory reads.
5180
5181- Fix problem using wrong name in decimal module reported by pychecker.
5182
Christian Heimes7d4c3172008-08-22 19:47:25 +00005183- Silenced another compiler warning about a used but not defined
5184 function 'stringlib_contains_obj'.
5185
Benjamin Peterson712ee922008-08-24 18:10:20 +00005186- Added warnings on the use of ``__getslice__``, ``__setslice__``, or
5187 ``__delslice__``.
5188
Gregory P. Smith2bb25cc2008-09-02 05:29:51 +00005189- Issue #3678: Correctly pass LDFLAGS and LDLAST to the linker on shared
5190 library targets in the Makefile.
5191
Gregory P. Smith980b99b2008-09-07 05:15:18 +00005192- Issue #1204: The configure script now tests for additional libraries
5193 that may be required when linking against readline. This fixes issues
5194 with x86_64 builds on some platforms (a few Linux flavors and OpenBSD).
5195
Benjamin Peterson14cb6bc2008-08-26 17:08:40 +00005196C-API
5197-----
5198
5199- Aliased PyObject_Bytes to PyObject_Str.
5200
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +00005201Library
5202-------
5203
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc24cb3822008-09-11 20:56:13 +00005204- Issue #3640: Pickling a list or a dict uses less local variables, to reduce
5205 stack usage in the case of deeply nested objects.
5206
Guido van Rossume3c4fd92008-09-10 14:27:00 +00005207- Issue #3629: Fix sre "bytecode" validator for an end case.
5208
Martin v. Löwis24329ba2008-09-10 13:38:12 +00005209- Issue #3811: The Unicode database was updated to 5.1.
5210
Nick Coghland2e09382008-09-11 12:11:06 +00005211- Issue #3781: Further warnings.catch_warnings() cleanup to prevent
5212 silent misbehaviour when a single instance is nested in multiple
5213 with statements, or when the methods are invoked in the wrong order.
5214
Vinay Sajip844f7412008-09-09 13:42:08 +00005215- Issue #3809: Fixed spurious 'test.blah' file left behind by test_logging.
5216
Nick Coghland2e09382008-09-11 12:11:06 +00005217- Issue #3781: Clean up the API for warnings.catch_warnings() by having it
Brett Cannon672237d2008-09-09 00:49:16 +00005218 return a list or None rather than a custom object.
5219
Benjamin Peterson6ac7d7c2008-09-06 19:28:11 +00005220- Issue #1638033: Cookie.Morsel gained the httponly attribute.
5221
Antoine Pitrouebcd0ce2008-09-05 23:30:23 +00005222- Issue #3535: zipfile couldn't read some zip files larger than 2GB.
5223
5224- Issue #3776: Deprecate the bsddb package for removal in 3.0.
Brett Cannon32476fc2008-09-05 18:33:51 +00005225
Hirokazu Yamamoto42e459e2008-09-04 14:25:30 +00005226- Issue #3762: platform.architecture() fails if python is lanched via
5227 its symbolic link.
5228
Vinay Sajip65d66e12008-09-04 07:31:21 +00005229- Issue #3772: Fixed regression problem in StreamHandler.emit().
5230
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00005231- Issue #600362: Relocated parse_qs() and parse_qsl(), from the cgi module
Facundo Batistac585df92008-09-03 22:35:50 +00005232 to the urlparse one. Added a PendingDeprecationWarning in the old
5233 module, it will be deprecated in the future.
5234
Marc-André Lemburgb339b2a2008-09-03 11:13:56 +00005235- Issue #2562: Fix distutils PKG-INFO writing logic to allow having
5236 non-ascii characters and Unicode in setup.py meta-data.
5237
5238- Issue #3726: Allow spaces in separators in logging configuration files.
Vinay Sajip6a2fd812008-09-03 09:20:05 +00005239
Marc-André Lemburg31a0a142008-09-02 12:11:19 +00005240- Issue #3719: platform.architecture() fails if there are spaces in the
5241 path to the Python binary.
5242
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00005243- Issue #3602: Moved test.test_support.catch_warning() to
Brett Cannon1eaf0742008-09-02 01:25:16 +00005244 warnings.catch_warnings() along with some API cleanup. Expanding the tests
5245 for catch_warnings() also led to an improvement in the raising of a
5246 DeprecationWarning related to warnings.warn_explicit().
5247
Benjamin Peterson973e6c22008-09-01 23:12:58 +00005248- The deprecation warnings for the old camelCase threading API were removed.
5249
Vinay Sajip35e3b032008-09-01 14:33:59 +00005250- logging: fixed lack of use of encoding attribute specified on a stream.
5251
Christian Heimesa27a62e2008-08-22 19:55:54 +00005252- Silenced a trivial compiler warning in the sqlite module.
5253
Christian Heimes1cc69632008-08-22 20:10:27 +00005254- Fixed two format strings in the _collections module.
5255
Benjamin Peterson17f03ca2008-09-01 14:18:30 +00005256- Issue #3703: _fileio.FileIO gave unhelpful error message when trying to open a
5257 directory.
Benjamin Petersonf22c26e2008-09-01 14:13:43 +00005258
Gregory P. Smithd7122032008-09-02 05:36:11 +00005259- Issue #3708: os.urandom no longer goes into an infinite loop when passed a
5260 non-integer floating point number.
5261
Vinay Sajip65d66e12008-09-04 07:31:21 +00005262- Issue #3110: multiprocessing fails to compiel on solaris 10 due to missing
Jesse Nollerb814d6a2008-09-03 18:10:30 +00005263 SEM_VALUE_MAX.
5264
Benjamin Peterson37346b22008-08-23 20:27:43 +00005265Extension Modules
5266-----------------
5267
Jesse Noller438195f2009-01-18 21:04:36 +00005268- Issue #4301: Patch the logging module to add processName support, remove
5269 _check_logger_class from multiprocessing.
5270
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc293924b2008-09-02 23:19:56 +00005271- Issue #2975: When compiling several extension modules with Visual Studio 2008
5272 from the same python interpreter, some environment variables would grow
5273 without limit.
5274
Benjamin Peterson37346b22008-08-23 20:27:43 +00005275- Issue #3643: Added a few more checks to _testcapi to prevent segfaults by
5276 exploitation of poor argument checking.
5277
Gerhard Häringef2276b2008-09-12 13:54:06 +00005278- sqlite3: Changed docstring of iterdump() to mark method as "Non-standard".
5279
Gerhard Häring6e1afcf2008-09-12 18:58:57 +00005280- Issue #3103: Reduced globals symbols used by sqlite3 module and made sure all
5281 remaining ones have "pysqlite_" prefix.
5282
Gerhard Häringe6872eb2008-09-12 22:33:22 +00005283- Issue #3846: Release the GIL during sqlite3_prepare calls. This improves
5284 concurrent access to the same SQLite database from multiple
5285 threads/processes.
5286
Brett Cannona0b74442008-09-03 22:45:11 +00005287Tests
5288-----
5289
Nick Coghland2e09382008-09-11 12:11:06 +00005290- Issue #3781: Add test.test_support.check_warnings() as a convenience
5291 wrapper for warnings.catch_warnings() that makes it easier to check
5292 that expected warning messages are being reported.
5293
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfeb8cad2008-09-06 20:53:51 +00005294- Issue #3796: Some tests functions were not enabled in test_float.
5295
5296- Issue #3768: Move test_py3kwarn over to the new API for catch_warnings().
Brett Cannona0b74442008-09-03 22:45:11 +00005297
Brett Cannoncdeb24b2008-09-05 22:59:17 +00005298Build
5299-----
5300
Martin v. Löwisab0b29b2008-09-13 08:11:57 +00005301- Issue #3833: Use a different upgrade code for Win64 installers.
5302
Martin v. Löwis3f5fda82008-09-08 13:50:10 +00005303- Issue #2271: Set SecureCustomProperties so that installation will properly
5304 use the TARGETDIR even for unprivileged users.
5305
Martin v. Löwis67543a92008-09-08 12:02:45 +00005306- Allow passing the MSI file name to merge.py.
5307
Vinay Sajip844f7412008-09-09 13:42:08 +00005308- Issue #3758: Rename the 'check' target to 'patchcheck' so as to not clash
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfeb8cad2008-09-06 20:53:51 +00005309 with GNU build target guidelines.
Brett Cannoncdeb24b2008-09-05 22:59:17 +00005310
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +00005311
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00005312What's New in Python 2.6 beta 3?
5313================================
5314
Barry Warsaw07a4a382008-08-21 01:15:08 +00005315*Release date: 20-Aug-2008*
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00005316
5317Core and Builtins
5318-----------------
5319
Guido van Rossumf8402962008-08-20 15:01:50 +00005320- Issue #1878: Remove Py_TPFLAGS_HAVE_VERSION_TAG from
5321 Py_TPFLAGS_DEFAULT when not building the core. This means 3rd party
5322 extensions do not automatically benefit from the class attribute
5323 cache; they will have to explicitly add Py_TPFLAGS_HAVE_VERSION_TAG
5324 to their tp_flags field if they care. This is a backwards
5325 compatibility feature; in 3.0, all types will use the cache by
5326 default.
5327
Benjamin Petersonf647dc12008-08-20 01:27:30 +00005328- Keyword arguments can now follow starred arguments. (``f(a, *args,
5329 keyword=23)`` is now valid syntax.)
5330
Thomas Heller0ad5ae02008-08-19 19:25:04 +00005331- ctypes function pointers that are COM methods have a boolean True
5332 value again.
5333
Martin v. Löwisf91d46a2008-08-12 14:49:50 +00005334- Issue #3139: Make buffer-interface thread-safe wrt. PyArg_ParseTuple,
5335 by denying s# to parse objects that have a releasebuffer procedure,
5336 and introducing s*.
5337
Georg Brandl1e13ea92008-08-11 09:07:59 +00005338- Issue #3537: Fix an assertion failure when an empty but presized dict
5339 object was stored in the freelist.
5340
Mark Dickinsonb6467572008-08-04 21:30:09 +00005341- Issue #1481296: Make long(float('nan')) and int(float('nan')) raise
5342 ValueError consistently across platforms.
5343
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc39fd6722008-07-31 21:28:03 +00005344- Issue #3479: On platforms where sizeof(int) is smaller than sizeof(long)
5345 (64bit Unix, for example), unichr() would truncate its argument and return
5346 u'\x00' for unichr(2**32). Now it properly raises an OverflowError.
5347
Neal Norwitze7d8be82008-07-31 17:17:14 +00005348- Apply security patches from Apple.
5349
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc246daed2008-07-31 00:42:16 +00005350- Issue #2542: Now that issubclass() may call arbitrary code, ensure that
5351 PyErr_ExceptionMatches returns 0 when an exception occurs there.
5352
Antoine Pitrou92f82162008-07-25 22:22:08 +00005353- Issue #1819: function calls with several named parameters are now on
5354 average 35% faster (as measured by pybench).
5355
Amaury Forgeot d'Arce4921fe2008-07-21 22:00:38 +00005356- Issue #2378: An unexpected UnboundLocalError or NameError could appear when
5357 the python debugger steps into a class statement: the free variables (local
5358 variables defined in an outer scope) would be deleted from the outer scope.
5359
Gregory P. Smith0470bab2008-07-22 04:46:32 +00005360- Issue #2620: Overflow checking when allocating or reallocating memory
5361 was not always being done properly in some python types and extension
5362 modules. PyMem_MALLOC, PyMem_REALLOC, PyMem_NEW and PyMem_RESIZE have
5363 all been updated to perform better checks and places in the code that
5364 would previously leak memory on the error path when such an allocation
5365 failed have been fixed.
5366
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00005367Library
5368-------
5369
Hirokazu Yamamoto838c79f2008-08-20 13:14:07 +00005370- Issue #3612: Added some missing basic types in ctypes.wintypes.
5371
Benjamin Petersone977ad42008-08-20 01:42:01 +00005372- The methods ``is_in_tuple()``, ``is_vararg()``, and ``is_keywordarg()`` of
5373 symtable.Symbol have been deprecated for removal in 3.0 and the next release.
5374
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc351ffb82008-08-18 19:23:47 +00005375- Issue #2234: distutils failed for some versions of the cygwin compiler. The
5376 version reported by these tools does not necessarily follow the python
5377 version numbering scheme, so the module is less strict when parsing it.
5378
Nick Coghlanf70385a2008-08-18 12:42:46 +00005379- Issue #2235: Added Py3k warnings for types which will become unhashable
5380 under the stricter __hash__ inheritance rules in 3.0. Several types
5381 which did not meet the rules for hash invariants and were already
5382 unhashable in 3.0 have now been explicitly flagged as unhashable in
5383 2.6 as well (collections.Mapping, collections.Set, unittest.TestSuite,
5384 xml.dom.minidom.NamedNodeMap, numbers.Number, UserList.UserList)
5385
Brett Cannon88f801d2008-08-18 00:46:22 +00005386- Update __all__ for cookielib, csv, os, urllib2, and weakref to include things
5387 imported into the module but exposed as part of the module's API.
5388
Brett Cannon7b96f072008-08-18 00:41:11 +00005389- Remove an unneeded import of abc.ABCMeta from 'inspect'.
5390
Brett Cannon46225e72008-08-18 00:36:52 +00005391- Remove unneeded imports of 'sys' and 'warnings' from 'io'.
5392
Brett Cannon25c9d6a2008-08-17 22:10:11 +00005393- Remove unneeded imports of 'warnings' from shelve, filecmp, and dummy_thread.
5394
Hirokazu Yamamoto41a81eb2008-08-17 13:10:46 +00005395- Issue #3575: Incremental decoder's decode function now takes bytearray
5396 by using 's*' instead of 't#'.
5397
Mark Dickinson3e4caeb2009-02-21 20:27:01 +00005398- Issue #2222: Fixed reference leak when occurred os.rename()
Hirokazu Yamamoto7f30a682008-08-17 09:46:56 +00005399 fails unicode conversion on 2nd parameter. (windows only)
5400
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00005401- Issue #2464: urllib2 now supports a malformation in the URL received
Facundo Batista94f243a2008-08-17 03:38:39 +00005402 in a redirect.
5403
Brett Cannonabe423e2008-08-16 21:47:07 +00005404- Silence the DeprecationWarning raised when importing mimetools in
Brett Cannon721b1452008-08-16 22:00:27 +00005405 BaseHTTPServer, cgi (and rfc822), httplib.
Brett Cannonabe423e2008-08-16 21:47:07 +00005406
Facundo Batistaeb90b782008-08-16 14:44:07 +00005407- Issue #2776: fixed small issue when handling an URL with double slash
5408 after a 302 response in the case of not going through a proxy.
5409
Antoine Pitroub90a8be2008-08-15 21:03:21 +00005410- Issue #2676: in the email package, content-type parsing was hanging on
5411 pathological input because of quadratic or exponential behaviour of a
5412 regular expression.
5413
Antoine Pitrou11ec65d2008-08-14 21:04:30 +00005414- Issue #3476: binary buffered reading through the new "io" library is now
5415 thread-safe.
5416
Brett Cannonbf3157b2008-08-14 05:00:03 +00005417- Silence the DeprecationWarning of rfc822 when it is imported by mimetools
5418 since mimetools itself is deprecated. Because modules are cached, all
5419 subsequent imports of rfc822 will not raise a visible DeprecationWarning.
5420
Antoine Pitrou9fcd4b32008-08-11 17:21:36 +00005421- Issue #3134: shutil referenced undefined WindowsError symbol.
5422
Robert Schuppenies14646332008-08-10 11:01:53 +00005423- Issue #1342811: Fix leak in Tkinter.Menu.delete. Commands associated to
5424 menu entries were not deleted.
5425
Brett Cannon83e81842008-08-09 23:30:55 +00005426- Copied the implementation of reduce() to _functools.reduce() to have a
5427 version that did not raise a DeprecationWarning under -3.
5428
Antoine Pitrou76b8bee2008-08-09 17:27:23 +00005429- Issue #3205: When iterating over a BZ2File fails allocating memory, raise
5430 a MemoryError rather than silently stop the iteration.
5431
Guido van Rossum59ce9012008-08-09 14:55:34 +00005432- Issue #3487: sre "bytecode" validator. Passing invalid "re-bytecode"
5433 to _sre.compile() will now be rejected. This should not affect anybody
5434 since the re.compile() function never generates invalid re-bytecode.
5435
Skip Montanaroa032bf42008-08-08 22:52:51 +00005436- Issue #3436: Make csv.DictReader's fieldnames attribute a property so that
5437 upon first access it can be automatically initialized from the csv file if
5438 it wasn't initialized during instantiation.
5439
Brett Cannon3aa2a492008-08-06 22:28:09 +00005440- Issue #2338: Create imp.reload() to help with transitioning to Python 3.0 as
5441 the reload() built-in has been removed.
5442
Brett Cannon7e30b672008-08-04 21:52:25 +00005443- Changed code in the following modules/packages to remove warnings raised
Brett Cannonc1b76e42008-08-09 23:06:16 +00005444 while running under the ``-3`` flag: aifc, asynchat, asyncore, bdb, bsddb,
Brett Cannon047e4a92008-08-17 04:16:04 +00005445 ConfigParser, cookielib, csv, difflib, distutils, DocXMLRPCServer, email,
5446 filecmp, fileinput, inspect, logging, modulefinder, pdb, pickle, profile,
5447 pstats, pydoc, re, rlcompleter, SimpleXMLRPCServer, shelve, socket,
5448 subprocess, sqlite3, tarfile, Tkinter, test.test_support, textwrap,
5449 threading, tokenize, traceback, urlparse, wsgiref, xml, xmlrpclib.
Brett Cannon7e30b672008-08-04 21:52:25 +00005450
Lars Gustäbel727bd0b2008-08-02 11:26:39 +00005451- Issue #3039: Fix tarfile.TarFileCompat.writestr() which always
5452 raised an AttributeError.
5453
Benjamin Peterson01a24322008-07-28 23:35:27 +00005454- Issue #2523: Fix quadratic behaviour when read()ing a binary file without
Antoine Pitroude781a42008-08-09 12:43:23 +00005455 asking for a specific length. This problem only affected files opened
5456 using the new "io" module, not the built-in open() function.
Benjamin Peterson01a24322008-07-28 23:35:27 +00005457
Mark Dickinsonfe84cce2008-07-27 06:39:07 +00005458- Issue #3449: Update decimal module to use most recent specification
5459 (v. 1.68) and tests (v. 2.58) from IBM.
5460
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00005461- Issue #3437: Bug fix in robotparser parsing of Allow: lines.
Skip Montanarof9ac43f2008-07-27 00:50:41 +00005462
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00005463- Issue #1592: Improve error reporting when operations are attempted
Raymond Hettinger8c664e82008-07-25 18:43:33 +00005464 on a closed shelf.
5465
Georg Brandlf9efabb2008-07-23 15:16:45 +00005466- Deprecate the "ast" parser function aliases.
5467
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00005468- Issue #3120: On 64-bit Windows the subprocess module was truncating handles.
5469
5470- Issue #3303: Fix a crash in locale.strcoll() when calling it with
5471 invalid arguments.
5472
5473- Issue #3302: Fix several crashes when calling locale's gettext functions
5474 with None arguments.
5475
5476- Issue #3389: Allow resolving dotted names for handlers in logging
5477 configuration files.
5478
5479- Deprecate the sunaudio module for removal in Python 3.0.
5480
Antoine Pitrou5fdfa3e2008-07-25 19:42:26 +00005481- Issue #3394: zipfile.writestr sets external attributes when passed a
5482 file name rather than a ZipInfo instance, so files are extracted with
5483 mode 0600 rather than 000 under Unix.
5484
Gregory P. Smitha36f8fe2008-08-04 00:13:29 +00005485- Issue #1857: subprocess.Popen.poll gained an additional _deadstate keyword
5486 argument in python 2.5, this broke code that subclassed Popen to include its
5487 own poll method. Fixed my moving _deadstate to an _internal_poll method.
5488
Martin v. Löwis8dbf3642008-08-01 14:10:26 +00005489Build
5490-----
5491
5492- Generate the PatternGrammar pickle during "make install".
5493
Nick Coghlan2a0c2b12008-08-04 12:47:17 +00005494Documentation
5495-------------
5496
Nick Coghlan6e8fef02008-08-18 13:14:22 +00005497- Issue #2235: the C API function PyObject_HashNotImplemented and its
5498 interaction with the tp_hash slot (added in 2.6b2) are now documented
5499
Nick Coghlan2a0c2b12008-08-04 12:47:17 +00005500- Issue #643841: The language reference now provides more detailed
5501 coverage of the lookup process for special methods. The disclaimers
5502 regarding lack of coverage of new-style classes have also been
5503 removed, since the coverage is now fairly reasonable.
5504
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00005505
Raymond Hettingere3ae6552008-06-20 04:18:15 +00005506What's New in Python 2.6 beta 2?
5507================================
5508
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00005509*Release date: 17-Jul-2008*
5510
Raymond Hettingere3ae6552008-06-20 04:18:15 +00005511Core and Builtins
5512-----------------
5513
Georg Brandl3e483f62008-07-16 22:57:41 +00005514- Issue #3156: Fix inconsistent behavior of the bytearray type: all
5515 its methods now allow for items objects that can be converted to
5516 an integer using operator.index().
5517
Mark Dickinson64b7e502008-07-16 09:40:03 +00005518- Issue #3360: Fix incorrect parsing of '020000000000.0', which
5519 produced a ValueError instead of giving the correct float.
5520
Eric Smitha5fa5a22008-07-16 00:11:49 +00005521- Issue #3083: Add alternate (#) formatting for bin, oct, hex output
5522 for str.format(). This adds the prefix 0b, 0o, or 0x, respectively.
5523
Mark Dickinson7103aa42008-07-15 19:08:33 +00005524- Issue #3008: the float type has a new instance method 'float.hex'
5525 and a new class method 'float.fromhex' to convert floating-point
5526 numbers to and from hexadecimal strings, respectively.
5527
Nick Coghlan6d6bd442008-07-15 15:40:22 +00005528- Issue #2235: __hash__ is once again inherited by default. To allow
5529 collections.Hashable to remain meaningful in the presence of the
5530 default hash implementation (object.__hash__), it is now possible
5531 to explicit block inheritance of hash by setting __hash__=None at
5532 the Python level, or tp_hash=PyObject_HashNotImplemented at the C
5533 level.
5534
Nick Coghlanb028f502008-07-13 14:52:36 +00005535- Issue #3221: Issue a RuntimeWarning instead of raising SystemError if
5536 the parent module cannot be found while performing an absolute import.
5537 This means that an incorrectly defined __package__ attribute will
5538 now only prevent relative imports in that module rather than causing
5539 all imports from that module to fail.
5540
Nick Coghlan14ff9942008-07-08 14:21:42 +00005541- Issue #2517: Allow unicode messages in Exceptions again by correctly
5542 bypassing the instance dictionary when looking up __unicode__ on
5543 new-style classes.
5544
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcbdd941f2008-07-01 20:38:04 +00005545- Issue #3242: Fix a crash inside the print statement, if sys.stdout is
5546 set to a custom object whose write() method happens to install
5547 another file in sys.stdout.
5548
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc1f40c8a2008-06-30 22:42:40 +00005549- Issue #3088: Corrected a race condition in classes derived from
5550 threading.local: the first member set by a thread could be saved in
5551 another thread's dictionary.
5552
Mark Dickinson1ec2fcd2008-06-20 14:53:43 +00005553- Issue #3004: Minor change to slice.indices(): the start and stop
5554 arguments are now treated identically, making the behaviour easier
5555 to describe and understand. For example, slice(None, -10,
5556 1).indices(9) now returns (0, 0, 1) instead of (0, -1, 1), and
5557 slice(None, 10, -1).indices(10) returns (9, 9, -1) instead of (9,
5558 10, -1).
5559
Georg Brandl278fc502008-07-19 12:46:12 +00005560- Issue #3219: Calling a function with repeated keyword arguments,
5561 f(a=2, a=23), would not cause a syntax error. This was a regression
5562 from 2.4 caused by the switch to the new compiler.
Benjamin Peterson175e4d92008-07-01 19:34:52 +00005563
Georg Brandl278fc502008-07-19 12:46:12 +00005564- Issue #2862: Make int and float freelist management consistent with
5565 other freelists. Changes their CompactFreeList apis into
5566 ClearFreeList apis and calls them via gc.collect().
Gregory P. Smith2fe77062008-07-06 03:35:58 +00005567
Brett Cannon8bb8fa52008-07-02 01:57:08 +00005568Library
5569-------
5570
Thomas Heller57adf222008-08-14 19:10:48 +00005571- Issue #3554: ctypes.string_at and ctypes.wstring_at did call Python
5572 api functions without holding the GIL, which could lead to a fatal
5573 error when they failed.
5574
Martin v. Löwisaabf4042008-08-02 07:20:25 +00005575- Issue #799428: Fix Tkinter.Misc._nametowidget to unwrap Tcl command objects.
5576
Jesse Noller7fb96402008-07-17 21:01:05 +00005577- Issue #3395: fix reference in test_multiprocessing to old debugInfo method
5578
Georg Brandla24869a2008-07-16 22:33:18 +00005579- Issue #3312: Fix two crashes in sqlite3.
5580
Georg Brandl86cbf812008-07-16 21:31:41 +00005581- Issue #1608818: Fix misbehavior in os.listdir() if readdir() fails.
5582
Jesse Noller13e9d582008-07-16 14:32:36 +00005583- Issue #3125: Remove copy_reg in multiprocessing and replace it with
5584 ForkingPickler.register() to resolve conflict with ctypes.
5585
Vinay Sajip51e65192008-07-18 09:01:10 +00005586- Issue #3090: Fixed ARCHFLAGS parsing on OS/X
Jesse Noller13e9d582008-07-16 14:32:36 +00005587
Thomas Heller880f5292008-07-15 19:39:38 +00005588- Issue #3313: Fixed a crash when a failed dlopen() call does not set
5589 a valid dlerror() message.
5590
Thomas Heller2bad6572008-07-15 17:19:50 +00005591- Issue #3258: Fixed a crash when a ctypes POINTER type to an
5592 incomplete structure was created.
5593
Brett Cannon3d0b9f02008-07-13 01:15:07 +00005594- Issue #3339: dummy_thread.acquire() should not return None.
5595
Raymond Hettingerb01713e2008-07-10 14:34:57 +00005596- Issue #3285: Fractions from_float() and from_decimal() accept Integral arguments.
5597
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +00005598- Issue #3301: Bisect module behaved badly when lo was negative.
Raymond Hettinger3cd1e422008-07-10 14:03:19 +00005599
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc0f7cddc2008-07-06 21:34:39 +00005600- Issue #839496: SimpleHTTPServer used to open text files in text mode. This is
5601 both unnecessary (HTTP allows text content to be sent in several forms) and
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +00005602 wrong because the actual transmitted size could differ from the
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc0f7cddc2008-07-06 21:34:39 +00005603 content-length. The problem had been corrected in the 2.4 branch, but never
5604 merged into trunk.
5605
Georg Brandle78fbcc2008-07-05 10:13:36 +00005606- Issue #2663: add filtering capability to shutil.copytree().
5607
Martin v. Löwis8c436412008-07-03 12:51:14 +00005608- Issue #1622: Correct interpretation of various ZIP header fields.
5609
5610- Issue #1526: Allow more than 64k files to be added to Zip64 file.
5611
5612- Issue #1746: Correct handling of zipfile archive comments (previously
5613 archives with comments over 4k were flagged as invalid). Allow writing
Vinay Sajip51e65192008-07-18 09:01:10 +00005614 Zip files with archives by setting the 'comment' attribute of a ZipFile.
Martin v. Löwis8c436412008-07-03 12:51:14 +00005615
Vinay Sajip51e65192008-07-18 09:01:10 +00005616- Issue #449227: The rlcompleter module now adds "(" to callable objects
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +00005617 when completed.
Facundo Batista66c52772008-07-02 16:52:55 +00005618
Nick Coghlanc060b0e2008-07-02 13:09:19 +00005619- Issue #3190: Pydoc now hides the automatic module attribute __package__ (the
5620 handling is now the same as that of other special attributes like __name__).
5621
Brett Cannon8bb8fa52008-07-02 01:57:08 +00005622- Issue #2885 (partial): The urllib.urlopen() function has been deprecated for
5623 removal in Python 3.0 in favor of urllib2.urlopen().
5624
Gregory P. Smithf4140642008-07-06 07:16:40 +00005625- Issue #2113: Fix error in subprocess.Popen if the select system call is
5626 interrupted by a signal.
5627
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +00005628- Issue #3309: Fix bz2.BZFile iterator to release its internal lock
Gregory P. Smith3b1e6b22008-07-07 04:31:58 +00005629 properly when raising an exception due to the bz2file being closed.
5630 Prevents a deadlock.
5631
Gregory P. Smithc4691ec2008-07-07 05:09:12 +00005632- Issue #3094: httplib.HTTPSConnection Host: headers no longer include the
5633 redundant ":443" port number designation when the connection is using the
5634 default https port (443).
5635
Gregory P. Smithdb3409c2008-07-17 03:13:05 +00005636- Issue #874900: after an os.fork() call the threading module state is cleaned
5637 up in the child process to prevent deadlock and report proper thread counts
5638 if the new process uses the threading module.
5639
Nick Coghlan38469e22008-07-13 12:23:47 +00005640Tests
5641-----
5642
5643- test.test_support.catch_warning now keeps track of all warnings it sees
5644 and is now better documented. Explicit unit tests for this context manager
5645 have been added to test_warnings.
5646
Martin v. Löwisd84fd952008-06-30 06:57:39 +00005647Build
5648-----
5649
5650- Issue #3215: Build sqlite3 as sqlite3.dll, not sqlite3.pyd.
5651
Brett Cannon8bb8fa52008-07-02 01:57:08 +00005652
Brett Cannon97aa1ae2008-07-11 00:12:52 +00005653Documentation
5654-------------
5655
Brett Cannonfeef51d2008-07-11 00:50:01 +00005656- Document that robotparser has been renamed to urllib.robotparser in
Brett Cannon963ffdb2008-07-11 00:48:57 +00005657 Python 3.0.
5658
Brett Cannonf6afa332008-07-11 00:16:30 +00005659- Document that urlparse has been renamed to urllib.parse in Python 3.0.
5660
Brett Cannon97aa1ae2008-07-11 00:12:52 +00005661- Document that urllib2 is split across multiple modules and renamed in
5662 Python 3.0.
5663
5664- Document that urllib is split across multiple modules and renamed in
5665 Python 3.0.
5666
5667
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00005668What's New in Python 2.6 beta 1?
5669================================
5670
Barry Warsawb5d17402008-06-19 01:48:07 +00005671*Release date: 18-June-2008*
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00005672
5673Core and Builtins
5674-----------------
5675
Brett Cannondea1b562008-06-27 00:31:13 +00005676- Issue #3211: warnings.warn_explicit() did not guard against its 'registry'
5677 argument being anything other than a dict or None. Also fixed a bug in error
5678 handling when 'message' and 'category' were both set to None, triggering a
5679 bus error.
5680
Amaury Forgeot d'Arca8919fe2008-06-16 19:12:42 +00005681- Issue #3100: Corrected a crash on deallocation of a subclassed weakref which
5682 holds the last (strong) reference to its referent.
5683
Georg Brandl89f48872008-06-11 18:55:38 +00005684- Add future_builtins.ascii().
5685
Raymond Hettinger5c4d3d02008-06-09 13:07:27 +00005686- Several set methods now accept multiple arguments: update(), union(),
Raymond Hettinger4267be62008-06-11 10:30:54 +00005687 intersection(), intersection_update(), difference(), and difference_update().
Raymond Hettingeree4bcad2008-06-09 08:33:37 +00005688
Robert Schuppenies51df0642008-06-01 16:16:17 +00005689- Issue #2898: Added sys.getsizeof() to retrieve size of objects in bytes.
5690
Martin v. Löwis99815892008-06-01 07:20:46 +00005691- New environment variable PYTHONIOENCODING.
5692
Martin v. Löwis4dd019f2008-05-20 08:11:19 +00005693- Patch #2488: Add sys.maxsize.
5694
Georg Brandla9916b52008-05-17 22:11:54 +00005695- Issue #2353: file.xreadlines() now emits a Py3k warning.
5696
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005697- Issue #2863: generators now have a ``gen.__name__`` attribute that
5698 equals ``gen.gi_code.co_name``, like ``func.__name___`` that equals
5699 ``func.func_code.co_name``. The repr() of a generator now also
5700 contains this name.
Georg Brandlc91210c2008-05-15 15:08:32 +00005701
Georg Brandlbd85eb12008-05-14 06:34:15 +00005702- Issue #2831: enumerate() now has a ``start`` argument.
5703
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005704- Issue #2801: fix bug in the float.is_integer method where a
5705 ValueError was sometimes incorrectly raised.
Mark Dickinsone81c3762008-05-09 16:14:15 +00005706
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005707- Issue #2790: sys.flags was not properly exposing its bytes_warning
5708 attribute.
Brett Cannon3c1d50a2008-05-08 20:23:54 +00005709
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005710- Issue #2196: hasattr() now lets exceptions which do not inherit
5711 Exception (KeyboardInterrupt, and SystemExit) propagate instead of
5712 ignoring them.
Benjamin Petersonb9030f42008-05-12 00:41:23 +00005713
Gregory P. Smith9d534572008-06-11 07:41:16 +00005714- Added checks for integer overflows, contributed by Google. Some are
5715 only available if asserts are left in the code, in cases where they
5716 can't be triggered from Python code.
5717
5718
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00005719Extension Modules
5720-----------------
Guido van Rossum84b1e0f2008-08-20 14:57:20 +00005721- Issue #1179: [CVE-2007-4965] Integer overflow in imageop module.
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00005722
Raymond Hettinger305480c2008-06-16 01:42:40 +00005723- Issue #3116: marshal.dumps() had quadratic behavior for strings > 32Mb.
5724
Andrew M. Kuchling2126bab2008-06-22 13:39:11 +00005725- Issue #2138: Add factorial() to the math module.
Raymond Hettingerecbdd2e2008-06-09 06:54:45 +00005726
Raymond Hettinger6d7702e2008-05-31 03:24:31 +00005727- The heapq module does comparisons using LT instead of LE. This
5728 makes its implementation match that used by list.sort().
5729
Mark Dickinson99dfe922008-05-23 01:35:30 +00005730- Issue #2819: add full-precision summation function to math module,
5731 based on Hettinger's ASPN Python Cookbook recipe.
5732
Georg Brandl88659b02008-05-20 08:40:43 +00005733- Issue #2592: delegate nb_index and the floor/truediv slots in
5734 weakref.proxy.
5735
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005736- Support os.O_ASYNC and fcntl.FASYNC if the constants exist on the
5737 platform.
Georg Brandl5049a852008-05-16 13:10:15 +00005738
Brett Cannon044616a2008-05-15 02:33:55 +00005739- Support for Windows 9x has been removed from the winsound module.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcf9b54c22008-05-12 21:30:24 +00005740
Jesus Cea09c01782008-09-28 23:24:19 +00005741- bsddb module updated to version 4.7.3.
Jesus Cea4907d272008-08-31 14:00:51 +00005742 http://www.jcea.es/programacion/pybsddb.htm#bsddb3-4.7.3. This
5743 code should be compatible with Python 3.0.
Jesus Ceaef9764f2008-05-13 18:45:46 +00005744
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005745- Issue #2858: Fix potential memory corruption when
5746 bsddb.db.DBEnv.lock_get and other bsddb.db object constructors
5747 raised an exception.
Gregory P. Smith664782e2008-05-17 06:12:02 +00005748
Gregory P. Smith5d7d6c32008-05-25 08:32:04 +00005749- Issue #2669: bsddb/__init__.py iteration no longer silently fails when
5750 the database has changed size during iteration. It now raises a
5751 RuntimeError in the same manner as a dictionary.
5752
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005753- Issue #2870: cmathmodule.c compile error.
Christian Heimes0bd23c02008-05-16 10:23:31 +00005754
Benjamin Petersond8a89722008-08-18 16:40:03 +00005755- Added a threading.Thread.ident property.
Gregory P. Smith8856dda2008-06-01 23:48:47 +00005756
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00005757Library
5758-------
5759
Vinay Sajip1e022682008-06-29 21:27:15 +00005760- logging.config: Removed out-of-date comment in _install_handlers and
5761 used issubclass in place of equality comparison of classes.
5762
Facundo Batista5596b0c2008-06-22 13:36:20 +00005763- Issue #2722: Now the os.getcwd() supports very long path names.
5764
Facundo Batista2da91c32008-06-21 17:43:56 +00005765- Issue #2888: Fixed the behaviour of pprint when working with nested
5766 structures, to match the behaviour of 2.5 and 3.0 (now follows the common
5767 sense).
5768
Facundo Batistaa6a4d502008-06-21 18:58:04 +00005769- Issue #1817: cgi now correctly handles the querystring on POST requests
5770
Vinay Sajip8dc20fd2008-06-19 22:41:08 +00005771- Issue #3136: fileConfig()'s disabling of old loggers is now conditional via
5772 an optional disable_existing_loggers parameter, but the default value is
5773 such that the old behaviour is preserved. Thanks to Leandro Lucarella for
5774 the patch.
5775
Vinay Sajip9828b7e2008-06-17 11:04:02 +00005776- Issue #3126: StreamHandler and FileHandler check before calling "flush" and
5777 "close" that the stream object has these, using hasattr (thanks to bobf for
5778 the patch).
5779
Benjamin Peterson5c0be322008-06-13 15:11:50 +00005780- Issue #2912: platform.uname now tries to determine unknown information even if
5781 os.uname exists.
5782
Benjamin Peterson26305a02008-06-12 22:33:06 +00005783- The rfc822 module has been deprecated for removal in 3.0.
5784
Benjamin Petersona03722f2008-06-12 14:23:49 +00005785- The mimetools module has been deprecated for removal in 3.0.
5786
Thomas Heller1cec7aa2008-06-10 14:07:12 +00005787- The ctypes.byref function now takes an optional second parameter
5788 which allows to specify an offset in bytes for the constructed
5789 pointer-like object.
5790
Georg Brandl8509db52008-06-10 07:45:28 +00005791- Added the ast module.
5792
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00005793- Added the multiprocessing module, PEP 371.
Benjamin Peterson6f7ae692008-06-11 20:04:30 +00005794
Georg Brandl7be19aa2008-06-07 15:59:10 +00005795- Factored out the indentation cleaning from inspect.getdoc() into
5796 inspect.cleandoc() to ease standalone use.
5797
Thomas Hellerfbb9c0b2008-06-06 08:33:46 +00005798- Issue #1798: Add ctypes calling convention that allows safe access
5799 to errno.
5800
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00005801- Issue #2404: ctypes objects support the new pep3118 buffer interface.
Thomas Heller59475e92008-06-05 17:52:59 +00005802
Vinay Sajip9828b7e2008-06-17 11:04:02 +00005803- Patch #2125: Add GetInteger and GetString methods for
Martin v. Löwisffe62ed2008-06-02 08:40:06 +00005804 msilib.Record objects.
5805
Gregory P. Smith137d8242008-06-02 04:05:52 +00005806- Issue #2782: The datetime module's strftime methods now accept
5807 unicode format strings just as time.strftime always has.
5808
Georg Brandlac19d852008-06-01 21:19:14 +00005809- The sgmllib and htmllib modules have been deprecated for removal
5810 in Python 3.0.
5811
5812- Issue #3011: locale module alias table was updated to the latest
5813 version from the X.org locale.alias file.
Marc-André Lemburgadff65b2008-05-30 20:52:18 +00005814
Thomas Heller9287acf2008-05-29 19:42:34 +00005815- Issue #1797 (partial fix): ctypes NULL function pointers have a
5816 False boolean value now.
5817
Georg Brandld0b592f2008-05-29 07:45:26 +00005818- Issue #2985: Allow 64-bit integer responses (``<i8>``) in XMLRPC
5819 transfers.
5820
5821- Issue #2877: The UserString.MutableString class has been removed in
5822 Python 3.0.
Brett Cannonabb34fe2008-05-29 05:08:50 +00005823
Lars Gustäbelb1a54a32008-05-27 12:39:23 +00005824- Do not close external file objects passed to tarfile.open(mode='w:bz2')
5825 when the TarFile is closed.
5826
Georg Brandle08e3d02008-05-25 08:07:37 +00005827- Issue #2959: For consistency with other file-like objects, gzip's
5828 GzipFile.close() can now be called multiple times without raising
5829 an exception.
5830
Martin v. Löwis27e4a172008-05-23 15:18:28 +00005831- Issue #1390: Raise ValueError in toxml when an invalid comment would
5832 otherwise be produced.
5833
Vinay Sajipc0128832008-05-20 15:37:22 +00005834- Issue #2914: TimedRotatingFileHandler now takes an optional keyword
5835 argument "utc" to use UTC time rather than local time.
5836
5837- Issue #2929: TimedRotatingFileHandler was using the wrong path when
5838 deleting old log files (filename only instead of full path).
5839
Georg Brandl112aa502008-05-20 08:25:48 +00005840- Issue #1775025: You can now specify zipfile members to open(),
5841 read() or extract() via a ZipInfo instance. This allows handling
5842 duplicate filenames in zipfiles.
5843
Georg Brandl28fdfa92008-05-17 17:57:01 +00005844- Issue #961805: Fix Text.edit_modified() in Tkinter.
5845
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005846- Issue #1793: Function ctypes.util.find_msvcrt() added that returns
Thomas Heller95ba13f2008-05-16 20:06:31 +00005847 the name of the C runtime library that Python uses.
5848 ctypes.util.find_library(name) now call this function when name is
5849 'm' or 'c'.
5850
Brett Cannonfa40bbf2008-05-16 00:50:02 +00005851- The statvfs module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
5852
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005853- The sunaudiodev and SUNAUDIODEV modules have been deprecated for
5854 removal in Python 3.0.
5855
5856- The WAIT module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
5857 3.0.
5858
5859- The torgb module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
5860 3.0.
5861
5862- The SV module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
5863 3.0.
5864
5865- The readcd module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
Brett Cannon22248172008-05-16 00:10:24 +00005866 Python 3.0.
5867
Brett Cannon11ae6e72008-05-15 03:49:00 +00005868- The panelparser module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
5869 Python 3.0.
5870
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005871- The panel module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
5872 3.0.
Brett Cannon7e375862008-05-15 03:46:27 +00005873
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005874- The jpeg module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
5875 3.0.
Brett Cannon89f5d9c2008-05-15 03:44:00 +00005876
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005877- The IOCTL module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
5878 3.0.
Brett Cannond8c41ec2008-05-15 03:41:55 +00005879
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005880- The IN module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
5881 3.0.
Brett Cannon6328b292008-05-15 03:36:13 +00005882
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005883- The imgfile module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
Brett Cannon178582e2008-05-15 03:20:36 +00005884 Python 3.0.
5885
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005886- The GLWS module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
5887 3.0.
Brett Cannon72ccc402008-05-15 03:17:24 +00005888
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005889- The GET module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
5890 3.0.
Brett Cannon2773b6f2008-05-15 03:14:57 +00005891
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005892- The fm module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
5893 3.0.
5894
5895- The FL, flp, and fl modules from IRIX have been deprecated for
5896 removal in Python 3.0.
5897
5898- The FILE module on IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
5899 3.0.
5900
5901- The ERRNO module on IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
5902 3.0.
5903
5904- The DEVICE, GL, gl, and cgen modules (which indirectly includes
5905 cgensupport) have been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
Brett Cannon044616a2008-05-15 02:33:55 +00005906
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005907- The CL, CL_old, and cl modules for IRIX have been deprecated for
5908 removal in Python 3.0.
5909
5910- The cdplayer module for IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
Brett Cannon650f5162008-05-14 21:12:12 +00005911 Python 3.0.
5912
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005913- The cddb module for IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
5914 3.0.
Brett Cannon9eebe492008-05-14 20:34:22 +00005915
Brett Cannonddf949f2008-05-14 20:31:38 +00005916- The cd and CD modules for IRIX have been deprecated for removal in
5917 Python 3.0.
5918
Brett Cannon34721d52008-05-14 01:08:21 +00005919- The al and AL modules for IRIX have been deprecated for removal in
5920 Python 3.0.
5921
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005922- Issue #1713041: fix pprint's handling of maximum depth.
Georg Brandl23da6e62008-05-12 16:26:52 +00005923
Brett Cannonbb141bb2008-05-12 03:47:47 +00005924- The timing module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
5925
Brett Cannonac861b52008-05-12 03:45:59 +00005926- The sv module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
5927
Brett Cannon43e5ef42008-05-12 03:19:20 +00005928- The multifile module has been deprecated as per PEP 4.
5929
Brett Cannon42bfa902008-05-12 00:08:34 +00005930- The imageop module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
5931
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005932- Issue #2250: Exceptions raised during evaluation of names in
5933 rlcompleter's ``Completer.complete()`` method are now caught and
5934 ignored.
Georg Brandl627a6662008-05-11 21:03:42 +00005935
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005936- Issue #2659: Added ``break_on_hyphens`` option to textwrap
5937 TextWrapper class.
Georg Brandl6f95ae52008-05-11 10:42:28 +00005938
Brett Cannon2a869132008-05-11 03:01:47 +00005939- The mhlib module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
5940
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005941- The linuxaudiodev module has been deprecated for removal in Python
5942 3.0.
Brett Cannondf0a7172008-05-11 00:50:51 +00005943
Brett Cannon27508d42008-05-10 22:45:07 +00005944- The ihooks module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
5945
Brett Cannonfe598512008-05-10 22:11:45 +00005946- The fpformat module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
5947
Brett Cannone35a3a12008-05-10 21:22:43 +00005948- The dl module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
5949
Brett Cannond5a09852008-05-10 03:14:32 +00005950- The Canvas module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
5951
Brett Cannon6192df12008-05-10 02:58:26 +00005952- The compiler package has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
5953
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005954- The Bastion and rexec modules have been deprecated for removal in
5955 Python 3.0.
Brett Cannoncda73a42008-05-10 02:53:46 +00005956
Brett Cannon768d44f2008-05-10 02:47:54 +00005957- The bsddb185 module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
5958
Brett Cannon9ac39742008-05-09 22:51:58 +00005959- The pure module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
5960
Mark Dickinsonf8476c12008-05-09 17:54:23 +00005961- Issue #2487: change the semantics of math.ldexp(x, n) when n is too
5962 large to fit in a C long. ldexp(x, n) now returns a zero (with
5963 suitable sign) if n is large and negative; previously, it raised
5964 OverflowError.
5965
Brett Cannonfa24d9a2008-05-09 05:32:42 +00005966- The toaiff module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
5967
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005968- The test.testall module has been deprecated for removal in Python
5969 3.0.
Brett Cannon3c759142008-05-09 05:25:37 +00005970
Brett Cannond7265d62008-05-09 05:18:40 +00005971- The new module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
5972
Brett Cannone3b19402008-05-08 20:36:09 +00005973- The user module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
5974
Brett Cannon6071cc82008-05-08 19:52:45 +00005975- The stringold module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
5976
5977- The mutex module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
Brett Cannon9d441822008-05-08 19:26:08 +00005978
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00005979- The imputil module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
5980
Brett Cannoncae4f5f2008-05-08 20:24:43 +00005981- test.test_support.catch_warning() gained a 'record' argument.
5982
Benjamin Peterson0893a0a2008-05-09 00:27:01 +00005983- os.path.walk is deprecated in favor of os.walk.
5984
Georg Brandl9020ff82008-05-11 14:17:13 +00005985- pdb gained the "until" command.
Benjamin Peterson98353942008-05-11 14:13:25 +00005986
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005987- The Mac Modules (including Carbon) have been deprecated for removal
5988 in Python 3.0.
Benjamin Peterson23681932008-05-12 21:42:13 +00005989
Vinay Sajip9828b7e2008-06-17 11:04:02 +00005990- Library: on MacOS X you can now set ``ARCHFLAGS`` in the shell
Ronald Oussoren5640ce22008-06-05 12:58:24 +00005991 environment to control the '-arch' flags that are used to build
5992 an extension. This was added for compatibility with Apple's build
5993 of Python.
5994
5995- The bundled OSX-specific copy of libbffi is now in sync with the version
5996 shipped with PyObjC 2.0 and includes support for x86_64 and ppc64 platforms.
5997
Georg Brandl25c34082008-08-18 23:09:49 +00005998- The threading module gained aliases for names that will be removed in the
5999 3.x series.
Benjamin Peterson0fbcf692008-06-11 17:27:50 +00006000
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00006001Build
6002-----
6003
Martin v. Löwiscc0f2b22008-06-13 18:12:51 +00006004- 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 +00006005
Martin v. Löwis8c255e42008-05-23 15:06:50 +00006006- Patch #1722225: Support QNX 6.
6007
Brett Cannonb61d8012008-05-11 23:39:04 +00006008- ``Lib/lib-old`` is now added to sys.path.
6009
Ronald Oussoren5640ce22008-06-05 12:58:24 +00006010- On MacOS X it is now possible to install the framework in 64-bit
6011 mode or even as a 4-way universal binary (that is, PPC, i386,
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00006012 PPC64 and x86_64 support in one binary).
Ronald Oussoren5640ce22008-06-05 12:58:24 +00006013
6014 This is controlled by the configure argument ``--with-universal-archs``:
6015
6016 - ``--with-universal-archs=all``: install 4-way universal
6017
6018 - ``--with-universal-archs=32-bit``: install 2-way universal, 32-bit (the default)
6019
6020 - ``--with-universal-archs=64-bit``: install 2-way universal, 64-bit
6021
6022 This option should be used in combination with ``--enable-universalsdk=``.
6023
6024 NOTE: 64-bit and 4-way builds are only suppported on Mac OS X 10.5 (or later).
6025
6026
Christian Heimes7a990612008-05-26 13:15:11 +00006027C API
6028-----
6029
Georg Brandl74a1dea2008-05-28 11:21:39 +00006030- Add ``PyType_Modified()`` as a public API to clear the type cache.
6031
6032- The PyBytes functions have been renamed to PyByteArray.
Christian Heimes7a990612008-05-26 13:15:11 +00006033
6034- The PyString functions have been renamed to PyBytes. A batch of
6035 defines were added so that the linker still sees the original
6036 PyString names.
6037
Georg Brandl5e7b1c02008-05-16 17:40:23 +00006038
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00006039What's New in Python 2.6 alpha 3?
Barry Warsaw65475fd2008-03-01 17:11:41 +00006040=================================
6041
Barry Warsaw6cc79402008-05-08 13:16:19 +00006042*Release date: 08-May-2008*
Barry Warsaw65475fd2008-03-01 17:11:41 +00006043
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd21fb4c2008-03-05 01:50:33 +00006044Core and builtins
6045-----------------
Georg Brandl80055f62008-03-25 07:56:27 +00006046
Georg Brandl28e08732008-04-30 19:47:09 +00006047- Issue #2719: backported the ``next()`` builtin from Python 3.
6048
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006049- Issue #2681: The octal literal ``0o8`` was incorrecly acctepted. Now
6050 it properly raises a SyntaxError.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc52167212008-04-24 18:07:05 +00006051
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006052- Issue #2617: Reserved -J and -X arguments for Jython, IronPython and
6053 other implementations of Python.
Christian Heimes7a98d272008-04-12 13:03:03 +00006054
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006055- Implemented PEP 370: Per user site-packages directory.
Christian Heimesaf748c32008-05-06 22:41:46 +00006056
Andrew M. Kuchling46d6b682008-04-30 16:19:55 +00006057Extension Modules
6058-----------------
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00006059
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006060- Issue #2670: Fix a failure in urllib2.build_opener(), when passed
6061 two handlers that derive the same default base class.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc96865852008-04-22 21:14:41 +00006062
Christian Heimese74c8f22008-04-19 02:23:57 +00006063- Added kill, terminate and send_signal(sig) to subprocess.Popen.
6064
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006065- Added phase(z) -> phi, polar(z) -> r, phi and rect(r, phi) -> z to
6066 the cmath module.
Christian Heimes6f341092008-04-18 23:13:07 +00006067
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006068- Four new methods were added to the math and cmath modules: acosh,
6069 asinh, atanh and log1p.
Christian Heimes6f341092008-04-18 23:13:07 +00006070
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006071- zlib.decompressobj().flush(value) no longer crashes the interpreter
6072 when passed a value less than or equal to zero.
Gregory P. Smith671c5d92008-04-09 18:18:43 +00006073
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006074- Issue #1631171: Re-implement the 'warnings' module in C (the
6075 original Python code has been kept as backup). This will allow for
6076 using the 'warning's machinery in such places as the parser where
6077 use of pure Python code is not possible. Both the ``showarning()``
6078 and ``formatwarning()`` gain an optional 'line' argument which is
6079 not called by default for backwards-compatibility reasons. Setting
6080 ``warnings.showwarning()`` to an implementation that lacks support
6081 for the ``line`` argument will raise a DeprecationWarning.
Brett Cannone9746892008-04-12 23:44:07 +00006082
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00006083Library
6084-------
6085
Brett Cannonf8436822008-05-06 23:41:32 +00006086- The audiodev module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
6087
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006088- Issue #2750: Add the 'json' package. Based on simplejson 1.9 and
6089 contributed by Bob Ippolito.
Brett Cannon4b964f92008-05-05 20:21:38 +00006090
Martin v. Löwis471617d2008-05-05 17:16:58 +00006091- Issue #1734346: Support Unicode file names for zipfiles.
6092
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006093- Issue #2581: distutils: Vista UAC/elevation support for
6094 bdist_wininst.
Mark Hammond7c5c8e62008-05-02 12:48:15 +00006095
Mark Dickinsonfe536f52008-04-25 16:59:09 +00006096- Issue #2635: Fix bug in 'fix_sentence_endings' textwrap.fill option,
6097 where an extra space was added after a word containing (but not
6098 ending in) '.', '!' or '?'.
6099
Thomas Heller6ad5fbb2008-04-25 15:44:16 +00006100- Add from_buffer() and from_buffer_copy() class methods to ctypes
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00006101 data types.
Thomas Heller6ad5fbb2008-04-25 15:44:16 +00006102
Neal Norwitz2b0bea52008-04-25 03:40:17 +00006103- Issue #2682: ctypes callback functions no longer contain a cyclic
Thomas Hellerbf027c42008-04-24 18:14:19 +00006104 reference to themselves.
6105
Gregory P. Smithd59fefb2008-04-22 08:11:33 +00006106- The getpass module has been improved on Unix. It now uses /dev/tty
6107 by default and uses stderr instead of stdout. A GetPassWarning is
6108 issued when input echo cannot be controlled.
Gregory P. Smith41e30182008-04-21 21:31:08 +00006109
Skip Montanarob131f042008-04-18 20:35:46 +00006110- Issue #2014: Allow XML-RPC datetime objects to have dates before
6111 1900-01-01.
6112
Nick Coghlan106fc482008-04-15 10:25:31 +00006113- Issue #2439: Added new function pkgutil.get_data(), which is a
6114 convenience wrapper for the PEP 302 get_data() API.
6115
Thomas Heller046e6a42008-04-14 16:10:07 +00006116- Issue #2616: The ctypes.pointer() and ctypes.POINTER() functions are
6117 now implemented in C for better performance.
6118
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006119- Issue #2408: The ``_types`` module, which was used as in
6120 implementation detail of the public ``types`` module, has been
6121 removed and replaced by pure python code.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc02f33b42008-04-08 23:10:07 +00006122
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006123- Issue #2513: distutils on Windows is now capable of cross-compiling
Mark Hammond495cf992008-04-07 01:53:39 +00006124 extension modules between 32 and 64 bit platforms. See the distutls
6125 build documentation for more information.
6126
Gregory P. Smithaa63d0d2008-04-06 23:11:17 +00006127- Issue #815646: Individual file objects may now be used from multiple
6128 threads at once without fear of crashing the Python interpreter. If
6129 file.close() is called while an object is in use by another thread
6130 an IOError exception will be raised and the file will not be closed.
6131
Thomas Hellerf7906482008-04-04 19:43:25 +00006132- The bundled libffi copy is now in sync with the recently released
6133 libffi3.0.5 version, apart from some small changes to
6134 Modules/_ctypes/libffi/configure.ac.
6135
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006136- Issue #2385: distutils.core.run_script() makes __file__ available,
6137 so the controlled environment will more closely mirror the typical
6138 script environment. This supports setup.py scripts that refer to
6139 data files.
Fred Drake46c58c12008-04-04 05:41:30 +00006140
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00006141Tests
6142-----
Trent Nelsone41b0062008-04-08 23:47:30 +00006143
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006144- Issue #2550: The approach used by client/server code for obtaining
6145 ports to listen on in network-oriented tests has been refined in an
6146 effort to facilitate running multiple instances of the entire
6147 regression test suite in parallel without issue.
6148 test_support.bind_port() has been fixed such that it will always
6149 return a unique port -- which wasn't always the case with the
6150 previous implementation, especially if socket options had been set
6151 that affected address reuse (i.e. SO_REUSEADDR, SO_REUSEPORT). The
6152 new implementation of bind_port() will actually raise an exception
6153 if it is passed an AF_INET/SOCK_STREAM socket with either the
6154 SO_REUSEADDR or SO_REUSEPORT socket option set. Furthermore, if
6155 available, bind_port() will set the SO_EXCLUSIVEADDRUSE option on
6156 the socket it's been passed. This currently only applies to
6157 Windows. This option prevents any other sockets from binding to the
6158 host/port we've bound to, thus removing the possibility of the
6159 'non-deterministic' behaviour, as Microsoft puts it, that occurs
6160 when a second SOCK_STREAM socket binds and accepts to a host/port
6161 that's already been bound by another socket. The optional preferred
6162 port parameter to bind_port() has been removed. Under no
6163 circumstances should tests be hard coding ports!
6164
6165 test_support.find_unused_port() has also been introduced, which will
6166 pass a temporary socket object to bind_port() in order to obtain an
6167 unused port. The temporary socket object is then closed and
6168 deleted, and the port is returned. This method should only be used
6169 for obtaining an unused port in order to pass to an external program
6170 (i.e. the -accept [port] argument to openssl's s_server mode) or as
6171 a parameter to a server-oriented class that doesn't give you direct
6172 access to the underlying socket used.
6173
6174 Finally, test_support.HOST has been introduced, which should be used
6175 for the host argument of any relevant socket calls (i.e. bind and
6176 connect).
Trent Nelsone41b0062008-04-08 23:47:30 +00006177
6178 The following tests were updated to following the new conventions:
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006179 test_socket, test_smtplib, test_asyncore, test_ssl, test_httplib,
Trent Nelsone41b0062008-04-08 23:47:30 +00006180 test_poplib, test_ftplib, test_telnetlib, test_socketserver,
6181 test_asynchat and test_socket_ssl.
6182
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006183 It is now possible for multiple instances of the regression test
6184 suite to run in parallel without issue.
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00006185
6186Build
6187-----
6188
Mark Dickinson65134662008-04-25 16:11:04 +00006189- Issue #1496032: On alpha, use -mieee when gcc is the compiler.
6190
Thomas Hellerdc96a772008-04-04 10:07:55 +00006191- Issue #2544: On HP-UX systems, use 'gcc -shared' for linking when
6192 gcc is used as compiler.
6193
Ronald Oussoren580c7fe2008-05-02 19:45:11 +00006194- Issue #2573: On MacOS X it is now possible to install the framework
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006195 with a different name using --with-framework-name=NAME.
Ronald Oussoren580c7fe2008-05-02 19:45:11 +00006196
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00006197C API
6198-----
6199
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006200- Added implementation of copysign, acosh, asinh, atanh and log1p to
6201 the new files Include/pymath.h and Python/pymath.h for platforms
6202 which provide the functions through their libm. The files also
6203 contains several helpers and constants for math.
Christian Heimes6f341092008-04-18 23:13:07 +00006204
Benjamin Petersondacde0d2008-05-26 17:43:53 +00006205- Added a new convenience macro, PyErr_WarnPy3k, for issuing Py3k warnings.
Benjamin Petersona692c4d2008-04-27 02:28:02 +00006206
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00006207
6208What's New in Python 2.6 alpha 2?
6209=================================
6210
6211*Release date: 02-Apr-2008*
6212
6213Core and builtins
6214-----------------
6215
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006216- Issue #1733757: The interpreter would hang on shutdown if the
6217 tracing function set by sys.settrace is still active and happens to
6218 call threading.currentThread().
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd7a26512008-04-03 23:07:55 +00006219
Georg Brandl91e0cda2008-03-29 01:50:06 +00006220- Patch #1442: properly report exceptions when the PYTHONSTARTUP file
6221 cannot be executed.
6222
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc69b747b2008-03-28 20:30:50 +00006223- The compilation of a class nested in another class used to leak one
6224 reference on the outer class name.
6225
Georg Brandlfc8eef32008-03-28 12:11:56 +00006226- Patch #1810: compile() can now compile _ast trees as returned by
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006227 ``compile(..., PyCF_ONLY_AST)``.
Georg Brandlfc8eef32008-03-28 12:11:56 +00006228
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006229- Patch #2426: Added sqlite3.Connection.iterdump method to allow easy
6230 dumping of databases. Contributed by Paul Kippes at PyCon 2008.
Gregory P. Smithb9803422008-03-28 08:32:09 +00006231
Georg Brandldeaf2ca2008-03-27 13:27:31 +00006232- Patch #2477: Added from __future__ import unicode_literals.
Christian Heimes3c608332008-03-26 22:01:37 +00006233
Christian Heimes8c78cc32008-03-26 12:53:58 +00006234- Added backport of bytearray type.
6235
Georg Brandl80055f62008-03-25 07:56:27 +00006236- Issue #2355: add Py3k warning for buffer().
6237
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc9a0d3462008-03-23 09:55:29 +00006238- Issue #1477: With narrow Unicode builds, the unicode escape sequence
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006239 \Uxxxxxxxx did not accept values outside the Basic Multilingual
6240 Plane. This affected raw unicode literals and the
6241 'raw-unicode-escape' codec. Now UTF-16 surrogates are generated in
6242 this case, like normal unicode literals and the 'unicode-escape'
6243 codec.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc9a0d3462008-03-23 09:55:29 +00006244
Georg Brandl65bb42d2008-03-21 20:38:24 +00006245- Issue #2348: add Py3k warning for file.softspace.
6246
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006247- Issue #2346/#2347: add Py3k warnings for __methods__ and
6248 __members__.
Georg Brandl07e56812008-03-21 20:21:46 +00006249
Georg Brandl5a444242008-03-21 20:11:46 +00006250- Issue #2358: Add a Py3k warning on sys.exc_clear() usage.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd21fb4c2008-03-05 01:50:33 +00006251
Martin v. Löwisa4d77892008-03-19 04:39:13 +00006252- Issue #2400: Allow relative imports to "import *".
6253
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006254- Issue #1745: Backport print function with ``from __future__ import
6255 print_function``.
Eric Smith7c478942008-03-18 23:45:49 +00006256
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006257- Issue #2332: add new attribute names for instance method objects.
6258 The two changes are: im_self -> __self__ and im_func -> __func__
Neal Norwitzb1d3d962008-03-18 04:46:00 +00006259
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006260- Issue #2379: Raise a Py3K warning for __getitem__ or __getslice__ on
Guido van Rossum6d91be32008-03-18 04:42:22 +00006261 exception instances.
6262
Guido van Rossum04edb522008-03-18 02:49:46 +00006263- Issue #2371: Add a Py3k warning when catching an exception that
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006264 doesn't derive from BaseException.
6265
6266- Issue #2341: Add a Py3k warning when raising an exception that
6267 doesn't derive from BaseException.
Guido van Rossum04edb522008-03-18 02:49:46 +00006268
Neal Norwitz419fd492008-03-17 20:22:43 +00006269- Issue #2321: use pymalloc for unicode object string data to reduce
6270 memory usage in some circumstances.
6271
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006272- PEP 3127: octal literals now start with "0o". Old-style octal
6273 literals are still valid. There are binary literals with a prefix of
6274 "0b". This also affects int(x, 0).
Eric Smith0aed07a2008-03-17 19:43:40 +00006275
Georg Brandl1e7c3752008-03-25 08:37:23 +00006276- Issue #2359: Adding deprecation warnings for array.{read,write}.
6277
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006278- Issue #1779871: GNU gcc can now build Python on OS X because the
Jeffrey Yasskin1b4e45b2008-03-17 14:40:53 +00006279 flags -Wno-long-double, -no-cpp-precomp, and -mno-fused-madd are no
6280 longer passed.
6281
Neal Norwitz400aeda2008-03-15 22:03:18 +00006282- Add a warning when asserting a non-empty tuple which is always true.
6283
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006284- Issue #2179: speed up with statement execution by storing the exit
6285 method on the stack instead of in a temporary variable (patch by
6286 Jeffrey Yaskin)
Nick Coghlan7af53be2008-03-07 14:13:28 +00006287
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006288- Issue #2238: Some syntax errors in *args and **kwargs expressions
6289 could give bogus error messages.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd21fb4c2008-03-05 01:50:33 +00006290
Sean Reifscheider68fa8e62008-03-20 00:50:07 +00006291- Issue #2143: Fix embedded readline() hang on SSL socket EOF.
6292
Andrew M. Kuchling46d6b682008-04-30 16:19:55 +00006293Extension Modules
6294-----------------
Martin v. Löwisaef18b12008-03-24 13:31:16 +00006295
6296- Patch #2240: Implement signal.setitimer and signal.getitimer.
6297
Thomas Heller78b8f442008-03-05 14:53:39 +00006298Library
6299-------
6300
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006301- Issue #2315: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now accounts
6302 for daylight savings time in calculating the next rollover.
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00006303
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006304- Issue #2316: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now
6305 calculates rollovers correctly even when nothing is logged for a
6306 while.
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00006307
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006308- Issue #2317: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now uses
6309 improved logic for removing old files.
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00006310
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006311- Issue #2495: tokenize.untokenize now inserts a space between two
6312 consecutive string literals; previously, ["" ""] was rendered as
6313 [""""], which is incorrect python code.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcda0c0252008-03-27 23:23:54 +00006314
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006315- Issue #2248: return the result of the QUIT command. from
6316 SMTP.quit().
Georg Brandldeaf2ca2008-03-27 13:27:31 +00006317
Christian Heimes8c78cc32008-03-26 12:53:58 +00006318- Backport of Python 3.0's io module.
6319
Mark Dickinson8e85ffa2008-03-25 18:47:59 +00006320- Issue #2482: Make sure that the coefficient of a Decimal is always
6321 stored as a str instance, not as a unicode instance. This ensures
6322 that str(Decimal) is always an instance of str.
6323
Mark Dickinson3b24ccb2008-03-25 14:33:23 +00006324- Issue #2478: fix failure of decimal.Decimal(0).sqrt()
6325
Georg Brandl77354cf2008-03-21 20:01:51 +00006326- Issue #2432: give DictReader the dialect and line_num attributes
6327 advertised in the docs.
6328
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006329- Issue #2460: Make Ellipsis object copyable.
Raymond Hettingerb72233c2008-03-24 08:17:39 +00006330
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006331- Issue #1681432: Add triangular distribution to the random module
Raymond Hettingerbbc50ea2008-03-23 13:32:32 +00006332
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006333- Issue #2136: urllib2's auth handler now allows single-quoted realms
6334 in the WWW-Authenticate header.
Georg Brandl33124322008-03-21 19:54:00 +00006335
Marc-André Lemburga1867752008-03-20 18:08:00 +00006336- Issue #2434: Enhanced platform.win32_ver() to also work on Python
6337 installation which do not have the win32all package installed.
6338
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006339- Added support to platform.uname() to also report the machine and
6340 processor information on Windows XP and later. As a result,
Marc-André Lemburga1867752008-03-20 18:08:00 +00006341 platform.machine() and platform.processor() will report this
6342 information as well.
6343
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006344- The library implementing the 2to3 conversion, lib2to3, was added to
6345 the standard distribution.
Martin v. Löwis5e37bae2008-03-19 04:43:46 +00006346
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006347- Issue #1747858: Fix chown to work with large uid's and gid's on
6348 64-bit platforms.
Gregory P. Smith37f3f432008-03-18 20:40:01 +00006349
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006350- Issue #1202: zlib.crc32 and zlib.adler32 no longer return different
6351 values on 32-bit vs. 64-bit python interpreters. Both were correct,
6352 but they now both return a signed integer object for consistency.
Gregory P. Smithf48f9d32008-03-17 18:48:05 +00006353
Skip Montanaro32ed8c22008-03-15 16:07:11 +00006354- Issue #1158: add %f format (fractions of a second represented as
6355 microseconds) to datetime objects. Understood by both strptime and
6356 strftime.
6357
Mark Dickinsonc23b8a72008-03-14 14:23:37 +00006358- Issue #705836: struct.pack(">f", x) now raises OverflowError on all
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006359 platforms when x is too large to fit into an IEEE 754 float;
6360 previously it only raised OverflowError on non IEEE 754 platforms.
Mark Dickinsonc23b8a72008-03-14 14:23:37 +00006361
Andrew M. Kuchlingaac5c862008-05-11 14:00:00 +00006362- Issues #2166, #1741 and #1531505: now distutils deals with HOME
6363 correctly under win32
6364
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006365- Patch #1858: distutils: added multiple server support in .pypirc
Andrew M. Kuchlingaac5c862008-05-11 14:00:00 +00006366
Facundo Batistac54aec12008-03-08 16:50:27 +00006367- Issue #1106316: pdb.post_mortem()'s parameter, "traceback", is now
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006368 optional: it defaults to the traceback of the exception that is
6369 currently being handled (is mandatory to be in the middle of an
6370 exception, otherwise it raises ValueError).
Facundo Batistac54aec12008-03-08 16:50:27 +00006371
Jeffrey Yasskine75f59a2008-03-07 06:22:15 +00006372- Issue #1193577: A .shutdown() method has been added to SocketServers
6373 which terminates the .serve_forever() loop.
6374
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006375- Issue #2220: handle rlcompleter attribute match failure more
6376 gracefully.
Georg Brandl98aa8052008-03-06 07:45:52 +00006377
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006378- Issue #2225: py_compile, when executed as a script, now returns a
6379 non- zero status code if not all files could be compiled
6380 successfully.
Georg Brandla7bd27f2008-03-06 07:41:16 +00006381
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006382- Bug #1725737: In distutils' sdist, exclude RCS, CVS etc. also in the
Georg Brandl810ea292008-03-06 07:34:52 +00006383 root directory, and also exclude .hg, .git, .bzr, and _darcs.
6384
Thomas Hellerf3c05592008-03-05 15:34:29 +00006385- Issue #1872: The struct module typecode for _Bool has been changed
6386 from 't' to '?'.
6387
Thomas Heller78b8f442008-03-05 14:53:39 +00006388- The bundled libffi copy is now in sync with the recently released
6389 libffi3.0.4 version, apart from some small changes to
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006390 Modules/_ctypes/libffi/configure.ac. On OS X, preconfigured libffi
6391 files are used. On all linux systems the --with-system-ffi
6392 configure option defaults to "yes".
Thomas Heller78b8f442008-03-05 14:53:39 +00006393
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006394- Issue #1577: shutil.move() now calls os.rename() if the destination
6395 is a directory instead of copying-then-remove-source.
Sean Reifscheider493894c2008-03-18 17:24:12 +00006396
Martin v. Löwisd2bbe522008-03-06 06:55:22 +00006397Tests
6398-----
6399
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006400- test_nis no longer fails when test.test_support.verbose is true and
6401 NIS is not set up on the testing machine.
Brett Cannon7919d982008-03-19 16:50:13 +00006402
Brett Cannona5573b32008-03-18 04:16:06 +00006403- Output comparison tests are no longer supported.
6404
Brett Cannonb7ec8e52008-03-18 03:46:22 +00006405- Rewrite test_errno to use unittest and no longer be a no-op.
6406
Brett Cannon0bb79502008-03-18 01:58:56 +00006407- GHOP 234: Convert test_extcall to doctest.
6408
Brett Cannonba17cfc2008-03-18 01:50:25 +00006409- GHOP 290: Convert test_dbm and test_dummy_threading to unittest.
6410
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006411- GHOP 293: Convert test_strftime, test_getargs, and test_pep247 to
6412 unittest.
Brett Cannon6eeaddc2008-03-18 01:00:07 +00006413
Brett Cannon1f5182b2008-03-13 21:09:28 +00006414- Issue #2055: Convert test_fcntl to unittest.
6415
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00006416- Issue #1960: Convert test_gdbm to unittest.
Brett Cannon4a6e8d62008-03-13 21:02:16 +00006417
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006418- GHOP 294: Convert test_contains, test_crypt, and test_select to
6419 unittest.
Brett Cannon2e0f9f32008-03-13 20:47:41 +00006420
Brett Cannonb8d37352008-03-13 20:33:10 +00006421- GHOP 238: Convert test_tokenize to use doctest.
6422
Brett Cannon66865d22008-03-13 20:27:00 +00006423- GHOP 237: Rewrite test_thread using unittest.
6424
Martin v. Löwisd2bbe522008-03-06 06:55:22 +00006425- Patch #2232: os.tmpfile might fail on Windows if the user has no
6426 permission to create files in the root directory.
6427
Martin v. Löwisbf7b0b72008-03-14 13:56:09 +00006428Build
6429-----
6430
Martin v. Löwiscdbc9772008-03-24 12:57:53 +00006431- A new script 2to3 is now installed, to run the 2.x to 3.x converter.
6432
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006433- Python/memmove.c and Python/strerror.c have been removed; both
6434 functions are in the C89 standard library.
Brett Cannonaa5778d2008-03-18 04:09:00 +00006435
Martin v. Löwisbf7b0b72008-03-14 13:56:09 +00006436- Patch #2284: Add -x64 option to rt.bat.
Barry Warsaw65475fd2008-03-01 17:11:41 +00006437
Christian Heimes3c608332008-03-26 22:01:37 +00006438C API
6439-----
6440
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00006441- Patch #2477: Added PyParser_ParseFileFlagsEx() and
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006442 PyParser_ParseStringFlagsFilenameEx().
6443
Christian Heimes3c608332008-03-26 22:01:37 +00006444
Nick Coghlanbb0996c2006-09-03 01:20:46 +00006445What's New in Python 2.6 alpha 1?
6446=================================
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00006447
Barry Warsaw7c075232008-03-01 02:53:36 +00006448*Release date: 29-Feb-2008*
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00006449
6450Core and builtins
6451-----------------
6452
Fred Drakea8ee94b2008-03-01 02:45:07 +00006453- Issue #2051: pyc and pyo files are no longer created with permission
Barry Warsaw52973612008-03-01 02:23:38 +00006454 644. The mode is now inherited from the py file.
Christian Heimes40346852008-02-23 17:52:07 +00006455
Georg Brandlad61bc82008-02-23 15:11:18 +00006456- Issue #2067: file.__exit__() now calls subclasses' close() method.
6457
6458- Patch #1759: Backport of PEP 3129 class decorators.
Christian Heimes5224d282008-02-23 15:01:05 +00006459
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00006460- Issue #1881: An internal parser limit has been increased. Also see
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00006461 issue #215555 for a discussion.
Facundo Batistafc2d0102008-02-23 12:01:13 +00006462
Eric Smitha73fbe72008-02-23 03:09:44 +00006463- Added the future_builtins module, which contains hex() and oct().
6464 These are the PEP 3127 version of these functions, designed to be
6465 compatible with the hex() and oct() builtins from Python 3.0. They
6466 differ slightly in their output formats from the existing, unchanged
6467 Python 2.6 builtins. The expected usage of the future_builtins
6468 module is:
6469 from future_builtins import hex, oct
6470
Eric Smith7ef40bf2008-02-20 23:34:22 +00006471- Issue #1600: Modifed PyOS_ascii_formatd to use at most 2 digit
6472 exponents for exponents with absolute value < 100. Follows C99
6473 standard. This is a change on Windows, which would use 3 digits.
6474 Also, added 'n' to the formats that PyOS_ascii_formatd understands,
6475 so that any alterations it does to the resulting string will be
6476 available in stringlib/formatter.h (for float.__format__).
6477
Eric Smith5a3c1352008-02-19 13:21:56 +00006478- Implemented PEP 3101, Advanced String Formatting. This adds a new
6479 builtin format(); a format() method for str and unicode; a
6480 __format__() method to object, str, unicode, int, long, float, and
6481 datetime; the class string.Formatter; and the C API
6482 PyObject_Format().
6483
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006484- Fixed several potential crashes, all caused by specially crafted
6485 __del__ methods exploiting objects in temporarily inconsistent
6486 state.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc632fad32008-02-16 20:55:24 +00006487
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00006488- Issue #2115: Important speedup in setting __slot__ attributes. Also
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006489 prevent a possible crash: an Abstract Base Class would try to access
6490 a slot on a registered virtual subclass.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc60d6c7f2008-02-15 21:22:45 +00006491
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006492- Fixed repr() and str() of complex numbers with infinity or nan as
6493 real or imaginary part.
Christian Heimes2f0da532008-02-15 06:57:08 +00006494
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006495- Clear all free lists during a gc.collect() of the highest generation
6496 in order to allow pymalloc to free more arenas. Python may give back
6497 memory to the OS earlier.
Christian Heimes3b718a72008-02-14 12:47:33 +00006498
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006499- Issue #2045: Fix an infinite recursion triggered when printing a
6500 subclass of collections.defaultdict, if its default_factory is set
6501 to a bound method.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcb01aa432008-02-08 00:56:02 +00006502
Christian Heimesf75dbef2008-02-08 00:11:31 +00006503- Fixed a minor memory leak in dictobject.c. The content of the free
6504 list was not freed on interpreter shutdown.
6505
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00006506- Limit free list of method and built-in function objects to 256
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006507 entries each.
Christian Heimes6075a822008-02-06 12:44:34 +00006508
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006509- Patch #1953: Added ``sys._compact_freelists()`` and the C API
6510 functions ``PyInt_CompactFreeList`` and ``PyFloat_CompactFreeList``
Christian Heimes422051a2008-02-04 18:00:12 +00006511 to compact the internal free lists of pre-allocted ints and floats.
6512
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006513- Issue #1983: Fixed return type of fork(), fork1() and forkpty()
6514 calls. Python expected the return type int but the fork familie
6515 returns pi_t.
Christian Heimes951cc0f2008-01-31 23:08:23 +00006516
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006517- Issue #1678380: Fix a bug that identifies 0j and -0j when they
6518 appear in the same code unit.
Mark Dickinson105be772008-01-31 22:17:37 +00006519
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006520- Issue #2025: Add tuple.count() and tuple.index() methods to comply
6521 with the collections.Sequence API.
Raymond Hettinger5b07ebc2008-02-07 00:54:20 +00006522
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006523- Patch #1970 by Antoine Pitrou: Speedup unicode whitespace and
6524 linebreak detection
Christian Heimes4d4f2702008-01-30 11:32:37 +00006525
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006526- Added ``PyType_ClearCache()`` and ``sys._clear_type_cache`` to clear
6527 the internal lookup cache for ref leak tests.
Christian Heimes908caac2008-01-27 23:34:59 +00006528
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006529- Patch #1473257: generator objects gain a gi_code attribute. This is
6530 the same object as the func_code attribute of the function that
6531 produced the generator.
Georg Brandl0cdf9a32008-01-26 14:14:20 +00006532
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006533- Issue #1920: "while 0" statements were completely removed by the
6534 compiler, even in the presence of an "else" clause, which is
6535 supposed to be run when the condition is false. Now the compiler
6536 correctly emits bytecode for the "else" suite.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc31eaafe2008-01-24 22:59:25 +00006537
Guido van Rossumeead05f2008-01-24 18:21:02 +00006538- A few crashers fixed: weakref_in_del.py (issue #1377858);
6539 loosing_dict_ref.py (issue #1303614, test67.py);
6540 borrowed_ref_[34].py (not in tracker).
6541
Vinay Sajipd7cf32e2008-01-24 12:43:33 +00006542- Issue #1069410: The "can't load dll" message box on Windows is
Christian Heimesb2302ba2008-01-23 17:15:06 +00006543 suppressed while an extension is loaded by calling SetErrorMode in
6544 dynload_win.c. The error is still reported properly.
6545
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006546- Issue #1915: Python compiles with --enable-unicode=no again. However
Christian Heimes082c9b02008-01-23 14:20:50 +00006547 several extension methods and modules do not work without unicode
6548 support.
6549
Georg Brandl26543b12008-01-21 18:36:51 +00006550- Issue #1882: when compiling code from a string, encoding cookies in the
6551 second line of code were not always recognized correctly.
6552
Georg Brandl14404b62008-01-19 19:27:05 +00006553- Issue #1679: "0x" was taken as a valid integer literal.
6554
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00006555- Issue #1865: ``bytes`` as an alias for ``str`` and b"" as an alias "" were
Christian Heimes288e89a2008-01-18 18:24:07 +00006556 added.
6557
Christian Heimesc94e2b52008-01-14 04:13:37 +00006558- sys.float_info / PyFloat_GetInfo: The floating point information
6559 object was converted from a dict to a specialized structseq object.
6560
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006561- Patch #1816: Added sys.flags structseq. It exposes the status of
6562 most command line arguments and PYTHON* environment variables.
Christian Heimesf31b69f2008-01-14 03:42:48 +00006563
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006564- Objects/structseq.c: Implemented new structseq representation. The
6565 patch makes structseqs (e.g. the return value of os.stat) more
6566 readable.
Christian Heimes9c201962008-01-14 03:33:52 +00006567
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006568- Patch #1700288: added a type attribute cache that caches method
6569 accesses, resulting in speedups in heavily object-oriented code.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arce4c270c2008-01-14 00:29:41 +00006570
Neal Norwitz3fc15b82008-01-10 05:42:58 +00006571- Bug #1776: __import__() no longer accepts filenames on any platform.
6572 The first parameter to __import__() must be a valid module name.
Christian Heimes3403f152008-01-09 19:56:33 +00006573
Georg Brandlaed6c662008-01-07 17:25:53 +00006574- Patch #1668: renamed THREADDEBUG envvar to PYTHONTHREADDEBUG.
6575
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006576- Patch #602345: Add -B command line option, PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE
6577 envvar and sys.dont_write_bytecode attribute. All these can be set
6578 to forbid Python to attempt to write compiled bytecode files.
Georg Brandl2da0fce2008-01-07 17:09:35 +00006579
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006580- Improve some exception messages when Windows fails to load an
6581 extension module. Now we get for example '%1 is not a valid Win32
6582 application' instead of 'error code 193'.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arce0b76952008-01-04 02:04:15 +00006583
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006584- Bug #1481296: Fixed long(float('nan')) != 0L.
Christian Heimes8267d1d2008-01-04 00:37:34 +00006585
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006586- Issue #1640: Added math.isinf(x), math.isnan(x) and math.copysign(x,
6587 y) functions.
Christian Heimese2ca4242008-01-03 20:23:15 +00006588
Christian Heimes0a8143f2007-12-18 23:22:54 +00006589- Issue #1635: Platform independent creation and representation of NaN
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006590 and INF. float("nan"), float("inf") and float("-inf") now work on
6591 every platform with IEEE 754 semantics.
Christian Heimes0a8143f2007-12-18 23:22:54 +00006592
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006593- Compiler now generates simpler and faster code for dictionary
6594 literals. The oparg for BUILD_MAP now indicates an estimated
6595 dictionary size. There is a new opcode, STORE_MAP, for adding
6596 entries to the dictionary.
Raymond Hettingerfd7ed402007-12-18 21:24:09 +00006597
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006598- Issue #1638: %zd configure test fails on Linux.
Christian Heimesdb3d6cb2007-12-16 21:39:43 +00006599
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006600- Issue #1620: New property decorator syntax was modifying the
6601 decorator in place instead of creating a new decorator object.
Christian Heimes90e10e72007-12-14 02:35:23 +00006602
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006603- Issue #1538: Avoid copying string in split/rsplit if the split char
6604 is not found.
Skip Montanaro26015492007-12-08 15:33:24 +00006605
Andrew M. Kuchling395fe442007-12-05 13:27:20 +00006606- Issue #1553: An erroneous __length_hint__ can make list() raise a
Christian Heimes7cc1c6f2007-12-05 12:52:34 +00006607 SystemError.
6608
Nick Coghlanef01d822007-12-03 12:55:17 +00006609- PEP 366: Allow explicit relative imports when executing modules
6610 inside packages with the -m switch via a new module level
6611 __package__ attribute.
6612
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006613- Issue #1402: Fix a crash on exit, when another thread is still
6614 running, and if the deallocation of its frames somehow calls the
6615 PyGILState_Ensure() / PyGILState_Release() functions.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcbe49a902007-11-30 20:37:22 +00006616
Christian Heimes28104c52007-11-27 23:16:44 +00006617- Expose the Py_Py3kWarningFlag as sys.py3kwarning.
6618
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00006619- Issue #1445: Fix a SystemError when accessing the ``cell_contents``
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcce7d10c2007-11-24 13:44:17 +00006620 attribute of an empty cell object.
6621
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006622- Issue #1460: The utf-7 incremental decoder did not accept truncated
6623 input. It now correctly saves its state between chunks of data.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcf57375a2007-11-21 01:38:26 +00006624
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006625- Patch #1739468: Directories and zipfiles containing a __main__.py
6626 file can now be directly executed by passing their name to the
6627 interpreter. The directory/zipfile is automatically inserted as the
6628 first entry in sys.path.
Nick Coghlan327a39b2007-11-18 11:56:28 +00006629
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006630- Issue #1265: Fix a problem with sys.settrace, if the tracing
6631 function uses a generator expression when at the same time the
6632 executed code is closing a paused generator.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc0d75f092007-11-13 21:54:28 +00006633
Raymond Hettinger1760c8a2007-11-08 02:52:43 +00006634- sets and frozensets now have an isdisjoint() method.
6635
Raymond Hettinger3f8caa32007-10-24 01:28:33 +00006636- optimize the performance of builtin.sum().
6637
Neal Norwitz44f326e2007-10-05 05:29:17 +00006638- Fix warnings found by the new version of the Coverity checker.
6639
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00006640- The enumerate() built-in function is no longer bounded to sequences
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006641 smaller than LONG_MAX. Formerly, it raised an OverflowError. Now,
6642 automatically shifts from ints to longs.
Raymond Hettinger8f669372007-10-03 21:18:11 +00006643
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006644- Issue #1686386: Tuple's tp_repr did not take into account the
6645 possibility of having a self-referential tuple, which is possible
6646 from C code. Nor did object's tp_str consider that a type's tp_str
6647 could do something that could lead to an inifinite recursion.
6648 Py_ReprEnter() and Py_EnterRecursiveCall(), respectively, fixed the
6649 issues.
Brett Cannon0b14f242007-09-30 19:45:10 +00006650
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006651- Issue #1164: It was possible to trigger deadlock when using the
6652 'print' statement to write to a file since the GIL was not released
6653 as needed. Now PyObject_Print() does the right thing along with
6654 various tp_print implementations of the built-in types and those in
6655 the collections module.
Brett Cannon01531592007-09-17 03:28:34 +00006656
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006657- Issue #1147: Exceptions were directly allowing string exceptions in
6658 their throw() method even though string exceptions no longer
6659 allowed.
Brett Cannon4c20bc42007-09-11 21:02:28 +00006660
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006661- Issue #1096: Prevent a segfault from getting the repr of a very
6662 deeply nested list by using the recursion counter.
Brett Cannona0c05512007-09-10 21:38:27 +00006663
Brett Cannon1e534b52007-09-07 04:18:30 +00006664- Issue #1202533: Fix infinite recursion calls triggered by calls to
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006665 PyObject_Call() never calling back out to Python code to trigger
6666 recursion depth updates/checks. Required the creation of a static
6667 RuntimeError instance in case normalizing an exception put the
6668 recursion check value past its limit. Fixes crashers
6669 infinite_rec_(1|2|4|5).py.
Brett Cannon1e534b52007-09-07 04:18:30 +00006670
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006671- Patch #1031213: Decode source line in SyntaxErrors back to its
6672 original source encoding.
Martin v. Löwisa5136192007-09-04 14:19:28 +00006673
Georg Brandl7c3b50d2007-07-12 08:38:00 +00006674- Patch #1673759: add a missing overflow check when formatting floats
6675 with %G.
6676
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006677- Prevent expandtabs() on string and unicode objects from causing a
6678 segfault when a large width is passed on 32-bit platforms.
Neal Norwitz7dbd2a32007-06-09 03:36:34 +00006679
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006680- Issue #1733488: Fix compilation of bufferobject.c on AIX.
Martin v. Löwisda587ab2007-06-08 17:29:20 +00006681
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006682- Issue #1722485: remove docstrings again when running with -OO.
Georg Brandla5ea6892007-06-01 11:33:33 +00006683
Neal Norwitz0ac60192007-05-27 04:08:54 +00006684- Add new attribute names for function objects. All the func_* become
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006685 __*__ attributes. (Some already existed, e.g., __doc__ and
6686 __name__.)
Neal Norwitz0ac60192007-05-27 04:08:54 +00006687
Neal Norwitz8b2bfbc2007-05-23 06:35:32 +00006688- Add -3 option to the interpreter to warn about features that are
6689 deprecated and will be changed/removed in Python 3.0.
6690
Georg Brandl2134e752007-05-21 20:34:16 +00006691- Patch #1686487: you can now pass any mapping after '**' in function
6692 calls.
6693
Collin Winter62903052007-05-18 23:11:24 +00006694- except clauses may now be spelled either "except E, target:" or
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006695 "except E as target:". This is to provide forwards compatibility
6696 with Python 3.0.
Collin Winter62903052007-05-18 23:11:24 +00006697
Brett Cannon229cee22007-05-05 01:34:02 +00006698- Deprecate BaseException.message as per PEP 352.
6699
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006700- Issue #1303614: don't expose object's __dict__ when the dict is
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00006701 inherited from a built-in base.
Armin Rigo9790a272007-05-02 19:23:31 +00006702
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00006703- When __slots__ are set to a unicode string, make it work the same as
Neal Norwitzcbd9ee62007-04-14 05:25:50 +00006704 setting a plain string, ie don't expand to single letter identifiers.
6705
Raymond Hettinger13936692007-04-11 18:40:58 +00006706- Request #1191699: Slices can now be pickled.
6707
Raymond Hettinger4db5fe92007-04-12 04:10:00 +00006708- Request #1193128: str.translate() now allows a None argument for
6709 translations that only remove characters without re-mapping the
6710 remaining characters.
6711
Georg Brandl5cb76c12007-03-21 09:00:39 +00006712- Patch #1682205: a TypeError while unpacking an iterable is no longer
6713 masked by a generic one with the message "unpack non-sequence".
6714
Neal Norwitzaa754b72007-03-21 06:39:48 +00006715- Remove unused file Python/fmod.c.
6716
Guido van Rossum143b5642007-03-23 04:58:42 +00006717- Bug #1683368: The object.__init__() and object.__new__() methods are
6718 now stricter in rejecting excess arguments. The only time when
6719 either allows excess arguments is when it is not overridden and the
6720 other one is. For backwards compatibility, when both are
6721 overridden, it is a deprecation warning (for now; maybe a Py3k
Guido van Rossum234b1ff2007-03-23 19:39:01 +00006722 warning later). Also, type.__init__() insists on the same signature
6723 as supported by type.__new__().
Guido van Rossum143b5642007-03-23 04:58:42 +00006724
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006725- Patch #1675423: PyComplex_AsCComplex() now tries to convert an
6726 object to complex using its __complex__() method before falling back
6727 to the __float__() method. Therefore, the functions in the cmath
6728 module now can operate on objects that define a __complex__()
6729 method.
Georg Brandl2b869942007-03-17 16:08:45 +00006730
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006731- Patch #1623563: allow __class__ assignment for classes with
6732 __slots__. The old and the new class are still required to have the
6733 same slot names.
Žiga Seilnacht6f2d09c2007-03-16 11:59:38 +00006734
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006735- Patch #1642547: Fix an error/crash when encountering syntax errors
6736 in complex if statements.
Collin Winter77c67bd2007-03-16 04:11:30 +00006737
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006738- Patch #1462488: Python no longer segfaults when
6739 ``object.__reduce_ex__()`` is called with an object that is faking
6740 its type.
Žiga Seilnacht20f43d32007-03-15 11:44:55 +00006741
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006742- Patch #1680015: Don't modify __slots__ tuple if it contains an
6743 unicode name.
Žiga Seilnacht71436f02007-03-14 12:24:09 +00006744
Georg Brandl5240d742007-03-13 20:46:32 +00006745- Patch #1444529: the builtin compile() now accepts keyword arguments.
6746
Georg Brandl7b9c5552007-03-12 14:30:05 +00006747- Bug #1678647: write a newline after printing an exception in any
6748 case, even when converting the value to a string failed.
6749
Georg Brandl871f1bc2007-03-12 13:17:36 +00006750- The dir() function has been extended to call the __dir__() method on
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006751 its argument, if it exists. If not, it will work like before. This
6752 allows customizing the output of dir() in the presence of a
6753 __getattr__().
Georg Brandl871f1bc2007-03-12 13:17:36 +00006754
Collin Winter276887b2007-03-12 16:11:39 +00006755- Patch #922167: Python no longer segfaults when faced with infinitely
6756 self-recursive reload() calls (as reported by bug #742342).
6757
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006758- Patch #1675981: remove unreachable code from ``type.__new__()``
6759 method.
Žiga Seilnacht89032082007-03-11 15:54:54 +00006760
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006761- Patch #1491866: change the complex() constructor to allow
6762 parthensized forms. This means complex(repr(x)) now works instead of
6763 raising a ValueError.
Collin Wintere38051d2007-03-09 20:33:07 +00006764
Georg Brandlaa2321b2007-03-07 00:40:28 +00006765- Patch #703779: unset __file__ in __main__ after running a file. This
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006766 makes the filenames the warning module prints much more sensible
6767 when a PYTHONSTARTUP file is used.
Georg Brandlaa2321b2007-03-07 00:40:28 +00006768
Georg Brandl49aafc92007-03-07 00:34:46 +00006769- Variant of patch #697613: don't exit the interpreter on a SystemExit
6770 exception if the -i command line option or PYTHONINSPECT environment
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006771 variable is given, but break into the interactive interpreter just
6772 like on other exceptions or normal program exit.
Georg Brandl49aafc92007-03-07 00:34:46 +00006773
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006774- Patch #1638879: don't accept strings with embedded NUL bytes in
6775 long().
Georg Brandl00cd8182007-03-06 18:41:12 +00006776
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006777- Bug #1674503: close the file opened by execfile() in an error
6778 condition.
Georg Brandl098cd692007-03-06 12:17:50 +00006779
Georg Brandl0fca97a2007-03-05 22:28:08 +00006780- Patch #1674228: when assigning a slice (old-style), check for the
6781 sq_ass_slice instead of the sq_slice slot.
6782
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006783- When printing an unraisable error, don't print exceptions. before
6784 the name. This duplicates the behavior whening normally printing
6785 exceptions.
Neal Norwitz88516a62007-02-26 22:41:45 +00006786
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006787- Bug #1653736: Properly discard third argument to
6788 slot_nb_inplace_power.
Martin v. Löwisfd963262007-02-09 12:19:32 +00006789
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006790- PEP 352: Raising a string exception now triggers a TypeError.
6791 Attempting to catch a string exception raises DeprecationWarning.
Brett Cannon129bd522007-01-30 21:34:36 +00006792
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006793- Bug #1377858: Fix the segfaulting of the interpreter when an object
6794 created a weakref on itself during a __del__ call for new-style
6795 classes (classic classes still have the bug).
Brett Cannonf5bee302007-01-23 23:21:22 +00006796
Martin v. Löwis6c5c5022007-01-23 21:11:47 +00006797- Bug #1579370: Make PyTraceBack_Here use the current thread, not the
6798 frame's thread state.
6799
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006800- patch #1630975: Fix crash when replacing sys.stdout in
6801 sitecustomize.py.
Thomas Wouters6ed19652007-01-23 13:50:49 +00006802
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006803- Prevent seg fault on shutdown which could occur if an object raised
6804 a warning.
Neal Norwitz72cd02c2007-01-05 05:25:22 +00006805
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006806- Bug #1566280: Explicitly invoke threading._shutdown from Py_Main, to
6807 avoid relying on atexit.
Martin v. Löwis7b7c9d42007-01-04 21:06:12 +00006808
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006809- Bug #1590891: random.randrange don't return correct value for big
6810 number.
Raymond Hettinger94547f72006-12-20 06:42:06 +00006811
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006812- Patch #1586791: Better exception messages for some operations on
6813 strings, tuples and lists.
Georg Brandl283a1352006-11-19 08:48:30 +00006814
Martin v. Löwis056dac12006-11-12 18:24:26 +00006815- Bug #1067760: Deprecate passing floats to file.seek.
6816
Martin v. Löwisa346c092006-11-08 06:48:36 +00006817- Bug #1591996: Correctly forward exception in instance_contains().
6818
Neal Norwitz85dbec62006-11-04 19:25:22 +00006819- Bug #1588287: fix invalid assertion for `1,2` in debug builds.
6820
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006821- Bug #1576657: when setting a KeyError for a tuple key, make sure
6822 that the tuple isn't used as the "exception arguments tuple".
Georg Brandlb9f4ad32006-10-29 18:31:42 +00006823
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006824- Bug #1565514: SystemError not raised on too many nested blocks.
Neal Norwitz21997af2006-10-28 21:19:07 +00006825
Thomas Hellerdf08f0b2006-10-27 18:31:36 +00006826- Bug #1576174: WindowsError now displays the windows error code
6827 again, no longer the posix error code.
6828
Martin v. Löwisb5bc5372006-10-27 06:16:31 +00006829- Patch #1549049: Support long values in structmember, issue warnings
6830 if the assigned value for structmember fields gets truncated.
6831
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006832- Update the peephole optimizer to remove more dead code (jumps after
6833 returns) and inline unconditional jumps to returns.
Neal Norwitzcbeb6872006-10-14 21:33:38 +00006834
Georg Brandl2c1375c2006-10-12 11:27:59 +00006835- Bug #1545497: when given an explicit base, int() did ignore NULs
6836 embedded in the string to convert.
6837
Georg Brandl846f73a2006-10-08 07:11:54 +00006838- Bug #1569998: break inside a try statement (outside a loop) is now
6839 recognized and rejected.
6840
Armin Rigo7ccbca92006-10-04 12:17:45 +00006841- list.pop(x) accepts any object x following the __index__ protocol.
6842
Armin Rigo7ccbca92006-10-04 12:17:45 +00006843- A number of places, including integer negation and absolute value,
6844 were fixed to not rely on undefined behaviour of the C compiler
6845 anymore.
Martin v. Löwis820d6ac2006-10-04 05:47:34 +00006846
Georg Brandl3267d282006-09-30 09:03:42 +00006847- Bug #1566800: make sure that EnvironmentError can be called with any
6848 number of arguments, as was the case in Python 2.4.
6849
Georg Brandl5d59c092006-09-30 08:43:30 +00006850- Patch #1567691: super() and new.instancemethod() now don't accept
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006851 keyword arguments any more (previously they accepted them, but
6852 didn't use them).
Georg Brandl5d59c092006-09-30 08:43:30 +00006853
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006854- Fix a bug in the parser's future statement handling that led to
6855 "with" not being recognized as a keyword after, e.g., this
6856 statement: from __future__ import division, with_statement
Georg Brandla10d3af2006-09-24 12:35:36 +00006857
Neal Norwitz3a230172006-09-22 08:18:10 +00006858- Bug #1557232: fix seg fault with def f((((x)))) and def f(((x),)).
6859
Neal Norwitz4a8fbdb2006-09-22 08:16:26 +00006860- Fix %zd string formatting on Mac OS X so it prints negative numbers.
6861
Brett Cannonf6aa86e2006-09-20 18:43:13 +00006862- Allow exception instances to be directly sliced again.
6863
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006864- Bug #1551432: Exceptions do not define an explicit __unicode__
6865 method. This allows calling unicode() on exceptions classes
6866 directly to succeed.
Brett Cannon9adeab72006-09-20 18:34:28 +00006867
Georg Brandl4e933132006-09-06 20:05:58 +00006868- Bug #1542051: Exceptions now correctly call PyObject_GC_UnTrack.
6869 Also make sure that every exception class has __module__ set to
6870 'exceptions'.
6871
Georg Brandl98775df2006-09-06 06:09:31 +00006872- Bug #1550983: emit better error messages for erroneous relative
6873 imports (if not in package and if beyond toplevel package).
6874
Tim Petersc10c9d02006-09-05 02:18:09 +00006875- Overflow checking code in integer division ran afoul of new gcc
6876 optimizations. Changed to be more standard-conforming.
6877
Neal Norwitz4f096d92006-08-21 19:47:08 +00006878- Patch #1542451: disallow continue anywhere under a finally.
6879
Neal Norwitza22975f2006-09-05 02:24:03 +00006880- Patch #1546288: fix seg fault in dict_equal due to ref counting bug.
6881
Neal Norwitzd34e4272006-09-05 02:36:20 +00006882- The return tuple from str.rpartition(sep) is (tail, sep, head) where
6883 head is the original string if sep was not found.
6884
Neal Norwitzdac090d2006-09-05 03:53:08 +00006885- Bug #1520864: unpacking singleton tuples in list comprehensions and
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006886 generator expressions (x for x, in ... ) works again. Fixing this
6887 problem required changing the .pyc magic number. This means that
6888 .pyc files generated before 2.5c2 will be regenerated.
Neal Norwitzdac090d2006-09-05 03:53:08 +00006889
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00006890- ``with`` and ``as`` are now keywords.
Neal Norwitzca460d92006-09-06 06:28:06 +00006891
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006892- Bug #1664966: Fix crash in exec if Unicode filename can't be
6893 decoded.
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00006894
Guido van Rossumcad37242008-01-15 17:59:29 +00006895- Issue #1537: Changed GeneratorExit's base class from Exception to
6896 BaseException.
Christian Heimes44eeaec2007-12-03 20:01:02 +00006897
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006898- Issue #1703448: A joined thread could show up in the
Gregory P. Smith95cd5c02008-01-22 01:20:42 +00006899 threading.enumerate() list after the join() for a brief period until
6900 it actually exited.
6901
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00006902
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00006903Library
6904-------
6905
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006906- Patch #2274: Add heapq.heappushpop().
Raymond Hettinger53bdf092008-03-13 19:03:51 +00006907
Christian Heimes608c1d82008-03-03 18:28:04 +00006908- Add inspect.isabstract(object) to fix bug #2223
6909
Mark Dickinson1ddf1d82008-02-29 02:16:37 +00006910- Add a __format__ method to Decimal, to support PEP 3101.
6911
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006912- Add a timing parameter when using trace.Trace to print out
6913 timestamps.
Neal Norwitzca376612008-02-26 08:21:28 +00006914
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006915- Issue #1627: httplib now ignores negative Content-Length headers.
Georg Brandl8c460d52008-02-24 00:14:24 +00006916
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006917- Issue #900744: If an invalid chunked-encoding header is sent by a
6918 server, httplib will now raise IncompleteRead and close the
6919 connection instead of raising ValueError.
Georg Brandl23635032008-02-24 00:03:22 +00006920
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006921- Issue #1492: The content type of BaseHTTPServer error messages can
6922 now be overridden.
Georg Brandl16479232008-02-23 15:02:28 +00006923
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006924- Issue #1781: ConfigParser now does not let you add the "default" section
Facundo Batistab12f0b52008-02-23 12:46:10 +00006925 (ignore-case)
6926
Guido van Rossum8bc09652008-02-21 18:18:37 +00006927- Removed uses of dict.has_key() from distutils, and uses of
6928 callable() from copy_reg.py, so the interpreter now starts up
6929 without warnings when '-3' is given. More work like this needs to
6930 be done in the rest of the stdlib.
6931
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006932- Issue #1916: added isgenerator() and isgeneratorfunction() to
6933 inspect.py.
Facundo Batista759bfc62008-02-18 03:43:43 +00006934
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006935- Issue #1224: Fixed bad url parsing when path begins with double
6936 slash.
Facundo Batistad14600e2008-02-18 12:48:43 +00006937
Thomas Hellera06a1a82008-02-13 20:21:53 +00006938- ctypes instances that are not or do not contain pointers can now be
6939 pickled.
6940
Martin v. Löwisdad88dc2008-02-12 18:47:34 +00006941- Patch #1966: Break infinite loop in httplib when the servers
6942 implements the chunked encoding incorrectly.
6943
Mark Dickinsond058cd22008-02-10 21:29:51 +00006944- Rename rational.py to fractions.py and the rational.Rational class
6945 to fractions.Fraction, to avoid the name clash with the abstract
6946 base class numbers.Rational. See discussion in issue #1682.
6947
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006948- The pickletools module now provides an optimize() function that
6949 eliminates unused PUT opcodes from a pickle string.
Raymond Hettingerda614dc2008-02-10 20:35:16 +00006950
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006951- Patch #2021: Allow tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile and
6952 SpooledTemporaryFile to be used in with statements by correctly
6953 supporting the context management protocol.
Nick Coghlanac094dc2008-02-10 07:32:52 +00006954
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006955- Patch #1979: Add rich comparisons to Decimal, and make Decimal
6956 comparisons involving a NaN follow the IEEE 754 standard.
Mark Dickinson2fc92632008-02-06 22:10:50 +00006957
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006958- Issue #2004: tarfile.py: Use mode 0700 for temporary directories and
6959 default permissions for missing directories.
Lars Gustäbel0192e432008-02-05 11:51:40 +00006960
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006961- Issue #175006: The debugger used to skip the condition of a "while"
6962 statement after the first iteration. Now it correctly steps on the
6963 expression, and breakpoints on the "while" statement are honored on
6964 each loop.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc6fd03bb2008-02-04 21:45:05 +00006965
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006966- Issue #1765140: add an optional delay argument to FileHandler and
6967 its subclasses. Defaults to false (existing behaviour), but if true,
Vinay Sajipd7cf32e2008-01-24 12:43:33 +00006968 defers opening the file until the first call to emit().
6969
Raymond Hettingerc226c312008-01-23 00:04:40 +00006970- The pprint module now supports sets and frozensets.
6971
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006972- Issue #1221598: add optional callbacks to ftplib.FTP's storbinary()
6973 and storlines() methods. (Contributed by Phil Schwartz)
Gregory P. Smithc64386b2008-01-22 00:19:41 +00006974
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006975- Issue #1715: include sub-extension modules in pydoc's text output.
Georg Brandlf2dae0e2008-01-21 21:05:49 +00006976
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006977- Issue #1836: fix an off-by-one bug in TimedRotatingHandler's
6978 rollover time calculation.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00006979
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006980- Issue #1021: fix a bug to allow basicConfig to accept NOTSET as a
6981 level.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00006982
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006983- Issue #932563: add LoggerAdapter convenience class to make it easier
6984 to add contextual information in logging output.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00006985
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006986- Issue #1760556: fix a bug to avoid FileHandler throwing an exception
6987 in flush().
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00006988
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006989- Bug #1530959: distutils' build command now uses different build
6990 directory when building extension modules against versions of Python
6991 compiled with ``--with-pydebug``.
Georg Brandl50160152008-01-21 17:42:40 +00006992
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006993- Issue #1555501: move plistlib from plat-mac directory to general
6994 library.
Georg Brandl864de822008-01-21 16:34:07 +00006995
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006996- Issue #1269: fix a bug in pstats.add_callers() and add a unit test
6997 file for pstats.
Georg Brandl66e73632008-01-21 10:24:59 +00006998
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006999- Issue #1669: don't allow shutil.rmtree() to be called on a symlink
7000 to a directory.
Georg Brandl52353982008-01-20 14:17:42 +00007001
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007002- Issue #1664522: in urllib, don't read non-existing directories in
7003 ftp mode, returning a 0-byte file -- raise an IOError instead.
Georg Brandld5e6cf22008-01-20 12:18:17 +00007004
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007005- Issue #856047: respect the ``no_proxy`` environment variable when
7006 using the ``http_proxy`` etc. environment variables in urllib.
Georg Brandl22350112008-01-20 12:05:43 +00007007
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007008- Issue #1178141: add a getcode() method to the addinfourls that
7009 urllib.open() returns so that you can retrieve the HTTP status code.
Georg Brandl9b0d46d2008-01-20 11:43:03 +00007010
Gregory P. Smithf25680a2008-01-20 01:26:04 +00007011- Issue #1003: Fix zipfile decryption check, it would fail zip files
7012 with extended local headers.
7013
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007014- Issue #1189216: Fix the zipfile module to work on archives with
7015 headers past the 2**31 byte boundary.
Gregory P. Smith350d03b2008-01-19 23:10:52 +00007016
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007017- Issue #1336: fix a race condition in subprocess.Popen if the garbage
Gregory P. Smithb9ba0752008-01-19 21:00:37 +00007018 collector kicked in at the wrong time that would cause the process
7019 to hang when the child wrote to stderr.
7020
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007021- Issue #1146: fix how textwrap breaks a long word that would start in
7022 the last column of a line.
Georg Brandlc6fde722008-01-19 19:48:19 +00007023
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007024- Issue #1693149: trace.py --ignore-module - accept multiple
7025 comma-separated modules to be given.
Skip Montanaro562133b2008-01-19 18:47:24 +00007026
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007027- Issue #1822: MIMEMultipart.is_multipart() behaves correctly for a
7028 just-created (and empty) instance. Thanks Jonathan Share.
Facundo Batista2b1b1952008-01-19 12:32:27 +00007029
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007030- Issue #1861: Added an attribute to the sched module which returns an
7031 ordered list of upcoming events (displayed as named tuples).
Raymond Hettinger44bd6c02008-01-17 19:31:38 +00007032
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007033- Issue #1837: The queue module now also supports a LIFO queue and a
7034 priority queue.
Raymond Hettinger3ad2acc82008-01-16 23:49:35 +00007035
Andrew M. Kuchling4a2762d2008-01-20 00:00:38 +00007036- Patch #1048820: Add insert-mode editing to curses.textpad.Textbox
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00007037 (patch by Stefan Wehr). Also, fix an off-by-one bug in
Andrew M. Kuchling4a2762d2008-01-20 00:00:38 +00007038 Textbox.gather().
7039
Thomas Heller02ec2892008-01-16 19:37:33 +00007040- Issue #1831: ctypes now raises a TypeError if conflicting positional
7041 and named arguments are passed to a Structure or Union initializer.
Thomas Heller415c1e32008-01-16 19:45:51 +00007042 When too many positional arguments are passed, also a TypeError is
7043 raised instead of a ValueError.
Thomas Heller02ec2892008-01-16 19:37:33 +00007044
Thomas Heller902d3072008-01-16 19:16:27 +00007045- Convert the internal ctypes array type cache to a WeakValueDict so
7046 that array types do not live longer than needed.
7047
Guido van Rossumcad37242008-01-15 17:59:29 +00007048- Issue #1786: pdb should use its own stdin/stdout around an exec call
7049 and when creating a recursive instance.
7050
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007051- Issue #1698398: ZipFile.printdir() crashed because the format string
7052 expected a tuple type of length six instead of time.struct_time
7053 object.
Raymond Hettinger351e1a32008-01-14 22:58:05 +00007054
Mark Dickinson59bc20b2008-01-12 01:56:00 +00007055- Issue #1780: The Decimal constructor now accepts arbitrary leading
7056 and trailing whitespace when constructing from a string.
7057 Context.create_decimal no longer accepts trailing newlines.
7058
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007059- Decimal.as_tuple(), difflib.find_longest_match() and inspect
7060 functions that returned a tuple now return a named tuple.
Georg Brandl2f32c392008-01-11 09:20:58 +00007061
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00007062- Doctest now returns results as a named tuple for readability:
Raymond Hettingerfff4e6e2008-01-11 01:25:54 +00007063 (0, 7) --> TestResults(failed=0, attempted=7)
7064
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007065- Issue #846388:q re.match is interruptible now, which is particularly
Facundo Batista4473d222008-01-08 21:10:12 +00007066 good for long regular expression matches.
7067
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007068- Patch #1137: allow setting buffer_size attribute on pyexpat Parser
7069 objects to set the character data buffer size.
Andrew M. Kuchlinge0a49b62008-01-08 14:30:55 +00007070
Facundo Batista52b25792008-01-08 12:25:20 +00007071- Issue #1757: The hash of a Decimal instance is no longer affected by
7072 the current context.
7073
Georg Brandl62416bc2008-01-07 18:47:44 +00007074- Patch #467924: add ZipFile.extract() and ZipFile.extractall() in the
7075 zipfile module.
7076
Christian Heimesfb2d25a2008-01-07 16:12:44 +00007077- Issue #1646: Make socket support the TIPC protocol.
7078
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007079- Bug #1742: return os.curdir from os.path.relpath() if both arguments
7080 are equal instead of raising an exception.
Georg Brandl183a0842008-01-06 14:27:15 +00007081
Guido van Rossumc6a04c22008-01-05 22:19:06 +00007082- Patch #1637: fix urlparse for URLs like 'http://x.com?arg=/foo'.
7083
Guido van Rossumced4eb02008-01-05 01:21:57 +00007084- Patch #1698: allow '@' in username parsed by urlparse.py.
7085
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007086- Issue #1735: TarFile.extractall() now correctly sets directory
7087 permissions and times.
Lars Gustäbel2ee1c762008-01-04 14:00:33 +00007088
Christian Heimes06875612008-01-04 13:21:07 +00007089- Bug #1713: posixpath.ismount() claims symlink to a mountpoint is a mountpoint.
7090
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007091- Bug #1687: Fxed plistlib.py restricts <integer> to Python int when
7092 writing
Christian Heimes06131882008-01-04 00:04:52 +00007093
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007094- Issue #1700: Regular expression inline flags incorrectly handle
7095 certain unicode characters.
Guido van Rossumae04c332008-01-03 19:12:44 +00007096
Jeffrey Yasskin2f3c16b2008-01-03 02:21:52 +00007097- Issue #1689: PEP 3141, numeric abstract base classes.
7098
Martin v. Löwis84b9aab2008-01-01 21:09:07 +00007099- Tk issue #1851526: Return results from Python callbacks to Tcl as
7100 Tcl objects.
7101
Thomas Heller153038e2007-12-18 19:00:34 +00007102- Issue #1642: Fix segfault in ctypes when trying to delete attributes.
7103
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007104- Issue #1727780: Support loading pickles of random.Random objects
7105 created on 32-bit systems on 64-bit systems, and vice versa. As a
7106 consequence of the change, Random pickles created by Python 2.6
7107 cannot be loaded in Python 2.5.
Martin v. Löwis6b449f42007-12-03 19:20:02 +00007108
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007109- Issue #1455: The distutils package now supports VS 2005 and VS 2008
7110 for both the msvccompiler and cygwincompiler.
Christian Heimesc654fc22007-12-03 13:55:16 +00007111
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007112- Issue #1531: tarfile.py: Read fileobj from the current offset, do
7113 not seek to the start.
Lars Gustäbel77b2d632007-12-01 21:02:12 +00007114
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007115- Issue #1534: Added a dictionary sys.float_info with information
7116 about the internal floating point type to the sys module.
Christian Heimesdfdfaab2007-12-01 11:20:10 +00007117
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007118- Issue #1429818: patch for trace and doctest modules so they play
7119 nicely together.
Skip Montanaro58a6f442007-11-24 14:30:47 +00007120
Brett Cannon43e53f82007-11-21 00:47:36 +00007121- doctest made a bad assumption that a package's __loader__.get_data()
7122 method used universal newlines.
7123
Nick Coghlan90b858e2007-11-07 11:57:51 +00007124- Issue #1705170: contextlib.contextmanager was still swallowing
7125 StopIteration in some cases. This should no longer happen.
7126
Thomas Heller486b1b02007-11-02 19:10:24 +00007127- Issue #1292: On alpha, arm, ppc, and s390 linux systems the
7128 --with-system-ffi configure option defaults to "yes".
7129
Hye-Shik Changa838a802007-10-28 11:19:02 +00007130- IN module for FreeBSD 8 is added and preexisting FreeBSD 6 and 7
7131 files are updated.
7132
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007133- Issues #1181, #1287: unsetenv() is now called when the
7134 os.environ.pop() and os.environ.clear() methods are used.
Georg Brandl1a94ec22007-10-24 21:40:38 +00007135
Thomas Heller91ac4222007-10-19 18:11:41 +00007136- ctypes will now work correctly on 32-bit systems when Python is
7137 configured with --with-system-ffi.
7138
Thomas Heller7fee6dd2007-10-11 19:51:32 +00007139- Patch #1203: ctypes now does work on OS X when Python is built with
Georg Brandl1a94ec22007-10-24 21:40:38 +00007140 --disable-toolbox-glue.
Thomas Heller7fee6dd2007-10-11 19:51:32 +00007141
Raymond Hettingera7fc4b12007-10-05 02:47:07 +00007142- collections.deque() now supports a "maxlen" argument.
7143
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007144- itertools.count() is no longer bounded to LONG_MAX. Formerly, it
7145 raised an OverflowError. Now, automatically shifts from ints to
7146 longs.
Raymond Hettinger50e90e22007-10-04 00:20:27 +00007147
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007148- Added itertools.product() which forms the Cartesian product of the
7149 input iterables.
Raymond Hettingerc5705a82008-02-22 19:50:06 +00007150
Raymond Hettinger66f91ea2008-03-05 20:59:58 +00007151- Added itertools.combinations() and itertools.permutations().
Raymond Hettinger93e804d2008-02-26 23:40:50 +00007152
Georg Brandlaff85e22007-09-20 16:06:07 +00007153- Patch #1541463: optimize performance of cgi.FieldStorage operations.
7154
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007155- Decimal is fully updated to the latest Decimal Specification
7156 (v1.66).
Facundo Batistab67da232007-09-17 16:26:50 +00007157
Georg Brandl8fd3ecf2007-09-12 19:00:07 +00007158- Bug #1153: repr.repr() now doesn't require set and dictionary items
7159 to be orderable to properly represent them.
7160
Thomas Heller2825b2e2007-09-07 06:32:17 +00007161- A 'c_longdouble' type was added to the ctypes module.
7162
Martin v. Löwis7dcb83c2007-08-30 19:04:09 +00007163- Bug #1709599: Run test_1565150 only if the file system is NTFS.
7164
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007165- When encountering a password-protected robots.txt file the
7166 RobotFileParser no longer prompts interactively for a username and
7167 password (bug 813986).
Skip Montanaro3e275362007-08-29 01:33:45 +00007168
Lars Gustäbel0f4a14b2007-08-28 12:31:09 +00007169- TarFile.__init__() no longer fails if no name argument is passed and
7170 the fileobj argument has no usable name attribute (e.g. StringIO).
7171
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007172- The functools module now provides 'reduce', for forward
7173 compatibility with Python 3000.
Guido van Rossum95f1a1b2007-08-27 20:52:10 +00007174
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007175- Server-side SSL support and cert verification added, by Bill
7176 Janssen.
Guido van Rossum4f2c3dd2007-08-25 15:08:43 +00007177
Bill Janssenf413fb02007-08-30 18:08:06 +00007178- socket.ssl deprecated; use new ssl module instead.
7179
Georg Brandl8ec57542007-08-24 06:10:01 +00007180- uuid creation is now threadsafe.
7181
Hye-Shik Chang23901042007-08-20 06:49:18 +00007182- EUC-KR codec now handles the cheot-ga-keut composed make-up hangul
7183 syllables.
7184
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007185- GB18030 codec now can encode additional two-byte characters that are
7186 missing in GBK.
Hye-Shik Changf3e93a02007-08-04 04:10:18 +00007187
Walter Dörwald6e390802007-08-17 16:41:28 +00007188- Add new codecs for UTF-32, UTF-32-LE and UTF-32-BE.
7189
Martin v. Löwisf1e0b3f2007-07-28 07:03:05 +00007190- Bug #1704793: Return UTF-16 pair if unicodedata.lookup cannot
7191 represent the result in a single character.
7192
Martin v. Löwisf25e35b2007-07-27 18:28:22 +00007193- Bug #978833: Close https sockets by releasing the _ssl object.
7194
Martin v. Löwis254b8f92007-07-25 16:24:23 +00007195- Change location of the package index to pypi.python.org/pypi
7196
Thomas Hellerfa704c62007-07-13 17:12:23 +00007197- Bug #1701409: Fix a segfault in printing ctypes.c_char_p and
7198 ctypes.c_wchar_p when they point to an invalid location. As a
7199 sideeffect the representation of these instances has changed.
7200
Lars Gustäbel104490e2007-06-18 11:42:11 +00007201- tarfile.py: Added "exclude" keyword argument to TarFile.add().
7202
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007203- Bug #1734723: Fix repr.Repr() so it doesn't ignore the maxtuple
7204 attribute.
Neal Norwitzc161cb92007-06-11 07:29:43 +00007205
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007206- The urlopen function of urllib2 now has an optional timeout
7207 parameter (note that it actually works with HTTP, HTTPS, FTP and
7208 FTPS connections).
Facundo Batista10951d52007-06-06 17:15:23 +00007209
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007210- In ftplib, the FTP.ntransfercmd method, when in passive mode, now
7211 uses the socket.create_connection function, using the timeout
7212 specified at connection time.
Facundo Batista92493122007-06-06 15:13:37 +00007213
Hye-Shik Chang9b541402007-06-05 18:58:51 +00007214- Bug #1728403: Fix a bug that CJKCodecs StreamReader hangs when it
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007215 reads a file that ends with incomplete sequence and sizehint
7216 argument for .read() is specified.
Hye-Shik Chang9b541402007-06-05 18:58:51 +00007217
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007218- Bug #1730389: Change time.strptime() to use ``\s+`` instead of
7219 ``\s*`` when matching spaces in the specified format argument.
Brett Cannonf7188ce2007-06-03 23:13:41 +00007220
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007221- Bugs #1668596/#1720897: distutils now copies data files even if
7222 package_dir is empty.
Neal Norwitz4a700bb2007-06-01 07:29:12 +00007223
Brett Cannonc2aa09a2007-05-31 19:20:00 +00007224- sha now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
7225
Brett Cannon7eec2172007-05-30 22:24:28 +00007226- md5 now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
7227
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007228- Issue #1385: The hmac module now computes the correct hmac when
7229 using hashes with a block size other than 64 bytes (such as sha384
7230 and sha512).
Gregory P. Smithe1ac4f12007-11-06 00:19:03 +00007231
Brett Cannonc249bda2007-05-30 21:48:58 +00007232- mimify now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
7233
Brett Cannon90134c92007-05-30 20:46:26 +00007234- MimeWriter now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
7235
Lars Gustäbela0fcb932007-05-27 19:49:30 +00007236- tarfile.py: Improved unicode support. Unicode input names are now
7237 officially supported. Added "errors" argument to the TarFile class.
7238
Facundo Batista711a54e2007-05-24 17:50:54 +00007239- urllib.ftpwrapper class now accepts an optional timeout.
7240
Georg Brandlc90bc752007-05-24 16:49:29 +00007241- shlex.split() now has an optional "posix" parameter.
7242
Brett Cannon41bf2fa2007-05-20 23:57:38 +00007243- The posixfile module now raises a DeprecationWarning.
7244
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007245- Remove the gopherlib module. This also leads to the removal of
7246 gopher support in urllib/urllib2.
Brett Cannond75f0432007-05-16 22:42:29 +00007247
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007248- Fix bug in marshal where bad data would cause a segfault due to lack
7249 of an infinite recursion check.
Neal Norwitzb1a9b372007-05-16 20:05:11 +00007250
Neal Norwitze0e70a42007-05-16 05:06:33 +00007251- Removed plat-freebsd2 and plat-freebsd3 directories (and IN.py in
7252 the directories).
7253
Georg Brandla09a96a2007-05-15 20:19:34 +00007254- HTML-escape the plain traceback in cgitb's HTML output, to prevent
7255 the traceback inadvertently or maliciously closing the comment and
7256 injecting HTML into the error page.
7257
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007258- The popen2 module and os.popen* are deprecated. Use the subprocess
7259 module.
Neal Norwitz42dd86b2007-05-11 06:57:33 +00007260
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007261- Added an optional credentials argument to SMTPHandler, for use with
7262 SMTP servers which require authentication.
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00007263
7264- Patch #1695948: Added optional timeout parameter to SocketHandler.
7265
7266- Bug #1652788: Minor fix for currentframe.
7267
7268- Patch #1598415: Added WatchedFileHandler to better support external
7269 log file rotation using e.g. newsyslog or logrotate. This handler is
7270 only useful in Unix/Linux environments.
7271
Georg Brandlfb4b3b72007-04-24 15:27:13 +00007272- Bug #1706381: Specifying the SWIG option "-c++" in the setup.py file
7273 (as opposed to the command line) will now write file names ending in
7274 ".cpp" too.
7275
Facundo Batistad918a652007-04-24 13:54:38 +00007276- As specified in RFC 2616, an HTTP response like 2xx indicates that
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007277 the client's request was successfully received, understood, and
7278 accepted. Now in these cases no error is raised in urllib (issue
7279 #1177) and urllib2.
Facundo Batistad918a652007-04-24 13:54:38 +00007280
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007281- Bug #1290505: time.strptime's internal cache of locale information
7282 is now properly recreated when the locale is changed.
Brett Cannonc6906652007-04-01 18:47:27 +00007283
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007284- Patch #1685563: remove (don't add) duplicate paths in
7285 distutils.MSVCCompiler.
Neal Norwitz8f35f442007-04-01 18:24:22 +00007286
Facundo Batistab6a5c9d2007-03-29 18:22:35 +00007287- Added a timeout parameter to the constructor of other protocols
7288 (telnetlib, ftplib, smtplib and poplib). This is second part of the
7289 work started with create_connection() and timeout in httplib, and
7290 closes patch #723312.
7291
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00007292- Patch #1676823: Added create_connection() to socket.py, which may be
7293 called with a timeout, and use it from httplib (whose HTTPConnection
Facundo Batista70f996b2007-05-21 17:32:32 +00007294 and HTTPSConnection now accept an optional timeout).
Facundo Batista07c78be2007-03-23 18:54:07 +00007295
Martin v. Löwis0af33882007-03-23 13:27:15 +00007296- Bug #978833: Revert r50844, as it broke _socketobject.dup.
7297
Žiga Seilnacht7492e422007-03-21 20:07:56 +00007298- Bug #1675967: re patterns pickled with Python 2.4 and earlier can
7299 now be unpickled with Python 2.5 and newer.
7300
Collin Wintera8785cc2007-03-19 18:52:08 +00007301- Patch #1630118: add a SpooledTemporaryFile class to tempfile.py.
7302
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007303- Patch #1273829: os.walk() now has a "followlinks" parameter. If set
7304 to True (which is not the default), it visits symlinks pointing to
Georg Brandlcae9f3d2007-03-21 09:10:29 +00007305 directories.
7306
Georg Brandl8f06d022007-03-16 07:55:09 +00007307- Bug #1681228: the webbrowser module now correctly uses the default
7308 GNOME or KDE browser, depending on whether there is a session of one
7309 of those present. Also, it tries the Windows default browser before
7310 trying Mozilla variants.
7311
Collin Winter6f187742007-03-16 22:16:08 +00007312- Patch #1339796: add a relpath() function to os.path.
7313
Georg Brandlab1f4672007-03-15 07:41:30 +00007314- Patch #1681153: the wave module now closes a file object it opened if
7315 initialization failed.
7316
Georg Brandlf66b6032007-03-14 08:27:52 +00007317- Bug #767111: fix long-standing bug in urllib which caused an
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007318 AttributeError instead of an IOError when the server's response
7319 didn't contain a valid HTTP status line.
Georg Brandlf66b6032007-03-14 08:27:52 +00007320
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007321- Patch #957650: "%var%" environment variable references are now
7322 properly expanded in ntpath.expandvars(), also "~user" home
7323 directory references are recognized and handled on Windows.
Georg Brandl03b90d82007-03-13 22:07:36 +00007324
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007325- Patch #1429539: pdb now correctly initializes the __main__ module
7326 for the debugged script, which means that imports from __main__ work
Georg Brandlb6ae6aa2007-03-13 21:58:44 +00007327 correctly now.
7328
Georg Brandlbad6f192007-03-13 21:32:56 +00007329- The nonobvious commands.getstatus() function is now deprecated.
7330
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007331- Patch #1393667: pdb now has a "run" command which restarts the
7332 debugged Python program, optionally with different arguments.
Georg Brandl8e84c652007-03-13 21:08:15 +00007333
Thomas Heller5dc4fe02007-03-13 20:42:52 +00007334- Patch #1649190: Adding support for _Bool to ctypes as c_bool.
7335
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007336- Patch #1530482: add pydoc.render_doc() which returns the
7337 documentation for a thing instead of paging it to stdout, which
7338 pydoc.doc() does.
Georg Brandl8441f152007-03-13 20:02:57 +00007339
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007340- Patch #1533909: the timeit module now accepts callables in addition
7341 to strings for the code to time and the setup code. Also added two
7342 convenience functions for instantiating a Timer and calling its
7343 methods.
Georg Brandld9bef352007-03-13 19:32:21 +00007344
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007345- Patch #1537850: tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile now has a "delete"
7346 parameter which can be set to False to prevent the default
7347 delete-on-close behavior.
Georg Brandl35ef9c12007-03-13 18:31:49 +00007348
Georg Brandl9e6b4702007-03-13 18:15:41 +00007349- Patch #1581073: add a flag to textwrap that prevents the dropping of
7350 whitespace while wrapping.
7351
Georg Brandl92a6bae2007-03-13 17:43:32 +00007352- Patch #1603688: ConfigParser.SafeConfigParser now checks values that
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007353 are set for invalid interpolation sequences that would lead to
7354 errors on reading back those values.
Georg Brandl92a6bae2007-03-13 17:43:32 +00007355
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007356- Added support for the POSIX.1-2001 (pax) format to
7357 tarfile.py. Extended and cleaned up the test suite. Added a new
7358 testtar.tar.
Lars Gustäbelc64e4022007-03-13 10:47:19 +00007359
Martin v. Löwisbdd0f392007-03-13 10:24:00 +00007360- Patch #1449244: Support Unicode strings in
7361 email.message.Message.{set_charset,get_content_charset}.
7362
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007363- Patch #1542681: add entries for "with", "as" and "CONTEXTMANAGERS"
7364 to pydoc's help keywords.
Georg Brandlb6a87542007-03-13 10:06:48 +00007365
Georg Brandl4ffc8f52007-03-13 09:41:31 +00007366- Patch #1555098: use str.join() instead of repeated string
7367 concatenation in robotparser.
7368
Georg Brandl94fe3f52007-03-13 09:32:11 +00007369- Patch #1635454: the csv.DictWriter class now includes the offending
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007370 field names in its exception message if you try to write a record
7371 with a dictionary containing fields not in the CSV field names list.
Georg Brandl94fe3f52007-03-13 09:32:11 +00007372
Georg Brandlceede5c2007-03-13 08:14:27 +00007373- Patch #1668100: urllib2 now correctly raises URLError instead of
7374 OSError if accessing a local file via the file:// protocol fails.
7375
Martin v. Löwis2681beb2007-03-12 11:01:10 +00007376- Patch #1677862: Require a space or tab after import in .pth files.
7377
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007378- Patch #1192590: Fix pdb's "ignore" and "condition" commands so they
7379 trap the IndexError caused by passing in an invalid breakpoint
7380 number.
Collin Winter2faa9e12007-03-11 16:00:20 +00007381
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007382- Patch #1599845: Add an option to disable the implicit calls to
7383 server_bind() and server_activate() in the constructors for
7384 TCPServer, SimpleXMLRPCServer and DocXMLRPCServer.
Collin Winterae041062007-03-10 14:41:48 +00007385
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007386- Bug #1531963: Make SocketServer.TCPServer's server_address always be
7387 equal to calling getsockname() on the server's socket. Fixed by
Collin Winterfaaa2042007-03-10 03:35:34 +00007388 patch #1545011.
Collin Winter22c42ba2007-03-10 02:51:26 +00007389
Andrew M. Kuchlinge45a77a2008-01-19 16:26:13 +00007390- Patch #742598: Add .timeout attribute to SocketServer that calls
7391 .handle_timeout() when no requests are received.
7392
Thomas Heller2456a3c2007-03-09 20:39:22 +00007393- Bug #1651235: When a tuple was passed to a ctypes function call,
7394 Python would crash instead of raising an error.
7395
Thomas Hellerc2f77252007-03-09 19:21:28 +00007396- Bug #1646630: ctypes.string_at(buf, 0) and ctypes.wstring_at(buf, 0)
7397 returned string up to the first NUL character.
7398
Martin v. Löwis1190a382007-03-09 15:35:55 +00007399- Patch #957003: Implement smtplib.LMTP.
7400
Collin Winterfb728de2007-03-09 03:26:32 +00007401- Patch #1481079: add support for HTTP_REFERER to CGIHTTPServer.
7402
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007403- Patch #1675424: Added tests for uncovered code in the zipfile
7404 module. The KeyError raised by Zipfile.getinfo for nonexistent
7405 names now has a descriptive message.
Georg Brandl4b3ab6f2007-07-12 09:59:22 +00007406
Martin v. Löwis05c075d2007-03-07 11:04:33 +00007407- Bug #1115886: os.path.splitext('.cshrc') gives now ('.cshrc', '').
7408
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007409- unittest now verifies more of its assumptions. In particular,
7410 TestCase and TestSuite subclasses (not instances) are no longer
7411 accepted in TestSuite.addTest(). This should cause no
7412 incompatibility since it never made sense with ordinary subclasses
7413 -- the failure just occurred later, with a more cumbersome
7414 exception.
Georg Brandl9caadf82007-03-08 18:37:31 +00007415
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007416- Patch #787789: allow to pass custom TestRunner instances to
7417 unittest's main() function.
Georg Brandld0a96252007-03-07 09:21:06 +00007418
Georg Brandl15c5ce92007-03-07 09:09:40 +00007419- Patches #1550273, #1550272: fix a few bugs in unittest and add a
7420 comprehensive test suite for the module.
7421
Georg Brandl71ff6462007-03-07 08:31:51 +00007422- Patch #1001604: glob.glob() now returns unicode filenames if it was
7423 given a unicode argument and os.listdir() returns unicode filenames.
7424
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007425- Patch #1673619: setup.py identifies extension modules it doesn't
7426 know how to build and those it knows how to build but that fail to
7427 build.
Skip Montanarod1287322007-03-06 15:41:38 +00007428
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00007429- Patch #912410: Replace HTML entity references for attribute values
Martin v. Löwisab8a6bb2007-03-06 14:43:00 +00007430 in HTMLParser.
7431
Georg Brandlff432e62007-03-06 13:37:45 +00007432- Patch #1663234: you can now run doctest on test files and modules
7433 using "python -m doctest [-v] filename ...".
7434
Martin v. Löwis3eb76482007-03-06 10:41:24 +00007435- Patch #1121142: Implement ZipFile.open.
7436
Skip Montanarof694b1b2007-03-04 20:54:12 +00007437- Taught setup.py how to locate Berkeley DB on Macs using MacPorts.
7438
Raymond Hettinger00166c52007-02-19 04:08:43 +00007439- Added heapq.merge() for merging sorted input streams.
7440
Raymond Hettingercd3c1082007-10-23 21:23:07 +00007441- Added collections.namedtuple() for assigning field names to tuples.
Raymond Hettingerc37e5e02007-03-01 06:16:43 +00007442
Raymond Hettingerd36862c2007-02-21 05:20:38 +00007443- Added itertools.izip_longest().
7444
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007445- Have the encoding package's search function dynamically import using
7446 absolute import semantics.
Brett Cannon971a0122007-02-15 22:54:39 +00007447
Lars Gustäbel5b1a7852007-02-13 16:09:24 +00007448- Patch #1647484: Renamed GzipFile's filename attribute to name.
7449
Martin v. Löwis84f6de92007-02-13 10:10:39 +00007450- Patch #1517891: Mode 'a' for ZipFile now creates the file if it
7451 doesn't exist.
7452
Martin v. Löwisc6d626e2007-02-13 09:49:38 +00007453- Patch #698833: Support file decryption in zipfile.
7454
Martin v. Löwis07aa3ed2007-02-13 08:34:45 +00007455- Patch #685268: Consider a package's __path__ in imputil.
7456
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007457- Patch #1463026: Support default namespace in XMLGenerator.
Martin v. Löwis2bad58f2007-02-12 12:21:10 +00007458
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007459- Patch #1571379: Make trace's --ignore-dir facility work in the face
7460 of relative directory names.
Skip Montanaro691acf22007-02-11 18:24:37 +00007461
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007462- Bug #1600860: Search for shared python library in LIBDIR, not
7463 lib/python/config, on "linux" and "gnu" systems.
Martin v. Löwis0a203262007-02-09 12:36:48 +00007464
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007465- Patch #1652681: tarfile.py: create nonexistent files in append mode
7466 and allow appending to empty files.
Lars Gustäbel3f8aca12007-02-06 18:38:13 +00007467
Peter Astrand5f9c6ae2007-02-06 15:37:50 +00007468- Bug #1124861: Automatically create pipes if GetStdHandle fails in
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00007469 subprocess.
Peter Astrand5f9c6ae2007-02-06 15:37:50 +00007470
Georg Brandl4ba9e5b2007-01-27 17:59:42 +00007471- Patch #1634778: add missing encoding aliases for iso8859_15 and
7472 iso8859_16.
7473
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007474- Patch #1638243: the compiler package is now able to correctly
7475 compile a with statement; previously, executing code containing a
7476 with statement compiled by the compiler package crashed the
7477 interpreter.
Georg Brandlab496842007-01-27 17:43:02 +00007478
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00007479- Bug #1643943: Fix time.strptime's support for the %U directive.
7480
Lars Gustäbel0713a682007-02-19 09:54:47 +00007481- Patch #1507247: tarfile.py: use current umask for intermediate
7482 directories.
7483
Georg Brandldd7b0522007-01-21 10:35:10 +00007484- Patch #1627441: close sockets properly in urllib2.
7485
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007486- Bug #494589: make ntpath.expandvars behave according to its
7487 docstring.
Sjoerd Mullender33a0a062007-01-16 16:42:38 +00007488
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00007489- Changed platform module API python_version_tuple() to actually
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00007490 return a tuple (it used to return a list).
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00007491
7492- Added new platform module APIs python_branch(), python_revision(),
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00007493 python_implementation() and linux_distribution().
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00007494
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00007495- Added support for IronPython and Jython to the platform module.
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00007496
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007497- The sets module has been deprecated. Use the built-in set/frozenset
7498 types instead.
Brett Cannon093b6702007-01-13 00:29:49 +00007499
Thomas Heller6fd45492007-01-12 20:21:53 +00007500- Bug #1610795: make ctypes.util.find_library work on BSD systems.
7501
Thomas Heller8138c262007-01-11 21:18:56 +00007502- Fixes for 64-bit Windows: In ctypes.wintypes, correct the
7503 definitions of HANDLE, WPARAM, LPARAM data types. Make
7504 parameterless foreign function calls work.
7505
Thomas Hellerfb9d7872007-01-10 20:12:13 +00007506- The version number of the ctypes package changed to "1.1.0".
7507
Vinay Sajipab41c102007-01-09 14:51:36 +00007508- Bug #1627575: logging: Added _open() method to FileHandler which can
7509 be used to reopen files. The FileHandler instance now saves the
7510 encoding (which can be None) in an attribute called "encoding".
7511
Vinay Sajipc9137262007-01-08 18:52:36 +00007512- Bug #411881: logging.handlers: bare except clause removed from
7513 SMTPHandler.emit. Now, only ImportError is trapped.
7514
7515- Bug #411881: logging.handlers: bare except clause removed from
7516 SocketHandler.createSocket. Now, only socket.error is trapped.
7517
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007518- Bug #411881: logging: bare except clause removed from
7519 LogRecord.__init__. Now, only ValueError, TypeError and
7520 AttributeError are trapped.
Vinay Sajipc9137262007-01-08 18:52:36 +00007521
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007522- Patch #1504073: Fix tarfile.open() for mode "r" with a fileobj
7523 argument.
Lars Gustäbela7ba6fc2006-12-27 10:30:46 +00007524
Andrew M. Kuchling71662322006-12-27 03:31:24 +00007525- Patch #1182394 from Shane Holloway: speed up HMAC.hexdigest.
7526
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007527- Patch #1262036: Prevent TarFiles from being added to themselves
7528 under certain conditions.
Lars Gustäbela4b23812006-12-23 17:57:23 +00007529
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007530- Patch #1230446: tarfile.py: fix ExFileObject so that read() and
7531 tell() work correctly together with readline().
Lars Gustäbel6baa5022006-12-23 16:40:13 +00007532
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007533- Patch #1484695: The tarfile module now raises a HeaderError
7534 exception if a buffer given to frombuf() is invalid.
Georg Brandlebbeed72006-12-19 22:06:46 +00007535
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00007536- Bug #1503765: Fix a problem in logging.config with spaces in comma-
7537 separated lists read from logging config files.
7538
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007539- Patch #1604907: Fix problems in logging.handlers caused at logging
7540 shutdown when syslog handlers fail to initialize because of syslogd
7541 problems.
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00007542
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007543- Patch #1608267: fix a race condition in os.makedirs() if the
7544 directory to be created is already there.
Georg Brandlb1307432006-12-09 09:08:29 +00007545
Georg Brandl87fa5592006-12-06 22:21:18 +00007546- Patch #1610437: fix a tarfile bug with long filename headers.
7547
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007548- Patch #1371075: Make ConfigParser accept optional dict type for
7549 ordering, sorting, etc.
Martin v. Löwisa00bcac2006-12-03 12:01:53 +00007550
Thomas Helleref583a42006-11-28 20:21:54 +00007551- Bug #1563807: _ctypes built on AIX fails with ld ffi error.
7552
Thomas Heller25d208b2006-11-24 18:45:39 +00007553- Bug #1598620: A ctypes Structure cannot contain itself.
7554
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007555- Patch #1070046: Marshal new-style objects like InstanceType in
7556 xmlrpclib.
Martin v. Löwis07529352006-11-19 18:51:54 +00007557
Martin v. Löwiscffcc8b2006-11-19 10:41:41 +00007558- cStringIO.truncate(-1) now raises an IOError, like StringIO and
7559 regular files.
7560
Martin v. Löwisbba003e2006-11-18 18:42:11 +00007561- Patch #1472877: Fix Tix subwidget name resolution.
7562
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007563- Patch #1594554: Always close a tkSimpleDialog on ok(), even if an
7564 exception occurs.
Martin v. Löwisef5fd3e2006-11-18 18:05:35 +00007565
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007566- Patch #1538878: Don't make tkSimpleDialog dialogs transient if the
7567 parent window is withdrawn.
Martin v. Löwisc73a4a42006-11-18 18:00:23 +00007568
Georg Brandl54082112006-11-16 16:50:59 +00007569- Bug #1597824: return the registered function from atexit.register()
7570 to facilitate usage as a decorator.
7571
Martin v. Löwis45cd4ff2006-11-12 18:56:03 +00007572- Patch #1360200: Use unmangled_version RPM spec field to deal with
7573 file name mangling.
7574
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007575- Patch #1359217: Process 2xx response in an ftplib transfer that
7576 precedes an 1xx response.
Martin v. Löwis36cbc082006-11-12 18:48:13 +00007577
Martin v. Löwis065f0c82006-11-12 10:41:39 +00007578- Patch #1355023: support whence argument for GzipFile.seek.
7579
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00007580- Patch #1065257: Support passing open files as body in
Martin v. Löwis040a9272006-11-12 10:32:47 +00007581 HTTPConnection.request().
7582
Andrew M. Kuchlinga3e5d372006-11-09 13:27:07 +00007583- Bug #1569790: mailbox.py: Maildir.get_folder() and MH.get_folder()
7584 weren't passing the message factory on to newly created Maildir/MH
7585 objects.
7586
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007587- Patch #1514543: mailbox.py: In the Maildir class, report errors if
7588 there's a filename clash instead of possibly losing a message.
7589 (Patch by David Watson.)
Andrew M. Kuchling978d8282006-11-09 21:16:46 +00007590
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007591- Patch #1514544: Try to ensure that messages/indexes have been
7592 physically written to disk after calling .flush() or
7593 .close(). (Patch by David Watson.)
Andrew M. Kuchlingb5686da2006-11-09 13:51:14 +00007594
Guido van Rossumaf16ece2008-02-21 19:46:35 +00007595- Patch #1592250: Add elide argument to Tkinter.Text.search.
Martin v. Löwis038cad72006-11-09 11:27:32 +00007596
Guido van Rossumaf16ece2008-02-21 19:46:35 +00007597- Patch #838546: Make terminal become controlling in pty.fork().
Martin v. Löwisb2bba732006-11-09 11:06:03 +00007598
Martin v. Löwis5361e9a2006-11-08 07:35:55 +00007599- Patch #1351744: Add askyesnocancel helper for tkMessageBox.
7600
Martin v. Löwis5310e502006-11-04 18:14:06 +00007601- Patch #1060577: Extract list of RPM files from spec file in
Guido van Rossumaf16ece2008-02-21 19:46:35 +00007602 bdist_rpm.
Martin v. Löwis5310e502006-11-04 18:14:06 +00007603
Georg Brandl2c9838e2006-10-29 14:39:09 +00007604- Bug #1586613: fix zlib and bz2 codecs' incremental en/decoders.
7605
Georg Brandl3354f282006-10-29 09:16:12 +00007606- Patch #1583880: fix tarfile's problems with long names and posix/
7607 GNU modes.
7608
Georg Brandl5addf702006-10-29 08:53:06 +00007609- Bug #1586448: the compiler module now emits the same bytecode for
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00007610 list comprehensions as the built-in compiler, using the LIST_APPEND
Georg Brandl5addf702006-10-29 08:53:06 +00007611 opcode.
7612
Georg Brandl8f99f812006-10-29 08:39:22 +00007613- Fix codecs.EncodedFile which did not use file_encoding in 2.5.0, and
7614 fix all codecs file wrappers to work correctly with the "with"
7615 statement (bug #1586513).
7616
Thomas Heller112d1a62006-10-27 19:05:53 +00007617- Lib/modulefinder.py now handles absolute and relative imports
7618 correctly.
7619
Martin v. Löwisee82c0e2006-10-27 07:13:28 +00007620- Patch #1567274: Support SMTP over TLS.
7621
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007622- Patch #1560695: Add .note.GNU-stack to ctypes' sysv.S so that ctypes
7623 isn't considered as requiring executable stacks.
Martin v. Löwis1b2f6272006-10-22 10:55:15 +00007624
Thomas Hellerd2ea4a22006-10-17 19:30:48 +00007625- ctypes callback functions only support 'fundamental' data types as
7626 result type. Raise an error when something else is used. This is a
7627 partial fix for Bug #1574584.
7628
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007629- Fix turtle so that time.sleep is imported for the entire library.
7630 Allows the demo2 function to be executed on its own instead of only
7631 when the module is run as a script.
Brett Cannond80e0c82006-10-16 03:09:52 +00007632
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007633- Bug #813342: Start the IDLE subprocess with -Qnew if the parent is
7634 started with that option.
Georg Brandld0761532006-10-12 07:57:21 +00007635
Martin v. Löwisf43893a2006-10-09 20:44:25 +00007636- Bug #1565150: Fix subsecond processing for os.utime on Windows.
7637
Martin v. Löwis8b274262006-10-04 15:25:28 +00007638- Support for MSVC 8 was added to bdist_wininst.
7639
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007640- Bug #1446043: correctly raise a LookupError if an encoding name
7641 given to encodings.search_function() contains a dot.
Georg Brandla92979a2006-09-30 11:22:28 +00007642
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007643- Bug #1560617: in pyclbr, return full module name not only for
7644 classes, but also for functions.
Georg Brandl154324a2006-09-30 11:06:47 +00007645
Georg Brandl05b3c452006-09-30 10:58:01 +00007646- Bug #1457823: cgi.(Sv)FormContentDict's constructor now takes
7647 keep_blank_values and strict_parsing keyword arguments.
7648
Georg Brandl8d1e5bf2006-09-30 09:13:21 +00007649- Bug #1566602: correct failure of posixpath unittest when $HOME ends
7650 with a slash.
7651
Georg Brandl8c667452006-09-30 07:31:57 +00007652- Bug #1565661: in webbrowser, split() the command for the default
7653 GNOME browser in case it is a command with args.
7654
Georg Brandl5a85d5c2009-06-24 06:41:19 +00007655- Made the error message for time.strptime when the data and
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007656 format do match be more clear.
Brett Cannon11b35352006-09-26 23:38:24 +00007657
Georg Brandlc7986ce2006-09-24 12:50:24 +00007658- Fix a bug in traceback.format_exception_only() that led to an error
7659 being raised when print_exc() was called without an exception set.
7660 In version 2.4, this printed "None", restored that behavior.
7661
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007662- Make webbrowser.BackgroundBrowser usable in Windows (it wasn't
7663 because the close_fds arg to subprocess.Popen is not supported).
Georg Brandl2c94bf72006-09-24 10:36:01 +00007664
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007665- Reverted patch #1504333 to sgmllib because it introduced an infinite
7666 loop.
Neal Norwitzbcc119a2006-09-11 04:24:09 +00007667
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007668- Patch #1553314: Fix the inspect.py slowdown that was hurting IPython
7669 & SAGE by adding smarter caching in inspect.getmodule()
Nick Coghlanb3c18f82006-09-08 10:04:38 +00007670
Georg Brandl4e933132006-09-06 20:05:58 +00007671- Fix missing import of the types module in logging.config.
7672
Nick Coghlanbb0996c2006-09-03 01:20:46 +00007673- Patch #1550886: Fix decimal module context management implementation
Neal Norwitza22975f2006-09-05 02:24:03 +00007674 to match the localcontext() example from PEP 343.
Nick Coghlanbb0996c2006-09-03 01:20:46 +00007675
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007676- Bug #1545341: The 'classifier' keyword argument to the Distutils
7677 setup() function now accepts tuples as well as lists.
Andrew M. Kuchling99994792006-10-09 17:10:12 +00007678
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007679- Bug #1541863: uuid.uuid1 failed to generate unique identifiers on
7680 systems with low clock resolution.
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00007681
Gustavo Niemeyerc36bede2006-09-07 00:48:33 +00007682- Bug #1531862: Do not close standard file descriptors in subprocess.
7683
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007684- idle: Honor the "Cancel" action in the save dialog (Debian bug
7685 #299092).
Matthias Klosea398e2d2007-01-11 11:44:04 +00007686
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007687- Fix utf-8-sig incremental decoder, which didn't recognise a BOM when
7688 the first chunk fed to the decoder started with a BOM, but was
7689 longer than 3 bytes.
Georg Brandl27562782006-10-27 20:39:43 +00007690
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007691- The implementation of UnicodeError objects has been simplified
7692 (start and end attributes are now stored directly as Py_ssize_t
7693 members).
Walter Dörwald84a3efe2007-06-13 16:57:12 +00007694
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007695- Issue #829951: In the smtplib module, SMTP.starttls() now complies
7696 with RFC 3207 and forgets any knowledge obtained from the server not
7697 obtained from the TLS negotiation itself. Patch contributed by Bill
7698 Fenner.
Gregory P. Smith2b3ba582008-01-17 08:03:17 +00007699
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007700- Issue #1339: The smtplib.SMTP class has been refactored a bit such
Gregory P. Smithbde4ae42008-01-17 08:35:49 +00007701 that the SMTP.starttls() caller no longer needs to call ehlo()
7702 beforehand. SMTP.starttls() now raises an exception of the server
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007703 does not claim to support starttls. Adds the
7704 SMTP.ehlo_or_helo_if_needed() method. Patch contributed by Bill
7705 Fenner.
Gregory P. Smithbde4ae42008-01-17 08:35:49 +00007706
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007707- Patch #1089358: Add signal.siginterrupt, a wrapper around
7708 siginterrupt(3).
Georg Brandl29604a12008-01-26 14:03:47 +00007709
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00007710Extension Modules
7711-----------------
7712
Georg Brandl392c6fc2008-05-25 07:25:25 +00007713- Patch #1657: added select.epoll and select.kqueue.
Christian Heimes0e9ab5f2008-03-21 23:49:44 +00007714
Georg Brandlebcfd112008-02-23 23:04:35 +00007715- Patch #1506171: added operator.methodcaller().
7716
Georg Brandle2065c62008-02-23 23:02:23 +00007717- Patch #1826: operator.attrgetter() now supports dotted attribute paths.
7718
Georg Brandl392c6fc2008-05-25 07:25:25 +00007719- Patch #1957: syslogmodule: Release GIL when calling syslog(3).
Christian Heimesf0476e82008-02-23 17:42:31 +00007720
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007721- Bug #2112: mmap.error is now a subclass of EnvironmentError and not
7722 a direct EnvironmentError.
Facundo Batistae1396882008-02-17 18:59:29 +00007723
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007724- Bug #2111: mmap segfaults when trying to write a block opened with
7725 PROT_READ.
Christian Heimes7adfad82008-02-15 08:20:11 +00007726
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007727- Bug #2063: correct order of utime and stime in os.times() result on
7728 Windows.
Georg Brandl0a40ffb2008-02-13 07:20:22 +00007729
Martin v. Löwise0d30ef2008-02-12 13:47:26 +00007730- Patch #1736: Fix file name handling of _msi.FCICreate.
7731
Hye-Shik Chang01612e72008-02-08 17:10:20 +00007732- Updated ``big5hkscs`` codec to the HKSCS revision of 2004.
7733
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007734- Issue #1940: make it possible to use curses.filter() before
7735 curses.initscr() as the documentation says.
Georg Brandl29604a12008-01-26 14:03:47 +00007736
Christian Heimes7f39c9f2008-01-25 12:18:43 +00007737- Backport of _fileio module from Python 3.0.
7738
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007739- Patch #1087741: mmap.mmap is now a class, not a factory function. It
7740 is also subclassable now.
Georg Brandl5ca3fd82008-01-21 14:18:14 +00007741
Georg Brandl56112892008-01-20 13:59:46 +00007742- Patch #1648: added ``sys.getprofile()`` and ``sys.gettrace()``.
7743
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007744- Patch #1663329: added ``os.closerange()`` function to quickly close
7745 a range of file descriptors without considering errors.
Georg Brandl309501a2008-01-19 20:22:13 +00007746
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007747- Patch #976880: ``mmap`` objects now have an ``rfind`` method that
Andrew M. Kuchling5c60bfc2008-01-19 18:18:41 +00007748 works as expected. ``mmap.find`` also takes an optional ``end``
7749 parameter.
7750
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007751- _winreg's HKEY object has gained __enter__ and __exit__ methods to
7752 support the context manager protocol. The _winreg module also
7753 gained a new function ``ExpandEnvironmentStrings`` to expand
7754 REG_EXPAND_SZ keys.
Christian Heimesb39a7562008-01-08 15:46:10 +00007755
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007756- itertools.starmap() now accepts any iterable input. Previously, it
7757 required the function inputs to be tuples.
Raymond Hettinger47317092008-01-17 03:02:14 +00007758
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007759- itertools.chain() now has an alternate constructor,
7760 chain.from_iterable().
Raymond Hettingerb4cbc982008-02-28 22:46:41 +00007761
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007762- Issue #1646: Make socket support TIPC. The socket module now has
7763 support for TIPC under Linux, see http://tipc.sf.net/ for more
7764 information.
Christian Heimesfb2d25a2008-01-07 16:12:44 +00007765
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007766- Added interface for Windows' WSAIoctl to socket object and added an
7767 example for a simple network sniffer.
Christian Heimes04ae9162008-01-04 15:23:30 +00007768
Guido van Rossum076d9ee2008-01-03 23:54:04 +00007769- Bug #1301: Bad assert in _tkinter fixed.
7770
Christian Heimescdaa2cb2007-12-31 14:47:07 +00007771- Added bdist_wininst executable for VS 2008.
7772
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007773- Bug #1604: collections.deque.__init__(iterable) now clears any prior
7774 contents before adding elements from the iterable. This fix brings
7775 the behavior into line with that for list.__init__().
Raymond Hettingeradf9ffd2007-12-13 00:08:37 +00007776
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007777- Added wide char functions to msvcrt module: getwch, getwche, putwch
7778 and ungetwch. The functions accept or return unicode.
Christian Heimes7c7f6af2007-12-10 15:12:41 +00007779
Martin v. Löwis69233e82007-12-04 08:39:16 +00007780- os.access now returns True on Windows for any existing directory.
7781
Christian Heimes28104c52007-11-27 23:16:44 +00007782- Added warnpy3k function to the warnings module.
7783
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007784- Marshal.dumps() now expects exact type matches for int, long, float,
7785 complex, tuple, list, dict, set, and frozenset. Formerly, it would
7786 silently miscode subclasses of those types. Now, it raises a
7787 ValueError instead.
Raymond Hettinger12e94202007-11-07 01:13:09 +00007788
Martin v. Löwis58bd49f2007-09-04 13:13:14 +00007789- Patch #1388440: Add set_completion_display_matches_hook and
7790 get_completion_type to readline.
7791
Thomas Helleref4fff32007-07-13 17:46:54 +00007792- Bug #1649098: Avoid declaration of zero-sized array declaration in
7793 structure.
7794
Brett Cannondc48b742007-05-20 07:09:50 +00007795- Removed the rgbimg module; been deprecated since Python 2.5.
7796
Neal Norwitz59f58aa2007-05-19 03:48:47 +00007797- Bug #1721309: prevent bsddb module from freeing random memory.
7798
Gregory P. Smith82eafe62007-10-18 17:17:57 +00007799- Bug #1233: fix bsddb.dbshelve.DBShelf append method to work as
7800 intended for RECNO databases.
7801
Gregory P. Smithec10a4a2007-11-05 02:32:26 +00007802- pybsddb.sf.net Bug #477182: Load the database flags at database open
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007803 time so that opening a database previously created with the DB_DUP
7804 or DB_DUPSORT flag set will keep the proper behavior on subsequent
7805 opens. Specifically: dictionary assignment to a DB object will
7806 replace all values for a given key when the database allows
7807 duplicate values. DB users should use DB.put(k, v) when they want
7808 to store duplicates; not DB[k] = v.
Gregory P. Smithec10a4a2007-11-05 02:32:26 +00007809
Gregory P. Smithac11e022007-11-05 02:56:31 +00007810- Add the bsddb.db.DBEnv.lock_id_free method.
7811
Martin v. Löwis3bf573f2007-04-04 18:30:36 +00007812- Bug #1686475: Support stat'ing open files on Windows again.
7813
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007814- Patch #1185447: binascii.b2a_qp() now correctly quotes binary
7815 characters with ASCII value less than 32. Also, it correctly quotes
7816 dots only if they occur on a single line, as opposed to the previous
7817 behavior of quoting dots if they are the second character of any
7818 line.
Georg Brandl4aef7272007-03-13 22:49:43 +00007819
Georg Brandla47337f2007-03-13 12:34:25 +00007820- Bug #1622896: fix a rare corner case where the bz2 module raised an
7821 error in spite of a succesful compression.
7822
Georg Brandl40c62612007-03-06 18:59:11 +00007823- Patch #1654417: make operator.{get,set,del}slice use the full range
7824 of Py_ssize_t.
7825
Guido van Rossum2054ee92007-03-06 15:50:01 +00007826- Patch #1646728: datetime.fromtimestamp fails with negative
7827 fractional times. With unittest.
7828
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007829- Patch #1490190: posixmodule now includes os.chflags() and
7830 os.lchflags() functions on platforms where the underlying system
7831 calls are available.
Martin v. Löwis382abef2007-02-19 10:55:19 +00007832
Georg Brandl983d1002007-02-15 11:29:04 +00007833- Patch #1494140: Add documentation for the new struct.Struct object.
7834
Martin v. Löwis45423a72007-02-14 10:07:37 +00007835- Patch #1432399: Support the HCI protocol for bluetooth sockets
7836
Martin v. Löwisb1cc1d42007-02-13 12:14:19 +00007837- Patch #1657276: Make NETLINK_DNRTMSG conditional.
7838
Martin v. Löwis4c11a922007-02-08 09:13:36 +00007839- Bug #1653736: Complain about keyword arguments to time.isoformat.
7840
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007841- Bug #1486663: don't reject keyword arguments for subclasses of
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00007842 built-in types.
Georg Brandlb84c1372007-01-21 10:28:43 +00007843
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007844- Patch #1610575: The struct module now supports the 't' code, for C99
7845 _Bool.
Martin v. Löwisaef4c6b2007-01-21 09:33:07 +00007846
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007847- Patch #1635058: ensure that htonl and friends never accept or return
7848 negative numbers, per the underlying C implementation.
Guido van Rossumbb2cc692007-01-14 17:03:32 +00007849
Martin v. Löwis046c4d12006-12-03 11:23:45 +00007850- Patch #1544279: Improve thread-safety of the socket module by moving
7851 the sock_addr_t storage out of the socket object.
7852
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007853- Patch #1019808: fix bug that causes an incorrect error to be
7854 returned when a socket timeout is set and a connection attempt
7855 fails.
Andrew M. Kuchling060e6852008-01-19 20:47:59 +00007856
Neal Norwitz45e230a2006-11-19 21:26:53 +00007857- Speed up function calls into the math module.
7858
Georg Brandl25aabf42006-11-16 17:08:45 +00007859- Bug #1588217: don't parse "= " as a soft line break in binascii's
7860 a2b_qp() function, instead leave it in the string as quopri.decode()
7861 does.
7862
Neal Norwitz4fe44232006-11-21 05:26:22 +00007863- Bug #1599782: Fix segfault on bsddb.db.DB().type().
7864
Martin v. Löwis012bc722006-10-15 09:43:39 +00007865- Bug #1567666: Emulate GetFileAttributesExA for Win95.
7866
Martin v. Löwis18aaa562006-10-15 08:43:33 +00007867- Patch #1576166: Support os.utime for directories on Windows NT+.
7868
Georg Brandl412a9ea2006-10-09 19:03:06 +00007869- Patch #1572724: fix typo ('=' instead of '==') in _msi.c.
7870
Hye-Shik Changb7883462006-10-08 13:48:34 +00007871- Bug #1572832: fix a bug in ISO-2022 codecs which may cause segfault
7872 when encoding non-BMP unicode characters.
7873
Georg Brandl4ddfcd32006-09-30 11:17:34 +00007874- Bug #1556784: allow format strings longer than 127 characters in
7875 datetime's strftime function.
7876
Jack Diederichd10a0f72006-09-21 20:34:49 +00007877- Fix itertools.count(n) to work with negative numbers again.
7878
Martin v. Löwis43fd99c2006-09-16 17:36:37 +00007879- RLIMIT_SBSIZE was added to the resource module where available.
7880
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007881- Bug #1551427: fix a wrong NULL pointer check in the win32 version of
7882 os.urandom().
Georg Brandl74bb7832006-09-06 06:03:59 +00007883
Neal Norwitz6aefa912006-09-02 02:50:35 +00007884- Bug #1548092: fix curses.tparm seg fault on invalid input.
7885
Andrew M. Kuchling62182c82008-01-08 14:56:02 +00007886- Patch #1114: fix curses module compilation on 64-bit AIX, & possibly
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007887 other 64-bit LP64 platforms where attr_t is not the same size as a
7888 long. (Contributed by Luke Mewburn.)
Andrew M. Kuchling62182c82008-01-08 14:56:02 +00007889
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007890- Bug #1550714: fix SystemError from itertools.tee on negative value
7891 for n.
Neal Norwitz69e88972006-09-02 02:58:13 +00007892
Hye-Shik Chang199f1db2006-09-05 12:07:09 +00007893- Fixed a few bugs on cjkcodecs:
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007894 - gbk and gb18030 codec now handle U+30FB KATAKANA MIDDLE DOT
7895 correctly.
Hye-Shik Chang199f1db2006-09-05 12:07:09 +00007896 - iso2022_jp_2 codec now encodes into G0 for KS X 1001, GB2312
7897 codepoints to conform the standard.
Hye-Shik Chang2cad3e92006-09-05 12:14:57 +00007898 - iso2022_jp_3 and iso2022_jp_2004 codec can encode JIS X 0213:2
Hye-Shik Chang199f1db2006-09-05 12:07:09 +00007899 codepoints now.
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00007900
Andrew M. Kuchling43889c02006-09-27 16:37:30 +00007901- Bug #1552726: in readline.c, avoid repeatedly polling in interactive
7902 mode by only placing a timeout on the select() if an input hook has
7903 been defined. This prevents an interactive Python from waking up 10
7904 times per second. Patch by Richard Boulton.
7905
Gregory P. Smithf09c6262007-03-17 22:33:35 +00007906- fixed a bug with bsddb.DB.stat: the flags and txn keyword arguments
7907 were transposed.
7908
Jesus Cea4907d272008-08-31 14:00:51 +00007909- Added support for linking the bsddb module against BerkeleyDB 4.5.x,
7910 4.6.x and 4.7.x.
Gregory P. Smith8b96a352007-01-05 01:59:42 +00007911
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007912- Bug #1633621: if curses.resizeterm() or curses.resize_term() is
7913 called, update _curses.LINES, _curses.COLS, curses.LINES and
7914 curses.COLS.
Andrew M. Kuchling43889c02006-09-27 16:37:30 +00007915
Matthias Klosee19e0c22007-04-03 04:35:59 +00007916- Fix an off-by-one bug in locale.strxfrm().
7917
Matthias Klose38336402007-09-04 20:46:02 +00007918- Fix libffi configure for hppa*-*-linux* | parisc*-*-linux*.
7919
Matthias Klose9afb9852007-10-24 20:00:44 +00007920- Build using system ffi library on arm*-linux*.
7921
Christian Heimes3f065a42007-11-21 01:17:28 +00007922- Bug #1372: zlibmodule.c: int overflow in PyZlib_decompress
Matthias Klosee19e0c22007-04-03 04:35:59 +00007923
Gregory P. Smitheeed5b72008-02-03 07:20:53 +00007924- bsddb module: Fix memory leak when using database cursors on
7925 databases without a DBEnv.
7926
Gerhard Häring11ab8072008-03-02 13:12:27 +00007927- The sqlite3 module was updated to pysqlite 2.4.1.
7928
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00007929Tests
7930-----
7931
Brett Cannon56c4deb2008-03-03 00:38:58 +00007932- Refactor test_logging to use unittest.
Brett Cannonf9db8a32008-02-17 01:59:18 +00007933
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007934- Refactor test_profile and test_cprofile to use the same code to
7935 profile.
Georg Brandlb7090772008-02-05 19:58:17 +00007936
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007937- Make test_runpy reentrant by fixing _check_module to clear out any
7938 module being tested. Was causing an error by __import__ doing a
7939 reload on the second run and thus suppressing bytecode recreation.
Brett Cannondbed7a72007-08-23 14:53:17 +00007940
Brett Cannonea2835a2007-03-14 21:44:15 +00007941- Capture socket connection resets and timeouts in test_socket_ssl and
7942 test_urllib2net and raise test.test_support.ResourceDenied.
Brett Cannoned001842007-03-14 21:40:13 +00007943
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007944- Patch #1559413: Fix test_cmd_line if sys.executable contains a
7945 space.
Martin v. Löwiscd1210a2007-03-14 20:02:31 +00007946
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007947- Added test.test_support.TransientResource which is a context manager
7948 to surround calls to resources that are not guaranteed to work even
7949 if test.test_support.requires says that the resource should exist.
Brett Cannona30fcb42007-03-08 23:58:11 +00007950
Brett Cannone05e6b02007-01-29 04:41:44 +00007951- Added a test for slicing of an exception.
7952
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007953- Added test.test_support.EnvironmentVarGuard. It's a class that
7954 provides a context manager so that one can temporarily set or unset
7955 environment variables.
Brett Cannon92d54d52007-01-04 00:23:49 +00007956
Thomas Heller112d1a62006-10-27 19:05:53 +00007957- Added some tests for modulefinder.
7958
Brett Cannon373d90b2006-10-03 23:23:14 +00007959- Converted test_imp to use unittest.
7960
Neal Norwitz919d5cc2006-09-05 02:35:08 +00007961- Fix bsddb test_basics.test06_Transactions to check the version
7962 number properly.
7963
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007964- test.test_support.catch_warning is a new context manager that can be
7965 used to catch the warnings issued by the warning framework.
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00007966
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00007967Tools
7968-----
7969
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007970- Tools/scripts/reindent.py now creates the backup file using
7971 shutil.copy to preserve user/group and permissions. Added also a
7972 --nobackup option to not create the backup if the user is concerned
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00007973 regarding this. Check issue #1050828 for more details.
Facundo Batistaf88a0772008-02-17 16:21:13 +00007974
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007975- Tools/scripts/win_add2path.py was added. The simple script modifes
7976 the PATH environment var of the HKCU tree and adds the python bin
7977 and script directory.
Christian Heimesbd865db2008-01-18 11:58:50 +00007978
Skip Montanaro3e275362007-08-29 01:33:45 +00007979- Tools/18n/pygettext.py was added to the list of scripts installed by
7980 Tools/scripts/setup.py (tracker item 642309).
7981
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007982- Added IronPython and Jython support to pybench (part of which was
7983 patch #1563844).
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00007984
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007985- Made some minor changes to pybench output to allow the user to see
7986 which Python version is running pybench.
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00007987
7988- Added support for the new platform module feature
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007989 platform.python_implementation(); this will now be saved in the
7990 benchmark pickle.
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00007991
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00007992
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00007993Documentation
7994-------------
7995
Vinay Sajipd7cf32e2008-01-24 12:43:33 +00007996- RFE #1765140: Updated documentation on FileHandler and subclasses to
7997 include new optional delay argument.
7998
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007999- Bug #932563: Added section on getting contextual information into
8000 logging output, and added documentation for the new LoggerAdapter
8001 class.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00008002
8003- Bug #1295: Added information about caching of formatted exception
8004 information in the LogRecord by Formatter.format().
8005
Georg Brandl9467bc52007-07-12 09:37:49 +00008006- Bug #1637365: add subsection about "__name__ == __main__" to the
8007 Python tutorial.
8008
Georg Brandl3dc6e902007-04-25 06:24:59 +00008009- Patch #1698768: updated the "using Python on the Mac" intro.
8010
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008011- Bug #1569057: Document that calling file.next() when the file is
8012 open for writing is undefined.
Brett Cannon55a18642007-04-08 04:29:32 +00008013
Žiga Seilnachtc64ad482007-03-24 14:24:26 +00008014- Patch #1489771: the syntax rules in Python Reference Manual were
8015 updated to reflect the current Python syntax.
8016
Martin v. Löwis2f401d72007-03-23 10:35:49 +00008017- Patch #1686451: Fix return type for
8018 PySequence_{Count,Index,Fast_GET_SIZE}.
8019
Georg Brandl0692a262007-03-13 07:50:57 +00008020- Patch #1679379: add documentation for fnmatch.translate().
8021
Collin Winterb7b2b4e2007-03-09 18:09:10 +00008022- Bug #1629566: clarify the docs on the return values of parsedate()
8023 and parsedate_tz() in email.utils and rfc822.
8024
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00008025- Patch #1671450: add a section about subclassing built-in types to the
Georg Brandld28b9fc2007-03-06 10:02:47 +00008026 "extending and embedding" tutorial.
8027
Georg Brandlb26b1c62007-01-17 21:19:58 +00008028- Bug #1629125: fix wrong data type (int -> Py_ssize_t) in PyDict_Next
8029 docs.
8030
Georg Brandla4c8e322006-10-12 08:22:53 +00008031- Bug #1565919: document set types in the Language Reference.
8032
Georg Brandl44a7b3a2006-09-30 12:02:57 +00008033- Bug #1546052: clarify that PyString_FromString(AndSize) copies the
8034 string pointed to by its parameter.
8035
Georg Brandlfb257732006-09-30 09:06:45 +00008036- Bug #1566663: remove obsolete example from datetime docs.
8037
Georg Brandl648c1102006-08-18 07:27:59 +00008038- Bug #1541682: Fix example in the "Refcount details" API docs.
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008039 Additionally, remove a faulty example showing PySequence_SetItem
8040 applied to a newly created list object and add notes that this isn't
8041 a good idea.
Georg Brandl648c1102006-08-18 07:27:59 +00008042
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00008043
Georg Brandl27562782006-10-27 20:39:43 +00008044Tools/Demos
8045-----------
8046
8047- Patch #1552024: add decorator support to unparse.py demo script.
Marc-André Lemburg96148682006-09-06 20:40:22 +00008048
Brett Cannonc8939d22006-09-20 19:28:35 +00008049- Make auto-generated python.vim file list built-ins and exceptions in
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008050 alphatbetical order. Makes output more deterministic and easier to
8051 tell if the file is stale or not.
Brett Cannonc8939d22006-09-20 19:28:35 +00008052
Marc-André Lemburg96148682006-09-06 20:40:22 +00008053- Bug #1546372: Fixed small bugglet in pybench that caused a missing
8054 file not to get reported properly.
8055
8056
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00008057Build
8058-----
8059
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008060- Have the search path for building extensions follow the declared
8061 order in $CPPFLAGS and $LDFLAGS when adding directories from those
8062 environment variables.
Brett Cannon70c0c022008-02-03 09:59:21 +00008063
Christian Heimes951cc0f2008-01-31 23:08:23 +00008064- Bug #1983: Added a check to pyport to verify that sizeof(pid_t) is
8065 smaller or equal sizeof(long).
8066
Christian Heimescba36bb2008-01-30 22:54:18 +00008067- Bug #1234: Fixed semaphore errors on AIX 5.2
8068
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008069- Issue #1726: Remove Python/atof.c from PCBuild/pythoncore.vcproj.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00008070
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008071- Removed PCbuild8/ directory and added a new build directory for VS
8072 2005 based on the VS 2008 build directory to PC/VS8.0. The script
8073 PCbuild/vs8to9.py was added to sync changes from PCbuild to
8074 PC/VS8.0.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00008075
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008076- Moved PCbuild/ directory for VS 2003 to PC/VS7.1 and renamed
8077 PCBuild9/ directory to PCBuild/.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00008078
Martin v. Löwiscb78de62007-12-29 18:49:21 +00008079- Bug #1699: Define _BSD_SOURCE only on OpenBSD.
8080
Guido van Rossum7c862f82007-12-13 20:50:10 +00008081- Bug #1608: use -fwrapv when GCC supports it. This is important,
8082 newer GCC versions may optimize away overflow buffer overflow checks
8083 without this option!
8084
Martin v. Löwis63bf1492007-11-12 05:14:05 +00008085- Patch #1418: Make the AC_REPLACE_FUNCS object files actually work.
8086
Raymond Hettingerdc1d1ba2007-11-07 02:45:46 +00008087- Add a FAST_LOOPS build option that speeds-up looping by trading away
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008088 periodic threadstate and signal checking in tight loops. By
8089 default, this option is turned-off. It should only be enabled in
8090 debugged, performance critical applications.
Raymond Hettingerdc1d1ba2007-11-07 02:45:46 +00008091
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008092- Patch #786737: Allow building in a tree of symlinks pointing to a
8093 readonly source.
Martin v. Löwisd44a4e92007-09-05 11:47:34 +00008094
Martin v. Löwis8bc77e42007-09-01 06:36:03 +00008095- Bug #1737210: Change Manufacturer of Windows installer to PSF.
8096
Martin v. Löwis75c23bd2007-08-30 18:25:47 +00008097- Bug #1746880: Correctly install DLLs into system32 folder on Win64.
8098
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008099- Define _BSD_SOURCE, to get access to POSIX extensions on OpenBSD
8100 4.1+.
Martin v. Löwis76760b02007-07-31 19:57:56 +00008101
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008102- Stop supporting AtheOS and cause a build error in configure for the
8103 platform.
Brett Cannon19fab762007-06-02 03:02:29 +00008104
Georg Brandldb846032007-03-31 18:56:11 +00008105- Bug #1655392: don't add -L/usr/lib/pythonX.Y/config to the LDFLAGS
8106 returned by python-config if Python was built with --enable-shared
8107 because that prevented the shared library from being used.
8108
Georg Brandl18c47f62007-03-13 10:19:22 +00008109- Patch #1569798: fix a bug in distutils when building Python from a
8110 directory within sys.exec_prefix.
8111
Martin v. Löwiseb623572007-03-12 10:50:39 +00008112- Bug #1675511: Use -Kpic instead of -xcode=pic32 on Solaris/x86.
8113
Martin v. Löwis4d542ec2006-11-25 15:39:19 +00008114- Disable _XOPEN_SOURCE on NetBSD 1.x.
8115
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008116- configure now checks whether gcc supports the PyArg_ParseTuple
8117 format attribute.
Martin v. Löwisaac13162006-10-19 10:58:46 +00008118
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00008119- Bug #1578513: Cross compilation was broken by a change to configure.
Martin v. Löwisfefbc202006-10-17 18:59:23 +00008120 Repair so that it's back to how it was in 2.4.3.
8121
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008122- Patch #1576954: Update VC6 build directory; remove redundant files
8123 in VC7.
Martin v. Löwisc9e82f62006-10-15 07:54:40 +00008124
Martin v. Löwisebe26702006-10-02 14:55:51 +00008125- Bug #1568842: Fix test for uintptr_t.
8126
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008127- Patch #1540470: for OpenBSD 4.0.
Neal Norwitz4bc2c092006-09-05 02:57:01 +00008128
Matthias Klosed149d0c2006-12-03 17:16:41 +00008129- Fix build failure on kfreebsd and on the hurd.
8130
Matthias Kloseebde1492006-12-09 12:15:27 +00008131- Fix the build of the library reference in info format.
8132
Matthias Kloseeb8ff672007-08-02 21:33:13 +00008133- Allow Emacs 22 for building the documentation in info format.
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00008134
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008135- Makefile.pre.in(buildbottest): Run an optional script
8136 pybuildbot.identify to include some information about the build
8137 environment.
Matthias Klose642ac852007-09-04 18:17:36 +00008138
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00008139
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00008140C API
8141-----
8142
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008143- Unified naming convention for free lists and their limits. All free
8144 lists in Object/ are named ``free_list``, the counter ``numfree``
8145 and the upper limit is a macro ``PyName_MAXFREELIST`` inside an
8146 #ifndef block.
Christian Heimes5b970ad2008-02-06 13:33:44 +00008147
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008148- ``PySet_Add()`` can now modify a newly created frozenset. Similarly
8149 to ``PyTuple_SetItem``, it can be used to populate a brand new
8150 frozenset; but it does not steal a reference to the added item.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arccab3d982008-02-03 22:51:43 +00008151
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00008152- Added ``PySet_Check()`` and ``PyFrozenSet_Check()`` to the set API.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arccab3d982008-02-03 22:51:43 +00008153
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008154- Backport of PyUnicode_FromString(), _FromStringAndSize(), _Format
8155 and _FormatV from Python 3.0. Made PyLong_AsSsize_t and
8156 PyLong_FromSsize_t public functions.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00008157
8158- Patch #1720595: add T_BOOL to the range of structmember types.
8159
8160- Issue #1534: Added ``PyFloat_GetMax()``, ``PyFloat_GetMin()`` and
8161 ``PyFloat_GetInfo()`` to the float API.
8162
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008163- Issue #1521: On 64bit platforms, using PyArgs_ParseTuple with the t#
8164 of w# format code incorrectly truncated the length to an int, even
8165 when PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN is set. The str.decode method used to return
8166 incorrect results with huge strings.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00008167
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008168- Issue #1629: Renamed Py_Size, Py_Type and Py_Refcnt to Py_SIZE,
8169 Py_TYPE and Py_REFCNT.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00008170
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008171- PEP 3123: Provide forward compatibility with Python 3.0, while
8172 keeping backwards compatibility. Add Py_Refcnt, Py_Type, Py_Size,
8173 and PyVarObject_HEAD_INIT.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00008174
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008175- Py_ssize_t fields work in structmember when HAVE_LONG_LONG is not
8176 defined.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00008177
8178- Patch #1733960: Allow T_LONGLONG to accept ints.
8179
8180- T_PYSSIZET can now be used in PyMemberDef lists for Py_ssize_t members.
8181
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00008182- Added a new API function ``PyImport_ImportModuleNoBlock``.
8183
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00008184- Bug #1637022: Prefix AST symbols with _Py_.
8185
8186- Fix some leftovers from the conversion from int to Py_ssize_t
8187 (relevant to strings and sequences of more than 2**31 items).
8188
8189- Make _PyGILState_NoteThreadState() static, it was not used anywhere
8190 outside of pystate.c and should not be necessary.
8191
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008192- ``PyImport_Import`` and ``PyImport_ImportModule`` now always do
8193 absolute imports. In earlier versions they might have used relative
8194 imports under some conditions.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00008195
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008196- Added case insensitive comparison methods ``PyOS_stricmp(char*,
8197 char*)`` and ``PyOS_strnicmp(char*, char*, Py_ssize_t)``.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00008198
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008199- Bug #1542693: remove semi-colon at end of PyImport_ImportModuleEx
8200 macro so it can be used as an expression.
Neal Norwitz8a267062006-08-19 04:25:29 +00008201
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00008202
Martin v. Löwis2607e6c2006-11-21 18:20:25 +00008203Windows
8204-------
8205
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008206- Patch #1706: Drop support for Win9x, WinME and NT4. Python now
8207 requires Windows 2000 or greater. The _WINVER and NTDDI_VERSION
8208 macros are set to Win2k for x86/32bit builds and WinXP for AMD64
8209 builds.
Christian Heimes95d64472008-02-09 19:55:22 +00008210
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008211- Conditionalize definition of _CRT_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE and
8212 _CRT_NONSTDC_NO_DEPRECATE.
Martin v. Löwis2607e6c2006-11-21 18:20:25 +00008213
Martin v. Löwisd476a402007-10-12 08:56:52 +00008214- Bug #1216: Restore support for Visual Studio 2002.
8215
Martin v. Löwis2607e6c2006-11-21 18:20:25 +00008216
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00008217Mac
8218---
8219
Brett Cannonf0cb1d72007-05-31 20:01:11 +00008220- cfmfile now raises a DeprecationWarning.
8221
Brett Cannon791d56f2007-05-31 19:40:42 +00008222- buildtools now raises a DeprecationWarning.
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Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008224- Removed the macfs module. It had been deprecated since Python 2.5.
8225 This lead to the deprecation of macostools.touched() as it relied
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Brett Cannon5e263512007-05-20 23:17:38 +00008227
Skip Montanaroe5d7f7f2002-09-20 14:16:59 +00008228----
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