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Skip Montanaroe5d7f7f2002-09-20 14:16:59 +00003+++++++++++
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Anthony Baxterb0c66302004-11-04 05:23:17 +00005(editors: check NEWS.help for information about editing NEWS using ReST.)
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Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +00007What's New in Python 2.7 alpha 1
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10*Release date: XX-XXX-20XX*
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12Core and Builtins
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14
Benjamin Petersone36199b2009-11-12 23:39:44 +000015- Fix several issues with compile(). The input can now contain Windows and Mac
16 newlines and is no longer required to end in a newline.
17
Mark Dickinsonc04c7c52009-10-26 22:28:14 +000018- Remove length limitation when constructing a complex number from a
19 unicode string.
20
Raymond Hettingerfa7dadd2009-11-01 20:45:16 +000021- Issue #7244: itertools.izip_longest() no longer ignores exceptions
22 raised during the formation of an output tuple.
23
Mark Dickinson8d87dc02009-10-25 20:39:06 +000024- Issue #1087418: Boost performance of bitwise operations for longs.
25
Antoine Pitrouefb60c02009-10-20 21:29:37 +000026- Issue #1722344: threading._shutdown() is now called in Py_Finalize(), which
27 fixes the problem of some exceptions being thrown at shutdown when the
28 interpreter is killed. Patch by Adam Olsen.
29
Eric Smithc12781a2009-10-19 14:38:14 +000030- Issue #7168: Document PyFloat_AsString and PyFloat_AsReprString, and
31 note that they are unsafe and deprecated.
32
Vinay Sajip03d5c342009-10-16 14:06:44 +000033- Issue #7120: logging: Removed import of multiprocessing which is causing
34 crash in GAE.
35
Benjamin Peterson196b0922009-10-15 15:44:46 +000036- Issue #7140: The __dict__ of a module should not be cleared unless the module
37 is the only object holding a reference to it.
38
Neil Schemenauer7fdd1cb2009-10-14 17:17:14 +000039- Issue #1754094: Improve the stack depth calculation in the compiler.
40 There should be no other effect than a small decrease in memory use.
41 Patch by Christopher Tur Lesniewski-Laas.
42
Antoine Pitroubeaf6a02009-10-11 21:03:26 +000043- Issue #7084: Fix a (very unlikely) crash when printing a list from one
44 thread, and mutating it from another one. Patch by Scott Dial.
45
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd0052d12009-10-06 19:56:32 +000046- Issue #1571184: The Unicode database contains properties for more characters.
47 The tables for code points representing numeric values, white spaces or line
48 breaks are now generated from the official Unicode Character Database files,
49 and include information from the Unihan.txt file.
50
Benjamin Peterson7adbb5a2009-10-03 20:23:24 +000051- Issue #7050: Fix a SystemError when trying to use unpacking and augmented
52 assignment.
53
Philip Jenvey8b902042009-09-29 19:10:15 +000054- Issue #5329: Fix os.popen* regression from 2.5 with commands as a
55 sequence running through the shell. Patch by Jean-Paul Calderone
56 and Jani Hakala.
57
Mark Dickinson7e7a3ec2009-09-29 19:01:06 +000058- Issue #7019: Raise ValueError when unmarshalling bad long data, instead
59 of producing internally inconsistent Python longs.
60
Philip Jenveydbf3b252009-09-29 04:32:44 +000061- Issue #6990: Fix threading.local subclasses leaving old state around
62 after a reference cycle GC which could be recycled by new locals.
63
Benjamin Peterson9db55402009-09-18 21:47:27 +000064- Issue #6300: unicode.encode, unicode.decode, str.decode, and str.encode now
Benjamin Peterson332d7212009-09-18 21:14:55 +000065 take keyword arguments.
66
Georg Brandle9741f32009-09-17 11:28:09 +000067- Issue #6922: Fix an infinite loop when trying to decode an invalid
68 UTF-32 stream with a non-raising error handler like "replace" or "ignore".
69
Mark Dickinson4b9d4732009-09-27 16:05:21 +000070- Issue #6713: Improve performance of base 10 int -> string and
71 long -> string conversions.
Mark Dickinsonaa2adc82009-09-16 22:10:56 +000072
Thomas Wouters2920adb2009-09-16 20:36:34 +000073- Issue #1590864: Fix potential deadlock when mixing threads and fork().
74
Georg Brandl0674d3f2009-09-16 20:30:09 +000075- Issue #6844: Do not emit DeprecationWarnings when accessing a "message"
76 attribute on exceptions that was set explicitly.
77
Mark Dickinsonc8a7c7c2009-09-06 10:03:31 +000078- Issue #6846: Fix bug where bytearray.pop() returns negative integers.
79
Benjamin Peterson6fcf9b52009-09-01 22:27:57 +000080- classmethod no longer checks if its argument is callable.
81
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfff896b2009-08-29 18:14:40 +000082- Issue #6750: A text file opened with io.open() could duplicate its output
83 when writing from multiple threads at the same time.
84
Benjamin Petersonc0ba8282009-08-15 22:59:21 +000085- Issue #6704: Improve the col_offset in AST for "for" statements with
86 a target of tuple unpacking.
87
Benjamin Peterson4c6e8082009-08-15 13:16:38 +000088- Issue #6707: dir() on an uninitialized module caused a crash.
89
Georg Brandlec812ca2009-07-22 11:57:15 +000090- Issue #6540: Fixed crash for bytearray.translate() with invalid parameters.
91
Raymond Hettingerc2b9e1a2009-07-27 20:32:04 +000092- Issue #6573: set.union() stopped processing inputs if an instance of self
93 occurred in the argument chain.
94
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc9d11fef2009-07-13 20:03:21 +000095- Issue #1616979: Added the cp720 (Arabic DOS) encoding.
96
97- Issue #6070: On posix platforms import no longer copies the execute bit
R. David Murray23a736a2009-07-07 01:06:13 +000098 from the .py file to the .pyc file if it is set. Patch by Marco N.
99
Benjamin Peterson753d1622009-07-02 18:16:45 +0000100- Issue #4618: When unicode arguments are passed to print(), the default
101 separator and end should be unicode also.
102
Benjamin Peterson1bf47652009-07-02 17:06:17 +0000103- Issue #6119: Fixed a incorrect Py3k warning about order comparisons of builtin
104 functions and methods.
105
Mark Dickinson2f865b92009-06-30 15:32:30 +0000106- Issue #6347: Include inttypes.h as well as stdint.h in pyport.h.
107 This fixes a build failure on HP-UX: int32_t and uint32_t are
108 defined in inttypes.h instead of stdint.h on that platform.
109
Hirokazu Yamamotoa3c56092009-06-28 10:23:00 +0000110- Issue #4856: Remove checks for win NT.
111
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc595f7a52009-06-25 22:29:29 +0000112- Issue #2016: Fixed a crash in a corner case where the dictionary of keyword
113 arguments could be modified during the function call setup.
114
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc14fc6732009-06-23 21:09:09 +0000115- Removed the ipaddr module.
116
Raymond Hettinger62641e92009-06-23 20:59:43 +0000117- Issue #6329: Fixed iteration for memoryview objects (it was being blocked
118 because it wasn't recognized as a sequence).
119
Benjamin Peterson08a0bbc2009-06-16 00:29:31 +0000120- Issue #6289: Encoding errors from compile() were being masked.
121
Benjamin Petersona72be3b2009-06-13 20:23:33 +0000122- When no module is given in a relative import, the module field of the
123 ImportFrom AST node is now None instead of an empty string.
124
Benjamin Peterson565e1b62009-06-13 03:46:30 +0000125- Assignment to None using import statements now raises a SyntaxError.
126
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcb02ceda2009-06-01 20:53:18 +0000127- Issue #4547: When debugging a very large function, it was not always
128 possible to update the lineno attribute of the current frame.
129
Antoine Pitrou46dbe272009-05-30 21:27:00 +0000130- Issue #5330: C functions called with keyword arguments were not reported by
Benjamin Peterson95e5ebe2009-07-12 23:56:18 +0000131 the various profiling modules (profile, cProfile). Patch by Hagen Fürstenau.
Antoine Pitrou46dbe272009-05-30 21:27:00 +0000132
Raymond Hettinger578a2282009-05-29 04:58:52 +0000133- Issue #5982: staticmethod and classmethod now expose the wrapped
134 function with __func__.
135
Raymond Hettinger822b87f2009-05-29 01:46:48 +0000136- Added support for multiple context managers in the same with-statement.
137 Deprecated contextlib.nested() which is no longer needed.
Georg Brandl944f6842009-05-25 21:02:56 +0000138
Benjamin Peterson1880d8b2009-05-25 13:13:44 +0000139- Issue #6101: A new opcode, SETUP_WITH, has been added to speed up the with
140 statement and correctly lookup the __enter__ and __exit__ special methods.
141
Mark Dickinsona4e0efa2009-05-20 18:43:07 +0000142- Issue #5829: complex("1e500") no longer raises OverflowError. This
143 makes it consistent with float("1e500") and interpretation of real
144 and imaginary literals.
145
Hirokazu Yamamotoa4f90182009-05-17 02:58:36 +0000146- Issue #3527: Removed Py_WIN_WIDE_FILENAMES which is not used any more.
147
Benjamin Peterson0c3b4c62009-05-16 23:34:19 +0000148- __instancecheck__ and __subclasscheck__ are now completely ignored on classic
149 classes and instances.
Benjamin Petersoneb9fb2c2009-05-16 22:46:11 +0000150
R. David Murray525cffc2009-05-13 13:07:14 +0000151- Issue #5994: the marshal module now has docstrings.
152
Mark Dickinsonb1d45852009-05-11 15:33:08 +0000153- Issue #5981: Fix three minor inf/nan issues in float.fromhex:
154 (1) inf and nan strings with trailing whitespace were incorrectly
155 rejected; (2) parsing of strings representing infinities and nans
156 was locale aware; and (3) the interpretation of fromhex('-nan')
157 didn't match that of float('-nan').
158
Eric Smitha985a3a2009-05-05 18:26:08 +0000159- Issue #5920: For float.__format__, change the behavior with the
160 empty presentation type (that is, not one of 'e', 'f', 'g', or 'n')
161 to be like 'g' but with at least one decimal point and with a
162 default precision of 12. Previously, the behavior the same but with
163 a default precision of 6. This more closely matches str(), and
164 reduces surprises when adding alignment flags to the empty
165 presentation type. This also affects the new complex.__format__ in
166 the same way.
167
R. David Murray7ba8e1c2009-05-04 22:16:24 +0000168- Issue #5890: in subclasses of 'property' the __doc__ attribute was
169 shadowed by classtype's, even if it was None. property now
170 inserts the __doc__ into the subclass instance __dict__.
171
Antoine Pitrou653dece2009-05-04 18:32:32 +0000172- Issue #4426: The UTF-7 decoder was too strict and didn't accept some legal
173 sequences. Patch by Nick Barnes and Victor Stinner.
174
Vinay Sajipf9b01fe2009-05-09 12:07:17 +0000175- Issue #1588: Add complex.__format__. For example,
Eric Smith9139cc62009-04-30 00:58:58 +0000176 format(complex(1, 2./3), '.5') now produces a sensible result.
177
Mark Dickinson92fcc9c2009-04-29 20:41:00 +0000178- Issue #5864: Fix empty format code formatting for floats so that it
179 never gives more than the requested number of significant digits.
180
Eric Smithcac7af62009-04-27 19:04:37 +0000181- Issue #5793: Rationalize isdigit / isalpha / tolower, etc. Includes
182 new Py_ISDIGIT / Py_ISALPHA / Py_TOLOWER, etc. in pctypes.h.
183
Martin v. Löwis99f27792009-04-26 00:53:18 +0000184- Issue #4971: Fix titlecase for characters that are their own
185 titlecase, but not their own uppercase.
186
Eric Smith068f0652009-04-25 21:40:15 +0000187- Issue #5835: Deprecate PyOS_ascii_formatd and replace it with
188 _PyOS_double_to_string or PyOS_double_to_string.
189
Benjamin Peterson5083dc52009-04-25 00:41:22 +0000190- Issue #5283: Setting __class__ in __del__ caused a segfault.
191
Mark Dickinson95bc9802009-04-24 12:46:53 +0000192- Issue #5816: complex(repr(z)) now recovers z exactly, even when
193 z involves nans, infs or negative zeros.
194
Eric Smithaca19e62009-04-22 13:29:05 +0000195- Implement PEP 378, Format Specifier for Thousands Separator, for
196 floats, ints, and longs.
197
198- Issue #5515: 'n' formatting for ints, longs, and floats handles
199 leading zero formatting poorly.
200
201- Issue #5772: For float.__format__, don't add a trailing ".0" if
202 we're using no type code and we have an exponent.
203
Mark Dickinson6736cf82009-04-20 21:13:33 +0000204- Issue #3166: Make long -> float (and int -> float) conversions
205 correctly rounded.
206
Benjamin Petersond4d400c2009-04-18 20:12:47 +0000207- Issue #5787: object.__getattribute__(some_type, "__bases__") segfaulted on
208 some builtin types.
209
Mark Dickinson1bdf7e92009-04-18 14:59:42 +0000210- Issue #1869: fix a couple of minor round() issues. round(5e15+1)
Eric Smith9139cc62009-04-30 00:58:58 +0000211 was giving 5e15+2; round(-0.0) was losing the sign of the zero.
Mark Dickinson1bdf7e92009-04-18 14:59:42 +0000212
Benjamin Peterson99d36f12009-04-15 21:26:36 +0000213- Issue #5759: float() didn't call __float__ on str subclasses.
214
Georg Brandl3c4a5462009-04-12 12:08:12 +0000215- Issue #5704: the "-3" command-line option now implies "-t".
216
R. David Murray0374a822009-04-09 21:54:50 +0000217- Issue #2170: refactored xml.dom.minidom.normalize, increasing both
218 its clarity and its speed.
219
Antoine Pitrou789be0c2009-04-02 21:18:34 +0000220- Issue #2396: the memoryview object was backported from Python 3.1.
221
Georg Brandld3f03fa2009-04-02 18:09:04 +0000222- Fix a problem in PyErr_NormalizeException that leads to "undetected errors"
223 when hitting the recursion limit under certain circumstances.
224
Brett Cannon15ba4da2009-04-01 18:03:59 +0000225- Issue #1665206: Remove the last eager import in _warnings.c and make it lazy.
226
Ronald Oussorene0154ed2009-03-30 23:10:35 +0000227- Issue #4865: On MacOSX /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages is added to
228 the end sys.path, for compatibility with the system install of Python.
229
Antoine Pitrouf8387af2009-03-23 18:41:45 +0000230- Issue #4688: Add a heuristic so that tuples and dicts containing only
231 untrackable objects are not tracked by the garbage collector. This can
232 reduce the size of collections and therefore the garbage collection overhead
233 on long-running programs, depending on their particular use of datatypes.
234
Mark Dickinson0b666bf2009-03-23 18:25:13 +0000235- Issue #5512: Rewrite PyLong long division algorithm (x_divrem) to
236 improve its performance. Long divisions and remainder operations
237 are now between 50% and 150% faster.
238
Mark Dickinsonefc82f72009-03-20 15:51:55 +0000239- Issue #4258: Make it possible to use base 2**30 instead of base
240 2**15 for the internal representation of integers, for performance
241 reasons. Base 2**30 is enabled by default on 64-bit machines. Add
242 --enable-big-digits option to configure, which overrides the
243 default. Add sys.long_info structseq to provide information about
244 the internal format.
245
Benjamin Peterson6ffe8522009-03-18 20:52:15 +0000246- Issue #4034: Fix weird attribute error messages of the traceback object. (As a
247 result traceback.__members__ no longer exists.)
248
Mark Dickinson6b265f12009-03-18 16:07:26 +0000249- Issue #4474: PyUnicode_FromWideChar now converts characters outside
250 the BMP to surrogate pairs, on systems with sizeof(wchar_t) == 4
251 and sizeof(Py_UNICODE) == 2.
252
Eric Smith6f42edb2009-03-14 11:57:26 +0000253- Issue #5237: Allow auto-numbered fields in str.format(). For
254 example: '{} {}'.format(1, 2) == '1 2'.
255
Brett Cannon6c4cff02009-03-11 04:51:06 +0000256- Issue #3652: Make the 'line' argument for warnings.showwarning() a
257 requirement. Means the DeprecationWarning from Python 2.6 can go away.
258
Eric Smithe9fb6862009-02-20 14:02:36 +0000259- Issue #5247: Improve error message when unknown format codes are
260 used when using str.format() with str, unicode, long, int, and
261 float arguments.
262
Raymond Hettinger08259e82009-02-18 23:10:19 +0000263- Running Python with the -3 option now also warns about classic division
264 for ints and longs.
265
Mark Dickinson2ffb26f2009-02-15 10:13:41 +0000266- Issue #5260: Long integers now consume less memory: average
267 saving is 2 bytes per long on a 32-bit system and 6 bytes per long
268 on a 64-bit system.
269
Antoine Pitrou76a4b892009-02-13 13:52:33 +0000270- Issue #5186: Reduce hash collisions for objects with no __hash__ method by
271 rotating the object pointer by 4 bits to the right.
272
Mark Dickinsonc97c9092009-02-09 14:18:43 +0000273- Issue #4575: Fix Py_IS_INFINITY macro to work correctly on x87 FPUs:
274 it now forces its argument to double before testing for infinity.
275
Benjamin Petersone18ef192009-01-20 14:21:16 +0000276- Issue #4978: Passing keyword arguments as unicode strings is now allowed.
277
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +0000278- Issue #1242657: the __len__() and __length_hint__() calls in several tools
Raymond Hettingerb5163702009-02-02 21:50:13 +0000279 were suppressing all exceptions. These include list(), filter(), map(),
280 zip(), and bytearray().
281
Benjamin Peterson596d3062009-01-19 15:42:23 +0000282- os.ftruncate raises OSErrors instead of IOErrors for consistency with other os
283 functions.
284
Benjamin Peterson5848d1f2009-01-19 00:08:08 +0000285- Issue #4991: Passing invalid file descriptors to io.FileIO now raises an
286 OSError.
287
Amaury Forgeot d'Arca18392a2009-01-13 23:19:08 +0000288- Issue #4807: Port the _winreg module to Windows CE.
289
Antoine Pitrouc2f02212009-01-13 23:13:52 +0000290- Issue #4935: The overflow checking code in the expandtabs() method common
291 to str, bytes and bytearray could be optimized away by the compiler, letting
292 the interpreter segfault instead of raising an error.
293
Amaury Forgeot d'Arca40d5732009-01-12 23:36:55 +0000294- Issue #3720: Fix a crash when an iterator modifies its class and removes its
295 __next__ method.
296
Martin v. Löwise3422fa2009-01-12 08:11:24 +0000297- Issue #4893: Use NT threading on CE.
298
Martin v. Löwis1b3bef22009-01-12 07:57:11 +0000299- Issue #4915: Port sysmodule to Windows CE.
300
Antoine Pitrou4c5ecb72009-01-09 21:40:55 +0000301- Issue #4074: Change the criteria for doing a full garbage collection (i.e.
302 collecting the oldest generation) so that allocating lots of objects without
303 destroying them does not show quadratic performance. Based on a proposal by
Benjamin Petersond50a5d52009-07-13 00:03:20 +0000304 Martin von Löwis at
Antoine Pitrou4c5ecb72009-01-09 21:40:55 +0000305 http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2008-June/080579.html.
306
Martin v. Löwisb90304a2009-01-07 18:40:40 +0000307- Issue #4850: Change COUNT_ALLOCS variables to Py_ssize_t.
308
Antoine Pitroue96d4ea2009-01-06 18:10:47 +0000309- Issue #1180193: When importing a module from a .pyc (or .pyo) file with
310 an existing .py counterpart, override the co_filename attributes of all
311 code objects if the original filename is obsolete (which can happen if the
312 file has been renamed, moved, or if it is accessed through different paths).
313 Patch by Ziga Seilnacht and Jean-Paul Calderone.
314
Martin v. Löwis5344c992009-01-02 20:32:55 +0000315- Issue #4075: Use OutputDebugStringW in Py_FatalError.
316
Hirokazu Yamamoto99a1b202009-01-01 15:45:39 +0000317- Issue #4797: IOError.filename was not set when _fileio.FileIO failed to open
318 file with `str' filename on Windows.
319
Antoine Pitrouaa687902009-01-01 14:11:22 +0000320- Issue #3680: Reference cycles created through a dict, set or deque iterator
321 did not get collected.
322
Nick Coghlan180e4002008-12-30 01:18:48 +0000323- Issue #4701: PyObject_Hash now implicitly calls PyType_Ready on types
324 where the tp_hash and tp_dict slots are both NULL.
325
Benjamin Peterson7af65562008-12-29 17:56:58 +0000326- Issue #4764: With io.open, IOError.filename is set when trying to open a
327 directory on POSIX systems.
328
Benjamin Petersonfe231b02008-12-29 17:47:42 +0000329- Issue #4764: IOError.filename is set when trying to open a directory on POSIX
330 systems.
331
Georg Brandl6425a2f2008-12-28 11:54:53 +0000332- Issue #4759: None is now allowed as the first argument of
333 bytearray.translate(). It was always allowed for bytes.translate().
334
Skip Montanarof205c132008-12-23 03:30:15 +0000335- Added test case to ensure attempts to read from a file opened for writing
336 fail.
337
Antoine Pitrou73c0e652008-12-17 22:46:54 +0000338- Issue #2467: gc.DEBUG_STATS reported invalid elapsed times. Also, always
339 print elapsed times, not only when some objects are uncollectable /
340 unreachable. Original patch by Neil Schemenauer.
341
Mark Dickinson1a707982008-12-17 16:14:37 +0000342- Issue #3439: Add a bit_length method to int and long.
343
Antoine Pitroud0c35152008-12-17 00:38:28 +0000344- Issue #2183: Simplify and optimize bytecode for list comprehensions.
345 Original patch by Neal Norwitz.
346
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcad9b5992008-12-10 23:22:49 +0000347- Issue #4597: Fixed exception handling when the __exit__ function of a
348 context manager returns a value that cannot be converted to a bool.
349
Jeffrey Yasskinffd42cf2008-12-10 07:35:02 +0000350- Issue #4597: Fixed several opcodes that weren't always propagating
351 exceptions.
352
Mark Dickinson826f3fe2008-12-05 21:55:28 +0000353- Issue #4445: Replace "sizeof(PyStringObject)" with
354 "offsetof(PyStringObject, ob_sval) + 1" when allocating memory for
355 str instances. On a typical machine this saves 3 bytes of memory
356 (on average) per string allocation.
357
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcdc619012008-11-22 20:01:18 +0000358- Issue #3996: On Windows, the PyOS_CheckStack function would cause the
359 interpreter to abort ("Fatal Python error: Could not reset the stack!")
360 instead of throwing a MemoryError.
361
Raymond Hettinger7989a4d2008-12-03 15:42:10 +0000362- Issue #3689: The list reversed iterator now supports __length_hint__
363 instead of __len__. Behavior now matches other reversed iterators.
364
Benjamin Petersonc078f922008-11-21 22:27:24 +0000365- Issue #4367: Python would segfault during compiling when the unicodedata
366 module couldn't be imported and \N escapes were present.
367
Vinay Sajip213faca2008-12-03 23:22:58 +0000368- Issue #4233: Changed semantic of ``_fileio.FileIO``'s ``close()``
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc32265652008-11-20 23:34:31 +0000369 method on file objects with closefd=False. The file descriptor is still
370 kept open but the file object behaves like a closed file. The ``FileIO``
371 object also got a new readonly attribute ``closefd``.
372
Benjamin Peterson46cc6d12008-11-19 21:49:09 +0000373- Issue #4348: Some bytearray methods returned that didn't cause any change to
374 the bytearray, returned the same bytearray instead of a copy.
375
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc7cfe7ea2008-11-18 22:19:37 +0000376- Issue #4317: Fixed a crash in the imageop.rgb2rgb8() function.
377
Benjamin Peterson273c2332008-11-17 22:39:09 +0000378- Issue #4230: If ``__getattr__`` is a descriptor, it now functions correctly.
379
Benjamin Peterson6624a9f2008-11-03 15:14:51 +0000380- Issue #4048: The parser module now correctly validates relative imports.
381
Benjamin Petersondcee09d2008-10-31 02:16:05 +0000382- Issue #4225: ``from __future__ import unicode_literals`` didn't work in an
383 exec statement.
384
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc69a9c5b2008-10-30 21:18:34 +0000385- Issue #4176: Fixed a crash when pickling an object which ``__reduce__``
386 method does not return iterators for the 4th and 5th items.
387
Benjamin Petersonbdca9422008-10-26 20:21:13 +0000388- Issue #4209: Enabling unicode_literals and the print_function in the same
389 __future__ import didn't work.
390
Benjamin Peterson399b1fe2008-10-25 02:53:28 +0000391- Using ``nonlocal`` as a variable name will now raise a Py3k SyntaxWarning
Georg Brandl7fb00ad2008-10-25 07:00:52 +0000392 because it is a reserved word in 3.x.
Benjamin Peterson399b1fe2008-10-25 02:53:28 +0000393
Hirokazu Yamamoto10a018c2008-10-09 10:00:30 +0000394- On windows, os.chdir given unicode was not working if GetCurrentDirectoryW
395 returned a path longer than MAX_PATH. (But It's doubtful this code path is
396 really executed because I cannot move to such directory on win2k)
397
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd78b9dc2008-10-07 20:32:10 +0000398- Issue #4069: When set.remove(element) is used with a set element, the element
399 is temporarily replaced with an equivalent frozenset. But the eventual
400 KeyError would always report the empty frozenset([]) as the missing key. Now
401 it correctly refers to the initial element.
402
Antoine Pitrouae5bece2008-12-06 21:29:24 +0000403- Issue #4509: Various issues surrounding resize of bytearray objects to
404 which there are buffer exports.
405
Benjamin Peterson8d5934b2008-12-27 18:24:11 +0000406- Issue #4748: Lambda generators no longer return a value.
407
Kristján Valur Jónsson6220e412009-01-12 09:20:34 +0000408- Issue #3582: Use native TLS functions on Windows
409
Gregory P. Smithae91d092009-03-02 05:13:57 +0000410- The re.sub(), re.subn() and re.split() functions now accept a flags parameter.
411
Matthias Kloseedb5e1e2009-04-04 14:18:13 +0000412- Issue #3845: In PyRun_SimpleFileExFlags avoid invalid memory access with
413 short file names.
414
Matthias Klose91a3b9e2009-04-05 21:19:13 +0000415- Issue #1113244: Py_XINCREF, Py_DECREF, Py_XDECREF: Add `do { ... } while (0)'
416 to avoid compiler warnings.
Matthias Klose0610e082009-04-05 12:43:08 +0000417
Gregory P. Smith2b3eb372009-04-05 23:48:26 +0000418- Issue #5705: os.setuid() would not accept values > 2**31-1 but pwd.getpwnam()
419 returned them on 64bit platforms.
420
Walter Dörwalded960ac2009-05-03 22:36:33 +0000421- Issue #5108: Handle %s like %S and %R in PyUnicode_FromFormatV(): Call
422 PyUnicode_DecodeUTF8() once, remember the result and output it in a second
423 step. This avoids problems with counting UTF-8 bytes that ignores the effect
424 of using the replace error handler in PyUnicode_DecodeUTF8().
425
Walter Dörwald726ba8e2009-05-06 14:32:35 +0000426- Issue #3739: The unicode-internal encoder now reports the number of characters
427 consumed like any other encoder (instead of the number of bytes).
428
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +0000429Library
430-------
Benjamin Petersonb3dd5482009-02-26 19:07:18 +0000431
Antoine Pitrouc562ca42009-11-13 22:31:18 +0000432- Issue #7318: multiprocessing now uses a timeout when it fails to establish
433 a connection with another process, rather than looping endlessly. The
434 default timeout is 20 seconds, which should be amply sufficient for
435 local connections.
436
Antoine Pitrou0734c632009-11-10 20:49:30 +0000437- Issue #7197: Allow unittest.TextTestRunner objects to be pickled and
438 unpickled. This fixes crashes under Windows when trying to run
439 test_multiprocessing in verbose mode.
440
Antoine Pitroud7158d42009-11-09 16:00:11 +0000441- Issue #7282: Fix a memory leak when an RLock was used in a thread other
442 than those started through `threading.Thread` (for example, using
443 `thread.start_new_thread()`.
444
Antoine Pitrou99c160b2009-11-05 13:42:29 +0000445- Issue #7264: Fix a possible deadlock when deallocating thread-local objects
446 which are part of a reference cycle.
447
Antoine Pitrou323b9da2009-11-04 19:25:14 +0000448- Issue #7211: Allow 64-bit values for the `ident` and `data` fields of kevent
449 objects on 64-bit systems. Patch by Michael Broghton.
450
Antoine Pitrouaec41242009-11-02 11:34:27 +0000451- Issue #6896: mailbox.Maildir now invalidates its internal cache each time
452 a modification is done through it. This fixes inconsistencies and test
453 failures on systems with slightly bogus mtime behaviour.
454
Gregory P. Smith38f5d8f2009-11-01 18:33:55 +0000455- Issue #7246 & Issue #7208: getpass now properly flushes input before
456 reading from stdin so that existing input does not confuse it and
457 lead to incorrect entry or an IOError. It also properly flushes it
458 afterwards to avoid the terminal echoing the input afterwards on
459 OSes such as Solaris.
460
Mark Dickinson6f390012009-10-29 12:11:18 +0000461- Issue #7233: Fix a number of two-argument Decimal methods to make
462 sure that they accept an int or long as the second argument. Also
463 fix buggy handling of large arguments (those with coefficient longer
464 than the current precision) in shift and rotate.
Mark Dickinson0c673122009-10-29 12:04:00 +0000465
Lars Gustäbel8c06ccc2009-10-29 09:15:00 +0000466- Issue #4750: Store the basename of the original filename in the gzip FNAME
467 header as required by RFC 1952.
468
Tarek Ziadé40b998b2009-10-27 23:06:10 +0000469- Issue #1180: Added a new global option to ignore ~/.pydistutils.cfg in
470 Distutils.
471
Tarek Ziadéd24cab82009-10-27 21:20:27 +0000472- Issue #7218: Fix test_site for win32, the directory comparison was done with
473 an uppercase.
474
Antoine Pitroudd629662009-10-27 17:41:58 +0000475- Issue #7205: Fix a possible deadlock when using a BZ2File object from
476 several threads at once.
477
Tarek Ziadéb9c1cfc2009-10-24 15:10:37 +0000478- Issue #7071: byte-compilation in Distutils is now done with respect to
479 sys.dont_write_bytecode.
480
Tarek Ziadé672422a2009-10-24 13:29:44 +0000481- Issue #7066: archive_util.make_archive now restores the cwd if an error is
482 raised. Initial patch by Ezio Melotti.
483
Antoine Pitroufa94e802009-10-24 12:23:18 +0000484- Issue #6218: io.StringIO and io.BytesIO instances are now picklable with
485 protocol 2.
486
Vinay Sajip5ac65282009-10-21 20:22:14 +0000487- Issue #7077: logging: SysLogHandler now treats Unicode as per RFC 5424.
488
Mark Dickinsona7a52ab2009-10-20 13:33:03 +0000489- Issue #7099: Decimal.is_normal now returns True for numbers with exponent
490 larger than emax.
491
Antoine Pitroue0899802009-10-19 18:20:21 +0000492- Issue #5833: Fix extra space character in readline completion with the
493 GNU readline library version 6.0.
494
Antoine Pitrou5ba84912009-10-19 17:59:07 +0000495- Issue #7133: SSL objects now support the new buffer API.
496
Ronald Oussoren31802d02009-10-18 07:07:00 +0000497- Issue #7149: urllib fails on OSX in the proxy detection code
498
Benjamin Petersonc63457b2009-10-15 03:06:55 +0000499- Issue #7069: Make inspect.isabstract() return a boolean.
500
Neil Schemenauere6039f02009-10-14 19:23:53 +0000501- Add support to the `ihooks` module for relative imports.
502
Vinay Sajip03d5c342009-10-16 14:06:44 +0000503- Issue #6894: Fixed the issue urllib2 doesn't respect "no_proxy" environment
Senthil Kumaran27468662009-10-11 02:00:07 +0000504
Vinay Sajip1c77b7f2009-10-10 20:32:36 +0000505- Issue #7086: Added TCP support to SysLogHandler, and tidied up some
506 anachronisms in the code which were a relic of 1.5.2 compatibility.
Vinay Sajip03d5c342009-10-16 14:06:44 +0000507
R. David Murray0c8bee62009-10-09 21:50:54 +0000508- Issue #7082: When falling back to the MIME 'name' parameter, the
509 correct place to look for it is the Content-Type header.
510
Mark Dickinson15ae41c2009-10-07 19:22:05 +0000511- Issue #7048: Force Decimal.logb to round its result when that result
512 is too large to fit in the current precision.
513
Vinay Sajip03d5c342009-10-16 14:06:44 +0000514- Issue #6516: Added owner/group support when creating tar archives in
Tarek Ziadé1b486712009-10-02 23:49:48 +0000515 Distutils.
516
Georg Brandl12fafe62009-10-01 21:02:39 +0000517- Issue #7031: Add TestCase.assert(Not)IsInstance() methods.
518
Antoine Pitrou72481782009-09-29 17:48:18 +0000519- Issue #6790: Make it possible again to pass an `array.array` to
520 `httplib.HTTPConnection.send`. Patch by Kirk McDonald.
521
Antoine Pitrou2a466582009-09-21 21:17:48 +0000522- Issue #6236, #6348: Fix various failures in the `io` module under AIX
523 and other platforms, when using a non-gcc compiler. Patch by egreen.
524
Tarek Ziadé99773352009-09-21 13:41:08 +0000525- Issue #6954: Fixed crash when using DISTUTILS_DEBUG flag in Distutils.
526
Ronald Oussoren51f06332009-09-20 10:31:22 +0000527- Issue #6851: Fix urllib.urlopen crash on secondairy threads on OSX 10.6
528
Thomas Heller6be522b2009-09-18 20:05:44 +0000529- Issue #4606: Passing 'None' if ctypes argtype is set to POINTER(...)
530 does now always result in NULL.
531
532- Issue #5042: ctypes Structure sub-subclass does now initialize
533 correctly with base class positional arguments.
Thomas Heller7a352c02009-09-18 18:55:17 +0000534
Georg Brandlc40e60e2009-09-18 09:18:27 +0000535- Issue #6938: Fix a TypeError in string formatting of a multiprocessing
536 debug message.
537
Matthias Klose924eab62009-09-13 15:09:24 +0000538- Issue #6635: Fix profiler printing usage message.
539
Lars Gustäbel21121e62009-09-12 10:28:15 +0000540- Issue #6856: Add a filter keyword argument to TarFile.add().
541
Tarek Ziadébed26a32009-09-09 08:14:20 +0000542- Issue #6163: Fixed HP-UX runtime library dir options in
543 distutils.unixcompiler. Initial patch by Sridhar Ratnakumar and
544 Michael Haubenwallner.
545
Mark Dickinson5cfa8042009-09-08 20:20:19 +0000546- Issue #6857: Default format() alignment should be '>' for Decimal
547 instances.
548
Mark Dickinson968f1692009-09-07 18:04:58 +0000549- Issue #6795: int(Decimal('nan')) now raises ValueError instead of
550 returning NaN or raising InvalidContext. Also, fix infinite recursion
551 in long(Decimal('nan')).
552
Mark Dickinson491ea552009-09-07 16:17:41 +0000553- Issue #6850: Fix bug in Decimal._parse_format_specifier for formats
554 with no type specifier.
555
Ronald Oussoren626faeb2009-09-06 12:23:18 +0000556- Issue #4937: plat-mac/bundlebuilder revers to non-existing version.plist
557
Chris Withers7f3ea6a2009-09-04 16:32:22 +0000558- Issue #6838: Use a list to accumulate the value instead of
559 repeatedly concatenating strings in httplib's
560 HTTPResponse._read_chunked providing a significant speed increase
561 when downloading large files servend with a Transfer-Encoding of 'chunked'.
562
Georg Brandld22b9512009-09-04 08:17:04 +0000563- Issue #5275: In Cookie's Cookie.load(), properly handle non-string arguments
564 as documented.
565
Georg Brandl2e1308f2009-09-04 06:59:20 +0000566- Issue #2666: Handle BROWSER environment variable properly for unknown browser
567 names in the webbrowser module.
568
Lars Gustäbelf7cda522009-08-28 19:23:44 +0000569- Issue #6054: Do not normalize stored pathnames in tarfile.
570
Mark Dickinson7a7739d2009-08-28 13:25:02 +0000571- Issue #6794: Fix Decimal.compare_total and Decimal.compare_total_mag: NaN
572 payloads are now ordered by integer value rather than lexicographically.
573
Tarek Ziadé764fc232009-08-20 21:23:13 +0000574- Issue #6693: New functions in site.py to get user/global site packages paths.
575
Gregory P. Smith4e63d542009-08-20 09:39:38 +0000576- The thread.lock type now supports weak references.
577
Guilherme Polo7b50c4f2009-08-18 14:46:57 +0000578- Issue #1356969: Add missing info methods in Tix.HList.
579
Guilherme Polo6b3c7092009-08-18 14:23:00 +0000580- Issue #1522587: New constants and methods for the Tix.Grid widget.
581
Guilherme Polo6c823f82009-08-18 13:29:20 +0000582- Issue #1250469: Fix the return value of Tix.PanedWindow.panes.
583
Guilherme Polod3e6e4b2009-08-18 13:23:08 +0000584- Issue #1119673: Do not override Tkinter.Text methods when creating a
585 ScrolledText.
586
Gregory P. Smithb98d6b22009-08-16 18:52:58 +0000587- Issue #6665: Fix fnmatch to properly match filenames with newlines in them.
588
Guilherme Poloe45f0172009-08-14 14:36:45 +0000589- Issue #1135: Add the XView and YView mix-ins to avoid duplicating
590 the xview* and yview* methods.
591
Antoine Pitrou20e1f932009-08-06 20:18:29 +0000592- Issue #6629: Fix a data corruption issue in the new `io` package, which could
593 occur when writing to a BufferedRandom object (e.g. a file opened in "rb+" or
594 "wb+" mode) after having buffered a certain amount of data for reading. This
595 bug was not present in the pure Python implementation.
596
Jesse Noller8497efe2009-08-06 02:05:56 +0000597- Issue #4660: If a multiprocessing.JoinableQueue.put() was preempted, it was
598 possible to get a spurious 'task_done() called too many times' error.
599
Gregory P. Smithc4ad0342009-08-13 18:54:50 +0000600- Issue #1628205: Socket file objects returned by socket.socket.makefile() now
601 properly handles EINTR within the read, readline, write & flush methods.
602 The socket.sendall() method now properly handles interrupted system calls.
603
Mark Dickinson4326ad82009-08-02 10:59:36 +0000604- Issue #6595: The Decimal constructor now allows arbitrary Unicode
605 decimal digits in input, as recommended by the standard. Previously
606 it was restricted to accepting [0-9].
607
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc3e5b0272009-07-28 22:15:30 +0000608- Issue #6511: ZipFile now raises BadZipfile (instead of an IOError) when
609 opening an empty or very small file.
610
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc74b30162009-07-23 19:26:02 +0000611- Issue #6553: Fixed a crash in cPickle.load(), when given a file-like object
612 containing incomplete data.
613
614- Issue #6545: Removed assert statements in distutils.Extension, so the
Tarek Ziadéaf2406f2009-07-22 08:55:19 +0000615 behavior is similar when used with -O.
616
Benjamin Petersond7b0eeb2009-07-19 20:18:21 +0000617- unittest has been split up into a package. All old names should still work.
618
Mark Dickinson88a0a2e2009-07-18 15:18:18 +0000619- Issue #6431: Make Fraction type return NotImplemented when it doesn't
620 know how to handle a comparison without loss of precision. Also add
621 correct handling of infinities and nans for comparisons with float.
622
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc74b30162009-07-23 19:26:02 +0000623- Issue #6415: Fixed warnings.warn segfault on bad formatted string.
Hirokazu Yamamoto1a3d0852009-07-17 06:26:54 +0000624
Tarek Ziadéa99dedf2009-07-16 15:35:45 +0000625- Issue #6466: now distutils.cygwinccompiler and distutils.emxccompiler
626 uses the same refactored function to get gcc/ld/dllwrap versions numbers.
627 It's `distutils.util.get_compiler_versions`. Added deprecation warnings
628 for the obsolete get_versions() functions.
629
Jesse Noller7530e472009-07-16 14:23:04 +0000630- Issue #6433: fixed issues with multiprocessing.pool.map hanging on empty list
631
Vinay Sajipcbb24b32009-07-13 11:21:05 +0000632- Issue #6314: logging: Extra checks on the "level" argument in more places.
633
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc74b8d332009-07-11 14:33:51 +0000634- Issue #2622: Fixed an ImportError when importing email.messsage from a
635 standalone application built with py2exe or py2app.
636
Vinay Sajipcbb24b32009-07-13 11:21:05 +0000637- Issue #6455: Fixed test_build_ext under win32.
Tarek Ziadé8c400012009-07-10 09:10:33 +0000638
Vinay Sajipcbb24b32009-07-13 11:21:05 +0000639- Issue #6377: Enabled the compiler option, and deprecate its usage as an
Tarek Ziadée670e5a2009-07-06 12:50:46 +0000640 attribute.
641
Tarek Ziadé63f17382009-07-04 02:02:41 +0000642- Issue #6413: Fixed the log level in distutils.dist for announce.
643
Gregory P. Smithc197d0a2009-07-04 01:55:11 +0000644- Issue #3392: The subprocess communicate() method no longer fails in select()
645 when file descriptors are large; communicate() now uses poll() when possible.
646
Tarek Ziadé65ec61e2009-07-03 08:22:56 +0000647- Issue #6403: Fixed package path usage in build_ext.
648
Vinay Sajipcbb24b32009-07-13 11:21:05 +0000649- Issues #5155, 5313, 5331: multiprocessing.Process._bootstrap was
Jesse Noller1b90efb2009-06-30 17:11:52 +0000650 unconditionally calling "os.close(sys.stdin.fileno())" resulting in file
651 descriptor errors
652
Vinay Sajipcbb24b32009-07-13 11:21:05 +0000653- Issue #6365: Distutils build_ext inplace mode was copying the compiled
Tarek Ziadé3fbcc602009-06-29 16:13:39 +0000654 extension in a subdirectory if the extension name had dots.
655
Hirokazu Yamamoto99ebc632009-06-29 14:29:31 +0000656- Issue #6344: Fixed a crash of mmap.read() when passed a negative argument.
657
R. David Murrayef087da2009-06-23 18:02:46 +0000658- Issue #5230: pydoc would report no documentation found if a module generated
659 a 'not found' import error when loaded; it now reports the import errors.
660 Thanks to Lucas Prado Melo for initial fix and collaboration on the tests.
661
Vinay Sajip603fb6d2009-06-21 17:37:27 +0000662- Issue #6314: logging.basicConfig() performs extra checks on the "level"
663 argument.
664
665- Issue #6164: Added an AIX specific linker argument in Distutils
Tarek Ziadé439bf932009-06-20 13:57:20 +0000666 unixcompiler. Original patch by Sridhar Ratnakumar.
667
Facundo Batista8c826b72009-06-19 18:02:28 +0000668- Issue #6274: Fixed possible file descriptors leak in subprocess.py
669
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc5fe420e2009-06-18 22:32:50 +0000670- Issue #6189: Restored compatibility of subprocess.py with Python 2.2.
671
Tarek Ziadéfdefc0a2009-06-16 07:29:52 +0000672- Issue #6287: Added the license field in Distutils documentation.
673
Tarek Ziadéa1cc0402009-06-15 23:30:13 +0000674- Issue #6286: Now Distutils upload command is based on urllib2 instead of
675 httplib, allowing the usage of http_proxy.
676
Hirokazu Yamamoto983a4652009-06-14 03:53:55 +0000677- Issue #6271: mmap tried to close invalid file handle (-1) when annonymous.
678 (On Unix)
679
Antoine Pitrou19690592009-06-12 20:14:08 +0000680- Issue #6215: All bug fixes and enhancements from the Python 3.1 io library
681 (including the fast C implementation) have been backported to the standard
682 ``io`` module.
683
Martin v. Löwis2dcd7a02009-06-12 17:28:31 +0000684- Issue #6258: Support AMD64 in bdist_msi.
685
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +0000686- Issue #5262: Fixed bug in next rollover time computation in
687 TimedRotatingFileHandler.
688
Tarek Ziadéc7498f52009-06-11 09:13:36 +0000689- Issue #6263: Fixed syntax error in distutils.cygwincompiler.
690
Tarek Ziadé25d2bae2009-06-11 08:12:20 +0000691- Issue #5201: distutils.sysconfig.parse_makefile() now understands `$$`
692 in Makefiles. This prevents compile errors when using syntax like:
693 `LDFLAGS='-rpath=\$$LIB:/some/other/path'`. Patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
694
Georg Brandle6632b42009-06-04 08:58:32 +0000695- Issue #5767: Removed sgmlop support from xmlrpclib.
696
Tarek Ziadé3e3eace2009-05-29 08:08:07 +0000697- Issue #6131: test_modulefinder leaked when run after test_distutils.
698 Patch by Hirokazu Yamamoto.
699
Tarek Ziadé9e5d2dc2009-05-28 12:53:54 +0000700- Issue #6048: Now Distutils uses the tarfile module in archive_util.
701
Raymond Hettingerb4d2d312009-05-29 01:36:26 +0000702- Issue #5150: IDLE's format menu now has an option to strip trailing
703 whitespace.
704
R. David Murrayd67ea7d2009-05-27 20:07:21 +0000705- Issue #6121: pydoc now ignores leading and trailing spaces in the
706 argument to the 'help' function.
707
Benjamin Peterson176a56c2009-05-25 00:48:58 +0000708- In unittest, using a skipping decorator on a class is now equivalent to
709 skipping every test on the class. The ClassTestSuite class has been removed.
710
Martin v. Löwis0b09c422009-05-24 19:30:52 +0000711- Issue #6050: Don't fail extracting a directory from a zipfile if
712 the directory already exists.
713
Martin v. Löwis53b578e2009-05-24 19:10:52 +0000714- Issue #5311: bdist_msi can now build packages that do not depend on a
715 specific Python version.
716
Antoine Pitroud49e3752009-05-24 15:40:09 +0000717- Issue #1309352: fcntl now converts its third arguments to a C `long` rather
718 than an int, which makes some operations possible under 64-bit Linux (e.g.
719 DN_MULTISHOT with F_NOTIFY).
720
Senthil Kumarane266f252009-05-24 09:14:50 +0000721- Issue #1424152: Fix for httplib, urllib2 to support SSL while working through
722 proxy. Original patch by Christopher Li, changes made by Senthil Kumaran.
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +0000723
Antoine Pitrou5e858fe2009-05-23 15:37:45 +0000724- Issue #1983: Fix functions taking or returning a process identifier to use
725 the dedicated C type ``pid_t`` instead of a C ``int``. Some platforms have
726 a process identifier type wider than the standard C integer type.
727
R. David Murrayad3058e2009-05-23 00:48:58 +0000728- Issue #4066: smtplib.SMTP_SSL._get_socket now correctly returns the socket.
729 Patch by Farhan Ahmad, test by Marcin Bachry.
730
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +0000731- Issue #6062: In distutils, fixed the package option of build_ext. Feedback
Tarek Ziadé7d7127d2009-05-19 16:17:21 +0000732 and tests on pywin32 by Tim Golden.
733
Tarek Ziadé07bbfcc2009-05-18 12:21:26 +0000734- Issue #6053: Fixed distutils tests on win32. patch by Hirokazu Yamamoto.
735
Tarek Ziadéfcc7f032009-05-18 08:03:37 +0000736- Issue #6046: Fixed the library extension when distutils build_ext is used
737 inplace. Initial patch by Roumen Petrov.
738
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +0000739- Issue #6041: Now distutils `sdist` and `register` commands use `check` as a
Tarek Ziadécb768042009-05-16 16:37:06 +0000740 subcommand.
741
Antoine Pitrou775fd662009-05-15 16:54:52 +0000742- Issue #2116: Weak references and weak dictionaries now support copy()ing and
743 deepcopy()ing.
744
Antoine Pitrou52035a02009-05-15 11:50:29 +0000745- Issue #1655: Make imaplib IPv6-capable. Patch by Derek Morr.
746
Antoine Pitrou42b5bcf2009-05-14 21:48:09 +0000747- Issue #5918: Fix a crash in the parser module.
748
Antoine Pitroueed30d82009-05-14 21:22:08 +0000749- Issue #1664: Make nntplib IPv6-capable. Patch by Derek Morr.
750
Tarek Ziadécbb4f9e2009-05-14 20:14:13 +0000751- Issue #6022: a test file was created in the current working directory by
752 test_get_outputs in Distutils.
753
R. David Murray996ba022009-05-13 17:14:11 +0000754- Issue #4050: inspect.findsource/getsource now raise an IOError if the 'source'
755 file is a binary. Patch by Brodie Rao, tests by Daniel Diniz.
756
Tarek Ziadé972480d2009-05-12 17:07:14 +0000757- Issue #5977: distutils build_ext.get_outputs was not taking into account the
758 inplace option. Initial patch by kxroberto.
759
Tarek Ziadéd5d83422009-05-10 10:12:08 +0000760- Issue #5984: distutils.command.build_ext.check_extensions_list checks were broken
761 for old-style extensions.
762
Vinay Sajipf9b01fe2009-05-09 12:07:17 +0000763- Issue #5971: StreamHandler.handleError now swallows IOErrors which occur when
764 trying to print a traceback.
765
Tarek Ziadé812d7712009-05-09 10:06:00 +0000766- Issue #5976: Fixed Distutils test_check_environ.
767
Vinay Sajipf9b01fe2009-05-09 12:07:17 +0000768- Issue #5900: Ensure RUNPATH is added to extension modules with RPATH if GNU
Tarek Ziadée2be83d2009-05-09 08:28:53 +0000769 ld is used. Original patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
770
Tarek Ziadé99f660a2009-05-07 21:20:34 +0000771- Issue #5941: Distutils build_clib command was not working anymore because
772 of an incomplete costumization of the archiver command. Added ARFLAGS in the
773 Makefile besides AR and make Distutils use it. Original patch by David
774 Cournapeau.
775
R. David Murrayd3bf34c2009-05-07 16:29:19 +0000776- Issue 5955: aifc's close method did not close the file it wrapped,
777 now it does. This also means getfp method now returns the real fp.
778
Thomas Hellera57773e2009-05-05 18:55:47 +0000779- Issue #4875: On win32, ctypes.util.find_library does no longer
780 return directories.
781
Georg Brandl4d4313d2009-05-05 08:54:11 +0000782- Issue #5142: Add the ability to skip modules while stepping to pdb.
783
Georg Brandle3869c42009-05-05 08:30:28 +0000784- Issue #1309567: Fix linecache behavior of stripping subdirectories when
785 looking for files given by a relative filename.
786
Antoine Pitrou97377bf2009-05-04 21:17:17 +0000787- Issue #5692: In :class:`zipfile.Zipfile`, fix wrong path calculation when
788 extracting a file to the root directory.
789
Hirokazu Yamamoto406d7aa2009-05-04 05:28:39 +0000790- Issue #5913: os.listdir() should fail for empty path on windows.
791
Antoine Pitrou74309892009-05-02 21:13:23 +0000792- Issue #5084: unpickling now interns the attribute names of pickled objects,
793 saving memory and avoiding growth in size of subsequent pickles. Proposal
794 and original patch by Jake McGuire.
795
Antoine Pitrou1fc02312009-05-01 20:55:35 +0000796- Issue #3002: ``shutil.copyfile()`` and ``shutil.copytree()`` now raise an
797 error when a named pipe is encountered, rather than blocking infinitely.
798
Gregory P. Smith1d499262009-05-01 19:59:52 +0000799- Issue #3959: The ipaddr module has been added to the standard library.
800 Contributed by Google.
801
R. David Murray25b4add2009-04-29 13:17:37 +0000802- Issue #2245: aifc now skips chunk types it doesn't recognize, per spec.
803
Vinay Sajipf9b01fe2009-05-09 12:07:17 +0000804- Issue #5874: distutils.tests.test_config_cmd is not locale-sensitive
Tarek Ziadéa1b91d92009-04-29 08:03:46 +0000805 anymore.
806
Thomas Heller90c61a22009-04-28 19:23:41 +0000807- Issue #4305: ctypes should now build again on mipsel-linux-gnu
808
Antoine Pitroue988e282009-04-27 21:53:26 +0000809- Issue #1734234: Massively speedup ``unicodedata.normalize()`` when the
810 string is already in normalized form, by performing a quick check beforehand.
811 Original patch by Rauli Ruohonen.
812
Antoine Pitrouf2651e12009-04-27 20:50:20 +0000813- Issue #5853: calling a function of the mimetypes module from several threads
814 at once could hit the recursion limit if the mimetypes database hadn't been
815 initialized before.
816
Vinay Sajipe34d6aa2009-04-27 13:44:27 +0000817- Issue #5854: Updated __all__ to include some missing names and remove some
818 names which should not be exported.
819
820- Issue #5810: Fixed Distutils test_build_scripts so it uses
Tarek Ziadébcddf672009-04-25 12:51:59 +0000821 sysconfig.get_config_vars.
822
Tarek Ziadéd567c382009-04-25 12:38:08 +0000823- Issue #4951: Fixed failure in test_httpservers.
824
Thomas Heller5c6af802009-04-24 20:31:47 +0000825- Issue #3102: All global symbols that the _ctypes extension defines
826 are now prefixed with 'Py' or '_ctypes'.
827
Thomas Hellerec21ccd2009-04-24 20:00:41 +0000828- Issue #5041: ctypes does now allow pickling wide character.
829
Mark Dickinson4af8e742009-04-24 13:56:07 +0000830- Issue #5812: For the two-argument form of the Fraction constructor,
831 Fraction(m, n), m and n are permitted to be arbitrary Rational
832 instances.
833
Mark Dickinson8100bd82009-04-22 18:15:25 +0000834- Issue #5812: Fraction('1e6') is valid: more generally, any string
835 that's valid for float() is now valid for Fraction(), with the
836 exception of strings representing NaNs and infinities.
837
Tarek Ziadé31559b62009-04-20 14:29:42 +0000838- Issue #5795: Fixed test_distutils failure on Debian ppc.
839
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +0000840- Issue #5768: Fixed bug in Unicode output logic and test case for same.
841
R. David Murrayabc26602009-04-13 16:56:32 +0000842- Issue #1161031: fix readwrite select flag handling: POLLPRI now
843 results in a handle_expt_event call, not handle_read_event, and POLLERR
844 and POLLNVAL now call handle_close, not handle_expt_event. Also,
845 dispatcher now has an 'ignore_log_types' attribute for suppressing
846 log messages, which is set to 'warning' by default.
847
Tarek Ziadé156c31a2009-04-13 12:34:01 +0000848- Issue #5607: fixed Distutils test_get_platform for Mac OS X fat binaries.
849
Georg Brandl21cf5ee2009-04-12 17:24:11 +0000850- Issue #5741: don't disallow "%%" (which is an escape for "%") when setting
851 a value in SafeConfigParser.
852
Tarek Ziadé942825f2009-04-11 14:55:07 +0000853- Issue #5732: added a new command in Distutils: check.
854
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +0000855- Issue #5731: Distutils bdist_wininst no longer worked on non-Windows
Tarek Ziadéad958262009-04-09 21:36:44 +0000856 platforms. Initial patch by Paul Moore.
857
Gregory P. Smith923ba362009-04-06 06:33:26 +0000858- Issue #2254: Fix CGIHTTPServer information disclosure. Relative paths are
859 now collapsed within the url properly before looking in cgi_directories.
860
Tarek Ziadé64408fb2009-04-05 22:51:09 +0000861- Issue #5095: Added bdist_msi to the list of bdist supported formats.
862 Initial fix by Steven Bethard.
863
Tarek Ziadéfaa6b122009-04-05 21:44:08 +0000864- Issue #1491431: Fixed distutils.filelist.glob_to_re for edge cases.
865 Initial fix by Wayne Davison.
866
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +0000867- Issue #5693: TestSuite.__iter__ can now be consistently overridden in subclasses.
Michael Foordf2dfef12009-04-05 19:19:28 +0000868
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +0000869- Issue #5694: removed spurious test output in Distutils (test_clean).
Tarek Ziadé453d9532009-04-05 18:31:24 +0000870
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +0000871- Issue #5471: Fix os.path.expanduser() for $HOME set to '/'.
Georg Brandl3f0ef202009-04-05 14:48:49 +0000872
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +0000873- Issue #1326077: fix the formatting of SyntaxErrors by the traceback module.
Georg Brandl1956d5c2009-04-05 14:25:41 +0000874
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +0000875- Issue #1726172: fix IndexError in the case of and empty response in ftplib.
Georg Brandl50ba6e12009-04-05 10:48:47 +0000876
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +0000877- Issue #2625: added missing iteritems() call to the for loop in
R. David Murray52720c52009-04-02 14:05:35 +0000878 mailbox.MH.get_message().
879
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +0000880- Issue #5585: Add the ability to call an initializer to mulitiprocessing.manager
Andrew M. Kuchling59631852009-04-09 11:23:36 +0000881 so that users can install custom handlers/etc.
Jesse Noller7152f6d2009-04-02 05:17:26 +0000882
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +0000883- Issue #3551: Patch multiprocessing to raise a proper exception if the size of the
Jesse Noller5053fbb2009-04-02 04:22:09 +0000884 object when writefile is called causes a ERROR_NO_SYSTEM_RESOURCES. Added docs
885 to note the limitation
886
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +0000887- unittest.assertNotEqual() now uses the inequality operator (!=) instead
Michael Foord345b2fe2009-04-02 03:20:38 +0000888 of the equality operator.
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +0000889
890- Issue #6001: Test discovery for unittest. Implemented in
Michael Foordb4a81c82009-05-29 20:33:46 +0000891 unittest.TestLoader.discover and from the command line.
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +0000892
Michael Foord07ef4872009-05-02 22:43:34 +0000893- Issue #5679: The methods unittest.TestCase.addCleanup and doCleanups were added.
894 addCleanup allows you to add cleanup functions that will be called
895 unconditionally (after setUp if setUp fails, otherwise after tearDown). This
896 allows for much simpler resource allocation and deallocation during tests.
897
898- Issue #3379: unittest.main now takes an optional exit argument. If False main
899 doesn't call sys.exit allowing it to be used from the interactive interpreter.
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +0000900
901- Issue #5995: unittest.main now takes an optional verbosity argument allowing
Michael Foord5d31e052009-05-11 17:59:43 +0000902 test modules to be run with a higher than default verbosity.
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +0000903
904- Issue #5995: A fix to allow you to run "python -m unittest test_module" or
Michael Foord5d31e052009-05-11 17:59:43 +0000905 "python -m unittest test_module.TestClass" from the command line.
Michael Foord07ef4872009-05-02 22:43:34 +0000906
907- Issue #5728: unittest.TestResult has new startTestRun and stopTestRun methods;
908 called immediately before and after a test run.
909
Michael Foord345b2fe2009-04-02 03:20:38 +0000910- Issue #5663: better failure messages for unittest asserts. Default assertTrue
911 and assertFalse messages are now useful. TestCase has a longMessage attribute.
912 This defaults to False, but if set to True useful error messages are shown in
913 addition to explicit messages passed to assert methods.
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +0000914
Jesse Nollerb502bc72009-04-02 02:32:55 +0000915- Issue #3110: Add additional protect around SEM_VALUE_MAX for multiprocessing
916
Georg Brandl58b8b952009-04-01 21:54:21 +0000917- In Pdb, prevent the reassignment of __builtin__._ by sys.displayhook on
918 printing out values.
919
Georg Brandl5942b912009-04-01 21:05:44 +0000920- Issue #4572: added SEEK_* symbolic constants to io module.
921
Brett Cannonad078a02009-04-01 16:00:34 +0000922- Issue #1665206 (partially): Move imports in cgitb to the top of the module
923 instead of performing them in functions. Helps prevent import deadlocking in
924 threads.
925
Raymond Hettinger66c4a6b2009-04-01 18:50:56 +0000926- Issue #5647: MutableSet.__iand__() no longer mutates self during iteration.
927
Georg Brandle92d4b62009-04-01 04:21:14 +0000928- Actually make the SimpleXMLRPCServer CGI handler work.
929
R. David Murraya83da352009-04-01 03:21:43 +0000930- Issue #2522: locale.format now checks its first argument to ensure it has
931 been passed only one pattern, avoiding mysterious errors where it appeared
932 that it was failing to do localization.
933
Tarek Ziadé9e47ce42009-03-31 22:27:23 +0000934- Issue #5583: Added optional Extensions in Distutils. Initial patch by Georg
935 Brandl.
936
Jesse Noller42f9b4e2009-03-31 22:20:35 +0000937- Issue #5619: Multiprocessing children disobey the debug flag and causes
938 popups on windows buildbots. Patch applied to work around this issue.
939
Benjamin Petersond906ea62009-03-31 21:34:42 +0000940- Issue #5632: Thread.ident was None for the main thread and threads not created
941 with the threading module.
942
Jesse Noller1f0a5552009-03-31 18:27:14 +0000943- Issue #5400: Added patch for multiprocessing on netbsd compilation/support
944
Hirokazu Yamamoto9d2ee5d2009-03-31 13:13:05 +0000945- Issue #5387: Fixed mmap.move crash by integer overflow.
946
Jesse Noller82eb5902009-03-30 23:29:31 +0000947- Issue #5261: Patch multiprocessing's semaphore.c to support context
948 manager use: "with multiprocessing.Lock()" works now.
949
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +0000950- Issue #5177: Multiprocessing's SocketListener class now uses
Jesse Noller459a6482009-03-30 15:50:42 +0000951 socket.SO_REUSEADDR on all connections so that the user no longer needs
952 to wait 120 seconds for the socket to expire.
953
Guilherme Polo1972d162009-03-27 21:43:08 +0000954- Adjusted _tkinter to compile without warnings when WITH_THREAD is not
955 defined (part of issue #5035).
956
Marc-André Lemburgcbdf15b2009-03-25 19:45:33 +0000957- Issue #5561: Removed the sys.version_info shortcuts from platform's
958 python_version() and python_version_tuple() since they produced different
959 output compared to previous Python versions.
960
Benjamin Peterson692428e2009-03-23 21:50:21 +0000961- Issue #1034053: unittest now supports skipping tests and expected failures.
962
Gregory P. Smith28399852009-03-31 16:54:10 +0000963- The unittest.TestCase.assertRaises() method now returns a context manager when
964 not given a callable so that code to be tested can be written inline using
965 a with statement.
966
967- The unittest.TestCase.assertEqual() now displays the differences in lists,
968 tuples, dicts and sets on failure. Many new handy type and comparison
969 specific assert* methods have been added that fail with error messages
970 actually useful for debugging. Contributed in part by Google. [Issue #2578]
971
Lars Gustäbel2020a592009-03-22 20:09:33 +0000972- Issue #5068: Fixed the tarfile._BZ2Proxy.read() method that would loop
973 forever on incomplete input. That caused tarfile.open() to hang when used
974 with mode 'r' or 'r:bz2' and a fileobj argument that contained no data or
975 partial bzip2 compressed data.
976
Benjamin Petersonb364bfe2009-03-22 17:45:11 +0000977- Issue #5536: urllib.urlretrieve makes sure to close the file it's writing to
978 even if an exception occurs.
979
Raymond Hettinger91852ca2009-03-19 19:19:03 +0000980- Issue #5381: Added object_pairs_hook to the json module. This allows
981 OrderedDicts to be built by the decoder.
982
Mark Dickinson277859d2009-03-17 23:03:46 +0000983- Issue #2110: Add support for thousands separator and 'n' type
984 specifier to Decimal.__format__
985
Mark Dickinsonb065e522009-03-17 18:01:03 +0000986- Fix Decimal.__format__ bug that swapped the meanings of the '<' and
987 '>' alignment characters.
988
Antoine Pitroufeeafff2009-03-14 00:07:21 +0000989- Issue #1222: locale.format() bug when the thousands separator is a space
990 character.
991
Tarek Ziadé61585c22009-03-11 12:48:04 +0000992- Issue #5472: Fixed distutils.test_util tear down. Original patch by
993 Tim Golden.
994
Raymond Hettinger56411aa2009-03-10 12:50:59 +0000995- collections.deque() objects now have a read-only attribute called maxlen.
996
Guilherme Polo15d57652009-03-07 02:14:38 +0000997- Issue #2638: Show a window constructed with tkSimpleDialog.Dialog only after
998 it is has been populated and properly configured in order to prevent
999 window flashing.
1000
Guilherme Polo3768b2f2009-03-07 01:47:49 +00001001- Issue #4792: Prevent a segfault in _tkinter by using the
1002 guaranteed to be safe interp argument given to the PythonCmd in place of
1003 the Tcl interpreter taken from a PythonCmd_ClientData.
1004
Guilherme Polo6d6c1fd2009-03-07 01:19:12 +00001005- Issue #5193: Guarantee that Tkinter.Text.search returns a string.
1006
Tarek Ziadé943b24e2009-03-07 00:32:45 +00001007- Issue #5394: removed > 2.3 syntax from distutils.msvc9compiler.
1008 Original patch by Akira Kitada.
1009
Hirokazu Yamamoto264fc122009-03-05 14:21:12 +00001010- Issue #5385: Fixed mmap crash after resize failure on windows.
1011
Hirokazu Yamamotoeacbbdf2009-03-03 22:18:14 +00001012- Issue #5179: Fixed subprocess handle leak on failure on windows.
1013
Raymond Hettingerbc512d32009-03-03 04:45:34 +00001014- PEP 372: Added collections.OrderedDict().
1015
Raymond Hettinger88a91642009-03-03 04:51:24 +00001016- The _asdict() for method for namedtuples now returns an OrderedDict().
1017
Raymond Hettingere89b8e92009-03-03 05:00:37 +00001018- The configparser module now defaults to using an ordered dictionary.
1019
Benjamin Peterson7d49bba2009-03-02 22:41:42 +00001020- Issue #4308: httplib.IncompleteRead's repr doesn't include all of the data all
1021 ready received.
1022
Benjamin Petersonad58b7c2009-03-02 03:35:12 +00001023- Issue #5401: Fixed a performance problem in mimetypes when ``from mimetypes
1024 import guess_extension`` was used.
1025
Hirokazu Yamamotob0e10c72009-02-28 12:13:07 +00001026- Issue #1733986: Fixed mmap crash in accessing elements of second map object
1027 with same tagname but larger size than first map. (Windows)
1028
Hirokazu Yamamotof2dc8852009-02-28 10:31:54 +00001029- Issue #5386: mmap.write_byte didn't check map size, so it could cause buffer
1030 overrun.
1031
Tarek Ziadé73347352009-02-28 10:08:02 +00001032- Issue #1533164: Installed but not listed *.pyo was breaking Distutils
1033 bdist_rpm command.
1034
1035- Issue #5378: added --quiet option to Distutils bdist_rpm command.
1036
Tarek Ziadédda92f72009-02-27 12:53:34 +00001037- Issue #5052: make Distutils compatible with 2.3 again.
1038
Benjamin Petersonb3dd5482009-02-26 19:07:18 +00001039- Deprecated methods of symtable.Symbol have been removed: is_keywordarg(),
1040 is_vararg(), and is_in_tuple().
1041
Tarek Ziadée3bc0ef2009-02-25 22:29:27 +00001042- Issue #5316: Fixed buildbot failures introduced by multiple inheritance
1043 in Distutils tests.
1044
Vinay Sajip1a0d2be2009-02-19 12:31:32 +00001045- Issue #5287: Add exception handling around findCaller() call to help out
1046 IronPython.
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +00001047
Hirokazu Yamamoto17a837e2009-02-17 13:17:26 +00001048- Issue #5282: Fixed mmap resize on 32bit windows and unix. When offset > 0,
1049 The file was resized to wrong size.
1050
Hirokazu Yamamotof6bbd0e2009-02-17 10:12:10 +00001051- Issue #5292: Fixed mmap crash on its boundary access m[len(m)].
1052
Vinay Sajip1a0d2be2009-02-19 12:31:32 +00001053- Issue #2279: distutils.sdist.add_defaults now add files
Tarek Ziadé7dd53392009-02-16 21:38:01 +00001054 from the package_data and the data_files metadata.
1055
Vinay Sajip1a0d2be2009-02-19 12:31:32 +00001056- Issue #5257: refactored all tests in distutils, so they use
Tarek Ziadé13699002009-02-14 14:10:23 +00001057 support.TempdirManager, to avoid writing in the tests directory.
1058
Tarek Ziadé2432b0b2009-02-13 23:00:43 +00001059- Issue #4524: distutils build_script command failed with --with-suffix=3.
1060 Initial patch by Amaury Forgeot d'Arc.
1061
Tarek Ziadé275958a2009-02-13 22:22:03 +00001062- Issue #2461: added tests for distutils.util
1063
Gregory P. Smith3605b5c2009-02-11 23:45:25 +00001064- Issue #1008086: Fixed socket.inet_aton() to always return 4 bytes even on
1065 LP64 platforms (most 64-bit Linux, bsd, unix systems).
1066
Thomas Heller3689ae22009-02-10 18:43:01 +00001067- Issue #5203: Fixed ctypes segfaults when passing a unicode string to a
1068 function without argtypes (only occurs if HAVE_USABLE_WCHAR_T is false).
1069
Tarek Ziadé74fbf602009-02-10 12:31:09 +00001070- Issue #3386: distutils.sysconfig.get_python_lib prefix argument was ignored
1071 under NT and OS2. Patch by Philip Jenvey.
1072
Brett Cannon28d10882009-02-10 02:07:38 +00001073- Issue #5128: Make compileall properly inspect bytecode to determine if needs
1074 to be recreated. This avoids a timing hole thanks to the old reliance on the
1075 ctime of the files involved.
1076
Guilherme Poloa66cf5b2009-02-09 20:50:27 +00001077- Issue #5122: Synchronize tk load failure check to prevent a potential
1078 deadlock.
1079
Raymond Hettinger322daea2009-02-10 01:24:05 +00001080- Issue #1818: collections.namedtuple() now supports a keyword argument
1081 'rename' which lets invalid fieldnames be automatically converted to
1082 positional names in the form, _1, _2, ...
1083
Guilherme Polod2ea0332009-02-09 16:41:09 +00001084- Issue #4890: Handle empty text search pattern in Tkinter.Text.search.
1085
Vinay Sajipb20af942009-02-08 19:06:08 +00001086- Issue #5170: Fixed Unicode output bug in logging and added test case.
1087 This is a regression which did not occur in 2.5.
1088
Nick Coghlan0194f5b2009-02-08 03:17:00 +00001089- Issue #4512 (part 2): Promote ``ZipImporter._get_filename()`` to be a
1090 public documented method ``ZipImporter.get_filename()``.
1091
Nick Coghland39600e2009-02-08 01:26:34 +00001092- Issue #4195: The ``runpy`` module (and the ``-m`` switch) now support
1093 the execution of packages by looking for and executing a ``__main__``
Nick Coghlanc3623b12009-02-08 01:46:01 +00001094 submodule when a package name is supplied. Initial patch by Andi
1095 Vajda.
Nick Coghland39600e2009-02-08 01:26:34 +00001096
Guilherme Polo363161a2009-02-06 22:48:07 +00001097- Issue #1731706: Call Tcl_ConditionFinalize for Tcl_Conditions that will
1098 not be used again (this requires Tcl/Tk 8.3.1), also fix a memory leak in
1099 Tkapp_Call when calling from a thread different than the one that created
1100 the Tcl interpreter. Patch by Robert Hancock.
Guilherme Polo14ff18d2009-02-06 22:26:22 +00001101
Vinay Sajipb20af942009-02-08 19:06:08 +00001102- Issue #1520877: Now distutils.sysconfig reads $AR from the
Tarek Ziadé05adf072009-02-06 01:15:51 +00001103 environment/Makefile. Patch by Douglas Greiman.
1104
Eric Smith81fe0932009-02-06 00:48:26 +00001105- Issue #4285: Change sys.version_info to be a named tuple. Patch by
1106 Ross Light.
1107
Tarek Ziadéd5eb9852009-02-06 00:31:59 +00001108- Issue #1276768: The verbose option was not used in the code of
1109 distutils.file_util and distutils.dir_util.
1110
Vinay Sajipb20af942009-02-08 19:06:08 +00001111- Issue #5132: Fixed trouble building extensions under Solaris with
Tarek Ziadé0d4fd342009-02-05 22:52:52 +00001112 --enabled-shared activated. Initial patch by Dave Peterson.
1113
Guilherme Polod7bb4d42009-02-02 21:14:14 +00001114- Issue #1581476: Always use the Tcl global namespace when calling into Tcl.
1115
Antoine Pitrou707c5932009-01-29 20:19:34 +00001116- Issue #2047: shutil.move() could believe that its destination path was
1117 inside its source path if it began with the same letters (e.g. "src" vs.
1118 "src.new").
1119
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +00001120- Issue #4920: Fixed .next() vs .__next__() issues in the ABCs for
Raymond Hettingerf779e6f2009-01-28 23:02:26 +00001121 Iterator and MutableSet.
1122
Guilherme Polocda93aa2009-01-28 13:09:03 +00001123- Added the ttk module. See issue #2983: Ttk support for Tkinter.
1124
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +00001125- Issue #5021: doctest.testfile() did not create __name__ and
Raymond Hettingerecf252a2009-01-27 10:03:04 +00001126 collections.namedtuple() relied on __name__ being defined.
1127
Brett Cannon93881c62009-01-26 01:16:50 +00001128- Backport importlib from Python 3.1. Only the import_module() function has
1129 been backported to help facilitate transitions from 2.7 to 3.1.
1130
Tarek Ziadéaaedcef2009-01-25 23:34:00 +00001131- Issue #1885: distutils. When running sdist with --formats=tar,gztar
1132 the tar file was overriden by the gztar one.
1133
Tarek Ziadéef249b12009-01-25 18:19:25 +00001134- Issue #4863: distutils.mwerkscompiler has been removed.
1135
Raymond Hettingerd081abc2009-01-27 02:58:49 +00001136- Added a new itertools functions: combinations_with_replacement()
1137 and compress().
Raymond Hettinger2bcb8e92009-01-25 21:04:14 +00001138
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +00001139- Issue #5032: added a step argument to itertools.count() and
Raymond Hettinger31c769c2009-02-12 05:39:46 +00001140 allowed non-integer arguments.
1141
Jesse Nollerb5a4b0a2009-01-25 03:36:13 +00001142- Fix and properly document the multiprocessing module's logging
1143 support, expose the internal levels and provide proper usage
1144 examples.
1145
Mark Dickinsona3ecd2c2009-01-24 16:40:29 +00001146- Issue #1672332: fix unpickling of subnormal floats, which was
1147 producing a ValueError on some platforms.
1148
Martin v. Löwisf081e1c2009-01-24 15:47:27 +00001149- Issue #3881: Help Tcl to load even when started through the
1150 unreadable local symlink to "Program Files" on Vista.
1151
Martin v. Löwis0dfcfc82009-01-24 14:00:33 +00001152- Issue #4710: Extract directories properly in the zipfile module;
1153 allow adding directories to a zipfile.
1154
Vinay Sajipb20af942009-02-08 19:06:08 +00001155- Issue #3807: _multiprocessing build fails when configure is passed
Jesse Nollerf6da8d12009-01-23 14:04:41 +00001156 --without-threads argument. When this occurs, _multiprocessing will
1157 be disabled, and not compiled.
1158
Antoine Pitroue741cc62009-01-21 00:45:36 +00001159- Issue #5008: When a file is opened in append mode with the new IO library,
1160 do an explicit seek to the end of file (so that e.g. tell() returns the
1161 file size rather than 0). This is consistent with the behaviour of the
1162 traditional 2.x file object.
1163
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +00001164- Issue #5013: Fixed a bug in FileHandler which occurred when the delay
1165 parameter was set.
1166
Raymond Hettinger933d3a72009-01-20 20:34:19 +00001167- Issue #4998: The memory saving effect of __slots__ had been lost on Fractions
1168 which inherited from numbers.py which did not have __slots__ defined. The
Mark Dickinson39c6f7f2009-02-12 17:55:42 +00001169 numbers hierarchy now has its own __slots__ declarations.
Raymond Hettinger933d3a72009-01-20 20:34:19 +00001170
Jesse Noller9a5b2ad2009-01-19 15:12:22 +00001171- Issue #3321: _multiprocessing.Connection() doesn't check handle; added checks
1172 for *nix machines for negative handles and large int handles. Without this check
1173 it is possible to segfault the interpreter.
1174
Jesse Noller6ab22152009-01-18 02:45:38 +00001175- Issue #4449: AssertionError in mp_benchmarks.py, caused by an underlying issue
1176 in sharedctypes.py.
1177
Benjamin Peterson5e5fbb62009-01-17 22:27:54 +00001178- Issue #1225107: inspect.isclass() returned True for instances with a custom
1179 __getattr__.
1180
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd25f87a2009-01-17 16:40:17 +00001181- Issue #3997: zipfiles generated with more than 65536 files could not be
1182 opened with other applications.
1183
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcb54447f2009-01-13 23:39:22 +00001184- Issue #1162154: inspect.getmembers() now skips attributes that raise
1185 AttributeError, e.g. a __slots__ attribute which has not been set.
1186
1187- Issue #1696199: Add collections.Counter() for rapid and convenient
Raymond Hettingerf94d7fa2009-01-12 22:58:41 +00001188 counting.
1189
Antoine Pitroubd4b5f22009-01-10 16:15:24 +00001190- Issue #3860: GzipFile and BZ2File now support the context manager protocol.
1191
Antoine Pitrouf0d2c3f2009-01-04 21:29:23 +00001192- Issue #4272: Add an optional argument to the GzipFile constructor to override
1193 the timestamp in the gzip stream. The default value remains the current time.
1194 The information can be used by e.g. gunzip when decompressing. Patch by
1195 Jacques Frechet.
1196
Mark Dickinson514d4832009-01-04 21:25:40 +00001197- Restore Python 2.3 compatibility for decimal.py.
1198
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +00001199- Issue #1702551: distutils sdist was not excluding VCS directories under
Tarek Ziadé85d6fb52009-01-04 00:04:49 +00001200 Windows. Inital solution by Guy Dalberto.
1201
Guilherme Poloe7f14032009-01-03 21:51:09 +00001202- The _tkinter module functions "createfilehandler", "deletefilehandler",
1203 "createtimerhandler", "mainloop", "dooneevent" and "quit" have been
1204 deprecated for removal in 3.x
1205
Raymond Hettingerf4d85972009-01-03 19:02:23 +00001206- Issue #4796: Added Decimal.from_float() and Context.create_decimal_from_float()
1207 to the decimal module.
1208
Mark Dickinsonc5de0962009-01-02 23:07:08 +00001209- Issue #4812: add missing underscore prefix to some internal-use-only
1210 constants in the decimal module. (Dec_0 becomes _Dec_0, etc.)
1211
Benjamin Peterson8ad09a42008-12-31 23:48:39 +00001212- Issue #4795: inspect.isgeneratorfunction() returns False instead of None when
1213 the function is not a generator.
1214
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +00001215- Issue #4702: Throwing a DistutilsPlatformError instead of IOError in case
1216 no MSVC compiler is found under Windows. Original patch by Philip Jenvey.
Tarek Ziadéb1a85412008-12-30 23:03:41 +00001217
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +00001218- Issue #4646: distutils was choking on empty options arg in the setup
Tarek Ziadéc13acb12008-12-29 22:23:53 +00001219 function. Original patch by Thomas Heller.
1220
Georg Brandlfe427892009-01-03 22:03:11 +00001221- Fractions.from_float() no longer loses precision for integers too big to
1222 cast as floats.
1223
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +00001224- Issue #4790: The nsmallest() and nlargest() functions in the heapq module
Georg Brandlfe427892009-01-03 22:03:11 +00001225 did unnecessary work in the common case where no key function was specified.
1226
Martin v. Löwis732479f2008-12-29 16:22:25 +00001227- Issue #3767: Convert Tk object to string in tkColorChooser.
1228
Martin v. Löwise2eb2b42008-12-29 15:51:01 +00001229- Issue #3248: Allow placing ScrolledText in a PanedWindow.
1230
Antoine Pitrou697ca3d2008-12-28 14:09:36 +00001231- Issue #4444: Allow assertRaises() to be used as a context handler, so that
1232 the code under test can be written inline if more practical.
1233
Georg Brandlc3a98032008-12-27 18:20:04 +00001234- Issue #4739: Add pydoc help topics for symbols, so that e.g. help('@')
1235 works as expected in the interactive environment.
1236
Antoine Pitrou6f193e02008-12-27 15:43:12 +00001237- Issue #4756: zipfile.is_zipfile() now supports file-like objects. Patch by
1238 Gabriel Genellina.
1239
Tarek Ziadée4c75bb2008-12-24 19:10:05 +00001240- Issue #4400: .pypirc default generated file was broken in distutils.
1241
Benjamin Peterson54686e32008-12-24 15:10:27 +00001242- Issue #4736: io.BufferedRWPair's closed property now functions properly.
1243
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc31949b92008-12-15 21:47:57 +00001244- Issue #3954: Fix a potential SystemError in _hotshot.logreader error
1245 handling.
1246
Antoine Pitrou655fbf12008-12-14 17:40:51 +00001247- Issue #4574: fix a crash in io.IncrementalNewlineDecoder when a carriage
1248 return encodes to more than one byte in the source encoding (e.g. UTF-16)
1249 and gets split on a chunk boundary.
1250
Nick Coghlana2053472008-12-14 10:54:50 +00001251- Issue #4223: inspect.getsource() will now correctly display source code
1252 for packages loaded via zipimport (or any other conformant PEP 302
1253 loader). Original patch by Alexander Belopolsky.
1254
1255- Issue #4201: pdb can now access and display source code loaded via
1256 zipimport (or any other conformant PEP 302 loader). Original patch by
1257 Alexander Belopolsky.
1258
1259- Issue #4197: doctests in modules loaded via zipimport (or any other PEP
1260 302 conformant loader) will now work correctly in most cases (they
1261 are still subject to the constraints that exist for all code running
1262 from inside a module loaded via a PEP 302 loader and attempting to
1263 perform IO operations based on __file__). Original patch by
1264 Alexander Belopolsky.
1265
1266- Issues #4082 and #4512: Add runpy support to zipimport in a manner that
1267 allows backporting to maintenance branches. Original patch by
1268 Alexander Belopolsky.
1269
Antoine Pitrou74af3bb2008-12-13 23:12:30 +00001270- Issue #4163: Use unicode-friendly word splitting in the textwrap functions
1271 when given an unicode string.
1272
Lars Gustäbel3b027422008-12-12 13:58:03 +00001273- Issue #4616: TarFile.utime(): Restore directory times on Windows.
1274
Facundo Batistae29d4352008-12-11 04:19:46 +00001275- Issue #4084: Fix max, min, max_mag and min_mag Decimal methods to
1276 give correct results in the case where one argument is a quiet NaN
1277 and the other is a finite number that requires rounding.
1278
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc240028c2008-12-11 00:03:42 +00001279- Issue #1030250: Distutils created directories even when run with the
1280 --dry-run option.
1281
Skip Montanaro45313fe2008-12-06 17:43:30 +00001282- Issue #4483: _dbm module now builds on systems with gdbm & gdbm_compat
1283 libs.
1284
Georg Brandlfe879e82008-12-05 12:09:41 +00001285- Issue #4529: fix the parser module's validation of try-except-finally
1286 statements.
1287
Georg Brandla07435d2008-12-05 09:23:14 +00001288- Issue #4458: getopt.gnu_getopt() now recognizes a single "-" as an argument,
1289 not a malformed option.
1290
Gregory P. Smith26576802008-12-05 02:27:01 +00001291- Added the subprocess.check_output() convenience function to get output
Gregory P. Smith97f49f42008-12-04 20:21:09 +00001292 from a subprocess on success or raise an exception on error.
1293
Fred Drake52481032008-12-04 18:25:17 +00001294- Issue #1055234: cgi.parse_header(): Fixed parsing of header parameters to
1295 support unusual filenames (such as those containing semi-colons) in
1296 Content-Disposition headers.
1297
Vinay Sajip6831d6b2008-12-04 20:32:18 +00001298- Issue #4384: Added logging integration with warnings module using
1299 captureWarnings(). This change includes a NullHandler which does nothing;
1300 it will be of use to library developers who want to avoid the "No handlers
1301 could be found for logger XXX" message which can appear if the library user
1302 doesn't configure logging.
Vinay Sajip213faca2008-12-03 23:22:58 +00001303
Christian Heimesaa674712008-11-28 11:02:32 +00001304- Issue #3741: DISTUTILS_USE_SDK set causes msvc9compiler.py to raise an
1305 exception.
1306
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd4294172008-11-21 22:05:48 +00001307- Issue #4363: The uuid.uuid1() and uuid.uuid4() functions now work even if
1308 the ctypes module is not present.
1309
Benjamin Petersonbfc51562008-11-22 01:59:15 +00001310- FileIO's mode attribute now always includes ``"b"``.
1311
Martin v. Löwisbb9b1f12008-11-19 09:09:41 +00001312- Issue #4116: Resolve member name conflict in ScrolledCanvas.__init__.
1313
Brett Cannone3d0bf72008-11-15 22:40:44 +00001314- httplib.HTTPConnection.putheader() now accepts an arbitrary number of values
1315 for any header, matching what the documentation has claimed for a while.
1316
Hirokazu Yamamotob9828f62008-11-03 18:03:06 +00001317- Issue #3774: Fixed an error when create a Tkinter menu item without command
1318 and then remove it.
1319
Thomas Heller1fac5a42008-10-30 20:18:13 +00001320- Fixed a modulefinder crash on certain relative imports.
1321
Benjamin Petersonc18574c2008-10-22 21:16:34 +00001322- Issue #4150: Pdb's "up" command now works for generator frames in post-mortem
1323 debugging.
1324
Benjamin Petersone4dc1752008-10-21 22:20:31 +00001325- Issue #4092: Return ArgInfo as promised in the documentation from
1326 inspect.getargvalues.
1327
Georg Brandlf3776a12008-10-08 18:47:17 +00001328- Issue #3935: Properly support list subclasses in bisect's C implementation.
1329
Martin v. Löwis96a9f232008-10-06 15:15:40 +00001330- Issue #4014: Don't claim that Python has an Alpha release status, in addition
1331 to claiming it is Mature.
1332
Alexandre Vassalotti6067f782008-12-27 07:13:01 +00001333- Issue #4730: Fixed the cPickle module to handle correctly astral characters
1334 when protocol 0 is used.
1335
Ronald Oussoren0238497e2009-01-02 14:10:20 +00001336- Issue #1594: MacOS.GetCreatorAndType now always returns a big-endian result,
1337 to be consistent with Apple tools.
1338
Ronald Oussoren63b74fe2009-01-02 14:46:19 +00001339- Issue #900949: plat-mac/videoreader.py no longer relies on a non-existing
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +00001340 module.
Ronald Oussoren63b74fe2009-01-02 14:46:19 +00001341
Ronald Oussoren7f8cbf02009-01-02 14:48:17 +00001342- Issue #16278952: plat-mac/videoreader.py now correctly imports MediaDescr
1343
Ronald Oussoren919697c2009-01-02 14:52:09 +00001344- Issue #1737832 : plat-mac/EasyDialog.py no longer uses the broken aepack
1345 module.
1346
Ronald Oussorenabcc1682009-01-02 15:00:05 +00001347- Issue #1149804: macostools.mkdirs now even works when another process
1348 creates one of the needed subdirectories.
1349
Ronald Oussoren072bb402009-01-02 15:25:36 +00001350- Issue #900506: added --no-zipimport flag to the bundlebuilder script
1351
1352- Issue #841800: bundlebuilder now works with 'python -O'
1353
Matthias Klose43723e22009-01-10 17:00:42 +00001354- Issue #4861: ctypes.util.find_library(): Robustify. Fix library detection on
1355 biarch systems. Try to rely on ldconfig only, without using objdump and gcc.
1356
Gregory P. Smithde1a8b72009-01-31 22:57:30 +00001357- Issue #5104: The socket module now raises OverflowError when 16-bit port and
1358 protocol numbers are supplied outside the allowed 0-65536 range on bind()
1359 and getservbyport().
1360
Neil Schemenauer92c3b212009-02-07 00:54:41 +00001361- Issue #999042: The Python compiler now handles explict global statements
1362 correctly (should be assigned using STORE_GLOBAL opcode).
1363
Matthias Klosea5d58c82009-04-05 21:00:48 +00001364- Issue #2703: SimpleXMLRPCDispatcher.__init__: Provide default values for
1365 new arguments introduced in 2.5.
1366
Walter Dörwald5d98ec72009-04-25 14:03:16 +00001367- Issue #5828 (Invalid behavior of unicode.lower): Fixed bogus logic in
1368 makeunicodedata.py and regenerated the Unicode database (This fixes
1369 u'\u1d79'.lower() == '\x00').
1370
Jeroen Ruigrok van der Wervenb87b3342009-05-08 14:11:23 +00001371- Windows locale mapping updated to Vista.
1372
Antoine Pitroue555f582008-12-27 20:34:52 +00001373Tools/Demos
1374-----------
1375
Guilherme Polo4eae0782009-01-28 15:56:01 +00001376- Ttk demos added in Demo/tkinter/ttk/
1377
Antoine Pitroue555f582008-12-27 20:34:52 +00001378- Issue #4677: add two list comprehension tests to pybench.
1379
Brett Cannon60b15d22008-10-06 22:44:37 +00001380Build
1381-----
1382
Mark Dickinson504a1512009-10-31 10:11:28 +00001383- Issue #6603: Change READ_TIMESTAMP macro in ceval.c so that it
1384 compiles correctly under gcc on x86-64. This fixes a reported
1385 problem with the --with-tsc build on x86-64.
1386
Vinay Sajip03d5c342009-10-16 14:06:44 +00001387- Add 2 new options to ``--with-universal-archs`` on MacOSX:
Ronald Oussoren626faeb2009-09-06 12:23:18 +00001388 ``intel`` builds a distribution with ``i386`` and ``x86_64`` architectures,
Vinay Sajip03d5c342009-10-16 14:06:44 +00001389 while ``3-way`` builds a distribution with the ``ppc``, ``i386``
1390 and ``x86_64`` architectures.
1391
Ronald Oussoren25967582009-09-06 10:00:26 +00001392- Issue #6802: Fix build issues on MacOSX 10.6
1393
Guilherme Polo1ce2d532009-08-16 14:38:57 +00001394- Issue #6244: Allow detect_tkinter to look for Tcl/Tk 8.6.
1395
Martin v. Löwisecb4f952009-06-28 09:32:39 +00001396- Issue 5390: Add uninstall icon independent of whether file
1397 extensions are installed.
1398
Ronald Oussoren450d5612009-06-08 21:12:41 +00001399- Issue 5809: Specifying both --enable-framework and --enable-shared is
1400 an error. Configure now explicity tells you about this.
1401
Antoine Pitrouf2caeed2009-05-24 20:23:57 +00001402- Issue #3585: Add pkg-config support. It creates a python-2.7.pc file
1403 and a python.pc symlink in the $(LIBDIR)/pkgconfig directory. Patch by
1404 Clinton Roy.
1405
Benjamin Petersone5afa3b2009-05-23 19:24:37 +00001406- Issue #6094: Build correctly with Subversion 1.7.
1407
Martin v. Löwis588b54b2009-05-05 16:10:16 +00001408- Issue #5847: Remove -n switch on "Edit with IDLE" menu item.
1409
Antoine Pitrou3fd4ea92009-05-01 21:16:14 +00001410- Issue #5726: Make Modules/ld_so_aix return the actual exit code of the
1411 linker, rather than always exit successfully. Patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
1412
Matthias Klose10cbe482009-04-29 17:18:19 +00001413- Issue #4587: Add configure option --with-dbmliborder=db1:db2:... to specify
Vinay Sajipf9b01fe2009-05-09 12:07:17 +00001414 the order that backends for the dbm extension are checked.
Matthias Klose10cbe482009-04-29 17:18:19 +00001415
Matthias Klose8ad554f2009-02-22 23:14:26 +00001416- Link the shared python library with $(MODLIBS).
1417
Martin v. Löwisa3e3cb72009-02-10 13:09:19 +00001418- Issue #5134: Silence compiler warnings when compiling sqlite with VC++.
1419
Martin v. Löwisfee1c7f2009-02-02 14:23:16 +00001420- Issue #4494: Fix build with Py_NO_ENABLE_SHARED on Windows.
1421
Martin v. Löwiseefda272009-01-11 09:43:55 +00001422- Issue #4895: Use _strdup on Windows CE.
1423
Ronald Oussorenf7d54052009-01-02 10:48:31 +00001424- Issue #4472: "configure --enable-shared" now works on OSX
1425
Benjamin Petersonfd9633e2008-12-28 15:37:31 +00001426- Issues #4728 and #4060: WORDS_BIGEDIAN is now correct in Universal builds.
1427
Martin v. Löwiscb6c3592008-11-30 11:08:26 +00001428- Issue #4389: Add icon to the uninstall entry in "add-and-remove-programs".
1429
Martin v. Löwis63470982008-11-19 13:51:44 +00001430- Issue #4289: Remove Cancel button from AdvancedDlg.
1431
Martin v. Löwis3d6f8ff2008-11-07 18:51:50 +00001432- Issue #1656675: Register a drop handler for .py* files on Windows.
1433
Martin v. Löwis692c2f82008-11-06 16:43:00 +00001434- Issue #4120: Exclude manifest from extension modules in VS2008.
1435
Martin v. Löwis0f3e7692008-10-17 13:43:01 +00001436- Issue #4091: Install pythonxy.dll in system32 again.
1437
Martin v. Löwiseba774b2008-10-13 11:23:35 +00001438- Issue #4018: Disable "for me" installations on Vista.
1439
Brett Cannon60b15d22008-10-06 22:44:37 +00001440- Issue #3758: Add ``patchcheck`` build target to .PHONY.
1441
Martin v. Löwisbb86d832008-11-04 20:40:09 +00001442- Issue #4204: Fixed module build errors on FreeBSD 4.
1443
Tarek Ziadéc4a4aeb2009-08-21 14:28:38 +00001444Documentation
1445-------------
1446
1447- Issue #6556: Fixed the Distutils configuration files location explanation
1448 for Windows.
1449
Tarek Ziadé3092ed92009-08-29 13:33:21 +00001450- Issue #6801 : symmetric_difference_update also accepts |.
Vinay Sajip03d5c342009-10-16 14:06:44 +00001451 Thanks to Carl Chenet.
Tarek Ziadé3092ed92009-08-29 13:33:21 +00001452
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc07d539d2008-10-14 21:47:22 +00001453C-API
1454-----
1455
Mark Dickinson09823a22009-10-31 09:42:39 +00001456- Add new C-API function PyOS_string_to_double, and deprecated
1457 PyOS_ascii_atof and PyOS_ascii_strtod.
1458
Mark Dickinsonba26b392009-10-31 09:28:12 +00001459- Removed _PyOS_double_to_string. Use PyOS_double_to_string
1460 instead. This is in preparation for (but not strictly related to)
1461 issue #7117, short float repr.
1462
Vinay Sajip03d5c342009-10-16 14:06:44 +00001463- Issue #6624: PyArg_ParseTuple with "s" format when parsing argument with
Benjamin Petersonfe8745d2009-08-17 13:39:41 +00001464 NULL: Bogus TypeError detail string.
Sean Reifscheider9279e7d2009-08-01 23:54:55 +00001465
Jeffrey Yasskinf7f858d2009-05-08 22:23:21 +00001466- Issue #5954: Add a PyFrame_GetLineNumber() function to replace most uses of
1467 PyCode_Addr2Line().
1468
Jeffrey Yasskin1aa47002009-05-08 21:51:06 +00001469- Issue #5959: Add a PyCode_NewEmpty() function to create a new empty code
1470 object at a specified file, function, and line number.
1471
Brett Cannonc4f90eb2009-04-02 03:17:39 +00001472- Issue #1419652: Change the first argument to PyImport_AppendInittab() to
1473 ``const char *`` as the string is stored beyond the call.
1474
Benjamin Peterson5781f322009-02-16 21:09:09 +00001475- Some PyBytes_* aliases have been removed because they don't exist in 3.x.
1476
Mark Dickinson4015f622009-02-10 15:46:50 +00001477- Issue #5175: PyLong_AsUnsignedLongLong now raises OverflowError
1478 for negative arguments. Previously, it raised TypeError.
1479
Benjamin Petersoncf2ce242008-12-22 20:52:53 +00001480- Issue #4720: The format for PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords can begin with '|'.
1481
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc3538a312008-12-15 22:29:14 +00001482- Issue #3632: from the gdb debugger, the 'pyo' macro can now be called when
1483 the GIL is released, or owned by another thread.
1484
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc07d539d2008-10-14 21:47:22 +00001485- Issue #4122: On Windows, fix a compilation error when using the
1486 Py_UNICODE_ISSPACE macro in an extension module.
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +00001487
Kristján Valur Jónssonc22ab182009-01-12 09:24:04 +00001488- Issue #4293: Py_AddPendingCall is now thread safe and can be used for
1489 asynchronous notifications to python from any thread. Documentation added.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc07d539d2008-10-14 21:47:22 +00001490
Benjamin Peterson9dfe6a82008-11-24 04:09:03 +00001491Extension Modules
1492-----------------
1493
Mark Dickinson3d830822009-10-08 15:54:10 +00001494- Issue #7078: Set struct.__doc__ from _struct.__doc__.
1495
Mark Dickinsonb93fff02009-09-28 18:54:55 +00001496- Issue #3366: Add gamma function to math module.
1497
Brett Cannon4d947432009-09-22 00:29:48 +00001498- Issue #6823: Allow time.strftime() to accept a tuple with a isdst field
1499 outside of the range of [-1, 1] by normalizing the value to within that
1500 range.
1501
Ronald Oussoren9f20d9d2009-09-20 14:18:15 +00001502- Issue #6877: Make it possible to link the readline extension to libedit
1503 on OSX.
1504
Georg Brandlab849892009-09-19 07:35:07 +00001505- Issue #6944: Fix a SystemError when socket.getnameinfo() was called
1506 with something other than a tuple as first argument.
1507
Benjamin Peterson7f6d0832009-09-08 23:04:22 +00001508- Issue #6865: Fix reference counting issue in the initialization of the pwd
1509 module.
1510
Mark Dickinson6b3f1ef2009-09-06 21:21:05 +00001511- Issue #6848: Fix curses module build failure on OS X 10.6.
1512
Brett Cannon764465f2009-08-13 19:27:12 +00001513- Fix a segfault in expat when given a specially crafted input lead to the
1514 tokenizer not stopping.
1515
Mark Dickinsonfe67bd92009-07-28 20:35:03 +00001516- Issue #6561: '\d' in a regex now matches only characters with
1517 Unicode category 'Nd' (Number, Decimal Digit). Previously it also
1518 matched characters with category 'No'.
1519
Mark Dickinson5fd3af22009-07-07 15:08:28 +00001520- Issue #1523: Remove deprecated overflow wrapping for struct.pack
1521 with an integer format code ('bBhHiIlLqQ'). Packing an out-of-range
1522 integer now consistently raises struct.error.
1523
Mark Dickinson463dc4b2009-07-05 10:01:24 +00001524- Issues #1530559, #1741130: Fix various struct.pack inconsistencies
1525 for the integer formats ('bBhHiIlLqQ'). In the following, '*'
1526 represents any of '=', '<', '>'.
1527
1528 - Packing a float now always gives a Deprecation Warning.
1529 Previously it only warned for 'I', 'L', '*B', '*H', '*I', '*L'.
1530
1531 - If x is not an int, long or float, then packing x will always
1532 result in struct.error. Previously an x with an __int__ method
1533 could be packed by 'b', 'B', 'h', 'H', 'i', 'l', '*b', '*h'
1534 ,'*i', '*l', and an x with a __long__ method could be packed by
1535 'q', 'Q', '*q', '*Q'; for x with neither __int__ nor __long__,
1536 TypeError used to be raised (with a confusing error message) for
1537 'I', 'L', '*B', '*H', '*I', '*L', and struct.error in other cases.
1538
Martin v. Löwis4f16d3b2009-05-29 15:58:08 +00001539- Issue #4873: Fix resource leaks in error cases of pwd and grp.
1540
Gregory P. Smithd02eeda2009-05-04 00:16:49 +00001541- Issue #4751: For hashlib algorithms provided by OpenSSL, the Python
1542 GIL is now released during computation on data lengths >= 2048 bytes.
1543
Gregory P. Smithea388262009-02-13 03:00:00 +00001544- Issue #3745: Fix hashlib to always reject unicode and non buffer-api
1545 supporting objects as input no matter how it was compiled (built in
1546 implementations or external openssl library).
1547
Mark Dickinsona200dd52009-01-15 15:17:43 +00001548- Issue #4397: Fix occasional test_socket failure on OS X.
Mark Dickinsone82cdae2009-01-15 14:54:37 +00001549
Martin v. Löwisb3b7d852009-01-11 09:26:54 +00001550- Issue #4279: Fix build of parsermodule under Cygwin.
1551
Martin v. Löwis9ac49272009-01-02 20:40:14 +00001552- Issue #4051: Prevent conflict of UNICODE macros in cPickle.
1553
Georg Brandl6269fec2009-01-01 12:15:31 +00001554- Issue #4228: Pack negative values the same way as 2.4 in struct's L format.
1555
Martin v. Löwis03824e42008-12-29 18:17:34 +00001556- Issue #1040026: Fix os.times result on systems where HZ is incorrect.
1557
Mark Dickinson4c96fa52008-12-11 19:28:08 +00001558- Issues #3167, #3682: Fix test_math failures for log, log10 on Solaris,
1559 OpenBSD.
1560
Martin v. Löwisbcb017f2008-11-30 19:28:27 +00001561- Issue #4365: Add crtassem.h constants to the msvcrt module.
1562
Benjamin Peterson9dfe6a82008-11-24 04:09:03 +00001563- Issue #4396: The parser module now correctly validates the with statement.
1564
Jack Diederichd60c29e2009-03-31 23:46:48 +00001565- Issue #5228: Make functools.partial objects can now be pickled.
1566
Guilherme Polob1a98de2009-01-28 20:03:26 +00001567Tests
1568-----
1569
R. David Murray7f7eea62009-11-14 15:18:22 +00001570- Issue #7312: Add a -F flag to run the selected tests in a loop until
1571 a test fails. Can be combined with -j.
1572
Antoine Pitrou310c9fe2009-11-11 20:55:07 +00001573- Issue #7295: Do not use a hardcoded file name in test_tarfile.
1574
Antoine Pitrouc98efe02009-11-06 22:34:35 +00001575- Issue #7270: Add some dedicated unit tests for multi-thread synchronization
1576 primitives such as Lock, RLock, Condition, Event and Semaphore.
1577
Antoine Pitrou59c44f32009-10-30 17:07:08 +00001578- Issue #7222: Make thread "reaping" more reliable so that reference
1579 leak-chasing test runs give sensible results. The previous method of
1580 reaping threads could return successfully while some Thread objects were
1581 still referenced. This also introduces a new private function:
1582 :func:`thread._count()`.
1583
R. David Murray282396f2009-10-18 21:12:37 +00001584- Issue #7151: fixed regrtest -j so that output to stderr from a test no
1585 longer runs the risk of causing the worker thread to fail.
1586
Antoine Pitrou58d2f262009-10-10 20:52:11 +00001587- Issue #7055: test___all__ now greedily detects all modules which have an
1588 __all__ attribute, rather than using a hardcoded and incomplete list.
1589
R. David Murray14dcd432009-10-14 13:58:07 +00001590- Issue #7058: Added save/restore for things like sys.argv and cwd to
1591 runtest_inner in regrtest, with warnings if the called test modifies them,
1592 and a new section in the summary report at the end.
R. David Murrayabe3d3e2009-10-05 17:03:09 +00001593
Mark Dickinson245d9152009-10-04 18:38:39 +00001594- Issue #7042: Fix test_signal (test_itimer_virtual) failure on OS X 10.6.
1595
Brett Cannone7e941e2009-09-03 21:25:21 +00001596- Issue #6806: test_platform failed under OS X 10.6.0 because ``sw_ver`` leaves
1597 off the trailing 0 in the version number.
1598
Guilherme Polo7f146ab2009-06-21 17:22:50 +00001599- Issue #5450: Moved tests involving loading tk from Lib/test/test_tcl to
1600 Lib/lib-tk/test/test_tkinter/test_loadtk. With this, these tests demonstrate
1601 the same behaviour as test_ttkguionly (and now also test_tk) which is to
1602 skip the tests if DISPLAY is defined but can't be used.
1603
Antoine Pitrou4698d992009-05-31 14:20:14 +00001604- Issue #6152: New option '-j'/'--multiprocess' for regrtest allows running
1605 regression tests in parallel, shortening the total runtime.
1606
Nick Coghlan5533ff62009-04-22 15:26:04 +00001607- Issue #5354: New test support function import_fresh_module() makes
1608 it easy to import both normal and optimised versions of modules.
1609 test_heapq and test_warnings have been adjusted to use it, tests for
1610 other modules with both C and Python implementations in the stdlib
1611 can be adjusted to use it over time.
1612
Brett Cannonce3d2212009-04-01 20:25:48 +00001613- Fix test_warnings to no longer reset the warnings filter.
1614
Brett Cannon2da4d622009-04-01 19:57:10 +00001615- Fix test_logging to no longer reset the warnings filter.
1616
Georg Brandld8fb6ac2009-04-01 00:04:33 +00001617- Issue #5635: Fix running test_sys with tracing enabled.
1618
R. David Murray41448c52009-03-31 19:57:24 +00001619- regrtest no longer treats ImportError as equivalent to SkipTest. Imports
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +00001620 that should cause a test to be skipped are now done using import_module
R. David Murray41448c52009-03-31 19:57:24 +00001621 from test support, which does the conversion.
1622
Guilherme Polob1a98de2009-01-28 20:03:26 +00001623- Issue #5083: New 'gui' resource for regrtest.
1624
Walter Dörwalda1453172009-04-25 12:15:07 +00001625- Issue #5837: Certain sequences of calls to set() and unset() for
1626 support.EnvironmentVarGuard objects restored the environment variables
1627 incorrectly on __exit__.
1628
Alexandre Vassalotti999ecc02009-07-15 18:19:47 +00001629- Issue #2389: Array objects are now pickled in a portable manner.
1630
Brett Cannon813c43a2009-11-08 21:35:28 +00001631Misc
1632----
1633
1634- Issue #5611: Auto-detect whether a C file uses tabs or spaces in Vim.
1635
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +00001636
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +00001637What's New in Python 2.6 final
1638==============================
1639
Barry Warsawafa14362008-10-01 21:46:40 +00001640*Release date: 01-Oct-2008*
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +00001641
1642Core and Builtins
1643-----------------
1644
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfc5ea392008-09-26 22:34:08 +00001645- Issue #3967: Fixed a crash in the count() and find() methods of string-like
1646 objects, when the "start" parameter is a huge value.
1647
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc17617a02008-09-25 20:52:56 +00001648- Issue #3965: Fixed a crash on Windows when open() is given an invalid
1649 filename or mode, and the filename is a unicode string.
1650
Martin v. Löwise86b07c2008-09-25 04:12:50 +00001651- Bug #3951: Py_USING_MEMORY_DEBUGGER should not be enabled by default.
1652
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +00001653Library
1654-------
1655
Martin v. Löwise563aa42008-09-29 22:09:07 +00001656- Issue #3965: Allow repeated calls to turtle.Screen, by making it a
1657 true singleton object.
1658
Brett Cannonb2d61bd2008-09-29 03:41:21 +00001659- Issue #3895: It was possible to crash the interpreter when an external timer
1660 was used with cProfile that returned an object that could not be converted
1661 into a float.
1662
Benjamin Peterson22d3c922008-09-25 20:35:45 +00001663- Issue #3950: Made turtle respect scale factors.
1664
Thomas Hellera85c95d2008-09-24 18:26:05 +00001665- Issue #3547: Fixed ctypes structures bitfields of varying integer
1666 sizes.
1667
Benjamin Peterson2c7470d2008-09-21 21:27:51 +00001668- Issue #3879: A regression in urllib.getproxies_enviroment was fixed.
1669
Gregory P. Smith08067492008-09-30 20:41:13 +00001670- Issue #3863: Disabled a unit test of fork being called from a thread
1671 when running on platforms known to exhibit OS bugs when attempting that.
1672
Martin v. Löwis175d0072008-09-19 15:21:07 +00001673Build
1674-----
1675
Martin v. Löwisd69c9042008-10-01 11:19:50 +00001676- Bug #3989: Package the 2to3 script (as 2to3.py) in the Windows
1677 installer.
1678
Martin v. Löwis175d0072008-09-19 15:21:07 +00001679- Bug #3887: Package x64 version of CRT for AMD64 Windows binaries.
1680
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +00001681
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +00001682What's New in Python 2.6 release candidate 2?
1683=============================================
1684
Barry Warsaw6af16192008-09-18 04:33:43 +00001685*Release date: 17-Sep-2008*
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +00001686
1687Core and Builtins
1688-----------------
1689
Benjamin Peterson8c2b7dc2008-09-18 01:22:16 +00001690Extension Modules
1691-----------------
1692
Benjamin Peterson8d77d442008-09-30 01:31:49 +00001693- Security Issue #2: imageop did not validate arguments correctly and could
1694 segfault as a result.
1695
Benjamin Peterson8c2b7dc2008-09-18 01:22:16 +00001696- Issue #3886: Possible integer overflows in the _hashopenssl module were
1697 closed.
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +00001698
Antoine Pitrou3c9f5412008-09-13 20:30:30 +00001699Tools/Demos
1700-----------
1701
Georg Brandl2bd92a52009-10-11 21:10:07 +00001702- Issue #3850: recursion tests in Tools/scripts/find_recursion_limit.py can raise
Antoine Pitrou3c9f5412008-09-13 20:30:30 +00001703 AttributeError instead of RuntimeError, depending in which C API call
1704 exactly the recursion limit is exceeded. Consequently, both exception types
1705 are caught and silenced.
1706
Martin v. Löwis4eb18f92008-09-14 20:22:39 +00001707Build
1708-----
1709
1710- Issue #3617: Include a licensing statement regarding the Microsoft
1711 C runtime in the Windows installer.
1712
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +00001713
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +00001714What's New in Python 2.6 release candidate 1?
1715=============================================
1716
Barry Warsaw1e62aec2008-09-12 23:25:57 +00001717*Release date: 12-Sep-2008*
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +00001718
1719Core and Builtins
1720-----------------
1721
Martin v. Löwis9fa5a282008-09-11 06:53:30 +00001722- Issue #3642: Suppress warning in obmalloc when size_t is larger than uint.
1723
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc05e34492008-09-10 22:04:45 +00001724- Issue #3743: In a few places, PY_FORMAT_SIZE_T was incorrectly used with
1725 PyString_FromFormat or PyErr_Format to display size_t values. The macro
1726 PY_FORMAT_SIZE_T is designed to select the correct format for the OS
1727 ``printf`` function, whereas PyString_FromFormat has an independent
1728 implementation and uses "%zd" on all platforms for size_t values.
1729 This makes a difference on win64, where ``printf`` needs "%Id" to display
1730 64bit values.
1731
Benjamin Peterson97179b02008-09-09 20:55:01 +00001732- Issue #3634: _weakref.ref(Exception).__init__() gave invalid return value on
1733 error.
1734
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd3ffb892008-09-09 07:24:30 +00001735- Issue #3777: long() applied to a float object now always return a long
1736 object; previously an int would be returned for small values. the __long__
1737 method is allowed to return either an int or a long, but the behaviour of
1738 float objects should not change to respect backward compatibility.
1739
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc3571fbf2008-09-01 19:52:00 +00001740- Issue #3751: str.rpartition would perform a left-partition when called with
1741 a unicode argument.
1742
Benjamin Peterson17f03ca2008-09-01 14:18:30 +00001743- Issue #3683: Fix compilation when --without-threads is given.
1744
Antoine Pitroud4ae97b2008-08-29 18:39:48 +00001745- Issue #3668: Fix a memory leak with the "s*" argument parser in
Vinay Sajip35e3b032008-09-01 14:33:59 +00001746 PyArg_ParseTuple and friends, which occurred when the argument for "s*"
Antoine Pitroud4ae97b2008-08-29 18:39:48 +00001747 was correctly parsed but parsing of subsequent arguments failed.
1748
Vinay Sajip35e3b032008-09-01 14:33:59 +00001749- Issue #2534: speed up isinstance() and issubclass() by 50-70%, so as to
Antoine Pitrou0668c622008-08-26 22:42:08 +00001750 match Python 2.5 speed despite the __instancecheck__ / __subclasscheck__
1751 mechanism. In the process, fix a bug where isinstance() and issubclass(),
1752 when given a tuple of classes as second argument, were looking up
1753 __instancecheck__ / __subclasscheck__ on the tuple rather than on each
1754 type object.
1755
Neal Norwitz18aa3882008-08-24 05:04:52 +00001756- Fix crashes on memory allocation failure found with failmalloc.
1757
1758- Fix memory leaks found with valgrind and update suppressions file.
1759
1760- Fix compiler warnings in opt mode which would lead to invalid memory reads.
1761
1762- Fix problem using wrong name in decimal module reported by pychecker.
1763
Christian Heimes7d4c3172008-08-22 19:47:25 +00001764- Silenced another compiler warning about a used but not defined
1765 function 'stringlib_contains_obj'.
1766
Benjamin Peterson712ee922008-08-24 18:10:20 +00001767- Added warnings on the use of ``__getslice__``, ``__setslice__``, or
1768 ``__delslice__``.
1769
Gregory P. Smith2bb25cc2008-09-02 05:29:51 +00001770- Issue #3678: Correctly pass LDFLAGS and LDLAST to the linker on shared
1771 library targets in the Makefile.
1772
Gregory P. Smith980b99b2008-09-07 05:15:18 +00001773- Issue #1204: The configure script now tests for additional libraries
1774 that may be required when linking against readline. This fixes issues
1775 with x86_64 builds on some platforms (a few Linux flavors and OpenBSD).
1776
Benjamin Peterson14cb6bc2008-08-26 17:08:40 +00001777C-API
1778-----
1779
1780- Aliased PyObject_Bytes to PyObject_Str.
1781
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +00001782Library
1783-------
1784
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc24cb3822008-09-11 20:56:13 +00001785- Issue #3640: Pickling a list or a dict uses less local variables, to reduce
1786 stack usage in the case of deeply nested objects.
1787
Guido van Rossume3c4fd92008-09-10 14:27:00 +00001788- Issue #3629: Fix sre "bytecode" validator for an end case.
1789
Martin v. Löwis24329ba2008-09-10 13:38:12 +00001790- Issue #3811: The Unicode database was updated to 5.1.
1791
Nick Coghland2e09382008-09-11 12:11:06 +00001792- Issue #3781: Further warnings.catch_warnings() cleanup to prevent
1793 silent misbehaviour when a single instance is nested in multiple
1794 with statements, or when the methods are invoked in the wrong order.
1795
Vinay Sajip844f7412008-09-09 13:42:08 +00001796- Issue #3809: Fixed spurious 'test.blah' file left behind by test_logging.
1797
Nick Coghland2e09382008-09-11 12:11:06 +00001798- Issue #3781: Clean up the API for warnings.catch_warnings() by having it
Brett Cannon672237d2008-09-09 00:49:16 +00001799 return a list or None rather than a custom object.
1800
Benjamin Peterson6ac7d7c2008-09-06 19:28:11 +00001801- Issue #1638033: Cookie.Morsel gained the httponly attribute.
1802
Antoine Pitrouebcd0ce2008-09-05 23:30:23 +00001803- Issue #3535: zipfile couldn't read some zip files larger than 2GB.
1804
1805- Issue #3776: Deprecate the bsddb package for removal in 3.0.
Brett Cannon32476fc2008-09-05 18:33:51 +00001806
Hirokazu Yamamoto42e459e2008-09-04 14:25:30 +00001807- Issue #3762: platform.architecture() fails if python is lanched via
1808 its symbolic link.
1809
Vinay Sajip65d66e12008-09-04 07:31:21 +00001810- Issue #3772: Fixed regression problem in StreamHandler.emit().
1811
Facundo Batistac585df92008-09-03 22:35:50 +00001812- Issue 600362: Relocated parse_qs() and parse_qsl(), from the cgi module
1813 to the urlparse one. Added a PendingDeprecationWarning in the old
1814 module, it will be deprecated in the future.
1815
Marc-André Lemburgb339b2a2008-09-03 11:13:56 +00001816- Issue #2562: Fix distutils PKG-INFO writing logic to allow having
1817 non-ascii characters and Unicode in setup.py meta-data.
1818
1819- Issue #3726: Allow spaces in separators in logging configuration files.
Vinay Sajip6a2fd812008-09-03 09:20:05 +00001820
Marc-André Lemburg31a0a142008-09-02 12:11:19 +00001821- Issue #3719: platform.architecture() fails if there are spaces in the
1822 path to the Python binary.
1823
Brett Cannon1eaf0742008-09-02 01:25:16 +00001824- Issue 3602: Moved test.test_support.catch_warning() to
1825 warnings.catch_warnings() along with some API cleanup. Expanding the tests
1826 for catch_warnings() also led to an improvement in the raising of a
1827 DeprecationWarning related to warnings.warn_explicit().
1828
Benjamin Peterson973e6c22008-09-01 23:12:58 +00001829- The deprecation warnings for the old camelCase threading API were removed.
1830
Vinay Sajip35e3b032008-09-01 14:33:59 +00001831- logging: fixed lack of use of encoding attribute specified on a stream.
1832
Christian Heimesa27a62e2008-08-22 19:55:54 +00001833- Silenced a trivial compiler warning in the sqlite module.
1834
Christian Heimes1cc69632008-08-22 20:10:27 +00001835- Fixed two format strings in the _collections module.
1836
Benjamin Peterson17f03ca2008-09-01 14:18:30 +00001837- Issue #3703: _fileio.FileIO gave unhelpful error message when trying to open a
1838 directory.
Benjamin Petersonf22c26e2008-09-01 14:13:43 +00001839
Gregory P. Smithd7122032008-09-02 05:36:11 +00001840- Issue #3708: os.urandom no longer goes into an infinite loop when passed a
1841 non-integer floating point number.
1842
Vinay Sajip65d66e12008-09-04 07:31:21 +00001843- Issue #3110: multiprocessing fails to compiel on solaris 10 due to missing
Jesse Nollerb814d6a2008-09-03 18:10:30 +00001844 SEM_VALUE_MAX.
1845
Benjamin Peterson37346b22008-08-23 20:27:43 +00001846Extension Modules
1847-----------------
1848
Jesse Noller438195f2009-01-18 21:04:36 +00001849- Issue #4301: Patch the logging module to add processName support, remove
1850 _check_logger_class from multiprocessing.
1851
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc293924b2008-09-02 23:19:56 +00001852- Issue #2975: When compiling several extension modules with Visual Studio 2008
1853 from the same python interpreter, some environment variables would grow
1854 without limit.
1855
Benjamin Peterson37346b22008-08-23 20:27:43 +00001856- Issue #3643: Added a few more checks to _testcapi to prevent segfaults by
1857 exploitation of poor argument checking.
1858
Gerhard Häringef2276b2008-09-12 13:54:06 +00001859- sqlite3: Changed docstring of iterdump() to mark method as "Non-standard".
1860
Gerhard Häring6e1afcf2008-09-12 18:58:57 +00001861- Issue #3103: Reduced globals symbols used by sqlite3 module and made sure all
1862 remaining ones have "pysqlite_" prefix.
1863
Gerhard Häringe6872eb2008-09-12 22:33:22 +00001864- Issue #3846: Release the GIL during sqlite3_prepare calls. This improves
1865 concurrent access to the same SQLite database from multiple
1866 threads/processes.
1867
Brett Cannona0b74442008-09-03 22:45:11 +00001868Tests
1869-----
1870
Nick Coghland2e09382008-09-11 12:11:06 +00001871- Issue #3781: Add test.test_support.check_warnings() as a convenience
1872 wrapper for warnings.catch_warnings() that makes it easier to check
1873 that expected warning messages are being reported.
1874
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfeb8cad2008-09-06 20:53:51 +00001875- Issue #3796: Some tests functions were not enabled in test_float.
1876
1877- Issue #3768: Move test_py3kwarn over to the new API for catch_warnings().
Brett Cannona0b74442008-09-03 22:45:11 +00001878
Brett Cannoncdeb24b2008-09-05 22:59:17 +00001879Build
1880-----
1881
Martin v. Löwisab0b29b2008-09-13 08:11:57 +00001882- Issue #3833: Use a different upgrade code for Win64 installers.
1883
Martin v. Löwis3f5fda82008-09-08 13:50:10 +00001884- Issue #2271: Set SecureCustomProperties so that installation will properly
1885 use the TARGETDIR even for unprivileged users.
1886
Martin v. Löwis67543a92008-09-08 12:02:45 +00001887- Allow passing the MSI file name to merge.py.
1888
Vinay Sajip844f7412008-09-09 13:42:08 +00001889- Issue #3758: Rename the 'check' target to 'patchcheck' so as to not clash
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfeb8cad2008-09-06 20:53:51 +00001890 with GNU build target guidelines.
Brett Cannoncdeb24b2008-09-05 22:59:17 +00001891
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +00001892
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00001893What's New in Python 2.6 beta 3?
1894================================
1895
Barry Warsaw07a4a382008-08-21 01:15:08 +00001896*Release date: 20-Aug-2008*
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00001897
1898Core and Builtins
1899-----------------
1900
Guido van Rossumf8402962008-08-20 15:01:50 +00001901- Issue #1878: Remove Py_TPFLAGS_HAVE_VERSION_TAG from
1902 Py_TPFLAGS_DEFAULT when not building the core. This means 3rd party
1903 extensions do not automatically benefit from the class attribute
1904 cache; they will have to explicitly add Py_TPFLAGS_HAVE_VERSION_TAG
1905 to their tp_flags field if they care. This is a backwards
1906 compatibility feature; in 3.0, all types will use the cache by
1907 default.
1908
Benjamin Petersonf647dc12008-08-20 01:27:30 +00001909- Keyword arguments can now follow starred arguments. (``f(a, *args,
1910 keyword=23)`` is now valid syntax.)
1911
Thomas Heller0ad5ae02008-08-19 19:25:04 +00001912- ctypes function pointers that are COM methods have a boolean True
1913 value again.
1914
Martin v. Löwisf91d46a2008-08-12 14:49:50 +00001915- Issue #3139: Make buffer-interface thread-safe wrt. PyArg_ParseTuple,
1916 by denying s# to parse objects that have a releasebuffer procedure,
1917 and introducing s*.
1918
Georg Brandl1e13ea92008-08-11 09:07:59 +00001919- Issue #3537: Fix an assertion failure when an empty but presized dict
1920 object was stored in the freelist.
1921
Mark Dickinsonb6467572008-08-04 21:30:09 +00001922- Issue #1481296: Make long(float('nan')) and int(float('nan')) raise
1923 ValueError consistently across platforms.
1924
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc39fd6722008-07-31 21:28:03 +00001925- Issue #3479: On platforms where sizeof(int) is smaller than sizeof(long)
1926 (64bit Unix, for example), unichr() would truncate its argument and return
1927 u'\x00' for unichr(2**32). Now it properly raises an OverflowError.
1928
Neal Norwitze7d8be82008-07-31 17:17:14 +00001929- Apply security patches from Apple.
1930
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc246daed2008-07-31 00:42:16 +00001931- Issue #2542: Now that issubclass() may call arbitrary code, ensure that
1932 PyErr_ExceptionMatches returns 0 when an exception occurs there.
1933
Antoine Pitrou92f82162008-07-25 22:22:08 +00001934- Issue #1819: function calls with several named parameters are now on
1935 average 35% faster (as measured by pybench).
1936
Amaury Forgeot d'Arce4921fe2008-07-21 22:00:38 +00001937- Issue #2378: An unexpected UnboundLocalError or NameError could appear when
1938 the python debugger steps into a class statement: the free variables (local
1939 variables defined in an outer scope) would be deleted from the outer scope.
1940
Gregory P. Smith0470bab2008-07-22 04:46:32 +00001941- Issue #2620: Overflow checking when allocating or reallocating memory
1942 was not always being done properly in some python types and extension
1943 modules. PyMem_MALLOC, PyMem_REALLOC, PyMem_NEW and PyMem_RESIZE have
1944 all been updated to perform better checks and places in the code that
1945 would previously leak memory on the error path when such an allocation
1946 failed have been fixed.
1947
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00001948Library
1949-------
1950
Hirokazu Yamamoto838c79f2008-08-20 13:14:07 +00001951- Issue #3612: Added some missing basic types in ctypes.wintypes.
1952
Benjamin Petersone977ad42008-08-20 01:42:01 +00001953- The methods ``is_in_tuple()``, ``is_vararg()``, and ``is_keywordarg()`` of
1954 symtable.Symbol have been deprecated for removal in 3.0 and the next release.
1955
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc351ffb82008-08-18 19:23:47 +00001956- Issue #2234: distutils failed for some versions of the cygwin compiler. The
1957 version reported by these tools does not necessarily follow the python
1958 version numbering scheme, so the module is less strict when parsing it.
1959
Nick Coghlanf70385a2008-08-18 12:42:46 +00001960- Issue #2235: Added Py3k warnings for types which will become unhashable
1961 under the stricter __hash__ inheritance rules in 3.0. Several types
1962 which did not meet the rules for hash invariants and were already
1963 unhashable in 3.0 have now been explicitly flagged as unhashable in
1964 2.6 as well (collections.Mapping, collections.Set, unittest.TestSuite,
1965 xml.dom.minidom.NamedNodeMap, numbers.Number, UserList.UserList)
1966
Brett Cannon88f801d2008-08-18 00:46:22 +00001967- Update __all__ for cookielib, csv, os, urllib2, and weakref to include things
1968 imported into the module but exposed as part of the module's API.
1969
Brett Cannon7b96f072008-08-18 00:41:11 +00001970- Remove an unneeded import of abc.ABCMeta from 'inspect'.
1971
Brett Cannon46225e72008-08-18 00:36:52 +00001972- Remove unneeded imports of 'sys' and 'warnings' from 'io'.
1973
Brett Cannon25c9d6a2008-08-17 22:10:11 +00001974- Remove unneeded imports of 'warnings' from shelve, filecmp, and dummy_thread.
1975
Hirokazu Yamamoto41a81eb2008-08-17 13:10:46 +00001976- Issue #3575: Incremental decoder's decode function now takes bytearray
1977 by using 's*' instead of 't#'.
1978
Mark Dickinson3e4caeb2009-02-21 20:27:01 +00001979- Issue #2222: Fixed reference leak when occurred os.rename()
Hirokazu Yamamoto7f30a682008-08-17 09:46:56 +00001980 fails unicode conversion on 2nd parameter. (windows only)
1981
Facundo Batista94f243a2008-08-17 03:38:39 +00001982- Issue 2464. urllib2 now supports a malformation in the URL received
1983 in a redirect.
1984
Brett Cannonabe423e2008-08-16 21:47:07 +00001985- Silence the DeprecationWarning raised when importing mimetools in
Brett Cannon721b1452008-08-16 22:00:27 +00001986 BaseHTTPServer, cgi (and rfc822), httplib.
Brett Cannonabe423e2008-08-16 21:47:07 +00001987
Facundo Batistaeb90b782008-08-16 14:44:07 +00001988- Issue #2776: fixed small issue when handling an URL with double slash
1989 after a 302 response in the case of not going through a proxy.
1990
Antoine Pitroub90a8be2008-08-15 21:03:21 +00001991- Issue #2676: in the email package, content-type parsing was hanging on
1992 pathological input because of quadratic or exponential behaviour of a
1993 regular expression.
1994
Antoine Pitrou11ec65d2008-08-14 21:04:30 +00001995- Issue #3476: binary buffered reading through the new "io" library is now
1996 thread-safe.
1997
Brett Cannonbf3157b2008-08-14 05:00:03 +00001998- Silence the DeprecationWarning of rfc822 when it is imported by mimetools
1999 since mimetools itself is deprecated. Because modules are cached, all
2000 subsequent imports of rfc822 will not raise a visible DeprecationWarning.
2001
Antoine Pitrou9fcd4b32008-08-11 17:21:36 +00002002- Issue #3134: shutil referenced undefined WindowsError symbol.
2003
Robert Schuppenies14646332008-08-10 11:01:53 +00002004- Issue #1342811: Fix leak in Tkinter.Menu.delete. Commands associated to
2005 menu entries were not deleted.
2006
Brett Cannon83e81842008-08-09 23:30:55 +00002007- Copied the implementation of reduce() to _functools.reduce() to have a
2008 version that did not raise a DeprecationWarning under -3.
2009
Antoine Pitrou76b8bee2008-08-09 17:27:23 +00002010- Issue #3205: When iterating over a BZ2File fails allocating memory, raise
2011 a MemoryError rather than silently stop the iteration.
2012
Guido van Rossum59ce9012008-08-09 14:55:34 +00002013- Issue #3487: sre "bytecode" validator. Passing invalid "re-bytecode"
2014 to _sre.compile() will now be rejected. This should not affect anybody
2015 since the re.compile() function never generates invalid re-bytecode.
2016
Skip Montanaroa032bf42008-08-08 22:52:51 +00002017- Issue #3436: Make csv.DictReader's fieldnames attribute a property so that
2018 upon first access it can be automatically initialized from the csv file if
2019 it wasn't initialized during instantiation.
2020
Brett Cannon3aa2a492008-08-06 22:28:09 +00002021- Issue #2338: Create imp.reload() to help with transitioning to Python 3.0 as
2022 the reload() built-in has been removed.
2023
Brett Cannon7e30b672008-08-04 21:52:25 +00002024- Changed code in the following modules/packages to remove warnings raised
Brett Cannonc1b76e42008-08-09 23:06:16 +00002025 while running under the ``-3`` flag: aifc, asynchat, asyncore, bdb, bsddb,
Brett Cannon047e4a92008-08-17 04:16:04 +00002026 ConfigParser, cookielib, csv, difflib, distutils, DocXMLRPCServer, email,
2027 filecmp, fileinput, inspect, logging, modulefinder, pdb, pickle, profile,
2028 pstats, pydoc, re, rlcompleter, SimpleXMLRPCServer, shelve, socket,
2029 subprocess, sqlite3, tarfile, Tkinter, test.test_support, textwrap,
2030 threading, tokenize, traceback, urlparse, wsgiref, xml, xmlrpclib.
Brett Cannon7e30b672008-08-04 21:52:25 +00002031
Lars Gustäbel727bd0b2008-08-02 11:26:39 +00002032- Issue #3039: Fix tarfile.TarFileCompat.writestr() which always
2033 raised an AttributeError.
2034
Benjamin Peterson01a24322008-07-28 23:35:27 +00002035- Issue #2523: Fix quadratic behaviour when read()ing a binary file without
Antoine Pitroude781a42008-08-09 12:43:23 +00002036 asking for a specific length. This problem only affected files opened
2037 using the new "io" module, not the built-in open() function.
Benjamin Peterson01a24322008-07-28 23:35:27 +00002038
Mark Dickinsonfe84cce2008-07-27 06:39:07 +00002039- Issue #3449: Update decimal module to use most recent specification
2040 (v. 1.68) and tests (v. 2.58) from IBM.
2041
Skip Montanarof9ac43f2008-07-27 00:50:41 +00002042- Issue 3437: Bug fix in robotparser parsing of Allow: lines.
2043
Raymond Hettinger8c664e82008-07-25 18:43:33 +00002044- Issue 1592: Improve error reporting when operations are attempted
2045 on a closed shelf.
2046
Georg Brandlf9efabb2008-07-23 15:16:45 +00002047- Deprecate the "ast" parser function aliases.
2048
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00002049- Issue #3120: On 64-bit Windows the subprocess module was truncating handles.
2050
2051- Issue #3303: Fix a crash in locale.strcoll() when calling it with
2052 invalid arguments.
2053
2054- Issue #3302: Fix several crashes when calling locale's gettext functions
2055 with None arguments.
2056
2057- Issue #3389: Allow resolving dotted names for handlers in logging
2058 configuration files.
2059
2060- Deprecate the sunaudio module for removal in Python 3.0.
2061
Antoine Pitrou5fdfa3e2008-07-25 19:42:26 +00002062- Issue #3394: zipfile.writestr sets external attributes when passed a
2063 file name rather than a ZipInfo instance, so files are extracted with
2064 mode 0600 rather than 000 under Unix.
2065
Gregory P. Smitha36f8fe2008-08-04 00:13:29 +00002066- Issue #1857: subprocess.Popen.poll gained an additional _deadstate keyword
2067 argument in python 2.5, this broke code that subclassed Popen to include its
2068 own poll method. Fixed my moving _deadstate to an _internal_poll method.
2069
Martin v. Löwis8dbf3642008-08-01 14:10:26 +00002070Build
2071-----
2072
2073- Generate the PatternGrammar pickle during "make install".
2074
Nick Coghlan2a0c2b12008-08-04 12:47:17 +00002075Documentation
2076-------------
2077
Nick Coghlan6e8fef02008-08-18 13:14:22 +00002078- Issue #2235: the C API function PyObject_HashNotImplemented and its
2079 interaction with the tp_hash slot (added in 2.6b2) are now documented
2080
Nick Coghlan2a0c2b12008-08-04 12:47:17 +00002081- Issue #643841: The language reference now provides more detailed
2082 coverage of the lookup process for special methods. The disclaimers
2083 regarding lack of coverage of new-style classes have also been
2084 removed, since the coverage is now fairly reasonable.
2085
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00002086
Raymond Hettingere3ae6552008-06-20 04:18:15 +00002087What's New in Python 2.6 beta 2?
2088================================
2089
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00002090*Release date: 17-Jul-2008*
2091
Raymond Hettingere3ae6552008-06-20 04:18:15 +00002092Core and Builtins
2093-----------------
2094
Georg Brandl3e483f62008-07-16 22:57:41 +00002095- Issue #3156: Fix inconsistent behavior of the bytearray type: all
2096 its methods now allow for items objects that can be converted to
2097 an integer using operator.index().
2098
Mark Dickinson64b7e502008-07-16 09:40:03 +00002099- Issue #3360: Fix incorrect parsing of '020000000000.0', which
2100 produced a ValueError instead of giving the correct float.
2101
Eric Smitha5fa5a22008-07-16 00:11:49 +00002102- Issue #3083: Add alternate (#) formatting for bin, oct, hex output
2103 for str.format(). This adds the prefix 0b, 0o, or 0x, respectively.
2104
Mark Dickinson7103aa42008-07-15 19:08:33 +00002105- Issue #3008: the float type has a new instance method 'float.hex'
2106 and a new class method 'float.fromhex' to convert floating-point
2107 numbers to and from hexadecimal strings, respectively.
2108
Nick Coghlan6d6bd442008-07-15 15:40:22 +00002109- Issue #2235: __hash__ is once again inherited by default. To allow
2110 collections.Hashable to remain meaningful in the presence of the
2111 default hash implementation (object.__hash__), it is now possible
2112 to explicit block inheritance of hash by setting __hash__=None at
2113 the Python level, or tp_hash=PyObject_HashNotImplemented at the C
2114 level.
2115
Nick Coghlanb028f502008-07-13 14:52:36 +00002116- Issue #3221: Issue a RuntimeWarning instead of raising SystemError if
2117 the parent module cannot be found while performing an absolute import.
2118 This means that an incorrectly defined __package__ attribute will
2119 now only prevent relative imports in that module rather than causing
2120 all imports from that module to fail.
2121
Nick Coghlan14ff9942008-07-08 14:21:42 +00002122- Issue #2517: Allow unicode messages in Exceptions again by correctly
2123 bypassing the instance dictionary when looking up __unicode__ on
2124 new-style classes.
2125
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcbdd941f2008-07-01 20:38:04 +00002126- Issue #3242: Fix a crash inside the print statement, if sys.stdout is
2127 set to a custom object whose write() method happens to install
2128 another file in sys.stdout.
2129
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc1f40c8a2008-06-30 22:42:40 +00002130- Issue #3088: Corrected a race condition in classes derived from
2131 threading.local: the first member set by a thread could be saved in
2132 another thread's dictionary.
2133
Mark Dickinson1ec2fcd2008-06-20 14:53:43 +00002134- Issue #3004: Minor change to slice.indices(): the start and stop
2135 arguments are now treated identically, making the behaviour easier
2136 to describe and understand. For example, slice(None, -10,
2137 1).indices(9) now returns (0, 0, 1) instead of (0, -1, 1), and
2138 slice(None, 10, -1).indices(10) returns (9, 9, -1) instead of (9,
2139 10, -1).
2140
Georg Brandl278fc502008-07-19 12:46:12 +00002141- Issue #3219: Calling a function with repeated keyword arguments,
2142 f(a=2, a=23), would not cause a syntax error. This was a regression
2143 from 2.4 caused by the switch to the new compiler.
Benjamin Peterson175e4d92008-07-01 19:34:52 +00002144
Georg Brandl278fc502008-07-19 12:46:12 +00002145- Issue #2862: Make int and float freelist management consistent with
2146 other freelists. Changes their CompactFreeList apis into
2147 ClearFreeList apis and calls them via gc.collect().
Gregory P. Smith2fe77062008-07-06 03:35:58 +00002148
Brett Cannon8bb8fa52008-07-02 01:57:08 +00002149Library
2150-------
2151
Thomas Heller57adf222008-08-14 19:10:48 +00002152- Issue #3554: ctypes.string_at and ctypes.wstring_at did call Python
2153 api functions without holding the GIL, which could lead to a fatal
2154 error when they failed.
2155
Martin v. Löwisaabf4042008-08-02 07:20:25 +00002156- Issue #799428: Fix Tkinter.Misc._nametowidget to unwrap Tcl command objects.
2157
Jesse Noller7fb96402008-07-17 21:01:05 +00002158- Issue #3395: fix reference in test_multiprocessing to old debugInfo method
2159
Georg Brandla24869a2008-07-16 22:33:18 +00002160- Issue #3312: Fix two crashes in sqlite3.
2161
Georg Brandl86cbf812008-07-16 21:31:41 +00002162- Issue #1608818: Fix misbehavior in os.listdir() if readdir() fails.
2163
Jesse Noller13e9d582008-07-16 14:32:36 +00002164- Issue #3125: Remove copy_reg in multiprocessing and replace it with
2165 ForkingPickler.register() to resolve conflict with ctypes.
2166
Vinay Sajip51e65192008-07-18 09:01:10 +00002167- Issue #3090: Fixed ARCHFLAGS parsing on OS/X
Jesse Noller13e9d582008-07-16 14:32:36 +00002168
Thomas Heller880f5292008-07-15 19:39:38 +00002169- Issue #3313: Fixed a crash when a failed dlopen() call does not set
2170 a valid dlerror() message.
2171
Thomas Heller2bad6572008-07-15 17:19:50 +00002172- Issue #3258: Fixed a crash when a ctypes POINTER type to an
2173 incomplete structure was created.
2174
Brett Cannon3d0b9f02008-07-13 01:15:07 +00002175- Issue #3339: dummy_thread.acquire() should not return None.
2176
Raymond Hettingerb01713e2008-07-10 14:34:57 +00002177- Issue #3285: Fractions from_float() and from_decimal() accept Integral arguments.
2178
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +00002179- Issue #3301: Bisect module behaved badly when lo was negative.
Raymond Hettinger3cd1e422008-07-10 14:03:19 +00002180
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc0f7cddc2008-07-06 21:34:39 +00002181- Issue #839496: SimpleHTTPServer used to open text files in text mode. This is
2182 both unnecessary (HTTP allows text content to be sent in several forms) and
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +00002183 wrong because the actual transmitted size could differ from the
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc0f7cddc2008-07-06 21:34:39 +00002184 content-length. The problem had been corrected in the 2.4 branch, but never
2185 merged into trunk.
2186
Georg Brandle78fbcc2008-07-05 10:13:36 +00002187- Issue #2663: add filtering capability to shutil.copytree().
2188
Martin v. Löwis8c436412008-07-03 12:51:14 +00002189- Issue #1622: Correct interpretation of various ZIP header fields.
2190
2191- Issue #1526: Allow more than 64k files to be added to Zip64 file.
2192
2193- Issue #1746: Correct handling of zipfile archive comments (previously
2194 archives with comments over 4k were flagged as invalid). Allow writing
Vinay Sajip51e65192008-07-18 09:01:10 +00002195 Zip files with archives by setting the 'comment' attribute of a ZipFile.
Martin v. Löwis8c436412008-07-03 12:51:14 +00002196
Vinay Sajip51e65192008-07-18 09:01:10 +00002197- Issue #449227: The rlcompleter module now adds "(" to callable objects
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +00002198 when completed.
Facundo Batista66c52772008-07-02 16:52:55 +00002199
Nick Coghlanc060b0e2008-07-02 13:09:19 +00002200- Issue #3190: Pydoc now hides the automatic module attribute __package__ (the
2201 handling is now the same as that of other special attributes like __name__).
2202
Brett Cannon8bb8fa52008-07-02 01:57:08 +00002203- Issue #2885 (partial): The urllib.urlopen() function has been deprecated for
2204 removal in Python 3.0 in favor of urllib2.urlopen().
2205
Gregory P. Smithf4140642008-07-06 07:16:40 +00002206- Issue #2113: Fix error in subprocess.Popen if the select system call is
2207 interrupted by a signal.
2208
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +00002209- Issue #3309: Fix bz2.BZFile iterator to release its internal lock
Gregory P. Smith3b1e6b22008-07-07 04:31:58 +00002210 properly when raising an exception due to the bz2file being closed.
2211 Prevents a deadlock.
2212
Gregory P. Smithc4691ec2008-07-07 05:09:12 +00002213- Issue #3094: httplib.HTTPSConnection Host: headers no longer include the
2214 redundant ":443" port number designation when the connection is using the
2215 default https port (443).
2216
Gregory P. Smithdb3409c2008-07-17 03:13:05 +00002217- Issue #874900: after an os.fork() call the threading module state is cleaned
2218 up in the child process to prevent deadlock and report proper thread counts
2219 if the new process uses the threading module.
2220
Nick Coghlan38469e22008-07-13 12:23:47 +00002221Tests
2222-----
2223
2224- test.test_support.catch_warning now keeps track of all warnings it sees
2225 and is now better documented. Explicit unit tests for this context manager
2226 have been added to test_warnings.
2227
Martin v. Löwisd84fd952008-06-30 06:57:39 +00002228Build
2229-----
2230
2231- Issue #3215: Build sqlite3 as sqlite3.dll, not sqlite3.pyd.
2232
Brett Cannon8bb8fa52008-07-02 01:57:08 +00002233
Brett Cannon97aa1ae2008-07-11 00:12:52 +00002234Documentation
2235-------------
2236
Brett Cannonfeef51d2008-07-11 00:50:01 +00002237- Document that robotparser has been renamed to urllib.robotparser in
Brett Cannon963ffdb2008-07-11 00:48:57 +00002238 Python 3.0.
2239
Brett Cannonf6afa332008-07-11 00:16:30 +00002240- Document that urlparse has been renamed to urllib.parse in Python 3.0.
2241
Brett Cannon97aa1ae2008-07-11 00:12:52 +00002242- Document that urllib2 is split across multiple modules and renamed in
2243 Python 3.0.
2244
2245- Document that urllib is split across multiple modules and renamed in
2246 Python 3.0.
2247
2248
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00002249What's New in Python 2.6 beta 1?
2250================================
2251
Barry Warsawb5d17402008-06-19 01:48:07 +00002252*Release date: 18-June-2008*
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00002253
2254Core and Builtins
2255-----------------
2256
Brett Cannondea1b562008-06-27 00:31:13 +00002257- Issue #3211: warnings.warn_explicit() did not guard against its 'registry'
2258 argument being anything other than a dict or None. Also fixed a bug in error
2259 handling when 'message' and 'category' were both set to None, triggering a
2260 bus error.
2261
Amaury Forgeot d'Arca8919fe2008-06-16 19:12:42 +00002262- Issue #3100: Corrected a crash on deallocation of a subclassed weakref which
2263 holds the last (strong) reference to its referent.
2264
Georg Brandl89f48872008-06-11 18:55:38 +00002265- Add future_builtins.ascii().
2266
Raymond Hettinger5c4d3d02008-06-09 13:07:27 +00002267- Several set methods now accept multiple arguments: update(), union(),
Raymond Hettinger4267be62008-06-11 10:30:54 +00002268 intersection(), intersection_update(), difference(), and difference_update().
Raymond Hettingeree4bcad2008-06-09 08:33:37 +00002269
Robert Schuppenies51df0642008-06-01 16:16:17 +00002270- Issue #2898: Added sys.getsizeof() to retrieve size of objects in bytes.
2271
Martin v. Löwis99815892008-06-01 07:20:46 +00002272- New environment variable PYTHONIOENCODING.
2273
Martin v. Löwis4dd019f2008-05-20 08:11:19 +00002274- Patch #2488: Add sys.maxsize.
2275
Georg Brandla9916b52008-05-17 22:11:54 +00002276- Issue #2353: file.xreadlines() now emits a Py3k warning.
2277
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002278- Issue #2863: generators now have a ``gen.__name__`` attribute that
2279 equals ``gen.gi_code.co_name``, like ``func.__name___`` that equals
2280 ``func.func_code.co_name``. The repr() of a generator now also
2281 contains this name.
Georg Brandlc91210c2008-05-15 15:08:32 +00002282
Georg Brandlbd85eb12008-05-14 06:34:15 +00002283- Issue #2831: enumerate() now has a ``start`` argument.
2284
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002285- Issue #2801: fix bug in the float.is_integer method where a
2286 ValueError was sometimes incorrectly raised.
Mark Dickinsone81c3762008-05-09 16:14:15 +00002287
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002288- Issue #2790: sys.flags was not properly exposing its bytes_warning
2289 attribute.
Brett Cannon3c1d50a2008-05-08 20:23:54 +00002290
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002291- Issue #2196: hasattr() now lets exceptions which do not inherit
2292 Exception (KeyboardInterrupt, and SystemExit) propagate instead of
2293 ignoring them.
Benjamin Petersonb9030f42008-05-12 00:41:23 +00002294
Gregory P. Smith9d534572008-06-11 07:41:16 +00002295- Added checks for integer overflows, contributed by Google. Some are
2296 only available if asserts are left in the code, in cases where they
2297 can't be triggered from Python code.
2298
2299
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00002300Extension Modules
2301-----------------
Guido van Rossum84b1e0f2008-08-20 14:57:20 +00002302- Issue #1179: [CVE-2007-4965] Integer overflow in imageop module.
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00002303
Raymond Hettinger305480c2008-06-16 01:42:40 +00002304- Issue #3116: marshal.dumps() had quadratic behavior for strings > 32Mb.
2305
Andrew M. Kuchling2126bab2008-06-22 13:39:11 +00002306- Issue #2138: Add factorial() to the math module.
Raymond Hettingerecbdd2e2008-06-09 06:54:45 +00002307
Raymond Hettinger6d7702e2008-05-31 03:24:31 +00002308- The heapq module does comparisons using LT instead of LE. This
2309 makes its implementation match that used by list.sort().
2310
Mark Dickinson99dfe922008-05-23 01:35:30 +00002311- Issue #2819: add full-precision summation function to math module,
2312 based on Hettinger's ASPN Python Cookbook recipe.
2313
Georg Brandl88659b02008-05-20 08:40:43 +00002314- Issue #2592: delegate nb_index and the floor/truediv slots in
2315 weakref.proxy.
2316
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002317- Support os.O_ASYNC and fcntl.FASYNC if the constants exist on the
2318 platform.
Georg Brandl5049a852008-05-16 13:10:15 +00002319
Brett Cannon044616a2008-05-15 02:33:55 +00002320- Support for Windows 9x has been removed from the winsound module.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcf9b54c22008-05-12 21:30:24 +00002321
Jesus Cea09c01782008-09-28 23:24:19 +00002322- bsddb module updated to version 4.7.3.
Jesus Cea4907d272008-08-31 14:00:51 +00002323 http://www.jcea.es/programacion/pybsddb.htm#bsddb3-4.7.3. This
2324 code should be compatible with Python 3.0.
Jesus Ceaef9764f2008-05-13 18:45:46 +00002325
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002326- Issue #2858: Fix potential memory corruption when
2327 bsddb.db.DBEnv.lock_get and other bsddb.db object constructors
2328 raised an exception.
Gregory P. Smith664782e2008-05-17 06:12:02 +00002329
Gregory P. Smith5d7d6c32008-05-25 08:32:04 +00002330- Issue #2669: bsddb/__init__.py iteration no longer silently fails when
2331 the database has changed size during iteration. It now raises a
2332 RuntimeError in the same manner as a dictionary.
2333
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002334- Issue #2870: cmathmodule.c compile error.
Christian Heimes0bd23c02008-05-16 10:23:31 +00002335
Benjamin Petersond8a89722008-08-18 16:40:03 +00002336- Added a threading.Thread.ident property.
Gregory P. Smith8856dda2008-06-01 23:48:47 +00002337
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00002338Library
2339-------
2340
Vinay Sajip1e022682008-06-29 21:27:15 +00002341- logging.config: Removed out-of-date comment in _install_handlers and
2342 used issubclass in place of equality comparison of classes.
2343
Facundo Batista5596b0c2008-06-22 13:36:20 +00002344- Issue #2722: Now the os.getcwd() supports very long path names.
2345
Facundo Batista2da91c32008-06-21 17:43:56 +00002346- Issue #2888: Fixed the behaviour of pprint when working with nested
2347 structures, to match the behaviour of 2.5 and 3.0 (now follows the common
2348 sense).
2349
Facundo Batistaa6a4d502008-06-21 18:58:04 +00002350- Issue #1817: cgi now correctly handles the querystring on POST requests
2351
Vinay Sajip8dc20fd2008-06-19 22:41:08 +00002352- Issue #3136: fileConfig()'s disabling of old loggers is now conditional via
2353 an optional disable_existing_loggers parameter, but the default value is
2354 such that the old behaviour is preserved. Thanks to Leandro Lucarella for
2355 the patch.
2356
Vinay Sajip9828b7e2008-06-17 11:04:02 +00002357- Issue #3126: StreamHandler and FileHandler check before calling "flush" and
2358 "close" that the stream object has these, using hasattr (thanks to bobf for
2359 the patch).
2360
Benjamin Peterson5c0be322008-06-13 15:11:50 +00002361- Issue #2912: platform.uname now tries to determine unknown information even if
2362 os.uname exists.
2363
Benjamin Peterson26305a02008-06-12 22:33:06 +00002364- The rfc822 module has been deprecated for removal in 3.0.
2365
Benjamin Petersona03722f2008-06-12 14:23:49 +00002366- The mimetools module has been deprecated for removal in 3.0.
2367
Thomas Heller1cec7aa2008-06-10 14:07:12 +00002368- The ctypes.byref function now takes an optional second parameter
2369 which allows to specify an offset in bytes for the constructed
2370 pointer-like object.
2371
Georg Brandl8509db52008-06-10 07:45:28 +00002372- Added the ast module.
2373
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00002374- Added the multiprocessing module, PEP 371.
Benjamin Peterson6f7ae692008-06-11 20:04:30 +00002375
Georg Brandl7be19aa2008-06-07 15:59:10 +00002376- Factored out the indentation cleaning from inspect.getdoc() into
2377 inspect.cleandoc() to ease standalone use.
2378
Thomas Hellerfbb9c0b2008-06-06 08:33:46 +00002379- Issue #1798: Add ctypes calling convention that allows safe access
2380 to errno.
2381
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00002382- Issue #2404: ctypes objects support the new pep3118 buffer interface.
Thomas Heller59475e92008-06-05 17:52:59 +00002383
Vinay Sajip9828b7e2008-06-17 11:04:02 +00002384- Patch #2125: Add GetInteger and GetString methods for
Martin v. Löwisffe62ed2008-06-02 08:40:06 +00002385 msilib.Record objects.
2386
Gregory P. Smith137d8242008-06-02 04:05:52 +00002387- Issue #2782: The datetime module's strftime methods now accept
2388 unicode format strings just as time.strftime always has.
2389
Georg Brandlac19d852008-06-01 21:19:14 +00002390- The sgmllib and htmllib modules have been deprecated for removal
2391 in Python 3.0.
2392
2393- Issue #3011: locale module alias table was updated to the latest
2394 version from the X.org locale.alias file.
Marc-André Lemburgadff65b2008-05-30 20:52:18 +00002395
Thomas Heller9287acf2008-05-29 19:42:34 +00002396- Issue #1797 (partial fix): ctypes NULL function pointers have a
2397 False boolean value now.
2398
Georg Brandld0b592f2008-05-29 07:45:26 +00002399- Issue #2985: Allow 64-bit integer responses (``<i8>``) in XMLRPC
2400 transfers.
2401
2402- Issue #2877: The UserString.MutableString class has been removed in
2403 Python 3.0.
Brett Cannonabb34fe2008-05-29 05:08:50 +00002404
Lars Gustäbelb1a54a32008-05-27 12:39:23 +00002405- Do not close external file objects passed to tarfile.open(mode='w:bz2')
2406 when the TarFile is closed.
2407
Georg Brandle08e3d02008-05-25 08:07:37 +00002408- Issue #2959: For consistency with other file-like objects, gzip's
2409 GzipFile.close() can now be called multiple times without raising
2410 an exception.
2411
Martin v. Löwis27e4a172008-05-23 15:18:28 +00002412- Issue #1390: Raise ValueError in toxml when an invalid comment would
2413 otherwise be produced.
2414
Vinay Sajipc0128832008-05-20 15:37:22 +00002415- Issue #2914: TimedRotatingFileHandler now takes an optional keyword
2416 argument "utc" to use UTC time rather than local time.
2417
2418- Issue #2929: TimedRotatingFileHandler was using the wrong path when
2419 deleting old log files (filename only instead of full path).
2420
Georg Brandl112aa502008-05-20 08:25:48 +00002421- Issue #1775025: You can now specify zipfile members to open(),
2422 read() or extract() via a ZipInfo instance. This allows handling
2423 duplicate filenames in zipfiles.
2424
Georg Brandl28fdfa92008-05-17 17:57:01 +00002425- Issue #961805: Fix Text.edit_modified() in Tkinter.
2426
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002427- Issue #1793: Function ctypes.util.find_msvcrt() added that returns
Thomas Heller95ba13f2008-05-16 20:06:31 +00002428 the name of the C runtime library that Python uses.
2429 ctypes.util.find_library(name) now call this function when name is
2430 'm' or 'c'.
2431
Brett Cannonfa40bbf2008-05-16 00:50:02 +00002432- The statvfs module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2433
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002434- The sunaudiodev and SUNAUDIODEV modules have been deprecated for
2435 removal in Python 3.0.
2436
2437- The WAIT module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
2438 3.0.
2439
2440- The torgb module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
2441 3.0.
2442
2443- The SV module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
2444 3.0.
2445
2446- The readcd module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
Brett Cannon22248172008-05-16 00:10:24 +00002447 Python 3.0.
2448
Brett Cannon11ae6e72008-05-15 03:49:00 +00002449- The panelparser module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
2450 Python 3.0.
2451
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002452- The panel module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
2453 3.0.
Brett Cannon7e375862008-05-15 03:46:27 +00002454
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002455- The jpeg module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
2456 3.0.
Brett Cannon89f5d9c2008-05-15 03:44:00 +00002457
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002458- The IOCTL module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
2459 3.0.
Brett Cannond8c41ec2008-05-15 03:41:55 +00002460
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002461- The IN module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
2462 3.0.
Brett Cannon6328b292008-05-15 03:36:13 +00002463
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002464- The imgfile module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
Brett Cannon178582e2008-05-15 03:20:36 +00002465 Python 3.0.
2466
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002467- The GLWS module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
2468 3.0.
Brett Cannon72ccc402008-05-15 03:17:24 +00002469
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002470- The GET module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
2471 3.0.
Brett Cannon2773b6f2008-05-15 03:14:57 +00002472
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002473- The fm module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
2474 3.0.
2475
2476- The FL, flp, and fl modules from IRIX have been deprecated for
2477 removal in Python 3.0.
2478
2479- The FILE module on IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
2480 3.0.
2481
2482- The ERRNO module on IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
2483 3.0.
2484
2485- The DEVICE, GL, gl, and cgen modules (which indirectly includes
2486 cgensupport) have been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
Brett Cannon044616a2008-05-15 02:33:55 +00002487
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002488- The CL, CL_old, and cl modules for IRIX have been deprecated for
2489 removal in Python 3.0.
2490
2491- The cdplayer module for IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
Brett Cannon650f5162008-05-14 21:12:12 +00002492 Python 3.0.
2493
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002494- The cddb module for IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
2495 3.0.
Brett Cannon9eebe492008-05-14 20:34:22 +00002496
Brett Cannonddf949f2008-05-14 20:31:38 +00002497- The cd and CD modules for IRIX have been deprecated for removal in
2498 Python 3.0.
2499
Brett Cannon34721d52008-05-14 01:08:21 +00002500- The al and AL modules for IRIX have been deprecated for removal in
2501 Python 3.0.
2502
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002503- Issue #1713041: fix pprint's handling of maximum depth.
Georg Brandl23da6e62008-05-12 16:26:52 +00002504
Brett Cannonbb141bb2008-05-12 03:47:47 +00002505- The timing module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2506
Brett Cannonac861b52008-05-12 03:45:59 +00002507- The sv module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2508
Brett Cannon43e5ef42008-05-12 03:19:20 +00002509- The multifile module has been deprecated as per PEP 4.
2510
Brett Cannon42bfa902008-05-12 00:08:34 +00002511- The imageop module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2512
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002513- Issue #2250: Exceptions raised during evaluation of names in
2514 rlcompleter's ``Completer.complete()`` method are now caught and
2515 ignored.
Georg Brandl627a6662008-05-11 21:03:42 +00002516
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002517- Issue #2659: Added ``break_on_hyphens`` option to textwrap
2518 TextWrapper class.
Georg Brandl6f95ae52008-05-11 10:42:28 +00002519
Brett Cannon2a869132008-05-11 03:01:47 +00002520- The mhlib module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2521
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002522- The linuxaudiodev module has been deprecated for removal in Python
2523 3.0.
Brett Cannondf0a7172008-05-11 00:50:51 +00002524
Brett Cannon27508d42008-05-10 22:45:07 +00002525- The ihooks module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2526
Brett Cannonfe598512008-05-10 22:11:45 +00002527- The fpformat module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2528
Brett Cannone35a3a12008-05-10 21:22:43 +00002529- The dl module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2530
Brett Cannond5a09852008-05-10 03:14:32 +00002531- The Canvas module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2532
Brett Cannon6192df12008-05-10 02:58:26 +00002533- The compiler package has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2534
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002535- The Bastion and rexec modules have been deprecated for removal in
2536 Python 3.0.
Brett Cannoncda73a42008-05-10 02:53:46 +00002537
Brett Cannon768d44f2008-05-10 02:47:54 +00002538- The bsddb185 module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2539
Brett Cannon9ac39742008-05-09 22:51:58 +00002540- The pure module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2541
Mark Dickinsonf8476c12008-05-09 17:54:23 +00002542- Issue #2487: change the semantics of math.ldexp(x, n) when n is too
2543 large to fit in a C long. ldexp(x, n) now returns a zero (with
2544 suitable sign) if n is large and negative; previously, it raised
2545 OverflowError.
2546
Brett Cannonfa24d9a2008-05-09 05:32:42 +00002547- The toaiff module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2548
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002549- The test.testall module has been deprecated for removal in Python
2550 3.0.
Brett Cannon3c759142008-05-09 05:25:37 +00002551
Brett Cannond7265d62008-05-09 05:18:40 +00002552- The new module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2553
Brett Cannone3b19402008-05-08 20:36:09 +00002554- The user module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2555
Brett Cannon6071cc82008-05-08 19:52:45 +00002556- The stringold module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2557
2558- The mutex module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
Brett Cannon9d441822008-05-08 19:26:08 +00002559
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00002560- The imputil module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2561
Brett Cannoncae4f5f2008-05-08 20:24:43 +00002562- test.test_support.catch_warning() gained a 'record' argument.
2563
Benjamin Peterson0893a0a2008-05-09 00:27:01 +00002564- os.path.walk is deprecated in favor of os.walk.
2565
Georg Brandl9020ff82008-05-11 14:17:13 +00002566- pdb gained the "until" command.
Benjamin Peterson98353942008-05-11 14:13:25 +00002567
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002568- The Mac Modules (including Carbon) have been deprecated for removal
2569 in Python 3.0.
Benjamin Peterson23681932008-05-12 21:42:13 +00002570
Vinay Sajip9828b7e2008-06-17 11:04:02 +00002571- Library: on MacOS X you can now set ``ARCHFLAGS`` in the shell
Ronald Oussoren5640ce22008-06-05 12:58:24 +00002572 environment to control the '-arch' flags that are used to build
2573 an extension. This was added for compatibility with Apple's build
2574 of Python.
2575
2576- The bundled OSX-specific copy of libbffi is now in sync with the version
2577 shipped with PyObjC 2.0 and includes support for x86_64 and ppc64 platforms.
2578
Georg Brandl25c34082008-08-18 23:09:49 +00002579- The threading module gained aliases for names that will be removed in the
2580 3.x series.
Benjamin Peterson0fbcf692008-06-11 17:27:50 +00002581
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00002582Build
2583-----
2584
Martin v. Löwiscc0f2b22008-06-13 18:12:51 +00002585- 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 +00002586
Martin v. Löwis8c255e42008-05-23 15:06:50 +00002587- Patch #1722225: Support QNX 6.
2588
Brett Cannonb61d8012008-05-11 23:39:04 +00002589- ``Lib/lib-old`` is now added to sys.path.
2590
Ronald Oussoren5640ce22008-06-05 12:58:24 +00002591- On MacOS X it is now possible to install the framework in 64-bit
2592 mode or even as a 4-way universal binary (that is, PPC, i386,
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00002593 PPC64 and x86_64 support in one binary).
Ronald Oussoren5640ce22008-06-05 12:58:24 +00002594
2595 This is controlled by the configure argument ``--with-universal-archs``:
2596
2597 - ``--with-universal-archs=all``: install 4-way universal
2598
2599 - ``--with-universal-archs=32-bit``: install 2-way universal, 32-bit (the default)
2600
2601 - ``--with-universal-archs=64-bit``: install 2-way universal, 64-bit
2602
2603 This option should be used in combination with ``--enable-universalsdk=``.
2604
2605 NOTE: 64-bit and 4-way builds are only suppported on Mac OS X 10.5 (or later).
2606
2607
Christian Heimes7a990612008-05-26 13:15:11 +00002608C API
2609-----
2610
Georg Brandl74a1dea2008-05-28 11:21:39 +00002611- Add ``PyType_Modified()`` as a public API to clear the type cache.
2612
2613- The PyBytes functions have been renamed to PyByteArray.
Christian Heimes7a990612008-05-26 13:15:11 +00002614
2615- The PyString functions have been renamed to PyBytes. A batch of
2616 defines were added so that the linker still sees the original
2617 PyString names.
2618
Georg Brandl5e7b1c02008-05-16 17:40:23 +00002619
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00002620What's New in Python 2.6 alpha 3?
Barry Warsaw65475fd2008-03-01 17:11:41 +00002621=================================
2622
Barry Warsaw6cc79402008-05-08 13:16:19 +00002623*Release date: 08-May-2008*
Barry Warsaw65475fd2008-03-01 17:11:41 +00002624
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd21fb4c2008-03-05 01:50:33 +00002625Core and builtins
2626-----------------
Georg Brandl80055f62008-03-25 07:56:27 +00002627
Georg Brandl28e08732008-04-30 19:47:09 +00002628- Issue #2719: backported the ``next()`` builtin from Python 3.
2629
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002630- Issue #2681: The octal literal ``0o8`` was incorrecly acctepted. Now
2631 it properly raises a SyntaxError.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc52167212008-04-24 18:07:05 +00002632
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002633- Issue #2617: Reserved -J and -X arguments for Jython, IronPython and
2634 other implementations of Python.
Christian Heimes7a98d272008-04-12 13:03:03 +00002635
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002636- Implemented PEP 370: Per user site-packages directory.
Christian Heimesaf748c32008-05-06 22:41:46 +00002637
Andrew M. Kuchling46d6b682008-04-30 16:19:55 +00002638Extension Modules
2639-----------------
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00002640
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002641- Issue #2670: Fix a failure in urllib2.build_opener(), when passed
2642 two handlers that derive the same default base class.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc96865852008-04-22 21:14:41 +00002643
Christian Heimese74c8f22008-04-19 02:23:57 +00002644- Added kill, terminate and send_signal(sig) to subprocess.Popen.
2645
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002646- Added phase(z) -> phi, polar(z) -> r, phi and rect(r, phi) -> z to
2647 the cmath module.
Christian Heimes6f341092008-04-18 23:13:07 +00002648
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002649- Four new methods were added to the math and cmath modules: acosh,
2650 asinh, atanh and log1p.
Christian Heimes6f341092008-04-18 23:13:07 +00002651
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002652- zlib.decompressobj().flush(value) no longer crashes the interpreter
2653 when passed a value less than or equal to zero.
Gregory P. Smith671c5d92008-04-09 18:18:43 +00002654
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002655- Issue #1631171: Re-implement the 'warnings' module in C (the
2656 original Python code has been kept as backup). This will allow for
2657 using the 'warning's machinery in such places as the parser where
2658 use of pure Python code is not possible. Both the ``showarning()``
2659 and ``formatwarning()`` gain an optional 'line' argument which is
2660 not called by default for backwards-compatibility reasons. Setting
2661 ``warnings.showwarning()`` to an implementation that lacks support
2662 for the ``line`` argument will raise a DeprecationWarning.
Brett Cannone9746892008-04-12 23:44:07 +00002663
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00002664Library
2665-------
2666
Brett Cannonf8436822008-05-06 23:41:32 +00002667- The audiodev module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2668
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002669- Issue #2750: Add the 'json' package. Based on simplejson 1.9 and
2670 contributed by Bob Ippolito.
Brett Cannon4b964f92008-05-05 20:21:38 +00002671
Martin v. Löwis471617d2008-05-05 17:16:58 +00002672- Issue #1734346: Support Unicode file names for zipfiles.
2673
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002674- Issue #2581: distutils: Vista UAC/elevation support for
2675 bdist_wininst.
Mark Hammond7c5c8e62008-05-02 12:48:15 +00002676
Mark Dickinsonfe536f52008-04-25 16:59:09 +00002677- Issue #2635: Fix bug in 'fix_sentence_endings' textwrap.fill option,
2678 where an extra space was added after a word containing (but not
2679 ending in) '.', '!' or '?'.
2680
Thomas Heller6ad5fbb2008-04-25 15:44:16 +00002681- Add from_buffer() and from_buffer_copy() class methods to ctypes
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00002682 data types.
Thomas Heller6ad5fbb2008-04-25 15:44:16 +00002683
Neal Norwitz2b0bea52008-04-25 03:40:17 +00002684- Issue #2682: ctypes callback functions no longer contain a cyclic
Thomas Hellerbf027c42008-04-24 18:14:19 +00002685 reference to themselves.
2686
Gregory P. Smithd59fefb2008-04-22 08:11:33 +00002687- The getpass module has been improved on Unix. It now uses /dev/tty
2688 by default and uses stderr instead of stdout. A GetPassWarning is
2689 issued when input echo cannot be controlled.
Gregory P. Smith41e30182008-04-21 21:31:08 +00002690
Skip Montanarob131f042008-04-18 20:35:46 +00002691- Issue #2014: Allow XML-RPC datetime objects to have dates before
2692 1900-01-01.
2693
Nick Coghlan106fc482008-04-15 10:25:31 +00002694- Issue #2439: Added new function pkgutil.get_data(), which is a
2695 convenience wrapper for the PEP 302 get_data() API.
2696
Thomas Heller046e6a42008-04-14 16:10:07 +00002697- Issue #2616: The ctypes.pointer() and ctypes.POINTER() functions are
2698 now implemented in C for better performance.
2699
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002700- Issue #2408: The ``_types`` module, which was used as in
2701 implementation detail of the public ``types`` module, has been
2702 removed and replaced by pure python code.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc02f33b42008-04-08 23:10:07 +00002703
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002704- Issue #2513: distutils on Windows is now capable of cross-compiling
Mark Hammond495cf992008-04-07 01:53:39 +00002705 extension modules between 32 and 64 bit platforms. See the distutls
2706 build documentation for more information.
2707
Gregory P. Smithaa63d0d2008-04-06 23:11:17 +00002708- Issue #815646: Individual file objects may now be used from multiple
2709 threads at once without fear of crashing the Python interpreter. If
2710 file.close() is called while an object is in use by another thread
2711 an IOError exception will be raised and the file will not be closed.
2712
Thomas Hellerf7906482008-04-04 19:43:25 +00002713- The bundled libffi copy is now in sync with the recently released
2714 libffi3.0.5 version, apart from some small changes to
2715 Modules/_ctypes/libffi/configure.ac.
2716
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002717- Issue #2385: distutils.core.run_script() makes __file__ available,
2718 so the controlled environment will more closely mirror the typical
2719 script environment. This supports setup.py scripts that refer to
2720 data files.
Fred Drake46c58c12008-04-04 05:41:30 +00002721
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00002722Tests
2723-----
Trent Nelsone41b0062008-04-08 23:47:30 +00002724
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002725- Issue #2550: The approach used by client/server code for obtaining
2726 ports to listen on in network-oriented tests has been refined in an
2727 effort to facilitate running multiple instances of the entire
2728 regression test suite in parallel without issue.
2729 test_support.bind_port() has been fixed such that it will always
2730 return a unique port -- which wasn't always the case with the
2731 previous implementation, especially if socket options had been set
2732 that affected address reuse (i.e. SO_REUSEADDR, SO_REUSEPORT). The
2733 new implementation of bind_port() will actually raise an exception
2734 if it is passed an AF_INET/SOCK_STREAM socket with either the
2735 SO_REUSEADDR or SO_REUSEPORT socket option set. Furthermore, if
2736 available, bind_port() will set the SO_EXCLUSIVEADDRUSE option on
2737 the socket it's been passed. This currently only applies to
2738 Windows. This option prevents any other sockets from binding to the
2739 host/port we've bound to, thus removing the possibility of the
2740 'non-deterministic' behaviour, as Microsoft puts it, that occurs
2741 when a second SOCK_STREAM socket binds and accepts to a host/port
2742 that's already been bound by another socket. The optional preferred
2743 port parameter to bind_port() has been removed. Under no
2744 circumstances should tests be hard coding ports!
2745
2746 test_support.find_unused_port() has also been introduced, which will
2747 pass a temporary socket object to bind_port() in order to obtain an
2748 unused port. The temporary socket object is then closed and
2749 deleted, and the port is returned. This method should only be used
2750 for obtaining an unused port in order to pass to an external program
2751 (i.e. the -accept [port] argument to openssl's s_server mode) or as
2752 a parameter to a server-oriented class that doesn't give you direct
2753 access to the underlying socket used.
2754
2755 Finally, test_support.HOST has been introduced, which should be used
2756 for the host argument of any relevant socket calls (i.e. bind and
2757 connect).
Trent Nelsone41b0062008-04-08 23:47:30 +00002758
2759 The following tests were updated to following the new conventions:
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002760 test_socket, test_smtplib, test_asyncore, test_ssl, test_httplib,
Trent Nelsone41b0062008-04-08 23:47:30 +00002761 test_poplib, test_ftplib, test_telnetlib, test_socketserver,
2762 test_asynchat and test_socket_ssl.
2763
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002764 It is now possible for multiple instances of the regression test
2765 suite to run in parallel without issue.
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00002766
2767Build
2768-----
2769
Mark Dickinson65134662008-04-25 16:11:04 +00002770- Issue #1496032: On alpha, use -mieee when gcc is the compiler.
2771
Thomas Hellerdc96a772008-04-04 10:07:55 +00002772- Issue #2544: On HP-UX systems, use 'gcc -shared' for linking when
2773 gcc is used as compiler.
2774
Ronald Oussoren580c7fe2008-05-02 19:45:11 +00002775- Issue #2573: On MacOS X it is now possible to install the framework
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002776 with a different name using --with-framework-name=NAME.
Ronald Oussoren580c7fe2008-05-02 19:45:11 +00002777
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00002778C API
2779-----
2780
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002781- Added implementation of copysign, acosh, asinh, atanh and log1p to
2782 the new files Include/pymath.h and Python/pymath.h for platforms
2783 which provide the functions through their libm. The files also
2784 contains several helpers and constants for math.
Christian Heimes6f341092008-04-18 23:13:07 +00002785
Benjamin Petersondacde0d2008-05-26 17:43:53 +00002786- Added a new convenience macro, PyErr_WarnPy3k, for issuing Py3k warnings.
Benjamin Petersona692c4d2008-04-27 02:28:02 +00002787
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00002788
2789What's New in Python 2.6 alpha 2?
2790=================================
2791
2792*Release date: 02-Apr-2008*
2793
2794Core and builtins
2795-----------------
2796
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002797- Issue #1733757: The interpreter would hang on shutdown if the
2798 tracing function set by sys.settrace is still active and happens to
2799 call threading.currentThread().
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd7a26512008-04-03 23:07:55 +00002800
Georg Brandl91e0cda2008-03-29 01:50:06 +00002801- Patch #1442: properly report exceptions when the PYTHONSTARTUP file
2802 cannot be executed.
2803
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc69b747b2008-03-28 20:30:50 +00002804- The compilation of a class nested in another class used to leak one
2805 reference on the outer class name.
2806
Georg Brandlfc8eef32008-03-28 12:11:56 +00002807- Patch #1810: compile() can now compile _ast trees as returned by
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002808 ``compile(..., PyCF_ONLY_AST)``.
Georg Brandlfc8eef32008-03-28 12:11:56 +00002809
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002810- Patch #2426: Added sqlite3.Connection.iterdump method to allow easy
2811 dumping of databases. Contributed by Paul Kippes at PyCon 2008.
Gregory P. Smithb9803422008-03-28 08:32:09 +00002812
Georg Brandldeaf2ca2008-03-27 13:27:31 +00002813- Patch #2477: Added from __future__ import unicode_literals.
Christian Heimes3c608332008-03-26 22:01:37 +00002814
Christian Heimes8c78cc32008-03-26 12:53:58 +00002815- Added backport of bytearray type.
2816
Georg Brandl80055f62008-03-25 07:56:27 +00002817- Issue #2355: add Py3k warning for buffer().
2818
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc9a0d3462008-03-23 09:55:29 +00002819- Issue #1477: With narrow Unicode builds, the unicode escape sequence
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002820 \Uxxxxxxxx did not accept values outside the Basic Multilingual
2821 Plane. This affected raw unicode literals and the
2822 'raw-unicode-escape' codec. Now UTF-16 surrogates are generated in
2823 this case, like normal unicode literals and the 'unicode-escape'
2824 codec.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc9a0d3462008-03-23 09:55:29 +00002825
Georg Brandl65bb42d2008-03-21 20:38:24 +00002826- Issue #2348: add Py3k warning for file.softspace.
2827
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002828- Issue #2346/#2347: add Py3k warnings for __methods__ and
2829 __members__.
Georg Brandl07e56812008-03-21 20:21:46 +00002830
Georg Brandl5a444242008-03-21 20:11:46 +00002831- Issue #2358: Add a Py3k warning on sys.exc_clear() usage.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd21fb4c2008-03-05 01:50:33 +00002832
Martin v. Löwisa4d77892008-03-19 04:39:13 +00002833- Issue #2400: Allow relative imports to "import *".
2834
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002835- Issue #1745: Backport print function with ``from __future__ import
2836 print_function``.
Eric Smith7c478942008-03-18 23:45:49 +00002837
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002838- Issue #2332: add new attribute names for instance method objects.
2839 The two changes are: im_self -> __self__ and im_func -> __func__
Neal Norwitzb1d3d962008-03-18 04:46:00 +00002840
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002841- Issue #2379: Raise a Py3K warning for __getitem__ or __getslice__ on
Guido van Rossum6d91be32008-03-18 04:42:22 +00002842 exception instances.
2843
Guido van Rossum04edb522008-03-18 02:49:46 +00002844- Issue #2371: Add a Py3k warning when catching an exception that
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002845 doesn't derive from BaseException.
2846
2847- Issue #2341: Add a Py3k warning when raising an exception that
2848 doesn't derive from BaseException.
Guido van Rossum04edb522008-03-18 02:49:46 +00002849
Neal Norwitz419fd492008-03-17 20:22:43 +00002850- Issue #2321: use pymalloc for unicode object string data to reduce
2851 memory usage in some circumstances.
2852
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002853- PEP 3127: octal literals now start with "0o". Old-style octal
2854 literals are still valid. There are binary literals with a prefix of
2855 "0b". This also affects int(x, 0).
Eric Smith0aed07a2008-03-17 19:43:40 +00002856
Georg Brandl1e7c3752008-03-25 08:37:23 +00002857- Issue #2359: Adding deprecation warnings for array.{read,write}.
2858
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002859- Issue #1779871: GNU gcc can now build Python on OS X because the
Jeffrey Yasskin1b4e45b2008-03-17 14:40:53 +00002860 flags -Wno-long-double, -no-cpp-precomp, and -mno-fused-madd are no
2861 longer passed.
2862
Neal Norwitz400aeda2008-03-15 22:03:18 +00002863- Add a warning when asserting a non-empty tuple which is always true.
2864
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002865- Issue #2179: speed up with statement execution by storing the exit
2866 method on the stack instead of in a temporary variable (patch by
2867 Jeffrey Yaskin)
Nick Coghlan7af53be2008-03-07 14:13:28 +00002868
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002869- Issue #2238: Some syntax errors in *args and **kwargs expressions
2870 could give bogus error messages.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd21fb4c2008-03-05 01:50:33 +00002871
Sean Reifscheider68fa8e62008-03-20 00:50:07 +00002872- Issue #2143: Fix embedded readline() hang on SSL socket EOF.
2873
Andrew M. Kuchling46d6b682008-04-30 16:19:55 +00002874Extension Modules
2875-----------------
Martin v. Löwisaef18b12008-03-24 13:31:16 +00002876
2877- Patch #2240: Implement signal.setitimer and signal.getitimer.
2878
Thomas Heller78b8f442008-03-05 14:53:39 +00002879Library
2880-------
2881
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002882- Issue #2315: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now accounts
2883 for daylight savings time in calculating the next rollover.
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00002884
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002885- Issue #2316: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now
2886 calculates rollovers correctly even when nothing is logged for a
2887 while.
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00002888
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002889- Issue #2317: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now uses
2890 improved logic for removing old files.
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00002891
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002892- Issue #2495: tokenize.untokenize now inserts a space between two
2893 consecutive string literals; previously, ["" ""] was rendered as
2894 [""""], which is incorrect python code.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcda0c0252008-03-27 23:23:54 +00002895
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002896- Issue #2248: return the result of the QUIT command. from
2897 SMTP.quit().
Georg Brandldeaf2ca2008-03-27 13:27:31 +00002898
Christian Heimes8c78cc32008-03-26 12:53:58 +00002899- Backport of Python 3.0's io module.
2900
Mark Dickinson8e85ffa2008-03-25 18:47:59 +00002901- Issue #2482: Make sure that the coefficient of a Decimal is always
2902 stored as a str instance, not as a unicode instance. This ensures
2903 that str(Decimal) is always an instance of str.
2904
Mark Dickinson3b24ccb2008-03-25 14:33:23 +00002905- Issue #2478: fix failure of decimal.Decimal(0).sqrt()
2906
Georg Brandl77354cf2008-03-21 20:01:51 +00002907- Issue #2432: give DictReader the dialect and line_num attributes
2908 advertised in the docs.
2909
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002910- Issue #2460: Make Ellipsis object copyable.
Raymond Hettingerb72233c2008-03-24 08:17:39 +00002911
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002912- Issue #1681432: Add triangular distribution to the random module
Raymond Hettingerbbc50ea2008-03-23 13:32:32 +00002913
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002914- Issue #2136: urllib2's auth handler now allows single-quoted realms
2915 in the WWW-Authenticate header.
Georg Brandl33124322008-03-21 19:54:00 +00002916
Marc-André Lemburga1867752008-03-20 18:08:00 +00002917- Issue #2434: Enhanced platform.win32_ver() to also work on Python
2918 installation which do not have the win32all package installed.
2919
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002920- Added support to platform.uname() to also report the machine and
2921 processor information on Windows XP and later. As a result,
Marc-André Lemburga1867752008-03-20 18:08:00 +00002922 platform.machine() and platform.processor() will report this
2923 information as well.
2924
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002925- The library implementing the 2to3 conversion, lib2to3, was added to
2926 the standard distribution.
Martin v. Löwis5e37bae2008-03-19 04:43:46 +00002927
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002928- Issue #1747858: Fix chown to work with large uid's and gid's on
2929 64-bit platforms.
Gregory P. Smith37f3f432008-03-18 20:40:01 +00002930
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002931- Issue #1202: zlib.crc32 and zlib.adler32 no longer return different
2932 values on 32-bit vs. 64-bit python interpreters. Both were correct,
2933 but they now both return a signed integer object for consistency.
Gregory P. Smithf48f9d32008-03-17 18:48:05 +00002934
Skip Montanaro32ed8c22008-03-15 16:07:11 +00002935- Issue #1158: add %f format (fractions of a second represented as
2936 microseconds) to datetime objects. Understood by both strptime and
2937 strftime.
2938
Mark Dickinsonc23b8a72008-03-14 14:23:37 +00002939- Issue #705836: struct.pack(">f", x) now raises OverflowError on all
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002940 platforms when x is too large to fit into an IEEE 754 float;
2941 previously it only raised OverflowError on non IEEE 754 platforms.
Mark Dickinsonc23b8a72008-03-14 14:23:37 +00002942
Andrew M. Kuchlingaac5c862008-05-11 14:00:00 +00002943- Issues #2166, #1741 and #1531505: now distutils deals with HOME
2944 correctly under win32
2945
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002946- Patch #1858: distutils: added multiple server support in .pypirc
Andrew M. Kuchlingaac5c862008-05-11 14:00:00 +00002947
Facundo Batistac54aec12008-03-08 16:50:27 +00002948- Issue #1106316: pdb.post_mortem()'s parameter, "traceback", is now
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002949 optional: it defaults to the traceback of the exception that is
2950 currently being handled (is mandatory to be in the middle of an
2951 exception, otherwise it raises ValueError).
Facundo Batistac54aec12008-03-08 16:50:27 +00002952
Jeffrey Yasskine75f59a2008-03-07 06:22:15 +00002953- Issue #1193577: A .shutdown() method has been added to SocketServers
2954 which terminates the .serve_forever() loop.
2955
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002956- Issue #2220: handle rlcompleter attribute match failure more
2957 gracefully.
Georg Brandl98aa8052008-03-06 07:45:52 +00002958
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002959- Issue #2225: py_compile, when executed as a script, now returns a
2960 non- zero status code if not all files could be compiled
2961 successfully.
Georg Brandla7bd27f2008-03-06 07:41:16 +00002962
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002963- Bug #1725737: In distutils' sdist, exclude RCS, CVS etc. also in the
Georg Brandl810ea292008-03-06 07:34:52 +00002964 root directory, and also exclude .hg, .git, .bzr, and _darcs.
2965
Thomas Hellerf3c05592008-03-05 15:34:29 +00002966- Issue #1872: The struct module typecode for _Bool has been changed
2967 from 't' to '?'.
2968
Thomas Heller78b8f442008-03-05 14:53:39 +00002969- The bundled libffi copy is now in sync with the recently released
2970 libffi3.0.4 version, apart from some small changes to
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002971 Modules/_ctypes/libffi/configure.ac. On OS X, preconfigured libffi
2972 files are used. On all linux systems the --with-system-ffi
2973 configure option defaults to "yes".
Thomas Heller78b8f442008-03-05 14:53:39 +00002974
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002975- Issue #1577: shutil.move() now calls os.rename() if the destination
2976 is a directory instead of copying-then-remove-source.
Sean Reifscheider493894c2008-03-18 17:24:12 +00002977
Martin v. Löwisd2bbe522008-03-06 06:55:22 +00002978Tests
2979-----
2980
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002981- test_nis no longer fails when test.test_support.verbose is true and
2982 NIS is not set up on the testing machine.
Brett Cannon7919d982008-03-19 16:50:13 +00002983
Brett Cannona5573b32008-03-18 04:16:06 +00002984- Output comparison tests are no longer supported.
2985
Brett Cannonb7ec8e52008-03-18 03:46:22 +00002986- Rewrite test_errno to use unittest and no longer be a no-op.
2987
Brett Cannon0bb79502008-03-18 01:58:56 +00002988- GHOP 234: Convert test_extcall to doctest.
2989
Brett Cannonba17cfc2008-03-18 01:50:25 +00002990- GHOP 290: Convert test_dbm and test_dummy_threading to unittest.
2991
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002992- GHOP 293: Convert test_strftime, test_getargs, and test_pep247 to
2993 unittest.
Brett Cannon6eeaddc2008-03-18 01:00:07 +00002994
Brett Cannon1f5182b2008-03-13 21:09:28 +00002995- Issue #2055: Convert test_fcntl to unittest.
2996
Brett Cannon4a6e8d62008-03-13 21:02:16 +00002997- Issue 1960: Convert test_gdbm to unittest.
2998
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002999- GHOP 294: Convert test_contains, test_crypt, and test_select to
3000 unittest.
Brett Cannon2e0f9f32008-03-13 20:47:41 +00003001
Brett Cannonb8d37352008-03-13 20:33:10 +00003002- GHOP 238: Convert test_tokenize to use doctest.
3003
Brett Cannon66865d22008-03-13 20:27:00 +00003004- GHOP 237: Rewrite test_thread using unittest.
3005
Martin v. Löwisd2bbe522008-03-06 06:55:22 +00003006- Patch #2232: os.tmpfile might fail on Windows if the user has no
3007 permission to create files in the root directory.
3008
Martin v. Löwisbf7b0b72008-03-14 13:56:09 +00003009Build
3010-----
3011
Martin v. Löwiscdbc9772008-03-24 12:57:53 +00003012- A new script 2to3 is now installed, to run the 2.x to 3.x converter.
3013
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003014- Python/memmove.c and Python/strerror.c have been removed; both
3015 functions are in the C89 standard library.
Brett Cannonaa5778d2008-03-18 04:09:00 +00003016
Martin v. Löwisbf7b0b72008-03-14 13:56:09 +00003017- Patch #2284: Add -x64 option to rt.bat.
Barry Warsaw65475fd2008-03-01 17:11:41 +00003018
Christian Heimes3c608332008-03-26 22:01:37 +00003019C API
3020-----
3021
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00003022- Patch #2477: Added PyParser_ParseFileFlagsEx() and
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003023 PyParser_ParseStringFlagsFilenameEx().
3024
Christian Heimes3c608332008-03-26 22:01:37 +00003025
Nick Coghlanbb0996c2006-09-03 01:20:46 +00003026What's New in Python 2.6 alpha 1?
3027=================================
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00003028
Barry Warsaw7c075232008-03-01 02:53:36 +00003029*Release date: 29-Feb-2008*
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00003030
3031Core and builtins
3032-----------------
3033
Fred Drakea8ee94b2008-03-01 02:45:07 +00003034- Issue #2051: pyc and pyo files are no longer created with permission
Barry Warsaw52973612008-03-01 02:23:38 +00003035 644. The mode is now inherited from the py file.
Christian Heimes40346852008-02-23 17:52:07 +00003036
Georg Brandlad61bc82008-02-23 15:11:18 +00003037- Issue #2067: file.__exit__() now calls subclasses' close() method.
3038
3039- Patch #1759: Backport of PEP 3129 class decorators.
Christian Heimes5224d282008-02-23 15:01:05 +00003040
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00003041- Issue #1881: An internal parser limit has been increased. Also see
Facundo Batistafc2d0102008-02-23 12:01:13 +00003042 issue 215555 for a discussion.
3043
Eric Smitha73fbe72008-02-23 03:09:44 +00003044- Added the future_builtins module, which contains hex() and oct().
3045 These are the PEP 3127 version of these functions, designed to be
3046 compatible with the hex() and oct() builtins from Python 3.0. They
3047 differ slightly in their output formats from the existing, unchanged
3048 Python 2.6 builtins. The expected usage of the future_builtins
3049 module is:
3050 from future_builtins import hex, oct
3051
Eric Smith7ef40bf2008-02-20 23:34:22 +00003052- Issue #1600: Modifed PyOS_ascii_formatd to use at most 2 digit
3053 exponents for exponents with absolute value < 100. Follows C99
3054 standard. This is a change on Windows, which would use 3 digits.
3055 Also, added 'n' to the formats that PyOS_ascii_formatd understands,
3056 so that any alterations it does to the resulting string will be
3057 available in stringlib/formatter.h (for float.__format__).
3058
Eric Smith5a3c1352008-02-19 13:21:56 +00003059- Implemented PEP 3101, Advanced String Formatting. This adds a new
3060 builtin format(); a format() method for str and unicode; a
3061 __format__() method to object, str, unicode, int, long, float, and
3062 datetime; the class string.Formatter; and the C API
3063 PyObject_Format().
3064
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003065- Fixed several potential crashes, all caused by specially crafted
3066 __del__ methods exploiting objects in temporarily inconsistent
3067 state.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc632fad32008-02-16 20:55:24 +00003068
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00003069- Issue #2115: Important speedup in setting __slot__ attributes. Also
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003070 prevent a possible crash: an Abstract Base Class would try to access
3071 a slot on a registered virtual subclass.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc60d6c7f2008-02-15 21:22:45 +00003072
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003073- Fixed repr() and str() of complex numbers with infinity or nan as
3074 real or imaginary part.
Christian Heimes2f0da532008-02-15 06:57:08 +00003075
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003076- Clear all free lists during a gc.collect() of the highest generation
3077 in order to allow pymalloc to free more arenas. Python may give back
3078 memory to the OS earlier.
Christian Heimes3b718a72008-02-14 12:47:33 +00003079
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003080- Issue #2045: Fix an infinite recursion triggered when printing a
3081 subclass of collections.defaultdict, if its default_factory is set
3082 to a bound method.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcb01aa432008-02-08 00:56:02 +00003083
Christian Heimesf75dbef2008-02-08 00:11:31 +00003084- Fixed a minor memory leak in dictobject.c. The content of the free
3085 list was not freed on interpreter shutdown.
3086
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003087- Limit free list of method and builtin function objects to 256
3088 entries each.
Christian Heimes6075a822008-02-06 12:44:34 +00003089
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003090- Patch #1953: Added ``sys._compact_freelists()`` and the C API
3091 functions ``PyInt_CompactFreeList`` and ``PyFloat_CompactFreeList``
Christian Heimes422051a2008-02-04 18:00:12 +00003092 to compact the internal free lists of pre-allocted ints and floats.
3093
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003094- Issue #1983: Fixed return type of fork(), fork1() and forkpty()
3095 calls. Python expected the return type int but the fork familie
3096 returns pi_t.
Christian Heimes951cc0f2008-01-31 23:08:23 +00003097
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003098- Issue #1678380: Fix a bug that identifies 0j and -0j when they
3099 appear in the same code unit.
Mark Dickinson105be772008-01-31 22:17:37 +00003100
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003101- Issue #2025: Add tuple.count() and tuple.index() methods to comply
3102 with the collections.Sequence API.
Raymond Hettinger5b07ebc2008-02-07 00:54:20 +00003103
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003104- Patch #1970 by Antoine Pitrou: Speedup unicode whitespace and
3105 linebreak detection
Christian Heimes4d4f2702008-01-30 11:32:37 +00003106
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003107- Added ``PyType_ClearCache()`` and ``sys._clear_type_cache`` to clear
3108 the internal lookup cache for ref leak tests.
Christian Heimes908caac2008-01-27 23:34:59 +00003109
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003110- Patch #1473257: generator objects gain a gi_code attribute. This is
3111 the same object as the func_code attribute of the function that
3112 produced the generator.
Georg Brandl0cdf9a32008-01-26 14:14:20 +00003113
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003114- Issue #1920: "while 0" statements were completely removed by the
3115 compiler, even in the presence of an "else" clause, which is
3116 supposed to be run when the condition is false. Now the compiler
3117 correctly emits bytecode for the "else" suite.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc31eaafe2008-01-24 22:59:25 +00003118
Guido van Rossumeead05f2008-01-24 18:21:02 +00003119- A few crashers fixed: weakref_in_del.py (issue #1377858);
3120 loosing_dict_ref.py (issue #1303614, test67.py);
3121 borrowed_ref_[34].py (not in tracker).
3122
Vinay Sajipd7cf32e2008-01-24 12:43:33 +00003123- Issue #1069410: The "can't load dll" message box on Windows is
Christian Heimesb2302ba2008-01-23 17:15:06 +00003124 suppressed while an extension is loaded by calling SetErrorMode in
3125 dynload_win.c. The error is still reported properly.
3126
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003127- Issue #1915: Python compiles with --enable-unicode=no again. However
Christian Heimes082c9b02008-01-23 14:20:50 +00003128 several extension methods and modules do not work without unicode
3129 support.
3130
Georg Brandl26543b12008-01-21 18:36:51 +00003131- Issue #1882: when compiling code from a string, encoding cookies in the
3132 second line of code were not always recognized correctly.
3133
Georg Brandl14404b62008-01-19 19:27:05 +00003134- Issue #1679: "0x" was taken as a valid integer literal.
3135
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00003136- Issue #1865: ``bytes`` as an alias for ``str`` and b"" as an alias "" were
Christian Heimes288e89a2008-01-18 18:24:07 +00003137 added.
3138
Christian Heimesc94e2b52008-01-14 04:13:37 +00003139- sys.float_info / PyFloat_GetInfo: The floating point information
3140 object was converted from a dict to a specialized structseq object.
3141
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003142- Patch #1816: Added sys.flags structseq. It exposes the status of
3143 most command line arguments and PYTHON* environment variables.
Christian Heimesf31b69f2008-01-14 03:42:48 +00003144
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003145- Objects/structseq.c: Implemented new structseq representation. The
3146 patch makes structseqs (e.g. the return value of os.stat) more
3147 readable.
Christian Heimes9c201962008-01-14 03:33:52 +00003148
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003149- Patch #1700288: added a type attribute cache that caches method
3150 accesses, resulting in speedups in heavily object-oriented code.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arce4c270c2008-01-14 00:29:41 +00003151
Neal Norwitz3fc15b82008-01-10 05:42:58 +00003152- Bug #1776: __import__() no longer accepts filenames on any platform.
3153 The first parameter to __import__() must be a valid module name.
Christian Heimes3403f152008-01-09 19:56:33 +00003154
Georg Brandlaed6c662008-01-07 17:25:53 +00003155- Patch #1668: renamed THREADDEBUG envvar to PYTHONTHREADDEBUG.
3156
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003157- Patch #602345: Add -B command line option, PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE
3158 envvar and sys.dont_write_bytecode attribute. All these can be set
3159 to forbid Python to attempt to write compiled bytecode files.
Georg Brandl2da0fce2008-01-07 17:09:35 +00003160
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003161- Improve some exception messages when Windows fails to load an
3162 extension module. Now we get for example '%1 is not a valid Win32
3163 application' instead of 'error code 193'.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arce0b76952008-01-04 02:04:15 +00003164
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003165- Bug #1481296: Fixed long(float('nan')) != 0L.
Christian Heimes8267d1d2008-01-04 00:37:34 +00003166
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003167- Issue #1640: Added math.isinf(x), math.isnan(x) and math.copysign(x,
3168 y) functions.
Christian Heimese2ca4242008-01-03 20:23:15 +00003169
Christian Heimes0a8143f2007-12-18 23:22:54 +00003170- Issue #1635: Platform independent creation and representation of NaN
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003171 and INF. float("nan"), float("inf") and float("-inf") now work on
3172 every platform with IEEE 754 semantics.
Christian Heimes0a8143f2007-12-18 23:22:54 +00003173
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003174- Compiler now generates simpler and faster code for dictionary
3175 literals. The oparg for BUILD_MAP now indicates an estimated
3176 dictionary size. There is a new opcode, STORE_MAP, for adding
3177 entries to the dictionary.
Raymond Hettingerfd7ed402007-12-18 21:24:09 +00003178
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003179- Issue #1638: %zd configure test fails on Linux.
Christian Heimesdb3d6cb2007-12-16 21:39:43 +00003180
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003181- Issue #1620: New property decorator syntax was modifying the
3182 decorator in place instead of creating a new decorator object.
Christian Heimes90e10e72007-12-14 02:35:23 +00003183
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003184- Issue #1538: Avoid copying string in split/rsplit if the split char
3185 is not found.
Skip Montanaro26015492007-12-08 15:33:24 +00003186
Andrew M. Kuchling395fe442007-12-05 13:27:20 +00003187- Issue #1553: An erroneous __length_hint__ can make list() raise a
Christian Heimes7cc1c6f2007-12-05 12:52:34 +00003188 SystemError.
3189
Nick Coghlanef01d822007-12-03 12:55:17 +00003190- PEP 366: Allow explicit relative imports when executing modules
3191 inside packages with the -m switch via a new module level
3192 __package__ attribute.
3193
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003194- Issue #1402: Fix a crash on exit, when another thread is still
3195 running, and if the deallocation of its frames somehow calls the
3196 PyGILState_Ensure() / PyGILState_Release() functions.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcbe49a902007-11-30 20:37:22 +00003197
Christian Heimes28104c52007-11-27 23:16:44 +00003198- Expose the Py_Py3kWarningFlag as sys.py3kwarning.
3199
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00003200- Issue #1445: Fix a SystemError when accessing the ``cell_contents``
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcce7d10c2007-11-24 13:44:17 +00003201 attribute of an empty cell object.
3202
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003203- Issue #1460: The utf-7 incremental decoder did not accept truncated
3204 input. It now correctly saves its state between chunks of data.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcf57375a2007-11-21 01:38:26 +00003205
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003206- Patch #1739468: Directories and zipfiles containing a __main__.py
3207 file can now be directly executed by passing their name to the
3208 interpreter. The directory/zipfile is automatically inserted as the
3209 first entry in sys.path.
Nick Coghlan327a39b2007-11-18 11:56:28 +00003210
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003211- Issue #1265: Fix a problem with sys.settrace, if the tracing
3212 function uses a generator expression when at the same time the
3213 executed code is closing a paused generator.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc0d75f092007-11-13 21:54:28 +00003214
Raymond Hettinger1760c8a2007-11-08 02:52:43 +00003215- sets and frozensets now have an isdisjoint() method.
3216
Raymond Hettinger3f8caa32007-10-24 01:28:33 +00003217- optimize the performance of builtin.sum().
3218
Neal Norwitz44f326e2007-10-05 05:29:17 +00003219- Fix warnings found by the new version of the Coverity checker.
3220
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003221- The enumerate() builtin function is no longer bounded to sequences
3222 smaller than LONG_MAX. Formerly, it raised an OverflowError. Now,
3223 automatically shifts from ints to longs.
Raymond Hettinger8f669372007-10-03 21:18:11 +00003224
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003225- Issue #1686386: Tuple's tp_repr did not take into account the
3226 possibility of having a self-referential tuple, which is possible
3227 from C code. Nor did object's tp_str consider that a type's tp_str
3228 could do something that could lead to an inifinite recursion.
3229 Py_ReprEnter() and Py_EnterRecursiveCall(), respectively, fixed the
3230 issues.
Brett Cannon0b14f242007-09-30 19:45:10 +00003231
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003232- Issue #1164: It was possible to trigger deadlock when using the
3233 'print' statement to write to a file since the GIL was not released
3234 as needed. Now PyObject_Print() does the right thing along with
3235 various tp_print implementations of the built-in types and those in
3236 the collections module.
Brett Cannon01531592007-09-17 03:28:34 +00003237
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003238- Issue #1147: Exceptions were directly allowing string exceptions in
3239 their throw() method even though string exceptions no longer
3240 allowed.
Brett Cannon4c20bc42007-09-11 21:02:28 +00003241
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003242- Issue #1096: Prevent a segfault from getting the repr of a very
3243 deeply nested list by using the recursion counter.
Brett Cannona0c05512007-09-10 21:38:27 +00003244
Brett Cannon1e534b52007-09-07 04:18:30 +00003245- Issue #1202533: Fix infinite recursion calls triggered by calls to
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003246 PyObject_Call() never calling back out to Python code to trigger
3247 recursion depth updates/checks. Required the creation of a static
3248 RuntimeError instance in case normalizing an exception put the
3249 recursion check value past its limit. Fixes crashers
3250 infinite_rec_(1|2|4|5).py.
Brett Cannon1e534b52007-09-07 04:18:30 +00003251
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003252- Patch #1031213: Decode source line in SyntaxErrors back to its
3253 original source encoding.
Martin v. Löwisa5136192007-09-04 14:19:28 +00003254
Georg Brandl7c3b50d2007-07-12 08:38:00 +00003255- Patch #1673759: add a missing overflow check when formatting floats
3256 with %G.
3257
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003258- Prevent expandtabs() on string and unicode objects from causing a
3259 segfault when a large width is passed on 32-bit platforms.
Neal Norwitz7dbd2a32007-06-09 03:36:34 +00003260
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003261- Issue #1733488: Fix compilation of bufferobject.c on AIX.
Martin v. Löwisda587ab2007-06-08 17:29:20 +00003262
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003263- Issue #1722485: remove docstrings again when running with -OO.
Georg Brandla5ea6892007-06-01 11:33:33 +00003264
Neal Norwitz0ac60192007-05-27 04:08:54 +00003265- Add new attribute names for function objects. All the func_* become
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003266 __*__ attributes. (Some already existed, e.g., __doc__ and
3267 __name__.)
Neal Norwitz0ac60192007-05-27 04:08:54 +00003268
Neal Norwitz8b2bfbc2007-05-23 06:35:32 +00003269- Add -3 option to the interpreter to warn about features that are
3270 deprecated and will be changed/removed in Python 3.0.
3271
Georg Brandl2134e752007-05-21 20:34:16 +00003272- Patch #1686487: you can now pass any mapping after '**' in function
3273 calls.
3274
Collin Winter62903052007-05-18 23:11:24 +00003275- except clauses may now be spelled either "except E, target:" or
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003276 "except E as target:". This is to provide forwards compatibility
3277 with Python 3.0.
Collin Winter62903052007-05-18 23:11:24 +00003278
Brett Cannon229cee22007-05-05 01:34:02 +00003279- Deprecate BaseException.message as per PEP 352.
3280
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003281- Issue #1303614: don't expose object's __dict__ when the dict is
Armin Rigo9790a272007-05-02 19:23:31 +00003282 inherited from a builtin base.
3283
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00003284- When __slots__ are set to a unicode string, make it work the same as
Neal Norwitzcbd9ee62007-04-14 05:25:50 +00003285 setting a plain string, ie don't expand to single letter identifiers.
3286
Raymond Hettinger13936692007-04-11 18:40:58 +00003287- Request #1191699: Slices can now be pickled.
3288
Raymond Hettinger4db5fe92007-04-12 04:10:00 +00003289- Request #1193128: str.translate() now allows a None argument for
3290 translations that only remove characters without re-mapping the
3291 remaining characters.
3292
Georg Brandl5cb76c12007-03-21 09:00:39 +00003293- Patch #1682205: a TypeError while unpacking an iterable is no longer
3294 masked by a generic one with the message "unpack non-sequence".
3295
Neal Norwitzaa754b72007-03-21 06:39:48 +00003296- Remove unused file Python/fmod.c.
3297
Guido van Rossum143b5642007-03-23 04:58:42 +00003298- Bug #1683368: The object.__init__() and object.__new__() methods are
3299 now stricter in rejecting excess arguments. The only time when
3300 either allows excess arguments is when it is not overridden and the
3301 other one is. For backwards compatibility, when both are
3302 overridden, it is a deprecation warning (for now; maybe a Py3k
Guido van Rossum234b1ff2007-03-23 19:39:01 +00003303 warning later). Also, type.__init__() insists on the same signature
3304 as supported by type.__new__().
Guido van Rossum143b5642007-03-23 04:58:42 +00003305
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003306- Patch #1675423: PyComplex_AsCComplex() now tries to convert an
3307 object to complex using its __complex__() method before falling back
3308 to the __float__() method. Therefore, the functions in the cmath
3309 module now can operate on objects that define a __complex__()
3310 method.
Georg Brandl2b869942007-03-17 16:08:45 +00003311
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003312- Patch #1623563: allow __class__ assignment for classes with
3313 __slots__. The old and the new class are still required to have the
3314 same slot names.
Žiga Seilnacht6f2d09c2007-03-16 11:59:38 +00003315
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003316- Patch #1642547: Fix an error/crash when encountering syntax errors
3317 in complex if statements.
Collin Winter77c67bd2007-03-16 04:11:30 +00003318
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003319- Patch #1462488: Python no longer segfaults when
3320 ``object.__reduce_ex__()`` is called with an object that is faking
3321 its type.
Žiga Seilnacht20f43d32007-03-15 11:44:55 +00003322
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003323- Patch #1680015: Don't modify __slots__ tuple if it contains an
3324 unicode name.
Žiga Seilnacht71436f02007-03-14 12:24:09 +00003325
Georg Brandl5240d742007-03-13 20:46:32 +00003326- Patch #1444529: the builtin compile() now accepts keyword arguments.
3327
Georg Brandl7b9c5552007-03-12 14:30:05 +00003328- Bug #1678647: write a newline after printing an exception in any
3329 case, even when converting the value to a string failed.
3330
Georg Brandl871f1bc2007-03-12 13:17:36 +00003331- The dir() function has been extended to call the __dir__() method on
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003332 its argument, if it exists. If not, it will work like before. This
3333 allows customizing the output of dir() in the presence of a
3334 __getattr__().
Georg Brandl871f1bc2007-03-12 13:17:36 +00003335
Collin Winter276887b2007-03-12 16:11:39 +00003336- Patch #922167: Python no longer segfaults when faced with infinitely
3337 self-recursive reload() calls (as reported by bug #742342).
3338
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003339- Patch #1675981: remove unreachable code from ``type.__new__()``
3340 method.
Žiga Seilnacht89032082007-03-11 15:54:54 +00003341
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003342- Patch #1491866: change the complex() constructor to allow
3343 parthensized forms. This means complex(repr(x)) now works instead of
3344 raising a ValueError.
Collin Wintere38051d2007-03-09 20:33:07 +00003345
Georg Brandlaa2321b2007-03-07 00:40:28 +00003346- Patch #703779: unset __file__ in __main__ after running a file. This
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003347 makes the filenames the warning module prints much more sensible
3348 when a PYTHONSTARTUP file is used.
Georg Brandlaa2321b2007-03-07 00:40:28 +00003349
Georg Brandl49aafc92007-03-07 00:34:46 +00003350- Variant of patch #697613: don't exit the interpreter on a SystemExit
3351 exception if the -i command line option or PYTHONINSPECT environment
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003352 variable is given, but break into the interactive interpreter just
3353 like on other exceptions or normal program exit.
Georg Brandl49aafc92007-03-07 00:34:46 +00003354
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003355- Patch #1638879: don't accept strings with embedded NUL bytes in
3356 long().
Georg Brandl00cd8182007-03-06 18:41:12 +00003357
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003358- Bug #1674503: close the file opened by execfile() in an error
3359 condition.
Georg Brandl098cd692007-03-06 12:17:50 +00003360
Georg Brandl0fca97a2007-03-05 22:28:08 +00003361- Patch #1674228: when assigning a slice (old-style), check for the
3362 sq_ass_slice instead of the sq_slice slot.
3363
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003364- When printing an unraisable error, don't print exceptions. before
3365 the name. This duplicates the behavior whening normally printing
3366 exceptions.
Neal Norwitz88516a62007-02-26 22:41:45 +00003367
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003368- Bug #1653736: Properly discard third argument to
3369 slot_nb_inplace_power.
Martin v. Löwisfd963262007-02-09 12:19:32 +00003370
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003371- PEP 352: Raising a string exception now triggers a TypeError.
3372 Attempting to catch a string exception raises DeprecationWarning.
Brett Cannon129bd522007-01-30 21:34:36 +00003373
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003374- Bug #1377858: Fix the segfaulting of the interpreter when an object
3375 created a weakref on itself during a __del__ call for new-style
3376 classes (classic classes still have the bug).
Brett Cannonf5bee302007-01-23 23:21:22 +00003377
Martin v. Löwis6c5c5022007-01-23 21:11:47 +00003378- Bug #1579370: Make PyTraceBack_Here use the current thread, not the
3379 frame's thread state.
3380
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003381- patch #1630975: Fix crash when replacing sys.stdout in
3382 sitecustomize.py.
Thomas Wouters6ed19652007-01-23 13:50:49 +00003383
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003384- Prevent seg fault on shutdown which could occur if an object raised
3385 a warning.
Neal Norwitz72cd02c2007-01-05 05:25:22 +00003386
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003387- Bug #1566280: Explicitly invoke threading._shutdown from Py_Main, to
3388 avoid relying on atexit.
Martin v. Löwis7b7c9d42007-01-04 21:06:12 +00003389
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003390- Bug #1590891: random.randrange don't return correct value for big
3391 number.
Raymond Hettinger94547f72006-12-20 06:42:06 +00003392
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003393- Patch #1586791: Better exception messages for some operations on
3394 strings, tuples and lists.
Georg Brandl283a1352006-11-19 08:48:30 +00003395
Martin v. Löwis056dac12006-11-12 18:24:26 +00003396- Bug #1067760: Deprecate passing floats to file.seek.
3397
Martin v. Löwisa346c092006-11-08 06:48:36 +00003398- Bug #1591996: Correctly forward exception in instance_contains().
3399
Neal Norwitz85dbec62006-11-04 19:25:22 +00003400- Bug #1588287: fix invalid assertion for `1,2` in debug builds.
3401
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003402- Bug #1576657: when setting a KeyError for a tuple key, make sure
3403 that the tuple isn't used as the "exception arguments tuple".
Georg Brandlb9f4ad32006-10-29 18:31:42 +00003404
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003405- Bug #1565514: SystemError not raised on too many nested blocks.
Neal Norwitz21997af2006-10-28 21:19:07 +00003406
Thomas Hellerdf08f0b2006-10-27 18:31:36 +00003407- Bug #1576174: WindowsError now displays the windows error code
3408 again, no longer the posix error code.
3409
Martin v. Löwisb5bc5372006-10-27 06:16:31 +00003410- Patch #1549049: Support long values in structmember, issue warnings
3411 if the assigned value for structmember fields gets truncated.
3412
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003413- Update the peephole optimizer to remove more dead code (jumps after
3414 returns) and inline unconditional jumps to returns.
Neal Norwitzcbeb6872006-10-14 21:33:38 +00003415
Georg Brandl2c1375c2006-10-12 11:27:59 +00003416- Bug #1545497: when given an explicit base, int() did ignore NULs
3417 embedded in the string to convert.
3418
Georg Brandl846f73a2006-10-08 07:11:54 +00003419- Bug #1569998: break inside a try statement (outside a loop) is now
3420 recognized and rejected.
3421
Armin Rigo7ccbca92006-10-04 12:17:45 +00003422- list.pop(x) accepts any object x following the __index__ protocol.
3423
Armin Rigo7ccbca92006-10-04 12:17:45 +00003424- A number of places, including integer negation and absolute value,
3425 were fixed to not rely on undefined behaviour of the C compiler
3426 anymore.
Martin v. Löwis820d6ac2006-10-04 05:47:34 +00003427
Georg Brandl3267d282006-09-30 09:03:42 +00003428- Bug #1566800: make sure that EnvironmentError can be called with any
3429 number of arguments, as was the case in Python 2.4.
3430
Georg Brandl5d59c092006-09-30 08:43:30 +00003431- Patch #1567691: super() and new.instancemethod() now don't accept
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003432 keyword arguments any more (previously they accepted them, but
3433 didn't use them).
Georg Brandl5d59c092006-09-30 08:43:30 +00003434
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003435- Fix a bug in the parser's future statement handling that led to
3436 "with" not being recognized as a keyword after, e.g., this
3437 statement: from __future__ import division, with_statement
Georg Brandla10d3af2006-09-24 12:35:36 +00003438
Neal Norwitz3a230172006-09-22 08:18:10 +00003439- Bug #1557232: fix seg fault with def f((((x)))) and def f(((x),)).
3440
Neal Norwitz4a8fbdb2006-09-22 08:16:26 +00003441- Fix %zd string formatting on Mac OS X so it prints negative numbers.
3442
Brett Cannonf6aa86e2006-09-20 18:43:13 +00003443- Allow exception instances to be directly sliced again.
3444
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003445- Bug #1551432: Exceptions do not define an explicit __unicode__
3446 method. This allows calling unicode() on exceptions classes
3447 directly to succeed.
Brett Cannon9adeab72006-09-20 18:34:28 +00003448
Georg Brandl4e933132006-09-06 20:05:58 +00003449- Bug #1542051: Exceptions now correctly call PyObject_GC_UnTrack.
3450 Also make sure that every exception class has __module__ set to
3451 'exceptions'.
3452
Georg Brandl98775df2006-09-06 06:09:31 +00003453- Bug #1550983: emit better error messages for erroneous relative
3454 imports (if not in package and if beyond toplevel package).
3455
Tim Petersc10c9d02006-09-05 02:18:09 +00003456- Overflow checking code in integer division ran afoul of new gcc
3457 optimizations. Changed to be more standard-conforming.
3458
Neal Norwitz4f096d92006-08-21 19:47:08 +00003459- Patch #1542451: disallow continue anywhere under a finally.
3460
Neal Norwitza22975f2006-09-05 02:24:03 +00003461- Patch #1546288: fix seg fault in dict_equal due to ref counting bug.
3462
Neal Norwitzd34e4272006-09-05 02:36:20 +00003463- The return tuple from str.rpartition(sep) is (tail, sep, head) where
3464 head is the original string if sep was not found.
3465
Neal Norwitzdac090d2006-09-05 03:53:08 +00003466- Bug #1520864: unpacking singleton tuples in list comprehensions and
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003467 generator expressions (x for x, in ... ) works again. Fixing this
3468 problem required changing the .pyc magic number. This means that
3469 .pyc files generated before 2.5c2 will be regenerated.
Neal Norwitzdac090d2006-09-05 03:53:08 +00003470
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00003471- ``with`` and ``as`` are now keywords.
Neal Norwitzca460d92006-09-06 06:28:06 +00003472
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003473- Bug #1664966: Fix crash in exec if Unicode filename can't be
3474 decoded.
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00003475
Guido van Rossumcad37242008-01-15 17:59:29 +00003476- Issue #1537: Changed GeneratorExit's base class from Exception to
3477 BaseException.
Christian Heimes44eeaec2007-12-03 20:01:02 +00003478
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003479- Issue #1703448: A joined thread could show up in the
Gregory P. Smith95cd5c02008-01-22 01:20:42 +00003480 threading.enumerate() list after the join() for a brief period until
3481 it actually exited.
3482
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00003483
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00003484Library
3485-------
3486
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003487- Patch #2274: Add heapq.heappushpop().
Raymond Hettinger53bdf092008-03-13 19:03:51 +00003488
Christian Heimes608c1d82008-03-03 18:28:04 +00003489- Add inspect.isabstract(object) to fix bug #2223
3490
Mark Dickinson1ddf1d82008-02-29 02:16:37 +00003491- Add a __format__ method to Decimal, to support PEP 3101.
3492
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003493- Add a timing parameter when using trace.Trace to print out
3494 timestamps.
Neal Norwitzca376612008-02-26 08:21:28 +00003495
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003496- Issue #1627: httplib now ignores negative Content-Length headers.
Georg Brandl8c460d52008-02-24 00:14:24 +00003497
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003498- Issue #900744: If an invalid chunked-encoding header is sent by a
3499 server, httplib will now raise IncompleteRead and close the
3500 connection instead of raising ValueError.
Georg Brandl23635032008-02-24 00:03:22 +00003501
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003502- Issue #1492: The content type of BaseHTTPServer error messages can
3503 now be overridden.
Georg Brandl16479232008-02-23 15:02:28 +00003504
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003505- Issue #1781: ConfigParser now does not let you add the "default" section
Facundo Batistab12f0b52008-02-23 12:46:10 +00003506 (ignore-case)
3507
Guido van Rossum8bc09652008-02-21 18:18:37 +00003508- Removed uses of dict.has_key() from distutils, and uses of
3509 callable() from copy_reg.py, so the interpreter now starts up
3510 without warnings when '-3' is given. More work like this needs to
3511 be done in the rest of the stdlib.
3512
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003513- Issue #1916: added isgenerator() and isgeneratorfunction() to
3514 inspect.py.
Facundo Batista759bfc62008-02-18 03:43:43 +00003515
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003516- Issue #1224: Fixed bad url parsing when path begins with double
3517 slash.
Facundo Batistad14600e2008-02-18 12:48:43 +00003518
Thomas Hellera06a1a82008-02-13 20:21:53 +00003519- ctypes instances that are not or do not contain pointers can now be
3520 pickled.
3521
Martin v. Löwisdad88dc2008-02-12 18:47:34 +00003522- Patch #1966: Break infinite loop in httplib when the servers
3523 implements the chunked encoding incorrectly.
3524
Mark Dickinsond058cd22008-02-10 21:29:51 +00003525- Rename rational.py to fractions.py and the rational.Rational class
3526 to fractions.Fraction, to avoid the name clash with the abstract
3527 base class numbers.Rational. See discussion in issue #1682.
3528
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003529- The pickletools module now provides an optimize() function that
3530 eliminates unused PUT opcodes from a pickle string.
Raymond Hettingerda614dc2008-02-10 20:35:16 +00003531
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003532- Patch #2021: Allow tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile and
3533 SpooledTemporaryFile to be used in with statements by correctly
3534 supporting the context management protocol.
Nick Coghlanac094dc2008-02-10 07:32:52 +00003535
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003536- Patch #1979: Add rich comparisons to Decimal, and make Decimal
3537 comparisons involving a NaN follow the IEEE 754 standard.
Mark Dickinson2fc92632008-02-06 22:10:50 +00003538
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003539- Issue #2004: tarfile.py: Use mode 0700 for temporary directories and
3540 default permissions for missing directories.
Lars Gustäbel0192e432008-02-05 11:51:40 +00003541
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003542- Issue #175006: The debugger used to skip the condition of a "while"
3543 statement after the first iteration. Now it correctly steps on the
3544 expression, and breakpoints on the "while" statement are honored on
3545 each loop.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc6fd03bb2008-02-04 21:45:05 +00003546
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003547- Issue #1765140: add an optional delay argument to FileHandler and
3548 its subclasses. Defaults to false (existing behaviour), but if true,
Vinay Sajipd7cf32e2008-01-24 12:43:33 +00003549 defers opening the file until the first call to emit().
3550
Raymond Hettingerc226c312008-01-23 00:04:40 +00003551- The pprint module now supports sets and frozensets.
3552
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003553- Issue #1221598: add optional callbacks to ftplib.FTP's storbinary()
3554 and storlines() methods. (Contributed by Phil Schwartz)
Gregory P. Smithc64386b2008-01-22 00:19:41 +00003555
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003556- Issue #1715: include sub-extension modules in pydoc's text output.
Georg Brandlf2dae0e2008-01-21 21:05:49 +00003557
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003558- Issue #1836: fix an off-by-one bug in TimedRotatingHandler's
3559 rollover time calculation.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00003560
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003561- Issue #1021: fix a bug to allow basicConfig to accept NOTSET as a
3562 level.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00003563
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003564- Issue #932563: add LoggerAdapter convenience class to make it easier
3565 to add contextual information in logging output.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00003566
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003567- Issue #1760556: fix a bug to avoid FileHandler throwing an exception
3568 in flush().
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00003569
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003570- Bug #1530959: distutils' build command now uses different build
3571 directory when building extension modules against versions of Python
3572 compiled with ``--with-pydebug``.
Georg Brandl50160152008-01-21 17:42:40 +00003573
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003574- Issue #1555501: move plistlib from plat-mac directory to general
3575 library.
Georg Brandl864de822008-01-21 16:34:07 +00003576
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003577- Issue #1269: fix a bug in pstats.add_callers() and add a unit test
3578 file for pstats.
Georg Brandl66e73632008-01-21 10:24:59 +00003579
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003580- Issue #1669: don't allow shutil.rmtree() to be called on a symlink
3581 to a directory.
Georg Brandl52353982008-01-20 14:17:42 +00003582
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003583- Issue #1664522: in urllib, don't read non-existing directories in
3584 ftp mode, returning a 0-byte file -- raise an IOError instead.
Georg Brandld5e6cf22008-01-20 12:18:17 +00003585
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003586- Issue #856047: respect the ``no_proxy`` environment variable when
3587 using the ``http_proxy`` etc. environment variables in urllib.
Georg Brandl22350112008-01-20 12:05:43 +00003588
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003589- Issue #1178141: add a getcode() method to the addinfourls that
3590 urllib.open() returns so that you can retrieve the HTTP status code.
Georg Brandl9b0d46d2008-01-20 11:43:03 +00003591
Gregory P. Smithf25680a2008-01-20 01:26:04 +00003592- Issue #1003: Fix zipfile decryption check, it would fail zip files
3593 with extended local headers.
3594
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003595- Issue #1189216: Fix the zipfile module to work on archives with
3596 headers past the 2**31 byte boundary.
Gregory P. Smith350d03b2008-01-19 23:10:52 +00003597
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003598- Issue #1336: fix a race condition in subprocess.Popen if the garbage
Gregory P. Smithb9ba0752008-01-19 21:00:37 +00003599 collector kicked in at the wrong time that would cause the process
3600 to hang when the child wrote to stderr.
3601
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003602- Issue #1146: fix how textwrap breaks a long word that would start in
3603 the last column of a line.
Georg Brandlc6fde722008-01-19 19:48:19 +00003604
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003605- Issue #1693149: trace.py --ignore-module - accept multiple
3606 comma-separated modules to be given.
Skip Montanaro562133b2008-01-19 18:47:24 +00003607
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003608- Issue #1822: MIMEMultipart.is_multipart() behaves correctly for a
3609 just-created (and empty) instance. Thanks Jonathan Share.
Facundo Batista2b1b1952008-01-19 12:32:27 +00003610
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003611- Issue #1861: Added an attribute to the sched module which returns an
3612 ordered list of upcoming events (displayed as named tuples).
Raymond Hettinger44bd6c02008-01-17 19:31:38 +00003613
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003614- Issue #1837: The queue module now also supports a LIFO queue and a
3615 priority queue.
Raymond Hettinger3ad2acc82008-01-16 23:49:35 +00003616
Andrew M. Kuchling4a2762d2008-01-20 00:00:38 +00003617- Patch #1048820: Add insert-mode editing to curses.textpad.Textbox
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00003618 (patch by Stefan Wehr). Also, fix an off-by-one bug in
Andrew M. Kuchling4a2762d2008-01-20 00:00:38 +00003619 Textbox.gather().
3620
Thomas Heller02ec2892008-01-16 19:37:33 +00003621- Issue #1831: ctypes now raises a TypeError if conflicting positional
3622 and named arguments are passed to a Structure or Union initializer.
Thomas Heller415c1e32008-01-16 19:45:51 +00003623 When too many positional arguments are passed, also a TypeError is
3624 raised instead of a ValueError.
Thomas Heller02ec2892008-01-16 19:37:33 +00003625
Thomas Heller902d3072008-01-16 19:16:27 +00003626- Convert the internal ctypes array type cache to a WeakValueDict so
3627 that array types do not live longer than needed.
3628
Guido van Rossumcad37242008-01-15 17:59:29 +00003629- Issue #1786: pdb should use its own stdin/stdout around an exec call
3630 and when creating a recursive instance.
3631
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003632- Issue #1698398: ZipFile.printdir() crashed because the format string
3633 expected a tuple type of length six instead of time.struct_time
3634 object.
Raymond Hettinger351e1a32008-01-14 22:58:05 +00003635
Mark Dickinson59bc20b2008-01-12 01:56:00 +00003636- Issue #1780: The Decimal constructor now accepts arbitrary leading
3637 and trailing whitespace when constructing from a string.
3638 Context.create_decimal no longer accepts trailing newlines.
3639
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003640- Decimal.as_tuple(), difflib.find_longest_match() and inspect
3641 functions that returned a tuple now return a named tuple.
Georg Brandl2f32c392008-01-11 09:20:58 +00003642
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00003643- Doctest now returns results as a named tuple for readability:
Raymond Hettingerfff4e6e2008-01-11 01:25:54 +00003644 (0, 7) --> TestResults(failed=0, attempted=7)
3645
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003646- Issue #846388:q re.match is interruptible now, which is particularly
Facundo Batista4473d222008-01-08 21:10:12 +00003647 good for long regular expression matches.
3648
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003649- Patch #1137: allow setting buffer_size attribute on pyexpat Parser
3650 objects to set the character data buffer size.
Andrew M. Kuchlinge0a49b62008-01-08 14:30:55 +00003651
Facundo Batista52b25792008-01-08 12:25:20 +00003652- Issue #1757: The hash of a Decimal instance is no longer affected by
3653 the current context.
3654
Georg Brandl62416bc2008-01-07 18:47:44 +00003655- Patch #467924: add ZipFile.extract() and ZipFile.extractall() in the
3656 zipfile module.
3657
Christian Heimesfb2d25a2008-01-07 16:12:44 +00003658- Issue #1646: Make socket support the TIPC protocol.
3659
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003660- Bug #1742: return os.curdir from os.path.relpath() if both arguments
3661 are equal instead of raising an exception.
Georg Brandl183a0842008-01-06 14:27:15 +00003662
Guido van Rossumc6a04c22008-01-05 22:19:06 +00003663- Patch #1637: fix urlparse for URLs like 'http://x.com?arg=/foo'.
3664
Guido van Rossumced4eb02008-01-05 01:21:57 +00003665- Patch #1698: allow '@' in username parsed by urlparse.py.
3666
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003667- Issue #1735: TarFile.extractall() now correctly sets directory
3668 permissions and times.
Lars Gustäbel2ee1c762008-01-04 14:00:33 +00003669
Christian Heimes06875612008-01-04 13:21:07 +00003670- Bug #1713: posixpath.ismount() claims symlink to a mountpoint is a mountpoint.
3671
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003672- Bug #1687: Fxed plistlib.py restricts <integer> to Python int when
3673 writing
Christian Heimes06131882008-01-04 00:04:52 +00003674
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003675- Issue #1700: Regular expression inline flags incorrectly handle
3676 certain unicode characters.
Guido van Rossumae04c332008-01-03 19:12:44 +00003677
Jeffrey Yasskin2f3c16b2008-01-03 02:21:52 +00003678- Issue #1689: PEP 3141, numeric abstract base classes.
3679
Martin v. Löwis84b9aab2008-01-01 21:09:07 +00003680- Tk issue #1851526: Return results from Python callbacks to Tcl as
3681 Tcl objects.
3682
Thomas Heller153038e2007-12-18 19:00:34 +00003683- Issue #1642: Fix segfault in ctypes when trying to delete attributes.
3684
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003685- Issue #1727780: Support loading pickles of random.Random objects
3686 created on 32-bit systems on 64-bit systems, and vice versa. As a
3687 consequence of the change, Random pickles created by Python 2.6
3688 cannot be loaded in Python 2.5.
Martin v. Löwis6b449f42007-12-03 19:20:02 +00003689
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003690- Issue #1455: The distutils package now supports VS 2005 and VS 2008
3691 for both the msvccompiler and cygwincompiler.
Christian Heimesc654fc22007-12-03 13:55:16 +00003692
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003693- Issue #1531: tarfile.py: Read fileobj from the current offset, do
3694 not seek to the start.
Lars Gustäbel77b2d632007-12-01 21:02:12 +00003695
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003696- Issue #1534: Added a dictionary sys.float_info with information
3697 about the internal floating point type to the sys module.
Christian Heimesdfdfaab2007-12-01 11:20:10 +00003698
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003699- Issue #1429818: patch for trace and doctest modules so they play
3700 nicely together.
Skip Montanaro58a6f442007-11-24 14:30:47 +00003701
Brett Cannon43e53f82007-11-21 00:47:36 +00003702- doctest made a bad assumption that a package's __loader__.get_data()
3703 method used universal newlines.
3704
Nick Coghlan90b858e2007-11-07 11:57:51 +00003705- Issue #1705170: contextlib.contextmanager was still swallowing
3706 StopIteration in some cases. This should no longer happen.
3707
Thomas Heller486b1b02007-11-02 19:10:24 +00003708- Issue #1292: On alpha, arm, ppc, and s390 linux systems the
3709 --with-system-ffi configure option defaults to "yes".
3710
Hye-Shik Changa838a802007-10-28 11:19:02 +00003711- IN module for FreeBSD 8 is added and preexisting FreeBSD 6 and 7
3712 files are updated.
3713
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003714- Issues #1181, #1287: unsetenv() is now called when the
3715 os.environ.pop() and os.environ.clear() methods are used.
Georg Brandl1a94ec22007-10-24 21:40:38 +00003716
Thomas Heller91ac4222007-10-19 18:11:41 +00003717- ctypes will now work correctly on 32-bit systems when Python is
3718 configured with --with-system-ffi.
3719
Thomas Heller7fee6dd2007-10-11 19:51:32 +00003720- Patch #1203: ctypes now does work on OS X when Python is built with
Georg Brandl1a94ec22007-10-24 21:40:38 +00003721 --disable-toolbox-glue.
Thomas Heller7fee6dd2007-10-11 19:51:32 +00003722
Raymond Hettingera7fc4b12007-10-05 02:47:07 +00003723- collections.deque() now supports a "maxlen" argument.
3724
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003725- itertools.count() is no longer bounded to LONG_MAX. Formerly, it
3726 raised an OverflowError. Now, automatically shifts from ints to
3727 longs.
Raymond Hettinger50e90e22007-10-04 00:20:27 +00003728
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003729- Added itertools.product() which forms the Cartesian product of the
3730 input iterables.
Raymond Hettingerc5705a82008-02-22 19:50:06 +00003731
Raymond Hettinger66f91ea2008-03-05 20:59:58 +00003732- Added itertools.combinations() and itertools.permutations().
Raymond Hettinger93e804d2008-02-26 23:40:50 +00003733
Georg Brandlaff85e22007-09-20 16:06:07 +00003734- Patch #1541463: optimize performance of cgi.FieldStorage operations.
3735
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003736- Decimal is fully updated to the latest Decimal Specification
3737 (v1.66).
Facundo Batistab67da232007-09-17 16:26:50 +00003738
Georg Brandl8fd3ecf2007-09-12 19:00:07 +00003739- Bug #1153: repr.repr() now doesn't require set and dictionary items
3740 to be orderable to properly represent them.
3741
Thomas Heller2825b2e2007-09-07 06:32:17 +00003742- A 'c_longdouble' type was added to the ctypes module.
3743
Martin v. Löwis7dcb83c2007-08-30 19:04:09 +00003744- Bug #1709599: Run test_1565150 only if the file system is NTFS.
3745
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003746- When encountering a password-protected robots.txt file the
3747 RobotFileParser no longer prompts interactively for a username and
3748 password (bug 813986).
Skip Montanaro3e275362007-08-29 01:33:45 +00003749
Lars Gustäbel0f4a14b2007-08-28 12:31:09 +00003750- TarFile.__init__() no longer fails if no name argument is passed and
3751 the fileobj argument has no usable name attribute (e.g. StringIO).
3752
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003753- The functools module now provides 'reduce', for forward
3754 compatibility with Python 3000.
Guido van Rossum95f1a1b2007-08-27 20:52:10 +00003755
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003756- Server-side SSL support and cert verification added, by Bill
3757 Janssen.
Guido van Rossum4f2c3dd2007-08-25 15:08:43 +00003758
Bill Janssenf413fb02007-08-30 18:08:06 +00003759- socket.ssl deprecated; use new ssl module instead.
3760
Georg Brandl8ec57542007-08-24 06:10:01 +00003761- uuid creation is now threadsafe.
3762
Hye-Shik Chang23901042007-08-20 06:49:18 +00003763- EUC-KR codec now handles the cheot-ga-keut composed make-up hangul
3764 syllables.
3765
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003766- GB18030 codec now can encode additional two-byte characters that are
3767 missing in GBK.
Hye-Shik Changf3e93a02007-08-04 04:10:18 +00003768
Walter Dörwald6e390802007-08-17 16:41:28 +00003769- Add new codecs for UTF-32, UTF-32-LE and UTF-32-BE.
3770
Martin v. Löwisf1e0b3f2007-07-28 07:03:05 +00003771- Bug #1704793: Return UTF-16 pair if unicodedata.lookup cannot
3772 represent the result in a single character.
3773
Martin v. Löwisf25e35b2007-07-27 18:28:22 +00003774- Bug #978833: Close https sockets by releasing the _ssl object.
3775
Martin v. Löwis254b8f92007-07-25 16:24:23 +00003776- Change location of the package index to pypi.python.org/pypi
3777
Thomas Hellerfa704c62007-07-13 17:12:23 +00003778- Bug #1701409: Fix a segfault in printing ctypes.c_char_p and
3779 ctypes.c_wchar_p when they point to an invalid location. As a
3780 sideeffect the representation of these instances has changed.
3781
Lars Gustäbel104490e2007-06-18 11:42:11 +00003782- tarfile.py: Added "exclude" keyword argument to TarFile.add().
3783
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003784- Bug #1734723: Fix repr.Repr() so it doesn't ignore the maxtuple
3785 attribute.
Neal Norwitzc161cb92007-06-11 07:29:43 +00003786
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003787- The urlopen function of urllib2 now has an optional timeout
3788 parameter (note that it actually works with HTTP, HTTPS, FTP and
3789 FTPS connections).
Facundo Batista10951d52007-06-06 17:15:23 +00003790
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003791- In ftplib, the FTP.ntransfercmd method, when in passive mode, now
3792 uses the socket.create_connection function, using the timeout
3793 specified at connection time.
Facundo Batista92493122007-06-06 15:13:37 +00003794
Hye-Shik Chang9b541402007-06-05 18:58:51 +00003795- Bug #1728403: Fix a bug that CJKCodecs StreamReader hangs when it
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003796 reads a file that ends with incomplete sequence and sizehint
3797 argument for .read() is specified.
Hye-Shik Chang9b541402007-06-05 18:58:51 +00003798
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003799- Bug #1730389: Change time.strptime() to use ``\s+`` instead of
3800 ``\s*`` when matching spaces in the specified format argument.
Brett Cannonf7188ce2007-06-03 23:13:41 +00003801
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003802- Bugs #1668596/#1720897: distutils now copies data files even if
3803 package_dir is empty.
Neal Norwitz4a700bb2007-06-01 07:29:12 +00003804
Brett Cannonc2aa09a2007-05-31 19:20:00 +00003805- sha now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
3806
Brett Cannon7eec2172007-05-30 22:24:28 +00003807- md5 now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
3808
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003809- Issue #1385: The hmac module now computes the correct hmac when
3810 using hashes with a block size other than 64 bytes (such as sha384
3811 and sha512).
Gregory P. Smithe1ac4f12007-11-06 00:19:03 +00003812
Brett Cannonc249bda2007-05-30 21:48:58 +00003813- mimify now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
3814
Brett Cannon90134c92007-05-30 20:46:26 +00003815- MimeWriter now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
3816
Lars Gustäbela0fcb932007-05-27 19:49:30 +00003817- tarfile.py: Improved unicode support. Unicode input names are now
3818 officially supported. Added "errors" argument to the TarFile class.
3819
Facundo Batista711a54e2007-05-24 17:50:54 +00003820- urllib.ftpwrapper class now accepts an optional timeout.
3821
Georg Brandlc90bc752007-05-24 16:49:29 +00003822- shlex.split() now has an optional "posix" parameter.
3823
Brett Cannon41bf2fa2007-05-20 23:57:38 +00003824- The posixfile module now raises a DeprecationWarning.
3825
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003826- Remove the gopherlib module. This also leads to the removal of
3827 gopher support in urllib/urllib2.
Brett Cannond75f0432007-05-16 22:42:29 +00003828
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003829- Fix bug in marshal where bad data would cause a segfault due to lack
3830 of an infinite recursion check.
Neal Norwitzb1a9b372007-05-16 20:05:11 +00003831
Neal Norwitze0e70a42007-05-16 05:06:33 +00003832- Removed plat-freebsd2 and plat-freebsd3 directories (and IN.py in
3833 the directories).
3834
Georg Brandla09a96a2007-05-15 20:19:34 +00003835- HTML-escape the plain traceback in cgitb's HTML output, to prevent
3836 the traceback inadvertently or maliciously closing the comment and
3837 injecting HTML into the error page.
3838
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003839- The popen2 module and os.popen* are deprecated. Use the subprocess
3840 module.
Neal Norwitz42dd86b2007-05-11 06:57:33 +00003841
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003842- Added an optional credentials argument to SMTPHandler, for use with
3843 SMTP servers which require authentication.
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00003844
3845- Patch #1695948: Added optional timeout parameter to SocketHandler.
3846
3847- Bug #1652788: Minor fix for currentframe.
3848
3849- Patch #1598415: Added WatchedFileHandler to better support external
3850 log file rotation using e.g. newsyslog or logrotate. This handler is
3851 only useful in Unix/Linux environments.
3852
Georg Brandlfb4b3b72007-04-24 15:27:13 +00003853- Bug #1706381: Specifying the SWIG option "-c++" in the setup.py file
3854 (as opposed to the command line) will now write file names ending in
3855 ".cpp" too.
3856
Facundo Batistad918a652007-04-24 13:54:38 +00003857- As specified in RFC 2616, an HTTP response like 2xx indicates that
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003858 the client's request was successfully received, understood, and
3859 accepted. Now in these cases no error is raised in urllib (issue
3860 #1177) and urllib2.
Facundo Batistad918a652007-04-24 13:54:38 +00003861
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003862- Bug #1290505: time.strptime's internal cache of locale information
3863 is now properly recreated when the locale is changed.
Brett Cannonc6906652007-04-01 18:47:27 +00003864
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003865- Patch #1685563: remove (don't add) duplicate paths in
3866 distutils.MSVCCompiler.
Neal Norwitz8f35f442007-04-01 18:24:22 +00003867
Facundo Batistab6a5c9d2007-03-29 18:22:35 +00003868- Added a timeout parameter to the constructor of other protocols
3869 (telnetlib, ftplib, smtplib and poplib). This is second part of the
3870 work started with create_connection() and timeout in httplib, and
3871 closes patch #723312.
3872
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00003873- Patch #1676823: Added create_connection() to socket.py, which may be
3874 called with a timeout, and use it from httplib (whose HTTPConnection
Facundo Batista70f996b2007-05-21 17:32:32 +00003875 and HTTPSConnection now accept an optional timeout).
Facundo Batista07c78be2007-03-23 18:54:07 +00003876
Martin v. Löwis0af33882007-03-23 13:27:15 +00003877- Bug #978833: Revert r50844, as it broke _socketobject.dup.
3878
Žiga Seilnacht7492e422007-03-21 20:07:56 +00003879- Bug #1675967: re patterns pickled with Python 2.4 and earlier can
3880 now be unpickled with Python 2.5 and newer.
3881
Collin Wintera8785cc2007-03-19 18:52:08 +00003882- Patch #1630118: add a SpooledTemporaryFile class to tempfile.py.
3883
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003884- Patch #1273829: os.walk() now has a "followlinks" parameter. If set
3885 to True (which is not the default), it visits symlinks pointing to
Georg Brandlcae9f3d2007-03-21 09:10:29 +00003886 directories.
3887
Georg Brandl8f06d022007-03-16 07:55:09 +00003888- Bug #1681228: the webbrowser module now correctly uses the default
3889 GNOME or KDE browser, depending on whether there is a session of one
3890 of those present. Also, it tries the Windows default browser before
3891 trying Mozilla variants.
3892
Collin Winter6f187742007-03-16 22:16:08 +00003893- Patch #1339796: add a relpath() function to os.path.
3894
Georg Brandlab1f4672007-03-15 07:41:30 +00003895- Patch #1681153: the wave module now closes a file object it opened if
3896 initialization failed.
3897
Georg Brandlf66b6032007-03-14 08:27:52 +00003898- Bug #767111: fix long-standing bug in urllib which caused an
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003899 AttributeError instead of an IOError when the server's response
3900 didn't contain a valid HTTP status line.
Georg Brandlf66b6032007-03-14 08:27:52 +00003901
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003902- Patch #957650: "%var%" environment variable references are now
3903 properly expanded in ntpath.expandvars(), also "~user" home
3904 directory references are recognized and handled on Windows.
Georg Brandl03b90d82007-03-13 22:07:36 +00003905
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003906- Patch #1429539: pdb now correctly initializes the __main__ module
3907 for the debugged script, which means that imports from __main__ work
Georg Brandlb6ae6aa2007-03-13 21:58:44 +00003908 correctly now.
3909
Georg Brandlbad6f192007-03-13 21:32:56 +00003910- The nonobvious commands.getstatus() function is now deprecated.
3911
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003912- Patch #1393667: pdb now has a "run" command which restarts the
3913 debugged Python program, optionally with different arguments.
Georg Brandl8e84c652007-03-13 21:08:15 +00003914
Thomas Heller5dc4fe02007-03-13 20:42:52 +00003915- Patch #1649190: Adding support for _Bool to ctypes as c_bool.
3916
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003917- Patch #1530482: add pydoc.render_doc() which returns the
3918 documentation for a thing instead of paging it to stdout, which
3919 pydoc.doc() does.
Georg Brandl8441f152007-03-13 20:02:57 +00003920
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003921- Patch #1533909: the timeit module now accepts callables in addition
3922 to strings for the code to time and the setup code. Also added two
3923 convenience functions for instantiating a Timer and calling its
3924 methods.
Georg Brandld9bef352007-03-13 19:32:21 +00003925
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003926- Patch #1537850: tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile now has a "delete"
3927 parameter which can be set to False to prevent the default
3928 delete-on-close behavior.
Georg Brandl35ef9c12007-03-13 18:31:49 +00003929
Georg Brandl9e6b4702007-03-13 18:15:41 +00003930- Patch #1581073: add a flag to textwrap that prevents the dropping of
3931 whitespace while wrapping.
3932
Georg Brandl92a6bae2007-03-13 17:43:32 +00003933- Patch #1603688: ConfigParser.SafeConfigParser now checks values that
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003934 are set for invalid interpolation sequences that would lead to
3935 errors on reading back those values.
Georg Brandl92a6bae2007-03-13 17:43:32 +00003936
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003937- Added support for the POSIX.1-2001 (pax) format to
3938 tarfile.py. Extended and cleaned up the test suite. Added a new
3939 testtar.tar.
Lars Gustäbelc64e4022007-03-13 10:47:19 +00003940
Martin v. Löwisbdd0f392007-03-13 10:24:00 +00003941- Patch #1449244: Support Unicode strings in
3942 email.message.Message.{set_charset,get_content_charset}.
3943
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003944- Patch #1542681: add entries for "with", "as" and "CONTEXTMANAGERS"
3945 to pydoc's help keywords.
Georg Brandlb6a87542007-03-13 10:06:48 +00003946
Georg Brandl4ffc8f52007-03-13 09:41:31 +00003947- Patch #1555098: use str.join() instead of repeated string
3948 concatenation in robotparser.
3949
Georg Brandl94fe3f52007-03-13 09:32:11 +00003950- Patch #1635454: the csv.DictWriter class now includes the offending
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003951 field names in its exception message if you try to write a record
3952 with a dictionary containing fields not in the CSV field names list.
Georg Brandl94fe3f52007-03-13 09:32:11 +00003953
Georg Brandlceede5c2007-03-13 08:14:27 +00003954- Patch #1668100: urllib2 now correctly raises URLError instead of
3955 OSError if accessing a local file via the file:// protocol fails.
3956
Martin v. Löwis2681beb2007-03-12 11:01:10 +00003957- Patch #1677862: Require a space or tab after import in .pth files.
3958
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003959- Patch #1192590: Fix pdb's "ignore" and "condition" commands so they
3960 trap the IndexError caused by passing in an invalid breakpoint
3961 number.
Collin Winter2faa9e12007-03-11 16:00:20 +00003962
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003963- Patch #1599845: Add an option to disable the implicit calls to
3964 server_bind() and server_activate() in the constructors for
3965 TCPServer, SimpleXMLRPCServer and DocXMLRPCServer.
Collin Winterae041062007-03-10 14:41:48 +00003966
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003967- Bug #1531963: Make SocketServer.TCPServer's server_address always be
3968 equal to calling getsockname() on the server's socket. Fixed by
Collin Winterfaaa2042007-03-10 03:35:34 +00003969 patch #1545011.
Collin Winter22c42ba2007-03-10 02:51:26 +00003970
Andrew M. Kuchlinge45a77a2008-01-19 16:26:13 +00003971- Patch #742598: Add .timeout attribute to SocketServer that calls
3972 .handle_timeout() when no requests are received.
3973
Thomas Heller2456a3c2007-03-09 20:39:22 +00003974- Bug #1651235: When a tuple was passed to a ctypes function call,
3975 Python would crash instead of raising an error.
3976
Thomas Hellerc2f77252007-03-09 19:21:28 +00003977- Bug #1646630: ctypes.string_at(buf, 0) and ctypes.wstring_at(buf, 0)
3978 returned string up to the first NUL character.
3979
Martin v. Löwis1190a382007-03-09 15:35:55 +00003980- Patch #957003: Implement smtplib.LMTP.
3981
Collin Winterfb728de2007-03-09 03:26:32 +00003982- Patch #1481079: add support for HTTP_REFERER to CGIHTTPServer.
3983
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003984- Patch #1675424: Added tests for uncovered code in the zipfile
3985 module. The KeyError raised by Zipfile.getinfo for nonexistent
3986 names now has a descriptive message.
Georg Brandl4b3ab6f2007-07-12 09:59:22 +00003987
Martin v. Löwis05c075d2007-03-07 11:04:33 +00003988- Bug #1115886: os.path.splitext('.cshrc') gives now ('.cshrc', '').
3989
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003990- unittest now verifies more of its assumptions. In particular,
3991 TestCase and TestSuite subclasses (not instances) are no longer
3992 accepted in TestSuite.addTest(). This should cause no
3993 incompatibility since it never made sense with ordinary subclasses
3994 -- the failure just occurred later, with a more cumbersome
3995 exception.
Georg Brandl9caadf82007-03-08 18:37:31 +00003996
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003997- Patch #787789: allow to pass custom TestRunner instances to
3998 unittest's main() function.
Georg Brandld0a96252007-03-07 09:21:06 +00003999
Georg Brandl15c5ce92007-03-07 09:09:40 +00004000- Patches #1550273, #1550272: fix a few bugs in unittest and add a
4001 comprehensive test suite for the module.
4002
Georg Brandl71ff6462007-03-07 08:31:51 +00004003- Patch #1001604: glob.glob() now returns unicode filenames if it was
4004 given a unicode argument and os.listdir() returns unicode filenames.
4005
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004006- Patch #1673619: setup.py identifies extension modules it doesn't
4007 know how to build and those it knows how to build but that fail to
4008 build.
Skip Montanarod1287322007-03-06 15:41:38 +00004009
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00004010- Patch #912410: Replace HTML entity references for attribute values
Martin v. Löwisab8a6bb2007-03-06 14:43:00 +00004011 in HTMLParser.
4012
Georg Brandlff432e62007-03-06 13:37:45 +00004013- Patch #1663234: you can now run doctest on test files and modules
4014 using "python -m doctest [-v] filename ...".
4015
Martin v. Löwis3eb76482007-03-06 10:41:24 +00004016- Patch #1121142: Implement ZipFile.open.
4017
Skip Montanarof694b1b2007-03-04 20:54:12 +00004018- Taught setup.py how to locate Berkeley DB on Macs using MacPorts.
4019
Raymond Hettinger00166c52007-02-19 04:08:43 +00004020- Added heapq.merge() for merging sorted input streams.
4021
Raymond Hettingercd3c1082007-10-23 21:23:07 +00004022- Added collections.namedtuple() for assigning field names to tuples.
Raymond Hettingerc37e5e02007-03-01 06:16:43 +00004023
Raymond Hettingerd36862c2007-02-21 05:20:38 +00004024- Added itertools.izip_longest().
4025
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004026- Have the encoding package's search function dynamically import using
4027 absolute import semantics.
Brett Cannon971a0122007-02-15 22:54:39 +00004028
Lars Gustäbel5b1a7852007-02-13 16:09:24 +00004029- Patch #1647484: Renamed GzipFile's filename attribute to name.
4030
Martin v. Löwis84f6de92007-02-13 10:10:39 +00004031- Patch #1517891: Mode 'a' for ZipFile now creates the file if it
4032 doesn't exist.
4033
Martin v. Löwisc6d626e2007-02-13 09:49:38 +00004034- Patch #698833: Support file decryption in zipfile.
4035
Martin v. Löwis07aa3ed2007-02-13 08:34:45 +00004036- Patch #685268: Consider a package's __path__ in imputil.
4037
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004038- Patch #1463026: Support default namespace in XMLGenerator.
Martin v. Löwis2bad58f2007-02-12 12:21:10 +00004039
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004040- Patch #1571379: Make trace's --ignore-dir facility work in the face
4041 of relative directory names.
Skip Montanaro691acf22007-02-11 18:24:37 +00004042
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004043- Bug #1600860: Search for shared python library in LIBDIR, not
4044 lib/python/config, on "linux" and "gnu" systems.
Martin v. Löwis0a203262007-02-09 12:36:48 +00004045
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004046- Patch #1652681: tarfile.py: create nonexistent files in append mode
4047 and allow appending to empty files.
Lars Gustäbel3f8aca12007-02-06 18:38:13 +00004048
Peter Astrand5f9c6ae2007-02-06 15:37:50 +00004049- Bug #1124861: Automatically create pipes if GetStdHandle fails in
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00004050 subprocess.
Peter Astrand5f9c6ae2007-02-06 15:37:50 +00004051
Georg Brandl4ba9e5b2007-01-27 17:59:42 +00004052- Patch #1634778: add missing encoding aliases for iso8859_15 and
4053 iso8859_16.
4054
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004055- Patch #1638243: the compiler package is now able to correctly
4056 compile a with statement; previously, executing code containing a
4057 with statement compiled by the compiler package crashed the
4058 interpreter.
Georg Brandlab496842007-01-27 17:43:02 +00004059
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00004060- Bug #1643943: Fix time.strptime's support for the %U directive.
4061
Lars Gustäbel0713a682007-02-19 09:54:47 +00004062- Patch #1507247: tarfile.py: use current umask for intermediate
4063 directories.
4064
Georg Brandldd7b0522007-01-21 10:35:10 +00004065- Patch #1627441: close sockets properly in urllib2.
4066
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004067- Bug #494589: make ntpath.expandvars behave according to its
4068 docstring.
Sjoerd Mullender33a0a062007-01-16 16:42:38 +00004069
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00004070- Changed platform module API python_version_tuple() to actually
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00004071 return a tuple (it used to return a list).
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00004072
4073- Added new platform module APIs python_branch(), python_revision(),
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00004074 python_implementation() and linux_distribution().
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00004075
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00004076- Added support for IronPython and Jython to the platform module.
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00004077
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004078- The sets module has been deprecated. Use the built-in set/frozenset
4079 types instead.
Brett Cannon093b6702007-01-13 00:29:49 +00004080
Thomas Heller6fd45492007-01-12 20:21:53 +00004081- Bug #1610795: make ctypes.util.find_library work on BSD systems.
4082
Thomas Heller8138c262007-01-11 21:18:56 +00004083- Fixes for 64-bit Windows: In ctypes.wintypes, correct the
4084 definitions of HANDLE, WPARAM, LPARAM data types. Make
4085 parameterless foreign function calls work.
4086
Thomas Hellerfb9d7872007-01-10 20:12:13 +00004087- The version number of the ctypes package changed to "1.1.0".
4088
Vinay Sajipab41c102007-01-09 14:51:36 +00004089- Bug #1627575: logging: Added _open() method to FileHandler which can
4090 be used to reopen files. The FileHandler instance now saves the
4091 encoding (which can be None) in an attribute called "encoding".
4092
Vinay Sajipc9137262007-01-08 18:52:36 +00004093- Bug #411881: logging.handlers: bare except clause removed from
4094 SMTPHandler.emit. Now, only ImportError is trapped.
4095
4096- Bug #411881: logging.handlers: bare except clause removed from
4097 SocketHandler.createSocket. Now, only socket.error is trapped.
4098
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004099- Bug #411881: logging: bare except clause removed from
4100 LogRecord.__init__. Now, only ValueError, TypeError and
4101 AttributeError are trapped.
Vinay Sajipc9137262007-01-08 18:52:36 +00004102
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004103- Patch #1504073: Fix tarfile.open() for mode "r" with a fileobj
4104 argument.
Lars Gustäbela7ba6fc2006-12-27 10:30:46 +00004105
Andrew M. Kuchling71662322006-12-27 03:31:24 +00004106- Patch #1182394 from Shane Holloway: speed up HMAC.hexdigest.
4107
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004108- Patch #1262036: Prevent TarFiles from being added to themselves
4109 under certain conditions.
Lars Gustäbela4b23812006-12-23 17:57:23 +00004110
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004111- Patch #1230446: tarfile.py: fix ExFileObject so that read() and
4112 tell() work correctly together with readline().
Lars Gustäbel6baa5022006-12-23 16:40:13 +00004113
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004114- Patch #1484695: The tarfile module now raises a HeaderError
4115 exception if a buffer given to frombuf() is invalid.
Georg Brandlebbeed72006-12-19 22:06:46 +00004116
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00004117- Bug #1503765: Fix a problem in logging.config with spaces in comma-
4118 separated lists read from logging config files.
4119
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004120- Patch #1604907: Fix problems in logging.handlers caused at logging
4121 shutdown when syslog handlers fail to initialize because of syslogd
4122 problems.
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00004123
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004124- Patch #1608267: fix a race condition in os.makedirs() if the
4125 directory to be created is already there.
Georg Brandlb1307432006-12-09 09:08:29 +00004126
Georg Brandl87fa5592006-12-06 22:21:18 +00004127- Patch #1610437: fix a tarfile bug with long filename headers.
4128
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004129- Patch #1371075: Make ConfigParser accept optional dict type for
4130 ordering, sorting, etc.
Martin v. Löwisa00bcac2006-12-03 12:01:53 +00004131
Thomas Helleref583a42006-11-28 20:21:54 +00004132- Bug #1563807: _ctypes built on AIX fails with ld ffi error.
4133
Thomas Heller25d208b2006-11-24 18:45:39 +00004134- Bug #1598620: A ctypes Structure cannot contain itself.
4135
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004136- Patch #1070046: Marshal new-style objects like InstanceType in
4137 xmlrpclib.
Martin v. Löwis07529352006-11-19 18:51:54 +00004138
Martin v. Löwiscffcc8b2006-11-19 10:41:41 +00004139- cStringIO.truncate(-1) now raises an IOError, like StringIO and
4140 regular files.
4141
Martin v. Löwisbba003e2006-11-18 18:42:11 +00004142- Patch #1472877: Fix Tix subwidget name resolution.
4143
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004144- Patch #1594554: Always close a tkSimpleDialog on ok(), even if an
4145 exception occurs.
Martin v. Löwisef5fd3e2006-11-18 18:05:35 +00004146
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004147- Patch #1538878: Don't make tkSimpleDialog dialogs transient if the
4148 parent window is withdrawn.
Martin v. Löwisc73a4a42006-11-18 18:00:23 +00004149
Georg Brandl54082112006-11-16 16:50:59 +00004150- Bug #1597824: return the registered function from atexit.register()
4151 to facilitate usage as a decorator.
4152
Martin v. Löwis45cd4ff2006-11-12 18:56:03 +00004153- Patch #1360200: Use unmangled_version RPM spec field to deal with
4154 file name mangling.
4155
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004156- Patch #1359217: Process 2xx response in an ftplib transfer that
4157 precedes an 1xx response.
Martin v. Löwis36cbc082006-11-12 18:48:13 +00004158
Martin v. Löwis065f0c82006-11-12 10:41:39 +00004159- Patch #1355023: support whence argument for GzipFile.seek.
4160
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00004161- Patch #1065257: Support passing open files as body in
Martin v. Löwis040a9272006-11-12 10:32:47 +00004162 HTTPConnection.request().
4163
Andrew M. Kuchlinga3e5d372006-11-09 13:27:07 +00004164- Bug #1569790: mailbox.py: Maildir.get_folder() and MH.get_folder()
4165 weren't passing the message factory on to newly created Maildir/MH
4166 objects.
4167
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004168- Patch #1514543: mailbox.py: In the Maildir class, report errors if
4169 there's a filename clash instead of possibly losing a message.
4170 (Patch by David Watson.)
Andrew M. Kuchling978d8282006-11-09 21:16:46 +00004171
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004172- Patch #1514544: Try to ensure that messages/indexes have been
4173 physically written to disk after calling .flush() or
4174 .close(). (Patch by David Watson.)
Andrew M. Kuchlingb5686da2006-11-09 13:51:14 +00004175
Guido van Rossumaf16ece2008-02-21 19:46:35 +00004176- Patch #1592250: Add elide argument to Tkinter.Text.search.
Martin v. Löwis038cad72006-11-09 11:27:32 +00004177
Guido van Rossumaf16ece2008-02-21 19:46:35 +00004178- Patch #838546: Make terminal become controlling in pty.fork().
Martin v. Löwisb2bba732006-11-09 11:06:03 +00004179
Martin v. Löwis5361e9a2006-11-08 07:35:55 +00004180- Patch #1351744: Add askyesnocancel helper for tkMessageBox.
4181
Martin v. Löwis5310e502006-11-04 18:14:06 +00004182- Patch #1060577: Extract list of RPM files from spec file in
Guido van Rossumaf16ece2008-02-21 19:46:35 +00004183 bdist_rpm.
Martin v. Löwis5310e502006-11-04 18:14:06 +00004184
Georg Brandl2c9838e2006-10-29 14:39:09 +00004185- Bug #1586613: fix zlib and bz2 codecs' incremental en/decoders.
4186
Georg Brandl3354f282006-10-29 09:16:12 +00004187- Patch #1583880: fix tarfile's problems with long names and posix/
4188 GNU modes.
4189
Georg Brandl5addf702006-10-29 08:53:06 +00004190- Bug #1586448: the compiler module now emits the same bytecode for
4191 list comprehensions as the builtin compiler, using the LIST_APPEND
4192 opcode.
4193
Georg Brandl8f99f812006-10-29 08:39:22 +00004194- Fix codecs.EncodedFile which did not use file_encoding in 2.5.0, and
4195 fix all codecs file wrappers to work correctly with the "with"
4196 statement (bug #1586513).
4197
Thomas Heller112d1a62006-10-27 19:05:53 +00004198- Lib/modulefinder.py now handles absolute and relative imports
4199 correctly.
4200
Martin v. Löwisee82c0e2006-10-27 07:13:28 +00004201- Patch #1567274: Support SMTP over TLS.
4202
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004203- Patch #1560695: Add .note.GNU-stack to ctypes' sysv.S so that ctypes
4204 isn't considered as requiring executable stacks.
Martin v. Löwis1b2f6272006-10-22 10:55:15 +00004205
Thomas Hellerd2ea4a22006-10-17 19:30:48 +00004206- ctypes callback functions only support 'fundamental' data types as
4207 result type. Raise an error when something else is used. This is a
4208 partial fix for Bug #1574584.
4209
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004210- Fix turtle so that time.sleep is imported for the entire library.
4211 Allows the demo2 function to be executed on its own instead of only
4212 when the module is run as a script.
Brett Cannond80e0c82006-10-16 03:09:52 +00004213
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004214- Bug #813342: Start the IDLE subprocess with -Qnew if the parent is
4215 started with that option.
Georg Brandld0761532006-10-12 07:57:21 +00004216
Martin v. Löwisf43893a2006-10-09 20:44:25 +00004217- Bug #1565150: Fix subsecond processing for os.utime on Windows.
4218
Martin v. Löwis8b274262006-10-04 15:25:28 +00004219- Support for MSVC 8 was added to bdist_wininst.
4220
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004221- Bug #1446043: correctly raise a LookupError if an encoding name
4222 given to encodings.search_function() contains a dot.
Georg Brandla92979a2006-09-30 11:22:28 +00004223
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004224- Bug #1560617: in pyclbr, return full module name not only for
4225 classes, but also for functions.
Georg Brandl154324a2006-09-30 11:06:47 +00004226
Georg Brandl05b3c452006-09-30 10:58:01 +00004227- Bug #1457823: cgi.(Sv)FormContentDict's constructor now takes
4228 keep_blank_values and strict_parsing keyword arguments.
4229
Georg Brandl8d1e5bf2006-09-30 09:13:21 +00004230- Bug #1566602: correct failure of posixpath unittest when $HOME ends
4231 with a slash.
4232
Georg Brandl8c667452006-09-30 07:31:57 +00004233- Bug #1565661: in webbrowser, split() the command for the default
4234 GNOME browser in case it is a command with args.
4235
Georg Brandl5a85d5c2009-06-24 06:41:19 +00004236- Made the error message for time.strptime when the data and
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004237 format do match be more clear.
Brett Cannon11b35352006-09-26 23:38:24 +00004238
Georg Brandlc7986ce2006-09-24 12:50:24 +00004239- Fix a bug in traceback.format_exception_only() that led to an error
4240 being raised when print_exc() was called without an exception set.
4241 In version 2.4, this printed "None", restored that behavior.
4242
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004243- Make webbrowser.BackgroundBrowser usable in Windows (it wasn't
4244 because the close_fds arg to subprocess.Popen is not supported).
Georg Brandl2c94bf72006-09-24 10:36:01 +00004245
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004246- Reverted patch #1504333 to sgmllib because it introduced an infinite
4247 loop.
Neal Norwitzbcc119a2006-09-11 04:24:09 +00004248
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004249- Patch #1553314: Fix the inspect.py slowdown that was hurting IPython
4250 & SAGE by adding smarter caching in inspect.getmodule()
Nick Coghlanb3c18f82006-09-08 10:04:38 +00004251
Georg Brandl4e933132006-09-06 20:05:58 +00004252- Fix missing import of the types module in logging.config.
4253
Nick Coghlanbb0996c2006-09-03 01:20:46 +00004254- Patch #1550886: Fix decimal module context management implementation
Neal Norwitza22975f2006-09-05 02:24:03 +00004255 to match the localcontext() example from PEP 343.
Nick Coghlanbb0996c2006-09-03 01:20:46 +00004256
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004257- Bug #1545341: The 'classifier' keyword argument to the Distutils
4258 setup() function now accepts tuples as well as lists.
Andrew M. Kuchling99994792006-10-09 17:10:12 +00004259
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004260- Bug #1541863: uuid.uuid1 failed to generate unique identifiers on
4261 systems with low clock resolution.
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00004262
Gustavo Niemeyerc36bede2006-09-07 00:48:33 +00004263- Bug #1531862: Do not close standard file descriptors in subprocess.
4264
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004265- idle: Honor the "Cancel" action in the save dialog (Debian bug
4266 #299092).
Matthias Klosea398e2d2007-01-11 11:44:04 +00004267
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004268- Fix utf-8-sig incremental decoder, which didn't recognise a BOM when
4269 the first chunk fed to the decoder started with a BOM, but was
4270 longer than 3 bytes.
Georg Brandl27562782006-10-27 20:39:43 +00004271
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004272- The implementation of UnicodeError objects has been simplified
4273 (start and end attributes are now stored directly as Py_ssize_t
4274 members).
Walter Dörwald84a3efe2007-06-13 16:57:12 +00004275
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004276- Issue #829951: In the smtplib module, SMTP.starttls() now complies
4277 with RFC 3207 and forgets any knowledge obtained from the server not
4278 obtained from the TLS negotiation itself. Patch contributed by Bill
4279 Fenner.
Gregory P. Smith2b3ba582008-01-17 08:03:17 +00004280
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004281- Issue #1339: The smtplib.SMTP class has been refactored a bit such
Gregory P. Smithbde4ae42008-01-17 08:35:49 +00004282 that the SMTP.starttls() caller no longer needs to call ehlo()
4283 beforehand. SMTP.starttls() now raises an exception of the server
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004284 does not claim to support starttls. Adds the
4285 SMTP.ehlo_or_helo_if_needed() method. Patch contributed by Bill
4286 Fenner.
Gregory P. Smithbde4ae42008-01-17 08:35:49 +00004287
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004288- Patch #1089358: Add signal.siginterrupt, a wrapper around
4289 siginterrupt(3).
Georg Brandl29604a12008-01-26 14:03:47 +00004290
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00004291Extension Modules
4292-----------------
4293
Georg Brandl392c6fc2008-05-25 07:25:25 +00004294- Patch #1657: added select.epoll and select.kqueue.
Christian Heimes0e9ab5f2008-03-21 23:49:44 +00004295
Georg Brandlebcfd112008-02-23 23:04:35 +00004296- Patch #1506171: added operator.methodcaller().
4297
Georg Brandle2065c62008-02-23 23:02:23 +00004298- Patch #1826: operator.attrgetter() now supports dotted attribute paths.
4299
Georg Brandl392c6fc2008-05-25 07:25:25 +00004300- Patch #1957: syslogmodule: Release GIL when calling syslog(3).
Christian Heimesf0476e82008-02-23 17:42:31 +00004301
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004302- Bug #2112: mmap.error is now a subclass of EnvironmentError and not
4303 a direct EnvironmentError.
Facundo Batistae1396882008-02-17 18:59:29 +00004304
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004305- Bug #2111: mmap segfaults when trying to write a block opened with
4306 PROT_READ.
Christian Heimes7adfad82008-02-15 08:20:11 +00004307
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004308- Bug #2063: correct order of utime and stime in os.times() result on
4309 Windows.
Georg Brandl0a40ffb2008-02-13 07:20:22 +00004310
Martin v. Löwise0d30ef2008-02-12 13:47:26 +00004311- Patch #1736: Fix file name handling of _msi.FCICreate.
4312
Hye-Shik Chang01612e72008-02-08 17:10:20 +00004313- Updated ``big5hkscs`` codec to the HKSCS revision of 2004.
4314
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004315- Issue #1940: make it possible to use curses.filter() before
4316 curses.initscr() as the documentation says.
Georg Brandl29604a12008-01-26 14:03:47 +00004317
Christian Heimes7f39c9f2008-01-25 12:18:43 +00004318- Backport of _fileio module from Python 3.0.
4319
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004320- Patch #1087741: mmap.mmap is now a class, not a factory function. It
4321 is also subclassable now.
Georg Brandl5ca3fd82008-01-21 14:18:14 +00004322
Georg Brandl56112892008-01-20 13:59:46 +00004323- Patch #1648: added ``sys.getprofile()`` and ``sys.gettrace()``.
4324
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004325- Patch #1663329: added ``os.closerange()`` function to quickly close
4326 a range of file descriptors without considering errors.
Georg Brandl309501a2008-01-19 20:22:13 +00004327
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004328- Patch #976880: ``mmap`` objects now have an ``rfind`` method that
Andrew M. Kuchling5c60bfc2008-01-19 18:18:41 +00004329 works as expected. ``mmap.find`` also takes an optional ``end``
4330 parameter.
4331
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004332- _winreg's HKEY object has gained __enter__ and __exit__ methods to
4333 support the context manager protocol. The _winreg module also
4334 gained a new function ``ExpandEnvironmentStrings`` to expand
4335 REG_EXPAND_SZ keys.
Christian Heimesb39a7562008-01-08 15:46:10 +00004336
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004337- itertools.starmap() now accepts any iterable input. Previously, it
4338 required the function inputs to be tuples.
Raymond Hettinger47317092008-01-17 03:02:14 +00004339
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004340- itertools.chain() now has an alternate constructor,
4341 chain.from_iterable().
Raymond Hettingerb4cbc982008-02-28 22:46:41 +00004342
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004343- Issue #1646: Make socket support TIPC. The socket module now has
4344 support for TIPC under Linux, see http://tipc.sf.net/ for more
4345 information.
Christian Heimesfb2d25a2008-01-07 16:12:44 +00004346
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004347- Added interface for Windows' WSAIoctl to socket object and added an
4348 example for a simple network sniffer.
Christian Heimes04ae9162008-01-04 15:23:30 +00004349
Guido van Rossum076d9ee2008-01-03 23:54:04 +00004350- Bug #1301: Bad assert in _tkinter fixed.
4351
Christian Heimescdaa2cb2007-12-31 14:47:07 +00004352- Added bdist_wininst executable for VS 2008.
4353
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004354- Bug #1604: collections.deque.__init__(iterable) now clears any prior
4355 contents before adding elements from the iterable. This fix brings
4356 the behavior into line with that for list.__init__().
Raymond Hettingeradf9ffd2007-12-13 00:08:37 +00004357
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004358- Added wide char functions to msvcrt module: getwch, getwche, putwch
4359 and ungetwch. The functions accept or return unicode.
Christian Heimes7c7f6af2007-12-10 15:12:41 +00004360
Martin v. Löwis69233e82007-12-04 08:39:16 +00004361- os.access now returns True on Windows for any existing directory.
4362
Christian Heimes28104c52007-11-27 23:16:44 +00004363- Added warnpy3k function to the warnings module.
4364
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004365- Marshal.dumps() now expects exact type matches for int, long, float,
4366 complex, tuple, list, dict, set, and frozenset. Formerly, it would
4367 silently miscode subclasses of those types. Now, it raises a
4368 ValueError instead.
Raymond Hettinger12e94202007-11-07 01:13:09 +00004369
Martin v. Löwis58bd49f2007-09-04 13:13:14 +00004370- Patch #1388440: Add set_completion_display_matches_hook and
4371 get_completion_type to readline.
4372
Thomas Helleref4fff32007-07-13 17:46:54 +00004373- Bug #1649098: Avoid declaration of zero-sized array declaration in
4374 structure.
4375
Brett Cannondc48b742007-05-20 07:09:50 +00004376- Removed the rgbimg module; been deprecated since Python 2.5.
4377
Neal Norwitz59f58aa2007-05-19 03:48:47 +00004378- Bug #1721309: prevent bsddb module from freeing random memory.
4379
Gregory P. Smith82eafe62007-10-18 17:17:57 +00004380- Bug #1233: fix bsddb.dbshelve.DBShelf append method to work as
4381 intended for RECNO databases.
4382
Gregory P. Smithec10a4a2007-11-05 02:32:26 +00004383- pybsddb.sf.net Bug #477182: Load the database flags at database open
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004384 time so that opening a database previously created with the DB_DUP
4385 or DB_DUPSORT flag set will keep the proper behavior on subsequent
4386 opens. Specifically: dictionary assignment to a DB object will
4387 replace all values for a given key when the database allows
4388 duplicate values. DB users should use DB.put(k, v) when they want
4389 to store duplicates; not DB[k] = v.
Gregory P. Smithec10a4a2007-11-05 02:32:26 +00004390
Gregory P. Smithac11e022007-11-05 02:56:31 +00004391- Add the bsddb.db.DBEnv.lock_id_free method.
4392
Martin v. Löwis3bf573f2007-04-04 18:30:36 +00004393- Bug #1686475: Support stat'ing open files on Windows again.
4394
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004395- Patch #1185447: binascii.b2a_qp() now correctly quotes binary
4396 characters with ASCII value less than 32. Also, it correctly quotes
4397 dots only if they occur on a single line, as opposed to the previous
4398 behavior of quoting dots if they are the second character of any
4399 line.
Georg Brandl4aef7272007-03-13 22:49:43 +00004400
Georg Brandla47337f2007-03-13 12:34:25 +00004401- Bug #1622896: fix a rare corner case where the bz2 module raised an
4402 error in spite of a succesful compression.
4403
Georg Brandl40c62612007-03-06 18:59:11 +00004404- Patch #1654417: make operator.{get,set,del}slice use the full range
4405 of Py_ssize_t.
4406
Guido van Rossum2054ee92007-03-06 15:50:01 +00004407- Patch #1646728: datetime.fromtimestamp fails with negative
4408 fractional times. With unittest.
4409
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004410- Patch #1490190: posixmodule now includes os.chflags() and
4411 os.lchflags() functions on platforms where the underlying system
4412 calls are available.
Martin v. Löwis382abef2007-02-19 10:55:19 +00004413
Georg Brandl983d1002007-02-15 11:29:04 +00004414- Patch #1494140: Add documentation for the new struct.Struct object.
4415
Martin v. Löwis45423a72007-02-14 10:07:37 +00004416- Patch #1432399: Support the HCI protocol for bluetooth sockets
4417
Martin v. Löwisb1cc1d42007-02-13 12:14:19 +00004418- Patch #1657276: Make NETLINK_DNRTMSG conditional.
4419
Martin v. Löwis4c11a922007-02-08 09:13:36 +00004420- Bug #1653736: Complain about keyword arguments to time.isoformat.
4421
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004422- Bug #1486663: don't reject keyword arguments for subclasses of
4423 builtin types.
Georg Brandlb84c1372007-01-21 10:28:43 +00004424
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004425- Patch #1610575: The struct module now supports the 't' code, for C99
4426 _Bool.
Martin v. Löwisaef4c6b2007-01-21 09:33:07 +00004427
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004428- Patch #1635058: ensure that htonl and friends never accept or return
4429 negative numbers, per the underlying C implementation.
Guido van Rossumbb2cc692007-01-14 17:03:32 +00004430
Martin v. Löwis046c4d12006-12-03 11:23:45 +00004431- Patch #1544279: Improve thread-safety of the socket module by moving
4432 the sock_addr_t storage out of the socket object.
4433
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004434- Patch #1019808: fix bug that causes an incorrect error to be
4435 returned when a socket timeout is set and a connection attempt
4436 fails.
Andrew M. Kuchling060e6852008-01-19 20:47:59 +00004437
Neal Norwitz45e230a2006-11-19 21:26:53 +00004438- Speed up function calls into the math module.
4439
Georg Brandl25aabf42006-11-16 17:08:45 +00004440- Bug #1588217: don't parse "= " as a soft line break in binascii's
4441 a2b_qp() function, instead leave it in the string as quopri.decode()
4442 does.
4443
Neal Norwitz4fe44232006-11-21 05:26:22 +00004444- Bug #1599782: Fix segfault on bsddb.db.DB().type().
4445
Martin v. Löwis012bc722006-10-15 09:43:39 +00004446- Bug #1567666: Emulate GetFileAttributesExA for Win95.
4447
Martin v. Löwis18aaa562006-10-15 08:43:33 +00004448- Patch #1576166: Support os.utime for directories on Windows NT+.
4449
Georg Brandl412a9ea2006-10-09 19:03:06 +00004450- Patch #1572724: fix typo ('=' instead of '==') in _msi.c.
4451
Hye-Shik Changb7883462006-10-08 13:48:34 +00004452- Bug #1572832: fix a bug in ISO-2022 codecs which may cause segfault
4453 when encoding non-BMP unicode characters.
4454
Georg Brandl4ddfcd32006-09-30 11:17:34 +00004455- Bug #1556784: allow format strings longer than 127 characters in
4456 datetime's strftime function.
4457
Jack Diederichd10a0f72006-09-21 20:34:49 +00004458- Fix itertools.count(n) to work with negative numbers again.
4459
Martin v. Löwis43fd99c2006-09-16 17:36:37 +00004460- RLIMIT_SBSIZE was added to the resource module where available.
4461
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004462- Bug #1551427: fix a wrong NULL pointer check in the win32 version of
4463 os.urandom().
Georg Brandl74bb7832006-09-06 06:03:59 +00004464
Neal Norwitz6aefa912006-09-02 02:50:35 +00004465- Bug #1548092: fix curses.tparm seg fault on invalid input.
4466
Andrew M. Kuchling62182c82008-01-08 14:56:02 +00004467- Patch #1114: fix curses module compilation on 64-bit AIX, & possibly
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004468 other 64-bit LP64 platforms where attr_t is not the same size as a
4469 long. (Contributed by Luke Mewburn.)
Andrew M. Kuchling62182c82008-01-08 14:56:02 +00004470
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004471- Bug #1550714: fix SystemError from itertools.tee on negative value
4472 for n.
Neal Norwitz69e88972006-09-02 02:58:13 +00004473
Hye-Shik Chang199f1db2006-09-05 12:07:09 +00004474- Fixed a few bugs on cjkcodecs:
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004475 - gbk and gb18030 codec now handle U+30FB KATAKANA MIDDLE DOT
4476 correctly.
Hye-Shik Chang199f1db2006-09-05 12:07:09 +00004477 - iso2022_jp_2 codec now encodes into G0 for KS X 1001, GB2312
4478 codepoints to conform the standard.
Hye-Shik Chang2cad3e92006-09-05 12:14:57 +00004479 - iso2022_jp_3 and iso2022_jp_2004 codec can encode JIS X 0213:2
Hye-Shik Chang199f1db2006-09-05 12:07:09 +00004480 codepoints now.
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00004481
Andrew M. Kuchling43889c02006-09-27 16:37:30 +00004482- Bug #1552726: in readline.c, avoid repeatedly polling in interactive
4483 mode by only placing a timeout on the select() if an input hook has
4484 been defined. This prevents an interactive Python from waking up 10
4485 times per second. Patch by Richard Boulton.
4486
Gregory P. Smithf09c6262007-03-17 22:33:35 +00004487- fixed a bug with bsddb.DB.stat: the flags and txn keyword arguments
4488 were transposed.
4489
Jesus Cea4907d272008-08-31 14:00:51 +00004490- Added support for linking the bsddb module against BerkeleyDB 4.5.x,
4491 4.6.x and 4.7.x.
Gregory P. Smith8b96a352007-01-05 01:59:42 +00004492
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004493- Bug #1633621: if curses.resizeterm() or curses.resize_term() is
4494 called, update _curses.LINES, _curses.COLS, curses.LINES and
4495 curses.COLS.
Andrew M. Kuchling43889c02006-09-27 16:37:30 +00004496
Matthias Klosee19e0c22007-04-03 04:35:59 +00004497- Fix an off-by-one bug in locale.strxfrm().
4498
Matthias Klose38336402007-09-04 20:46:02 +00004499- Fix libffi configure for hppa*-*-linux* | parisc*-*-linux*.
4500
Matthias Klose9afb9852007-10-24 20:00:44 +00004501- Build using system ffi library on arm*-linux*.
4502
Christian Heimes3f065a42007-11-21 01:17:28 +00004503- Bug #1372: zlibmodule.c: int overflow in PyZlib_decompress
Matthias Klosee19e0c22007-04-03 04:35:59 +00004504
Gregory P. Smitheeed5b72008-02-03 07:20:53 +00004505- bsddb module: Fix memory leak when using database cursors on
4506 databases without a DBEnv.
4507
Gerhard Häring11ab8072008-03-02 13:12:27 +00004508- The sqlite3 module was updated to pysqlite 2.4.1.
4509
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00004510Tests
4511-----
4512
Brett Cannon56c4deb2008-03-03 00:38:58 +00004513- Refactor test_logging to use unittest.
Brett Cannonf9db8a32008-02-17 01:59:18 +00004514
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004515- Refactor test_profile and test_cprofile to use the same code to
4516 profile.
Georg Brandlb7090772008-02-05 19:58:17 +00004517
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004518- Make test_runpy reentrant by fixing _check_module to clear out any
4519 module being tested. Was causing an error by __import__ doing a
4520 reload on the second run and thus suppressing bytecode recreation.
Brett Cannondbed7a72007-08-23 14:53:17 +00004521
Brett Cannonea2835a2007-03-14 21:44:15 +00004522- Capture socket connection resets and timeouts in test_socket_ssl and
4523 test_urllib2net and raise test.test_support.ResourceDenied.
Brett Cannoned001842007-03-14 21:40:13 +00004524
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004525- Patch #1559413: Fix test_cmd_line if sys.executable contains a
4526 space.
Martin v. Löwiscd1210a2007-03-14 20:02:31 +00004527
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004528- Added test.test_support.TransientResource which is a context manager
4529 to surround calls to resources that are not guaranteed to work even
4530 if test.test_support.requires says that the resource should exist.
Brett Cannona30fcb42007-03-08 23:58:11 +00004531
Brett Cannone05e6b02007-01-29 04:41:44 +00004532- Added a test for slicing of an exception.
4533
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004534- Added test.test_support.EnvironmentVarGuard. It's a class that
4535 provides a context manager so that one can temporarily set or unset
4536 environment variables.
Brett Cannon92d54d52007-01-04 00:23:49 +00004537
Thomas Heller112d1a62006-10-27 19:05:53 +00004538- Added some tests for modulefinder.
4539
Brett Cannon373d90b2006-10-03 23:23:14 +00004540- Converted test_imp to use unittest.
4541
Neal Norwitz919d5cc2006-09-05 02:35:08 +00004542- Fix bsddb test_basics.test06_Transactions to check the version
4543 number properly.
4544
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004545- test.test_support.catch_warning is a new context manager that can be
4546 used to catch the warnings issued by the warning framework.
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00004547
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00004548Tools
4549-----
4550
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004551- Tools/scripts/reindent.py now creates the backup file using
4552 shutil.copy to preserve user/group and permissions. Added also a
4553 --nobackup option to not create the backup if the user is concerned
4554 regarding this. Check issue 1050828 for more details.
Facundo Batistaf88a0772008-02-17 16:21:13 +00004555
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004556- Tools/scripts/win_add2path.py was added. The simple script modifes
4557 the PATH environment var of the HKCU tree and adds the python bin
4558 and script directory.
Christian Heimesbd865db2008-01-18 11:58:50 +00004559
Skip Montanaro3e275362007-08-29 01:33:45 +00004560- Tools/18n/pygettext.py was added to the list of scripts installed by
4561 Tools/scripts/setup.py (tracker item 642309).
4562
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004563- Added IronPython and Jython support to pybench (part of which was
4564 patch #1563844).
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00004565
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004566- Made some minor changes to pybench output to allow the user to see
4567 which Python version is running pybench.
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00004568
4569- Added support for the new platform module feature
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004570 platform.python_implementation(); this will now be saved in the
4571 benchmark pickle.
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00004572
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00004573
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00004574Documentation
4575-------------
4576
Vinay Sajipd7cf32e2008-01-24 12:43:33 +00004577- RFE #1765140: Updated documentation on FileHandler and subclasses to
4578 include new optional delay argument.
4579
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004580- Bug #932563: Added section on getting contextual information into
4581 logging output, and added documentation for the new LoggerAdapter
4582 class.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00004583
4584- Bug #1295: Added information about caching of formatted exception
4585 information in the LogRecord by Formatter.format().
4586
Georg Brandl9467bc52007-07-12 09:37:49 +00004587- Bug #1637365: add subsection about "__name__ == __main__" to the
4588 Python tutorial.
4589
Georg Brandl3dc6e902007-04-25 06:24:59 +00004590- Patch #1698768: updated the "using Python on the Mac" intro.
4591
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004592- Bug #1569057: Document that calling file.next() when the file is
4593 open for writing is undefined.
Brett Cannon55a18642007-04-08 04:29:32 +00004594
Žiga Seilnachtc64ad482007-03-24 14:24:26 +00004595- Patch #1489771: the syntax rules in Python Reference Manual were
4596 updated to reflect the current Python syntax.
4597
Martin v. Löwis2f401d72007-03-23 10:35:49 +00004598- Patch #1686451: Fix return type for
4599 PySequence_{Count,Index,Fast_GET_SIZE}.
4600
Georg Brandl0692a262007-03-13 07:50:57 +00004601- Patch #1679379: add documentation for fnmatch.translate().
4602
Collin Winterb7b2b4e2007-03-09 18:09:10 +00004603- Bug #1629566: clarify the docs on the return values of parsedate()
4604 and parsedate_tz() in email.utils and rfc822.
4605
Georg Brandld28b9fc2007-03-06 10:02:47 +00004606- Patch #1671450: add a section about subclassing builtin types to the
4607 "extending and embedding" tutorial.
4608
Georg Brandlb26b1c62007-01-17 21:19:58 +00004609- Bug #1629125: fix wrong data type (int -> Py_ssize_t) in PyDict_Next
4610 docs.
4611
Georg Brandla4c8e322006-10-12 08:22:53 +00004612- Bug #1565919: document set types in the Language Reference.
4613
Georg Brandl44a7b3a2006-09-30 12:02:57 +00004614- Bug #1546052: clarify that PyString_FromString(AndSize) copies the
4615 string pointed to by its parameter.
4616
Georg Brandlfb257732006-09-30 09:06:45 +00004617- Bug #1566663: remove obsolete example from datetime docs.
4618
Georg Brandl648c1102006-08-18 07:27:59 +00004619- Bug #1541682: Fix example in the "Refcount details" API docs.
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004620 Additionally, remove a faulty example showing PySequence_SetItem
4621 applied to a newly created list object and add notes that this isn't
4622 a good idea.
Georg Brandl648c1102006-08-18 07:27:59 +00004623
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00004624
Georg Brandl27562782006-10-27 20:39:43 +00004625Tools/Demos
4626-----------
4627
4628- Patch #1552024: add decorator support to unparse.py demo script.
Marc-André Lemburg96148682006-09-06 20:40:22 +00004629
Brett Cannonc8939d22006-09-20 19:28:35 +00004630- Make auto-generated python.vim file list built-ins and exceptions in
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004631 alphatbetical order. Makes output more deterministic and easier to
4632 tell if the file is stale or not.
Brett Cannonc8939d22006-09-20 19:28:35 +00004633
Marc-André Lemburg96148682006-09-06 20:40:22 +00004634- Bug #1546372: Fixed small bugglet in pybench that caused a missing
4635 file not to get reported properly.
4636
4637
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00004638Build
4639-----
4640
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004641- Have the search path for building extensions follow the declared
4642 order in $CPPFLAGS and $LDFLAGS when adding directories from those
4643 environment variables.
Brett Cannon70c0c022008-02-03 09:59:21 +00004644
Christian Heimes951cc0f2008-01-31 23:08:23 +00004645- Bug #1983: Added a check to pyport to verify that sizeof(pid_t) is
4646 smaller or equal sizeof(long).
4647
Christian Heimescba36bb2008-01-30 22:54:18 +00004648- Bug #1234: Fixed semaphore errors on AIX 5.2
4649
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004650- Issue #1726: Remove Python/atof.c from PCBuild/pythoncore.vcproj.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00004651
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004652- Removed PCbuild8/ directory and added a new build directory for VS
4653 2005 based on the VS 2008 build directory to PC/VS8.0. The script
4654 PCbuild/vs8to9.py was added to sync changes from PCbuild to
4655 PC/VS8.0.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00004656
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004657- Moved PCbuild/ directory for VS 2003 to PC/VS7.1 and renamed
4658 PCBuild9/ directory to PCBuild/.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00004659
Martin v. Löwiscb78de62007-12-29 18:49:21 +00004660- Bug #1699: Define _BSD_SOURCE only on OpenBSD.
4661
Guido van Rossum7c862f82007-12-13 20:50:10 +00004662- Bug #1608: use -fwrapv when GCC supports it. This is important,
4663 newer GCC versions may optimize away overflow buffer overflow checks
4664 without this option!
4665
Martin v. Löwis63bf1492007-11-12 05:14:05 +00004666- Patch #1418: Make the AC_REPLACE_FUNCS object files actually work.
4667
Raymond Hettingerdc1d1ba2007-11-07 02:45:46 +00004668- Add a FAST_LOOPS build option that speeds-up looping by trading away
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004669 periodic threadstate and signal checking in tight loops. By
4670 default, this option is turned-off. It should only be enabled in
4671 debugged, performance critical applications.
Raymond Hettingerdc1d1ba2007-11-07 02:45:46 +00004672
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004673- Patch #786737: Allow building in a tree of symlinks pointing to a
4674 readonly source.
Martin v. Löwisd44a4e92007-09-05 11:47:34 +00004675
Martin v. Löwis8bc77e42007-09-01 06:36:03 +00004676- Bug #1737210: Change Manufacturer of Windows installer to PSF.
4677
Martin v. Löwis75c23bd2007-08-30 18:25:47 +00004678- Bug #1746880: Correctly install DLLs into system32 folder on Win64.
4679
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004680- Define _BSD_SOURCE, to get access to POSIX extensions on OpenBSD
4681 4.1+.
Martin v. Löwis76760b02007-07-31 19:57:56 +00004682
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004683- Stop supporting AtheOS and cause a build error in configure for the
4684 platform.
Brett Cannon19fab762007-06-02 03:02:29 +00004685
Georg Brandldb846032007-03-31 18:56:11 +00004686- Bug #1655392: don't add -L/usr/lib/pythonX.Y/config to the LDFLAGS
4687 returned by python-config if Python was built with --enable-shared
4688 because that prevented the shared library from being used.
4689
Georg Brandl18c47f62007-03-13 10:19:22 +00004690- Patch #1569798: fix a bug in distutils when building Python from a
4691 directory within sys.exec_prefix.
4692
Martin v. Löwiseb623572007-03-12 10:50:39 +00004693- Bug #1675511: Use -Kpic instead of -xcode=pic32 on Solaris/x86.
4694
Martin v. Löwis4d542ec2006-11-25 15:39:19 +00004695- Disable _XOPEN_SOURCE on NetBSD 1.x.
4696
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004697- configure now checks whether gcc supports the PyArg_ParseTuple
4698 format attribute.
Martin v. Löwisaac13162006-10-19 10:58:46 +00004699
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00004700- Bug #1578513: Cross compilation was broken by a change to configure.
Martin v. Löwisfefbc202006-10-17 18:59:23 +00004701 Repair so that it's back to how it was in 2.4.3.
4702
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004703- Patch #1576954: Update VC6 build directory; remove redundant files
4704 in VC7.
Martin v. Löwisc9e82f62006-10-15 07:54:40 +00004705
Martin v. Löwisebe26702006-10-02 14:55:51 +00004706- Bug #1568842: Fix test for uintptr_t.
4707
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004708- Patch #1540470: for OpenBSD 4.0.
Neal Norwitz4bc2c092006-09-05 02:57:01 +00004709
Matthias Klosed149d0c2006-12-03 17:16:41 +00004710- Fix build failure on kfreebsd and on the hurd.
4711
Matthias Kloseebde1492006-12-09 12:15:27 +00004712- Fix the build of the library reference in info format.
4713
Matthias Kloseeb8ff672007-08-02 21:33:13 +00004714- Allow Emacs 22 for building the documentation in info format.
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00004715
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004716- Makefile.pre.in(buildbottest): Run an optional script
4717 pybuildbot.identify to include some information about the build
4718 environment.
Matthias Klose642ac852007-09-04 18:17:36 +00004719
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00004720
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00004721C API
4722-----
4723
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004724- Unified naming convention for free lists and their limits. All free
4725 lists in Object/ are named ``free_list``, the counter ``numfree``
4726 and the upper limit is a macro ``PyName_MAXFREELIST`` inside an
4727 #ifndef block.
Christian Heimes5b970ad2008-02-06 13:33:44 +00004728
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004729- ``PySet_Add()`` can now modify a newly created frozenset. Similarly
4730 to ``PyTuple_SetItem``, it can be used to populate a brand new
4731 frozenset; but it does not steal a reference to the added item.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arccab3d982008-02-03 22:51:43 +00004732
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00004733- Added ``PySet_Check()`` and ``PyFrozenSet_Check()`` to the set API.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arccab3d982008-02-03 22:51:43 +00004734
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004735- Backport of PyUnicode_FromString(), _FromStringAndSize(), _Format
4736 and _FormatV from Python 3.0. Made PyLong_AsSsize_t and
4737 PyLong_FromSsize_t public functions.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00004738
4739- Patch #1720595: add T_BOOL to the range of structmember types.
4740
4741- Issue #1534: Added ``PyFloat_GetMax()``, ``PyFloat_GetMin()`` and
4742 ``PyFloat_GetInfo()`` to the float API.
4743
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004744- Issue #1521: On 64bit platforms, using PyArgs_ParseTuple with the t#
4745 of w# format code incorrectly truncated the length to an int, even
4746 when PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN is set. The str.decode method used to return
4747 incorrect results with huge strings.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00004748
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004749- Issue #1629: Renamed Py_Size, Py_Type and Py_Refcnt to Py_SIZE,
4750 Py_TYPE and Py_REFCNT.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00004751
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004752- PEP 3123: Provide forward compatibility with Python 3.0, while
4753 keeping backwards compatibility. Add Py_Refcnt, Py_Type, Py_Size,
4754 and PyVarObject_HEAD_INIT.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00004755
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004756- Py_ssize_t fields work in structmember when HAVE_LONG_LONG is not
4757 defined.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00004758
4759- Patch #1733960: Allow T_LONGLONG to accept ints.
4760
4761- T_PYSSIZET can now be used in PyMemberDef lists for Py_ssize_t members.
4762
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00004763- Added a new API function ``PyImport_ImportModuleNoBlock``.
4764
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00004765- Bug #1637022: Prefix AST symbols with _Py_.
4766
4767- Fix some leftovers from the conversion from int to Py_ssize_t
4768 (relevant to strings and sequences of more than 2**31 items).
4769
4770- Make _PyGILState_NoteThreadState() static, it was not used anywhere
4771 outside of pystate.c and should not be necessary.
4772
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004773- ``PyImport_Import`` and ``PyImport_ImportModule`` now always do
4774 absolute imports. In earlier versions they might have used relative
4775 imports under some conditions.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00004776
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004777- Added case insensitive comparison methods ``PyOS_stricmp(char*,
4778 char*)`` and ``PyOS_strnicmp(char*, char*, Py_ssize_t)``.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00004779
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004780- Bug #1542693: remove semi-colon at end of PyImport_ImportModuleEx
4781 macro so it can be used as an expression.
Neal Norwitz8a267062006-08-19 04:25:29 +00004782
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00004783
Martin v. Löwis2607e6c2006-11-21 18:20:25 +00004784Windows
4785-------
4786
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004787- Patch #1706: Drop support for Win9x, WinME and NT4. Python now
4788 requires Windows 2000 or greater. The _WINVER and NTDDI_VERSION
4789 macros are set to Win2k for x86/32bit builds and WinXP for AMD64
4790 builds.
Christian Heimes95d64472008-02-09 19:55:22 +00004791
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004792- Conditionalize definition of _CRT_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE and
4793 _CRT_NONSTDC_NO_DEPRECATE.
Martin v. Löwis2607e6c2006-11-21 18:20:25 +00004794
Martin v. Löwisd476a402007-10-12 08:56:52 +00004795- Bug #1216: Restore support for Visual Studio 2002.
4796
Martin v. Löwis2607e6c2006-11-21 18:20:25 +00004797
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00004798Mac
4799---
4800
Brett Cannonf0cb1d72007-05-31 20:01:11 +00004801- cfmfile now raises a DeprecationWarning.
4802
Brett Cannon791d56f2007-05-31 19:40:42 +00004803- buildtools now raises a DeprecationWarning.
4804
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004805- Removed the macfs module. It had been deprecated since Python 2.5.
4806 This lead to the deprecation of macostools.touched() as it relied
4807 solely on macfs and was a no-op under OS X.
Brett Cannon5e263512007-05-20 23:17:38 +00004808
Skip Montanaroe5d7f7f2002-09-20 14:16:59 +00004809----
4810
4811**(For information about older versions, consult the HISTORY file.)**