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Georg Brandld33a9be2012-07-21 16:48:16 +02001Python 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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Antoine Pitroud38c9902012-12-08 21:15:26 +010012- Issue #16602: When a weakref's target was part of a long deallocation
13 chain, the object could remain reachable through its weakref even though
14 its refcount had dropped to zero.
15
Mark Dickinsonb1cc6aa2012-11-25 17:11:33 +000016- Issue #9011: Fix hacky AST code that modified the CST when compiling
17 a negated numeric literal.
18
Ezio Melottidb5947f2012-11-18 13:46:38 +020019- Issue #16306: Fix multiple error messages when unknown command line
20 parameters where passed to the interpreter. Patch by Hieu Nguyen.
21
Antoine Pitroue3ae3212012-11-17 21:14:58 +010022- Issue #15379: Fix passing of non-BMP characters as integers for the charmap
23 decoder (already working as unicode strings). Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
24
Antoine Pitroub704eab2012-11-11 19:36:51 +010025- Issue #16453: Fix equality testing of dead weakref objects.
26
Gregory P. Smithc1ce93a2012-11-10 20:38:17 -080027- Issue #9535: Fix pending signals that have been received but not yet
28 handled by Python to not persist after os.fork() in the child process.
29
Hynek Schlawackb271b3e2012-11-07 09:41:28 +010030- Issue #15001: fix segfault on "del sys.modules['__main__']". Patch by Victor
31 Stinner.
32
Ezio Melotti751a50f2012-11-05 00:06:50 +020033- Issue #5057: the peepholer no longer optimizes subscription on unicode
Ezio Melottic18cc0e2012-11-05 00:03:21 +020034 literals (e.g. u'foo'[0]) in order to produce compatible pyc files between
35 narrow and wide builds.
36
Ezio Melotti67dc4a82012-11-03 21:10:45 +020037- Issue #8401: assigning an int to a bytearray slice (e.g. b[3:4] = 5) now
38 raises an error.
39
Mark Dickinson75d36002012-10-28 10:00:46 +000040- Issue #14700: Fix buggy overflow checks for large width and precision
41 in string formatting operations.
42
Benjamin Peterson0ec820f2012-10-31 14:05:55 -040043- Issue #16345: Fix an infinite loop when ``fromkeys`` on a dict subclass
Benjamin Petersonc40ddae2012-10-31 14:16:09 -040044 received a nonempty dict from the constructor.
Benjamin Peterson0ec820f2012-10-31 14:05:55 -040045
Nick Coghlanb48c0282012-10-19 21:58:18 +100046- Issue #6074: Ensure cached bytecode files can always be updated by the
47 user that created them, even when the source file is read-only.
48
Chris Jerdonekad4b0002012-10-07 20:37:54 -070049- Issue #14783: Improve int() and long() docstrings and switch docstrings for
50 unicode(), slice(), range(), and xrange() to use multi-line signatures.
51
Mark Dickinson218a8ab2012-09-28 20:36:36 +010052- Issue #16030: Fix overflow bug in computing the `repr` of an xrange object
53 with large start, step or length.
54
55- Issue #16029: Fix overflow bug occurring when pickling xranges with large
56 start, step or length.
57
Christian Heimes671138f2012-09-25 13:29:30 +020058- Issue #16037: Limit httplib's _read_status() function to work around broken
59 HTTP servers and reduce memory usage. It's actually a backport of a Python
60 3.2 fix. Thanks to Adrien Kunysz.
61
Jesus Cea7ddd9c22012-12-05 14:41:11 +010062- Issue #16588: Silence unused-but-set warnings in Python/thread_pthread
63
Antoine Pitrou58098a72012-09-06 00:59:49 +020064- Issue #13992: The trashcan mechanism is now thread-safe. This eliminates
65 sporadic crashes in multi-thread programs when several long deallocator
66 chains ran concurrently and involved subclasses of built-in container
67 types.
68
Benjamin Peterson23d49d32012-08-28 17:55:35 -040069- Issue #15801: Make sure mappings passed to '%' formatting are actually
70 subscriptable.
71
Antoine Pitrouc5bef752012-08-15 23:16:51 +020072- Issue #15604: Update uses of PyObject_IsTrue() to check for and handle
73 errors correctly. Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
74
Andrew Svetlov15fc2202012-07-26 17:19:40 +030075- Issue #15041: Update "see also" list in tkinter documentation.
76
Antoine Pitrou715a63b2012-07-21 00:52:06 +020077- Issue #14579: Fix error handling bug in the utf-16 decoder. Patch by
78 Serhiy Storchaka.
79
Meador Inge6642d1f2012-07-18 14:09:04 -050080- Issue #15368: An issue that caused bytecode generation to be
81 non-deterministic when using randomized hashing (-R) has been fixed.
82
Jesus Ceae884be62012-10-03 02:13:05 +020083- Issue #15897: zipimport.c doesn't check return value of fseek().
84 Patch by Felipe Cruz.
85
Jesus Ceabdf1b9e2012-10-31 17:00:19 +010086- Issue #16369: Global PyTypeObjects not initialized with PyType_Ready(...).
87
Ezio Melotti50bc66a2012-11-03 21:29:08 +020088- Issue #15033: Fix the exit status bug when modules invoked using -m switch,
Senthil Kumaran3b30b192012-07-04 19:50:29 -070089 return the proper failure return value (1). Patch contributed by Jeff Knupp.
90
Gregory P. Smithb2ac4d62012-06-25 20:57:36 -070091- Issue #12268: File readline, readlines and read() methods no longer lose
92 data when an underlying read system call is interrupted. IOError is no
93 longer raised due to a read system call returning EINTR from within these
94 methods.
95
Éric Araujoe5567cc2012-07-03 01:23:46 -040096- Issue #13512: Create ~/.pypirc securely (CVE-2011-4944). Initial patch by
97 Philip Jenvey, tested by Mageia and Debian.
98
Éric Araujo3cf202e2012-07-03 01:12:42 -040099- Issue #7719: Make distutils ignore ``.nfs*`` files instead of choking later
100 on. Initial patch by SilentGhost and Jeff Ramnani.
101
Hynek Schlawack9bd4bf22012-06-21 19:45:19 +0200102- Issue #10053: Don't close FDs when FileIO.__init__ fails. Loosely based on
103 the work by Hirokazu Yamamoto.
104
Antoine Pitrouff0e22b2012-05-28 22:22:34 +0200105- Issue #14775: Fix a potential quadratic dict build-up due to the garbage
106 collector repeatedly trying to untrack dicts.
107
Petri Lehtinen5f397062012-05-19 18:34:06 +0300108- Issue #14494: Fix __future__.py and its documentation to note that
109 absolute imports are the default behavior in 3.0 instead of 2.7.
110 Patch by Sven Marnach.
111
Antoine Pitrou284fa082012-05-09 13:24:31 +0200112- Issue #14761: Fix potential leak on an error case in the import machinery.
113
Benjamin Peterson042c47b2012-05-01 09:51:09 -0400114- Issue #14699: Fix calling the classmethod descriptor directly.
115
Benjamin Petersond157a4c2012-04-24 11:06:25 -0400116- Issue #11603 (again): Setting __repr__ to __str__ now raises a RuntimeError
117 when repr() or str() is called on such an object.
118
119- Issue #14658: Fix binding a special method to a builtin implementation of a
120 special method with a different name.
121
Benjamin Peterson76605552012-04-18 11:14:31 -0400122- Issue #14612: Fix jumping around with blocks by setting f_lineno.
123
Mark Dickinson9c0baf72012-04-15 15:19:06 +0100124- Issue #13889: Check and (if necessary) set FPU control word before calling
125 any of the dtoa.c string <-> float conversion functions, on MSVC builds of
126 Python. This fixes issues when embedding Python in a Delphi app.
127
Antoine Pitrou02a38012012-04-05 14:07:52 +0200128- Issue #14505: Fix file descriptor leak when deallocating file objects
129 created with PyFile_FromString().
130
Benjamin Petersonf73813a2012-04-02 11:15:17 -0400131- Issue #14474: Save and restore exception state in thread.start_new_thread()
132 while writing error message if the thread leaves a unhandled exception.
133
Antoine Pitroufe941772012-04-01 16:05:46 +0200134- Issue #13019: Fix potential reference leaks in bytearray.extend(). Patch
135 by Suman Saha.
136
Benjamin Petersoneff19a12012-03-22 08:19:04 -0400137- Issue #14378: Fix compiling ast.ImportFrom nodes with a "__future__" string as
138 the module name that was not interned.
139
Gregory P. Smithfcdf04b2012-03-18 16:07:10 -0700140- Issue #14331: Use significantly less stack space when importing modules by
141 allocating path buffers on the heap instead of the stack.
142
Benjamin Peterson6e7832b2012-03-16 09:32:59 -0500143- Issue #14334: Prevent in a segfault in type.__getattribute__ when it was not
Benjamin Petersondbc52f82012-03-16 10:58:46 -0500144 passed strings. Also fix segfaults in the __getattribute__ and __setattr__
145 methods of old-style classes.
Benjamin Peterson6e7832b2012-03-16 09:32:59 -0500146
Ezio Melotti11f8b682012-03-12 01:17:02 +0200147- Issue #14161: fix the __repr__ of file objects to escape the file name.
148
Benjamin Petersona8d45852012-03-07 18:41:11 -0600149- Issue #1469629: Allow cycles through an object's __dict__ slot to be
150 collected. (For example if ``x.__dict__ is x``).
151
Antoine Pitrou6a1cd1b2012-02-27 00:45:12 +0100152- Issue #13521: dict.setdefault() now does only one lookup for the given key,
153 making it "atomic" for many purposes. Patch by Filip Gruszczyński.
154
krisvale479c8f82012-03-22 20:17:42 +0000155- Issue #10538: When using the "s*" code with PyArg_ParseTuple() to fill a
156 Py_buffer structure with data from an object supporting only the old
157 PyBuffer interface, a reference to the source objects is now properly added
158 to the Py_buffer.obj member.
159
Benjamin Petersona84f4682012-03-07 19:17:57 -0600160Library
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162
Antoine Pitrou7dddec42012-12-09 14:46:18 +0100163- Issue #16248: Disable code execution from the user's home directory by
164 tkinter when the -E flag is passed to Python. Patch by Zachary Ware.
165
Antoine Pitrou8eeda722012-12-08 11:05:50 +0100166- Issue #16628: Fix a memory leak in ctypes.resize().
167
Éric Araujo2320fa02012-12-08 22:26:57 -0500168- Issue #13614: Fix setup.py register failure with invalid rst in description.
169 Patch by Julien Courteau and Pierre Paul Lefebvre.
170
Antoine Pitroub83575b2012-12-02 12:52:36 +0100171- Issue #10182: The re module doesn't truncate indices to 32 bits anymore.
172 Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
173
Benjamin Peterson256aaf72012-11-29 10:57:01 -0500174- Issue #16573: In 2to3, treat enumerate() like a consuming call, so superfluous
175 list() calls aren't added to filter(), map(), and zip() which are directly
176 passed enumerate().
177
Ezio Melottidef6ee52012-11-29 02:22:49 +0200178- Issue #16476: Fix json.tool to avoid including trailing whitespace.
179
Antoine Pitroub83ea142012-11-20 22:30:42 +0100180- Issue #1160: Fix compiling large regular expressions on UCS2 builds.
181 Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
182
Ezio Melotti9e949722012-11-18 13:18:06 +0200183- Issue #14313: zipfile now raises NotImplementedError when the compression
184 type is unknown.
185
Antoine Pitrou02512fb2012-11-17 23:56:53 +0100186- Issue #16408: Fix file descriptors not being closed in error conditions
187 in the zipfile module. Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
188
Gregory P. Smith9d3b6e92012-11-10 22:49:03 -0800189- Issue #16327: The subprocess module no longer leaks file descriptors
190 used for stdin/stdout/stderr pipes to the child when fork() fails.
191
Gregory P. Smithf2705ae2012-11-10 21:13:20 -0800192- Issue #14396: Handle the odd rare case of waitpid returning 0 when not
193 expected in subprocess.Popen.wait().
194
Nadeem Vawda3c309702012-11-11 03:14:56 +0100195- Issue #16411: Fix a bug where zlib.decompressobj().flush() might try to access
196 previously-freed memory. Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
197
Nadeem Vawda252f4dc2012-11-11 02:14:15 +0100198- Issue #16350: zlib.decompressobj().decompress() now accumulates data from
Nadeem Vawda6cad3712012-11-05 00:55:06 +0100199 successive calls after EOF in unused_data, instead of only saving the argument
Nadeem Vawda252f4dc2012-11-11 02:14:15 +0100200 to the last call. decompressobj().flush() now correctly sets unused_data and
201 unconsumed_tail. A bug in the handling of MemoryError when setting the
202 unconsumed_tail attribute has also been fixed. Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
Nadeem Vawda6cad3712012-11-05 00:55:06 +0100203
Ezio Melottief317382012-11-03 20:31:12 +0200204- Issue #12759: sre_parse now raises a proper error when the name of the group
205 is missing. Initial patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
206
Ezio Melotti7d24b162012-11-03 17:30:51 +0200207- Issue #16152: fix tokenize to ignore whitespace at the end of the code when
208 no newline is found. Patch by Ned Batchelder.
209
Andrew Svetlov5018db72012-11-01 22:39:14 +0200210- Issue #1207589: Add Cut/Copy/Paste items to IDLE right click Context Menu
211 Patch by Todd Rovito.
212
Antoine Pitrou0552fc22012-11-01 20:13:54 +0100213- Issue #16230: Fix a crash in select.select() when one the lists changes
214 size while iterated on. Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
215
Antoine Pitroue9e35c32012-11-01 20:07:40 +0100216- Issue #16228: Fix a crash in the json module where a list changes size
217 while it is being encoded. Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
218
Petri Lehtinen5c89c192012-10-29 21:16:57 +0200219- Issue #14897: Enhance error messages of struct.pack and
220 struct.pack_into. Patch by Matti Mäki.
221
R David Murray54eed2e2012-10-27 14:42:36 -0400222- Issue #12890: cgitb no longer prints spurious <p> tags in text
223 mode when the logdir option is specified.
224
Nadeem Vawda45dba1d2012-10-21 23:09:08 +0200225- Issue #14398: Fix size truncation and overflow bugs in the bz2 module.
226
Nadeem Vawdadd72b3f2012-10-21 18:15:05 +0200227- Issue #5148: Ignore 'U' in mode given to gzip.open() and gzip.GzipFile().
228
Antoine Pitroue97a24d2012-10-21 14:09:05 +0200229- Issue #16220: wsgiref now always calls close() on an iterable response.
230 Patch by Brent Tubbs.
231
Jesus Ceaf34e4de2012-11-17 03:38:17 +0100232- Issue #16461: Wave library should be able to deal with 4GB wav files,
233 and sample rate of 44100 Hz.
234
Brian Curtinc1924ab2012-10-11 16:16:50 -0500235- Issue #16176: Properly identify Windows 8 via platform.platform()
236
Gregory P. Smith0798cbc2012-09-29 12:02:48 -0700237- Issue #15756: subprocess.poll() now properly handles errno.ECHILD to
238 return a returncode of 0 when the child has already exited or cannot
239 be waited on.
240
Michael Foordbf2ad342012-09-28 12:54:56 +0100241- Issue #12376: Pass on parameters in TextTestResult.__init__ super call
242
Petri Lehtinena4fd0dc2012-09-25 21:57:59 +0300243- Issue #15222: Insert blank line after each message in mbox mailboxes
244
Senthil Kumarand41dc7c2012-09-25 02:48:21 -0700245- Issue #16013: Fix CSV Reader parsing issue with ending quote characters.
246 Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
247
Ezio Melotticadff702012-09-21 17:26:35 +0300248- Issue #15421: fix an OverflowError in Calendar.itermonthdates() after
249 datetime.MAXYEAR. Patch by Cédric Krier.
250
Ezio Melotti6d6fb3a2012-09-19 08:11:03 +0300251- Issue #15970: xml.etree.ElementTree now serializes correctly the empty HTML
252 elements 'meta' and 'param'.
253
Jesus Cea8b54d6d2012-09-10 00:22:39 +0200254- Issue #15676: Now "mmap" check for empty files before doing the
255 offset check. Patch by Steven Willis.
256
Antoine Pitroue299cae2012-09-07 23:49:07 +0200257- Issue #15340: Fix importing the random module when /dev/urandom cannot
258 be opened. This was a regression caused by the hash randomization patch.
259
Antoine Pitrouc5eec0e2012-09-05 20:11:49 +0200260- Issue #15841: The readable(), writable() and seekable() methods of
261 io.BytesIO and io.StringIO objects now raise ValueError when the object has
262 been closed. Patch by Alessandro Moura.
263
Jesus Cea3e94e142012-10-04 15:06:57 +0200264- Issue #16112: platform.architecture does not correctly escape argument to
265 /usr/bin/file. Patch by David Benjamin.
266
R David Murray20101872012-08-31 23:15:28 -0400267- Issue #12776,#11839: call argparse type function (specified by add_argument)
268 only once. Before, the type function was called twice in the case where the
269 default was specified and the argument was given as well. This was
270 especially problematic for the FileType type, as a default file would always
271 be opened, even if a file argument was specified on the command line.
272
Barry Warsaw03fcfbe2012-09-11 21:06:29 -0400273- Issue #15906: Fix a regression in argparse caused by the preceding change,
274 when action='append', type='str' and default=[].
275
Ronald Oussorena00b1002012-08-25 11:18:48 +0200276- Issue #13370: Ensure that ctypes works on Mac OS X when Python is
277 compiled using the clang compiler
278
Mark Dickinson088cec32012-08-24 20:06:30 +0100279- Issue #15544: Fix Decimal.__float__ to work with payload-carrying NaNs.
280
Petri Lehtinen4efdc092012-08-20 21:05:56 +0300281- Issue #15199: Fix JavaScript's default MIME type to application/javascript.
282 Patch by Bohuslav Kabrda.
283
Mark Dickinson2de4be22012-08-18 12:31:34 +0100284- Issue #15477: In cmath and math modules, add workaround for platforms whose
285 system-supplied log1p function doesn't respect signs of zeros.
286
Petri Lehtinen2d44cee2012-08-15 14:22:46 +0300287- Issue #11062: Fix adding a message from file to Babyl mailbox.
288
Richard Oudkerkfaee75c2012-08-14 11:41:19 +0100289- Issue #15646: Prevent equivalent of a fork bomb when using
290 multiprocessing on Windows without the "if __name__ == '__main__'"
291 idiom.
292
Brian Curtina9391052012-08-09 23:04:42 -0500293- Issue #15567: Fix NameError when running threading._test
294
Meador Inge2d639d52012-08-10 22:05:45 -0500295- Issue #15424: Add a __sizeof__ implementation for array objects.
296 Patch by Ludwig Hähne.
297
Andrew Svetlov8ba844a2012-08-04 21:45:23 +0300298- Issue #13052: Fix IDLE crashing when replace string in Search/Replace dialog
299 ended with '\'. Patch by Roger Serwy.
300
Antoine Pitrou1fa9f7b2012-08-02 20:37:12 +0200301- Issue #15538: Fix compilation of the getnameinfo() / getaddrinfo()
302 emulation code. Patch by Philipp Hagemeister.
303
Andrew Svetlov8a15c372012-07-31 19:51:27 +0300304- Issue #9803: Don't close IDLE on saving if breakpoint is open.
305 Patch by Roger Serwy.
306
Andrew Svetlov2d968482012-07-30 20:04:53 +0300307- Issue #12288: Consider '0' and '0.0' as valid initialvalue
308 for tkinter SimpleDialog.
309
Antoine Pitroubaee34c2012-07-30 00:01:06 +0200310- Issue #15489: Add a __sizeof__ implementation for BytesIO objects.
311 Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
312
Jesus Cead4e58dc2012-08-03 14:48:23 +0200313- Issue #15469: Add a __sizeof__ implementation for deque objects.
314 Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
315
Antoine Pitroubff5df02012-07-29 19:02:46 +0200316- Issue #15487: Add a __sizeof__ implementation for buffered I/O objects.
317 Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
318
Jesus Cea3e3192d2012-08-03 14:25:53 +0200319- Issue #15512: Add a __sizeof__ implementation for parser.
320 Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
321
Meador Inge87c5b942012-07-23 09:27:00 -0500322- Issue #15402: An issue in the struct module that caused sys.getsizeof to
323 return incorrect results for struct.Struct instances has been fixed.
324 Initial patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
325
R David Murray0f111c12012-07-22 21:55:12 -0400326- Issue #15232: when mangle_from is True, email.Generator now correctly mangles
R David Murray70098452012-07-24 14:24:42 -0400327 lines that start with 'From ' that occur in a MIME preamble or epilog.
R David Murray0f111c12012-07-22 21:55:12 -0400328
R David Murray68f555c2012-07-21 22:54:34 -0400329- Issue #13922: argparse no longer incorrectly strips '--'s that appear
330 after the first one.
331
R David Murray056c31f2012-07-21 22:35:00 -0400332- Issue #12353: argparse now correctly handles null argument values.
333
Meador Inge25be3f62012-07-18 23:51:05 -0500334- Issue #6493: An issue in ctypes on Windows that caused structure bitfields
335 of type ctypes.c_uint32 and width 32 to incorrectly be set has been fixed.
336
Gregory P. Smithe0c22202012-07-15 22:16:06 -0700337- Issue #14635: telnetlib will use poll() rather than select() when possible
338 to avoid failing due to the select() file descriptor limit.
339
Antoine Pitrouc2ec9922012-07-06 18:48:24 +0200340- Issue #15247: FileIO now raises an error when given a file descriptor
341 pointing to a directory.
342
Mark Dickinsone0afb722012-06-30 17:19:35 +0100343- Issue #14591: Fix bug in Random.jumpahead that could produce an invalid
344 Mersenne Twister state on 64-bit machines.
345
Petri Lehtinend07de402012-06-29 15:09:12 +0300346- Issue #5346: Preserve permissions of mbox, MMDF and Babyl mailbox
347 files on flush().
348
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd958cc92012-06-29 01:42:46 +0200349- Issue #15219: Fix a reference leak when hashlib.new() is called with
350 invalid parameters.
351
Petri Lehtinen45f0d982012-06-28 13:48:17 +0300352- Issue #9559: If messages were only added, a new file is no longer
353 created and renamed over the old file when flush() is called on an
354 mbox, MMDF or Babyl mailbox.
355
Alexander Belopolskye99d3a12012-06-21 20:57:39 -0400356- Issue #14653: email.utils.mktime_tz() no longer relies on system
357 mktime() when timezone offest is supplied.
358
Richard Oudkerke4b99382012-07-27 14:05:46 +0100359- Issue #6056: Make multiprocessing use setblocking(True) on the
360 sockets it uses. Original patch by J Derek Wilson.
361
Richard Oudkerk4215d272012-06-18 15:37:31 +0100362- Issue #15101: Make pool finalizer avoid joining current thread.
363
Meador Inge43f42fc2012-06-16 21:05:50 -0500364- Issue #15054: A bug in tokenize.tokenize that caused string literals
365 with 'b' and 'br' prefixes to be incorrectly tokenized has been fixed.
366 Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
367
Petri Lehtinen48ee6902012-06-18 10:42:05 +0300368- Issue #15036: Mailbox no longer throws an error if a flush is done
369 between operations when removing or changing multiple items in mbox,
370 MMDF, or Babyl mailboxes.
Petri Lehtinen7cf66992012-06-15 20:50:51 +0300371
Richard Oudkerk926f58d2012-06-11 15:11:35 +0100372- Issue #10133: Make multiprocessing deallocate buffer if socket read
373 fails. Patch by Hallvard B Furuseth.
374
Richard Oudkerk2182e052012-06-06 19:01:14 +0100375- Issue #13854: Make multiprocessing properly handle non-integer
376 non-string argument to SystemExit.
377
Richard Oudkerkd44a4a22012-06-06 17:52:18 +0100378- Issue #12157: Make pool.map() empty iterables correctly. Initial
379 patch by mouad.
380
Ned Deily5e247b72012-05-31 09:17:29 -0700381- Issue #14962: Update text coloring in IDLE shell window after changing
382 options. Patch by Roger Serwy.
383
Ned Deily71489842012-05-29 10:42:34 -0700384- Issue #10997: Prevent a duplicate entry in IDLE's "Recent Files" menu.
385
Terry Jan Reedy5525eb72012-06-07 19:50:30 -0400386- Issue #12510: Attempting to get invalid tooltip no longer closes Idle.
Terry Jan Reedyd9d276b2012-05-27 21:28:42 -0400387 Original patch by Roger Serwy.
388
Terry Jan Reedyeaa7e782012-05-26 20:33:32 -0400389- Issue #10365: File open dialog now works instead of crashing
390 even when parent window is closed. Patch by Roger Serwy.
391
Terry Jan Reedy42f7b7e2012-05-26 16:55:43 -0400392- Issue #14876: Use user-selected font for highlight configuration.
393 Patch by Roger Serwy.
394
Senthil Kumaran37484dc2012-05-24 21:54:34 +0800395- Issue #14036: Add an additional check to validate that port in urlparse does
396 not go in illegal range and returns None.
397
Antoine Pitroucd8799f2012-05-23 23:16:14 +0200398- Issue #14888: Fix misbehaviour of the _md5 module when called on data
399 larger than 2**32 bytes.
400
Jesus Cea03a9d2a2012-09-10 21:04:42 +0200401- Issue #15908: Fix misbehaviour of the sha1 module when called on data
402 larger than 2**32 bytes.
403
Jesus Cea3fb774e2012-09-10 21:39:07 +0200404- Issue #15910: Fix misbehaviour of _md5 and sha1 modules when "updating"
405 on data larger than 2**32 bytes.
406
Ezio Melottied8cf7a2012-05-21 17:46:55 -0600407- Issue #14875: Use float('inf') instead of float('1e66666') in the json module.
408
Ned Deily77e77a12012-05-19 23:35:05 -0700409- Issue #14572: Prevent build failures with pre-3.5.0 versions of
410 sqlite3, such as was shipped with Centos 5 and Mac OS X 10.4.
411
Senthil Kumaranf439a362012-05-20 12:02:44 +0800412- Issue #14426: Correct the Date format in Expires attribute of Set-Cookie
413 Header in Cookie.py.
414
Senthil Kumaran618802d2012-05-19 16:52:21 +0800415- Issue #14721: Send proper header, Content-length: 0 when the body is an empty
416 string ''. Initial Patch contributed by Arve Knudsen.
417
Ezio Melotti6d9c1b12012-05-19 17:12:17 +0300418- Issue #14072: Fix parsing of 'tel' URIs in urlparse by making the check for
419 ports stricter.
420
Senthil Kumaranea24dda2012-05-19 08:10:40 +0800421- Issue #9374: Generic parsing of query and fragment portions of url for any
422 scheme. Supported both by RFC3986 and RFC2396.
423
Petri Lehtinen280e9f72012-05-18 21:51:11 +0300424- Issue #14798: Fix the functions in pyclbr to raise an ImportError
425 when the first part of a dotted name is not a package. Patch by
426 Xavier de Gaye.
427
R David Murray69493922012-05-16 14:01:03 -0400428- Issue #14832: fixed the order of the argument references in the error
429 message produced by unittest's assertItemsEqual.
430
Antoine Pitrou38fbd792012-05-16 15:01:40 +0200431- Issue #14829: Fix bisect issues under 64-bit Windows.
432
Ned Deily724a55c2012-05-15 18:05:57 -0700433- Issue #14777: tkinter may return undecoded UTF-8 bytes as a string when
434 accessing the Tk clipboard. Modify clipboad_get() to first request type
435 UTF8_STRING when no specific type is requested in an X11 windowing
436 environment, falling back to the current default type STRING if that fails.
437 Original patch by Thomas Kluyver.
438
Senthil Kumaran6a2a6c22012-05-15 22:24:10 +0800439- Issue #12541: Be lenient with quotes around Realm field with HTTP Basic
440 Authentation in urllib2.
441
Ned Deilyacdc56d2012-05-10 17:45:49 -0700442- Issue #14662: Prevent shutil failures on OS X when destination does not
443 support chflag operations. Patch by Hynek Schlawack.
444
Antoine Pitrouc2b714c2012-05-10 20:17:46 +0200445- Issue #14157: Fix time.strptime failing without a year on February 29th.
446 Patch by Hynek Schlawack.
447
Jesus Ceaf2011e32012-05-10 05:01:11 +0200448- Issue #14768: os.path.expanduser('~/a') doesn't works correctly when HOME is '/'.
449
Senthil Kumaran7f6d4e12012-05-01 10:36:28 +0800450- Issue #13183: Fix pdb skipping frames after hitting a breakpoint and running
451 step. Patch by Xavier de Gaye.
452
Antoine Pitrou38153162012-04-25 17:31:12 +0200453- Issue #14664: It is now possible to use @unittest.skip{If,Unless} on a
454 test class that doesn't inherit from TestCase (i.e. a mixin).
455
Lars Gustäbel231d4742012-04-24 22:42:08 +0200456- Issue #14160: TarFile.extractfile() failed to resolve symbolic links when
457 the links were not located in an archive subdirectory.
458
R David Murrayc313b1d2012-04-23 13:27:11 -0400459- Issue #14638: pydoc now treats non-string __name__ values as if they
460 were missing, instead of raising an error.
461
Senthil Kumaran4c20c4e2012-04-23 23:52:40 +0800462- Issue #13684: Fix httplib tunnel issue of infinite loops for certain sites
463 which send EOF without trailing \r\n.
Ezio Melottied8cf7a2012-05-21 17:46:55 -0600464
Antoine Pitrou52849bf2012-04-19 23:55:01 +0200465- Issue #14308: Fix an exception when a "dummy" thread is in the threading
466 module's active list after a fork().
467
Ezio Melottic45868e2012-04-18 19:08:41 -0600468- Issue #14538: HTMLParser can now parse correctly start tags that contain
469 a bare '/'.
470
Vinay Sajip7e9c9d52012-04-16 14:38:23 +0100471- Issue #14452: SysLogHandler no longer inserts a UTF-8 BOM into the message.
472
Mark Dickinson0407e962012-04-15 16:43:19 +0100473- Issue #13496: Fix potential overflow in bisect.bisect algorithm when applied
474 to a collection of size > sys.maxsize / 2.
475
R David Murray9955ad42012-04-13 21:27:00 -0400476- Issue #14399: zipfile now recognizes that the archive has been modified even
477 if only the comment is changed. As a consequence of this fix, ZipFile is now
478 a new style class.
R David Murray3f4ccba2012-04-12 18:42:47 -0400479
Antoine Pitroufa1d8412012-04-09 00:47:24 +0200480- Issue #7978: SocketServer now restarts the select() call when EINTR is
481 returned. This avoids crashing the server loop when a signal is received.
482 Patch by Jerzy Kozera.
483
Andrew Svetlov8af87292012-03-31 14:34:16 +0300484- Issue #14409: IDLE now properly executes commands in the Shell window
485 when it cannot read the normal config files on startup and
486 has to use the built-in default key bindings.
487 There was previously a bug in one of the defaults.
Andrew Svetlovc37db102012-03-29 19:54:58 +0300488
Giampaolo Rodola'96cb5d12012-03-22 16:06:43 +0100489- Issue #10340: asyncore - properly handle EINVAL in dispatcher constructor on
490 OSX; avoid to call handle_connect in case of a disconnected socket which
491 was not meant to connect.
492
R David Murrayb3f95d72012-03-21 15:02:30 -0400493- Issue #12757: Fix the skipping of doctests when python is run with -OO so
494 that it works in unittest's verbose mode as well as non-verbose mode.
495
Andrew Svetlov7c010ee2012-03-21 13:35:08 +0200496- Issue #3573: IDLE hangs when passing invalid command line args
497 (directory(ies) instead of file(s)) (Patch by Guilherme Polo)
498
Giampaolo Rodola'3d3cf482012-03-20 16:46:57 +0100499- Issue #13694: asynchronous connect in asyncore.dispatcher does not set addr
500 attribute.
501
Senthil Kumaran51a65c92012-03-16 01:07:16 -0700502- Issue #10484: Fix the CGIHTTPServer's PATH_INFO handling problem.
503
Senthil Kumaran4c592112012-03-15 13:24:40 -0700504- Issue #11199: Fix the with urllib which hangs on particular ftp urls.
505
Martin v. Löwisf163efd2012-03-13 14:46:22 -0700506- Issue #5219: Prevent event handler cascade in IDLE.
507
Antoine Pitrouf60845b2012-03-11 19:29:12 +0100508- Issue #14252: Fix subprocess.Popen.terminate() to not raise an error under
509 Windows when the child process has already exited.
510
Benjamin Petersona84f4682012-03-07 19:17:57 -0600511- Issue #14195: An issue that caused weakref.WeakSet instances to incorrectly
512 return True for a WeakSet instance 'a' in both 'a < a' and 'a > a' has been
513 fixed.
514
515- Issue #14159: Fix the len() of weak sets to return a better approximation
516 when some objects are dead or dying. Moreover, the implementation is now
517 O(1) rather than O(n).
518
519- Issue #2945: Make the distutils upload command aware of bdist_rpm products.
520
521- Issue #13447: Add a test file to host regression tests for bugs in the
522 scripts found in the Tools directory.
523
524- Issue #6884: Fix long-standing bugs with MANIFEST.in parsing in distutils
525 on Windows.
526
Chris Withers2cc0b072012-11-09 15:48:17 +0000527- Issue #16441: Avoid excessive memory usage working with large gzip
528 files using the gzip module.
529
Christian Heimes8112ea22012-09-24 13:17:08 +0200530Extension Modules
531-----------------
532
Gregory P. Smith0d68ab32012-11-27 10:19:29 -0800533- Fix the leak of a dict in the time module when used in an embedded
534 interpreter that is repeatedly initialized and shutdown and reinitialized.
535
Gregory P. Smith99716162012-10-12 13:02:06 -0700536- Issue #12268: File readline, readlines and read or readall methods
537 no longer lose data when an underlying read system call is interrupted
538 within an io module object. IOError is no longer raised due to a read
539 system call returning EINTR from within these methods.
540
Christian Heimes8112ea22012-09-24 13:17:08 +0200541- Issue #16012: Fix a regression in pyexpat. The parser's UseForeignDTD()
542 method doesn't require an argument again.
543
Antoine Pitrou9945a642012-04-16 03:34:44 +0200544Tests
545-----
546
Victor Stinner8c7c6972012-12-04 10:07:16 +0100547- Issue #15747: ZFS always returns EOPNOTSUPP when attempting to set the
548 UF_IMMUTABLE flag (via either chflags or lchflags); refactor affected
549 tests in test_posix.py to account for this.
550
Ezio Melottid8feba92012-11-29 02:14:52 +0200551- Issue #16549: Add tests for json.tools. Initial patch by Berker Peksag
552 and Serhiy Storchaka.
553
Ezio Melotti282d3312012-11-26 19:22:58 +0200554- Issue #16559: Add more tests for the json module, including some from the
555 official test suite at json.org. Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
556
Trent Nelsone9992292012-10-26 22:21:46 -0400557- Issue #16274: Fix test_asyncore on Solaris. Patch by Giampaolo Rodola'.
558
Petri Lehtinen9ad6a562012-10-23 14:39:34 +0300559- Issue #15040: Close files in mailbox tests for PyPy compatibility.
560 Original patch by Matti Picus.
561
Petri Lehtinen80f45532012-09-01 14:25:48 +0300562- Issue #15802: Fix test logic in TestMaildir.test_create_tmp. Patch
563 by Serhiy Storchaka.
564
Trent Nelsonda4277a2012-08-29 09:20:41 -0400565- Issue #15765: Extend a previous fix to Solaris and OpenBSD for quirky
566 getcwd() behaviour (issue #9185) to NetBSD as well.
567
Antoine Pitrou0e3a4c82012-08-18 20:51:05 +0200568- Issue #15615: Add some tests for the json module's handling of invalid
569 input data. Patch by Kushal Das.
570
Brian Curtinbc77d362012-08-13 17:26:48 -0500571- Issue #15496: Add directory removal helpers for tests on Windows.
572 Patch by Jeremy Kloth.
573
Nick Coghlana0933122012-06-17 19:03:39 +1000574- Issue #15043: test_gdb is now skipped entirely if gdb security settings
575 block loading of the gdb hooks
576
Antoine Pitrou9945a642012-04-16 03:34:44 +0200577- Issue #14589: Update certificate chain for sha256.tbs-internet.com, fixing
578 a test failure in test_ssl.
579
Antoine Pitrou4b536d42012-03-31 23:53:07 +0200580Build
581-----
582
Ezio Melottic820de52012-09-30 22:41:37 +0300583- Issue #15923: fix a mistake in asdl_c.py that resulted in a TypeError after
584 2801bf875a24 (see #15801).
585
doko@ubuntu.com3d2fc152012-09-21 13:51:40 +0200586- Issue #11715: Fix multiarch detection without having Debian development
587 tools (dpkg-dev) installed.
588
Trent Nelsonf6407a12012-08-30 14:56:13 +0000589- Issue #15819: Make sure we can build Python out-of-tree from a readonly
590 source directory. (Somewhat related to Issue #9860.)
591
Ned Deily10fc1042012-09-08 18:47:27 -0700592- Issue #15822: Ensure 2to3 grammar pickles are properly installed.
Ned Deily8622f092012-08-22 23:26:06 -0700593
Ned Deily67028042012-08-05 14:42:45 -0700594- Issue #15560: Fix building _sqlite3 extension on OS X with an SDK.
595
Martin v. Löwis33f8c3a2012-08-01 10:05:27 +0200596- Issue #8847: Disable COMDAT folding in Windows PGO builds.
597
Ned Deilyd8ec4642012-07-30 04:07:49 -0700598- Issue #14018: Fix OS X Tcl/Tk framework checking when using OS X SDKs.
599
Martin v. Löwised11a5d2012-05-20 10:42:17 +0200600- Issue #8767: Restore building with --disable-unicode.
601 Patch by Stefano Taschini.
602
Martin v. Löwisfd0afed2012-05-15 17:26:31 +0200603- Build against bzip2 1.0.6 and openssl 0.9.8x on Windows.
604
Charles-François Natali0d3db3a2012-04-12 19:11:54 +0200605- Issue #14557: Fix extensions build on HP-UX. Patch by Adi Roiban.
606
Antoine Pitrou4b536d42012-03-31 23:53:07 +0200607- Issue #14437: Fix building the _io module under Cygwin.
608
Ezio Melottidc118792012-11-09 11:46:19 +0100609Tools/Demos
610-----------
611
612- Issue #13301: use ast.literal_eval() instead of eval() in Tools/i18n/msgfmt.py
613 Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
614
Ezio Melottie48daea2012-05-06 16:15:35 +0300615Documentation
Senthil Kumaran0c472c32012-07-22 19:36:03 -0700616-------------
Terry Jan Reedy45ed0122012-07-08 17:35:26 -0400617
Chris Jerdonek8da82682012-11-29 19:03:37 -0800618- Issue #15990: Improve argument/parameter documentation.
619
Chris Jerdonek08012312012-11-14 12:36:53 -0800620- Issue #16400: Update the description of which versions of a given package
621 PyPI displays.
622
Nadeem Vawda04050b82012-11-11 13:52:10 +0100623- Issue #15677: Document that zlib and gzip accept a compression level of 0 to
624 mean 'no compression'. Patch by Brian Brazil.
625
Ezio Melotti3d072062012-10-27 22:04:56 +0300626- Issue #8040: added a version switcher to the documentation. Patch by
627 Yury Selivanov.
628
Chris Jerdonek1906c0c2012-10-08 23:18:17 -0700629- Issue #16115: Improve subprocess.Popen() documentation around args, shell,
630 and executable arguments.
631
Ezio Melotti31a9e832012-10-02 05:34:38 +0300632- Issue #15979: Improve timeit documentation.
633
Chris Jerdonek71d74b02012-09-30 21:07:56 -0700634- Issue #16036: Improve documentation of built-in int()'s signature and
635 arguments.
636
Barry Warsaw0dea9362012-09-25 10:32:53 -0400637- Issue #15935: Clarification of argparse docs, re: add_argument() type and
638 default arguments. Patch contributed by Chris Jerdonek.
639
Petri Lehtinenf9e1f112012-09-01 07:27:58 +0300640- Issue #13769: Document the effect of ensure_ascii to the return type
641 of JSON decoding functions.
642
Hynek Schlawack7d978902012-08-28 12:33:46 +0200643- Issue #14880: Fix kwargs notation in csv.reader, .writer & .register_dialect.
644 Patch by Chris Rebert.
645
Antoine Pitrouf3e0a692012-08-24 19:46:17 +0200646- Issue #14674: Add a discussion of the json module's standard compliance.
647 Patch by Chris Rebert.
648
Senthil Kumaran2f76f732012-08-12 11:58:53 -0700649- Issue #15630: Add an example for "continue" stmt in the tutorial. Patch by
650 Daniel Ellis.
651
Terry Jan Reedy45ed0122012-07-08 17:35:26 -0400652- Issue #13557: Clarify effect of giving two different namespaces to exec or
653 execfile().
Ezio Melottie48daea2012-05-06 16:15:35 +0300654
655- Issue #14034: added the argparse tutorial.
656
Senthil Kumaran0c472c32012-07-22 19:36:03 -0700657- Issue #15250: Document that filecmp.dircmp compares files shallowly. Patch
658 contributed by Chris Jerdonek.
659
Benjamin Petersona84f4682012-03-07 19:17:57 -0600660
Gregory P. Smithc8ff4602012-03-14 15:28:10 -0700661What's New in Python 2.7.3 release candidate 2?
662===============================================
663
Benjamin Petersonee933ec2012-03-15 12:25:54 -0500664*Release date: 2012-03-17*
Gregory P. Smithc8ff4602012-03-14 15:28:10 -0700665
666Library
667-------
668
669- Issue #14234: CVE-2012-0876: Randomize hashes of xml attributes in the hash
670 table internal to the pyexpat module's copy of the expat library to avoid a
671 denial of service due to hash collisions. Patch by David Malcolm with some
672 modifications by the expat project.
673
674
Benjamin Petersona84f4682012-03-07 19:17:57 -0600675What's New in Python 2.7.3 release candidate 1?
676===============================================
677
678*Release date: 2012-02-23*
679
680Core and Builtins
681-----------------
682
Antoine Pitrouc66ed452012-02-15 02:51:43 +0100683- Issue #13020: Fix a reference leak when allocating a structsequence object
684 fails. Patch by Suman Saha.
685
Barry Warsaw1e13eb02012-02-20 20:42:21 -0500686- Issue #13703: oCERT-2011-003: add -R command-line option and PYTHONHASHSEED
687 environment variable, to provide an opt-in way to protect against denial of
688 service attacks due to hash collisions within the dict and set types. Patch
689 by David Malcolm, based on work by Victor Stinner.
690
Antoine Pitroud1c818a2012-01-24 17:44:06 +0100691- Issue #11235: Fix OverflowError when trying to import a source file whose
692 modification time doesn't fit in a 32-bit timestamp.
693
Jason R. Coombs042370e2011-12-26 10:15:15 -0500694- Issue #11638: Unicode strings in 'name' and 'version' no longer cause
695 UnicodeDecodeErrors.
696
Antoine Pitrou5b4b2da2011-12-15 14:15:31 +0100697- Fix the fix for issue #12149: it was incorrect, although it had the side
698 effect of appearing to resolve the issue. Thanks to Mark Shannon for
699 noticing.
700
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc4bf21e22011-12-07 21:46:48 +0100701- Issue #13546: Fixed an overflow issue that could crash the intepreter when
702 calling sys.setrecursionlimit((1<<31)-1).
703
Antoine Pitrou30402542011-11-15 01:49:40 +0100704- Issue #13333: The UTF-7 decoder now accepts lone surrogates (the encoder
705 already accepts them).
706
Petri Lehtinen8028dc22011-10-30 20:59:10 +0200707- Issue #10519: Avoid unnecessary recursive function calls in
708 setobject.c.
709
Benjamin Peterson0c0d7562011-10-27 08:21:59 -0400710- Issue #13268: Fix the assert statement when a tuple is passed as the message.
711
Petri Lehtinen8ffbab82011-10-24 20:59:29 +0300712- Issue #13018: Fix reference leaks in error paths in dictobject.c.
713 Patch by Suman Saha.
714
Senthil Kumaran797b95b2011-10-21 00:32:59 +0800715- Issue #12604: VTRACE macro expanded to no-op in _sre.c to avoid compiler
716 warnings. Patch by Josh Triplett and Petri Lehtinen.
717
Mark Hammond323b5da2011-10-17 11:05:36 +1100718- Issue #7833: Extension modules built using distutils on Windows will no
719 longer include a "manifest" to prevent them failing at import time in some
720 embedded situations.
721
Benjamin Petersona7b09762011-10-15 13:43:21 -0400722- Issue #13186: Fix __delitem__ on old-style instances when invoked through
723 PySequence_DelItem.
724
Charles-François Natali40ab0022011-10-12 22:29:09 +0200725- Issue #13156: Revert the patch for issue #10517 (reset TLS upon fork()),
726 which was only relevant for the native pthread TLS implementation.
727
Victor Stinner63c22fa2011-09-23 19:37:03 +0200728- Issue #7732: Fix a crash on importing a module if a directory has the same
729 name than a Python module (e.g. "__init__.py"): don't close the file twice.
730
Mark Dickinsondbbed042011-09-19 16:38:08 +0100731- Issue #12973: Fix overflow checks that invoked undefined behaviour in
732 int.__pow__. These overflow checks were causing int.__pow__ to produce
733 incorrect results with recent versions of Clang, as a result of the
Mark Dickinsona96b0d12011-09-24 09:01:16 +0100734 compiler optimizing the check away. Also fix similar overflow checks
735 in list_repeat (listobject.c) and islice_next (itertoolsmodule.c). These
736 bugs caused test failures with recent versions of Clang.
Mark Dickinsondbbed042011-09-19 16:38:08 +0100737
Ezio Melotti15d6b652011-08-15 09:22:24 +0300738- Issue #12266: Fix str.capitalize() to correctly uppercase/lowercase
739 titlecased and cased non-letter characters.
740
Benjamin Peterson6c18ff02011-07-22 10:41:44 -0500741- Issues #12610 and #12609: Verify that user generated AST has correct string
742 and identifier types before compiling.
743
Barry Warsawc5643282011-07-19 17:06:30 -0400744- Issue #11627: Fix segfault when __new__ on a exception returns a
745 non-exception class.
Benjamin Petersonc3349cd2011-07-15 14:15:40 -0500746
Antoine Pitrou16166452011-07-12 22:04:20 +0200747- Issue #12149: Update the method cache after a type's dictionnary gets
748 cleared by the garbage collector. This fixes a segfault when an instance
749 and its type get caught in a reference cycle, and the instance's
750 deallocator calls one of the methods on the type (e.g. when subclassing
751 IOBase). Diagnosis and patch by Davide Rizzo.
752
Florent Xiclunaa1f948b2012-01-24 21:05:10 +0100753- Issue #12501: Remove Py3k warning for callable. callable() is supported
754 again in Python 3.2.
Victor Stinnerba8b3a22011-07-08 02:07:45 +0200755
Victor Stinner59729ff2011-07-05 11:28:19 +0200756- Issue #9611, #9015: FileIO.read(), FileIO.readinto(), FileIO.write() and
757 os.write() clamp the length to INT_MAX on Windows.
758
Victor Stinnerd3c7e172011-05-30 23:49:13 +0200759- Issue #1195: my_fgets() now always clears errors before calling fgets(). Fix
Victor Stinner08563d92011-05-30 23:44:13 +0200760 the following case: sys.stdin.read() stopped with CTRL+d (end of file),
761 raw_input() interrupted by CTRL+c.
762
Łukasz Langa7a153902011-10-18 17:16:00 +0200763- Issue #10860: httplib now correctly handles an empty port after port
764 delimiter in URLs.
765
Barry Warsawc5643282011-07-19 17:06:30 -0400766- dict_proxy objects now display their contents rather than just the class
767 name.
Raymond Hettingerbf7a2662011-06-30 00:44:36 +0100768
Victor Stinner08563d92011-05-30 23:44:13 +0200769Library
770-------
Éric Araujoa13cd392011-09-10 05:39:45 +0200771
Petri Lehtinen4ab701b2012-02-21 13:58:40 +0200772- Issue #8033: sqlite3: Fix 64-bit integer handling in user functions
773 on 32-bit architectures. Initial patch by Philippe Devalkeneer.
774
Ezio Melotti36b73612012-02-21 09:22:16 +0200775- HTMLParser is now able to handle slashes in the start tag.
776
Charles-François Natali66f3cc62012-02-18 14:15:38 +0100777- Issue #14001: CVE-2012-0845: xmlrpc: Fix an endless loop in
778 SimpleXMLRPCServer upon malformed POST request.
779
Gregory P. Smith14dc5102012-02-16 00:44:50 -0800780- Issue #2489: pty.spawn could consume 100% cpu when it encountered an EOF.
781
Antoine Pitroudd7e0712012-02-15 22:25:27 +0100782- Issue #13014: Fix a possible reference leak in SSLSocket.getpeercert().
783
Ezio Melottid2307cb2012-02-15 12:44:23 +0200784- Issue #13987: HTMLParser is now able to handle EOFs in the middle of a
Ezio Melotti65d36da2012-02-15 13:19:10 +0200785 construct and malformed start tags.
Ezio Melottid2307cb2012-02-15 12:44:23 +0200786
Antoine Pitrouc39cd782012-02-15 02:42:46 +0100787- Issue #13015: Fix a possible reference leak in defaultdict.__repr__.
788 Patch by Suman Saha.
789
Meador Ingeff337cc2012-02-13 22:22:06 -0600790- Issue #13979: A bug in ctypes.util.find_library that caused
791 the wrong library name to be returned has been fixed.
792
Éric Araujoe897a742012-02-15 16:28:20 +0100793- Issue #1326113: distutils' build_ext command --libraries option now
794 correctly parses multiple values separated by whitespace or commas.
795
Ezio Melottif1174432012-02-13 16:28:54 +0200796- Issue #13993: HTMLParser is now able to handle broken end tags.
797
Ezio Melotti4b92cc32012-02-13 16:10:44 +0200798- Issue #13960: HTMLParser is now able to handle broken comments.
799
Petri Lehtinen587209f2012-02-12 21:03:02 +0200800- Issue #9750: Fix sqlite3.Connection.iterdump on tables and fields
801 with a name that is a keyword or contains quotes. Patch by Marko
802 Kohtala.
803
Florent Xiclunac2279652012-02-12 14:49:03 +0100804- Issue #13994: Earlier partial revert of Distutils enhancements in 2.7
Ned Deilyc47a4592012-02-11 20:40:24 +0100805 has left two versions of customize_compiler, the original in
806 distutils.sysconfig and another copy in distutils.ccompiler, with some
807 parts of distutils calling one and others using the other.
808 Complete the revert back to only having one in distutils.sysconfig as
809 is the case in 3.x.
810
Ned Deily0d0ea482012-02-10 12:59:06 +0100811- Issue #13590: On OS X 10.7 and 10.6 with Xcode 4.2, building
812 Distutils-based packages with C extension modules may fail because
813 Apple has removed gcc-4.2, the version used to build python.org
814 64-bit/32-bit Pythons. If the user does not explicitly override
815 the default C compiler by setting the CC environment variable,
816 Distutils will now attempt to compile extension modules with clang
817 if gcc-4.2 is required but not found. Also as a convenience, if
818 the user does explicitly set CC, substitute its value as the default
819 compiler in the Distutils LDSHARED configuration variable for OS X.
820 (Note, the python.org 32-bit-only Pythons use gcc-4.0 and the 10.4u
821 SDK, neither of which are available in Xcode 4. This change does not
822 attempt to override settings to support their use with Xcode 4.)
823
Senthil Kumaran59e7c8f2012-02-09 18:22:01 +0800824- Issue #9021: Add an introduction to the copy module documentation.
825
Senthil Kumaran607e31e2012-02-09 17:43:31 +0800826- Issue #6005: Examples in the socket library documentation use sendall, where
827 relevant, instead send method.
828
Petri Lehtinenc7fd5232011-05-09 12:24:09 +0200829- Issue #10811: Fix recursive usage of cursors. Instead of crashing,
830 raise a ProgrammingError now.
831
Ned Deily2c8bf042012-02-06 00:55:50 +0100832- Issue #10881: Fix test_site failures with OS X framework builds.
833
Terry Jan Reedyadb87e22012-02-05 15:10:55 -0500834- Issue #964437 Make IDLE help window non-modal.
835 Patch by Guilherme Polo and Roger Serwy.
836
Ned Deily61c95342012-02-04 18:35:23 +0100837- Issue #13933: IDLE auto-complete did not work with some imported
838 module, like hashlib. (Patch by Roger Serwy)
839
Ned Deilyfbc56fd2012-02-03 02:39:49 +0100840- Issue #13901: Prevent test_distutils failures on OS X with --enable-shared.
841
Petri Lehtinen0518f472012-02-01 22:20:12 +0200842- Issue #13676: Handle strings with embedded zeros correctly in sqlite3.
843
Terry Jan Reedyb98000a2012-01-31 02:09:25 -0500844- Issue #13506: Add '' to path for IDLE Shell when started and restarted with Restart Shell.
845 Original patches by Marco Scataglini and Roger Serwy.
846
Antoine Pitrou88c51e82012-01-28 22:01:59 +0100847- Issue #13806: The size check in audioop decompression functions was too
848 strict and could reject valid compressed data. Patch by Oleg Plakhotnyuk.
849
Antoine Pitroud358e052012-01-27 09:42:45 +0100850- Issue #13885: CVE-2011-3389: the _ssl module would always disable the CBC
851 IV attack countermeasure.
852
Senthil Kumaranb05f91d2012-01-21 11:45:12 +0800853- Issue #6631: Disallow relative file paths in urllib urlopen methods.
854
Nadeem Vawdad7664de2012-01-19 00:40:46 +0200855- Issue #13781: Prevent gzip.GzipFile from using the dummy filename provided by
856 file objects opened with os.fdopen().
857
Antoine Pitrou3b6a3142012-01-17 17:13:04 +0100858- Issue #13589: Fix some serialization primitives in the aifc module.
859 Patch by Oleg Plakhotnyuk.
860
Jesus Cea4a8ba192012-01-18 03:51:38 +0100861- Issue #13803: Under Solaris, distutils doesn't include bitness
862 in the directory name.
863
Senthil Kumaranbcd833f2012-01-11 00:09:24 +0800864- Issue #13642: Unquote before b64encoding user:password during Basic
865 Authentication. Patch contributed by Joonas Kuorilehto and Michele Orrù.
866
Antoine Pitroud76088d2012-01-03 22:46:48 +0100867- Issue #13636: Weak ciphers are now disabled by default in the ssl module
868 (except when SSLv2 is explicitly asked for).
869
Senthil Kumaran84c18aa2011-12-23 11:14:56 +0800870- Issue #12798: Updated the mimetypes documentation.
871
Lars Gustäbel7d4d0742011-12-21 19:27:50 +0100872- Issue #13639: Accept unicode filenames in tarfile.open(mode="w|gz").
873
Antoine Pitroub8572a12011-12-21 10:16:14 +0100874- Issue #1785: Fix inspect and pydoc with misbehaving descriptors.
875
Antoine Pitrou7a3d8ae2011-12-18 19:27:45 +0100876- Issue #7502: Fix equality comparison for DocTestCase instances. Patch by
877 Cédric Krier.
878
Charles-François Natali41616302011-12-18 18:22:24 +0100879- Issue #11870: threading: Properly reinitialize threads internal locks and
880 condition variables to avoid deadlocks in child processes.
881
Charles-François Natalif3d35f02011-12-18 15:52:48 +0100882- Issue #8035: urllib: Fix a bug where the client could remain stuck after a
883 redirection or an error.
884
Ned Deilyd8fdbad2011-12-14 15:05:42 -0800885- Issue #4625: If IDLE cannot write to its recent file or breakpoint
886 files, display a message popup and continue rather than crash.
887 (original patch by Roger Serwy)
888
Lars Gustäbel9a388632011-12-06 13:07:09 +0100889- tarfile.py: Correctly detect bzip2 compressed streams with blocksizes
890 other than 900k.
891
Raymond Hettingerf5377022011-12-11 22:31:09 -0800892- Issue #13573: The csv.writer now uses the repr() for floats rather than str().
893 This allows floats to round-trip without loss of precision.
894
Petri Lehtinen49e49a22011-12-02 21:09:30 +0200895- Issue #13439: Fix many errors in turtle docstrings.
896
Antoine Pitroua5d5bb92011-11-25 21:28:15 +0100897- Issue #12856: Ensure child processes do not inherit the parent's random
898 seed for filename generation in the tempfile module. Patch by Brian
899 Harring.
900
Antoine Pitrouaa1c9672011-11-23 01:39:19 +0100901- Issue #13458: Fix a memory leak in the ssl module when decoding a
902 certificate with a subjectAltName. Patch by Robert Xiao.
903
Victor Stinner53853c32011-11-22 22:20:13 +0100904- Issue #13415: os.unsetenv() doesn't ignore errors anymore.
905
Antoine Pitrou5aa7df32011-11-21 20:16:44 +0100906- Issue #13322: Fix BufferedWriter.write() to ensure that BlockingIOError is
907 raised when the wrapped raw file is non-blocking and the write would block.
908 Previous code assumed that the raw write() would raise BlockingIOError, but
909 RawIOBase.write() is defined to returned None when the call would block.
910 Patch by sbt.
911
Ezio Melotti00dc60b2011-11-18 18:00:40 +0200912- Issue #13358: HTMLParser now calls handle_data only once for each CDATA.
913
Ezio Melotti93bbb6a2011-11-18 17:30:28 +0200914- Issue #4147: minidom's toprettyxml no longer adds whitespace around a text
915 node when it is the only child of an element. Initial patch by Dan
916 Kenigsberg.
917
Ned Deily174c4f82011-11-15 18:29:02 -0800918- Issue #8793: Prevent IDLE crash when given strings with invalid hex escape
919 sequences.
920
Ezio Melotti0f1571c2011-11-14 18:04:05 +0200921- Issues #1745761, #755670, #13357, #12629, #1200313: HTMLParser now correctly
922 handles non-valid attributes, including adjacent and unquoted attributes.
923
Antoine Pitrou6a570d62011-11-10 00:33:50 +0100924- Issue #13373: multiprocessing.Queue.get() could sometimes block indefinitely
925 when called with a timeout. Patch by Arnaud Ysmal.
926
Petri Lehtinen416ecff2011-11-05 10:18:50 +0200927- Issue #3067: Enhance the documentation and docstring of
928 locale.setlocale().
929
Petri Lehtinen49aa72e2011-11-05 09:50:37 +0200930- Issue #13254: Fix Maildir initialization so that maildir contents
931 are read correctly.
932
Florent Xicluna5f761d72011-11-04 10:15:57 +0100933- Issue #13140: Fix the daemon_threads attribute of ThreadingMixIn.
934
Florent Xiclunac4a11bd2011-11-01 23:47:46 +0100935- Issue #2892: preserve iterparse events in case of SyntaxError.
936
Ezio Melotti7e82b272011-11-01 14:09:56 +0200937- Issue #670664: Fix HTMLParser to correctly handle the content of
938 ``<script>...</script>`` and ``<style>...</style>``.
939
940- Issue #10817: Fix urlretrieve function to raise ContentTooShortError even
Senthil Kumaran87e58552011-11-01 02:44:45 +0800941 when reporthook is None. Patch by Jyrki Pulliainen.
942
Ezio Melotti7e82b272011-11-01 14:09:56 +0200943- Issue #13296: Fix IDLE to clear compile __future__ flags on shell restart.
Ned Deily86d669b2011-10-30 19:58:04 -0700944 (Patch by Roger Serwy)
945
Florent Xicluna67d5d0e2011-10-29 03:38:56 +0200946- Issue #7334: close source files on ElementTree.parse and iterparse.
947
Vinay Sajipc515eba2011-10-24 23:26:00 +0100948- Issue #13232: logging: Improved logging of exceptions in the presence of
949 multiple encodings.
950
Charles-François Natali46f990e2011-10-24 18:43:51 +0200951- Issue #10332: multiprocessing: fix a race condition when a Pool is closed
952 before all tasks have completed.
953
Antoine Pitrou5a77fe92011-10-22 21:26:01 +0200954- Issue #1548891: The cStringIO.StringIO() constructor now encodes unicode
955 arguments with the system default encoding just like the write() method
Éric Araujob21f51a2011-10-23 04:37:51 +0200956 does, instead of converting it to a raw buffer. This also fixes handling of
957 unicode input in the shlex module (#6988, #1170).
Antoine Pitrou5a77fe92011-10-22 21:26:01 +0200958
Florent Xicluna47fb1922011-10-20 23:21:58 +0200959- Issue #9168: now smtpd is able to bind privileged port.
960
Senthil Kumaran797b95b2011-10-21 00:32:59 +0800961- Issue #12529: fix cgi.parse_header issue on strings with double-quotes and
962 semicolons together. Patch by Ben Darnell and Petri Lehtinen.
963
Senthil Kumaranddd40312011-10-20 01:38:35 +0800964- Issue #6090: zipfile raises a ValueError when a document with a timestamp
965 earlier than 1980 is provided. Patch contributed by Petri Lehtinen.
966
Nadeem Vawdadeb1ce72011-10-17 19:33:38 +0200967- Issue #13194: zlib.compressobj().copy() and zlib.decompressobj().copy() are
968 now available on Windows.
969
Éric Araujo017e5352011-10-09 07:11:19 +0200970- Issue #13114: Fix the distutils commands check and register when the
971 long description is a Unicode string with non-ASCII characters.
972
Ned Deilybd9d07c2011-10-06 14:29:49 -0700973- Issue #7367: Fix pkgutil.walk_paths to skip directories whose
974 contents cannot be read.
975
976- Issue #7425: Prevent pydoc -k failures due to module import errors.
977 (Backport to 2.7 of existing 3.x fix)
978
Antoine Pitrouace2ccf2011-10-04 13:38:04 +0200979- Issue #13099: Fix sqlite3.Cursor.lastrowid under a Turkish locale.
980 Reported and diagnosed by Thomas Kluyver.
981
Antoine Pitrou561a8212011-10-04 09:34:48 +0200982- Issue #7689: Allow pickling of dynamically created classes when their
983 metaclass is registered with copy_reg. Patch by Nicolas M. Thiéry and
984 Craig Citro.
985
Charles-François Natali564f8902011-09-29 19:43:01 +0200986- Issue #13058: ossaudiodev: fix a file descriptor leak on error. Patch by
987 Thomas Jarosch.
988
Victor Stinner51b71982011-09-23 01:15:32 +0200989- Issue #12931: xmlrpclib now encodes Unicode URI to ISO-8859-1, instead of
990 failing with a UnicodeDecodeError.
991
Éric Araujoa13cd392011-09-10 05:39:45 +0200992- Issue #8933: distutils' PKG-INFO files will now correctly report
993 Metadata-Version: 1.1 instead of 1.0 if a Classifier or Download-URL field is
994 present.
995
Éric Araujo0f2dbf32011-09-03 00:47:07 +0200996- Issue #8286: The distutils command sdist will print a warning message instead
997 of crashing when an invalid path is given in the manifest template.
Victor Stinner08563d92011-05-30 23:44:13 +0200998
Lars Gustäbel8babfdf2011-09-05 17:04:18 +0200999- Issue #12841: tarfile unnecessarily checked the existence of numerical user
1000 and group ids on extraction. If one of them did not exist the respective id
1001 of the current user (i.e. root) was used for the file and ownership
1002 information was lost.
1003
Éric Araujo429b8902011-08-30 01:48:59 +02001004- Issue #10946: The distutils commands bdist_dumb, bdist_wininst and bdist_msi
1005 now respect a --skip-build option given to bdist.
1006
Charles-François Natalifda7b372011-08-28 16:22:33 +02001007- Issue #12287: Fix a stack corruption in ossaudiodev module when the FD is
1008 greater than FD_SETSIZE.
1009
Nadeem Vawdabbabbae2011-08-28 11:23:57 +02001010- Issue #12839: Fix crash in zlib module due to version mismatch.
1011 Fix by Richard M. Tew.
1012
Charles-François Natali2a34eb32011-08-25 21:20:54 +02001013- Issue #12786: Set communication pipes used by subprocess.Popen CLOEXEC to
1014 avoid them being inherited by other subprocesses.
1015
Antoine Pitrou77657e42011-08-24 22:41:05 +02001016- Issue #4106: Fix occasional exceptions printed out by multiprocessing on
1017 interpreter shutdown.
1018
Antoine Pitroua1a8da82011-08-23 19:54:20 +02001019- Issue #11657: Fix sending file descriptors over 255 over a multiprocessing
1020 Pipe.
1021
Antoine Pitrou808cec52011-08-20 15:40:58 +02001022- Issue #12213: Fix a buffering bug with interleaved reads and writes that
1023 could appear on io.BufferedRandom streams.
1024
Victor Stinneracacbaa2011-08-20 14:02:38 +02001025- Issue #12326: sys.platform is now always 'linux2' on Linux, even if Python
1026 is compiled on Linux 3.
1027
Jesus Cead256ca12011-09-19 16:57:18 +02001028- Issue #13007: whichdb should recognize gdbm 1.9 magic numbers.
1029
Éric Araujoe7329f42011-08-19 03:07:39 +02001030- Issue #9173: Let shutil._make_archive work if the logger argument is None.
1031
Charles-François Natalib02302c2011-08-18 17:18:28 +02001032- Issue #12650: Fix a race condition where a subprocess.Popen could leak
1033 resources (FD/zombie) when killed at the wrong time.
1034
Barry Warsaw39935f42011-08-15 19:50:35 -04001035- Issue #12752: Fix regression which prevented locale.normalize() from
1036 accepting unicode strings.
1037
Senthil Kumaranf432aec2011-08-03 18:31:59 +08001038- Issue #12683: urlparse updated to include svn as schemes that uses relative
1039 paths. (svn from 1.5 onwards support relative path).
1040
Éric Araujo33af2632011-08-02 03:16:12 +02001041- Issue #11933: Fix incorrect mtime comparison in distutils.
1042
Éric Araujo560bf852011-07-31 02:04:00 +02001043- Issues #11104, #8688: Fix the behavior of distutils' sdist command with
1044 manually-maintained MANIFEST files.
1045
Éric Araujo9a528302011-07-29 17:34:35 +02001046- Issue #8887: "pydoc somebuiltin.somemethod" (or help('somebuiltin.somemethod')
1047 in Python code) now finds the doc of the method.
1048
Charles-François Natali0cf7e252011-07-27 19:36:40 +02001049- Issue #12603: Fix pydoc.synopsis() on files with non-negative st_mtime.
1050
Raymond Hettinger55e5e272011-07-28 23:56:38 -07001051- Issue #12514: Use try/finally to assure the timeit module restores garbage
1052 collections when it is done.
1053
Ross Lagerwalld8e39012011-07-27 18:54:53 +02001054- Issue #12607: In subprocess, fix issue where if stdin, stdout or stderr is
1055 given as a low fd, it gets overwritten.
1056
Ross Lagerwall528c4ad2011-07-25 07:23:58 +02001057- Issue #12102: Document that buffered files must be flushed before being used
1058 with mmap. Patch by Steffen Daode Nurpmeso.
1059
Charles-François Natali3de8c732011-07-24 22:33:35 +02001060- Issue #12560: Build libpython.so on OpenBSD. Patch by Stefan Sperling.
1061
Antoine Pitrou4cfae022011-07-24 02:51:01 +02001062- Issue #1813: Fix codec lookup and setting/getting locales under Turkish
1063 locales.
1064
Nadeem Vawda0d2889f2011-07-23 16:13:01 +02001065- Issue #10883: Fix socket leaks in urllib when using FTP.
Nadeem Vawdab42c53e2011-07-23 15:51:16 +02001066
Charles-François Natali97781b02011-07-22 23:43:42 +02001067- Issue #12592: Make Python build on OpenBSD 5 (and future major releases).
1068
Charles-François Natali4929eb92011-07-21 19:41:04 +02001069- Issue #12372: POSIX semaphores are broken on AIX: don't use them.
1070
Antoine Pitrou495ee8f2011-07-20 00:26:23 +02001071- Issue #12571: Add a plat-linux3 directory mirroring the plat-linux2
1072 directory, so that "import DLFCN" and other similar imports work on
1073 Linux 3.0.
1074
R David Murray95225952011-07-18 21:34:04 -04001075- Issue #7484: smtplib no longer puts <> around addresses in VRFY and EXPN
1076 commands; they aren't required and in fact postfix doesn't support that form.
1077
Antoine Pitrou304f0f92011-07-15 21:22:50 +02001078- Issue #11603: Fix a crash when __str__ is rebound as __repr__. Patch by
1079 Andreas Stührk.
1080
Charles-François Natali26591402011-07-14 19:49:02 +02001081- Issue #12502: asyncore: fix polling loop with AF_UNIX sockets.
1082
Victor Stinnerbf547fd2011-07-13 21:47:31 +02001083- Issue #4376: ctypes now supports nested structures in a endian different than
1084 the parent structure. Patch by Vlad Riscutia.
1085
Victor Stinnere7901312011-07-05 14:08:01 +02001086- Issue #12493: subprocess: Popen.communicate() now also handles EINTR errors
1087 if the process has only one pipe.
1088
Victor Stinner65c15352011-07-04 03:05:37 +02001089- Issue #12467: warnings: fix a race condition if a warning is emitted at
1090 shutdown, if globals()['__file__'] is None.
1091
Charles-François Natali414d0fa2011-07-02 13:56:19 +02001092- Issue #12352: Fix a deadlock in multiprocessing.Heap when a block is freed by
1093 the garbage collector while the Heap lock is held.
1094
Ned Deily87e82bb2011-06-28 19:52:59 -07001095- Issue #9516: On Mac OS X, change Distutils to no longer globally attempt to
1096 check or set the MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET environment variable for the
1097 interpreter process. This could cause failures in non-Distutils subprocesses
1098 and was unreliable since tests or user programs could modify the interpreter
1099 environment after Distutils set it. Instead, have Distutils set the the
1100 deployment target only in the environment of each build subprocess. It is
1101 still possible to globally override the default by setting
1102 MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET before launching the interpreter; its value must be
1103 greater or equal to the default value, the value with which the interpreter
1104 was built.
1105
Raymond Hettinger2c316a32011-06-25 17:14:53 +02001106- Issue #11802: The cache in filecmp now has a maximum size of 100 so that
1107 it won't grow without bound.
1108
Ross Lagerwallffa8e2f2011-06-25 09:55:10 +02001109- Issue #12404: Remove C89 incompatible code from mmap module. Patch by Akira
1110 Kitada.
1111
R David Murrayf1138bb2011-06-17 22:23:04 -04001112- Issue #11700: mailbox proxy object close methods can now be called multiple
1113 times without error, and _ProxyFile now closes the wrapped file.
1114
Victor Stinnerc74a6ba2011-06-17 14:06:27 +02001115- Issue #12133: AbstractHTTPHandler.do_open() of urllib.request closes the HTTP
1116 connection if its getresponse() method fails with a socket error. Patch
1117 written by Ezio Melotti.
1118
Benjamin Peterson0eb4ac42011-06-11 15:53:11 -05001119- Issue #9284: Allow inspect.findsource() to find the source of doctest
1120 functions.
1121
R David Murray873c5832011-06-09 16:01:09 -04001122- Issue #10694: zipfile now ignores garbage at the end of a zipfile.
1123
Brian Curtincaea7e82011-06-08 19:29:53 -05001124- Issue #11583: Speed up os.path.isdir on Windows by using GetFileAttributes
1125 instead of os.stat.
1126
Mark Dickinsona493ca32011-06-04 18:24:15 +01001127- Issue #12080: Fix a performance issue in Decimal._power_exact that caused
1128 some corner-case Decimal.__pow__ calls to take an unreasonably long time.
1129
Raymond Hettinger45b08292011-06-02 20:40:35 -07001130- Named tuples now work correctly with vars().
1131
Barry Warsawc5643282011-07-19 17:06:30 -04001132- sys.setcheckinterval() now updates the current ticker count as well as
1133 updating the check interval, so if the user decreases the check interval,
1134 the ticker doesn't have to wind down to zero from the old starting point
1135 before the new interval takes effect. And if the user increases the
1136 interval, it makes sure the new limit takes effect right away rather have an
1137 early task switch before recognizing the new interval.
Raymond Hettinger19b851d2011-06-01 18:21:42 -07001138
Victor Stinner776e69b2011-06-01 01:03:00 +02001139- Issue #12085: Fix an attribute error in subprocess.Popen destructor if the
1140 constructor has failed, e.g. because of an undeclared keyword argument. Patch
1141 written by Oleg Oshmyan.
1142
Barry Warsawc5643282011-07-19 17:06:30 -04001143Extension Modules
1144-----------------
1145
Meador Ingefe7aa492012-05-28 13:52:59 -05001146- Issue #9041: An issue in ctypes.c_longdouble, ctypes.c_double, and
1147 ctypes.c_float that caused an incorrect exception to be returned in the
1148 case of overflow has been fixed.
1149
Jesus Cea23fbd8c2012-01-17 00:17:10 +01001150- bsddb module: Erratic behaviour of "DBEnv->rep_elect()" because a typo.
1151 Possible crash.
1152
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcdee76e62012-01-13 22:53:25 +01001153- Issue #13774: json: Fix a SystemError when a bogus encoding is passed to
1154 json.loads().
1155
Charles-François Natali3aa59e32012-01-02 15:38:27 +01001156- Issue #9975: socket: Fix incorrect use of flowinfo and scope_id. Patch by
1157 Vilmos Nebehaj.
1158
Nadeem Vawda36248152011-10-13 13:52:46 +02001159- Issue #13159: FileIO, BZ2File, and the built-in file class now use a
1160 linear-time buffer growth strategy instead of a quadratic one.
1161
Charles-François Natali9ffcbf72011-10-06 19:09:45 +02001162- Issue #13070: Fix a crash when a TextIOWrapper caught in a reference cycle
1163 would be finalized after the reference to its underlying BufferedRWPair's
1164 writer got cleared by the GC.
1165
Meador Ingead349a12011-10-03 21:34:04 -05001166- Issue #12881: ctypes: Fix segfault with large structure field names.
1167
Meador Ingefe150032011-09-27 20:35:28 -05001168- Issue #13013: ctypes: Fix a reference leak in PyCArrayType_from_ctype.
1169 Thanks to Suman Saha for finding the bug and providing a patch.
1170
Jesus Ceac23484b2011-09-21 03:47:39 +02001171- Issue #13022: Fix: _multiprocessing.recvfd() doesn't check that
1172 file descriptor was actually received.
1173
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc439c25e2011-09-12 20:12:09 +02001174- Issue #12483: ctypes: Fix a crash when the destruction of a callback
1175 object triggers the garbage collector.
1176
Jesus Cea6ebaca12011-09-10 04:35:18 +02001177- Issue #12950: Fix passing file descriptors in multiprocessing, under
1178 OpenIndiana/Illumos.
1179
Amaury Forgeot d'Arccf316a12011-09-02 20:32:23 +02001180- Issue #12764: Fix a crash in ctypes when the name of a Structure field is not
1181 a string.
1182
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc3d7f2362011-08-30 21:04:35 +02001183- Issue #9651: Fix a crash when ctypes.create_string_buffer(0) was passed to
1184 some functions like file.write().
1185
Barry Warsawc5643282011-07-19 17:06:30 -04001186- Issue #10309: Define _GNU_SOURCE so that mremap() gets the proper
1187 signature. Without this, architectures where sizeof void* != sizeof int are
1188 broken. Patch given by Hallvard B Furuseth.
1189
Ned Deily43e10542011-06-27 23:41:53 -07001190Build
1191-----
1192
Martin v. Löwisa1b2af82012-02-21 18:12:02 +01001193- Issue #6807: Run msisupport.mak earlier.
1194
Martin v. Löwisef281bd2012-02-21 17:07:32 +01001195- Issue #10580: Minor grammar change in Windows installer.
1196
Ned Deilyc5df5632012-02-19 02:19:12 +01001197- Issue #12627: Implement PEP 394 for Python 2.7 ("python2").
1198
Ned Deily43e10542011-06-27 23:41:53 -07001199- Issue #8746: Correct faulty configure checks so that os.chflags() and
1200 os.lchflags() are once again built on systems that support these
1201 functions (*BSD and OS X). Also add new stat file flags for OS X
1202 (UF_HIDDEN and UF_COMPRESSED).
1203
Jason R. Coombsfee77452011-07-27 14:05:37 -04001204Tools/Demos
1205-----------
1206
Nadeem Vawdaf00011a2012-02-22 11:40:09 +02001207- Issue #14053: patchcheck.py ("make patchcheck") now works with MQ patches.
1208 Patch by Francisco Martín Brugué.
1209
Gregory P. Smith12426992012-02-12 15:51:21 -08001210- Issue #13930: 2to3 is now able to write its converted output files to another
1211 directory tree as well as copying unchanged files and altering the file
1212 suffix. See its new -o, -W and --add-suffix options. This makes it more
1213 useful in many automated code translation workflows.
1214
Jason R. Coombsfee77452011-07-27 14:05:37 -04001215- Issue #10639: reindent.py no longer converts newlines and will raise
1216 an error if attempting to convert a file with mixed newlines.
1217
Victor Stinner99cff3f2011-12-19 13:59:58 +01001218- Issue #13628: python-gdb.py is now able to retrieve more frames in the Python
1219 traceback if Python is optimized.
1220
Victor Stinnerd9f52922011-05-30 23:58:21 +02001221Tests
1222-----
1223
Martin v. Löwisc02e1e62012-07-29 16:30:50 +02001224- Issue #15467: Move helpers for __sizeof__ tests into test_support.
1225 Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
1226
Petri Lehtinen437b1492012-02-17 21:34:41 +02001227- Issue #11689: Fix a variable scoping error in an sqlite3 test.
1228 Initial patch by Torsten Landschoff.
1229
Ned Deily1aacd7b2011-10-31 16:14:52 -07001230- Issue #13304: Skip test case if user site-packages disabled (-s or
1231 PYTHONNOUSERSITE). (Patch by Carl Meyer)
1232
Barry Warsawbf0cafa2011-10-28 16:16:58 -04001233- Issue #13218: Fix test_ssl failures on Debian/Ubuntu.
1234
Charles-François Natalicdaafe02011-08-23 19:42:02 +02001235- Issue #12821: Fix test_fcntl failures on OpenBSD 5.
1236
Éric Araujo498da2c2011-07-31 17:59:28 +02001237- Issue #12331: The test suite for lib2to3 can now run from an installed
1238 Python.
1239
Ned Deily0ab67ee2011-07-13 15:05:31 -07001240- Issue #12549: Correct test_platform to not fail when OS X returns 'x86_64'
1241 as the processor type on some Mac systems.
1242
Antoine Pitrou4a4a0fe2011-07-09 02:34:05 +02001243- Skip network tests when getaddrinfo() returns EAI_AGAIN, meaning a temporary
1244 failure in name resolution.
1245
Jesus Ceacb65f322011-11-08 16:06:44 +01001246- Issue #11812: Solve transient socket failure to connect to 'localhost'
1247 in test_telnetlib.py.
1248
Jesus Cea71094b52011-11-08 15:54:42 +01001249- Solved a potential deadlock in test_telnetlib.py. Related to issue #11812.
1250
Antoine Pitrou29603082011-07-08 19:40:15 +02001251- Avoid failing in test_robotparser when mueblesmoraleda.com is flaky and
1252 an overzealous DNS service (e.g. OpenDNS) redirects to a placeholder
1253 Web site.
1254
Antoine Pitroua4d58d22011-07-08 19:14:19 +02001255- Avoid failing in test_urllibnet.test_bad_address when some overzealous
1256 DNS service (e.g. OpenDNS) resolves a non-existent domain name. The test
1257 is now skipped instead.
1258
Ned Deily46268c42011-07-03 21:52:35 -07001259- Issue #8716: Avoid crashes caused by Aqua Tk on OSX when attempting to run
1260 test_tk or test_ttk_guionly under a username that is not currently logged
1261 in to the console windowserver (as may be the case under buildbot or ssh).
1262
Ned Deily63144c62011-06-28 00:39:19 -07001263- Issue #12141: Install a copy of template C module file so that
1264 test_build_ext of test_distutils is no longer silently skipped when
1265 run outside of a build directory.
1266
Ned Deily43e10542011-06-27 23:41:53 -07001267- Issue #8746: Add additional tests for os.chflags() and os.lchflags().
1268 Patch by Garrett Cooper.
1269
Ned Deily64e59952011-06-27 23:09:31 -07001270- Issue #10736: Fix test_ttk test_widgets failures with Cocoa Tk 8.5.9
1271 on Mac OS X. (Patch by Ronald Oussoren)
1272
Victor Stinnerd9f52922011-05-30 23:58:21 +02001273- Issue #12057: Add tests for ISO 2022 codecs (iso2022_jp, iso2022_jp_2,
1274 iso2022_kr).
1275
Florent Xiclunadf10d7c2011-10-23 23:07:22 +02001276Documentation
1277-------------
1278
Petri Lehtinena15a8d22012-03-01 21:28:00 +02001279- Issues #13491 and #13995: Fix many errors in sqlite3 documentation.
1280 Initial patch for #13491 by Johannes Vogel.
Petri Lehtinen002b2022012-02-16 21:42:34 +02001281
Petri Lehtinenfe6f9d02012-02-02 21:11:28 +02001282- Issue #13402: Document absoluteness of sys.executable.
1283
Brett Cannon64b2b6a2012-01-26 18:32:24 -05001284- Issue #13883: PYTHONCASEOK also works on OS X, OS/2, and RiscOS.
1285
Meador Ingeda747c32012-01-19 00:17:44 -06001286- Issue #2134: The tokenize documentation has been clarified to explain why
1287 all operator and delimiter tokens are treated as token.OP tokens.
1288
Meador Inge52957182011-12-03 12:13:42 -06001289- Issue #13513: Fix io.IOBase documentation to correctly link to the
1290 io.IOBase.readline method instead of the readline module.
1291
Nick Coghlan86711572011-10-24 22:19:40 +10001292- Issue #13237: Reorganise subprocess documentation to emphasise convenience
1293 functions and the most commonly needed arguments to Popen.
1294
Florent Xiclunadf10d7c2011-10-23 23:07:22 +02001295- Issue #13141: Demonstrate recommended style for SocketServer examples.
1296
Victor Stinner08563d92011-05-30 23:44:13 +02001297
Benjamin Peterson5ee84482010-11-28 04:49:23 +00001298What's New in Python 2.7.2?
1299===========================
1300
Benjamin Peterson9843ba52011-06-11 09:42:44 -05001301*Release date: 2011-06-11*
Benjamin Petersonf14e4202011-05-31 18:44:55 -05001302
Benjamin Peterson43ee1a52011-06-10 11:32:52 -05001303Library
1304-------
1305
1306- Issue #12009: Fixed regression in netrc file comment handling.
1307
Benjamin Peterson4ba009d2011-05-31 18:59:49 -05001308Extension Modules
1309-----------------
1310
1311- Issue #1221: Make pyexpat.__version__ equal to the Python version.
1312
Benjamin Petersonf14e4202011-05-31 18:44:55 -05001313
1314What's New in Python 2.7.2 release candidate 1?
1315===============================================
1316
Benjamin Petersoncd207052011-05-29 16:50:27 -05001317*Release date: 2011-05-29*
Benjamin Peterson5ee84482010-11-28 04:49:23 +00001318
1319Core and Builtins
1320-----------------
1321
Ned Deily482f9082011-05-28 00:11:54 -07001322- Issue #9670: Increase the default stack size for secondary threads on
1323 Mac OS X and FreeBSD to reduce the chances of a crash instead of a
1324 "maximum recursion depth" RuntimeError exception.
1325 (patch by Ronald Oussoren)
1326
Benjamin Petersonef1122c2011-06-03 16:17:22 -05001327- Correct lookup of __dir__ on objects. This allows old-style classes to have
1328 __dir__. It also causes errors besides AttributeError found on lookup to be
1329 propagated.
Benjamin Peterson8de87a62011-05-23 16:11:05 -05001330
Victor Stinner2c585f62011-05-10 00:22:59 +02001331- Issue #1195: Fix input() if it is interrupted by CTRL+d and then CTRL+c,
1332 clear the end-of-file indicator after CTRL+d.
1333
Victor Stinner0a92d182011-05-03 15:09:24 +02001334- Issue #8651: PyArg_Parse*() functions raise an OverflowError if the file
1335 doesn't have PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN define and the size doesn't fit in an int
1336 (length bigger than 2^31-1 bytes).
1337
Victor Stinner645b9f62011-05-03 15:06:11 +02001338- Issue #8651: Fix "z#" format of PyArg_Parse*() function: the size was not
1339 written if PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN is defined.
1340
Victor Stinnere363ec12011-05-01 23:43:37 +02001341- Issue #9756: When calling a method descriptor or a slot wrapper descriptor,
1342 the check of the object type doesn't read the __class__ attribute anymore.
1343 Fix a crash if a class override its __class__ attribute (e.g. a proxy of the
Victor Stinner97cf5852011-05-01 23:51:11 +02001344 str type). Patch written by Andreas Stührk.
Victor Stinnere363ec12011-05-01 23:43:37 +02001345
Antoine Pitrou1f9eb152011-04-27 19:26:06 +02001346- Issue #10517: After fork(), reinitialize the TLS used by the PyGILState_*
1347 APIs, to avoid a crash with the pthread implementation in RHEL 5. Patch
1348 by Charles-François Natali.
1349
Ezio Melottie3685f62011-04-26 05:12:51 +03001350- Issue #6780: fix starts/endswith error message to mention that tuples are
1351 accepted too.
1352
Ezio Melottic283a852011-04-15 16:14:04 +03001353- Issue #5057: fix a bug in the peepholer that led to non-portable pyc files
1354 between narrow and wide builds while optimizing BINARY_SUBSCR on non-BMP
1355 chars (e.g. u"\U00012345"[0]).
1356
Victor Stinner5de51ac2011-04-09 16:09:08 +02001357- Issue #11650: PyOS_StdioReadline() retries fgets() if it was interrupted
1358 (EINTR), for example if the program is stopped with CTRL+z on Mac OS X. Patch
1359 written by Charles-Francois Natali.
1360
Mark Dickinson874d59e2011-03-26 12:18:00 +00001361- Issue #11144: Ensure that int(a_float) returns an int whenever possible.
1362 Previously, there were some corner cases where a long was returned even
1363 though the result was within the range of an int.
1364
Antoine Pitrou2ddaaff2011-03-09 12:54:00 +01001365- Issue #11450: Don't truncate hg version info in Py_GetBuildInfo() when
1366 there are many tags (e.g. when using mq). Patch by Nadeem Vawda.
1367
Antoine Pitrou3013b162011-01-18 19:06:19 +00001368- Issue #10451: memoryview objects could allow to mutate a readable buffer.
1369 Initial patch by Ross Lagerwall.
1370
Benjamin Peterson9b911ca2011-01-12 15:49:47 +00001371- Issue #10892: Don't segfault when trying to delete __abstractmethods__ from a
1372 class.
1373
Antoine Pitrou5a72e762011-01-07 21:49:44 +00001374- Issue #8020: Avoid a crash where the small objects allocator would read
1375 non-Python managed memory while it is being modified by another thread.
1376 Patch by Matt Bandy.
1377
Raymond Hettinger57a86892011-01-25 21:43:29 +00001378- Issue #11004: Repaired edge case in deque.count().
1379
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcac514c82011-01-03 00:50:57 +00001380- Issue #8278: On Windows and with a NTFS filesystem, os.stat() and os.utime()
1381 can now handle dates after 2038.
1382
R. David Murray64a1e7c2010-12-15 01:36:03 +00001383- Issue #4236: Py_InitModule4 now checks the import machinery directly
1384 rather than the Py_IsInitialized flag, avoiding a Fatal Python
1385 error in certain circumstances when an import is done in __del__.
1386
Jesus Cea44e81682011-04-20 16:39:15 +02001387- issue #11828: startswith and endswith don't accept None as slice index.
1388 Patch by Torsten Becker.
1389
Benjamin Peterson07f54512010-12-11 04:25:57 +00001390- Issue #10674: Remove unused 'dictmaker' rule from grammar.
1391
Mark Dickinsonecf8ec62010-12-04 12:30:41 +00001392- Issue #10596: Fix float.__mod__ to have the same behaviour as
1393 float.__divmod__ with respect to signed zeros. -4.0 % 4.0 should be
1394 0.0, not -0.0.
1395
Eli Bendersky680e6eb2011-03-04 06:14:56 +00001396- Issue #11386: bytearray.pop() now throws IndexError when the bytearray is
1397 empty, instead of OverflowError.
1398
Benjamin Peterson5ee84482010-11-28 04:49:23 +00001399Library
1400-------
Antoine Pitrou47900cf2010-12-17 17:45:12 +00001401
Ned Deilyd8b17232011-07-26 18:16:08 -07001402- Issue #12590: IDLE editor window now always displays the first line
1403 when opening a long file. With Tk 8.5, the first line was hidden.
1404
Benjamin Peterson4fa68ab2011-05-26 09:56:41 -05001405- Issue #12161: Cause StringIO.getvalue() to raise a ValueError when used on a
1406 closed StringIO instance.
1407
Victor Stinnerdbfba162011-05-26 13:37:25 +02001408- Issue #12182: Fix pydoc.HTMLDoc.multicolumn() if Python uses the new (true)
1409 division (python -Qnew). Patch written by Ralf W. Grosse-Kunstleve.
1410
Victor Stinnerdaf17e92011-05-25 22:52:37 +02001411- Issue #12175: RawIOBase.readall() now returns None if read() returns None.
1412
Victor Stinner5100a402011-05-25 22:15:36 +02001413- Issue #12175: FileIO.readall() now raises a ValueError instead of an IOError
1414 if the file is closed.
1415
Charles-François Natalib94e0cd2011-05-24 23:10:54 +02001416- Issue #1441530: In imaplib, use makefile() to wrap the SSL socket to avoid
1417 heap fragmentation and MemoryError with some malloc implementations.
1418
Victor Stinner40b41e12011-05-24 22:29:13 +02001419- Issue #12100: Don't reset incremental encoders of CJK codecs at each call to
1420 their encode() method anymore, but continue to call the reset() method if the
1421 final argument is True.
1422
Victor Stinnerf58f1c32011-05-21 02:13:22 +02001423- Issue #12124: zipimport doesn't keep a reference to zlib.decompress() anymore
1424 to be able to unload the module.
1425
Ronald Oussorenb13cacf2011-05-17 15:13:46 +02001426- Issue #11088: don't crash when using F5 to run a script in IDLE on MacOSX
1427 with Tk 8.5.
1428
Ronald Oussoren372954e2011-05-17 13:22:30 +02001429- Issue #10154, #10090: change the normalization of UTF-8 to "UTF-8" instead
1430 of "UTF8" in the locale module as the latter is not supported MacOSX and OpenBSD.
1431
Victor Stinnerf58f1c32011-05-21 02:13:22 +02001432- Issue #9516: avoid errors in sysconfig when MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET is
Ronald Oussoren53b6a5f2011-05-15 16:51:10 +02001433 set in shell.
1434
Nadeem Vawda0cc4fd92011-05-14 14:29:07 +02001435- Issue #12050: zlib.decompressobj().decompress() now clears the unconsumed_tail
1436 attribute when called without a max_length argument.
1437
Antoine Pitrouee46a7b2011-05-13 00:31:52 +02001438- Issue #12062: In the `io` module, fix a flushing bug when doing a certain
1439 type of I/O sequence on a file opened in read+write mode (namely: reading,
1440 seeking a bit forward, writing, then seeking before the previous write but
1441 still within buffered data, and writing again).
1442
Antoine Pitrou47d1d0d2011-05-10 19:16:03 +02001443- Issue #8498: In socket.accept(), allow to specify 0 as a backlog value in
1444 order to accept exactly one connection. Patch by Daniel Evers.
1445
Victor Stinnerb1241f92011-05-10 01:52:03 +02001446- Issue #12012: ssl.PROTOCOL_SSLv2 becomes optional.
1447
Martin v. Löwis591c2df2011-05-09 08:19:13 +02001448- Issue #11164: Remove obsolete allnodes test from minidom test.
1449
Antoine Pitrou21ce8f02011-05-07 19:59:33 +02001450- Issue #11927: SMTP_SSL now uses port 465 by default as documented. Patch
1451 by Kasun Herath.
1452
Ezio Melotti50bc66a2012-11-03 21:29:08 +02001453- Issue #11999: fixed sporadic sync failure mailbox.Maildir due to its trying to
R David Murray8b26c4b2011-05-06 21:56:22 -04001454 detect mtime changes by comparing to the system clock instead of to the
1455 previous value of the mtime.
1456
Ronald Oussoren58d6b1b2011-05-06 11:31:33 +02001457- Issue #10684: shutil.move used to delete a folder on case insensitive
1458 filesystems when the source and destination name where the same except
1459 for the case.
1460
Ezio Melottidf8a8f72011-05-04 14:40:53 +03001461- Issue #11982: fix json.loads('""') to return u'' rather than ''.
1462
Victor Stinner112d48a2011-05-03 14:36:36 +02001463- Issue #11277: mmap.mmap() calls fcntl(fd, F_FULLFSYNC) on Mac OS X to get
1464 around a mmap bug with sparse files. Patch written by Steffen Daode Nurpmeso.
1465
Senthil Kumaran011525e2011-04-28 15:30:31 +08001466- Issue #10761: Fix tarfile.extractall failure when symlinked files are
1467 present. Initial patch by Scott Leerssen.
1468
Ezio Melotti34b32d62011-04-27 09:45:46 +03001469- Issue #11763: don't use difflib in TestCase.assertMultiLineEqual if the
1470 strings are too long.
1471
Senthil Kumaran5dc68682011-04-26 21:17:45 +08001472- Issue #11236: getpass.getpass responds to ctrl-c or ctrl-z on terminal.
1473
Victor Stinner33feeab2011-04-18 16:33:28 +02001474- Issue #11768: The signal handler of the signal module only calls
1475 Py_AddPendingCall() for the first signal to fix a deadlock on reentrant or
1476 parallel calls. PyErr_SetInterrupt() writes also into the wake up file.
1477
Raymond Hettingere0156c42011-04-19 09:48:39 -07001478- Issue #11875: collections.OrderedDict's __reduce__ was temporarily
1479 mutating the object instead of just working on a copy.
1480
Martin v. Löwis2d253dd2011-04-17 22:29:40 +02001481- Issue #11442: Add a charset parameter to the Content-type in SimpleHTTPServer
1482 to avoid XSS attacks.
1483
Senthil Kumaranddaea1c2011-04-15 18:07:33 +08001484- Issue #11467: Fix urlparse behavior when handling urls which contains scheme
1485 specific part only digits. Patch by Santoso Wijaya.
1486
Raymond Hettinger37c0fe52011-04-15 13:12:21 -07001487- collections.Counter().copy() now works correctly for subclasses.
1488
Senthil Kumarana99b7612011-04-14 12:54:35 +08001489- Issue #11474: Fix the bug with url2pathname() handling of '/C|/' on Windows.
1490 Patch by Santoso Wijaya.
1491
Ezio Melotti2b96f092011-04-13 05:37:29 +03001492- Issue #9233: Fix json.loads('{}') to return a dict (instead of a list), when
1493 _json is not available.
1494
1495- Issue #11703: urllib2.geturl() does not return correct url when the original
Senthil Kumaran0531d6f2011-04-13 09:47:20 +08001496 url contains #fragment.
1497
R David Murrayea8b6ef2011-04-12 21:00:26 -04001498- Issue #10019: Fixed regression in json module where an indent of 0 stopped
1499 adding newlines and acted instead like 'None'.
1500
brian.curtin16f98b72011-04-11 18:05:33 -05001501- Issue #5162: Treat services like frozen executables to allow child spawning
1502 from multiprocessing.forking on Windows.
1503
Ezio Melotti8b4367e2011-04-11 03:44:28 +03001504- Issue #4877: Fix a segfault in xml.parsers.expat while attempting to parse
1505 a closed file.
1506
Raymond Hettingere4579c32011-04-11 17:27:42 -07001507- Issue #11830: Remove unnecessary introspection code in the decimal module.
1508 It was causing a failed import in the Turkish locale where the locale
1509 sensitive str.upper() method caused a name mismatch.
1510
Antoine Pitrou7dfc8742011-04-11 00:26:42 +02001511- Issue #8428: Fix a race condition in multiprocessing.Pool when terminating
1512 worker processes: new processes would be spawned while the pool is being
1513 shut down. Patch by Charles-François Natali.
1514
Ezio Melotti8b4367e2011-04-11 03:44:28 +03001515- Issue #7311: Fix HTMLParser to accept non-ASCII attribute values.
Ezio Melotti9f1ffb22011-04-05 20:40:52 +03001516
Ross Lagerwall104c3f12011-04-05 15:24:34 +02001517- Issue #10963: Ensure that subprocess.communicate() never raises EPIPE.
1518
guido@google.com2bc23b82011-03-24 10:44:17 -07001519- Issue #11662: Make urllib and urllib2 ignore redirections if the
guido@google.comdb3080e2011-03-28 13:53:40 -07001520 scheme is not HTTP, HTTPS or FTP (CVE-2011-1521).
Antoine Pitrou47900cf2010-12-17 17:45:12 +00001521
Benjamin Peterson77d46602011-03-28 17:32:31 -05001522- Issue #11256: Fix inspect.getcallargs on functions that take only keyword
1523 arguments.
1524
Martin v. Löwis03f7e232011-03-27 20:58:52 +02001525- Issue #11696: Fix ID generation in msilib.
1526
Mark Dickinsond687be02011-03-27 16:15:24 +01001527- Issue #9696: Fix exception incorrectly raised by xdrlib.Packer.pack_int when
1528 trying to pack a negative (in-range) integer.
1529
Mark Dickinson1829e8f2011-03-27 15:32:05 +01001530- Issue #11675: multiprocessing.[Raw]Array objects created from an integer size
1531 are now zeroed on creation. This matches the behaviour specified by the
1532 documentation.
1533
Martin v. Löwis49b0ce02011-03-27 10:10:46 +02001534- Issue #7639: Fix short file name generation in bdist_msi.
1535
Raymond Hettinger9aa5a342011-03-25 16:00:13 -07001536- Issue #11666: let help() display named tuple attributes and methods
1537 that start with a leading underscore.
1538
Mark Dickinsonf9e9a6f2011-03-25 22:01:06 +00001539- Issue #11673: Fix multiprocessing Array and RawArray constructors to accept a
1540 size of type 'long', rather than only accepting 'int'.
1541
Éric Araujo374274d2011-03-19 04:29:36 +01001542- Issue #10042: Fixed the total_ordering decorator to handle cross-type
1543 comparisons that could lead to infinite recursion.
1544
Michael Foord51368672011-03-17 12:59:38 -04001545- Issue #10979: unittest stdout buffering now works with class and module
1546 setup and teardown.
1547
Ronald Oussoren2ab59942011-03-16 09:47:15 -04001548- Issue #11569: use absolute path to the sysctl command in multiprocessing to
1549 ensure that it will be found regardless of the shell PATH. This ensures
1550 that multiprocessing.cpu_count works on default installs of MacOSX.
1551
Michael Foord51368672011-03-17 12:59:38 -04001552- Issue #11500: Fixed a bug in the os x proxy bypass code for fully qualified
1553 IP addresses in the proxy exception list.
Ronald Oussoren1aa999c2011-03-14 18:53:59 -04001554
Mark Dickinson2c8c62e2011-03-12 11:05:32 +00001555- Issue #11131: Fix sign of zero in plus and minus operations when
1556 the context rounding mode is ROUND_FLOOR.
1557
Ned Deily9d4836e2011-03-09 02:31:55 -08001558- Issue #5622: Fix curses.wrapper to raise correct exception if curses
1559 initialization fails.
1560
Antoine Pitroud6f3a3e2011-03-06 02:03:34 +01001561- Issue #11391: Writing to a mmap object created with
1562 ``mmap.PROT_READ|mmap.PROT_EXEC`` would segfault instead of raising a
1563 TypeError. Patch by Charles-François Natali.
1564
R. David Murray1a337902011-03-03 18:17:40 +00001565- Issue #11306: mailbox in certain cases adapts to an inability to open
1566 certain files in read-write mode. Previously it detected this by
1567 checking for EACCES, now it also checks for EROFS.
1568
Giampaolo Rodolàd65224f2011-03-03 14:17:51 +00001569- Issue #11265: asyncore now correctly handles EPIPE, EBADF and EAGAIN errors
1570 on accept(), send() and recv().
1571
Antoine Pitroud3f6ea12011-02-26 23:35:27 +00001572- Issue #11326: Add the missing connect_ex() implementation for SSL sockets,
1573 and make it work for non-blocking connects.
1574
Antoine Pitrou6439c002011-02-25 21:35:47 +00001575- Issue #10956: Buffered I/O classes retry reading or writing after a signal
1576 has arrived and the handler returned successfully.
1577
Georg Brandl28046022011-02-25 11:01:04 +00001578- Issue #10680: Fix mutually exclusive arguments for argument groups in
1579 argparse.
1580
Antoine Pitrouf4d2b3d2011-02-21 23:59:20 +00001581- Issue #4681: Allow mmap() to work on file sizes and offsets larger than
1582 4GB, even on 32-bit builds. Initial patch by Ross Lagerwall, adapted for
1583 32-bit Windows.
1584
Georg Brandl52f83952011-02-25 10:39:23 +00001585- Issue #10360: In WeakSet, do not raise TypeErrors when testing for
1586 membership of non-weakrefable objects.
1587
1588- Issue #10549: Fix pydoc traceback when text-documenting certain classes.
1589
1590- Issue #940286: pydoc.Helper.help() ignores input/output init parameters.
1591
Barry Warsaw42bb7ca2011-02-14 20:04:00 +00001592- Issue #11171: Fix detection of config/Makefile when --prefix !=
1593 --exec-prefix, which caused Python to not start.
1594
R. David Murray008c0442011-02-11 23:03:13 +00001595- Issue #11116: any error during addition of a message to a mailbox now causes
1596 a rollback, instead of leaving the mailbox partially modified.
1597
Antoine Pitrou820021e2011-01-31 21:47:45 +00001598- Issue #8275: Fix passing of callback arguments with ctypes under Win64.
1599 Patch by Stan Mihai.
1600
Ned Deily60651532011-01-31 00:52:49 +00001601- Issue #10940: Workaround an IDLE hang on Mac OS X 10.6 when using the
1602 menu accelerators for Open Module, Go to Line, and New Indent Width.
1603 The accelerators still work but no longer appear in the menu items.
1604
Ned Deily2a6f4b32011-01-30 00:18:47 +00001605- Issue #10907: Warn OS X 10.6 IDLE users to use ActiveState Tcl/Tk 8.5, rather
1606 than the currently problematic Apple-supplied one, when running with the
1607 64-/32-bit installer variant.
1608
Ned Deilyefc527a2011-01-29 19:30:39 +00001609- Issue #11052: Correct IDLE menu accelerators on Mac OS X for Save
1610 commands.
1611
Vinay Sajipcdb83882011-01-21 23:35:57 +00001612- Issue #10949: Improved robustness of rotating file handlers.
1613
Antoine Pitrou8a0eede2011-01-20 21:20:18 +00001614- Issue #10955: Fix a potential crash when trying to mmap() a file past its
1615 length. Initial patch by Ross Lagerwall.
1616
Antoine Pitrou63a3f152011-01-19 15:27:24 +00001617- Issue #10898: Allow compiling the posix module when the C library defines
1618 a symbol named FSTAT.
1619
Ned Deily4a705502011-01-18 04:33:22 +00001620- Issue #6075: IDLE on Mac OS X now works with both Carbon AquaTk and
1621 Cocoa AquaTk.
1622
Antoine Pitrou9989d852011-01-15 16:18:57 +00001623- Issue #10916: mmap should not segfault when a file is mapped using 0 as
1624 length and a non-zero offset, and an attempt to read past the end of file
1625 is made (IndexError is raised instead). Patch by Ross Lagerwall.
1626
Terry Reedyf7dd7992011-01-10 22:15:19 +00001627- Issue #10875: Update Regular Expression HOWTO; patch by 'SilentGhost'.
1628
Antoine Pitrou5a72e762011-01-07 21:49:44 +00001629- Issue #10827: Changed the rules for 2-digit years. The time.asctime
1630 function will now format any year when ``time.accept2dyear`` is
1631 false and will accept years >= 1000 otherwise. The year range
1632 accepted by ``time.mktime`` and ``time.strftime`` is still system
1633 dependent, but ``time.mktime`` will now accept full range supported
1634 by the OS. Conversion of 2-digit years to 4-digit is deprecated.
1635
Georg Brandl6adb9792011-01-09 07:53:14 +00001636- Issue #10869: Fixed bug where ast.increment_lineno modified the root
1637 node twice.
1638
Antoine Pitrou1f1613f2011-01-06 18:30:26 +00001639- Issue #7858: Raise an error properly when os.utime() fails under Windows
1640 on an existing file.
1641
Antoine Pitrou77c1b382011-01-06 17:19:05 +00001642- Issue #3839: wsgiref should not override a Content-Length header set by
1643 the application. Initial patch by Clovis Fabricio.
1644
Antoine Pitrou91ce0d92011-01-03 18:45:09 +00001645- Issue #10806, issue #9905: Fix subprocess pipes when some of the standard
1646 file descriptors (0, 1, 2) are closed in the parent process. Initial
1647 patch by Ross Lagerwall.
1648
Antoine Pitroub0614612011-01-02 20:04:52 +00001649- Issue #4662: os.tempnam(), os.tmpfile() and os.tmpnam() now raise a py3k
1650 DeprecationWarning.
1651
Raymond Hettinger8ebebd82011-01-02 01:03:26 +00001652- Subclasses of collections.OrderedDict now work correctly with __missing__.
1653
Éric Araujo86f90742011-03-21 00:15:26 +01001654- Issue #10753 - Characters ';', '=' and ',' in the PATH_INFO environment
Senthil Kumaran559395f2010-12-29 06:30:19 +00001655 variable won't be quoted when the URI is constructed by the wsgiref.util 's
1656 request_uri method. According to RFC 3986, these characters can be a part of
1657 params in PATH component of URI and need not be quoted.
1658
Éric Araujo86f90742011-03-21 00:15:26 +01001659- Issue #10738: Fix webbrowser.Opera.raise_opts
Terry Reedy0df73672010-12-28 19:53:32 +00001660
Éric Araujo86f90742011-03-21 00:15:26 +01001661- Issue #9824: SimpleCookie now encodes , and ; in values to cater to how
R. David Murray08fc7012010-12-28 19:11:03 +00001662 browsers actually parse cookies.
1663
R. David Murray5360d002010-12-27 19:17:17 +00001664- Issue #1379416: eliminated a source of accidental unicode promotion in
1665 email.header.Header.encode.
1666
R. David Murray5874ed62010-12-26 22:29:53 +00001667- Issue #5258/#10642: if site.py encounters a .pth file that generates an error,
1668 it now prints the filename, line number, and traceback to stderr and skips
1669 the rest of that individual file, instead of stopping processing entirely.
1670
Antoine Pitroufc9ead62010-12-21 21:26:55 +00001671- Issue #10750: The ``raw`` attribute of buffered IO objects is now read-only.
1672
Daniel Stutzbach57cf0af2011-01-04 18:47:17 +00001673- Issue #10242: unittest.TestCase.assertItemsEqual makes too many assumptions
Michael Foorde6e0e262010-12-19 15:52:56 +00001674 about input.
1675
Michael Foorda17f0762010-12-19 14:53:19 +00001676- Issue #10611: SystemExit should not cause a unittest test run to exit.
1677
Antoine Pitroud7b6ac62010-12-18 18:18:21 +00001678- Issue #6791: Limit header line length (to 65535 bytes) in http.client,
1679 to avoid denial of services from the other party.
1680
R. David Murray3f752ab2010-12-18 17:22:18 +00001681- Issue #10404: Use ctl-button-1 on OSX for the context menu in Idle.
1682
1683- Issue #9907: Fix tab handling on OSX when using editline by calling
R. David Murray7a697252010-12-18 03:52:09 +00001684 rl_initialize first, then setting our custom defaults, then reading .editrc.
1685
Antoine Pitrou47900cf2010-12-17 17:45:12 +00001686- Issue #4188: Avoid creating dummy thread objects when logging operations
1687 from the threading module (with the internal verbose flag activated).
1688
Senthil Kumaran5c7fd6e2010-12-17 04:56:02 +00001689- Issue #9721: Fix the behavior of urljoin when the relative url starts with a
1690 ';' character. Patch by Wes Chow.
Benjamin Peterson5ee84482010-11-28 04:49:23 +00001691
Antoine Pitrou47d9b0e2010-12-16 17:11:34 +00001692- Issue #10714: Limit length of incoming request in http.server to 65536 bytes
1693 for security reasons. Initial patch by Ross Lagerwall.
1694
Éric Araujoe04c13c2010-12-15 21:15:25 +00001695- Issue #9558: Fix distutils.command.build_ext with VS 8.0.
1696
R. David Murraydacb8042010-12-14 14:34:16 +00001697- Issue #10695: passing the port as a string value to telnetlib no longer
1698 causes debug mode to fail.
1699
Ronald Oussoren8ec374c2010-12-07 16:02:59 +00001700- Issue #10107: Warn about unsaved files in IDLE on OSX.
1701
Ronald Oussoren517858a2010-12-07 16:13:17 +00001702- Issue #10406: Enable Rstrip IDLE extension on OSX (just like on other
1703 platforms).
1704
Antoine Pitrou4cb64ad2010-12-03 19:31:52 +00001705- Issue #10478: Reentrant calls inside buffered IO objects (for example by
1706 way of a signal handler) now raise a RuntimeError instead of freezing the
1707 current process.
1708
Éric Araujofb3de6b2010-12-03 19:24:49 +00001709- Issue #10497: Fix incorrect use of gettext in argparse.
1710
R. David Murrayd75cc912010-12-02 03:16:23 +00001711- Issue #10464: netrc now correctly handles lines with embedded '#' characters.
1712
Gregory P. Smith312efbc2010-12-14 15:02:53 +00001713- Issue #1731717: Fixed the problem where subprocess.wait() could cause an
1714 OSError exception when The OS had been told to ignore SIGCLD in our process
1715 or otherwise not wait for exiting child processes.
1716
Steven Bethardf8583ac2011-01-24 20:40:15 +00001717- Issue #9509: argparse now properly handles IOErrors raised by
1718 argparse.FileType.
1719
Steven Bethard3f69a052011-03-26 19:59:02 +01001720- Issue #9348: Raise an early error if argparse nargs and metavar don't match.
1721
1722- Issue #8982: Improve the documentation for the argparse Namespace object.
1723
Steven Bethard5e0062d2011-03-26 21:50:38 +01001724- Issue #9343: Document that argparse parent parsers must be configured before
1725 their children.
1726
Steven Bethardbc3b1042011-03-27 13:57:55 +02001727- Issue #9026: Fix order of argparse sub-commands in help messages.
1728
Steven Betharde3c11b42011-04-04 01:47:52 +02001729- Issue #9347: Fix formatting for tuples in argparse type= error messages.
1730
R. David Murray2a4b3fc2010-12-11 02:13:04 +00001731Extension Modules
1732-----------------
1733
Benjamin Peterson6116d4a2011-05-17 18:31:20 -05001734- Stop using the old interface for providing methods and attributes in the _sre
1735 module. Among other things, this gives these classes ``__class__``
1736 attributes. (See #12099)
1737
Ezio Melotti0639be62011-05-07 19:21:22 +03001738- Issue #10169: Fix argument parsing in socket.sendto() to avoid error masking.
1739
Ezio Melottic1ec7b52011-05-11 00:55:35 +03001740- Issue #12051: Fix segfault in json.dumps() while encoding highly-nested
1741 objects using the C accelerations.
1742
Ezio Melotticec46492011-05-07 17:40:23 +03001743- Issue #12017: Fix segfault in json.loads() while decoding highly-nested
1744 objects using the C accelerations.
1745
Benjamin Petersonf21ad922011-03-26 17:56:28 -05001746- Issue #1838: Prevent segfault in ctypes, when _as_parameter_ on a class is set
1747 to an instance of the class.
1748
R. David Murray2a4b3fc2010-12-11 02:13:04 +00001749- Issue #678250: Make mmap flush a noop on ACCESS_READ and ACCESS_COPY.
1750
Antoine Pitrouf11d1832011-01-02 19:37:45 +00001751Build
1752-----
1753
Ned Deily22f63b52011-05-28 05:56:14 -07001754- Issue #11217: For 64-bit/32-bit Mac OS X universal framework builds,
1755 ensure "make install" creates symlinks in --prefix bin for the "-32"
1756 files in the framework bin directory like the installer does.
1757
Thomas Wouters5edae7e2011-03-06 11:48:05 -08001758- Issue #11411: Fix 'make DESTDIR=' with a relative destination.
1759
Georg Brandl94800df2011-02-25 11:09:02 +00001760- Issue #10709: Add updated AIX notes in Misc/README.AIX.
1761
1762- Issue #11184: Fix large-file support on AIX.
1763
Georg Brandl71f4fbb2011-02-25 11:04:50 +00001764- Issue #941346: Fix broken shared library build on AIX.
1765
Ned Deilye6cc7d62011-02-21 21:00:09 +00001766- Issue #11268: Prevent Mac OS X Installer failure if Documentation
1767 package had previously been installed.
1768
Ned Deily68adfdc2011-02-07 16:52:25 +00001769- Issue #11079: The /Applications/Python x.x folder created by the Mac
1770 OS X installers now includes a link to the installed documentation.
1771
Ned Deily53c460d2011-01-30 01:43:40 +00001772- Issue #11054: Allow Mac OS X installer builds to again work on 10.5 with
1773 the system-provided Python.
1774
1775- Issue #10843: Update third-party library versions used in OS X
1776 32-bit installer builds: bzip2 1.0.6, readline 6.1.2, SQLite 3.7.4
1777 (with FTS3/FTS4 and RTREE enabled), and ncursesw 5.5 (wide-char
1778 support enabled).
1779
Antoine Pitrou9828b562011-01-03 19:11:32 +00001780- Don't run pgen twice when using make -j.
1781
Antoine Pitrou31e85952011-01-03 18:57:14 +00001782- Issue #7716: Under Solaris, don't assume existence of /usr/xpg4/bin/grep in
1783 the configure script but use $GREP instead. Patch by Fabian Groffen.
1784
Antoine Pitrouf11d1832011-01-02 19:37:45 +00001785- Issue #10475: Don't hardcode compilers for LDSHARED/LDCXXSHARED on NetBSD
1786 and DragonFly BSD. Patch by Nicolas Joly.
1787
David Malcolm4c29e1c2011-01-06 17:39:24 +00001788- Issue #10655: Fix the build on PowerPC on Linux with GCC when building with
1789 timestamp profiling (--with-tsc): the preprocessor test for the PowerPC
1790 support now looks for "__powerpc__" as well as "__ppc__": the latter seems to
1791 only be present on OS X; the former is the correct one for Linux with GCC.
1792
Ronald Oussoren19199832011-03-14 11:57:39 -04001793- Issue #1099: Fix the build on MacOSX when building a framework with pydebug
1794 using GCC 4.0.
1795
Raymond Hettinger179816d2011-04-12 18:54:46 -07001796IDLE
1797----
1798
1799- Issue #11718: IDLE's open module dialog couldn't find the __init__.py
1800 file in a package.
1801
R. David Murray0960bc52010-12-04 17:24:46 +00001802Tests
1803-----
1804
Ned Deilyc4f97f42011-05-29 02:36:17 -07001805- Issue #12205: Fix test_subprocess failure due to uninstalled test data.
1806
Ezio Melottie3992eb2011-05-14 06:24:53 +03001807- Issue #5723: Improve json tests to be executed with and without accelerations.
1808
Ezio Melotti5c5d7e22011-05-09 06:54:53 +03001809- Issue #11910: Fix test_heapq to skip the C tests when _heapq is missing.
1810
Nadeem Vawdabafc6a92011-04-19 01:35:58 +02001811- Fix test_startfile to wait for child process to terminate before finishing.
1812
Ross Lagerwallfe2f1ad2011-04-09 20:39:50 +02001813- Issue #11719: Fix message about unexpected test_msilib skip on non-Windows
1814 platforms. Patch by Nadeem Vawda.
1815
Ned Deily5f511822011-04-05 17:16:09 -07001816- Issue #7108: Fix test_commands to not fail when special attributes ('@'
1817 or '.') appear in 'ls -l' output.
1818
R David Murraycdd5fc92011-03-13 22:37:18 -04001819- Issue #11490: test_subprocess:test_leaking_fds_on_error no longer gives a
1820 false positive if the last directory in the path is inaccessible.
1821
Antoine Pitrou8bc59fa2011-01-12 18:56:09 +00001822- Issue #10822: Fix test_posix:test_getgroups failure under Solaris. Patch
1823 by Ross Lagerwall.
1824
Antoine Pitrou8c688be2011-01-03 20:49:01 +00001825- Issue #6293: Have regrtest.py echo back sys.flags. This is done by default
1826 in whole runs and enabled selectively using ``--header`` when running an
1827 explicit list of tests. Original patch by Collin Winter.
1828
R. David Murrayf8a63912010-12-14 16:26:30 +00001829- Issue #775964: test_grp now skips YP/NIS entries instead of failing when
1830 encountering them.
1831
R. David Murray0960bc52010-12-04 17:24:46 +00001832- Issue #7110: regrtest now sends test failure reports and single-failure
1833 tracebacks to stderr rather than stdout.
1834
Benjamin Peterson5ee84482010-11-28 04:49:23 +00001835
Benjamin Petersondb4c3342010-11-13 23:32:58 +00001836What's New in Python 2.7.1?
1837===========================
1838
Benjamin Peterson3e0fa422010-11-27 14:40:29 +00001839*Release date: 2010-11-27*
Benjamin Petersondb4c3342010-11-13 23:32:58 +00001840
1841Library
1842-------
1843
Éric Araujo54274ad2011-02-03 00:12:18 +00001844- Issue #2236: distutils' mkpath ignored the mode parameter.
1845
1846- Fix typo in one sdist option (medata-check).
1847
Raymond Hettinger061bf7a2010-11-30 03:15:35 +00001848- Issue #10323: itertools.islice() now consumes the minimum number of
1849 inputs before stopping. Formerly, the final state of the underlying
1850 iterator was undefined.
1851
Alexander Belopolsky1fea5c42010-11-30 01:18:17 +00001852- Issue #10565: The collections.Iterator ABC now checks for both
1853 ``__iter__`` and ``next``.
1854
Georg Brandl79f096a2010-11-26 07:57:57 +00001855- Issue #10092: Properly reset locale in calendar.Locale*Calendar classes.
1856
Martin v. Löwise03c7782010-11-22 10:53:46 +00001857- Issue #10459: Update CJK character names to Unicode 5.2.
1858
Georg Brandl5ded7912010-11-26 07:35:31 +00001859- Issue #6098: Don't claim DOM level 3 conformance in minidom.
1860
Senthil Kumaran9a5897b2010-11-29 12:41:03 +00001861- Issue #10561: In pdb, clear the breakpoints by the breakpoint number.
1862
Georg Brandl5ded7912010-11-26 07:35:31 +00001863- Issue #5762: Fix AttributeError raised by ``xml.dom.minidom`` when an empty
1864 XML namespace attribute is encountered.
1865
Georg Brandl86e0c892010-11-26 07:22:28 +00001866- Issue #1710703: Write structures for an empty ZIP archive when a ZipFile is
1867 created in modes 'a' or 'w' and then closed without adding any files. Raise
1868 BadZipfile (rather than IOError) when opening small non-ZIP files.
1869
Senthil Kumaran0b7cac12010-11-22 05:04:33 +00001870- Issue #4493: urllib2 adds '/' in front of path components which does not
1871 start with '/. Common behavior exhibited by browsers and other clients.
1872
Brian Curtin2d011ed2010-11-21 23:50:51 +00001873- Issue #6378: idle.bat now runs with the appropriate Python version rather than
1874 the system default. Patch by Sridhar Ratnakumar.
1875
Éric Araujo4fadd532010-11-20 20:02:41 +00001876- Issue #10407: Fix one NameError in distutils.
1877
Georg Brandl839c1132010-11-20 11:29:38 +00001878- Issue #10198: fix duplicate header written to wave files when writeframes()
1879 is called without data.
1880
Benjamin Peterson4fec9ce2010-11-20 17:31:08 +00001881- Issue #10467: Fix BytesIO.readinto() after seeking into a position after the
1882 end of the file.
1883
Senthil Kumaran501bfd82010-11-14 03:31:52 +00001884- Issue #5111: IPv6 Host in the Header is wrapped inside [ ]. Patch by Chandru.
1885
Martin v. Löwiseebd0172010-11-14 18:17:39 +00001886Build
1887-----
1888
Brian Curtin69a106a2010-11-22 02:08:49 +00001889- Backport r83399 to allow test_distutils to pass on installed versions.
1890
Martin v. Löwiseebd0172010-11-14 18:17:39 +00001891- Issue #1303434: Generate ZIP file containing all PDBs.
1892
Ezio Melotti2623a372010-11-21 13:34:58 +00001893Tests
1894-----
1895
1896- Issue #9424: Replace deprecated assert* methods in the Python test suite.
1897
Ezio Melottibf8484e2010-11-24 21:54:47 +00001898Documentation
1899-------------
1900
1901- Issue #10299: List the built-in functions in a table in functions.rst.
1902
Benjamin Petersondb4c3342010-11-13 23:32:58 +00001903
Benjamin Petersoncc214172010-11-13 17:33:04 +00001904What's New in Python 2.7.1 release candidate 1?
1905===============================================
Benjamin Petersone3c10452010-07-03 14:51:25 +00001906
Benjamin Petersoncc214172010-11-13 17:33:04 +00001907*Release date: 2010-11-13*
Benjamin Petersone3c10452010-07-03 14:51:25 +00001908
1909Core and Builtins
1910-----------------
1911
Raymond Hettinger2ad17e12010-10-30 08:17:46 +00001912- Issue #10221: dict.pop(k) now has a key error message that includes the
1913 missing key (same message d[k] returns for missing keys).
1914
Barry Warsawfa658272010-11-02 21:03:09 +00001915- Issue #10125: Don't segfault when the iterator passed to
1916 ``file.writelines()`` closes the file.
Benjamin Petersonbf775542010-10-16 19:20:12 +00001917
Barry Warsawfa658272010-11-02 21:03:09 +00001918- Issue #10186: Fix the SyntaxError caret when the offset is equal to the
1919 length of the offending line.
Benjamin Petersonf99f33d2010-10-24 03:00:35 +00001920
Benjamin Petersonf76942d2010-10-16 03:51:38 +00001921- Issue #9997: Don't let the name "top" have special significance in scope
1922 resolution.
1923
R. David Murray1d9d16e2010-10-16 00:43:13 +00001924- Issue #9862: Compensate for broken PIPE_BUF in AIX by hard coding
1925 its value as the default 512 when compiling on AIX.
1926
Jesus Cea33c722b2010-11-04 21:39:52 +00001927- Issue #9675: CObject use is marked as a Py3k warning, not a deprecation
1928 warning.
1929
Benjamin Petersondc954242010-10-12 23:02:35 +00001930- Issue #10068: Global objects which have reference cycles with their module's
1931 dict are now cleared again. This causes issue #7140 to appear again.
1932
Mark Dickinsoncb61e5d2010-09-26 10:37:12 +00001933- Issue #9869: Make long() and PyNumber_Long return something of type
1934 long for a class whose __long__ method returns a plain int. This
1935 fixes an interpreter crash when initializing an instance of a long
1936 subclass from an object whose __long__ method returns a plain int.
1937
Benjamin Petersona5d5cc42010-10-02 00:08:58 +00001938- Issue #10006: type.__abstractmethods__ now raises an AttributeError.
1939
Antoine Pitrou0a7b65b2010-09-08 12:40:49 +00001940- Issue #9797: pystate.c wrongly assumed that zero couldn't be a valid
1941 thread-local storage key.
1942
Victor Stinnercaafd772010-09-08 10:51:01 +00001943- Issue #4947: The write() method of sys.stdout and sys.stderr uses their
1944 encoding and errors attributes instead of using utf-8 in strict mode, to get
1945 the same behaviour than the print statement.
1946
Antoine Pitrou9cf85f12010-09-01 21:17:34 +00001947- Issue #9737: Fix a crash when trying to delete a slice or an item from
1948 a memoryview object.
1949
Martin v. Löwis6086b0d2010-08-19 09:09:04 +00001950- Restore GIL in nis_cat in case of error.
1951
Benjamin Peterson6f3d6a92010-08-25 23:17:42 +00001952- Issue #9688: __basicsize__ and __itemsize__ must be accessed as Py_ssize_t.
1953
Florent Xicluna172e15f2010-08-09 20:02:00 +00001954- Issue #8530: Prevent stringlib fastsearch from reading beyond the front
1955 of an array.
1956
Raymond Hettinger3ad323e2010-08-06 10:18:56 +00001957- Issue #83755: Implicit set-to-frozenset conversion was not thread-safe.
1958
Mark Dickinsonaad57bd2010-08-01 10:45:15 +00001959- Issue #9416: Fix some issues with complex formatting where the
1960 output with no type specifier failed to match the str output:
1961
1962 - format(complex(-0.0, 2.0), '-') omitted the real part from the output,
1963 - format(complex(0.0, 2.0), '-') included a sign and parentheses.
1964
Antoine Pitrou32669782010-07-11 12:14:05 +00001965- Issue #7616: Fix copying of overlapping memoryview slices with the Intel
1966 compiler.
Benjamin Petersone3c10452010-07-03 14:51:25 +00001967
1968Library
1969-------
1970
Éric Araujo86f90742011-03-21 00:15:26 +01001971- Issue #9926: Wrapped TestSuite subclass does not get __call__ executed
Michael Foord75152ea2010-11-20 17:40:49 +00001972
Antoine Pitrou7eaa4482010-11-09 23:15:18 +00001973- Issue #4471: Properly shutdown socket in IMAP.shutdown(). Patch by
1974 Lorenzo M. Catucci.
1975
Éric Araujo2f0a0402010-11-06 15:46:46 +00001976- Issue #10126: Fix distutils' test_build when Python was built with
1977 --enable-shared.
Michael Foord75152ea2010-11-20 17:40:49 +00001978
Éric Araujo2f0a0402010-11-06 15:46:46 +00001979- Fix typo in one sdist option (medata-check).
1980
1981- Issue #9199: Fix incorrect use of distutils.cmd.Command.announce.
1982
1983- Issue #1718574: Fix options that were supposed to accept arguments but did
1984 not in build_clib.
1985
Éric Araujoe9954b52010-11-06 04:53:42 +00001986- Issue #9281: Prevent race condition with mkdir in distutils. Patch by
1987 Arfrever.
1988
Éric Araujoe28665a2010-11-06 04:36:28 +00001989- Issue #10229: Fix caching error in gettext.
1990
Éric Araujod1feff72010-11-06 04:06:18 +00001991- Issue #10252: Close file objects in a timely manner in distutils code and
1992 tests. Patch by Brian Brazil, completed by Éric Araujo.
1993
Antoine Pitrou6b1167c2010-11-05 19:55:02 +00001994- Issue #10311: The signal module now restores errno before returning from
1995 its low-level signal handler. Patch by Hallvard B Furuseth.
1996
Barry Warsawfa658272010-11-02 21:03:09 +00001997- Issue #10038: json.loads() on str should always return unicode (regression
1998 from Python 2.6). Patch by Walter Dörwald.
Michael Foorde5dc24e2010-11-01 22:11:53 +00001999
Barry Warsawfa658272010-11-02 21:03:09 +00002000- Issue #120176: Wrapped TestSuite subclass does not get __call__ executed.
2001
2002- Issue #6706: asyncore accept() method no longer raises
2003 EWOULDBLOCK/ECONNABORTED on incomplete connection attempt but returns None
2004 instead.
Giampaolo Rodolà19e9fef2010-11-01 15:07:14 +00002005
Antoine Pitrou61d14b72010-10-31 16:17:36 +00002006- Issue #10266: uu.decode didn't close in_file explicitly when it was given
2007 as a filename. Patch by Brian Brazil.
2008
Antoine Pitrou3917c092010-10-31 13:12:48 +00002009- Issue #10246: uu.encode didn't close file objects explicitly when filenames
2010 were given to it. Patch by Brian Brazil.
2011
Antoine Pitrou594a0462010-10-31 13:05:48 +00002012- Issue #10253: FileIO leaks a file descriptor when trying to open a file
2013 for append that isn't seekable. Patch by Brian Brazil.
2014
Raymond Hettingercbba8d42010-10-30 07:29:44 +00002015- Issue #6105: json.dumps now respects OrderedDict's iteration order.
2016
Antoine Pitrou638cee62010-10-28 14:50:57 +00002017- Issue #9295: Fix a crash under Windows when calling close() on a file
2018 object with custom buffering from two threads at once.
2019
Antoine Pitrou7f081022010-10-27 18:43:21 +00002020- Issue #5027: The standard ``xml`` namespace is now understood by
2021 xml.sax.saxutils.XMLGenerator as being bound to
2022 http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace. Patch by Troy J. Farrell.
2023
Brian Curtin4cc54032010-10-21 14:48:22 +00002024- Issue #10163: Skip unreadable registry keys during mimetypes
2025 initialization.
2026
Hirokazu Yamamoto50f7d7e2010-10-18 13:55:29 +00002027- Issue #5117: Fixed root directory related issue on posixpath.relpath() and
2028 ntpath.relpath().
2029
Éric Araujo86f90742011-03-21 00:15:26 +01002030- Issue #9409: Fix the regex to match all kind of filenames, for interactive
Florent Xiclunab67660f2010-10-14 21:10:45 +00002031 debugging in doctests.
2032
Victor Stinnerd2f6ae62010-10-12 22:53:51 +00002033- Issue #6612: Fix site and sysconfig to catch os.getcwd() error, eg. if the
2034 current directory was deleted. Patch written by W. Trevor King.
2035
Fred Drake577acb42010-10-11 19:13:04 +00002036- Issue #10045: Improved performance when writing after seeking past the
2037 end of the "file" in cStringIO.
2038
Vinay Sajip5e8349e2010-10-10 20:36:04 +00002039- Issue #9948: Fixed problem of losing filename case information.
2040
Antoine Pitrou58dab672010-10-10 09:54:59 +00002041- Issue #9437: Fix building C extensions with non-default LDFLAGS.
2042
Antoine Pitrou76a66aa2010-10-06 21:26:52 +00002043- Issue #9759: GzipFile now raises ValueError when an operation is attempted
2044 after the file is closed. Patch by Jeffrey Finkelstein.
2045
Éric Araujoc17776f2010-10-04 23:59:35 +00002046- Issue #9042: Fix interaction of custom translation classes and caching in
2047 gettext.
2048
Lars Gustäbel6aab8d02010-10-04 15:37:53 +00002049- Issue #9065: tarfile no longer uses "root" as the default for the uname and
2050 gname field.
2051
R. David Murray10a86762010-10-02 16:26:05 +00002052- Issue #1050268: parseaddr now correctly quotes double quote and backslash
2053 characters that appear inside quoted strings in email addresses.
2054
R. David Murray20ad3632010-10-01 15:48:49 +00002055- Issue #10004: quoprimime no longer generates a traceback when confronted
2056 with invalid characters after '=' in a Q-encoded word.
2057
Antoine Pitrou66b5df62010-09-27 18:16:46 +00002058- Issue #9950: Fix socket.sendall() crash or misbehaviour when a signal is
2059 received. Now sendall() properly calls signal handlers if necessary,
2060 and retries sending if these returned successfully, including on sockets
2061 with a timeout.
2062
Vinay Sajip3eac5912010-09-25 17:48:25 +00002063- Issue #9947: logging: Fixed locking bug in stopListening.
2064
Vinay Sajip546885e2010-09-25 17:42:36 +00002065- Issue #9945: logging: Fixed locking bugs in addHandler/removeHandler.
2066
Alexander Belopolsky517185e2010-09-24 18:14:18 +00002067- Issue #9936: Fixed executable lines' search in the trace module.
2068
Antoine Pitrou2c7d6852010-09-23 19:55:24 +00002069- Issue #9928: Properly initialize the types exported by the bz2 module.
2070
Antoine Pitrou6391b342010-09-14 18:48:19 +00002071- Issue #9854: The default read() implementation in io.RawIOBase now
2072 handles non-blocking readinto() returning None correctly.
2073
Antoine Pitrouf7f390a2010-09-14 14:37:18 +00002074- Issue #9729: Fix the signature of SSLSocket.recvfrom() and
2075 SSLSocket.sendto() to match the corresponding socket methods. Also,
2076 fix various SSLSocket methods to raise socket.error rather than an
2077 unhelpful TypeError when called on an unconnected socket. Original patch
2078 by Andrew Bennetts.
2079
Raymond Hettinger74f869e2010-09-13 22:14:36 +00002080- Issue #9826: OrderedDict.__repr__ can now handle self-referential
2081 values: d['x'] = d.
2082
Victor Stinner8fc843b2010-09-17 23:35:50 +00002083- Issue #767645: Set os.path.supports_unicode_filenames to True on Mac OS X.
Victor Stinner46287f52010-09-13 20:31:34 +00002084
Antoine Pitroue4195e82010-09-12 14:56:27 +00002085- Issue #9837: The read() method of ZipExtFile objects (as returned by
2086 ZipFile.open()) could return more bytes than requested.
2087
Raymond Hettinger20397532010-09-12 02:11:45 +00002088- Issue #9825: removed __del__ from the definition of collections.OrderedDict.
2089 This prevents user-created self-referencing ordered dictionaries from
2090 becoming permanently uncollectable GC garbage. The downside is that
2091 removing __del__ means that the internal doubly-linked list has to wait for
2092 GC collection rather than freeing memory immediately when the refcnt drops
2093 to zero.
2094
Raymond Hettingerffd2a422010-09-10 10:47:22 +00002095- Issue #9816: random.Random.jumpahead(n) did not produce a sufficiently
Victor Stinnerd2f6ae62010-10-12 22:53:51 +00002096 different internal state for small values of n. Fixed by salting the
Raymond Hettingerffd2a422010-09-10 10:47:22 +00002097 value.
2098
Antoine Pitrouc818ed42010-09-07 21:40:25 +00002099- Issue #9792: In case of connection failure, socket.create_connection()
2100 would swallow the exception and raise a new one, making it impossible
2101 to fetch the original errno, or to filter timeout errors. Now the
2102 original error is re-raised.
2103
Antoine Pitrouf4f61712010-09-07 16:34:47 +00002104- Issue #9758: When fcntl.ioctl() was called with mutable_flag set to True,
2105 and the passed buffer was exactly 1024 bytes long, the buffer wouldn't
2106 be updated back after the system call. Original patch by Brian Brazil.
2107
Antoine Pitroudca9de92010-09-04 17:52:26 +00002108- Issue #1100562: Fix deep-copying of objects derived from the list and
2109 dict types. Patch by Michele Orrù and Björn Lindqvist.
2110
Fred Drakea1e627d2010-09-03 03:55:50 +00002111- Issue #7005: Fixed output of None values for RawConfigParser.write and
2112 ConfigParser.write.
2113
Daniel Stutzbach66c981b2010-08-31 20:29:39 +00002114- Issue #808164: Fixed socket.close to avoid references to globals, to
2115 avoid issues when socket.close is called from a __del__ method.
2116
Terry Reedyd2d2ae92010-11-11 23:22:19 +00002117- Issue #2986: difflib.SequenceMatcher gets a new parameter, autojunk, which
2118 can be set to False to turn off the previously undocumented 'popularity'
2119 heuristic. Patch by Terry Reedy and Eli Bendersky
2120
Senthil Kumaran7e8fd5e2010-08-26 06:20:13 +00002121- Issue #8797: urllib2 does a retry for Basic Authentication failure instead of
2122 falling into recursion.
2123
R. David Murray7c4bf552010-08-25 01:45:57 +00002124- Issue #1194222: email.utils.parsedate now returns RFC2822 compliant four
2125 character years even if the message contains RFC822 two character years.
2126
Daniel Stutzbach91287322010-08-24 21:09:30 +00002127- Issue #8750: Fixed MutableSet's methods to correctly handle
2128 reflexive operations, namely x -= x and x ^= x.
2129
Victor Stinnercaafd772010-09-08 10:51:01 +00002130- Issue #9129: smtpd.py is vulnerable to DoS attacks deriving from missing
Giampaolo Rodolà8664d742010-08-23 22:48:51 +00002131 error handling when accepting a new connection.
2132
Giampaolo Rodolà63308d72010-08-23 21:58:47 +00002133- Issue #658749: asyncore's connect() method now correctly interprets winsock
2134 errors.
2135
Vinay Sajip1ddd51f2010-08-23 17:50:30 +00002136- Issue #9501: Fixed logging regressions in cleanup code.
2137
Raymond Hettinger917bba12010-08-22 08:01:58 +00002138- Issue #9214: Set operations on KeysView or ItemsView in the collections
2139 module now correctly return a set. (Patch by Eli Bendersky.)
2140
Antoine Pitrou3ebaed62010-08-21 19:17:25 +00002141- Issue #9617: Signals received during a low-level write operation aren't
2142 ignored by the buffered IO layer anymore.
2143
Benjamin Peterson52c36052010-08-21 03:03:22 +00002144- Issue #2521: Use weakrefs on for caching in the abc module, so that classes
2145 are not held onto after they are deleted elsewhere.
2146
Raymond Hettingera54b2da2010-08-17 19:03:06 +00002147- Issue #9626: the view methods for collections.OrderedDict() were returning
2148 the unordered versions inherited from dict. Those methods are now
2149 overridden to provide ordered views.
2150
Éric Araujo0389ae62010-08-14 03:07:46 +00002151- Issue #8688: MANIFEST files created by distutils now include a magic
2152 comment indicating they are generated. Manually maintained MANIFESTs
2153 without this marker will not be overwritten or removed.
2154
Antoine Pitroue1436d12010-08-12 15:25:51 +00002155- Issue #7467: when reading a file from a ZIP archive, its CRC is checked
2156 and a BadZipfile error is raised if it doesn't match (as used to be the
2157 case in Python 2.5 and earlier).
2158
Antoine Pitroucb4f47c2010-08-11 13:40:17 +00002159- Issue #9550: a BufferedReader could issue an additional read when the
2160 original read request had been satisfied, which could block indefinitely
2161 when the underlying raw IO channel was e.g. a socket. Report and original
2162 patch by Jason V. Miller.
2163
Fred Drake0a1fa0e2010-08-10 13:09:54 +00002164- Issue #9551: Don't raise TypeError when setting the value to None for
2165 SafeConfigParser instances constructed with allow_no_value == True.
2166
Antoine Pitrou8cdede42010-08-10 00:04:13 +00002167- Issue #6915: Under Windows, os.listdir() didn't release the Global
2168 Interpreter Lock around all system calls. Original patch by Ryan Kelly.
2169
Antoine Pitrou99009162010-08-09 22:51:24 +00002170- Issue #3757: thread-local objects now support cyclic garbage collection.
2171 Thread-local objects involved in reference cycles will be deallocated
2172 timely by the cyclic GC, even if the underlying thread is still running.
2173
Florent Xicluna2f1b1ff2010-08-09 20:46:49 +00002174- Issue #6231: Fix xml.etree.ElementInclude to include the tail of the
2175 current node.
2176
Thomas Heller5c7589c2010-08-08 18:28:59 +00002177- Issue #6869: Fix a refcount problem in the _ctypes extension.
2178
Thomas Heller001d3a12010-08-08 17:56:41 +00002179- Issue5504 - ctypes should now work with systems where mmap can't be
2180 PROT_WRITE and PROT_EXEC.
2181
Senthil Kumarane677ecf2010-08-08 11:56:31 +00002182- Fix Issue8280 - urllib2's Request method will remove fragements in the url.
2183 This is how it is supposed to work, wget and curl do the same. Previous
2184 behavior was wrong.
2185
Giampaolo Rodolà47617ab2010-08-04 08:35:25 +00002186- Issue #2944: asyncore doesn't handle connection refused correctly.
2187
R. David Murray75a292e2010-08-04 00:05:50 +00002188- Issue #3196: email header decoding is now forgiving if an RFC2047
2189 encoded word encoded in base64 is lacking padding.
2190
R. David Murray1cbf78e2010-08-03 18:14:01 +00002191- Issue #9444: Argparse now uses the first element of prefix_chars as
2192 the option character for the added 'h/help' option if prefix_chars
2193 does not contain a '-', instead of raising an error.
2194
Georg Brandl7f0c3ff2010-08-01 21:18:52 +00002195- Issue #9354: Provide getsockopt() in asyncore's file_wrapper.
2196
Florent Xicluna92847452010-09-13 17:36:36 +00002197- Issue #9428: Fix running scripts with the profile/cProfile modules from
2198 the command line.
2199
Georg Brandl9c5efad2010-08-02 21:29:14 +00002200- Issue #7781: Fix restricting stats by entry counts in the pstats
2201 interactive browser.
2202
2203- Issue #9209: Do not crash in the pstats interactive browser on invalid
2204 regular expressions.
2205
Georg Brandla2a92cf2010-08-02 17:34:58 +00002206- Issue #7372: Fix pstats regression when stripping paths from profile
2207 data generated with the profile module.
2208
Georg Brandl2bd953e2010-08-01 20:59:03 +00002209- Issue #4108: In urllib.robotparser, if there are multiple 'User-agent: *'
2210 entries, consider the first one.
2211
Antoine Pitrou39703012010-08-01 20:13:11 +00002212- Issue #8397: Raise an error when attempting to mix iteration and regular
2213 reads on a BZ2File object, rather than returning incorrect results.
2214
Georg Brandl50775992010-08-01 19:33:15 +00002215- Issue #5294: Fix the behavior of pdb's "continue" command when called
2216 in the top-level debugged frame.
2217
2218- Issue #5727: Restore the ability to use readline when calling into pdb
2219 in doctests.
2220
2221- Issue #6719: In pdb, do not stop somewhere in the encodings machinery
2222 if the source file to be debugged is in a non-builtin encoding.
2223
2224- Issue #8048: Prevent doctests from failing when sys.displayhook has
2225 been reassigned.
2226
2227- Issue #8015: In pdb, do not crash when an empty line is entered as
2228 a breakpoint command.
2229
Antoine Pitrou607951d2010-08-01 16:57:17 +00002230- Issue #9448: Fix a leak of OS resources (mutexes or semaphores) when
2231 re-initializing a buffered IO object by calling its ``__init__`` method.
2232
Georg Brandle2773252010-08-01 19:14:56 +00002233- Issue #7909: Do not touch paths with the special prefixes ``\\.\``
2234 or ``\\?\`` in ntpath.normpath().
2235
Georg Brandl004c74d2010-08-01 19:06:51 +00002236- Issue #5146: Handle UID THREAD command correctly in imaplib.
2237
2238- Issue #5147: Fix the header generated for cookie files written by
2239 http.cookiejar.MozillaCookieJar.
2240
2241- Issue #8198: In pydoc, output all help text to the correct stream
2242 when sys.stdout is reassigned.
2243
Georg Brandl0347c712010-08-01 19:02:09 +00002244- Issue #7395: Fix tracebacks in pstats interactive browser.
2245
2246- Issue #8230: Fix Lib/test/sortperf.py.
2247
Georg Brandl78e69572010-08-01 18:52:52 +00002248- Issue #1713: Fix os.path.ismount(), which returned true for symbolic links
2249 across devices.
2250
2251- Issue #8826: Properly load old-style "expires" attribute in http.cookies.
2252
2253- Issue #1690103: Fix initial namespace for code run with trace.main().
2254
Georg Brandl1f05e2e2010-08-01 08:22:05 +00002255- Issue #8471: In doctest, properly reset the output stream to an empty
2256 string when Unicode was previously output.
2257
R. David Murray58f15b62010-08-01 04:04:03 +00002258- Issue #8620: when a Cmd is fed input that reaches EOF without a final
2259 newline, it no longer truncates the last character of the last command line.
2260
Victor Stinner73363e82010-07-28 01:39:45 +00002261- Issue #6213: Implement getstate() and setstate() methods of utf-8-sig and
2262 utf-16 incremental encoders.
2263
Brian Curtinb2ec2322010-07-26 02:40:17 +00002264- Issue #7113: Speed up loading in ConfigParser. Patch by Łukasz Langa.
2265
Gregory P. Smith2a91ce82010-07-25 19:11:36 +00002266- Issue #3704: cookielib was not properly handling URLs with a / in the
2267 parameters.
2268
Victor Stinner8b0d84e2010-07-24 02:51:49 +00002269- Issue #9032: XML-RPC client retries the request on EPIPE error. The EPIPE
2270 error occurs when the server closes the socket and the client sends a big
2271 XML-RPC request.
2272
Victor Stinner2c6aee92010-07-24 02:46:16 +00002273- Issue #5542: Remove special logic that closes HTTPConnection socket on EPIPE.
2274
Victor Stinner4c16d122010-07-24 01:07:52 +00002275- Issue #4629: getopt raises an error if an argument ends with = whereas getopt
2276 doesn't except a value (eg. --help= is rejected if getopt uses ['help='] long
2277 options).
2278
Ronald Oussoren3a04a252010-07-23 12:41:00 +00002279- Issue #7895: platform.mac_ver() no longer crashes after calling os.fork()
2280
Antoine Pitrou7a7013e2010-07-21 16:47:28 +00002281- Issue #5395: array.fromfile() would raise a spurious EOFError when an
2282 I/O error occurred. Now an IOError is raised instead. Patch by chuck
2283 (Jan Hosang).
2284
R. David Murrayf6cbdcb2010-07-09 13:25:56 +00002285- Issue #7646: The fnmatch pattern cache no longer grows without bound.
2286
Mark Dickinson7ea29b02010-07-08 21:28:31 +00002287- Issue #9136: Fix 'dictionary changed size during iteration'
2288 RuntimeError produced when profiling the decimal module. This was
2289 due to a dangerous iteration over 'locals()' in Context.__init__.
2290
2291- Fix extreme speed issue in Decimal.pow when the base is an exact
2292 power of 10 and the exponent is tiny (for example,
2293 Decimal(10) ** Decimal('1e-999999999')).
2294
R. David Murray3caf7b92010-07-05 16:06:05 +00002295- Issue #9161: Fix regression in optparse's acceptance of unicode
2296 strings in add_option calls.
2297
Mark Dickinson75b44b32010-07-04 16:47:56 +00002298- Issue #9130: Fix validation of relative imports in parser module.
2299
Mark Dickinsona7ee59b2010-07-04 16:23:54 +00002300- Issue #9128: Fix validation of class decorators in parser module.
Benjamin Petersone3c10452010-07-03 14:51:25 +00002301
Ronald Oussoren75956202010-07-11 08:52:52 +00002302- Issue #9164: Ensure sysconfig handles dupblice archs while building on OSX
2303
Alexander Belopolsky9d17da32010-09-13 16:45:02 +00002304- Issue #9315: Fix for the trace module to record correct class name
2305 for tracing methods.
2306
Benjamin Petersone3c10452010-07-03 14:51:25 +00002307Extension Modules
2308-----------------
2309
Georg Brandl67c27332010-10-24 14:16:05 +00002310- Issue #9054: Fix a crash occurring when using the pyexpat module
2311 with expat version 2.0.1.
2312
Brian Curtin1390dd72010-10-01 16:44:03 +00002313- Issue #10003: Allow handling of SIGBREAK on Windows. Fixes a regression
Victor Stinnerd2f6ae62010-10-12 22:53:51 +00002314 introduced by issue #9324.
Brian Curtin1390dd72010-10-01 16:44:03 +00002315
Antoine Pitroue6ebcda2010-09-04 21:24:42 +00002316- Issue #8734: Avoid crash in msvcrt.get_osfhandle() when an invalid file
2317 descriptor is provided. Patch by Pascal Chambon.
2318
Antoine Pitrou247e2fd2010-09-04 17:27:10 +00002319- Issue #7736: Release the GIL around calls to opendir() and closedir()
2320 in the posix module. Patch by Marcin Bachry.
2321
Benjamin Peterson52c36052010-08-21 03:03:22 +00002322- As a result of issue #2521, the _weakref module is now compiled into the
2323 interpreter by default.
2324
Brian Curtin24af0e92010-08-06 19:41:01 +00002325- Issue #9324: Add parameter validation to signal.signal on Windows in order
2326 to prevent crashes.
2327
Mark Dickinson5e684332010-08-06 09:44:48 +00002328- Issue #9526: Remove some outdated (int) casts that were preventing
2329 the array module from working correctly with arrays of more than
2330 2**31 elements.
2331
Mark Dickinsonf38d8882010-08-03 18:46:28 +00002332- Fix memory leak in ssl._ssl._test_decode_cert.
2333
Mark Dickinson0f981282010-08-03 16:54:19 +00002334- Issue #8065: Fix memory leak in readline module (from failure to
2335 free the result of history_get_history_state()).
2336
Mark Dickinson4ee98532010-08-03 16:18:39 +00002337- Issue #9450: Fix memory leak in readline.replace_history_item and
2338 readline.remove_history_item for readline version >= 5.0.
2339
Brian Curtinba6c08e2010-08-01 15:47:53 +00002340- Issue #8105: Validate file descriptor passed to mmap.mmap on Windows.
2341
Georg Brandla4917272010-07-31 21:22:36 +00002342- Issue #1019882: Fix IndexError when loading certain hotshot stats.
2343
Mark Dickinson96527c32010-07-29 21:44:47 +00002344- Issue #9422: Fix memory leak when re-initializing a struct.Struct object.
2345
Ronald Oussoren9e7ffae2010-07-24 09:46:41 +00002346- Issue #7900: The getgroups(2) system call on MacOSX behaves rather oddly
2347 compared to other unix systems. In particular, os.getgroups() does
2348 not reflect any changes made using os.setgroups() but basicly always
2349 returns the same information as the id command.
2350
2351 os.getgroups() can now return more than 16 groups on MacOSX.
2352
Mark Dickinsoncac0b832010-07-18 07:55:55 +00002353- Issue #9277: Fix bug in struct.pack for bools in standard mode
2354 (e.g., struct.pack('>?')): if conversion to bool raised an exception
2355 then that exception wasn't properly propagated on machines where
2356 char is unsigned.
2357
Matthias Klose6e86bf72010-07-30 21:27:18 +00002358- Issue #7567: Don't call `setupterm' twice.
2359
Ronald Oussoren19199832011-03-14 11:57:39 -04002360
Antoine Pitrou2fba0b32010-09-08 21:12:36 +00002361Tools/Demos
2362-----------
2363
Benjamin Peterson4de6b062010-10-13 22:07:17 +00002364- Issue #7287: Demo/imputil/knee.py was removed.
2365
Antoine Pitrou2fba0b32010-09-08 21:12:36 +00002366- Issue #9188: The gdb extension now handles correctly narrow (UCS2) as well
2367 as wide (UCS4) unicode builds for both the host interpreter (embedded
2368 inside gdb) and the interpreter under test.
2369
Benjamin Peterson4082d9b2010-07-17 20:41:16 +00002370Build
2371-----
2372
Antoine Pitroue0c5f3c2010-10-27 20:35:26 +00002373- Issue #8852: Allow the socket module to build on OpenSolaris.
2374
Antoine Pitrou7be5a652010-10-10 08:14:41 +00002375- Issue #10054: Some platforms provide uintptr_t in inttypes.h. Patch by
2376 Akira Kitada.
2377
Antoine Pitrou22ad2452010-10-09 15:28:59 +00002378- Issue #10055: Make json C89-compliant in UCS4 mode.
2379
Antoine Pitrou285cd162010-09-21 15:23:17 +00002380- Issue #1633863: Don't ignore $CC under AIX.
2381
Hirokazu Yamamotoc4caa9c2010-09-18 22:33:33 +00002382- Issue #9810: Compile bzip2 source files in python's project file
2383 directly. It used to be built with bzip2's makefile.
2384
Antoine Pitrouaabdceb2010-09-10 20:03:17 +00002385- Issue #941346: Improve the build process under AIX and allow Python to
2386 be built as a shared library. Patch by Sébastien Sablé.
2387
Antoine Pitrou85729812010-09-07 14:55:24 +00002388- Issue #4026: Make the fcntl extension build under AIX. Patch by Sébastien
2389 Sablé.
2390
Antoine Pitroua74c3342010-09-03 16:15:17 +00002391- Issue #3101: Helper functions _add_one_to_index_C() and
2392 _add_one_to_index_F() become _Py_add_one_to_index_C() and
2393 _Py_add_one_to_index_F(), respectively.
Antoine Pitrou1fcdba82010-09-01 13:02:50 +00002394
2395- Issue #9700: define HAVE_BROKEN_POSIX_SEMAPHORES under AIX 6.x. Patch by
2396 Sébastien Sablé.
2397
Benjamin Peterson4082d9b2010-07-17 20:41:16 +00002398- Issue #9280: Make sharedinstall depend on sharedmods.
2399
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00002400- Issue #9275: The OSX installer once again installs links to binaries in
2401 ``/usr/local/bin``.
Ronald Oussoren8a14db82010-07-23 11:13:03 +00002402
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00002403- Issue #9392: A framework build on OSX will once again use a versioned name
2404 of the ``2to3`` tool, that is you can use ``2to3-2.7`` to select the Python
2405 2.7 edition of 2to3.
Ronald Oussoren0969c672010-07-29 13:18:19 +00002406
Ronald Oussorenec2fe002010-09-28 14:01:49 +00002407- Issue #9701: The MacOSX installer can patch the shell profile to ensure that
2408 the "bin" directory inside the framework is on the shell's search path. This
2409 feature now also supports the ZSH shell.
2410
Ronald Oussoren24215252010-10-20 13:11:46 +00002411- Issue #7473: avoid link errors when building a framework with a different
2412 set of architectures than the one that is currently installed.
Ronald Oussorenec2fe002010-09-28 14:01:49 +00002413
Antoine Pitrou22db7352010-07-08 18:54:04 +00002414Tests
2415-----
2416
Hirokazu Yamamoto1f504f12010-10-08 09:41:13 +00002417- Issue #9978: Wait until subprocess completes initialization. (Win32KillTests
2418 in test_os)
2419
Antoine Pitrou767cbc42010-09-18 18:15:33 +00002420- Issue #9894: Do not hardcode ENOENT in test_subprocess.
2421
Florent Xicluna92847452010-09-13 17:36:36 +00002422- Issue #9323: Make test.regrtest.__file__ absolute, this was not always the
2423 case when running profile or trace, for example.
2424
Alexander Belopolsky9d17da32010-09-13 16:45:02 +00002425- Issue #9315: Added tests for the trace module. Patch by Eli Bendersky.
Florent Xicluna92847452010-09-13 17:36:36 +00002426
Florent Xiclunac0c0b142010-09-13 08:53:00 +00002427- Strengthen test_unicode with explicit type checking for assertEqual tests.
2428
Giampaolo Rodolà633e4742010-08-14 17:04:46 +00002429- Issue #8857: Provide a test case for socket.getaddrinfo.
2430
Florent Xicluna172e15f2010-08-09 20:02:00 +00002431- Issue #7564: Skip test_ioctl if another process is attached to /dev/tty.
2432
Mark Dickinson28669332010-08-07 13:07:11 +00002433- Issue #8433: Fix test_curses failure with newer versions of ncurses.
2434
Antoine Pitrou185fae72010-08-04 15:54:33 +00002435- Issue #9496: Provide a test suite for the rlcompleter module. Patch by
2436 Michele Orrù.
2437
Antoine Pitrou22db7352010-07-08 18:54:04 +00002438- Issue #8605: Skip test_gdb if Python is compiled with optimizations.
2439
Ronald Oussoren8928e322010-09-28 14:43:59 +00002440- Issue #9568: Fix test_urllib2_localnet on OS X 10.3.
2441
Brett Cannon8c4fa112010-07-21 09:52:10 +00002442Documentation
2443-------------
2444
Matthias Klose3e8230d2010-09-12 16:51:29 +00002445- Issue #9817: Add expat COPYING file; add expat, libffi and expat licenses
2446 to Doc/license.rst.
2447
Brian Curtin4d808892010-08-05 19:00:45 +00002448- Issue #9524: Document that two CTRL* signals are meant for use only
2449 with os.kill.
2450
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00002451- Issue #9255: Document that the 'test' package is for internal Python use
2452 only.
Brett Cannon9ae2cb72010-07-23 12:07:27 +00002453
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00002454- Issue #7829: Document in dis that bytecode is an implementation detail.
Brett Cannon8c4fa112010-07-21 09:52:10 +00002455
Benjamin Petersone3c10452010-07-03 14:51:25 +00002456
Benjamin Peterson4f612592010-06-21 17:28:30 +00002457What's New in Python 2.7?
2458=========================
2459
Benjamin Petersonc60082d2010-07-03 13:56:13 +00002460*Release date: 2010-07-03*
Benjamin Peterson4f612592010-06-21 17:28:30 +00002461
2462Core and Builtins
2463-----------------
2464
Benjamin Peterson947ce582010-06-24 00:12:40 +00002465- Prevent assignment to set literals.
2466
Benjamin Peterson4f612592010-06-21 17:28:30 +00002467Library
2468-------
2469
Antoine Pitroua4083502010-08-28 18:29:13 +00002470- Issue #1868: Eliminate subtle timing issues in thread-local objects by
2471 getting rid of the cached copy of thread-local attribute dictionary.
2472
Benjamin Peterson6a336f62010-07-03 13:57:30 +00002473- Issue #9125: Add recognition of 'except ... as ...' syntax to parser module.
2474
2475Extension Modules
2476-----------------
2477
Benjamin Petersonc670b7e2010-07-03 13:49:23 +00002478- Issue #7673: Fix security vulnerability (CVE-2010-2089) in the audioop module,
2479 ensure that the input string length is a multiple of the frame size.
Victor Stinner15e5b1b2010-07-03 13:36:19 +00002480
Antoine Pitrou0dddf602010-06-25 00:03:21 +00002481- Issue #9075: In the ssl module, remove the setting of a ``debug`` flag
2482 on an OpenSSL structure.
2483
Benjamin Peterson00633672010-07-03 13:56:56 +00002484
Michael Foord83d35762010-06-10 16:32:00 +00002485What's New in Python 2.7 release candidate 2?
2486=============================================
Benjamin Peterson2f3d9f92010-06-06 02:09:33 +00002487
Benjamin Petersonbfcedf42010-06-21 15:57:57 +00002488*Release date: 2010-06-20*
Benjamin Peterson2f3d9f92010-06-06 02:09:33 +00002489
2490Core and Builtins
2491-----------------
2492
Benjamin Petersonb9133892010-06-22 19:16:37 +00002493- Issue #9058: Remove assertions about INT_MAX in UnicodeDecodeError.
2494
Nick Coghlan8842c352010-06-13 06:50:39 +00002495- Issue #8202: Previous change to ``sys.argv[0]`` handling for -m command line
2496 option reverted due to unintended side effects on handling of ``sys.path``.
2497 See tracker issue for details.
2498
Antoine Pitroucca3a3f2010-06-11 21:42:26 +00002499- Issue #8941: decoding big endian UTF-32 data in UCS-2 builds could crash
2500 the interpreter with characters outside the Basic Multilingual Plane
2501 (higher than 0x10000).
2502
Benjamin Petersonfa4c59f2010-06-08 14:53:29 +00002503- In the unicode/str.format(), raise a ValueError when indexes to arguments are
2504 too large.
Benjamin Peterson13e934a2010-06-07 22:23:23 +00002505
Benjamin Petersonafa1b302010-06-21 15:27:46 +00002506Build
2507-----
2508
2509- Issue #8854: Fix finding Visual Studio 2008 on Windows x64.
2510
Benjamin Peterson2f3d9f92010-06-06 02:09:33 +00002511Library
2512-------
Mark Dickinsone979ec82010-06-13 10:50:29 +00002513
Victor Stinner15e5b1b2010-07-03 13:36:19 +00002514- Issue #6589: cleanup asyncore.socket_map in case smtpd.SMTPServer constructor
Giampaolo Rodolàe00e2f02010-06-30 17:38:28 +00002515 raises an exception.
2516
Thomas Hellerf1800992010-06-21 14:00:24 +00002517- Issue #8959: fix regression caused by using unmodified libffi
2518 library on Windows. ctypes does now again check the stack before
2519 and after calling foreign functions.
2520
R. David Murraydf1cf302010-06-17 01:36:52 +00002521- Issue #8720: fix regression caused by fix for #4050 by making getsourcefile
2522 smart enough to find source files in the linecache.
2523
Mark Dickinsone979ec82010-06-13 10:50:29 +00002524- Issue #8986: math.erfc was incorrectly raising OverflowError for
2525 values between -27.3 and -30.0 on some platforms.
2526
Vinay Sajip936efc72010-06-11 22:56:50 +00002527- Issue #8924: logging: Improved error handling for Unicode in exception text.
Benjamin Peterson2f3d9f92010-06-06 02:09:33 +00002528
Michael Foord83d35762010-06-10 16:32:00 +00002529- Issue #8948: cleanup functions and class / module setups and teardowns are
2530 now honored in unittest debug methods.
2531
Tarek Ziadé770fd152010-06-06 20:05:20 +00002532Documentation
2533-------------
2534
2535- Issues #8909: Added the size of the bitmap used in the installer created by
2536 distutils' bdist_wininst. Patch by Anatoly Techtonik.
2537
Victor Stinnerb65bd2e2010-06-11 19:22:28 +00002538Misc
2539----
2540
2541- Issue #8362: Add maintainers.rst: list of module maintainers
2542
Benjamin Peterson2f3d9f92010-06-06 02:09:33 +00002543
Antoine Pitrou6001b0b2010-05-09 18:32:48 +00002544What's New in Python 2.7 Release Candidate 1?
2545=============================================
Benjamin Peterson534b8de2010-05-08 18:53:42 +00002546
Benjamin Peterson77d534e2010-06-06 00:22:09 +00002547*Release date: 2010-06-05*
Benjamin Peterson534b8de2010-05-08 18:53:42 +00002548
2549Core and Builtins
2550-----------------
2551
Ezio Melottiab2eb0e2010-06-05 19:21:32 +00002552- Issue #8271: during the decoding of an invalid UTF-8 byte sequence, only the
2553 start byte and the continuation byte(s) are now considered invalid, instead
2554 of the number of bytes specified by the start byte.
2555 E.g.: '\xf1\x80AB'.decode('utf-8', 'replace') now returns u'\ufffdAB' and
2556 replaces with U+FFFD only the start byte ('\xf1') and the continuation byte
2557 ('\x80') even if '\xf1' is the start byte of a 4-bytes sequence.
2558 Previous versions returned a single u'\ufffd'.
2559
Mark Dickinson23f0d6b2010-06-05 11:52:24 +00002560- Issue #8627: Remove bogus "Overriding __cmp__ blocks inheritance of
Mark Dickinsone4b83e02010-06-05 12:14:43 +00002561 __hash__ in 3.x" warning. Also fix "XXX undetected error" that
2562 arises from the "Overriding __eq__ blocks inheritance ..." warning
2563 when turned into an exception: in this case the exception simply
2564 gets ignored.
Mark Dickinson23f0d6b2010-06-05 11:52:24 +00002565
Mark Dickinson4ca7c3c2010-05-30 13:18:10 +00002566- Issue #8748: Fix two issues with comparisons between complex and integer
2567 objects. (1) The comparison could incorrectly return True in some cases
2568 (2**53+1 == complex(2**53) == 2**53), breaking transivity of equality.
2569 (2) The comparison raised an OverflowError for large integers, leading
2570 to unpredictable exceptions when combining integers and complex objects
2571 in sets or dicts.
2572
Mark Dickinson81336372010-05-30 12:12:25 +00002573- Issue #5211: Implicit coercion for the complex type is now completely
2574 removed. (Coercion for arithmetic operations was already removed in 2.7
2575 alpha 4, but coercion for rich comparisons was accidentally left in.)
2576
Victor Stinnerc49dfcc2010-05-25 22:30:32 +00002577- Issue #3798: Write sys.exit() message to sys.stderr to use stderr encoding
2578 and error handler, instead of writing to the C stderr file in utf-8
2579
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002580- Issue #7902: When using explicit relative import syntax, don't try implicit
2581 relative import semantics.
Brett Cannoneb3cd302010-05-20 18:37:55 +00002582
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002583- Issue #7079: Fix a possible crash when closing a file object while using it
2584 from another thread. Patch by Daniel Stutzbach.
Antoine Pitrou83137c22010-05-17 19:56:59 +00002585
Victor Stinnerb65bd2e2010-06-11 19:22:28 +00002586- Issue #8868: Fix that ensures that python scripts have access to the
Ronald Oussoren27c72e92010-06-02 03:47:14 +00002587 Window Server again in a framework build on MacOSX 10.5 or earlier.
2588
Antoine Pitrou6a265602010-05-21 17:12:38 +00002589C-API
2590-----
2591
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002592- Issue #5753: A new C API function, :cfunc:`PySys_SetArgvEx`, allows embedders
2593 of the interpreter to set sys.argv without also modifying sys.path. This
2594 helps fix `CVE-2008-5983
Antoine Pitrou6a265602010-05-21 17:12:38 +00002595 <http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-5983>`_.
2596
Benjamin Peterson534b8de2010-05-08 18:53:42 +00002597Library
2598-------
2599
Michael Foordd8918592010-06-05 19:51:38 +00002600- Issue #8302: SkipTest in unittest.TestCase.setUpClass or setUpModule is now
2601 reported as a skip rather than an error.
2602
2603- Issue #8351: Excessively large diffs due to
2604 unittest.TestCase.assertSequenceEqual are no longer included in failure
2605 reports.
2606
Alexander Belopolsky3b818bf2010-06-05 14:54:26 +00002607- Issue #8899: time.struct_time now has class and atribute docstrings.
2608
R. David Murraye7e505b2010-06-04 19:51:06 +00002609- Issue #4487: email now accepts as charset aliases all codec aliases
2610 accepted by the codecs module.
2611
Martin v. Löwiseba67c02010-06-04 19:39:07 +00002612- Issue #6470: Drop UNC prefix in FixTk.
2613
R. David Murray61746d52010-06-03 15:43:20 +00002614- Issue #5610: feedparser no longer eats extra characters at the end of
2615 a body part if the body part ends with a \r\n.
2616
Lars Gustäbel2ee9c6f2010-06-03 09:56:22 +00002617- Issue #8833: tarfile created hard link entries with a size field != 0 by
2618 mistake.
2619
R. David Murray52dcd452010-06-02 22:03:15 +00002620- Issue #1368247: set_charset (and therefore MIMEText) now automatically
2621 encodes a unicode _payload to the output_charset.
2622
Alexander Belopolsky9292ee02010-05-27 20:55:27 +00002623- Issue #7150: Raise OverflowError if the result of adding or subtracting
2624 timedelta from date or datetime falls outside of the MINYEAR:MAXYEAR range.
2625
Victor Stinner04ee3372010-05-24 21:37:28 +00002626- Issue #6662: Fix parsing of malformatted charref (&#bad;), patch written by
2627 Fredrik Håård
Victor Stinner554a3b82010-05-24 21:33:24 +00002628
Georg Brandlf0757a22010-05-24 21:29:07 +00002629- Issue #8016: Add the CP858 codec.
2630
Georg Brandl5d0ca2c2010-05-22 11:29:19 +00002631- Issue #3924: Ignore cookies with invalid "version" field in cookielib.
2632
Victor Stinner7df55da2010-05-22 13:37:56 +00002633- Issue #6268: Fix seek() method of codecs.open(), don't read or write the BOM
2634 twice after seek(0). Fix also reset() method of codecs, UTF-16, UTF-32 and
2635 StreamWriter classes.
Victor Stinner262be5e2010-05-22 02:11:07 +00002636
Victor Stinnerd6703b52010-05-21 22:50:28 +00002637- Issue #5640: Fix Shift-JIS incremental encoder for error handlers different
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002638 than 'strict'.
Victor Stinnerd6703b52010-05-21 22:50:28 +00002639
Benjamin Peterson266e4542010-05-21 21:31:24 +00002640- Issue #8782: Add a trailing newline in linecache.updatecache to the last line
2641 of files without one.
2642
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002643- Issue #8729: Return NotImplemented from ``collections.Mapping.__eq__()`` when
Benjamin Petersoneb318d32010-05-21 20:51:45 +00002644 comparing to a non-mapping.
2645
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002646- Issue #8759: Fix user paths in sysconfig for posix and os2 schemes.
Tarek Ziadé8f692272010-05-19 22:20:14 +00002647
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002648- Issue #1285086: Speed up ``urllib.quote()`` and urllib.unquote for simple
2649 cases.
Florent Xiclunaaf87f9f2010-05-17 13:35:09 +00002650
Tarek Ziadé422545f2010-05-17 10:06:20 +00002651- Issue #8688: Distutils now recalculates MANIFEST everytime.
2652
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002653- Issue #5099: The ``__del__()`` method of ``subprocess.Popen`` (and the methods
2654 it calls) referenced global objects, causing errors to pop up during
2655 interpreter shutdown.
Brett Cannon42a0ba72010-05-14 00:21:48 +00002656
Mark Dickinson932e1622010-05-10 16:07:42 +00002657Extension Modules
2658-----------------
2659
Stefan Krah449aa862010-06-03 12:39:50 +00002660- Issue #7384: If the system readline library is linked against ncurses,
2661 the curses module must be linked against ncurses as well. Otherwise it
2662 is not safe to load both the readline and curses modules in an application.
2663
Brian Curtinb64c89b2010-05-25 15:06:15 +00002664- Issue #2810: Fix cases where the Windows registry API returns
2665 ERROR_MORE_DATA, requiring a re-try in order to get the complete result.
2666
Mark Dickinson932e1622010-05-10 16:07:42 +00002667- Issue #8674: Fixed a number of incorrect or undefined-behaviour-inducing
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002668 overflow checks in the ``audioop`` module.
Benjamin Peterson534b8de2010-05-08 18:53:42 +00002669
Brett Cannonda9af752010-05-13 23:59:41 +00002670Tests
2671-----
2672
R. David Murray4653fb52010-06-03 20:19:25 +00002673- Issue #8889: test_support.transient_internet rewritten so that the new
2674 checks also work on FreeBSD, which lacks EAI_NODATA.
2675
2676- Issue #8835: test_support.transient_internet() catches gaierror(EAI_NONAME)
Victor Stinner03883622010-05-27 22:29:48 +00002677 and gaierror(EAI_NODATA)
2678
Victor Stinner708c0722010-05-26 17:25:28 +00002679- Issue #7449: Skip test_socketserver if threading support is disabled
2680
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002681- On darwin, ``test_site`` assumed that a framework build was being used,
2682 leading to a failure where four directories were expected for site-packages
2683 instead of two in a non-framework build.
Brett Cannonda9af752010-05-13 23:59:41 +00002684
Martin v. Löwisb41afb52010-05-28 15:28:47 +00002685Build
2686-----
2687
Martin v. Löwis16b2a5e2010-06-04 19:15:32 +00002688- Display installer warning that Windows 2000 won't be supported in future
2689 releases.
2690
Victor Stinnerb65bd2e2010-06-11 19:22:28 +00002691- Issues #1759169, #8864: Drop _XOPEN_SOURCE on Solaris, define it for
Martin v. Löwis26eec582010-06-04 17:18:42 +00002692 multiprocessing only.
Brett Cannonda9af752010-05-13 23:59:41 +00002693
Martin v. Löwis5aafc172010-06-04 18:04:42 +00002694Tools/Demos
2695-----------
2696
2697- Issue #5464: Implement plural forms in msgfmt.py.
2698
2699
Antoine Pitrouab5ce722010-04-11 22:45:47 +00002700What's New in Python 2.7 beta 2?
2701================================
Benjamin Peterson12409062010-04-10 18:53:58 +00002702
Benjamin Petersonc2516072010-05-08 17:08:17 +00002703*Release date: 2010-05-08*
Benjamin Peterson12409062010-04-10 18:53:58 +00002704
2705Core and Builtins
2706-----------------
2707
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002708- Run Clang 2.7's static analyzer for ``Objects/`` and ``Python/``.
Brett Cannon5fb89df2010-05-05 20:54:53 +00002709
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002710- Issue #1533: Fix inconsistency in range function argument processing: any
2711 non-float non-integer argument is now converted to an integer (if possible)
2712 using its __int__ method. Previously, only small arguments were treated this
2713 way; larger arguments (those whose __int__ was outside the range of a C long)
2714 would produce a TypeError.
Mark Dickinsona8d26682010-05-04 16:18:25 +00002715
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002716- Issue #8202: ``sys.argv[0]`` is now set to '-m' instead of '-c' when searching
2717 for the module file to be executed with the -m command line option.
Nick Coghlanc5e44852010-04-28 14:51:08 +00002718
Brett Cannon19949692010-04-25 22:33:36 +00002719- Issue #7319: When -Q is used, do not silence DeprecationWarning.
2720
Antoine Pitrou18e63fb2010-04-21 22:53:29 +00002721- Issue #7332: Remove the 16KB stack-based buffer in
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002722 ``PyMarshal_ReadLastObjectFromFile``, which doesn't bring any noticeable
Antoine Pitrou18e63fb2010-04-21 22:53:29 +00002723 benefit compared to the dynamic memory allocation fallback. Patch by
2724 Charles-François Natali.
2725
Benjamin Peterson821a8ea2010-04-16 22:35:38 +00002726- Issue #8417: Raise an OverflowError when an integer larger than sys.maxsize is
2727 passed to bytearray.
2728
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002729- Issue #7072: ``isspace(0xa0)`` is true on Mac OS X.
Ronald Oussoren37805e52010-04-18 13:47:49 +00002730
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002731- Issue #8404: Fix set operations on dictionary views.
Alexandre Vassalotti268e4872010-05-04 03:21:51 +00002732
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002733- Issue #8084: PEP 370 now conforms to system conventions for framework builds
2734 on MacOS X. That is, ``python setup.py install --user`` will install into
2735 ``~/Library/Python/2.7`` instead of ``~/.local``.
Ronald Oussoren2f88bfd2010-05-08 10:29:06 +00002736
Benjamin Peterson12409062010-04-10 18:53:58 +00002737Library
2738-------
2739
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002740- Issue #8681: Make the zlib module's error messages more informative when the
2741 zlib itself doesn't give any detailed explanation.
Antoine Pitroufc3bfad2010-05-11 23:42:28 +00002742
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002743- Issue #8571: Fix an internal error when compressing or decompressing a chunk
2744 larger than 1GB with the zlib module's compressor and decompressor objects.
Antoine Pitrou3843cd82010-05-07 16:50:34 +00002745
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002746- Issue #8573: asyncore ``_strerror()`` function might throw ValueError.
Giampaolo Rodolàf7454fa2010-05-06 17:57:06 +00002747
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002748- Issue #8483: asyncore.dispatcher's __getattr__ method produced confusing error
2749 messages when accessing undefined class attributes because of the cheap
2750 inheritance with the underlying socket object. The cheap inheritance has been
2751 deprecated.
Giampaolo Rodolàf7454fa2010-05-06 17:57:06 +00002752
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002753- Issue #4265: ``shutil.copyfile()`` was leaking file descriptors when disk
2754 fills. Patch by Tres Seaver.
Tarek Ziadé38f81222010-05-05 22:15:31 +00002755
Barry Warsaw8efa8672010-05-05 16:17:22 +00002756- Issue #7755: Use an unencumbered audio file for tests.
2757
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002758- Issue #8621: ``uuid.uuid4()`` returned the same sequence of values in the
2759 parent and any children created using ``os.fork`` on Mac OS X 10.6.
Ronald Oussoren33206962010-05-05 14:48:37 +00002760
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002761- Issue #8313: ``traceback.format_exception_only()`` encodes unicode message to
2762 ASCII with backslashreplace error handler if ``str(value)`` failed.
Victor Stinner926fd4e2010-05-05 12:40:49 +00002763
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002764- Issue #8567: Fix precedence of signals in Decimal module: when a Decimal
2765 operation raises multiple signals and more than one of those signals is
2766 trapped, the specification determines the order in which the signals should be
2767 handled. In many cases this order wasn't being followed, leading to the wrong
2768 Python exception being raised.
Mark Dickinson4f96f5f2010-05-04 14:25:50 +00002769
Antoine Pitrouf7fd8e42010-05-03 16:25:33 +00002770- Issue #7865: The close() method of :mod:`io` objects should not swallow
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002771 exceptions raised by the implicit flush(). Also ensure that calling close()
2772 several times is supported. Patch by Pascal Chambon.
Antoine Pitrouf7fd8e42010-05-03 16:25:33 +00002773
Vinay Sajip27a13702010-05-03 15:11:53 +00002774- Issue #8576: logging updated to remove usage of find_unused_port().
2775
Antoine Pitrou951919f2010-05-02 19:51:14 +00002776- Issue #4687: Fix accuracy of garbage collection runtimes displayed with
2777 gc.DEBUG_STATS.
2778
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002779- Issue #8354: The siginterrupt setting is now preserved for all signals, not
2780 just SIGCHLD.
Jean-Paul Calderonee54ddf12010-05-08 20:06:02 +00002781
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002782- Issue #7192: ``webbrowser.get("firefox")`` now works on Mac OS X, as does
2783 ``webbrowser.get("safari")``.
Ronald Oussoren4ef1c7e2010-05-02 09:48:21 +00002784
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002785- Issue #8577: ``distutils.sysconfig.get_python_inc()`` now makes a difference
Tarek Ziadéa5cd1822010-04-30 12:15:12 +00002786 between the build dir and the source dir when looking for "python.h" or
2787 "Include".
2788
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002789- Issue #8464: tarfile no longer creates files with execute permissions set when
2790 mode="w|" is used.
Lars Gustäbel5c4c4612010-04-29 15:23:38 +00002791
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002792- Issue #7834: Fix connect() of Bluetooth L2CAP sockets with recent versions of
2793 the Linux kernel. Patch by Yaniv Aknin.
Antoine Pitrouf56a2882010-04-29 10:05:40 +00002794
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002795- Issue #6312: Fix http HEAD request when the transfer encoding is chunked. It
2796 should correctly return an empty response now.
Senthil Kumaraned9204342010-04-28 17:20:43 +00002797
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002798- Issue #7490: To facilitate sharing of doctests between 2.x and 3.x test
2799 suites, the ``IGNORE_EXCEPTION_DETAIL`` directive now also ignores the module
2800 location of the raised exception. Based on initial patch by Lennart Regebro.
Nick Coghlandfb45df2010-04-28 14:29:06 +00002801
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002802- Issue #8086: In :func:`ssl.DER_cert_to_PEM_cert()`, fix missing newline before
2803 the certificate footer. Patch by Kyle VanderBeek.
Antoine Pitrou4c7bcf12010-04-27 22:03:37 +00002804
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002805- Issue #8546: Reject None given as the buffering argument to ``_pyio.open()``.
Benjamin Petersona9bd6d52010-04-27 21:01:54 +00002806
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002807- Issue #8549: Fix compiling the _ssl extension under AIX. Patch by Sridhar
2808 Ratnakumar.
Antoine Pitrou1dc6b082010-04-27 19:09:59 +00002809
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002810- Issue #6656: Fix locale.format_string to handle escaped percents and mappings.
R. David Murray3939dcd2010-04-26 21:17:14 +00002811
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002812- Issue #2302: Fix a race condition in SocketServer.BaseServer.shutdown, where
2813 the method could block indefinitely if called just before the event loop
2814 started running. This also fixes the occasional freezes witnessed in
2815 test_httpservers.
Antoine Pitroua6240402010-04-25 21:40:32 +00002816
Antoine Pitroufc69af12010-04-24 20:04:58 +00002817- Issue #5103: SSL handshake would ignore the socket timeout and block
2818 indefinitely if the other end didn't respond.
2819
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002820- The do_handshake() method of SSL objects now adjusts the blocking mode of the
2821 SSL structure if necessary (as other methods already do).
Antoine Pitrou4d3e3722010-04-24 19:57:01 +00002822
Georg Brandl4341e542010-04-24 09:08:10 +00002823- Issue #7507: Quote "!" in pipes.quote(); it is special to some shells.
2824
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002825- Issue #5238: Calling makefile() on an SSL object would prevent the underlying
2826 socket from being closed until all objects get truely destroyed.
Antoine Pitroub558f172010-04-23 23:25:45 +00002827
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002828- Issue #7943: Fix circular reference created when instantiating an SSL socket.
2829 Initial patch by Péter Szabó.
Antoine Pitroudfb299b2010-04-23 22:54:59 +00002830
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002831- Issue #8451: Syslog module now uses basename(sys.argv[0]) instead of the
2832 string "python" as the *ident*. openlog() arguments are all optional and
2833 keywords.
Sean Reifscheiderf6ce3cb2010-04-23 08:31:55 +00002834
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002835- Issue #8108: Fix the unwrap() method of SSL objects when the socket has a
2836 non-infinite timeout. Also make that method friendlier with applications
Antoine Pitroua5c4b552010-04-22 23:33:02 +00002837 wanting to continue using the socket in clear-text mode, by disabling
2838 OpenSSL's internal readahead. Thanks to Darryl Miles for guidance.
2839
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002840- Issue #8484: Load all ciphers and digest algorithms when initializing the _ssl
2841 extension, such that verification of some SSL certificates doesn't fail
2842 because of an "unknown algorithm".
Antoine Pitrouc715a9e2010-04-21 19:28:03 +00002843
Victor Stinnera92e81b2010-04-20 22:28:31 +00002844- Issue #8437: Fix test_gdb failures, patch written by Dave Malcolm
2845
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002846- Issue #4814: The timeout parameter is now applied also for connections
2847 resulting from PORT/EPRT commands.
Giampaolo Rodolà607f7c02010-04-19 21:46:28 +00002848
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002849- Issue #8463: Add missing reference to bztar in shutil's documentation.
Tarek Ziadé8a12f942010-04-19 21:28:21 +00002850
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002851- Issue #8438: Remove reference to the missing "surrogateescape" encoding error
2852 handler from the new IO library.
Antoine Pitrou7c587bf2010-04-19 18:52:43 +00002853
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002854- Issue #3817: ftplib.FTP.abort() method now considers 225 a valid response code
2855 as stated in RFC-959 at chapter 5.4.
Giampaolo Rodolàcf445fc2010-04-18 12:55:03 +00002856
Martin v. Löwis24f09fd2010-04-17 22:40:40 +00002857- Issue #8279: Fix test_gdb failures.
2858
Antoine Pitrou0a6373c2010-04-17 17:10:38 +00002859- Issue #8322: Add a *ciphers* argument to SSL sockets, so as to change the
2860 available cipher list. Helps fix test_ssl with OpenSSL 1.0.0.
2861
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002862- Issue #2987: RFC 2732 support for urlparse (IPv6 addresses). Patch by Tony
Senthil Kumaran8c6d9d72010-04-16 02:46:46 +00002863 Locke and Hans Ulrich Niedermann.
2864
R. David Murray1a14d3d2010-04-12 16:35:19 +00002865- Issue #7585: difflib context and unified diffs now place a tab between
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002866 filename and date, conforming to the 'standards' they were originally designed
2867 to follow. This improves compatibility with patch tools.
R. David Murray1a14d3d2010-04-12 16:35:19 +00002868
R. David Murray27ef9372010-04-12 14:26:06 +00002869- Issue #7472: Fixed typo in email.encoders module; messages using ISO-2022
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002870 character sets will now consistently use a Content-Transfer-Encoding of 7bit
2871 rather than sometimes being marked as 8bit.
R. David Murray27ef9372010-04-12 14:26:06 +00002872
Martin v. Löwis7f7765c2010-04-12 05:18:16 +00002873- Issue #8330: Fix expected output in test_gdb.
2874
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002875- Issue #8374: Update the internal alias table in the :mod:`locale` module to
2876 cover recent locale changes and additions.
Antoine Pitrouab5ce722010-04-11 22:45:47 +00002877
Matthias Klose8a96d202010-04-21 22:18:52 +00002878Extension Modules
2879-----------------
2880
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002881- Issue #8644: Improved accuracy of ``timedelta.total_seconds()``.
Mark Dickinson7000e9e2010-05-09 09:30:06 +00002882
Brett Cannon945df9a2010-05-04 01:04:53 +00002883- Use Clang 2.7's static analyzer to find places to clean up some code.
2884
Matthias Klose8a96d202010-04-21 22:18:52 +00002885- Build the ossaudio extension on GNU/kFreeBSD.
2886
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002887- On Windows, ctypes does no longer check the stack before and after calling a
2888 foreign function. This allows to use the unmodified libffi library.
Thomas Heller06a7e202010-05-04 18:44:42 +00002889
Antoine Pitroua5c4b552010-04-22 23:33:02 +00002890Tests
2891-----
2892
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002893- Issue #8672: Add a zlib test ensuring that an incomplete stream can be handled
2894 by a decompressor object without errors (it returns incomplete uncompressed
2895 data).
Antoine Pitrou37ffc3e2010-05-11 23:32:31 +00002896
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002897- Issue #8490: asyncore now has a more solid test suite which actually tests its
2898 API.
Giampaolo Rodolàff46d6e2010-05-10 15:33:22 +00002899
Antoine Pitrou54f9f832010-04-30 23:08:48 +00002900- Issue #8576: Remove use of find_unused_port() in test_smtplib and
2901 test_multiprocessing. Patch by Paul Moore.
2902
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002903- Issue #7449: Fix many tests to support Python compiled without thread support.
2904 Patches written by Jerry Seutter.
Victor Stinnerd9d147b2010-04-27 21:46:03 +00002905
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002906- Issue #8108: test_ftplib's non-blocking SSL server now has proper handling of
2907 SSL shutdowns.
Antoine Pitroua5c4b552010-04-22 23:33:02 +00002908
Matthias Klose5183ebd2010-04-24 16:38:36 +00002909Build
2910-----
2911
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002912- Issue #8625: Turn off optimization in ``--with-pydebug`` builds with gcc.
Mark Dickinsond2f3e3f2010-05-05 22:23:58 +00002913 (Optimization was unintentionally turned on in gcc --with-pydebug builds in
2914 2.7 beta1 as a result of the issue #1628484 fix, combined with autoconf's
2915 strange choice of default CFLAGS produced by AC_PROG_CC for gcc.)
2916
Matthias Klose5183ebd2010-04-24 16:38:36 +00002917- Issue #8509: Fix quoting in help strings and code snippets in configure.in.
2918
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002919- Issue #3646: It is now easily possible to install a Python framework into your
2920 home directory on Mac OS X, see Mac/README for more information.
Ronald Oussoren01d149f2010-04-30 11:20:14 +00002921
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002922- Issue #8510: Update to autoconf 2.65.
Matthias Klosea0bea5d2010-05-08 10:00:28 +00002923
Brett Cannonc1f5c2f2010-05-02 21:51:23 +00002924Misc
2925----
2926
2927- Update the Vim syntax highlight file.
2928
Benjamin Peterson12409062010-04-10 18:53:58 +00002929
Benjamin Peterson5da7e7c2010-03-06 22:44:07 +00002930What's New in Python 2.7 beta 1?
2931================================
2932
Benjamin Petersonfbac6c12010-04-10 16:22:05 +00002933*Release date: 2010-04-10*
Benjamin Peterson5da7e7c2010-03-06 22:44:07 +00002934
2935Core and Builtins
2936-----------------
2937
Philip Jenveyaebbaeb2010-04-06 23:24:45 +00002938- Issue #7301: Add environment variable $PYTHONWARNINGS.
2939
Benjamin Peterson3a1dfa22010-04-06 21:50:00 +00002940- Issue #8329: Don't return the same lists from select.select when no fds are
2941 changed.
2942
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002943- Issue #8259: ``1L << (2**31)`` no longer produces an 'outrageous shift error'
Mark Dickinson82791672010-04-06 16:47:55 +00002944 on 64-bit machines. The shift count for either left or right shift is
2945 permitted to be up to sys.maxsize.
2946
Benjamin Peterson4ceeeb02010-04-03 22:48:51 +00002947- Ensure that tokenization of identifiers is not affected by locale.
2948
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002949- Issue #1222585: Added LDCXXSHARED for C++ support. Patch by Arfrever.
Tarek Ziadé00002952010-04-03 08:37:59 +00002950
Benjamin Peterson1c7c11e2010-04-03 01:28:57 +00002951- Raise a TypeError when trying to delete a T_STRING_INPLACE struct member.
2952
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002953- Issue #7994: Issue a PendingDeprecationWarning if object.__format__ is called
2954 with a non-empty format string. This is an effort to future-proof user
2955 code. If a derived class does not currently implement __format__ but later
2956 adds its own __format__, it would most likely break user code that had
Antoine Pitrou01a196a2011-01-02 20:05:11 +00002957 supplied a format string. This will be changed to a DeprecationWarning in
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002958 Python 3.3 and it will be an error in Python 3.4.
Eric Smithd44b2fc2010-04-02 12:30:56 +00002959
Antoine Pitroua57df2c2010-03-31 21:32:15 +00002960- Issue #8268: Old-style classes (not just instances) now support weak
2961 references.
2962
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002963- Issue #8211: Save/restore CFLAGS around AC_PROG_CC in configure.in, in case it
2964 is set.
Victor Stinner6cbf90f2010-03-25 00:21:53 +00002965
Victor Stinnerc7790ed2010-03-22 12:36:28 +00002966- Issue #1583863: An unicode subclass can now override the __unicode__ method
Victor Stinner95affc42010-03-22 12:24:37 +00002967
Benjamin Peterson96545892010-03-21 20:21:00 +00002968- Issue #6474: Make error message from passing an inadequate number of keyword
2969 arguments to a function correct.
2970
Benjamin Peterson0dee9c12010-03-17 20:41:42 +00002971- Issue #8164: Don't allow lambda functions to have a docstring.
2972
Victor Stinner66644262010-03-10 22:30:19 +00002973- Issue #3137: Don't ignore errors at startup, especially a keyboard interrupt
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002974 (SIGINT). If an error occurs while importing the site module, the error is
2975 printed and Python exits. Initialize the GIL before importing the site
Victor Stinner66644262010-03-10 22:30:19 +00002976 module.
2977
Collin Winter001a3952010-03-18 21:54:01 +00002978- Code objects now support weak references.
2979
Benjamin Peterson5da7e7c2010-03-06 22:44:07 +00002980Library
2981-------
2982
R. David Murray661303f2010-04-13 20:57:40 +00002983- Issue #5277: Fix quote counting when parsing RFC 2231 encoded parameters.
2984
Antoine Pitrouf9de5342010-04-05 21:35:07 +00002985- Issue #8321: Give access to OpenSSL version numbers from the `ssl` module,
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002986 using the new attributes `ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION`, `ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION_INFO` and
2987 `ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION_NUMBER`.
Antoine Pitrouf9de5342010-04-05 21:35:07 +00002988
Benjamin Peterson76a23c12010-04-04 23:23:22 +00002989- Issue #8310: Allow dis to examine new style classes.
2990
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002991- Issue #8257: The Decimal construct now accepts a float instance directly,
2992 converting that float to a Decimal of equal value:
Mark Dickinson8a950712010-04-03 15:47:46 +00002993
2994 >>> Decimal(1.1)
2995 Decimal('1.100000000000000088817841970012523233890533447265625')
2996
Raymond Hettinger34c35b22010-04-03 10:22:00 +00002997- collections.Counter() now supports a subtract() method.
2998
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002999- The functools module now has a total_ordering() class decorator to simplify
3000 the specification of rich comparisons.
Raymond Hettingera551f312010-04-04 18:34:45 +00003001
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003002- The functools module also adds cmp_to_key() as a tool to transition old-style
3003 comparison functions to new-style key-functions.
Raymond Hettingera551f312010-04-04 18:34:45 +00003004
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003005- Issue #8294: The Fraction constructor now accepts Decimal and float instances
3006 directly.
Mark Dickinson7c63eee2010-04-02 22:27:36 +00003007
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003008- Issue #7279: Comparisons involving a Decimal signaling NaN now signal
3009 InvalidOperation instead of returning False. (Comparisons involving a quiet
3010 NaN are unchanged.) Also, Decimal quiet NaNs are now hashable; Decimal
3011 signaling NaNs remain unhashable.
Mark Dickinsone096e822010-04-02 10:17:07 +00003012
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003013- Issue #2531: Comparison operations between floats and Decimal instances now
3014 return a result based on the numeric values of the operands; previously they
3015 returned an arbitrary result based on the relative ordering of id(float) and
3016 id(Decimal).
Mark Dickinson99d80962010-04-02 08:53:22 +00003017
Barry Warsawf7f2d6f2010-03-31 21:07:16 +00003018- Issue #8233: When run as a script, py_compile.py optionally takes a single
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003019 argument `-` which tells it to read files to compile from stdin. Each line is
3020 read on demand and the named file is compiled immediately. (Original patch by
3021 Piotr Ożarowski).
Barry Warsawf7f2d6f2010-03-31 21:07:16 +00003022
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003023- Issue #3135: Add ``inspect.getcallargs()``, which binds arguments to a
3024 function like a normal call.
Benjamin Peterson7e213252010-03-30 17:58:13 +00003025
Florent Xicluna58b65662010-03-30 16:29:03 +00003026- Backwards incompatible change: Unicode codepoints line tabulation (0x0B) and
3027 form feed (0x0C) are now considered linebreaks, as specified in Unicode
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003028 Standard Annex #14. See issue #7643. http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr14/
Florent Xicluna22b24382010-03-30 08:24:06 +00003029
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003030- Comparisons using one of <, <=, >, >= between a complex instance and a
3031 Fractions instance now raise TypeError instead of returning True/False. This
3032 makes Fraction <=> complex comparisons consistent with int <=> complex, float
3033 <=> complex, and complex <=> complex comparisons.
Mark Dickinson9588d992010-03-27 11:14:37 +00003034
Michael Foorde6410c52010-03-29 20:04:23 +00003035- Addition of ``WeakSet`` to the ``weakref`` module.
3036
Vinay Sajipb0623d62010-03-24 14:31:21 +00003037- logging: Added LOG_FTP to SysLogHandler and updated documentation.
3038
Florent Xicluna176cda12010-03-22 22:52:11 +00003039- Issue #8205: Remove the "Modules" directory from sys.path when Python is
3040 running from the build directory (POSIX only).
3041
Florent Xiclunae1f4c922010-03-22 22:45:50 +00003042- Issue #7667: Fix doctest failures with non-ASCII paths.
3043
Antoine Pitrou513d9ae2010-03-22 19:59:46 +00003044- Issue #7512: shutil.copystat() could raise an OSError when the filesystem
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003045 didn't support chflags() (for example ZFS under FreeBSD). The error is now
3046 silenced.
Antoine Pitrou513d9ae2010-03-22 19:59:46 +00003047
Florent Xicluna9e7a4c92010-03-22 16:07:38 +00003048- Issue #7703: ctypes supports both buffer() and memoryview(). The former is
3049 deprecated.
3050
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003051- Issue #7860: platform.uname now reports the correct 'machine' type when Python
3052 is running in WOW64 mode on 64 bit Windows.
R. David Murrayc9d1a782010-03-22 15:55:09 +00003053
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003054- logging: Added getChild utility method to Logger and added isEnabledFor method
3055 to LoggerAdapter.
Vinay Sajip804899b2010-03-22 15:29:01 +00003056
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003057- Issue #8201: logging: Handle situation of non-ASCII and Unicode logger names
3058 existing at the same time, causing a Unicode error when configuration code
3059 attempted to sort the existing loggers.
Vinay Sajip31e928e2010-03-22 13:02:28 +00003060
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003061- Issue #8200: logging: Handle errors when multiprocessing is not fully loaded
3062 when logging occurs.
Vinay Sajip3017a7b2010-03-22 12:33:08 +00003063
Antoine Pitroueee91cd2010-03-26 19:27:16 +00003064- Issue #3890, #8222: Fix recv() and recv_into() on non-blocking SSL sockets.
3065 Also, enable the SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY flag on SSL sockets, so that blocking
3066 reads and writes are always retried by OpenSSL itself.
Antoine Pitrou448da712010-03-21 19:33:38 +00003067
Florent Xiclunacf82fa62010-03-21 12:27:20 +00003068- Issue #8179: Fix macpath.realpath() on a non-existing path.
3069
Florent Xicluna2e0a53f2010-03-18 21:50:06 +00003070- Issue #8024: Update the Unicode database to 5.2.
3071
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003072- Issue #8104: socket.recv_into() and socket.recvfrom_into() now support writing
3073 into objects supporting the new buffer API, for example bytearrays or
3074 memoryviews.
Antoine Pitroud7b731d2010-03-17 22:45:39 +00003075
Matthias Klose8b411682010-03-16 10:48:52 +00003076- Issue #4961: Inconsistent/wrong result of askyesno function in tkMessageBox
3077 with Tcl/Tk-8.5.
3078
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003079- Issue #8140: Extend compileall to compile single files. Add -i option.
Matthias Kloseb13d04c2010-03-15 17:44:12 +00003080
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003081- Issue #7356: ctypes.util: Make parsing of ldconfig output independent of the
3082 locale.
Matthias Klose358e7ff2010-03-15 13:42:23 +00003083
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003084- Issue #7774: Set sys.executable to an empty string if ``argv[0]`` has been set
3085 to an non existent program name and Python is unable to retrieve the real
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003086 program name.
Victor Stinner75227342010-03-12 14:30:26 +00003087
Vinay Sajipecfa08f2010-03-12 09:16:10 +00003088- Issue #8117: logging: Improved algorithm for computing initial rollover time
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003089 for ``TimedRotatingFileHandler`` by using the modification time of an existing
3090 log file to compute the next rollover time. If the log file does not exist,
3091 the current time is used as the basis for the computation.
Vinay Sajip9098ee42010-03-12 06:01:21 +00003092
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003093- Issue #6472: The ``xml.etree`` package is updated to ElementTree 1.3. The
Florent Xicluna3e8c1892010-03-11 14:36:19 +00003094 cElementTree module is updated too.
3095
Florent Xicluna85677612010-03-10 23:58:42 +00003096- Issue #7880: Fix sysconfig when the python executable is a symbolic link.
3097
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003098- Issue #7624: Fix ``isinstance(foo(), collections.Callable)`` for old-style
Florent Xicluna47627d52010-03-08 15:20:28 +00003099 classes.
3100
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003101- Issue #7143: email: ``get_payload()`` used to strip any trailing newline from
3102 a base64 transfer-encoded payload *after* decoding it; it no longer does.
3103 This is a behavior change, so email's minor version number is now bumped, to
3104 version 4.0.2, for the 2.7 release.
R. David Murray4617e502010-03-08 02:04:06 +00003105
Larry Hastings3b958e32010-04-02 11:18:17 +00003106- Issue #8235: _socket: Add the constant ``SO_SETFIB``. SO_SETFIB is
3107 a socket option available on FreeBSD 7.1 and newer.
3108
Michael Foorda04c7a02010-04-02 22:55:59 +00003109- Issue #8038: unittest.TestCase.assertNotRegexpMatches
3110
3111- Addition of -b command line option to unittest for buffering stdout / stderr
3112 during test runs.
3113
Victor Stinnerdb990922010-05-15 21:00:59 +00003114- Issue #1220212: Added os.kill support for Windows, including support for
Brian Curtin85108e62010-04-02 23:31:28 +00003115 sending CTRL+C and CTRL+BREAK events to console subprocesses.
3116
Mark Dickinson154b7ad2010-03-07 16:24:45 +00003117Extension Modules
3118-----------------
3119
Martin v. Löwis16ea5482010-04-07 11:01:46 +00003120- Issue #8314: Fix unsigned long long bug in libffi on Sparc v8.
3121
Matthias Klosee9fbf2b2010-03-19 14:45:06 +00003122- Issue #1039, #8154: Fix os.execlp() crash with missing 2nd argument.
3123
Jesus Cea6557aac2010-03-22 14:22:26 +00003124- Issue #8156: bsddb module updated to version 4.8.4.
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003125 http://www.jcea.es/programacion/pybsddb.htm#bsddb3-4.8.4. This update drops
3126 support for Berkeley DB 4.0, and adds support for 4.8.
Matthias Klose54cc5392010-03-15 12:46:18 +00003127
Jesus Cea616de772010-04-28 10:32:30 +00003128- Issue #3928: os.mknod() now available in Solaris, also.
3129
Matthias Klose817acef2010-03-15 00:02:36 +00003130- Issue #8142: Update libffi to the 3.0.9 release.
3131
Mark Dickinson4846a8e2010-04-03 14:05:10 +00003132- Issue #8300: When passing a non-integer argument to struct.pack with any
3133 integer format code, struct.pack first attempts to convert the non-integer
3134 using its __index__ method. If that method is non-existent or raises
3135 TypeError it goes on to try the __int__ method, as described below.
3136
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003137- Issue #1530559: When passing a non-integer argument to struct.pack with *any*
3138 integer format code (one of 'bBhHiIlLqQ'), struct.pack attempts to use the
3139 argument's __int__ method to convert to an integer before packing. It also
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003140 produces a DeprecationWarning in this case. (In Python 2.6, the behaviour was
3141 inconsistent: __int__ was used for some integer codes but not for others, and
3142 the set of integer codes for which it was used differed between native packing
3143 and standard packing.)
Mark Dickinson154b7ad2010-03-07 16:24:45 +00003144
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003145- Issue #7347: _winreg: Add CreateKeyEx and DeleteKeyEx, as well as fix a bug in
3146 the return value of QueryReflectionKey.
Brian Curtin19479fa2010-04-02 21:51:37 +00003147
Antoine Pitrou02b3f0a2010-03-13 21:21:30 +00003148Tools/Demos
3149-----------
3150
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003151- Issue #7993: Add a test of IO packet processing bandwidth to ccbench. It
3152 measures the number of UDP packets processed per second depending on the
3153 number of background CPU-bound Python threads.
Benjamin Peterson5da7e7c2010-03-06 22:44:07 +00003154
Collin Wintera70f3492010-03-19 00:08:44 +00003155- python-config now supports multiple options on the same command line.
3156
Benjamin Peterson11d93232010-03-14 14:24:31 +00003157Build
3158-----
3159
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003160- Issue #8032: For gdb7, a python-gdb.py file is added to the build, allowing to
3161 use advanced gdb features when debugging Python.
Martin v. Löwisbf0dfb32010-04-01 07:40:51 +00003162
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003163- Issue #1628484: The Makefile doesn't ignore the CFLAGS environment variable
3164 anymore. It also forwards the LDFLAGS settings to the linker when building a
3165 shared library.
Antoine Pitrouf83b3082010-03-21 19:19:41 +00003166
Martin v. Löwis24e4e162010-03-15 13:00:17 +00003167- Issue #6716: Quote -x arguments of compileall in MSI installer.
3168
Benjamin Peterson11d93232010-03-14 14:24:31 +00003169- Issue #7705: Fix linking on FreeBSD.
3170
Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven6d22cfc2010-04-07 16:34:08 +00003171- Make sure that the FreeBSD build of the included libffi uses the proper
3172 assembly file.
3173
Larry Hastings402b73f2010-03-25 00:54:54 +00003174C-API
3175-----
3176
Antoine Pitrou76c86492010-04-01 16:42:11 +00003177- Issue #8276: PyEval_CallObject() is now only available in macro form. The
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003178 function declaration, which was kept for backwards compatibility reasons, is
3179 now removed (the macro was introduced in 1997!).
Antoine Pitrou76c86492010-04-01 16:42:11 +00003180
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003181- Issue #7992: A replacement PyCObject API, PyCapsule, has been backported from
3182 Python 3.1. All existing Python CObjects in the main distribution have been
3183 converted to capsules. To address backwards-compatibility concerns,
3184 PyCObject_AsVoidPtr() was changed to understand capsules.
Larry Hastings402b73f2010-03-25 00:54:54 +00003185
Florent Xicluna3cc8f212010-03-15 18:08:58 +00003186Tests
3187-----
3188
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003189- Issue #3864: Skip three test_signal tests on freebsd6 because they fail if any
3190 thread was previously started, most likely due to a platform bug.
R. David Murraye0e8a872010-04-17 05:26:26 +00003191
Antoine Pitrouab5ce722010-04-11 22:45:47 +00003192- Issue #8348: Fix test ftp url in test_urllib2net.
3193
3194- Issue #8204: Fix test_ttk notebook test by forcing focus.
3195
3196- Issue #8344: Fix test_ttk bug on FreeBSD.
3197
Antoine Pitrou3b4c9892010-04-06 17:21:09 +00003198- Issue #8193: Fix test_zlib failure with zlib 1.2.4.
3199
Antoine Pitrou6032c252010-03-30 18:49:45 +00003200- Issue #8248: Add some tests for the bool type. Patch by Gregory Nofi.
3201
Florent Xicluna75c66762010-03-30 16:31:14 +00003202- Issue #8263: Now regrtest.py will report a failure if it receives a
3203 KeyboardInterrupt (SIGINT).
3204
Florent Xicluna8aa5a582010-03-25 20:33:49 +00003205- Issue #8180 and #8207: Fix test_pep277 on OS X and add more tests for special
3206 Unicode normalization cases.
Florent Xicluna77a88492010-03-21 18:00:38 +00003207
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003208- Issue #7783: test.test_support.open_urlresource invalidates the outdated files
3209 from the local cache.
Florent Xicluna3cc8f212010-03-15 18:08:58 +00003210
R. David Murray4617e502010-03-08 02:04:06 +00003211
Benjamin Peterson2d798ac2010-02-06 18:26:27 +00003212What's New in Python 2.7 alpha 4?
3213=================================
3214
Benjamin Peterson8e7c1172010-03-06 20:34:14 +00003215*Release date: 2010-03-06*
Benjamin Peterson2d798ac2010-02-06 18:26:27 +00003216
3217Core and Builtins
3218-----------------
3219
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003220- Issue #7544: Preallocate thread memory before creating the thread to avoid a
3221 fatal error in low memory condition.
Victor Stinner71fb87e2010-03-03 23:20:25 +00003222
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003223- Issue #7820: The parser tokenizer restores all bytes in the right if the BOM
3224 check fails.
Victor Stinnerd23d3932010-03-02 23:20:02 +00003225
Eric Smith2d9856d2010-02-24 14:15:36 +00003226- Issue #7309: Fix unchecked attribute access when converting
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003227 UnicodeEncodeError, UnicodeDecodeError, and UnicodeTranslateError to strings.
Eric Smith2d9856d2010-02-24 14:15:36 +00003228
Ezio Melotti32125152010-02-25 17:36:04 +00003229- Issue #7649: "u'%c' % char" now behaves like "u'%s' % char" and raises a
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003230 UnicodeDecodeError if 'char' is a byte string that can't be decoded using the
3231 default encoding.
Victor Stinnerf20f9c22010-02-23 23:16:07 +00003232
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003233- Issue #6902: Fix problem with built-in types format incorrectly with 0
3234 padding.
Eric Smith87bcb242010-02-23 00:11:16 +00003235
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003236- Issue #2560: Remove an unnecessary 'for' loop from ``my_fgets()`` in
Andrew M. Kuchlingb64d6132010-02-22 22:48:41 +00003237 Parser/myreadline.c.
3238
Eric Smithf32d4ac2010-02-22 18:33:47 +00003239- Issue #7988: Fix default alignment to be right aligned for
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003240 ``complex.__format__``. Now it matches other numeric types.
Eric Smithf32d4ac2010-02-22 18:33:47 +00003241
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003242- Issue #5211: The complex type no longer uses implicit coercion in mixed-type
3243 binary arithmetic operations.
Mark Dickinson82b34c52010-02-21 12:57:35 +00003244
Benjamin Peterson2d798ac2010-02-06 18:26:27 +00003245Library
3246-------
Georg Brandl7f0c3ff2010-08-01 21:18:52 +00003247
Senthil Kumaranc1d0ed22010-12-04 09:58:29 +00003248- Issue #7904: Changes to urllib.parse.urlsplit to handle schemes as defined by
3249 RFC3986. Anything before :// is considered a scheme and is followed by an
3250 authority (or netloc) and by '/' led path, which is optional.
3251
R. David Murray05b76312010-07-17 01:35:16 +00003252- Issue #1555570: email no longer inserts extra blank lines when a \r\n
3253 combo crosses an 8192 byte boundary.
Benjamin Peterson2d798ac2010-02-06 18:26:27 +00003254
Florent Xicluna0b9a18a2010-03-06 11:01:08 +00003255- Issue #6906: Tk should not set Unicode environment variables on Windows.
3256
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003257- Issue #1054943: Fix ``unicodedata.normalize('NFC', text)`` for the Public
Ezio Melotti8122bdd2010-03-14 10:13:49 +00003258 Review Issue #29 (http://unicode.org/review/pr-29.html).
Victor Stinner7c924ec2010-03-04 12:09:33 +00003259
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003260- Issue #7494: Fix a crash in ``_lsprof`` (cProfile) after clearing the profiler,
Victor Stinner56a51532010-03-04 00:10:12 +00003261 reset also the pointer to the current pointer context.
3262
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003263- Issue #7232: Add support for the context manager protocol to the
3264 ``tarfile.TarFile`` class.
Lars Gustäbel64581042010-03-03 11:55:48 +00003265
Barry Warsaw08a8fb32010-03-01 21:46:51 +00003266- Issue #7250: Fix info leak of os.environ across multi-run uses of
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003267 ``wsgiref.handlers.CGIHandler``.
Barry Warsaw08a8fb32010-03-01 21:46:51 +00003268
Florent Xiclunae7901c52010-03-01 20:45:01 +00003269- Issue #1729305: Fix doctest to handle encode error with "backslashreplace".
Florent Xicluna2a903b22010-02-27 13:31:23 +00003270
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003271- Issue #691291: ``codecs.open()`` should not convert end of lines on reading
3272 and writing.
Florent Xicluna82aa01f2010-02-27 11:19:18 +00003273
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003274- Issue #7975: Correct regression in dict methods supported by bsddb.dbshelve.
R. David Murray48605be2010-02-24 02:31:27 +00003275
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003276- Issue #7959: ctypes callback functions are now registered correctly with the
3277 cycle garbage collector.
Thomas Heller92bd0592010-02-23 20:11:44 +00003278
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003279- Issue #7970: ``email.Generator.flatten`` now correctly flattens
3280 message/rfc822 messages parsed by ``email.Parser.HeaderParser``.
R. David Murray51f12042010-02-21 04:23:00 +00003281
Ezio Melotti4cc80ca2010-02-20 08:09:39 +00003282- Issue #3426: ``os.path.abspath`` now returns unicode when its arg is unicode.
3283
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003284- Issue #7633: In the decimal module, ``Context`` class methods (with the
3285 exception of canonical and is_canonical) now accept instances of int and long
3286 wherever a Decimal instance is accepted, and implicitly convert that argument
3287 to Decimal. Previously only some arguments were converted.
Mark Dickinson6d8effb2010-02-18 14:27:02 +00003288
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003289- Issue #6003: Add an argument to ``zipfile.Zipfile.writestr`` to specify the
3290 compression type.
Ezio Melotti8f6a2872010-02-10 21:40:33 +00003291
Michael Foorddb43b5a2010-02-10 14:25:12 +00003292- Issue #7893: ``unittest.TextTestResult`` is made public and a ``resultclass``
3293 argument added to the TextTestRunner constructor allowing a different result
3294 class to be used without having to subclass.
Ezio Melotti8f6a2872010-02-10 21:40:33 +00003295
Ezio Melotti4cc80ca2010-02-20 08:09:39 +00003296- Issue #7588: ``unittest.TextTestResult.getDescription`` now includes the test
Michael Foorddb43b5a2010-02-10 14:25:12 +00003297 name in failure reports even if the test has a docstring.
Ronald Oussorendd25e862010-02-07 20:18:02 +00003298
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003299- Issue #5801: Remove spurious empty lines in wsgiref.
Tarek Ziadéb8708a22010-02-23 05:53:05 +00003300
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003301- Issue #1537721: Add a ``writeheader()`` method to ``csv.DictWriter``.
Dirkjan Ochtman86148172010-02-23 21:09:52 +00003302
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003303- Issue #7427: Improve the representation of httplib.BadStatusLine exceptions.
Dirkjan Ochtmanebc73dc2010-02-24 04:49:00 +00003304
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003305- Issue #7481: When a ``threading.Thread`` failed to start it would leave the
3306 instance stuck in initial state and present in ``threading.enumerate()``.
Gregory P. Smith613c7a52010-02-28 18:36:09 +00003307
Gregory P. Smithcce211f2010-03-01 00:05:08 +00003308- Issue #1068268: The subprocess module now handles EINTR in internal
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003309 ``os.waitpid()`` and ``os.read()`` system calls where appropriate.
Gregory P. Smithcce211f2010-03-01 00:05:08 +00003310
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003311- Issue #6729: Add ``ctypes.c_ssize_t`` to represent ssize_t.
Gregory P. Smith3c699d32010-03-01 04:56:12 +00003312
Steven Betharde9330e72010-03-02 08:38:09 +00003313- Issue #6247: The argparse module has been added to the standard library.
3314
Martin v. Löwis413fabc2010-02-18 09:22:20 +00003315Extension Modules
3316-----------------
3317
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003318- The sqlite3 module was updated to pysqlite 2.6.0. This fixes several obscure
Gerhard Häring3bbb6722010-03-05 09:12:37 +00003319 bugs and allows loading SQLite extensions from shared libraries.
3320
Florent Xiclunae7901c52010-03-01 20:45:01 +00003321- Issue #7808: Fix reference leaks in _bsddb and related tests.
3322
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003323- Issue #6544: Fix a reference leak in the kqueue implementation's error
Georg Brandlea370a92010-02-23 21:48:57 +00003324 handling.
3325
Martin v. Löwis413fabc2010-02-18 09:22:20 +00003326- Stop providing crtassem.h symbols when compiling with Visual Studio 2010, as
3327 msvcr100.dll is not a platform assembly anymore.
Benjamin Peterson2d798ac2010-02-06 18:26:27 +00003328
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003329- Issue #7242: On Solaris 9 and earlier calling ``os.fork()`` from within a
Gregory P. Smith9e5d1322010-03-01 01:22:39 +00003330 thread could raise an incorrect RuntimeError about not holding the import
3331 lock. The import lock is now reinitialized after fork.
3332
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003333- Issue #7999: ``os.setreuid()`` and ``os.setregid()`` would refuse to accept a
3334 -1 parameter on some platforms such as OS X.
Gregory P. Smith6a65f852010-03-01 05:43:43 +00003335
Ezio Melotti8f6a2872010-02-10 21:40:33 +00003336Tests
3337-----
3338
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003339- Issue #7849: The utility ``test.test_support.check_warnings()`` verifies if
3340 warnings are effectively raised. A new utility ``check_py3k_warnings()`` is
3341 available.
Florent Xicluna6de9e932010-03-07 12:18:33 +00003342
Florent Xicluna985478d2010-03-06 18:52:52 +00003343- The four path modules (genericpath, macpath, ntpath, posixpath) share a
3344 common TestCase for some tests: test_genericpath.CommonTest.
3345
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003346- Print platform information when running the whole test suite, or using the
3347 ``--verbose`` flag.
Florent Xicluna58526412010-03-06 17:24:36 +00003348
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003349- Issue #767675: Enable test_pep277 on POSIX platforms with Unicode-friendly
Florent Xiclunac0a9d412010-03-02 22:34:11 +00003350 filesystem encoding.
Florent Xicluna2db61fb2010-03-02 21:34:45 +00003351
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003352- Issue #6292: For the moment at least, the test suite runs cleanly if python
R. David Murrayf28fd242010-02-23 00:24:49 +00003353 is run with the -OO flag. Tests requiring docstrings are skipped.
3354
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003355- Issue #7712: test_support gained a new ``temp_cwd`` context manager which is
3356 now also used by regrtest to run all the tests in a temporary directory. The
3357 original CWD is saved in ``test.test_support.SAVEDCWD``. Thanks to Florent
3358 Xicluna who helped with the patch.
Ezio Melotti8f6a2872010-02-10 21:40:33 +00003359
Martin v. Löwis5e2dd862010-02-15 08:32:00 +00003360Build
3361-----
3362
Martin v. Löwis7875ef62010-02-15 21:41:12 +00003363- Issue #3920, #7903: Define _BSD_SOURCE on OpenBSD 4.4 through 4.9.
Martin v. Löwis5e2dd862010-02-15 08:32:00 +00003364
Ezio Melotti8f6a2872010-02-10 21:40:33 +00003365
Benjamin Petersondd6d92a2010-01-09 17:30:31 +00003366What's New in Python 2.7 alpha 3?
3367=================================
3368
Benjamin Petersona7be9d22010-02-06 16:37:32 +00003369*Release date: 2010-02-06*
Benjamin Petersondd6d92a2010-01-09 17:30:31 +00003370
3371Core and Builtins
3372-----------------
3373
Antoine Pitroubb445a12010-02-05 17:05:54 +00003374- Issue #5677: Explicitly forbid write operations on read-only file objects,
3375 and read operations on write-only file objects. On Windows, the system C
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003376 library would return a bogus result; on Solaris, it was possible to crash the
3377 interpreter. Patch by Stefan Krah.
Antoine Pitroubb445a12010-02-05 17:05:54 +00003378
Barry Warsawb1e66ee2010-02-05 18:45:25 +00003379- Issue #7853: Normalize exceptions before they are passed to a context
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003380 manager's ``__exit__()`` method.
Benjamin Peterson565d7852010-02-05 02:12:14 +00003381
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003382- Issue #7385: Fix a crash in ``PyMemoryView_FromObject()`` when
3383 ``PyObject_GetBuffer()`` fails. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
Antoine Pitrou526e4212010-02-02 22:36:17 +00003384
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003385- Issue #7819: Check ``sys.call_tracing()`` arguments types.
Victor Stinnerb4b0a292010-01-31 22:32:15 +00003386
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003387- Issue #7788: Fix an interpreter crash produced by deleting a list slice with
3388 very large step value.
Mark Dickinson36ecd672010-01-29 17:11:39 +00003389
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003390- Issue #7766: Change ``sys.getwindowsversion()`` return value to a named tuple
3391 and add the additional members returned in an OSVERSIONINFOEX structure. The
3392 new members are service_pack_major, service_pack_minor, suite_mask, and
3393 product_type.
Eric Smithee931b72010-01-27 00:28:29 +00003394
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003395- Issue #7561: Operations on empty bytearrays (such as ``int(bytearray())``)
3396 could crash in many places because of the ``PyByteArray_AS_STRING()`` macro
3397 returning NULL. The macro now returns a statically allocated empty string
3398 instead.
Antoine Pitroue80a6a42010-01-17 12:26:20 +00003399
Antoine Pitrou64672132010-01-13 07:55:48 +00003400- Issue #7622: Improve the split(), rsplit(), splitlines() and replace()
3401 methods of bytes, bytearray and unicode objects by using a common
3402 implementation based on stringlib's fast search. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
3403
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003404- Issue #7632: Fix various str -> float conversion bugs present in 2.7 alpha 2,
3405 including:
Mark Dickinson8efef5c2010-01-12 22:23:56 +00003406
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003407 (1) a serious 'wrong output' bug that could occur for long (> 40 digit) input
3408 strings,
3409 (2) a crash in dtoa.c that occurred in debug builds when parsing certain long
3410 numeric strings corresponding to subnormal values,
3411 (3) a memory leak for some values large enough to cause overflow, and
3412 (4) a number of flaws that could lead to incorrectly rounded results.
3413
3414- Issue #7319, #7770: Silence ``DeprecationWarning`` by default when the -3
3415 option is not used.
Brett Cannon6fdd3dc2010-01-10 02:56:19 +00003416
Alexandre Vassalottiee936a22010-01-09 23:35:54 +00003417- Issue #2335: Backport set literals syntax from Python 3.x.
3418
Alexandre Vassalotti7a8df802010-01-11 23:13:49 +00003419- Issue #2333: Backport set and dict comprehensions syntax from Python 3.x.
3420
Alexandre Vassalotti69eb5162010-01-11 23:17:10 +00003421- Issue #1967: Backport dictionary views from Python 3.x.
3422
Benjamin Petersondd6d92a2010-01-09 17:30:31 +00003423Library
3424-------
3425
Mark Dickinson42add992010-07-11 19:17:28 +00003426- Issue #9137: Fix issue in MutableMapping.update, which incorrectly
3427 treated keyword arguments called 'self' or 'other' specially.
3428
R. David Murray63e4fd72010-02-10 22:42:04 +00003429- Issue #7835: shelve should no longer produce mysterious warnings during
3430 interpreter shutdown.
3431
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003432- Issue #2746: Don't escape ampersands and angle brackets ("&", "<", ">") in
3433 XML processing instructions and comments. These raw characters are allowed
3434 by the XML specification, and are necessary when outputting e.g. PHP code in
3435 a processing instruction. Patch by Neil Muller.
Antoine Pitrou42fb6ab2010-02-09 17:08:05 +00003436
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003437- Issue #7869: logging: Improved diagnostic for format-time errors.
Vinay Sajip64e8b972010-02-07 12:56:54 +00003438
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003439- Issue #7868: logging: Added loggerClass attribute to Manager.
Vinay Sajip657514a2010-02-07 01:37:08 +00003440
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003441- Issue #7851: logging: Clarification on logging configuration files.
Vinay Sajip0e6e97d2010-02-04 20:23:45 +00003442
Antoine Pitroud840e512010-02-04 20:20:18 +00003443- Issue #4772: Raise a ValueError when an unknown Bluetooth protocol is
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003444 specified, rather than fall through to AF_PACKET (in the ``socket`` module).
Antoine Pitroud840e512010-02-04 20:20:18 +00003445 Also, raise ValueError rather than TypeError when an unknown TIPC address
3446 type is specified. Patch by Brian Curtin.
3447
Vinay Sajip28c382f2010-02-04 18:48:53 +00003448- logging: Implemented PEP 391.
3449
Antoine Pitrouf3fa0742010-01-31 22:26:04 +00003450- Issue #6939: Fix file I/O objects in the `io` module to keep the original
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003451 file position when calling `truncate()`. It would previously change the file
3452 position to the given argument, which goes against the tradition of
Antoine Pitrouf3fa0742010-01-31 22:26:04 +00003453 ftruncate() and other truncation APIs. Patch by Pascal Chambon.
3454
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003455- Issue #7610: Reworked implementation of the internal ``zipfile.ZipExtFile``
3456 class used to represent files stored inside an archive. The new
3457 implementation is significantly faster and can be wrapped in a
3458 ``io.BufferedReader`` object for more speedups. It also solves an issue
3459 where interleaved calls to ``read()`` and ``readline()`` give wrong results.
3460 Patch by Nir Aides.
Antoine Pitrou94c33eb2010-01-27 20:59:50 +00003461
Benjamin Peterson2deb5c72010-01-27 02:16:42 +00003462- Issue #7792: Registering non-classes to ABCs raised an obscure error.
3463
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003464- Removed the deprecated functions ``verify()`` and ``vereq()`` from
3465 Lib/test/test_support.py.
Ezio Melotti82230f92010-01-25 12:37:02 +00003466
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003467- Issue #7773: Fix an UnboundLocalError in ``platform.linux_distribution()``
3468 when the release file is empty.
Benjamin Petersona43f34c2010-01-25 03:31:13 +00003469
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003470- Issue #7748: Since unicode values are supported for some metadata options in
3471 Distutils, the DistributionMetadata get_* methods will now return an utf-8
3472 encoded string for them. This ensures that the upload and register commands
3473 send the correct values to PyPI without any error.
Tarek Ziadéf14c7fc2010-01-24 00:33:32 +00003474
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003475- Issue #1670765: Prevent ``email.generator.Generator`` from re-wrapping
R. David Murrayed44dfa2010-01-16 05:15:17 +00003476 headers in multipart/signed MIME parts, which fixes one of the sources of
3477 invalid modifications to such parts by Generator.
3478
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003479- Issue #7701: Fix crash in ``binascii.b2a_uu()`` in debug mode when given a
Antoine Pitrouc391ad02010-01-15 00:18:00 +00003480 1-byte argument. Patch by Victor Stinner.
3481
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003482- Issue #3299: Fix possible crash in the _sre module when given bad argument
3483 values in debug mode. Patch by Victor Stinner.
Antoine Pitrouefdddd32010-01-14 17:25:24 +00003484
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003485- Issue #7703: Add support for the new buffer API to functions of the binascii
3486 module. Backported from py3k by Florent Xicluna, with some additional tests.
Antoine Pitroufd3a60d2010-01-14 16:27:09 +00003487
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003488- Issue #2846: Add support for gzip.GzipFile reading zero-padded files. Patch
3489 by Brian Curtin.
Antoine Pitrou5a9112c2010-01-13 14:32:10 +00003490
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003491- Issue #5827: Make sure that normpath preserves unicode. Initial patch by
3492 Matt Giuca.
Ezio Melottib5689de2010-01-12 03:32:05 +00003493
Tarek Ziadédc0f4872010-01-11 22:50:29 +00003494- Issue #5372: Drop the reuse of .o files in Distutils' ccompiler (since
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003495 Extension extra options may change the output without changing the .c file).
3496 Initial patch by Collin Winter.
Tarek Ziadédc0f4872010-01-11 22:50:29 +00003497
Matthias Klose0d948ac2010-01-22 00:39:04 +00003498Extension Modules
3499-----------------
3500
3501- Expat: Fix DoS via XML document with malformed UTF-8 sequences
3502 (CVE_2009_3560).
3503
Antoine Pitrou8c510e72010-01-13 11:47:49 +00003504Build
3505-----
3506
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003507- Issue #7632: When Py_USING_MEMORY_DEBUGGER is defined, disable the private
3508 memory allocation scheme in dtoa.c and use PyMem_Malloc and PyMem_Free
3509 instead. Also disable caching of powers of 5.
Mark Dickinson9481c572010-01-17 20:57:56 +00003510
Ronald Oussorena55af9a2010-01-17 16:25:57 +00003511- Issue #7658: Ensure that the new pythonw executable works on OSX 10.4
3512
3513- Issue #7714: Use ``gcc -dumpversion`` to detect the version of GCC on
3514 MacOSX.
3515
Antoine Pitrou8c510e72010-01-13 11:47:49 +00003516- Issue #7661: Allow ctypes to be built from a non-ASCII directory path.
3517 Patch by Florent Xicluna.
3518
Antoine Pitrouc07336c2010-01-18 21:15:21 +00003519Tools/Demos
3520-----------
3521
3522- iobench (a file I/O benchmark) and ccbench (a concurrency benchmark) were
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003523 added to the ``Tools`` directory. They were previously living in the
Antoine Pitrouc07336c2010-01-18 21:15:21 +00003524 sandbox.
3525
R. David Murrayce6e4b02010-02-06 04:27:21 +00003526Tests
3527-----
3528
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003529- issue #7728: test_timeout was changed to use ``test_support.bind_port()``
R. David Murrayce6e4b02010-02-06 04:27:21 +00003530 instead of a hard coded port.
3531
Matthias Klose626d92a2010-01-31 16:05:13 +00003532Documentation
3533-------------
Victor Stinnerf20f9c22010-02-23 23:16:07 +00003534
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003535- Updated "Using Python" documentation to include description of CPython's -J,
3536 -U and -X options.
Barry Warsawb1e66ee2010-02-05 18:45:25 +00003537
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003538- Updated Python manual page (options -B, -O0, -s, environment variables
Matthias Klose626d92a2010-01-31 16:05:13 +00003539 PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE, PYTHONNOUSERSITE).
3540
Benjamin Petersondd6d92a2010-01-09 17:30:31 +00003541
Benjamin Peterson4f51baf2009-12-05 18:40:02 +00003542What's New in Python 2.7 alpha 2?
3543=================================
3544
Benjamin Petersonaa7e51f2010-01-09 16:34:06 +00003545*Release date: 2010-01-09*
Benjamin Peterson4f51baf2009-12-05 18:40:02 +00003546
3547Core and Builtins
3548-----------------
3549
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003550- The ``__complex__()`` method is now looked up on the class of instances to
3551 make it consistent with other special methods.
Benjamin Petersonecdae192010-01-04 00:43:01 +00003552
Antoine Pitrou5b7139a2010-01-02 21:12:58 +00003553- Issue #7462: Implement the stringlib fast search algorithm for the `rfind`,
3554 `rindex`, `rsplit` and `rpartition` methods. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
3555
Mark Dickinson1b34d252010-01-01 17:27:30 +00003556- Issue #5080: A number of functions and methods previously produced a
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003557 DeprecationWarning when passed a float argument where an integer was expected.
3558 These functions and methods now raise TypeError instead. The majority of the
3559 effects of this change are in the extension modules, but some core functions
3560 and methods are affected: notably the 'chr', 'range' and 'xrange' builtins,
3561 and many unicode/str methods.
Mark Dickinson1b34d252010-01-01 17:27:30 +00003562
Benjamin Peterson0f02d392009-12-30 19:34:10 +00003563- Issue #7604: Deleting an unset slotted attribute did not raise an
3564 AttributeError.
3565
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003566- Issue #7534: Fix handling of IEEE specials (infinities, nans, negative zero)
3567 in ** operator. The behaviour now conforms to that described in C99 Annex F.
Mark Dickinson99d652e2009-12-30 12:12:23 +00003568
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003569- Issue #7579: The msvcrt module now has docstrings for all its functions.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcc8a2ce72009-12-29 23:06:17 +00003570
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc8645a5c2009-12-29 22:03:38 +00003571- Issue #7413: Passing '\0' as the separator to datetime.datetime.isoformat()
3572 used to drop the time part of the result.
3573
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003574- Issue #1811: Improve accuracy and cross-platform consistency for true division
3575 of integers: the result of a/b is now correctly rounded for ints a and b (at
3576 least on IEEE 754 platforms), and in particular does not depend on the
3577 internal representation of a long.
Mark Dickinson46572832009-12-27 14:55:57 +00003578
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003579- Issue #6108: ``unicode(exception)`` and ``str(exception)`` should return the
3580 same message when only ``__str__()`` (and not ``__unicode__()``) is overridden
3581 in the subclass.
Ezio Melottif84caf42009-12-24 22:25:17 +00003582
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003583- Issue #6834: Replace the implementation for the 'python' and 'pythonw'
Ronald Oussoren92919a62009-12-24 13:30:58 +00003584 executables on OSX.
3585
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003586 These executables now work properly with the arch(1) command: ``arch -ppc
3587 python`` will start a universal binary version of python in PPC mode (unlike
3588 previous releases).
Ronald Oussoren92919a62009-12-24 13:30:58 +00003589
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003590- Issue #1680159: Unicode coercion during an 'in' operation no longer masks the
3591 underlying error when the coercion fails for the left hand operand.
R. David Murray0a0a1a82009-12-14 16:28:26 +00003592
Benjamin Peterson4895af42009-12-13 16:36:53 +00003593- Issue #7491: Metaclass's __cmp__ method was ignored.
3594
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003595- Issue #7466: Segmentation fault when the garbage collector is called in the
3596 middle of populating a tuple. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
Antoine Pitrou2a08b422009-12-13 16:18:14 +00003597
R. David Murrayc7298ff2009-12-14 21:57:39 +00003598
Benjamin Peterson4f51baf2009-12-05 18:40:02 +00003599Library
3600-------
3601
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003602- Issue #6963: Added "maxtasksperchild" argument to ``multiprocessing.Pool``,
3603 allowing for a maximum number of tasks within the pool to be completed by the
3604 worker before that worker is terminated, and a new one created to replace it.
Jesse Noller654ade32010-01-27 03:05:57 +00003605
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003606- Issue #7617: Make sure distutils.unixccompiler.UnixCCompiler recognizes gcc
3607 when it has a fully qualified configuration prefix. Initial patch by
3608 Arfrever.
Tarek Ziadéc25417f2010-01-08 23:42:23 +00003609
Antoine Pitrou80157252010-01-08 19:20:17 +00003610- Issue #7092: Remove py3k warning when importing cPickle. 2to3 handles
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003611 renaming of `cPickle` to `pickle`. The warning was annoying since there's no
3612 alternative to cPickle if you care about performance. Patch by Florent
Antoine Pitrou80157252010-01-08 19:20:17 +00003613 Xicluna.
3614
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003615- Issue #7455: Fix possible crash in cPickle on invalid input. Patch by Victor
3616 Stinner.
Antoine Pitrou0d423b82010-01-07 17:46:49 +00003617
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003618- Issue #7092: Fix the DeprecationWarnings emitted by the standard library when
3619 using the -3 flag. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
Antoine Pitroub9d49632010-01-04 23:22:44 +00003620
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003621- Issue #7471: Improve the performance of GzipFile's buffering mechanism, and
3622 make it implement the ``io.BufferedIOBase`` ABC to allow for further speedups
3623 by wrapping it in an ``io.BufferedReader``. Patch by Nir Aides.
Antoine Pitrou673ddf92010-01-03 22:29:56 +00003624
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003625- Issue #3972: ``httplib.HTTPConnection`` now accepts an optional source_address
Gregory P. Smith9d325212010-01-03 02:06:07 +00003626 parameter to allow specifying where your connections come from.
3627
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003628- ``socket.create_connection()`` now accepts an optional source_address
3629 parameter.
Gregory P. Smith79a3eb12010-01-03 01:29:44 +00003630
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003631- Issue #5511: ``zipfile.ZipFile`` can now be used as a context manager.
Ezio Melotti569e61f2009-12-30 06:14:51 +00003632 Initial patch by Brian Curtin.
3633
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003634- Distutils now correctly identifies the build architecture as "x86_64" when
3635 building on OSX 10.6 without "-arch" flags.
Ronald Oussorenca8e7ec2009-12-24 14:50:35 +00003636
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003637- Issue #7556: Distutils' msvc9compiler now opens the MSVC Manifest file in text
3638 mode.
Tarek Ziadé0479eb52009-12-21 23:37:44 +00003639
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003640- Issue #7552: Removed line feed in the base64 Authorization header in the
3641 Distutils upload command to avoid an error when PyPI reads it. This occurs on
3642 long passwords. Initial patch by JP St. Pierre.
Tarek Ziadé2421d562009-12-20 23:23:34 +00003643
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003644- Issue #7231: urllib2 cannot handle https with proxy requiring auth. Patch by
3645 Tatsuhiro Tsujikawa.
Senthil Kumaran7713acf2009-12-20 06:05:13 +00003646
Benjamin Petersonddd392c2009-12-13 19:19:07 +00003647- Issue #7349: Make methods of file objects in the io module accept None as an
3648 argument where file-like objects (ie StringIO and BytesIO) accept them to mean
3649 the same as passing no argument.
3650
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003651- Issue #7348: ``StringIO.StringIO.readline(-1)`` now acts as if it got no
3652 argument like other file objects.
Benjamin Petersonc4771d22009-12-13 17:31:31 +00003653
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003654- Issue #7357: tarfile no longer suppresses fatal extraction errors by default.
Lars Gustäbel92ca7562009-12-13 11:32:27 +00003655
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003656- Issue #7470: logging: Fix bug in Unicode encoding fallback.
Vinay Sajip5cc4e2a2009-12-11 09:16:01 +00003657
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003658- Issue #5949: Fixed IMAP4_SSL hang when the IMAP server response is missing
3659 proper end-of-line termination.
R. David Murray93321f32009-12-09 15:15:31 +00003660
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003661- Issue #7457: Added a read_pkg_file method to
3662 ``distutils.dist.DistributionMetadata``.
Benjamin Peterson4f51baf2009-12-05 18:40:02 +00003663
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003664- Issue #3745: Undo the 2.7a1 change to have hashlib to reject unicode and non
3665 buffer API supporting objects as input. That behavior is for 3.x only.
Gregory P. Smithfe32d302010-01-02 22:42:50 +00003666
Georg Brandl740cdc32009-12-28 08:34:58 +00003667C-API
3668-----
3669
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003670- Issue #7767: New function ``PyLong_AsLongLongAndOverflow()`` added, analogous
3671 to ``PyLong_AsLongAndOverflow()``.
Mark Dickinsona36507c2010-01-30 10:08:33 +00003672
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003673- Issue #5080: The argument parsing functions ``PyArg_ParseTuple()``,
3674 ``PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords()``, ``PyArg_VaParse()``,
3675 ``PyArg_VaParseTupleAndKeywords()`` and ``PyArg_Parse()`` no longer accept
3676 float arguments for integer format codes (other than 'L'): previously an
3677 attempt to pass a float resulted in a DeprecationWarning; now it gives a
3678 TypeError. For the 'L' format code (which previously had no warning) there is
3679 now a DeprecationWarning.
Mark Dickinson1b34d252010-01-01 17:27:30 +00003680
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003681- Issue #7033: Function ``PyErr_NewExceptionWithDoc()`` added.
Georg Brandl740cdc32009-12-28 08:34:58 +00003682
Martin v. Löwisb4261d52009-12-21 19:29:59 +00003683Build
3684-----
3685
Benjamin Petersonedfe72f2010-01-01 15:21:13 +00003686- Issue #6491: Allow --with-dbmliborder to specify that no dbms will be built.
3687
Benjamin Petersonb4abef62010-01-01 15:18:38 +00003688- Issue #6943: Use pkg-config to find the libffi headers when the
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003689 ``--with-system-ffi`` flag is used.
Benjamin Petersonb4abef62010-01-01 15:18:38 +00003690
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003691- Issue #7609: Add a ``--with-system-expat`` option that causes the system's
3692 expat library to be used for the pyexpat module instead of the one included
3693 with Python.
Benjamin Peterson2c196742009-12-31 03:17:18 +00003694
Benjamin Peterson500ce232009-12-30 02:58:50 +00003695- Issue #7589: Only build the nis module when the correct header files are
3696 found.
3697
Martin v. Löwisf477b932010-01-02 09:25:21 +00003698- Switch to OpenSSL 0.9.8l and sqlite 3.6.21 on Windows.
R. David Murray93321f32009-12-09 15:15:31 +00003699
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003700- Issue #7541: when using ``python-config`` with a framework install the
3701 compiler might use the wrong library.
Ronald Oussorenb5afe542009-12-24 14:17:19 +00003702
R. David Murrayc7298ff2009-12-14 21:57:39 +00003703Tests
3704-----
3705
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003706- Issue #7376: Instead of running a self-test (which was failing) when called
R. David Murray77e48ba2009-12-20 16:46:06 +00003707 with no arguments, doctest.py now gives a usage message.
3708
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003709- Issue #7396: Fix regrtest -s, which was broken by the -j enhancement.
R. David Murray98e3df32009-12-16 11:49:46 +00003710
R. David Murrayc7298ff2009-12-14 21:57:39 +00003711- Issue #7498: test_multiprocessing now uses test_support.find_unused_port
3712 instead of a hardcoded port number in test_rapid_restart.
3713
3714
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +00003715What's New in Python 2.7 alpha 1
3716================================
3717
Benjamin Peterson3513c872009-12-05 18:48:13 +00003718*Release date: 2009-12-05*
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +00003719
3720Core and Builtins
3721-----------------
3722
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003723- Issue #7419: ``locale.setlocale()`` could crash the interpreter on Windows
3724 when called with invalid values.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd7288712009-12-01 21:51:04 +00003725
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003726- Issue #3382: 'F' formatting for float and complex now convert the result to
3727 upper case. This only affects 'inf' and 'nan', since 'f' no longer converts
3728 to 'g' for large values.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd7288712009-12-01 21:51:04 +00003729
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003730- Remove switch from "%f" formatting to "%g" formatting for floats larger than
3731 1e50 in absolute value.
Mark Dickinson9dd5e162009-11-23 20:54:09 +00003732
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003733- Remove restrictions on precision when formatting floats. E.g., "%.120g" %
3734 1e-100 used to raise OverflowError, but now gives the requested 120
3735 significant digits instead.
Mark Dickinson18cfada2009-11-23 18:46:41 +00003736
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003737- Add Py3k warnings for parameter names in parentheses.
Benjamin Peterson89b1a5c2009-11-19 22:58:01 +00003738
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003739- Issue #7362: Give a proper error message for ``def f((x)=3): pass``.
Benjamin Peterson89b1a5c2009-11-19 22:58:01 +00003740
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003741- Issue #7085: Fix crash when importing some extensions in a thread on MacOSX
3742 10.6.
Ronald Oussoren315cd0c2009-11-19 16:25:21 +00003743
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003744- Issue #7117: ``repr(x)`` for a float x returns a result based on the shortest
3745 decimal string that's guaranteed to round back to x under correct rounding
3746 (with round-half-to-even rounding mode). Previously it gave a string based on
3747 rounding x to 17 decimal digits. repr(x) for a complex number behaves
3748 similarly. On platforms where the correctly-rounded strtod and dtoa code is
3749 not supported (see below), repr is unchanged.
Mark Dickinsonb678de82009-11-19 18:41:49 +00003750
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003751- Issue #7117: On almost all platforms: float-to-string and string-to-float
3752 conversions within Python are now correctly rounded. Places these conversions
3753 occur include: str for floats and complex numbers; the float and complex
3754 constructors; old-style and new-style numeric formatting; serialization and
3755 deserialization of floats and complex numbers using marshal, pickle and json;
3756 parsing of float and imaginary literals in Python code; Decimal-to-float
3757 conversion.
Mark Dickinsonb678de82009-11-19 18:41:49 +00003758
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003759 The conversions use a Python-adapted version of David Gay's well-known dtoa.c,
3760 providing correctly-rounded strtod and dtoa C functions. This code is
3761 supported on Windows, and on Unix-like platforms using gcc, icc or suncc as
3762 the C compiler. There may be a small number of platforms on which correct
3763 operation of this code cannot be guaranteed, so the code is not used: notably,
3764 this applies to platforms where the C double format is not IEEE 754 binary64,
3765 and to platforms on x86 hardware where the x87 FPU is set to 64-bit precision
3766 and Python's configure script is unable to determine how to change the FPU
3767 precision. On these platforms conversions use the platform strtod and dtoa,
3768 as before.
Mark Dickinsonb678de82009-11-19 18:41:49 +00003769
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003770- Issue #7117: Backport round implementation from Python 3.x. ``round()`` now
3771 uses the correctly-rounded string <-> float conversions described above (when
3772 available), and so produces correctly rounded results that will display nicely
3773 under the float repr. There are two related small changes: (1) round now
3774 accepts any class with an ``__index__()`` method for its second argument (but
3775 no longer accepts floats for the second argument), and (2) an excessively
3776 large second integer argument (e.g., ``round(1.234, 10**100)``) no longer
3777 raises an exception.
Mark Dickinsonbd15a062009-11-18 19:33:35 +00003778
Philip Jenveyfab8be22009-11-17 02:42:26 +00003779- Issue #1757126: Fix the cyrillic-asian alias for the ptcp154 encoding.
3780
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003781- Fix several issues with ``compile()``. The input can now contain Windows and
3782 Mac newlines and is no longer required to end in a newline.
Benjamin Petersone36199b2009-11-12 23:39:44 +00003783
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003784- Remove length limitation when constructing a complex number from a unicode
3785 string.
Mark Dickinsonc04c7c52009-10-26 22:28:14 +00003786
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003787- Issue #7244: ``itertools.izip_longest()`` no longer ignores exceptions raised
3788 during the formation of an output tuple.
Raymond Hettingerfa7dadd2009-11-01 20:45:16 +00003789
Mark Dickinson8d87dc02009-10-25 20:39:06 +00003790- Issue #1087418: Boost performance of bitwise operations for longs.
3791
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003792- Issue #1722344: ``threading._shutdown()`` is now called in ``Py_Finalize()``,
3793 which fixes the problem of some exceptions being thrown at shutdown when the
3794 interpreter is killed. Patch by Adam Olsen.
Antoine Pitrouefb60c02009-10-20 21:29:37 +00003795
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003796- Issue #7168: Document ``PyFloat_AsString()`` and ``PyFloat_AsReprString()``,
3797 and note that they are unsafe and deprecated.
Eric Smithc12781a2009-10-19 14:38:14 +00003798
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003799- Issue #7120: logging: Remove import of multiprocessing which is causing crash
3800 in GAE.
Vinay Sajip03d5c342009-10-16 14:06:44 +00003801
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003802- Issue #7140: The ``__dict__`` of a module should not be cleared unless the
3803 module is the only object holding a reference to it.
Benjamin Peterson196b0922009-10-15 15:44:46 +00003804
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003805- Issue #1754094: Improve the stack depth calculation in the compiler. There
3806 should be no other effect than a small decrease in memory use. Patch by
3807 Christopher Tur Lesniewski-Laas.
Neil Schemenauer7fdd1cb2009-10-14 17:17:14 +00003808
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003809- Issue #7084: Fix a (very unlikely) crash when printing a list from one thread,
3810 and mutating it from another one. Patch by Scott Dial.
Antoine Pitroubeaf6a02009-10-11 21:03:26 +00003811
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd0052d12009-10-06 19:56:32 +00003812- Issue #1571184: The Unicode database contains properties for more characters.
3813 The tables for code points representing numeric values, white spaces or line
3814 breaks are now generated from the official Unicode Character Database files,
3815 and include information from the Unihan.txt file.
3816
Benjamin Peterson7adbb5a2009-10-03 20:23:24 +00003817- Issue #7050: Fix a SystemError when trying to use unpacking and augmented
3818 assignment.
3819
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003820- Issue #5329: Fix ``os.popen*`` regression from 2.5 with commands as a sequence
3821 running through the shell. Patch by Jean-Paul Calderone and Jani Hakala.
Philip Jenvey8b902042009-09-29 19:10:15 +00003822
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003823- Issue #7019: Raise ValueError when unmarshalling bad long data, instead of
3824 producing internally inconsistent Python longs.
Mark Dickinson7e7a3ec2009-09-29 19:01:06 +00003825
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003826- Issue #6990: Fix ``threading.local`` subclasses leaving old state around after
3827 a reference cycle GC which could be recycled by new locals.
Philip Jenveydbf3b252009-09-29 04:32:44 +00003828
Benjamin Peterson9db55402009-09-18 21:47:27 +00003829- Issue #6300: unicode.encode, unicode.decode, str.decode, and str.encode now
Benjamin Peterson332d7212009-09-18 21:14:55 +00003830 take keyword arguments.
3831
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003832- Issue #6922: Fix an infinite loop when trying to decode an invalid UTF-32
3833 stream with a non-raising error handler like "replace" or "ignore".
Georg Brandle9741f32009-09-17 11:28:09 +00003834
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003835- Issue #6713: Improve performance of base 10 int -> string and long -> string
3836 conversions.
Mark Dickinsonaa2adc82009-09-16 22:10:56 +00003837
Thomas Wouters2920adb2009-09-16 20:36:34 +00003838- Issue #1590864: Fix potential deadlock when mixing threads and fork().
3839
Georg Brandl0674d3f2009-09-16 20:30:09 +00003840- Issue #6844: Do not emit DeprecationWarnings when accessing a "message"
3841 attribute on exceptions that was set explicitly.
3842
Mark Dickinsonc8a7c7c2009-09-06 10:03:31 +00003843- Issue #6846: Fix bug where bytearray.pop() returns negative integers.
3844
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003845- ``classmethod()`` no longer checks if its argument is callable.
Benjamin Peterson6fcf9b52009-09-01 22:27:57 +00003846
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003847- Issue #6750: A text file opened with ``io.open()`` could duplicate its output
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfff896b2009-08-29 18:14:40 +00003848 when writing from multiple threads at the same time.
3849
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003850- Issue #6704: Improve the col_offset in AST for "for" statements with a target
3851 of tuple unpacking.
Benjamin Petersonc0ba8282009-08-15 22:59:21 +00003852
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003853- Issue #6707: ``dir()`` on an uninitialized module caused a crash.
Benjamin Peterson4c6e8082009-08-15 13:16:38 +00003854
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003855- Issue #6540: Fixed crash for ``bytearray.translate()`` with invalid parameters.
Georg Brandlec812ca2009-07-22 11:57:15 +00003856
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003857- Issue #6573: ``set.union()`` stopped processing inputs if an instance of self
Raymond Hettingerc2b9e1a2009-07-27 20:32:04 +00003858 occurred in the argument chain.
3859
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc9d11fef2009-07-13 20:03:21 +00003860- Issue #1616979: Added the cp720 (Arabic DOS) encoding.
3861
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003862- Issue #6070: On posix platforms import no longer copies the execute bit from
3863 the .py file to the .pyc file if it is set. Patch by Marco N.
R. David Murray23a736a2009-07-07 01:06:13 +00003864
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003865- Issue #4618: When unicode arguments are passed to ``print()``, the default
Benjamin Peterson753d1622009-07-02 18:16:45 +00003866 separator and end should be unicode also.
3867
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00003868- Issue #6119: Fixed an incorrect Py3k warning about order comparisons of
3869 built-in functions and methods.
Benjamin Peterson1bf47652009-07-02 17:06:17 +00003870
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003871- Issue #6347: Include inttypes.h as well as stdint.h in pyport.h. This fixes a
3872 build failure on HP-UX: int32_t and uint32_t are defined in inttypes.h instead
3873 of stdint.h on that platform.
Mark Dickinson2f865b92009-06-30 15:32:30 +00003874
Hirokazu Yamamotoa3c56092009-06-28 10:23:00 +00003875- Issue #4856: Remove checks for win NT.
3876
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc595f7a52009-06-25 22:29:29 +00003877- Issue #2016: Fixed a crash in a corner case where the dictionary of keyword
3878 arguments could be modified during the function call setup.
3879
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc14fc6732009-06-23 21:09:09 +00003880- Removed the ipaddr module.
3881
Raymond Hettinger62641e92009-06-23 20:59:43 +00003882- Issue #6329: Fixed iteration for memoryview objects (it was being blocked
3883 because it wasn't recognized as a sequence).
3884
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003885- Issue #6289: Encoding errors from ``compile()`` were being masked.
Benjamin Peterson08a0bbc2009-06-16 00:29:31 +00003886
Benjamin Petersona72be3b2009-06-13 20:23:33 +00003887- When no module is given in a relative import, the module field of the
3888 ImportFrom AST node is now None instead of an empty string.
3889
Benjamin Peterson565e1b62009-06-13 03:46:30 +00003890- Assignment to None using import statements now raises a SyntaxError.
3891
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003892- Issue #4547: When debugging a very large function, it was not always possible
3893 to update the lineno attribute of the current frame.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcb02ceda2009-06-01 20:53:18 +00003894
Antoine Pitrou46dbe272009-05-30 21:27:00 +00003895- Issue #5330: C functions called with keyword arguments were not reported by
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003896 the various profiling modules (profile, cProfile). Patch by Hagen Fürstenau.
Antoine Pitrou46dbe272009-05-30 21:27:00 +00003897
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003898- Issue #5982: staticmethod and classmethod now expose the wrapped function with
3899 ``__func__``.
Raymond Hettinger578a2282009-05-29 04:58:52 +00003900
Raymond Hettinger822b87f2009-05-29 01:46:48 +00003901- Added support for multiple context managers in the same with-statement.
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003902 Deprecated ``contextlib.nested()`` which is no longer needed.
Georg Brandl944f6842009-05-25 21:02:56 +00003903
Benjamin Peterson1880d8b2009-05-25 13:13:44 +00003904- Issue #6101: A new opcode, SETUP_WITH, has been added to speed up the with
3905 statement and correctly lookup the __enter__ and __exit__ special methods.
3906
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003907- Issue #5829: complex("1e500") no longer raises OverflowError. This makes it
3908 consistent with float("1e500") and interpretation of real and imaginary
3909 literals.
Mark Dickinsona4e0efa2009-05-20 18:43:07 +00003910
Hirokazu Yamamotoa4f90182009-05-17 02:58:36 +00003911- Issue #3527: Removed Py_WIN_WIDE_FILENAMES which is not used any more.
3912
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003913- ``__instancecheck__()`` and ``__subclasscheck__()`` are now completely ignored
3914 on classic classes and instances.
Benjamin Petersoneb9fb2c2009-05-16 22:46:11 +00003915
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003916- Issue #5994: The marshal module now has docstrings.
R. David Murray525cffc2009-05-13 13:07:14 +00003917
Mark Dickinsonb1d45852009-05-11 15:33:08 +00003918- Issue #5981: Fix three minor inf/nan issues in float.fromhex:
Mark Dickinsonb1d45852009-05-11 15:33:08 +00003919
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003920 (1) inf and nan strings with trailing whitespace were incorrectly rejected;
3921 (2) parsing of strings representing infinities and nans was locale aware; and
3922 (3) the interpretation of fromhex('-nan') didn't match that of float('-nan').
Eric Smitha985a3a2009-05-05 18:26:08 +00003923
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003924- Issue #5920: For ``float.__format__()``, change the behavior with the empty
3925 presentation type (that is, not one of 'e', 'f', 'g', or 'n') to be like 'g'
3926 but with at least one decimal point and with a default precision
3927 of 12. Previously, the behavior the same but with a default precision of 6.
3928 This more closely matches ``str()``, and reduces surprises when adding
3929 alignment flags to the empty presentation type. This also affects the new
3930 complex.__format__ in the same way.
3931
3932- Issue #5890: In subclasses of 'property' the __doc__ attribute was shadowed by
3933 classtype's, even if it was None. property now inserts the __doc__ into the
3934 subclass instance __dict__.
R. David Murray7ba8e1c2009-05-04 22:16:24 +00003935
Antoine Pitrou653dece2009-05-04 18:32:32 +00003936- Issue #4426: The UTF-7 decoder was too strict and didn't accept some legal
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003937 sequences. Patch by Nick Barnes and Victor Stinner.
Antoine Pitrou653dece2009-05-04 18:32:32 +00003938
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003939- Issue #1588: Add complex.__format__. For example, ``format(complex(1, 2./3),
3940 '.5')`` now produces a sensible result.
Eric Smith9139cc62009-04-30 00:58:58 +00003941
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003942- Issue #5864: Fix empty format code formatting for floats so that it never
3943 gives more than the requested number of significant digits.
Mark Dickinson92fcc9c2009-04-29 20:41:00 +00003944
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003945- Issue #5793: Rationalize isdigit / isalpha / tolower, etc. Includes new
3946 Py_ISDIGIT / Py_ISALPHA / Py_TOLOWER, etc. in pctypes.h.
Eric Smithcac7af62009-04-27 19:04:37 +00003947
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003948- Issue #4971: Fix titlecase for characters that are their own titlecase, but
3949 not their own uppercase.
Martin v. Löwis99f27792009-04-26 00:53:18 +00003950
Eric Smith068f0652009-04-25 21:40:15 +00003951- Issue #5835: Deprecate PyOS_ascii_formatd and replace it with
3952 _PyOS_double_to_string or PyOS_double_to_string.
3953
Benjamin Peterson5083dc52009-04-25 00:41:22 +00003954- Issue #5283: Setting __class__ in __del__ caused a segfault.
3955
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003956- Issue #5816: ``complex(repr(z))`` now recovers z exactly, even when z involves
3957 nans, infs or negative zeros.
Mark Dickinson95bc9802009-04-24 12:46:53 +00003958
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003959- Implement PEP 378, Format Specifier for Thousands Separator, for floats, ints,
3960 and longs.
Eric Smithaca19e62009-04-22 13:29:05 +00003961
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003962- Issue #5515: 'n' formatting for ints, longs, and floats handles leading zero
3963 formatting poorly.
Eric Smithaca19e62009-04-22 13:29:05 +00003964
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003965- Issue #5772: For float.__format__, don't add a trailing ".0" if we're using no
3966 type code and we have an exponent.
Eric Smithaca19e62009-04-22 13:29:05 +00003967
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003968- Issue #3166: Make long -> float (and int -> float) conversions correctly
3969 rounded.
Mark Dickinson6736cf82009-04-20 21:13:33 +00003970
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003971- Issue #5787: ``object.__getattribute__(some_type, "__bases__")`` segfaulted on
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00003972 some built-in types.
Benjamin Petersond4d400c2009-04-18 20:12:47 +00003973
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003974- Issue #1869: Fix a couple of minor round() issues. ``round(5e15+1)`` was
3975 giving 5e15+2; ``round(-0.0)`` was losing the sign of the zero.
Mark Dickinson1bdf7e92009-04-18 14:59:42 +00003976
Benjamin Peterson99d36f12009-04-15 21:26:36 +00003977- Issue #5759: float() didn't call __float__ on str subclasses.
3978
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003979- Issue #5704: The "-3" command-line option now implies "-t".
Georg Brandl3c4a5462009-04-12 12:08:12 +00003980
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003981- Issue #2170: Refactored ``xml.dom.minidom.normalize``, increasing both its
3982 clarity and its speed.
R. David Murray0374a822009-04-09 21:54:50 +00003983
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003984- Issue #2396: The memoryview object was backported from Python 3.1.
Antoine Pitrou789be0c2009-04-02 21:18:34 +00003985
Georg Brandld3f03fa2009-04-02 18:09:04 +00003986- Fix a problem in PyErr_NormalizeException that leads to "undetected errors"
3987 when hitting the recursion limit under certain circumstances.
3988
Brett Cannon15ba4da2009-04-01 18:03:59 +00003989- Issue #1665206: Remove the last eager import in _warnings.c and make it lazy.
3990
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003991- Issue #4865: On MacOSX /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages is added to the end
3992 sys.path, for compatibility with the system install of Python.
Ronald Oussorene0154ed2009-03-30 23:10:35 +00003993
Antoine Pitrouf8387af2009-03-23 18:41:45 +00003994- Issue #4688: Add a heuristic so that tuples and dicts containing only
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003995 untrackable objects are not tracked by the garbage collector. This can reduce
3996 the size of collections and therefore the garbage collection overhead on
3997 long-running programs, depending on their particular use of datatypes.
Antoine Pitrouf8387af2009-03-23 18:41:45 +00003998
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003999- Issue #5512: Rewrite PyLong long division algorithm (x_divrem) to improve its
4000 performance. Long divisions and remainder operations are now between 50% and
4001 150% faster.
Mark Dickinson0b666bf2009-03-23 18:25:13 +00004002
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004003- Issue #4258: Make it possible to use base 2**30 instead of base 2**15 for the
4004 internal representation of integers, for performance reasons. Base 2**30 is
4005 enabled by default on 64-bit machines. Add --enable-big-digits option to
4006 configure, which overrides the default. Add sys.long_info structseq to
4007 provide information about the internal format.
Mark Dickinsonefc82f72009-03-20 15:51:55 +00004008
Benjamin Peterson6ffe8522009-03-18 20:52:15 +00004009- Issue #4034: Fix weird attribute error messages of the traceback object. (As a
4010 result traceback.__members__ no longer exists.)
4011
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004012- Issue #4474: PyUnicode_FromWideChar now converts characters outside the BMP to
4013 surrogate pairs, on systems with sizeof(wchar_t) == 4 and sizeof(Py_UNICODE)
4014 == 2.
Mark Dickinson6b265f12009-03-18 16:07:26 +00004015
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004016- Issue #5237: Allow auto-numbered fields in str.format(). For example: ``'{}
4017 {}'.format(1, 2) == '1 2'``.
Eric Smith6f42edb2009-03-14 11:57:26 +00004018
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004019- Issue #3652: Make the 'line' argument for ``warnings.showwarning()`` a
Brett Cannon6c4cff02009-03-11 04:51:06 +00004020 requirement. Means the DeprecationWarning from Python 2.6 can go away.
4021
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004022- Issue #5247: Improve error message when unknown format codes are used when
4023 using ``str.format()`` with str, unicode, long, int, and float arguments.
Eric Smithe9fb6862009-02-20 14:02:36 +00004024
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004025- Running Python with the -3 option now also warns about classic division for
4026 ints and longs.
Raymond Hettinger08259e82009-02-18 23:10:19 +00004027
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004028- Issue #5260: Long integers now consume less memory: average saving is 2 bytes
4029 per long on a 32-bit system and 6 bytes per long on a 64-bit system.
Mark Dickinson2ffb26f2009-02-15 10:13:41 +00004030
Antoine Pitrou76a4b892009-02-13 13:52:33 +00004031- Issue #5186: Reduce hash collisions for objects with no __hash__ method by
4032 rotating the object pointer by 4 bits to the right.
4033
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004034- Issue #4575: Fix Py_IS_INFINITY macro to work correctly on x87 FPUs: it now
4035 forces its argument to double before testing for infinity.
Mark Dickinsonc97c9092009-02-09 14:18:43 +00004036
Benjamin Petersone18ef192009-01-20 14:21:16 +00004037- Issue #4978: Passing keyword arguments as unicode strings is now allowed.
4038
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +00004039- Issue #1242657: the __len__() and __length_hint__() calls in several tools
Raymond Hettingerb5163702009-02-02 21:50:13 +00004040 were suppressing all exceptions. These include list(), filter(), map(),
4041 zip(), and bytearray().
4042
Benjamin Peterson596d3062009-01-19 15:42:23 +00004043- os.ftruncate raises OSErrors instead of IOErrors for consistency with other os
4044 functions.
4045
Benjamin Peterson5848d1f2009-01-19 00:08:08 +00004046- Issue #4991: Passing invalid file descriptors to io.FileIO now raises an
4047 OSError.
4048
Amaury Forgeot d'Arca18392a2009-01-13 23:19:08 +00004049- Issue #4807: Port the _winreg module to Windows CE.
4050
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004051- Issue #4935: The overflow checking code in the expandtabs() method common to
4052 str, bytes and bytearray could be optimized away by the compiler, letting the
4053 interpreter segfault instead of raising an error.
Antoine Pitrouc2f02212009-01-13 23:13:52 +00004054
Amaury Forgeot d'Arca40d5732009-01-12 23:36:55 +00004055- Issue #3720: Fix a crash when an iterator modifies its class and removes its
4056 __next__ method.
4057
Martin v. Löwise3422fa2009-01-12 08:11:24 +00004058- Issue #4893: Use NT threading on CE.
4059
Martin v. Löwis1b3bef22009-01-12 07:57:11 +00004060- Issue #4915: Port sysmodule to Windows CE.
4061
Antoine Pitrou4c5ecb72009-01-09 21:40:55 +00004062- Issue #4074: Change the criteria for doing a full garbage collection (i.e.
4063 collecting the oldest generation) so that allocating lots of objects without
4064 destroying them does not show quadratic performance. Based on a proposal by
Benjamin Petersond50a5d52009-07-13 00:03:20 +00004065 Martin von Löwis at
Antoine Pitrou4c5ecb72009-01-09 21:40:55 +00004066 http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2008-June/080579.html.
4067
Martin v. Löwisb90304a2009-01-07 18:40:40 +00004068- Issue #4850: Change COUNT_ALLOCS variables to Py_ssize_t.
4069
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004070- Issue #1180193: When importing a module from a .pyc (or .pyo) file with an
4071 existing .py counterpart, override the co_filename attributes of all code
4072 objects if the original filename is obsolete (which can happen if the file has
4073 been renamed, moved, or if it is accessed through different paths). Patch by
4074 Ziga Seilnacht and Jean-Paul Calderone.
Antoine Pitroue96d4ea2009-01-06 18:10:47 +00004075
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004076- Issue #4075: Use ``OutputDebugStringW()`` in Py_FatalError.
Martin v. Löwis5344c992009-01-02 20:32:55 +00004077
Hirokazu Yamamoto99a1b202009-01-01 15:45:39 +00004078- Issue #4797: IOError.filename was not set when _fileio.FileIO failed to open
4079 file with `str' filename on Windows.
4080
Antoine Pitrouaa687902009-01-01 14:11:22 +00004081- Issue #3680: Reference cycles created through a dict, set or deque iterator
4082 did not get collected.
4083
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004084- Issue #4701: PyObject_Hash now implicitly calls PyType_Ready on types where
4085 the tp_hash and tp_dict slots are both NULL.
Nick Coghlan180e4002008-12-30 01:18:48 +00004086
Benjamin Peterson7af65562008-12-29 17:56:58 +00004087- Issue #4764: With io.open, IOError.filename is set when trying to open a
4088 directory on POSIX systems.
4089
Benjamin Petersonfe231b02008-12-29 17:47:42 +00004090- Issue #4764: IOError.filename is set when trying to open a directory on POSIX
4091 systems.
4092
Georg Brandl6425a2f2008-12-28 11:54:53 +00004093- Issue #4759: None is now allowed as the first argument of
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004094 ``bytearray.translate()``. It was always allowed for ``bytes.translate()``.
Georg Brandl6425a2f2008-12-28 11:54:53 +00004095
Skip Montanarof205c132008-12-23 03:30:15 +00004096- Added test case to ensure attempts to read from a file opened for writing
4097 fail.
4098
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004099- Issue #2467: gc.DEBUG_STATS reported invalid elapsed times. Also, always print
4100 elapsed times, not only when some objects are uncollectable/unreachable.
4101 Original patch by Neil Schemenauer.
Antoine Pitrou73c0e652008-12-17 22:46:54 +00004102
Mark Dickinson1a707982008-12-17 16:14:37 +00004103- Issue #3439: Add a bit_length method to int and long.
4104
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004105- Issue #2183: Simplify and optimize bytecode for list comprehensions. Original
4106 patch by Neal Norwitz.
Antoine Pitroud0c35152008-12-17 00:38:28 +00004107
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004108- Issue #4597: Fixed exception handling when the __exit__ function of a context
4109 manager returns a value that cannot be converted to a bool.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcad9b5992008-12-10 23:22:49 +00004110
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004111- Issue #4597: Fixed several opcodes that weren't always propagating exceptions.
Jeffrey Yasskinffd42cf2008-12-10 07:35:02 +00004112
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004113- Issue #4445: Replace ``sizeof(PyStringObject)`` with
4114 ``offsetof(PyStringObject, ob_sval) + 1`` when allocating memory for str
4115 instances. On a typical machine this saves 3 bytes of memory (on average) per
4116 string allocation.
Mark Dickinson826f3fe2008-12-05 21:55:28 +00004117
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcdc619012008-11-22 20:01:18 +00004118- Issue #3996: On Windows, the PyOS_CheckStack function would cause the
4119 interpreter to abort ("Fatal Python error: Could not reset the stack!")
4120 instead of throwing a MemoryError.
4121
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004122- Issue #3689: The list reversed iterator now supports __length_hint__ instead
4123 of __len__. Behavior now matches other reversed iterators.
Raymond Hettinger7989a4d2008-12-03 15:42:10 +00004124
Benjamin Petersonc078f922008-11-21 22:27:24 +00004125- Issue #4367: Python would segfault during compiling when the unicodedata
4126 module couldn't be imported and \N escapes were present.
4127
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004128- Issue #4233: Changed semantic of ``_fileio.FileIO``'s ``close()`` method on
4129 file objects with closefd=False. The file descriptor is still kept open but
4130 the file object behaves like a closed file. The ``FileIO`` object also got a
4131 new readonly attribute ``closefd``.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc32265652008-11-20 23:34:31 +00004132
Benjamin Peterson46cc6d12008-11-19 21:49:09 +00004133- Issue #4348: Some bytearray methods returned that didn't cause any change to
4134 the bytearray, returned the same bytearray instead of a copy.
4135
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004136- Issue #4317: Fixed a crash in the ``imageop.rgb2rgb8()`` function.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc7cfe7ea2008-11-18 22:19:37 +00004137
Benjamin Peterson273c2332008-11-17 22:39:09 +00004138- Issue #4230: If ``__getattr__`` is a descriptor, it now functions correctly.
4139
Benjamin Peterson6624a9f2008-11-03 15:14:51 +00004140- Issue #4048: The parser module now correctly validates relative imports.
4141
Benjamin Petersondcee09d2008-10-31 02:16:05 +00004142- Issue #4225: ``from __future__ import unicode_literals`` didn't work in an
4143 exec statement.
4144
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004145- Issue #4176: Fixed a crash when pickling an object which ``__reduce__`` method
4146 does not return iterators for the 4th and 5th items.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc69a9c5b2008-10-30 21:18:34 +00004147
Benjamin Petersonbdca9422008-10-26 20:21:13 +00004148- Issue #4209: Enabling unicode_literals and the print_function in the same
4149 __future__ import didn't work.
4150
Benjamin Peterson399b1fe2008-10-25 02:53:28 +00004151- Using ``nonlocal`` as a variable name will now raise a Py3k SyntaxWarning
Georg Brandl7fb00ad2008-10-25 07:00:52 +00004152 because it is a reserved word in 3.x.
Benjamin Peterson399b1fe2008-10-25 02:53:28 +00004153
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004154- On windows, ``os.chdir()`` given unicode was not working if
4155 GetCurrentDirectoryW returned a path longer than MAX_PATH. (But It's doubtful
4156 this code path is really executed because I cannot move to such directory on
4157 win2k)
Hirokazu Yamamoto10a018c2008-10-09 10:00:30 +00004158
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004159- Issue #4069: When ``set.remove(element)`` is used with a set element, the
4160 element is temporarily replaced with an equivalent frozenset. But the
4161 eventual KeyError would always report the empty ``frozenset()`` as the missing
4162 key. Now it correctly refers to the initial element.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd78b9dc2008-10-07 20:32:10 +00004163
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004164- Issue #4509: Various issues surrounding resize of bytearray objects to which
4165 there are buffer exports.
Antoine Pitrouae5bece2008-12-06 21:29:24 +00004166
Benjamin Peterson8d5934b2008-12-27 18:24:11 +00004167- Issue #4748: Lambda generators no longer return a value.
4168
Kristján Valur Jónsson6220e412009-01-12 09:20:34 +00004169- Issue #3582: Use native TLS functions on Windows
4170
Gregory P. Smithae91d092009-03-02 05:13:57 +00004171- The re.sub(), re.subn() and re.split() functions now accept a flags parameter.
4172
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004173- Issue #3845: In PyRun_SimpleFileExFlags avoid invalid memory access with short
4174 file names.
Matthias Kloseedb5e1e2009-04-04 14:18:13 +00004175
Matthias Klose91a3b9e2009-04-05 21:19:13 +00004176- Issue #1113244: Py_XINCREF, Py_DECREF, Py_XDECREF: Add `do { ... } while (0)'
4177 to avoid compiler warnings.
Matthias Klose0610e082009-04-05 12:43:08 +00004178
Gregory P. Smith2b3eb372009-04-05 23:48:26 +00004179- Issue #5705: os.setuid() would not accept values > 2**31-1 but pwd.getpwnam()
4180 returned them on 64bit platforms.
4181
Walter Dörwalded960ac2009-05-03 22:36:33 +00004182- Issue #5108: Handle %s like %S and %R in PyUnicode_FromFormatV(): Call
4183 PyUnicode_DecodeUTF8() once, remember the result and output it in a second
4184 step. This avoids problems with counting UTF-8 bytes that ignores the effect
4185 of using the replace error handler in PyUnicode_DecodeUTF8().
4186
Walter Dörwald726ba8e2009-05-06 14:32:35 +00004187- Issue #3739: The unicode-internal encoder now reports the number of characters
4188 consumed like any other encoder (instead of the number of bytes).
4189
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004190- Issue #2422: When compiled with the ``--with-valgrind`` option, the pymalloc
4191 allocator will be automatically disabled when running under Valgrind. This
4192 gives improved memory leak detection when running under Valgrind, while taking
4193 advantage of pymalloc at other times.
Benjamin Peterson91c12eb2009-12-03 02:52:39 +00004194
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +00004195Library
4196-------
Benjamin Petersonb3dd5482009-02-26 19:07:18 +00004197
Raymond Hettinger5f516ed2010-04-03 18:10:37 +00004198- Add count() and reverse() methods to collections.deque().
Raymond Hettingera5fd24e2009-12-10 06:42:54 +00004199
Raymond Hettinger0b3263b2009-12-10 06:00:33 +00004200- Fix variations of extending deques: d.extend(d) d.extendleft(d) d+=d
4201
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004202- Issue #6986: Fix crash in the JSON C accelerator when called with the wrong
4203 parameter types. Patch by Victor Stinner.
Antoine Pitrou187177f2009-12-08 15:40:51 +00004204
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004205- logging: Added optional "secure" parameter to SMTPHandler, to enable use of
Vinay Sajip48305662009-12-06 17:57:11 +00004206 TLS with authentication credentials.
4207
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004208- Issue #1923: Fixed the removal of meaningful spaces when PKG-INFO is generated
4209 in Distutils. Patch by Stephen Emslie.
Tarek Ziadé4f383172009-12-06 09:22:40 +00004210
Martin v. Löwisc218a2f2009-12-03 20:53:51 +00004211- Issue #4120: Drop reference to CRT from manifest when building extensions with
4212 msvc9compiler.
4213
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004214- Issue #7333: The ``posix`` module gains an ``initgroups()`` function providing
4215 access to the initgroups(3) C library call on Unix systems which implement it.
4216 Patch by Jean-Paul Calderone.
Antoine Pitrou30b3b352009-12-02 20:37:54 +00004217
Tarek Ziadéa5076a22009-11-29 22:20:30 +00004218- Issue #7408: Fixed distutils.tests.sdist so it doesn't check for group
4219 ownership when the group is not forced, because the group may be different
4220 from the user's group and inherit from its container when the test is run.
4221
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004222- Issue #1515: Enable use of deepcopy() with instance methods. Patch by Robert
4223 Collins.
Antoine Pitroud16f57b2009-11-28 15:55:58 +00004224
Vinay Sajip01801d12009-11-27 14:03:36 +00004225- Issue #7403: logging: Fixed possible race condition in lock creation.
4226
Antoine Pitrouacbe3bd2009-11-27 13:18:34 +00004227- Issue #6845: Add restart support for binary upload in ftplib. The
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004228 ``storbinary()`` method of FTP and FTP_TLS objects gains an optional "rest"
Antoine Pitrouacbe3bd2009-11-27 13:18:34 +00004229 argument. Patch by Pablo Mouzo.
4230
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004231- Issue #5788: ``datetime.timedelta`` objects get a new ``total_seconds()``
4232 method returning the total number of seconds in the duration. Patch by Brian
4233 Quinlan.
Antoine Pitroubcfaf802009-11-25 22:59:36 +00004234
Vinay Sajipc470d682009-11-25 09:03:30 +00004235- Issue #6615: logging: Used weakrefs in internal handler list.
4236
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004237- Issue #1488943: ``difflib.Differ`` doesn't always add hints for tab
4238 characters.
Senthil Kumaran5c456e62009-11-23 18:41:31 +00004239
Lars Gustäbeldd866d52009-11-22 18:30:53 +00004240- Issue #6123: tarfile now opens empty archives correctly and consistently
4241 raises ReadError on empty files.
4242
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004243- Issue #7354: distutils.tests.test_msvc9compiler - dragfullwindows can be 2.
Tarek Ziadé39de1fc2009-11-19 05:33:16 +00004244
Ezio Melotti3373a3a2010-01-16 18:38:01 +00004245- Issue #5037: Proxy the __unicode__ special method to __unicode__ instead of
4246 __str__.
Benjamin Petersondc3c2392009-11-19 03:00:02 +00004247
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004248- Issue #7341: Close the internal file object in the TarFile constructor in case
4249 of an error.
Lars Gustäbel355538e2009-11-18 20:24:54 +00004250
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004251- Issue #7293: ``distutils.test_msvc9compiler`` is fixed to work on any fresh
4252 Windows box. Help provided by David Bolen.
Tarek Ziadéacccafc2009-11-18 08:46:56 +00004253
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004254- Issue #7328: pydoc no longer corrupts sys.path when run with the '-m' switch.
Nick Coghlan11db64e2009-11-15 22:36:47 +00004255
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004256- Issue #2054: ftplib now provides an FTP_TLS class to do secure FTP using TLS
4257 or SSL. Patch by Giampaolo Rodola'.
Antoine Pitrouccd5e022009-11-15 17:22:09 +00004258
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004259- Issue #4969: The mimetypes module now reads the MIME database from the
4260 registry under Windows. Patch by Gabriel Genellina.
Antoine Pitroud5b34d42009-11-15 14:10:48 +00004261
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004262- Issue #6816: runpy now provides a run_path function that allows Python code to
4263 execute file paths that refer to source or compiled Python files as well as
4264 zipfiles, directories and other valid sys.path entries that contain a
Nick Coghlan49868cb2009-11-15 07:30:34 +00004265 __main__.py file. This allows applications that run other Python scripts to
4266 support the same flexibility as the CPython command line itself.
4267
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004268- Issue #7318: multiprocessing now uses a timeout when it fails to establish a
4269 connection with another process, rather than looping endlessly. The default
4270 timeout is 20 seconds, which should be amply sufficient for local connections.
Antoine Pitrouc562ca42009-11-13 22:31:18 +00004271
Antoine Pitrou0734c632009-11-10 20:49:30 +00004272- Issue #7197: Allow unittest.TextTestRunner objects to be pickled and
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004273 unpickled. This fixes crashes under Windows when trying to run
Antoine Pitrou0734c632009-11-10 20:49:30 +00004274 test_multiprocessing in verbose mode.
4275
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004276- Issue #7282: Fix a memory leak when an RLock was used in a thread other than
4277 those started through ``threading.Thread`` (for example, using
4278 ``thread.start_new_thread()``.
Antoine Pitroud7158d42009-11-09 16:00:11 +00004279
Antoine Pitrou99c160b2009-11-05 13:42:29 +00004280- Issue #7264: Fix a possible deadlock when deallocating thread-local objects
4281 which are part of a reference cycle.
4282
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004283- Issue #7211: Allow 64-bit values for the ``ident`` and ``data`` fields of
4284 kevent objects on 64-bit systems. Patch by Michael Broghton.
Antoine Pitrou323b9da2009-11-04 19:25:14 +00004285
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004286- Issue #6896: ``mailbox.Maildir`` now invalidates its internal cache each time
Antoine Pitrouaec41242009-11-02 11:34:27 +00004287 a modification is done through it. This fixes inconsistencies and test
4288 failures on systems with slightly bogus mtime behaviour.
4289
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004290- Issue #7246 & Issue #7208: getpass now properly flushes input before reading
4291 from stdin so that existing input does not confuse it and lead to incorrect
4292 entry or an IOError. It also properly flushes it afterwards to avoid the
4293 terminal echoing the input afterwards on OSes such as Solaris.
Gregory P. Smith38f5d8f2009-11-01 18:33:55 +00004294
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004295- Issue #7233: Fix a number of two-argument Decimal methods to make sure that
4296 they accept an int or long as the second argument. Also fix buggy handling of
4297 large arguments (those with coefficient longer than the current precision) in
4298 shift and rotate.
Mark Dickinson0c673122009-10-29 12:04:00 +00004299
Lars Gustäbel8c06ccc2009-10-29 09:15:00 +00004300- Issue #4750: Store the basename of the original filename in the gzip FNAME
4301 header as required by RFC 1952.
4302
Tarek Ziadé40b998b2009-10-27 23:06:10 +00004303- Issue #1180: Added a new global option to ignore ~/.pydistutils.cfg in
4304 Distutils.
4305
Tarek Ziadéd24cab82009-10-27 21:20:27 +00004306- Issue #7218: Fix test_site for win32, the directory comparison was done with
4307 an uppercase.
4308
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004309- Issue #7205: Fix a possible deadlock when using a BZ2File object from several
4310 threads at once.
Antoine Pitroudd629662009-10-27 17:41:58 +00004311
Tarek Ziadéb9c1cfc2009-10-24 15:10:37 +00004312- Issue #7071: byte-compilation in Distutils is now done with respect to
4313 sys.dont_write_bytecode.
4314
Vinay Sajipc470d682009-11-25 09:03:30 +00004315- Issue #7066: archive_util.make_archive now restores the cwd if an error is
Tarek Ziadé672422a2009-10-24 13:29:44 +00004316 raised. Initial patch by Ezio Melotti.
4317
Antoine Pitroufa94e802009-10-24 12:23:18 +00004318- Issue #6218: io.StringIO and io.BytesIO instances are now picklable with
4319 protocol 2.
4320
Vinay Sajip5ac65282009-10-21 20:22:14 +00004321- Issue #7077: logging: SysLogHandler now treats Unicode as per RFC 5424.
4322
Mark Dickinsona7a52ab2009-10-20 13:33:03 +00004323- Issue #7099: Decimal.is_normal now returns True for numbers with exponent
4324 larger than emax.
4325
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004326- Issue #5833: Fix extra space character in readline completion with the GNU
4327 readline library version 6.0.
Antoine Pitroue0899802009-10-19 18:20:21 +00004328
Antoine Pitrou5ba84912009-10-19 17:59:07 +00004329- Issue #7133: SSL objects now support the new buffer API.
4330
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004331- Issue #7149: urllib fails on OSX in the proxy detection code.
Ronald Oussoren31802d02009-10-18 07:07:00 +00004332
Benjamin Petersonc63457b2009-10-15 03:06:55 +00004333- Issue #7069: Make inspect.isabstract() return a boolean.
4334
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004335- Add support to the ``ihooks`` module for relative imports.
Neil Schemenauere6039f02009-10-14 19:23:53 +00004336
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004337- Issue #6894: Fixed the issue urllib2 doesn't respect "no_proxy" environment.
Senthil Kumaran27468662009-10-11 02:00:07 +00004338
Vinay Sajip1c77b7f2009-10-10 20:32:36 +00004339- Issue #7086: Added TCP support to SysLogHandler, and tidied up some
4340 anachronisms in the code which were a relic of 1.5.2 compatibility.
Vinay Sajip03d5c342009-10-16 14:06:44 +00004341
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004342- Issue #7082: When falling back to the MIME 'name' parameter, the correct place
4343 to look for it is the Content-Type header.
R. David Murray0c8bee62009-10-09 21:50:54 +00004344
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004345- Issue #7048: Force Decimal.logb to round its result when that result is too
4346 large to fit in the current precision.
Mark Dickinson15ae41c2009-10-07 19:22:05 +00004347
Vinay Sajip03d5c342009-10-16 14:06:44 +00004348- Issue #6516: Added owner/group support when creating tar archives in
Tarek Ziadé1b486712009-10-02 23:49:48 +00004349 Distutils.
4350
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004351- Issue #7031: Add ``TestCase.assert(Not)IsInstance()`` methods.
Georg Brandl12fafe62009-10-01 21:02:39 +00004352
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004353- Issue #6790: Make it possible again to pass an ``array.array`` to
4354 ``httplib.HTTPConnection.send``. Patch by Kirk McDonald.
Antoine Pitrou72481782009-09-29 17:48:18 +00004355
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004356- Issue #6236, #6348: Fix various failures in the `io` module under AIX and
4357 other platforms, when using a non-gcc compiler. Patch by egreen.
Antoine Pitrou2a466582009-09-21 21:17:48 +00004358
Tarek Ziadé99773352009-09-21 13:41:08 +00004359- Issue #6954: Fixed crash when using DISTUTILS_DEBUG flag in Distutils.
4360
Ronald Oussoren51f06332009-09-20 10:31:22 +00004361- Issue #6851: Fix urllib.urlopen crash on secondairy threads on OSX 10.6
4362
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004363- Issue #4606: Passing 'None' if ctypes argtype is set to POINTER(...) does now
4364 always result in NULL.
Thomas Heller6be522b2009-09-18 20:05:44 +00004365
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004366- Issue #5042: ctypes Structure sub-subclass does now initialize correctly with
4367 base class positional arguments.
Thomas Heller7a352c02009-09-18 18:55:17 +00004368
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004369- Issue #6938: Fix a TypeError in string formatting of a multiprocessing debug
4370 message.
Georg Brandlc40e60e2009-09-18 09:18:27 +00004371
Matthias Klose924eab62009-09-13 15:09:24 +00004372- Issue #6635: Fix profiler printing usage message.
4373
Lars Gustäbel21121e62009-09-12 10:28:15 +00004374- Issue #6856: Add a filter keyword argument to TarFile.add().
4375
Tarek Ziadébed26a32009-09-09 08:14:20 +00004376- Issue #6163: Fixed HP-UX runtime library dir options in
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004377 distutils.unixcompiler. Initial patch by Sridhar Ratnakumar and Michael
4378 Haubenwallner.
Tarek Ziadébed26a32009-09-09 08:14:20 +00004379
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004380- Issue #6857: Default format() alignment should be '>' for Decimal instances.
Mark Dickinson5cfa8042009-09-08 20:20:19 +00004381
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004382- Issue #6795: int(Decimal('nan')) now raises ValueError instead of returning
4383 NaN or raising InvalidContext. Also, fix infinite recursion in
4384 long(Decimal('nan')).
Mark Dickinson968f1692009-09-07 18:04:58 +00004385
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004386- Issue #6850: Fix bug in Decimal._parse_format_specifier for formats with no
4387 type specifier.
Mark Dickinson491ea552009-09-07 16:17:41 +00004388
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004389- Issue #4937: plat-mac/bundlebuilder refers to non-existing version.plist.
Ronald Oussoren626faeb2009-09-06 12:23:18 +00004390
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004391- Issue #6838: Use a list to accumulate the value instead of repeatedly
4392 concatenating strings in httplib's HTTPResponse._read_chunked providing a
4393 significant speed increase when downloading large files servend with a
4394 Transfer-Encoding of 'chunked'.
Chris Withers7f3ea6a2009-09-04 16:32:22 +00004395
Georg Brandld22b9512009-09-04 08:17:04 +00004396- Issue #5275: In Cookie's Cookie.load(), properly handle non-string arguments
4397 as documented.
4398
Georg Brandl2e1308f2009-09-04 06:59:20 +00004399- Issue #2666: Handle BROWSER environment variable properly for unknown browser
4400 names in the webbrowser module.
4401
Lars Gustäbelf7cda522009-08-28 19:23:44 +00004402- Issue #6054: Do not normalize stored pathnames in tarfile.
4403
Mark Dickinson7a7739d2009-08-28 13:25:02 +00004404- Issue #6794: Fix Decimal.compare_total and Decimal.compare_total_mag: NaN
4405 payloads are now ordered by integer value rather than lexicographically.
4406
Tarek Ziadé764fc232009-08-20 21:23:13 +00004407- Issue #6693: New functions in site.py to get user/global site packages paths.
4408
Gregory P. Smith4e63d542009-08-20 09:39:38 +00004409- The thread.lock type now supports weak references.
4410
Guilherme Polo7b50c4f2009-08-18 14:46:57 +00004411- Issue #1356969: Add missing info methods in Tix.HList.
4412
Guilherme Polo6b3c7092009-08-18 14:23:00 +00004413- Issue #1522587: New constants and methods for the Tix.Grid widget.
4414
Guilherme Polo6c823f82009-08-18 13:29:20 +00004415- Issue #1250469: Fix the return value of Tix.PanedWindow.panes.
4416
Guilherme Polod3e6e4b2009-08-18 13:23:08 +00004417- Issue #1119673: Do not override Tkinter.Text methods when creating a
4418 ScrolledText.
4419
Gregory P. Smithb98d6b22009-08-16 18:52:58 +00004420- Issue #6665: Fix fnmatch to properly match filenames with newlines in them.
4421
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004422- Issue #1135: Add the XView and YView mix-ins to avoid duplicating the xview*
4423 and yview* methods.
Guilherme Poloe45f0172009-08-14 14:36:45 +00004424
Antoine Pitrou20e1f932009-08-06 20:18:29 +00004425- Issue #6629: Fix a data corruption issue in the new `io` package, which could
4426 occur when writing to a BufferedRandom object (e.g. a file opened in "rb+" or
4427 "wb+" mode) after having buffered a certain amount of data for reading. This
4428 bug was not present in the pure Python implementation.
4429
Jesse Noller8497efe2009-08-06 02:05:56 +00004430- Issue #4660: If a multiprocessing.JoinableQueue.put() was preempted, it was
4431 possible to get a spurious 'task_done() called too many times' error.
4432
Gregory P. Smithc4ad0342009-08-13 18:54:50 +00004433- Issue #1628205: Socket file objects returned by socket.socket.makefile() now
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004434 properly handles EINTR within the read, readline, write & flush methods. The
4435 socket.sendall() method now properly handles interrupted system calls.
Gregory P. Smithc4ad0342009-08-13 18:54:50 +00004436
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004437- Issue #6595: The Decimal constructor now allows arbitrary Unicode decimal
4438 digits in input, as recommended by the standard. Previously it was restricted
4439 to accepting [0-9].
Mark Dickinson4326ad82009-08-02 10:59:36 +00004440
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc3e5b0272009-07-28 22:15:30 +00004441- Issue #6511: ZipFile now raises BadZipfile (instead of an IOError) when
4442 opening an empty or very small file.
4443
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc74b30162009-07-23 19:26:02 +00004444- Issue #6553: Fixed a crash in cPickle.load(), when given a file-like object
4445 containing incomplete data.
4446
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004447- Issue #6545: Removed assert statements in distutils.Extension, so the behavior
4448 is similar when used with -O.
Tarek Ziadéaf2406f2009-07-22 08:55:19 +00004449
Benjamin Petersond7b0eeb2009-07-19 20:18:21 +00004450- unittest has been split up into a package. All old names should still work.
4451
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004452- Issue #6431: Make Fraction type return NotImplemented when it doesn't know how
4453 to handle a comparison without loss of precision. Also add correct handling
4454 of infinities and nans for comparisons with float.
Mark Dickinson88a0a2e2009-07-18 15:18:18 +00004455
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc74b30162009-07-23 19:26:02 +00004456- Issue #6415: Fixed warnings.warn segfault on bad formatted string.
Hirokazu Yamamoto1a3d0852009-07-17 06:26:54 +00004457
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004458- Issue #6466: Now distutils.cygwinccompiler and distutils.emxccompiler uses the
4459 same refactored function to get gcc/ld/dllwrap versions numbers. It's
4460 ``distutils.util.get_compiler_versions()``. Added deprecation warnings for
4461 the obsolete get_versions() functions.
Tarek Ziadéa99dedf2009-07-16 15:35:45 +00004462
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004463- Issue #6433: Fixed issues with multiprocessing.pool.map hanging on empty list.
Jesse Noller7530e472009-07-16 14:23:04 +00004464
Vinay Sajipcbb24b32009-07-13 11:21:05 +00004465- Issue #6314: logging: Extra checks on the "level" argument in more places.
4466
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc74b8d332009-07-11 14:33:51 +00004467- Issue #2622: Fixed an ImportError when importing email.messsage from a
4468 standalone application built with py2exe or py2app.
4469
Vinay Sajipcbb24b32009-07-13 11:21:05 +00004470- Issue #6455: Fixed test_build_ext under win32.
Tarek Ziadé8c400012009-07-10 09:10:33 +00004471
Vinay Sajipcbb24b32009-07-13 11:21:05 +00004472- Issue #6377: Enabled the compiler option, and deprecate its usage as an
Tarek Ziadée670e5a2009-07-06 12:50:46 +00004473 attribute.
4474
Tarek Ziadé63f17382009-07-04 02:02:41 +00004475- Issue #6413: Fixed the log level in distutils.dist for announce.
4476
Gregory P. Smithc197d0a2009-07-04 01:55:11 +00004477- Issue #3392: The subprocess communicate() method no longer fails in select()
4478 when file descriptors are large; communicate() now uses poll() when possible.
4479
Tarek Ziadé65ec61e2009-07-03 08:22:56 +00004480- Issue #6403: Fixed package path usage in build_ext.
4481
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004482- Issues #5155, #5313, #5331: multiprocessing.Process._bootstrap was
Jesse Noller1b90efb2009-06-30 17:11:52 +00004483 unconditionally calling "os.close(sys.stdin.fileno())" resulting in file
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004484 descriptor errors.
Jesse Noller1b90efb2009-06-30 17:11:52 +00004485
Vinay Sajipcbb24b32009-07-13 11:21:05 +00004486- Issue #6365: Distutils build_ext inplace mode was copying the compiled
Tarek Ziadé3fbcc602009-06-29 16:13:39 +00004487 extension in a subdirectory if the extension name had dots.
4488
Hirokazu Yamamoto99ebc632009-06-29 14:29:31 +00004489- Issue #6344: Fixed a crash of mmap.read() when passed a negative argument.
4490
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004491- Issue #5230: pydoc would report no documentation found if a module generated a
4492 'not found' import error when loaded; it now reports the import errors.
R. David Murrayef087da2009-06-23 18:02:46 +00004493 Thanks to Lucas Prado Melo for initial fix and collaboration on the tests.
4494
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004495- Issue #6314: ``logging.basicConfig()`` performs extra checks on the "level"
Vinay Sajip603fb6d2009-06-21 17:37:27 +00004496 argument.
4497
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004498- Issue #6164: Added an AIX specific linker argument in Distutils unixcompiler.
4499 Original patch by Sridhar Ratnakumar.
Tarek Ziadé439bf932009-06-20 13:57:20 +00004500
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004501- Issue #6274: Fixed possible file descriptors leak in subprocess.py.
Facundo Batista8c826b72009-06-19 18:02:28 +00004502
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc5fe420e2009-06-18 22:32:50 +00004503- Issue #6189: Restored compatibility of subprocess.py with Python 2.2.
4504
Tarek Ziadéfdefc0a2009-06-16 07:29:52 +00004505- Issue #6287: Added the license field in Distutils documentation.
4506
Tarek Ziadéa1cc0402009-06-15 23:30:13 +00004507- Issue #6286: Now Distutils upload command is based on urllib2 instead of
4508 httplib, allowing the usage of http_proxy.
4509
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004510- Issue #6271: mmap tried to close invalid file handle (-1) for anonymous maps
4511 on Unix.
Hirokazu Yamamoto983a4652009-06-14 03:53:55 +00004512
Antoine Pitrou19690592009-06-12 20:14:08 +00004513- Issue #6215: All bug fixes and enhancements from the Python 3.1 io library
4514 (including the fast C implementation) have been backported to the standard
4515 ``io`` module.
4516
Martin v. Löwis2dcd7a02009-06-12 17:28:31 +00004517- Issue #6258: Support AMD64 in bdist_msi.
4518
Vinay Sajip334ffe82010-01-15 23:27:05 +00004519- Issue #6252: Fixed bug in next rollover time computation in
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00004520 TimedRotatingFileHandler.
4521
Tarek Ziadéc7498f52009-06-11 09:13:36 +00004522- Issue #6263: Fixed syntax error in distutils.cygwincompiler.
4523
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004524- Issue #5201: distutils.sysconfig.parse_makefile() now understands ``$$`` in
4525 Makefiles. This prevents compile errors when using syntax like:
4526 ``LDFLAGS='-rpath=\$$LIB:/some/other/path'``. Patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
Tarek Ziadé25d2bae2009-06-11 08:12:20 +00004527
Georg Brandle6632b42009-06-04 08:58:32 +00004528- Issue #5767: Removed sgmlop support from xmlrpclib.
4529
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004530- Issue #6131: test_modulefinder leaked when run after test_distutils. Patch by
4531 Hirokazu Yamamoto.
Tarek Ziadé3e3eace2009-05-29 08:08:07 +00004532
Tarek Ziadé9e5d2dc2009-05-28 12:53:54 +00004533- Issue #6048: Now Distutils uses the tarfile module in archive_util.
4534
Raymond Hettingerb4d2d312009-05-29 01:36:26 +00004535- Issue #5150: IDLE's format menu now has an option to strip trailing
4536 whitespace.
4537
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004538- Issue #6121: pydoc now ignores leading and trailing spaces in the argument to
4539 the 'help' function.
R. David Murrayd67ea7d2009-05-27 20:07:21 +00004540
Benjamin Peterson176a56c2009-05-25 00:48:58 +00004541- In unittest, using a skipping decorator on a class is now equivalent to
4542 skipping every test on the class. The ClassTestSuite class has been removed.
4543
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004544- Issue #6050: Don't fail extracting a directory from a zipfile if the directory
4545 already exists.
Martin v. Löwis0b09c422009-05-24 19:30:52 +00004546
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004547- Issue #5311: bdist_msi can now build packages that do not depend on a specific
4548 Python version.
Martin v. Löwis53b578e2009-05-24 19:10:52 +00004549
Antoine Pitroud49e3752009-05-24 15:40:09 +00004550- Issue #1309352: fcntl now converts its third arguments to a C `long` rather
4551 than an int, which makes some operations possible under 64-bit Linux (e.g.
4552 DN_MULTISHOT with F_NOTIFY).
4553
Senthil Kumarane266f252009-05-24 09:14:50 +00004554- Issue #1424152: Fix for httplib, urllib2 to support SSL while working through
4555 proxy. Original patch by Christopher Li, changes made by Senthil Kumaran.
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00004556
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004557- Issue #1983: Fix functions taking or returning a process identifier to use the
4558 dedicated C type ``pid_t`` instead of a C ``int``. Some platforms have a
4559 process identifier type wider than the standard C integer type.
Antoine Pitrou5e858fe2009-05-23 15:37:45 +00004560
R. David Murrayad3058e2009-05-23 00:48:58 +00004561- Issue #4066: smtplib.SMTP_SSL._get_socket now correctly returns the socket.
4562 Patch by Farhan Ahmad, test by Marcin Bachry.
4563
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004564- Issue #6062: In distutils, fixed the package option of build_ext. Feedback
Tarek Ziadé7d7127d2009-05-19 16:17:21 +00004565 and tests on pywin32 by Tim Golden.
4566
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004567- Issue #6053: Fixed distutils tests on win32. Patch by Hirokazu Yamamoto.
Tarek Ziadé07bbfcc2009-05-18 12:21:26 +00004568
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004569- Issue #6046: Fixed the library extension when distutils build_ext is used in
4570 place. Initial patch by Roumen Petrov.
Tarek Ziadéfcc7f032009-05-18 08:03:37 +00004571
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00004572- Issue #6041: Now distutils `sdist` and `register` commands use `check` as a
Tarek Ziadécb768042009-05-16 16:37:06 +00004573 subcommand.
4574
Antoine Pitrou775fd662009-05-15 16:54:52 +00004575- Issue #2116: Weak references and weak dictionaries now support copy()ing and
4576 deepcopy()ing.
4577
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004578- Issue #1655: Make imaplib IPv6-capable. Patch by Derek Morr.
Antoine Pitrou52035a02009-05-15 11:50:29 +00004579
Antoine Pitrou42b5bcf2009-05-14 21:48:09 +00004580- Issue #5918: Fix a crash in the parser module.
4581
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004582- Issue #1664: Make nntplib IPv6-capable. Patch by Derek Morr.
Antoine Pitroueed30d82009-05-14 21:22:08 +00004583
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004584- Issue #6022: A test file was created in the current working directory by
Tarek Ziadécbb4f9e2009-05-14 20:14:13 +00004585 test_get_outputs in Distutils.
4586
R. David Murray996ba022009-05-13 17:14:11 +00004587- Issue #4050: inspect.findsource/getsource now raise an IOError if the 'source'
4588 file is a binary. Patch by Brodie Rao, tests by Daniel Diniz.
4589
Tarek Ziadé972480d2009-05-12 17:07:14 +00004590- Issue #5977: distutils build_ext.get_outputs was not taking into account the
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004591 inplace option. Initial patch by kxroberto.
Tarek Ziadé972480d2009-05-12 17:07:14 +00004592
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004593- Issue #5984: distutils.command.build_ext.check_extensions_list checks were
4594 broken for old-style extensions.
Tarek Ziadéd5d83422009-05-10 10:12:08 +00004595
Vinay Sajipf9b01fe2009-05-09 12:07:17 +00004596- Issue #5971: StreamHandler.handleError now swallows IOErrors which occur when
4597 trying to print a traceback.
4598
Tarek Ziadé812d7712009-05-09 10:06:00 +00004599- Issue #5976: Fixed Distutils test_check_environ.
4600
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004601- Issue #5900: Ensure RUNPATH is added to extension modules with RPATH if GNU ld
4602 is used. Original patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
Tarek Ziadée2be83d2009-05-09 08:28:53 +00004603
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004604- Issue #5941: Distutils build_clib command was not working anymore because of
4605 an incomplete costumization of the archiver command. Added ARFLAGS in the
4606 Makefile besides AR and make Distutils use it. Original patch by David
Tarek Ziadé99f660a2009-05-07 21:20:34 +00004607 Cournapeau.
4608
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00004609- Issue #5955: aifc's close method did not close the file it wrapped, now it
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004610 does. This also means getfp method now returns the real fp.
R. David Murrayd3bf34c2009-05-07 16:29:19 +00004611
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004612- Issue #4875: On win32, ctypes.util.find_library does no longer return
4613 directories.
Thomas Hellera57773e2009-05-05 18:55:47 +00004614
Georg Brandl4d4313d2009-05-05 08:54:11 +00004615- Issue #5142: Add the ability to skip modules while stepping to pdb.
4616
Georg Brandle3869c42009-05-05 08:30:28 +00004617- Issue #1309567: Fix linecache behavior of stripping subdirectories when
4618 looking for files given by a relative filename.
4619
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004620- Issue #5692: In ``zipfile.Zipfile``, fix wrong path calculation when
Antoine Pitrou97377bf2009-05-04 21:17:17 +00004621 extracting a file to the root directory.
4622
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004623- Issue #5913: ``os.listdir()`` should fail for empty path on windows.
Hirokazu Yamamoto406d7aa2009-05-04 05:28:39 +00004624
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004625- Issue #5084: Unpickling now interns the attribute names of pickled objects,
4626 saving memory and avoiding growth in size of subsequent pickles. Proposal and
4627 original patch by Jake McGuire.
Antoine Pitrou74309892009-05-02 21:13:23 +00004628
Antoine Pitrou1fc02312009-05-01 20:55:35 +00004629- Issue #3002: ``shutil.copyfile()`` and ``shutil.copytree()`` now raise an
4630 error when a named pipe is encountered, rather than blocking infinitely.
4631
Gregory P. Smith1d499262009-05-01 19:59:52 +00004632- Issue #3959: The ipaddr module has been added to the standard library.
4633 Contributed by Google.
4634
R. David Murray25b4add2009-04-29 13:17:37 +00004635- Issue #2245: aifc now skips chunk types it doesn't recognize, per spec.
4636
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004637- Issue #5874: distutils.tests.test_config_cmd is not locale-sensitive anymore.
Tarek Ziadéa1b91d92009-04-29 08:03:46 +00004638
Thomas Heller90c61a22009-04-28 19:23:41 +00004639- Issue #4305: ctypes should now build again on mipsel-linux-gnu
4640
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004641- Issue #1734234: Massively speedup ``unicodedata.normalize()`` when the string
4642 is already in normalized form, by performing a quick check beforehand.
Antoine Pitroue988e282009-04-27 21:53:26 +00004643 Original patch by Rauli Ruohonen.
4644
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004645- Issue #5853: Calling a function of the mimetypes module from several threads
Antoine Pitrouf2651e12009-04-27 20:50:20 +00004646 at once could hit the recursion limit if the mimetypes database hadn't been
4647 initialized before.
4648
Vinay Sajipe34d6aa2009-04-27 13:44:27 +00004649- Issue #5854: Updated __all__ to include some missing names and remove some
4650 names which should not be exported.
4651
4652- Issue #5810: Fixed Distutils test_build_scripts so it uses
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004653 ``sysconfig.get_config_vars()``.
Tarek Ziadébcddf672009-04-25 12:51:59 +00004654
Tarek Ziadéd567c382009-04-25 12:38:08 +00004655- Issue #4951: Fixed failure in test_httpservers.
4656
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004657- Issue #3102: All global symbols that the _ctypes extension defines are now
4658 prefixed with 'Py' or '_ctypes'.
Thomas Heller5c6af802009-04-24 20:31:47 +00004659
Thomas Hellerec21ccd2009-04-24 20:00:41 +00004660- Issue #5041: ctypes does now allow pickling wide character.
4661
Mark Dickinson4af8e742009-04-24 13:56:07 +00004662- Issue #5812: For the two-argument form of the Fraction constructor,
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004663 ``Fraction(m, n)``, m and n are permitted to be arbitrary Rational instances.
Mark Dickinson4af8e742009-04-24 13:56:07 +00004664
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004665- Issue #5812: Fraction('1e6') is valid: more generally, any string that's valid
4666 for float() is now valid for Fraction(), with the exception of strings
4667 representing NaNs and infinities.
Mark Dickinson8100bd82009-04-22 18:15:25 +00004668
Tarek Ziadé31559b62009-04-20 14:29:42 +00004669- Issue #5795: Fixed test_distutils failure on Debian ppc.
4670
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +00004671- Issue #5768: Fixed bug in Unicode output logic and test case for same.
4672
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004673- Issue #1161031: Fix readwrite select flag handling: POLLPRI now results in a
4674 handle_expt_event call, not handle_read_event, and POLLERR and POLLNVAL now
4675 call handle_close, not handle_expt_event. Also, dispatcher now has an
4676 'ignore_log_types' attribute for suppressing log messages, which is set to
4677 'warning' by default.
R. David Murrayabc26602009-04-13 16:56:32 +00004678
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004679- Issue #5607: Fixed Distutils test_get_platform for Mac OS X fat binaries.
Tarek Ziadé156c31a2009-04-13 12:34:01 +00004680
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004681- Issue #5741: Don't disallow "%%" (which is an escape for "%") when setting a
4682 value in SafeConfigParser.
Georg Brandl21cf5ee2009-04-12 17:24:11 +00004683
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004684- Issue #5732: Added a new command in Distutils: check.
Tarek Ziadé942825f2009-04-11 14:55:07 +00004685
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +00004686- Issue #5731: Distutils bdist_wininst no longer worked on non-Windows
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004687 platforms. Initial patch by Paul Moore.
Tarek Ziadéad958262009-04-09 21:36:44 +00004688
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004689- Issue #2254: Fix CGIHTTPServer information disclosure. Relative paths are now
4690 collapsed within the url properly before looking in cgi_directories.
Gregory P. Smith923ba362009-04-06 06:33:26 +00004691
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004692- Issue #5095: Added bdist_msi to the list of bdist supported formats. Initial
4693 fix by Steven Bethard.
Tarek Ziadé64408fb2009-04-05 22:51:09 +00004694
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004695- Issue #1491431: Fixed distutils.filelist.glob_to_re for edge cases. Initial
4696 fix by Wayne Davison.
Tarek Ziadéfaa6b122009-04-05 21:44:08 +00004697
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004698- Issue #5693: TestSuite.__iter__ can now be consistently overridden in
4699 subclasses.
Michael Foordf2dfef12009-04-05 19:19:28 +00004700
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004701- Issue #5694: Removed spurious test output in Distutils (test_clean).
Tarek Ziadé453d9532009-04-05 18:31:24 +00004702
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +00004703- Issue #5471: Fix os.path.expanduser() for $HOME set to '/'.
Georg Brandl3f0ef202009-04-05 14:48:49 +00004704
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004705- Issue #1326077: Fix the formatting of SyntaxErrors by the traceback module.
Georg Brandl1956d5c2009-04-05 14:25:41 +00004706
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004707- Issue #1726172: Fix IndexError in the case of and empty response in ftplib.
Georg Brandl50ba6e12009-04-05 10:48:47 +00004708
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004709- Issue #2625: Added missing iteritems() call to the for loop in
R. David Murray52720c52009-04-02 14:05:35 +00004710 mailbox.MH.get_message().
4711
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004712- Issue #5585: Add the ability to call an initializer to
4713 mulitiprocessing.manager so that users can install custom handlers/etc.
Jesse Noller7152f6d2009-04-02 05:17:26 +00004714
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004715- Issue #3551: Patch multiprocessing to raise a proper exception if the size of
4716 the object when writefile is called causes a ERROR_NO_SYSTEM_RESOURCES. Added
4717 docs to note the limitation.
Jesse Noller5053fbb2009-04-02 04:22:09 +00004718
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004719- unittest.assertNotEqual() now uses the inequality operator (!=) instead of the
4720 equality operator.
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00004721
4722- Issue #6001: Test discovery for unittest. Implemented in
Michael Foordb4a81c82009-05-29 20:33:46 +00004723 unittest.TestLoader.discover and from the command line.
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +00004724
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004725- Issue #5679: The methods unittest.TestCase.addCleanup and doCleanups were
4726 added. addCleanup allows you to add cleanup functions that will be called
Michael Foord07ef4872009-05-02 22:43:34 +00004727 unconditionally (after setUp if setUp fails, otherwise after tearDown). This
4728 allows for much simpler resource allocation and deallocation during tests.
4729
4730- Issue #3379: unittest.main now takes an optional exit argument. If False main
4731 doesn't call sys.exit allowing it to be used from the interactive interpreter.
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00004732
4733- Issue #5995: unittest.main now takes an optional verbosity argument allowing
Michael Foord5d31e052009-05-11 17:59:43 +00004734 test modules to be run with a higher than default verbosity.
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00004735
4736- Issue #5995: A fix to allow you to run "python -m unittest test_module" or
Michael Foord5d31e052009-05-11 17:59:43 +00004737 "python -m unittest test_module.TestClass" from the command line.
Michael Foord07ef4872009-05-02 22:43:34 +00004738
4739- Issue #5728: unittest.TestResult has new startTestRun and stopTestRun methods;
4740 called immediately before and after a test run.
4741
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004742- Issue #5663: Better failure messages for unittest asserts. Default assertTrue
Michael Foord345b2fe2009-04-02 03:20:38 +00004743 and assertFalse messages are now useful. TestCase has a longMessage attribute.
4744 This defaults to False, but if set to True useful error messages are shown in
4745 addition to explicit messages passed to assert methods.
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +00004746
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004747- Issue #3110: Add additional protect around SEM_VALUE_MAX for multiprocessing.
Jesse Nollerb502bc72009-04-02 02:32:55 +00004748
Georg Brandl58b8b952009-04-01 21:54:21 +00004749- In Pdb, prevent the reassignment of __builtin__._ by sys.displayhook on
4750 printing out values.
4751
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004752- Issue #4572: Added SEEK_* symbolic constants to io module.
Georg Brandl5942b912009-04-01 21:05:44 +00004753
Brett Cannonad078a02009-04-01 16:00:34 +00004754- Issue #1665206 (partially): Move imports in cgitb to the top of the module
4755 instead of performing them in functions. Helps prevent import deadlocking in
4756 threads.
4757
Raymond Hettinger66c4a6b2009-04-01 18:50:56 +00004758- Issue #5647: MutableSet.__iand__() no longer mutates self during iteration.
4759
Georg Brandle92d4b62009-04-01 04:21:14 +00004760- Actually make the SimpleXMLRPCServer CGI handler work.
4761
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004762- Issue #2522: locale.format() now checks its first argument to ensure it has
R. David Murraya83da352009-04-01 03:21:43 +00004763 been passed only one pattern, avoiding mysterious errors where it appeared
4764 that it was failing to do localization.
4765
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004766- Issue #5583: Added optional extensions in Distutils. Initial patch by Georg
Tarek Ziadé9e47ce42009-03-31 22:27:23 +00004767 Brandl.
4768
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004769- Issue #5619: Multiprocessing children disobey the debug flag and causes popups
4770 on windows buildbots. Patch applied to work around this issue.
Jesse Noller42f9b4e2009-03-31 22:20:35 +00004771
Benjamin Petersond906ea62009-03-31 21:34:42 +00004772- Issue #5632: Thread.ident was None for the main thread and threads not created
4773 with the threading module.
4774
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004775- Issue #5400: Added patch for multiprocessing on netbsd compilation/support.
Jesse Noller1f0a5552009-03-31 18:27:14 +00004776
Hirokazu Yamamoto9d2ee5d2009-03-31 13:13:05 +00004777- Issue #5387: Fixed mmap.move crash by integer overflow.
4778
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004779- Issue #5261: Patch multiprocessing's semaphore.c to support context manager
4780 use: "with multiprocessing.Lock()" works now.
Jesse Noller82eb5902009-03-30 23:29:31 +00004781
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +00004782- Issue #5177: Multiprocessing's SocketListener class now uses
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004783 socket.SO_REUSEADDR on all connections so that the user no longer needs to
4784 wait 120 seconds for the socket to expire.
Jesse Noller459a6482009-03-30 15:50:42 +00004785
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004786- Adjusted _tkinter to compile without warnings when WITH_THREAD is not defined
4787 (part of issue #5035).
Guilherme Polo1972d162009-03-27 21:43:08 +00004788
Marc-André Lemburgcbdf15b2009-03-25 19:45:33 +00004789- Issue #5561: Removed the sys.version_info shortcuts from platform's
4790 python_version() and python_version_tuple() since they produced different
4791 output compared to previous Python versions.
4792
Benjamin Peterson692428e2009-03-23 21:50:21 +00004793- Issue #1034053: unittest now supports skipping tests and expected failures.
4794
Gregory P. Smith28399852009-03-31 16:54:10 +00004795- The unittest.TestCase.assertRaises() method now returns a context manager when
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004796 not given a callable so that code to be tested can be written inline using a
4797 with statement.
Gregory P. Smith28399852009-03-31 16:54:10 +00004798
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004799- Issue #2578: The unittest.TestCase.assertEqual() now displays the differences
4800 in lists, tuples, dicts and sets on failure. Many new handy type and
4801 comparison specific assert* methods have been added that fail with error
4802 messages actually useful for debugging. Contributed in part by Google.
Gregory P. Smith28399852009-03-31 16:54:10 +00004803
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004804- Issue #5068: Fixed the tarfile._BZ2Proxy.read() method that would loop forever
4805 on incomplete input. That caused tarfile.open() to hang when used with mode
4806 'r' or 'r:bz2' and a fileobj argument that contained no data or partial bzip2
4807 compressed data.
Lars Gustäbel2020a592009-03-22 20:09:33 +00004808
Benjamin Petersonb364bfe2009-03-22 17:45:11 +00004809- Issue #5536: urllib.urlretrieve makes sure to close the file it's writing to
4810 even if an exception occurs.
4811
Raymond Hettinger91852ca2009-03-19 19:19:03 +00004812- Issue #5381: Added object_pairs_hook to the json module. This allows
4813 OrderedDicts to be built by the decoder.
4814
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004815- Issue #2110: Add support for thousands separator and 'n' type specifier to
4816 ``Decimal.__format__()``.
Mark Dickinson277859d2009-03-17 23:03:46 +00004817
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004818- Fix Decimal.__format__ bug that swapped the meanings of the '<' and '>'
4819 alignment characters.
Mark Dickinsonb065e522009-03-17 18:01:03 +00004820
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004821- Issue #1222: ``locale.format()`` bug when the thousands separator is a space
Antoine Pitroufeeafff2009-03-14 00:07:21 +00004822 character.
4823
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004824- Issue #5472: Fixed distutils.test_util tear down. Original patch by Tim
4825 Golden.
Tarek Ziadé61585c22009-03-11 12:48:04 +00004826
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004827- collections.deque objects now have a read-only attribute called maxlen.
Raymond Hettinger56411aa2009-03-10 12:50:59 +00004828
Guilherme Polo15d57652009-03-07 02:14:38 +00004829- Issue #2638: Show a window constructed with tkSimpleDialog.Dialog only after
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004830 it is has been populated and properly configured in order to prevent window
4831 flashing.
Guilherme Polo15d57652009-03-07 02:14:38 +00004832
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004833- Issue #4792: Prevent a segfault in _tkinter by using the guaranteed to be safe
4834 interp argument given to the PythonCmd in place of the Tcl interpreter taken
4835 from a PythonCmd_ClientData.
Guilherme Polo3768b2f2009-03-07 01:47:49 +00004836
Guilherme Polo6d6c1fd2009-03-07 01:19:12 +00004837- Issue #5193: Guarantee that Tkinter.Text.search returns a string.
4838
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004839- Issue #5394: Removed > 2.3 syntax from distutils.msvc9compiler.
Tarek Ziadé943b24e2009-03-07 00:32:45 +00004840 Original patch by Akira Kitada.
4841
Hirokazu Yamamoto264fc122009-03-05 14:21:12 +00004842- Issue #5385: Fixed mmap crash after resize failure on windows.
4843
Hirokazu Yamamotoeacbbdf2009-03-03 22:18:14 +00004844- Issue #5179: Fixed subprocess handle leak on failure on windows.
4845
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004846- PEP 372: Added collections.OrderedDict().
Raymond Hettingerbc512d32009-03-03 04:45:34 +00004847
Raymond Hettinger88a91642009-03-03 04:51:24 +00004848- The _asdict() for method for namedtuples now returns an OrderedDict().
4849
Raymond Hettingere89b8e92009-03-03 05:00:37 +00004850- The configparser module now defaults to using an ordered dictionary.
4851
Benjamin Peterson7d49bba2009-03-02 22:41:42 +00004852- Issue #4308: httplib.IncompleteRead's repr doesn't include all of the data all
4853 ready received.
4854
Benjamin Petersonad58b7c2009-03-02 03:35:12 +00004855- Issue #5401: Fixed a performance problem in mimetypes when ``from mimetypes
4856 import guess_extension`` was used.
4857
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004858- Issue #1733986: Fixed mmap crash on Windows in accessing elements of second
4859 map object with same tagname but larger size than first map.
Hirokazu Yamamotob0e10c72009-02-28 12:13:07 +00004860
Hirokazu Yamamotof2dc8852009-02-28 10:31:54 +00004861- Issue #5386: mmap.write_byte didn't check map size, so it could cause buffer
4862 overrun.
4863
Tarek Ziadé73347352009-02-28 10:08:02 +00004864- Issue #1533164: Installed but not listed *.pyo was breaking Distutils
4865 bdist_rpm command.
4866
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004867- Issue #5378: Added --quiet option to Distutils bdist_rpm command.
Tarek Ziadé73347352009-02-28 10:08:02 +00004868
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004869- Issue #5052: Make Distutils compatible with 2.3 again.
Tarek Ziadédda92f72009-02-27 12:53:34 +00004870
Benjamin Petersonb3dd5482009-02-26 19:07:18 +00004871- Deprecated methods of symtable.Symbol have been removed: is_keywordarg(),
4872 is_vararg(), and is_in_tuple().
4873
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004874- Issue #5316: Fixed buildbot failures introduced by multiple inheritance in
4875 Distutils tests.
Tarek Ziadée3bc0ef2009-02-25 22:29:27 +00004876
Vinay Sajip1a0d2be2009-02-19 12:31:32 +00004877- Issue #5287: Add exception handling around findCaller() call to help out
4878 IronPython.
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +00004879
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004880- Issue #5282: Fixed mmap resize on 32bit Windows and Unix. When ``offset >
4881 0``, the file was resized to wrong size.
Hirokazu Yamamoto17a837e2009-02-17 13:17:26 +00004882
Hirokazu Yamamotof6bbd0e2009-02-17 10:12:10 +00004883- Issue #5292: Fixed mmap crash on its boundary access m[len(m)].
4884
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004885- Issue #2279: distutils.sdist.add_defaults now add files from the package_data
4886 and the data_files metadata.
Tarek Ziadé7dd53392009-02-16 21:38:01 +00004887
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004888- Issue #5257: Refactored all tests in distutils, so they use
Tarek Ziadé13699002009-02-14 14:10:23 +00004889 support.TempdirManager, to avoid writing in the tests directory.
4890
Tarek Ziadé2432b0b2009-02-13 23:00:43 +00004891- Issue #4524: distutils build_script command failed with --with-suffix=3.
4892 Initial patch by Amaury Forgeot d'Arc.
4893
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004894- Issue #2461: Added tests for distutils.util.
Tarek Ziadé275958a2009-02-13 22:22:03 +00004895
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004896- Issue #1008086: Fixed socket.inet_aton() to always return 4 bytes even on LP64
4897 platforms (most 64-bit Linux, bsd, unix systems).
Gregory P. Smith3605b5c2009-02-11 23:45:25 +00004898
Thomas Heller3689ae22009-02-10 18:43:01 +00004899- Issue #5203: Fixed ctypes segfaults when passing a unicode string to a
4900 function without argtypes (only occurs if HAVE_USABLE_WCHAR_T is false).
4901
Tarek Ziadé74fbf602009-02-10 12:31:09 +00004902- Issue #3386: distutils.sysconfig.get_python_lib prefix argument was ignored
4903 under NT and OS2. Patch by Philip Jenvey.
4904
Brett Cannon28d10882009-02-10 02:07:38 +00004905- Issue #5128: Make compileall properly inspect bytecode to determine if needs
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004906 to be recreated. This avoids a timing hole thanks to the old reliance on the
Brett Cannon28d10882009-02-10 02:07:38 +00004907 ctime of the files involved.
4908
Guilherme Poloa66cf5b2009-02-09 20:50:27 +00004909- Issue #5122: Synchronize tk load failure check to prevent a potential
4910 deadlock.
4911
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004912- Issue #1818: collections.namedtuple() now supports a keyword argument 'rename'
4913 which lets invalid fieldnames be automatically converted to positional names
4914 in the form, _1, _2, ...
Raymond Hettinger322daea2009-02-10 01:24:05 +00004915
Guilherme Polod2ea0332009-02-09 16:41:09 +00004916- Issue #4890: Handle empty text search pattern in Tkinter.Text.search.
4917
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004918- Issue #5170: Fixed Unicode output bug in logging and added test case. This is
4919 a regression which did not occur in 2.5.
Vinay Sajipb20af942009-02-08 19:06:08 +00004920
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004921- Issue #4512 (part 2): Promote ``ZipImporter._get_filename()`` to be a public
4922 documented method ``ZipImporter.get_filename()``.
Nick Coghlan0194f5b2009-02-08 03:17:00 +00004923
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004924- Issue #4195: The ``runpy`` module (and the ``-m`` switch) now support the
4925 execution of packages by looking for and executing a ``__main__`` submodule
4926 when a package name is supplied. Initial patch by Andi Vajda.
Nick Coghland39600e2009-02-08 01:26:34 +00004927
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004928- Issue #1731706: Call Tcl_ConditionFinalize for Tcl_Conditions that will not be
4929 used again (this requires Tcl/Tk 8.3.1), also fix a memory leak in Tkapp_Call
4930 when calling from a thread different than the one that created the Tcl
4931 interpreter. Patch by Robert Hancock.
Guilherme Polo14ff18d2009-02-06 22:26:22 +00004932
Vinay Sajipb20af942009-02-08 19:06:08 +00004933- Issue #1520877: Now distutils.sysconfig reads $AR from the
Tarek Ziadé05adf072009-02-06 01:15:51 +00004934 environment/Makefile. Patch by Douglas Greiman.
4935
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004936- Issue #4285: Change sys.version_info to be a named tuple. Patch by Ross
4937 Light.
Eric Smith81fe0932009-02-06 00:48:26 +00004938
Tarek Ziadéd5eb9852009-02-06 00:31:59 +00004939- Issue #1276768: The verbose option was not used in the code of
4940 distutils.file_util and distutils.dir_util.
4941
Vinay Sajipb20af942009-02-08 19:06:08 +00004942- Issue #5132: Fixed trouble building extensions under Solaris with
Tarek Ziadé0d4fd342009-02-05 22:52:52 +00004943 --enabled-shared activated. Initial patch by Dave Peterson.
4944
Guilherme Polod7bb4d42009-02-02 21:14:14 +00004945- Issue #1581476: Always use the Tcl global namespace when calling into Tcl.
4946
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004947- Issue #2047: shutil.move() could believe that its destination path was inside
4948 its source path if it began with the same letters (e.g. "src" vs. "src.new").
Antoine Pitrou707c5932009-01-29 20:19:34 +00004949
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004950- Issue #4920: Fixed .next() vs .__next__() issues in the ABCs for Iterator and
4951 MutableSet.
Raymond Hettingerf779e6f2009-01-28 23:02:26 +00004952
Guilherme Polocda93aa2009-01-28 13:09:03 +00004953- Added the ttk module. See issue #2983: Ttk support for Tkinter.
4954
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004955- Issue #5021: doctest.testfile() did not create __name__ and
Raymond Hettingerecf252a2009-01-27 10:03:04 +00004956 collections.namedtuple() relied on __name__ being defined.
4957
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004958- Backport importlib from Python 3.1. Only the import_module() function has been
4959 backported to help facilitate transitions from 2.7 to 3.1.
Brett Cannon93881c62009-01-26 01:16:50 +00004960
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004961- Issue #1885: distutils: When running sdist with --formats=tar,gztar the tar
4962 file was overriden by the gztar one.
Tarek Ziadéaaedcef2009-01-25 23:34:00 +00004963
Tarek Ziadéef249b12009-01-25 18:19:25 +00004964- Issue #4863: distutils.mwerkscompiler has been removed.
4965
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004966- Added new itertools functions: combinations_with_replacement() and compress().
Raymond Hettinger2bcb8e92009-01-25 21:04:14 +00004967
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004968- Issue #5032: Added a step argument to itertools.count() and allowed
4969 non-integer arguments.
Raymond Hettinger31c769c2009-02-12 05:39:46 +00004970
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004971- Fix and properly document the multiprocessing module's logging support, expose
4972 the internal levels and provide proper usage examples.
Jesse Nollerb5a4b0a2009-01-25 03:36:13 +00004973
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004974- Issue #1672332: Fix unpickling of subnormal floats, which was
Mark Dickinsona3ecd2c2009-01-24 16:40:29 +00004975 producing a ValueError on some platforms.
4976
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004977- Issue #3881: Help Tcl to load even when started through the unreadable local
4978 symlink to "Program Files" on Vista.
Martin v. Löwisf081e1c2009-01-24 15:47:27 +00004979
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004980- Issue #4710: Extract directories properly in the zipfile module; allow adding
4981 directories to a zipfile.
Martin v. Löwis0dfcfc82009-01-24 14:00:33 +00004982
Vinay Sajipb20af942009-02-08 19:06:08 +00004983- Issue #3807: _multiprocessing build fails when configure is passed
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004984 --without-threads argument. When this occurs, _multiprocessing will be
4985 disabled, and not compiled.
Jesse Nollerf6da8d12009-01-23 14:04:41 +00004986
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004987- Issue #5008: When a file is opened in append mode with the new IO library, do
4988 an explicit seek to the end of file (so that e.g. tell() returns the file size
4989 rather than 0). This is consistent with the behaviour of the traditional 2.x
4990 file object.
Antoine Pitroue741cc62009-01-21 00:45:36 +00004991
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +00004992- Issue #5013: Fixed a bug in FileHandler which occurred when the delay
4993 parameter was set.
4994
Raymond Hettinger933d3a72009-01-20 20:34:19 +00004995- Issue #4998: The memory saving effect of __slots__ had been lost on Fractions
4996 which inherited from numbers.py which did not have __slots__ defined. The
Mark Dickinson39c6f7f2009-02-12 17:55:42 +00004997 numbers hierarchy now has its own __slots__ declarations.
Raymond Hettinger933d3a72009-01-20 20:34:19 +00004998
Jesse Noller9a5b2ad2009-01-19 15:12:22 +00004999- Issue #3321: _multiprocessing.Connection() doesn't check handle; added checks
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005000 for *nix machines for negative handles and large int handles. Without this
5001 check it is possible to segfault the interpreter.
Jesse Noller9a5b2ad2009-01-19 15:12:22 +00005002
Jesse Noller6ab22152009-01-18 02:45:38 +00005003- Issue #4449: AssertionError in mp_benchmarks.py, caused by an underlying issue
5004 in sharedctypes.py.
5005
Benjamin Peterson5e5fbb62009-01-17 22:27:54 +00005006- Issue #1225107: inspect.isclass() returned True for instances with a custom
5007 __getattr__.
5008
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005009- Issue #3997: Zipfiles generated with more than 65536 files could not be opened
5010 with other applications.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd25f87a2009-01-17 16:40:17 +00005011
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005012- Issue #1162154: ``inspect.getmembers()`` now skips attributes that raise
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcb54447f2009-01-13 23:39:22 +00005013 AttributeError, e.g. a __slots__ attribute which has not been set.
5014
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005015- Issue #1696199: Add collections.Counter() for rapid and convenient counting.
Raymond Hettingerf94d7fa2009-01-12 22:58:41 +00005016
Antoine Pitroubd4b5f22009-01-10 16:15:24 +00005017- Issue #3860: GzipFile and BZ2File now support the context manager protocol.
5018
Antoine Pitrouf0d2c3f2009-01-04 21:29:23 +00005019- Issue #4272: Add an optional argument to the GzipFile constructor to override
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005020 the timestamp in the gzip stream. The default value remains the current time.
5021 The information can be used by e.g. gunzip when decompressing. Patch by
Antoine Pitrouf0d2c3f2009-01-04 21:29:23 +00005022 Jacques Frechet.
5023
Mark Dickinson514d4832009-01-04 21:25:40 +00005024- Restore Python 2.3 compatibility for decimal.py.
5025
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +00005026- Issue #1702551: distutils sdist was not excluding VCS directories under
Ezio Melotti50bc66a2012-11-03 21:29:08 +02005027 Windows. Initial solution by Guy Dalberto.
Tarek Ziadé85d6fb52009-01-04 00:04:49 +00005028
Guilherme Poloe7f14032009-01-03 21:51:09 +00005029- The _tkinter module functions "createfilehandler", "deletefilehandler",
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005030 "createtimerhandler", "mainloop", "dooneevent" and "quit" have been deprecated
5031 for removal in 3.x
Guilherme Poloe7f14032009-01-03 21:51:09 +00005032
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005033- Issue #4796: Added Decimal.from_float() and
5034 Context.create_decimal_from_float() to the decimal module.
Raymond Hettingerf4d85972009-01-03 19:02:23 +00005035
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005036- Issue #4812: Add missing underscore prefix to some internal-use-only constants
5037 in the decimal module. (Dec_0 becomes _Dec_0, etc.)
Mark Dickinsonc5de0962009-01-02 23:07:08 +00005038
Benjamin Peterson8ad09a42008-12-31 23:48:39 +00005039- Issue #4795: inspect.isgeneratorfunction() returns False instead of None when
5040 the function is not a generator.
5041
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005042- Issue #4702: Throwing a DistutilsPlatformError instead of IOError in case no
5043 MSVC compiler is found under Windows. Original patch by Philip Jenvey.
Tarek Ziadéb1a85412008-12-30 23:03:41 +00005044
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005045- Issue #4646: distutils was choking on empty options arg in the setup function.
5046 Original patch by Thomas Heller.
Tarek Ziadéc13acb12008-12-29 22:23:53 +00005047
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005048- Fractions.from_float() no longer loses precision for integers too big to cast
5049 as floats.
Georg Brandlfe427892009-01-03 22:03:11 +00005050
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005051- Issue #4790: The nsmallest() and nlargest() functions in the heapq module did
5052 unnecessary work in the common case where no key function was specified.
Georg Brandlfe427892009-01-03 22:03:11 +00005053
Martin v. Löwis732479f2008-12-29 16:22:25 +00005054- Issue #3767: Convert Tk object to string in tkColorChooser.
5055
Martin v. Löwise2eb2b42008-12-29 15:51:01 +00005056- Issue #3248: Allow placing ScrolledText in a PanedWindow.
5057
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005058- Issue #4444: Allow assertRaises() to be used as a context handler, so that the
5059 code under test can be written inline if more practical.
Antoine Pitrou697ca3d2008-12-28 14:09:36 +00005060
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005061- Issue #4739: Add pydoc help topics for symbols, so that e.g. help('@') works
5062 as expected in the interactive environment.
Georg Brandlc3a98032008-12-27 18:20:04 +00005063
Antoine Pitrou6f193e02008-12-27 15:43:12 +00005064- Issue #4756: zipfile.is_zipfile() now supports file-like objects. Patch by
5065 Gabriel Genellina.
5066
Tarek Ziadée4c75bb2008-12-24 19:10:05 +00005067- Issue #4400: .pypirc default generated file was broken in distutils.
5068
Benjamin Peterson54686e32008-12-24 15:10:27 +00005069- Issue #4736: io.BufferedRWPair's closed property now functions properly.
5070
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005071- Issue #3954: Fix a potential SystemError in _hotshot.logreader error handling.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc31949b92008-12-15 21:47:57 +00005072
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005073- Issue #4574: Fix a crash in io.IncrementalNewlineDecoder when a carriage
5074 return encodes to more than one byte in the source encoding (e.g. UTF-16) and
5075 gets split on a chunk boundary.
Antoine Pitrou655fbf12008-12-14 17:40:51 +00005076
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005077- Issue #4223: inspect.getsource() will now correctly display source code for
5078 packages loaded via zipimport (or any other conformant PEP 302
Nick Coghlana2053472008-12-14 10:54:50 +00005079 loader). Original patch by Alexander Belopolsky.
5080
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005081- Issue #4201: pdb can now access and display source code loaded via zipimport
5082 (or any other conformant PEP 302 loader). Original patch by Alexander
5083 Belopolsky.
Nick Coghlana2053472008-12-14 10:54:50 +00005084
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005085- Issue #4197: Doctests in modules loaded via zipimport (or any other PEP 302
5086 conformant loader) will now work correctly in most cases (they are still
5087 subject to the constraints that exist for all code running from inside a
5088 module loaded via a PEP 302 loader and attempting to perform IO operations
5089 based on __file__). Original patch by Alexander Belopolsky.
Nick Coghlana2053472008-12-14 10:54:50 +00005090
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005091- Issues #4082 and #4512: Add runpy support to zipimport in a manner that allows
5092 backporting to maintenance branches. Original patch by Alexander Belopolsky.
Nick Coghlana2053472008-12-14 10:54:50 +00005093
Antoine Pitrou74af3bb2008-12-13 23:12:30 +00005094- Issue #4163: Use unicode-friendly word splitting in the textwrap functions
5095 when given an unicode string.
5096
Lars Gustäbel3b027422008-12-12 13:58:03 +00005097- Issue #4616: TarFile.utime(): Restore directory times on Windows.
5098
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005099- Issue #4084: Fix max, min, max_mag and min_mag Decimal methods to give correct
5100 results in the case where one argument is a quiet NaN and the other is a
5101 finite number that requires rounding.
Facundo Batistae29d4352008-12-11 04:19:46 +00005102
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005103- Issue #1030250: Distutils created directories even when run with the --dry-run
5104 option.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc240028c2008-12-11 00:03:42 +00005105
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005106- Issue #4483: _dbm module now builds on systems with gdbm & gdbm_compat libs.
Skip Montanaro45313fe2008-12-06 17:43:30 +00005107
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005108- Issue #4529: Fix the parser module's validation of try-except-finally
Georg Brandlfe879e82008-12-05 12:09:41 +00005109 statements.
5110
Georg Brandla07435d2008-12-05 09:23:14 +00005111- Issue #4458: getopt.gnu_getopt() now recognizes a single "-" as an argument,
5112 not a malformed option.
5113
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005114- Added the subprocess.check_output() convenience function to get output from a
5115 subprocess on success or raise an exception on error.
Gregory P. Smith97f49f42008-12-04 20:21:09 +00005116
Fred Drake52481032008-12-04 18:25:17 +00005117- Issue #1055234: cgi.parse_header(): Fixed parsing of header parameters to
5118 support unusual filenames (such as those containing semi-colons) in
5119 Content-Disposition headers.
5120
Vinay Sajip6831d6b2008-12-04 20:32:18 +00005121- Issue #4384: Added logging integration with warnings module using
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005122 captureWarnings(). This change includes a NullHandler which does nothing; it
5123 will be of use to library developers who want to avoid the "No handlers could
5124 be found for logger XXX" message which can appear if the library user doesn't
5125 configure logging.
Vinay Sajip213faca2008-12-03 23:22:58 +00005126
Christian Heimesaa674712008-11-28 11:02:32 +00005127- Issue #3741: DISTUTILS_USE_SDK set causes msvc9compiler.py to raise an
5128 exception.
5129
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005130- Issue #4363: The uuid.uuid1() and uuid.uuid4() functions now work even if the
5131 ctypes module is not present.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd4294172008-11-21 22:05:48 +00005132
Benjamin Petersonbfc51562008-11-22 01:59:15 +00005133- FileIO's mode attribute now always includes ``"b"``.
5134
Martin v. Löwisbb9b1f12008-11-19 09:09:41 +00005135- Issue #4116: Resolve member name conflict in ScrolledCanvas.__init__.
5136
Brett Cannone3d0bf72008-11-15 22:40:44 +00005137- httplib.HTTPConnection.putheader() now accepts an arbitrary number of values
5138 for any header, matching what the documentation has claimed for a while.
5139
Hirokazu Yamamotob9828f62008-11-03 18:03:06 +00005140- Issue #3774: Fixed an error when create a Tkinter menu item without command
5141 and then remove it.
5142
Thomas Heller1fac5a42008-10-30 20:18:13 +00005143- Fixed a modulefinder crash on certain relative imports.
5144
Benjamin Petersonc18574c2008-10-22 21:16:34 +00005145- Issue #4150: Pdb's "up" command now works for generator frames in post-mortem
5146 debugging.
5147
Benjamin Petersone4dc1752008-10-21 22:20:31 +00005148- Issue #4092: Return ArgInfo as promised in the documentation from
5149 inspect.getargvalues.
5150
Georg Brandlf3776a12008-10-08 18:47:17 +00005151- Issue #3935: Properly support list subclasses in bisect's C implementation.
5152
Martin v. Löwis96a9f232008-10-06 15:15:40 +00005153- Issue #4014: Don't claim that Python has an Alpha release status, in addition
5154 to claiming it is Mature.
5155
Alexandre Vassalotti6067f782008-12-27 07:13:01 +00005156- Issue #4730: Fixed the cPickle module to handle correctly astral characters
5157 when protocol 0 is used.
5158
Ronald Oussoren0238497e2009-01-02 14:10:20 +00005159- Issue #1594: MacOS.GetCreatorAndType now always returns a big-endian result,
5160 to be consistent with Apple tools.
5161
Ronald Oussoren63b74fe2009-01-02 14:46:19 +00005162- Issue #900949: plat-mac/videoreader.py no longer relies on a non-existing
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +00005163 module.
Ronald Oussoren63b74fe2009-01-02 14:46:19 +00005164
Ronald Oussoren7f8cbf02009-01-02 14:48:17 +00005165- Issue #16278952: plat-mac/videoreader.py now correctly imports MediaDescr
5166
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005167- Issue #1737832: plat-mac/EasyDialog.py no longer uses the broken aepack
Ronald Oussoren919697c2009-01-02 14:52:09 +00005168 module.
5169
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005170- Issue #1149804: macostools.mkdirs now even works when another process creates
5171 one of the needed subdirectories.
Ronald Oussorenabcc1682009-01-02 15:00:05 +00005172
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005173- Issue #900506: added --no-zipimport flag to the bundlebuilder script.
Ronald Oussoren072bb402009-01-02 15:25:36 +00005174
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005175- Issue #841800: bundlebuilder now works with 'python -O'.
Ronald Oussoren072bb402009-01-02 15:25:36 +00005176
Matthias Klose43723e22009-01-10 17:00:42 +00005177- Issue #4861: ctypes.util.find_library(): Robustify. Fix library detection on
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005178 biarch systems. Try to rely on ldconfig only, without using objdump and gcc.
Matthias Klose43723e22009-01-10 17:00:42 +00005179
Gregory P. Smithde1a8b72009-01-31 22:57:30 +00005180- Issue #5104: The socket module now raises OverflowError when 16-bit port and
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005181 protocol numbers are supplied outside the allowed 0-65536 range on bind() and
5182 getservbyport().
Gregory P. Smithde1a8b72009-01-31 22:57:30 +00005183
Neil Schemenauer92c3b212009-02-07 00:54:41 +00005184- Issue #999042: The Python compiler now handles explict global statements
5185 correctly (should be assigned using STORE_GLOBAL opcode).
5186
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005187- Issue #2703: SimpleXMLRPCDispatcher.__init__: Provide default values for new
5188 arguments introduced in 2.5.
Matthias Klosea5d58c82009-04-05 21:00:48 +00005189
Walter Dörwald5d98ec72009-04-25 14:03:16 +00005190- Issue #5828 (Invalid behavior of unicode.lower): Fixed bogus logic in
5191 makeunicodedata.py and regenerated the Unicode database (This fixes
5192 u'\u1d79'.lower() == '\x00').
5193
Jeroen Ruigrok van der Wervenb87b3342009-05-08 14:11:23 +00005194- Windows locale mapping updated to Vista.
5195
Antoine Pitroue555f582008-12-27 20:34:52 +00005196Tools/Demos
5197-----------
5198
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005199- Ttk demos added in Demo/tkinter/ttk/.
Guilherme Polo4eae0782009-01-28 15:56:01 +00005200
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005201- Issue #4677: Add two list comprehension tests to pybench.
Antoine Pitroue555f582008-12-27 20:34:52 +00005202
Brett Cannon60b15d22008-10-06 22:44:37 +00005203Build
5204-----
5205
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005206- Issue #6603: Change READ_TIMESTAMP macro in ceval.c so that it compiles
5207 correctly under gcc on x86-64. This fixes a reported problem with the
5208 --with-tsc build on x86-64.
Mark Dickinson504a1512009-10-31 10:11:28 +00005209
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005210- Add 2 new options to ``--with-universal-archs`` on MacOSX: ``intel`` builds a
5211 distribution with ``i386`` and ``x86_64`` architectures, while ``3-way``
5212 builds a distribution with the ``ppc``, ``i386`` and ``x86_64`` architectures.
Vinay Sajip03d5c342009-10-16 14:06:44 +00005213
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005214- Issue #6802: Fix build issues on MacOSX 10.6.
Ronald Oussoren25967582009-09-06 10:00:26 +00005215
Guilherme Polo1ce2d532009-08-16 14:38:57 +00005216- Issue #6244: Allow detect_tkinter to look for Tcl/Tk 8.6.
5217
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00005218- Issue #5390: Add uninstall icon independent of whether file extensions are
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005219 installed.
Martin v. Löwisecb4f952009-06-28 09:32:39 +00005220
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00005221- Issue #5809: Specifying both --enable-framework and --enable-shared is an
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005222 error. Configure now explicity tells you about this.
Ronald Oussoren450d5612009-06-08 21:12:41 +00005223
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005224- Issue #3585: Add pkg-config support. It creates a python-2.7.pc file and a
5225 python.pc symlink in the $(LIBDIR)/pkgconfig directory. Patch by Clinton Roy.
Antoine Pitrouf2caeed2009-05-24 20:23:57 +00005226
Benjamin Petersone5afa3b2009-05-23 19:24:37 +00005227- Issue #6094: Build correctly with Subversion 1.7.
5228
Martin v. Löwis588b54b2009-05-05 16:10:16 +00005229- Issue #5847: Remove -n switch on "Edit with IDLE" menu item.
5230
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005231- Issue #5726: Make Modules/ld_so_aix return the actual exit code of the linker,
5232 rather than always exit successfully. Patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
Antoine Pitrou3fd4ea92009-05-01 21:16:14 +00005233
Matthias Klose10cbe482009-04-29 17:18:19 +00005234- Issue #4587: Add configure option --with-dbmliborder=db1:db2:... to specify
Vinay Sajipf9b01fe2009-05-09 12:07:17 +00005235 the order that backends for the dbm extension are checked.
Matthias Klose10cbe482009-04-29 17:18:19 +00005236
Matthias Klose8ad554f2009-02-22 23:14:26 +00005237- Link the shared python library with $(MODLIBS).
5238
Martin v. Löwisa3e3cb72009-02-10 13:09:19 +00005239- Issue #5134: Silence compiler warnings when compiling sqlite with VC++.
5240
Martin v. Löwisfee1c7f2009-02-02 14:23:16 +00005241- Issue #4494: Fix build with Py_NO_ENABLE_SHARED on Windows.
5242
Martin v. Löwiseefda272009-01-11 09:43:55 +00005243- Issue #4895: Use _strdup on Windows CE.
5244
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005245- Issue #4472: ``configure --enable-shared`` now works on OSX.
Ronald Oussorenf7d54052009-01-02 10:48:31 +00005246
Benjamin Petersonfd9633e2008-12-28 15:37:31 +00005247- Issues #4728 and #4060: WORDS_BIGEDIAN is now correct in Universal builds.
5248
Martin v. Löwiscb6c3592008-11-30 11:08:26 +00005249- Issue #4389: Add icon to the uninstall entry in "add-and-remove-programs".
5250
Martin v. Löwis63470982008-11-19 13:51:44 +00005251- Issue #4289: Remove Cancel button from AdvancedDlg.
5252
Martin v. Löwis3d6f8ff2008-11-07 18:51:50 +00005253- Issue #1656675: Register a drop handler for .py* files on Windows.
5254
Martin v. Löwis692c2f82008-11-06 16:43:00 +00005255- Issue #4120: Exclude manifest from extension modules in VS2008.
5256
Martin v. Löwis0f3e7692008-10-17 13:43:01 +00005257- Issue #4091: Install pythonxy.dll in system32 again.
5258
Martin v. Löwiseba774b2008-10-13 11:23:35 +00005259- Issue #4018: Disable "for me" installations on Vista.
5260
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005261- Issue #3758: Add ``patchcheck`` build target to ``.PHONY``.
Brett Cannon60b15d22008-10-06 22:44:37 +00005262
Martin v. Löwisbb86d832008-11-04 20:40:09 +00005263- Issue #4204: Fixed module build errors on FreeBSD 4.
5264
Tarek Ziadéc4a4aeb2009-08-21 14:28:38 +00005265Documentation
5266-------------
5267
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005268- Issue #6556: Fixed the Distutils configuration files location explanation for
5269 Windows.
Tarek Ziadéc4a4aeb2009-08-21 14:28:38 +00005270
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005271- Issue #6801: symmetric_difference_update also accepts ``|``. Thanks to Carl
5272 Chenet.
Tarek Ziadé3092ed92009-08-29 13:33:21 +00005273
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc07d539d2008-10-14 21:47:22 +00005274C-API
5275-----
5276
Mark Dickinsone31d3002009-12-21 11:21:25 +00005277- Issue #7528: Add PyLong_AsLongAndOverflow (backported from py3k).
5278
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005279- Issue #7228: Add '%lld' and '%llu' support to PyString_FromFormat(V) and
5280 PyErr_Format, on machines with HAVE_LONG_LONG defined.
Mark Dickinson82864d12009-11-15 16:18:58 +00005281
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005282- Add new C-API function PyOS_string_to_double, and deprecated PyOS_ascii_atof
5283 and PyOS_ascii_strtod.
Mark Dickinson09823a22009-10-31 09:42:39 +00005284
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005285- Removed _PyOS_double_to_string. Use PyOS_double_to_string instead. This is in
5286 preparation for (but not strictly related to) issue #7117, short float repr.
Mark Dickinsonba26b392009-10-31 09:28:12 +00005287
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005288- Issue #6624: PyArg_ParseTuple with "s" format when parsing argument with NULL:
5289 Bogus TypeError detail string.
Sean Reifscheider9279e7d2009-08-01 23:54:55 +00005290
Jeffrey Yasskinf7f858d2009-05-08 22:23:21 +00005291- Issue #5954: Add a PyFrame_GetLineNumber() function to replace most uses of
5292 PyCode_Addr2Line().
5293
Jeffrey Yasskin1aa47002009-05-08 21:51:06 +00005294- Issue #5959: Add a PyCode_NewEmpty() function to create a new empty code
5295 object at a specified file, function, and line number.
5296
Brett Cannonc4f90eb2009-04-02 03:17:39 +00005297- Issue #1419652: Change the first argument to PyImport_AppendInittab() to
5298 ``const char *`` as the string is stored beyond the call.
5299
Benjamin Peterson5781f322009-02-16 21:09:09 +00005300- Some PyBytes_* aliases have been removed because they don't exist in 3.x.
5301
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005302- Issue #5175: PyLong_AsUnsignedLongLong now raises OverflowError for negative
5303 arguments. Previously, it raised TypeError.
Mark Dickinson4015f622009-02-10 15:46:50 +00005304
Benjamin Petersoncf2ce242008-12-22 20:52:53 +00005305- Issue #4720: The format for PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords can begin with '|'.
5306
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005307- Issue #3632: From the gdb debugger, the 'pyo' macro can now be called when the
5308 GIL is released, or owned by another thread.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc3538a312008-12-15 22:29:14 +00005309
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc07d539d2008-10-14 21:47:22 +00005310- Issue #4122: On Windows, fix a compilation error when using the
5311 Py_UNICODE_ISSPACE macro in an extension module.
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +00005312
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005313- Issue #4293: Py_AddPendingCall() is now thread safe and can be used for
Kristján Valur Jónssonc22ab182009-01-12 09:24:04 +00005314 asynchronous notifications to python from any thread. Documentation added.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc07d539d2008-10-14 21:47:22 +00005315
Benjamin Peterson9dfe6a82008-11-24 04:09:03 +00005316Extension Modules
5317-----------------
5318
Martin v. Löwis50ea4562009-11-27 13:56:01 +00005319- Issue #6508: Add posix.{getresuid,getresgid,setresuid,setresgid}.
5320
Mark Dickinson3d830822009-10-08 15:54:10 +00005321- Issue #7078: Set struct.__doc__ from _struct.__doc__.
5322
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005323- Issue #3366: Add erf, erfc, expm1, gamma, lgamma functions to math module.
Mark Dickinsonb93fff02009-09-28 18:54:55 +00005324
Brett Cannon4d947432009-09-22 00:29:48 +00005325- Issue #6823: Allow time.strftime() to accept a tuple with a isdst field
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005326 outside of the range of [-1, 1] by normalizing the value to within that range.
Brett Cannon4d947432009-09-22 00:29:48 +00005327
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005328- Issue #6877: Make it possible to link the readline extension to libedit on
5329 OSX.
Ronald Oussoren9f20d9d2009-09-20 14:18:15 +00005330
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005331- Issue #6944: Fix a SystemError when socket.getnameinfo() was called with
5332 something other than a tuple as first argument.
Georg Brandlab849892009-09-19 07:35:07 +00005333
Benjamin Peterson7f6d0832009-09-08 23:04:22 +00005334- Issue #6865: Fix reference counting issue in the initialization of the pwd
5335 module.
5336
Mark Dickinson6b3f1ef2009-09-06 21:21:05 +00005337- Issue #6848: Fix curses module build failure on OS X 10.6.
5338
Brett Cannon764465f2009-08-13 19:27:12 +00005339- Fix a segfault in expat when given a specially crafted input lead to the
Matthias Klose3b0f9b02010-01-22 00:34:48 +00005340 tokenizer not stopping. CVE-2009-3720.
Brett Cannon764465f2009-08-13 19:27:12 +00005341
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005342- Issue #6561: '\d' in a regex now matches only characters with Unicode category
5343 'Nd' (Number, Decimal Digit). Previously it also matched characters with
5344 category 'No'.
Mark Dickinsonfe67bd92009-07-28 20:35:03 +00005345
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005346- Issue #1523: Remove deprecated overflow wrapping for struct.pack with an
5347 integer format code ('bBhHiIlLqQ'). Packing an out-of-range integer now
5348 consistently raises struct.error.
Mark Dickinson5fd3af22009-07-07 15:08:28 +00005349
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005350- Issues #1530559, #1741130: Fix various struct.pack inconsistencies for the
5351 integer formats ('bBhHiIlLqQ'). In the following, '*' represents any of '=',
5352 '<', '>'.
Mark Dickinson463dc4b2009-07-05 10:01:24 +00005353
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005354 - Packing a float now always gives a Deprecation Warning. Previously it
5355 only warned for 'I', 'L', '*B', '*H', '*I', '*L'.
Mark Dickinson463dc4b2009-07-05 10:01:24 +00005356
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005357 - If x is not an int, long or float, then packing x will always result in
5358 struct.error. Previously an x with an __int__ method could be packed by
5359 'b', 'B', 'h', 'H', 'i', 'l', '*b', '*h' ,'*i', '*l', and an x with a
5360 __long__ method could be packed by 'q', 'Q', '*q', '*Q'; for x with
5361 neither __int__ nor __long__, TypeError used to be raised (with a
5362 confusing error message) for 'I', 'L', '*B', '*H', '*I', '*L', and
5363 struct.error in other cases.
Mark Dickinson463dc4b2009-07-05 10:01:24 +00005364
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005365 Note: as of Python 2.7 beta 1, the above is out of date. In 2.7 beta 1, any
5366 argument with an __int__ method can be packed, but use of this feature
5367 triggers a DeprecationWarning.
Mark Dickinson154b7ad2010-03-07 16:24:45 +00005368
Martin v. Löwis4f16d3b2009-05-29 15:58:08 +00005369- Issue #4873: Fix resource leaks in error cases of pwd and grp.
5370
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005371- Issue #4751: For hashlib algorithms provided by OpenSSL, the Python GIL is now
5372 released during computation on data lengths >= 2048 bytes.
Gregory P. Smithd02eeda2009-05-04 00:16:49 +00005373
Gregory P. Smithea388262009-02-13 03:00:00 +00005374- Issue #3745: Fix hashlib to always reject unicode and non buffer-api
5375 supporting objects as input no matter how it was compiled (built in
Gregory P. Smithfe32d302010-01-02 22:42:50 +00005376 implementations or external openssl library). NOTE: Undone in 2.7a2.
Gregory P. Smithea388262009-02-13 03:00:00 +00005377
Mark Dickinsona200dd52009-01-15 15:17:43 +00005378- Issue #4397: Fix occasional test_socket failure on OS X.
Mark Dickinsone82cdae2009-01-15 14:54:37 +00005379
Martin v. Löwisb3b7d852009-01-11 09:26:54 +00005380- Issue #4279: Fix build of parsermodule under Cygwin.
5381
Martin v. Löwis9ac49272009-01-02 20:40:14 +00005382- Issue #4051: Prevent conflict of UNICODE macros in cPickle.
5383
Georg Brandl6269fec2009-01-01 12:15:31 +00005384- Issue #4228: Pack negative values the same way as 2.4 in struct's L format.
5385
Martin v. Löwis03824e42008-12-29 18:17:34 +00005386- Issue #1040026: Fix os.times result on systems where HZ is incorrect.
5387
Mark Dickinson4c96fa52008-12-11 19:28:08 +00005388- Issues #3167, #3682: Fix test_math failures for log, log10 on Solaris,
5389 OpenBSD.
5390
Martin v. Löwisbcb017f2008-11-30 19:28:27 +00005391- Issue #4365: Add crtassem.h constants to the msvcrt module.
5392
Benjamin Peterson9dfe6a82008-11-24 04:09:03 +00005393- Issue #4396: The parser module now correctly validates the with statement.
5394
Jack Diederichd60c29e2009-03-31 23:46:48 +00005395- Issue #5228: Make functools.partial objects can now be pickled.
5396
Guilherme Polob1a98de2009-01-28 20:03:26 +00005397Tests
5398-----
5399
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005400- Issue #7431: Use TESTFN in test_linecache instead of trying to create a file
5401 in the Lib/test directory, which might be read-only for the user running the
5402 tests.
R. David Murray820b0ea2009-12-03 23:57:59 +00005403
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005404- Issue #7324: Add a sanity check to regrtest argument parsing to catch the case
5405 of an option with no handler.
R. David Murrayda826892009-11-15 00:04:32 +00005406
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005407- Issue #7312: Add a -F flag to run the selected tests in a loop until a test
5408 fails. Can be combined with -j.
R. David Murray7f7eea62009-11-14 15:18:22 +00005409
Antoine Pitrou310c9fe2009-11-11 20:55:07 +00005410- Issue #7295: Do not use a hardcoded file name in test_tarfile.
5411
Antoine Pitrouc98efe02009-11-06 22:34:35 +00005412- Issue #7270: Add some dedicated unit tests for multi-thread synchronization
5413 primitives such as Lock, RLock, Condition, Event and Semaphore.
5414
Antoine Pitrou59c44f32009-10-30 17:07:08 +00005415- Issue #7222: Make thread "reaping" more reliable so that reference
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005416 leak-chasing test runs give sensible results. The previous method of reaping
5417 threads could return successfully while some Thread objects were still
5418 referenced. This also introduces a new private function: ``thread._count()``.
Antoine Pitrou59c44f32009-10-30 17:07:08 +00005419
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005420- Issue #7151: Fixed regrtest -j so that output to stderr from a test no longer
5421 runs the risk of causing the worker thread to fail.
R. David Murray282396f2009-10-18 21:12:37 +00005422
Antoine Pitrou58d2f262009-10-10 20:52:11 +00005423- Issue #7055: test___all__ now greedily detects all modules which have an
5424 __all__ attribute, rather than using a hardcoded and incomplete list.
5425
R. David Murray14dcd432009-10-14 13:58:07 +00005426- Issue #7058: Added save/restore for things like sys.argv and cwd to
5427 runtest_inner in regrtest, with warnings if the called test modifies them,
5428 and a new section in the summary report at the end.
R. David Murrayabe3d3e2009-10-05 17:03:09 +00005429
Mark Dickinson245d9152009-10-04 18:38:39 +00005430- Issue #7042: Fix test_signal (test_itimer_virtual) failure on OS X 10.6.
5431
Brett Cannone7e941e2009-09-03 21:25:21 +00005432- Issue #6806: test_platform failed under OS X 10.6.0 because ``sw_ver`` leaves
5433 off the trailing 0 in the version number.
5434
Guilherme Polo7f146ab2009-06-21 17:22:50 +00005435- Issue #5450: Moved tests involving loading tk from Lib/test/test_tcl to
5436 Lib/lib-tk/test/test_tkinter/test_loadtk. With this, these tests demonstrate
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005437 the same behaviour as test_ttkguionly (and now also test_tk) which is to skip
5438 the tests if DISPLAY is defined but can't be used.
Guilherme Polo7f146ab2009-06-21 17:22:50 +00005439
Antoine Pitrou4698d992009-05-31 14:20:14 +00005440- Issue #6152: New option '-j'/'--multiprocess' for regrtest allows running
5441 regression tests in parallel, shortening the total runtime.
5442
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005443- Issue #5354: New test support function import_fresh_module() makes it easy to
5444 import both normal and optimised versions of modules. test_heapq and
5445 test_warnings have been adjusted to use it, tests for other modules with both
5446 C and Python implementations in the stdlib can be adjusted to use it over
5447 time.
Nick Coghlan5533ff62009-04-22 15:26:04 +00005448
Brett Cannonce3d2212009-04-01 20:25:48 +00005449- Fix test_warnings to no longer reset the warnings filter.
5450
Brett Cannon2da4d622009-04-01 19:57:10 +00005451- Fix test_logging to no longer reset the warnings filter.
5452
Georg Brandld8fb6ac2009-04-01 00:04:33 +00005453- Issue #5635: Fix running test_sys with tracing enabled.
5454
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005455- regrtest no longer treats ImportError as equivalent to SkipTest. Imports that
5456 should cause a test to be skipped are now done using import_module from test
5457 support, which does the conversion.
R. David Murray41448c52009-03-31 19:57:24 +00005458
Guilherme Polob1a98de2009-01-28 20:03:26 +00005459- Issue #5083: New 'gui' resource for regrtest.
5460
Walter Dörwalda1453172009-04-25 12:15:07 +00005461- Issue #5837: Certain sequences of calls to set() and unset() for
5462 support.EnvironmentVarGuard objects restored the environment variables
5463 incorrectly on __exit__.
5464
Alexandre Vassalotti999ecc02009-07-15 18:19:47 +00005465- Issue #2389: Array objects are now pickled in a portable manner.
5466
Brett Cannon813c43a2009-11-08 21:35:28 +00005467Misc
5468----
5469
5470- Issue #5611: Auto-detect whether a C file uses tabs or spaces in Vim.
5471
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +00005472
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +00005473What's New in Python 2.6 final
5474==============================
5475
Barry Warsawafa14362008-10-01 21:46:40 +00005476*Release date: 01-Oct-2008*
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +00005477
5478Core and Builtins
5479-----------------
5480
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfc5ea392008-09-26 22:34:08 +00005481- Issue #3967: Fixed a crash in the count() and find() methods of string-like
5482 objects, when the "start" parameter is a huge value.
5483
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc17617a02008-09-25 20:52:56 +00005484- Issue #3965: Fixed a crash on Windows when open() is given an invalid
5485 filename or mode, and the filename is a unicode string.
5486
Martin v. Löwise86b07c2008-09-25 04:12:50 +00005487- Bug #3951: Py_USING_MEMORY_DEBUGGER should not be enabled by default.
5488
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +00005489Library
5490-------
5491
Martin v. Löwise563aa42008-09-29 22:09:07 +00005492- Issue #3965: Allow repeated calls to turtle.Screen, by making it a
5493 true singleton object.
5494
Brett Cannonb2d61bd2008-09-29 03:41:21 +00005495- Issue #3895: It was possible to crash the interpreter when an external timer
5496 was used with cProfile that returned an object that could not be converted
5497 into a float.
5498
Benjamin Peterson22d3c922008-09-25 20:35:45 +00005499- Issue #3950: Made turtle respect scale factors.
5500
Thomas Hellera85c95d2008-09-24 18:26:05 +00005501- Issue #3547: Fixed ctypes structures bitfields of varying integer
5502 sizes.
5503
Benjamin Peterson2c7470d2008-09-21 21:27:51 +00005504- Issue #3879: A regression in urllib.getproxies_enviroment was fixed.
5505
Gregory P. Smith08067492008-09-30 20:41:13 +00005506- Issue #3863: Disabled a unit test of fork being called from a thread
5507 when running on platforms known to exhibit OS bugs when attempting that.
5508
Martin v. Löwis175d0072008-09-19 15:21:07 +00005509Build
5510-----
5511
Martin v. Löwisd69c9042008-10-01 11:19:50 +00005512- Bug #3989: Package the 2to3 script (as 2to3.py) in the Windows
5513 installer.
5514
Martin v. Löwis175d0072008-09-19 15:21:07 +00005515- Bug #3887: Package x64 version of CRT for AMD64 Windows binaries.
5516
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +00005517
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +00005518What's New in Python 2.6 release candidate 2?
5519=============================================
5520
Barry Warsaw6af16192008-09-18 04:33:43 +00005521*Release date: 17-Sep-2008*
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +00005522
5523Core and Builtins
5524-----------------
5525
Benjamin Peterson8c2b7dc2008-09-18 01:22:16 +00005526Extension Modules
5527-----------------
5528
Benjamin Peterson8d77d442008-09-30 01:31:49 +00005529- Security Issue #2: imageop did not validate arguments correctly and could
5530 segfault as a result.
5531
Benjamin Peterson8c2b7dc2008-09-18 01:22:16 +00005532- Issue #3886: Possible integer overflows in the _hashopenssl module were
5533 closed.
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +00005534
Antoine Pitrou3c9f5412008-09-13 20:30:30 +00005535Tools/Demos
5536-----------
5537
Georg Brandl2bd92a52009-10-11 21:10:07 +00005538- Issue #3850: recursion tests in Tools/scripts/find_recursion_limit.py can raise
Antoine Pitrou3c9f5412008-09-13 20:30:30 +00005539 AttributeError instead of RuntimeError, depending in which C API call
5540 exactly the recursion limit is exceeded. Consequently, both exception types
5541 are caught and silenced.
5542
Martin v. Löwis4eb18f92008-09-14 20:22:39 +00005543Build
5544-----
5545
5546- Issue #3617: Include a licensing statement regarding the Microsoft
5547 C runtime in the Windows installer.
5548
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +00005549
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +00005550What's New in Python 2.6 release candidate 1?
5551=============================================
5552
Barry Warsaw1e62aec2008-09-12 23:25:57 +00005553*Release date: 12-Sep-2008*
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +00005554
5555Core and Builtins
5556-----------------
5557
Martin v. Löwis9fa5a282008-09-11 06:53:30 +00005558- Issue #3642: Suppress warning in obmalloc when size_t is larger than uint.
5559
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc05e34492008-09-10 22:04:45 +00005560- Issue #3743: In a few places, PY_FORMAT_SIZE_T was incorrectly used with
5561 PyString_FromFormat or PyErr_Format to display size_t values. The macro
5562 PY_FORMAT_SIZE_T is designed to select the correct format for the OS
5563 ``printf`` function, whereas PyString_FromFormat has an independent
5564 implementation and uses "%zd" on all platforms for size_t values.
5565 This makes a difference on win64, where ``printf`` needs "%Id" to display
5566 64bit values.
5567
Benjamin Peterson97179b02008-09-09 20:55:01 +00005568- Issue #3634: _weakref.ref(Exception).__init__() gave invalid return value on
5569 error.
5570
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd3ffb892008-09-09 07:24:30 +00005571- Issue #3777: long() applied to a float object now always return a long
5572 object; previously an int would be returned for small values. the __long__
5573 method is allowed to return either an int or a long, but the behaviour of
5574 float objects should not change to respect backward compatibility.
5575
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc3571fbf2008-09-01 19:52:00 +00005576- Issue #3751: str.rpartition would perform a left-partition when called with
5577 a unicode argument.
5578
Benjamin Peterson17f03ca2008-09-01 14:18:30 +00005579- Issue #3683: Fix compilation when --without-threads is given.
5580
Antoine Pitroud4ae97b2008-08-29 18:39:48 +00005581- Issue #3668: Fix a memory leak with the "s*" argument parser in
Vinay Sajip35e3b032008-09-01 14:33:59 +00005582 PyArg_ParseTuple and friends, which occurred when the argument for "s*"
Antoine Pitroud4ae97b2008-08-29 18:39:48 +00005583 was correctly parsed but parsing of subsequent arguments failed.
5584
Vinay Sajip35e3b032008-09-01 14:33:59 +00005585- Issue #2534: speed up isinstance() and issubclass() by 50-70%, so as to
Antoine Pitrou0668c622008-08-26 22:42:08 +00005586 match Python 2.5 speed despite the __instancecheck__ / __subclasscheck__
5587 mechanism. In the process, fix a bug where isinstance() and issubclass(),
5588 when given a tuple of classes as second argument, were looking up
5589 __instancecheck__ / __subclasscheck__ on the tuple rather than on each
5590 type object.
5591
Neal Norwitz18aa3882008-08-24 05:04:52 +00005592- Fix crashes on memory allocation failure found with failmalloc.
5593
5594- Fix memory leaks found with valgrind and update suppressions file.
5595
5596- Fix compiler warnings in opt mode which would lead to invalid memory reads.
5597
5598- Fix problem using wrong name in decimal module reported by pychecker.
5599
Christian Heimes7d4c3172008-08-22 19:47:25 +00005600- Silenced another compiler warning about a used but not defined
5601 function 'stringlib_contains_obj'.
5602
Benjamin Peterson712ee922008-08-24 18:10:20 +00005603- Added warnings on the use of ``__getslice__``, ``__setslice__``, or
5604 ``__delslice__``.
5605
Gregory P. Smith2bb25cc2008-09-02 05:29:51 +00005606- Issue #3678: Correctly pass LDFLAGS and LDLAST to the linker on shared
5607 library targets in the Makefile.
5608
Gregory P. Smith980b99b2008-09-07 05:15:18 +00005609- Issue #1204: The configure script now tests for additional libraries
5610 that may be required when linking against readline. This fixes issues
5611 with x86_64 builds on some platforms (a few Linux flavors and OpenBSD).
5612
Benjamin Peterson14cb6bc2008-08-26 17:08:40 +00005613C-API
5614-----
5615
5616- Aliased PyObject_Bytes to PyObject_Str.
5617
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +00005618Library
5619-------
5620
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc24cb3822008-09-11 20:56:13 +00005621- Issue #3640: Pickling a list or a dict uses less local variables, to reduce
5622 stack usage in the case of deeply nested objects.
5623
Guido van Rossume3c4fd92008-09-10 14:27:00 +00005624- Issue #3629: Fix sre "bytecode" validator for an end case.
5625
Martin v. Löwis24329ba2008-09-10 13:38:12 +00005626- Issue #3811: The Unicode database was updated to 5.1.
5627
Nick Coghland2e09382008-09-11 12:11:06 +00005628- Issue #3781: Further warnings.catch_warnings() cleanup to prevent
5629 silent misbehaviour when a single instance is nested in multiple
5630 with statements, or when the methods are invoked in the wrong order.
5631
Vinay Sajip844f7412008-09-09 13:42:08 +00005632- Issue #3809: Fixed spurious 'test.blah' file left behind by test_logging.
5633
Nick Coghland2e09382008-09-11 12:11:06 +00005634- Issue #3781: Clean up the API for warnings.catch_warnings() by having it
Brett Cannon672237d2008-09-09 00:49:16 +00005635 return a list or None rather than a custom object.
5636
Benjamin Peterson6ac7d7c2008-09-06 19:28:11 +00005637- Issue #1638033: Cookie.Morsel gained the httponly attribute.
5638
Antoine Pitrouebcd0ce2008-09-05 23:30:23 +00005639- Issue #3535: zipfile couldn't read some zip files larger than 2GB.
5640
5641- Issue #3776: Deprecate the bsddb package for removal in 3.0.
Brett Cannon32476fc2008-09-05 18:33:51 +00005642
Hirokazu Yamamoto42e459e2008-09-04 14:25:30 +00005643- Issue #3762: platform.architecture() fails if python is lanched via
5644 its symbolic link.
5645
Vinay Sajip65d66e12008-09-04 07:31:21 +00005646- Issue #3772: Fixed regression problem in StreamHandler.emit().
5647
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00005648- Issue #600362: Relocated parse_qs() and parse_qsl(), from the cgi module
Facundo Batistac585df92008-09-03 22:35:50 +00005649 to the urlparse one. Added a PendingDeprecationWarning in the old
5650 module, it will be deprecated in the future.
5651
Marc-André Lemburgb339b2a2008-09-03 11:13:56 +00005652- Issue #2562: Fix distutils PKG-INFO writing logic to allow having
5653 non-ascii characters and Unicode in setup.py meta-data.
5654
5655- Issue #3726: Allow spaces in separators in logging configuration files.
Vinay Sajip6a2fd812008-09-03 09:20:05 +00005656
Marc-André Lemburg31a0a142008-09-02 12:11:19 +00005657- Issue #3719: platform.architecture() fails if there are spaces in the
5658 path to the Python binary.
5659
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00005660- Issue #3602: Moved test.test_support.catch_warning() to
Brett Cannon1eaf0742008-09-02 01:25:16 +00005661 warnings.catch_warnings() along with some API cleanup. Expanding the tests
5662 for catch_warnings() also led to an improvement in the raising of a
5663 DeprecationWarning related to warnings.warn_explicit().
5664
Benjamin Peterson973e6c22008-09-01 23:12:58 +00005665- The deprecation warnings for the old camelCase threading API were removed.
5666
Vinay Sajip35e3b032008-09-01 14:33:59 +00005667- logging: fixed lack of use of encoding attribute specified on a stream.
5668
Christian Heimesa27a62e2008-08-22 19:55:54 +00005669- Silenced a trivial compiler warning in the sqlite module.
5670
Christian Heimes1cc69632008-08-22 20:10:27 +00005671- Fixed two format strings in the _collections module.
5672
Benjamin Peterson17f03ca2008-09-01 14:18:30 +00005673- Issue #3703: _fileio.FileIO gave unhelpful error message when trying to open a
5674 directory.
Benjamin Petersonf22c26e2008-09-01 14:13:43 +00005675
Gregory P. Smithd7122032008-09-02 05:36:11 +00005676- Issue #3708: os.urandom no longer goes into an infinite loop when passed a
5677 non-integer floating point number.
5678
Vinay Sajip65d66e12008-09-04 07:31:21 +00005679- Issue #3110: multiprocessing fails to compiel on solaris 10 due to missing
Jesse Nollerb814d6a2008-09-03 18:10:30 +00005680 SEM_VALUE_MAX.
5681
Benjamin Peterson37346b22008-08-23 20:27:43 +00005682Extension Modules
5683-----------------
5684
Jesse Noller438195f2009-01-18 21:04:36 +00005685- Issue #4301: Patch the logging module to add processName support, remove
5686 _check_logger_class from multiprocessing.
5687
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc293924b2008-09-02 23:19:56 +00005688- Issue #2975: When compiling several extension modules with Visual Studio 2008
5689 from the same python interpreter, some environment variables would grow
5690 without limit.
5691
Benjamin Peterson37346b22008-08-23 20:27:43 +00005692- Issue #3643: Added a few more checks to _testcapi to prevent segfaults by
5693 exploitation of poor argument checking.
5694
Gerhard Häringef2276b2008-09-12 13:54:06 +00005695- sqlite3: Changed docstring of iterdump() to mark method as "Non-standard".
5696
Gerhard Häring6e1afcf2008-09-12 18:58:57 +00005697- Issue #3103: Reduced globals symbols used by sqlite3 module and made sure all
5698 remaining ones have "pysqlite_" prefix.
5699
Gerhard Häringe6872eb2008-09-12 22:33:22 +00005700- Issue #3846: Release the GIL during sqlite3_prepare calls. This improves
5701 concurrent access to the same SQLite database from multiple
5702 threads/processes.
5703
Brett Cannona0b74442008-09-03 22:45:11 +00005704Tests
5705-----
5706
Nick Coghland2e09382008-09-11 12:11:06 +00005707- Issue #3781: Add test.test_support.check_warnings() as a convenience
5708 wrapper for warnings.catch_warnings() that makes it easier to check
5709 that expected warning messages are being reported.
5710
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfeb8cad2008-09-06 20:53:51 +00005711- Issue #3796: Some tests functions were not enabled in test_float.
5712
5713- Issue #3768: Move test_py3kwarn over to the new API for catch_warnings().
Brett Cannona0b74442008-09-03 22:45:11 +00005714
Brett Cannoncdeb24b2008-09-05 22:59:17 +00005715Build
5716-----
5717
Martin v. Löwisab0b29b2008-09-13 08:11:57 +00005718- Issue #3833: Use a different upgrade code for Win64 installers.
5719
Martin v. Löwis3f5fda82008-09-08 13:50:10 +00005720- Issue #2271: Set SecureCustomProperties so that installation will properly
5721 use the TARGETDIR even for unprivileged users.
5722
Martin v. Löwis67543a92008-09-08 12:02:45 +00005723- Allow passing the MSI file name to merge.py.
5724
Vinay Sajip844f7412008-09-09 13:42:08 +00005725- Issue #3758: Rename the 'check' target to 'patchcheck' so as to not clash
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfeb8cad2008-09-06 20:53:51 +00005726 with GNU build target guidelines.
Brett Cannoncdeb24b2008-09-05 22:59:17 +00005727
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +00005728
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00005729What's New in Python 2.6 beta 3?
5730================================
5731
Barry Warsaw07a4a382008-08-21 01:15:08 +00005732*Release date: 20-Aug-2008*
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00005733
5734Core and Builtins
5735-----------------
5736
Guido van Rossumf8402962008-08-20 15:01:50 +00005737- Issue #1878: Remove Py_TPFLAGS_HAVE_VERSION_TAG from
5738 Py_TPFLAGS_DEFAULT when not building the core. This means 3rd party
5739 extensions do not automatically benefit from the class attribute
5740 cache; they will have to explicitly add Py_TPFLAGS_HAVE_VERSION_TAG
5741 to their tp_flags field if they care. This is a backwards
5742 compatibility feature; in 3.0, all types will use the cache by
5743 default.
5744
Benjamin Petersonf647dc12008-08-20 01:27:30 +00005745- Keyword arguments can now follow starred arguments. (``f(a, *args,
5746 keyword=23)`` is now valid syntax.)
5747
Thomas Heller0ad5ae02008-08-19 19:25:04 +00005748- ctypes function pointers that are COM methods have a boolean True
5749 value again.
5750
Martin v. Löwisf91d46a2008-08-12 14:49:50 +00005751- Issue #3139: Make buffer-interface thread-safe wrt. PyArg_ParseTuple,
5752 by denying s# to parse objects that have a releasebuffer procedure,
5753 and introducing s*.
5754
Georg Brandl1e13ea92008-08-11 09:07:59 +00005755- Issue #3537: Fix an assertion failure when an empty but presized dict
5756 object was stored in the freelist.
5757
Mark Dickinsonb6467572008-08-04 21:30:09 +00005758- Issue #1481296: Make long(float('nan')) and int(float('nan')) raise
5759 ValueError consistently across platforms.
5760
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc39fd6722008-07-31 21:28:03 +00005761- Issue #3479: On platforms where sizeof(int) is smaller than sizeof(long)
5762 (64bit Unix, for example), unichr() would truncate its argument and return
5763 u'\x00' for unichr(2**32). Now it properly raises an OverflowError.
5764
Neal Norwitze7d8be82008-07-31 17:17:14 +00005765- Apply security patches from Apple.
5766
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc246daed2008-07-31 00:42:16 +00005767- Issue #2542: Now that issubclass() may call arbitrary code, ensure that
5768 PyErr_ExceptionMatches returns 0 when an exception occurs there.
5769
Antoine Pitrou92f82162008-07-25 22:22:08 +00005770- Issue #1819: function calls with several named parameters are now on
5771 average 35% faster (as measured by pybench).
5772
Amaury Forgeot d'Arce4921fe2008-07-21 22:00:38 +00005773- Issue #2378: An unexpected UnboundLocalError or NameError could appear when
5774 the python debugger steps into a class statement: the free variables (local
5775 variables defined in an outer scope) would be deleted from the outer scope.
5776
Gregory P. Smith0470bab2008-07-22 04:46:32 +00005777- Issue #2620: Overflow checking when allocating or reallocating memory
5778 was not always being done properly in some python types and extension
5779 modules. PyMem_MALLOC, PyMem_REALLOC, PyMem_NEW and PyMem_RESIZE have
5780 all been updated to perform better checks and places in the code that
5781 would previously leak memory on the error path when such an allocation
5782 failed have been fixed.
5783
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00005784Library
5785-------
5786
Hirokazu Yamamoto838c79f2008-08-20 13:14:07 +00005787- Issue #3612: Added some missing basic types in ctypes.wintypes.
5788
Benjamin Petersone977ad42008-08-20 01:42:01 +00005789- The methods ``is_in_tuple()``, ``is_vararg()``, and ``is_keywordarg()`` of
5790 symtable.Symbol have been deprecated for removal in 3.0 and the next release.
5791
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc351ffb82008-08-18 19:23:47 +00005792- Issue #2234: distutils failed for some versions of the cygwin compiler. The
5793 version reported by these tools does not necessarily follow the python
5794 version numbering scheme, so the module is less strict when parsing it.
5795
Nick Coghlanf70385a2008-08-18 12:42:46 +00005796- Issue #2235: Added Py3k warnings for types which will become unhashable
5797 under the stricter __hash__ inheritance rules in 3.0. Several types
5798 which did not meet the rules for hash invariants and were already
5799 unhashable in 3.0 have now been explicitly flagged as unhashable in
5800 2.6 as well (collections.Mapping, collections.Set, unittest.TestSuite,
5801 xml.dom.minidom.NamedNodeMap, numbers.Number, UserList.UserList)
5802
Brett Cannon88f801d2008-08-18 00:46:22 +00005803- Update __all__ for cookielib, csv, os, urllib2, and weakref to include things
5804 imported into the module but exposed as part of the module's API.
5805
Brett Cannon7b96f072008-08-18 00:41:11 +00005806- Remove an unneeded import of abc.ABCMeta from 'inspect'.
5807
Brett Cannon46225e72008-08-18 00:36:52 +00005808- Remove unneeded imports of 'sys' and 'warnings' from 'io'.
5809
Brett Cannon25c9d6a2008-08-17 22:10:11 +00005810- Remove unneeded imports of 'warnings' from shelve, filecmp, and dummy_thread.
5811
Hirokazu Yamamoto41a81eb2008-08-17 13:10:46 +00005812- Issue #3575: Incremental decoder's decode function now takes bytearray
5813 by using 's*' instead of 't#'.
5814
Mark Dickinson3e4caeb2009-02-21 20:27:01 +00005815- Issue #2222: Fixed reference leak when occurred os.rename()
Hirokazu Yamamoto7f30a682008-08-17 09:46:56 +00005816 fails unicode conversion on 2nd parameter. (windows only)
5817
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00005818- Issue #2464: urllib2 now supports a malformation in the URL received
Facundo Batista94f243a2008-08-17 03:38:39 +00005819 in a redirect.
5820
Brett Cannonabe423e2008-08-16 21:47:07 +00005821- Silence the DeprecationWarning raised when importing mimetools in
Brett Cannon721b1452008-08-16 22:00:27 +00005822 BaseHTTPServer, cgi (and rfc822), httplib.
Brett Cannonabe423e2008-08-16 21:47:07 +00005823
Facundo Batistaeb90b782008-08-16 14:44:07 +00005824- Issue #2776: fixed small issue when handling an URL with double slash
5825 after a 302 response in the case of not going through a proxy.
5826
Antoine Pitroub90a8be2008-08-15 21:03:21 +00005827- Issue #2676: in the email package, content-type parsing was hanging on
5828 pathological input because of quadratic or exponential behaviour of a
5829 regular expression.
5830
Antoine Pitrou11ec65d2008-08-14 21:04:30 +00005831- Issue #3476: binary buffered reading through the new "io" library is now
5832 thread-safe.
5833
Brett Cannonbf3157b2008-08-14 05:00:03 +00005834- Silence the DeprecationWarning of rfc822 when it is imported by mimetools
5835 since mimetools itself is deprecated. Because modules are cached, all
5836 subsequent imports of rfc822 will not raise a visible DeprecationWarning.
5837
Antoine Pitrou9fcd4b32008-08-11 17:21:36 +00005838- Issue #3134: shutil referenced undefined WindowsError symbol.
5839
Robert Schuppenies14646332008-08-10 11:01:53 +00005840- Issue #1342811: Fix leak in Tkinter.Menu.delete. Commands associated to
5841 menu entries were not deleted.
5842
Brett Cannon83e81842008-08-09 23:30:55 +00005843- Copied the implementation of reduce() to _functools.reduce() to have a
5844 version that did not raise a DeprecationWarning under -3.
5845
Antoine Pitrou76b8bee2008-08-09 17:27:23 +00005846- Issue #3205: When iterating over a BZ2File fails allocating memory, raise
5847 a MemoryError rather than silently stop the iteration.
5848
Guido van Rossum59ce9012008-08-09 14:55:34 +00005849- Issue #3487: sre "bytecode" validator. Passing invalid "re-bytecode"
5850 to _sre.compile() will now be rejected. This should not affect anybody
5851 since the re.compile() function never generates invalid re-bytecode.
5852
Skip Montanaroa032bf42008-08-08 22:52:51 +00005853- Issue #3436: Make csv.DictReader's fieldnames attribute a property so that
5854 upon first access it can be automatically initialized from the csv file if
5855 it wasn't initialized during instantiation.
5856
Brett Cannon3aa2a492008-08-06 22:28:09 +00005857- Issue #2338: Create imp.reload() to help with transitioning to Python 3.0 as
5858 the reload() built-in has been removed.
5859
Brett Cannon7e30b672008-08-04 21:52:25 +00005860- Changed code in the following modules/packages to remove warnings raised
Brett Cannonc1b76e42008-08-09 23:06:16 +00005861 while running under the ``-3`` flag: aifc, asynchat, asyncore, bdb, bsddb,
Brett Cannon047e4a92008-08-17 04:16:04 +00005862 ConfigParser, cookielib, csv, difflib, distutils, DocXMLRPCServer, email,
5863 filecmp, fileinput, inspect, logging, modulefinder, pdb, pickle, profile,
5864 pstats, pydoc, re, rlcompleter, SimpleXMLRPCServer, shelve, socket,
5865 subprocess, sqlite3, tarfile, Tkinter, test.test_support, textwrap,
5866 threading, tokenize, traceback, urlparse, wsgiref, xml, xmlrpclib.
Brett Cannon7e30b672008-08-04 21:52:25 +00005867
Lars Gustäbel727bd0b2008-08-02 11:26:39 +00005868- Issue #3039: Fix tarfile.TarFileCompat.writestr() which always
5869 raised an AttributeError.
5870
Benjamin Peterson01a24322008-07-28 23:35:27 +00005871- Issue #2523: Fix quadratic behaviour when read()ing a binary file without
Antoine Pitroude781a42008-08-09 12:43:23 +00005872 asking for a specific length. This problem only affected files opened
5873 using the new "io" module, not the built-in open() function.
Benjamin Peterson01a24322008-07-28 23:35:27 +00005874
Mark Dickinsonfe84cce2008-07-27 06:39:07 +00005875- Issue #3449: Update decimal module to use most recent specification
5876 (v. 1.68) and tests (v. 2.58) from IBM.
5877
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00005878- Issue #3437: Bug fix in robotparser parsing of Allow: lines.
Skip Montanarof9ac43f2008-07-27 00:50:41 +00005879
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00005880- Issue #1592: Improve error reporting when operations are attempted
Raymond Hettinger8c664e82008-07-25 18:43:33 +00005881 on a closed shelf.
5882
Georg Brandlf9efabb2008-07-23 15:16:45 +00005883- Deprecate the "ast" parser function aliases.
5884
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00005885- Issue #3120: On 64-bit Windows the subprocess module was truncating handles.
5886
5887- Issue #3303: Fix a crash in locale.strcoll() when calling it with
5888 invalid arguments.
5889
5890- Issue #3302: Fix several crashes when calling locale's gettext functions
5891 with None arguments.
5892
5893- Issue #3389: Allow resolving dotted names for handlers in logging
5894 configuration files.
5895
5896- Deprecate the sunaudio module for removal in Python 3.0.
5897
Antoine Pitrou5fdfa3e2008-07-25 19:42:26 +00005898- Issue #3394: zipfile.writestr sets external attributes when passed a
5899 file name rather than a ZipInfo instance, so files are extracted with
5900 mode 0600 rather than 000 under Unix.
5901
Gregory P. Smitha36f8fe2008-08-04 00:13:29 +00005902- Issue #1857: subprocess.Popen.poll gained an additional _deadstate keyword
5903 argument in python 2.5, this broke code that subclassed Popen to include its
5904 own poll method. Fixed my moving _deadstate to an _internal_poll method.
5905
Martin v. Löwis8dbf3642008-08-01 14:10:26 +00005906Build
5907-----
5908
5909- Generate the PatternGrammar pickle during "make install".
5910
Nick Coghlan2a0c2b12008-08-04 12:47:17 +00005911Documentation
5912-------------
5913
Nick Coghlan6e8fef02008-08-18 13:14:22 +00005914- Issue #2235: the C API function PyObject_HashNotImplemented and its
5915 interaction with the tp_hash slot (added in 2.6b2) are now documented
5916
Nick Coghlan2a0c2b12008-08-04 12:47:17 +00005917- Issue #643841: The language reference now provides more detailed
5918 coverage of the lookup process for special methods. The disclaimers
5919 regarding lack of coverage of new-style classes have also been
5920 removed, since the coverage is now fairly reasonable.
5921
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00005922
Raymond Hettingere3ae6552008-06-20 04:18:15 +00005923What's New in Python 2.6 beta 2?
5924================================
5925
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00005926*Release date: 17-Jul-2008*
5927
Raymond Hettingere3ae6552008-06-20 04:18:15 +00005928Core and Builtins
5929-----------------
5930
Georg Brandl3e483f62008-07-16 22:57:41 +00005931- Issue #3156: Fix inconsistent behavior of the bytearray type: all
5932 its methods now allow for items objects that can be converted to
5933 an integer using operator.index().
5934
Mark Dickinson64b7e502008-07-16 09:40:03 +00005935- Issue #3360: Fix incorrect parsing of '020000000000.0', which
5936 produced a ValueError instead of giving the correct float.
5937
Eric Smitha5fa5a22008-07-16 00:11:49 +00005938- Issue #3083: Add alternate (#) formatting for bin, oct, hex output
5939 for str.format(). This adds the prefix 0b, 0o, or 0x, respectively.
5940
Mark Dickinson7103aa42008-07-15 19:08:33 +00005941- Issue #3008: the float type has a new instance method 'float.hex'
5942 and a new class method 'float.fromhex' to convert floating-point
5943 numbers to and from hexadecimal strings, respectively.
5944
Nick Coghlan6d6bd442008-07-15 15:40:22 +00005945- Issue #2235: __hash__ is once again inherited by default. To allow
5946 collections.Hashable to remain meaningful in the presence of the
5947 default hash implementation (object.__hash__), it is now possible
5948 to explicit block inheritance of hash by setting __hash__=None at
5949 the Python level, or tp_hash=PyObject_HashNotImplemented at the C
5950 level.
5951
Nick Coghlanb028f502008-07-13 14:52:36 +00005952- Issue #3221: Issue a RuntimeWarning instead of raising SystemError if
5953 the parent module cannot be found while performing an absolute import.
5954 This means that an incorrectly defined __package__ attribute will
5955 now only prevent relative imports in that module rather than causing
5956 all imports from that module to fail.
5957
Nick Coghlan14ff9942008-07-08 14:21:42 +00005958- Issue #2517: Allow unicode messages in Exceptions again by correctly
5959 bypassing the instance dictionary when looking up __unicode__ on
5960 new-style classes.
5961
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcbdd941f2008-07-01 20:38:04 +00005962- Issue #3242: Fix a crash inside the print statement, if sys.stdout is
5963 set to a custom object whose write() method happens to install
5964 another file in sys.stdout.
5965
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc1f40c8a2008-06-30 22:42:40 +00005966- Issue #3088: Corrected a race condition in classes derived from
5967 threading.local: the first member set by a thread could be saved in
5968 another thread's dictionary.
5969
Mark Dickinson1ec2fcd2008-06-20 14:53:43 +00005970- Issue #3004: Minor change to slice.indices(): the start and stop
5971 arguments are now treated identically, making the behaviour easier
5972 to describe and understand. For example, slice(None, -10,
5973 1).indices(9) now returns (0, 0, 1) instead of (0, -1, 1), and
5974 slice(None, 10, -1).indices(10) returns (9, 9, -1) instead of (9,
5975 10, -1).
5976
Georg Brandl278fc502008-07-19 12:46:12 +00005977- Issue #3219: Calling a function with repeated keyword arguments,
5978 f(a=2, a=23), would not cause a syntax error. This was a regression
5979 from 2.4 caused by the switch to the new compiler.
Benjamin Peterson175e4d92008-07-01 19:34:52 +00005980
Georg Brandl278fc502008-07-19 12:46:12 +00005981- Issue #2862: Make int and float freelist management consistent with
5982 other freelists. Changes their CompactFreeList apis into
5983 ClearFreeList apis and calls them via gc.collect().
Gregory P. Smith2fe77062008-07-06 03:35:58 +00005984
Brett Cannon8bb8fa52008-07-02 01:57:08 +00005985Library
5986-------
5987
Thomas Heller57adf222008-08-14 19:10:48 +00005988- Issue #3554: ctypes.string_at and ctypes.wstring_at did call Python
5989 api functions without holding the GIL, which could lead to a fatal
5990 error when they failed.
5991
Martin v. Löwisaabf4042008-08-02 07:20:25 +00005992- Issue #799428: Fix Tkinter.Misc._nametowidget to unwrap Tcl command objects.
5993
Jesse Noller7fb96402008-07-17 21:01:05 +00005994- Issue #3395: fix reference in test_multiprocessing to old debugInfo method
5995
Georg Brandla24869a2008-07-16 22:33:18 +00005996- Issue #3312: Fix two crashes in sqlite3.
5997
Georg Brandl86cbf812008-07-16 21:31:41 +00005998- Issue #1608818: Fix misbehavior in os.listdir() if readdir() fails.
5999
Jesse Noller13e9d582008-07-16 14:32:36 +00006000- Issue #3125: Remove copy_reg in multiprocessing and replace it with
6001 ForkingPickler.register() to resolve conflict with ctypes.
6002
Vinay Sajip51e65192008-07-18 09:01:10 +00006003- Issue #3090: Fixed ARCHFLAGS parsing on OS/X
Jesse Noller13e9d582008-07-16 14:32:36 +00006004
Thomas Heller880f5292008-07-15 19:39:38 +00006005- Issue #3313: Fixed a crash when a failed dlopen() call does not set
6006 a valid dlerror() message.
6007
Thomas Heller2bad6572008-07-15 17:19:50 +00006008- Issue #3258: Fixed a crash when a ctypes POINTER type to an
6009 incomplete structure was created.
6010
Brett Cannon3d0b9f02008-07-13 01:15:07 +00006011- Issue #3339: dummy_thread.acquire() should not return None.
6012
Raymond Hettingerb01713e2008-07-10 14:34:57 +00006013- Issue #3285: Fractions from_float() and from_decimal() accept Integral arguments.
6014
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +00006015- Issue #3301: Bisect module behaved badly when lo was negative.
Raymond Hettinger3cd1e422008-07-10 14:03:19 +00006016
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc0f7cddc2008-07-06 21:34:39 +00006017- Issue #839496: SimpleHTTPServer used to open text files in text mode. This is
6018 both unnecessary (HTTP allows text content to be sent in several forms) and
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +00006019 wrong because the actual transmitted size could differ from the
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc0f7cddc2008-07-06 21:34:39 +00006020 content-length. The problem had been corrected in the 2.4 branch, but never
6021 merged into trunk.
6022
Georg Brandle78fbcc2008-07-05 10:13:36 +00006023- Issue #2663: add filtering capability to shutil.copytree().
6024
Martin v. Löwis8c436412008-07-03 12:51:14 +00006025- Issue #1622: Correct interpretation of various ZIP header fields.
6026
6027- Issue #1526: Allow more than 64k files to be added to Zip64 file.
6028
6029- Issue #1746: Correct handling of zipfile archive comments (previously
6030 archives with comments over 4k were flagged as invalid). Allow writing
Vinay Sajip51e65192008-07-18 09:01:10 +00006031 Zip files with archives by setting the 'comment' attribute of a ZipFile.
Martin v. Löwis8c436412008-07-03 12:51:14 +00006032
Vinay Sajip51e65192008-07-18 09:01:10 +00006033- Issue #449227: The rlcompleter module now adds "(" to callable objects
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +00006034 when completed.
Facundo Batista66c52772008-07-02 16:52:55 +00006035
Nick Coghlanc060b0e2008-07-02 13:09:19 +00006036- Issue #3190: Pydoc now hides the automatic module attribute __package__ (the
6037 handling is now the same as that of other special attributes like __name__).
6038
Brett Cannon8bb8fa52008-07-02 01:57:08 +00006039- Issue #2885 (partial): The urllib.urlopen() function has been deprecated for
6040 removal in Python 3.0 in favor of urllib2.urlopen().
6041
Gregory P. Smithf4140642008-07-06 07:16:40 +00006042- Issue #2113: Fix error in subprocess.Popen if the select system call is
6043 interrupted by a signal.
6044
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +00006045- Issue #3309: Fix bz2.BZFile iterator to release its internal lock
Gregory P. Smith3b1e6b22008-07-07 04:31:58 +00006046 properly when raising an exception due to the bz2file being closed.
6047 Prevents a deadlock.
6048
Gregory P. Smithc4691ec2008-07-07 05:09:12 +00006049- Issue #3094: httplib.HTTPSConnection Host: headers no longer include the
6050 redundant ":443" port number designation when the connection is using the
6051 default https port (443).
6052
Gregory P. Smithdb3409c2008-07-17 03:13:05 +00006053- Issue #874900: after an os.fork() call the threading module state is cleaned
6054 up in the child process to prevent deadlock and report proper thread counts
6055 if the new process uses the threading module.
6056
Nick Coghlan38469e22008-07-13 12:23:47 +00006057Tests
6058-----
6059
6060- test.test_support.catch_warning now keeps track of all warnings it sees
6061 and is now better documented. Explicit unit tests for this context manager
6062 have been added to test_warnings.
6063
Martin v. Löwisd84fd952008-06-30 06:57:39 +00006064Build
6065-----
6066
6067- Issue #3215: Build sqlite3 as sqlite3.dll, not sqlite3.pyd.
6068
Brett Cannon8bb8fa52008-07-02 01:57:08 +00006069
Brett Cannon97aa1ae2008-07-11 00:12:52 +00006070Documentation
6071-------------
6072
Brett Cannonfeef51d2008-07-11 00:50:01 +00006073- Document that robotparser has been renamed to urllib.robotparser in
Brett Cannon963ffdb2008-07-11 00:48:57 +00006074 Python 3.0.
6075
Brett Cannonf6afa332008-07-11 00:16:30 +00006076- Document that urlparse has been renamed to urllib.parse in Python 3.0.
6077
Brett Cannon97aa1ae2008-07-11 00:12:52 +00006078- Document that urllib2 is split across multiple modules and renamed in
6079 Python 3.0.
6080
6081- Document that urllib is split across multiple modules and renamed in
6082 Python 3.0.
6083
6084
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00006085What's New in Python 2.6 beta 1?
6086================================
6087
Barry Warsawb5d17402008-06-19 01:48:07 +00006088*Release date: 18-June-2008*
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00006089
6090Core and Builtins
6091-----------------
6092
Brett Cannondea1b562008-06-27 00:31:13 +00006093- Issue #3211: warnings.warn_explicit() did not guard against its 'registry'
6094 argument being anything other than a dict or None. Also fixed a bug in error
6095 handling when 'message' and 'category' were both set to None, triggering a
6096 bus error.
6097
Amaury Forgeot d'Arca8919fe2008-06-16 19:12:42 +00006098- Issue #3100: Corrected a crash on deallocation of a subclassed weakref which
6099 holds the last (strong) reference to its referent.
6100
Georg Brandl89f48872008-06-11 18:55:38 +00006101- Add future_builtins.ascii().
6102
Raymond Hettinger5c4d3d02008-06-09 13:07:27 +00006103- Several set methods now accept multiple arguments: update(), union(),
Raymond Hettinger4267be62008-06-11 10:30:54 +00006104 intersection(), intersection_update(), difference(), and difference_update().
Raymond Hettingeree4bcad2008-06-09 08:33:37 +00006105
Robert Schuppenies51df0642008-06-01 16:16:17 +00006106- Issue #2898: Added sys.getsizeof() to retrieve size of objects in bytes.
6107
Martin v. Löwis99815892008-06-01 07:20:46 +00006108- New environment variable PYTHONIOENCODING.
6109
Martin v. Löwis4dd019f2008-05-20 08:11:19 +00006110- Patch #2488: Add sys.maxsize.
6111
Georg Brandla9916b52008-05-17 22:11:54 +00006112- Issue #2353: file.xreadlines() now emits a Py3k warning.
6113
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006114- Issue #2863: generators now have a ``gen.__name__`` attribute that
6115 equals ``gen.gi_code.co_name``, like ``func.__name___`` that equals
6116 ``func.func_code.co_name``. The repr() of a generator now also
6117 contains this name.
Georg Brandlc91210c2008-05-15 15:08:32 +00006118
Georg Brandlbd85eb12008-05-14 06:34:15 +00006119- Issue #2831: enumerate() now has a ``start`` argument.
6120
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006121- Issue #2801: fix bug in the float.is_integer method where a
6122 ValueError was sometimes incorrectly raised.
Mark Dickinsone81c3762008-05-09 16:14:15 +00006123
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006124- Issue #2790: sys.flags was not properly exposing its bytes_warning
6125 attribute.
Brett Cannon3c1d50a2008-05-08 20:23:54 +00006126
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006127- Issue #2196: hasattr() now lets exceptions which do not inherit
6128 Exception (KeyboardInterrupt, and SystemExit) propagate instead of
6129 ignoring them.
Benjamin Petersonb9030f42008-05-12 00:41:23 +00006130
Gregory P. Smith9d534572008-06-11 07:41:16 +00006131- Added checks for integer overflows, contributed by Google. Some are
6132 only available if asserts are left in the code, in cases where they
6133 can't be triggered from Python code.
6134
6135
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00006136Extension Modules
6137-----------------
Guido van Rossum84b1e0f2008-08-20 14:57:20 +00006138- Issue #1179: [CVE-2007-4965] Integer overflow in imageop module.
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00006139
Raymond Hettinger305480c2008-06-16 01:42:40 +00006140- Issue #3116: marshal.dumps() had quadratic behavior for strings > 32Mb.
6141
Andrew M. Kuchling2126bab2008-06-22 13:39:11 +00006142- Issue #2138: Add factorial() to the math module.
Raymond Hettingerecbdd2e2008-06-09 06:54:45 +00006143
Raymond Hettinger6d7702e2008-05-31 03:24:31 +00006144- The heapq module does comparisons using LT instead of LE. This
6145 makes its implementation match that used by list.sort().
6146
Mark Dickinson99dfe922008-05-23 01:35:30 +00006147- Issue #2819: add full-precision summation function to math module,
6148 based on Hettinger's ASPN Python Cookbook recipe.
6149
Georg Brandl88659b02008-05-20 08:40:43 +00006150- Issue #2592: delegate nb_index and the floor/truediv slots in
6151 weakref.proxy.
6152
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006153- Support os.O_ASYNC and fcntl.FASYNC if the constants exist on the
6154 platform.
Georg Brandl5049a852008-05-16 13:10:15 +00006155
Brett Cannon044616a2008-05-15 02:33:55 +00006156- Support for Windows 9x has been removed from the winsound module.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcf9b54c22008-05-12 21:30:24 +00006157
Jesus Cea09c01782008-09-28 23:24:19 +00006158- bsddb module updated to version 4.7.3.
Jesus Cea4907d272008-08-31 14:00:51 +00006159 http://www.jcea.es/programacion/pybsddb.htm#bsddb3-4.7.3. This
6160 code should be compatible with Python 3.0.
Jesus Ceaef9764f2008-05-13 18:45:46 +00006161
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006162- Issue #2858: Fix potential memory corruption when
6163 bsddb.db.DBEnv.lock_get and other bsddb.db object constructors
6164 raised an exception.
Gregory P. Smith664782e2008-05-17 06:12:02 +00006165
Gregory P. Smith5d7d6c32008-05-25 08:32:04 +00006166- Issue #2669: bsddb/__init__.py iteration no longer silently fails when
6167 the database has changed size during iteration. It now raises a
6168 RuntimeError in the same manner as a dictionary.
6169
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006170- Issue #2870: cmathmodule.c compile error.
Christian Heimes0bd23c02008-05-16 10:23:31 +00006171
Benjamin Petersond8a89722008-08-18 16:40:03 +00006172- Added a threading.Thread.ident property.
Gregory P. Smith8856dda2008-06-01 23:48:47 +00006173
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00006174Library
6175-------
6176
Vinay Sajip1e022682008-06-29 21:27:15 +00006177- logging.config: Removed out-of-date comment in _install_handlers and
6178 used issubclass in place of equality comparison of classes.
6179
Facundo Batista5596b0c2008-06-22 13:36:20 +00006180- Issue #2722: Now the os.getcwd() supports very long path names.
6181
Facundo Batista2da91c32008-06-21 17:43:56 +00006182- Issue #2888: Fixed the behaviour of pprint when working with nested
6183 structures, to match the behaviour of 2.5 and 3.0 (now follows the common
6184 sense).
6185
Facundo Batistaa6a4d502008-06-21 18:58:04 +00006186- Issue #1817: cgi now correctly handles the querystring on POST requests
6187
Vinay Sajip8dc20fd2008-06-19 22:41:08 +00006188- Issue #3136: fileConfig()'s disabling of old loggers is now conditional via
6189 an optional disable_existing_loggers parameter, but the default value is
6190 such that the old behaviour is preserved. Thanks to Leandro Lucarella for
6191 the patch.
6192
Vinay Sajip9828b7e2008-06-17 11:04:02 +00006193- Issue #3126: StreamHandler and FileHandler check before calling "flush" and
6194 "close" that the stream object has these, using hasattr (thanks to bobf for
6195 the patch).
6196
Benjamin Peterson5c0be322008-06-13 15:11:50 +00006197- Issue #2912: platform.uname now tries to determine unknown information even if
6198 os.uname exists.
6199
Benjamin Peterson26305a02008-06-12 22:33:06 +00006200- The rfc822 module has been deprecated for removal in 3.0.
6201
Benjamin Petersona03722f2008-06-12 14:23:49 +00006202- The mimetools module has been deprecated for removal in 3.0.
6203
Thomas Heller1cec7aa2008-06-10 14:07:12 +00006204- The ctypes.byref function now takes an optional second parameter
6205 which allows to specify an offset in bytes for the constructed
6206 pointer-like object.
6207
Georg Brandl8509db52008-06-10 07:45:28 +00006208- Added the ast module.
6209
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00006210- Added the multiprocessing module, PEP 371.
Benjamin Peterson6f7ae692008-06-11 20:04:30 +00006211
Georg Brandl7be19aa2008-06-07 15:59:10 +00006212- Factored out the indentation cleaning from inspect.getdoc() into
6213 inspect.cleandoc() to ease standalone use.
6214
Thomas Hellerfbb9c0b2008-06-06 08:33:46 +00006215- Issue #1798: Add ctypes calling convention that allows safe access
6216 to errno.
6217
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00006218- Issue #2404: ctypes objects support the new pep3118 buffer interface.
Thomas Heller59475e92008-06-05 17:52:59 +00006219
Vinay Sajip9828b7e2008-06-17 11:04:02 +00006220- Patch #2125: Add GetInteger and GetString methods for
Martin v. Löwisffe62ed2008-06-02 08:40:06 +00006221 msilib.Record objects.
6222
Gregory P. Smith137d8242008-06-02 04:05:52 +00006223- Issue #2782: The datetime module's strftime methods now accept
6224 unicode format strings just as time.strftime always has.
6225
Georg Brandlac19d852008-06-01 21:19:14 +00006226- The sgmllib and htmllib modules have been deprecated for removal
6227 in Python 3.0.
6228
6229- Issue #3011: locale module alias table was updated to the latest
6230 version from the X.org locale.alias file.
Marc-André Lemburgadff65b2008-05-30 20:52:18 +00006231
Thomas Heller9287acf2008-05-29 19:42:34 +00006232- Issue #1797 (partial fix): ctypes NULL function pointers have a
6233 False boolean value now.
6234
Georg Brandld0b592f2008-05-29 07:45:26 +00006235- Issue #2985: Allow 64-bit integer responses (``<i8>``) in XMLRPC
6236 transfers.
6237
6238- Issue #2877: The UserString.MutableString class has been removed in
6239 Python 3.0.
Brett Cannonabb34fe2008-05-29 05:08:50 +00006240
Lars Gustäbelb1a54a32008-05-27 12:39:23 +00006241- Do not close external file objects passed to tarfile.open(mode='w:bz2')
6242 when the TarFile is closed.
6243
Georg Brandle08e3d02008-05-25 08:07:37 +00006244- Issue #2959: For consistency with other file-like objects, gzip's
6245 GzipFile.close() can now be called multiple times without raising
6246 an exception.
6247
Martin v. Löwis27e4a172008-05-23 15:18:28 +00006248- Issue #1390: Raise ValueError in toxml when an invalid comment would
6249 otherwise be produced.
6250
Vinay Sajipc0128832008-05-20 15:37:22 +00006251- Issue #2914: TimedRotatingFileHandler now takes an optional keyword
6252 argument "utc" to use UTC time rather than local time.
6253
6254- Issue #2929: TimedRotatingFileHandler was using the wrong path when
6255 deleting old log files (filename only instead of full path).
6256
Georg Brandl112aa502008-05-20 08:25:48 +00006257- Issue #1775025: You can now specify zipfile members to open(),
6258 read() or extract() via a ZipInfo instance. This allows handling
6259 duplicate filenames in zipfiles.
6260
Georg Brandl28fdfa92008-05-17 17:57:01 +00006261- Issue #961805: Fix Text.edit_modified() in Tkinter.
6262
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006263- Issue #1793: Function ctypes.util.find_msvcrt() added that returns
Thomas Heller95ba13f2008-05-16 20:06:31 +00006264 the name of the C runtime library that Python uses.
6265 ctypes.util.find_library(name) now call this function when name is
6266 'm' or 'c'.
6267
Brett Cannonfa40bbf2008-05-16 00:50:02 +00006268- The statvfs module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
6269
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006270- The sunaudiodev and SUNAUDIODEV modules have been deprecated for
6271 removal in Python 3.0.
6272
6273- The WAIT module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
6274 3.0.
6275
6276- The torgb module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
6277 3.0.
6278
6279- The SV module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
6280 3.0.
6281
6282- The readcd module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
Brett Cannon22248172008-05-16 00:10:24 +00006283 Python 3.0.
6284
Brett Cannon11ae6e72008-05-15 03:49:00 +00006285- The panelparser module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
6286 Python 3.0.
6287
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006288- The panel module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
6289 3.0.
Brett Cannon7e375862008-05-15 03:46:27 +00006290
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006291- The jpeg module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
6292 3.0.
Brett Cannon89f5d9c2008-05-15 03:44:00 +00006293
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006294- The IOCTL module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
6295 3.0.
Brett Cannond8c41ec2008-05-15 03:41:55 +00006296
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006297- The IN module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
6298 3.0.
Brett Cannon6328b292008-05-15 03:36:13 +00006299
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006300- The imgfile module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
Brett Cannon178582e2008-05-15 03:20:36 +00006301 Python 3.0.
6302
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006303- The GLWS module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
6304 3.0.
Brett Cannon72ccc402008-05-15 03:17:24 +00006305
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006306- The GET module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
6307 3.0.
Brett Cannon2773b6f2008-05-15 03:14:57 +00006308
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006309- The fm module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
6310 3.0.
6311
6312- The FL, flp, and fl modules from IRIX have been deprecated for
6313 removal in Python 3.0.
6314
6315- The FILE module on IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
6316 3.0.
6317
6318- The ERRNO module on IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
6319 3.0.
6320
6321- The DEVICE, GL, gl, and cgen modules (which indirectly includes
6322 cgensupport) have been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
Brett Cannon044616a2008-05-15 02:33:55 +00006323
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006324- The CL, CL_old, and cl modules for IRIX have been deprecated for
6325 removal in Python 3.0.
6326
6327- The cdplayer module for IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
Brett Cannon650f5162008-05-14 21:12:12 +00006328 Python 3.0.
6329
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006330- The cddb module for IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
6331 3.0.
Brett Cannon9eebe492008-05-14 20:34:22 +00006332
Brett Cannonddf949f2008-05-14 20:31:38 +00006333- The cd and CD modules for IRIX have been deprecated for removal in
6334 Python 3.0.
6335
Brett Cannon34721d52008-05-14 01:08:21 +00006336- The al and AL modules for IRIX have been deprecated for removal in
6337 Python 3.0.
6338
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006339- Issue #1713041: fix pprint's handling of maximum depth.
Georg Brandl23da6e62008-05-12 16:26:52 +00006340
Brett Cannonbb141bb2008-05-12 03:47:47 +00006341- The timing module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
6342
Brett Cannonac861b52008-05-12 03:45:59 +00006343- The sv module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
6344
Brett Cannon43e5ef42008-05-12 03:19:20 +00006345- The multifile module has been deprecated as per PEP 4.
6346
Brett Cannon42bfa902008-05-12 00:08:34 +00006347- The imageop module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
6348
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006349- Issue #2250: Exceptions raised during evaluation of names in
6350 rlcompleter's ``Completer.complete()`` method are now caught and
6351 ignored.
Georg Brandl627a6662008-05-11 21:03:42 +00006352
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006353- Issue #2659: Added ``break_on_hyphens`` option to textwrap
6354 TextWrapper class.
Georg Brandl6f95ae52008-05-11 10:42:28 +00006355
Brett Cannon2a869132008-05-11 03:01:47 +00006356- The mhlib module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
6357
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006358- The linuxaudiodev module has been deprecated for removal in Python
6359 3.0.
Brett Cannondf0a7172008-05-11 00:50:51 +00006360
Brett Cannon27508d42008-05-10 22:45:07 +00006361- The ihooks module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
6362
Brett Cannonfe598512008-05-10 22:11:45 +00006363- The fpformat module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
6364
Brett Cannone35a3a12008-05-10 21:22:43 +00006365- The dl module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
6366
Brett Cannond5a09852008-05-10 03:14:32 +00006367- The Canvas module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
6368
Brett Cannon6192df12008-05-10 02:58:26 +00006369- The compiler package has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
6370
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006371- The Bastion and rexec modules have been deprecated for removal in
6372 Python 3.0.
Brett Cannoncda73a42008-05-10 02:53:46 +00006373
Brett Cannon768d44f2008-05-10 02:47:54 +00006374- The bsddb185 module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
6375
Brett Cannon9ac39742008-05-09 22:51:58 +00006376- The pure module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
6377
Mark Dickinsonf8476c12008-05-09 17:54:23 +00006378- Issue #2487: change the semantics of math.ldexp(x, n) when n is too
6379 large to fit in a C long. ldexp(x, n) now returns a zero (with
6380 suitable sign) if n is large and negative; previously, it raised
6381 OverflowError.
6382
Brett Cannonfa24d9a2008-05-09 05:32:42 +00006383- The toaiff module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
6384
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006385- The test.testall module has been deprecated for removal in Python
6386 3.0.
Brett Cannon3c759142008-05-09 05:25:37 +00006387
Brett Cannond7265d62008-05-09 05:18:40 +00006388- The new module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
6389
Brett Cannone3b19402008-05-08 20:36:09 +00006390- The user module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
6391
Brett Cannon6071cc82008-05-08 19:52:45 +00006392- The stringold module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
6393
6394- The mutex module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
Brett Cannon9d441822008-05-08 19:26:08 +00006395
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00006396- The imputil module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
6397
Brett Cannoncae4f5f2008-05-08 20:24:43 +00006398- test.test_support.catch_warning() gained a 'record' argument.
6399
Benjamin Peterson0893a0a2008-05-09 00:27:01 +00006400- os.path.walk is deprecated in favor of os.walk.
6401
Georg Brandl9020ff82008-05-11 14:17:13 +00006402- pdb gained the "until" command.
Benjamin Peterson98353942008-05-11 14:13:25 +00006403
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006404- The Mac Modules (including Carbon) have been deprecated for removal
6405 in Python 3.0.
Benjamin Peterson23681932008-05-12 21:42:13 +00006406
Vinay Sajip9828b7e2008-06-17 11:04:02 +00006407- Library: on MacOS X you can now set ``ARCHFLAGS`` in the shell
Ronald Oussoren5640ce22008-06-05 12:58:24 +00006408 environment to control the '-arch' flags that are used to build
6409 an extension. This was added for compatibility with Apple's build
6410 of Python.
6411
6412- The bundled OSX-specific copy of libbffi is now in sync with the version
6413 shipped with PyObjC 2.0 and includes support for x86_64 and ppc64 platforms.
6414
Georg Brandl25c34082008-08-18 23:09:49 +00006415- The threading module gained aliases for names that will be removed in the
6416 3.x series.
Benjamin Peterson0fbcf692008-06-11 17:27:50 +00006417
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00006418Build
6419-----
6420
Martin v. Löwiscc0f2b22008-06-13 18:12:51 +00006421- 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 +00006422
Martin v. Löwis8c255e42008-05-23 15:06:50 +00006423- Patch #1722225: Support QNX 6.
6424
Brett Cannonb61d8012008-05-11 23:39:04 +00006425- ``Lib/lib-old`` is now added to sys.path.
6426
Ronald Oussoren5640ce22008-06-05 12:58:24 +00006427- On MacOS X it is now possible to install the framework in 64-bit
6428 mode or even as a 4-way universal binary (that is, PPC, i386,
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00006429 PPC64 and x86_64 support in one binary).
Ronald Oussoren5640ce22008-06-05 12:58:24 +00006430
6431 This is controlled by the configure argument ``--with-universal-archs``:
6432
6433 - ``--with-universal-archs=all``: install 4-way universal
6434
6435 - ``--with-universal-archs=32-bit``: install 2-way universal, 32-bit (the default)
6436
6437 - ``--with-universal-archs=64-bit``: install 2-way universal, 64-bit
6438
6439 This option should be used in combination with ``--enable-universalsdk=``.
6440
6441 NOTE: 64-bit and 4-way builds are only suppported on Mac OS X 10.5 (or later).
6442
6443
Christian Heimes7a990612008-05-26 13:15:11 +00006444C API
6445-----
6446
Georg Brandl74a1dea2008-05-28 11:21:39 +00006447- Add ``PyType_Modified()`` as a public API to clear the type cache.
6448
6449- The PyBytes functions have been renamed to PyByteArray.
Christian Heimes7a990612008-05-26 13:15:11 +00006450
6451- The PyString functions have been renamed to PyBytes. A batch of
6452 defines were added so that the linker still sees the original
6453 PyString names.
6454
Georg Brandl5e7b1c02008-05-16 17:40:23 +00006455
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00006456What's New in Python 2.6 alpha 3?
Barry Warsaw65475fd2008-03-01 17:11:41 +00006457=================================
6458
Barry Warsaw6cc79402008-05-08 13:16:19 +00006459*Release date: 08-May-2008*
Barry Warsaw65475fd2008-03-01 17:11:41 +00006460
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd21fb4c2008-03-05 01:50:33 +00006461Core and builtins
6462-----------------
Georg Brandl80055f62008-03-25 07:56:27 +00006463
Georg Brandl28e08732008-04-30 19:47:09 +00006464- Issue #2719: backported the ``next()`` builtin from Python 3.
6465
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006466- Issue #2681: The octal literal ``0o8`` was incorrecly acctepted. Now
6467 it properly raises a SyntaxError.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc52167212008-04-24 18:07:05 +00006468
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006469- Issue #2617: Reserved -J and -X arguments for Jython, IronPython and
6470 other implementations of Python.
Christian Heimes7a98d272008-04-12 13:03:03 +00006471
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006472- Implemented PEP 370: Per user site-packages directory.
Christian Heimesaf748c32008-05-06 22:41:46 +00006473
Andrew M. Kuchling46d6b682008-04-30 16:19:55 +00006474Extension Modules
6475-----------------
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00006476
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006477- Issue #2670: Fix a failure in urllib2.build_opener(), when passed
6478 two handlers that derive the same default base class.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc96865852008-04-22 21:14:41 +00006479
Christian Heimese74c8f22008-04-19 02:23:57 +00006480- Added kill, terminate and send_signal(sig) to subprocess.Popen.
6481
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006482- Added phase(z) -> phi, polar(z) -> r, phi and rect(r, phi) -> z to
6483 the cmath module.
Christian Heimes6f341092008-04-18 23:13:07 +00006484
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006485- Four new methods were added to the math and cmath modules: acosh,
6486 asinh, atanh and log1p.
Christian Heimes6f341092008-04-18 23:13:07 +00006487
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006488- zlib.decompressobj().flush(value) no longer crashes the interpreter
6489 when passed a value less than or equal to zero.
Gregory P. Smith671c5d92008-04-09 18:18:43 +00006490
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006491- Issue #1631171: Re-implement the 'warnings' module in C (the
6492 original Python code has been kept as backup). This will allow for
6493 using the 'warning's machinery in such places as the parser where
6494 use of pure Python code is not possible. Both the ``showarning()``
6495 and ``formatwarning()`` gain an optional 'line' argument which is
6496 not called by default for backwards-compatibility reasons. Setting
6497 ``warnings.showwarning()`` to an implementation that lacks support
6498 for the ``line`` argument will raise a DeprecationWarning.
Brett Cannone9746892008-04-12 23:44:07 +00006499
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00006500Library
6501-------
6502
Brett Cannonf8436822008-05-06 23:41:32 +00006503- The audiodev module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
6504
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006505- Issue #2750: Add the 'json' package. Based on simplejson 1.9 and
6506 contributed by Bob Ippolito.
Brett Cannon4b964f92008-05-05 20:21:38 +00006507
Martin v. Löwis471617d2008-05-05 17:16:58 +00006508- Issue #1734346: Support Unicode file names for zipfiles.
6509
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006510- Issue #2581: distutils: Vista UAC/elevation support for
6511 bdist_wininst.
Mark Hammond7c5c8e62008-05-02 12:48:15 +00006512
Mark Dickinsonfe536f52008-04-25 16:59:09 +00006513- Issue #2635: Fix bug in 'fix_sentence_endings' textwrap.fill option,
6514 where an extra space was added after a word containing (but not
6515 ending in) '.', '!' or '?'.
6516
Thomas Heller6ad5fbb2008-04-25 15:44:16 +00006517- Add from_buffer() and from_buffer_copy() class methods to ctypes
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00006518 data types.
Thomas Heller6ad5fbb2008-04-25 15:44:16 +00006519
Neal Norwitz2b0bea52008-04-25 03:40:17 +00006520- Issue #2682: ctypes callback functions no longer contain a cyclic
Thomas Hellerbf027c42008-04-24 18:14:19 +00006521 reference to themselves.
6522
Gregory P. Smithd59fefb2008-04-22 08:11:33 +00006523- The getpass module has been improved on Unix. It now uses /dev/tty
6524 by default and uses stderr instead of stdout. A GetPassWarning is
6525 issued when input echo cannot be controlled.
Gregory P. Smith41e30182008-04-21 21:31:08 +00006526
Skip Montanarob131f042008-04-18 20:35:46 +00006527- Issue #2014: Allow XML-RPC datetime objects to have dates before
6528 1900-01-01.
6529
Nick Coghlan106fc482008-04-15 10:25:31 +00006530- Issue #2439: Added new function pkgutil.get_data(), which is a
6531 convenience wrapper for the PEP 302 get_data() API.
6532
Thomas Heller046e6a42008-04-14 16:10:07 +00006533- Issue #2616: The ctypes.pointer() and ctypes.POINTER() functions are
6534 now implemented in C for better performance.
6535
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006536- Issue #2408: The ``_types`` module, which was used as in
6537 implementation detail of the public ``types`` module, has been
6538 removed and replaced by pure python code.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc02f33b42008-04-08 23:10:07 +00006539
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006540- Issue #2513: distutils on Windows is now capable of cross-compiling
Mark Hammond495cf992008-04-07 01:53:39 +00006541 extension modules between 32 and 64 bit platforms. See the distutls
6542 build documentation for more information.
6543
Gregory P. Smithaa63d0d2008-04-06 23:11:17 +00006544- Issue #815646: Individual file objects may now be used from multiple
6545 threads at once without fear of crashing the Python interpreter. If
6546 file.close() is called while an object is in use by another thread
6547 an IOError exception will be raised and the file will not be closed.
6548
Thomas Hellerf7906482008-04-04 19:43:25 +00006549- The bundled libffi copy is now in sync with the recently released
6550 libffi3.0.5 version, apart from some small changes to
6551 Modules/_ctypes/libffi/configure.ac.
6552
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006553- Issue #2385: distutils.core.run_script() makes __file__ available,
6554 so the controlled environment will more closely mirror the typical
6555 script environment. This supports setup.py scripts that refer to
6556 data files.
Fred Drake46c58c12008-04-04 05:41:30 +00006557
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00006558Tests
6559-----
Trent Nelsone41b0062008-04-08 23:47:30 +00006560
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006561- Issue #2550: The approach used by client/server code for obtaining
6562 ports to listen on in network-oriented tests has been refined in an
6563 effort to facilitate running multiple instances of the entire
6564 regression test suite in parallel without issue.
6565 test_support.bind_port() has been fixed such that it will always
6566 return a unique port -- which wasn't always the case with the
6567 previous implementation, especially if socket options had been set
6568 that affected address reuse (i.e. SO_REUSEADDR, SO_REUSEPORT). The
6569 new implementation of bind_port() will actually raise an exception
6570 if it is passed an AF_INET/SOCK_STREAM socket with either the
6571 SO_REUSEADDR or SO_REUSEPORT socket option set. Furthermore, if
6572 available, bind_port() will set the SO_EXCLUSIVEADDRUSE option on
6573 the socket it's been passed. This currently only applies to
6574 Windows. This option prevents any other sockets from binding to the
6575 host/port we've bound to, thus removing the possibility of the
6576 'non-deterministic' behaviour, as Microsoft puts it, that occurs
6577 when a second SOCK_STREAM socket binds and accepts to a host/port
6578 that's already been bound by another socket. The optional preferred
6579 port parameter to bind_port() has been removed. Under no
6580 circumstances should tests be hard coding ports!
6581
6582 test_support.find_unused_port() has also been introduced, which will
6583 pass a temporary socket object to bind_port() in order to obtain an
6584 unused port. The temporary socket object is then closed and
6585 deleted, and the port is returned. This method should only be used
6586 for obtaining an unused port in order to pass to an external program
6587 (i.e. the -accept [port] argument to openssl's s_server mode) or as
6588 a parameter to a server-oriented class that doesn't give you direct
6589 access to the underlying socket used.
6590
6591 Finally, test_support.HOST has been introduced, which should be used
6592 for the host argument of any relevant socket calls (i.e. bind and
6593 connect).
Trent Nelsone41b0062008-04-08 23:47:30 +00006594
6595 The following tests were updated to following the new conventions:
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006596 test_socket, test_smtplib, test_asyncore, test_ssl, test_httplib,
Trent Nelsone41b0062008-04-08 23:47:30 +00006597 test_poplib, test_ftplib, test_telnetlib, test_socketserver,
6598 test_asynchat and test_socket_ssl.
6599
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006600 It is now possible for multiple instances of the regression test
6601 suite to run in parallel without issue.
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00006602
6603Build
6604-----
6605
Mark Dickinson65134662008-04-25 16:11:04 +00006606- Issue #1496032: On alpha, use -mieee when gcc is the compiler.
6607
Thomas Hellerdc96a772008-04-04 10:07:55 +00006608- Issue #2544: On HP-UX systems, use 'gcc -shared' for linking when
6609 gcc is used as compiler.
6610
Ronald Oussoren580c7fe2008-05-02 19:45:11 +00006611- Issue #2573: On MacOS X it is now possible to install the framework
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006612 with a different name using --with-framework-name=NAME.
Ronald Oussoren580c7fe2008-05-02 19:45:11 +00006613
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00006614C API
6615-----
6616
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006617- Added implementation of copysign, acosh, asinh, atanh and log1p to
6618 the new files Include/pymath.h and Python/pymath.h for platforms
6619 which provide the functions through their libm. The files also
6620 contains several helpers and constants for math.
Christian Heimes6f341092008-04-18 23:13:07 +00006621
Benjamin Petersondacde0d2008-05-26 17:43:53 +00006622- Added a new convenience macro, PyErr_WarnPy3k, for issuing Py3k warnings.
Benjamin Petersona692c4d2008-04-27 02:28:02 +00006623
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00006624
6625What's New in Python 2.6 alpha 2?
6626=================================
6627
6628*Release date: 02-Apr-2008*
6629
6630Core and builtins
6631-----------------
6632
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006633- Issue #1733757: The interpreter would hang on shutdown if the
6634 tracing function set by sys.settrace is still active and happens to
6635 call threading.currentThread().
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd7a26512008-04-03 23:07:55 +00006636
Georg Brandl91e0cda2008-03-29 01:50:06 +00006637- Patch #1442: properly report exceptions when the PYTHONSTARTUP file
6638 cannot be executed.
6639
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc69b747b2008-03-28 20:30:50 +00006640- The compilation of a class nested in another class used to leak one
6641 reference on the outer class name.
6642
Georg Brandlfc8eef32008-03-28 12:11:56 +00006643- Patch #1810: compile() can now compile _ast trees as returned by
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006644 ``compile(..., PyCF_ONLY_AST)``.
Georg Brandlfc8eef32008-03-28 12:11:56 +00006645
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006646- Patch #2426: Added sqlite3.Connection.iterdump method to allow easy
6647 dumping of databases. Contributed by Paul Kippes at PyCon 2008.
Gregory P. Smithb9803422008-03-28 08:32:09 +00006648
Georg Brandldeaf2ca2008-03-27 13:27:31 +00006649- Patch #2477: Added from __future__ import unicode_literals.
Christian Heimes3c608332008-03-26 22:01:37 +00006650
Christian Heimes8c78cc32008-03-26 12:53:58 +00006651- Added backport of bytearray type.
6652
Georg Brandl80055f62008-03-25 07:56:27 +00006653- Issue #2355: add Py3k warning for buffer().
6654
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc9a0d3462008-03-23 09:55:29 +00006655- Issue #1477: With narrow Unicode builds, the unicode escape sequence
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006656 \Uxxxxxxxx did not accept values outside the Basic Multilingual
6657 Plane. This affected raw unicode literals and the
6658 'raw-unicode-escape' codec. Now UTF-16 surrogates are generated in
6659 this case, like normal unicode literals and the 'unicode-escape'
6660 codec.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc9a0d3462008-03-23 09:55:29 +00006661
Georg Brandl65bb42d2008-03-21 20:38:24 +00006662- Issue #2348: add Py3k warning for file.softspace.
6663
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006664- Issue #2346/#2347: add Py3k warnings for __methods__ and
6665 __members__.
Georg Brandl07e56812008-03-21 20:21:46 +00006666
Georg Brandl5a444242008-03-21 20:11:46 +00006667- Issue #2358: Add a Py3k warning on sys.exc_clear() usage.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd21fb4c2008-03-05 01:50:33 +00006668
Martin v. Löwisa4d77892008-03-19 04:39:13 +00006669- Issue #2400: Allow relative imports to "import *".
6670
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006671- Issue #1745: Backport print function with ``from __future__ import
6672 print_function``.
Eric Smith7c478942008-03-18 23:45:49 +00006673
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006674- Issue #2332: add new attribute names for instance method objects.
6675 The two changes are: im_self -> __self__ and im_func -> __func__
Neal Norwitzb1d3d962008-03-18 04:46:00 +00006676
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006677- Issue #2379: Raise a Py3K warning for __getitem__ or __getslice__ on
Guido van Rossum6d91be32008-03-18 04:42:22 +00006678 exception instances.
6679
Guido van Rossum04edb522008-03-18 02:49:46 +00006680- Issue #2371: Add a Py3k warning when catching an exception that
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006681 doesn't derive from BaseException.
6682
6683- Issue #2341: Add a Py3k warning when raising an exception that
6684 doesn't derive from BaseException.
Guido van Rossum04edb522008-03-18 02:49:46 +00006685
Neal Norwitz419fd492008-03-17 20:22:43 +00006686- Issue #2321: use pymalloc for unicode object string data to reduce
6687 memory usage in some circumstances.
6688
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006689- PEP 3127: octal literals now start with "0o". Old-style octal
6690 literals are still valid. There are binary literals with a prefix of
6691 "0b". This also affects int(x, 0).
Eric Smith0aed07a2008-03-17 19:43:40 +00006692
Georg Brandl1e7c3752008-03-25 08:37:23 +00006693- Issue #2359: Adding deprecation warnings for array.{read,write}.
6694
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006695- Issue #1779871: GNU gcc can now build Python on OS X because the
Jeffrey Yasskin1b4e45b2008-03-17 14:40:53 +00006696 flags -Wno-long-double, -no-cpp-precomp, and -mno-fused-madd are no
6697 longer passed.
6698
Neal Norwitz400aeda2008-03-15 22:03:18 +00006699- Add a warning when asserting a non-empty tuple which is always true.
6700
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006701- Issue #2179: speed up with statement execution by storing the exit
6702 method on the stack instead of in a temporary variable (patch by
6703 Jeffrey Yaskin)
Nick Coghlan7af53be2008-03-07 14:13:28 +00006704
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006705- Issue #2238: Some syntax errors in *args and **kwargs expressions
6706 could give bogus error messages.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd21fb4c2008-03-05 01:50:33 +00006707
Sean Reifscheider68fa8e62008-03-20 00:50:07 +00006708- Issue #2143: Fix embedded readline() hang on SSL socket EOF.
6709
Andrew M. Kuchling46d6b682008-04-30 16:19:55 +00006710Extension Modules
6711-----------------
Martin v. Löwisaef18b12008-03-24 13:31:16 +00006712
6713- Patch #2240: Implement signal.setitimer and signal.getitimer.
6714
Thomas Heller78b8f442008-03-05 14:53:39 +00006715Library
6716-------
6717
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006718- Issue #2315: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now accounts
6719 for daylight savings time in calculating the next rollover.
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00006720
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006721- Issue #2316: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now
6722 calculates rollovers correctly even when nothing is logged for a
6723 while.
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00006724
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006725- Issue #2317: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now uses
6726 improved logic for removing old files.
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00006727
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006728- Issue #2495: tokenize.untokenize now inserts a space between two
6729 consecutive string literals; previously, ["" ""] was rendered as
6730 [""""], which is incorrect python code.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcda0c0252008-03-27 23:23:54 +00006731
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006732- Issue #2248: return the result of the QUIT command. from
6733 SMTP.quit().
Georg Brandldeaf2ca2008-03-27 13:27:31 +00006734
Christian Heimes8c78cc32008-03-26 12:53:58 +00006735- Backport of Python 3.0's io module.
6736
Mark Dickinson8e85ffa2008-03-25 18:47:59 +00006737- Issue #2482: Make sure that the coefficient of a Decimal is always
6738 stored as a str instance, not as a unicode instance. This ensures
6739 that str(Decimal) is always an instance of str.
6740
Mark Dickinson3b24ccb2008-03-25 14:33:23 +00006741- Issue #2478: fix failure of decimal.Decimal(0).sqrt()
6742
Georg Brandl77354cf2008-03-21 20:01:51 +00006743- Issue #2432: give DictReader the dialect and line_num attributes
6744 advertised in the docs.
6745
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006746- Issue #2460: Make Ellipsis object copyable.
Raymond Hettingerb72233c2008-03-24 08:17:39 +00006747
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006748- Issue #1681432: Add triangular distribution to the random module
Raymond Hettingerbbc50ea2008-03-23 13:32:32 +00006749
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006750- Issue #2136: urllib2's auth handler now allows single-quoted realms
6751 in the WWW-Authenticate header.
Georg Brandl33124322008-03-21 19:54:00 +00006752
Marc-André Lemburga1867752008-03-20 18:08:00 +00006753- Issue #2434: Enhanced platform.win32_ver() to also work on Python
6754 installation which do not have the win32all package installed.
6755
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006756- Added support to platform.uname() to also report the machine and
6757 processor information on Windows XP and later. As a result,
Marc-André Lemburga1867752008-03-20 18:08:00 +00006758 platform.machine() and platform.processor() will report this
6759 information as well.
6760
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006761- The library implementing the 2to3 conversion, lib2to3, was added to
6762 the standard distribution.
Martin v. Löwis5e37bae2008-03-19 04:43:46 +00006763
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006764- Issue #1747858: Fix chown to work with large uid's and gid's on
6765 64-bit platforms.
Gregory P. Smith37f3f432008-03-18 20:40:01 +00006766
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006767- Issue #1202: zlib.crc32 and zlib.adler32 no longer return different
6768 values on 32-bit vs. 64-bit python interpreters. Both were correct,
6769 but they now both return a signed integer object for consistency.
Gregory P. Smithf48f9d32008-03-17 18:48:05 +00006770
Skip Montanaro32ed8c22008-03-15 16:07:11 +00006771- Issue #1158: add %f format (fractions of a second represented as
6772 microseconds) to datetime objects. Understood by both strptime and
6773 strftime.
6774
Mark Dickinsonc23b8a72008-03-14 14:23:37 +00006775- Issue #705836: struct.pack(">f", x) now raises OverflowError on all
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006776 platforms when x is too large to fit into an IEEE 754 float;
6777 previously it only raised OverflowError on non IEEE 754 platforms.
Mark Dickinsonc23b8a72008-03-14 14:23:37 +00006778
Andrew M. Kuchlingaac5c862008-05-11 14:00:00 +00006779- Issues #2166, #1741 and #1531505: now distutils deals with HOME
6780 correctly under win32
6781
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006782- Patch #1858: distutils: added multiple server support in .pypirc
Andrew M. Kuchlingaac5c862008-05-11 14:00:00 +00006783
Facundo Batistac54aec12008-03-08 16:50:27 +00006784- Issue #1106316: pdb.post_mortem()'s parameter, "traceback", is now
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006785 optional: it defaults to the traceback of the exception that is
6786 currently being handled (is mandatory to be in the middle of an
6787 exception, otherwise it raises ValueError).
Facundo Batistac54aec12008-03-08 16:50:27 +00006788
Jeffrey Yasskine75f59a2008-03-07 06:22:15 +00006789- Issue #1193577: A .shutdown() method has been added to SocketServers
6790 which terminates the .serve_forever() loop.
6791
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006792- Issue #2220: handle rlcompleter attribute match failure more
6793 gracefully.
Georg Brandl98aa8052008-03-06 07:45:52 +00006794
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006795- Issue #2225: py_compile, when executed as a script, now returns a
6796 non- zero status code if not all files could be compiled
6797 successfully.
Georg Brandla7bd27f2008-03-06 07:41:16 +00006798
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006799- Bug #1725737: In distutils' sdist, exclude RCS, CVS etc. also in the
Georg Brandl810ea292008-03-06 07:34:52 +00006800 root directory, and also exclude .hg, .git, .bzr, and _darcs.
6801
Thomas Hellerf3c05592008-03-05 15:34:29 +00006802- Issue #1872: The struct module typecode for _Bool has been changed
6803 from 't' to '?'.
6804
Thomas Heller78b8f442008-03-05 14:53:39 +00006805- The bundled libffi copy is now in sync with the recently released
6806 libffi3.0.4 version, apart from some small changes to
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006807 Modules/_ctypes/libffi/configure.ac. On OS X, preconfigured libffi
6808 files are used. On all linux systems the --with-system-ffi
6809 configure option defaults to "yes".
Thomas Heller78b8f442008-03-05 14:53:39 +00006810
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006811- Issue #1577: shutil.move() now calls os.rename() if the destination
6812 is a directory instead of copying-then-remove-source.
Sean Reifscheider493894c2008-03-18 17:24:12 +00006813
Martin v. Löwisd2bbe522008-03-06 06:55:22 +00006814Tests
6815-----
6816
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006817- test_nis no longer fails when test.test_support.verbose is true and
6818 NIS is not set up on the testing machine.
Brett Cannon7919d982008-03-19 16:50:13 +00006819
Brett Cannona5573b32008-03-18 04:16:06 +00006820- Output comparison tests are no longer supported.
6821
Brett Cannonb7ec8e52008-03-18 03:46:22 +00006822- Rewrite test_errno to use unittest and no longer be a no-op.
6823
Brett Cannon0bb79502008-03-18 01:58:56 +00006824- GHOP 234: Convert test_extcall to doctest.
6825
Brett Cannonba17cfc2008-03-18 01:50:25 +00006826- GHOP 290: Convert test_dbm and test_dummy_threading to unittest.
6827
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006828- GHOP 293: Convert test_strftime, test_getargs, and test_pep247 to
6829 unittest.
Brett Cannon6eeaddc2008-03-18 01:00:07 +00006830
Brett Cannon1f5182b2008-03-13 21:09:28 +00006831- Issue #2055: Convert test_fcntl to unittest.
6832
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00006833- Issue #1960: Convert test_gdbm to unittest.
Brett Cannon4a6e8d62008-03-13 21:02:16 +00006834
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006835- GHOP 294: Convert test_contains, test_crypt, and test_select to
6836 unittest.
Brett Cannon2e0f9f32008-03-13 20:47:41 +00006837
Brett Cannonb8d37352008-03-13 20:33:10 +00006838- GHOP 238: Convert test_tokenize to use doctest.
6839
Brett Cannon66865d22008-03-13 20:27:00 +00006840- GHOP 237: Rewrite test_thread using unittest.
6841
Martin v. Löwisd2bbe522008-03-06 06:55:22 +00006842- Patch #2232: os.tmpfile might fail on Windows if the user has no
6843 permission to create files in the root directory.
6844
Martin v. Löwisbf7b0b72008-03-14 13:56:09 +00006845Build
6846-----
6847
Martin v. Löwiscdbc9772008-03-24 12:57:53 +00006848- A new script 2to3 is now installed, to run the 2.x to 3.x converter.
6849
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006850- Python/memmove.c and Python/strerror.c have been removed; both
6851 functions are in the C89 standard library.
Brett Cannonaa5778d2008-03-18 04:09:00 +00006852
Martin v. Löwisbf7b0b72008-03-14 13:56:09 +00006853- Patch #2284: Add -x64 option to rt.bat.
Barry Warsaw65475fd2008-03-01 17:11:41 +00006854
Christian Heimes3c608332008-03-26 22:01:37 +00006855C API
6856-----
6857
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00006858- Patch #2477: Added PyParser_ParseFileFlagsEx() and
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006859 PyParser_ParseStringFlagsFilenameEx().
6860
Christian Heimes3c608332008-03-26 22:01:37 +00006861
Nick Coghlanbb0996c2006-09-03 01:20:46 +00006862What's New in Python 2.6 alpha 1?
6863=================================
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00006864
Barry Warsaw7c075232008-03-01 02:53:36 +00006865*Release date: 29-Feb-2008*
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00006866
6867Core and builtins
6868-----------------
6869
Fred Drakea8ee94b2008-03-01 02:45:07 +00006870- Issue #2051: pyc and pyo files are no longer created with permission
Barry Warsaw52973612008-03-01 02:23:38 +00006871 644. The mode is now inherited from the py file.
Christian Heimes40346852008-02-23 17:52:07 +00006872
Georg Brandlad61bc82008-02-23 15:11:18 +00006873- Issue #2067: file.__exit__() now calls subclasses' close() method.
6874
6875- Patch #1759: Backport of PEP 3129 class decorators.
Christian Heimes5224d282008-02-23 15:01:05 +00006876
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00006877- Issue #1881: An internal parser limit has been increased. Also see
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00006878 issue #215555 for a discussion.
Facundo Batistafc2d0102008-02-23 12:01:13 +00006879
Eric Smitha73fbe72008-02-23 03:09:44 +00006880- Added the future_builtins module, which contains hex() and oct().
6881 These are the PEP 3127 version of these functions, designed to be
6882 compatible with the hex() and oct() builtins from Python 3.0. They
6883 differ slightly in their output formats from the existing, unchanged
6884 Python 2.6 builtins. The expected usage of the future_builtins
6885 module is:
6886 from future_builtins import hex, oct
6887
Eric Smith7ef40bf2008-02-20 23:34:22 +00006888- Issue #1600: Modifed PyOS_ascii_formatd to use at most 2 digit
6889 exponents for exponents with absolute value < 100. Follows C99
6890 standard. This is a change on Windows, which would use 3 digits.
6891 Also, added 'n' to the formats that PyOS_ascii_formatd understands,
6892 so that any alterations it does to the resulting string will be
6893 available in stringlib/formatter.h (for float.__format__).
6894
Eric Smith5a3c1352008-02-19 13:21:56 +00006895- Implemented PEP 3101, Advanced String Formatting. This adds a new
6896 builtin format(); a format() method for str and unicode; a
6897 __format__() method to object, str, unicode, int, long, float, and
6898 datetime; the class string.Formatter; and the C API
6899 PyObject_Format().
6900
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006901- Fixed several potential crashes, all caused by specially crafted
6902 __del__ methods exploiting objects in temporarily inconsistent
6903 state.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc632fad32008-02-16 20:55:24 +00006904
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00006905- Issue #2115: Important speedup in setting __slot__ attributes. Also
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006906 prevent a possible crash: an Abstract Base Class would try to access
6907 a slot on a registered virtual subclass.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc60d6c7f2008-02-15 21:22:45 +00006908
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006909- Fixed repr() and str() of complex numbers with infinity or nan as
6910 real or imaginary part.
Christian Heimes2f0da532008-02-15 06:57:08 +00006911
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006912- Clear all free lists during a gc.collect() of the highest generation
6913 in order to allow pymalloc to free more arenas. Python may give back
6914 memory to the OS earlier.
Christian Heimes3b718a72008-02-14 12:47:33 +00006915
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006916- Issue #2045: Fix an infinite recursion triggered when printing a
6917 subclass of collections.defaultdict, if its default_factory is set
6918 to a bound method.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcb01aa432008-02-08 00:56:02 +00006919
Christian Heimesf75dbef2008-02-08 00:11:31 +00006920- Fixed a minor memory leak in dictobject.c. The content of the free
6921 list was not freed on interpreter shutdown.
6922
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00006923- Limit free list of method and built-in function objects to 256
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006924 entries each.
Christian Heimes6075a822008-02-06 12:44:34 +00006925
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006926- Patch #1953: Added ``sys._compact_freelists()`` and the C API
6927 functions ``PyInt_CompactFreeList`` and ``PyFloat_CompactFreeList``
Christian Heimes422051a2008-02-04 18:00:12 +00006928 to compact the internal free lists of pre-allocted ints and floats.
6929
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006930- Issue #1983: Fixed return type of fork(), fork1() and forkpty()
6931 calls. Python expected the return type int but the fork familie
6932 returns pi_t.
Christian Heimes951cc0f2008-01-31 23:08:23 +00006933
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006934- Issue #1678380: Fix a bug that identifies 0j and -0j when they
6935 appear in the same code unit.
Mark Dickinson105be772008-01-31 22:17:37 +00006936
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006937- Issue #2025: Add tuple.count() and tuple.index() methods to comply
6938 with the collections.Sequence API.
Raymond Hettinger5b07ebc2008-02-07 00:54:20 +00006939
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006940- Patch #1970 by Antoine Pitrou: Speedup unicode whitespace and
6941 linebreak detection
Christian Heimes4d4f2702008-01-30 11:32:37 +00006942
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006943- Added ``PyType_ClearCache()`` and ``sys._clear_type_cache`` to clear
6944 the internal lookup cache for ref leak tests.
Christian Heimes908caac2008-01-27 23:34:59 +00006945
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006946- Patch #1473257: generator objects gain a gi_code attribute. This is
6947 the same object as the func_code attribute of the function that
6948 produced the generator.
Georg Brandl0cdf9a32008-01-26 14:14:20 +00006949
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006950- Issue #1920: "while 0" statements were completely removed by the
6951 compiler, even in the presence of an "else" clause, which is
6952 supposed to be run when the condition is false. Now the compiler
6953 correctly emits bytecode for the "else" suite.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc31eaafe2008-01-24 22:59:25 +00006954
Guido van Rossumeead05f2008-01-24 18:21:02 +00006955- A few crashers fixed: weakref_in_del.py (issue #1377858);
6956 loosing_dict_ref.py (issue #1303614, test67.py);
6957 borrowed_ref_[34].py (not in tracker).
6958
Vinay Sajipd7cf32e2008-01-24 12:43:33 +00006959- Issue #1069410: The "can't load dll" message box on Windows is
Christian Heimesb2302ba2008-01-23 17:15:06 +00006960 suppressed while an extension is loaded by calling SetErrorMode in
6961 dynload_win.c. The error is still reported properly.
6962
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006963- Issue #1915: Python compiles with --enable-unicode=no again. However
Christian Heimes082c9b02008-01-23 14:20:50 +00006964 several extension methods and modules do not work without unicode
6965 support.
6966
Georg Brandl26543b12008-01-21 18:36:51 +00006967- Issue #1882: when compiling code from a string, encoding cookies in the
6968 second line of code were not always recognized correctly.
6969
Georg Brandl14404b62008-01-19 19:27:05 +00006970- Issue #1679: "0x" was taken as a valid integer literal.
6971
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00006972- Issue #1865: ``bytes`` as an alias for ``str`` and b"" as an alias "" were
Christian Heimes288e89a2008-01-18 18:24:07 +00006973 added.
6974
Christian Heimesc94e2b52008-01-14 04:13:37 +00006975- sys.float_info / PyFloat_GetInfo: The floating point information
6976 object was converted from a dict to a specialized structseq object.
6977
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006978- Patch #1816: Added sys.flags structseq. It exposes the status of
6979 most command line arguments and PYTHON* environment variables.
Christian Heimesf31b69f2008-01-14 03:42:48 +00006980
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006981- Objects/structseq.c: Implemented new structseq representation. The
6982 patch makes structseqs (e.g. the return value of os.stat) more
6983 readable.
Christian Heimes9c201962008-01-14 03:33:52 +00006984
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006985- Patch #1700288: added a type attribute cache that caches method
6986 accesses, resulting in speedups in heavily object-oriented code.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arce4c270c2008-01-14 00:29:41 +00006987
Neal Norwitz3fc15b82008-01-10 05:42:58 +00006988- Bug #1776: __import__() no longer accepts filenames on any platform.
6989 The first parameter to __import__() must be a valid module name.
Christian Heimes3403f152008-01-09 19:56:33 +00006990
Georg Brandlaed6c662008-01-07 17:25:53 +00006991- Patch #1668: renamed THREADDEBUG envvar to PYTHONTHREADDEBUG.
6992
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006993- Patch #602345: Add -B command line option, PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE
6994 envvar and sys.dont_write_bytecode attribute. All these can be set
6995 to forbid Python to attempt to write compiled bytecode files.
Georg Brandl2da0fce2008-01-07 17:09:35 +00006996
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006997- Improve some exception messages when Windows fails to load an
6998 extension module. Now we get for example '%1 is not a valid Win32
6999 application' instead of 'error code 193'.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arce0b76952008-01-04 02:04:15 +00007000
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007001- Bug #1481296: Fixed long(float('nan')) != 0L.
Christian Heimes8267d1d2008-01-04 00:37:34 +00007002
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007003- Issue #1640: Added math.isinf(x), math.isnan(x) and math.copysign(x,
7004 y) functions.
Christian Heimese2ca4242008-01-03 20:23:15 +00007005
Christian Heimes0a8143f2007-12-18 23:22:54 +00007006- Issue #1635: Platform independent creation and representation of NaN
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007007 and INF. float("nan"), float("inf") and float("-inf") now work on
7008 every platform with IEEE 754 semantics.
Christian Heimes0a8143f2007-12-18 23:22:54 +00007009
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007010- Compiler now generates simpler and faster code for dictionary
7011 literals. The oparg for BUILD_MAP now indicates an estimated
7012 dictionary size. There is a new opcode, STORE_MAP, for adding
7013 entries to the dictionary.
Raymond Hettingerfd7ed402007-12-18 21:24:09 +00007014
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007015- Issue #1638: %zd configure test fails on Linux.
Christian Heimesdb3d6cb2007-12-16 21:39:43 +00007016
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007017- Issue #1620: New property decorator syntax was modifying the
7018 decorator in place instead of creating a new decorator object.
Christian Heimes90e10e72007-12-14 02:35:23 +00007019
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007020- Issue #1538: Avoid copying string in split/rsplit if the split char
7021 is not found.
Skip Montanaro26015492007-12-08 15:33:24 +00007022
Andrew M. Kuchling395fe442007-12-05 13:27:20 +00007023- Issue #1553: An erroneous __length_hint__ can make list() raise a
Christian Heimes7cc1c6f2007-12-05 12:52:34 +00007024 SystemError.
7025
Nick Coghlanef01d822007-12-03 12:55:17 +00007026- PEP 366: Allow explicit relative imports when executing modules
7027 inside packages with the -m switch via a new module level
7028 __package__ attribute.
7029
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007030- Issue #1402: Fix a crash on exit, when another thread is still
7031 running, and if the deallocation of its frames somehow calls the
7032 PyGILState_Ensure() / PyGILState_Release() functions.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcbe49a902007-11-30 20:37:22 +00007033
Christian Heimes28104c52007-11-27 23:16:44 +00007034- Expose the Py_Py3kWarningFlag as sys.py3kwarning.
7035
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00007036- Issue #1445: Fix a SystemError when accessing the ``cell_contents``
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcce7d10c2007-11-24 13:44:17 +00007037 attribute of an empty cell object.
7038
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007039- Issue #1460: The utf-7 incremental decoder did not accept truncated
7040 input. It now correctly saves its state between chunks of data.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcf57375a2007-11-21 01:38:26 +00007041
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007042- Patch #1739468: Directories and zipfiles containing a __main__.py
7043 file can now be directly executed by passing their name to the
7044 interpreter. The directory/zipfile is automatically inserted as the
7045 first entry in sys.path.
Nick Coghlan327a39b2007-11-18 11:56:28 +00007046
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007047- Issue #1265: Fix a problem with sys.settrace, if the tracing
7048 function uses a generator expression when at the same time the
7049 executed code is closing a paused generator.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc0d75f092007-11-13 21:54:28 +00007050
Raymond Hettinger1760c8a2007-11-08 02:52:43 +00007051- sets and frozensets now have an isdisjoint() method.
7052
Raymond Hettinger3f8caa32007-10-24 01:28:33 +00007053- optimize the performance of builtin.sum().
7054
Neal Norwitz44f326e2007-10-05 05:29:17 +00007055- Fix warnings found by the new version of the Coverity checker.
7056
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00007057- The enumerate() built-in function is no longer bounded to sequences
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007058 smaller than LONG_MAX. Formerly, it raised an OverflowError. Now,
7059 automatically shifts from ints to longs.
Raymond Hettinger8f669372007-10-03 21:18:11 +00007060
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007061- Issue #1686386: Tuple's tp_repr did not take into account the
7062 possibility of having a self-referential tuple, which is possible
7063 from C code. Nor did object's tp_str consider that a type's tp_str
7064 could do something that could lead to an inifinite recursion.
7065 Py_ReprEnter() and Py_EnterRecursiveCall(), respectively, fixed the
7066 issues.
Brett Cannon0b14f242007-09-30 19:45:10 +00007067
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007068- Issue #1164: It was possible to trigger deadlock when using the
7069 'print' statement to write to a file since the GIL was not released
7070 as needed. Now PyObject_Print() does the right thing along with
7071 various tp_print implementations of the built-in types and those in
7072 the collections module.
Brett Cannon01531592007-09-17 03:28:34 +00007073
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007074- Issue #1147: Exceptions were directly allowing string exceptions in
7075 their throw() method even though string exceptions no longer
7076 allowed.
Brett Cannon4c20bc42007-09-11 21:02:28 +00007077
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007078- Issue #1096: Prevent a segfault from getting the repr of a very
7079 deeply nested list by using the recursion counter.
Brett Cannona0c05512007-09-10 21:38:27 +00007080
Brett Cannon1e534b52007-09-07 04:18:30 +00007081- Issue #1202533: Fix infinite recursion calls triggered by calls to
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007082 PyObject_Call() never calling back out to Python code to trigger
7083 recursion depth updates/checks. Required the creation of a static
7084 RuntimeError instance in case normalizing an exception put the
7085 recursion check value past its limit. Fixes crashers
7086 infinite_rec_(1|2|4|5).py.
Brett Cannon1e534b52007-09-07 04:18:30 +00007087
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007088- Patch #1031213: Decode source line in SyntaxErrors back to its
7089 original source encoding.
Martin v. Löwisa5136192007-09-04 14:19:28 +00007090
Georg Brandl7c3b50d2007-07-12 08:38:00 +00007091- Patch #1673759: add a missing overflow check when formatting floats
7092 with %G.
7093
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007094- Prevent expandtabs() on string and unicode objects from causing a
7095 segfault when a large width is passed on 32-bit platforms.
Neal Norwitz7dbd2a32007-06-09 03:36:34 +00007096
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007097- Issue #1733488: Fix compilation of bufferobject.c on AIX.
Martin v. Löwisda587ab2007-06-08 17:29:20 +00007098
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007099- Issue #1722485: remove docstrings again when running with -OO.
Georg Brandla5ea6892007-06-01 11:33:33 +00007100
Neal Norwitz0ac60192007-05-27 04:08:54 +00007101- Add new attribute names for function objects. All the func_* become
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007102 __*__ attributes. (Some already existed, e.g., __doc__ and
7103 __name__.)
Neal Norwitz0ac60192007-05-27 04:08:54 +00007104
Neal Norwitz8b2bfbc2007-05-23 06:35:32 +00007105- Add -3 option to the interpreter to warn about features that are
7106 deprecated and will be changed/removed in Python 3.0.
7107
Georg Brandl2134e752007-05-21 20:34:16 +00007108- Patch #1686487: you can now pass any mapping after '**' in function
7109 calls.
7110
Collin Winter62903052007-05-18 23:11:24 +00007111- except clauses may now be spelled either "except E, target:" or
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007112 "except E as target:". This is to provide forwards compatibility
7113 with Python 3.0.
Collin Winter62903052007-05-18 23:11:24 +00007114
Brett Cannon229cee22007-05-05 01:34:02 +00007115- Deprecate BaseException.message as per PEP 352.
7116
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007117- Issue #1303614: don't expose object's __dict__ when the dict is
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00007118 inherited from a built-in base.
Armin Rigo9790a272007-05-02 19:23:31 +00007119
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00007120- When __slots__ are set to a unicode string, make it work the same as
Neal Norwitzcbd9ee62007-04-14 05:25:50 +00007121 setting a plain string, ie don't expand to single letter identifiers.
7122
Raymond Hettinger13936692007-04-11 18:40:58 +00007123- Request #1191699: Slices can now be pickled.
7124
Raymond Hettinger4db5fe92007-04-12 04:10:00 +00007125- Request #1193128: str.translate() now allows a None argument for
7126 translations that only remove characters without re-mapping the
7127 remaining characters.
7128
Georg Brandl5cb76c12007-03-21 09:00:39 +00007129- Patch #1682205: a TypeError while unpacking an iterable is no longer
7130 masked by a generic one with the message "unpack non-sequence".
7131
Neal Norwitzaa754b72007-03-21 06:39:48 +00007132- Remove unused file Python/fmod.c.
7133
Guido van Rossum143b5642007-03-23 04:58:42 +00007134- Bug #1683368: The object.__init__() and object.__new__() methods are
7135 now stricter in rejecting excess arguments. The only time when
7136 either allows excess arguments is when it is not overridden and the
7137 other one is. For backwards compatibility, when both are
7138 overridden, it is a deprecation warning (for now; maybe a Py3k
Guido van Rossum234b1ff2007-03-23 19:39:01 +00007139 warning later). Also, type.__init__() insists on the same signature
7140 as supported by type.__new__().
Guido van Rossum143b5642007-03-23 04:58:42 +00007141
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007142- Patch #1675423: PyComplex_AsCComplex() now tries to convert an
7143 object to complex using its __complex__() method before falling back
7144 to the __float__() method. Therefore, the functions in the cmath
7145 module now can operate on objects that define a __complex__()
7146 method.
Georg Brandl2b869942007-03-17 16:08:45 +00007147
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007148- Patch #1623563: allow __class__ assignment for classes with
7149 __slots__. The old and the new class are still required to have the
7150 same slot names.
Žiga Seilnacht6f2d09c2007-03-16 11:59:38 +00007151
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007152- Patch #1642547: Fix an error/crash when encountering syntax errors
7153 in complex if statements.
Collin Winter77c67bd2007-03-16 04:11:30 +00007154
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007155- Patch #1462488: Python no longer segfaults when
7156 ``object.__reduce_ex__()`` is called with an object that is faking
7157 its type.
Žiga Seilnacht20f43d32007-03-15 11:44:55 +00007158
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007159- Patch #1680015: Don't modify __slots__ tuple if it contains an
7160 unicode name.
Žiga Seilnacht71436f02007-03-14 12:24:09 +00007161
Georg Brandl5240d742007-03-13 20:46:32 +00007162- Patch #1444529: the builtin compile() now accepts keyword arguments.
7163
Georg Brandl7b9c5552007-03-12 14:30:05 +00007164- Bug #1678647: write a newline after printing an exception in any
7165 case, even when converting the value to a string failed.
7166
Georg Brandl871f1bc2007-03-12 13:17:36 +00007167- The dir() function has been extended to call the __dir__() method on
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007168 its argument, if it exists. If not, it will work like before. This
7169 allows customizing the output of dir() in the presence of a
7170 __getattr__().
Georg Brandl871f1bc2007-03-12 13:17:36 +00007171
Collin Winter276887b2007-03-12 16:11:39 +00007172- Patch #922167: Python no longer segfaults when faced with infinitely
7173 self-recursive reload() calls (as reported by bug #742342).
7174
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007175- Patch #1675981: remove unreachable code from ``type.__new__()``
7176 method.
Žiga Seilnacht89032082007-03-11 15:54:54 +00007177
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007178- Patch #1491866: change the complex() constructor to allow
7179 parthensized forms. This means complex(repr(x)) now works instead of
7180 raising a ValueError.
Collin Wintere38051d2007-03-09 20:33:07 +00007181
Georg Brandlaa2321b2007-03-07 00:40:28 +00007182- Patch #703779: unset __file__ in __main__ after running a file. This
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007183 makes the filenames the warning module prints much more sensible
7184 when a PYTHONSTARTUP file is used.
Georg Brandlaa2321b2007-03-07 00:40:28 +00007185
Georg Brandl49aafc92007-03-07 00:34:46 +00007186- Variant of patch #697613: don't exit the interpreter on a SystemExit
7187 exception if the -i command line option or PYTHONINSPECT environment
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007188 variable is given, but break into the interactive interpreter just
7189 like on other exceptions or normal program exit.
Georg Brandl49aafc92007-03-07 00:34:46 +00007190
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007191- Patch #1638879: don't accept strings with embedded NUL bytes in
7192 long().
Georg Brandl00cd8182007-03-06 18:41:12 +00007193
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007194- Bug #1674503: close the file opened by execfile() in an error
7195 condition.
Georg Brandl098cd692007-03-06 12:17:50 +00007196
Georg Brandl0fca97a2007-03-05 22:28:08 +00007197- Patch #1674228: when assigning a slice (old-style), check for the
7198 sq_ass_slice instead of the sq_slice slot.
7199
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007200- When printing an unraisable error, don't print exceptions. before
7201 the name. This duplicates the behavior whening normally printing
7202 exceptions.
Neal Norwitz88516a62007-02-26 22:41:45 +00007203
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007204- Bug #1653736: Properly discard third argument to
7205 slot_nb_inplace_power.
Martin v. Löwisfd963262007-02-09 12:19:32 +00007206
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007207- PEP 352: Raising a string exception now triggers a TypeError.
7208 Attempting to catch a string exception raises DeprecationWarning.
Brett Cannon129bd522007-01-30 21:34:36 +00007209
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007210- Bug #1377858: Fix the segfaulting of the interpreter when an object
7211 created a weakref on itself during a __del__ call for new-style
7212 classes (classic classes still have the bug).
Brett Cannonf5bee302007-01-23 23:21:22 +00007213
Martin v. Löwis6c5c5022007-01-23 21:11:47 +00007214- Bug #1579370: Make PyTraceBack_Here use the current thread, not the
7215 frame's thread state.
7216
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007217- patch #1630975: Fix crash when replacing sys.stdout in
7218 sitecustomize.py.
Thomas Wouters6ed19652007-01-23 13:50:49 +00007219
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007220- Prevent seg fault on shutdown which could occur if an object raised
7221 a warning.
Neal Norwitz72cd02c2007-01-05 05:25:22 +00007222
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007223- Bug #1566280: Explicitly invoke threading._shutdown from Py_Main, to
7224 avoid relying on atexit.
Martin v. Löwis7b7c9d42007-01-04 21:06:12 +00007225
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007226- Bug #1590891: random.randrange don't return correct value for big
7227 number.
Raymond Hettinger94547f72006-12-20 06:42:06 +00007228
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007229- Patch #1586791: Better exception messages for some operations on
7230 strings, tuples and lists.
Georg Brandl283a1352006-11-19 08:48:30 +00007231
Martin v. Löwis056dac12006-11-12 18:24:26 +00007232- Bug #1067760: Deprecate passing floats to file.seek.
7233
Martin v. Löwisa346c092006-11-08 06:48:36 +00007234- Bug #1591996: Correctly forward exception in instance_contains().
7235
Neal Norwitz85dbec62006-11-04 19:25:22 +00007236- Bug #1588287: fix invalid assertion for `1,2` in debug builds.
7237
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007238- Bug #1576657: when setting a KeyError for a tuple key, make sure
7239 that the tuple isn't used as the "exception arguments tuple".
Georg Brandlb9f4ad32006-10-29 18:31:42 +00007240
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007241- Bug #1565514: SystemError not raised on too many nested blocks.
Neal Norwitz21997af2006-10-28 21:19:07 +00007242
Thomas Hellerdf08f0b2006-10-27 18:31:36 +00007243- Bug #1576174: WindowsError now displays the windows error code
7244 again, no longer the posix error code.
7245
Martin v. Löwisb5bc5372006-10-27 06:16:31 +00007246- Patch #1549049: Support long values in structmember, issue warnings
7247 if the assigned value for structmember fields gets truncated.
7248
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007249- Update the peephole optimizer to remove more dead code (jumps after
7250 returns) and inline unconditional jumps to returns.
Neal Norwitzcbeb6872006-10-14 21:33:38 +00007251
Georg Brandl2c1375c2006-10-12 11:27:59 +00007252- Bug #1545497: when given an explicit base, int() did ignore NULs
7253 embedded in the string to convert.
7254
Georg Brandl846f73a2006-10-08 07:11:54 +00007255- Bug #1569998: break inside a try statement (outside a loop) is now
7256 recognized and rejected.
7257
Armin Rigo7ccbca92006-10-04 12:17:45 +00007258- list.pop(x) accepts any object x following the __index__ protocol.
7259
Armin Rigo7ccbca92006-10-04 12:17:45 +00007260- A number of places, including integer negation and absolute value,
7261 were fixed to not rely on undefined behaviour of the C compiler
7262 anymore.
Martin v. Löwis820d6ac2006-10-04 05:47:34 +00007263
Georg Brandl3267d282006-09-30 09:03:42 +00007264- Bug #1566800: make sure that EnvironmentError can be called with any
7265 number of arguments, as was the case in Python 2.4.
7266
Georg Brandl5d59c092006-09-30 08:43:30 +00007267- Patch #1567691: super() and new.instancemethod() now don't accept
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007268 keyword arguments any more (previously they accepted them, but
7269 didn't use them).
Georg Brandl5d59c092006-09-30 08:43:30 +00007270
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007271- Fix a bug in the parser's future statement handling that led to
7272 "with" not being recognized as a keyword after, e.g., this
7273 statement: from __future__ import division, with_statement
Georg Brandla10d3af2006-09-24 12:35:36 +00007274
Neal Norwitz3a230172006-09-22 08:18:10 +00007275- Bug #1557232: fix seg fault with def f((((x)))) and def f(((x),)).
7276
Neal Norwitz4a8fbdb2006-09-22 08:16:26 +00007277- Fix %zd string formatting on Mac OS X so it prints negative numbers.
7278
Brett Cannonf6aa86e2006-09-20 18:43:13 +00007279- Allow exception instances to be directly sliced again.
7280
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007281- Bug #1551432: Exceptions do not define an explicit __unicode__
7282 method. This allows calling unicode() on exceptions classes
7283 directly to succeed.
Brett Cannon9adeab72006-09-20 18:34:28 +00007284
Georg Brandl4e933132006-09-06 20:05:58 +00007285- Bug #1542051: Exceptions now correctly call PyObject_GC_UnTrack.
7286 Also make sure that every exception class has __module__ set to
7287 'exceptions'.
7288
Georg Brandl98775df2006-09-06 06:09:31 +00007289- Bug #1550983: emit better error messages for erroneous relative
7290 imports (if not in package and if beyond toplevel package).
7291
Tim Petersc10c9d02006-09-05 02:18:09 +00007292- Overflow checking code in integer division ran afoul of new gcc
7293 optimizations. Changed to be more standard-conforming.
7294
Neal Norwitz4f096d92006-08-21 19:47:08 +00007295- Patch #1542451: disallow continue anywhere under a finally.
7296
Neal Norwitza22975f2006-09-05 02:24:03 +00007297- Patch #1546288: fix seg fault in dict_equal due to ref counting bug.
7298
Neal Norwitzd34e4272006-09-05 02:36:20 +00007299- The return tuple from str.rpartition(sep) is (tail, sep, head) where
7300 head is the original string if sep was not found.
7301
Neal Norwitzdac090d2006-09-05 03:53:08 +00007302- Bug #1520864: unpacking singleton tuples in list comprehensions and
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007303 generator expressions (x for x, in ... ) works again. Fixing this
7304 problem required changing the .pyc magic number. This means that
7305 .pyc files generated before 2.5c2 will be regenerated.
Neal Norwitzdac090d2006-09-05 03:53:08 +00007306
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00007307- ``with`` and ``as`` are now keywords.
Neal Norwitzca460d92006-09-06 06:28:06 +00007308
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007309- Bug #1664966: Fix crash in exec if Unicode filename can't be
7310 decoded.
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00007311
Guido van Rossumcad37242008-01-15 17:59:29 +00007312- Issue #1537: Changed GeneratorExit's base class from Exception to
7313 BaseException.
Christian Heimes44eeaec2007-12-03 20:01:02 +00007314
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007315- Issue #1703448: A joined thread could show up in the
Gregory P. Smith95cd5c02008-01-22 01:20:42 +00007316 threading.enumerate() list after the join() for a brief period until
7317 it actually exited.
7318
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00007319
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00007320Library
7321-------
7322
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007323- Patch #2274: Add heapq.heappushpop().
Raymond Hettinger53bdf092008-03-13 19:03:51 +00007324
Christian Heimes608c1d82008-03-03 18:28:04 +00007325- Add inspect.isabstract(object) to fix bug #2223
7326
Mark Dickinson1ddf1d82008-02-29 02:16:37 +00007327- Add a __format__ method to Decimal, to support PEP 3101.
7328
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007329- Add a timing parameter when using trace.Trace to print out
7330 timestamps.
Neal Norwitzca376612008-02-26 08:21:28 +00007331
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007332- Issue #1627: httplib now ignores negative Content-Length headers.
Georg Brandl8c460d52008-02-24 00:14:24 +00007333
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007334- Issue #900744: If an invalid chunked-encoding header is sent by a
7335 server, httplib will now raise IncompleteRead and close the
7336 connection instead of raising ValueError.
Georg Brandl23635032008-02-24 00:03:22 +00007337
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007338- Issue #1492: The content type of BaseHTTPServer error messages can
7339 now be overridden.
Georg Brandl16479232008-02-23 15:02:28 +00007340
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007341- Issue #1781: ConfigParser now does not let you add the "default" section
Facundo Batistab12f0b52008-02-23 12:46:10 +00007342 (ignore-case)
7343
Guido van Rossum8bc09652008-02-21 18:18:37 +00007344- Removed uses of dict.has_key() from distutils, and uses of
7345 callable() from copy_reg.py, so the interpreter now starts up
7346 without warnings when '-3' is given. More work like this needs to
7347 be done in the rest of the stdlib.
7348
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007349- Issue #1916: added isgenerator() and isgeneratorfunction() to
7350 inspect.py.
Facundo Batista759bfc62008-02-18 03:43:43 +00007351
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007352- Issue #1224: Fixed bad url parsing when path begins with double
7353 slash.
Facundo Batistad14600e2008-02-18 12:48:43 +00007354
Thomas Hellera06a1a82008-02-13 20:21:53 +00007355- ctypes instances that are not or do not contain pointers can now be
7356 pickled.
7357
Martin v. Löwisdad88dc2008-02-12 18:47:34 +00007358- Patch #1966: Break infinite loop in httplib when the servers
7359 implements the chunked encoding incorrectly.
7360
Mark Dickinsond058cd22008-02-10 21:29:51 +00007361- Rename rational.py to fractions.py and the rational.Rational class
7362 to fractions.Fraction, to avoid the name clash with the abstract
7363 base class numbers.Rational. See discussion in issue #1682.
7364
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007365- The pickletools module now provides an optimize() function that
7366 eliminates unused PUT opcodes from a pickle string.
Raymond Hettingerda614dc2008-02-10 20:35:16 +00007367
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007368- Patch #2021: Allow tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile and
7369 SpooledTemporaryFile to be used in with statements by correctly
7370 supporting the context management protocol.
Nick Coghlanac094dc2008-02-10 07:32:52 +00007371
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007372- Patch #1979: Add rich comparisons to Decimal, and make Decimal
7373 comparisons involving a NaN follow the IEEE 754 standard.
Mark Dickinson2fc92632008-02-06 22:10:50 +00007374
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007375- Issue #2004: tarfile.py: Use mode 0700 for temporary directories and
7376 default permissions for missing directories.
Lars Gustäbel0192e432008-02-05 11:51:40 +00007377
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007378- Issue #175006: The debugger used to skip the condition of a "while"
7379 statement after the first iteration. Now it correctly steps on the
7380 expression, and breakpoints on the "while" statement are honored on
7381 each loop.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc6fd03bb2008-02-04 21:45:05 +00007382
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007383- Issue #1765140: add an optional delay argument to FileHandler and
7384 its subclasses. Defaults to false (existing behaviour), but if true,
Vinay Sajipd7cf32e2008-01-24 12:43:33 +00007385 defers opening the file until the first call to emit().
7386
Raymond Hettingerc226c312008-01-23 00:04:40 +00007387- The pprint module now supports sets and frozensets.
7388
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007389- Issue #1221598: add optional callbacks to ftplib.FTP's storbinary()
7390 and storlines() methods. (Contributed by Phil Schwartz)
Gregory P. Smithc64386b2008-01-22 00:19:41 +00007391
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007392- Issue #1715: include sub-extension modules in pydoc's text output.
Georg Brandlf2dae0e2008-01-21 21:05:49 +00007393
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007394- Issue #1836: fix an off-by-one bug in TimedRotatingHandler's
7395 rollover time calculation.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00007396
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007397- Issue #1021: fix a bug to allow basicConfig to accept NOTSET as a
7398 level.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00007399
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007400- Issue #932563: add LoggerAdapter convenience class to make it easier
7401 to add contextual information in logging output.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00007402
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007403- Issue #1760556: fix a bug to avoid FileHandler throwing an exception
7404 in flush().
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00007405
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007406- Bug #1530959: distutils' build command now uses different build
7407 directory when building extension modules against versions of Python
7408 compiled with ``--with-pydebug``.
Georg Brandl50160152008-01-21 17:42:40 +00007409
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007410- Issue #1555501: move plistlib from plat-mac directory to general
7411 library.
Georg Brandl864de822008-01-21 16:34:07 +00007412
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007413- Issue #1269: fix a bug in pstats.add_callers() and add a unit test
7414 file for pstats.
Georg Brandl66e73632008-01-21 10:24:59 +00007415
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007416- Issue #1669: don't allow shutil.rmtree() to be called on a symlink
7417 to a directory.
Georg Brandl52353982008-01-20 14:17:42 +00007418
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007419- Issue #1664522: in urllib, don't read non-existing directories in
7420 ftp mode, returning a 0-byte file -- raise an IOError instead.
Georg Brandld5e6cf22008-01-20 12:18:17 +00007421
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007422- Issue #856047: respect the ``no_proxy`` environment variable when
7423 using the ``http_proxy`` etc. environment variables in urllib.
Georg Brandl22350112008-01-20 12:05:43 +00007424
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007425- Issue #1178141: add a getcode() method to the addinfourls that
7426 urllib.open() returns so that you can retrieve the HTTP status code.
Georg Brandl9b0d46d2008-01-20 11:43:03 +00007427
Gregory P. Smithf25680a2008-01-20 01:26:04 +00007428- Issue #1003: Fix zipfile decryption check, it would fail zip files
7429 with extended local headers.
7430
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007431- Issue #1189216: Fix the zipfile module to work on archives with
7432 headers past the 2**31 byte boundary.
Gregory P. Smith350d03b2008-01-19 23:10:52 +00007433
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007434- Issue #1336: fix a race condition in subprocess.Popen if the garbage
Gregory P. Smithb9ba0752008-01-19 21:00:37 +00007435 collector kicked in at the wrong time that would cause the process
7436 to hang when the child wrote to stderr.
7437
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007438- Issue #1146: fix how textwrap breaks a long word that would start in
7439 the last column of a line.
Georg Brandlc6fde722008-01-19 19:48:19 +00007440
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007441- Issue #1693149: trace.py --ignore-module - accept multiple
7442 comma-separated modules to be given.
Skip Montanaro562133b2008-01-19 18:47:24 +00007443
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007444- Issue #1822: MIMEMultipart.is_multipart() behaves correctly for a
7445 just-created (and empty) instance. Thanks Jonathan Share.
Facundo Batista2b1b1952008-01-19 12:32:27 +00007446
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007447- Issue #1861: Added an attribute to the sched module which returns an
7448 ordered list of upcoming events (displayed as named tuples).
Raymond Hettinger44bd6c02008-01-17 19:31:38 +00007449
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007450- Issue #1837: The queue module now also supports a LIFO queue and a
7451 priority queue.
Raymond Hettinger3ad2acc82008-01-16 23:49:35 +00007452
Andrew M. Kuchling4a2762d2008-01-20 00:00:38 +00007453- Patch #1048820: Add insert-mode editing to curses.textpad.Textbox
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00007454 (patch by Stefan Wehr). Also, fix an off-by-one bug in
Andrew M. Kuchling4a2762d2008-01-20 00:00:38 +00007455 Textbox.gather().
7456
Thomas Heller02ec2892008-01-16 19:37:33 +00007457- Issue #1831: ctypes now raises a TypeError if conflicting positional
7458 and named arguments are passed to a Structure or Union initializer.
Thomas Heller415c1e32008-01-16 19:45:51 +00007459 When too many positional arguments are passed, also a TypeError is
7460 raised instead of a ValueError.
Thomas Heller02ec2892008-01-16 19:37:33 +00007461
Thomas Heller902d3072008-01-16 19:16:27 +00007462- Convert the internal ctypes array type cache to a WeakValueDict so
7463 that array types do not live longer than needed.
7464
Guido van Rossumcad37242008-01-15 17:59:29 +00007465- Issue #1786: pdb should use its own stdin/stdout around an exec call
7466 and when creating a recursive instance.
7467
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007468- Issue #1698398: ZipFile.printdir() crashed because the format string
7469 expected a tuple type of length six instead of time.struct_time
7470 object.
Raymond Hettinger351e1a32008-01-14 22:58:05 +00007471
Mark Dickinson59bc20b2008-01-12 01:56:00 +00007472- Issue #1780: The Decimal constructor now accepts arbitrary leading
7473 and trailing whitespace when constructing from a string.
7474 Context.create_decimal no longer accepts trailing newlines.
7475
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007476- Decimal.as_tuple(), difflib.find_longest_match() and inspect
7477 functions that returned a tuple now return a named tuple.
Georg Brandl2f32c392008-01-11 09:20:58 +00007478
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00007479- Doctest now returns results as a named tuple for readability:
Raymond Hettingerfff4e6e2008-01-11 01:25:54 +00007480 (0, 7) --> TestResults(failed=0, attempted=7)
7481
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007482- Issue #846388:q re.match is interruptible now, which is particularly
Facundo Batista4473d222008-01-08 21:10:12 +00007483 good for long regular expression matches.
7484
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007485- Patch #1137: allow setting buffer_size attribute on pyexpat Parser
7486 objects to set the character data buffer size.
Andrew M. Kuchlinge0a49b62008-01-08 14:30:55 +00007487
Facundo Batista52b25792008-01-08 12:25:20 +00007488- Issue #1757: The hash of a Decimal instance is no longer affected by
7489 the current context.
7490
Georg Brandl62416bc2008-01-07 18:47:44 +00007491- Patch #467924: add ZipFile.extract() and ZipFile.extractall() in the
7492 zipfile module.
7493
Christian Heimesfb2d25a2008-01-07 16:12:44 +00007494- Issue #1646: Make socket support the TIPC protocol.
7495
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007496- Bug #1742: return os.curdir from os.path.relpath() if both arguments
7497 are equal instead of raising an exception.
Georg Brandl183a0842008-01-06 14:27:15 +00007498
Guido van Rossumc6a04c22008-01-05 22:19:06 +00007499- Patch #1637: fix urlparse for URLs like 'http://x.com?arg=/foo'.
7500
Guido van Rossumced4eb02008-01-05 01:21:57 +00007501- Patch #1698: allow '@' in username parsed by urlparse.py.
7502
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007503- Issue #1735: TarFile.extractall() now correctly sets directory
7504 permissions and times.
Lars Gustäbel2ee1c762008-01-04 14:00:33 +00007505
Christian Heimes06875612008-01-04 13:21:07 +00007506- Bug #1713: posixpath.ismount() claims symlink to a mountpoint is a mountpoint.
7507
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007508- Bug #1687: Fxed plistlib.py restricts <integer> to Python int when
7509 writing
Christian Heimes06131882008-01-04 00:04:52 +00007510
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007511- Issue #1700: Regular expression inline flags incorrectly handle
7512 certain unicode characters.
Guido van Rossumae04c332008-01-03 19:12:44 +00007513
Jeffrey Yasskin2f3c16b2008-01-03 02:21:52 +00007514- Issue #1689: PEP 3141, numeric abstract base classes.
7515
Martin v. Löwis84b9aab2008-01-01 21:09:07 +00007516- Tk issue #1851526: Return results from Python callbacks to Tcl as
7517 Tcl objects.
7518
Thomas Heller153038e2007-12-18 19:00:34 +00007519- Issue #1642: Fix segfault in ctypes when trying to delete attributes.
7520
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007521- Issue #1727780: Support loading pickles of random.Random objects
7522 created on 32-bit systems on 64-bit systems, and vice versa. As a
7523 consequence of the change, Random pickles created by Python 2.6
7524 cannot be loaded in Python 2.5.
Martin v. Löwis6b449f42007-12-03 19:20:02 +00007525
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007526- Issue #1455: The distutils package now supports VS 2005 and VS 2008
7527 for both the msvccompiler and cygwincompiler.
Christian Heimesc654fc22007-12-03 13:55:16 +00007528
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007529- Issue #1531: tarfile.py: Read fileobj from the current offset, do
7530 not seek to the start.
Lars Gustäbel77b2d632007-12-01 21:02:12 +00007531
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007532- Issue #1534: Added a dictionary sys.float_info with information
7533 about the internal floating point type to the sys module.
Christian Heimesdfdfaab2007-12-01 11:20:10 +00007534
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007535- Issue #1429818: patch for trace and doctest modules so they play
7536 nicely together.
Skip Montanaro58a6f442007-11-24 14:30:47 +00007537
Brett Cannon43e53f82007-11-21 00:47:36 +00007538- doctest made a bad assumption that a package's __loader__.get_data()
7539 method used universal newlines.
7540
Nick Coghlan90b858e2007-11-07 11:57:51 +00007541- Issue #1705170: contextlib.contextmanager was still swallowing
7542 StopIteration in some cases. This should no longer happen.
7543
Thomas Heller486b1b02007-11-02 19:10:24 +00007544- Issue #1292: On alpha, arm, ppc, and s390 linux systems the
7545 --with-system-ffi configure option defaults to "yes".
7546
Hye-Shik Changa838a802007-10-28 11:19:02 +00007547- IN module for FreeBSD 8 is added and preexisting FreeBSD 6 and 7
7548 files are updated.
7549
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007550- Issues #1181, #1287: unsetenv() is now called when the
7551 os.environ.pop() and os.environ.clear() methods are used.
Georg Brandl1a94ec22007-10-24 21:40:38 +00007552
Thomas Heller91ac4222007-10-19 18:11:41 +00007553- ctypes will now work correctly on 32-bit systems when Python is
7554 configured with --with-system-ffi.
7555
Thomas Heller7fee6dd2007-10-11 19:51:32 +00007556- Patch #1203: ctypes now does work on OS X when Python is built with
Georg Brandl1a94ec22007-10-24 21:40:38 +00007557 --disable-toolbox-glue.
Thomas Heller7fee6dd2007-10-11 19:51:32 +00007558
Raymond Hettingera7fc4b12007-10-05 02:47:07 +00007559- collections.deque() now supports a "maxlen" argument.
7560
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007561- itertools.count() is no longer bounded to LONG_MAX. Formerly, it
7562 raised an OverflowError. Now, automatically shifts from ints to
7563 longs.
Raymond Hettinger50e90e22007-10-04 00:20:27 +00007564
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007565- Added itertools.product() which forms the Cartesian product of the
7566 input iterables.
Raymond Hettingerc5705a82008-02-22 19:50:06 +00007567
Raymond Hettinger66f91ea2008-03-05 20:59:58 +00007568- Added itertools.combinations() and itertools.permutations().
Raymond Hettinger93e804d2008-02-26 23:40:50 +00007569
Georg Brandlaff85e22007-09-20 16:06:07 +00007570- Patch #1541463: optimize performance of cgi.FieldStorage operations.
7571
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007572- Decimal is fully updated to the latest Decimal Specification
7573 (v1.66).
Facundo Batistab67da232007-09-17 16:26:50 +00007574
Georg Brandl8fd3ecf2007-09-12 19:00:07 +00007575- Bug #1153: repr.repr() now doesn't require set and dictionary items
7576 to be orderable to properly represent them.
7577
Thomas Heller2825b2e2007-09-07 06:32:17 +00007578- A 'c_longdouble' type was added to the ctypes module.
7579
Martin v. Löwis7dcb83c2007-08-30 19:04:09 +00007580- Bug #1709599: Run test_1565150 only if the file system is NTFS.
7581
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007582- When encountering a password-protected robots.txt file the
7583 RobotFileParser no longer prompts interactively for a username and
7584 password (bug 813986).
Skip Montanaro3e275362007-08-29 01:33:45 +00007585
Lars Gustäbel0f4a14b2007-08-28 12:31:09 +00007586- TarFile.__init__() no longer fails if no name argument is passed and
7587 the fileobj argument has no usable name attribute (e.g. StringIO).
7588
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007589- The functools module now provides 'reduce', for forward
7590 compatibility with Python 3000.
Guido van Rossum95f1a1b2007-08-27 20:52:10 +00007591
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007592- Server-side SSL support and cert verification added, by Bill
7593 Janssen.
Guido van Rossum4f2c3dd2007-08-25 15:08:43 +00007594
Bill Janssenf413fb02007-08-30 18:08:06 +00007595- socket.ssl deprecated; use new ssl module instead.
7596
Georg Brandl8ec57542007-08-24 06:10:01 +00007597- uuid creation is now threadsafe.
7598
Hye-Shik Chang23901042007-08-20 06:49:18 +00007599- EUC-KR codec now handles the cheot-ga-keut composed make-up hangul
7600 syllables.
7601
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007602- GB18030 codec now can encode additional two-byte characters that are
7603 missing in GBK.
Hye-Shik Changf3e93a02007-08-04 04:10:18 +00007604
Walter Dörwald6e390802007-08-17 16:41:28 +00007605- Add new codecs for UTF-32, UTF-32-LE and UTF-32-BE.
7606
Martin v. Löwisf1e0b3f2007-07-28 07:03:05 +00007607- Bug #1704793: Return UTF-16 pair if unicodedata.lookup cannot
7608 represent the result in a single character.
7609
Martin v. Löwisf25e35b2007-07-27 18:28:22 +00007610- Bug #978833: Close https sockets by releasing the _ssl object.
7611
Martin v. Löwis254b8f92007-07-25 16:24:23 +00007612- Change location of the package index to pypi.python.org/pypi
7613
Thomas Hellerfa704c62007-07-13 17:12:23 +00007614- Bug #1701409: Fix a segfault in printing ctypes.c_char_p and
7615 ctypes.c_wchar_p when they point to an invalid location. As a
7616 sideeffect the representation of these instances has changed.
7617
Lars Gustäbel104490e2007-06-18 11:42:11 +00007618- tarfile.py: Added "exclude" keyword argument to TarFile.add().
7619
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007620- Bug #1734723: Fix repr.Repr() so it doesn't ignore the maxtuple
7621 attribute.
Neal Norwitzc161cb92007-06-11 07:29:43 +00007622
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007623- The urlopen function of urllib2 now has an optional timeout
7624 parameter (note that it actually works with HTTP, HTTPS, FTP and
7625 FTPS connections).
Facundo Batista10951d52007-06-06 17:15:23 +00007626
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007627- In ftplib, the FTP.ntransfercmd method, when in passive mode, now
7628 uses the socket.create_connection function, using the timeout
7629 specified at connection time.
Facundo Batista92493122007-06-06 15:13:37 +00007630
Hye-Shik Chang9b541402007-06-05 18:58:51 +00007631- Bug #1728403: Fix a bug that CJKCodecs StreamReader hangs when it
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007632 reads a file that ends with incomplete sequence and sizehint
7633 argument for .read() is specified.
Hye-Shik Chang9b541402007-06-05 18:58:51 +00007634
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007635- Bug #1730389: Change time.strptime() to use ``\s+`` instead of
7636 ``\s*`` when matching spaces in the specified format argument.
Brett Cannonf7188ce2007-06-03 23:13:41 +00007637
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007638- Bugs #1668596/#1720897: distutils now copies data files even if
7639 package_dir is empty.
Neal Norwitz4a700bb2007-06-01 07:29:12 +00007640
Brett Cannonc2aa09a2007-05-31 19:20:00 +00007641- sha now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
7642
Brett Cannon7eec2172007-05-30 22:24:28 +00007643- md5 now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
7644
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007645- Issue #1385: The hmac module now computes the correct hmac when
7646 using hashes with a block size other than 64 bytes (such as sha384
7647 and sha512).
Gregory P. Smithe1ac4f12007-11-06 00:19:03 +00007648
Brett Cannonc249bda2007-05-30 21:48:58 +00007649- mimify now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
7650
Brett Cannon90134c92007-05-30 20:46:26 +00007651- MimeWriter now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
7652
Lars Gustäbela0fcb932007-05-27 19:49:30 +00007653- tarfile.py: Improved unicode support. Unicode input names are now
7654 officially supported. Added "errors" argument to the TarFile class.
7655
Facundo Batista711a54e2007-05-24 17:50:54 +00007656- urllib.ftpwrapper class now accepts an optional timeout.
7657
Georg Brandlc90bc752007-05-24 16:49:29 +00007658- shlex.split() now has an optional "posix" parameter.
7659
Brett Cannon41bf2fa2007-05-20 23:57:38 +00007660- The posixfile module now raises a DeprecationWarning.
7661
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007662- Remove the gopherlib module. This also leads to the removal of
7663 gopher support in urllib/urllib2.
Brett Cannond75f0432007-05-16 22:42:29 +00007664
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007665- Fix bug in marshal where bad data would cause a segfault due to lack
7666 of an infinite recursion check.
Neal Norwitzb1a9b372007-05-16 20:05:11 +00007667
Neal Norwitze0e70a42007-05-16 05:06:33 +00007668- Removed plat-freebsd2 and plat-freebsd3 directories (and IN.py in
7669 the directories).
7670
Georg Brandla09a96a2007-05-15 20:19:34 +00007671- HTML-escape the plain traceback in cgitb's HTML output, to prevent
7672 the traceback inadvertently or maliciously closing the comment and
7673 injecting HTML into the error page.
7674
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007675- The popen2 module and os.popen* are deprecated. Use the subprocess
7676 module.
Neal Norwitz42dd86b2007-05-11 06:57:33 +00007677
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007678- Added an optional credentials argument to SMTPHandler, for use with
7679 SMTP servers which require authentication.
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00007680
7681- Patch #1695948: Added optional timeout parameter to SocketHandler.
7682
7683- Bug #1652788: Minor fix for currentframe.
7684
7685- Patch #1598415: Added WatchedFileHandler to better support external
7686 log file rotation using e.g. newsyslog or logrotate. This handler is
7687 only useful in Unix/Linux environments.
7688
Georg Brandlfb4b3b72007-04-24 15:27:13 +00007689- Bug #1706381: Specifying the SWIG option "-c++" in the setup.py file
7690 (as opposed to the command line) will now write file names ending in
7691 ".cpp" too.
7692
Facundo Batistad918a652007-04-24 13:54:38 +00007693- As specified in RFC 2616, an HTTP response like 2xx indicates that
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007694 the client's request was successfully received, understood, and
7695 accepted. Now in these cases no error is raised in urllib (issue
7696 #1177) and urllib2.
Facundo Batistad918a652007-04-24 13:54:38 +00007697
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007698- Bug #1290505: time.strptime's internal cache of locale information
7699 is now properly recreated when the locale is changed.
Brett Cannonc6906652007-04-01 18:47:27 +00007700
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007701- Patch #1685563: remove (don't add) duplicate paths in
7702 distutils.MSVCCompiler.
Neal Norwitz8f35f442007-04-01 18:24:22 +00007703
Facundo Batistab6a5c9d2007-03-29 18:22:35 +00007704- Added a timeout parameter to the constructor of other protocols
7705 (telnetlib, ftplib, smtplib and poplib). This is second part of the
7706 work started with create_connection() and timeout in httplib, and
7707 closes patch #723312.
7708
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00007709- Patch #1676823: Added create_connection() to socket.py, which may be
7710 called with a timeout, and use it from httplib (whose HTTPConnection
Facundo Batista70f996b2007-05-21 17:32:32 +00007711 and HTTPSConnection now accept an optional timeout).
Facundo Batista07c78be2007-03-23 18:54:07 +00007712
Martin v. Löwis0af33882007-03-23 13:27:15 +00007713- Bug #978833: Revert r50844, as it broke _socketobject.dup.
7714
Žiga Seilnacht7492e422007-03-21 20:07:56 +00007715- Bug #1675967: re patterns pickled with Python 2.4 and earlier can
7716 now be unpickled with Python 2.5 and newer.
7717
Collin Wintera8785cc2007-03-19 18:52:08 +00007718- Patch #1630118: add a SpooledTemporaryFile class to tempfile.py.
7719
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007720- Patch #1273829: os.walk() now has a "followlinks" parameter. If set
7721 to True (which is not the default), it visits symlinks pointing to
Georg Brandlcae9f3d2007-03-21 09:10:29 +00007722 directories.
7723
Georg Brandl8f06d022007-03-16 07:55:09 +00007724- Bug #1681228: the webbrowser module now correctly uses the default
7725 GNOME or KDE browser, depending on whether there is a session of one
7726 of those present. Also, it tries the Windows default browser before
7727 trying Mozilla variants.
7728
Collin Winter6f187742007-03-16 22:16:08 +00007729- Patch #1339796: add a relpath() function to os.path.
7730
Georg Brandlab1f4672007-03-15 07:41:30 +00007731- Patch #1681153: the wave module now closes a file object it opened if
7732 initialization failed.
7733
Georg Brandlf66b6032007-03-14 08:27:52 +00007734- Bug #767111: fix long-standing bug in urllib which caused an
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007735 AttributeError instead of an IOError when the server's response
7736 didn't contain a valid HTTP status line.
Georg Brandlf66b6032007-03-14 08:27:52 +00007737
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007738- Patch #957650: "%var%" environment variable references are now
7739 properly expanded in ntpath.expandvars(), also "~user" home
7740 directory references are recognized and handled on Windows.
Georg Brandl03b90d82007-03-13 22:07:36 +00007741
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007742- Patch #1429539: pdb now correctly initializes the __main__ module
7743 for the debugged script, which means that imports from __main__ work
Georg Brandlb6ae6aa2007-03-13 21:58:44 +00007744 correctly now.
7745
Georg Brandlbad6f192007-03-13 21:32:56 +00007746- The nonobvious commands.getstatus() function is now deprecated.
7747
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007748- Patch #1393667: pdb now has a "run" command which restarts the
7749 debugged Python program, optionally with different arguments.
Georg Brandl8e84c652007-03-13 21:08:15 +00007750
Thomas Heller5dc4fe02007-03-13 20:42:52 +00007751- Patch #1649190: Adding support for _Bool to ctypes as c_bool.
7752
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007753- Patch #1530482: add pydoc.render_doc() which returns the
7754 documentation for a thing instead of paging it to stdout, which
7755 pydoc.doc() does.
Georg Brandl8441f152007-03-13 20:02:57 +00007756
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007757- Patch #1533909: the timeit module now accepts callables in addition
7758 to strings for the code to time and the setup code. Also added two
7759 convenience functions for instantiating a Timer and calling its
7760 methods.
Georg Brandld9bef352007-03-13 19:32:21 +00007761
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007762- Patch #1537850: tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile now has a "delete"
7763 parameter which can be set to False to prevent the default
7764 delete-on-close behavior.
Georg Brandl35ef9c12007-03-13 18:31:49 +00007765
Georg Brandl9e6b4702007-03-13 18:15:41 +00007766- Patch #1581073: add a flag to textwrap that prevents the dropping of
7767 whitespace while wrapping.
7768
Georg Brandl92a6bae2007-03-13 17:43:32 +00007769- Patch #1603688: ConfigParser.SafeConfigParser now checks values that
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007770 are set for invalid interpolation sequences that would lead to
7771 errors on reading back those values.
Georg Brandl92a6bae2007-03-13 17:43:32 +00007772
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007773- Added support for the POSIX.1-2001 (pax) format to
7774 tarfile.py. Extended and cleaned up the test suite. Added a new
7775 testtar.tar.
Lars Gustäbelc64e4022007-03-13 10:47:19 +00007776
Martin v. Löwisbdd0f392007-03-13 10:24:00 +00007777- Patch #1449244: Support Unicode strings in
7778 email.message.Message.{set_charset,get_content_charset}.
7779
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007780- Patch #1542681: add entries for "with", "as" and "CONTEXTMANAGERS"
7781 to pydoc's help keywords.
Georg Brandlb6a87542007-03-13 10:06:48 +00007782
Georg Brandl4ffc8f52007-03-13 09:41:31 +00007783- Patch #1555098: use str.join() instead of repeated string
7784 concatenation in robotparser.
7785
Georg Brandl94fe3f52007-03-13 09:32:11 +00007786- Patch #1635454: the csv.DictWriter class now includes the offending
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007787 field names in its exception message if you try to write a record
7788 with a dictionary containing fields not in the CSV field names list.
Georg Brandl94fe3f52007-03-13 09:32:11 +00007789
Georg Brandlceede5c2007-03-13 08:14:27 +00007790- Patch #1668100: urllib2 now correctly raises URLError instead of
7791 OSError if accessing a local file via the file:// protocol fails.
7792
Martin v. Löwis2681beb2007-03-12 11:01:10 +00007793- Patch #1677862: Require a space or tab after import in .pth files.
7794
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007795- Patch #1192590: Fix pdb's "ignore" and "condition" commands so they
7796 trap the IndexError caused by passing in an invalid breakpoint
7797 number.
Collin Winter2faa9e12007-03-11 16:00:20 +00007798
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007799- Patch #1599845: Add an option to disable the implicit calls to
7800 server_bind() and server_activate() in the constructors for
7801 TCPServer, SimpleXMLRPCServer and DocXMLRPCServer.
Collin Winterae041062007-03-10 14:41:48 +00007802
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007803- Bug #1531963: Make SocketServer.TCPServer's server_address always be
7804 equal to calling getsockname() on the server's socket. Fixed by
Collin Winterfaaa2042007-03-10 03:35:34 +00007805 patch #1545011.
Collin Winter22c42ba2007-03-10 02:51:26 +00007806
Andrew M. Kuchlinge45a77a2008-01-19 16:26:13 +00007807- Patch #742598: Add .timeout attribute to SocketServer that calls
7808 .handle_timeout() when no requests are received.
7809
Thomas Heller2456a3c2007-03-09 20:39:22 +00007810- Bug #1651235: When a tuple was passed to a ctypes function call,
7811 Python would crash instead of raising an error.
7812
Thomas Hellerc2f77252007-03-09 19:21:28 +00007813- Bug #1646630: ctypes.string_at(buf, 0) and ctypes.wstring_at(buf, 0)
7814 returned string up to the first NUL character.
7815
Martin v. Löwis1190a382007-03-09 15:35:55 +00007816- Patch #957003: Implement smtplib.LMTP.
7817
Collin Winterfb728de2007-03-09 03:26:32 +00007818- Patch #1481079: add support for HTTP_REFERER to CGIHTTPServer.
7819
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007820- Patch #1675424: Added tests for uncovered code in the zipfile
7821 module. The KeyError raised by Zipfile.getinfo for nonexistent
7822 names now has a descriptive message.
Georg Brandl4b3ab6f2007-07-12 09:59:22 +00007823
Martin v. Löwis05c075d2007-03-07 11:04:33 +00007824- Bug #1115886: os.path.splitext('.cshrc') gives now ('.cshrc', '').
7825
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007826- unittest now verifies more of its assumptions. In particular,
7827 TestCase and TestSuite subclasses (not instances) are no longer
7828 accepted in TestSuite.addTest(). This should cause no
7829 incompatibility since it never made sense with ordinary subclasses
7830 -- the failure just occurred later, with a more cumbersome
7831 exception.
Georg Brandl9caadf82007-03-08 18:37:31 +00007832
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007833- Patch #787789: allow to pass custom TestRunner instances to
7834 unittest's main() function.
Georg Brandld0a96252007-03-07 09:21:06 +00007835
Georg Brandl15c5ce92007-03-07 09:09:40 +00007836- Patches #1550273, #1550272: fix a few bugs in unittest and add a
7837 comprehensive test suite for the module.
7838
Georg Brandl71ff6462007-03-07 08:31:51 +00007839- Patch #1001604: glob.glob() now returns unicode filenames if it was
7840 given a unicode argument and os.listdir() returns unicode filenames.
7841
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007842- Patch #1673619: setup.py identifies extension modules it doesn't
7843 know how to build and those it knows how to build but that fail to
7844 build.
Skip Montanarod1287322007-03-06 15:41:38 +00007845
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00007846- Patch #912410: Replace HTML entity references for attribute values
Martin v. Löwisab8a6bb2007-03-06 14:43:00 +00007847 in HTMLParser.
7848
Georg Brandlff432e62007-03-06 13:37:45 +00007849- Patch #1663234: you can now run doctest on test files and modules
7850 using "python -m doctest [-v] filename ...".
7851
Martin v. Löwis3eb76482007-03-06 10:41:24 +00007852- Patch #1121142: Implement ZipFile.open.
7853
Skip Montanarof694b1b2007-03-04 20:54:12 +00007854- Taught setup.py how to locate Berkeley DB on Macs using MacPorts.
7855
Raymond Hettinger00166c52007-02-19 04:08:43 +00007856- Added heapq.merge() for merging sorted input streams.
7857
Raymond Hettingercd3c1082007-10-23 21:23:07 +00007858- Added collections.namedtuple() for assigning field names to tuples.
Raymond Hettingerc37e5e02007-03-01 06:16:43 +00007859
Raymond Hettingerd36862c2007-02-21 05:20:38 +00007860- Added itertools.izip_longest().
7861
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007862- Have the encoding package's search function dynamically import using
7863 absolute import semantics.
Brett Cannon971a0122007-02-15 22:54:39 +00007864
Lars Gustäbel5b1a7852007-02-13 16:09:24 +00007865- Patch #1647484: Renamed GzipFile's filename attribute to name.
7866
Martin v. Löwis84f6de92007-02-13 10:10:39 +00007867- Patch #1517891: Mode 'a' for ZipFile now creates the file if it
7868 doesn't exist.
7869
Martin v. Löwisc6d626e2007-02-13 09:49:38 +00007870- Patch #698833: Support file decryption in zipfile.
7871
Martin v. Löwis07aa3ed2007-02-13 08:34:45 +00007872- Patch #685268: Consider a package's __path__ in imputil.
7873
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007874- Patch #1463026: Support default namespace in XMLGenerator.
Martin v. Löwis2bad58f2007-02-12 12:21:10 +00007875
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007876- Patch #1571379: Make trace's --ignore-dir facility work in the face
7877 of relative directory names.
Skip Montanaro691acf22007-02-11 18:24:37 +00007878
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007879- Bug #1600860: Search for shared python library in LIBDIR, not
7880 lib/python/config, on "linux" and "gnu" systems.
Martin v. Löwis0a203262007-02-09 12:36:48 +00007881
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007882- Patch #1652681: tarfile.py: create nonexistent files in append mode
7883 and allow appending to empty files.
Lars Gustäbel3f8aca12007-02-06 18:38:13 +00007884
Peter Astrand5f9c6ae2007-02-06 15:37:50 +00007885- Bug #1124861: Automatically create pipes if GetStdHandle fails in
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00007886 subprocess.
Peter Astrand5f9c6ae2007-02-06 15:37:50 +00007887
Georg Brandl4ba9e5b2007-01-27 17:59:42 +00007888- Patch #1634778: add missing encoding aliases for iso8859_15 and
7889 iso8859_16.
7890
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007891- Patch #1638243: the compiler package is now able to correctly
7892 compile a with statement; previously, executing code containing a
7893 with statement compiled by the compiler package crashed the
7894 interpreter.
Georg Brandlab496842007-01-27 17:43:02 +00007895
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00007896- Bug #1643943: Fix time.strptime's support for the %U directive.
7897
Lars Gustäbel0713a682007-02-19 09:54:47 +00007898- Patch #1507247: tarfile.py: use current umask for intermediate
7899 directories.
7900
Georg Brandldd7b0522007-01-21 10:35:10 +00007901- Patch #1627441: close sockets properly in urllib2.
7902
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007903- Bug #494589: make ntpath.expandvars behave according to its
7904 docstring.
Sjoerd Mullender33a0a062007-01-16 16:42:38 +00007905
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00007906- Changed platform module API python_version_tuple() to actually
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00007907 return a tuple (it used to return a list).
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00007908
7909- Added new platform module APIs python_branch(), python_revision(),
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00007910 python_implementation() and linux_distribution().
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00007911
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00007912- Added support for IronPython and Jython to the platform module.
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00007913
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007914- The sets module has been deprecated. Use the built-in set/frozenset
7915 types instead.
Brett Cannon093b6702007-01-13 00:29:49 +00007916
Thomas Heller6fd45492007-01-12 20:21:53 +00007917- Bug #1610795: make ctypes.util.find_library work on BSD systems.
7918
Thomas Heller8138c262007-01-11 21:18:56 +00007919- Fixes for 64-bit Windows: In ctypes.wintypes, correct the
7920 definitions of HANDLE, WPARAM, LPARAM data types. Make
7921 parameterless foreign function calls work.
7922
Thomas Hellerfb9d7872007-01-10 20:12:13 +00007923- The version number of the ctypes package changed to "1.1.0".
7924
Vinay Sajipab41c102007-01-09 14:51:36 +00007925- Bug #1627575: logging: Added _open() method to FileHandler which can
7926 be used to reopen files. The FileHandler instance now saves the
7927 encoding (which can be None) in an attribute called "encoding".
7928
Vinay Sajipc9137262007-01-08 18:52:36 +00007929- Bug #411881: logging.handlers: bare except clause removed from
7930 SMTPHandler.emit. Now, only ImportError is trapped.
7931
7932- Bug #411881: logging.handlers: bare except clause removed from
7933 SocketHandler.createSocket. Now, only socket.error is trapped.
7934
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007935- Bug #411881: logging: bare except clause removed from
7936 LogRecord.__init__. Now, only ValueError, TypeError and
7937 AttributeError are trapped.
Vinay Sajipc9137262007-01-08 18:52:36 +00007938
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007939- Patch #1504073: Fix tarfile.open() for mode "r" with a fileobj
7940 argument.
Lars Gustäbela7ba6fc2006-12-27 10:30:46 +00007941
Andrew M. Kuchling71662322006-12-27 03:31:24 +00007942- Patch #1182394 from Shane Holloway: speed up HMAC.hexdigest.
7943
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007944- Patch #1262036: Prevent TarFiles from being added to themselves
7945 under certain conditions.
Lars Gustäbela4b23812006-12-23 17:57:23 +00007946
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007947- Patch #1230446: tarfile.py: fix ExFileObject so that read() and
7948 tell() work correctly together with readline().
Lars Gustäbel6baa5022006-12-23 16:40:13 +00007949
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007950- Patch #1484695: The tarfile module now raises a HeaderError
7951 exception if a buffer given to frombuf() is invalid.
Georg Brandlebbeed72006-12-19 22:06:46 +00007952
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00007953- Bug #1503765: Fix a problem in logging.config with spaces in comma-
7954 separated lists read from logging config files.
7955
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007956- Patch #1604907: Fix problems in logging.handlers caused at logging
7957 shutdown when syslog handlers fail to initialize because of syslogd
7958 problems.
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00007959
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007960- Patch #1608267: fix a race condition in os.makedirs() if the
7961 directory to be created is already there.
Georg Brandlb1307432006-12-09 09:08:29 +00007962
Georg Brandl87fa5592006-12-06 22:21:18 +00007963- Patch #1610437: fix a tarfile bug with long filename headers.
7964
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007965- Patch #1371075: Make ConfigParser accept optional dict type for
7966 ordering, sorting, etc.
Martin v. Löwisa00bcac2006-12-03 12:01:53 +00007967
Thomas Helleref583a42006-11-28 20:21:54 +00007968- Bug #1563807: _ctypes built on AIX fails with ld ffi error.
7969
Thomas Heller25d208b2006-11-24 18:45:39 +00007970- Bug #1598620: A ctypes Structure cannot contain itself.
7971
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007972- Patch #1070046: Marshal new-style objects like InstanceType in
7973 xmlrpclib.
Martin v. Löwis07529352006-11-19 18:51:54 +00007974
Martin v. Löwiscffcc8b2006-11-19 10:41:41 +00007975- cStringIO.truncate(-1) now raises an IOError, like StringIO and
7976 regular files.
7977
Martin v. Löwisbba003e2006-11-18 18:42:11 +00007978- Patch #1472877: Fix Tix subwidget name resolution.
7979
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007980- Patch #1594554: Always close a tkSimpleDialog on ok(), even if an
7981 exception occurs.
Martin v. Löwisef5fd3e2006-11-18 18:05:35 +00007982
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007983- Patch #1538878: Don't make tkSimpleDialog dialogs transient if the
7984 parent window is withdrawn.
Martin v. Löwisc73a4a42006-11-18 18:00:23 +00007985
Georg Brandl54082112006-11-16 16:50:59 +00007986- Bug #1597824: return the registered function from atexit.register()
7987 to facilitate usage as a decorator.
7988
Martin v. Löwis45cd4ff2006-11-12 18:56:03 +00007989- Patch #1360200: Use unmangled_version RPM spec field to deal with
7990 file name mangling.
7991
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007992- Patch #1359217: Process 2xx response in an ftplib transfer that
7993 precedes an 1xx response.
Martin v. Löwis36cbc082006-11-12 18:48:13 +00007994
Martin v. Löwis065f0c82006-11-12 10:41:39 +00007995- Patch #1355023: support whence argument for GzipFile.seek.
7996
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00007997- Patch #1065257: Support passing open files as body in
Martin v. Löwis040a9272006-11-12 10:32:47 +00007998 HTTPConnection.request().
7999
Andrew M. Kuchlinga3e5d372006-11-09 13:27:07 +00008000- Bug #1569790: mailbox.py: Maildir.get_folder() and MH.get_folder()
8001 weren't passing the message factory on to newly created Maildir/MH
8002 objects.
8003
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008004- Patch #1514543: mailbox.py: In the Maildir class, report errors if
8005 there's a filename clash instead of possibly losing a message.
8006 (Patch by David Watson.)
Andrew M. Kuchling978d8282006-11-09 21:16:46 +00008007
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008008- Patch #1514544: Try to ensure that messages/indexes have been
8009 physically written to disk after calling .flush() or
8010 .close(). (Patch by David Watson.)
Andrew M. Kuchlingb5686da2006-11-09 13:51:14 +00008011
Guido van Rossumaf16ece2008-02-21 19:46:35 +00008012- Patch #1592250: Add elide argument to Tkinter.Text.search.
Martin v. Löwis038cad72006-11-09 11:27:32 +00008013
Guido van Rossumaf16ece2008-02-21 19:46:35 +00008014- Patch #838546: Make terminal become controlling in pty.fork().
Martin v. Löwisb2bba732006-11-09 11:06:03 +00008015
Martin v. Löwis5361e9a2006-11-08 07:35:55 +00008016- Patch #1351744: Add askyesnocancel helper for tkMessageBox.
8017
Martin v. Löwis5310e502006-11-04 18:14:06 +00008018- Patch #1060577: Extract list of RPM files from spec file in
Guido van Rossumaf16ece2008-02-21 19:46:35 +00008019 bdist_rpm.
Martin v. Löwis5310e502006-11-04 18:14:06 +00008020
Georg Brandl2c9838e2006-10-29 14:39:09 +00008021- Bug #1586613: fix zlib and bz2 codecs' incremental en/decoders.
8022
Georg Brandl3354f282006-10-29 09:16:12 +00008023- Patch #1583880: fix tarfile's problems with long names and posix/
8024 GNU modes.
8025
Georg Brandl5addf702006-10-29 08:53:06 +00008026- Bug #1586448: the compiler module now emits the same bytecode for
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00008027 list comprehensions as the built-in compiler, using the LIST_APPEND
Georg Brandl5addf702006-10-29 08:53:06 +00008028 opcode.
8029
Georg Brandl8f99f812006-10-29 08:39:22 +00008030- Fix codecs.EncodedFile which did not use file_encoding in 2.5.0, and
8031 fix all codecs file wrappers to work correctly with the "with"
8032 statement (bug #1586513).
8033
Thomas Heller112d1a62006-10-27 19:05:53 +00008034- Lib/modulefinder.py now handles absolute and relative imports
8035 correctly.
8036
Martin v. Löwisee82c0e2006-10-27 07:13:28 +00008037- Patch #1567274: Support SMTP over TLS.
8038
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008039- Patch #1560695: Add .note.GNU-stack to ctypes' sysv.S so that ctypes
8040 isn't considered as requiring executable stacks.
Martin v. Löwis1b2f6272006-10-22 10:55:15 +00008041
Thomas Hellerd2ea4a22006-10-17 19:30:48 +00008042- ctypes callback functions only support 'fundamental' data types as
8043 result type. Raise an error when something else is used. This is a
8044 partial fix for Bug #1574584.
8045
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008046- Fix turtle so that time.sleep is imported for the entire library.
8047 Allows the demo2 function to be executed on its own instead of only
8048 when the module is run as a script.
Brett Cannond80e0c82006-10-16 03:09:52 +00008049
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008050- Bug #813342: Start the IDLE subprocess with -Qnew if the parent is
8051 started with that option.
Georg Brandld0761532006-10-12 07:57:21 +00008052
Martin v. Löwisf43893a2006-10-09 20:44:25 +00008053- Bug #1565150: Fix subsecond processing for os.utime on Windows.
8054
Martin v. Löwis8b274262006-10-04 15:25:28 +00008055- Support for MSVC 8 was added to bdist_wininst.
8056
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008057- Bug #1446043: correctly raise a LookupError if an encoding name
8058 given to encodings.search_function() contains a dot.
Georg Brandla92979a2006-09-30 11:22:28 +00008059
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008060- Bug #1560617: in pyclbr, return full module name not only for
8061 classes, but also for functions.
Georg Brandl154324a2006-09-30 11:06:47 +00008062
Georg Brandl05b3c452006-09-30 10:58:01 +00008063- Bug #1457823: cgi.(Sv)FormContentDict's constructor now takes
8064 keep_blank_values and strict_parsing keyword arguments.
8065
Georg Brandl8d1e5bf2006-09-30 09:13:21 +00008066- Bug #1566602: correct failure of posixpath unittest when $HOME ends
8067 with a slash.
8068
Georg Brandl8c667452006-09-30 07:31:57 +00008069- Bug #1565661: in webbrowser, split() the command for the default
8070 GNOME browser in case it is a command with args.
8071
Georg Brandl5a85d5c2009-06-24 06:41:19 +00008072- Made the error message for time.strptime when the data and
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008073 format do match be more clear.
Brett Cannon11b35352006-09-26 23:38:24 +00008074
Georg Brandlc7986ce2006-09-24 12:50:24 +00008075- Fix a bug in traceback.format_exception_only() that led to an error
8076 being raised when print_exc() was called without an exception set.
8077 In version 2.4, this printed "None", restored that behavior.
8078
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008079- Make webbrowser.BackgroundBrowser usable in Windows (it wasn't
8080 because the close_fds arg to subprocess.Popen is not supported).
Georg Brandl2c94bf72006-09-24 10:36:01 +00008081
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008082- Reverted patch #1504333 to sgmllib because it introduced an infinite
8083 loop.
Neal Norwitzbcc119a2006-09-11 04:24:09 +00008084
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008085- Patch #1553314: Fix the inspect.py slowdown that was hurting IPython
8086 & SAGE by adding smarter caching in inspect.getmodule()
Nick Coghlanb3c18f82006-09-08 10:04:38 +00008087
Georg Brandl4e933132006-09-06 20:05:58 +00008088- Fix missing import of the types module in logging.config.
8089
Nick Coghlanbb0996c2006-09-03 01:20:46 +00008090- Patch #1550886: Fix decimal module context management implementation
Neal Norwitza22975f2006-09-05 02:24:03 +00008091 to match the localcontext() example from PEP 343.
Nick Coghlanbb0996c2006-09-03 01:20:46 +00008092
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008093- Bug #1545341: The 'classifier' keyword argument to the Distutils
8094 setup() function now accepts tuples as well as lists.
Andrew M. Kuchling99994792006-10-09 17:10:12 +00008095
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008096- Bug #1541863: uuid.uuid1 failed to generate unique identifiers on
8097 systems with low clock resolution.
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00008098
Gustavo Niemeyerc36bede2006-09-07 00:48:33 +00008099- Bug #1531862: Do not close standard file descriptors in subprocess.
8100
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008101- idle: Honor the "Cancel" action in the save dialog (Debian bug
8102 #299092).
Matthias Klosea398e2d2007-01-11 11:44:04 +00008103
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008104- Fix utf-8-sig incremental decoder, which didn't recognise a BOM when
8105 the first chunk fed to the decoder started with a BOM, but was
8106 longer than 3 bytes.
Georg Brandl27562782006-10-27 20:39:43 +00008107
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008108- The implementation of UnicodeError objects has been simplified
8109 (start and end attributes are now stored directly as Py_ssize_t
8110 members).
Walter Dörwald84a3efe2007-06-13 16:57:12 +00008111
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008112- Issue #829951: In the smtplib module, SMTP.starttls() now complies
8113 with RFC 3207 and forgets any knowledge obtained from the server not
8114 obtained from the TLS negotiation itself. Patch contributed by Bill
8115 Fenner.
Gregory P. Smith2b3ba582008-01-17 08:03:17 +00008116
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008117- Issue #1339: The smtplib.SMTP class has been refactored a bit such
Gregory P. Smithbde4ae42008-01-17 08:35:49 +00008118 that the SMTP.starttls() caller no longer needs to call ehlo()
8119 beforehand. SMTP.starttls() now raises an exception of the server
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008120 does not claim to support starttls. Adds the
8121 SMTP.ehlo_or_helo_if_needed() method. Patch contributed by Bill
8122 Fenner.
Gregory P. Smithbde4ae42008-01-17 08:35:49 +00008123
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008124- Patch #1089358: Add signal.siginterrupt, a wrapper around
8125 siginterrupt(3).
Georg Brandl29604a12008-01-26 14:03:47 +00008126
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00008127Extension Modules
8128-----------------
8129
Georg Brandl392c6fc2008-05-25 07:25:25 +00008130- Patch #1657: added select.epoll and select.kqueue.
Christian Heimes0e9ab5f2008-03-21 23:49:44 +00008131
Georg Brandlebcfd112008-02-23 23:04:35 +00008132- Patch #1506171: added operator.methodcaller().
8133
Georg Brandle2065c62008-02-23 23:02:23 +00008134- Patch #1826: operator.attrgetter() now supports dotted attribute paths.
8135
Georg Brandl392c6fc2008-05-25 07:25:25 +00008136- Patch #1957: syslogmodule: Release GIL when calling syslog(3).
Christian Heimesf0476e82008-02-23 17:42:31 +00008137
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008138- Bug #2112: mmap.error is now a subclass of EnvironmentError and not
8139 a direct EnvironmentError.
Facundo Batistae1396882008-02-17 18:59:29 +00008140
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008141- Bug #2111: mmap segfaults when trying to write a block opened with
8142 PROT_READ.
Christian Heimes7adfad82008-02-15 08:20:11 +00008143
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008144- Bug #2063: correct order of utime and stime in os.times() result on
8145 Windows.
Georg Brandl0a40ffb2008-02-13 07:20:22 +00008146
Martin v. Löwise0d30ef2008-02-12 13:47:26 +00008147- Patch #1736: Fix file name handling of _msi.FCICreate.
8148
Hye-Shik Chang01612e72008-02-08 17:10:20 +00008149- Updated ``big5hkscs`` codec to the HKSCS revision of 2004.
8150
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008151- Issue #1940: make it possible to use curses.filter() before
8152 curses.initscr() as the documentation says.
Georg Brandl29604a12008-01-26 14:03:47 +00008153
Christian Heimes7f39c9f2008-01-25 12:18:43 +00008154- Backport of _fileio module from Python 3.0.
8155
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008156- Patch #1087741: mmap.mmap is now a class, not a factory function. It
8157 is also subclassable now.
Georg Brandl5ca3fd82008-01-21 14:18:14 +00008158
Georg Brandl56112892008-01-20 13:59:46 +00008159- Patch #1648: added ``sys.getprofile()`` and ``sys.gettrace()``.
8160
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008161- Patch #1663329: added ``os.closerange()`` function to quickly close
8162 a range of file descriptors without considering errors.
Georg Brandl309501a2008-01-19 20:22:13 +00008163
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008164- Patch #976880: ``mmap`` objects now have an ``rfind`` method that
Andrew M. Kuchling5c60bfc2008-01-19 18:18:41 +00008165 works as expected. ``mmap.find`` also takes an optional ``end``
8166 parameter.
8167
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008168- _winreg's HKEY object has gained __enter__ and __exit__ methods to
8169 support the context manager protocol. The _winreg module also
8170 gained a new function ``ExpandEnvironmentStrings`` to expand
8171 REG_EXPAND_SZ keys.
Christian Heimesb39a7562008-01-08 15:46:10 +00008172
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008173- itertools.starmap() now accepts any iterable input. Previously, it
8174 required the function inputs to be tuples.
Raymond Hettinger47317092008-01-17 03:02:14 +00008175
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008176- itertools.chain() now has an alternate constructor,
8177 chain.from_iterable().
Raymond Hettingerb4cbc982008-02-28 22:46:41 +00008178
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008179- Issue #1646: Make socket support TIPC. The socket module now has
8180 support for TIPC under Linux, see http://tipc.sf.net/ for more
8181 information.
Christian Heimesfb2d25a2008-01-07 16:12:44 +00008182
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008183- Added interface for Windows' WSAIoctl to socket object and added an
8184 example for a simple network sniffer.
Christian Heimes04ae9162008-01-04 15:23:30 +00008185
Guido van Rossum076d9ee2008-01-03 23:54:04 +00008186- Bug #1301: Bad assert in _tkinter fixed.
8187
Christian Heimescdaa2cb2007-12-31 14:47:07 +00008188- Added bdist_wininst executable for VS 2008.
8189
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008190- Bug #1604: collections.deque.__init__(iterable) now clears any prior
8191 contents before adding elements from the iterable. This fix brings
8192 the behavior into line with that for list.__init__().
Raymond Hettingeradf9ffd2007-12-13 00:08:37 +00008193
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008194- Added wide char functions to msvcrt module: getwch, getwche, putwch
8195 and ungetwch. The functions accept or return unicode.
Christian Heimes7c7f6af2007-12-10 15:12:41 +00008196
Martin v. Löwis69233e82007-12-04 08:39:16 +00008197- os.access now returns True on Windows for any existing directory.
8198
Christian Heimes28104c52007-11-27 23:16:44 +00008199- Added warnpy3k function to the warnings module.
8200
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008201- Marshal.dumps() now expects exact type matches for int, long, float,
8202 complex, tuple, list, dict, set, and frozenset. Formerly, it would
8203 silently miscode subclasses of those types. Now, it raises a
8204 ValueError instead.
Raymond Hettinger12e94202007-11-07 01:13:09 +00008205
Martin v. Löwis58bd49f2007-09-04 13:13:14 +00008206- Patch #1388440: Add set_completion_display_matches_hook and
8207 get_completion_type to readline.
8208
Thomas Helleref4fff32007-07-13 17:46:54 +00008209- Bug #1649098: Avoid declaration of zero-sized array declaration in
8210 structure.
8211
Brett Cannondc48b742007-05-20 07:09:50 +00008212- Removed the rgbimg module; been deprecated since Python 2.5.
8213
Neal Norwitz59f58aa2007-05-19 03:48:47 +00008214- Bug #1721309: prevent bsddb module from freeing random memory.
8215
Gregory P. Smith82eafe62007-10-18 17:17:57 +00008216- Bug #1233: fix bsddb.dbshelve.DBShelf append method to work as
8217 intended for RECNO databases.
8218
Gregory P. Smithec10a4a2007-11-05 02:32:26 +00008219- pybsddb.sf.net Bug #477182: Load the database flags at database open
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008220 time so that opening a database previously created with the DB_DUP
8221 or DB_DUPSORT flag set will keep the proper behavior on subsequent
8222 opens. Specifically: dictionary assignment to a DB object will
8223 replace all values for a given key when the database allows
8224 duplicate values. DB users should use DB.put(k, v) when they want
8225 to store duplicates; not DB[k] = v.
Gregory P. Smithec10a4a2007-11-05 02:32:26 +00008226
Gregory P. Smithac11e022007-11-05 02:56:31 +00008227- Add the bsddb.db.DBEnv.lock_id_free method.
8228
Martin v. Löwis3bf573f2007-04-04 18:30:36 +00008229- Bug #1686475: Support stat'ing open files on Windows again.
8230
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008231- Patch #1185447: binascii.b2a_qp() now correctly quotes binary
8232 characters with ASCII value less than 32. Also, it correctly quotes
8233 dots only if they occur on a single line, as opposed to the previous
8234 behavior of quoting dots if they are the second character of any
8235 line.
Georg Brandl4aef7272007-03-13 22:49:43 +00008236
Georg Brandla47337f2007-03-13 12:34:25 +00008237- Bug #1622896: fix a rare corner case where the bz2 module raised an
8238 error in spite of a succesful compression.
8239
Georg Brandl40c62612007-03-06 18:59:11 +00008240- Patch #1654417: make operator.{get,set,del}slice use the full range
8241 of Py_ssize_t.
8242
Guido van Rossum2054ee92007-03-06 15:50:01 +00008243- Patch #1646728: datetime.fromtimestamp fails with negative
8244 fractional times. With unittest.
8245
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008246- Patch #1490190: posixmodule now includes os.chflags() and
8247 os.lchflags() functions on platforms where the underlying system
8248 calls are available.
Martin v. Löwis382abef2007-02-19 10:55:19 +00008249
Georg Brandl983d1002007-02-15 11:29:04 +00008250- Patch #1494140: Add documentation for the new struct.Struct object.
8251
Martin v. Löwis45423a72007-02-14 10:07:37 +00008252- Patch #1432399: Support the HCI protocol for bluetooth sockets
8253
Martin v. Löwisb1cc1d42007-02-13 12:14:19 +00008254- Patch #1657276: Make NETLINK_DNRTMSG conditional.
8255
Martin v. Löwis4c11a922007-02-08 09:13:36 +00008256- Bug #1653736: Complain about keyword arguments to time.isoformat.
8257
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008258- Bug #1486663: don't reject keyword arguments for subclasses of
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00008259 built-in types.
Georg Brandlb84c1372007-01-21 10:28:43 +00008260
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008261- Patch #1610575: The struct module now supports the 't' code, for C99
8262 _Bool.
Martin v. Löwisaef4c6b2007-01-21 09:33:07 +00008263
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008264- Patch #1635058: ensure that htonl and friends never accept or return
8265 negative numbers, per the underlying C implementation.
Guido van Rossumbb2cc692007-01-14 17:03:32 +00008266
Martin v. Löwis046c4d12006-12-03 11:23:45 +00008267- Patch #1544279: Improve thread-safety of the socket module by moving
8268 the sock_addr_t storage out of the socket object.
8269
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008270- Patch #1019808: fix bug that causes an incorrect error to be
8271 returned when a socket timeout is set and a connection attempt
8272 fails.
Andrew M. Kuchling060e6852008-01-19 20:47:59 +00008273
Neal Norwitz45e230a2006-11-19 21:26:53 +00008274- Speed up function calls into the math module.
8275
Georg Brandl25aabf42006-11-16 17:08:45 +00008276- Bug #1588217: don't parse "= " as a soft line break in binascii's
8277 a2b_qp() function, instead leave it in the string as quopri.decode()
8278 does.
8279
Neal Norwitz4fe44232006-11-21 05:26:22 +00008280- Bug #1599782: Fix segfault on bsddb.db.DB().type().
8281
Martin v. Löwis012bc722006-10-15 09:43:39 +00008282- Bug #1567666: Emulate GetFileAttributesExA for Win95.
8283
Martin v. Löwis18aaa562006-10-15 08:43:33 +00008284- Patch #1576166: Support os.utime for directories on Windows NT+.
8285
Georg Brandl412a9ea2006-10-09 19:03:06 +00008286- Patch #1572724: fix typo ('=' instead of '==') in _msi.c.
8287
Hye-Shik Changb7883462006-10-08 13:48:34 +00008288- Bug #1572832: fix a bug in ISO-2022 codecs which may cause segfault
8289 when encoding non-BMP unicode characters.
8290
Georg Brandl4ddfcd32006-09-30 11:17:34 +00008291- Bug #1556784: allow format strings longer than 127 characters in
8292 datetime's strftime function.
8293
Jack Diederichd10a0f72006-09-21 20:34:49 +00008294- Fix itertools.count(n) to work with negative numbers again.
8295
Martin v. Löwis43fd99c2006-09-16 17:36:37 +00008296- RLIMIT_SBSIZE was added to the resource module where available.
8297
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008298- Bug #1551427: fix a wrong NULL pointer check in the win32 version of
8299 os.urandom().
Georg Brandl74bb7832006-09-06 06:03:59 +00008300
Neal Norwitz6aefa912006-09-02 02:50:35 +00008301- Bug #1548092: fix curses.tparm seg fault on invalid input.
8302
Andrew M. Kuchling62182c82008-01-08 14:56:02 +00008303- Patch #1114: fix curses module compilation on 64-bit AIX, & possibly
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008304 other 64-bit LP64 platforms where attr_t is not the same size as a
8305 long. (Contributed by Luke Mewburn.)
Andrew M. Kuchling62182c82008-01-08 14:56:02 +00008306
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008307- Bug #1550714: fix SystemError from itertools.tee on negative value
8308 for n.
Neal Norwitz69e88972006-09-02 02:58:13 +00008309
Hye-Shik Chang199f1db2006-09-05 12:07:09 +00008310- Fixed a few bugs on cjkcodecs:
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008311 - gbk and gb18030 codec now handle U+30FB KATAKANA MIDDLE DOT
8312 correctly.
Hye-Shik Chang199f1db2006-09-05 12:07:09 +00008313 - iso2022_jp_2 codec now encodes into G0 for KS X 1001, GB2312
8314 codepoints to conform the standard.
Hye-Shik Chang2cad3e92006-09-05 12:14:57 +00008315 - iso2022_jp_3 and iso2022_jp_2004 codec can encode JIS X 0213:2
Hye-Shik Chang199f1db2006-09-05 12:07:09 +00008316 codepoints now.
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00008317
Andrew M. Kuchling43889c02006-09-27 16:37:30 +00008318- Bug #1552726: in readline.c, avoid repeatedly polling in interactive
8319 mode by only placing a timeout on the select() if an input hook has
8320 been defined. This prevents an interactive Python from waking up 10
8321 times per second. Patch by Richard Boulton.
8322
Gregory P. Smithf09c6262007-03-17 22:33:35 +00008323- fixed a bug with bsddb.DB.stat: the flags and txn keyword arguments
8324 were transposed.
8325
Jesus Cea4907d272008-08-31 14:00:51 +00008326- Added support for linking the bsddb module against BerkeleyDB 4.5.x,
8327 4.6.x and 4.7.x.
Gregory P. Smith8b96a352007-01-05 01:59:42 +00008328
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008329- Bug #1633621: if curses.resizeterm() or curses.resize_term() is
8330 called, update _curses.LINES, _curses.COLS, curses.LINES and
8331 curses.COLS.
Andrew M. Kuchling43889c02006-09-27 16:37:30 +00008332
Matthias Klosee19e0c22007-04-03 04:35:59 +00008333- Fix an off-by-one bug in locale.strxfrm().
8334
Matthias Klose38336402007-09-04 20:46:02 +00008335- Fix libffi configure for hppa*-*-linux* | parisc*-*-linux*.
8336
Matthias Klose9afb9852007-10-24 20:00:44 +00008337- Build using system ffi library on arm*-linux*.
8338
Christian Heimes3f065a42007-11-21 01:17:28 +00008339- Bug #1372: zlibmodule.c: int overflow in PyZlib_decompress
Matthias Klosee19e0c22007-04-03 04:35:59 +00008340
Gregory P. Smitheeed5b72008-02-03 07:20:53 +00008341- bsddb module: Fix memory leak when using database cursors on
8342 databases without a DBEnv.
8343
Gerhard Häring11ab8072008-03-02 13:12:27 +00008344- The sqlite3 module was updated to pysqlite 2.4.1.
8345
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00008346Tests
8347-----
8348
Brett Cannon56c4deb2008-03-03 00:38:58 +00008349- Refactor test_logging to use unittest.
Brett Cannonf9db8a32008-02-17 01:59:18 +00008350
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008351- Refactor test_profile and test_cprofile to use the same code to
8352 profile.
Georg Brandlb7090772008-02-05 19:58:17 +00008353
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008354- Make test_runpy reentrant by fixing _check_module to clear out any
8355 module being tested. Was causing an error by __import__ doing a
8356 reload on the second run and thus suppressing bytecode recreation.
Brett Cannondbed7a72007-08-23 14:53:17 +00008357
Brett Cannonea2835a2007-03-14 21:44:15 +00008358- Capture socket connection resets and timeouts in test_socket_ssl and
8359 test_urllib2net and raise test.test_support.ResourceDenied.
Brett Cannoned001842007-03-14 21:40:13 +00008360
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008361- Patch #1559413: Fix test_cmd_line if sys.executable contains a
8362 space.
Martin v. Löwiscd1210a2007-03-14 20:02:31 +00008363
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008364- Added test.test_support.TransientResource which is a context manager
8365 to surround calls to resources that are not guaranteed to work even
8366 if test.test_support.requires says that the resource should exist.
Brett Cannona30fcb42007-03-08 23:58:11 +00008367
Brett Cannone05e6b02007-01-29 04:41:44 +00008368- Added a test for slicing of an exception.
8369
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008370- Added test.test_support.EnvironmentVarGuard. It's a class that
8371 provides a context manager so that one can temporarily set or unset
8372 environment variables.
Brett Cannon92d54d52007-01-04 00:23:49 +00008373
Thomas Heller112d1a62006-10-27 19:05:53 +00008374- Added some tests for modulefinder.
8375
Brett Cannon373d90b2006-10-03 23:23:14 +00008376- Converted test_imp to use unittest.
8377
Neal Norwitz919d5cc2006-09-05 02:35:08 +00008378- Fix bsddb test_basics.test06_Transactions to check the version
8379 number properly.
8380
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008381- test.test_support.catch_warning is a new context manager that can be
8382 used to catch the warnings issued by the warning framework.
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00008383
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00008384Tools
8385-----
8386
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008387- Tools/scripts/reindent.py now creates the backup file using
8388 shutil.copy to preserve user/group and permissions. Added also a
8389 --nobackup option to not create the backup if the user is concerned
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00008390 regarding this. Check issue #1050828 for more details.
Facundo Batistaf88a0772008-02-17 16:21:13 +00008391
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008392- Tools/scripts/win_add2path.py was added. The simple script modifes
8393 the PATH environment var of the HKCU tree and adds the python bin
8394 and script directory.
Christian Heimesbd865db2008-01-18 11:58:50 +00008395
Skip Montanaro3e275362007-08-29 01:33:45 +00008396- Tools/18n/pygettext.py was added to the list of scripts installed by
8397 Tools/scripts/setup.py (tracker item 642309).
8398
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008399- Added IronPython and Jython support to pybench (part of which was
8400 patch #1563844).
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00008401
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008402- Made some minor changes to pybench output to allow the user to see
8403 which Python version is running pybench.
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00008404
8405- Added support for the new platform module feature
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008406 platform.python_implementation(); this will now be saved in the
8407 benchmark pickle.
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00008408
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00008409
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00008410Documentation
8411-------------
8412
Vinay Sajipd7cf32e2008-01-24 12:43:33 +00008413- RFE #1765140: Updated documentation on FileHandler and subclasses to
8414 include new optional delay argument.
8415
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008416- Bug #932563: Added section on getting contextual information into
8417 logging output, and added documentation for the new LoggerAdapter
8418 class.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00008419
8420- Bug #1295: Added information about caching of formatted exception
8421 information in the LogRecord by Formatter.format().
8422
Georg Brandl9467bc52007-07-12 09:37:49 +00008423- Bug #1637365: add subsection about "__name__ == __main__" to the
8424 Python tutorial.
8425
Georg Brandl3dc6e902007-04-25 06:24:59 +00008426- Patch #1698768: updated the "using Python on the Mac" intro.
8427
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008428- Bug #1569057: Document that calling file.next() when the file is
8429 open for writing is undefined.
Brett Cannon55a18642007-04-08 04:29:32 +00008430
Žiga Seilnachtc64ad482007-03-24 14:24:26 +00008431- Patch #1489771: the syntax rules in Python Reference Manual were
8432 updated to reflect the current Python syntax.
8433
Martin v. Löwis2f401d72007-03-23 10:35:49 +00008434- Patch #1686451: Fix return type for
8435 PySequence_{Count,Index,Fast_GET_SIZE}.
8436
Georg Brandl0692a262007-03-13 07:50:57 +00008437- Patch #1679379: add documentation for fnmatch.translate().
8438
Collin Winterb7b2b4e2007-03-09 18:09:10 +00008439- Bug #1629566: clarify the docs on the return values of parsedate()
8440 and parsedate_tz() in email.utils and rfc822.
8441
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00008442- Patch #1671450: add a section about subclassing built-in types to the
Georg Brandld28b9fc2007-03-06 10:02:47 +00008443 "extending and embedding" tutorial.
8444
Georg Brandlb26b1c62007-01-17 21:19:58 +00008445- Bug #1629125: fix wrong data type (int -> Py_ssize_t) in PyDict_Next
8446 docs.
8447
Georg Brandla4c8e322006-10-12 08:22:53 +00008448- Bug #1565919: document set types in the Language Reference.
8449
Georg Brandl44a7b3a2006-09-30 12:02:57 +00008450- Bug #1546052: clarify that PyString_FromString(AndSize) copies the
8451 string pointed to by its parameter.
8452
Georg Brandlfb257732006-09-30 09:06:45 +00008453- Bug #1566663: remove obsolete example from datetime docs.
8454
Georg Brandl648c1102006-08-18 07:27:59 +00008455- Bug #1541682: Fix example in the "Refcount details" API docs.
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008456 Additionally, remove a faulty example showing PySequence_SetItem
8457 applied to a newly created list object and add notes that this isn't
8458 a good idea.
Georg Brandl648c1102006-08-18 07:27:59 +00008459
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00008460
Georg Brandl27562782006-10-27 20:39:43 +00008461Tools/Demos
8462-----------
8463
8464- Patch #1552024: add decorator support to unparse.py demo script.
Marc-André Lemburg96148682006-09-06 20:40:22 +00008465
Brett Cannonc8939d22006-09-20 19:28:35 +00008466- Make auto-generated python.vim file list built-ins and exceptions in
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008467 alphatbetical order. Makes output more deterministic and easier to
8468 tell if the file is stale or not.
Brett Cannonc8939d22006-09-20 19:28:35 +00008469
Marc-André Lemburg96148682006-09-06 20:40:22 +00008470- Bug #1546372: Fixed small bugglet in pybench that caused a missing
8471 file not to get reported properly.
8472
8473
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00008474Build
8475-----
8476
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008477- Have the search path for building extensions follow the declared
8478 order in $CPPFLAGS and $LDFLAGS when adding directories from those
8479 environment variables.
Brett Cannon70c0c022008-02-03 09:59:21 +00008480
Christian Heimes951cc0f2008-01-31 23:08:23 +00008481- Bug #1983: Added a check to pyport to verify that sizeof(pid_t) is
8482 smaller or equal sizeof(long).
8483
Christian Heimescba36bb2008-01-30 22:54:18 +00008484- Bug #1234: Fixed semaphore errors on AIX 5.2
8485
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008486- Issue #1726: Remove Python/atof.c from PCBuild/pythoncore.vcproj.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00008487
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008488- Removed PCbuild8/ directory and added a new build directory for VS
8489 2005 based on the VS 2008 build directory to PC/VS8.0. The script
8490 PCbuild/vs8to9.py was added to sync changes from PCbuild to
8491 PC/VS8.0.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00008492
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008493- Moved PCbuild/ directory for VS 2003 to PC/VS7.1 and renamed
8494 PCBuild9/ directory to PCBuild/.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00008495
Martin v. Löwiscb78de62007-12-29 18:49:21 +00008496- Bug #1699: Define _BSD_SOURCE only on OpenBSD.
8497
Guido van Rossum7c862f82007-12-13 20:50:10 +00008498- Bug #1608: use -fwrapv when GCC supports it. This is important,
8499 newer GCC versions may optimize away overflow buffer overflow checks
8500 without this option!
8501
Martin v. Löwis63bf1492007-11-12 05:14:05 +00008502- Patch #1418: Make the AC_REPLACE_FUNCS object files actually work.
8503
Raymond Hettingerdc1d1ba2007-11-07 02:45:46 +00008504- Add a FAST_LOOPS build option that speeds-up looping by trading away
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008505 periodic threadstate and signal checking in tight loops. By
8506 default, this option is turned-off. It should only be enabled in
8507 debugged, performance critical applications.
Raymond Hettingerdc1d1ba2007-11-07 02:45:46 +00008508
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008509- Patch #786737: Allow building in a tree of symlinks pointing to a
8510 readonly source.
Martin v. Löwisd44a4e92007-09-05 11:47:34 +00008511
Martin v. Löwis8bc77e42007-09-01 06:36:03 +00008512- Bug #1737210: Change Manufacturer of Windows installer to PSF.
8513
Martin v. Löwis75c23bd2007-08-30 18:25:47 +00008514- Bug #1746880: Correctly install DLLs into system32 folder on Win64.
8515
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008516- Define _BSD_SOURCE, to get access to POSIX extensions on OpenBSD
8517 4.1+.
Martin v. Löwis76760b02007-07-31 19:57:56 +00008518
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008519- Stop supporting AtheOS and cause a build error in configure for the
8520 platform.
Brett Cannon19fab762007-06-02 03:02:29 +00008521
Georg Brandldb846032007-03-31 18:56:11 +00008522- Bug #1655392: don't add -L/usr/lib/pythonX.Y/config to the LDFLAGS
8523 returned by python-config if Python was built with --enable-shared
8524 because that prevented the shared library from being used.
8525
Georg Brandl18c47f62007-03-13 10:19:22 +00008526- Patch #1569798: fix a bug in distutils when building Python from a
8527 directory within sys.exec_prefix.
8528
Martin v. Löwiseb623572007-03-12 10:50:39 +00008529- Bug #1675511: Use -Kpic instead of -xcode=pic32 on Solaris/x86.
8530
Martin v. Löwis4d542ec2006-11-25 15:39:19 +00008531- Disable _XOPEN_SOURCE on NetBSD 1.x.
8532
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008533- configure now checks whether gcc supports the PyArg_ParseTuple
8534 format attribute.
Martin v. Löwisaac13162006-10-19 10:58:46 +00008535
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00008536- Bug #1578513: Cross compilation was broken by a change to configure.
Martin v. Löwisfefbc202006-10-17 18:59:23 +00008537 Repair so that it's back to how it was in 2.4.3.
8538
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008539- Patch #1576954: Update VC6 build directory; remove redundant files
8540 in VC7.
Martin v. Löwisc9e82f62006-10-15 07:54:40 +00008541
Martin v. Löwisebe26702006-10-02 14:55:51 +00008542- Bug #1568842: Fix test for uintptr_t.
8543
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008544- Patch #1540470: for OpenBSD 4.0.
Neal Norwitz4bc2c092006-09-05 02:57:01 +00008545
Matthias Klosed149d0c2006-12-03 17:16:41 +00008546- Fix build failure on kfreebsd and on the hurd.
8547
Matthias Kloseebde1492006-12-09 12:15:27 +00008548- Fix the build of the library reference in info format.
8549
Matthias Kloseeb8ff672007-08-02 21:33:13 +00008550- Allow Emacs 22 for building the documentation in info format.
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00008551
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008552- Makefile.pre.in(buildbottest): Run an optional script
8553 pybuildbot.identify to include some information about the build
8554 environment.
Matthias Klose642ac852007-09-04 18:17:36 +00008555
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00008556
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00008557C API
8558-----
8559
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008560- Unified naming convention for free lists and their limits. All free
8561 lists in Object/ are named ``free_list``, the counter ``numfree``
8562 and the upper limit is a macro ``PyName_MAXFREELIST`` inside an
8563 #ifndef block.
Christian Heimes5b970ad2008-02-06 13:33:44 +00008564
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008565- ``PySet_Add()`` can now modify a newly created frozenset. Similarly
8566 to ``PyTuple_SetItem``, it can be used to populate a brand new
8567 frozenset; but it does not steal a reference to the added item.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arccab3d982008-02-03 22:51:43 +00008568
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00008569- Added ``PySet_Check()`` and ``PyFrozenSet_Check()`` to the set API.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arccab3d982008-02-03 22:51:43 +00008570
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008571- Backport of PyUnicode_FromString(), _FromStringAndSize(), _Format
8572 and _FormatV from Python 3.0. Made PyLong_AsSsize_t and
8573 PyLong_FromSsize_t public functions.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00008574
8575- Patch #1720595: add T_BOOL to the range of structmember types.
8576
8577- Issue #1534: Added ``PyFloat_GetMax()``, ``PyFloat_GetMin()`` and
8578 ``PyFloat_GetInfo()`` to the float API.
8579
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008580- Issue #1521: On 64bit platforms, using PyArgs_ParseTuple with the t#
8581 of w# format code incorrectly truncated the length to an int, even
8582 when PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN is set. The str.decode method used to return
8583 incorrect results with huge strings.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00008584
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008585- Issue #1629: Renamed Py_Size, Py_Type and Py_Refcnt to Py_SIZE,
8586 Py_TYPE and Py_REFCNT.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00008587
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008588- PEP 3123: Provide forward compatibility with Python 3.0, while
8589 keeping backwards compatibility. Add Py_Refcnt, Py_Type, Py_Size,
8590 and PyVarObject_HEAD_INIT.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00008591
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008592- Py_ssize_t fields work in structmember when HAVE_LONG_LONG is not
8593 defined.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00008594
8595- Patch #1733960: Allow T_LONGLONG to accept ints.
8596
8597- T_PYSSIZET can now be used in PyMemberDef lists for Py_ssize_t members.
8598
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00008599- Added a new API function ``PyImport_ImportModuleNoBlock``.
8600
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00008601- Bug #1637022: Prefix AST symbols with _Py_.
8602
8603- Fix some leftovers from the conversion from int to Py_ssize_t
8604 (relevant to strings and sequences of more than 2**31 items).
8605
8606- Make _PyGILState_NoteThreadState() static, it was not used anywhere
8607 outside of pystate.c and should not be necessary.
8608
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008609- ``PyImport_Import`` and ``PyImport_ImportModule`` now always do
8610 absolute imports. In earlier versions they might have used relative
8611 imports under some conditions.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00008612
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008613- Added case insensitive comparison methods ``PyOS_stricmp(char*,
8614 char*)`` and ``PyOS_strnicmp(char*, char*, Py_ssize_t)``.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00008615
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008616- Bug #1542693: remove semi-colon at end of PyImport_ImportModuleEx
8617 macro so it can be used as an expression.
Neal Norwitz8a267062006-08-19 04:25:29 +00008618
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00008619
Martin v. Löwis2607e6c2006-11-21 18:20:25 +00008620Windows
8621-------
8622
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008623- Patch #1706: Drop support for Win9x, WinME and NT4. Python now
8624 requires Windows 2000 or greater. The _WINVER and NTDDI_VERSION
8625 macros are set to Win2k for x86/32bit builds and WinXP for AMD64
8626 builds.
Christian Heimes95d64472008-02-09 19:55:22 +00008627
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008628- Conditionalize definition of _CRT_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE and
8629 _CRT_NONSTDC_NO_DEPRECATE.
Martin v. Löwis2607e6c2006-11-21 18:20:25 +00008630
Martin v. Löwisd476a402007-10-12 08:56:52 +00008631- Bug #1216: Restore support for Visual Studio 2002.
8632
Martin v. Löwis2607e6c2006-11-21 18:20:25 +00008633
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00008634Mac
8635---
8636
Brett Cannonf0cb1d72007-05-31 20:01:11 +00008637- cfmfile now raises a DeprecationWarning.
8638
Brett Cannon791d56f2007-05-31 19:40:42 +00008639- buildtools now raises a DeprecationWarning.
8640
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008641- Removed the macfs module. It had been deprecated since Python 2.5.
8642 This lead to the deprecation of macostools.touched() as it relied
8643 solely on macfs and was a no-op under OS X.
Brett Cannon5e263512007-05-20 23:17:38 +00008644
Skip Montanaroe5d7f7f2002-09-20 14:16:59 +00008645----
8646
8647**(For information about older versions, consult the HISTORY file.)**