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Georg Brandld33a9be2012-07-21 16:48:16 +02001Python News
Skip Montanaroe5d7f7f2002-09-20 14:16:59 +00002+++++++++++
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Benjamin Petersona84f4682012-03-07 19:17:57 -06004What's New in Python 2.7.4
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Victor Stinner08563d92011-05-30 23:44:13 +02006
Benjamin Petersona84f4682012-03-07 19:17:57 -06007*Release date: XXXX-XX-XX*
Victor Stinner08563d92011-05-30 23:44:13 +02008
9Core and Builtins
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Benjamin Peterson23d49d32012-08-28 17:55:35 -040012- Issue #15801: Make sure mappings passed to '%' formatting are actually
13 subscriptable.
14
Antoine Pitrouc5bef752012-08-15 23:16:51 +020015- Issue #15604: Update uses of PyObject_IsTrue() to check for and handle
16 errors correctly. Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
17
Andrew Svetlov15fc2202012-07-26 17:19:40 +030018- Issue #15041: Update "see also" list in tkinter documentation.
19
Antoine Pitrou715a63b2012-07-21 00:52:06 +020020- Issue #14579: Fix error handling bug in the utf-16 decoder. Patch by
21 Serhiy Storchaka.
22
Meador Inge6642d1f2012-07-18 14:09:04 -050023- Issue #15368: An issue that caused bytecode generation to be
24 non-deterministic when using randomized hashing (-R) has been fixed.
25
Senthil Kumaran3b30b192012-07-04 19:50:29 -070026- Issue #15033: Fix the exit status bug when modules invoked using -m swith,
27 return the proper failure return value (1). Patch contributed by Jeff Knupp.
28
Gregory P. Smithb2ac4d62012-06-25 20:57:36 -070029- Issue #12268: File readline, readlines and read() methods no longer lose
30 data when an underlying read system call is interrupted. IOError is no
31 longer raised due to a read system call returning EINTR from within these
32 methods.
33
Éric Araujoe5567cc2012-07-03 01:23:46 -040034- Issue #13512: Create ~/.pypirc securely (CVE-2011-4944). Initial patch by
35 Philip Jenvey, tested by Mageia and Debian.
36
Éric Araujo3cf202e2012-07-03 01:12:42 -040037- Issue #7719: Make distutils ignore ``.nfs*`` files instead of choking later
38 on. Initial patch by SilentGhost and Jeff Ramnani.
39
Hynek Schlawack9bd4bf22012-06-21 19:45:19 +020040- Issue #10053: Don't close FDs when FileIO.__init__ fails. Loosely based on
41 the work by Hirokazu Yamamoto.
42
Antoine Pitrouff0e22b2012-05-28 22:22:34 +020043- Issue #14775: Fix a potential quadratic dict build-up due to the garbage
44 collector repeatedly trying to untrack dicts.
45
Petri Lehtinen5f397062012-05-19 18:34:06 +030046- Issue #14494: Fix __future__.py and its documentation to note that
47 absolute imports are the default behavior in 3.0 instead of 2.7.
48 Patch by Sven Marnach.
49
Antoine Pitrou284fa082012-05-09 13:24:31 +020050- Issue #14761: Fix potential leak on an error case in the import machinery.
51
Benjamin Peterson042c47b2012-05-01 09:51:09 -040052- Issue #14699: Fix calling the classmethod descriptor directly.
53
Benjamin Petersond157a4c2012-04-24 11:06:25 -040054- Issue #11603 (again): Setting __repr__ to __str__ now raises a RuntimeError
55 when repr() or str() is called on such an object.
56
57- Issue #14658: Fix binding a special method to a builtin implementation of a
58 special method with a different name.
59
Benjamin Peterson76605552012-04-18 11:14:31 -040060- Issue #14612: Fix jumping around with blocks by setting f_lineno.
61
Mark Dickinson9c0baf72012-04-15 15:19:06 +010062- Issue #13889: Check and (if necessary) set FPU control word before calling
63 any of the dtoa.c string <-> float conversion functions, on MSVC builds of
64 Python. This fixes issues when embedding Python in a Delphi app.
65
Antoine Pitrou02a38012012-04-05 14:07:52 +020066- Issue #14505: Fix file descriptor leak when deallocating file objects
67 created with PyFile_FromString().
68
Benjamin Petersonf73813a2012-04-02 11:15:17 -040069- Issue #14474: Save and restore exception state in thread.start_new_thread()
70 while writing error message if the thread leaves a unhandled exception.
71
Antoine Pitroufe941772012-04-01 16:05:46 +020072- Issue #13019: Fix potential reference leaks in bytearray.extend(). Patch
73 by Suman Saha.
74
Benjamin Petersoneff19a12012-03-22 08:19:04 -040075- Issue #14378: Fix compiling ast.ImportFrom nodes with a "__future__" string as
76 the module name that was not interned.
77
Gregory P. Smithfcdf04b2012-03-18 16:07:10 -070078- Issue #14331: Use significantly less stack space when importing modules by
79 allocating path buffers on the heap instead of the stack.
80
Benjamin Peterson6e7832b2012-03-16 09:32:59 -050081- Issue #14334: Prevent in a segfault in type.__getattribute__ when it was not
Benjamin Petersondbc52f82012-03-16 10:58:46 -050082 passed strings. Also fix segfaults in the __getattribute__ and __setattr__
83 methods of old-style classes.
Benjamin Peterson6e7832b2012-03-16 09:32:59 -050084
Ezio Melotti11f8b682012-03-12 01:17:02 +020085- Issue #14161: fix the __repr__ of file objects to escape the file name.
86
Benjamin Petersona8d45852012-03-07 18:41:11 -060087- Issue #1469629: Allow cycles through an object's __dict__ slot to be
88 collected. (For example if ``x.__dict__ is x``).
89
Antoine Pitrou6a1cd1b2012-02-27 00:45:12 +010090- Issue #13521: dict.setdefault() now does only one lookup for the given key,
91 making it "atomic" for many purposes. Patch by Filip Gruszczyński.
92
krisvale479c8f82012-03-22 20:17:42 +000093- Issue #10538: When using the "s*" code with PyArg_ParseTuple() to fill a
94 Py_buffer structure with data from an object supporting only the old
95 PyBuffer interface, a reference to the source objects is now properly added
96 to the Py_buffer.obj member.
97
Benjamin Petersona84f4682012-03-07 19:17:57 -060098Library
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100
R David Murray20101872012-08-31 23:15:28 -0400101- Issue #12776,#11839: call argparse type function (specified by add_argument)
102 only once. Before, the type function was called twice in the case where the
103 default was specified and the argument was given as well. This was
104 especially problematic for the FileType type, as a default file would always
105 be opened, even if a file argument was specified on the command line.
106
Ronald Oussorena00b1002012-08-25 11:18:48 +0200107- Issue #13370: Ensure that ctypes works on Mac OS X when Python is
108 compiled using the clang compiler
109
Mark Dickinson088cec32012-08-24 20:06:30 +0100110- Issue #15544: Fix Decimal.__float__ to work with payload-carrying NaNs.
111
Petri Lehtinen4efdc092012-08-20 21:05:56 +0300112- Issue #15199: Fix JavaScript's default MIME type to application/javascript.
113 Patch by Bohuslav Kabrda.
114
Mark Dickinson2de4be22012-08-18 12:31:34 +0100115- Issue #15477: In cmath and math modules, add workaround for platforms whose
116 system-supplied log1p function doesn't respect signs of zeros.
117
Petri Lehtinen2d44cee2012-08-15 14:22:46 +0300118- Issue #11062: Fix adding a message from file to Babyl mailbox.
119
Richard Oudkerkfaee75c2012-08-14 11:41:19 +0100120- Issue #15646: Prevent equivalent of a fork bomb when using
121 multiprocessing on Windows without the "if __name__ == '__main__'"
122 idiom.
123
Brian Curtina9391052012-08-09 23:04:42 -0500124- Issue #15567: Fix NameError when running threading._test
125
Meador Inge2d639d52012-08-10 22:05:45 -0500126- Issue #15424: Add a __sizeof__ implementation for array objects.
127 Patch by Ludwig Hähne.
128
Andrew Svetlov8ba844a2012-08-04 21:45:23 +0300129- Issue #13052: Fix IDLE crashing when replace string in Search/Replace dialog
130 ended with '\'. Patch by Roger Serwy.
131
Antoine Pitrou1fa9f7b2012-08-02 20:37:12 +0200132- Issue #15538: Fix compilation of the getnameinfo() / getaddrinfo()
133 emulation code. Patch by Philipp Hagemeister.
134
Andrew Svetlov8a15c372012-07-31 19:51:27 +0300135- Issue #9803: Don't close IDLE on saving if breakpoint is open.
136 Patch by Roger Serwy.
137
Andrew Svetlov2d968482012-07-30 20:04:53 +0300138- Issue #12288: Consider '0' and '0.0' as valid initialvalue
139 for tkinter SimpleDialog.
140
Antoine Pitroubaee34c2012-07-30 00:01:06 +0200141- Issue #15489: Add a __sizeof__ implementation for BytesIO objects.
142 Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
143
Jesus Cead4e58dc2012-08-03 14:48:23 +0200144- Issue #15469: Add a __sizeof__ implementation for deque objects.
145 Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
146
Antoine Pitroubff5df02012-07-29 19:02:46 +0200147- Issue #15487: Add a __sizeof__ implementation for buffered I/O objects.
148 Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
149
Jesus Cea3e3192d2012-08-03 14:25:53 +0200150- Issue #15512: Add a __sizeof__ implementation for parser.
151 Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
152
Meador Inge87c5b942012-07-23 09:27:00 -0500153- Issue #15402: An issue in the struct module that caused sys.getsizeof to
154 return incorrect results for struct.Struct instances has been fixed.
155 Initial patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
156
R David Murray0f111c12012-07-22 21:55:12 -0400157- Issue #15232: when mangle_from is True, email.Generator now correctly mangles
R David Murray70098452012-07-24 14:24:42 -0400158 lines that start with 'From ' that occur in a MIME preamble or epilog.
R David Murray0f111c12012-07-22 21:55:12 -0400159
R David Murray68f555c2012-07-21 22:54:34 -0400160- Issue #13922: argparse no longer incorrectly strips '--'s that appear
161 after the first one.
162
R David Murray056c31f2012-07-21 22:35:00 -0400163- Issue #12353: argparse now correctly handles null argument values.
164
Meador Inge25be3f62012-07-18 23:51:05 -0500165- Issue #6493: An issue in ctypes on Windows that caused structure bitfields
166 of type ctypes.c_uint32 and width 32 to incorrectly be set has been fixed.
167
Gregory P. Smithe0c22202012-07-15 22:16:06 -0700168- Issue #14635: telnetlib will use poll() rather than select() when possible
169 to avoid failing due to the select() file descriptor limit.
170
Antoine Pitrouc2ec9922012-07-06 18:48:24 +0200171- Issue #15247: FileIO now raises an error when given a file descriptor
172 pointing to a directory.
173
Mark Dickinsone0afb722012-06-30 17:19:35 +0100174- Issue #14591: Fix bug in Random.jumpahead that could produce an invalid
175 Mersenne Twister state on 64-bit machines.
176
Petri Lehtinend07de402012-06-29 15:09:12 +0300177- Issue #5346: Preserve permissions of mbox, MMDF and Babyl mailbox
178 files on flush().
179
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd958cc92012-06-29 01:42:46 +0200180- Issue #15219: Fix a reference leak when hashlib.new() is called with
181 invalid parameters.
182
Petri Lehtinen45f0d982012-06-28 13:48:17 +0300183- Issue #9559: If messages were only added, a new file is no longer
184 created and renamed over the old file when flush() is called on an
185 mbox, MMDF or Babyl mailbox.
186
Alexander Belopolskye99d3a12012-06-21 20:57:39 -0400187- Issue #14653: email.utils.mktime_tz() no longer relies on system
188 mktime() when timezone offest is supplied.
189
Richard Oudkerke4b99382012-07-27 14:05:46 +0100190- Issue #6056: Make multiprocessing use setblocking(True) on the
191 sockets it uses. Original patch by J Derek Wilson.
192
Richard Oudkerk4215d272012-06-18 15:37:31 +0100193- Issue #15101: Make pool finalizer avoid joining current thread.
194
Meador Inge43f42fc2012-06-16 21:05:50 -0500195- Issue #15054: A bug in tokenize.tokenize that caused string literals
196 with 'b' and 'br' prefixes to be incorrectly tokenized has been fixed.
197 Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
198
Petri Lehtinen48ee6902012-06-18 10:42:05 +0300199- Issue #15036: Mailbox no longer throws an error if a flush is done
200 between operations when removing or changing multiple items in mbox,
201 MMDF, or Babyl mailboxes.
Petri Lehtinen7cf66992012-06-15 20:50:51 +0300202
Richard Oudkerk926f58d2012-06-11 15:11:35 +0100203- Issue #10133: Make multiprocessing deallocate buffer if socket read
204 fails. Patch by Hallvard B Furuseth.
205
Richard Oudkerk2182e052012-06-06 19:01:14 +0100206- Issue #13854: Make multiprocessing properly handle non-integer
207 non-string argument to SystemExit.
208
Richard Oudkerkd44a4a22012-06-06 17:52:18 +0100209- Issue #12157: Make pool.map() empty iterables correctly. Initial
210 patch by mouad.
211
Ned Deily5e247b72012-05-31 09:17:29 -0700212- Issue #14962: Update text coloring in IDLE shell window after changing
213 options. Patch by Roger Serwy.
214
Ned Deily71489842012-05-29 10:42:34 -0700215- Issue #10997: Prevent a duplicate entry in IDLE's "Recent Files" menu.
216
Terry Jan Reedy5525eb72012-06-07 19:50:30 -0400217- Issue #12510: Attempting to get invalid tooltip no longer closes Idle.
Terry Jan Reedyd9d276b2012-05-27 21:28:42 -0400218 Original patch by Roger Serwy.
219
Terry Jan Reedyeaa7e782012-05-26 20:33:32 -0400220- Issue #10365: File open dialog now works instead of crashing
221 even when parent window is closed. Patch by Roger Serwy.
222
Terry Jan Reedy42f7b7e2012-05-26 16:55:43 -0400223- Issue #14876: Use user-selected font for highlight configuration.
224 Patch by Roger Serwy.
225
Senthil Kumaran37484dc2012-05-24 21:54:34 +0800226- Issue #14036: Add an additional check to validate that port in urlparse does
227 not go in illegal range and returns None.
228
Antoine Pitroucd8799f2012-05-23 23:16:14 +0200229- Issue #14888: Fix misbehaviour of the _md5 module when called on data
230 larger than 2**32 bytes.
231
Ezio Melottied8cf7a2012-05-21 17:46:55 -0600232- Issue #14875: Use float('inf') instead of float('1e66666') in the json module.
233
Ned Deily77e77a12012-05-19 23:35:05 -0700234- Issue #14572: Prevent build failures with pre-3.5.0 versions of
235 sqlite3, such as was shipped with Centos 5 and Mac OS X 10.4.
236
Senthil Kumaranf439a362012-05-20 12:02:44 +0800237- Issue #14426: Correct the Date format in Expires attribute of Set-Cookie
238 Header in Cookie.py.
239
Senthil Kumaran618802d2012-05-19 16:52:21 +0800240- Issue #14721: Send proper header, Content-length: 0 when the body is an empty
241 string ''. Initial Patch contributed by Arve Knudsen.
242
Ezio Melotti6d9c1b12012-05-19 17:12:17 +0300243- Issue #14072: Fix parsing of 'tel' URIs in urlparse by making the check for
244 ports stricter.
245
Senthil Kumaranea24dda2012-05-19 08:10:40 +0800246- Issue #9374: Generic parsing of query and fragment portions of url for any
247 scheme. Supported both by RFC3986 and RFC2396.
248
Petri Lehtinen280e9f72012-05-18 21:51:11 +0300249- Issue #14798: Fix the functions in pyclbr to raise an ImportError
250 when the first part of a dotted name is not a package. Patch by
251 Xavier de Gaye.
252
R David Murray69493922012-05-16 14:01:03 -0400253- Issue #14832: fixed the order of the argument references in the error
254 message produced by unittest's assertItemsEqual.
255
Antoine Pitrou38fbd792012-05-16 15:01:40 +0200256- Issue #14829: Fix bisect issues under 64-bit Windows.
257
Ned Deily724a55c2012-05-15 18:05:57 -0700258- Issue #14777: tkinter may return undecoded UTF-8 bytes as a string when
259 accessing the Tk clipboard. Modify clipboad_get() to first request type
260 UTF8_STRING when no specific type is requested in an X11 windowing
261 environment, falling back to the current default type STRING if that fails.
262 Original patch by Thomas Kluyver.
263
Senthil Kumaran6a2a6c22012-05-15 22:24:10 +0800264- Issue #12541: Be lenient with quotes around Realm field with HTTP Basic
265 Authentation in urllib2.
266
Ned Deilyacdc56d2012-05-10 17:45:49 -0700267- Issue #14662: Prevent shutil failures on OS X when destination does not
268 support chflag operations. Patch by Hynek Schlawack.
269
Antoine Pitrouc2b714c2012-05-10 20:17:46 +0200270- Issue #14157: Fix time.strptime failing without a year on February 29th.
271 Patch by Hynek Schlawack.
272
Jesus Ceaf2011e32012-05-10 05:01:11 +0200273- Issue #14768: os.path.expanduser('~/a') doesn't works correctly when HOME is '/'.
274
Senthil Kumaran7f6d4e12012-05-01 10:36:28 +0800275- Issue #13183: Fix pdb skipping frames after hitting a breakpoint and running
276 step. Patch by Xavier de Gaye.
277
Antoine Pitrou38153162012-04-25 17:31:12 +0200278- Issue #14664: It is now possible to use @unittest.skip{If,Unless} on a
279 test class that doesn't inherit from TestCase (i.e. a mixin).
280
Lars Gustäbel231d4742012-04-24 22:42:08 +0200281- Issue #14160: TarFile.extractfile() failed to resolve symbolic links when
282 the links were not located in an archive subdirectory.
283
R David Murrayc313b1d2012-04-23 13:27:11 -0400284- Issue #14638: pydoc now treats non-string __name__ values as if they
285 were missing, instead of raising an error.
286
Senthil Kumaran4c20c4e2012-04-23 23:52:40 +0800287- Issue #13684: Fix httplib tunnel issue of infinite loops for certain sites
288 which send EOF without trailing \r\n.
Ezio Melottied8cf7a2012-05-21 17:46:55 -0600289
Antoine Pitrou52849bf2012-04-19 23:55:01 +0200290- Issue #14308: Fix an exception when a "dummy" thread is in the threading
291 module's active list after a fork().
292
Ezio Melottic45868e2012-04-18 19:08:41 -0600293- Issue #14538: HTMLParser can now parse correctly start tags that contain
294 a bare '/'.
295
Vinay Sajip7e9c9d52012-04-16 14:38:23 +0100296- Issue #14452: SysLogHandler no longer inserts a UTF-8 BOM into the message.
297
Mark Dickinson0407e962012-04-15 16:43:19 +0100298- Issue #13496: Fix potential overflow in bisect.bisect algorithm when applied
299 to a collection of size > sys.maxsize / 2.
300
R David Murray9955ad42012-04-13 21:27:00 -0400301- Issue #14399: zipfile now recognizes that the archive has been modified even
302 if only the comment is changed. As a consequence of this fix, ZipFile is now
303 a new style class.
R David Murray3f4ccba2012-04-12 18:42:47 -0400304
Antoine Pitroufa1d8412012-04-09 00:47:24 +0200305- Issue #7978: SocketServer now restarts the select() call when EINTR is
306 returned. This avoids crashing the server loop when a signal is received.
307 Patch by Jerzy Kozera.
308
Andrew Svetlov8af87292012-03-31 14:34:16 +0300309- Issue #14409: IDLE now properly executes commands in the Shell window
310 when it cannot read the normal config files on startup and
311 has to use the built-in default key bindings.
312 There was previously a bug in one of the defaults.
Andrew Svetlovc37db102012-03-29 19:54:58 +0300313
Giampaolo Rodola'96cb5d12012-03-22 16:06:43 +0100314- Issue #10340: asyncore - properly handle EINVAL in dispatcher constructor on
315 OSX; avoid to call handle_connect in case of a disconnected socket which
316 was not meant to connect.
317
R David Murrayb3f95d72012-03-21 15:02:30 -0400318- Issue #12757: Fix the skipping of doctests when python is run with -OO so
319 that it works in unittest's verbose mode as well as non-verbose mode.
320
Andrew Svetlov7c010ee2012-03-21 13:35:08 +0200321- Issue #3573: IDLE hangs when passing invalid command line args
322 (directory(ies) instead of file(s)) (Patch by Guilherme Polo)
323
Giampaolo Rodola'3d3cf482012-03-20 16:46:57 +0100324- Issue #13694: asynchronous connect in asyncore.dispatcher does not set addr
325 attribute.
326
Senthil Kumaran51a65c92012-03-16 01:07:16 -0700327- Issue #10484: Fix the CGIHTTPServer's PATH_INFO handling problem.
328
Senthil Kumaran4c592112012-03-15 13:24:40 -0700329- Issue #11199: Fix the with urllib which hangs on particular ftp urls.
330
Martin v. Löwisf163efd2012-03-13 14:46:22 -0700331- Issue #5219: Prevent event handler cascade in IDLE.
332
Antoine Pitrouf60845b2012-03-11 19:29:12 +0100333- Issue #14252: Fix subprocess.Popen.terminate() to not raise an error under
334 Windows when the child process has already exited.
335
Benjamin Petersona84f4682012-03-07 19:17:57 -0600336- Issue #14195: An issue that caused weakref.WeakSet instances to incorrectly
337 return True for a WeakSet instance 'a' in both 'a < a' and 'a > a' has been
338 fixed.
339
340- Issue #14159: Fix the len() of weak sets to return a better approximation
341 when some objects are dead or dying. Moreover, the implementation is now
342 O(1) rather than O(n).
343
344- Issue #2945: Make the distutils upload command aware of bdist_rpm products.
345
346- Issue #13447: Add a test file to host regression tests for bugs in the
347 scripts found in the Tools directory.
348
349- Issue #6884: Fix long-standing bugs with MANIFEST.in parsing in distutils
350 on Windows.
351
Antoine Pitrou9945a642012-04-16 03:34:44 +0200352Tests
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354
Trent Nelsonda4277a2012-08-29 09:20:41 -0400355- Issue #15765: Extend a previous fix to Solaris and OpenBSD for quirky
356 getcwd() behaviour (issue #9185) to NetBSD as well.
357
Antoine Pitrou0e3a4c82012-08-18 20:51:05 +0200358- Issue #15615: Add some tests for the json module's handling of invalid
359 input data. Patch by Kushal Das.
360
Brian Curtinbc77d362012-08-13 17:26:48 -0500361- Issue #15496: Add directory removal helpers for tests on Windows.
362 Patch by Jeremy Kloth.
363
Nick Coghlana0933122012-06-17 19:03:39 +1000364- Issue #15043: test_gdb is now skipped entirely if gdb security settings
365 block loading of the gdb hooks
366
Antoine Pitrou9945a642012-04-16 03:34:44 +0200367- Issue #14589: Update certificate chain for sha256.tbs-internet.com, fixing
368 a test failure in test_ssl.
369
Antoine Pitrou4b536d42012-03-31 23:53:07 +0200370Build
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372
Trent Nelsonf6407a12012-08-30 14:56:13 +0000373- Issue #15819: Make sure we can build Python out-of-tree from a readonly
374 source directory. (Somewhat related to Issue #9860.)
375
Ned Deily8622f092012-08-22 23:26:06 -0700376- Issue #15645: Ensure 2to3 grammar pickles are properly installed.
377
Ned Deily67028042012-08-05 14:42:45 -0700378- Issue #15560: Fix building _sqlite3 extension on OS X with an SDK.
379
Martin v. Löwis33f8c3a2012-08-01 10:05:27 +0200380- Issue #8847: Disable COMDAT folding in Windows PGO builds.
381
Ned Deilyd8ec4642012-07-30 04:07:49 -0700382- Issue #14018: Fix OS X Tcl/Tk framework checking when using OS X SDKs.
383
Martin v. Löwised11a5d2012-05-20 10:42:17 +0200384- Issue #8767: Restore building with --disable-unicode.
385 Patch by Stefano Taschini.
386
Martin v. Löwisfd0afed2012-05-15 17:26:31 +0200387- Build against bzip2 1.0.6 and openssl 0.9.8x on Windows.
388
Charles-François Natali0d3db3a2012-04-12 19:11:54 +0200389- Issue #14557: Fix extensions build on HP-UX. Patch by Adi Roiban.
390
Antoine Pitrou4b536d42012-03-31 23:53:07 +0200391- Issue #14437: Fix building the _io module under Cygwin.
392
Ezio Melottie48daea2012-05-06 16:15:35 +0300393Documentation
Senthil Kumaran0c472c32012-07-22 19:36:03 -0700394-------------
Terry Jan Reedy45ed0122012-07-08 17:35:26 -0400395
Petri Lehtinenf9e1f112012-09-01 07:27:58 +0300396- Issue #13769: Document the effect of ensure_ascii to the return type
397 of JSON decoding functions.
398
Hynek Schlawack7d978902012-08-28 12:33:46 +0200399- Issue #14880: Fix kwargs notation in csv.reader, .writer & .register_dialect.
400 Patch by Chris Rebert.
401
Antoine Pitrouf3e0a692012-08-24 19:46:17 +0200402- Issue #14674: Add a discussion of the json module's standard compliance.
403 Patch by Chris Rebert.
404
Senthil Kumaran2f76f732012-08-12 11:58:53 -0700405- Issue #15630: Add an example for "continue" stmt in the tutorial. Patch by
406 Daniel Ellis.
407
Terry Jan Reedy45ed0122012-07-08 17:35:26 -0400408- Issue #13557: Clarify effect of giving two different namespaces to exec or
409 execfile().
Ezio Melottie48daea2012-05-06 16:15:35 +0300410
411- Issue #14034: added the argparse tutorial.
412
Senthil Kumaran0c472c32012-07-22 19:36:03 -0700413- Issue #15250: Document that filecmp.dircmp compares files shallowly. Patch
414 contributed by Chris Jerdonek.
415
Benjamin Petersona84f4682012-03-07 19:17:57 -0600416
Gregory P. Smithc8ff4602012-03-14 15:28:10 -0700417What's New in Python 2.7.3 release candidate 2?
418===============================================
419
Benjamin Petersonee933ec2012-03-15 12:25:54 -0500420*Release date: 2012-03-17*
Gregory P. Smithc8ff4602012-03-14 15:28:10 -0700421
422Library
423-------
424
425- Issue #14234: CVE-2012-0876: Randomize hashes of xml attributes in the hash
426 table internal to the pyexpat module's copy of the expat library to avoid a
427 denial of service due to hash collisions. Patch by David Malcolm with some
428 modifications by the expat project.
429
430
Benjamin Petersona84f4682012-03-07 19:17:57 -0600431What's New in Python 2.7.3 release candidate 1?
432===============================================
433
434*Release date: 2012-02-23*
435
436Core and Builtins
437-----------------
438
Antoine Pitrouc66ed452012-02-15 02:51:43 +0100439- Issue #13020: Fix a reference leak when allocating a structsequence object
440 fails. Patch by Suman Saha.
441
Barry Warsaw1e13eb02012-02-20 20:42:21 -0500442- Issue #13703: oCERT-2011-003: add -R command-line option and PYTHONHASHSEED
443 environment variable, to provide an opt-in way to protect against denial of
444 service attacks due to hash collisions within the dict and set types. Patch
445 by David Malcolm, based on work by Victor Stinner.
446
Antoine Pitroud1c818a2012-01-24 17:44:06 +0100447- Issue #11235: Fix OverflowError when trying to import a source file whose
448 modification time doesn't fit in a 32-bit timestamp.
449
Jason R. Coombs042370e2011-12-26 10:15:15 -0500450- Issue #11638: Unicode strings in 'name' and 'version' no longer cause
451 UnicodeDecodeErrors.
452
Antoine Pitrou5b4b2da2011-12-15 14:15:31 +0100453- Fix the fix for issue #12149: it was incorrect, although it had the side
454 effect of appearing to resolve the issue. Thanks to Mark Shannon for
455 noticing.
456
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc4bf21e22011-12-07 21:46:48 +0100457- Issue #13546: Fixed an overflow issue that could crash the intepreter when
458 calling sys.setrecursionlimit((1<<31)-1).
459
Antoine Pitrou30402542011-11-15 01:49:40 +0100460- Issue #13333: The UTF-7 decoder now accepts lone surrogates (the encoder
461 already accepts them).
462
Petri Lehtinen8028dc22011-10-30 20:59:10 +0200463- Issue #10519: Avoid unnecessary recursive function calls in
464 setobject.c.
465
Benjamin Peterson0c0d7562011-10-27 08:21:59 -0400466- Issue #13268: Fix the assert statement when a tuple is passed as the message.
467
Petri Lehtinen8ffbab82011-10-24 20:59:29 +0300468- Issue #13018: Fix reference leaks in error paths in dictobject.c.
469 Patch by Suman Saha.
470
Senthil Kumaran797b95b2011-10-21 00:32:59 +0800471- Issue #12604: VTRACE macro expanded to no-op in _sre.c to avoid compiler
472 warnings. Patch by Josh Triplett and Petri Lehtinen.
473
Mark Hammond323b5da2011-10-17 11:05:36 +1100474- Issue #7833: Extension modules built using distutils on Windows will no
475 longer include a "manifest" to prevent them failing at import time in some
476 embedded situations.
477
Benjamin Petersona7b09762011-10-15 13:43:21 -0400478- Issue #13186: Fix __delitem__ on old-style instances when invoked through
479 PySequence_DelItem.
480
Charles-François Natali40ab0022011-10-12 22:29:09 +0200481- Issue #13156: Revert the patch for issue #10517 (reset TLS upon fork()),
482 which was only relevant for the native pthread TLS implementation.
483
Victor Stinner63c22fa2011-09-23 19:37:03 +0200484- Issue #7732: Fix a crash on importing a module if a directory has the same
485 name than a Python module (e.g. "__init__.py"): don't close the file twice.
486
Mark Dickinsondbbed042011-09-19 16:38:08 +0100487- Issue #12973: Fix overflow checks that invoked undefined behaviour in
488 int.__pow__. These overflow checks were causing int.__pow__ to produce
489 incorrect results with recent versions of Clang, as a result of the
Mark Dickinsona96b0d12011-09-24 09:01:16 +0100490 compiler optimizing the check away. Also fix similar overflow checks
491 in list_repeat (listobject.c) and islice_next (itertoolsmodule.c). These
492 bugs caused test failures with recent versions of Clang.
Mark Dickinsondbbed042011-09-19 16:38:08 +0100493
Ezio Melotti15d6b652011-08-15 09:22:24 +0300494- Issue #12266: Fix str.capitalize() to correctly uppercase/lowercase
495 titlecased and cased non-letter characters.
496
Benjamin Peterson6c18ff02011-07-22 10:41:44 -0500497- Issues #12610 and #12609: Verify that user generated AST has correct string
498 and identifier types before compiling.
499
Barry Warsawc5643282011-07-19 17:06:30 -0400500- Issue #11627: Fix segfault when __new__ on a exception returns a
501 non-exception class.
Benjamin Petersonc3349cd2011-07-15 14:15:40 -0500502
Antoine Pitrou16166452011-07-12 22:04:20 +0200503- Issue #12149: Update the method cache after a type's dictionnary gets
504 cleared by the garbage collector. This fixes a segfault when an instance
505 and its type get caught in a reference cycle, and the instance's
506 deallocator calls one of the methods on the type (e.g. when subclassing
507 IOBase). Diagnosis and patch by Davide Rizzo.
508
Florent Xiclunaa1f948b2012-01-24 21:05:10 +0100509- Issue #12501: Remove Py3k warning for callable. callable() is supported
510 again in Python 3.2.
Victor Stinnerba8b3a22011-07-08 02:07:45 +0200511
Victor Stinner59729ff2011-07-05 11:28:19 +0200512- Issue #9611, #9015: FileIO.read(), FileIO.readinto(), FileIO.write() and
513 os.write() clamp the length to INT_MAX on Windows.
514
Victor Stinnerd3c7e172011-05-30 23:49:13 +0200515- Issue #1195: my_fgets() now always clears errors before calling fgets(). Fix
Victor Stinner08563d92011-05-30 23:44:13 +0200516 the following case: sys.stdin.read() stopped with CTRL+d (end of file),
517 raw_input() interrupted by CTRL+c.
518
Łukasz Langa7a153902011-10-18 17:16:00 +0200519- Issue #10860: httplib now correctly handles an empty port after port
520 delimiter in URLs.
521
Barry Warsawc5643282011-07-19 17:06:30 -0400522- dict_proxy objects now display their contents rather than just the class
523 name.
Raymond Hettingerbf7a2662011-06-30 00:44:36 +0100524
Victor Stinner08563d92011-05-30 23:44:13 +0200525Library
526-------
Éric Araujoa13cd392011-09-10 05:39:45 +0200527
Petri Lehtinen4ab701b2012-02-21 13:58:40 +0200528- Issue #8033: sqlite3: Fix 64-bit integer handling in user functions
529 on 32-bit architectures. Initial patch by Philippe Devalkeneer.
530
Ezio Melotti36b73612012-02-21 09:22:16 +0200531- HTMLParser is now able to handle slashes in the start tag.
532
Charles-François Natali66f3cc62012-02-18 14:15:38 +0100533- Issue #14001: CVE-2012-0845: xmlrpc: Fix an endless loop in
534 SimpleXMLRPCServer upon malformed POST request.
535
Gregory P. Smith14dc5102012-02-16 00:44:50 -0800536- Issue #2489: pty.spawn could consume 100% cpu when it encountered an EOF.
537
Antoine Pitroudd7e0712012-02-15 22:25:27 +0100538- Issue #13014: Fix a possible reference leak in SSLSocket.getpeercert().
539
Ezio Melottid2307cb2012-02-15 12:44:23 +0200540- Issue #13987: HTMLParser is now able to handle EOFs in the middle of a
Ezio Melotti65d36da2012-02-15 13:19:10 +0200541 construct and malformed start tags.
Ezio Melottid2307cb2012-02-15 12:44:23 +0200542
Antoine Pitrouc39cd782012-02-15 02:42:46 +0100543- Issue #13015: Fix a possible reference leak in defaultdict.__repr__.
544 Patch by Suman Saha.
545
Meador Ingeff337cc2012-02-13 22:22:06 -0600546- Issue #13979: A bug in ctypes.util.find_library that caused
547 the wrong library name to be returned has been fixed.
548
Éric Araujoe897a742012-02-15 16:28:20 +0100549- Issue #1326113: distutils' build_ext command --libraries option now
550 correctly parses multiple values separated by whitespace or commas.
551
Ezio Melottif1174432012-02-13 16:28:54 +0200552- Issue #13993: HTMLParser is now able to handle broken end tags.
553
Ezio Melotti4b92cc32012-02-13 16:10:44 +0200554- Issue #13960: HTMLParser is now able to handle broken comments.
555
Petri Lehtinen587209f2012-02-12 21:03:02 +0200556- Issue #9750: Fix sqlite3.Connection.iterdump on tables and fields
557 with a name that is a keyword or contains quotes. Patch by Marko
558 Kohtala.
559
Florent Xiclunac2279652012-02-12 14:49:03 +0100560- Issue #13994: Earlier partial revert of Distutils enhancements in 2.7
Ned Deilyc47a4592012-02-11 20:40:24 +0100561 has left two versions of customize_compiler, the original in
562 distutils.sysconfig and another copy in distutils.ccompiler, with some
563 parts of distutils calling one and others using the other.
564 Complete the revert back to only having one in distutils.sysconfig as
565 is the case in 3.x.
566
Ned Deily0d0ea482012-02-10 12:59:06 +0100567- Issue #13590: On OS X 10.7 and 10.6 with Xcode 4.2, building
568 Distutils-based packages with C extension modules may fail because
569 Apple has removed gcc-4.2, the version used to build python.org
570 64-bit/32-bit Pythons. If the user does not explicitly override
571 the default C compiler by setting the CC environment variable,
572 Distutils will now attempt to compile extension modules with clang
573 if gcc-4.2 is required but not found. Also as a convenience, if
574 the user does explicitly set CC, substitute its value as the default
575 compiler in the Distutils LDSHARED configuration variable for OS X.
576 (Note, the python.org 32-bit-only Pythons use gcc-4.0 and the 10.4u
577 SDK, neither of which are available in Xcode 4. This change does not
578 attempt to override settings to support their use with Xcode 4.)
579
Senthil Kumaran59e7c8f2012-02-09 18:22:01 +0800580- Issue #9021: Add an introduction to the copy module documentation.
581
Senthil Kumaran607e31e2012-02-09 17:43:31 +0800582- Issue #6005: Examples in the socket library documentation use sendall, where
583 relevant, instead send method.
584
Petri Lehtinenc7fd5232011-05-09 12:24:09 +0200585- Issue #10811: Fix recursive usage of cursors. Instead of crashing,
586 raise a ProgrammingError now.
587
Ned Deily2c8bf042012-02-06 00:55:50 +0100588- Issue #10881: Fix test_site failures with OS X framework builds.
589
Terry Jan Reedyadb87e22012-02-05 15:10:55 -0500590- Issue #964437 Make IDLE help window non-modal.
591 Patch by Guilherme Polo and Roger Serwy.
592
Ned Deily61c95342012-02-04 18:35:23 +0100593- Issue #13933: IDLE auto-complete did not work with some imported
594 module, like hashlib. (Patch by Roger Serwy)
595
Ned Deilyfbc56fd2012-02-03 02:39:49 +0100596- Issue #13901: Prevent test_distutils failures on OS X with --enable-shared.
597
Petri Lehtinen0518f472012-02-01 22:20:12 +0200598- Issue #13676: Handle strings with embedded zeros correctly in sqlite3.
599
Terry Jan Reedyb98000a2012-01-31 02:09:25 -0500600- Issue #13506: Add '' to path for IDLE Shell when started and restarted with Restart Shell.
601 Original patches by Marco Scataglini and Roger Serwy.
602
Antoine Pitrou88c51e82012-01-28 22:01:59 +0100603- Issue #13806: The size check in audioop decompression functions was too
604 strict and could reject valid compressed data. Patch by Oleg Plakhotnyuk.
605
Antoine Pitroud358e052012-01-27 09:42:45 +0100606- Issue #13885: CVE-2011-3389: the _ssl module would always disable the CBC
607 IV attack countermeasure.
608
Senthil Kumaranb05f91d2012-01-21 11:45:12 +0800609- Issue #6631: Disallow relative file paths in urllib urlopen methods.
610
Nadeem Vawdad7664de2012-01-19 00:40:46 +0200611- Issue #13781: Prevent gzip.GzipFile from using the dummy filename provided by
612 file objects opened with os.fdopen().
613
Antoine Pitrou3b6a3142012-01-17 17:13:04 +0100614- Issue #13589: Fix some serialization primitives in the aifc module.
615 Patch by Oleg Plakhotnyuk.
616
Jesus Cea4a8ba192012-01-18 03:51:38 +0100617- Issue #13803: Under Solaris, distutils doesn't include bitness
618 in the directory name.
619
Senthil Kumaranbcd833f2012-01-11 00:09:24 +0800620- Issue #13642: Unquote before b64encoding user:password during Basic
621 Authentication. Patch contributed by Joonas Kuorilehto and Michele Orrù.
622
Antoine Pitroud76088d2012-01-03 22:46:48 +0100623- Issue #13636: Weak ciphers are now disabled by default in the ssl module
624 (except when SSLv2 is explicitly asked for).
625
Senthil Kumaran84c18aa2011-12-23 11:14:56 +0800626- Issue #12798: Updated the mimetypes documentation.
627
Lars Gustäbel7d4d0742011-12-21 19:27:50 +0100628- Issue #13639: Accept unicode filenames in tarfile.open(mode="w|gz").
629
Antoine Pitroub8572a12011-12-21 10:16:14 +0100630- Issue #1785: Fix inspect and pydoc with misbehaving descriptors.
631
Antoine Pitrou7a3d8ae2011-12-18 19:27:45 +0100632- Issue #7502: Fix equality comparison for DocTestCase instances. Patch by
633 Cédric Krier.
634
Charles-François Natali41616302011-12-18 18:22:24 +0100635- Issue #11870: threading: Properly reinitialize threads internal locks and
636 condition variables to avoid deadlocks in child processes.
637
Charles-François Natalif3d35f02011-12-18 15:52:48 +0100638- Issue #8035: urllib: Fix a bug where the client could remain stuck after a
639 redirection or an error.
640
Ned Deilyd8fdbad2011-12-14 15:05:42 -0800641- Issue #4625: If IDLE cannot write to its recent file or breakpoint
642 files, display a message popup and continue rather than crash.
643 (original patch by Roger Serwy)
644
Lars Gustäbel9a388632011-12-06 13:07:09 +0100645- tarfile.py: Correctly detect bzip2 compressed streams with blocksizes
646 other than 900k.
647
Raymond Hettingerf5377022011-12-11 22:31:09 -0800648- Issue #13573: The csv.writer now uses the repr() for floats rather than str().
649 This allows floats to round-trip without loss of precision.
650
Petri Lehtinen49e49a22011-12-02 21:09:30 +0200651- Issue #13439: Fix many errors in turtle docstrings.
652
Antoine Pitroua5d5bb92011-11-25 21:28:15 +0100653- Issue #12856: Ensure child processes do not inherit the parent's random
654 seed for filename generation in the tempfile module. Patch by Brian
655 Harring.
656
Antoine Pitrouaa1c9672011-11-23 01:39:19 +0100657- Issue #13458: Fix a memory leak in the ssl module when decoding a
658 certificate with a subjectAltName. Patch by Robert Xiao.
659
Victor Stinner53853c32011-11-22 22:20:13 +0100660- Issue #13415: os.unsetenv() doesn't ignore errors anymore.
661
Antoine Pitrou5aa7df32011-11-21 20:16:44 +0100662- Issue #13322: Fix BufferedWriter.write() to ensure that BlockingIOError is
663 raised when the wrapped raw file is non-blocking and the write would block.
664 Previous code assumed that the raw write() would raise BlockingIOError, but
665 RawIOBase.write() is defined to returned None when the call would block.
666 Patch by sbt.
667
Ezio Melotti00dc60b2011-11-18 18:00:40 +0200668- Issue #13358: HTMLParser now calls handle_data only once for each CDATA.
669
Ezio Melotti93bbb6a2011-11-18 17:30:28 +0200670- Issue #4147: minidom's toprettyxml no longer adds whitespace around a text
671 node when it is the only child of an element. Initial patch by Dan
672 Kenigsberg.
673
Ned Deily174c4f82011-11-15 18:29:02 -0800674- Issue #8793: Prevent IDLE crash when given strings with invalid hex escape
675 sequences.
676
Ezio Melotti0f1571c2011-11-14 18:04:05 +0200677- Issues #1745761, #755670, #13357, #12629, #1200313: HTMLParser now correctly
678 handles non-valid attributes, including adjacent and unquoted attributes.
679
Antoine Pitrou6a570d62011-11-10 00:33:50 +0100680- Issue #13373: multiprocessing.Queue.get() could sometimes block indefinitely
681 when called with a timeout. Patch by Arnaud Ysmal.
682
Petri Lehtinen416ecff2011-11-05 10:18:50 +0200683- Issue #3067: Enhance the documentation and docstring of
684 locale.setlocale().
685
Petri Lehtinen49aa72e2011-11-05 09:50:37 +0200686- Issue #13254: Fix Maildir initialization so that maildir contents
687 are read correctly.
688
Florent Xicluna5f761d72011-11-04 10:15:57 +0100689- Issue #13140: Fix the daemon_threads attribute of ThreadingMixIn.
690
Florent Xiclunac4a11bd2011-11-01 23:47:46 +0100691- Issue #2892: preserve iterparse events in case of SyntaxError.
692
Ezio Melotti7e82b272011-11-01 14:09:56 +0200693- Issue #670664: Fix HTMLParser to correctly handle the content of
694 ``<script>...</script>`` and ``<style>...</style>``.
695
696- Issue #10817: Fix urlretrieve function to raise ContentTooShortError even
Senthil Kumaran87e58552011-11-01 02:44:45 +0800697 when reporthook is None. Patch by Jyrki Pulliainen.
698
Ezio Melotti7e82b272011-11-01 14:09:56 +0200699- Issue #13296: Fix IDLE to clear compile __future__ flags on shell restart.
Ned Deily86d669b2011-10-30 19:58:04 -0700700 (Patch by Roger Serwy)
701
Florent Xicluna67d5d0e2011-10-29 03:38:56 +0200702- Issue #7334: close source files on ElementTree.parse and iterparse.
703
Vinay Sajipc515eba2011-10-24 23:26:00 +0100704- Issue #13232: logging: Improved logging of exceptions in the presence of
705 multiple encodings.
706
Charles-François Natali46f990e2011-10-24 18:43:51 +0200707- Issue #10332: multiprocessing: fix a race condition when a Pool is closed
708 before all tasks have completed.
709
Antoine Pitrou5a77fe92011-10-22 21:26:01 +0200710- Issue #1548891: The cStringIO.StringIO() constructor now encodes unicode
711 arguments with the system default encoding just like the write() method
Éric Araujob21f51a2011-10-23 04:37:51 +0200712 does, instead of converting it to a raw buffer. This also fixes handling of
713 unicode input in the shlex module (#6988, #1170).
Antoine Pitrou5a77fe92011-10-22 21:26:01 +0200714
Florent Xicluna47fb1922011-10-20 23:21:58 +0200715- Issue #9168: now smtpd is able to bind privileged port.
716
Senthil Kumaran797b95b2011-10-21 00:32:59 +0800717- Issue #12529: fix cgi.parse_header issue on strings with double-quotes and
718 semicolons together. Patch by Ben Darnell and Petri Lehtinen.
719
Senthil Kumaranddd40312011-10-20 01:38:35 +0800720- Issue #6090: zipfile raises a ValueError when a document with a timestamp
721 earlier than 1980 is provided. Patch contributed by Petri Lehtinen.
722
Nadeem Vawdadeb1ce72011-10-17 19:33:38 +0200723- Issue #13194: zlib.compressobj().copy() and zlib.decompressobj().copy() are
724 now available on Windows.
725
Éric Araujo017e5352011-10-09 07:11:19 +0200726- Issue #13114: Fix the distutils commands check and register when the
727 long description is a Unicode string with non-ASCII characters.
728
Ned Deilybd9d07c2011-10-06 14:29:49 -0700729- Issue #7367: Fix pkgutil.walk_paths to skip directories whose
730 contents cannot be read.
731
732- Issue #7425: Prevent pydoc -k failures due to module import errors.
733 (Backport to 2.7 of existing 3.x fix)
734
Antoine Pitrouace2ccf2011-10-04 13:38:04 +0200735- Issue #13099: Fix sqlite3.Cursor.lastrowid under a Turkish locale.
736 Reported and diagnosed by Thomas Kluyver.
737
Antoine Pitrou561a8212011-10-04 09:34:48 +0200738- Issue #7689: Allow pickling of dynamically created classes when their
739 metaclass is registered with copy_reg. Patch by Nicolas M. Thiéry and
740 Craig Citro.
741
Charles-François Natali564f8902011-09-29 19:43:01 +0200742- Issue #13058: ossaudiodev: fix a file descriptor leak on error. Patch by
743 Thomas Jarosch.
744
Victor Stinner51b71982011-09-23 01:15:32 +0200745- Issue #12931: xmlrpclib now encodes Unicode URI to ISO-8859-1, instead of
746 failing with a UnicodeDecodeError.
747
Éric Araujoa13cd392011-09-10 05:39:45 +0200748- Issue #8933: distutils' PKG-INFO files will now correctly report
749 Metadata-Version: 1.1 instead of 1.0 if a Classifier or Download-URL field is
750 present.
751
Éric Araujo0f2dbf32011-09-03 00:47:07 +0200752- Issue #8286: The distutils command sdist will print a warning message instead
753 of crashing when an invalid path is given in the manifest template.
Victor Stinner08563d92011-05-30 23:44:13 +0200754
Lars Gustäbel8babfdf2011-09-05 17:04:18 +0200755- Issue #12841: tarfile unnecessarily checked the existence of numerical user
756 and group ids on extraction. If one of them did not exist the respective id
757 of the current user (i.e. root) was used for the file and ownership
758 information was lost.
759
Éric Araujo429b8902011-08-30 01:48:59 +0200760- Issue #10946: The distutils commands bdist_dumb, bdist_wininst and bdist_msi
761 now respect a --skip-build option given to bdist.
762
Charles-François Natalifda7b372011-08-28 16:22:33 +0200763- Issue #12287: Fix a stack corruption in ossaudiodev module when the FD is
764 greater than FD_SETSIZE.
765
Nadeem Vawdabbabbae2011-08-28 11:23:57 +0200766- Issue #12839: Fix crash in zlib module due to version mismatch.
767 Fix by Richard M. Tew.
768
Charles-François Natali2a34eb32011-08-25 21:20:54 +0200769- Issue #12786: Set communication pipes used by subprocess.Popen CLOEXEC to
770 avoid them being inherited by other subprocesses.
771
Antoine Pitrou77657e42011-08-24 22:41:05 +0200772- Issue #4106: Fix occasional exceptions printed out by multiprocessing on
773 interpreter shutdown.
774
Antoine Pitroua1a8da82011-08-23 19:54:20 +0200775- Issue #11657: Fix sending file descriptors over 255 over a multiprocessing
776 Pipe.
777
Antoine Pitrou808cec52011-08-20 15:40:58 +0200778- Issue #12213: Fix a buffering bug with interleaved reads and writes that
779 could appear on io.BufferedRandom streams.
780
Victor Stinneracacbaa2011-08-20 14:02:38 +0200781- Issue #12326: sys.platform is now always 'linux2' on Linux, even if Python
782 is compiled on Linux 3.
783
Jesus Cead256ca12011-09-19 16:57:18 +0200784- Issue #13007: whichdb should recognize gdbm 1.9 magic numbers.
785
Éric Araujoe7329f42011-08-19 03:07:39 +0200786- Issue #9173: Let shutil._make_archive work if the logger argument is None.
787
Charles-François Natalib02302c2011-08-18 17:18:28 +0200788- Issue #12650: Fix a race condition where a subprocess.Popen could leak
789 resources (FD/zombie) when killed at the wrong time.
790
Barry Warsaw39935f42011-08-15 19:50:35 -0400791- Issue #12752: Fix regression which prevented locale.normalize() from
792 accepting unicode strings.
793
Senthil Kumaranf432aec2011-08-03 18:31:59 +0800794- Issue #12683: urlparse updated to include svn as schemes that uses relative
795 paths. (svn from 1.5 onwards support relative path).
796
Éric Araujo33af2632011-08-02 03:16:12 +0200797- Issue #11933: Fix incorrect mtime comparison in distutils.
798
Éric Araujo560bf852011-07-31 02:04:00 +0200799- Issues #11104, #8688: Fix the behavior of distutils' sdist command with
800 manually-maintained MANIFEST files.
801
Éric Araujo9a528302011-07-29 17:34:35 +0200802- Issue #8887: "pydoc somebuiltin.somemethod" (or help('somebuiltin.somemethod')
803 in Python code) now finds the doc of the method.
804
Charles-François Natali0cf7e252011-07-27 19:36:40 +0200805- Issue #12603: Fix pydoc.synopsis() on files with non-negative st_mtime.
806
Raymond Hettinger55e5e272011-07-28 23:56:38 -0700807- Issue #12514: Use try/finally to assure the timeit module restores garbage
808 collections when it is done.
809
Ross Lagerwalld8e39012011-07-27 18:54:53 +0200810- Issue #12607: In subprocess, fix issue where if stdin, stdout or stderr is
811 given as a low fd, it gets overwritten.
812
Ross Lagerwall528c4ad2011-07-25 07:23:58 +0200813- Issue #12102: Document that buffered files must be flushed before being used
814 with mmap. Patch by Steffen Daode Nurpmeso.
815
Charles-François Natali3de8c732011-07-24 22:33:35 +0200816- Issue #12560: Build libpython.so on OpenBSD. Patch by Stefan Sperling.
817
Antoine Pitrou4cfae022011-07-24 02:51:01 +0200818- Issue #1813: Fix codec lookup and setting/getting locales under Turkish
819 locales.
820
Nadeem Vawda0d2889f2011-07-23 16:13:01 +0200821- Issue #10883: Fix socket leaks in urllib when using FTP.
Nadeem Vawdab42c53e2011-07-23 15:51:16 +0200822
Charles-François Natali97781b02011-07-22 23:43:42 +0200823- Issue #12592: Make Python build on OpenBSD 5 (and future major releases).
824
Charles-François Natali4929eb92011-07-21 19:41:04 +0200825- Issue #12372: POSIX semaphores are broken on AIX: don't use them.
826
Antoine Pitrou495ee8f2011-07-20 00:26:23 +0200827- Issue #12571: Add a plat-linux3 directory mirroring the plat-linux2
828 directory, so that "import DLFCN" and other similar imports work on
829 Linux 3.0.
830
R David Murray95225952011-07-18 21:34:04 -0400831- Issue #7484: smtplib no longer puts <> around addresses in VRFY and EXPN
832 commands; they aren't required and in fact postfix doesn't support that form.
833
Antoine Pitrou304f0f92011-07-15 21:22:50 +0200834- Issue #11603: Fix a crash when __str__ is rebound as __repr__. Patch by
835 Andreas Stührk.
836
Charles-François Natali26591402011-07-14 19:49:02 +0200837- Issue #12502: asyncore: fix polling loop with AF_UNIX sockets.
838
Victor Stinnerbf547fd2011-07-13 21:47:31 +0200839- Issue #4376: ctypes now supports nested structures in a endian different than
840 the parent structure. Patch by Vlad Riscutia.
841
Victor Stinnere7901312011-07-05 14:08:01 +0200842- Issue #12493: subprocess: Popen.communicate() now also handles EINTR errors
843 if the process has only one pipe.
844
Victor Stinner65c15352011-07-04 03:05:37 +0200845- Issue #12467: warnings: fix a race condition if a warning is emitted at
846 shutdown, if globals()['__file__'] is None.
847
Charles-François Natali414d0fa2011-07-02 13:56:19 +0200848- Issue #12352: Fix a deadlock in multiprocessing.Heap when a block is freed by
849 the garbage collector while the Heap lock is held.
850
Ned Deily87e82bb2011-06-28 19:52:59 -0700851- Issue #9516: On Mac OS X, change Distutils to no longer globally attempt to
852 check or set the MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET environment variable for the
853 interpreter process. This could cause failures in non-Distutils subprocesses
854 and was unreliable since tests or user programs could modify the interpreter
855 environment after Distutils set it. Instead, have Distutils set the the
856 deployment target only in the environment of each build subprocess. It is
857 still possible to globally override the default by setting
858 MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET before launching the interpreter; its value must be
859 greater or equal to the default value, the value with which the interpreter
860 was built.
861
Raymond Hettinger2c316a32011-06-25 17:14:53 +0200862- Issue #11802: The cache in filecmp now has a maximum size of 100 so that
863 it won't grow without bound.
864
Ross Lagerwallffa8e2f2011-06-25 09:55:10 +0200865- Issue #12404: Remove C89 incompatible code from mmap module. Patch by Akira
866 Kitada.
867
R David Murrayf1138bb2011-06-17 22:23:04 -0400868- Issue #11700: mailbox proxy object close methods can now be called multiple
869 times without error, and _ProxyFile now closes the wrapped file.
870
Victor Stinnerc74a6ba2011-06-17 14:06:27 +0200871- Issue #12133: AbstractHTTPHandler.do_open() of urllib.request closes the HTTP
872 connection if its getresponse() method fails with a socket error. Patch
873 written by Ezio Melotti.
874
Benjamin Peterson0eb4ac42011-06-11 15:53:11 -0500875- Issue #9284: Allow inspect.findsource() to find the source of doctest
876 functions.
877
R David Murray873c5832011-06-09 16:01:09 -0400878- Issue #10694: zipfile now ignores garbage at the end of a zipfile.
879
Brian Curtincaea7e82011-06-08 19:29:53 -0500880- Issue #11583: Speed up os.path.isdir on Windows by using GetFileAttributes
881 instead of os.stat.
882
Mark Dickinsona493ca32011-06-04 18:24:15 +0100883- Issue #12080: Fix a performance issue in Decimal._power_exact that caused
884 some corner-case Decimal.__pow__ calls to take an unreasonably long time.
885
Raymond Hettinger45b08292011-06-02 20:40:35 -0700886- Named tuples now work correctly with vars().
887
Barry Warsawc5643282011-07-19 17:06:30 -0400888- sys.setcheckinterval() now updates the current ticker count as well as
889 updating the check interval, so if the user decreases the check interval,
890 the ticker doesn't have to wind down to zero from the old starting point
891 before the new interval takes effect. And if the user increases the
892 interval, it makes sure the new limit takes effect right away rather have an
893 early task switch before recognizing the new interval.
Raymond Hettinger19b851d2011-06-01 18:21:42 -0700894
Victor Stinner776e69b2011-06-01 01:03:00 +0200895- Issue #12085: Fix an attribute error in subprocess.Popen destructor if the
896 constructor has failed, e.g. because of an undeclared keyword argument. Patch
897 written by Oleg Oshmyan.
898
Barry Warsawc5643282011-07-19 17:06:30 -0400899Extension Modules
900-----------------
901
Meador Ingefe7aa492012-05-28 13:52:59 -0500902- Issue #9041: An issue in ctypes.c_longdouble, ctypes.c_double, and
903 ctypes.c_float that caused an incorrect exception to be returned in the
904 case of overflow has been fixed.
905
Jesus Cea23fbd8c2012-01-17 00:17:10 +0100906- bsddb module: Erratic behaviour of "DBEnv->rep_elect()" because a typo.
907 Possible crash.
908
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcdee76e62012-01-13 22:53:25 +0100909- Issue #13774: json: Fix a SystemError when a bogus encoding is passed to
910 json.loads().
911
Charles-François Natali3aa59e32012-01-02 15:38:27 +0100912- Issue #9975: socket: Fix incorrect use of flowinfo and scope_id. Patch by
913 Vilmos Nebehaj.
914
Nadeem Vawda36248152011-10-13 13:52:46 +0200915- Issue #13159: FileIO, BZ2File, and the built-in file class now use a
916 linear-time buffer growth strategy instead of a quadratic one.
917
Charles-François Natali9ffcbf72011-10-06 19:09:45 +0200918- Issue #13070: Fix a crash when a TextIOWrapper caught in a reference cycle
919 would be finalized after the reference to its underlying BufferedRWPair's
920 writer got cleared by the GC.
921
Meador Ingead349a12011-10-03 21:34:04 -0500922- Issue #12881: ctypes: Fix segfault with large structure field names.
923
Meador Ingefe150032011-09-27 20:35:28 -0500924- Issue #13013: ctypes: Fix a reference leak in PyCArrayType_from_ctype.
925 Thanks to Suman Saha for finding the bug and providing a patch.
926
Jesus Ceac23484b2011-09-21 03:47:39 +0200927- Issue #13022: Fix: _multiprocessing.recvfd() doesn't check that
928 file descriptor was actually received.
929
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc439c25e2011-09-12 20:12:09 +0200930- Issue #12483: ctypes: Fix a crash when the destruction of a callback
931 object triggers the garbage collector.
932
Jesus Cea6ebaca12011-09-10 04:35:18 +0200933- Issue #12950: Fix passing file descriptors in multiprocessing, under
934 OpenIndiana/Illumos.
935
Amaury Forgeot d'Arccf316a12011-09-02 20:32:23 +0200936- Issue #12764: Fix a crash in ctypes when the name of a Structure field is not
937 a string.
938
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc3d7f2362011-08-30 21:04:35 +0200939- Issue #9651: Fix a crash when ctypes.create_string_buffer(0) was passed to
940 some functions like file.write().
941
Barry Warsawc5643282011-07-19 17:06:30 -0400942- Issue #10309: Define _GNU_SOURCE so that mremap() gets the proper
943 signature. Without this, architectures where sizeof void* != sizeof int are
944 broken. Patch given by Hallvard B Furuseth.
945
Ned Deily43e10542011-06-27 23:41:53 -0700946Build
947-----
948
Martin v. Löwisa1b2af82012-02-21 18:12:02 +0100949- Issue #6807: Run msisupport.mak earlier.
950
Martin v. Löwisef281bd2012-02-21 17:07:32 +0100951- Issue #10580: Minor grammar change in Windows installer.
952
Ned Deilyc5df5632012-02-19 02:19:12 +0100953- Issue #12627: Implement PEP 394 for Python 2.7 ("python2").
954
Ned Deily43e10542011-06-27 23:41:53 -0700955- Issue #8746: Correct faulty configure checks so that os.chflags() and
956 os.lchflags() are once again built on systems that support these
957 functions (*BSD and OS X). Also add new stat file flags for OS X
958 (UF_HIDDEN and UF_COMPRESSED).
959
Jason R. Coombsfee77452011-07-27 14:05:37 -0400960Tools/Demos
961-----------
962
Nadeem Vawdaf00011a2012-02-22 11:40:09 +0200963- Issue #14053: patchcheck.py ("make patchcheck") now works with MQ patches.
964 Patch by Francisco Martín Brugué.
965
Gregory P. Smith12426992012-02-12 15:51:21 -0800966- Issue #13930: 2to3 is now able to write its converted output files to another
967 directory tree as well as copying unchanged files and altering the file
968 suffix. See its new -o, -W and --add-suffix options. This makes it more
969 useful in many automated code translation workflows.
970
Jason R. Coombsfee77452011-07-27 14:05:37 -0400971- Issue #10639: reindent.py no longer converts newlines and will raise
972 an error if attempting to convert a file with mixed newlines.
973
Victor Stinner99cff3f2011-12-19 13:59:58 +0100974- Issue #13628: python-gdb.py is now able to retrieve more frames in the Python
975 traceback if Python is optimized.
976
Victor Stinnerd9f52922011-05-30 23:58:21 +0200977Tests
978-----
979
Martin v. Löwisc02e1e62012-07-29 16:30:50 +0200980- Issue #15467: Move helpers for __sizeof__ tests into test_support.
981 Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
982
Petri Lehtinen437b1492012-02-17 21:34:41 +0200983- Issue #11689: Fix a variable scoping error in an sqlite3 test.
984 Initial patch by Torsten Landschoff.
985
Ned Deily1aacd7b2011-10-31 16:14:52 -0700986- Issue #13304: Skip test case if user site-packages disabled (-s or
987 PYTHONNOUSERSITE). (Patch by Carl Meyer)
988
Barry Warsawbf0cafa2011-10-28 16:16:58 -0400989- Issue #13218: Fix test_ssl failures on Debian/Ubuntu.
990
Charles-François Natalicdaafe02011-08-23 19:42:02 +0200991- Issue #12821: Fix test_fcntl failures on OpenBSD 5.
992
Éric Araujo498da2c2011-07-31 17:59:28 +0200993- Issue #12331: The test suite for lib2to3 can now run from an installed
994 Python.
995
Ned Deily0ab67ee2011-07-13 15:05:31 -0700996- Issue #12549: Correct test_platform to not fail when OS X returns 'x86_64'
997 as the processor type on some Mac systems.
998
Antoine Pitrou4a4a0fe2011-07-09 02:34:05 +0200999- Skip network tests when getaddrinfo() returns EAI_AGAIN, meaning a temporary
1000 failure in name resolution.
1001
Jesus Ceacb65f322011-11-08 16:06:44 +01001002- Issue #11812: Solve transient socket failure to connect to 'localhost'
1003 in test_telnetlib.py.
1004
Jesus Cea71094b52011-11-08 15:54:42 +01001005- Solved a potential deadlock in test_telnetlib.py. Related to issue #11812.
1006
Antoine Pitrou29603082011-07-08 19:40:15 +02001007- Avoid failing in test_robotparser when mueblesmoraleda.com is flaky and
1008 an overzealous DNS service (e.g. OpenDNS) redirects to a placeholder
1009 Web site.
1010
Antoine Pitroua4d58d22011-07-08 19:14:19 +02001011- Avoid failing in test_urllibnet.test_bad_address when some overzealous
1012 DNS service (e.g. OpenDNS) resolves a non-existent domain name. The test
1013 is now skipped instead.
1014
Ned Deily46268c42011-07-03 21:52:35 -07001015- Issue #8716: Avoid crashes caused by Aqua Tk on OSX when attempting to run
1016 test_tk or test_ttk_guionly under a username that is not currently logged
1017 in to the console windowserver (as may be the case under buildbot or ssh).
1018
Ned Deily63144c62011-06-28 00:39:19 -07001019- Issue #12141: Install a copy of template C module file so that
1020 test_build_ext of test_distutils is no longer silently skipped when
1021 run outside of a build directory.
1022
Ned Deily43e10542011-06-27 23:41:53 -07001023- Issue #8746: Add additional tests for os.chflags() and os.lchflags().
1024 Patch by Garrett Cooper.
1025
Ned Deily64e59952011-06-27 23:09:31 -07001026- Issue #10736: Fix test_ttk test_widgets failures with Cocoa Tk 8.5.9
1027 on Mac OS X. (Patch by Ronald Oussoren)
1028
Victor Stinnerd9f52922011-05-30 23:58:21 +02001029- Issue #12057: Add tests for ISO 2022 codecs (iso2022_jp, iso2022_jp_2,
1030 iso2022_kr).
1031
Florent Xiclunadf10d7c2011-10-23 23:07:22 +02001032Documentation
1033-------------
1034
Petri Lehtinena15a8d22012-03-01 21:28:00 +02001035- Issues #13491 and #13995: Fix many errors in sqlite3 documentation.
1036 Initial patch for #13491 by Johannes Vogel.
Petri Lehtinen002b2022012-02-16 21:42:34 +02001037
Petri Lehtinenfe6f9d02012-02-02 21:11:28 +02001038- Issue #13402: Document absoluteness of sys.executable.
1039
Brett Cannon64b2b6a2012-01-26 18:32:24 -05001040- Issue #13883: PYTHONCASEOK also works on OS X, OS/2, and RiscOS.
1041
Meador Ingeda747c32012-01-19 00:17:44 -06001042- Issue #2134: The tokenize documentation has been clarified to explain why
1043 all operator and delimiter tokens are treated as token.OP tokens.
1044
Meador Inge52957182011-12-03 12:13:42 -06001045- Issue #13513: Fix io.IOBase documentation to correctly link to the
1046 io.IOBase.readline method instead of the readline module.
1047
Nick Coghlan86711572011-10-24 22:19:40 +10001048- Issue #13237: Reorganise subprocess documentation to emphasise convenience
1049 functions and the most commonly needed arguments to Popen.
1050
Florent Xiclunadf10d7c2011-10-23 23:07:22 +02001051- Issue #13141: Demonstrate recommended style for SocketServer examples.
1052
Victor Stinner08563d92011-05-30 23:44:13 +02001053
Benjamin Peterson5ee84482010-11-28 04:49:23 +00001054What's New in Python 2.7.2?
1055===========================
1056
Benjamin Peterson9843ba52011-06-11 09:42:44 -05001057*Release date: 2011-06-11*
Benjamin Petersonf14e4202011-05-31 18:44:55 -05001058
Benjamin Peterson43ee1a52011-06-10 11:32:52 -05001059Library
1060-------
1061
1062- Issue #12009: Fixed regression in netrc file comment handling.
1063
Benjamin Peterson4ba009d2011-05-31 18:59:49 -05001064Extension Modules
1065-----------------
1066
1067- Issue #1221: Make pyexpat.__version__ equal to the Python version.
1068
Benjamin Petersonf14e4202011-05-31 18:44:55 -05001069
1070What's New in Python 2.7.2 release candidate 1?
1071===============================================
1072
Benjamin Petersoncd207052011-05-29 16:50:27 -05001073*Release date: 2011-05-29*
Benjamin Peterson5ee84482010-11-28 04:49:23 +00001074
1075Core and Builtins
1076-----------------
1077
Ned Deily482f9082011-05-28 00:11:54 -07001078- Issue #9670: Increase the default stack size for secondary threads on
1079 Mac OS X and FreeBSD to reduce the chances of a crash instead of a
1080 "maximum recursion depth" RuntimeError exception.
1081 (patch by Ronald Oussoren)
1082
Benjamin Petersonef1122c2011-06-03 16:17:22 -05001083- Correct lookup of __dir__ on objects. This allows old-style classes to have
1084 __dir__. It also causes errors besides AttributeError found on lookup to be
1085 propagated.
Benjamin Peterson8de87a62011-05-23 16:11:05 -05001086
Victor Stinner2c585f62011-05-10 00:22:59 +02001087- Issue #1195: Fix input() if it is interrupted by CTRL+d and then CTRL+c,
1088 clear the end-of-file indicator after CTRL+d.
1089
Victor Stinner0a92d182011-05-03 15:09:24 +02001090- Issue #8651: PyArg_Parse*() functions raise an OverflowError if the file
1091 doesn't have PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN define and the size doesn't fit in an int
1092 (length bigger than 2^31-1 bytes).
1093
Victor Stinner645b9f62011-05-03 15:06:11 +02001094- Issue #8651: Fix "z#" format of PyArg_Parse*() function: the size was not
1095 written if PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN is defined.
1096
Victor Stinnere363ec12011-05-01 23:43:37 +02001097- Issue #9756: When calling a method descriptor or a slot wrapper descriptor,
1098 the check of the object type doesn't read the __class__ attribute anymore.
1099 Fix a crash if a class override its __class__ attribute (e.g. a proxy of the
Victor Stinner97cf5852011-05-01 23:51:11 +02001100 str type). Patch written by Andreas Stührk.
Victor Stinnere363ec12011-05-01 23:43:37 +02001101
Antoine Pitrou1f9eb152011-04-27 19:26:06 +02001102- Issue #10517: After fork(), reinitialize the TLS used by the PyGILState_*
1103 APIs, to avoid a crash with the pthread implementation in RHEL 5. Patch
1104 by Charles-François Natali.
1105
Ezio Melottie3685f62011-04-26 05:12:51 +03001106- Issue #6780: fix starts/endswith error message to mention that tuples are
1107 accepted too.
1108
Ezio Melottic283a852011-04-15 16:14:04 +03001109- Issue #5057: fix a bug in the peepholer that led to non-portable pyc files
1110 between narrow and wide builds while optimizing BINARY_SUBSCR on non-BMP
1111 chars (e.g. u"\U00012345"[0]).
1112
Victor Stinner5de51ac2011-04-09 16:09:08 +02001113- Issue #11650: PyOS_StdioReadline() retries fgets() if it was interrupted
1114 (EINTR), for example if the program is stopped with CTRL+z on Mac OS X. Patch
1115 written by Charles-Francois Natali.
1116
Mark Dickinson874d59e2011-03-26 12:18:00 +00001117- Issue #11144: Ensure that int(a_float) returns an int whenever possible.
1118 Previously, there were some corner cases where a long was returned even
1119 though the result was within the range of an int.
1120
Antoine Pitrou2ddaaff2011-03-09 12:54:00 +01001121- Issue #11450: Don't truncate hg version info in Py_GetBuildInfo() when
1122 there are many tags (e.g. when using mq). Patch by Nadeem Vawda.
1123
Antoine Pitrou3013b162011-01-18 19:06:19 +00001124- Issue #10451: memoryview objects could allow to mutate a readable buffer.
1125 Initial patch by Ross Lagerwall.
1126
Benjamin Peterson9b911ca2011-01-12 15:49:47 +00001127- Issue #10892: Don't segfault when trying to delete __abstractmethods__ from a
1128 class.
1129
Antoine Pitrou5a72e762011-01-07 21:49:44 +00001130- Issue #8020: Avoid a crash where the small objects allocator would read
1131 non-Python managed memory while it is being modified by another thread.
1132 Patch by Matt Bandy.
1133
Raymond Hettinger57a86892011-01-25 21:43:29 +00001134- Issue #11004: Repaired edge case in deque.count().
1135
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcac514c82011-01-03 00:50:57 +00001136- Issue #8278: On Windows and with a NTFS filesystem, os.stat() and os.utime()
1137 can now handle dates after 2038.
1138
R. David Murray64a1e7c2010-12-15 01:36:03 +00001139- Issue #4236: Py_InitModule4 now checks the import machinery directly
1140 rather than the Py_IsInitialized flag, avoiding a Fatal Python
1141 error in certain circumstances when an import is done in __del__.
1142
Jesus Cea44e81682011-04-20 16:39:15 +02001143- issue #11828: startswith and endswith don't accept None as slice index.
1144 Patch by Torsten Becker.
1145
Benjamin Peterson07f54512010-12-11 04:25:57 +00001146- Issue #10674: Remove unused 'dictmaker' rule from grammar.
1147
Mark Dickinsonecf8ec62010-12-04 12:30:41 +00001148- Issue #10596: Fix float.__mod__ to have the same behaviour as
1149 float.__divmod__ with respect to signed zeros. -4.0 % 4.0 should be
1150 0.0, not -0.0.
1151
Eli Bendersky680e6eb2011-03-04 06:14:56 +00001152- Issue #11386: bytearray.pop() now throws IndexError when the bytearray is
1153 empty, instead of OverflowError.
1154
Benjamin Peterson5ee84482010-11-28 04:49:23 +00001155Library
1156-------
Antoine Pitrou47900cf2010-12-17 17:45:12 +00001157
Ned Deilyd8b17232011-07-26 18:16:08 -07001158- Issue #12590: IDLE editor window now always displays the first line
1159 when opening a long file. With Tk 8.5, the first line was hidden.
1160
Benjamin Peterson4fa68ab2011-05-26 09:56:41 -05001161- Issue #12161: Cause StringIO.getvalue() to raise a ValueError when used on a
1162 closed StringIO instance.
1163
Victor Stinnerdbfba162011-05-26 13:37:25 +02001164- Issue #12182: Fix pydoc.HTMLDoc.multicolumn() if Python uses the new (true)
1165 division (python -Qnew). Patch written by Ralf W. Grosse-Kunstleve.
1166
Victor Stinnerdaf17e92011-05-25 22:52:37 +02001167- Issue #12175: RawIOBase.readall() now returns None if read() returns None.
1168
Victor Stinner5100a402011-05-25 22:15:36 +02001169- Issue #12175: FileIO.readall() now raises a ValueError instead of an IOError
1170 if the file is closed.
1171
Charles-François Natalib94e0cd2011-05-24 23:10:54 +02001172- Issue #1441530: In imaplib, use makefile() to wrap the SSL socket to avoid
1173 heap fragmentation and MemoryError with some malloc implementations.
1174
Victor Stinner40b41e12011-05-24 22:29:13 +02001175- Issue #12100: Don't reset incremental encoders of CJK codecs at each call to
1176 their encode() method anymore, but continue to call the reset() method if the
1177 final argument is True.
1178
Victor Stinnerf58f1c32011-05-21 02:13:22 +02001179- Issue #12124: zipimport doesn't keep a reference to zlib.decompress() anymore
1180 to be able to unload the module.
1181
Ronald Oussorenb13cacf2011-05-17 15:13:46 +02001182- Issue #11088: don't crash when using F5 to run a script in IDLE on MacOSX
1183 with Tk 8.5.
1184
Ronald Oussoren372954e2011-05-17 13:22:30 +02001185- Issue #10154, #10090: change the normalization of UTF-8 to "UTF-8" instead
1186 of "UTF8" in the locale module as the latter is not supported MacOSX and OpenBSD.
1187
Victor Stinnerf58f1c32011-05-21 02:13:22 +02001188- Issue #9516: avoid errors in sysconfig when MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET is
Ronald Oussoren53b6a5f2011-05-15 16:51:10 +02001189 set in shell.
1190
Nadeem Vawda0cc4fd92011-05-14 14:29:07 +02001191- Issue #12050: zlib.decompressobj().decompress() now clears the unconsumed_tail
1192 attribute when called without a max_length argument.
1193
Antoine Pitrouee46a7b2011-05-13 00:31:52 +02001194- Issue #12062: In the `io` module, fix a flushing bug when doing a certain
1195 type of I/O sequence on a file opened in read+write mode (namely: reading,
1196 seeking a bit forward, writing, then seeking before the previous write but
1197 still within buffered data, and writing again).
1198
Antoine Pitrou47d1d0d2011-05-10 19:16:03 +02001199- Issue #8498: In socket.accept(), allow to specify 0 as a backlog value in
1200 order to accept exactly one connection. Patch by Daniel Evers.
1201
Victor Stinnerb1241f92011-05-10 01:52:03 +02001202- Issue #12012: ssl.PROTOCOL_SSLv2 becomes optional.
1203
Martin v. Löwis591c2df2011-05-09 08:19:13 +02001204- Issue #11164: Remove obsolete allnodes test from minidom test.
1205
Antoine Pitrou21ce8f02011-05-07 19:59:33 +02001206- Issue #11927: SMTP_SSL now uses port 465 by default as documented. Patch
1207 by Kasun Herath.
1208
R David Murray8b26c4b2011-05-06 21:56:22 -04001209- Issue 11999: fixed sporadic sync failure mailbox.Maildir due to its trying to
1210 detect mtime changes by comparing to the system clock instead of to the
1211 previous value of the mtime.
1212
Ronald Oussoren58d6b1b2011-05-06 11:31:33 +02001213- Issue #10684: shutil.move used to delete a folder on case insensitive
1214 filesystems when the source and destination name where the same except
1215 for the case.
1216
Ezio Melottidf8a8f72011-05-04 14:40:53 +03001217- Issue #11982: fix json.loads('""') to return u'' rather than ''.
1218
Victor Stinner112d48a2011-05-03 14:36:36 +02001219- Issue #11277: mmap.mmap() calls fcntl(fd, F_FULLFSYNC) on Mac OS X to get
1220 around a mmap bug with sparse files. Patch written by Steffen Daode Nurpmeso.
1221
Senthil Kumaran011525e2011-04-28 15:30:31 +08001222- Issue #10761: Fix tarfile.extractall failure when symlinked files are
1223 present. Initial patch by Scott Leerssen.
1224
Ezio Melotti34b32d62011-04-27 09:45:46 +03001225- Issue #11763: don't use difflib in TestCase.assertMultiLineEqual if the
1226 strings are too long.
1227
Senthil Kumaran5dc68682011-04-26 21:17:45 +08001228- Issue #11236: getpass.getpass responds to ctrl-c or ctrl-z on terminal.
1229
Victor Stinner33feeab2011-04-18 16:33:28 +02001230- Issue #11768: The signal handler of the signal module only calls
1231 Py_AddPendingCall() for the first signal to fix a deadlock on reentrant or
1232 parallel calls. PyErr_SetInterrupt() writes also into the wake up file.
1233
Raymond Hettingere0156c42011-04-19 09:48:39 -07001234- Issue #11875: collections.OrderedDict's __reduce__ was temporarily
1235 mutating the object instead of just working on a copy.
1236
Martin v. Löwis2d253dd2011-04-17 22:29:40 +02001237- Issue #11442: Add a charset parameter to the Content-type in SimpleHTTPServer
1238 to avoid XSS attacks.
1239
Senthil Kumaranddaea1c2011-04-15 18:07:33 +08001240- Issue #11467: Fix urlparse behavior when handling urls which contains scheme
1241 specific part only digits. Patch by Santoso Wijaya.
1242
Raymond Hettinger37c0fe52011-04-15 13:12:21 -07001243- collections.Counter().copy() now works correctly for subclasses.
1244
Senthil Kumarana99b7612011-04-14 12:54:35 +08001245- Issue #11474: Fix the bug with url2pathname() handling of '/C|/' on Windows.
1246 Patch by Santoso Wijaya.
1247
Ezio Melotti2b96f092011-04-13 05:37:29 +03001248- Issue #9233: Fix json.loads('{}') to return a dict (instead of a list), when
1249 _json is not available.
1250
1251- Issue #11703: urllib2.geturl() does not return correct url when the original
Senthil Kumaran0531d6f2011-04-13 09:47:20 +08001252 url contains #fragment.
1253
R David Murrayea8b6ef2011-04-12 21:00:26 -04001254- Issue #10019: Fixed regression in json module where an indent of 0 stopped
1255 adding newlines and acted instead like 'None'.
1256
brian.curtin16f98b72011-04-11 18:05:33 -05001257- Issue #5162: Treat services like frozen executables to allow child spawning
1258 from multiprocessing.forking on Windows.
1259
Ezio Melotti8b4367e2011-04-11 03:44:28 +03001260- Issue #4877: Fix a segfault in xml.parsers.expat while attempting to parse
1261 a closed file.
1262
Raymond Hettingere4579c32011-04-11 17:27:42 -07001263- Issue #11830: Remove unnecessary introspection code in the decimal module.
1264 It was causing a failed import in the Turkish locale where the locale
1265 sensitive str.upper() method caused a name mismatch.
1266
Antoine Pitrou7dfc8742011-04-11 00:26:42 +02001267- Issue #8428: Fix a race condition in multiprocessing.Pool when terminating
1268 worker processes: new processes would be spawned while the pool is being
1269 shut down. Patch by Charles-François Natali.
1270
Ezio Melotti8b4367e2011-04-11 03:44:28 +03001271- Issue #7311: Fix HTMLParser to accept non-ASCII attribute values.
Ezio Melotti9f1ffb22011-04-05 20:40:52 +03001272
Ross Lagerwall104c3f12011-04-05 15:24:34 +02001273- Issue #10963: Ensure that subprocess.communicate() never raises EPIPE.
1274
guido@google.com2bc23b82011-03-24 10:44:17 -07001275- Issue #11662: Make urllib and urllib2 ignore redirections if the
guido@google.comdb3080e2011-03-28 13:53:40 -07001276 scheme is not HTTP, HTTPS or FTP (CVE-2011-1521).
Antoine Pitrou47900cf2010-12-17 17:45:12 +00001277
Benjamin Peterson77d46602011-03-28 17:32:31 -05001278- Issue #11256: Fix inspect.getcallargs on functions that take only keyword
1279 arguments.
1280
Martin v. Löwis03f7e232011-03-27 20:58:52 +02001281- Issue #11696: Fix ID generation in msilib.
1282
Mark Dickinsond687be02011-03-27 16:15:24 +01001283- Issue #9696: Fix exception incorrectly raised by xdrlib.Packer.pack_int when
1284 trying to pack a negative (in-range) integer.
1285
Mark Dickinson1829e8f2011-03-27 15:32:05 +01001286- Issue #11675: multiprocessing.[Raw]Array objects created from an integer size
1287 are now zeroed on creation. This matches the behaviour specified by the
1288 documentation.
1289
Martin v. Löwis49b0ce02011-03-27 10:10:46 +02001290- Issue #7639: Fix short file name generation in bdist_msi.
1291
Raymond Hettinger9aa5a342011-03-25 16:00:13 -07001292- Issue #11666: let help() display named tuple attributes and methods
1293 that start with a leading underscore.
1294
Mark Dickinsonf9e9a6f2011-03-25 22:01:06 +00001295- Issue #11673: Fix multiprocessing Array and RawArray constructors to accept a
1296 size of type 'long', rather than only accepting 'int'.
1297
Éric Araujo374274d2011-03-19 04:29:36 +01001298- Issue #10042: Fixed the total_ordering decorator to handle cross-type
1299 comparisons that could lead to infinite recursion.
1300
Michael Foord51368672011-03-17 12:59:38 -04001301- Issue #10979: unittest stdout buffering now works with class and module
1302 setup and teardown.
1303
Ronald Oussoren2ab59942011-03-16 09:47:15 -04001304- Issue #11569: use absolute path to the sysctl command in multiprocessing to
1305 ensure that it will be found regardless of the shell PATH. This ensures
1306 that multiprocessing.cpu_count works on default installs of MacOSX.
1307
Michael Foord51368672011-03-17 12:59:38 -04001308- Issue #11500: Fixed a bug in the os x proxy bypass code for fully qualified
1309 IP addresses in the proxy exception list.
Ronald Oussoren1aa999c2011-03-14 18:53:59 -04001310
Mark Dickinson2c8c62e2011-03-12 11:05:32 +00001311- Issue #11131: Fix sign of zero in plus and minus operations when
1312 the context rounding mode is ROUND_FLOOR.
1313
Ned Deily9d4836e2011-03-09 02:31:55 -08001314- Issue #5622: Fix curses.wrapper to raise correct exception if curses
1315 initialization fails.
1316
Antoine Pitroud6f3a3e2011-03-06 02:03:34 +01001317- Issue #11391: Writing to a mmap object created with
1318 ``mmap.PROT_READ|mmap.PROT_EXEC`` would segfault instead of raising a
1319 TypeError. Patch by Charles-François Natali.
1320
R. David Murray1a337902011-03-03 18:17:40 +00001321- Issue #11306: mailbox in certain cases adapts to an inability to open
1322 certain files in read-write mode. Previously it detected this by
1323 checking for EACCES, now it also checks for EROFS.
1324
Giampaolo Rodolàd65224f2011-03-03 14:17:51 +00001325- Issue #11265: asyncore now correctly handles EPIPE, EBADF and EAGAIN errors
1326 on accept(), send() and recv().
1327
Antoine Pitroud3f6ea12011-02-26 23:35:27 +00001328- Issue #11326: Add the missing connect_ex() implementation for SSL sockets,
1329 and make it work for non-blocking connects.
1330
Antoine Pitrou6439c002011-02-25 21:35:47 +00001331- Issue #10956: Buffered I/O classes retry reading or writing after a signal
1332 has arrived and the handler returned successfully.
1333
Georg Brandl28046022011-02-25 11:01:04 +00001334- Issue #10680: Fix mutually exclusive arguments for argument groups in
1335 argparse.
1336
Antoine Pitrouf4d2b3d2011-02-21 23:59:20 +00001337- Issue #4681: Allow mmap() to work on file sizes and offsets larger than
1338 4GB, even on 32-bit builds. Initial patch by Ross Lagerwall, adapted for
1339 32-bit Windows.
1340
Georg Brandl52f83952011-02-25 10:39:23 +00001341- Issue #10360: In WeakSet, do not raise TypeErrors when testing for
1342 membership of non-weakrefable objects.
1343
1344- Issue #10549: Fix pydoc traceback when text-documenting certain classes.
1345
1346- Issue #940286: pydoc.Helper.help() ignores input/output init parameters.
1347
Barry Warsaw42bb7ca2011-02-14 20:04:00 +00001348- Issue #11171: Fix detection of config/Makefile when --prefix !=
1349 --exec-prefix, which caused Python to not start.
1350
R. David Murray008c0442011-02-11 23:03:13 +00001351- Issue #11116: any error during addition of a message to a mailbox now causes
1352 a rollback, instead of leaving the mailbox partially modified.
1353
Antoine Pitrou820021e2011-01-31 21:47:45 +00001354- Issue #8275: Fix passing of callback arguments with ctypes under Win64.
1355 Patch by Stan Mihai.
1356
Ned Deily60651532011-01-31 00:52:49 +00001357- Issue #10940: Workaround an IDLE hang on Mac OS X 10.6 when using the
1358 menu accelerators for Open Module, Go to Line, and New Indent Width.
1359 The accelerators still work but no longer appear in the menu items.
1360
Ned Deily2a6f4b32011-01-30 00:18:47 +00001361- Issue #10907: Warn OS X 10.6 IDLE users to use ActiveState Tcl/Tk 8.5, rather
1362 than the currently problematic Apple-supplied one, when running with the
1363 64-/32-bit installer variant.
1364
Ned Deilyefc527a2011-01-29 19:30:39 +00001365- Issue #11052: Correct IDLE menu accelerators on Mac OS X for Save
1366 commands.
1367
Vinay Sajipcdb83882011-01-21 23:35:57 +00001368- Issue #10949: Improved robustness of rotating file handlers.
1369
Antoine Pitrou8a0eede2011-01-20 21:20:18 +00001370- Issue #10955: Fix a potential crash when trying to mmap() a file past its
1371 length. Initial patch by Ross Lagerwall.
1372
Antoine Pitrou63a3f152011-01-19 15:27:24 +00001373- Issue #10898: Allow compiling the posix module when the C library defines
1374 a symbol named FSTAT.
1375
Ned Deily4a705502011-01-18 04:33:22 +00001376- Issue #6075: IDLE on Mac OS X now works with both Carbon AquaTk and
1377 Cocoa AquaTk.
1378
Antoine Pitrou9989d852011-01-15 16:18:57 +00001379- Issue #10916: mmap should not segfault when a file is mapped using 0 as
1380 length and a non-zero offset, and an attempt to read past the end of file
1381 is made (IndexError is raised instead). Patch by Ross Lagerwall.
1382
Terry Reedyf7dd7992011-01-10 22:15:19 +00001383- Issue #10875: Update Regular Expression HOWTO; patch by 'SilentGhost'.
1384
Antoine Pitrou5a72e762011-01-07 21:49:44 +00001385- Issue #10827: Changed the rules for 2-digit years. The time.asctime
1386 function will now format any year when ``time.accept2dyear`` is
1387 false and will accept years >= 1000 otherwise. The year range
1388 accepted by ``time.mktime`` and ``time.strftime`` is still system
1389 dependent, but ``time.mktime`` will now accept full range supported
1390 by the OS. Conversion of 2-digit years to 4-digit is deprecated.
1391
Georg Brandl6adb9792011-01-09 07:53:14 +00001392- Issue #10869: Fixed bug where ast.increment_lineno modified the root
1393 node twice.
1394
Antoine Pitrou1f1613f2011-01-06 18:30:26 +00001395- Issue #7858: Raise an error properly when os.utime() fails under Windows
1396 on an existing file.
1397
Antoine Pitrou77c1b382011-01-06 17:19:05 +00001398- Issue #3839: wsgiref should not override a Content-Length header set by
1399 the application. Initial patch by Clovis Fabricio.
1400
Antoine Pitrou91ce0d92011-01-03 18:45:09 +00001401- Issue #10806, issue #9905: Fix subprocess pipes when some of the standard
1402 file descriptors (0, 1, 2) are closed in the parent process. Initial
1403 patch by Ross Lagerwall.
1404
Antoine Pitroub0614612011-01-02 20:04:52 +00001405- Issue #4662: os.tempnam(), os.tmpfile() and os.tmpnam() now raise a py3k
1406 DeprecationWarning.
1407
Raymond Hettinger8ebebd82011-01-02 01:03:26 +00001408- Subclasses of collections.OrderedDict now work correctly with __missing__.
1409
Éric Araujo86f90742011-03-21 00:15:26 +01001410- Issue #10753 - Characters ';', '=' and ',' in the PATH_INFO environment
Senthil Kumaran559395f2010-12-29 06:30:19 +00001411 variable won't be quoted when the URI is constructed by the wsgiref.util 's
1412 request_uri method. According to RFC 3986, these characters can be a part of
1413 params in PATH component of URI and need not be quoted.
1414
Éric Araujo86f90742011-03-21 00:15:26 +01001415- Issue #10738: Fix webbrowser.Opera.raise_opts
Terry Reedy0df73672010-12-28 19:53:32 +00001416
Éric Araujo86f90742011-03-21 00:15:26 +01001417- Issue #9824: SimpleCookie now encodes , and ; in values to cater to how
R. David Murray08fc7012010-12-28 19:11:03 +00001418 browsers actually parse cookies.
1419
R. David Murray5360d002010-12-27 19:17:17 +00001420- Issue #1379416: eliminated a source of accidental unicode promotion in
1421 email.header.Header.encode.
1422
R. David Murray5874ed62010-12-26 22:29:53 +00001423- Issue #5258/#10642: if site.py encounters a .pth file that generates an error,
1424 it now prints the filename, line number, and traceback to stderr and skips
1425 the rest of that individual file, instead of stopping processing entirely.
1426
Antoine Pitroufc9ead62010-12-21 21:26:55 +00001427- Issue #10750: The ``raw`` attribute of buffered IO objects is now read-only.
1428
Daniel Stutzbach57cf0af2011-01-04 18:47:17 +00001429- Issue #10242: unittest.TestCase.assertItemsEqual makes too many assumptions
Michael Foorde6e0e262010-12-19 15:52:56 +00001430 about input.
1431
Michael Foorda17f0762010-12-19 14:53:19 +00001432- Issue #10611: SystemExit should not cause a unittest test run to exit.
1433
Antoine Pitroud7b6ac62010-12-18 18:18:21 +00001434- Issue #6791: Limit header line length (to 65535 bytes) in http.client,
1435 to avoid denial of services from the other party.
1436
R. David Murray3f752ab2010-12-18 17:22:18 +00001437- Issue #10404: Use ctl-button-1 on OSX for the context menu in Idle.
1438
1439- Issue #9907: Fix tab handling on OSX when using editline by calling
R. David Murray7a697252010-12-18 03:52:09 +00001440 rl_initialize first, then setting our custom defaults, then reading .editrc.
1441
Antoine Pitrou47900cf2010-12-17 17:45:12 +00001442- Issue #4188: Avoid creating dummy thread objects when logging operations
1443 from the threading module (with the internal verbose flag activated).
1444
Senthil Kumaran5c7fd6e2010-12-17 04:56:02 +00001445- Issue #9721: Fix the behavior of urljoin when the relative url starts with a
1446 ';' character. Patch by Wes Chow.
Benjamin Peterson5ee84482010-11-28 04:49:23 +00001447
Antoine Pitrou47d9b0e2010-12-16 17:11:34 +00001448- Issue #10714: Limit length of incoming request in http.server to 65536 bytes
1449 for security reasons. Initial patch by Ross Lagerwall.
1450
Éric Araujoe04c13c2010-12-15 21:15:25 +00001451- Issue #9558: Fix distutils.command.build_ext with VS 8.0.
1452
R. David Murraydacb8042010-12-14 14:34:16 +00001453- Issue #10695: passing the port as a string value to telnetlib no longer
1454 causes debug mode to fail.
1455
Ronald Oussoren8ec374c2010-12-07 16:02:59 +00001456- Issue #10107: Warn about unsaved files in IDLE on OSX.
1457
Ronald Oussoren517858a2010-12-07 16:13:17 +00001458- Issue #10406: Enable Rstrip IDLE extension on OSX (just like on other
1459 platforms).
1460
Antoine Pitrou4cb64ad2010-12-03 19:31:52 +00001461- Issue #10478: Reentrant calls inside buffered IO objects (for example by
1462 way of a signal handler) now raise a RuntimeError instead of freezing the
1463 current process.
1464
Éric Araujofb3de6b2010-12-03 19:24:49 +00001465- Issue #10497: Fix incorrect use of gettext in argparse.
1466
R. David Murrayd75cc912010-12-02 03:16:23 +00001467- Issue #10464: netrc now correctly handles lines with embedded '#' characters.
1468
Gregory P. Smith312efbc2010-12-14 15:02:53 +00001469- Issue #1731717: Fixed the problem where subprocess.wait() could cause an
1470 OSError exception when The OS had been told to ignore SIGCLD in our process
1471 or otherwise not wait for exiting child processes.
1472
Steven Bethardf8583ac2011-01-24 20:40:15 +00001473- Issue #9509: argparse now properly handles IOErrors raised by
1474 argparse.FileType.
1475
Steven Bethard3f69a052011-03-26 19:59:02 +01001476- Issue #9348: Raise an early error if argparse nargs and metavar don't match.
1477
1478- Issue #8982: Improve the documentation for the argparse Namespace object.
1479
Steven Bethard5e0062d2011-03-26 21:50:38 +01001480- Issue #9343: Document that argparse parent parsers must be configured before
1481 their children.
1482
Steven Bethardbc3b1042011-03-27 13:57:55 +02001483- Issue #9026: Fix order of argparse sub-commands in help messages.
1484
Steven Betharde3c11b42011-04-04 01:47:52 +02001485- Issue #9347: Fix formatting for tuples in argparse type= error messages.
1486
R. David Murray2a4b3fc2010-12-11 02:13:04 +00001487Extension Modules
1488-----------------
1489
Benjamin Peterson6116d4a2011-05-17 18:31:20 -05001490- Stop using the old interface for providing methods and attributes in the _sre
1491 module. Among other things, this gives these classes ``__class__``
1492 attributes. (See #12099)
1493
Ezio Melotti0639be62011-05-07 19:21:22 +03001494- Issue #10169: Fix argument parsing in socket.sendto() to avoid error masking.
1495
Ezio Melottic1ec7b52011-05-11 00:55:35 +03001496- Issue #12051: Fix segfault in json.dumps() while encoding highly-nested
1497 objects using the C accelerations.
1498
Ezio Melotticec46492011-05-07 17:40:23 +03001499- Issue #12017: Fix segfault in json.loads() while decoding highly-nested
1500 objects using the C accelerations.
1501
Benjamin Petersonf21ad922011-03-26 17:56:28 -05001502- Issue #1838: Prevent segfault in ctypes, when _as_parameter_ on a class is set
1503 to an instance of the class.
1504
R. David Murray2a4b3fc2010-12-11 02:13:04 +00001505- Issue #678250: Make mmap flush a noop on ACCESS_READ and ACCESS_COPY.
1506
Antoine Pitrouf11d1832011-01-02 19:37:45 +00001507Build
1508-----
1509
Ned Deily22f63b52011-05-28 05:56:14 -07001510- Issue #11217: For 64-bit/32-bit Mac OS X universal framework builds,
1511 ensure "make install" creates symlinks in --prefix bin for the "-32"
1512 files in the framework bin directory like the installer does.
1513
Thomas Wouters5edae7e2011-03-06 11:48:05 -08001514- Issue #11411: Fix 'make DESTDIR=' with a relative destination.
1515
Georg Brandl94800df2011-02-25 11:09:02 +00001516- Issue #10709: Add updated AIX notes in Misc/README.AIX.
1517
1518- Issue #11184: Fix large-file support on AIX.
1519
Georg Brandl71f4fbb2011-02-25 11:04:50 +00001520- Issue #941346: Fix broken shared library build on AIX.
1521
Ned Deilye6cc7d62011-02-21 21:00:09 +00001522- Issue #11268: Prevent Mac OS X Installer failure if Documentation
1523 package had previously been installed.
1524
Ned Deily68adfdc2011-02-07 16:52:25 +00001525- Issue #11079: The /Applications/Python x.x folder created by the Mac
1526 OS X installers now includes a link to the installed documentation.
1527
Ned Deily53c460d2011-01-30 01:43:40 +00001528- Issue #11054: Allow Mac OS X installer builds to again work on 10.5 with
1529 the system-provided Python.
1530
1531- Issue #10843: Update third-party library versions used in OS X
1532 32-bit installer builds: bzip2 1.0.6, readline 6.1.2, SQLite 3.7.4
1533 (with FTS3/FTS4 and RTREE enabled), and ncursesw 5.5 (wide-char
1534 support enabled).
1535
Antoine Pitrou9828b562011-01-03 19:11:32 +00001536- Don't run pgen twice when using make -j.
1537
Antoine Pitrou31e85952011-01-03 18:57:14 +00001538- Issue #7716: Under Solaris, don't assume existence of /usr/xpg4/bin/grep in
1539 the configure script but use $GREP instead. Patch by Fabian Groffen.
1540
Antoine Pitrouf11d1832011-01-02 19:37:45 +00001541- Issue #10475: Don't hardcode compilers for LDSHARED/LDCXXSHARED on NetBSD
1542 and DragonFly BSD. Patch by Nicolas Joly.
1543
David Malcolm4c29e1c2011-01-06 17:39:24 +00001544- Issue #10655: Fix the build on PowerPC on Linux with GCC when building with
1545 timestamp profiling (--with-tsc): the preprocessor test for the PowerPC
1546 support now looks for "__powerpc__" as well as "__ppc__": the latter seems to
1547 only be present on OS X; the former is the correct one for Linux with GCC.
1548
Ronald Oussoren19199832011-03-14 11:57:39 -04001549- Issue #1099: Fix the build on MacOSX when building a framework with pydebug
1550 using GCC 4.0.
1551
Raymond Hettinger179816d2011-04-12 18:54:46 -07001552IDLE
1553----
1554
1555- Issue #11718: IDLE's open module dialog couldn't find the __init__.py
1556 file in a package.
1557
R. David Murray0960bc52010-12-04 17:24:46 +00001558Tests
1559-----
1560
Ned Deilyc4f97f42011-05-29 02:36:17 -07001561- Issue #12205: Fix test_subprocess failure due to uninstalled test data.
1562
Ezio Melottie3992eb2011-05-14 06:24:53 +03001563- Issue #5723: Improve json tests to be executed with and without accelerations.
1564
Ezio Melotti5c5d7e22011-05-09 06:54:53 +03001565- Issue #11910: Fix test_heapq to skip the C tests when _heapq is missing.
1566
Nadeem Vawdabafc6a92011-04-19 01:35:58 +02001567- Fix test_startfile to wait for child process to terminate before finishing.
1568
Ross Lagerwallfe2f1ad2011-04-09 20:39:50 +02001569- Issue #11719: Fix message about unexpected test_msilib skip on non-Windows
1570 platforms. Patch by Nadeem Vawda.
1571
Ned Deily5f511822011-04-05 17:16:09 -07001572- Issue #7108: Fix test_commands to not fail when special attributes ('@'
1573 or '.') appear in 'ls -l' output.
1574
R David Murraycdd5fc92011-03-13 22:37:18 -04001575- Issue #11490: test_subprocess:test_leaking_fds_on_error no longer gives a
1576 false positive if the last directory in the path is inaccessible.
1577
Antoine Pitrou8bc59fa2011-01-12 18:56:09 +00001578- Issue #10822: Fix test_posix:test_getgroups failure under Solaris. Patch
1579 by Ross Lagerwall.
1580
Antoine Pitrou8c688be2011-01-03 20:49:01 +00001581- Issue #6293: Have regrtest.py echo back sys.flags. This is done by default
1582 in whole runs and enabled selectively using ``--header`` when running an
1583 explicit list of tests. Original patch by Collin Winter.
1584
R. David Murrayf8a63912010-12-14 16:26:30 +00001585- Issue #775964: test_grp now skips YP/NIS entries instead of failing when
1586 encountering them.
1587
R. David Murray0960bc52010-12-04 17:24:46 +00001588- Issue #7110: regrtest now sends test failure reports and single-failure
1589 tracebacks to stderr rather than stdout.
1590
Benjamin Peterson5ee84482010-11-28 04:49:23 +00001591
Benjamin Petersondb4c3342010-11-13 23:32:58 +00001592What's New in Python 2.7.1?
1593===========================
1594
Benjamin Peterson3e0fa422010-11-27 14:40:29 +00001595*Release date: 2010-11-27*
Benjamin Petersondb4c3342010-11-13 23:32:58 +00001596
1597Library
1598-------
1599
Éric Araujo54274ad2011-02-03 00:12:18 +00001600- Issue #2236: distutils' mkpath ignored the mode parameter.
1601
1602- Fix typo in one sdist option (medata-check).
1603
Raymond Hettinger061bf7a2010-11-30 03:15:35 +00001604- Issue #10323: itertools.islice() now consumes the minimum number of
1605 inputs before stopping. Formerly, the final state of the underlying
1606 iterator was undefined.
1607
Alexander Belopolsky1fea5c42010-11-30 01:18:17 +00001608- Issue #10565: The collections.Iterator ABC now checks for both
1609 ``__iter__`` and ``next``.
1610
Georg Brandl79f096a2010-11-26 07:57:57 +00001611- Issue #10092: Properly reset locale in calendar.Locale*Calendar classes.
1612
Martin v. Löwise03c7782010-11-22 10:53:46 +00001613- Issue #10459: Update CJK character names to Unicode 5.2.
1614
Georg Brandl5ded7912010-11-26 07:35:31 +00001615- Issue #6098: Don't claim DOM level 3 conformance in minidom.
1616
Senthil Kumaran9a5897b2010-11-29 12:41:03 +00001617- Issue #10561: In pdb, clear the breakpoints by the breakpoint number.
1618
Georg Brandl5ded7912010-11-26 07:35:31 +00001619- Issue #5762: Fix AttributeError raised by ``xml.dom.minidom`` when an empty
1620 XML namespace attribute is encountered.
1621
Georg Brandl86e0c892010-11-26 07:22:28 +00001622- Issue #1710703: Write structures for an empty ZIP archive when a ZipFile is
1623 created in modes 'a' or 'w' and then closed without adding any files. Raise
1624 BadZipfile (rather than IOError) when opening small non-ZIP files.
1625
Senthil Kumaran0b7cac12010-11-22 05:04:33 +00001626- Issue #4493: urllib2 adds '/' in front of path components which does not
1627 start with '/. Common behavior exhibited by browsers and other clients.
1628
Brian Curtin2d011ed2010-11-21 23:50:51 +00001629- Issue #6378: idle.bat now runs with the appropriate Python version rather than
1630 the system default. Patch by Sridhar Ratnakumar.
1631
Éric Araujo4fadd532010-11-20 20:02:41 +00001632- Issue #10407: Fix one NameError in distutils.
1633
Georg Brandl839c1132010-11-20 11:29:38 +00001634- Issue #10198: fix duplicate header written to wave files when writeframes()
1635 is called without data.
1636
Benjamin Peterson4fec9ce2010-11-20 17:31:08 +00001637- Issue #10467: Fix BytesIO.readinto() after seeking into a position after the
1638 end of the file.
1639
Senthil Kumaran501bfd82010-11-14 03:31:52 +00001640- Issue #5111: IPv6 Host in the Header is wrapped inside [ ]. Patch by Chandru.
1641
Martin v. Löwiseebd0172010-11-14 18:17:39 +00001642Build
1643-----
1644
Brian Curtin69a106a2010-11-22 02:08:49 +00001645- Backport r83399 to allow test_distutils to pass on installed versions.
1646
Martin v. Löwiseebd0172010-11-14 18:17:39 +00001647- Issue #1303434: Generate ZIP file containing all PDBs.
1648
Ezio Melotti2623a372010-11-21 13:34:58 +00001649Tests
1650-----
1651
1652- Issue #9424: Replace deprecated assert* methods in the Python test suite.
1653
Ezio Melottibf8484e2010-11-24 21:54:47 +00001654Documentation
1655-------------
1656
1657- Issue #10299: List the built-in functions in a table in functions.rst.
1658
Benjamin Petersondb4c3342010-11-13 23:32:58 +00001659
Benjamin Petersoncc214172010-11-13 17:33:04 +00001660What's New in Python 2.7.1 release candidate 1?
1661===============================================
Benjamin Petersone3c10452010-07-03 14:51:25 +00001662
Benjamin Petersoncc214172010-11-13 17:33:04 +00001663*Release date: 2010-11-13*
Benjamin Petersone3c10452010-07-03 14:51:25 +00001664
1665Core and Builtins
1666-----------------
1667
Raymond Hettinger2ad17e12010-10-30 08:17:46 +00001668- Issue #10221: dict.pop(k) now has a key error message that includes the
1669 missing key (same message d[k] returns for missing keys).
1670
Barry Warsawfa658272010-11-02 21:03:09 +00001671- Issue #10125: Don't segfault when the iterator passed to
1672 ``file.writelines()`` closes the file.
Benjamin Petersonbf775542010-10-16 19:20:12 +00001673
Barry Warsawfa658272010-11-02 21:03:09 +00001674- Issue #10186: Fix the SyntaxError caret when the offset is equal to the
1675 length of the offending line.
Benjamin Petersonf99f33d2010-10-24 03:00:35 +00001676
Benjamin Petersonf76942d2010-10-16 03:51:38 +00001677- Issue #9997: Don't let the name "top" have special significance in scope
1678 resolution.
1679
R. David Murray1d9d16e2010-10-16 00:43:13 +00001680- Issue #9862: Compensate for broken PIPE_BUF in AIX by hard coding
1681 its value as the default 512 when compiling on AIX.
1682
Jesus Cea33c722b2010-11-04 21:39:52 +00001683- Issue #9675: CObject use is marked as a Py3k warning, not a deprecation
1684 warning.
1685
Benjamin Petersondc954242010-10-12 23:02:35 +00001686- Issue #10068: Global objects which have reference cycles with their module's
1687 dict are now cleared again. This causes issue #7140 to appear again.
1688
Mark Dickinsoncb61e5d2010-09-26 10:37:12 +00001689- Issue #9869: Make long() and PyNumber_Long return something of type
1690 long for a class whose __long__ method returns a plain int. This
1691 fixes an interpreter crash when initializing an instance of a long
1692 subclass from an object whose __long__ method returns a plain int.
1693
Benjamin Petersona5d5cc42010-10-02 00:08:58 +00001694- Issue #10006: type.__abstractmethods__ now raises an AttributeError.
1695
Antoine Pitrou0a7b65b2010-09-08 12:40:49 +00001696- Issue #9797: pystate.c wrongly assumed that zero couldn't be a valid
1697 thread-local storage key.
1698
Victor Stinnercaafd772010-09-08 10:51:01 +00001699- Issue #4947: The write() method of sys.stdout and sys.stderr uses their
1700 encoding and errors attributes instead of using utf-8 in strict mode, to get
1701 the same behaviour than the print statement.
1702
Antoine Pitrou9cf85f12010-09-01 21:17:34 +00001703- Issue #9737: Fix a crash when trying to delete a slice or an item from
1704 a memoryview object.
1705
Martin v. Löwis6086b0d2010-08-19 09:09:04 +00001706- Restore GIL in nis_cat in case of error.
1707
Benjamin Peterson6f3d6a92010-08-25 23:17:42 +00001708- Issue #9688: __basicsize__ and __itemsize__ must be accessed as Py_ssize_t.
1709
Florent Xicluna172e15f2010-08-09 20:02:00 +00001710- Issue #8530: Prevent stringlib fastsearch from reading beyond the front
1711 of an array.
1712
Raymond Hettinger3ad323e2010-08-06 10:18:56 +00001713- Issue #83755: Implicit set-to-frozenset conversion was not thread-safe.
1714
Mark Dickinsonaad57bd2010-08-01 10:45:15 +00001715- Issue #9416: Fix some issues with complex formatting where the
1716 output with no type specifier failed to match the str output:
1717
1718 - format(complex(-0.0, 2.0), '-') omitted the real part from the output,
1719 - format(complex(0.0, 2.0), '-') included a sign and parentheses.
1720
Antoine Pitrou32669782010-07-11 12:14:05 +00001721- Issue #7616: Fix copying of overlapping memoryview slices with the Intel
1722 compiler.
Benjamin Petersone3c10452010-07-03 14:51:25 +00001723
1724Library
1725-------
1726
Éric Araujo86f90742011-03-21 00:15:26 +01001727- Issue #9926: Wrapped TestSuite subclass does not get __call__ executed
Michael Foord75152ea2010-11-20 17:40:49 +00001728
Antoine Pitrou7eaa4482010-11-09 23:15:18 +00001729- Issue #4471: Properly shutdown socket in IMAP.shutdown(). Patch by
1730 Lorenzo M. Catucci.
1731
Éric Araujo2f0a0402010-11-06 15:46:46 +00001732- Issue #10126: Fix distutils' test_build when Python was built with
1733 --enable-shared.
Michael Foord75152ea2010-11-20 17:40:49 +00001734
Éric Araujo2f0a0402010-11-06 15:46:46 +00001735- Fix typo in one sdist option (medata-check).
1736
1737- Issue #9199: Fix incorrect use of distutils.cmd.Command.announce.
1738
1739- Issue #1718574: Fix options that were supposed to accept arguments but did
1740 not in build_clib.
1741
Éric Araujoe9954b52010-11-06 04:53:42 +00001742- Issue #9281: Prevent race condition with mkdir in distutils. Patch by
1743 Arfrever.
1744
Éric Araujoe28665a2010-11-06 04:36:28 +00001745- Issue #10229: Fix caching error in gettext.
1746
Éric Araujod1feff72010-11-06 04:06:18 +00001747- Issue #10252: Close file objects in a timely manner in distutils code and
1748 tests. Patch by Brian Brazil, completed by Éric Araujo.
1749
Antoine Pitrou6b1167c2010-11-05 19:55:02 +00001750- Issue #10311: The signal module now restores errno before returning from
1751 its low-level signal handler. Patch by Hallvard B Furuseth.
1752
Barry Warsawfa658272010-11-02 21:03:09 +00001753- Issue #10038: json.loads() on str should always return unicode (regression
1754 from Python 2.6). Patch by Walter Dörwald.
Michael Foorde5dc24e2010-11-01 22:11:53 +00001755
Barry Warsawfa658272010-11-02 21:03:09 +00001756- Issue #120176: Wrapped TestSuite subclass does not get __call__ executed.
1757
1758- Issue #6706: asyncore accept() method no longer raises
1759 EWOULDBLOCK/ECONNABORTED on incomplete connection attempt but returns None
1760 instead.
Giampaolo Rodolà19e9fef2010-11-01 15:07:14 +00001761
Antoine Pitrou61d14b72010-10-31 16:17:36 +00001762- Issue #10266: uu.decode didn't close in_file explicitly when it was given
1763 as a filename. Patch by Brian Brazil.
1764
Antoine Pitrou3917c092010-10-31 13:12:48 +00001765- Issue #10246: uu.encode didn't close file objects explicitly when filenames
1766 were given to it. Patch by Brian Brazil.
1767
Antoine Pitrou594a0462010-10-31 13:05:48 +00001768- Issue #10253: FileIO leaks a file descriptor when trying to open a file
1769 for append that isn't seekable. Patch by Brian Brazil.
1770
Raymond Hettingercbba8d42010-10-30 07:29:44 +00001771- Issue #6105: json.dumps now respects OrderedDict's iteration order.
1772
Antoine Pitrou638cee62010-10-28 14:50:57 +00001773- Issue #9295: Fix a crash under Windows when calling close() on a file
1774 object with custom buffering from two threads at once.
1775
Antoine Pitrou7f081022010-10-27 18:43:21 +00001776- Issue #5027: The standard ``xml`` namespace is now understood by
1777 xml.sax.saxutils.XMLGenerator as being bound to
1778 http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace. Patch by Troy J. Farrell.
1779
Brian Curtin4cc54032010-10-21 14:48:22 +00001780- Issue #10163: Skip unreadable registry keys during mimetypes
1781 initialization.
1782
Hirokazu Yamamoto50f7d7e2010-10-18 13:55:29 +00001783- Issue #5117: Fixed root directory related issue on posixpath.relpath() and
1784 ntpath.relpath().
1785
Éric Araujo86f90742011-03-21 00:15:26 +01001786- Issue #9409: Fix the regex to match all kind of filenames, for interactive
Florent Xiclunab67660f2010-10-14 21:10:45 +00001787 debugging in doctests.
1788
Victor Stinnerd2f6ae62010-10-12 22:53:51 +00001789- Issue #6612: Fix site and sysconfig to catch os.getcwd() error, eg. if the
1790 current directory was deleted. Patch written by W. Trevor King.
1791
Fred Drake577acb42010-10-11 19:13:04 +00001792- Issue #10045: Improved performance when writing after seeking past the
1793 end of the "file" in cStringIO.
1794
Vinay Sajip5e8349e2010-10-10 20:36:04 +00001795- Issue #9948: Fixed problem of losing filename case information.
1796
Antoine Pitrou58dab672010-10-10 09:54:59 +00001797- Issue #9437: Fix building C extensions with non-default LDFLAGS.
1798
Antoine Pitrou76a66aa2010-10-06 21:26:52 +00001799- Issue #9759: GzipFile now raises ValueError when an operation is attempted
1800 after the file is closed. Patch by Jeffrey Finkelstein.
1801
Éric Araujoc17776f2010-10-04 23:59:35 +00001802- Issue #9042: Fix interaction of custom translation classes and caching in
1803 gettext.
1804
Lars Gustäbel6aab8d02010-10-04 15:37:53 +00001805- Issue #9065: tarfile no longer uses "root" as the default for the uname and
1806 gname field.
1807
R. David Murray10a86762010-10-02 16:26:05 +00001808- Issue #1050268: parseaddr now correctly quotes double quote and backslash
1809 characters that appear inside quoted strings in email addresses.
1810
R. David Murray20ad3632010-10-01 15:48:49 +00001811- Issue #10004: quoprimime no longer generates a traceback when confronted
1812 with invalid characters after '=' in a Q-encoded word.
1813
Antoine Pitrou66b5df62010-09-27 18:16:46 +00001814- Issue #9950: Fix socket.sendall() crash or misbehaviour when a signal is
1815 received. Now sendall() properly calls signal handlers if necessary,
1816 and retries sending if these returned successfully, including on sockets
1817 with a timeout.
1818
Vinay Sajip3eac5912010-09-25 17:48:25 +00001819- Issue #9947: logging: Fixed locking bug in stopListening.
1820
Vinay Sajip546885e2010-09-25 17:42:36 +00001821- Issue #9945: logging: Fixed locking bugs in addHandler/removeHandler.
1822
Alexander Belopolsky517185e2010-09-24 18:14:18 +00001823- Issue #9936: Fixed executable lines' search in the trace module.
1824
Antoine Pitrou2c7d6852010-09-23 19:55:24 +00001825- Issue #9928: Properly initialize the types exported by the bz2 module.
1826
Antoine Pitrou6391b342010-09-14 18:48:19 +00001827- Issue #9854: The default read() implementation in io.RawIOBase now
1828 handles non-blocking readinto() returning None correctly.
1829
Antoine Pitrouf7f390a2010-09-14 14:37:18 +00001830- Issue #9729: Fix the signature of SSLSocket.recvfrom() and
1831 SSLSocket.sendto() to match the corresponding socket methods. Also,
1832 fix various SSLSocket methods to raise socket.error rather than an
1833 unhelpful TypeError when called on an unconnected socket. Original patch
1834 by Andrew Bennetts.
1835
Raymond Hettinger74f869e2010-09-13 22:14:36 +00001836- Issue #9826: OrderedDict.__repr__ can now handle self-referential
1837 values: d['x'] = d.
1838
Victor Stinner8fc843b2010-09-17 23:35:50 +00001839- Issue #767645: Set os.path.supports_unicode_filenames to True on Mac OS X.
Victor Stinner46287f52010-09-13 20:31:34 +00001840
Antoine Pitroue4195e82010-09-12 14:56:27 +00001841- Issue #9837: The read() method of ZipExtFile objects (as returned by
1842 ZipFile.open()) could return more bytes than requested.
1843
Raymond Hettinger20397532010-09-12 02:11:45 +00001844- Issue #9825: removed __del__ from the definition of collections.OrderedDict.
1845 This prevents user-created self-referencing ordered dictionaries from
1846 becoming permanently uncollectable GC garbage. The downside is that
1847 removing __del__ means that the internal doubly-linked list has to wait for
1848 GC collection rather than freeing memory immediately when the refcnt drops
1849 to zero.
1850
Raymond Hettingerffd2a422010-09-10 10:47:22 +00001851- Issue #9816: random.Random.jumpahead(n) did not produce a sufficiently
Victor Stinnerd2f6ae62010-10-12 22:53:51 +00001852 different internal state for small values of n. Fixed by salting the
Raymond Hettingerffd2a422010-09-10 10:47:22 +00001853 value.
1854
Antoine Pitrouc818ed42010-09-07 21:40:25 +00001855- Issue #9792: In case of connection failure, socket.create_connection()
1856 would swallow the exception and raise a new one, making it impossible
1857 to fetch the original errno, or to filter timeout errors. Now the
1858 original error is re-raised.
1859
Antoine Pitrouf4f61712010-09-07 16:34:47 +00001860- Issue #9758: When fcntl.ioctl() was called with mutable_flag set to True,
1861 and the passed buffer was exactly 1024 bytes long, the buffer wouldn't
1862 be updated back after the system call. Original patch by Brian Brazil.
1863
Antoine Pitroudca9de92010-09-04 17:52:26 +00001864- Issue #1100562: Fix deep-copying of objects derived from the list and
1865 dict types. Patch by Michele Orrù and Björn Lindqvist.
1866
Fred Drakea1e627d2010-09-03 03:55:50 +00001867- Issue #7005: Fixed output of None values for RawConfigParser.write and
1868 ConfigParser.write.
1869
Daniel Stutzbach66c981b2010-08-31 20:29:39 +00001870- Issue #808164: Fixed socket.close to avoid references to globals, to
1871 avoid issues when socket.close is called from a __del__ method.
1872
Terry Reedyd2d2ae92010-11-11 23:22:19 +00001873- Issue #2986: difflib.SequenceMatcher gets a new parameter, autojunk, which
1874 can be set to False to turn off the previously undocumented 'popularity'
1875 heuristic. Patch by Terry Reedy and Eli Bendersky
1876
Senthil Kumaran7e8fd5e2010-08-26 06:20:13 +00001877- Issue #8797: urllib2 does a retry for Basic Authentication failure instead of
1878 falling into recursion.
1879
R. David Murray7c4bf552010-08-25 01:45:57 +00001880- Issue #1194222: email.utils.parsedate now returns RFC2822 compliant four
1881 character years even if the message contains RFC822 two character years.
1882
Daniel Stutzbach91287322010-08-24 21:09:30 +00001883- Issue #8750: Fixed MutableSet's methods to correctly handle
1884 reflexive operations, namely x -= x and x ^= x.
1885
Victor Stinnercaafd772010-09-08 10:51:01 +00001886- Issue #9129: smtpd.py is vulnerable to DoS attacks deriving from missing
Giampaolo Rodolà8664d742010-08-23 22:48:51 +00001887 error handling when accepting a new connection.
1888
Giampaolo Rodolà63308d72010-08-23 21:58:47 +00001889- Issue #658749: asyncore's connect() method now correctly interprets winsock
1890 errors.
1891
Vinay Sajip1ddd51f2010-08-23 17:50:30 +00001892- Issue #9501: Fixed logging regressions in cleanup code.
1893
Raymond Hettinger917bba12010-08-22 08:01:58 +00001894- Issue #9214: Set operations on KeysView or ItemsView in the collections
1895 module now correctly return a set. (Patch by Eli Bendersky.)
1896
Antoine Pitrou3ebaed62010-08-21 19:17:25 +00001897- Issue #9617: Signals received during a low-level write operation aren't
1898 ignored by the buffered IO layer anymore.
1899
Benjamin Peterson52c36052010-08-21 03:03:22 +00001900- Issue #2521: Use weakrefs on for caching in the abc module, so that classes
1901 are not held onto after they are deleted elsewhere.
1902
Raymond Hettingera54b2da2010-08-17 19:03:06 +00001903- Issue #9626: the view methods for collections.OrderedDict() were returning
1904 the unordered versions inherited from dict. Those methods are now
1905 overridden to provide ordered views.
1906
Éric Araujo0389ae62010-08-14 03:07:46 +00001907- Issue #8688: MANIFEST files created by distutils now include a magic
1908 comment indicating they are generated. Manually maintained MANIFESTs
1909 without this marker will not be overwritten or removed.
1910
Antoine Pitroue1436d12010-08-12 15:25:51 +00001911- Issue #7467: when reading a file from a ZIP archive, its CRC is checked
1912 and a BadZipfile error is raised if it doesn't match (as used to be the
1913 case in Python 2.5 and earlier).
1914
Antoine Pitroucb4f47c2010-08-11 13:40:17 +00001915- Issue #9550: a BufferedReader could issue an additional read when the
1916 original read request had been satisfied, which could block indefinitely
1917 when the underlying raw IO channel was e.g. a socket. Report and original
1918 patch by Jason V. Miller.
1919
Fred Drake0a1fa0e2010-08-10 13:09:54 +00001920- Issue #9551: Don't raise TypeError when setting the value to None for
1921 SafeConfigParser instances constructed with allow_no_value == True.
1922
Antoine Pitrou8cdede42010-08-10 00:04:13 +00001923- Issue #6915: Under Windows, os.listdir() didn't release the Global
1924 Interpreter Lock around all system calls. Original patch by Ryan Kelly.
1925
Antoine Pitrou99009162010-08-09 22:51:24 +00001926- Issue #3757: thread-local objects now support cyclic garbage collection.
1927 Thread-local objects involved in reference cycles will be deallocated
1928 timely by the cyclic GC, even if the underlying thread is still running.
1929
Florent Xicluna2f1b1ff2010-08-09 20:46:49 +00001930- Issue #6231: Fix xml.etree.ElementInclude to include the tail of the
1931 current node.
1932
Thomas Heller5c7589c2010-08-08 18:28:59 +00001933- Issue #6869: Fix a refcount problem in the _ctypes extension.
1934
Thomas Heller001d3a12010-08-08 17:56:41 +00001935- Issue5504 - ctypes should now work with systems where mmap can't be
1936 PROT_WRITE and PROT_EXEC.
1937
Senthil Kumarane677ecf2010-08-08 11:56:31 +00001938- Fix Issue8280 - urllib2's Request method will remove fragements in the url.
1939 This is how it is supposed to work, wget and curl do the same. Previous
1940 behavior was wrong.
1941
Giampaolo Rodolà47617ab2010-08-04 08:35:25 +00001942- Issue #2944: asyncore doesn't handle connection refused correctly.
1943
R. David Murray75a292e2010-08-04 00:05:50 +00001944- Issue #3196: email header decoding is now forgiving if an RFC2047
1945 encoded word encoded in base64 is lacking padding.
1946
R. David Murray1cbf78e2010-08-03 18:14:01 +00001947- Issue #9444: Argparse now uses the first element of prefix_chars as
1948 the option character for the added 'h/help' option if prefix_chars
1949 does not contain a '-', instead of raising an error.
1950
Georg Brandl7f0c3ff2010-08-01 21:18:52 +00001951- Issue #9354: Provide getsockopt() in asyncore's file_wrapper.
1952
Florent Xicluna92847452010-09-13 17:36:36 +00001953- Issue #9428: Fix running scripts with the profile/cProfile modules from
1954 the command line.
1955
Georg Brandl9c5efad2010-08-02 21:29:14 +00001956- Issue #7781: Fix restricting stats by entry counts in the pstats
1957 interactive browser.
1958
1959- Issue #9209: Do not crash in the pstats interactive browser on invalid
1960 regular expressions.
1961
Georg Brandla2a92cf2010-08-02 17:34:58 +00001962- Issue #7372: Fix pstats regression when stripping paths from profile
1963 data generated with the profile module.
1964
Georg Brandl2bd953e2010-08-01 20:59:03 +00001965- Issue #4108: In urllib.robotparser, if there are multiple 'User-agent: *'
1966 entries, consider the first one.
1967
Antoine Pitrou39703012010-08-01 20:13:11 +00001968- Issue #8397: Raise an error when attempting to mix iteration and regular
1969 reads on a BZ2File object, rather than returning incorrect results.
1970
Georg Brandl50775992010-08-01 19:33:15 +00001971- Issue #5294: Fix the behavior of pdb's "continue" command when called
1972 in the top-level debugged frame.
1973
1974- Issue #5727: Restore the ability to use readline when calling into pdb
1975 in doctests.
1976
1977- Issue #6719: In pdb, do not stop somewhere in the encodings machinery
1978 if the source file to be debugged is in a non-builtin encoding.
1979
1980- Issue #8048: Prevent doctests from failing when sys.displayhook has
1981 been reassigned.
1982
1983- Issue #8015: In pdb, do not crash when an empty line is entered as
1984 a breakpoint command.
1985
Antoine Pitrou607951d2010-08-01 16:57:17 +00001986- Issue #9448: Fix a leak of OS resources (mutexes or semaphores) when
1987 re-initializing a buffered IO object by calling its ``__init__`` method.
1988
Georg Brandle2773252010-08-01 19:14:56 +00001989- Issue #7909: Do not touch paths with the special prefixes ``\\.\``
1990 or ``\\?\`` in ntpath.normpath().
1991
Georg Brandl004c74d2010-08-01 19:06:51 +00001992- Issue #5146: Handle UID THREAD command correctly in imaplib.
1993
1994- Issue #5147: Fix the header generated for cookie files written by
1995 http.cookiejar.MozillaCookieJar.
1996
1997- Issue #8198: In pydoc, output all help text to the correct stream
1998 when sys.stdout is reassigned.
1999
Georg Brandl0347c712010-08-01 19:02:09 +00002000- Issue #7395: Fix tracebacks in pstats interactive browser.
2001
2002- Issue #8230: Fix Lib/test/sortperf.py.
2003
Georg Brandl78e69572010-08-01 18:52:52 +00002004- Issue #1713: Fix os.path.ismount(), which returned true for symbolic links
2005 across devices.
2006
2007- Issue #8826: Properly load old-style "expires" attribute in http.cookies.
2008
2009- Issue #1690103: Fix initial namespace for code run with trace.main().
2010
Georg Brandl1f05e2e2010-08-01 08:22:05 +00002011- Issue #8471: In doctest, properly reset the output stream to an empty
2012 string when Unicode was previously output.
2013
R. David Murray58f15b62010-08-01 04:04:03 +00002014- Issue #8620: when a Cmd is fed input that reaches EOF without a final
2015 newline, it no longer truncates the last character of the last command line.
2016
Victor Stinner73363e82010-07-28 01:39:45 +00002017- Issue #6213: Implement getstate() and setstate() methods of utf-8-sig and
2018 utf-16 incremental encoders.
2019
Brian Curtinb2ec2322010-07-26 02:40:17 +00002020- Issue #7113: Speed up loading in ConfigParser. Patch by Łukasz Langa.
2021
Gregory P. Smith2a91ce82010-07-25 19:11:36 +00002022- Issue #3704: cookielib was not properly handling URLs with a / in the
2023 parameters.
2024
Victor Stinner8b0d84e2010-07-24 02:51:49 +00002025- Issue #9032: XML-RPC client retries the request on EPIPE error. The EPIPE
2026 error occurs when the server closes the socket and the client sends a big
2027 XML-RPC request.
2028
Victor Stinner2c6aee92010-07-24 02:46:16 +00002029- Issue #5542: Remove special logic that closes HTTPConnection socket on EPIPE.
2030
Victor Stinner4c16d122010-07-24 01:07:52 +00002031- Issue #4629: getopt raises an error if an argument ends with = whereas getopt
2032 doesn't except a value (eg. --help= is rejected if getopt uses ['help='] long
2033 options).
2034
Ronald Oussoren3a04a252010-07-23 12:41:00 +00002035- Issue #7895: platform.mac_ver() no longer crashes after calling os.fork()
2036
Antoine Pitrou7a7013e2010-07-21 16:47:28 +00002037- Issue #5395: array.fromfile() would raise a spurious EOFError when an
2038 I/O error occurred. Now an IOError is raised instead. Patch by chuck
2039 (Jan Hosang).
2040
R. David Murrayf6cbdcb2010-07-09 13:25:56 +00002041- Issue #7646: The fnmatch pattern cache no longer grows without bound.
2042
Mark Dickinson7ea29b02010-07-08 21:28:31 +00002043- Issue #9136: Fix 'dictionary changed size during iteration'
2044 RuntimeError produced when profiling the decimal module. This was
2045 due to a dangerous iteration over 'locals()' in Context.__init__.
2046
2047- Fix extreme speed issue in Decimal.pow when the base is an exact
2048 power of 10 and the exponent is tiny (for example,
2049 Decimal(10) ** Decimal('1e-999999999')).
2050
R. David Murray3caf7b92010-07-05 16:06:05 +00002051- Issue #9161: Fix regression in optparse's acceptance of unicode
2052 strings in add_option calls.
2053
Mark Dickinson75b44b32010-07-04 16:47:56 +00002054- Issue #9130: Fix validation of relative imports in parser module.
2055
Mark Dickinsona7ee59b2010-07-04 16:23:54 +00002056- Issue #9128: Fix validation of class decorators in parser module.
Benjamin Petersone3c10452010-07-03 14:51:25 +00002057
Ronald Oussoren75956202010-07-11 08:52:52 +00002058- Issue #9164: Ensure sysconfig handles dupblice archs while building on OSX
2059
Alexander Belopolsky9d17da32010-09-13 16:45:02 +00002060- Issue #9315: Fix for the trace module to record correct class name
2061 for tracing methods.
2062
Benjamin Petersone3c10452010-07-03 14:51:25 +00002063Extension Modules
2064-----------------
2065
Georg Brandl67c27332010-10-24 14:16:05 +00002066- Issue #9054: Fix a crash occurring when using the pyexpat module
2067 with expat version 2.0.1.
2068
Brian Curtin1390dd72010-10-01 16:44:03 +00002069- Issue #10003: Allow handling of SIGBREAK on Windows. Fixes a regression
Victor Stinnerd2f6ae62010-10-12 22:53:51 +00002070 introduced by issue #9324.
Brian Curtin1390dd72010-10-01 16:44:03 +00002071
Antoine Pitroue6ebcda2010-09-04 21:24:42 +00002072- Issue #8734: Avoid crash in msvcrt.get_osfhandle() when an invalid file
2073 descriptor is provided. Patch by Pascal Chambon.
2074
Antoine Pitrou247e2fd2010-09-04 17:27:10 +00002075- Issue #7736: Release the GIL around calls to opendir() and closedir()
2076 in the posix module. Patch by Marcin Bachry.
2077
Benjamin Peterson52c36052010-08-21 03:03:22 +00002078- As a result of issue #2521, the _weakref module is now compiled into the
2079 interpreter by default.
2080
Brian Curtin24af0e92010-08-06 19:41:01 +00002081- Issue #9324: Add parameter validation to signal.signal on Windows in order
2082 to prevent crashes.
2083
Mark Dickinson5e684332010-08-06 09:44:48 +00002084- Issue #9526: Remove some outdated (int) casts that were preventing
2085 the array module from working correctly with arrays of more than
2086 2**31 elements.
2087
Mark Dickinsonf38d8882010-08-03 18:46:28 +00002088- Fix memory leak in ssl._ssl._test_decode_cert.
2089
Mark Dickinson0f981282010-08-03 16:54:19 +00002090- Issue #8065: Fix memory leak in readline module (from failure to
2091 free the result of history_get_history_state()).
2092
Mark Dickinson4ee98532010-08-03 16:18:39 +00002093- Issue #9450: Fix memory leak in readline.replace_history_item and
2094 readline.remove_history_item for readline version >= 5.0.
2095
Brian Curtinba6c08e2010-08-01 15:47:53 +00002096- Issue #8105: Validate file descriptor passed to mmap.mmap on Windows.
2097
Georg Brandla4917272010-07-31 21:22:36 +00002098- Issue #1019882: Fix IndexError when loading certain hotshot stats.
2099
Mark Dickinson96527c32010-07-29 21:44:47 +00002100- Issue #9422: Fix memory leak when re-initializing a struct.Struct object.
2101
Ronald Oussoren9e7ffae2010-07-24 09:46:41 +00002102- Issue #7900: The getgroups(2) system call on MacOSX behaves rather oddly
2103 compared to other unix systems. In particular, os.getgroups() does
2104 not reflect any changes made using os.setgroups() but basicly always
2105 returns the same information as the id command.
2106
2107 os.getgroups() can now return more than 16 groups on MacOSX.
2108
Mark Dickinsoncac0b832010-07-18 07:55:55 +00002109- Issue #9277: Fix bug in struct.pack for bools in standard mode
2110 (e.g., struct.pack('>?')): if conversion to bool raised an exception
2111 then that exception wasn't properly propagated on machines where
2112 char is unsigned.
2113
Matthias Klose6e86bf72010-07-30 21:27:18 +00002114- Issue #7567: Don't call `setupterm' twice.
2115
Ronald Oussoren19199832011-03-14 11:57:39 -04002116
Antoine Pitrou2fba0b32010-09-08 21:12:36 +00002117Tools/Demos
2118-----------
2119
Benjamin Peterson4de6b062010-10-13 22:07:17 +00002120- Issue #7287: Demo/imputil/knee.py was removed.
2121
Antoine Pitrou2fba0b32010-09-08 21:12:36 +00002122- Issue #9188: The gdb extension now handles correctly narrow (UCS2) as well
2123 as wide (UCS4) unicode builds for both the host interpreter (embedded
2124 inside gdb) and the interpreter under test.
2125
Benjamin Peterson4082d9b2010-07-17 20:41:16 +00002126Build
2127-----
2128
Antoine Pitroue0c5f3c2010-10-27 20:35:26 +00002129- Issue #8852: Allow the socket module to build on OpenSolaris.
2130
Antoine Pitrou7be5a652010-10-10 08:14:41 +00002131- Issue #10054: Some platforms provide uintptr_t in inttypes.h. Patch by
2132 Akira Kitada.
2133
Antoine Pitrou22ad2452010-10-09 15:28:59 +00002134- Issue #10055: Make json C89-compliant in UCS4 mode.
2135
Antoine Pitrou285cd162010-09-21 15:23:17 +00002136- Issue #1633863: Don't ignore $CC under AIX.
2137
Hirokazu Yamamotoc4caa9c2010-09-18 22:33:33 +00002138- Issue #9810: Compile bzip2 source files in python's project file
2139 directly. It used to be built with bzip2's makefile.
2140
Antoine Pitrouaabdceb2010-09-10 20:03:17 +00002141- Issue #941346: Improve the build process under AIX and allow Python to
2142 be built as a shared library. Patch by Sébastien Sablé.
2143
Antoine Pitrou85729812010-09-07 14:55:24 +00002144- Issue #4026: Make the fcntl extension build under AIX. Patch by Sébastien
2145 Sablé.
2146
Antoine Pitroua74c3342010-09-03 16:15:17 +00002147- Issue #3101: Helper functions _add_one_to_index_C() and
2148 _add_one_to_index_F() become _Py_add_one_to_index_C() and
2149 _Py_add_one_to_index_F(), respectively.
Antoine Pitrou1fcdba82010-09-01 13:02:50 +00002150
2151- Issue #9700: define HAVE_BROKEN_POSIX_SEMAPHORES under AIX 6.x. Patch by
2152 Sébastien Sablé.
2153
Benjamin Peterson4082d9b2010-07-17 20:41:16 +00002154- Issue #9280: Make sharedinstall depend on sharedmods.
2155
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00002156- Issue #9275: The OSX installer once again installs links to binaries in
2157 ``/usr/local/bin``.
Ronald Oussoren8a14db82010-07-23 11:13:03 +00002158
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00002159- Issue #9392: A framework build on OSX will once again use a versioned name
2160 of the ``2to3`` tool, that is you can use ``2to3-2.7`` to select the Python
2161 2.7 edition of 2to3.
Ronald Oussoren0969c672010-07-29 13:18:19 +00002162
Ronald Oussorenec2fe002010-09-28 14:01:49 +00002163- Issue #9701: The MacOSX installer can patch the shell profile to ensure that
2164 the "bin" directory inside the framework is on the shell's search path. This
2165 feature now also supports the ZSH shell.
2166
Ronald Oussoren24215252010-10-20 13:11:46 +00002167- Issue #7473: avoid link errors when building a framework with a different
2168 set of architectures than the one that is currently installed.
Ronald Oussorenec2fe002010-09-28 14:01:49 +00002169
Antoine Pitrou22db7352010-07-08 18:54:04 +00002170Tests
2171-----
2172
Hirokazu Yamamoto1f504f12010-10-08 09:41:13 +00002173- Issue #9978: Wait until subprocess completes initialization. (Win32KillTests
2174 in test_os)
2175
Antoine Pitrou767cbc42010-09-18 18:15:33 +00002176- Issue #9894: Do not hardcode ENOENT in test_subprocess.
2177
Florent Xicluna92847452010-09-13 17:36:36 +00002178- Issue #9323: Make test.regrtest.__file__ absolute, this was not always the
2179 case when running profile or trace, for example.
2180
Alexander Belopolsky9d17da32010-09-13 16:45:02 +00002181- Issue #9315: Added tests for the trace module. Patch by Eli Bendersky.
Florent Xicluna92847452010-09-13 17:36:36 +00002182
Florent Xiclunac0c0b142010-09-13 08:53:00 +00002183- Strengthen test_unicode with explicit type checking for assertEqual tests.
2184
Giampaolo Rodolà633e4742010-08-14 17:04:46 +00002185- Issue #8857: Provide a test case for socket.getaddrinfo.
2186
Florent Xicluna172e15f2010-08-09 20:02:00 +00002187- Issue #7564: Skip test_ioctl if another process is attached to /dev/tty.
2188
Mark Dickinson28669332010-08-07 13:07:11 +00002189- Issue #8433: Fix test_curses failure with newer versions of ncurses.
2190
Antoine Pitrou185fae72010-08-04 15:54:33 +00002191- Issue #9496: Provide a test suite for the rlcompleter module. Patch by
2192 Michele Orrù.
2193
Antoine Pitrou22db7352010-07-08 18:54:04 +00002194- Issue #8605: Skip test_gdb if Python is compiled with optimizations.
2195
Ronald Oussoren8928e322010-09-28 14:43:59 +00002196- Issue #9568: Fix test_urllib2_localnet on OS X 10.3.
2197
Brett Cannon8c4fa112010-07-21 09:52:10 +00002198Documentation
2199-------------
2200
Matthias Klose3e8230d2010-09-12 16:51:29 +00002201- Issue #9817: Add expat COPYING file; add expat, libffi and expat licenses
2202 to Doc/license.rst.
2203
Brian Curtin4d808892010-08-05 19:00:45 +00002204- Issue #9524: Document that two CTRL* signals are meant for use only
2205 with os.kill.
2206
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00002207- Issue #9255: Document that the 'test' package is for internal Python use
2208 only.
Brett Cannon9ae2cb72010-07-23 12:07:27 +00002209
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00002210- Issue #7829: Document in dis that bytecode is an implementation detail.
Brett Cannon8c4fa112010-07-21 09:52:10 +00002211
Benjamin Petersone3c10452010-07-03 14:51:25 +00002212
Benjamin Peterson4f612592010-06-21 17:28:30 +00002213What's New in Python 2.7?
2214=========================
2215
Benjamin Petersonc60082d2010-07-03 13:56:13 +00002216*Release date: 2010-07-03*
Benjamin Peterson4f612592010-06-21 17:28:30 +00002217
2218Core and Builtins
2219-----------------
2220
Benjamin Peterson947ce582010-06-24 00:12:40 +00002221- Prevent assignment to set literals.
2222
Benjamin Peterson4f612592010-06-21 17:28:30 +00002223Library
2224-------
2225
Antoine Pitroua4083502010-08-28 18:29:13 +00002226- Issue #1868: Eliminate subtle timing issues in thread-local objects by
2227 getting rid of the cached copy of thread-local attribute dictionary.
2228
Benjamin Peterson6a336f62010-07-03 13:57:30 +00002229- Issue #9125: Add recognition of 'except ... as ...' syntax to parser module.
2230
2231Extension Modules
2232-----------------
2233
Benjamin Petersonc670b7e2010-07-03 13:49:23 +00002234- Issue #7673: Fix security vulnerability (CVE-2010-2089) in the audioop module,
2235 ensure that the input string length is a multiple of the frame size.
Victor Stinner15e5b1b2010-07-03 13:36:19 +00002236
Antoine Pitrou0dddf602010-06-25 00:03:21 +00002237- Issue #9075: In the ssl module, remove the setting of a ``debug`` flag
2238 on an OpenSSL structure.
2239
Benjamin Peterson00633672010-07-03 13:56:56 +00002240
Michael Foord83d35762010-06-10 16:32:00 +00002241What's New in Python 2.7 release candidate 2?
2242=============================================
Benjamin Peterson2f3d9f92010-06-06 02:09:33 +00002243
Benjamin Petersonbfcedf42010-06-21 15:57:57 +00002244*Release date: 2010-06-20*
Benjamin Peterson2f3d9f92010-06-06 02:09:33 +00002245
2246Core and Builtins
2247-----------------
2248
Benjamin Petersonb9133892010-06-22 19:16:37 +00002249- Issue #9058: Remove assertions about INT_MAX in UnicodeDecodeError.
2250
Nick Coghlan8842c352010-06-13 06:50:39 +00002251- Issue #8202: Previous change to ``sys.argv[0]`` handling for -m command line
2252 option reverted due to unintended side effects on handling of ``sys.path``.
2253 See tracker issue for details.
2254
Antoine Pitroucca3a3f2010-06-11 21:42:26 +00002255- Issue #8941: decoding big endian UTF-32 data in UCS-2 builds could crash
2256 the interpreter with characters outside the Basic Multilingual Plane
2257 (higher than 0x10000).
2258
Benjamin Petersonfa4c59f2010-06-08 14:53:29 +00002259- In the unicode/str.format(), raise a ValueError when indexes to arguments are
2260 too large.
Benjamin Peterson13e934a2010-06-07 22:23:23 +00002261
Benjamin Petersonafa1b302010-06-21 15:27:46 +00002262Build
2263-----
2264
2265- Issue #8854: Fix finding Visual Studio 2008 on Windows x64.
2266
Benjamin Peterson2f3d9f92010-06-06 02:09:33 +00002267Library
2268-------
Mark Dickinsone979ec82010-06-13 10:50:29 +00002269
Victor Stinner15e5b1b2010-07-03 13:36:19 +00002270- Issue #6589: cleanup asyncore.socket_map in case smtpd.SMTPServer constructor
Giampaolo Rodolàe00e2f02010-06-30 17:38:28 +00002271 raises an exception.
2272
Thomas Hellerf1800992010-06-21 14:00:24 +00002273- Issue #8959: fix regression caused by using unmodified libffi
2274 library on Windows. ctypes does now again check the stack before
2275 and after calling foreign functions.
2276
R. David Murraydf1cf302010-06-17 01:36:52 +00002277- Issue #8720: fix regression caused by fix for #4050 by making getsourcefile
2278 smart enough to find source files in the linecache.
2279
Mark Dickinsone979ec82010-06-13 10:50:29 +00002280- Issue #8986: math.erfc was incorrectly raising OverflowError for
2281 values between -27.3 and -30.0 on some platforms.
2282
Vinay Sajip936efc72010-06-11 22:56:50 +00002283- Issue #8924: logging: Improved error handling for Unicode in exception text.
Benjamin Peterson2f3d9f92010-06-06 02:09:33 +00002284
Michael Foord83d35762010-06-10 16:32:00 +00002285- Issue #8948: cleanup functions and class / module setups and teardowns are
2286 now honored in unittest debug methods.
2287
Tarek Ziadé770fd152010-06-06 20:05:20 +00002288Documentation
2289-------------
2290
2291- Issues #8909: Added the size of the bitmap used in the installer created by
2292 distutils' bdist_wininst. Patch by Anatoly Techtonik.
2293
Victor Stinnerb65bd2e2010-06-11 19:22:28 +00002294Misc
2295----
2296
2297- Issue #8362: Add maintainers.rst: list of module maintainers
2298
Benjamin Peterson2f3d9f92010-06-06 02:09:33 +00002299
Antoine Pitrou6001b0b2010-05-09 18:32:48 +00002300What's New in Python 2.7 Release Candidate 1?
2301=============================================
Benjamin Peterson534b8de2010-05-08 18:53:42 +00002302
Benjamin Peterson77d534e2010-06-06 00:22:09 +00002303*Release date: 2010-06-05*
Benjamin Peterson534b8de2010-05-08 18:53:42 +00002304
2305Core and Builtins
2306-----------------
2307
Ezio Melottiab2eb0e2010-06-05 19:21:32 +00002308- Issue #8271: during the decoding of an invalid UTF-8 byte sequence, only the
2309 start byte and the continuation byte(s) are now considered invalid, instead
2310 of the number of bytes specified by the start byte.
2311 E.g.: '\xf1\x80AB'.decode('utf-8', 'replace') now returns u'\ufffdAB' and
2312 replaces with U+FFFD only the start byte ('\xf1') and the continuation byte
2313 ('\x80') even if '\xf1' is the start byte of a 4-bytes sequence.
2314 Previous versions returned a single u'\ufffd'.
2315
Mark Dickinson23f0d6b2010-06-05 11:52:24 +00002316- Issue #8627: Remove bogus "Overriding __cmp__ blocks inheritance of
Mark Dickinsone4b83e02010-06-05 12:14:43 +00002317 __hash__ in 3.x" warning. Also fix "XXX undetected error" that
2318 arises from the "Overriding __eq__ blocks inheritance ..." warning
2319 when turned into an exception: in this case the exception simply
2320 gets ignored.
Mark Dickinson23f0d6b2010-06-05 11:52:24 +00002321
Mark Dickinson4ca7c3c2010-05-30 13:18:10 +00002322- Issue #8748: Fix two issues with comparisons between complex and integer
2323 objects. (1) The comparison could incorrectly return True in some cases
2324 (2**53+1 == complex(2**53) == 2**53), breaking transivity of equality.
2325 (2) The comparison raised an OverflowError for large integers, leading
2326 to unpredictable exceptions when combining integers and complex objects
2327 in sets or dicts.
2328
Mark Dickinson81336372010-05-30 12:12:25 +00002329- Issue #5211: Implicit coercion for the complex type is now completely
2330 removed. (Coercion for arithmetic operations was already removed in 2.7
2331 alpha 4, but coercion for rich comparisons was accidentally left in.)
2332
Victor Stinnerc49dfcc2010-05-25 22:30:32 +00002333- Issue #3798: Write sys.exit() message to sys.stderr to use stderr encoding
2334 and error handler, instead of writing to the C stderr file in utf-8
2335
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002336- Issue #7902: When using explicit relative import syntax, don't try implicit
2337 relative import semantics.
Brett Cannoneb3cd302010-05-20 18:37:55 +00002338
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002339- Issue #7079: Fix a possible crash when closing a file object while using it
2340 from another thread. Patch by Daniel Stutzbach.
Antoine Pitrou83137c22010-05-17 19:56:59 +00002341
Victor Stinnerb65bd2e2010-06-11 19:22:28 +00002342- Issue #8868: Fix that ensures that python scripts have access to the
Ronald Oussoren27c72e92010-06-02 03:47:14 +00002343 Window Server again in a framework build on MacOSX 10.5 or earlier.
2344
Antoine Pitrou6a265602010-05-21 17:12:38 +00002345C-API
2346-----
2347
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002348- Issue #5753: A new C API function, :cfunc:`PySys_SetArgvEx`, allows embedders
2349 of the interpreter to set sys.argv without also modifying sys.path. This
2350 helps fix `CVE-2008-5983
Antoine Pitrou6a265602010-05-21 17:12:38 +00002351 <http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-5983>`_.
2352
Benjamin Peterson534b8de2010-05-08 18:53:42 +00002353Library
2354-------
2355
Michael Foordd8918592010-06-05 19:51:38 +00002356- Issue #8302: SkipTest in unittest.TestCase.setUpClass or setUpModule is now
2357 reported as a skip rather than an error.
2358
2359- Issue #8351: Excessively large diffs due to
2360 unittest.TestCase.assertSequenceEqual are no longer included in failure
2361 reports.
2362
Alexander Belopolsky3b818bf2010-06-05 14:54:26 +00002363- Issue #8899: time.struct_time now has class and atribute docstrings.
2364
R. David Murraye7e505b2010-06-04 19:51:06 +00002365- Issue #4487: email now accepts as charset aliases all codec aliases
2366 accepted by the codecs module.
2367
Martin v. Löwiseba67c02010-06-04 19:39:07 +00002368- Issue #6470: Drop UNC prefix in FixTk.
2369
R. David Murray61746d52010-06-03 15:43:20 +00002370- Issue #5610: feedparser no longer eats extra characters at the end of
2371 a body part if the body part ends with a \r\n.
2372
Lars Gustäbel2ee9c6f2010-06-03 09:56:22 +00002373- Issue #8833: tarfile created hard link entries with a size field != 0 by
2374 mistake.
2375
R. David Murray52dcd452010-06-02 22:03:15 +00002376- Issue #1368247: set_charset (and therefore MIMEText) now automatically
2377 encodes a unicode _payload to the output_charset.
2378
Alexander Belopolsky9292ee02010-05-27 20:55:27 +00002379- Issue #7150: Raise OverflowError if the result of adding or subtracting
2380 timedelta from date or datetime falls outside of the MINYEAR:MAXYEAR range.
2381
Victor Stinner04ee3372010-05-24 21:37:28 +00002382- Issue #6662: Fix parsing of malformatted charref (&#bad;), patch written by
2383 Fredrik Håård
Victor Stinner554a3b82010-05-24 21:33:24 +00002384
Georg Brandlf0757a22010-05-24 21:29:07 +00002385- Issue #8016: Add the CP858 codec.
2386
Georg Brandl5d0ca2c2010-05-22 11:29:19 +00002387- Issue #3924: Ignore cookies with invalid "version" field in cookielib.
2388
Victor Stinner7df55da2010-05-22 13:37:56 +00002389- Issue #6268: Fix seek() method of codecs.open(), don't read or write the BOM
2390 twice after seek(0). Fix also reset() method of codecs, UTF-16, UTF-32 and
2391 StreamWriter classes.
Victor Stinner262be5e2010-05-22 02:11:07 +00002392
Victor Stinnerd6703b52010-05-21 22:50:28 +00002393- Issue #5640: Fix Shift-JIS incremental encoder for error handlers different
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002394 than 'strict'.
Victor Stinnerd6703b52010-05-21 22:50:28 +00002395
Benjamin Peterson266e4542010-05-21 21:31:24 +00002396- Issue #8782: Add a trailing newline in linecache.updatecache to the last line
2397 of files without one.
2398
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002399- Issue #8729: Return NotImplemented from ``collections.Mapping.__eq__()`` when
Benjamin Petersoneb318d32010-05-21 20:51:45 +00002400 comparing to a non-mapping.
2401
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002402- Issue #8759: Fix user paths in sysconfig for posix and os2 schemes.
Tarek Ziadé8f692272010-05-19 22:20:14 +00002403
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002404- Issue #1285086: Speed up ``urllib.quote()`` and urllib.unquote for simple
2405 cases.
Florent Xiclunaaf87f9f2010-05-17 13:35:09 +00002406
Tarek Ziadé422545f2010-05-17 10:06:20 +00002407- Issue #8688: Distutils now recalculates MANIFEST everytime.
2408
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002409- Issue #5099: The ``__del__()`` method of ``subprocess.Popen`` (and the methods
2410 it calls) referenced global objects, causing errors to pop up during
2411 interpreter shutdown.
Brett Cannon42a0ba72010-05-14 00:21:48 +00002412
Mark Dickinson932e1622010-05-10 16:07:42 +00002413Extension Modules
2414-----------------
2415
Stefan Krah449aa862010-06-03 12:39:50 +00002416- Issue #7384: If the system readline library is linked against ncurses,
2417 the curses module must be linked against ncurses as well. Otherwise it
2418 is not safe to load both the readline and curses modules in an application.
2419
Brian Curtinb64c89b2010-05-25 15:06:15 +00002420- Issue #2810: Fix cases where the Windows registry API returns
2421 ERROR_MORE_DATA, requiring a re-try in order to get the complete result.
2422
Mark Dickinson932e1622010-05-10 16:07:42 +00002423- Issue #8674: Fixed a number of incorrect or undefined-behaviour-inducing
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002424 overflow checks in the ``audioop`` module.
Benjamin Peterson534b8de2010-05-08 18:53:42 +00002425
Brett Cannonda9af752010-05-13 23:59:41 +00002426Tests
2427-----
2428
R. David Murray4653fb52010-06-03 20:19:25 +00002429- Issue #8889: test_support.transient_internet rewritten so that the new
2430 checks also work on FreeBSD, which lacks EAI_NODATA.
2431
2432- Issue #8835: test_support.transient_internet() catches gaierror(EAI_NONAME)
Victor Stinner03883622010-05-27 22:29:48 +00002433 and gaierror(EAI_NODATA)
2434
Victor Stinner708c0722010-05-26 17:25:28 +00002435- Issue #7449: Skip test_socketserver if threading support is disabled
2436
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002437- On darwin, ``test_site`` assumed that a framework build was being used,
2438 leading to a failure where four directories were expected for site-packages
2439 instead of two in a non-framework build.
Brett Cannonda9af752010-05-13 23:59:41 +00002440
Martin v. Löwisb41afb52010-05-28 15:28:47 +00002441Build
2442-----
2443
Martin v. Löwis16b2a5e2010-06-04 19:15:32 +00002444- Display installer warning that Windows 2000 won't be supported in future
2445 releases.
2446
Victor Stinnerb65bd2e2010-06-11 19:22:28 +00002447- Issues #1759169, #8864: Drop _XOPEN_SOURCE on Solaris, define it for
Martin v. Löwis26eec582010-06-04 17:18:42 +00002448 multiprocessing only.
Brett Cannonda9af752010-05-13 23:59:41 +00002449
Martin v. Löwis5aafc172010-06-04 18:04:42 +00002450Tools/Demos
2451-----------
2452
2453- Issue #5464: Implement plural forms in msgfmt.py.
2454
2455
Antoine Pitrouab5ce722010-04-11 22:45:47 +00002456What's New in Python 2.7 beta 2?
2457================================
Benjamin Peterson12409062010-04-10 18:53:58 +00002458
Benjamin Petersonc2516072010-05-08 17:08:17 +00002459*Release date: 2010-05-08*
Benjamin Peterson12409062010-04-10 18:53:58 +00002460
2461Core and Builtins
2462-----------------
2463
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002464- Run Clang 2.7's static analyzer for ``Objects/`` and ``Python/``.
Brett Cannon5fb89df2010-05-05 20:54:53 +00002465
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002466- Issue #1533: Fix inconsistency in range function argument processing: any
2467 non-float non-integer argument is now converted to an integer (if possible)
2468 using its __int__ method. Previously, only small arguments were treated this
2469 way; larger arguments (those whose __int__ was outside the range of a C long)
2470 would produce a TypeError.
Mark Dickinsona8d26682010-05-04 16:18:25 +00002471
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002472- Issue #8202: ``sys.argv[0]`` is now set to '-m' instead of '-c' when searching
2473 for the module file to be executed with the -m command line option.
Nick Coghlanc5e44852010-04-28 14:51:08 +00002474
Brett Cannon19949692010-04-25 22:33:36 +00002475- Issue #7319: When -Q is used, do not silence DeprecationWarning.
2476
Antoine Pitrou18e63fb2010-04-21 22:53:29 +00002477- Issue #7332: Remove the 16KB stack-based buffer in
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002478 ``PyMarshal_ReadLastObjectFromFile``, which doesn't bring any noticeable
Antoine Pitrou18e63fb2010-04-21 22:53:29 +00002479 benefit compared to the dynamic memory allocation fallback. Patch by
2480 Charles-François Natali.
2481
Benjamin Peterson821a8ea2010-04-16 22:35:38 +00002482- Issue #8417: Raise an OverflowError when an integer larger than sys.maxsize is
2483 passed to bytearray.
2484
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002485- Issue #7072: ``isspace(0xa0)`` is true on Mac OS X.
Ronald Oussoren37805e52010-04-18 13:47:49 +00002486
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002487- Issue #8404: Fix set operations on dictionary views.
Alexandre Vassalotti268e4872010-05-04 03:21:51 +00002488
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002489- Issue #8084: PEP 370 now conforms to system conventions for framework builds
2490 on MacOS X. That is, ``python setup.py install --user`` will install into
2491 ``~/Library/Python/2.7`` instead of ``~/.local``.
Ronald Oussoren2f88bfd2010-05-08 10:29:06 +00002492
Benjamin Peterson12409062010-04-10 18:53:58 +00002493Library
2494-------
2495
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002496- Issue #8681: Make the zlib module's error messages more informative when the
2497 zlib itself doesn't give any detailed explanation.
Antoine Pitroufc3bfad2010-05-11 23:42:28 +00002498
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002499- Issue #8571: Fix an internal error when compressing or decompressing a chunk
2500 larger than 1GB with the zlib module's compressor and decompressor objects.
Antoine Pitrou3843cd82010-05-07 16:50:34 +00002501
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002502- Issue #8573: asyncore ``_strerror()`` function might throw ValueError.
Giampaolo Rodolàf7454fa2010-05-06 17:57:06 +00002503
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002504- Issue #8483: asyncore.dispatcher's __getattr__ method produced confusing error
2505 messages when accessing undefined class attributes because of the cheap
2506 inheritance with the underlying socket object. The cheap inheritance has been
2507 deprecated.
Giampaolo Rodolàf7454fa2010-05-06 17:57:06 +00002508
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002509- Issue #4265: ``shutil.copyfile()`` was leaking file descriptors when disk
2510 fills. Patch by Tres Seaver.
Tarek Ziadé38f81222010-05-05 22:15:31 +00002511
Barry Warsaw8efa8672010-05-05 16:17:22 +00002512- Issue #7755: Use an unencumbered audio file for tests.
2513
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002514- Issue #8621: ``uuid.uuid4()`` returned the same sequence of values in the
2515 parent and any children created using ``os.fork`` on Mac OS X 10.6.
Ronald Oussoren33206962010-05-05 14:48:37 +00002516
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002517- Issue #8313: ``traceback.format_exception_only()`` encodes unicode message to
2518 ASCII with backslashreplace error handler if ``str(value)`` failed.
Victor Stinner926fd4e2010-05-05 12:40:49 +00002519
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002520- Issue #8567: Fix precedence of signals in Decimal module: when a Decimal
2521 operation raises multiple signals and more than one of those signals is
2522 trapped, the specification determines the order in which the signals should be
2523 handled. In many cases this order wasn't being followed, leading to the wrong
2524 Python exception being raised.
Mark Dickinson4f96f5f2010-05-04 14:25:50 +00002525
Antoine Pitrouf7fd8e42010-05-03 16:25:33 +00002526- Issue #7865: The close() method of :mod:`io` objects should not swallow
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002527 exceptions raised by the implicit flush(). Also ensure that calling close()
2528 several times is supported. Patch by Pascal Chambon.
Antoine Pitrouf7fd8e42010-05-03 16:25:33 +00002529
Vinay Sajip27a13702010-05-03 15:11:53 +00002530- Issue #8576: logging updated to remove usage of find_unused_port().
2531
Antoine Pitrou951919f2010-05-02 19:51:14 +00002532- Issue #4687: Fix accuracy of garbage collection runtimes displayed with
2533 gc.DEBUG_STATS.
2534
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002535- Issue #8354: The siginterrupt setting is now preserved for all signals, not
2536 just SIGCHLD.
Jean-Paul Calderonee54ddf12010-05-08 20:06:02 +00002537
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002538- Issue #7192: ``webbrowser.get("firefox")`` now works on Mac OS X, as does
2539 ``webbrowser.get("safari")``.
Ronald Oussoren4ef1c7e2010-05-02 09:48:21 +00002540
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002541- Issue #8577: ``distutils.sysconfig.get_python_inc()`` now makes a difference
Tarek Ziadéa5cd1822010-04-30 12:15:12 +00002542 between the build dir and the source dir when looking for "python.h" or
2543 "Include".
2544
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002545- Issue #8464: tarfile no longer creates files with execute permissions set when
2546 mode="w|" is used.
Lars Gustäbel5c4c4612010-04-29 15:23:38 +00002547
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002548- Issue #7834: Fix connect() of Bluetooth L2CAP sockets with recent versions of
2549 the Linux kernel. Patch by Yaniv Aknin.
Antoine Pitrouf56a2882010-04-29 10:05:40 +00002550
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002551- Issue #6312: Fix http HEAD request when the transfer encoding is chunked. It
2552 should correctly return an empty response now.
Senthil Kumaraned9204342010-04-28 17:20:43 +00002553
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002554- Issue #7490: To facilitate sharing of doctests between 2.x and 3.x test
2555 suites, the ``IGNORE_EXCEPTION_DETAIL`` directive now also ignores the module
2556 location of the raised exception. Based on initial patch by Lennart Regebro.
Nick Coghlandfb45df2010-04-28 14:29:06 +00002557
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002558- Issue #8086: In :func:`ssl.DER_cert_to_PEM_cert()`, fix missing newline before
2559 the certificate footer. Patch by Kyle VanderBeek.
Antoine Pitrou4c7bcf12010-04-27 22:03:37 +00002560
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002561- Issue #8546: Reject None given as the buffering argument to ``_pyio.open()``.
Benjamin Petersona9bd6d52010-04-27 21:01:54 +00002562
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002563- Issue #8549: Fix compiling the _ssl extension under AIX. Patch by Sridhar
2564 Ratnakumar.
Antoine Pitrou1dc6b082010-04-27 19:09:59 +00002565
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002566- Issue #6656: Fix locale.format_string to handle escaped percents and mappings.
R. David Murray3939dcd2010-04-26 21:17:14 +00002567
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002568- Issue #2302: Fix a race condition in SocketServer.BaseServer.shutdown, where
2569 the method could block indefinitely if called just before the event loop
2570 started running. This also fixes the occasional freezes witnessed in
2571 test_httpservers.
Antoine Pitroua6240402010-04-25 21:40:32 +00002572
Antoine Pitroufc69af12010-04-24 20:04:58 +00002573- Issue #5103: SSL handshake would ignore the socket timeout and block
2574 indefinitely if the other end didn't respond.
2575
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002576- The do_handshake() method of SSL objects now adjusts the blocking mode of the
2577 SSL structure if necessary (as other methods already do).
Antoine Pitrou4d3e3722010-04-24 19:57:01 +00002578
Georg Brandl4341e542010-04-24 09:08:10 +00002579- Issue #7507: Quote "!" in pipes.quote(); it is special to some shells.
2580
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002581- Issue #5238: Calling makefile() on an SSL object would prevent the underlying
2582 socket from being closed until all objects get truely destroyed.
Antoine Pitroub558f172010-04-23 23:25:45 +00002583
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002584- Issue #7943: Fix circular reference created when instantiating an SSL socket.
2585 Initial patch by Péter Szabó.
Antoine Pitroudfb299b2010-04-23 22:54:59 +00002586
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002587- Issue #8451: Syslog module now uses basename(sys.argv[0]) instead of the
2588 string "python" as the *ident*. openlog() arguments are all optional and
2589 keywords.
Sean Reifscheiderf6ce3cb2010-04-23 08:31:55 +00002590
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002591- Issue #8108: Fix the unwrap() method of SSL objects when the socket has a
2592 non-infinite timeout. Also make that method friendlier with applications
Antoine Pitroua5c4b552010-04-22 23:33:02 +00002593 wanting to continue using the socket in clear-text mode, by disabling
2594 OpenSSL's internal readahead. Thanks to Darryl Miles for guidance.
2595
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002596- Issue #8484: Load all ciphers and digest algorithms when initializing the _ssl
2597 extension, such that verification of some SSL certificates doesn't fail
2598 because of an "unknown algorithm".
Antoine Pitrouc715a9e2010-04-21 19:28:03 +00002599
Victor Stinnera92e81b2010-04-20 22:28:31 +00002600- Issue #8437: Fix test_gdb failures, patch written by Dave Malcolm
2601
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002602- Issue #4814: The timeout parameter is now applied also for connections
2603 resulting from PORT/EPRT commands.
Giampaolo Rodolà607f7c02010-04-19 21:46:28 +00002604
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002605- Issue #8463: Add missing reference to bztar in shutil's documentation.
Tarek Ziadé8a12f942010-04-19 21:28:21 +00002606
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002607- Issue #8438: Remove reference to the missing "surrogateescape" encoding error
2608 handler from the new IO library.
Antoine Pitrou7c587bf2010-04-19 18:52:43 +00002609
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002610- Issue #3817: ftplib.FTP.abort() method now considers 225 a valid response code
2611 as stated in RFC-959 at chapter 5.4.
Giampaolo Rodolàcf445fc2010-04-18 12:55:03 +00002612
Martin v. Löwis24f09fd2010-04-17 22:40:40 +00002613- Issue #8279: Fix test_gdb failures.
2614
Antoine Pitrou0a6373c2010-04-17 17:10:38 +00002615- Issue #8322: Add a *ciphers* argument to SSL sockets, so as to change the
2616 available cipher list. Helps fix test_ssl with OpenSSL 1.0.0.
2617
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002618- Issue #2987: RFC 2732 support for urlparse (IPv6 addresses). Patch by Tony
Senthil Kumaran8c6d9d72010-04-16 02:46:46 +00002619 Locke and Hans Ulrich Niedermann.
2620
R. David Murray1a14d3d2010-04-12 16:35:19 +00002621- Issue #7585: difflib context and unified diffs now place a tab between
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002622 filename and date, conforming to the 'standards' they were originally designed
2623 to follow. This improves compatibility with patch tools.
R. David Murray1a14d3d2010-04-12 16:35:19 +00002624
R. David Murray27ef9372010-04-12 14:26:06 +00002625- Issue #7472: Fixed typo in email.encoders module; messages using ISO-2022
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002626 character sets will now consistently use a Content-Transfer-Encoding of 7bit
2627 rather than sometimes being marked as 8bit.
R. David Murray27ef9372010-04-12 14:26:06 +00002628
Martin v. Löwis7f7765c2010-04-12 05:18:16 +00002629- Issue #8330: Fix expected output in test_gdb.
2630
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002631- Issue #8374: Update the internal alias table in the :mod:`locale` module to
2632 cover recent locale changes and additions.
Antoine Pitrouab5ce722010-04-11 22:45:47 +00002633
Matthias Klose8a96d202010-04-21 22:18:52 +00002634Extension Modules
2635-----------------
2636
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002637- Issue #8644: Improved accuracy of ``timedelta.total_seconds()``.
Mark Dickinson7000e9e2010-05-09 09:30:06 +00002638
Brett Cannon945df9a2010-05-04 01:04:53 +00002639- Use Clang 2.7's static analyzer to find places to clean up some code.
2640
Matthias Klose8a96d202010-04-21 22:18:52 +00002641- Build the ossaudio extension on GNU/kFreeBSD.
2642
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002643- On Windows, ctypes does no longer check the stack before and after calling a
2644 foreign function. This allows to use the unmodified libffi library.
Thomas Heller06a7e202010-05-04 18:44:42 +00002645
Antoine Pitroua5c4b552010-04-22 23:33:02 +00002646Tests
2647-----
2648
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002649- Issue #8672: Add a zlib test ensuring that an incomplete stream can be handled
2650 by a decompressor object without errors (it returns incomplete uncompressed
2651 data).
Antoine Pitrou37ffc3e2010-05-11 23:32:31 +00002652
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002653- Issue #8490: asyncore now has a more solid test suite which actually tests its
2654 API.
Giampaolo Rodolàff46d6e2010-05-10 15:33:22 +00002655
Antoine Pitrou54f9f832010-04-30 23:08:48 +00002656- Issue #8576: Remove use of find_unused_port() in test_smtplib and
2657 test_multiprocessing. Patch by Paul Moore.
2658
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002659- Issue #7449: Fix many tests to support Python compiled without thread support.
2660 Patches written by Jerry Seutter.
Victor Stinnerd9d147b2010-04-27 21:46:03 +00002661
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002662- Issue #8108: test_ftplib's non-blocking SSL server now has proper handling of
2663 SSL shutdowns.
Antoine Pitroua5c4b552010-04-22 23:33:02 +00002664
Matthias Klose5183ebd2010-04-24 16:38:36 +00002665Build
2666-----
2667
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002668- Issue #8625: Turn off optimization in ``--with-pydebug`` builds with gcc.
Mark Dickinsond2f3e3f2010-05-05 22:23:58 +00002669 (Optimization was unintentionally turned on in gcc --with-pydebug builds in
2670 2.7 beta1 as a result of the issue #1628484 fix, combined with autoconf's
2671 strange choice of default CFLAGS produced by AC_PROG_CC for gcc.)
2672
Matthias Klose5183ebd2010-04-24 16:38:36 +00002673- Issue #8509: Fix quoting in help strings and code snippets in configure.in.
2674
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002675- Issue #3646: It is now easily possible to install a Python framework into your
2676 home directory on Mac OS X, see Mac/README for more information.
Ronald Oussoren01d149f2010-04-30 11:20:14 +00002677
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002678- Issue #8510: Update to autoconf 2.65.
Matthias Klosea0bea5d2010-05-08 10:00:28 +00002679
Brett Cannonc1f5c2f2010-05-02 21:51:23 +00002680Misc
2681----
2682
2683- Update the Vim syntax highlight file.
2684
Benjamin Peterson12409062010-04-10 18:53:58 +00002685
Benjamin Peterson5da7e7c2010-03-06 22:44:07 +00002686What's New in Python 2.7 beta 1?
2687================================
2688
Benjamin Petersonfbac6c12010-04-10 16:22:05 +00002689*Release date: 2010-04-10*
Benjamin Peterson5da7e7c2010-03-06 22:44:07 +00002690
2691Core and Builtins
2692-----------------
2693
Philip Jenveyaebbaeb2010-04-06 23:24:45 +00002694- Issue #7301: Add environment variable $PYTHONWARNINGS.
2695
Benjamin Peterson3a1dfa22010-04-06 21:50:00 +00002696- Issue #8329: Don't return the same lists from select.select when no fds are
2697 changed.
2698
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002699- Issue #8259: ``1L << (2**31)`` no longer produces an 'outrageous shift error'
Mark Dickinson82791672010-04-06 16:47:55 +00002700 on 64-bit machines. The shift count for either left or right shift is
2701 permitted to be up to sys.maxsize.
2702
Benjamin Peterson4ceeeb02010-04-03 22:48:51 +00002703- Ensure that tokenization of identifiers is not affected by locale.
2704
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002705- Issue #1222585: Added LDCXXSHARED for C++ support. Patch by Arfrever.
Tarek Ziadé00002952010-04-03 08:37:59 +00002706
Benjamin Peterson1c7c11e2010-04-03 01:28:57 +00002707- Raise a TypeError when trying to delete a T_STRING_INPLACE struct member.
2708
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002709- Issue #7994: Issue a PendingDeprecationWarning if object.__format__ is called
2710 with a non-empty format string. This is an effort to future-proof user
2711 code. If a derived class does not currently implement __format__ but later
2712 adds its own __format__, it would most likely break user code that had
Antoine Pitrou01a196a2011-01-02 20:05:11 +00002713 supplied a format string. This will be changed to a DeprecationWarning in
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002714 Python 3.3 and it will be an error in Python 3.4.
Eric Smithd44b2fc2010-04-02 12:30:56 +00002715
Antoine Pitroua57df2c2010-03-31 21:32:15 +00002716- Issue #8268: Old-style classes (not just instances) now support weak
2717 references.
2718
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002719- Issue #8211: Save/restore CFLAGS around AC_PROG_CC in configure.in, in case it
2720 is set.
Victor Stinner6cbf90f2010-03-25 00:21:53 +00002721
Victor Stinnerc7790ed2010-03-22 12:36:28 +00002722- Issue #1583863: An unicode subclass can now override the __unicode__ method
Victor Stinner95affc42010-03-22 12:24:37 +00002723
Benjamin Peterson96545892010-03-21 20:21:00 +00002724- Issue #6474: Make error message from passing an inadequate number of keyword
2725 arguments to a function correct.
2726
Benjamin Peterson0dee9c12010-03-17 20:41:42 +00002727- Issue #8164: Don't allow lambda functions to have a docstring.
2728
Victor Stinner66644262010-03-10 22:30:19 +00002729- Issue #3137: Don't ignore errors at startup, especially a keyboard interrupt
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002730 (SIGINT). If an error occurs while importing the site module, the error is
2731 printed and Python exits. Initialize the GIL before importing the site
Victor Stinner66644262010-03-10 22:30:19 +00002732 module.
2733
Collin Winter001a3952010-03-18 21:54:01 +00002734- Code objects now support weak references.
2735
Benjamin Peterson5da7e7c2010-03-06 22:44:07 +00002736Library
2737-------
2738
R. David Murray661303f2010-04-13 20:57:40 +00002739- Issue #5277: Fix quote counting when parsing RFC 2231 encoded parameters.
2740
Antoine Pitrouf9de5342010-04-05 21:35:07 +00002741- Issue #8321: Give access to OpenSSL version numbers from the `ssl` module,
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002742 using the new attributes `ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION`, `ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION_INFO` and
2743 `ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION_NUMBER`.
Antoine Pitrouf9de5342010-04-05 21:35:07 +00002744
Benjamin Peterson76a23c12010-04-04 23:23:22 +00002745- Issue #8310: Allow dis to examine new style classes.
2746
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002747- Issue #8257: The Decimal construct now accepts a float instance directly,
2748 converting that float to a Decimal of equal value:
Mark Dickinson8a950712010-04-03 15:47:46 +00002749
2750 >>> Decimal(1.1)
2751 Decimal('1.100000000000000088817841970012523233890533447265625')
2752
Raymond Hettinger34c35b22010-04-03 10:22:00 +00002753- collections.Counter() now supports a subtract() method.
2754
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002755- The functools module now has a total_ordering() class decorator to simplify
2756 the specification of rich comparisons.
Raymond Hettingera551f312010-04-04 18:34:45 +00002757
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002758- The functools module also adds cmp_to_key() as a tool to transition old-style
2759 comparison functions to new-style key-functions.
Raymond Hettingera551f312010-04-04 18:34:45 +00002760
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002761- Issue #8294: The Fraction constructor now accepts Decimal and float instances
2762 directly.
Mark Dickinson7c63eee2010-04-02 22:27:36 +00002763
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002764- Issue #7279: Comparisons involving a Decimal signaling NaN now signal
2765 InvalidOperation instead of returning False. (Comparisons involving a quiet
2766 NaN are unchanged.) Also, Decimal quiet NaNs are now hashable; Decimal
2767 signaling NaNs remain unhashable.
Mark Dickinsone096e822010-04-02 10:17:07 +00002768
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002769- Issue #2531: Comparison operations between floats and Decimal instances now
2770 return a result based on the numeric values of the operands; previously they
2771 returned an arbitrary result based on the relative ordering of id(float) and
2772 id(Decimal).
Mark Dickinson99d80962010-04-02 08:53:22 +00002773
Barry Warsawf7f2d6f2010-03-31 21:07:16 +00002774- Issue #8233: When run as a script, py_compile.py optionally takes a single
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002775 argument `-` which tells it to read files to compile from stdin. Each line is
2776 read on demand and the named file is compiled immediately. (Original patch by
2777 Piotr Ożarowski).
Barry Warsawf7f2d6f2010-03-31 21:07:16 +00002778
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002779- Issue #3135: Add ``inspect.getcallargs()``, which binds arguments to a
2780 function like a normal call.
Benjamin Peterson7e213252010-03-30 17:58:13 +00002781
Florent Xicluna58b65662010-03-30 16:29:03 +00002782- Backwards incompatible change: Unicode codepoints line tabulation (0x0B) and
2783 form feed (0x0C) are now considered linebreaks, as specified in Unicode
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002784 Standard Annex #14. See issue #7643. http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr14/
Florent Xicluna22b24382010-03-30 08:24:06 +00002785
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002786- Comparisons using one of <, <=, >, >= between a complex instance and a
2787 Fractions instance now raise TypeError instead of returning True/False. This
2788 makes Fraction <=> complex comparisons consistent with int <=> complex, float
2789 <=> complex, and complex <=> complex comparisons.
Mark Dickinson9588d992010-03-27 11:14:37 +00002790
Michael Foorde6410c52010-03-29 20:04:23 +00002791- Addition of ``WeakSet`` to the ``weakref`` module.
2792
Vinay Sajipb0623d62010-03-24 14:31:21 +00002793- logging: Added LOG_FTP to SysLogHandler and updated documentation.
2794
Florent Xicluna176cda12010-03-22 22:52:11 +00002795- Issue #8205: Remove the "Modules" directory from sys.path when Python is
2796 running from the build directory (POSIX only).
2797
Florent Xiclunae1f4c922010-03-22 22:45:50 +00002798- Issue #7667: Fix doctest failures with non-ASCII paths.
2799
Antoine Pitrou513d9ae2010-03-22 19:59:46 +00002800- Issue #7512: shutil.copystat() could raise an OSError when the filesystem
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002801 didn't support chflags() (for example ZFS under FreeBSD). The error is now
2802 silenced.
Antoine Pitrou513d9ae2010-03-22 19:59:46 +00002803
Florent Xicluna9e7a4c92010-03-22 16:07:38 +00002804- Issue #7703: ctypes supports both buffer() and memoryview(). The former is
2805 deprecated.
2806
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002807- Issue #7860: platform.uname now reports the correct 'machine' type when Python
2808 is running in WOW64 mode on 64 bit Windows.
R. David Murrayc9d1a782010-03-22 15:55:09 +00002809
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002810- logging: Added getChild utility method to Logger and added isEnabledFor method
2811 to LoggerAdapter.
Vinay Sajip804899b2010-03-22 15:29:01 +00002812
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002813- Issue #8201: logging: Handle situation of non-ASCII and Unicode logger names
2814 existing at the same time, causing a Unicode error when configuration code
2815 attempted to sort the existing loggers.
Vinay Sajip31e928e2010-03-22 13:02:28 +00002816
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002817- Issue #8200: logging: Handle errors when multiprocessing is not fully loaded
2818 when logging occurs.
Vinay Sajip3017a7b2010-03-22 12:33:08 +00002819
Antoine Pitroueee91cd2010-03-26 19:27:16 +00002820- Issue #3890, #8222: Fix recv() and recv_into() on non-blocking SSL sockets.
2821 Also, enable the SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY flag on SSL sockets, so that blocking
2822 reads and writes are always retried by OpenSSL itself.
Antoine Pitrou448da712010-03-21 19:33:38 +00002823
Florent Xiclunacf82fa62010-03-21 12:27:20 +00002824- Issue #8179: Fix macpath.realpath() on a non-existing path.
2825
Florent Xicluna2e0a53f2010-03-18 21:50:06 +00002826- Issue #8024: Update the Unicode database to 5.2.
2827
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002828- Issue #8104: socket.recv_into() and socket.recvfrom_into() now support writing
2829 into objects supporting the new buffer API, for example bytearrays or
2830 memoryviews.
Antoine Pitroud7b731d2010-03-17 22:45:39 +00002831
Matthias Klose8b411682010-03-16 10:48:52 +00002832- Issue #4961: Inconsistent/wrong result of askyesno function in tkMessageBox
2833 with Tcl/Tk-8.5.
2834
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002835- Issue #8140: Extend compileall to compile single files. Add -i option.
Matthias Kloseb13d04c2010-03-15 17:44:12 +00002836
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002837- Issue #7356: ctypes.util: Make parsing of ldconfig output independent of the
2838 locale.
Matthias Klose358e7ff2010-03-15 13:42:23 +00002839
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002840- Issue #7774: Set sys.executable to an empty string if ``argv[0]`` has been set
2841 to an non existent program name and Python is unable to retrieve the real
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002842 program name.
Victor Stinner75227342010-03-12 14:30:26 +00002843
Vinay Sajipecfa08f2010-03-12 09:16:10 +00002844- Issue #8117: logging: Improved algorithm for computing initial rollover time
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002845 for ``TimedRotatingFileHandler`` by using the modification time of an existing
2846 log file to compute the next rollover time. If the log file does not exist,
2847 the current time is used as the basis for the computation.
Vinay Sajip9098ee42010-03-12 06:01:21 +00002848
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002849- Issue #6472: The ``xml.etree`` package is updated to ElementTree 1.3. The
Florent Xicluna3e8c1892010-03-11 14:36:19 +00002850 cElementTree module is updated too.
2851
Florent Xicluna85677612010-03-10 23:58:42 +00002852- Issue #7880: Fix sysconfig when the python executable is a symbolic link.
2853
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002854- Issue #7624: Fix ``isinstance(foo(), collections.Callable)`` for old-style
Florent Xicluna47627d52010-03-08 15:20:28 +00002855 classes.
2856
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002857- Issue #7143: email: ``get_payload()`` used to strip any trailing newline from
2858 a base64 transfer-encoded payload *after* decoding it; it no longer does.
2859 This is a behavior change, so email's minor version number is now bumped, to
2860 version 4.0.2, for the 2.7 release.
R. David Murray4617e502010-03-08 02:04:06 +00002861
Larry Hastings3b958e32010-04-02 11:18:17 +00002862- Issue #8235: _socket: Add the constant ``SO_SETFIB``. SO_SETFIB is
2863 a socket option available on FreeBSD 7.1 and newer.
2864
Michael Foorda04c7a02010-04-02 22:55:59 +00002865- Issue #8038: unittest.TestCase.assertNotRegexpMatches
2866
2867- Addition of -b command line option to unittest for buffering stdout / stderr
2868 during test runs.
2869
Victor Stinnerdb990922010-05-15 21:00:59 +00002870- Issue #1220212: Added os.kill support for Windows, including support for
Brian Curtin85108e62010-04-02 23:31:28 +00002871 sending CTRL+C and CTRL+BREAK events to console subprocesses.
2872
Mark Dickinson154b7ad2010-03-07 16:24:45 +00002873Extension Modules
2874-----------------
2875
Martin v. Löwis16ea5482010-04-07 11:01:46 +00002876- Issue #8314: Fix unsigned long long bug in libffi on Sparc v8.
2877
Matthias Klosee9fbf2b2010-03-19 14:45:06 +00002878- Issue #1039, #8154: Fix os.execlp() crash with missing 2nd argument.
2879
Jesus Cea6557aac2010-03-22 14:22:26 +00002880- Issue #8156: bsddb module updated to version 4.8.4.
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002881 http://www.jcea.es/programacion/pybsddb.htm#bsddb3-4.8.4. This update drops
2882 support for Berkeley DB 4.0, and adds support for 4.8.
Matthias Klose54cc5392010-03-15 12:46:18 +00002883
Jesus Cea616de772010-04-28 10:32:30 +00002884- Issue #3928: os.mknod() now available in Solaris, also.
2885
Matthias Klose817acef2010-03-15 00:02:36 +00002886- Issue #8142: Update libffi to the 3.0.9 release.
2887
Mark Dickinson4846a8e2010-04-03 14:05:10 +00002888- Issue #8300: When passing a non-integer argument to struct.pack with any
2889 integer format code, struct.pack first attempts to convert the non-integer
2890 using its __index__ method. If that method is non-existent or raises
2891 TypeError it goes on to try the __int__ method, as described below.
2892
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002893- Issue #1530559: When passing a non-integer argument to struct.pack with *any*
2894 integer format code (one of 'bBhHiIlLqQ'), struct.pack attempts to use the
2895 argument's __int__ method to convert to an integer before packing. It also
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002896 produces a DeprecationWarning in this case. (In Python 2.6, the behaviour was
2897 inconsistent: __int__ was used for some integer codes but not for others, and
2898 the set of integer codes for which it was used differed between native packing
2899 and standard packing.)
Mark Dickinson154b7ad2010-03-07 16:24:45 +00002900
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002901- Issue #7347: _winreg: Add CreateKeyEx and DeleteKeyEx, as well as fix a bug in
2902 the return value of QueryReflectionKey.
Brian Curtin19479fa2010-04-02 21:51:37 +00002903
Antoine Pitrou02b3f0a2010-03-13 21:21:30 +00002904Tools/Demos
2905-----------
2906
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002907- Issue #7993: Add a test of IO packet processing bandwidth to ccbench. It
2908 measures the number of UDP packets processed per second depending on the
2909 number of background CPU-bound Python threads.
Benjamin Peterson5da7e7c2010-03-06 22:44:07 +00002910
Collin Wintera70f3492010-03-19 00:08:44 +00002911- python-config now supports multiple options on the same command line.
2912
Benjamin Peterson11d93232010-03-14 14:24:31 +00002913Build
2914-----
2915
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002916- Issue #8032: For gdb7, a python-gdb.py file is added to the build, allowing to
2917 use advanced gdb features when debugging Python.
Martin v. Löwisbf0dfb32010-04-01 07:40:51 +00002918
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002919- Issue #1628484: The Makefile doesn't ignore the CFLAGS environment variable
2920 anymore. It also forwards the LDFLAGS settings to the linker when building a
2921 shared library.
Antoine Pitrouf83b3082010-03-21 19:19:41 +00002922
Martin v. Löwis24e4e162010-03-15 13:00:17 +00002923- Issue #6716: Quote -x arguments of compileall in MSI installer.
2924
Benjamin Peterson11d93232010-03-14 14:24:31 +00002925- Issue #7705: Fix linking on FreeBSD.
2926
Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven6d22cfc2010-04-07 16:34:08 +00002927- Make sure that the FreeBSD build of the included libffi uses the proper
2928 assembly file.
2929
Larry Hastings402b73f2010-03-25 00:54:54 +00002930C-API
2931-----
2932
Antoine Pitrou76c86492010-04-01 16:42:11 +00002933- Issue #8276: PyEval_CallObject() is now only available in macro form. The
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002934 function declaration, which was kept for backwards compatibility reasons, is
2935 now removed (the macro was introduced in 1997!).
Antoine Pitrou76c86492010-04-01 16:42:11 +00002936
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002937- Issue #7992: A replacement PyCObject API, PyCapsule, has been backported from
2938 Python 3.1. All existing Python CObjects in the main distribution have been
2939 converted to capsules. To address backwards-compatibility concerns,
2940 PyCObject_AsVoidPtr() was changed to understand capsules.
Larry Hastings402b73f2010-03-25 00:54:54 +00002941
Florent Xicluna3cc8f212010-03-15 18:08:58 +00002942Tests
2943-----
2944
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002945- Issue #3864: Skip three test_signal tests on freebsd6 because they fail if any
2946 thread was previously started, most likely due to a platform bug.
R. David Murraye0e8a872010-04-17 05:26:26 +00002947
Antoine Pitrouab5ce722010-04-11 22:45:47 +00002948- Issue #8348: Fix test ftp url in test_urllib2net.
2949
2950- Issue #8204: Fix test_ttk notebook test by forcing focus.
2951
2952- Issue #8344: Fix test_ttk bug on FreeBSD.
2953
Antoine Pitrou3b4c9892010-04-06 17:21:09 +00002954- Issue #8193: Fix test_zlib failure with zlib 1.2.4.
2955
Antoine Pitrou6032c252010-03-30 18:49:45 +00002956- Issue #8248: Add some tests for the bool type. Patch by Gregory Nofi.
2957
Florent Xicluna75c66762010-03-30 16:31:14 +00002958- Issue #8263: Now regrtest.py will report a failure if it receives a
2959 KeyboardInterrupt (SIGINT).
2960
Florent Xicluna8aa5a582010-03-25 20:33:49 +00002961- Issue #8180 and #8207: Fix test_pep277 on OS X and add more tests for special
2962 Unicode normalization cases.
Florent Xicluna77a88492010-03-21 18:00:38 +00002963
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002964- Issue #7783: test.test_support.open_urlresource invalidates the outdated files
2965 from the local cache.
Florent Xicluna3cc8f212010-03-15 18:08:58 +00002966
R. David Murray4617e502010-03-08 02:04:06 +00002967
Benjamin Peterson2d798ac2010-02-06 18:26:27 +00002968What's New in Python 2.7 alpha 4?
2969=================================
2970
Benjamin Peterson8e7c1172010-03-06 20:34:14 +00002971*Release date: 2010-03-06*
Benjamin Peterson2d798ac2010-02-06 18:26:27 +00002972
2973Core and Builtins
2974-----------------
2975
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002976- Issue #7544: Preallocate thread memory before creating the thread to avoid a
2977 fatal error in low memory condition.
Victor Stinner71fb87e2010-03-03 23:20:25 +00002978
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002979- Issue #7820: The parser tokenizer restores all bytes in the right if the BOM
2980 check fails.
Victor Stinnerd23d3932010-03-02 23:20:02 +00002981
Eric Smith2d9856d2010-02-24 14:15:36 +00002982- Issue #7309: Fix unchecked attribute access when converting
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002983 UnicodeEncodeError, UnicodeDecodeError, and UnicodeTranslateError to strings.
Eric Smith2d9856d2010-02-24 14:15:36 +00002984
Ezio Melotti32125152010-02-25 17:36:04 +00002985- Issue #7649: "u'%c' % char" now behaves like "u'%s' % char" and raises a
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002986 UnicodeDecodeError if 'char' is a byte string that can't be decoded using the
2987 default encoding.
Victor Stinnerf20f9c22010-02-23 23:16:07 +00002988
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002989- Issue #6902: Fix problem with built-in types format incorrectly with 0
2990 padding.
Eric Smith87bcb242010-02-23 00:11:16 +00002991
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002992- Issue #2560: Remove an unnecessary 'for' loop from ``my_fgets()`` in
Andrew M. Kuchlingb64d6132010-02-22 22:48:41 +00002993 Parser/myreadline.c.
2994
Eric Smithf32d4ac2010-02-22 18:33:47 +00002995- Issue #7988: Fix default alignment to be right aligned for
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002996 ``complex.__format__``. Now it matches other numeric types.
Eric Smithf32d4ac2010-02-22 18:33:47 +00002997
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002998- Issue #5211: The complex type no longer uses implicit coercion in mixed-type
2999 binary arithmetic operations.
Mark Dickinson82b34c52010-02-21 12:57:35 +00003000
Benjamin Peterson2d798ac2010-02-06 18:26:27 +00003001Library
3002-------
Georg Brandl7f0c3ff2010-08-01 21:18:52 +00003003
Senthil Kumaranc1d0ed22010-12-04 09:58:29 +00003004- Issue #7904: Changes to urllib.parse.urlsplit to handle schemes as defined by
3005 RFC3986. Anything before :// is considered a scheme and is followed by an
3006 authority (or netloc) and by '/' led path, which is optional.
3007
R. David Murray05b76312010-07-17 01:35:16 +00003008- Issue #1555570: email no longer inserts extra blank lines when a \r\n
3009 combo crosses an 8192 byte boundary.
Benjamin Peterson2d798ac2010-02-06 18:26:27 +00003010
Florent Xicluna0b9a18a2010-03-06 11:01:08 +00003011- Issue #6906: Tk should not set Unicode environment variables on Windows.
3012
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003013- Issue #1054943: Fix ``unicodedata.normalize('NFC', text)`` for the Public
Ezio Melotti8122bdd2010-03-14 10:13:49 +00003014 Review Issue #29 (http://unicode.org/review/pr-29.html).
Victor Stinner7c924ec2010-03-04 12:09:33 +00003015
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003016- Issue #7494: Fix a crash in ``_lsprof`` (cProfile) after clearing the profiler,
Victor Stinner56a51532010-03-04 00:10:12 +00003017 reset also the pointer to the current pointer context.
3018
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003019- Issue #7232: Add support for the context manager protocol to the
3020 ``tarfile.TarFile`` class.
Lars Gustäbel64581042010-03-03 11:55:48 +00003021
Barry Warsaw08a8fb32010-03-01 21:46:51 +00003022- Issue #7250: Fix info leak of os.environ across multi-run uses of
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003023 ``wsgiref.handlers.CGIHandler``.
Barry Warsaw08a8fb32010-03-01 21:46:51 +00003024
Florent Xiclunae7901c52010-03-01 20:45:01 +00003025- Issue #1729305: Fix doctest to handle encode error with "backslashreplace".
Florent Xicluna2a903b22010-02-27 13:31:23 +00003026
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003027- Issue #691291: ``codecs.open()`` should not convert end of lines on reading
3028 and writing.
Florent Xicluna82aa01f2010-02-27 11:19:18 +00003029
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003030- Issue #7975: Correct regression in dict methods supported by bsddb.dbshelve.
R. David Murray48605be2010-02-24 02:31:27 +00003031
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003032- Issue #7959: ctypes callback functions are now registered correctly with the
3033 cycle garbage collector.
Thomas Heller92bd0592010-02-23 20:11:44 +00003034
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003035- Issue #7970: ``email.Generator.flatten`` now correctly flattens
3036 message/rfc822 messages parsed by ``email.Parser.HeaderParser``.
R. David Murray51f12042010-02-21 04:23:00 +00003037
Ezio Melotti4cc80ca2010-02-20 08:09:39 +00003038- Issue #3426: ``os.path.abspath`` now returns unicode when its arg is unicode.
3039
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003040- Issue #7633: In the decimal module, ``Context`` class methods (with the
3041 exception of canonical and is_canonical) now accept instances of int and long
3042 wherever a Decimal instance is accepted, and implicitly convert that argument
3043 to Decimal. Previously only some arguments were converted.
Mark Dickinson6d8effb2010-02-18 14:27:02 +00003044
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003045- Issue #6003: Add an argument to ``zipfile.Zipfile.writestr`` to specify the
3046 compression type.
Ezio Melotti8f6a2872010-02-10 21:40:33 +00003047
Michael Foorddb43b5a2010-02-10 14:25:12 +00003048- Issue #7893: ``unittest.TextTestResult`` is made public and a ``resultclass``
3049 argument added to the TextTestRunner constructor allowing a different result
3050 class to be used without having to subclass.
Ezio Melotti8f6a2872010-02-10 21:40:33 +00003051
Ezio Melotti4cc80ca2010-02-20 08:09:39 +00003052- Issue #7588: ``unittest.TextTestResult.getDescription`` now includes the test
Michael Foorddb43b5a2010-02-10 14:25:12 +00003053 name in failure reports even if the test has a docstring.
Ronald Oussorendd25e862010-02-07 20:18:02 +00003054
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003055- Issue #5801: Remove spurious empty lines in wsgiref.
Tarek Ziadéb8708a22010-02-23 05:53:05 +00003056
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003057- Issue #1537721: Add a ``writeheader()`` method to ``csv.DictWriter``.
Dirkjan Ochtman86148172010-02-23 21:09:52 +00003058
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003059- Issue #7427: Improve the representation of httplib.BadStatusLine exceptions.
Dirkjan Ochtmanebc73dc2010-02-24 04:49:00 +00003060
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003061- Issue #7481: When a ``threading.Thread`` failed to start it would leave the
3062 instance stuck in initial state and present in ``threading.enumerate()``.
Gregory P. Smith613c7a52010-02-28 18:36:09 +00003063
Gregory P. Smithcce211f2010-03-01 00:05:08 +00003064- Issue #1068268: The subprocess module now handles EINTR in internal
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003065 ``os.waitpid()`` and ``os.read()`` system calls where appropriate.
Gregory P. Smithcce211f2010-03-01 00:05:08 +00003066
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003067- Issue #6729: Add ``ctypes.c_ssize_t`` to represent ssize_t.
Gregory P. Smith3c699d32010-03-01 04:56:12 +00003068
Steven Betharde9330e72010-03-02 08:38:09 +00003069- Issue #6247: The argparse module has been added to the standard library.
3070
Martin v. Löwis413fabc2010-02-18 09:22:20 +00003071Extension Modules
3072-----------------
3073
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003074- The sqlite3 module was updated to pysqlite 2.6.0. This fixes several obscure
Gerhard Häring3bbb6722010-03-05 09:12:37 +00003075 bugs and allows loading SQLite extensions from shared libraries.
3076
Florent Xiclunae7901c52010-03-01 20:45:01 +00003077- Issue #7808: Fix reference leaks in _bsddb and related tests.
3078
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003079- Issue #6544: Fix a reference leak in the kqueue implementation's error
Georg Brandlea370a92010-02-23 21:48:57 +00003080 handling.
3081
Martin v. Löwis413fabc2010-02-18 09:22:20 +00003082- Stop providing crtassem.h symbols when compiling with Visual Studio 2010, as
3083 msvcr100.dll is not a platform assembly anymore.
Benjamin Peterson2d798ac2010-02-06 18:26:27 +00003084
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003085- Issue #7242: On Solaris 9 and earlier calling ``os.fork()`` from within a
Gregory P. Smith9e5d1322010-03-01 01:22:39 +00003086 thread could raise an incorrect RuntimeError about not holding the import
3087 lock. The import lock is now reinitialized after fork.
3088
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003089- Issue #7999: ``os.setreuid()`` and ``os.setregid()`` would refuse to accept a
3090 -1 parameter on some platforms such as OS X.
Gregory P. Smith6a65f852010-03-01 05:43:43 +00003091
Ezio Melotti8f6a2872010-02-10 21:40:33 +00003092Tests
3093-----
3094
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003095- Issue #7849: The utility ``test.test_support.check_warnings()`` verifies if
3096 warnings are effectively raised. A new utility ``check_py3k_warnings()`` is
3097 available.
Florent Xicluna6de9e932010-03-07 12:18:33 +00003098
Florent Xicluna985478d2010-03-06 18:52:52 +00003099- The four path modules (genericpath, macpath, ntpath, posixpath) share a
3100 common TestCase for some tests: test_genericpath.CommonTest.
3101
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003102- Print platform information when running the whole test suite, or using the
3103 ``--verbose`` flag.
Florent Xicluna58526412010-03-06 17:24:36 +00003104
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003105- Issue #767675: Enable test_pep277 on POSIX platforms with Unicode-friendly
Florent Xiclunac0a9d412010-03-02 22:34:11 +00003106 filesystem encoding.
Florent Xicluna2db61fb2010-03-02 21:34:45 +00003107
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003108- Issue #6292: For the moment at least, the test suite runs cleanly if python
R. David Murrayf28fd242010-02-23 00:24:49 +00003109 is run with the -OO flag. Tests requiring docstrings are skipped.
3110
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003111- Issue #7712: test_support gained a new ``temp_cwd`` context manager which is
3112 now also used by regrtest to run all the tests in a temporary directory. The
3113 original CWD is saved in ``test.test_support.SAVEDCWD``. Thanks to Florent
3114 Xicluna who helped with the patch.
Ezio Melotti8f6a2872010-02-10 21:40:33 +00003115
Martin v. Löwis5e2dd862010-02-15 08:32:00 +00003116Build
3117-----
3118
Martin v. Löwis7875ef62010-02-15 21:41:12 +00003119- Issue #3920, #7903: Define _BSD_SOURCE on OpenBSD 4.4 through 4.9.
Martin v. Löwis5e2dd862010-02-15 08:32:00 +00003120
Ezio Melotti8f6a2872010-02-10 21:40:33 +00003121
Benjamin Petersondd6d92a2010-01-09 17:30:31 +00003122What's New in Python 2.7 alpha 3?
3123=================================
3124
Benjamin Petersona7be9d22010-02-06 16:37:32 +00003125*Release date: 2010-02-06*
Benjamin Petersondd6d92a2010-01-09 17:30:31 +00003126
3127Core and Builtins
3128-----------------
3129
Antoine Pitroubb445a12010-02-05 17:05:54 +00003130- Issue #5677: Explicitly forbid write operations on read-only file objects,
3131 and read operations on write-only file objects. On Windows, the system C
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003132 library would return a bogus result; on Solaris, it was possible to crash the
3133 interpreter. Patch by Stefan Krah.
Antoine Pitroubb445a12010-02-05 17:05:54 +00003134
Barry Warsawb1e66ee2010-02-05 18:45:25 +00003135- Issue #7853: Normalize exceptions before they are passed to a context
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003136 manager's ``__exit__()`` method.
Benjamin Peterson565d7852010-02-05 02:12:14 +00003137
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003138- Issue #7385: Fix a crash in ``PyMemoryView_FromObject()`` when
3139 ``PyObject_GetBuffer()`` fails. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
Antoine Pitrou526e4212010-02-02 22:36:17 +00003140
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003141- Issue #7819: Check ``sys.call_tracing()`` arguments types.
Victor Stinnerb4b0a292010-01-31 22:32:15 +00003142
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003143- Issue #7788: Fix an interpreter crash produced by deleting a list slice with
3144 very large step value.
Mark Dickinson36ecd672010-01-29 17:11:39 +00003145
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003146- Issue #7766: Change ``sys.getwindowsversion()`` return value to a named tuple
3147 and add the additional members returned in an OSVERSIONINFOEX structure. The
3148 new members are service_pack_major, service_pack_minor, suite_mask, and
3149 product_type.
Eric Smithee931b72010-01-27 00:28:29 +00003150
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003151- Issue #7561: Operations on empty bytearrays (such as ``int(bytearray())``)
3152 could crash in many places because of the ``PyByteArray_AS_STRING()`` macro
3153 returning NULL. The macro now returns a statically allocated empty string
3154 instead.
Antoine Pitroue80a6a42010-01-17 12:26:20 +00003155
Antoine Pitrou64672132010-01-13 07:55:48 +00003156- Issue #7622: Improve the split(), rsplit(), splitlines() and replace()
3157 methods of bytes, bytearray and unicode objects by using a common
3158 implementation based on stringlib's fast search. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
3159
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003160- Issue #7632: Fix various str -> float conversion bugs present in 2.7 alpha 2,
3161 including:
Mark Dickinson8efef5c2010-01-12 22:23:56 +00003162
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003163 (1) a serious 'wrong output' bug that could occur for long (> 40 digit) input
3164 strings,
3165 (2) a crash in dtoa.c that occurred in debug builds when parsing certain long
3166 numeric strings corresponding to subnormal values,
3167 (3) a memory leak for some values large enough to cause overflow, and
3168 (4) a number of flaws that could lead to incorrectly rounded results.
3169
3170- Issue #7319, #7770: Silence ``DeprecationWarning`` by default when the -3
3171 option is not used.
Brett Cannon6fdd3dc2010-01-10 02:56:19 +00003172
Alexandre Vassalottiee936a22010-01-09 23:35:54 +00003173- Issue #2335: Backport set literals syntax from Python 3.x.
3174
Alexandre Vassalotti7a8df802010-01-11 23:13:49 +00003175- Issue #2333: Backport set and dict comprehensions syntax from Python 3.x.
3176
Alexandre Vassalotti69eb5162010-01-11 23:17:10 +00003177- Issue #1967: Backport dictionary views from Python 3.x.
3178
Benjamin Petersondd6d92a2010-01-09 17:30:31 +00003179Library
3180-------
3181
Mark Dickinson42add992010-07-11 19:17:28 +00003182- Issue #9137: Fix issue in MutableMapping.update, which incorrectly
3183 treated keyword arguments called 'self' or 'other' specially.
3184
R. David Murray63e4fd72010-02-10 22:42:04 +00003185- Issue #7835: shelve should no longer produce mysterious warnings during
3186 interpreter shutdown.
3187
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003188- Issue #2746: Don't escape ampersands and angle brackets ("&", "<", ">") in
3189 XML processing instructions and comments. These raw characters are allowed
3190 by the XML specification, and are necessary when outputting e.g. PHP code in
3191 a processing instruction. Patch by Neil Muller.
Antoine Pitrou42fb6ab2010-02-09 17:08:05 +00003192
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003193- Issue #7869: logging: Improved diagnostic for format-time errors.
Vinay Sajip64e8b972010-02-07 12:56:54 +00003194
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003195- Issue #7868: logging: Added loggerClass attribute to Manager.
Vinay Sajip657514a2010-02-07 01:37:08 +00003196
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003197- Issue #7851: logging: Clarification on logging configuration files.
Vinay Sajip0e6e97d2010-02-04 20:23:45 +00003198
Antoine Pitroud840e512010-02-04 20:20:18 +00003199- Issue #4772: Raise a ValueError when an unknown Bluetooth protocol is
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003200 specified, rather than fall through to AF_PACKET (in the ``socket`` module).
Antoine Pitroud840e512010-02-04 20:20:18 +00003201 Also, raise ValueError rather than TypeError when an unknown TIPC address
3202 type is specified. Patch by Brian Curtin.
3203
Vinay Sajip28c382f2010-02-04 18:48:53 +00003204- logging: Implemented PEP 391.
3205
Antoine Pitrouf3fa0742010-01-31 22:26:04 +00003206- Issue #6939: Fix file I/O objects in the `io` module to keep the original
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003207 file position when calling `truncate()`. It would previously change the file
3208 position to the given argument, which goes against the tradition of
Antoine Pitrouf3fa0742010-01-31 22:26:04 +00003209 ftruncate() and other truncation APIs. Patch by Pascal Chambon.
3210
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003211- Issue #7610: Reworked implementation of the internal ``zipfile.ZipExtFile``
3212 class used to represent files stored inside an archive. The new
3213 implementation is significantly faster and can be wrapped in a
3214 ``io.BufferedReader`` object for more speedups. It also solves an issue
3215 where interleaved calls to ``read()`` and ``readline()`` give wrong results.
3216 Patch by Nir Aides.
Antoine Pitrou94c33eb2010-01-27 20:59:50 +00003217
Benjamin Peterson2deb5c72010-01-27 02:16:42 +00003218- Issue #7792: Registering non-classes to ABCs raised an obscure error.
3219
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003220- Removed the deprecated functions ``verify()`` and ``vereq()`` from
3221 Lib/test/test_support.py.
Ezio Melotti82230f92010-01-25 12:37:02 +00003222
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003223- Issue #7773: Fix an UnboundLocalError in ``platform.linux_distribution()``
3224 when the release file is empty.
Benjamin Petersona43f34c2010-01-25 03:31:13 +00003225
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003226- Issue #7748: Since unicode values are supported for some metadata options in
3227 Distutils, the DistributionMetadata get_* methods will now return an utf-8
3228 encoded string for them. This ensures that the upload and register commands
3229 send the correct values to PyPI without any error.
Tarek Ziadéf14c7fc2010-01-24 00:33:32 +00003230
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003231- Issue #1670765: Prevent ``email.generator.Generator`` from re-wrapping
R. David Murrayed44dfa2010-01-16 05:15:17 +00003232 headers in multipart/signed MIME parts, which fixes one of the sources of
3233 invalid modifications to such parts by Generator.
3234
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003235- Issue #7701: Fix crash in ``binascii.b2a_uu()`` in debug mode when given a
Antoine Pitrouc391ad02010-01-15 00:18:00 +00003236 1-byte argument. Patch by Victor Stinner.
3237
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003238- Issue #3299: Fix possible crash in the _sre module when given bad argument
3239 values in debug mode. Patch by Victor Stinner.
Antoine Pitrouefdddd32010-01-14 17:25:24 +00003240
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003241- Issue #7703: Add support for the new buffer API to functions of the binascii
3242 module. Backported from py3k by Florent Xicluna, with some additional tests.
Antoine Pitroufd3a60d2010-01-14 16:27:09 +00003243
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003244- Issue #2846: Add support for gzip.GzipFile reading zero-padded files. Patch
3245 by Brian Curtin.
Antoine Pitrou5a9112c2010-01-13 14:32:10 +00003246
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003247- Issue #5827: Make sure that normpath preserves unicode. Initial patch by
3248 Matt Giuca.
Ezio Melottib5689de2010-01-12 03:32:05 +00003249
Tarek Ziadédc0f4872010-01-11 22:50:29 +00003250- Issue #5372: Drop the reuse of .o files in Distutils' ccompiler (since
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003251 Extension extra options may change the output without changing the .c file).
3252 Initial patch by Collin Winter.
Tarek Ziadédc0f4872010-01-11 22:50:29 +00003253
Matthias Klose0d948ac2010-01-22 00:39:04 +00003254Extension Modules
3255-----------------
3256
3257- Expat: Fix DoS via XML document with malformed UTF-8 sequences
3258 (CVE_2009_3560).
3259
Antoine Pitrou8c510e72010-01-13 11:47:49 +00003260Build
3261-----
3262
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003263- Issue #7632: When Py_USING_MEMORY_DEBUGGER is defined, disable the private
3264 memory allocation scheme in dtoa.c and use PyMem_Malloc and PyMem_Free
3265 instead. Also disable caching of powers of 5.
Mark Dickinson9481c572010-01-17 20:57:56 +00003266
Ronald Oussorena55af9a2010-01-17 16:25:57 +00003267- Issue #7658: Ensure that the new pythonw executable works on OSX 10.4
3268
3269- Issue #7714: Use ``gcc -dumpversion`` to detect the version of GCC on
3270 MacOSX.
3271
Antoine Pitrou8c510e72010-01-13 11:47:49 +00003272- Issue #7661: Allow ctypes to be built from a non-ASCII directory path.
3273 Patch by Florent Xicluna.
3274
Antoine Pitrouc07336c2010-01-18 21:15:21 +00003275Tools/Demos
3276-----------
3277
3278- iobench (a file I/O benchmark) and ccbench (a concurrency benchmark) were
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003279 added to the ``Tools`` directory. They were previously living in the
Antoine Pitrouc07336c2010-01-18 21:15:21 +00003280 sandbox.
3281
R. David Murrayce6e4b02010-02-06 04:27:21 +00003282Tests
3283-----
3284
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003285- issue #7728: test_timeout was changed to use ``test_support.bind_port()``
R. David Murrayce6e4b02010-02-06 04:27:21 +00003286 instead of a hard coded port.
3287
Matthias Klose626d92a2010-01-31 16:05:13 +00003288Documentation
3289-------------
Victor Stinnerf20f9c22010-02-23 23:16:07 +00003290
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003291- Updated "Using Python" documentation to include description of CPython's -J,
3292 -U and -X options.
Barry Warsawb1e66ee2010-02-05 18:45:25 +00003293
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003294- Updated Python manual page (options -B, -O0, -s, environment variables
Matthias Klose626d92a2010-01-31 16:05:13 +00003295 PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE, PYTHONNOUSERSITE).
3296
Benjamin Petersondd6d92a2010-01-09 17:30:31 +00003297
Benjamin Peterson4f51baf2009-12-05 18:40:02 +00003298What's New in Python 2.7 alpha 2?
3299=================================
3300
Benjamin Petersonaa7e51f2010-01-09 16:34:06 +00003301*Release date: 2010-01-09*
Benjamin Peterson4f51baf2009-12-05 18:40:02 +00003302
3303Core and Builtins
3304-----------------
3305
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003306- The ``__complex__()`` method is now looked up on the class of instances to
3307 make it consistent with other special methods.
Benjamin Petersonecdae192010-01-04 00:43:01 +00003308
Antoine Pitrou5b7139a2010-01-02 21:12:58 +00003309- Issue #7462: Implement the stringlib fast search algorithm for the `rfind`,
3310 `rindex`, `rsplit` and `rpartition` methods. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
3311
Mark Dickinson1b34d252010-01-01 17:27:30 +00003312- Issue #5080: A number of functions and methods previously produced a
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003313 DeprecationWarning when passed a float argument where an integer was expected.
3314 These functions and methods now raise TypeError instead. The majority of the
3315 effects of this change are in the extension modules, but some core functions
3316 and methods are affected: notably the 'chr', 'range' and 'xrange' builtins,
3317 and many unicode/str methods.
Mark Dickinson1b34d252010-01-01 17:27:30 +00003318
Benjamin Peterson0f02d392009-12-30 19:34:10 +00003319- Issue #7604: Deleting an unset slotted attribute did not raise an
3320 AttributeError.
3321
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003322- Issue #7534: Fix handling of IEEE specials (infinities, nans, negative zero)
3323 in ** operator. The behaviour now conforms to that described in C99 Annex F.
Mark Dickinson99d652e2009-12-30 12:12:23 +00003324
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003325- Issue #7579: The msvcrt module now has docstrings for all its functions.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcc8a2ce72009-12-29 23:06:17 +00003326
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc8645a5c2009-12-29 22:03:38 +00003327- Issue #7413: Passing '\0' as the separator to datetime.datetime.isoformat()
3328 used to drop the time part of the result.
3329
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003330- Issue #1811: Improve accuracy and cross-platform consistency for true division
3331 of integers: the result of a/b is now correctly rounded for ints a and b (at
3332 least on IEEE 754 platforms), and in particular does not depend on the
3333 internal representation of a long.
Mark Dickinson46572832009-12-27 14:55:57 +00003334
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003335- Issue #6108: ``unicode(exception)`` and ``str(exception)`` should return the
3336 same message when only ``__str__()`` (and not ``__unicode__()``) is overridden
3337 in the subclass.
Ezio Melottif84caf42009-12-24 22:25:17 +00003338
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003339- Issue #6834: Replace the implementation for the 'python' and 'pythonw'
Ronald Oussoren92919a62009-12-24 13:30:58 +00003340 executables on OSX.
3341
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003342 These executables now work properly with the arch(1) command: ``arch -ppc
3343 python`` will start a universal binary version of python in PPC mode (unlike
3344 previous releases).
Ronald Oussoren92919a62009-12-24 13:30:58 +00003345
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003346- Issue #1680159: Unicode coercion during an 'in' operation no longer masks the
3347 underlying error when the coercion fails for the left hand operand.
R. David Murray0a0a1a82009-12-14 16:28:26 +00003348
Benjamin Peterson4895af42009-12-13 16:36:53 +00003349- Issue #7491: Metaclass's __cmp__ method was ignored.
3350
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003351- Issue #7466: Segmentation fault when the garbage collector is called in the
3352 middle of populating a tuple. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
Antoine Pitrou2a08b422009-12-13 16:18:14 +00003353
R. David Murrayc7298ff2009-12-14 21:57:39 +00003354
Benjamin Peterson4f51baf2009-12-05 18:40:02 +00003355Library
3356-------
3357
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003358- Issue #6963: Added "maxtasksperchild" argument to ``multiprocessing.Pool``,
3359 allowing for a maximum number of tasks within the pool to be completed by the
3360 worker before that worker is terminated, and a new one created to replace it.
Jesse Noller654ade32010-01-27 03:05:57 +00003361
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003362- Issue #7617: Make sure distutils.unixccompiler.UnixCCompiler recognizes gcc
3363 when it has a fully qualified configuration prefix. Initial patch by
3364 Arfrever.
Tarek Ziadéc25417f2010-01-08 23:42:23 +00003365
Antoine Pitrou80157252010-01-08 19:20:17 +00003366- Issue #7092: Remove py3k warning when importing cPickle. 2to3 handles
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003367 renaming of `cPickle` to `pickle`. The warning was annoying since there's no
3368 alternative to cPickle if you care about performance. Patch by Florent
Antoine Pitrou80157252010-01-08 19:20:17 +00003369 Xicluna.
3370
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003371- Issue #7455: Fix possible crash in cPickle on invalid input. Patch by Victor
3372 Stinner.
Antoine Pitrou0d423b82010-01-07 17:46:49 +00003373
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003374- Issue #7092: Fix the DeprecationWarnings emitted by the standard library when
3375 using the -3 flag. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
Antoine Pitroub9d49632010-01-04 23:22:44 +00003376
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003377- Issue #7471: Improve the performance of GzipFile's buffering mechanism, and
3378 make it implement the ``io.BufferedIOBase`` ABC to allow for further speedups
3379 by wrapping it in an ``io.BufferedReader``. Patch by Nir Aides.
Antoine Pitrou673ddf92010-01-03 22:29:56 +00003380
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003381- Issue #3972: ``httplib.HTTPConnection`` now accepts an optional source_address
Gregory P. Smith9d325212010-01-03 02:06:07 +00003382 parameter to allow specifying where your connections come from.
3383
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003384- ``socket.create_connection()`` now accepts an optional source_address
3385 parameter.
Gregory P. Smith79a3eb12010-01-03 01:29:44 +00003386
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003387- Issue #5511: ``zipfile.ZipFile`` can now be used as a context manager.
Ezio Melotti569e61f2009-12-30 06:14:51 +00003388 Initial patch by Brian Curtin.
3389
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003390- Distutils now correctly identifies the build architecture as "x86_64" when
3391 building on OSX 10.6 without "-arch" flags.
Ronald Oussorenca8e7ec2009-12-24 14:50:35 +00003392
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003393- Issue #7556: Distutils' msvc9compiler now opens the MSVC Manifest file in text
3394 mode.
Tarek Ziadé0479eb52009-12-21 23:37:44 +00003395
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003396- Issue #7552: Removed line feed in the base64 Authorization header in the
3397 Distutils upload command to avoid an error when PyPI reads it. This occurs on
3398 long passwords. Initial patch by JP St. Pierre.
Tarek Ziadé2421d562009-12-20 23:23:34 +00003399
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003400- Issue #7231: urllib2 cannot handle https with proxy requiring auth. Patch by
3401 Tatsuhiro Tsujikawa.
Senthil Kumaran7713acf2009-12-20 06:05:13 +00003402
Benjamin Petersonddd392c2009-12-13 19:19:07 +00003403- Issue #7349: Make methods of file objects in the io module accept None as an
3404 argument where file-like objects (ie StringIO and BytesIO) accept them to mean
3405 the same as passing no argument.
3406
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003407- Issue #7348: ``StringIO.StringIO.readline(-1)`` now acts as if it got no
3408 argument like other file objects.
Benjamin Petersonc4771d22009-12-13 17:31:31 +00003409
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003410- Issue #7357: tarfile no longer suppresses fatal extraction errors by default.
Lars Gustäbel92ca7562009-12-13 11:32:27 +00003411
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003412- Issue #7470: logging: Fix bug in Unicode encoding fallback.
Vinay Sajip5cc4e2a2009-12-11 09:16:01 +00003413
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003414- Issue #5949: Fixed IMAP4_SSL hang when the IMAP server response is missing
3415 proper end-of-line termination.
R. David Murray93321f32009-12-09 15:15:31 +00003416
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003417- Issue #7457: Added a read_pkg_file method to
3418 ``distutils.dist.DistributionMetadata``.
Benjamin Peterson4f51baf2009-12-05 18:40:02 +00003419
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003420- Issue #3745: Undo the 2.7a1 change to have hashlib to reject unicode and non
3421 buffer API supporting objects as input. That behavior is for 3.x only.
Gregory P. Smithfe32d302010-01-02 22:42:50 +00003422
Georg Brandl740cdc32009-12-28 08:34:58 +00003423C-API
3424-----
3425
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003426- Issue #7767: New function ``PyLong_AsLongLongAndOverflow()`` added, analogous
3427 to ``PyLong_AsLongAndOverflow()``.
Mark Dickinsona36507c2010-01-30 10:08:33 +00003428
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003429- Issue #5080: The argument parsing functions ``PyArg_ParseTuple()``,
3430 ``PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords()``, ``PyArg_VaParse()``,
3431 ``PyArg_VaParseTupleAndKeywords()`` and ``PyArg_Parse()`` no longer accept
3432 float arguments for integer format codes (other than 'L'): previously an
3433 attempt to pass a float resulted in a DeprecationWarning; now it gives a
3434 TypeError. For the 'L' format code (which previously had no warning) there is
3435 now a DeprecationWarning.
Mark Dickinson1b34d252010-01-01 17:27:30 +00003436
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003437- Issue #7033: Function ``PyErr_NewExceptionWithDoc()`` added.
Georg Brandl740cdc32009-12-28 08:34:58 +00003438
Martin v. Löwisb4261d52009-12-21 19:29:59 +00003439Build
3440-----
3441
Benjamin Petersonedfe72f2010-01-01 15:21:13 +00003442- Issue #6491: Allow --with-dbmliborder to specify that no dbms will be built.
3443
Benjamin Petersonb4abef62010-01-01 15:18:38 +00003444- Issue #6943: Use pkg-config to find the libffi headers when the
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003445 ``--with-system-ffi`` flag is used.
Benjamin Petersonb4abef62010-01-01 15:18:38 +00003446
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003447- Issue #7609: Add a ``--with-system-expat`` option that causes the system's
3448 expat library to be used for the pyexpat module instead of the one included
3449 with Python.
Benjamin Peterson2c196742009-12-31 03:17:18 +00003450
Benjamin Peterson500ce232009-12-30 02:58:50 +00003451- Issue #7589: Only build the nis module when the correct header files are
3452 found.
3453
Martin v. Löwisf477b932010-01-02 09:25:21 +00003454- Switch to OpenSSL 0.9.8l and sqlite 3.6.21 on Windows.
R. David Murray93321f32009-12-09 15:15:31 +00003455
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003456- Issue #7541: when using ``python-config`` with a framework install the
3457 compiler might use the wrong library.
Ronald Oussorenb5afe542009-12-24 14:17:19 +00003458
R. David Murrayc7298ff2009-12-14 21:57:39 +00003459Tests
3460-----
3461
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003462- Issue #7376: Instead of running a self-test (which was failing) when called
R. David Murray77e48ba2009-12-20 16:46:06 +00003463 with no arguments, doctest.py now gives a usage message.
3464
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003465- Issue #7396: Fix regrtest -s, which was broken by the -j enhancement.
R. David Murray98e3df32009-12-16 11:49:46 +00003466
R. David Murrayc7298ff2009-12-14 21:57:39 +00003467- Issue #7498: test_multiprocessing now uses test_support.find_unused_port
3468 instead of a hardcoded port number in test_rapid_restart.
3469
3470
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +00003471What's New in Python 2.7 alpha 1
3472================================
3473
Benjamin Peterson3513c872009-12-05 18:48:13 +00003474*Release date: 2009-12-05*
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +00003475
3476Core and Builtins
3477-----------------
3478
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003479- Issue #7419: ``locale.setlocale()`` could crash the interpreter on Windows
3480 when called with invalid values.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd7288712009-12-01 21:51:04 +00003481
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003482- Issue #3382: 'F' formatting for float and complex now convert the result to
3483 upper case. This only affects 'inf' and 'nan', since 'f' no longer converts
3484 to 'g' for large values.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd7288712009-12-01 21:51:04 +00003485
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003486- Remove switch from "%f" formatting to "%g" formatting for floats larger than
3487 1e50 in absolute value.
Mark Dickinson9dd5e162009-11-23 20:54:09 +00003488
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003489- Remove restrictions on precision when formatting floats. E.g., "%.120g" %
3490 1e-100 used to raise OverflowError, but now gives the requested 120
3491 significant digits instead.
Mark Dickinson18cfada2009-11-23 18:46:41 +00003492
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003493- Add Py3k warnings for parameter names in parentheses.
Benjamin Peterson89b1a5c2009-11-19 22:58:01 +00003494
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003495- Issue #7362: Give a proper error message for ``def f((x)=3): pass``.
Benjamin Peterson89b1a5c2009-11-19 22:58:01 +00003496
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003497- Issue #7085: Fix crash when importing some extensions in a thread on MacOSX
3498 10.6.
Ronald Oussoren315cd0c2009-11-19 16:25:21 +00003499
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003500- Issue #7117: ``repr(x)`` for a float x returns a result based on the shortest
3501 decimal string that's guaranteed to round back to x under correct rounding
3502 (with round-half-to-even rounding mode). Previously it gave a string based on
3503 rounding x to 17 decimal digits. repr(x) for a complex number behaves
3504 similarly. On platforms where the correctly-rounded strtod and dtoa code is
3505 not supported (see below), repr is unchanged.
Mark Dickinsonb678de82009-11-19 18:41:49 +00003506
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003507- Issue #7117: On almost all platforms: float-to-string and string-to-float
3508 conversions within Python are now correctly rounded. Places these conversions
3509 occur include: str for floats and complex numbers; the float and complex
3510 constructors; old-style and new-style numeric formatting; serialization and
3511 deserialization of floats and complex numbers using marshal, pickle and json;
3512 parsing of float and imaginary literals in Python code; Decimal-to-float
3513 conversion.
Mark Dickinsonb678de82009-11-19 18:41:49 +00003514
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003515 The conversions use a Python-adapted version of David Gay's well-known dtoa.c,
3516 providing correctly-rounded strtod and dtoa C functions. This code is
3517 supported on Windows, and on Unix-like platforms using gcc, icc or suncc as
3518 the C compiler. There may be a small number of platforms on which correct
3519 operation of this code cannot be guaranteed, so the code is not used: notably,
3520 this applies to platforms where the C double format is not IEEE 754 binary64,
3521 and to platforms on x86 hardware where the x87 FPU is set to 64-bit precision
3522 and Python's configure script is unable to determine how to change the FPU
3523 precision. On these platforms conversions use the platform strtod and dtoa,
3524 as before.
Mark Dickinsonb678de82009-11-19 18:41:49 +00003525
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003526- Issue #7117: Backport round implementation from Python 3.x. ``round()`` now
3527 uses the correctly-rounded string <-> float conversions described above (when
3528 available), and so produces correctly rounded results that will display nicely
3529 under the float repr. There are two related small changes: (1) round now
3530 accepts any class with an ``__index__()`` method for its second argument (but
3531 no longer accepts floats for the second argument), and (2) an excessively
3532 large second integer argument (e.g., ``round(1.234, 10**100)``) no longer
3533 raises an exception.
Mark Dickinsonbd15a062009-11-18 19:33:35 +00003534
Philip Jenveyfab8be22009-11-17 02:42:26 +00003535- Issue #1757126: Fix the cyrillic-asian alias for the ptcp154 encoding.
3536
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003537- Fix several issues with ``compile()``. The input can now contain Windows and
3538 Mac newlines and is no longer required to end in a newline.
Benjamin Petersone36199b2009-11-12 23:39:44 +00003539
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003540- Remove length limitation when constructing a complex number from a unicode
3541 string.
Mark Dickinsonc04c7c52009-10-26 22:28:14 +00003542
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003543- Issue #7244: ``itertools.izip_longest()`` no longer ignores exceptions raised
3544 during the formation of an output tuple.
Raymond Hettingerfa7dadd2009-11-01 20:45:16 +00003545
Mark Dickinson8d87dc02009-10-25 20:39:06 +00003546- Issue #1087418: Boost performance of bitwise operations for longs.
3547
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003548- Issue #1722344: ``threading._shutdown()`` is now called in ``Py_Finalize()``,
3549 which fixes the problem of some exceptions being thrown at shutdown when the
3550 interpreter is killed. Patch by Adam Olsen.
Antoine Pitrouefb60c02009-10-20 21:29:37 +00003551
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003552- Issue #7168: Document ``PyFloat_AsString()`` and ``PyFloat_AsReprString()``,
3553 and note that they are unsafe and deprecated.
Eric Smithc12781a2009-10-19 14:38:14 +00003554
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003555- Issue #7120: logging: Remove import of multiprocessing which is causing crash
3556 in GAE.
Vinay Sajip03d5c342009-10-16 14:06:44 +00003557
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003558- Issue #7140: The ``__dict__`` of a module should not be cleared unless the
3559 module is the only object holding a reference to it.
Benjamin Peterson196b0922009-10-15 15:44:46 +00003560
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003561- Issue #1754094: Improve the stack depth calculation in the compiler. There
3562 should be no other effect than a small decrease in memory use. Patch by
3563 Christopher Tur Lesniewski-Laas.
Neil Schemenauer7fdd1cb2009-10-14 17:17:14 +00003564
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003565- Issue #7084: Fix a (very unlikely) crash when printing a list from one thread,
3566 and mutating it from another one. Patch by Scott Dial.
Antoine Pitroubeaf6a02009-10-11 21:03:26 +00003567
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd0052d12009-10-06 19:56:32 +00003568- Issue #1571184: The Unicode database contains properties for more characters.
3569 The tables for code points representing numeric values, white spaces or line
3570 breaks are now generated from the official Unicode Character Database files,
3571 and include information from the Unihan.txt file.
3572
Benjamin Peterson7adbb5a2009-10-03 20:23:24 +00003573- Issue #7050: Fix a SystemError when trying to use unpacking and augmented
3574 assignment.
3575
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003576- Issue #5329: Fix ``os.popen*`` regression from 2.5 with commands as a sequence
3577 running through the shell. Patch by Jean-Paul Calderone and Jani Hakala.
Philip Jenvey8b902042009-09-29 19:10:15 +00003578
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003579- Issue #7019: Raise ValueError when unmarshalling bad long data, instead of
3580 producing internally inconsistent Python longs.
Mark Dickinson7e7a3ec2009-09-29 19:01:06 +00003581
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003582- Issue #6990: Fix ``threading.local`` subclasses leaving old state around after
3583 a reference cycle GC which could be recycled by new locals.
Philip Jenveydbf3b252009-09-29 04:32:44 +00003584
Benjamin Peterson9db55402009-09-18 21:47:27 +00003585- Issue #6300: unicode.encode, unicode.decode, str.decode, and str.encode now
Benjamin Peterson332d7212009-09-18 21:14:55 +00003586 take keyword arguments.
3587
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003588- Issue #6922: Fix an infinite loop when trying to decode an invalid UTF-32
3589 stream with a non-raising error handler like "replace" or "ignore".
Georg Brandle9741f32009-09-17 11:28:09 +00003590
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003591- Issue #6713: Improve performance of base 10 int -> string and long -> string
3592 conversions.
Mark Dickinsonaa2adc82009-09-16 22:10:56 +00003593
Thomas Wouters2920adb2009-09-16 20:36:34 +00003594- Issue #1590864: Fix potential deadlock when mixing threads and fork().
3595
Georg Brandl0674d3f2009-09-16 20:30:09 +00003596- Issue #6844: Do not emit DeprecationWarnings when accessing a "message"
3597 attribute on exceptions that was set explicitly.
3598
Mark Dickinsonc8a7c7c2009-09-06 10:03:31 +00003599- Issue #6846: Fix bug where bytearray.pop() returns negative integers.
3600
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003601- ``classmethod()`` no longer checks if its argument is callable.
Benjamin Peterson6fcf9b52009-09-01 22:27:57 +00003602
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003603- Issue #6750: A text file opened with ``io.open()`` could duplicate its output
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfff896b2009-08-29 18:14:40 +00003604 when writing from multiple threads at the same time.
3605
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003606- Issue #6704: Improve the col_offset in AST for "for" statements with a target
3607 of tuple unpacking.
Benjamin Petersonc0ba8282009-08-15 22:59:21 +00003608
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003609- Issue #6707: ``dir()`` on an uninitialized module caused a crash.
Benjamin Peterson4c6e8082009-08-15 13:16:38 +00003610
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003611- Issue #6540: Fixed crash for ``bytearray.translate()`` with invalid parameters.
Georg Brandlec812ca2009-07-22 11:57:15 +00003612
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003613- Issue #6573: ``set.union()`` stopped processing inputs if an instance of self
Raymond Hettingerc2b9e1a2009-07-27 20:32:04 +00003614 occurred in the argument chain.
3615
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc9d11fef2009-07-13 20:03:21 +00003616- Issue #1616979: Added the cp720 (Arabic DOS) encoding.
3617
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003618- Issue #6070: On posix platforms import no longer copies the execute bit from
3619 the .py file to the .pyc file if it is set. Patch by Marco N.
R. David Murray23a736a2009-07-07 01:06:13 +00003620
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003621- Issue #4618: When unicode arguments are passed to ``print()``, the default
Benjamin Peterson753d1622009-07-02 18:16:45 +00003622 separator and end should be unicode also.
3623
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00003624- Issue #6119: Fixed an incorrect Py3k warning about order comparisons of
3625 built-in functions and methods.
Benjamin Peterson1bf47652009-07-02 17:06:17 +00003626
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003627- Issue #6347: Include inttypes.h as well as stdint.h in pyport.h. This fixes a
3628 build failure on HP-UX: int32_t and uint32_t are defined in inttypes.h instead
3629 of stdint.h on that platform.
Mark Dickinson2f865b92009-06-30 15:32:30 +00003630
Hirokazu Yamamotoa3c56092009-06-28 10:23:00 +00003631- Issue #4856: Remove checks for win NT.
3632
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc595f7a52009-06-25 22:29:29 +00003633- Issue #2016: Fixed a crash in a corner case where the dictionary of keyword
3634 arguments could be modified during the function call setup.
3635
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc14fc6732009-06-23 21:09:09 +00003636- Removed the ipaddr module.
3637
Raymond Hettinger62641e92009-06-23 20:59:43 +00003638- Issue #6329: Fixed iteration for memoryview objects (it was being blocked
3639 because it wasn't recognized as a sequence).
3640
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003641- Issue #6289: Encoding errors from ``compile()`` were being masked.
Benjamin Peterson08a0bbc2009-06-16 00:29:31 +00003642
Benjamin Petersona72be3b2009-06-13 20:23:33 +00003643- When no module is given in a relative import, the module field of the
3644 ImportFrom AST node is now None instead of an empty string.
3645
Benjamin Peterson565e1b62009-06-13 03:46:30 +00003646- Assignment to None using import statements now raises a SyntaxError.
3647
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003648- Issue #4547: When debugging a very large function, it was not always possible
3649 to update the lineno attribute of the current frame.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcb02ceda2009-06-01 20:53:18 +00003650
Antoine Pitrou46dbe272009-05-30 21:27:00 +00003651- Issue #5330: C functions called with keyword arguments were not reported by
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003652 the various profiling modules (profile, cProfile). Patch by Hagen Fürstenau.
Antoine Pitrou46dbe272009-05-30 21:27:00 +00003653
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003654- Issue #5982: staticmethod and classmethod now expose the wrapped function with
3655 ``__func__``.
Raymond Hettinger578a2282009-05-29 04:58:52 +00003656
Raymond Hettinger822b87f2009-05-29 01:46:48 +00003657- Added support for multiple context managers in the same with-statement.
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003658 Deprecated ``contextlib.nested()`` which is no longer needed.
Georg Brandl944f6842009-05-25 21:02:56 +00003659
Benjamin Peterson1880d8b2009-05-25 13:13:44 +00003660- Issue #6101: A new opcode, SETUP_WITH, has been added to speed up the with
3661 statement and correctly lookup the __enter__ and __exit__ special methods.
3662
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003663- Issue #5829: complex("1e500") no longer raises OverflowError. This makes it
3664 consistent with float("1e500") and interpretation of real and imaginary
3665 literals.
Mark Dickinsona4e0efa2009-05-20 18:43:07 +00003666
Hirokazu Yamamotoa4f90182009-05-17 02:58:36 +00003667- Issue #3527: Removed Py_WIN_WIDE_FILENAMES which is not used any more.
3668
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003669- ``__instancecheck__()`` and ``__subclasscheck__()`` are now completely ignored
3670 on classic classes and instances.
Benjamin Petersoneb9fb2c2009-05-16 22:46:11 +00003671
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003672- Issue #5994: The marshal module now has docstrings.
R. David Murray525cffc2009-05-13 13:07:14 +00003673
Mark Dickinsonb1d45852009-05-11 15:33:08 +00003674- Issue #5981: Fix three minor inf/nan issues in float.fromhex:
Mark Dickinsonb1d45852009-05-11 15:33:08 +00003675
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003676 (1) inf and nan strings with trailing whitespace were incorrectly rejected;
3677 (2) parsing of strings representing infinities and nans was locale aware; and
3678 (3) the interpretation of fromhex('-nan') didn't match that of float('-nan').
Eric Smitha985a3a2009-05-05 18:26:08 +00003679
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003680- Issue #5920: For ``float.__format__()``, change the behavior with the empty
3681 presentation type (that is, not one of 'e', 'f', 'g', or 'n') to be like 'g'
3682 but with at least one decimal point and with a default precision
3683 of 12. Previously, the behavior the same but with a default precision of 6.
3684 This more closely matches ``str()``, and reduces surprises when adding
3685 alignment flags to the empty presentation type. This also affects the new
3686 complex.__format__ in the same way.
3687
3688- Issue #5890: In subclasses of 'property' the __doc__ attribute was shadowed by
3689 classtype's, even if it was None. property now inserts the __doc__ into the
3690 subclass instance __dict__.
R. David Murray7ba8e1c2009-05-04 22:16:24 +00003691
Antoine Pitrou653dece2009-05-04 18:32:32 +00003692- Issue #4426: The UTF-7 decoder was too strict and didn't accept some legal
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003693 sequences. Patch by Nick Barnes and Victor Stinner.
Antoine Pitrou653dece2009-05-04 18:32:32 +00003694
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003695- Issue #1588: Add complex.__format__. For example, ``format(complex(1, 2./3),
3696 '.5')`` now produces a sensible result.
Eric Smith9139cc62009-04-30 00:58:58 +00003697
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003698- Issue #5864: Fix empty format code formatting for floats so that it never
3699 gives more than the requested number of significant digits.
Mark Dickinson92fcc9c2009-04-29 20:41:00 +00003700
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003701- Issue #5793: Rationalize isdigit / isalpha / tolower, etc. Includes new
3702 Py_ISDIGIT / Py_ISALPHA / Py_TOLOWER, etc. in pctypes.h.
Eric Smithcac7af62009-04-27 19:04:37 +00003703
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003704- Issue #4971: Fix titlecase for characters that are their own titlecase, but
3705 not their own uppercase.
Martin v. Löwis99f27792009-04-26 00:53:18 +00003706
Eric Smith068f0652009-04-25 21:40:15 +00003707- Issue #5835: Deprecate PyOS_ascii_formatd and replace it with
3708 _PyOS_double_to_string or PyOS_double_to_string.
3709
Benjamin Peterson5083dc52009-04-25 00:41:22 +00003710- Issue #5283: Setting __class__ in __del__ caused a segfault.
3711
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003712- Issue #5816: ``complex(repr(z))`` now recovers z exactly, even when z involves
3713 nans, infs or negative zeros.
Mark Dickinson95bc9802009-04-24 12:46:53 +00003714
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003715- Implement PEP 378, Format Specifier for Thousands Separator, for floats, ints,
3716 and longs.
Eric Smithaca19e62009-04-22 13:29:05 +00003717
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003718- Issue #5515: 'n' formatting for ints, longs, and floats handles leading zero
3719 formatting poorly.
Eric Smithaca19e62009-04-22 13:29:05 +00003720
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003721- Issue #5772: For float.__format__, don't add a trailing ".0" if we're using no
3722 type code and we have an exponent.
Eric Smithaca19e62009-04-22 13:29:05 +00003723
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003724- Issue #3166: Make long -> float (and int -> float) conversions correctly
3725 rounded.
Mark Dickinson6736cf82009-04-20 21:13:33 +00003726
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003727- Issue #5787: ``object.__getattribute__(some_type, "__bases__")`` segfaulted on
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00003728 some built-in types.
Benjamin Petersond4d400c2009-04-18 20:12:47 +00003729
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003730- Issue #1869: Fix a couple of minor round() issues. ``round(5e15+1)`` was
3731 giving 5e15+2; ``round(-0.0)`` was losing the sign of the zero.
Mark Dickinson1bdf7e92009-04-18 14:59:42 +00003732
Benjamin Peterson99d36f12009-04-15 21:26:36 +00003733- Issue #5759: float() didn't call __float__ on str subclasses.
3734
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003735- Issue #5704: The "-3" command-line option now implies "-t".
Georg Brandl3c4a5462009-04-12 12:08:12 +00003736
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003737- Issue #2170: Refactored ``xml.dom.minidom.normalize``, increasing both its
3738 clarity and its speed.
R. David Murray0374a822009-04-09 21:54:50 +00003739
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003740- Issue #2396: The memoryview object was backported from Python 3.1.
Antoine Pitrou789be0c2009-04-02 21:18:34 +00003741
Georg Brandld3f03fa2009-04-02 18:09:04 +00003742- Fix a problem in PyErr_NormalizeException that leads to "undetected errors"
3743 when hitting the recursion limit under certain circumstances.
3744
Brett Cannon15ba4da2009-04-01 18:03:59 +00003745- Issue #1665206: Remove the last eager import in _warnings.c and make it lazy.
3746
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003747- Issue #4865: On MacOSX /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages is added to the end
3748 sys.path, for compatibility with the system install of Python.
Ronald Oussorene0154ed2009-03-30 23:10:35 +00003749
Antoine Pitrouf8387af2009-03-23 18:41:45 +00003750- Issue #4688: Add a heuristic so that tuples and dicts containing only
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003751 untrackable objects are not tracked by the garbage collector. This can reduce
3752 the size of collections and therefore the garbage collection overhead on
3753 long-running programs, depending on their particular use of datatypes.
Antoine Pitrouf8387af2009-03-23 18:41:45 +00003754
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003755- Issue #5512: Rewrite PyLong long division algorithm (x_divrem) to improve its
3756 performance. Long divisions and remainder operations are now between 50% and
3757 150% faster.
Mark Dickinson0b666bf2009-03-23 18:25:13 +00003758
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003759- Issue #4258: Make it possible to use base 2**30 instead of base 2**15 for the
3760 internal representation of integers, for performance reasons. Base 2**30 is
3761 enabled by default on 64-bit machines. Add --enable-big-digits option to
3762 configure, which overrides the default. Add sys.long_info structseq to
3763 provide information about the internal format.
Mark Dickinsonefc82f72009-03-20 15:51:55 +00003764
Benjamin Peterson6ffe8522009-03-18 20:52:15 +00003765- Issue #4034: Fix weird attribute error messages of the traceback object. (As a
3766 result traceback.__members__ no longer exists.)
3767
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003768- Issue #4474: PyUnicode_FromWideChar now converts characters outside the BMP to
3769 surrogate pairs, on systems with sizeof(wchar_t) == 4 and sizeof(Py_UNICODE)
3770 == 2.
Mark Dickinson6b265f12009-03-18 16:07:26 +00003771
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003772- Issue #5237: Allow auto-numbered fields in str.format(). For example: ``'{}
3773 {}'.format(1, 2) == '1 2'``.
Eric Smith6f42edb2009-03-14 11:57:26 +00003774
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003775- Issue #3652: Make the 'line' argument for ``warnings.showwarning()`` a
Brett Cannon6c4cff02009-03-11 04:51:06 +00003776 requirement. Means the DeprecationWarning from Python 2.6 can go away.
3777
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003778- Issue #5247: Improve error message when unknown format codes are used when
3779 using ``str.format()`` with str, unicode, long, int, and float arguments.
Eric Smithe9fb6862009-02-20 14:02:36 +00003780
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003781- Running Python with the -3 option now also warns about classic division for
3782 ints and longs.
Raymond Hettinger08259e82009-02-18 23:10:19 +00003783
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003784- Issue #5260: Long integers now consume less memory: average saving is 2 bytes
3785 per long on a 32-bit system and 6 bytes per long on a 64-bit system.
Mark Dickinson2ffb26f2009-02-15 10:13:41 +00003786
Antoine Pitrou76a4b892009-02-13 13:52:33 +00003787- Issue #5186: Reduce hash collisions for objects with no __hash__ method by
3788 rotating the object pointer by 4 bits to the right.
3789
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003790- Issue #4575: Fix Py_IS_INFINITY macro to work correctly on x87 FPUs: it now
3791 forces its argument to double before testing for infinity.
Mark Dickinsonc97c9092009-02-09 14:18:43 +00003792
Benjamin Petersone18ef192009-01-20 14:21:16 +00003793- Issue #4978: Passing keyword arguments as unicode strings is now allowed.
3794
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +00003795- Issue #1242657: the __len__() and __length_hint__() calls in several tools
Raymond Hettingerb5163702009-02-02 21:50:13 +00003796 were suppressing all exceptions. These include list(), filter(), map(),
3797 zip(), and bytearray().
3798
Benjamin Peterson596d3062009-01-19 15:42:23 +00003799- os.ftruncate raises OSErrors instead of IOErrors for consistency with other os
3800 functions.
3801
Benjamin Peterson5848d1f2009-01-19 00:08:08 +00003802- Issue #4991: Passing invalid file descriptors to io.FileIO now raises an
3803 OSError.
3804
Amaury Forgeot d'Arca18392a2009-01-13 23:19:08 +00003805- Issue #4807: Port the _winreg module to Windows CE.
3806
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003807- Issue #4935: The overflow checking code in the expandtabs() method common to
3808 str, bytes and bytearray could be optimized away by the compiler, letting the
3809 interpreter segfault instead of raising an error.
Antoine Pitrouc2f02212009-01-13 23:13:52 +00003810
Amaury Forgeot d'Arca40d5732009-01-12 23:36:55 +00003811- Issue #3720: Fix a crash when an iterator modifies its class and removes its
3812 __next__ method.
3813
Martin v. Löwise3422fa2009-01-12 08:11:24 +00003814- Issue #4893: Use NT threading on CE.
3815
Martin v. Löwis1b3bef22009-01-12 07:57:11 +00003816- Issue #4915: Port sysmodule to Windows CE.
3817
Antoine Pitrou4c5ecb72009-01-09 21:40:55 +00003818- Issue #4074: Change the criteria for doing a full garbage collection (i.e.
3819 collecting the oldest generation) so that allocating lots of objects without
3820 destroying them does not show quadratic performance. Based on a proposal by
Benjamin Petersond50a5d52009-07-13 00:03:20 +00003821 Martin von Löwis at
Antoine Pitrou4c5ecb72009-01-09 21:40:55 +00003822 http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2008-June/080579.html.
3823
Martin v. Löwisb90304a2009-01-07 18:40:40 +00003824- Issue #4850: Change COUNT_ALLOCS variables to Py_ssize_t.
3825
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003826- Issue #1180193: When importing a module from a .pyc (or .pyo) file with an
3827 existing .py counterpart, override the co_filename attributes of all code
3828 objects if the original filename is obsolete (which can happen if the file has
3829 been renamed, moved, or if it is accessed through different paths). Patch by
3830 Ziga Seilnacht and Jean-Paul Calderone.
Antoine Pitroue96d4ea2009-01-06 18:10:47 +00003831
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003832- Issue #4075: Use ``OutputDebugStringW()`` in Py_FatalError.
Martin v. Löwis5344c992009-01-02 20:32:55 +00003833
Hirokazu Yamamoto99a1b202009-01-01 15:45:39 +00003834- Issue #4797: IOError.filename was not set when _fileio.FileIO failed to open
3835 file with `str' filename on Windows.
3836
Antoine Pitrouaa687902009-01-01 14:11:22 +00003837- Issue #3680: Reference cycles created through a dict, set or deque iterator
3838 did not get collected.
3839
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003840- Issue #4701: PyObject_Hash now implicitly calls PyType_Ready on types where
3841 the tp_hash and tp_dict slots are both NULL.
Nick Coghlan180e4002008-12-30 01:18:48 +00003842
Benjamin Peterson7af65562008-12-29 17:56:58 +00003843- Issue #4764: With io.open, IOError.filename is set when trying to open a
3844 directory on POSIX systems.
3845
Benjamin Petersonfe231b02008-12-29 17:47:42 +00003846- Issue #4764: IOError.filename is set when trying to open a directory on POSIX
3847 systems.
3848
Georg Brandl6425a2f2008-12-28 11:54:53 +00003849- Issue #4759: None is now allowed as the first argument of
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003850 ``bytearray.translate()``. It was always allowed for ``bytes.translate()``.
Georg Brandl6425a2f2008-12-28 11:54:53 +00003851
Skip Montanarof205c132008-12-23 03:30:15 +00003852- Added test case to ensure attempts to read from a file opened for writing
3853 fail.
3854
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003855- Issue #2467: gc.DEBUG_STATS reported invalid elapsed times. Also, always print
3856 elapsed times, not only when some objects are uncollectable/unreachable.
3857 Original patch by Neil Schemenauer.
Antoine Pitrou73c0e652008-12-17 22:46:54 +00003858
Mark Dickinson1a707982008-12-17 16:14:37 +00003859- Issue #3439: Add a bit_length method to int and long.
3860
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003861- Issue #2183: Simplify and optimize bytecode for list comprehensions. Original
3862 patch by Neal Norwitz.
Antoine Pitroud0c35152008-12-17 00:38:28 +00003863
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003864- Issue #4597: Fixed exception handling when the __exit__ function of a context
3865 manager returns a value that cannot be converted to a bool.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcad9b5992008-12-10 23:22:49 +00003866
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003867- Issue #4597: Fixed several opcodes that weren't always propagating exceptions.
Jeffrey Yasskinffd42cf2008-12-10 07:35:02 +00003868
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003869- Issue #4445: Replace ``sizeof(PyStringObject)`` with
3870 ``offsetof(PyStringObject, ob_sval) + 1`` when allocating memory for str
3871 instances. On a typical machine this saves 3 bytes of memory (on average) per
3872 string allocation.
Mark Dickinson826f3fe2008-12-05 21:55:28 +00003873
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcdc619012008-11-22 20:01:18 +00003874- Issue #3996: On Windows, the PyOS_CheckStack function would cause the
3875 interpreter to abort ("Fatal Python error: Could not reset the stack!")
3876 instead of throwing a MemoryError.
3877
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003878- Issue #3689: The list reversed iterator now supports __length_hint__ instead
3879 of __len__. Behavior now matches other reversed iterators.
Raymond Hettinger7989a4d2008-12-03 15:42:10 +00003880
Benjamin Petersonc078f922008-11-21 22:27:24 +00003881- Issue #4367: Python would segfault during compiling when the unicodedata
3882 module couldn't be imported and \N escapes were present.
3883
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003884- Issue #4233: Changed semantic of ``_fileio.FileIO``'s ``close()`` method on
3885 file objects with closefd=False. The file descriptor is still kept open but
3886 the file object behaves like a closed file. The ``FileIO`` object also got a
3887 new readonly attribute ``closefd``.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc32265652008-11-20 23:34:31 +00003888
Benjamin Peterson46cc6d12008-11-19 21:49:09 +00003889- Issue #4348: Some bytearray methods returned that didn't cause any change to
3890 the bytearray, returned the same bytearray instead of a copy.
3891
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003892- Issue #4317: Fixed a crash in the ``imageop.rgb2rgb8()`` function.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc7cfe7ea2008-11-18 22:19:37 +00003893
Benjamin Peterson273c2332008-11-17 22:39:09 +00003894- Issue #4230: If ``__getattr__`` is a descriptor, it now functions correctly.
3895
Benjamin Peterson6624a9f2008-11-03 15:14:51 +00003896- Issue #4048: The parser module now correctly validates relative imports.
3897
Benjamin Petersondcee09d2008-10-31 02:16:05 +00003898- Issue #4225: ``from __future__ import unicode_literals`` didn't work in an
3899 exec statement.
3900
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003901- Issue #4176: Fixed a crash when pickling an object which ``__reduce__`` method
3902 does not return iterators for the 4th and 5th items.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc69a9c5b2008-10-30 21:18:34 +00003903
Benjamin Petersonbdca9422008-10-26 20:21:13 +00003904- Issue #4209: Enabling unicode_literals and the print_function in the same
3905 __future__ import didn't work.
3906
Benjamin Peterson399b1fe2008-10-25 02:53:28 +00003907- Using ``nonlocal`` as a variable name will now raise a Py3k SyntaxWarning
Georg Brandl7fb00ad2008-10-25 07:00:52 +00003908 because it is a reserved word in 3.x.
Benjamin Peterson399b1fe2008-10-25 02:53:28 +00003909
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003910- On windows, ``os.chdir()`` given unicode was not working if
3911 GetCurrentDirectoryW returned a path longer than MAX_PATH. (But It's doubtful
3912 this code path is really executed because I cannot move to such directory on
3913 win2k)
Hirokazu Yamamoto10a018c2008-10-09 10:00:30 +00003914
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003915- Issue #4069: When ``set.remove(element)`` is used with a set element, the
3916 element is temporarily replaced with an equivalent frozenset. But the
3917 eventual KeyError would always report the empty ``frozenset()`` as the missing
3918 key. Now it correctly refers to the initial element.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd78b9dc2008-10-07 20:32:10 +00003919
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003920- Issue #4509: Various issues surrounding resize of bytearray objects to which
3921 there are buffer exports.
Antoine Pitrouae5bece2008-12-06 21:29:24 +00003922
Benjamin Peterson8d5934b2008-12-27 18:24:11 +00003923- Issue #4748: Lambda generators no longer return a value.
3924
Kristján Valur Jónsson6220e412009-01-12 09:20:34 +00003925- Issue #3582: Use native TLS functions on Windows
3926
Gregory P. Smithae91d092009-03-02 05:13:57 +00003927- The re.sub(), re.subn() and re.split() functions now accept a flags parameter.
3928
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003929- Issue #3845: In PyRun_SimpleFileExFlags avoid invalid memory access with short
3930 file names.
Matthias Kloseedb5e1e2009-04-04 14:18:13 +00003931
Matthias Klose91a3b9e2009-04-05 21:19:13 +00003932- Issue #1113244: Py_XINCREF, Py_DECREF, Py_XDECREF: Add `do { ... } while (0)'
3933 to avoid compiler warnings.
Matthias Klose0610e082009-04-05 12:43:08 +00003934
Gregory P. Smith2b3eb372009-04-05 23:48:26 +00003935- Issue #5705: os.setuid() would not accept values > 2**31-1 but pwd.getpwnam()
3936 returned them on 64bit platforms.
3937
Walter Dörwalded960ac2009-05-03 22:36:33 +00003938- Issue #5108: Handle %s like %S and %R in PyUnicode_FromFormatV(): Call
3939 PyUnicode_DecodeUTF8() once, remember the result and output it in a second
3940 step. This avoids problems with counting UTF-8 bytes that ignores the effect
3941 of using the replace error handler in PyUnicode_DecodeUTF8().
3942
Walter Dörwald726ba8e2009-05-06 14:32:35 +00003943- Issue #3739: The unicode-internal encoder now reports the number of characters
3944 consumed like any other encoder (instead of the number of bytes).
3945
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003946- Issue #2422: When compiled with the ``--with-valgrind`` option, the pymalloc
3947 allocator will be automatically disabled when running under Valgrind. This
3948 gives improved memory leak detection when running under Valgrind, while taking
3949 advantage of pymalloc at other times.
Benjamin Peterson91c12eb2009-12-03 02:52:39 +00003950
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +00003951Library
3952-------
Benjamin Petersonb3dd5482009-02-26 19:07:18 +00003953
Raymond Hettinger5f516ed2010-04-03 18:10:37 +00003954- Add count() and reverse() methods to collections.deque().
Raymond Hettingera5fd24e2009-12-10 06:42:54 +00003955
Raymond Hettinger0b3263b2009-12-10 06:00:33 +00003956- Fix variations of extending deques: d.extend(d) d.extendleft(d) d+=d
3957
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003958- Issue #6986: Fix crash in the JSON C accelerator when called with the wrong
3959 parameter types. Patch by Victor Stinner.
Antoine Pitrou187177f2009-12-08 15:40:51 +00003960
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003961- logging: Added optional "secure" parameter to SMTPHandler, to enable use of
Vinay Sajip48305662009-12-06 17:57:11 +00003962 TLS with authentication credentials.
3963
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003964- Issue #1923: Fixed the removal of meaningful spaces when PKG-INFO is generated
3965 in Distutils. Patch by Stephen Emslie.
Tarek Ziadé4f383172009-12-06 09:22:40 +00003966
Martin v. Löwisc218a2f2009-12-03 20:53:51 +00003967- Issue #4120: Drop reference to CRT from manifest when building extensions with
3968 msvc9compiler.
3969
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003970- Issue #7333: The ``posix`` module gains an ``initgroups()`` function providing
3971 access to the initgroups(3) C library call on Unix systems which implement it.
3972 Patch by Jean-Paul Calderone.
Antoine Pitrou30b3b352009-12-02 20:37:54 +00003973
Tarek Ziadéa5076a22009-11-29 22:20:30 +00003974- Issue #7408: Fixed distutils.tests.sdist so it doesn't check for group
3975 ownership when the group is not forced, because the group may be different
3976 from the user's group and inherit from its container when the test is run.
3977
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003978- Issue #1515: Enable use of deepcopy() with instance methods. Patch by Robert
3979 Collins.
Antoine Pitroud16f57b2009-11-28 15:55:58 +00003980
Vinay Sajip01801d12009-11-27 14:03:36 +00003981- Issue #7403: logging: Fixed possible race condition in lock creation.
3982
Antoine Pitrouacbe3bd2009-11-27 13:18:34 +00003983- Issue #6845: Add restart support for binary upload in ftplib. The
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003984 ``storbinary()`` method of FTP and FTP_TLS objects gains an optional "rest"
Antoine Pitrouacbe3bd2009-11-27 13:18:34 +00003985 argument. Patch by Pablo Mouzo.
3986
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003987- Issue #5788: ``datetime.timedelta`` objects get a new ``total_seconds()``
3988 method returning the total number of seconds in the duration. Patch by Brian
3989 Quinlan.
Antoine Pitroubcfaf802009-11-25 22:59:36 +00003990
Vinay Sajipc470d682009-11-25 09:03:30 +00003991- Issue #6615: logging: Used weakrefs in internal handler list.
3992
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003993- Issue #1488943: ``difflib.Differ`` doesn't always add hints for tab
3994 characters.
Senthil Kumaran5c456e62009-11-23 18:41:31 +00003995
Lars Gustäbeldd866d52009-11-22 18:30:53 +00003996- Issue #6123: tarfile now opens empty archives correctly and consistently
3997 raises ReadError on empty files.
3998
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003999- Issue #7354: distutils.tests.test_msvc9compiler - dragfullwindows can be 2.
Tarek Ziadé39de1fc2009-11-19 05:33:16 +00004000
Ezio Melotti3373a3a2010-01-16 18:38:01 +00004001- Issue #5037: Proxy the __unicode__ special method to __unicode__ instead of
4002 __str__.
Benjamin Petersondc3c2392009-11-19 03:00:02 +00004003
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004004- Issue #7341: Close the internal file object in the TarFile constructor in case
4005 of an error.
Lars Gustäbel355538e2009-11-18 20:24:54 +00004006
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004007- Issue #7293: ``distutils.test_msvc9compiler`` is fixed to work on any fresh
4008 Windows box. Help provided by David Bolen.
Tarek Ziadéacccafc2009-11-18 08:46:56 +00004009
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004010- Issue #7328: pydoc no longer corrupts sys.path when run with the '-m' switch.
Nick Coghlan11db64e2009-11-15 22:36:47 +00004011
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004012- Issue #2054: ftplib now provides an FTP_TLS class to do secure FTP using TLS
4013 or SSL. Patch by Giampaolo Rodola'.
Antoine Pitrouccd5e022009-11-15 17:22:09 +00004014
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004015- Issue #4969: The mimetypes module now reads the MIME database from the
4016 registry under Windows. Patch by Gabriel Genellina.
Antoine Pitroud5b34d42009-11-15 14:10:48 +00004017
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004018- Issue #6816: runpy now provides a run_path function that allows Python code to
4019 execute file paths that refer to source or compiled Python files as well as
4020 zipfiles, directories and other valid sys.path entries that contain a
Nick Coghlan49868cb2009-11-15 07:30:34 +00004021 __main__.py file. This allows applications that run other Python scripts to
4022 support the same flexibility as the CPython command line itself.
4023
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004024- Issue #7318: multiprocessing now uses a timeout when it fails to establish a
4025 connection with another process, rather than looping endlessly. The default
4026 timeout is 20 seconds, which should be amply sufficient for local connections.
Antoine Pitrouc562ca42009-11-13 22:31:18 +00004027
Antoine Pitrou0734c632009-11-10 20:49:30 +00004028- Issue #7197: Allow unittest.TextTestRunner objects to be pickled and
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004029 unpickled. This fixes crashes under Windows when trying to run
Antoine Pitrou0734c632009-11-10 20:49:30 +00004030 test_multiprocessing in verbose mode.
4031
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004032- Issue #7282: Fix a memory leak when an RLock was used in a thread other than
4033 those started through ``threading.Thread`` (for example, using
4034 ``thread.start_new_thread()``.
Antoine Pitroud7158d42009-11-09 16:00:11 +00004035
Antoine Pitrou99c160b2009-11-05 13:42:29 +00004036- Issue #7264: Fix a possible deadlock when deallocating thread-local objects
4037 which are part of a reference cycle.
4038
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004039- Issue #7211: Allow 64-bit values for the ``ident`` and ``data`` fields of
4040 kevent objects on 64-bit systems. Patch by Michael Broghton.
Antoine Pitrou323b9da2009-11-04 19:25:14 +00004041
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004042- Issue #6896: ``mailbox.Maildir`` now invalidates its internal cache each time
Antoine Pitrouaec41242009-11-02 11:34:27 +00004043 a modification is done through it. This fixes inconsistencies and test
4044 failures on systems with slightly bogus mtime behaviour.
4045
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004046- Issue #7246 & Issue #7208: getpass now properly flushes input before reading
4047 from stdin so that existing input does not confuse it and lead to incorrect
4048 entry or an IOError. It also properly flushes it afterwards to avoid the
4049 terminal echoing the input afterwards on OSes such as Solaris.
Gregory P. Smith38f5d8f2009-11-01 18:33:55 +00004050
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004051- Issue #7233: Fix a number of two-argument Decimal methods to make sure that
4052 they accept an int or long as the second argument. Also fix buggy handling of
4053 large arguments (those with coefficient longer than the current precision) in
4054 shift and rotate.
Mark Dickinson0c673122009-10-29 12:04:00 +00004055
Lars Gustäbel8c06ccc2009-10-29 09:15:00 +00004056- Issue #4750: Store the basename of the original filename in the gzip FNAME
4057 header as required by RFC 1952.
4058
Tarek Ziadé40b998b2009-10-27 23:06:10 +00004059- Issue #1180: Added a new global option to ignore ~/.pydistutils.cfg in
4060 Distutils.
4061
Tarek Ziadéd24cab82009-10-27 21:20:27 +00004062- Issue #7218: Fix test_site for win32, the directory comparison was done with
4063 an uppercase.
4064
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004065- Issue #7205: Fix a possible deadlock when using a BZ2File object from several
4066 threads at once.
Antoine Pitroudd629662009-10-27 17:41:58 +00004067
Tarek Ziadéb9c1cfc2009-10-24 15:10:37 +00004068- Issue #7071: byte-compilation in Distutils is now done with respect to
4069 sys.dont_write_bytecode.
4070
Vinay Sajipc470d682009-11-25 09:03:30 +00004071- Issue #7066: archive_util.make_archive now restores the cwd if an error is
Tarek Ziadé672422a2009-10-24 13:29:44 +00004072 raised. Initial patch by Ezio Melotti.
4073
Antoine Pitroufa94e802009-10-24 12:23:18 +00004074- Issue #6218: io.StringIO and io.BytesIO instances are now picklable with
4075 protocol 2.
4076
Vinay Sajip5ac65282009-10-21 20:22:14 +00004077- Issue #7077: logging: SysLogHandler now treats Unicode as per RFC 5424.
4078
Mark Dickinsona7a52ab2009-10-20 13:33:03 +00004079- Issue #7099: Decimal.is_normal now returns True for numbers with exponent
4080 larger than emax.
4081
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004082- Issue #5833: Fix extra space character in readline completion with the GNU
4083 readline library version 6.0.
Antoine Pitroue0899802009-10-19 18:20:21 +00004084
Antoine Pitrou5ba84912009-10-19 17:59:07 +00004085- Issue #7133: SSL objects now support the new buffer API.
4086
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004087- Issue #7149: urllib fails on OSX in the proxy detection code.
Ronald Oussoren31802d02009-10-18 07:07:00 +00004088
Benjamin Petersonc63457b2009-10-15 03:06:55 +00004089- Issue #7069: Make inspect.isabstract() return a boolean.
4090
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004091- Add support to the ``ihooks`` module for relative imports.
Neil Schemenauere6039f02009-10-14 19:23:53 +00004092
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004093- Issue #6894: Fixed the issue urllib2 doesn't respect "no_proxy" environment.
Senthil Kumaran27468662009-10-11 02:00:07 +00004094
Vinay Sajip1c77b7f2009-10-10 20:32:36 +00004095- Issue #7086: Added TCP support to SysLogHandler, and tidied up some
4096 anachronisms in the code which were a relic of 1.5.2 compatibility.
Vinay Sajip03d5c342009-10-16 14:06:44 +00004097
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004098- Issue #7082: When falling back to the MIME 'name' parameter, the correct place
4099 to look for it is the Content-Type header.
R. David Murray0c8bee62009-10-09 21:50:54 +00004100
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004101- Issue #7048: Force Decimal.logb to round its result when that result is too
4102 large to fit in the current precision.
Mark Dickinson15ae41c2009-10-07 19:22:05 +00004103
Vinay Sajip03d5c342009-10-16 14:06:44 +00004104- Issue #6516: Added owner/group support when creating tar archives in
Tarek Ziadé1b486712009-10-02 23:49:48 +00004105 Distutils.
4106
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004107- Issue #7031: Add ``TestCase.assert(Not)IsInstance()`` methods.
Georg Brandl12fafe62009-10-01 21:02:39 +00004108
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004109- Issue #6790: Make it possible again to pass an ``array.array`` to
4110 ``httplib.HTTPConnection.send``. Patch by Kirk McDonald.
Antoine Pitrou72481782009-09-29 17:48:18 +00004111
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004112- Issue #6236, #6348: Fix various failures in the `io` module under AIX and
4113 other platforms, when using a non-gcc compiler. Patch by egreen.
Antoine Pitrou2a466582009-09-21 21:17:48 +00004114
Tarek Ziadé99773352009-09-21 13:41:08 +00004115- Issue #6954: Fixed crash when using DISTUTILS_DEBUG flag in Distutils.
4116
Ronald Oussoren51f06332009-09-20 10:31:22 +00004117- Issue #6851: Fix urllib.urlopen crash on secondairy threads on OSX 10.6
4118
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004119- Issue #4606: Passing 'None' if ctypes argtype is set to POINTER(...) does now
4120 always result in NULL.
Thomas Heller6be522b2009-09-18 20:05:44 +00004121
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004122- Issue #5042: ctypes Structure sub-subclass does now initialize correctly with
4123 base class positional arguments.
Thomas Heller7a352c02009-09-18 18:55:17 +00004124
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004125- Issue #6938: Fix a TypeError in string formatting of a multiprocessing debug
4126 message.
Georg Brandlc40e60e2009-09-18 09:18:27 +00004127
Matthias Klose924eab62009-09-13 15:09:24 +00004128- Issue #6635: Fix profiler printing usage message.
4129
Lars Gustäbel21121e62009-09-12 10:28:15 +00004130- Issue #6856: Add a filter keyword argument to TarFile.add().
4131
Tarek Ziadébed26a32009-09-09 08:14:20 +00004132- Issue #6163: Fixed HP-UX runtime library dir options in
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004133 distutils.unixcompiler. Initial patch by Sridhar Ratnakumar and Michael
4134 Haubenwallner.
Tarek Ziadébed26a32009-09-09 08:14:20 +00004135
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004136- Issue #6857: Default format() alignment should be '>' for Decimal instances.
Mark Dickinson5cfa8042009-09-08 20:20:19 +00004137
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004138- Issue #6795: int(Decimal('nan')) now raises ValueError instead of returning
4139 NaN or raising InvalidContext. Also, fix infinite recursion in
4140 long(Decimal('nan')).
Mark Dickinson968f1692009-09-07 18:04:58 +00004141
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004142- Issue #6850: Fix bug in Decimal._parse_format_specifier for formats with no
4143 type specifier.
Mark Dickinson491ea552009-09-07 16:17:41 +00004144
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004145- Issue #4937: plat-mac/bundlebuilder refers to non-existing version.plist.
Ronald Oussoren626faeb2009-09-06 12:23:18 +00004146
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004147- Issue #6838: Use a list to accumulate the value instead of repeatedly
4148 concatenating strings in httplib's HTTPResponse._read_chunked providing a
4149 significant speed increase when downloading large files servend with a
4150 Transfer-Encoding of 'chunked'.
Chris Withers7f3ea6a2009-09-04 16:32:22 +00004151
Georg Brandld22b9512009-09-04 08:17:04 +00004152- Issue #5275: In Cookie's Cookie.load(), properly handle non-string arguments
4153 as documented.
4154
Georg Brandl2e1308f2009-09-04 06:59:20 +00004155- Issue #2666: Handle BROWSER environment variable properly for unknown browser
4156 names in the webbrowser module.
4157
Lars Gustäbelf7cda522009-08-28 19:23:44 +00004158- Issue #6054: Do not normalize stored pathnames in tarfile.
4159
Mark Dickinson7a7739d2009-08-28 13:25:02 +00004160- Issue #6794: Fix Decimal.compare_total and Decimal.compare_total_mag: NaN
4161 payloads are now ordered by integer value rather than lexicographically.
4162
Tarek Ziadé764fc232009-08-20 21:23:13 +00004163- Issue #6693: New functions in site.py to get user/global site packages paths.
4164
Gregory P. Smith4e63d542009-08-20 09:39:38 +00004165- The thread.lock type now supports weak references.
4166
Guilherme Polo7b50c4f2009-08-18 14:46:57 +00004167- Issue #1356969: Add missing info methods in Tix.HList.
4168
Guilherme Polo6b3c7092009-08-18 14:23:00 +00004169- Issue #1522587: New constants and methods for the Tix.Grid widget.
4170
Guilherme Polo6c823f82009-08-18 13:29:20 +00004171- Issue #1250469: Fix the return value of Tix.PanedWindow.panes.
4172
Guilherme Polod3e6e4b2009-08-18 13:23:08 +00004173- Issue #1119673: Do not override Tkinter.Text methods when creating a
4174 ScrolledText.
4175
Gregory P. Smithb98d6b22009-08-16 18:52:58 +00004176- Issue #6665: Fix fnmatch to properly match filenames with newlines in them.
4177
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004178- Issue #1135: Add the XView and YView mix-ins to avoid duplicating the xview*
4179 and yview* methods.
Guilherme Poloe45f0172009-08-14 14:36:45 +00004180
Antoine Pitrou20e1f932009-08-06 20:18:29 +00004181- Issue #6629: Fix a data corruption issue in the new `io` package, which could
4182 occur when writing to a BufferedRandom object (e.g. a file opened in "rb+" or
4183 "wb+" mode) after having buffered a certain amount of data for reading. This
4184 bug was not present in the pure Python implementation.
4185
Jesse Noller8497efe2009-08-06 02:05:56 +00004186- Issue #4660: If a multiprocessing.JoinableQueue.put() was preempted, it was
4187 possible to get a spurious 'task_done() called too many times' error.
4188
Gregory P. Smithc4ad0342009-08-13 18:54:50 +00004189- Issue #1628205: Socket file objects returned by socket.socket.makefile() now
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004190 properly handles EINTR within the read, readline, write & flush methods. The
4191 socket.sendall() method now properly handles interrupted system calls.
Gregory P. Smithc4ad0342009-08-13 18:54:50 +00004192
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004193- Issue #6595: The Decimal constructor now allows arbitrary Unicode decimal
4194 digits in input, as recommended by the standard. Previously it was restricted
4195 to accepting [0-9].
Mark Dickinson4326ad82009-08-02 10:59:36 +00004196
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc3e5b0272009-07-28 22:15:30 +00004197- Issue #6511: ZipFile now raises BadZipfile (instead of an IOError) when
4198 opening an empty or very small file.
4199
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc74b30162009-07-23 19:26:02 +00004200- Issue #6553: Fixed a crash in cPickle.load(), when given a file-like object
4201 containing incomplete data.
4202
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004203- Issue #6545: Removed assert statements in distutils.Extension, so the behavior
4204 is similar when used with -O.
Tarek Ziadéaf2406f2009-07-22 08:55:19 +00004205
Benjamin Petersond7b0eeb2009-07-19 20:18:21 +00004206- unittest has been split up into a package. All old names should still work.
4207
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004208- Issue #6431: Make Fraction type return NotImplemented when it doesn't know how
4209 to handle a comparison without loss of precision. Also add correct handling
4210 of infinities and nans for comparisons with float.
Mark Dickinson88a0a2e2009-07-18 15:18:18 +00004211
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc74b30162009-07-23 19:26:02 +00004212- Issue #6415: Fixed warnings.warn segfault on bad formatted string.
Hirokazu Yamamoto1a3d0852009-07-17 06:26:54 +00004213
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004214- Issue #6466: Now distutils.cygwinccompiler and distutils.emxccompiler uses the
4215 same refactored function to get gcc/ld/dllwrap versions numbers. It's
4216 ``distutils.util.get_compiler_versions()``. Added deprecation warnings for
4217 the obsolete get_versions() functions.
Tarek Ziadéa99dedf2009-07-16 15:35:45 +00004218
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004219- Issue #6433: Fixed issues with multiprocessing.pool.map hanging on empty list.
Jesse Noller7530e472009-07-16 14:23:04 +00004220
Vinay Sajipcbb24b32009-07-13 11:21:05 +00004221- Issue #6314: logging: Extra checks on the "level" argument in more places.
4222
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc74b8d332009-07-11 14:33:51 +00004223- Issue #2622: Fixed an ImportError when importing email.messsage from a
4224 standalone application built with py2exe or py2app.
4225
Vinay Sajipcbb24b32009-07-13 11:21:05 +00004226- Issue #6455: Fixed test_build_ext under win32.
Tarek Ziadé8c400012009-07-10 09:10:33 +00004227
Vinay Sajipcbb24b32009-07-13 11:21:05 +00004228- Issue #6377: Enabled the compiler option, and deprecate its usage as an
Tarek Ziadée670e5a2009-07-06 12:50:46 +00004229 attribute.
4230
Tarek Ziadé63f17382009-07-04 02:02:41 +00004231- Issue #6413: Fixed the log level in distutils.dist for announce.
4232
Gregory P. Smithc197d0a2009-07-04 01:55:11 +00004233- Issue #3392: The subprocess communicate() method no longer fails in select()
4234 when file descriptors are large; communicate() now uses poll() when possible.
4235
Tarek Ziadé65ec61e2009-07-03 08:22:56 +00004236- Issue #6403: Fixed package path usage in build_ext.
4237
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004238- Issues #5155, #5313, #5331: multiprocessing.Process._bootstrap was
Jesse Noller1b90efb2009-06-30 17:11:52 +00004239 unconditionally calling "os.close(sys.stdin.fileno())" resulting in file
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004240 descriptor errors.
Jesse Noller1b90efb2009-06-30 17:11:52 +00004241
Vinay Sajipcbb24b32009-07-13 11:21:05 +00004242- Issue #6365: Distutils build_ext inplace mode was copying the compiled
Tarek Ziadé3fbcc602009-06-29 16:13:39 +00004243 extension in a subdirectory if the extension name had dots.
4244
Hirokazu Yamamoto99ebc632009-06-29 14:29:31 +00004245- Issue #6344: Fixed a crash of mmap.read() when passed a negative argument.
4246
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004247- Issue #5230: pydoc would report no documentation found if a module generated a
4248 'not found' import error when loaded; it now reports the import errors.
R. David Murrayef087da2009-06-23 18:02:46 +00004249 Thanks to Lucas Prado Melo for initial fix and collaboration on the tests.
4250
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004251- Issue #6314: ``logging.basicConfig()`` performs extra checks on the "level"
Vinay Sajip603fb6d2009-06-21 17:37:27 +00004252 argument.
4253
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004254- Issue #6164: Added an AIX specific linker argument in Distutils unixcompiler.
4255 Original patch by Sridhar Ratnakumar.
Tarek Ziadé439bf932009-06-20 13:57:20 +00004256
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004257- Issue #6274: Fixed possible file descriptors leak in subprocess.py.
Facundo Batista8c826b72009-06-19 18:02:28 +00004258
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc5fe420e2009-06-18 22:32:50 +00004259- Issue #6189: Restored compatibility of subprocess.py with Python 2.2.
4260
Tarek Ziadéfdefc0a2009-06-16 07:29:52 +00004261- Issue #6287: Added the license field in Distutils documentation.
4262
Tarek Ziadéa1cc0402009-06-15 23:30:13 +00004263- Issue #6286: Now Distutils upload command is based on urllib2 instead of
4264 httplib, allowing the usage of http_proxy.
4265
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004266- Issue #6271: mmap tried to close invalid file handle (-1) for anonymous maps
4267 on Unix.
Hirokazu Yamamoto983a4652009-06-14 03:53:55 +00004268
Antoine Pitrou19690592009-06-12 20:14:08 +00004269- Issue #6215: All bug fixes and enhancements from the Python 3.1 io library
4270 (including the fast C implementation) have been backported to the standard
4271 ``io`` module.
4272
Martin v. Löwis2dcd7a02009-06-12 17:28:31 +00004273- Issue #6258: Support AMD64 in bdist_msi.
4274
Vinay Sajip334ffe82010-01-15 23:27:05 +00004275- Issue #6252: Fixed bug in next rollover time computation in
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00004276 TimedRotatingFileHandler.
4277
Tarek Ziadéc7498f52009-06-11 09:13:36 +00004278- Issue #6263: Fixed syntax error in distutils.cygwincompiler.
4279
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004280- Issue #5201: distutils.sysconfig.parse_makefile() now understands ``$$`` in
4281 Makefiles. This prevents compile errors when using syntax like:
4282 ``LDFLAGS='-rpath=\$$LIB:/some/other/path'``. Patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
Tarek Ziadé25d2bae2009-06-11 08:12:20 +00004283
Georg Brandle6632b42009-06-04 08:58:32 +00004284- Issue #5767: Removed sgmlop support from xmlrpclib.
4285
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004286- Issue #6131: test_modulefinder leaked when run after test_distutils. Patch by
4287 Hirokazu Yamamoto.
Tarek Ziadé3e3eace2009-05-29 08:08:07 +00004288
Tarek Ziadé9e5d2dc2009-05-28 12:53:54 +00004289- Issue #6048: Now Distutils uses the tarfile module in archive_util.
4290
Raymond Hettingerb4d2d312009-05-29 01:36:26 +00004291- Issue #5150: IDLE's format menu now has an option to strip trailing
4292 whitespace.
4293
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004294- Issue #6121: pydoc now ignores leading and trailing spaces in the argument to
4295 the 'help' function.
R. David Murrayd67ea7d2009-05-27 20:07:21 +00004296
Benjamin Peterson176a56c2009-05-25 00:48:58 +00004297- In unittest, using a skipping decorator on a class is now equivalent to
4298 skipping every test on the class. The ClassTestSuite class has been removed.
4299
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004300- Issue #6050: Don't fail extracting a directory from a zipfile if the directory
4301 already exists.
Martin v. Löwis0b09c422009-05-24 19:30:52 +00004302
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004303- Issue #5311: bdist_msi can now build packages that do not depend on a specific
4304 Python version.
Martin v. Löwis53b578e2009-05-24 19:10:52 +00004305
Antoine Pitroud49e3752009-05-24 15:40:09 +00004306- Issue #1309352: fcntl now converts its third arguments to a C `long` rather
4307 than an int, which makes some operations possible under 64-bit Linux (e.g.
4308 DN_MULTISHOT with F_NOTIFY).
4309
Senthil Kumarane266f252009-05-24 09:14:50 +00004310- Issue #1424152: Fix for httplib, urllib2 to support SSL while working through
4311 proxy. Original patch by Christopher Li, changes made by Senthil Kumaran.
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00004312
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004313- Issue #1983: Fix functions taking or returning a process identifier to use the
4314 dedicated C type ``pid_t`` instead of a C ``int``. Some platforms have a
4315 process identifier type wider than the standard C integer type.
Antoine Pitrou5e858fe2009-05-23 15:37:45 +00004316
R. David Murrayad3058e2009-05-23 00:48:58 +00004317- Issue #4066: smtplib.SMTP_SSL._get_socket now correctly returns the socket.
4318 Patch by Farhan Ahmad, test by Marcin Bachry.
4319
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004320- Issue #6062: In distutils, fixed the package option of build_ext. Feedback
Tarek Ziadé7d7127d2009-05-19 16:17:21 +00004321 and tests on pywin32 by Tim Golden.
4322
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004323- Issue #6053: Fixed distutils tests on win32. Patch by Hirokazu Yamamoto.
Tarek Ziadé07bbfcc2009-05-18 12:21:26 +00004324
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004325- Issue #6046: Fixed the library extension when distutils build_ext is used in
4326 place. Initial patch by Roumen Petrov.
Tarek Ziadéfcc7f032009-05-18 08:03:37 +00004327
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00004328- Issue #6041: Now distutils `sdist` and `register` commands use `check` as a
Tarek Ziadécb768042009-05-16 16:37:06 +00004329 subcommand.
4330
Antoine Pitrou775fd662009-05-15 16:54:52 +00004331- Issue #2116: Weak references and weak dictionaries now support copy()ing and
4332 deepcopy()ing.
4333
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004334- Issue #1655: Make imaplib IPv6-capable. Patch by Derek Morr.
Antoine Pitrou52035a02009-05-15 11:50:29 +00004335
Antoine Pitrou42b5bcf2009-05-14 21:48:09 +00004336- Issue #5918: Fix a crash in the parser module.
4337
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004338- Issue #1664: Make nntplib IPv6-capable. Patch by Derek Morr.
Antoine Pitroueed30d82009-05-14 21:22:08 +00004339
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004340- Issue #6022: A test file was created in the current working directory by
Tarek Ziadécbb4f9e2009-05-14 20:14:13 +00004341 test_get_outputs in Distutils.
4342
R. David Murray996ba022009-05-13 17:14:11 +00004343- Issue #4050: inspect.findsource/getsource now raise an IOError if the 'source'
4344 file is a binary. Patch by Brodie Rao, tests by Daniel Diniz.
4345
Tarek Ziadé972480d2009-05-12 17:07:14 +00004346- Issue #5977: distutils build_ext.get_outputs was not taking into account the
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004347 inplace option. Initial patch by kxroberto.
Tarek Ziadé972480d2009-05-12 17:07:14 +00004348
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004349- Issue #5984: distutils.command.build_ext.check_extensions_list checks were
4350 broken for old-style extensions.
Tarek Ziadéd5d83422009-05-10 10:12:08 +00004351
Vinay Sajipf9b01fe2009-05-09 12:07:17 +00004352- Issue #5971: StreamHandler.handleError now swallows IOErrors which occur when
4353 trying to print a traceback.
4354
Tarek Ziadé812d7712009-05-09 10:06:00 +00004355- Issue #5976: Fixed Distutils test_check_environ.
4356
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004357- Issue #5900: Ensure RUNPATH is added to extension modules with RPATH if GNU ld
4358 is used. Original patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
Tarek Ziadée2be83d2009-05-09 08:28:53 +00004359
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004360- Issue #5941: Distutils build_clib command was not working anymore because of
4361 an incomplete costumization of the archiver command. Added ARFLAGS in the
4362 Makefile besides AR and make Distutils use it. Original patch by David
Tarek Ziadé99f660a2009-05-07 21:20:34 +00004363 Cournapeau.
4364
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00004365- Issue #5955: aifc's close method did not close the file it wrapped, now it
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004366 does. This also means getfp method now returns the real fp.
R. David Murrayd3bf34c2009-05-07 16:29:19 +00004367
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004368- Issue #4875: On win32, ctypes.util.find_library does no longer return
4369 directories.
Thomas Hellera57773e2009-05-05 18:55:47 +00004370
Georg Brandl4d4313d2009-05-05 08:54:11 +00004371- Issue #5142: Add the ability to skip modules while stepping to pdb.
4372
Georg Brandle3869c42009-05-05 08:30:28 +00004373- Issue #1309567: Fix linecache behavior of stripping subdirectories when
4374 looking for files given by a relative filename.
4375
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004376- Issue #5692: In ``zipfile.Zipfile``, fix wrong path calculation when
Antoine Pitrou97377bf2009-05-04 21:17:17 +00004377 extracting a file to the root directory.
4378
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004379- Issue #5913: ``os.listdir()`` should fail for empty path on windows.
Hirokazu Yamamoto406d7aa2009-05-04 05:28:39 +00004380
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004381- Issue #5084: Unpickling now interns the attribute names of pickled objects,
4382 saving memory and avoiding growth in size of subsequent pickles. Proposal and
4383 original patch by Jake McGuire.
Antoine Pitrou74309892009-05-02 21:13:23 +00004384
Antoine Pitrou1fc02312009-05-01 20:55:35 +00004385- Issue #3002: ``shutil.copyfile()`` and ``shutil.copytree()`` now raise an
4386 error when a named pipe is encountered, rather than blocking infinitely.
4387
Gregory P. Smith1d499262009-05-01 19:59:52 +00004388- Issue #3959: The ipaddr module has been added to the standard library.
4389 Contributed by Google.
4390
R. David Murray25b4add2009-04-29 13:17:37 +00004391- Issue #2245: aifc now skips chunk types it doesn't recognize, per spec.
4392
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004393- Issue #5874: distutils.tests.test_config_cmd is not locale-sensitive anymore.
Tarek Ziadéa1b91d92009-04-29 08:03:46 +00004394
Thomas Heller90c61a22009-04-28 19:23:41 +00004395- Issue #4305: ctypes should now build again on mipsel-linux-gnu
4396
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004397- Issue #1734234: Massively speedup ``unicodedata.normalize()`` when the string
4398 is already in normalized form, by performing a quick check beforehand.
Antoine Pitroue988e282009-04-27 21:53:26 +00004399 Original patch by Rauli Ruohonen.
4400
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004401- Issue #5853: Calling a function of the mimetypes module from several threads
Antoine Pitrouf2651e12009-04-27 20:50:20 +00004402 at once could hit the recursion limit if the mimetypes database hadn't been
4403 initialized before.
4404
Vinay Sajipe34d6aa2009-04-27 13:44:27 +00004405- Issue #5854: Updated __all__ to include some missing names and remove some
4406 names which should not be exported.
4407
4408- Issue #5810: Fixed Distutils test_build_scripts so it uses
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004409 ``sysconfig.get_config_vars()``.
Tarek Ziadébcddf672009-04-25 12:51:59 +00004410
Tarek Ziadéd567c382009-04-25 12:38:08 +00004411- Issue #4951: Fixed failure in test_httpservers.
4412
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004413- Issue #3102: All global symbols that the _ctypes extension defines are now
4414 prefixed with 'Py' or '_ctypes'.
Thomas Heller5c6af802009-04-24 20:31:47 +00004415
Thomas Hellerec21ccd2009-04-24 20:00:41 +00004416- Issue #5041: ctypes does now allow pickling wide character.
4417
Mark Dickinson4af8e742009-04-24 13:56:07 +00004418- Issue #5812: For the two-argument form of the Fraction constructor,
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004419 ``Fraction(m, n)``, m and n are permitted to be arbitrary Rational instances.
Mark Dickinson4af8e742009-04-24 13:56:07 +00004420
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004421- Issue #5812: Fraction('1e6') is valid: more generally, any string that's valid
4422 for float() is now valid for Fraction(), with the exception of strings
4423 representing NaNs and infinities.
Mark Dickinson8100bd82009-04-22 18:15:25 +00004424
Tarek Ziadé31559b62009-04-20 14:29:42 +00004425- Issue #5795: Fixed test_distutils failure on Debian ppc.
4426
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +00004427- Issue #5768: Fixed bug in Unicode output logic and test case for same.
4428
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004429- Issue #1161031: Fix readwrite select flag handling: POLLPRI now results in a
4430 handle_expt_event call, not handle_read_event, and POLLERR and POLLNVAL now
4431 call handle_close, not handle_expt_event. Also, dispatcher now has an
4432 'ignore_log_types' attribute for suppressing log messages, which is set to
4433 'warning' by default.
R. David Murrayabc26602009-04-13 16:56:32 +00004434
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004435- Issue #5607: Fixed Distutils test_get_platform for Mac OS X fat binaries.
Tarek Ziadé156c31a2009-04-13 12:34:01 +00004436
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004437- Issue #5741: Don't disallow "%%" (which is an escape for "%") when setting a
4438 value in SafeConfigParser.
Georg Brandl21cf5ee2009-04-12 17:24:11 +00004439
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004440- Issue #5732: Added a new command in Distutils: check.
Tarek Ziadé942825f2009-04-11 14:55:07 +00004441
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +00004442- Issue #5731: Distutils bdist_wininst no longer worked on non-Windows
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004443 platforms. Initial patch by Paul Moore.
Tarek Ziadéad958262009-04-09 21:36:44 +00004444
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004445- Issue #2254: Fix CGIHTTPServer information disclosure. Relative paths are now
4446 collapsed within the url properly before looking in cgi_directories.
Gregory P. Smith923ba362009-04-06 06:33:26 +00004447
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004448- Issue #5095: Added bdist_msi to the list of bdist supported formats. Initial
4449 fix by Steven Bethard.
Tarek Ziadé64408fb2009-04-05 22:51:09 +00004450
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004451- Issue #1491431: Fixed distutils.filelist.glob_to_re for edge cases. Initial
4452 fix by Wayne Davison.
Tarek Ziadéfaa6b122009-04-05 21:44:08 +00004453
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004454- Issue #5693: TestSuite.__iter__ can now be consistently overridden in
4455 subclasses.
Michael Foordf2dfef12009-04-05 19:19:28 +00004456
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004457- Issue #5694: Removed spurious test output in Distutils (test_clean).
Tarek Ziadé453d9532009-04-05 18:31:24 +00004458
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +00004459- Issue #5471: Fix os.path.expanduser() for $HOME set to '/'.
Georg Brandl3f0ef202009-04-05 14:48:49 +00004460
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004461- Issue #1326077: Fix the formatting of SyntaxErrors by the traceback module.
Georg Brandl1956d5c2009-04-05 14:25:41 +00004462
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004463- Issue #1726172: Fix IndexError in the case of and empty response in ftplib.
Georg Brandl50ba6e12009-04-05 10:48:47 +00004464
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004465- Issue #2625: Added missing iteritems() call to the for loop in
R. David Murray52720c52009-04-02 14:05:35 +00004466 mailbox.MH.get_message().
4467
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004468- Issue #5585: Add the ability to call an initializer to
4469 mulitiprocessing.manager so that users can install custom handlers/etc.
Jesse Noller7152f6d2009-04-02 05:17:26 +00004470
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004471- Issue #3551: Patch multiprocessing to raise a proper exception if the size of
4472 the object when writefile is called causes a ERROR_NO_SYSTEM_RESOURCES. Added
4473 docs to note the limitation.
Jesse Noller5053fbb2009-04-02 04:22:09 +00004474
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004475- unittest.assertNotEqual() now uses the inequality operator (!=) instead of the
4476 equality operator.
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00004477
4478- Issue #6001: Test discovery for unittest. Implemented in
Michael Foordb4a81c82009-05-29 20:33:46 +00004479 unittest.TestLoader.discover and from the command line.
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +00004480
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004481- Issue #5679: The methods unittest.TestCase.addCleanup and doCleanups were
4482 added. addCleanup allows you to add cleanup functions that will be called
Michael Foord07ef4872009-05-02 22:43:34 +00004483 unconditionally (after setUp if setUp fails, otherwise after tearDown). This
4484 allows for much simpler resource allocation and deallocation during tests.
4485
4486- Issue #3379: unittest.main now takes an optional exit argument. If False main
4487 doesn't call sys.exit allowing it to be used from the interactive interpreter.
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00004488
4489- Issue #5995: unittest.main now takes an optional verbosity argument allowing
Michael Foord5d31e052009-05-11 17:59:43 +00004490 test modules to be run with a higher than default verbosity.
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00004491
4492- Issue #5995: A fix to allow you to run "python -m unittest test_module" or
Michael Foord5d31e052009-05-11 17:59:43 +00004493 "python -m unittest test_module.TestClass" from the command line.
Michael Foord07ef4872009-05-02 22:43:34 +00004494
4495- Issue #5728: unittest.TestResult has new startTestRun and stopTestRun methods;
4496 called immediately before and after a test run.
4497
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004498- Issue #5663: Better failure messages for unittest asserts. Default assertTrue
Michael Foord345b2fe2009-04-02 03:20:38 +00004499 and assertFalse messages are now useful. TestCase has a longMessage attribute.
4500 This defaults to False, but if set to True useful error messages are shown in
4501 addition to explicit messages passed to assert methods.
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +00004502
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004503- Issue #3110: Add additional protect around SEM_VALUE_MAX for multiprocessing.
Jesse Nollerb502bc72009-04-02 02:32:55 +00004504
Georg Brandl58b8b952009-04-01 21:54:21 +00004505- In Pdb, prevent the reassignment of __builtin__._ by sys.displayhook on
4506 printing out values.
4507
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004508- Issue #4572: Added SEEK_* symbolic constants to io module.
Georg Brandl5942b912009-04-01 21:05:44 +00004509
Brett Cannonad078a02009-04-01 16:00:34 +00004510- Issue #1665206 (partially): Move imports in cgitb to the top of the module
4511 instead of performing them in functions. Helps prevent import deadlocking in
4512 threads.
4513
Raymond Hettinger66c4a6b2009-04-01 18:50:56 +00004514- Issue #5647: MutableSet.__iand__() no longer mutates self during iteration.
4515
Georg Brandle92d4b62009-04-01 04:21:14 +00004516- Actually make the SimpleXMLRPCServer CGI handler work.
4517
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004518- Issue #2522: locale.format() now checks its first argument to ensure it has
R. David Murraya83da352009-04-01 03:21:43 +00004519 been passed only one pattern, avoiding mysterious errors where it appeared
4520 that it was failing to do localization.
4521
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004522- Issue #5583: Added optional extensions in Distutils. Initial patch by Georg
Tarek Ziadé9e47ce42009-03-31 22:27:23 +00004523 Brandl.
4524
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004525- Issue #5619: Multiprocessing children disobey the debug flag and causes popups
4526 on windows buildbots. Patch applied to work around this issue.
Jesse Noller42f9b4e2009-03-31 22:20:35 +00004527
Benjamin Petersond906ea62009-03-31 21:34:42 +00004528- Issue #5632: Thread.ident was None for the main thread and threads not created
4529 with the threading module.
4530
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004531- Issue #5400: Added patch for multiprocessing on netbsd compilation/support.
Jesse Noller1f0a5552009-03-31 18:27:14 +00004532
Hirokazu Yamamoto9d2ee5d2009-03-31 13:13:05 +00004533- Issue #5387: Fixed mmap.move crash by integer overflow.
4534
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004535- Issue #5261: Patch multiprocessing's semaphore.c to support context manager
4536 use: "with multiprocessing.Lock()" works now.
Jesse Noller82eb5902009-03-30 23:29:31 +00004537
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +00004538- Issue #5177: Multiprocessing's SocketListener class now uses
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004539 socket.SO_REUSEADDR on all connections so that the user no longer needs to
4540 wait 120 seconds for the socket to expire.
Jesse Noller459a6482009-03-30 15:50:42 +00004541
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004542- Adjusted _tkinter to compile without warnings when WITH_THREAD is not defined
4543 (part of issue #5035).
Guilherme Polo1972d162009-03-27 21:43:08 +00004544
Marc-André Lemburgcbdf15b2009-03-25 19:45:33 +00004545- Issue #5561: Removed the sys.version_info shortcuts from platform's
4546 python_version() and python_version_tuple() since they produced different
4547 output compared to previous Python versions.
4548
Benjamin Peterson692428e2009-03-23 21:50:21 +00004549- Issue #1034053: unittest now supports skipping tests and expected failures.
4550
Gregory P. Smith28399852009-03-31 16:54:10 +00004551- The unittest.TestCase.assertRaises() method now returns a context manager when
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004552 not given a callable so that code to be tested can be written inline using a
4553 with statement.
Gregory P. Smith28399852009-03-31 16:54:10 +00004554
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004555- Issue #2578: The unittest.TestCase.assertEqual() now displays the differences
4556 in lists, tuples, dicts and sets on failure. Many new handy type and
4557 comparison specific assert* methods have been added that fail with error
4558 messages actually useful for debugging. Contributed in part by Google.
Gregory P. Smith28399852009-03-31 16:54:10 +00004559
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004560- Issue #5068: Fixed the tarfile._BZ2Proxy.read() method that would loop forever
4561 on incomplete input. That caused tarfile.open() to hang when used with mode
4562 'r' or 'r:bz2' and a fileobj argument that contained no data or partial bzip2
4563 compressed data.
Lars Gustäbel2020a592009-03-22 20:09:33 +00004564
Benjamin Petersonb364bfe2009-03-22 17:45:11 +00004565- Issue #5536: urllib.urlretrieve makes sure to close the file it's writing to
4566 even if an exception occurs.
4567
Raymond Hettinger91852ca2009-03-19 19:19:03 +00004568- Issue #5381: Added object_pairs_hook to the json module. This allows
4569 OrderedDicts to be built by the decoder.
4570
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004571- Issue #2110: Add support for thousands separator and 'n' type specifier to
4572 ``Decimal.__format__()``.
Mark Dickinson277859d2009-03-17 23:03:46 +00004573
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004574- Fix Decimal.__format__ bug that swapped the meanings of the '<' and '>'
4575 alignment characters.
Mark Dickinsonb065e522009-03-17 18:01:03 +00004576
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004577- Issue #1222: ``locale.format()`` bug when the thousands separator is a space
Antoine Pitroufeeafff2009-03-14 00:07:21 +00004578 character.
4579
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004580- Issue #5472: Fixed distutils.test_util tear down. Original patch by Tim
4581 Golden.
Tarek Ziadé61585c22009-03-11 12:48:04 +00004582
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004583- collections.deque objects now have a read-only attribute called maxlen.
Raymond Hettinger56411aa2009-03-10 12:50:59 +00004584
Guilherme Polo15d57652009-03-07 02:14:38 +00004585- Issue #2638: Show a window constructed with tkSimpleDialog.Dialog only after
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004586 it is has been populated and properly configured in order to prevent window
4587 flashing.
Guilherme Polo15d57652009-03-07 02:14:38 +00004588
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004589- Issue #4792: Prevent a segfault in _tkinter by using the guaranteed to be safe
4590 interp argument given to the PythonCmd in place of the Tcl interpreter taken
4591 from a PythonCmd_ClientData.
Guilherme Polo3768b2f2009-03-07 01:47:49 +00004592
Guilherme Polo6d6c1fd2009-03-07 01:19:12 +00004593- Issue #5193: Guarantee that Tkinter.Text.search returns a string.
4594
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004595- Issue #5394: Removed > 2.3 syntax from distutils.msvc9compiler.
Tarek Ziadé943b24e2009-03-07 00:32:45 +00004596 Original patch by Akira Kitada.
4597
Hirokazu Yamamoto264fc122009-03-05 14:21:12 +00004598- Issue #5385: Fixed mmap crash after resize failure on windows.
4599
Hirokazu Yamamotoeacbbdf2009-03-03 22:18:14 +00004600- Issue #5179: Fixed subprocess handle leak on failure on windows.
4601
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004602- PEP 372: Added collections.OrderedDict().
Raymond Hettingerbc512d32009-03-03 04:45:34 +00004603
Raymond Hettinger88a91642009-03-03 04:51:24 +00004604- The _asdict() for method for namedtuples now returns an OrderedDict().
4605
Raymond Hettingere89b8e92009-03-03 05:00:37 +00004606- The configparser module now defaults to using an ordered dictionary.
4607
Benjamin Peterson7d49bba2009-03-02 22:41:42 +00004608- Issue #4308: httplib.IncompleteRead's repr doesn't include all of the data all
4609 ready received.
4610
Benjamin Petersonad58b7c2009-03-02 03:35:12 +00004611- Issue #5401: Fixed a performance problem in mimetypes when ``from mimetypes
4612 import guess_extension`` was used.
4613
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004614- Issue #1733986: Fixed mmap crash on Windows in accessing elements of second
4615 map object with same tagname but larger size than first map.
Hirokazu Yamamotob0e10c72009-02-28 12:13:07 +00004616
Hirokazu Yamamotof2dc8852009-02-28 10:31:54 +00004617- Issue #5386: mmap.write_byte didn't check map size, so it could cause buffer
4618 overrun.
4619
Tarek Ziadé73347352009-02-28 10:08:02 +00004620- Issue #1533164: Installed but not listed *.pyo was breaking Distutils
4621 bdist_rpm command.
4622
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004623- Issue #5378: Added --quiet option to Distutils bdist_rpm command.
Tarek Ziadé73347352009-02-28 10:08:02 +00004624
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004625- Issue #5052: Make Distutils compatible with 2.3 again.
Tarek Ziadédda92f72009-02-27 12:53:34 +00004626
Benjamin Petersonb3dd5482009-02-26 19:07:18 +00004627- Deprecated methods of symtable.Symbol have been removed: is_keywordarg(),
4628 is_vararg(), and is_in_tuple().
4629
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004630- Issue #5316: Fixed buildbot failures introduced by multiple inheritance in
4631 Distutils tests.
Tarek Ziadée3bc0ef2009-02-25 22:29:27 +00004632
Vinay Sajip1a0d2be2009-02-19 12:31:32 +00004633- Issue #5287: Add exception handling around findCaller() call to help out
4634 IronPython.
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +00004635
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004636- Issue #5282: Fixed mmap resize on 32bit Windows and Unix. When ``offset >
4637 0``, the file was resized to wrong size.
Hirokazu Yamamoto17a837e2009-02-17 13:17:26 +00004638
Hirokazu Yamamotof6bbd0e2009-02-17 10:12:10 +00004639- Issue #5292: Fixed mmap crash on its boundary access m[len(m)].
4640
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004641- Issue #2279: distutils.sdist.add_defaults now add files from the package_data
4642 and the data_files metadata.
Tarek Ziadé7dd53392009-02-16 21:38:01 +00004643
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004644- Issue #5257: Refactored all tests in distutils, so they use
Tarek Ziadé13699002009-02-14 14:10:23 +00004645 support.TempdirManager, to avoid writing in the tests directory.
4646
Tarek Ziadé2432b0b2009-02-13 23:00:43 +00004647- Issue #4524: distutils build_script command failed with --with-suffix=3.
4648 Initial patch by Amaury Forgeot d'Arc.
4649
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004650- Issue #2461: Added tests for distutils.util.
Tarek Ziadé275958a2009-02-13 22:22:03 +00004651
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004652- Issue #1008086: Fixed socket.inet_aton() to always return 4 bytes even on LP64
4653 platforms (most 64-bit Linux, bsd, unix systems).
Gregory P. Smith3605b5c2009-02-11 23:45:25 +00004654
Thomas Heller3689ae22009-02-10 18:43:01 +00004655- Issue #5203: Fixed ctypes segfaults when passing a unicode string to a
4656 function without argtypes (only occurs if HAVE_USABLE_WCHAR_T is false).
4657
Tarek Ziadé74fbf602009-02-10 12:31:09 +00004658- Issue #3386: distutils.sysconfig.get_python_lib prefix argument was ignored
4659 under NT and OS2. Patch by Philip Jenvey.
4660
Brett Cannon28d10882009-02-10 02:07:38 +00004661- Issue #5128: Make compileall properly inspect bytecode to determine if needs
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004662 to be recreated. This avoids a timing hole thanks to the old reliance on the
Brett Cannon28d10882009-02-10 02:07:38 +00004663 ctime of the files involved.
4664
Guilherme Poloa66cf5b2009-02-09 20:50:27 +00004665- Issue #5122: Synchronize tk load failure check to prevent a potential
4666 deadlock.
4667
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004668- Issue #1818: collections.namedtuple() now supports a keyword argument 'rename'
4669 which lets invalid fieldnames be automatically converted to positional names
4670 in the form, _1, _2, ...
Raymond Hettinger322daea2009-02-10 01:24:05 +00004671
Guilherme Polod2ea0332009-02-09 16:41:09 +00004672- Issue #4890: Handle empty text search pattern in Tkinter.Text.search.
4673
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004674- Issue #5170: Fixed Unicode output bug in logging and added test case. This is
4675 a regression which did not occur in 2.5.
Vinay Sajipb20af942009-02-08 19:06:08 +00004676
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004677- Issue #4512 (part 2): Promote ``ZipImporter._get_filename()`` to be a public
4678 documented method ``ZipImporter.get_filename()``.
Nick Coghlan0194f5b2009-02-08 03:17:00 +00004679
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004680- Issue #4195: The ``runpy`` module (and the ``-m`` switch) now support the
4681 execution of packages by looking for and executing a ``__main__`` submodule
4682 when a package name is supplied. Initial patch by Andi Vajda.
Nick Coghland39600e2009-02-08 01:26:34 +00004683
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004684- Issue #1731706: Call Tcl_ConditionFinalize for Tcl_Conditions that will not be
4685 used again (this requires Tcl/Tk 8.3.1), also fix a memory leak in Tkapp_Call
4686 when calling from a thread different than the one that created the Tcl
4687 interpreter. Patch by Robert Hancock.
Guilherme Polo14ff18d2009-02-06 22:26:22 +00004688
Vinay Sajipb20af942009-02-08 19:06:08 +00004689- Issue #1520877: Now distutils.sysconfig reads $AR from the
Tarek Ziadé05adf072009-02-06 01:15:51 +00004690 environment/Makefile. Patch by Douglas Greiman.
4691
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004692- Issue #4285: Change sys.version_info to be a named tuple. Patch by Ross
4693 Light.
Eric Smith81fe0932009-02-06 00:48:26 +00004694
Tarek Ziadéd5eb9852009-02-06 00:31:59 +00004695- Issue #1276768: The verbose option was not used in the code of
4696 distutils.file_util and distutils.dir_util.
4697
Vinay Sajipb20af942009-02-08 19:06:08 +00004698- Issue #5132: Fixed trouble building extensions under Solaris with
Tarek Ziadé0d4fd342009-02-05 22:52:52 +00004699 --enabled-shared activated. Initial patch by Dave Peterson.
4700
Guilherme Polod7bb4d42009-02-02 21:14:14 +00004701- Issue #1581476: Always use the Tcl global namespace when calling into Tcl.
4702
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004703- Issue #2047: shutil.move() could believe that its destination path was inside
4704 its source path if it began with the same letters (e.g. "src" vs. "src.new").
Antoine Pitrou707c5932009-01-29 20:19:34 +00004705
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004706- Issue #4920: Fixed .next() vs .__next__() issues in the ABCs for Iterator and
4707 MutableSet.
Raymond Hettingerf779e6f2009-01-28 23:02:26 +00004708
Guilherme Polocda93aa2009-01-28 13:09:03 +00004709- Added the ttk module. See issue #2983: Ttk support for Tkinter.
4710
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004711- Issue #5021: doctest.testfile() did not create __name__ and
Raymond Hettingerecf252a2009-01-27 10:03:04 +00004712 collections.namedtuple() relied on __name__ being defined.
4713
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004714- Backport importlib from Python 3.1. Only the import_module() function has been
4715 backported to help facilitate transitions from 2.7 to 3.1.
Brett Cannon93881c62009-01-26 01:16:50 +00004716
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004717- Issue #1885: distutils: When running sdist with --formats=tar,gztar the tar
4718 file was overriden by the gztar one.
Tarek Ziadéaaedcef2009-01-25 23:34:00 +00004719
Tarek Ziadéef249b12009-01-25 18:19:25 +00004720- Issue #4863: distutils.mwerkscompiler has been removed.
4721
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004722- Added new itertools functions: combinations_with_replacement() and compress().
Raymond Hettinger2bcb8e92009-01-25 21:04:14 +00004723
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004724- Issue #5032: Added a step argument to itertools.count() and allowed
4725 non-integer arguments.
Raymond Hettinger31c769c2009-02-12 05:39:46 +00004726
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004727- Fix and properly document the multiprocessing module's logging support, expose
4728 the internal levels and provide proper usage examples.
Jesse Nollerb5a4b0a2009-01-25 03:36:13 +00004729
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004730- Issue #1672332: Fix unpickling of subnormal floats, which was
Mark Dickinsona3ecd2c2009-01-24 16:40:29 +00004731 producing a ValueError on some platforms.
4732
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004733- Issue #3881: Help Tcl to load even when started through the unreadable local
4734 symlink to "Program Files" on Vista.
Martin v. Löwisf081e1c2009-01-24 15:47:27 +00004735
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004736- Issue #4710: Extract directories properly in the zipfile module; allow adding
4737 directories to a zipfile.
Martin v. Löwis0dfcfc82009-01-24 14:00:33 +00004738
Vinay Sajipb20af942009-02-08 19:06:08 +00004739- Issue #3807: _multiprocessing build fails when configure is passed
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004740 --without-threads argument. When this occurs, _multiprocessing will be
4741 disabled, and not compiled.
Jesse Nollerf6da8d12009-01-23 14:04:41 +00004742
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004743- Issue #5008: When a file is opened in append mode with the new IO library, do
4744 an explicit seek to the end of file (so that e.g. tell() returns the file size
4745 rather than 0). This is consistent with the behaviour of the traditional 2.x
4746 file object.
Antoine Pitroue741cc62009-01-21 00:45:36 +00004747
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +00004748- Issue #5013: Fixed a bug in FileHandler which occurred when the delay
4749 parameter was set.
4750
Raymond Hettinger933d3a72009-01-20 20:34:19 +00004751- Issue #4998: The memory saving effect of __slots__ had been lost on Fractions
4752 which inherited from numbers.py which did not have __slots__ defined. The
Mark Dickinson39c6f7f2009-02-12 17:55:42 +00004753 numbers hierarchy now has its own __slots__ declarations.
Raymond Hettinger933d3a72009-01-20 20:34:19 +00004754
Jesse Noller9a5b2ad2009-01-19 15:12:22 +00004755- Issue #3321: _multiprocessing.Connection() doesn't check handle; added checks
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004756 for *nix machines for negative handles and large int handles. Without this
4757 check it is possible to segfault the interpreter.
Jesse Noller9a5b2ad2009-01-19 15:12:22 +00004758
Jesse Noller6ab22152009-01-18 02:45:38 +00004759- Issue #4449: AssertionError in mp_benchmarks.py, caused by an underlying issue
4760 in sharedctypes.py.
4761
Benjamin Peterson5e5fbb62009-01-17 22:27:54 +00004762- Issue #1225107: inspect.isclass() returned True for instances with a custom
4763 __getattr__.
4764
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004765- Issue #3997: Zipfiles generated with more than 65536 files could not be opened
4766 with other applications.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd25f87a2009-01-17 16:40:17 +00004767
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004768- Issue #1162154: ``inspect.getmembers()`` now skips attributes that raise
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcb54447f2009-01-13 23:39:22 +00004769 AttributeError, e.g. a __slots__ attribute which has not been set.
4770
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004771- Issue #1696199: Add collections.Counter() for rapid and convenient counting.
Raymond Hettingerf94d7fa2009-01-12 22:58:41 +00004772
Antoine Pitroubd4b5f22009-01-10 16:15:24 +00004773- Issue #3860: GzipFile and BZ2File now support the context manager protocol.
4774
Antoine Pitrouf0d2c3f2009-01-04 21:29:23 +00004775- Issue #4272: Add an optional argument to the GzipFile constructor to override
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004776 the timestamp in the gzip stream. The default value remains the current time.
4777 The information can be used by e.g. gunzip when decompressing. Patch by
Antoine Pitrouf0d2c3f2009-01-04 21:29:23 +00004778 Jacques Frechet.
4779
Mark Dickinson514d4832009-01-04 21:25:40 +00004780- Restore Python 2.3 compatibility for decimal.py.
4781
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +00004782- Issue #1702551: distutils sdist was not excluding VCS directories under
Tarek Ziadé85d6fb52009-01-04 00:04:49 +00004783 Windows. Inital solution by Guy Dalberto.
4784
Guilherme Poloe7f14032009-01-03 21:51:09 +00004785- The _tkinter module functions "createfilehandler", "deletefilehandler",
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004786 "createtimerhandler", "mainloop", "dooneevent" and "quit" have been deprecated
4787 for removal in 3.x
Guilherme Poloe7f14032009-01-03 21:51:09 +00004788
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004789- Issue #4796: Added Decimal.from_float() and
4790 Context.create_decimal_from_float() to the decimal module.
Raymond Hettingerf4d85972009-01-03 19:02:23 +00004791
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004792- Issue #4812: Add missing underscore prefix to some internal-use-only constants
4793 in the decimal module. (Dec_0 becomes _Dec_0, etc.)
Mark Dickinsonc5de0962009-01-02 23:07:08 +00004794
Benjamin Peterson8ad09a42008-12-31 23:48:39 +00004795- Issue #4795: inspect.isgeneratorfunction() returns False instead of None when
4796 the function is not a generator.
4797
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004798- Issue #4702: Throwing a DistutilsPlatformError instead of IOError in case no
4799 MSVC compiler is found under Windows. Original patch by Philip Jenvey.
Tarek Ziadéb1a85412008-12-30 23:03:41 +00004800
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004801- Issue #4646: distutils was choking on empty options arg in the setup function.
4802 Original patch by Thomas Heller.
Tarek Ziadéc13acb12008-12-29 22:23:53 +00004803
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004804- Fractions.from_float() no longer loses precision for integers too big to cast
4805 as floats.
Georg Brandlfe427892009-01-03 22:03:11 +00004806
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004807- Issue #4790: The nsmallest() and nlargest() functions in the heapq module did
4808 unnecessary work in the common case where no key function was specified.
Georg Brandlfe427892009-01-03 22:03:11 +00004809
Martin v. Löwis732479f2008-12-29 16:22:25 +00004810- Issue #3767: Convert Tk object to string in tkColorChooser.
4811
Martin v. Löwise2eb2b42008-12-29 15:51:01 +00004812- Issue #3248: Allow placing ScrolledText in a PanedWindow.
4813
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004814- Issue #4444: Allow assertRaises() to be used as a context handler, so that the
4815 code under test can be written inline if more practical.
Antoine Pitrou697ca3d2008-12-28 14:09:36 +00004816
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004817- Issue #4739: Add pydoc help topics for symbols, so that e.g. help('@') works
4818 as expected in the interactive environment.
Georg Brandlc3a98032008-12-27 18:20:04 +00004819
Antoine Pitrou6f193e02008-12-27 15:43:12 +00004820- Issue #4756: zipfile.is_zipfile() now supports file-like objects. Patch by
4821 Gabriel Genellina.
4822
Tarek Ziadée4c75bb2008-12-24 19:10:05 +00004823- Issue #4400: .pypirc default generated file was broken in distutils.
4824
Benjamin Peterson54686e32008-12-24 15:10:27 +00004825- Issue #4736: io.BufferedRWPair's closed property now functions properly.
4826
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004827- Issue #3954: Fix a potential SystemError in _hotshot.logreader error handling.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc31949b92008-12-15 21:47:57 +00004828
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004829- Issue #4574: Fix a crash in io.IncrementalNewlineDecoder when a carriage
4830 return encodes to more than one byte in the source encoding (e.g. UTF-16) and
4831 gets split on a chunk boundary.
Antoine Pitrou655fbf12008-12-14 17:40:51 +00004832
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004833- Issue #4223: inspect.getsource() will now correctly display source code for
4834 packages loaded via zipimport (or any other conformant PEP 302
Nick Coghlana2053472008-12-14 10:54:50 +00004835 loader). Original patch by Alexander Belopolsky.
4836
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004837- Issue #4201: pdb can now access and display source code loaded via zipimport
4838 (or any other conformant PEP 302 loader). Original patch by Alexander
4839 Belopolsky.
Nick Coghlana2053472008-12-14 10:54:50 +00004840
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004841- Issue #4197: Doctests in modules loaded via zipimport (or any other PEP 302
4842 conformant loader) will now work correctly in most cases (they are still
4843 subject to the constraints that exist for all code running from inside a
4844 module loaded via a PEP 302 loader and attempting to perform IO operations
4845 based on __file__). Original patch by Alexander Belopolsky.
Nick Coghlana2053472008-12-14 10:54:50 +00004846
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004847- Issues #4082 and #4512: Add runpy support to zipimport in a manner that allows
4848 backporting to maintenance branches. Original patch by Alexander Belopolsky.
Nick Coghlana2053472008-12-14 10:54:50 +00004849
Antoine Pitrou74af3bb2008-12-13 23:12:30 +00004850- Issue #4163: Use unicode-friendly word splitting in the textwrap functions
4851 when given an unicode string.
4852
Lars Gustäbel3b027422008-12-12 13:58:03 +00004853- Issue #4616: TarFile.utime(): Restore directory times on Windows.
4854
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004855- Issue #4084: Fix max, min, max_mag and min_mag Decimal methods to give correct
4856 results in the case where one argument is a quiet NaN and the other is a
4857 finite number that requires rounding.
Facundo Batistae29d4352008-12-11 04:19:46 +00004858
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004859- Issue #1030250: Distutils created directories even when run with the --dry-run
4860 option.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc240028c2008-12-11 00:03:42 +00004861
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004862- Issue #4483: _dbm module now builds on systems with gdbm & gdbm_compat libs.
Skip Montanaro45313fe2008-12-06 17:43:30 +00004863
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004864- Issue #4529: Fix the parser module's validation of try-except-finally
Georg Brandlfe879e82008-12-05 12:09:41 +00004865 statements.
4866
Georg Brandla07435d2008-12-05 09:23:14 +00004867- Issue #4458: getopt.gnu_getopt() now recognizes a single "-" as an argument,
4868 not a malformed option.
4869
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004870- Added the subprocess.check_output() convenience function to get output from a
4871 subprocess on success or raise an exception on error.
Gregory P. Smith97f49f42008-12-04 20:21:09 +00004872
Fred Drake52481032008-12-04 18:25:17 +00004873- Issue #1055234: cgi.parse_header(): Fixed parsing of header parameters to
4874 support unusual filenames (such as those containing semi-colons) in
4875 Content-Disposition headers.
4876
Vinay Sajip6831d6b2008-12-04 20:32:18 +00004877- Issue #4384: Added logging integration with warnings module using
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004878 captureWarnings(). This change includes a NullHandler which does nothing; it
4879 will be of use to library developers who want to avoid the "No handlers could
4880 be found for logger XXX" message which can appear if the library user doesn't
4881 configure logging.
Vinay Sajip213faca2008-12-03 23:22:58 +00004882
Christian Heimesaa674712008-11-28 11:02:32 +00004883- Issue #3741: DISTUTILS_USE_SDK set causes msvc9compiler.py to raise an
4884 exception.
4885
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004886- Issue #4363: The uuid.uuid1() and uuid.uuid4() functions now work even if the
4887 ctypes module is not present.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd4294172008-11-21 22:05:48 +00004888
Benjamin Petersonbfc51562008-11-22 01:59:15 +00004889- FileIO's mode attribute now always includes ``"b"``.
4890
Martin v. Löwisbb9b1f12008-11-19 09:09:41 +00004891- Issue #4116: Resolve member name conflict in ScrolledCanvas.__init__.
4892
Brett Cannone3d0bf72008-11-15 22:40:44 +00004893- httplib.HTTPConnection.putheader() now accepts an arbitrary number of values
4894 for any header, matching what the documentation has claimed for a while.
4895
Hirokazu Yamamotob9828f62008-11-03 18:03:06 +00004896- Issue #3774: Fixed an error when create a Tkinter menu item without command
4897 and then remove it.
4898
Thomas Heller1fac5a42008-10-30 20:18:13 +00004899- Fixed a modulefinder crash on certain relative imports.
4900
Benjamin Petersonc18574c2008-10-22 21:16:34 +00004901- Issue #4150: Pdb's "up" command now works for generator frames in post-mortem
4902 debugging.
4903
Benjamin Petersone4dc1752008-10-21 22:20:31 +00004904- Issue #4092: Return ArgInfo as promised in the documentation from
4905 inspect.getargvalues.
4906
Georg Brandlf3776a12008-10-08 18:47:17 +00004907- Issue #3935: Properly support list subclasses in bisect's C implementation.
4908
Martin v. Löwis96a9f232008-10-06 15:15:40 +00004909- Issue #4014: Don't claim that Python has an Alpha release status, in addition
4910 to claiming it is Mature.
4911
Alexandre Vassalotti6067f782008-12-27 07:13:01 +00004912- Issue #4730: Fixed the cPickle module to handle correctly astral characters
4913 when protocol 0 is used.
4914
Ronald Oussoren0238497e2009-01-02 14:10:20 +00004915- Issue #1594: MacOS.GetCreatorAndType now always returns a big-endian result,
4916 to be consistent with Apple tools.
4917
Ronald Oussoren63b74fe2009-01-02 14:46:19 +00004918- Issue #900949: plat-mac/videoreader.py no longer relies on a non-existing
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +00004919 module.
Ronald Oussoren63b74fe2009-01-02 14:46:19 +00004920
Ronald Oussoren7f8cbf02009-01-02 14:48:17 +00004921- Issue #16278952: plat-mac/videoreader.py now correctly imports MediaDescr
4922
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004923- Issue #1737832: plat-mac/EasyDialog.py no longer uses the broken aepack
Ronald Oussoren919697c2009-01-02 14:52:09 +00004924 module.
4925
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004926- Issue #1149804: macostools.mkdirs now even works when another process creates
4927 one of the needed subdirectories.
Ronald Oussorenabcc1682009-01-02 15:00:05 +00004928
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004929- Issue #900506: added --no-zipimport flag to the bundlebuilder script.
Ronald Oussoren072bb402009-01-02 15:25:36 +00004930
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004931- Issue #841800: bundlebuilder now works with 'python -O'.
Ronald Oussoren072bb402009-01-02 15:25:36 +00004932
Matthias Klose43723e22009-01-10 17:00:42 +00004933- Issue #4861: ctypes.util.find_library(): Robustify. Fix library detection on
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004934 biarch systems. Try to rely on ldconfig only, without using objdump and gcc.
Matthias Klose43723e22009-01-10 17:00:42 +00004935
Gregory P. Smithde1a8b72009-01-31 22:57:30 +00004936- Issue #5104: The socket module now raises OverflowError when 16-bit port and
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004937 protocol numbers are supplied outside the allowed 0-65536 range on bind() and
4938 getservbyport().
Gregory P. Smithde1a8b72009-01-31 22:57:30 +00004939
Neil Schemenauer92c3b212009-02-07 00:54:41 +00004940- Issue #999042: The Python compiler now handles explict global statements
4941 correctly (should be assigned using STORE_GLOBAL opcode).
4942
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004943- Issue #2703: SimpleXMLRPCDispatcher.__init__: Provide default values for new
4944 arguments introduced in 2.5.
Matthias Klosea5d58c82009-04-05 21:00:48 +00004945
Walter Dörwald5d98ec72009-04-25 14:03:16 +00004946- Issue #5828 (Invalid behavior of unicode.lower): Fixed bogus logic in
4947 makeunicodedata.py and regenerated the Unicode database (This fixes
4948 u'\u1d79'.lower() == '\x00').
4949
Jeroen Ruigrok van der Wervenb87b3342009-05-08 14:11:23 +00004950- Windows locale mapping updated to Vista.
4951
Antoine Pitroue555f582008-12-27 20:34:52 +00004952Tools/Demos
4953-----------
4954
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004955- Ttk demos added in Demo/tkinter/ttk/.
Guilherme Polo4eae0782009-01-28 15:56:01 +00004956
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004957- Issue #4677: Add two list comprehension tests to pybench.
Antoine Pitroue555f582008-12-27 20:34:52 +00004958
Brett Cannon60b15d22008-10-06 22:44:37 +00004959Build
4960-----
4961
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004962- Issue #6603: Change READ_TIMESTAMP macro in ceval.c so that it compiles
4963 correctly under gcc on x86-64. This fixes a reported problem with the
4964 --with-tsc build on x86-64.
Mark Dickinson504a1512009-10-31 10:11:28 +00004965
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004966- Add 2 new options to ``--with-universal-archs`` on MacOSX: ``intel`` builds a
4967 distribution with ``i386`` and ``x86_64`` architectures, while ``3-way``
4968 builds a distribution with the ``ppc``, ``i386`` and ``x86_64`` architectures.
Vinay Sajip03d5c342009-10-16 14:06:44 +00004969
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004970- Issue #6802: Fix build issues on MacOSX 10.6.
Ronald Oussoren25967582009-09-06 10:00:26 +00004971
Guilherme Polo1ce2d532009-08-16 14:38:57 +00004972- Issue #6244: Allow detect_tkinter to look for Tcl/Tk 8.6.
4973
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00004974- Issue #5390: Add uninstall icon independent of whether file extensions are
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004975 installed.
Martin v. Löwisecb4f952009-06-28 09:32:39 +00004976
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00004977- Issue #5809: Specifying both --enable-framework and --enable-shared is an
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004978 error. Configure now explicity tells you about this.
Ronald Oussoren450d5612009-06-08 21:12:41 +00004979
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004980- Issue #3585: Add pkg-config support. It creates a python-2.7.pc file and a
4981 python.pc symlink in the $(LIBDIR)/pkgconfig directory. Patch by Clinton Roy.
Antoine Pitrouf2caeed2009-05-24 20:23:57 +00004982
Benjamin Petersone5afa3b2009-05-23 19:24:37 +00004983- Issue #6094: Build correctly with Subversion 1.7.
4984
Martin v. Löwis588b54b2009-05-05 16:10:16 +00004985- Issue #5847: Remove -n switch on "Edit with IDLE" menu item.
4986
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004987- Issue #5726: Make Modules/ld_so_aix return the actual exit code of the linker,
4988 rather than always exit successfully. Patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
Antoine Pitrou3fd4ea92009-05-01 21:16:14 +00004989
Matthias Klose10cbe482009-04-29 17:18:19 +00004990- Issue #4587: Add configure option --with-dbmliborder=db1:db2:... to specify
Vinay Sajipf9b01fe2009-05-09 12:07:17 +00004991 the order that backends for the dbm extension are checked.
Matthias Klose10cbe482009-04-29 17:18:19 +00004992
Matthias Klose8ad554f2009-02-22 23:14:26 +00004993- Link the shared python library with $(MODLIBS).
4994
Martin v. Löwisa3e3cb72009-02-10 13:09:19 +00004995- Issue #5134: Silence compiler warnings when compiling sqlite with VC++.
4996
Martin v. Löwisfee1c7f2009-02-02 14:23:16 +00004997- Issue #4494: Fix build with Py_NO_ENABLE_SHARED on Windows.
4998
Martin v. Löwiseefda272009-01-11 09:43:55 +00004999- Issue #4895: Use _strdup on Windows CE.
5000
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005001- Issue #4472: ``configure --enable-shared`` now works on OSX.
Ronald Oussorenf7d54052009-01-02 10:48:31 +00005002
Benjamin Petersonfd9633e2008-12-28 15:37:31 +00005003- Issues #4728 and #4060: WORDS_BIGEDIAN is now correct in Universal builds.
5004
Martin v. Löwiscb6c3592008-11-30 11:08:26 +00005005- Issue #4389: Add icon to the uninstall entry in "add-and-remove-programs".
5006
Martin v. Löwis63470982008-11-19 13:51:44 +00005007- Issue #4289: Remove Cancel button from AdvancedDlg.
5008
Martin v. Löwis3d6f8ff2008-11-07 18:51:50 +00005009- Issue #1656675: Register a drop handler for .py* files on Windows.
5010
Martin v. Löwis692c2f82008-11-06 16:43:00 +00005011- Issue #4120: Exclude manifest from extension modules in VS2008.
5012
Martin v. Löwis0f3e7692008-10-17 13:43:01 +00005013- Issue #4091: Install pythonxy.dll in system32 again.
5014
Martin v. Löwiseba774b2008-10-13 11:23:35 +00005015- Issue #4018: Disable "for me" installations on Vista.
5016
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005017- Issue #3758: Add ``patchcheck`` build target to ``.PHONY``.
Brett Cannon60b15d22008-10-06 22:44:37 +00005018
Martin v. Löwisbb86d832008-11-04 20:40:09 +00005019- Issue #4204: Fixed module build errors on FreeBSD 4.
5020
Tarek Ziadéc4a4aeb2009-08-21 14:28:38 +00005021Documentation
5022-------------
5023
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005024- Issue #6556: Fixed the Distutils configuration files location explanation for
5025 Windows.
Tarek Ziadéc4a4aeb2009-08-21 14:28:38 +00005026
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005027- Issue #6801: symmetric_difference_update also accepts ``|``. Thanks to Carl
5028 Chenet.
Tarek Ziadé3092ed92009-08-29 13:33:21 +00005029
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc07d539d2008-10-14 21:47:22 +00005030C-API
5031-----
5032
Mark Dickinsone31d3002009-12-21 11:21:25 +00005033- Issue #7528: Add PyLong_AsLongAndOverflow (backported from py3k).
5034
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005035- Issue #7228: Add '%lld' and '%llu' support to PyString_FromFormat(V) and
5036 PyErr_Format, on machines with HAVE_LONG_LONG defined.
Mark Dickinson82864d12009-11-15 16:18:58 +00005037
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005038- Add new C-API function PyOS_string_to_double, and deprecated PyOS_ascii_atof
5039 and PyOS_ascii_strtod.
Mark Dickinson09823a22009-10-31 09:42:39 +00005040
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005041- Removed _PyOS_double_to_string. Use PyOS_double_to_string instead. This is in
5042 preparation for (but not strictly related to) issue #7117, short float repr.
Mark Dickinsonba26b392009-10-31 09:28:12 +00005043
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005044- Issue #6624: PyArg_ParseTuple with "s" format when parsing argument with NULL:
5045 Bogus TypeError detail string.
Sean Reifscheider9279e7d2009-08-01 23:54:55 +00005046
Jeffrey Yasskinf7f858d2009-05-08 22:23:21 +00005047- Issue #5954: Add a PyFrame_GetLineNumber() function to replace most uses of
5048 PyCode_Addr2Line().
5049
Jeffrey Yasskin1aa47002009-05-08 21:51:06 +00005050- Issue #5959: Add a PyCode_NewEmpty() function to create a new empty code
5051 object at a specified file, function, and line number.
5052
Brett Cannonc4f90eb2009-04-02 03:17:39 +00005053- Issue #1419652: Change the first argument to PyImport_AppendInittab() to
5054 ``const char *`` as the string is stored beyond the call.
5055
Benjamin Peterson5781f322009-02-16 21:09:09 +00005056- Some PyBytes_* aliases have been removed because they don't exist in 3.x.
5057
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005058- Issue #5175: PyLong_AsUnsignedLongLong now raises OverflowError for negative
5059 arguments. Previously, it raised TypeError.
Mark Dickinson4015f622009-02-10 15:46:50 +00005060
Benjamin Petersoncf2ce242008-12-22 20:52:53 +00005061- Issue #4720: The format for PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords can begin with '|'.
5062
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005063- Issue #3632: From the gdb debugger, the 'pyo' macro can now be called when the
5064 GIL is released, or owned by another thread.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc3538a312008-12-15 22:29:14 +00005065
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc07d539d2008-10-14 21:47:22 +00005066- Issue #4122: On Windows, fix a compilation error when using the
5067 Py_UNICODE_ISSPACE macro in an extension module.
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +00005068
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005069- Issue #4293: Py_AddPendingCall() is now thread safe and can be used for
Kristján Valur Jónssonc22ab182009-01-12 09:24:04 +00005070 asynchronous notifications to python from any thread. Documentation added.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc07d539d2008-10-14 21:47:22 +00005071
Benjamin Peterson9dfe6a82008-11-24 04:09:03 +00005072Extension Modules
5073-----------------
5074
Martin v. Löwis50ea4562009-11-27 13:56:01 +00005075- Issue #6508: Add posix.{getresuid,getresgid,setresuid,setresgid}.
5076
Mark Dickinson3d830822009-10-08 15:54:10 +00005077- Issue #7078: Set struct.__doc__ from _struct.__doc__.
5078
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005079- Issue #3366: Add erf, erfc, expm1, gamma, lgamma functions to math module.
Mark Dickinsonb93fff02009-09-28 18:54:55 +00005080
Brett Cannon4d947432009-09-22 00:29:48 +00005081- Issue #6823: Allow time.strftime() to accept a tuple with a isdst field
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005082 outside of the range of [-1, 1] by normalizing the value to within that range.
Brett Cannon4d947432009-09-22 00:29:48 +00005083
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005084- Issue #6877: Make it possible to link the readline extension to libedit on
5085 OSX.
Ronald Oussoren9f20d9d2009-09-20 14:18:15 +00005086
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005087- Issue #6944: Fix a SystemError when socket.getnameinfo() was called with
5088 something other than a tuple as first argument.
Georg Brandlab849892009-09-19 07:35:07 +00005089
Benjamin Peterson7f6d0832009-09-08 23:04:22 +00005090- Issue #6865: Fix reference counting issue in the initialization of the pwd
5091 module.
5092
Mark Dickinson6b3f1ef2009-09-06 21:21:05 +00005093- Issue #6848: Fix curses module build failure on OS X 10.6.
5094
Brett Cannon764465f2009-08-13 19:27:12 +00005095- Fix a segfault in expat when given a specially crafted input lead to the
Matthias Klose3b0f9b02010-01-22 00:34:48 +00005096 tokenizer not stopping. CVE-2009-3720.
Brett Cannon764465f2009-08-13 19:27:12 +00005097
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005098- Issue #6561: '\d' in a regex now matches only characters with Unicode category
5099 'Nd' (Number, Decimal Digit). Previously it also matched characters with
5100 category 'No'.
Mark Dickinsonfe67bd92009-07-28 20:35:03 +00005101
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005102- Issue #1523: Remove deprecated overflow wrapping for struct.pack with an
5103 integer format code ('bBhHiIlLqQ'). Packing an out-of-range integer now
5104 consistently raises struct.error.
Mark Dickinson5fd3af22009-07-07 15:08:28 +00005105
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005106- Issues #1530559, #1741130: Fix various struct.pack inconsistencies for the
5107 integer formats ('bBhHiIlLqQ'). In the following, '*' represents any of '=',
5108 '<', '>'.
Mark Dickinson463dc4b2009-07-05 10:01:24 +00005109
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005110 - Packing a float now always gives a Deprecation Warning. Previously it
5111 only warned for 'I', 'L', '*B', '*H', '*I', '*L'.
Mark Dickinson463dc4b2009-07-05 10:01:24 +00005112
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005113 - If x is not an int, long or float, then packing x will always result in
5114 struct.error. Previously an x with an __int__ method could be packed by
5115 'b', 'B', 'h', 'H', 'i', 'l', '*b', '*h' ,'*i', '*l', and an x with a
5116 __long__ method could be packed by 'q', 'Q', '*q', '*Q'; for x with
5117 neither __int__ nor __long__, TypeError used to be raised (with a
5118 confusing error message) for 'I', 'L', '*B', '*H', '*I', '*L', and
5119 struct.error in other cases.
Mark Dickinson463dc4b2009-07-05 10:01:24 +00005120
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005121 Note: as of Python 2.7 beta 1, the above is out of date. In 2.7 beta 1, any
5122 argument with an __int__ method can be packed, but use of this feature
5123 triggers a DeprecationWarning.
Mark Dickinson154b7ad2010-03-07 16:24:45 +00005124
Martin v. Löwis4f16d3b2009-05-29 15:58:08 +00005125- Issue #4873: Fix resource leaks in error cases of pwd and grp.
5126
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005127- Issue #4751: For hashlib algorithms provided by OpenSSL, the Python GIL is now
5128 released during computation on data lengths >= 2048 bytes.
Gregory P. Smithd02eeda2009-05-04 00:16:49 +00005129
Gregory P. Smithea388262009-02-13 03:00:00 +00005130- Issue #3745: Fix hashlib to always reject unicode and non buffer-api
5131 supporting objects as input no matter how it was compiled (built in
Gregory P. Smithfe32d302010-01-02 22:42:50 +00005132 implementations or external openssl library). NOTE: Undone in 2.7a2.
Gregory P. Smithea388262009-02-13 03:00:00 +00005133
Mark Dickinsona200dd52009-01-15 15:17:43 +00005134- Issue #4397: Fix occasional test_socket failure on OS X.
Mark Dickinsone82cdae2009-01-15 14:54:37 +00005135
Martin v. Löwisb3b7d852009-01-11 09:26:54 +00005136- Issue #4279: Fix build of parsermodule under Cygwin.
5137
Martin v. Löwis9ac49272009-01-02 20:40:14 +00005138- Issue #4051: Prevent conflict of UNICODE macros in cPickle.
5139
Georg Brandl6269fec2009-01-01 12:15:31 +00005140- Issue #4228: Pack negative values the same way as 2.4 in struct's L format.
5141
Martin v. Löwis03824e42008-12-29 18:17:34 +00005142- Issue #1040026: Fix os.times result on systems where HZ is incorrect.
5143
Mark Dickinson4c96fa52008-12-11 19:28:08 +00005144- Issues #3167, #3682: Fix test_math failures for log, log10 on Solaris,
5145 OpenBSD.
5146
Martin v. Löwisbcb017f2008-11-30 19:28:27 +00005147- Issue #4365: Add crtassem.h constants to the msvcrt module.
5148
Benjamin Peterson9dfe6a82008-11-24 04:09:03 +00005149- Issue #4396: The parser module now correctly validates the with statement.
5150
Jack Diederichd60c29e2009-03-31 23:46:48 +00005151- Issue #5228: Make functools.partial objects can now be pickled.
5152
Guilherme Polob1a98de2009-01-28 20:03:26 +00005153Tests
5154-----
5155
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005156- Issue #7431: Use TESTFN in test_linecache instead of trying to create a file
5157 in the Lib/test directory, which might be read-only for the user running the
5158 tests.
R. David Murray820b0ea2009-12-03 23:57:59 +00005159
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005160- Issue #7324: Add a sanity check to regrtest argument parsing to catch the case
5161 of an option with no handler.
R. David Murrayda826892009-11-15 00:04:32 +00005162
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005163- Issue #7312: Add a -F flag to run the selected tests in a loop until a test
5164 fails. Can be combined with -j.
R. David Murray7f7eea62009-11-14 15:18:22 +00005165
Antoine Pitrou310c9fe2009-11-11 20:55:07 +00005166- Issue #7295: Do not use a hardcoded file name in test_tarfile.
5167
Antoine Pitrouc98efe02009-11-06 22:34:35 +00005168- Issue #7270: Add some dedicated unit tests for multi-thread synchronization
5169 primitives such as Lock, RLock, Condition, Event and Semaphore.
5170
Antoine Pitrou59c44f32009-10-30 17:07:08 +00005171- Issue #7222: Make thread "reaping" more reliable so that reference
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005172 leak-chasing test runs give sensible results. The previous method of reaping
5173 threads could return successfully while some Thread objects were still
5174 referenced. This also introduces a new private function: ``thread._count()``.
Antoine Pitrou59c44f32009-10-30 17:07:08 +00005175
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005176- Issue #7151: Fixed regrtest -j so that output to stderr from a test no longer
5177 runs the risk of causing the worker thread to fail.
R. David Murray282396f2009-10-18 21:12:37 +00005178
Antoine Pitrou58d2f262009-10-10 20:52:11 +00005179- Issue #7055: test___all__ now greedily detects all modules which have an
5180 __all__ attribute, rather than using a hardcoded and incomplete list.
5181
R. David Murray14dcd432009-10-14 13:58:07 +00005182- Issue #7058: Added save/restore for things like sys.argv and cwd to
5183 runtest_inner in regrtest, with warnings if the called test modifies them,
5184 and a new section in the summary report at the end.
R. David Murrayabe3d3e2009-10-05 17:03:09 +00005185
Mark Dickinson245d9152009-10-04 18:38:39 +00005186- Issue #7042: Fix test_signal (test_itimer_virtual) failure on OS X 10.6.
5187
Brett Cannone7e941e2009-09-03 21:25:21 +00005188- Issue #6806: test_platform failed under OS X 10.6.0 because ``sw_ver`` leaves
5189 off the trailing 0 in the version number.
5190
Guilherme Polo7f146ab2009-06-21 17:22:50 +00005191- Issue #5450: Moved tests involving loading tk from Lib/test/test_tcl to
5192 Lib/lib-tk/test/test_tkinter/test_loadtk. With this, these tests demonstrate
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005193 the same behaviour as test_ttkguionly (and now also test_tk) which is to skip
5194 the tests if DISPLAY is defined but can't be used.
Guilherme Polo7f146ab2009-06-21 17:22:50 +00005195
Antoine Pitrou4698d992009-05-31 14:20:14 +00005196- Issue #6152: New option '-j'/'--multiprocess' for regrtest allows running
5197 regression tests in parallel, shortening the total runtime.
5198
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005199- Issue #5354: New test support function import_fresh_module() makes it easy to
5200 import both normal and optimised versions of modules. test_heapq and
5201 test_warnings have been adjusted to use it, tests for other modules with both
5202 C and Python implementations in the stdlib can be adjusted to use it over
5203 time.
Nick Coghlan5533ff62009-04-22 15:26:04 +00005204
Brett Cannonce3d2212009-04-01 20:25:48 +00005205- Fix test_warnings to no longer reset the warnings filter.
5206
Brett Cannon2da4d622009-04-01 19:57:10 +00005207- Fix test_logging to no longer reset the warnings filter.
5208
Georg Brandld8fb6ac2009-04-01 00:04:33 +00005209- Issue #5635: Fix running test_sys with tracing enabled.
5210
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005211- regrtest no longer treats ImportError as equivalent to SkipTest. Imports that
5212 should cause a test to be skipped are now done using import_module from test
5213 support, which does the conversion.
R. David Murray41448c52009-03-31 19:57:24 +00005214
Guilherme Polob1a98de2009-01-28 20:03:26 +00005215- Issue #5083: New 'gui' resource for regrtest.
5216
Walter Dörwalda1453172009-04-25 12:15:07 +00005217- Issue #5837: Certain sequences of calls to set() and unset() for
5218 support.EnvironmentVarGuard objects restored the environment variables
5219 incorrectly on __exit__.
5220
Alexandre Vassalotti999ecc02009-07-15 18:19:47 +00005221- Issue #2389: Array objects are now pickled in a portable manner.
5222
Brett Cannon813c43a2009-11-08 21:35:28 +00005223Misc
5224----
5225
5226- Issue #5611: Auto-detect whether a C file uses tabs or spaces in Vim.
5227
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +00005228
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +00005229What's New in Python 2.6 final
5230==============================
5231
Barry Warsawafa14362008-10-01 21:46:40 +00005232*Release date: 01-Oct-2008*
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +00005233
5234Core and Builtins
5235-----------------
5236
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfc5ea392008-09-26 22:34:08 +00005237- Issue #3967: Fixed a crash in the count() and find() methods of string-like
5238 objects, when the "start" parameter is a huge value.
5239
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc17617a02008-09-25 20:52:56 +00005240- Issue #3965: Fixed a crash on Windows when open() is given an invalid
5241 filename or mode, and the filename is a unicode string.
5242
Martin v. Löwise86b07c2008-09-25 04:12:50 +00005243- Bug #3951: Py_USING_MEMORY_DEBUGGER should not be enabled by default.
5244
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +00005245Library
5246-------
5247
Martin v. Löwise563aa42008-09-29 22:09:07 +00005248- Issue #3965: Allow repeated calls to turtle.Screen, by making it a
5249 true singleton object.
5250
Brett Cannonb2d61bd2008-09-29 03:41:21 +00005251- Issue #3895: It was possible to crash the interpreter when an external timer
5252 was used with cProfile that returned an object that could not be converted
5253 into a float.
5254
Benjamin Peterson22d3c922008-09-25 20:35:45 +00005255- Issue #3950: Made turtle respect scale factors.
5256
Thomas Hellera85c95d2008-09-24 18:26:05 +00005257- Issue #3547: Fixed ctypes structures bitfields of varying integer
5258 sizes.
5259
Benjamin Peterson2c7470d2008-09-21 21:27:51 +00005260- Issue #3879: A regression in urllib.getproxies_enviroment was fixed.
5261
Gregory P. Smith08067492008-09-30 20:41:13 +00005262- Issue #3863: Disabled a unit test of fork being called from a thread
5263 when running on platforms known to exhibit OS bugs when attempting that.
5264
Martin v. Löwis175d0072008-09-19 15:21:07 +00005265Build
5266-----
5267
Martin v. Löwisd69c9042008-10-01 11:19:50 +00005268- Bug #3989: Package the 2to3 script (as 2to3.py) in the Windows
5269 installer.
5270
Martin v. Löwis175d0072008-09-19 15:21:07 +00005271- Bug #3887: Package x64 version of CRT for AMD64 Windows binaries.
5272
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +00005273
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +00005274What's New in Python 2.6 release candidate 2?
5275=============================================
5276
Barry Warsaw6af16192008-09-18 04:33:43 +00005277*Release date: 17-Sep-2008*
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +00005278
5279Core and Builtins
5280-----------------
5281
Benjamin Peterson8c2b7dc2008-09-18 01:22:16 +00005282Extension Modules
5283-----------------
5284
Benjamin Peterson8d77d442008-09-30 01:31:49 +00005285- Security Issue #2: imageop did not validate arguments correctly and could
5286 segfault as a result.
5287
Benjamin Peterson8c2b7dc2008-09-18 01:22:16 +00005288- Issue #3886: Possible integer overflows in the _hashopenssl module were
5289 closed.
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +00005290
Antoine Pitrou3c9f5412008-09-13 20:30:30 +00005291Tools/Demos
5292-----------
5293
Georg Brandl2bd92a52009-10-11 21:10:07 +00005294- Issue #3850: recursion tests in Tools/scripts/find_recursion_limit.py can raise
Antoine Pitrou3c9f5412008-09-13 20:30:30 +00005295 AttributeError instead of RuntimeError, depending in which C API call
5296 exactly the recursion limit is exceeded. Consequently, both exception types
5297 are caught and silenced.
5298
Martin v. Löwis4eb18f92008-09-14 20:22:39 +00005299Build
5300-----
5301
5302- Issue #3617: Include a licensing statement regarding the Microsoft
5303 C runtime in the Windows installer.
5304
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +00005305
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +00005306What's New in Python 2.6 release candidate 1?
5307=============================================
5308
Barry Warsaw1e62aec2008-09-12 23:25:57 +00005309*Release date: 12-Sep-2008*
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +00005310
5311Core and Builtins
5312-----------------
5313
Martin v. Löwis9fa5a282008-09-11 06:53:30 +00005314- Issue #3642: Suppress warning in obmalloc when size_t is larger than uint.
5315
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc05e34492008-09-10 22:04:45 +00005316- Issue #3743: In a few places, PY_FORMAT_SIZE_T was incorrectly used with
5317 PyString_FromFormat or PyErr_Format to display size_t values. The macro
5318 PY_FORMAT_SIZE_T is designed to select the correct format for the OS
5319 ``printf`` function, whereas PyString_FromFormat has an independent
5320 implementation and uses "%zd" on all platforms for size_t values.
5321 This makes a difference on win64, where ``printf`` needs "%Id" to display
5322 64bit values.
5323
Benjamin Peterson97179b02008-09-09 20:55:01 +00005324- Issue #3634: _weakref.ref(Exception).__init__() gave invalid return value on
5325 error.
5326
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd3ffb892008-09-09 07:24:30 +00005327- Issue #3777: long() applied to a float object now always return a long
5328 object; previously an int would be returned for small values. the __long__
5329 method is allowed to return either an int or a long, but the behaviour of
5330 float objects should not change to respect backward compatibility.
5331
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc3571fbf2008-09-01 19:52:00 +00005332- Issue #3751: str.rpartition would perform a left-partition when called with
5333 a unicode argument.
5334
Benjamin Peterson17f03ca2008-09-01 14:18:30 +00005335- Issue #3683: Fix compilation when --without-threads is given.
5336
Antoine Pitroud4ae97b2008-08-29 18:39:48 +00005337- Issue #3668: Fix a memory leak with the "s*" argument parser in
Vinay Sajip35e3b032008-09-01 14:33:59 +00005338 PyArg_ParseTuple and friends, which occurred when the argument for "s*"
Antoine Pitroud4ae97b2008-08-29 18:39:48 +00005339 was correctly parsed but parsing of subsequent arguments failed.
5340
Vinay Sajip35e3b032008-09-01 14:33:59 +00005341- Issue #2534: speed up isinstance() and issubclass() by 50-70%, so as to
Antoine Pitrou0668c622008-08-26 22:42:08 +00005342 match Python 2.5 speed despite the __instancecheck__ / __subclasscheck__
5343 mechanism. In the process, fix a bug where isinstance() and issubclass(),
5344 when given a tuple of classes as second argument, were looking up
5345 __instancecheck__ / __subclasscheck__ on the tuple rather than on each
5346 type object.
5347
Neal Norwitz18aa3882008-08-24 05:04:52 +00005348- Fix crashes on memory allocation failure found with failmalloc.
5349
5350- Fix memory leaks found with valgrind and update suppressions file.
5351
5352- Fix compiler warnings in opt mode which would lead to invalid memory reads.
5353
5354- Fix problem using wrong name in decimal module reported by pychecker.
5355
Christian Heimes7d4c3172008-08-22 19:47:25 +00005356- Silenced another compiler warning about a used but not defined
5357 function 'stringlib_contains_obj'.
5358
Benjamin Peterson712ee922008-08-24 18:10:20 +00005359- Added warnings on the use of ``__getslice__``, ``__setslice__``, or
5360 ``__delslice__``.
5361
Gregory P. Smith2bb25cc2008-09-02 05:29:51 +00005362- Issue #3678: Correctly pass LDFLAGS and LDLAST to the linker on shared
5363 library targets in the Makefile.
5364
Gregory P. Smith980b99b2008-09-07 05:15:18 +00005365- Issue #1204: The configure script now tests for additional libraries
5366 that may be required when linking against readline. This fixes issues
5367 with x86_64 builds on some platforms (a few Linux flavors and OpenBSD).
5368
Benjamin Peterson14cb6bc2008-08-26 17:08:40 +00005369C-API
5370-----
5371
5372- Aliased PyObject_Bytes to PyObject_Str.
5373
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +00005374Library
5375-------
5376
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc24cb3822008-09-11 20:56:13 +00005377- Issue #3640: Pickling a list or a dict uses less local variables, to reduce
5378 stack usage in the case of deeply nested objects.
5379
Guido van Rossume3c4fd92008-09-10 14:27:00 +00005380- Issue #3629: Fix sre "bytecode" validator for an end case.
5381
Martin v. Löwis24329ba2008-09-10 13:38:12 +00005382- Issue #3811: The Unicode database was updated to 5.1.
5383
Nick Coghland2e09382008-09-11 12:11:06 +00005384- Issue #3781: Further warnings.catch_warnings() cleanup to prevent
5385 silent misbehaviour when a single instance is nested in multiple
5386 with statements, or when the methods are invoked in the wrong order.
5387
Vinay Sajip844f7412008-09-09 13:42:08 +00005388- Issue #3809: Fixed spurious 'test.blah' file left behind by test_logging.
5389
Nick Coghland2e09382008-09-11 12:11:06 +00005390- Issue #3781: Clean up the API for warnings.catch_warnings() by having it
Brett Cannon672237d2008-09-09 00:49:16 +00005391 return a list or None rather than a custom object.
5392
Benjamin Peterson6ac7d7c2008-09-06 19:28:11 +00005393- Issue #1638033: Cookie.Morsel gained the httponly attribute.
5394
Antoine Pitrouebcd0ce2008-09-05 23:30:23 +00005395- Issue #3535: zipfile couldn't read some zip files larger than 2GB.
5396
5397- Issue #3776: Deprecate the bsddb package for removal in 3.0.
Brett Cannon32476fc2008-09-05 18:33:51 +00005398
Hirokazu Yamamoto42e459e2008-09-04 14:25:30 +00005399- Issue #3762: platform.architecture() fails if python is lanched via
5400 its symbolic link.
5401
Vinay Sajip65d66e12008-09-04 07:31:21 +00005402- Issue #3772: Fixed regression problem in StreamHandler.emit().
5403
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00005404- Issue #600362: Relocated parse_qs() and parse_qsl(), from the cgi module
Facundo Batistac585df92008-09-03 22:35:50 +00005405 to the urlparse one. Added a PendingDeprecationWarning in the old
5406 module, it will be deprecated in the future.
5407
Marc-André Lemburgb339b2a2008-09-03 11:13:56 +00005408- Issue #2562: Fix distutils PKG-INFO writing logic to allow having
5409 non-ascii characters and Unicode in setup.py meta-data.
5410
5411- Issue #3726: Allow spaces in separators in logging configuration files.
Vinay Sajip6a2fd812008-09-03 09:20:05 +00005412
Marc-André Lemburg31a0a142008-09-02 12:11:19 +00005413- Issue #3719: platform.architecture() fails if there are spaces in the
5414 path to the Python binary.
5415
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00005416- Issue #3602: Moved test.test_support.catch_warning() to
Brett Cannon1eaf0742008-09-02 01:25:16 +00005417 warnings.catch_warnings() along with some API cleanup. Expanding the tests
5418 for catch_warnings() also led to an improvement in the raising of a
5419 DeprecationWarning related to warnings.warn_explicit().
5420
Benjamin Peterson973e6c22008-09-01 23:12:58 +00005421- The deprecation warnings for the old camelCase threading API were removed.
5422
Vinay Sajip35e3b032008-09-01 14:33:59 +00005423- logging: fixed lack of use of encoding attribute specified on a stream.
5424
Christian Heimesa27a62e2008-08-22 19:55:54 +00005425- Silenced a trivial compiler warning in the sqlite module.
5426
Christian Heimes1cc69632008-08-22 20:10:27 +00005427- Fixed two format strings in the _collections module.
5428
Benjamin Peterson17f03ca2008-09-01 14:18:30 +00005429- Issue #3703: _fileio.FileIO gave unhelpful error message when trying to open a
5430 directory.
Benjamin Petersonf22c26e2008-09-01 14:13:43 +00005431
Gregory P. Smithd7122032008-09-02 05:36:11 +00005432- Issue #3708: os.urandom no longer goes into an infinite loop when passed a
5433 non-integer floating point number.
5434
Vinay Sajip65d66e12008-09-04 07:31:21 +00005435- Issue #3110: multiprocessing fails to compiel on solaris 10 due to missing
Jesse Nollerb814d6a2008-09-03 18:10:30 +00005436 SEM_VALUE_MAX.
5437
Benjamin Peterson37346b22008-08-23 20:27:43 +00005438Extension Modules
5439-----------------
5440
Jesse Noller438195f2009-01-18 21:04:36 +00005441- Issue #4301: Patch the logging module to add processName support, remove
5442 _check_logger_class from multiprocessing.
5443
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc293924b2008-09-02 23:19:56 +00005444- Issue #2975: When compiling several extension modules with Visual Studio 2008
5445 from the same python interpreter, some environment variables would grow
5446 without limit.
5447
Benjamin Peterson37346b22008-08-23 20:27:43 +00005448- Issue #3643: Added a few more checks to _testcapi to prevent segfaults by
5449 exploitation of poor argument checking.
5450
Gerhard Häringef2276b2008-09-12 13:54:06 +00005451- sqlite3: Changed docstring of iterdump() to mark method as "Non-standard".
5452
Gerhard Häring6e1afcf2008-09-12 18:58:57 +00005453- Issue #3103: Reduced globals symbols used by sqlite3 module and made sure all
5454 remaining ones have "pysqlite_" prefix.
5455
Gerhard Häringe6872eb2008-09-12 22:33:22 +00005456- Issue #3846: Release the GIL during sqlite3_prepare calls. This improves
5457 concurrent access to the same SQLite database from multiple
5458 threads/processes.
5459
Brett Cannona0b74442008-09-03 22:45:11 +00005460Tests
5461-----
5462
Nick Coghland2e09382008-09-11 12:11:06 +00005463- Issue #3781: Add test.test_support.check_warnings() as a convenience
5464 wrapper for warnings.catch_warnings() that makes it easier to check
5465 that expected warning messages are being reported.
5466
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfeb8cad2008-09-06 20:53:51 +00005467- Issue #3796: Some tests functions were not enabled in test_float.
5468
5469- Issue #3768: Move test_py3kwarn over to the new API for catch_warnings().
Brett Cannona0b74442008-09-03 22:45:11 +00005470
Brett Cannoncdeb24b2008-09-05 22:59:17 +00005471Build
5472-----
5473
Martin v. Löwisab0b29b2008-09-13 08:11:57 +00005474- Issue #3833: Use a different upgrade code for Win64 installers.
5475
Martin v. Löwis3f5fda82008-09-08 13:50:10 +00005476- Issue #2271: Set SecureCustomProperties so that installation will properly
5477 use the TARGETDIR even for unprivileged users.
5478
Martin v. Löwis67543a92008-09-08 12:02:45 +00005479- Allow passing the MSI file name to merge.py.
5480
Vinay Sajip844f7412008-09-09 13:42:08 +00005481- Issue #3758: Rename the 'check' target to 'patchcheck' so as to not clash
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfeb8cad2008-09-06 20:53:51 +00005482 with GNU build target guidelines.
Brett Cannoncdeb24b2008-09-05 22:59:17 +00005483
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +00005484
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00005485What's New in Python 2.6 beta 3?
5486================================
5487
Barry Warsaw07a4a382008-08-21 01:15:08 +00005488*Release date: 20-Aug-2008*
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00005489
5490Core and Builtins
5491-----------------
5492
Guido van Rossumf8402962008-08-20 15:01:50 +00005493- Issue #1878: Remove Py_TPFLAGS_HAVE_VERSION_TAG from
5494 Py_TPFLAGS_DEFAULT when not building the core. This means 3rd party
5495 extensions do not automatically benefit from the class attribute
5496 cache; they will have to explicitly add Py_TPFLAGS_HAVE_VERSION_TAG
5497 to their tp_flags field if they care. This is a backwards
5498 compatibility feature; in 3.0, all types will use the cache by
5499 default.
5500
Benjamin Petersonf647dc12008-08-20 01:27:30 +00005501- Keyword arguments can now follow starred arguments. (``f(a, *args,
5502 keyword=23)`` is now valid syntax.)
5503
Thomas Heller0ad5ae02008-08-19 19:25:04 +00005504- ctypes function pointers that are COM methods have a boolean True
5505 value again.
5506
Martin v. Löwisf91d46a2008-08-12 14:49:50 +00005507- Issue #3139: Make buffer-interface thread-safe wrt. PyArg_ParseTuple,
5508 by denying s# to parse objects that have a releasebuffer procedure,
5509 and introducing s*.
5510
Georg Brandl1e13ea92008-08-11 09:07:59 +00005511- Issue #3537: Fix an assertion failure when an empty but presized dict
5512 object was stored in the freelist.
5513
Mark Dickinsonb6467572008-08-04 21:30:09 +00005514- Issue #1481296: Make long(float('nan')) and int(float('nan')) raise
5515 ValueError consistently across platforms.
5516
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc39fd6722008-07-31 21:28:03 +00005517- Issue #3479: On platforms where sizeof(int) is smaller than sizeof(long)
5518 (64bit Unix, for example), unichr() would truncate its argument and return
5519 u'\x00' for unichr(2**32). Now it properly raises an OverflowError.
5520
Neal Norwitze7d8be82008-07-31 17:17:14 +00005521- Apply security patches from Apple.
5522
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc246daed2008-07-31 00:42:16 +00005523- Issue #2542: Now that issubclass() may call arbitrary code, ensure that
5524 PyErr_ExceptionMatches returns 0 when an exception occurs there.
5525
Antoine Pitrou92f82162008-07-25 22:22:08 +00005526- Issue #1819: function calls with several named parameters are now on
5527 average 35% faster (as measured by pybench).
5528
Amaury Forgeot d'Arce4921fe2008-07-21 22:00:38 +00005529- Issue #2378: An unexpected UnboundLocalError or NameError could appear when
5530 the python debugger steps into a class statement: the free variables (local
5531 variables defined in an outer scope) would be deleted from the outer scope.
5532
Gregory P. Smith0470bab2008-07-22 04:46:32 +00005533- Issue #2620: Overflow checking when allocating or reallocating memory
5534 was not always being done properly in some python types and extension
5535 modules. PyMem_MALLOC, PyMem_REALLOC, PyMem_NEW and PyMem_RESIZE have
5536 all been updated to perform better checks and places in the code that
5537 would previously leak memory on the error path when such an allocation
5538 failed have been fixed.
5539
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00005540Library
5541-------
5542
Hirokazu Yamamoto838c79f2008-08-20 13:14:07 +00005543- Issue #3612: Added some missing basic types in ctypes.wintypes.
5544
Benjamin Petersone977ad42008-08-20 01:42:01 +00005545- The methods ``is_in_tuple()``, ``is_vararg()``, and ``is_keywordarg()`` of
5546 symtable.Symbol have been deprecated for removal in 3.0 and the next release.
5547
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc351ffb82008-08-18 19:23:47 +00005548- Issue #2234: distutils failed for some versions of the cygwin compiler. The
5549 version reported by these tools does not necessarily follow the python
5550 version numbering scheme, so the module is less strict when parsing it.
5551
Nick Coghlanf70385a2008-08-18 12:42:46 +00005552- Issue #2235: Added Py3k warnings for types which will become unhashable
5553 under the stricter __hash__ inheritance rules in 3.0. Several types
5554 which did not meet the rules for hash invariants and were already
5555 unhashable in 3.0 have now been explicitly flagged as unhashable in
5556 2.6 as well (collections.Mapping, collections.Set, unittest.TestSuite,
5557 xml.dom.minidom.NamedNodeMap, numbers.Number, UserList.UserList)
5558
Brett Cannon88f801d2008-08-18 00:46:22 +00005559- Update __all__ for cookielib, csv, os, urllib2, and weakref to include things
5560 imported into the module but exposed as part of the module's API.
5561
Brett Cannon7b96f072008-08-18 00:41:11 +00005562- Remove an unneeded import of abc.ABCMeta from 'inspect'.
5563
Brett Cannon46225e72008-08-18 00:36:52 +00005564- Remove unneeded imports of 'sys' and 'warnings' from 'io'.
5565
Brett Cannon25c9d6a2008-08-17 22:10:11 +00005566- Remove unneeded imports of 'warnings' from shelve, filecmp, and dummy_thread.
5567
Hirokazu Yamamoto41a81eb2008-08-17 13:10:46 +00005568- Issue #3575: Incremental decoder's decode function now takes bytearray
5569 by using 's*' instead of 't#'.
5570
Mark Dickinson3e4caeb2009-02-21 20:27:01 +00005571- Issue #2222: Fixed reference leak when occurred os.rename()
Hirokazu Yamamoto7f30a682008-08-17 09:46:56 +00005572 fails unicode conversion on 2nd parameter. (windows only)
5573
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00005574- Issue #2464: urllib2 now supports a malformation in the URL received
Facundo Batista94f243a2008-08-17 03:38:39 +00005575 in a redirect.
5576
Brett Cannonabe423e2008-08-16 21:47:07 +00005577- Silence the DeprecationWarning raised when importing mimetools in
Brett Cannon721b1452008-08-16 22:00:27 +00005578 BaseHTTPServer, cgi (and rfc822), httplib.
Brett Cannonabe423e2008-08-16 21:47:07 +00005579
Facundo Batistaeb90b782008-08-16 14:44:07 +00005580- Issue #2776: fixed small issue when handling an URL with double slash
5581 after a 302 response in the case of not going through a proxy.
5582
Antoine Pitroub90a8be2008-08-15 21:03:21 +00005583- Issue #2676: in the email package, content-type parsing was hanging on
5584 pathological input because of quadratic or exponential behaviour of a
5585 regular expression.
5586
Antoine Pitrou11ec65d2008-08-14 21:04:30 +00005587- Issue #3476: binary buffered reading through the new "io" library is now
5588 thread-safe.
5589
Brett Cannonbf3157b2008-08-14 05:00:03 +00005590- Silence the DeprecationWarning of rfc822 when it is imported by mimetools
5591 since mimetools itself is deprecated. Because modules are cached, all
5592 subsequent imports of rfc822 will not raise a visible DeprecationWarning.
5593
Antoine Pitrou9fcd4b32008-08-11 17:21:36 +00005594- Issue #3134: shutil referenced undefined WindowsError symbol.
5595
Robert Schuppenies14646332008-08-10 11:01:53 +00005596- Issue #1342811: Fix leak in Tkinter.Menu.delete. Commands associated to
5597 menu entries were not deleted.
5598
Brett Cannon83e81842008-08-09 23:30:55 +00005599- Copied the implementation of reduce() to _functools.reduce() to have a
5600 version that did not raise a DeprecationWarning under -3.
5601
Antoine Pitrou76b8bee2008-08-09 17:27:23 +00005602- Issue #3205: When iterating over a BZ2File fails allocating memory, raise
5603 a MemoryError rather than silently stop the iteration.
5604
Guido van Rossum59ce9012008-08-09 14:55:34 +00005605- Issue #3487: sre "bytecode" validator. Passing invalid "re-bytecode"
5606 to _sre.compile() will now be rejected. This should not affect anybody
5607 since the re.compile() function never generates invalid re-bytecode.
5608
Skip Montanaroa032bf42008-08-08 22:52:51 +00005609- Issue #3436: Make csv.DictReader's fieldnames attribute a property so that
5610 upon first access it can be automatically initialized from the csv file if
5611 it wasn't initialized during instantiation.
5612
Brett Cannon3aa2a492008-08-06 22:28:09 +00005613- Issue #2338: Create imp.reload() to help with transitioning to Python 3.0 as
5614 the reload() built-in has been removed.
5615
Brett Cannon7e30b672008-08-04 21:52:25 +00005616- Changed code in the following modules/packages to remove warnings raised
Brett Cannonc1b76e42008-08-09 23:06:16 +00005617 while running under the ``-3`` flag: aifc, asynchat, asyncore, bdb, bsddb,
Brett Cannon047e4a92008-08-17 04:16:04 +00005618 ConfigParser, cookielib, csv, difflib, distutils, DocXMLRPCServer, email,
5619 filecmp, fileinput, inspect, logging, modulefinder, pdb, pickle, profile,
5620 pstats, pydoc, re, rlcompleter, SimpleXMLRPCServer, shelve, socket,
5621 subprocess, sqlite3, tarfile, Tkinter, test.test_support, textwrap,
5622 threading, tokenize, traceback, urlparse, wsgiref, xml, xmlrpclib.
Brett Cannon7e30b672008-08-04 21:52:25 +00005623
Lars Gustäbel727bd0b2008-08-02 11:26:39 +00005624- Issue #3039: Fix tarfile.TarFileCompat.writestr() which always
5625 raised an AttributeError.
5626
Benjamin Peterson01a24322008-07-28 23:35:27 +00005627- Issue #2523: Fix quadratic behaviour when read()ing a binary file without
Antoine Pitroude781a42008-08-09 12:43:23 +00005628 asking for a specific length. This problem only affected files opened
5629 using the new "io" module, not the built-in open() function.
Benjamin Peterson01a24322008-07-28 23:35:27 +00005630
Mark Dickinsonfe84cce2008-07-27 06:39:07 +00005631- Issue #3449: Update decimal module to use most recent specification
5632 (v. 1.68) and tests (v. 2.58) from IBM.
5633
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00005634- Issue #3437: Bug fix in robotparser parsing of Allow: lines.
Skip Montanarof9ac43f2008-07-27 00:50:41 +00005635
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00005636- Issue #1592: Improve error reporting when operations are attempted
Raymond Hettinger8c664e82008-07-25 18:43:33 +00005637 on a closed shelf.
5638
Georg Brandlf9efabb2008-07-23 15:16:45 +00005639- Deprecate the "ast" parser function aliases.
5640
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00005641- Issue #3120: On 64-bit Windows the subprocess module was truncating handles.
5642
5643- Issue #3303: Fix a crash in locale.strcoll() when calling it with
5644 invalid arguments.
5645
5646- Issue #3302: Fix several crashes when calling locale's gettext functions
5647 with None arguments.
5648
5649- Issue #3389: Allow resolving dotted names for handlers in logging
5650 configuration files.
5651
5652- Deprecate the sunaudio module for removal in Python 3.0.
5653
Antoine Pitrou5fdfa3e2008-07-25 19:42:26 +00005654- Issue #3394: zipfile.writestr sets external attributes when passed a
5655 file name rather than a ZipInfo instance, so files are extracted with
5656 mode 0600 rather than 000 under Unix.
5657
Gregory P. Smitha36f8fe2008-08-04 00:13:29 +00005658- Issue #1857: subprocess.Popen.poll gained an additional _deadstate keyword
5659 argument in python 2.5, this broke code that subclassed Popen to include its
5660 own poll method. Fixed my moving _deadstate to an _internal_poll method.
5661
Martin v. Löwis8dbf3642008-08-01 14:10:26 +00005662Build
5663-----
5664
5665- Generate the PatternGrammar pickle during "make install".
5666
Nick Coghlan2a0c2b12008-08-04 12:47:17 +00005667Documentation
5668-------------
5669
Nick Coghlan6e8fef02008-08-18 13:14:22 +00005670- Issue #2235: the C API function PyObject_HashNotImplemented and its
5671 interaction with the tp_hash slot (added in 2.6b2) are now documented
5672
Nick Coghlan2a0c2b12008-08-04 12:47:17 +00005673- Issue #643841: The language reference now provides more detailed
5674 coverage of the lookup process for special methods. The disclaimers
5675 regarding lack of coverage of new-style classes have also been
5676 removed, since the coverage is now fairly reasonable.
5677
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00005678
Raymond Hettingere3ae6552008-06-20 04:18:15 +00005679What's New in Python 2.6 beta 2?
5680================================
5681
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00005682*Release date: 17-Jul-2008*
5683
Raymond Hettingere3ae6552008-06-20 04:18:15 +00005684Core and Builtins
5685-----------------
5686
Georg Brandl3e483f62008-07-16 22:57:41 +00005687- Issue #3156: Fix inconsistent behavior of the bytearray type: all
5688 its methods now allow for items objects that can be converted to
5689 an integer using operator.index().
5690
Mark Dickinson64b7e502008-07-16 09:40:03 +00005691- Issue #3360: Fix incorrect parsing of '020000000000.0', which
5692 produced a ValueError instead of giving the correct float.
5693
Eric Smitha5fa5a22008-07-16 00:11:49 +00005694- Issue #3083: Add alternate (#) formatting for bin, oct, hex output
5695 for str.format(). This adds the prefix 0b, 0o, or 0x, respectively.
5696
Mark Dickinson7103aa42008-07-15 19:08:33 +00005697- Issue #3008: the float type has a new instance method 'float.hex'
5698 and a new class method 'float.fromhex' to convert floating-point
5699 numbers to and from hexadecimal strings, respectively.
5700
Nick Coghlan6d6bd442008-07-15 15:40:22 +00005701- Issue #2235: __hash__ is once again inherited by default. To allow
5702 collections.Hashable to remain meaningful in the presence of the
5703 default hash implementation (object.__hash__), it is now possible
5704 to explicit block inheritance of hash by setting __hash__=None at
5705 the Python level, or tp_hash=PyObject_HashNotImplemented at the C
5706 level.
5707
Nick Coghlanb028f502008-07-13 14:52:36 +00005708- Issue #3221: Issue a RuntimeWarning instead of raising SystemError if
5709 the parent module cannot be found while performing an absolute import.
5710 This means that an incorrectly defined __package__ attribute will
5711 now only prevent relative imports in that module rather than causing
5712 all imports from that module to fail.
5713
Nick Coghlan14ff9942008-07-08 14:21:42 +00005714- Issue #2517: Allow unicode messages in Exceptions again by correctly
5715 bypassing the instance dictionary when looking up __unicode__ on
5716 new-style classes.
5717
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcbdd941f2008-07-01 20:38:04 +00005718- Issue #3242: Fix a crash inside the print statement, if sys.stdout is
5719 set to a custom object whose write() method happens to install
5720 another file in sys.stdout.
5721
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc1f40c8a2008-06-30 22:42:40 +00005722- Issue #3088: Corrected a race condition in classes derived from
5723 threading.local: the first member set by a thread could be saved in
5724 another thread's dictionary.
5725
Mark Dickinson1ec2fcd2008-06-20 14:53:43 +00005726- Issue #3004: Minor change to slice.indices(): the start and stop
5727 arguments are now treated identically, making the behaviour easier
5728 to describe and understand. For example, slice(None, -10,
5729 1).indices(9) now returns (0, 0, 1) instead of (0, -1, 1), and
5730 slice(None, 10, -1).indices(10) returns (9, 9, -1) instead of (9,
5731 10, -1).
5732
Georg Brandl278fc502008-07-19 12:46:12 +00005733- Issue #3219: Calling a function with repeated keyword arguments,
5734 f(a=2, a=23), would not cause a syntax error. This was a regression
5735 from 2.4 caused by the switch to the new compiler.
Benjamin Peterson175e4d92008-07-01 19:34:52 +00005736
Georg Brandl278fc502008-07-19 12:46:12 +00005737- Issue #2862: Make int and float freelist management consistent with
5738 other freelists. Changes their CompactFreeList apis into
5739 ClearFreeList apis and calls them via gc.collect().
Gregory P. Smith2fe77062008-07-06 03:35:58 +00005740
Brett Cannon8bb8fa52008-07-02 01:57:08 +00005741Library
5742-------
5743
Thomas Heller57adf222008-08-14 19:10:48 +00005744- Issue #3554: ctypes.string_at and ctypes.wstring_at did call Python
5745 api functions without holding the GIL, which could lead to a fatal
5746 error when they failed.
5747
Martin v. Löwisaabf4042008-08-02 07:20:25 +00005748- Issue #799428: Fix Tkinter.Misc._nametowidget to unwrap Tcl command objects.
5749
Jesse Noller7fb96402008-07-17 21:01:05 +00005750- Issue #3395: fix reference in test_multiprocessing to old debugInfo method
5751
Georg Brandla24869a2008-07-16 22:33:18 +00005752- Issue #3312: Fix two crashes in sqlite3.
5753
Georg Brandl86cbf812008-07-16 21:31:41 +00005754- Issue #1608818: Fix misbehavior in os.listdir() if readdir() fails.
5755
Jesse Noller13e9d582008-07-16 14:32:36 +00005756- Issue #3125: Remove copy_reg in multiprocessing and replace it with
5757 ForkingPickler.register() to resolve conflict with ctypes.
5758
Vinay Sajip51e65192008-07-18 09:01:10 +00005759- Issue #3090: Fixed ARCHFLAGS parsing on OS/X
Jesse Noller13e9d582008-07-16 14:32:36 +00005760
Thomas Heller880f5292008-07-15 19:39:38 +00005761- Issue #3313: Fixed a crash when a failed dlopen() call does not set
5762 a valid dlerror() message.
5763
Thomas Heller2bad6572008-07-15 17:19:50 +00005764- Issue #3258: Fixed a crash when a ctypes POINTER type to an
5765 incomplete structure was created.
5766
Brett Cannon3d0b9f02008-07-13 01:15:07 +00005767- Issue #3339: dummy_thread.acquire() should not return None.
5768
Raymond Hettingerb01713e2008-07-10 14:34:57 +00005769- Issue #3285: Fractions from_float() and from_decimal() accept Integral arguments.
5770
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +00005771- Issue #3301: Bisect module behaved badly when lo was negative.
Raymond Hettinger3cd1e422008-07-10 14:03:19 +00005772
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc0f7cddc2008-07-06 21:34:39 +00005773- Issue #839496: SimpleHTTPServer used to open text files in text mode. This is
5774 both unnecessary (HTTP allows text content to be sent in several forms) and
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +00005775 wrong because the actual transmitted size could differ from the
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc0f7cddc2008-07-06 21:34:39 +00005776 content-length. The problem had been corrected in the 2.4 branch, but never
5777 merged into trunk.
5778
Georg Brandle78fbcc2008-07-05 10:13:36 +00005779- Issue #2663: add filtering capability to shutil.copytree().
5780
Martin v. Löwis8c436412008-07-03 12:51:14 +00005781- Issue #1622: Correct interpretation of various ZIP header fields.
5782
5783- Issue #1526: Allow more than 64k files to be added to Zip64 file.
5784
5785- Issue #1746: Correct handling of zipfile archive comments (previously
5786 archives with comments over 4k were flagged as invalid). Allow writing
Vinay Sajip51e65192008-07-18 09:01:10 +00005787 Zip files with archives by setting the 'comment' attribute of a ZipFile.
Martin v. Löwis8c436412008-07-03 12:51:14 +00005788
Vinay Sajip51e65192008-07-18 09:01:10 +00005789- Issue #449227: The rlcompleter module now adds "(" to callable objects
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +00005790 when completed.
Facundo Batista66c52772008-07-02 16:52:55 +00005791
Nick Coghlanc060b0e2008-07-02 13:09:19 +00005792- Issue #3190: Pydoc now hides the automatic module attribute __package__ (the
5793 handling is now the same as that of other special attributes like __name__).
5794
Brett Cannon8bb8fa52008-07-02 01:57:08 +00005795- Issue #2885 (partial): The urllib.urlopen() function has been deprecated for
5796 removal in Python 3.0 in favor of urllib2.urlopen().
5797
Gregory P. Smithf4140642008-07-06 07:16:40 +00005798- Issue #2113: Fix error in subprocess.Popen if the select system call is
5799 interrupted by a signal.
5800
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +00005801- Issue #3309: Fix bz2.BZFile iterator to release its internal lock
Gregory P. Smith3b1e6b22008-07-07 04:31:58 +00005802 properly when raising an exception due to the bz2file being closed.
5803 Prevents a deadlock.
5804
Gregory P. Smithc4691ec2008-07-07 05:09:12 +00005805- Issue #3094: httplib.HTTPSConnection Host: headers no longer include the
5806 redundant ":443" port number designation when the connection is using the
5807 default https port (443).
5808
Gregory P. Smithdb3409c2008-07-17 03:13:05 +00005809- Issue #874900: after an os.fork() call the threading module state is cleaned
5810 up in the child process to prevent deadlock and report proper thread counts
5811 if the new process uses the threading module.
5812
Nick Coghlan38469e22008-07-13 12:23:47 +00005813Tests
5814-----
5815
5816- test.test_support.catch_warning now keeps track of all warnings it sees
5817 and is now better documented. Explicit unit tests for this context manager
5818 have been added to test_warnings.
5819
Martin v. Löwisd84fd952008-06-30 06:57:39 +00005820Build
5821-----
5822
5823- Issue #3215: Build sqlite3 as sqlite3.dll, not sqlite3.pyd.
5824
Brett Cannon8bb8fa52008-07-02 01:57:08 +00005825
Brett Cannon97aa1ae2008-07-11 00:12:52 +00005826Documentation
5827-------------
5828
Brett Cannonfeef51d2008-07-11 00:50:01 +00005829- Document that robotparser has been renamed to urllib.robotparser in
Brett Cannon963ffdb2008-07-11 00:48:57 +00005830 Python 3.0.
5831
Brett Cannonf6afa332008-07-11 00:16:30 +00005832- Document that urlparse has been renamed to urllib.parse in Python 3.0.
5833
Brett Cannon97aa1ae2008-07-11 00:12:52 +00005834- Document that urllib2 is split across multiple modules and renamed in
5835 Python 3.0.
5836
5837- Document that urllib is split across multiple modules and renamed in
5838 Python 3.0.
5839
5840
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00005841What's New in Python 2.6 beta 1?
5842================================
5843
Barry Warsawb5d17402008-06-19 01:48:07 +00005844*Release date: 18-June-2008*
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00005845
5846Core and Builtins
5847-----------------
5848
Brett Cannondea1b562008-06-27 00:31:13 +00005849- Issue #3211: warnings.warn_explicit() did not guard against its 'registry'
5850 argument being anything other than a dict or None. Also fixed a bug in error
5851 handling when 'message' and 'category' were both set to None, triggering a
5852 bus error.
5853
Amaury Forgeot d'Arca8919fe2008-06-16 19:12:42 +00005854- Issue #3100: Corrected a crash on deallocation of a subclassed weakref which
5855 holds the last (strong) reference to its referent.
5856
Georg Brandl89f48872008-06-11 18:55:38 +00005857- Add future_builtins.ascii().
5858
Raymond Hettinger5c4d3d02008-06-09 13:07:27 +00005859- Several set methods now accept multiple arguments: update(), union(),
Raymond Hettinger4267be62008-06-11 10:30:54 +00005860 intersection(), intersection_update(), difference(), and difference_update().
Raymond Hettingeree4bcad2008-06-09 08:33:37 +00005861
Robert Schuppenies51df0642008-06-01 16:16:17 +00005862- Issue #2898: Added sys.getsizeof() to retrieve size of objects in bytes.
5863
Martin v. Löwis99815892008-06-01 07:20:46 +00005864- New environment variable PYTHONIOENCODING.
5865
Martin v. Löwis4dd019f2008-05-20 08:11:19 +00005866- Patch #2488: Add sys.maxsize.
5867
Georg Brandla9916b52008-05-17 22:11:54 +00005868- Issue #2353: file.xreadlines() now emits a Py3k warning.
5869
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005870- Issue #2863: generators now have a ``gen.__name__`` attribute that
5871 equals ``gen.gi_code.co_name``, like ``func.__name___`` that equals
5872 ``func.func_code.co_name``. The repr() of a generator now also
5873 contains this name.
Georg Brandlc91210c2008-05-15 15:08:32 +00005874
Georg Brandlbd85eb12008-05-14 06:34:15 +00005875- Issue #2831: enumerate() now has a ``start`` argument.
5876
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005877- Issue #2801: fix bug in the float.is_integer method where a
5878 ValueError was sometimes incorrectly raised.
Mark Dickinsone81c3762008-05-09 16:14:15 +00005879
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005880- Issue #2790: sys.flags was not properly exposing its bytes_warning
5881 attribute.
Brett Cannon3c1d50a2008-05-08 20:23:54 +00005882
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005883- Issue #2196: hasattr() now lets exceptions which do not inherit
5884 Exception (KeyboardInterrupt, and SystemExit) propagate instead of
5885 ignoring them.
Benjamin Petersonb9030f42008-05-12 00:41:23 +00005886
Gregory P. Smith9d534572008-06-11 07:41:16 +00005887- Added checks for integer overflows, contributed by Google. Some are
5888 only available if asserts are left in the code, in cases where they
5889 can't be triggered from Python code.
5890
5891
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00005892Extension Modules
5893-----------------
Guido van Rossum84b1e0f2008-08-20 14:57:20 +00005894- Issue #1179: [CVE-2007-4965] Integer overflow in imageop module.
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00005895
Raymond Hettinger305480c2008-06-16 01:42:40 +00005896- Issue #3116: marshal.dumps() had quadratic behavior for strings > 32Mb.
5897
Andrew M. Kuchling2126bab2008-06-22 13:39:11 +00005898- Issue #2138: Add factorial() to the math module.
Raymond Hettingerecbdd2e2008-06-09 06:54:45 +00005899
Raymond Hettinger6d7702e2008-05-31 03:24:31 +00005900- The heapq module does comparisons using LT instead of LE. This
5901 makes its implementation match that used by list.sort().
5902
Mark Dickinson99dfe922008-05-23 01:35:30 +00005903- Issue #2819: add full-precision summation function to math module,
5904 based on Hettinger's ASPN Python Cookbook recipe.
5905
Georg Brandl88659b02008-05-20 08:40:43 +00005906- Issue #2592: delegate nb_index and the floor/truediv slots in
5907 weakref.proxy.
5908
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005909- Support os.O_ASYNC and fcntl.FASYNC if the constants exist on the
5910 platform.
Georg Brandl5049a852008-05-16 13:10:15 +00005911
Brett Cannon044616a2008-05-15 02:33:55 +00005912- Support for Windows 9x has been removed from the winsound module.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcf9b54c22008-05-12 21:30:24 +00005913
Jesus Cea09c01782008-09-28 23:24:19 +00005914- bsddb module updated to version 4.7.3.
Jesus Cea4907d272008-08-31 14:00:51 +00005915 http://www.jcea.es/programacion/pybsddb.htm#bsddb3-4.7.3. This
5916 code should be compatible with Python 3.0.
Jesus Ceaef9764f2008-05-13 18:45:46 +00005917
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005918- Issue #2858: Fix potential memory corruption when
5919 bsddb.db.DBEnv.lock_get and other bsddb.db object constructors
5920 raised an exception.
Gregory P. Smith664782e2008-05-17 06:12:02 +00005921
Gregory P. Smith5d7d6c32008-05-25 08:32:04 +00005922- Issue #2669: bsddb/__init__.py iteration no longer silently fails when
5923 the database has changed size during iteration. It now raises a
5924 RuntimeError in the same manner as a dictionary.
5925
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005926- Issue #2870: cmathmodule.c compile error.
Christian Heimes0bd23c02008-05-16 10:23:31 +00005927
Benjamin Petersond8a89722008-08-18 16:40:03 +00005928- Added a threading.Thread.ident property.
Gregory P. Smith8856dda2008-06-01 23:48:47 +00005929
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00005930Library
5931-------
5932
Vinay Sajip1e022682008-06-29 21:27:15 +00005933- logging.config: Removed out-of-date comment in _install_handlers and
5934 used issubclass in place of equality comparison of classes.
5935
Facundo Batista5596b0c2008-06-22 13:36:20 +00005936- Issue #2722: Now the os.getcwd() supports very long path names.
5937
Facundo Batista2da91c32008-06-21 17:43:56 +00005938- Issue #2888: Fixed the behaviour of pprint when working with nested
5939 structures, to match the behaviour of 2.5 and 3.0 (now follows the common
5940 sense).
5941
Facundo Batistaa6a4d502008-06-21 18:58:04 +00005942- Issue #1817: cgi now correctly handles the querystring on POST requests
5943
Vinay Sajip8dc20fd2008-06-19 22:41:08 +00005944- Issue #3136: fileConfig()'s disabling of old loggers is now conditional via
5945 an optional disable_existing_loggers parameter, but the default value is
5946 such that the old behaviour is preserved. Thanks to Leandro Lucarella for
5947 the patch.
5948
Vinay Sajip9828b7e2008-06-17 11:04:02 +00005949- Issue #3126: StreamHandler and FileHandler check before calling "flush" and
5950 "close" that the stream object has these, using hasattr (thanks to bobf for
5951 the patch).
5952
Benjamin Peterson5c0be322008-06-13 15:11:50 +00005953- Issue #2912: platform.uname now tries to determine unknown information even if
5954 os.uname exists.
5955
Benjamin Peterson26305a02008-06-12 22:33:06 +00005956- The rfc822 module has been deprecated for removal in 3.0.
5957
Benjamin Petersona03722f2008-06-12 14:23:49 +00005958- The mimetools module has been deprecated for removal in 3.0.
5959
Thomas Heller1cec7aa2008-06-10 14:07:12 +00005960- The ctypes.byref function now takes an optional second parameter
5961 which allows to specify an offset in bytes for the constructed
5962 pointer-like object.
5963
Georg Brandl8509db52008-06-10 07:45:28 +00005964- Added the ast module.
5965
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00005966- Added the multiprocessing module, PEP 371.
Benjamin Peterson6f7ae692008-06-11 20:04:30 +00005967
Georg Brandl7be19aa2008-06-07 15:59:10 +00005968- Factored out the indentation cleaning from inspect.getdoc() into
5969 inspect.cleandoc() to ease standalone use.
5970
Thomas Hellerfbb9c0b2008-06-06 08:33:46 +00005971- Issue #1798: Add ctypes calling convention that allows safe access
5972 to errno.
5973
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00005974- Issue #2404: ctypes objects support the new pep3118 buffer interface.
Thomas Heller59475e92008-06-05 17:52:59 +00005975
Vinay Sajip9828b7e2008-06-17 11:04:02 +00005976- Patch #2125: Add GetInteger and GetString methods for
Martin v. Löwisffe62ed2008-06-02 08:40:06 +00005977 msilib.Record objects.
5978
Gregory P. Smith137d8242008-06-02 04:05:52 +00005979- Issue #2782: The datetime module's strftime methods now accept
5980 unicode format strings just as time.strftime always has.
5981
Georg Brandlac19d852008-06-01 21:19:14 +00005982- The sgmllib and htmllib modules have been deprecated for removal
5983 in Python 3.0.
5984
5985- Issue #3011: locale module alias table was updated to the latest
5986 version from the X.org locale.alias file.
Marc-André Lemburgadff65b2008-05-30 20:52:18 +00005987
Thomas Heller9287acf2008-05-29 19:42:34 +00005988- Issue #1797 (partial fix): ctypes NULL function pointers have a
5989 False boolean value now.
5990
Georg Brandld0b592f2008-05-29 07:45:26 +00005991- Issue #2985: Allow 64-bit integer responses (``<i8>``) in XMLRPC
5992 transfers.
5993
5994- Issue #2877: The UserString.MutableString class has been removed in
5995 Python 3.0.
Brett Cannonabb34fe2008-05-29 05:08:50 +00005996
Lars Gustäbelb1a54a32008-05-27 12:39:23 +00005997- Do not close external file objects passed to tarfile.open(mode='w:bz2')
5998 when the TarFile is closed.
5999
Georg Brandle08e3d02008-05-25 08:07:37 +00006000- Issue #2959: For consistency with other file-like objects, gzip's
6001 GzipFile.close() can now be called multiple times without raising
6002 an exception.
6003
Martin v. Löwis27e4a172008-05-23 15:18:28 +00006004- Issue #1390: Raise ValueError in toxml when an invalid comment would
6005 otherwise be produced.
6006
Vinay Sajipc0128832008-05-20 15:37:22 +00006007- Issue #2914: TimedRotatingFileHandler now takes an optional keyword
6008 argument "utc" to use UTC time rather than local time.
6009
6010- Issue #2929: TimedRotatingFileHandler was using the wrong path when
6011 deleting old log files (filename only instead of full path).
6012
Georg Brandl112aa502008-05-20 08:25:48 +00006013- Issue #1775025: You can now specify zipfile members to open(),
6014 read() or extract() via a ZipInfo instance. This allows handling
6015 duplicate filenames in zipfiles.
6016
Georg Brandl28fdfa92008-05-17 17:57:01 +00006017- Issue #961805: Fix Text.edit_modified() in Tkinter.
6018
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006019- Issue #1793: Function ctypes.util.find_msvcrt() added that returns
Thomas Heller95ba13f2008-05-16 20:06:31 +00006020 the name of the C runtime library that Python uses.
6021 ctypes.util.find_library(name) now call this function when name is
6022 'm' or 'c'.
6023
Brett Cannonfa40bbf2008-05-16 00:50:02 +00006024- The statvfs module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
6025
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006026- The sunaudiodev and SUNAUDIODEV modules have been deprecated for
6027 removal in Python 3.0.
6028
6029- The WAIT module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
6030 3.0.
6031
6032- The torgb module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
6033 3.0.
6034
6035- The SV module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
6036 3.0.
6037
6038- The readcd module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
Brett Cannon22248172008-05-16 00:10:24 +00006039 Python 3.0.
6040
Brett Cannon11ae6e72008-05-15 03:49:00 +00006041- The panelparser module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
6042 Python 3.0.
6043
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006044- The panel module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
6045 3.0.
Brett Cannon7e375862008-05-15 03:46:27 +00006046
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006047- The jpeg module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
6048 3.0.
Brett Cannon89f5d9c2008-05-15 03:44:00 +00006049
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006050- The IOCTL module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
6051 3.0.
Brett Cannond8c41ec2008-05-15 03:41:55 +00006052
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006053- The IN module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
6054 3.0.
Brett Cannon6328b292008-05-15 03:36:13 +00006055
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006056- The imgfile module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
Brett Cannon178582e2008-05-15 03:20:36 +00006057 Python 3.0.
6058
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006059- The GLWS module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
6060 3.0.
Brett Cannon72ccc402008-05-15 03:17:24 +00006061
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006062- The GET module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
6063 3.0.
Brett Cannon2773b6f2008-05-15 03:14:57 +00006064
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006065- The fm module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
6066 3.0.
6067
6068- The FL, flp, and fl modules from IRIX have been deprecated for
6069 removal in Python 3.0.
6070
6071- The FILE module on IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
6072 3.0.
6073
6074- The ERRNO module on IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
6075 3.0.
6076
6077- The DEVICE, GL, gl, and cgen modules (which indirectly includes
6078 cgensupport) have been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
Brett Cannon044616a2008-05-15 02:33:55 +00006079
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006080- The CL, CL_old, and cl modules for IRIX have been deprecated for
6081 removal in Python 3.0.
6082
6083- The cdplayer module for IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
Brett Cannon650f5162008-05-14 21:12:12 +00006084 Python 3.0.
6085
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006086- The cddb module for IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
6087 3.0.
Brett Cannon9eebe492008-05-14 20:34:22 +00006088
Brett Cannonddf949f2008-05-14 20:31:38 +00006089- The cd and CD modules for IRIX have been deprecated for removal in
6090 Python 3.0.
6091
Brett Cannon34721d52008-05-14 01:08:21 +00006092- The al and AL modules for IRIX have been deprecated for removal in
6093 Python 3.0.
6094
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006095- Issue #1713041: fix pprint's handling of maximum depth.
Georg Brandl23da6e62008-05-12 16:26:52 +00006096
Brett Cannonbb141bb2008-05-12 03:47:47 +00006097- The timing module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
6098
Brett Cannonac861b52008-05-12 03:45:59 +00006099- The sv module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
6100
Brett Cannon43e5ef42008-05-12 03:19:20 +00006101- The multifile module has been deprecated as per PEP 4.
6102
Brett Cannon42bfa902008-05-12 00:08:34 +00006103- The imageop module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
6104
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006105- Issue #2250: Exceptions raised during evaluation of names in
6106 rlcompleter's ``Completer.complete()`` method are now caught and
6107 ignored.
Georg Brandl627a6662008-05-11 21:03:42 +00006108
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006109- Issue #2659: Added ``break_on_hyphens`` option to textwrap
6110 TextWrapper class.
Georg Brandl6f95ae52008-05-11 10:42:28 +00006111
Brett Cannon2a869132008-05-11 03:01:47 +00006112- The mhlib module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
6113
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006114- The linuxaudiodev module has been deprecated for removal in Python
6115 3.0.
Brett Cannondf0a7172008-05-11 00:50:51 +00006116
Brett Cannon27508d42008-05-10 22:45:07 +00006117- The ihooks module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
6118
Brett Cannonfe598512008-05-10 22:11:45 +00006119- The fpformat module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
6120
Brett Cannone35a3a12008-05-10 21:22:43 +00006121- The dl module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
6122
Brett Cannond5a09852008-05-10 03:14:32 +00006123- The Canvas module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
6124
Brett Cannon6192df12008-05-10 02:58:26 +00006125- The compiler package has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
6126
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006127- The Bastion and rexec modules have been deprecated for removal in
6128 Python 3.0.
Brett Cannoncda73a42008-05-10 02:53:46 +00006129
Brett Cannon768d44f2008-05-10 02:47:54 +00006130- The bsddb185 module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
6131
Brett Cannon9ac39742008-05-09 22:51:58 +00006132- The pure module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
6133
Mark Dickinsonf8476c12008-05-09 17:54:23 +00006134- Issue #2487: change the semantics of math.ldexp(x, n) when n is too
6135 large to fit in a C long. ldexp(x, n) now returns a zero (with
6136 suitable sign) if n is large and negative; previously, it raised
6137 OverflowError.
6138
Brett Cannonfa24d9a2008-05-09 05:32:42 +00006139- The toaiff module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
6140
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006141- The test.testall module has been deprecated for removal in Python
6142 3.0.
Brett Cannon3c759142008-05-09 05:25:37 +00006143
Brett Cannond7265d62008-05-09 05:18:40 +00006144- The new module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
6145
Brett Cannone3b19402008-05-08 20:36:09 +00006146- The user module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
6147
Brett Cannon6071cc82008-05-08 19:52:45 +00006148- The stringold module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
6149
6150- The mutex module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
Brett Cannon9d441822008-05-08 19:26:08 +00006151
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00006152- The imputil module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
6153
Brett Cannoncae4f5f2008-05-08 20:24:43 +00006154- test.test_support.catch_warning() gained a 'record' argument.
6155
Benjamin Peterson0893a0a2008-05-09 00:27:01 +00006156- os.path.walk is deprecated in favor of os.walk.
6157
Georg Brandl9020ff82008-05-11 14:17:13 +00006158- pdb gained the "until" command.
Benjamin Peterson98353942008-05-11 14:13:25 +00006159
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006160- The Mac Modules (including Carbon) have been deprecated for removal
6161 in Python 3.0.
Benjamin Peterson23681932008-05-12 21:42:13 +00006162
Vinay Sajip9828b7e2008-06-17 11:04:02 +00006163- Library: on MacOS X you can now set ``ARCHFLAGS`` in the shell
Ronald Oussoren5640ce22008-06-05 12:58:24 +00006164 environment to control the '-arch' flags that are used to build
6165 an extension. This was added for compatibility with Apple's build
6166 of Python.
6167
6168- The bundled OSX-specific copy of libbffi is now in sync with the version
6169 shipped with PyObjC 2.0 and includes support for x86_64 and ppc64 platforms.
6170
Georg Brandl25c34082008-08-18 23:09:49 +00006171- The threading module gained aliases for names that will be removed in the
6172 3.x series.
Benjamin Peterson0fbcf692008-06-11 17:27:50 +00006173
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00006174Build
6175-----
6176
Martin v. Löwiscc0f2b22008-06-13 18:12:51 +00006177- 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 +00006178
Martin v. Löwis8c255e42008-05-23 15:06:50 +00006179- Patch #1722225: Support QNX 6.
6180
Brett Cannonb61d8012008-05-11 23:39:04 +00006181- ``Lib/lib-old`` is now added to sys.path.
6182
Ronald Oussoren5640ce22008-06-05 12:58:24 +00006183- On MacOS X it is now possible to install the framework in 64-bit
6184 mode or even as a 4-way universal binary (that is, PPC, i386,
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00006185 PPC64 and x86_64 support in one binary).
Ronald Oussoren5640ce22008-06-05 12:58:24 +00006186
6187 This is controlled by the configure argument ``--with-universal-archs``:
6188
6189 - ``--with-universal-archs=all``: install 4-way universal
6190
6191 - ``--with-universal-archs=32-bit``: install 2-way universal, 32-bit (the default)
6192
6193 - ``--with-universal-archs=64-bit``: install 2-way universal, 64-bit
6194
6195 This option should be used in combination with ``--enable-universalsdk=``.
6196
6197 NOTE: 64-bit and 4-way builds are only suppported on Mac OS X 10.5 (or later).
6198
6199
Christian Heimes7a990612008-05-26 13:15:11 +00006200C API
6201-----
6202
Georg Brandl74a1dea2008-05-28 11:21:39 +00006203- Add ``PyType_Modified()`` as a public API to clear the type cache.
6204
6205- The PyBytes functions have been renamed to PyByteArray.
Christian Heimes7a990612008-05-26 13:15:11 +00006206
6207- The PyString functions have been renamed to PyBytes. A batch of
6208 defines were added so that the linker still sees the original
6209 PyString names.
6210
Georg Brandl5e7b1c02008-05-16 17:40:23 +00006211
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00006212What's New in Python 2.6 alpha 3?
Barry Warsaw65475fd2008-03-01 17:11:41 +00006213=================================
6214
Barry Warsaw6cc79402008-05-08 13:16:19 +00006215*Release date: 08-May-2008*
Barry Warsaw65475fd2008-03-01 17:11:41 +00006216
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd21fb4c2008-03-05 01:50:33 +00006217Core and builtins
6218-----------------
Georg Brandl80055f62008-03-25 07:56:27 +00006219
Georg Brandl28e08732008-04-30 19:47:09 +00006220- Issue #2719: backported the ``next()`` builtin from Python 3.
6221
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006222- Issue #2681: The octal literal ``0o8`` was incorrecly acctepted. Now
6223 it properly raises a SyntaxError.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc52167212008-04-24 18:07:05 +00006224
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006225- Issue #2617: Reserved -J and -X arguments for Jython, IronPython and
6226 other implementations of Python.
Christian Heimes7a98d272008-04-12 13:03:03 +00006227
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006228- Implemented PEP 370: Per user site-packages directory.
Christian Heimesaf748c32008-05-06 22:41:46 +00006229
Andrew M. Kuchling46d6b682008-04-30 16:19:55 +00006230Extension Modules
6231-----------------
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00006232
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006233- Issue #2670: Fix a failure in urllib2.build_opener(), when passed
6234 two handlers that derive the same default base class.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc96865852008-04-22 21:14:41 +00006235
Christian Heimese74c8f22008-04-19 02:23:57 +00006236- Added kill, terminate and send_signal(sig) to subprocess.Popen.
6237
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006238- Added phase(z) -> phi, polar(z) -> r, phi and rect(r, phi) -> z to
6239 the cmath module.
Christian Heimes6f341092008-04-18 23:13:07 +00006240
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006241- Four new methods were added to the math and cmath modules: acosh,
6242 asinh, atanh and log1p.
Christian Heimes6f341092008-04-18 23:13:07 +00006243
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006244- zlib.decompressobj().flush(value) no longer crashes the interpreter
6245 when passed a value less than or equal to zero.
Gregory P. Smith671c5d92008-04-09 18:18:43 +00006246
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006247- Issue #1631171: Re-implement the 'warnings' module in C (the
6248 original Python code has been kept as backup). This will allow for
6249 using the 'warning's machinery in such places as the parser where
6250 use of pure Python code is not possible. Both the ``showarning()``
6251 and ``formatwarning()`` gain an optional 'line' argument which is
6252 not called by default for backwards-compatibility reasons. Setting
6253 ``warnings.showwarning()`` to an implementation that lacks support
6254 for the ``line`` argument will raise a DeprecationWarning.
Brett Cannone9746892008-04-12 23:44:07 +00006255
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00006256Library
6257-------
6258
Brett Cannonf8436822008-05-06 23:41:32 +00006259- The audiodev module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
6260
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006261- Issue #2750: Add the 'json' package. Based on simplejson 1.9 and
6262 contributed by Bob Ippolito.
Brett Cannon4b964f92008-05-05 20:21:38 +00006263
Martin v. Löwis471617d2008-05-05 17:16:58 +00006264- Issue #1734346: Support Unicode file names for zipfiles.
6265
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006266- Issue #2581: distutils: Vista UAC/elevation support for
6267 bdist_wininst.
Mark Hammond7c5c8e62008-05-02 12:48:15 +00006268
Mark Dickinsonfe536f52008-04-25 16:59:09 +00006269- Issue #2635: Fix bug in 'fix_sentence_endings' textwrap.fill option,
6270 where an extra space was added after a word containing (but not
6271 ending in) '.', '!' or '?'.
6272
Thomas Heller6ad5fbb2008-04-25 15:44:16 +00006273- Add from_buffer() and from_buffer_copy() class methods to ctypes
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00006274 data types.
Thomas Heller6ad5fbb2008-04-25 15:44:16 +00006275
Neal Norwitz2b0bea52008-04-25 03:40:17 +00006276- Issue #2682: ctypes callback functions no longer contain a cyclic
Thomas Hellerbf027c42008-04-24 18:14:19 +00006277 reference to themselves.
6278
Gregory P. Smithd59fefb2008-04-22 08:11:33 +00006279- The getpass module has been improved on Unix. It now uses /dev/tty
6280 by default and uses stderr instead of stdout. A GetPassWarning is
6281 issued when input echo cannot be controlled.
Gregory P. Smith41e30182008-04-21 21:31:08 +00006282
Skip Montanarob131f042008-04-18 20:35:46 +00006283- Issue #2014: Allow XML-RPC datetime objects to have dates before
6284 1900-01-01.
6285
Nick Coghlan106fc482008-04-15 10:25:31 +00006286- Issue #2439: Added new function pkgutil.get_data(), which is a
6287 convenience wrapper for the PEP 302 get_data() API.
6288
Thomas Heller046e6a42008-04-14 16:10:07 +00006289- Issue #2616: The ctypes.pointer() and ctypes.POINTER() functions are
6290 now implemented in C for better performance.
6291
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006292- Issue #2408: The ``_types`` module, which was used as in
6293 implementation detail of the public ``types`` module, has been
6294 removed and replaced by pure python code.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc02f33b42008-04-08 23:10:07 +00006295
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006296- Issue #2513: distutils on Windows is now capable of cross-compiling
Mark Hammond495cf992008-04-07 01:53:39 +00006297 extension modules between 32 and 64 bit platforms. See the distutls
6298 build documentation for more information.
6299
Gregory P. Smithaa63d0d2008-04-06 23:11:17 +00006300- Issue #815646: Individual file objects may now be used from multiple
6301 threads at once without fear of crashing the Python interpreter. If
6302 file.close() is called while an object is in use by another thread
6303 an IOError exception will be raised and the file will not be closed.
6304
Thomas Hellerf7906482008-04-04 19:43:25 +00006305- The bundled libffi copy is now in sync with the recently released
6306 libffi3.0.5 version, apart from some small changes to
6307 Modules/_ctypes/libffi/configure.ac.
6308
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006309- Issue #2385: distutils.core.run_script() makes __file__ available,
6310 so the controlled environment will more closely mirror the typical
6311 script environment. This supports setup.py scripts that refer to
6312 data files.
Fred Drake46c58c12008-04-04 05:41:30 +00006313
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00006314Tests
6315-----
Trent Nelsone41b0062008-04-08 23:47:30 +00006316
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006317- Issue #2550: The approach used by client/server code for obtaining
6318 ports to listen on in network-oriented tests has been refined in an
6319 effort to facilitate running multiple instances of the entire
6320 regression test suite in parallel without issue.
6321 test_support.bind_port() has been fixed such that it will always
6322 return a unique port -- which wasn't always the case with the
6323 previous implementation, especially if socket options had been set
6324 that affected address reuse (i.e. SO_REUSEADDR, SO_REUSEPORT). The
6325 new implementation of bind_port() will actually raise an exception
6326 if it is passed an AF_INET/SOCK_STREAM socket with either the
6327 SO_REUSEADDR or SO_REUSEPORT socket option set. Furthermore, if
6328 available, bind_port() will set the SO_EXCLUSIVEADDRUSE option on
6329 the socket it's been passed. This currently only applies to
6330 Windows. This option prevents any other sockets from binding to the
6331 host/port we've bound to, thus removing the possibility of the
6332 'non-deterministic' behaviour, as Microsoft puts it, that occurs
6333 when a second SOCK_STREAM socket binds and accepts to a host/port
6334 that's already been bound by another socket. The optional preferred
6335 port parameter to bind_port() has been removed. Under no
6336 circumstances should tests be hard coding ports!
6337
6338 test_support.find_unused_port() has also been introduced, which will
6339 pass a temporary socket object to bind_port() in order to obtain an
6340 unused port. The temporary socket object is then closed and
6341 deleted, and the port is returned. This method should only be used
6342 for obtaining an unused port in order to pass to an external program
6343 (i.e. the -accept [port] argument to openssl's s_server mode) or as
6344 a parameter to a server-oriented class that doesn't give you direct
6345 access to the underlying socket used.
6346
6347 Finally, test_support.HOST has been introduced, which should be used
6348 for the host argument of any relevant socket calls (i.e. bind and
6349 connect).
Trent Nelsone41b0062008-04-08 23:47:30 +00006350
6351 The following tests were updated to following the new conventions:
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006352 test_socket, test_smtplib, test_asyncore, test_ssl, test_httplib,
Trent Nelsone41b0062008-04-08 23:47:30 +00006353 test_poplib, test_ftplib, test_telnetlib, test_socketserver,
6354 test_asynchat and test_socket_ssl.
6355
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006356 It is now possible for multiple instances of the regression test
6357 suite to run in parallel without issue.
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00006358
6359Build
6360-----
6361
Mark Dickinson65134662008-04-25 16:11:04 +00006362- Issue #1496032: On alpha, use -mieee when gcc is the compiler.
6363
Thomas Hellerdc96a772008-04-04 10:07:55 +00006364- Issue #2544: On HP-UX systems, use 'gcc -shared' for linking when
6365 gcc is used as compiler.
6366
Ronald Oussoren580c7fe2008-05-02 19:45:11 +00006367- Issue #2573: On MacOS X it is now possible to install the framework
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006368 with a different name using --with-framework-name=NAME.
Ronald Oussoren580c7fe2008-05-02 19:45:11 +00006369
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00006370C API
6371-----
6372
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006373- Added implementation of copysign, acosh, asinh, atanh and log1p to
6374 the new files Include/pymath.h and Python/pymath.h for platforms
6375 which provide the functions through their libm. The files also
6376 contains several helpers and constants for math.
Christian Heimes6f341092008-04-18 23:13:07 +00006377
Benjamin Petersondacde0d2008-05-26 17:43:53 +00006378- Added a new convenience macro, PyErr_WarnPy3k, for issuing Py3k warnings.
Benjamin Petersona692c4d2008-04-27 02:28:02 +00006379
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00006380
6381What's New in Python 2.6 alpha 2?
6382=================================
6383
6384*Release date: 02-Apr-2008*
6385
6386Core and builtins
6387-----------------
6388
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006389- Issue #1733757: The interpreter would hang on shutdown if the
6390 tracing function set by sys.settrace is still active and happens to
6391 call threading.currentThread().
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd7a26512008-04-03 23:07:55 +00006392
Georg Brandl91e0cda2008-03-29 01:50:06 +00006393- Patch #1442: properly report exceptions when the PYTHONSTARTUP file
6394 cannot be executed.
6395
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc69b747b2008-03-28 20:30:50 +00006396- The compilation of a class nested in another class used to leak one
6397 reference on the outer class name.
6398
Georg Brandlfc8eef32008-03-28 12:11:56 +00006399- Patch #1810: compile() can now compile _ast trees as returned by
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006400 ``compile(..., PyCF_ONLY_AST)``.
Georg Brandlfc8eef32008-03-28 12:11:56 +00006401
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006402- Patch #2426: Added sqlite3.Connection.iterdump method to allow easy
6403 dumping of databases. Contributed by Paul Kippes at PyCon 2008.
Gregory P. Smithb9803422008-03-28 08:32:09 +00006404
Georg Brandldeaf2ca2008-03-27 13:27:31 +00006405- Patch #2477: Added from __future__ import unicode_literals.
Christian Heimes3c608332008-03-26 22:01:37 +00006406
Christian Heimes8c78cc32008-03-26 12:53:58 +00006407- Added backport of bytearray type.
6408
Georg Brandl80055f62008-03-25 07:56:27 +00006409- Issue #2355: add Py3k warning for buffer().
6410
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc9a0d3462008-03-23 09:55:29 +00006411- Issue #1477: With narrow Unicode builds, the unicode escape sequence
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006412 \Uxxxxxxxx did not accept values outside the Basic Multilingual
6413 Plane. This affected raw unicode literals and the
6414 'raw-unicode-escape' codec. Now UTF-16 surrogates are generated in
6415 this case, like normal unicode literals and the 'unicode-escape'
6416 codec.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc9a0d3462008-03-23 09:55:29 +00006417
Georg Brandl65bb42d2008-03-21 20:38:24 +00006418- Issue #2348: add Py3k warning for file.softspace.
6419
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006420- Issue #2346/#2347: add Py3k warnings for __methods__ and
6421 __members__.
Georg Brandl07e56812008-03-21 20:21:46 +00006422
Georg Brandl5a444242008-03-21 20:11:46 +00006423- Issue #2358: Add a Py3k warning on sys.exc_clear() usage.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd21fb4c2008-03-05 01:50:33 +00006424
Martin v. Löwisa4d77892008-03-19 04:39:13 +00006425- Issue #2400: Allow relative imports to "import *".
6426
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006427- Issue #1745: Backport print function with ``from __future__ import
6428 print_function``.
Eric Smith7c478942008-03-18 23:45:49 +00006429
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006430- Issue #2332: add new attribute names for instance method objects.
6431 The two changes are: im_self -> __self__ and im_func -> __func__
Neal Norwitzb1d3d962008-03-18 04:46:00 +00006432
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006433- Issue #2379: Raise a Py3K warning for __getitem__ or __getslice__ on
Guido van Rossum6d91be32008-03-18 04:42:22 +00006434 exception instances.
6435
Guido van Rossum04edb522008-03-18 02:49:46 +00006436- Issue #2371: Add a Py3k warning when catching an exception that
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006437 doesn't derive from BaseException.
6438
6439- Issue #2341: Add a Py3k warning when raising an exception that
6440 doesn't derive from BaseException.
Guido van Rossum04edb522008-03-18 02:49:46 +00006441
Neal Norwitz419fd492008-03-17 20:22:43 +00006442- Issue #2321: use pymalloc for unicode object string data to reduce
6443 memory usage in some circumstances.
6444
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006445- PEP 3127: octal literals now start with "0o". Old-style octal
6446 literals are still valid. There are binary literals with a prefix of
6447 "0b". This also affects int(x, 0).
Eric Smith0aed07a2008-03-17 19:43:40 +00006448
Georg Brandl1e7c3752008-03-25 08:37:23 +00006449- Issue #2359: Adding deprecation warnings for array.{read,write}.
6450
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006451- Issue #1779871: GNU gcc can now build Python on OS X because the
Jeffrey Yasskin1b4e45b2008-03-17 14:40:53 +00006452 flags -Wno-long-double, -no-cpp-precomp, and -mno-fused-madd are no
6453 longer passed.
6454
Neal Norwitz400aeda2008-03-15 22:03:18 +00006455- Add a warning when asserting a non-empty tuple which is always true.
6456
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006457- Issue #2179: speed up with statement execution by storing the exit
6458 method on the stack instead of in a temporary variable (patch by
6459 Jeffrey Yaskin)
Nick Coghlan7af53be2008-03-07 14:13:28 +00006460
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006461- Issue #2238: Some syntax errors in *args and **kwargs expressions
6462 could give bogus error messages.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd21fb4c2008-03-05 01:50:33 +00006463
Sean Reifscheider68fa8e62008-03-20 00:50:07 +00006464- Issue #2143: Fix embedded readline() hang on SSL socket EOF.
6465
Andrew M. Kuchling46d6b682008-04-30 16:19:55 +00006466Extension Modules
6467-----------------
Martin v. Löwisaef18b12008-03-24 13:31:16 +00006468
6469- Patch #2240: Implement signal.setitimer and signal.getitimer.
6470
Thomas Heller78b8f442008-03-05 14:53:39 +00006471Library
6472-------
6473
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006474- Issue #2315: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now accounts
6475 for daylight savings time in calculating the next rollover.
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00006476
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006477- Issue #2316: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now
6478 calculates rollovers correctly even when nothing is logged for a
6479 while.
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00006480
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006481- Issue #2317: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now uses
6482 improved logic for removing old files.
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00006483
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006484- Issue #2495: tokenize.untokenize now inserts a space between two
6485 consecutive string literals; previously, ["" ""] was rendered as
6486 [""""], which is incorrect python code.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcda0c0252008-03-27 23:23:54 +00006487
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006488- Issue #2248: return the result of the QUIT command. from
6489 SMTP.quit().
Georg Brandldeaf2ca2008-03-27 13:27:31 +00006490
Christian Heimes8c78cc32008-03-26 12:53:58 +00006491- Backport of Python 3.0's io module.
6492
Mark Dickinson8e85ffa2008-03-25 18:47:59 +00006493- Issue #2482: Make sure that the coefficient of a Decimal is always
6494 stored as a str instance, not as a unicode instance. This ensures
6495 that str(Decimal) is always an instance of str.
6496
Mark Dickinson3b24ccb2008-03-25 14:33:23 +00006497- Issue #2478: fix failure of decimal.Decimal(0).sqrt()
6498
Georg Brandl77354cf2008-03-21 20:01:51 +00006499- Issue #2432: give DictReader the dialect and line_num attributes
6500 advertised in the docs.
6501
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006502- Issue #2460: Make Ellipsis object copyable.
Raymond Hettingerb72233c2008-03-24 08:17:39 +00006503
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006504- Issue #1681432: Add triangular distribution to the random module
Raymond Hettingerbbc50ea2008-03-23 13:32:32 +00006505
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006506- Issue #2136: urllib2's auth handler now allows single-quoted realms
6507 in the WWW-Authenticate header.
Georg Brandl33124322008-03-21 19:54:00 +00006508
Marc-André Lemburga1867752008-03-20 18:08:00 +00006509- Issue #2434: Enhanced platform.win32_ver() to also work on Python
6510 installation which do not have the win32all package installed.
6511
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006512- Added support to platform.uname() to also report the machine and
6513 processor information on Windows XP and later. As a result,
Marc-André Lemburga1867752008-03-20 18:08:00 +00006514 platform.machine() and platform.processor() will report this
6515 information as well.
6516
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006517- The library implementing the 2to3 conversion, lib2to3, was added to
6518 the standard distribution.
Martin v. Löwis5e37bae2008-03-19 04:43:46 +00006519
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006520- Issue #1747858: Fix chown to work with large uid's and gid's on
6521 64-bit platforms.
Gregory P. Smith37f3f432008-03-18 20:40:01 +00006522
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006523- Issue #1202: zlib.crc32 and zlib.adler32 no longer return different
6524 values on 32-bit vs. 64-bit python interpreters. Both were correct,
6525 but they now both return a signed integer object for consistency.
Gregory P. Smithf48f9d32008-03-17 18:48:05 +00006526
Skip Montanaro32ed8c22008-03-15 16:07:11 +00006527- Issue #1158: add %f format (fractions of a second represented as
6528 microseconds) to datetime objects. Understood by both strptime and
6529 strftime.
6530
Mark Dickinsonc23b8a72008-03-14 14:23:37 +00006531- Issue #705836: struct.pack(">f", x) now raises OverflowError on all
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006532 platforms when x is too large to fit into an IEEE 754 float;
6533 previously it only raised OverflowError on non IEEE 754 platforms.
Mark Dickinsonc23b8a72008-03-14 14:23:37 +00006534
Andrew M. Kuchlingaac5c862008-05-11 14:00:00 +00006535- Issues #2166, #1741 and #1531505: now distutils deals with HOME
6536 correctly under win32
6537
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006538- Patch #1858: distutils: added multiple server support in .pypirc
Andrew M. Kuchlingaac5c862008-05-11 14:00:00 +00006539
Facundo Batistac54aec12008-03-08 16:50:27 +00006540- Issue #1106316: pdb.post_mortem()'s parameter, "traceback", is now
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006541 optional: it defaults to the traceback of the exception that is
6542 currently being handled (is mandatory to be in the middle of an
6543 exception, otherwise it raises ValueError).
Facundo Batistac54aec12008-03-08 16:50:27 +00006544
Jeffrey Yasskine75f59a2008-03-07 06:22:15 +00006545- Issue #1193577: A .shutdown() method has been added to SocketServers
6546 which terminates the .serve_forever() loop.
6547
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006548- Issue #2220: handle rlcompleter attribute match failure more
6549 gracefully.
Georg Brandl98aa8052008-03-06 07:45:52 +00006550
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006551- Issue #2225: py_compile, when executed as a script, now returns a
6552 non- zero status code if not all files could be compiled
6553 successfully.
Georg Brandla7bd27f2008-03-06 07:41:16 +00006554
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006555- Bug #1725737: In distutils' sdist, exclude RCS, CVS etc. also in the
Georg Brandl810ea292008-03-06 07:34:52 +00006556 root directory, and also exclude .hg, .git, .bzr, and _darcs.
6557
Thomas Hellerf3c05592008-03-05 15:34:29 +00006558- Issue #1872: The struct module typecode for _Bool has been changed
6559 from 't' to '?'.
6560
Thomas Heller78b8f442008-03-05 14:53:39 +00006561- The bundled libffi copy is now in sync with the recently released
6562 libffi3.0.4 version, apart from some small changes to
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006563 Modules/_ctypes/libffi/configure.ac. On OS X, preconfigured libffi
6564 files are used. On all linux systems the --with-system-ffi
6565 configure option defaults to "yes".
Thomas Heller78b8f442008-03-05 14:53:39 +00006566
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006567- Issue #1577: shutil.move() now calls os.rename() if the destination
6568 is a directory instead of copying-then-remove-source.
Sean Reifscheider493894c2008-03-18 17:24:12 +00006569
Martin v. Löwisd2bbe522008-03-06 06:55:22 +00006570Tests
6571-----
6572
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006573- test_nis no longer fails when test.test_support.verbose is true and
6574 NIS is not set up on the testing machine.
Brett Cannon7919d982008-03-19 16:50:13 +00006575
Brett Cannona5573b32008-03-18 04:16:06 +00006576- Output comparison tests are no longer supported.
6577
Brett Cannonb7ec8e52008-03-18 03:46:22 +00006578- Rewrite test_errno to use unittest and no longer be a no-op.
6579
Brett Cannon0bb79502008-03-18 01:58:56 +00006580- GHOP 234: Convert test_extcall to doctest.
6581
Brett Cannonba17cfc2008-03-18 01:50:25 +00006582- GHOP 290: Convert test_dbm and test_dummy_threading to unittest.
6583
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006584- GHOP 293: Convert test_strftime, test_getargs, and test_pep247 to
6585 unittest.
Brett Cannon6eeaddc2008-03-18 01:00:07 +00006586
Brett Cannon1f5182b2008-03-13 21:09:28 +00006587- Issue #2055: Convert test_fcntl to unittest.
6588
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00006589- Issue #1960: Convert test_gdbm to unittest.
Brett Cannon4a6e8d62008-03-13 21:02:16 +00006590
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006591- GHOP 294: Convert test_contains, test_crypt, and test_select to
6592 unittest.
Brett Cannon2e0f9f32008-03-13 20:47:41 +00006593
Brett Cannonb8d37352008-03-13 20:33:10 +00006594- GHOP 238: Convert test_tokenize to use doctest.
6595
Brett Cannon66865d22008-03-13 20:27:00 +00006596- GHOP 237: Rewrite test_thread using unittest.
6597
Martin v. Löwisd2bbe522008-03-06 06:55:22 +00006598- Patch #2232: os.tmpfile might fail on Windows if the user has no
6599 permission to create files in the root directory.
6600
Martin v. Löwisbf7b0b72008-03-14 13:56:09 +00006601Build
6602-----
6603
Martin v. Löwiscdbc9772008-03-24 12:57:53 +00006604- A new script 2to3 is now installed, to run the 2.x to 3.x converter.
6605
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006606- Python/memmove.c and Python/strerror.c have been removed; both
6607 functions are in the C89 standard library.
Brett Cannonaa5778d2008-03-18 04:09:00 +00006608
Martin v. Löwisbf7b0b72008-03-14 13:56:09 +00006609- Patch #2284: Add -x64 option to rt.bat.
Barry Warsaw65475fd2008-03-01 17:11:41 +00006610
Christian Heimes3c608332008-03-26 22:01:37 +00006611C API
6612-----
6613
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00006614- Patch #2477: Added PyParser_ParseFileFlagsEx() and
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006615 PyParser_ParseStringFlagsFilenameEx().
6616
Christian Heimes3c608332008-03-26 22:01:37 +00006617
Nick Coghlanbb0996c2006-09-03 01:20:46 +00006618What's New in Python 2.6 alpha 1?
6619=================================
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00006620
Barry Warsaw7c075232008-03-01 02:53:36 +00006621*Release date: 29-Feb-2008*
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00006622
6623Core and builtins
6624-----------------
6625
Fred Drakea8ee94b2008-03-01 02:45:07 +00006626- Issue #2051: pyc and pyo files are no longer created with permission
Barry Warsaw52973612008-03-01 02:23:38 +00006627 644. The mode is now inherited from the py file.
Christian Heimes40346852008-02-23 17:52:07 +00006628
Georg Brandlad61bc82008-02-23 15:11:18 +00006629- Issue #2067: file.__exit__() now calls subclasses' close() method.
6630
6631- Patch #1759: Backport of PEP 3129 class decorators.
Christian Heimes5224d282008-02-23 15:01:05 +00006632
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00006633- Issue #1881: An internal parser limit has been increased. Also see
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00006634 issue #215555 for a discussion.
Facundo Batistafc2d0102008-02-23 12:01:13 +00006635
Eric Smitha73fbe72008-02-23 03:09:44 +00006636- Added the future_builtins module, which contains hex() and oct().
6637 These are the PEP 3127 version of these functions, designed to be
6638 compatible with the hex() and oct() builtins from Python 3.0. They
6639 differ slightly in their output formats from the existing, unchanged
6640 Python 2.6 builtins. The expected usage of the future_builtins
6641 module is:
6642 from future_builtins import hex, oct
6643
Eric Smith7ef40bf2008-02-20 23:34:22 +00006644- Issue #1600: Modifed PyOS_ascii_formatd to use at most 2 digit
6645 exponents for exponents with absolute value < 100. Follows C99
6646 standard. This is a change on Windows, which would use 3 digits.
6647 Also, added 'n' to the formats that PyOS_ascii_formatd understands,
6648 so that any alterations it does to the resulting string will be
6649 available in stringlib/formatter.h (for float.__format__).
6650
Eric Smith5a3c1352008-02-19 13:21:56 +00006651- Implemented PEP 3101, Advanced String Formatting. This adds a new
6652 builtin format(); a format() method for str and unicode; a
6653 __format__() method to object, str, unicode, int, long, float, and
6654 datetime; the class string.Formatter; and the C API
6655 PyObject_Format().
6656
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006657- Fixed several potential crashes, all caused by specially crafted
6658 __del__ methods exploiting objects in temporarily inconsistent
6659 state.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc632fad32008-02-16 20:55:24 +00006660
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00006661- Issue #2115: Important speedup in setting __slot__ attributes. Also
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006662 prevent a possible crash: an Abstract Base Class would try to access
6663 a slot on a registered virtual subclass.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc60d6c7f2008-02-15 21:22:45 +00006664
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006665- Fixed repr() and str() of complex numbers with infinity or nan as
6666 real or imaginary part.
Christian Heimes2f0da532008-02-15 06:57:08 +00006667
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006668- Clear all free lists during a gc.collect() of the highest generation
6669 in order to allow pymalloc to free more arenas. Python may give back
6670 memory to the OS earlier.
Christian Heimes3b718a72008-02-14 12:47:33 +00006671
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006672- Issue #2045: Fix an infinite recursion triggered when printing a
6673 subclass of collections.defaultdict, if its default_factory is set
6674 to a bound method.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcb01aa432008-02-08 00:56:02 +00006675
Christian Heimesf75dbef2008-02-08 00:11:31 +00006676- Fixed a minor memory leak in dictobject.c. The content of the free
6677 list was not freed on interpreter shutdown.
6678
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00006679- Limit free list of method and built-in function objects to 256
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006680 entries each.
Christian Heimes6075a822008-02-06 12:44:34 +00006681
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006682- Patch #1953: Added ``sys._compact_freelists()`` and the C API
6683 functions ``PyInt_CompactFreeList`` and ``PyFloat_CompactFreeList``
Christian Heimes422051a2008-02-04 18:00:12 +00006684 to compact the internal free lists of pre-allocted ints and floats.
6685
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006686- Issue #1983: Fixed return type of fork(), fork1() and forkpty()
6687 calls. Python expected the return type int but the fork familie
6688 returns pi_t.
Christian Heimes951cc0f2008-01-31 23:08:23 +00006689
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006690- Issue #1678380: Fix a bug that identifies 0j and -0j when they
6691 appear in the same code unit.
Mark Dickinson105be772008-01-31 22:17:37 +00006692
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006693- Issue #2025: Add tuple.count() and tuple.index() methods to comply
6694 with the collections.Sequence API.
Raymond Hettinger5b07ebc2008-02-07 00:54:20 +00006695
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006696- Patch #1970 by Antoine Pitrou: Speedup unicode whitespace and
6697 linebreak detection
Christian Heimes4d4f2702008-01-30 11:32:37 +00006698
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006699- Added ``PyType_ClearCache()`` and ``sys._clear_type_cache`` to clear
6700 the internal lookup cache for ref leak tests.
Christian Heimes908caac2008-01-27 23:34:59 +00006701
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006702- Patch #1473257: generator objects gain a gi_code attribute. This is
6703 the same object as the func_code attribute of the function that
6704 produced the generator.
Georg Brandl0cdf9a32008-01-26 14:14:20 +00006705
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006706- Issue #1920: "while 0" statements were completely removed by the
6707 compiler, even in the presence of an "else" clause, which is
6708 supposed to be run when the condition is false. Now the compiler
6709 correctly emits bytecode for the "else" suite.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc31eaafe2008-01-24 22:59:25 +00006710
Guido van Rossumeead05f2008-01-24 18:21:02 +00006711- A few crashers fixed: weakref_in_del.py (issue #1377858);
6712 loosing_dict_ref.py (issue #1303614, test67.py);
6713 borrowed_ref_[34].py (not in tracker).
6714
Vinay Sajipd7cf32e2008-01-24 12:43:33 +00006715- Issue #1069410: The "can't load dll" message box on Windows is
Christian Heimesb2302ba2008-01-23 17:15:06 +00006716 suppressed while an extension is loaded by calling SetErrorMode in
6717 dynload_win.c. The error is still reported properly.
6718
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006719- Issue #1915: Python compiles with --enable-unicode=no again. However
Christian Heimes082c9b02008-01-23 14:20:50 +00006720 several extension methods and modules do not work without unicode
6721 support.
6722
Georg Brandl26543b12008-01-21 18:36:51 +00006723- Issue #1882: when compiling code from a string, encoding cookies in the
6724 second line of code were not always recognized correctly.
6725
Georg Brandl14404b62008-01-19 19:27:05 +00006726- Issue #1679: "0x" was taken as a valid integer literal.
6727
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00006728- Issue #1865: ``bytes`` as an alias for ``str`` and b"" as an alias "" were
Christian Heimes288e89a2008-01-18 18:24:07 +00006729 added.
6730
Christian Heimesc94e2b52008-01-14 04:13:37 +00006731- sys.float_info / PyFloat_GetInfo: The floating point information
6732 object was converted from a dict to a specialized structseq object.
6733
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006734- Patch #1816: Added sys.flags structseq. It exposes the status of
6735 most command line arguments and PYTHON* environment variables.
Christian Heimesf31b69f2008-01-14 03:42:48 +00006736
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006737- Objects/structseq.c: Implemented new structseq representation. The
6738 patch makes structseqs (e.g. the return value of os.stat) more
6739 readable.
Christian Heimes9c201962008-01-14 03:33:52 +00006740
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006741- Patch #1700288: added a type attribute cache that caches method
6742 accesses, resulting in speedups in heavily object-oriented code.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arce4c270c2008-01-14 00:29:41 +00006743
Neal Norwitz3fc15b82008-01-10 05:42:58 +00006744- Bug #1776: __import__() no longer accepts filenames on any platform.
6745 The first parameter to __import__() must be a valid module name.
Christian Heimes3403f152008-01-09 19:56:33 +00006746
Georg Brandlaed6c662008-01-07 17:25:53 +00006747- Patch #1668: renamed THREADDEBUG envvar to PYTHONTHREADDEBUG.
6748
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006749- Patch #602345: Add -B command line option, PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE
6750 envvar and sys.dont_write_bytecode attribute. All these can be set
6751 to forbid Python to attempt to write compiled bytecode files.
Georg Brandl2da0fce2008-01-07 17:09:35 +00006752
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006753- Improve some exception messages when Windows fails to load an
6754 extension module. Now we get for example '%1 is not a valid Win32
6755 application' instead of 'error code 193'.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arce0b76952008-01-04 02:04:15 +00006756
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006757- Bug #1481296: Fixed long(float('nan')) != 0L.
Christian Heimes8267d1d2008-01-04 00:37:34 +00006758
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006759- Issue #1640: Added math.isinf(x), math.isnan(x) and math.copysign(x,
6760 y) functions.
Christian Heimese2ca4242008-01-03 20:23:15 +00006761
Christian Heimes0a8143f2007-12-18 23:22:54 +00006762- Issue #1635: Platform independent creation and representation of NaN
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006763 and INF. float("nan"), float("inf") and float("-inf") now work on
6764 every platform with IEEE 754 semantics.
Christian Heimes0a8143f2007-12-18 23:22:54 +00006765
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006766- Compiler now generates simpler and faster code for dictionary
6767 literals. The oparg for BUILD_MAP now indicates an estimated
6768 dictionary size. There is a new opcode, STORE_MAP, for adding
6769 entries to the dictionary.
Raymond Hettingerfd7ed402007-12-18 21:24:09 +00006770
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006771- Issue #1638: %zd configure test fails on Linux.
Christian Heimesdb3d6cb2007-12-16 21:39:43 +00006772
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006773- Issue #1620: New property decorator syntax was modifying the
6774 decorator in place instead of creating a new decorator object.
Christian Heimes90e10e72007-12-14 02:35:23 +00006775
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006776- Issue #1538: Avoid copying string in split/rsplit if the split char
6777 is not found.
Skip Montanaro26015492007-12-08 15:33:24 +00006778
Andrew M. Kuchling395fe442007-12-05 13:27:20 +00006779- Issue #1553: An erroneous __length_hint__ can make list() raise a
Christian Heimes7cc1c6f2007-12-05 12:52:34 +00006780 SystemError.
6781
Nick Coghlanef01d822007-12-03 12:55:17 +00006782- PEP 366: Allow explicit relative imports when executing modules
6783 inside packages with the -m switch via a new module level
6784 __package__ attribute.
6785
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006786- Issue #1402: Fix a crash on exit, when another thread is still
6787 running, and if the deallocation of its frames somehow calls the
6788 PyGILState_Ensure() / PyGILState_Release() functions.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcbe49a902007-11-30 20:37:22 +00006789
Christian Heimes28104c52007-11-27 23:16:44 +00006790- Expose the Py_Py3kWarningFlag as sys.py3kwarning.
6791
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00006792- Issue #1445: Fix a SystemError when accessing the ``cell_contents``
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcce7d10c2007-11-24 13:44:17 +00006793 attribute of an empty cell object.
6794
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006795- Issue #1460: The utf-7 incremental decoder did not accept truncated
6796 input. It now correctly saves its state between chunks of data.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcf57375a2007-11-21 01:38:26 +00006797
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006798- Patch #1739468: Directories and zipfiles containing a __main__.py
6799 file can now be directly executed by passing their name to the
6800 interpreter. The directory/zipfile is automatically inserted as the
6801 first entry in sys.path.
Nick Coghlan327a39b2007-11-18 11:56:28 +00006802
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006803- Issue #1265: Fix a problem with sys.settrace, if the tracing
6804 function uses a generator expression when at the same time the
6805 executed code is closing a paused generator.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc0d75f092007-11-13 21:54:28 +00006806
Raymond Hettinger1760c8a2007-11-08 02:52:43 +00006807- sets and frozensets now have an isdisjoint() method.
6808
Raymond Hettinger3f8caa32007-10-24 01:28:33 +00006809- optimize the performance of builtin.sum().
6810
Neal Norwitz44f326e2007-10-05 05:29:17 +00006811- Fix warnings found by the new version of the Coverity checker.
6812
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00006813- The enumerate() built-in function is no longer bounded to sequences
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006814 smaller than LONG_MAX. Formerly, it raised an OverflowError. Now,
6815 automatically shifts from ints to longs.
Raymond Hettinger8f669372007-10-03 21:18:11 +00006816
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006817- Issue #1686386: Tuple's tp_repr did not take into account the
6818 possibility of having a self-referential tuple, which is possible
6819 from C code. Nor did object's tp_str consider that a type's tp_str
6820 could do something that could lead to an inifinite recursion.
6821 Py_ReprEnter() and Py_EnterRecursiveCall(), respectively, fixed the
6822 issues.
Brett Cannon0b14f242007-09-30 19:45:10 +00006823
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006824- Issue #1164: It was possible to trigger deadlock when using the
6825 'print' statement to write to a file since the GIL was not released
6826 as needed. Now PyObject_Print() does the right thing along with
6827 various tp_print implementations of the built-in types and those in
6828 the collections module.
Brett Cannon01531592007-09-17 03:28:34 +00006829
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006830- Issue #1147: Exceptions were directly allowing string exceptions in
6831 their throw() method even though string exceptions no longer
6832 allowed.
Brett Cannon4c20bc42007-09-11 21:02:28 +00006833
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006834- Issue #1096: Prevent a segfault from getting the repr of a very
6835 deeply nested list by using the recursion counter.
Brett Cannona0c05512007-09-10 21:38:27 +00006836
Brett Cannon1e534b52007-09-07 04:18:30 +00006837- Issue #1202533: Fix infinite recursion calls triggered by calls to
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006838 PyObject_Call() never calling back out to Python code to trigger
6839 recursion depth updates/checks. Required the creation of a static
6840 RuntimeError instance in case normalizing an exception put the
6841 recursion check value past its limit. Fixes crashers
6842 infinite_rec_(1|2|4|5).py.
Brett Cannon1e534b52007-09-07 04:18:30 +00006843
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006844- Patch #1031213: Decode source line in SyntaxErrors back to its
6845 original source encoding.
Martin v. Löwisa5136192007-09-04 14:19:28 +00006846
Georg Brandl7c3b50d2007-07-12 08:38:00 +00006847- Patch #1673759: add a missing overflow check when formatting floats
6848 with %G.
6849
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006850- Prevent expandtabs() on string and unicode objects from causing a
6851 segfault when a large width is passed on 32-bit platforms.
Neal Norwitz7dbd2a32007-06-09 03:36:34 +00006852
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006853- Issue #1733488: Fix compilation of bufferobject.c on AIX.
Martin v. Löwisda587ab2007-06-08 17:29:20 +00006854
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006855- Issue #1722485: remove docstrings again when running with -OO.
Georg Brandla5ea6892007-06-01 11:33:33 +00006856
Neal Norwitz0ac60192007-05-27 04:08:54 +00006857- Add new attribute names for function objects. All the func_* become
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006858 __*__ attributes. (Some already existed, e.g., __doc__ and
6859 __name__.)
Neal Norwitz0ac60192007-05-27 04:08:54 +00006860
Neal Norwitz8b2bfbc2007-05-23 06:35:32 +00006861- Add -3 option to the interpreter to warn about features that are
6862 deprecated and will be changed/removed in Python 3.0.
6863
Georg Brandl2134e752007-05-21 20:34:16 +00006864- Patch #1686487: you can now pass any mapping after '**' in function
6865 calls.
6866
Collin Winter62903052007-05-18 23:11:24 +00006867- except clauses may now be spelled either "except E, target:" or
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006868 "except E as target:". This is to provide forwards compatibility
6869 with Python 3.0.
Collin Winter62903052007-05-18 23:11:24 +00006870
Brett Cannon229cee22007-05-05 01:34:02 +00006871- Deprecate BaseException.message as per PEP 352.
6872
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006873- Issue #1303614: don't expose object's __dict__ when the dict is
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00006874 inherited from a built-in base.
Armin Rigo9790a272007-05-02 19:23:31 +00006875
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00006876- When __slots__ are set to a unicode string, make it work the same as
Neal Norwitzcbd9ee62007-04-14 05:25:50 +00006877 setting a plain string, ie don't expand to single letter identifiers.
6878
Raymond Hettinger13936692007-04-11 18:40:58 +00006879- Request #1191699: Slices can now be pickled.
6880
Raymond Hettinger4db5fe92007-04-12 04:10:00 +00006881- Request #1193128: str.translate() now allows a None argument for
6882 translations that only remove characters without re-mapping the
6883 remaining characters.
6884
Georg Brandl5cb76c12007-03-21 09:00:39 +00006885- Patch #1682205: a TypeError while unpacking an iterable is no longer
6886 masked by a generic one with the message "unpack non-sequence".
6887
Neal Norwitzaa754b72007-03-21 06:39:48 +00006888- Remove unused file Python/fmod.c.
6889
Guido van Rossum143b5642007-03-23 04:58:42 +00006890- Bug #1683368: The object.__init__() and object.__new__() methods are
6891 now stricter in rejecting excess arguments. The only time when
6892 either allows excess arguments is when it is not overridden and the
6893 other one is. For backwards compatibility, when both are
6894 overridden, it is a deprecation warning (for now; maybe a Py3k
Guido van Rossum234b1ff2007-03-23 19:39:01 +00006895 warning later). Also, type.__init__() insists on the same signature
6896 as supported by type.__new__().
Guido van Rossum143b5642007-03-23 04:58:42 +00006897
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006898- Patch #1675423: PyComplex_AsCComplex() now tries to convert an
6899 object to complex using its __complex__() method before falling back
6900 to the __float__() method. Therefore, the functions in the cmath
6901 module now can operate on objects that define a __complex__()
6902 method.
Georg Brandl2b869942007-03-17 16:08:45 +00006903
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006904- Patch #1623563: allow __class__ assignment for classes with
6905 __slots__. The old and the new class are still required to have the
6906 same slot names.
Žiga Seilnacht6f2d09c2007-03-16 11:59:38 +00006907
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006908- Patch #1642547: Fix an error/crash when encountering syntax errors
6909 in complex if statements.
Collin Winter77c67bd2007-03-16 04:11:30 +00006910
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006911- Patch #1462488: Python no longer segfaults when
6912 ``object.__reduce_ex__()`` is called with an object that is faking
6913 its type.
Žiga Seilnacht20f43d32007-03-15 11:44:55 +00006914
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006915- Patch #1680015: Don't modify __slots__ tuple if it contains an
6916 unicode name.
Žiga Seilnacht71436f02007-03-14 12:24:09 +00006917
Georg Brandl5240d742007-03-13 20:46:32 +00006918- Patch #1444529: the builtin compile() now accepts keyword arguments.
6919
Georg Brandl7b9c5552007-03-12 14:30:05 +00006920- Bug #1678647: write a newline after printing an exception in any
6921 case, even when converting the value to a string failed.
6922
Georg Brandl871f1bc2007-03-12 13:17:36 +00006923- The dir() function has been extended to call the __dir__() method on
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006924 its argument, if it exists. If not, it will work like before. This
6925 allows customizing the output of dir() in the presence of a
6926 __getattr__().
Georg Brandl871f1bc2007-03-12 13:17:36 +00006927
Collin Winter276887b2007-03-12 16:11:39 +00006928- Patch #922167: Python no longer segfaults when faced with infinitely
6929 self-recursive reload() calls (as reported by bug #742342).
6930
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006931- Patch #1675981: remove unreachable code from ``type.__new__()``
6932 method.
Žiga Seilnacht89032082007-03-11 15:54:54 +00006933
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006934- Patch #1491866: change the complex() constructor to allow
6935 parthensized forms. This means complex(repr(x)) now works instead of
6936 raising a ValueError.
Collin Wintere38051d2007-03-09 20:33:07 +00006937
Georg Brandlaa2321b2007-03-07 00:40:28 +00006938- Patch #703779: unset __file__ in __main__ after running a file. This
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006939 makes the filenames the warning module prints much more sensible
6940 when a PYTHONSTARTUP file is used.
Georg Brandlaa2321b2007-03-07 00:40:28 +00006941
Georg Brandl49aafc92007-03-07 00:34:46 +00006942- Variant of patch #697613: don't exit the interpreter on a SystemExit
6943 exception if the -i command line option or PYTHONINSPECT environment
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006944 variable is given, but break into the interactive interpreter just
6945 like on other exceptions or normal program exit.
Georg Brandl49aafc92007-03-07 00:34:46 +00006946
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006947- Patch #1638879: don't accept strings with embedded NUL bytes in
6948 long().
Georg Brandl00cd8182007-03-06 18:41:12 +00006949
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006950- Bug #1674503: close the file opened by execfile() in an error
6951 condition.
Georg Brandl098cd692007-03-06 12:17:50 +00006952
Georg Brandl0fca97a2007-03-05 22:28:08 +00006953- Patch #1674228: when assigning a slice (old-style), check for the
6954 sq_ass_slice instead of the sq_slice slot.
6955
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006956- When printing an unraisable error, don't print exceptions. before
6957 the name. This duplicates the behavior whening normally printing
6958 exceptions.
Neal Norwitz88516a62007-02-26 22:41:45 +00006959
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006960- Bug #1653736: Properly discard third argument to
6961 slot_nb_inplace_power.
Martin v. Löwisfd963262007-02-09 12:19:32 +00006962
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006963- PEP 352: Raising a string exception now triggers a TypeError.
6964 Attempting to catch a string exception raises DeprecationWarning.
Brett Cannon129bd522007-01-30 21:34:36 +00006965
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006966- Bug #1377858: Fix the segfaulting of the interpreter when an object
6967 created a weakref on itself during a __del__ call for new-style
6968 classes (classic classes still have the bug).
Brett Cannonf5bee302007-01-23 23:21:22 +00006969
Martin v. Löwis6c5c5022007-01-23 21:11:47 +00006970- Bug #1579370: Make PyTraceBack_Here use the current thread, not the
6971 frame's thread state.
6972
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006973- patch #1630975: Fix crash when replacing sys.stdout in
6974 sitecustomize.py.
Thomas Wouters6ed19652007-01-23 13:50:49 +00006975
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006976- Prevent seg fault on shutdown which could occur if an object raised
6977 a warning.
Neal Norwitz72cd02c2007-01-05 05:25:22 +00006978
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006979- Bug #1566280: Explicitly invoke threading._shutdown from Py_Main, to
6980 avoid relying on atexit.
Martin v. Löwis7b7c9d42007-01-04 21:06:12 +00006981
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006982- Bug #1590891: random.randrange don't return correct value for big
6983 number.
Raymond Hettinger94547f72006-12-20 06:42:06 +00006984
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006985- Patch #1586791: Better exception messages for some operations on
6986 strings, tuples and lists.
Georg Brandl283a1352006-11-19 08:48:30 +00006987
Martin v. Löwis056dac12006-11-12 18:24:26 +00006988- Bug #1067760: Deprecate passing floats to file.seek.
6989
Martin v. Löwisa346c092006-11-08 06:48:36 +00006990- Bug #1591996: Correctly forward exception in instance_contains().
6991
Neal Norwitz85dbec62006-11-04 19:25:22 +00006992- Bug #1588287: fix invalid assertion for `1,2` in debug builds.
6993
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006994- Bug #1576657: when setting a KeyError for a tuple key, make sure
6995 that the tuple isn't used as the "exception arguments tuple".
Georg Brandlb9f4ad32006-10-29 18:31:42 +00006996
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006997- Bug #1565514: SystemError not raised on too many nested blocks.
Neal Norwitz21997af2006-10-28 21:19:07 +00006998
Thomas Hellerdf08f0b2006-10-27 18:31:36 +00006999- Bug #1576174: WindowsError now displays the windows error code
7000 again, no longer the posix error code.
7001
Martin v. Löwisb5bc5372006-10-27 06:16:31 +00007002- Patch #1549049: Support long values in structmember, issue warnings
7003 if the assigned value for structmember fields gets truncated.
7004
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007005- Update the peephole optimizer to remove more dead code (jumps after
7006 returns) and inline unconditional jumps to returns.
Neal Norwitzcbeb6872006-10-14 21:33:38 +00007007
Georg Brandl2c1375c2006-10-12 11:27:59 +00007008- Bug #1545497: when given an explicit base, int() did ignore NULs
7009 embedded in the string to convert.
7010
Georg Brandl846f73a2006-10-08 07:11:54 +00007011- Bug #1569998: break inside a try statement (outside a loop) is now
7012 recognized and rejected.
7013
Armin Rigo7ccbca92006-10-04 12:17:45 +00007014- list.pop(x) accepts any object x following the __index__ protocol.
7015
Armin Rigo7ccbca92006-10-04 12:17:45 +00007016- A number of places, including integer negation and absolute value,
7017 were fixed to not rely on undefined behaviour of the C compiler
7018 anymore.
Martin v. Löwis820d6ac2006-10-04 05:47:34 +00007019
Georg Brandl3267d282006-09-30 09:03:42 +00007020- Bug #1566800: make sure that EnvironmentError can be called with any
7021 number of arguments, as was the case in Python 2.4.
7022
Georg Brandl5d59c092006-09-30 08:43:30 +00007023- Patch #1567691: super() and new.instancemethod() now don't accept
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007024 keyword arguments any more (previously they accepted them, but
7025 didn't use them).
Georg Brandl5d59c092006-09-30 08:43:30 +00007026
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007027- Fix a bug in the parser's future statement handling that led to
7028 "with" not being recognized as a keyword after, e.g., this
7029 statement: from __future__ import division, with_statement
Georg Brandla10d3af2006-09-24 12:35:36 +00007030
Neal Norwitz3a230172006-09-22 08:18:10 +00007031- Bug #1557232: fix seg fault with def f((((x)))) and def f(((x),)).
7032
Neal Norwitz4a8fbdb2006-09-22 08:16:26 +00007033- Fix %zd string formatting on Mac OS X so it prints negative numbers.
7034
Brett Cannonf6aa86e2006-09-20 18:43:13 +00007035- Allow exception instances to be directly sliced again.
7036
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007037- Bug #1551432: Exceptions do not define an explicit __unicode__
7038 method. This allows calling unicode() on exceptions classes
7039 directly to succeed.
Brett Cannon9adeab72006-09-20 18:34:28 +00007040
Georg Brandl4e933132006-09-06 20:05:58 +00007041- Bug #1542051: Exceptions now correctly call PyObject_GC_UnTrack.
7042 Also make sure that every exception class has __module__ set to
7043 'exceptions'.
7044
Georg Brandl98775df2006-09-06 06:09:31 +00007045- Bug #1550983: emit better error messages for erroneous relative
7046 imports (if not in package and if beyond toplevel package).
7047
Tim Petersc10c9d02006-09-05 02:18:09 +00007048- Overflow checking code in integer division ran afoul of new gcc
7049 optimizations. Changed to be more standard-conforming.
7050
Neal Norwitz4f096d92006-08-21 19:47:08 +00007051- Patch #1542451: disallow continue anywhere under a finally.
7052
Neal Norwitza22975f2006-09-05 02:24:03 +00007053- Patch #1546288: fix seg fault in dict_equal due to ref counting bug.
7054
Neal Norwitzd34e4272006-09-05 02:36:20 +00007055- The return tuple from str.rpartition(sep) is (tail, sep, head) where
7056 head is the original string if sep was not found.
7057
Neal Norwitzdac090d2006-09-05 03:53:08 +00007058- Bug #1520864: unpacking singleton tuples in list comprehensions and
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007059 generator expressions (x for x, in ... ) works again. Fixing this
7060 problem required changing the .pyc magic number. This means that
7061 .pyc files generated before 2.5c2 will be regenerated.
Neal Norwitzdac090d2006-09-05 03:53:08 +00007062
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00007063- ``with`` and ``as`` are now keywords.
Neal Norwitzca460d92006-09-06 06:28:06 +00007064
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007065- Bug #1664966: Fix crash in exec if Unicode filename can't be
7066 decoded.
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00007067
Guido van Rossumcad37242008-01-15 17:59:29 +00007068- Issue #1537: Changed GeneratorExit's base class from Exception to
7069 BaseException.
Christian Heimes44eeaec2007-12-03 20:01:02 +00007070
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007071- Issue #1703448: A joined thread could show up in the
Gregory P. Smith95cd5c02008-01-22 01:20:42 +00007072 threading.enumerate() list after the join() for a brief period until
7073 it actually exited.
7074
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00007075
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00007076Library
7077-------
7078
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007079- Patch #2274: Add heapq.heappushpop().
Raymond Hettinger53bdf092008-03-13 19:03:51 +00007080
Christian Heimes608c1d82008-03-03 18:28:04 +00007081- Add inspect.isabstract(object) to fix bug #2223
7082
Mark Dickinson1ddf1d82008-02-29 02:16:37 +00007083- Add a __format__ method to Decimal, to support PEP 3101.
7084
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007085- Add a timing parameter when using trace.Trace to print out
7086 timestamps.
Neal Norwitzca376612008-02-26 08:21:28 +00007087
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007088- Issue #1627: httplib now ignores negative Content-Length headers.
Georg Brandl8c460d52008-02-24 00:14:24 +00007089
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007090- Issue #900744: If an invalid chunked-encoding header is sent by a
7091 server, httplib will now raise IncompleteRead and close the
7092 connection instead of raising ValueError.
Georg Brandl23635032008-02-24 00:03:22 +00007093
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007094- Issue #1492: The content type of BaseHTTPServer error messages can
7095 now be overridden.
Georg Brandl16479232008-02-23 15:02:28 +00007096
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007097- Issue #1781: ConfigParser now does not let you add the "default" section
Facundo Batistab12f0b52008-02-23 12:46:10 +00007098 (ignore-case)
7099
Guido van Rossum8bc09652008-02-21 18:18:37 +00007100- Removed uses of dict.has_key() from distutils, and uses of
7101 callable() from copy_reg.py, so the interpreter now starts up
7102 without warnings when '-3' is given. More work like this needs to
7103 be done in the rest of the stdlib.
7104
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007105- Issue #1916: added isgenerator() and isgeneratorfunction() to
7106 inspect.py.
Facundo Batista759bfc62008-02-18 03:43:43 +00007107
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007108- Issue #1224: Fixed bad url parsing when path begins with double
7109 slash.
Facundo Batistad14600e2008-02-18 12:48:43 +00007110
Thomas Hellera06a1a82008-02-13 20:21:53 +00007111- ctypes instances that are not or do not contain pointers can now be
7112 pickled.
7113
Martin v. Löwisdad88dc2008-02-12 18:47:34 +00007114- Patch #1966: Break infinite loop in httplib when the servers
7115 implements the chunked encoding incorrectly.
7116
Mark Dickinsond058cd22008-02-10 21:29:51 +00007117- Rename rational.py to fractions.py and the rational.Rational class
7118 to fractions.Fraction, to avoid the name clash with the abstract
7119 base class numbers.Rational. See discussion in issue #1682.
7120
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007121- The pickletools module now provides an optimize() function that
7122 eliminates unused PUT opcodes from a pickle string.
Raymond Hettingerda614dc2008-02-10 20:35:16 +00007123
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007124- Patch #2021: Allow tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile and
7125 SpooledTemporaryFile to be used in with statements by correctly
7126 supporting the context management protocol.
Nick Coghlanac094dc2008-02-10 07:32:52 +00007127
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007128- Patch #1979: Add rich comparisons to Decimal, and make Decimal
7129 comparisons involving a NaN follow the IEEE 754 standard.
Mark Dickinson2fc92632008-02-06 22:10:50 +00007130
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007131- Issue #2004: tarfile.py: Use mode 0700 for temporary directories and
7132 default permissions for missing directories.
Lars Gustäbel0192e432008-02-05 11:51:40 +00007133
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007134- Issue #175006: The debugger used to skip the condition of a "while"
7135 statement after the first iteration. Now it correctly steps on the
7136 expression, and breakpoints on the "while" statement are honored on
7137 each loop.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc6fd03bb2008-02-04 21:45:05 +00007138
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007139- Issue #1765140: add an optional delay argument to FileHandler and
7140 its subclasses. Defaults to false (existing behaviour), but if true,
Vinay Sajipd7cf32e2008-01-24 12:43:33 +00007141 defers opening the file until the first call to emit().
7142
Raymond Hettingerc226c312008-01-23 00:04:40 +00007143- The pprint module now supports sets and frozensets.
7144
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007145- Issue #1221598: add optional callbacks to ftplib.FTP's storbinary()
7146 and storlines() methods. (Contributed by Phil Schwartz)
Gregory P. Smithc64386b2008-01-22 00:19:41 +00007147
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007148- Issue #1715: include sub-extension modules in pydoc's text output.
Georg Brandlf2dae0e2008-01-21 21:05:49 +00007149
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007150- Issue #1836: fix an off-by-one bug in TimedRotatingHandler's
7151 rollover time calculation.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00007152
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007153- Issue #1021: fix a bug to allow basicConfig to accept NOTSET as a
7154 level.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00007155
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007156- Issue #932563: add LoggerAdapter convenience class to make it easier
7157 to add contextual information in logging output.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00007158
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007159- Issue #1760556: fix a bug to avoid FileHandler throwing an exception
7160 in flush().
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00007161
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007162- Bug #1530959: distutils' build command now uses different build
7163 directory when building extension modules against versions of Python
7164 compiled with ``--with-pydebug``.
Georg Brandl50160152008-01-21 17:42:40 +00007165
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007166- Issue #1555501: move plistlib from plat-mac directory to general
7167 library.
Georg Brandl864de822008-01-21 16:34:07 +00007168
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007169- Issue #1269: fix a bug in pstats.add_callers() and add a unit test
7170 file for pstats.
Georg Brandl66e73632008-01-21 10:24:59 +00007171
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007172- Issue #1669: don't allow shutil.rmtree() to be called on a symlink
7173 to a directory.
Georg Brandl52353982008-01-20 14:17:42 +00007174
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007175- Issue #1664522: in urllib, don't read non-existing directories in
7176 ftp mode, returning a 0-byte file -- raise an IOError instead.
Georg Brandld5e6cf22008-01-20 12:18:17 +00007177
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007178- Issue #856047: respect the ``no_proxy`` environment variable when
7179 using the ``http_proxy`` etc. environment variables in urllib.
Georg Brandl22350112008-01-20 12:05:43 +00007180
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007181- Issue #1178141: add a getcode() method to the addinfourls that
7182 urllib.open() returns so that you can retrieve the HTTP status code.
Georg Brandl9b0d46d2008-01-20 11:43:03 +00007183
Gregory P. Smithf25680a2008-01-20 01:26:04 +00007184- Issue #1003: Fix zipfile decryption check, it would fail zip files
7185 with extended local headers.
7186
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007187- Issue #1189216: Fix the zipfile module to work on archives with
7188 headers past the 2**31 byte boundary.
Gregory P. Smith350d03b2008-01-19 23:10:52 +00007189
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007190- Issue #1336: fix a race condition in subprocess.Popen if the garbage
Gregory P. Smithb9ba0752008-01-19 21:00:37 +00007191 collector kicked in at the wrong time that would cause the process
7192 to hang when the child wrote to stderr.
7193
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007194- Issue #1146: fix how textwrap breaks a long word that would start in
7195 the last column of a line.
Georg Brandlc6fde722008-01-19 19:48:19 +00007196
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007197- Issue #1693149: trace.py --ignore-module - accept multiple
7198 comma-separated modules to be given.
Skip Montanaro562133b2008-01-19 18:47:24 +00007199
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007200- Issue #1822: MIMEMultipart.is_multipart() behaves correctly for a
7201 just-created (and empty) instance. Thanks Jonathan Share.
Facundo Batista2b1b1952008-01-19 12:32:27 +00007202
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007203- Issue #1861: Added an attribute to the sched module which returns an
7204 ordered list of upcoming events (displayed as named tuples).
Raymond Hettinger44bd6c02008-01-17 19:31:38 +00007205
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007206- Issue #1837: The queue module now also supports a LIFO queue and a
7207 priority queue.
Raymond Hettinger3ad2acc82008-01-16 23:49:35 +00007208
Andrew M. Kuchling4a2762d2008-01-20 00:00:38 +00007209- Patch #1048820: Add insert-mode editing to curses.textpad.Textbox
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00007210 (patch by Stefan Wehr). Also, fix an off-by-one bug in
Andrew M. Kuchling4a2762d2008-01-20 00:00:38 +00007211 Textbox.gather().
7212
Thomas Heller02ec2892008-01-16 19:37:33 +00007213- Issue #1831: ctypes now raises a TypeError if conflicting positional
7214 and named arguments are passed to a Structure or Union initializer.
Thomas Heller415c1e32008-01-16 19:45:51 +00007215 When too many positional arguments are passed, also a TypeError is
7216 raised instead of a ValueError.
Thomas Heller02ec2892008-01-16 19:37:33 +00007217
Thomas Heller902d3072008-01-16 19:16:27 +00007218- Convert the internal ctypes array type cache to a WeakValueDict so
7219 that array types do not live longer than needed.
7220
Guido van Rossumcad37242008-01-15 17:59:29 +00007221- Issue #1786: pdb should use its own stdin/stdout around an exec call
7222 and when creating a recursive instance.
7223
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007224- Issue #1698398: ZipFile.printdir() crashed because the format string
7225 expected a tuple type of length six instead of time.struct_time
7226 object.
Raymond Hettinger351e1a32008-01-14 22:58:05 +00007227
Mark Dickinson59bc20b2008-01-12 01:56:00 +00007228- Issue #1780: The Decimal constructor now accepts arbitrary leading
7229 and trailing whitespace when constructing from a string.
7230 Context.create_decimal no longer accepts trailing newlines.
7231
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007232- Decimal.as_tuple(), difflib.find_longest_match() and inspect
7233 functions that returned a tuple now return a named tuple.
Georg Brandl2f32c392008-01-11 09:20:58 +00007234
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00007235- Doctest now returns results as a named tuple for readability:
Raymond Hettingerfff4e6e2008-01-11 01:25:54 +00007236 (0, 7) --> TestResults(failed=0, attempted=7)
7237
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007238- Issue #846388:q re.match is interruptible now, which is particularly
Facundo Batista4473d222008-01-08 21:10:12 +00007239 good for long regular expression matches.
7240
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007241- Patch #1137: allow setting buffer_size attribute on pyexpat Parser
7242 objects to set the character data buffer size.
Andrew M. Kuchlinge0a49b62008-01-08 14:30:55 +00007243
Facundo Batista52b25792008-01-08 12:25:20 +00007244- Issue #1757: The hash of a Decimal instance is no longer affected by
7245 the current context.
7246
Georg Brandl62416bc2008-01-07 18:47:44 +00007247- Patch #467924: add ZipFile.extract() and ZipFile.extractall() in the
7248 zipfile module.
7249
Christian Heimesfb2d25a2008-01-07 16:12:44 +00007250- Issue #1646: Make socket support the TIPC protocol.
7251
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007252- Bug #1742: return os.curdir from os.path.relpath() if both arguments
7253 are equal instead of raising an exception.
Georg Brandl183a0842008-01-06 14:27:15 +00007254
Guido van Rossumc6a04c22008-01-05 22:19:06 +00007255- Patch #1637: fix urlparse for URLs like 'http://x.com?arg=/foo'.
7256
Guido van Rossumced4eb02008-01-05 01:21:57 +00007257- Patch #1698: allow '@' in username parsed by urlparse.py.
7258
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007259- Issue #1735: TarFile.extractall() now correctly sets directory
7260 permissions and times.
Lars Gustäbel2ee1c762008-01-04 14:00:33 +00007261
Christian Heimes06875612008-01-04 13:21:07 +00007262- Bug #1713: posixpath.ismount() claims symlink to a mountpoint is a mountpoint.
7263
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007264- Bug #1687: Fxed plistlib.py restricts <integer> to Python int when
7265 writing
Christian Heimes06131882008-01-04 00:04:52 +00007266
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007267- Issue #1700: Regular expression inline flags incorrectly handle
7268 certain unicode characters.
Guido van Rossumae04c332008-01-03 19:12:44 +00007269
Jeffrey Yasskin2f3c16b2008-01-03 02:21:52 +00007270- Issue #1689: PEP 3141, numeric abstract base classes.
7271
Martin v. Löwis84b9aab2008-01-01 21:09:07 +00007272- Tk issue #1851526: Return results from Python callbacks to Tcl as
7273 Tcl objects.
7274
Thomas Heller153038e2007-12-18 19:00:34 +00007275- Issue #1642: Fix segfault in ctypes when trying to delete attributes.
7276
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007277- Issue #1727780: Support loading pickles of random.Random objects
7278 created on 32-bit systems on 64-bit systems, and vice versa. As a
7279 consequence of the change, Random pickles created by Python 2.6
7280 cannot be loaded in Python 2.5.
Martin v. Löwis6b449f42007-12-03 19:20:02 +00007281
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007282- Issue #1455: The distutils package now supports VS 2005 and VS 2008
7283 for both the msvccompiler and cygwincompiler.
Christian Heimesc654fc22007-12-03 13:55:16 +00007284
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007285- Issue #1531: tarfile.py: Read fileobj from the current offset, do
7286 not seek to the start.
Lars Gustäbel77b2d632007-12-01 21:02:12 +00007287
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007288- Issue #1534: Added a dictionary sys.float_info with information
7289 about the internal floating point type to the sys module.
Christian Heimesdfdfaab2007-12-01 11:20:10 +00007290
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007291- Issue #1429818: patch for trace and doctest modules so they play
7292 nicely together.
Skip Montanaro58a6f442007-11-24 14:30:47 +00007293
Brett Cannon43e53f82007-11-21 00:47:36 +00007294- doctest made a bad assumption that a package's __loader__.get_data()
7295 method used universal newlines.
7296
Nick Coghlan90b858e2007-11-07 11:57:51 +00007297- Issue #1705170: contextlib.contextmanager was still swallowing
7298 StopIteration in some cases. This should no longer happen.
7299
Thomas Heller486b1b02007-11-02 19:10:24 +00007300- Issue #1292: On alpha, arm, ppc, and s390 linux systems the
7301 --with-system-ffi configure option defaults to "yes".
7302
Hye-Shik Changa838a802007-10-28 11:19:02 +00007303- IN module for FreeBSD 8 is added and preexisting FreeBSD 6 and 7
7304 files are updated.
7305
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007306- Issues #1181, #1287: unsetenv() is now called when the
7307 os.environ.pop() and os.environ.clear() methods are used.
Georg Brandl1a94ec22007-10-24 21:40:38 +00007308
Thomas Heller91ac4222007-10-19 18:11:41 +00007309- ctypes will now work correctly on 32-bit systems when Python is
7310 configured with --with-system-ffi.
7311
Thomas Heller7fee6dd2007-10-11 19:51:32 +00007312- Patch #1203: ctypes now does work on OS X when Python is built with
Georg Brandl1a94ec22007-10-24 21:40:38 +00007313 --disable-toolbox-glue.
Thomas Heller7fee6dd2007-10-11 19:51:32 +00007314
Raymond Hettingera7fc4b12007-10-05 02:47:07 +00007315- collections.deque() now supports a "maxlen" argument.
7316
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007317- itertools.count() is no longer bounded to LONG_MAX. Formerly, it
7318 raised an OverflowError. Now, automatically shifts from ints to
7319 longs.
Raymond Hettinger50e90e22007-10-04 00:20:27 +00007320
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007321- Added itertools.product() which forms the Cartesian product of the
7322 input iterables.
Raymond Hettingerc5705a82008-02-22 19:50:06 +00007323
Raymond Hettinger66f91ea2008-03-05 20:59:58 +00007324- Added itertools.combinations() and itertools.permutations().
Raymond Hettinger93e804d2008-02-26 23:40:50 +00007325
Georg Brandlaff85e22007-09-20 16:06:07 +00007326- Patch #1541463: optimize performance of cgi.FieldStorage operations.
7327
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007328- Decimal is fully updated to the latest Decimal Specification
7329 (v1.66).
Facundo Batistab67da232007-09-17 16:26:50 +00007330
Georg Brandl8fd3ecf2007-09-12 19:00:07 +00007331- Bug #1153: repr.repr() now doesn't require set and dictionary items
7332 to be orderable to properly represent them.
7333
Thomas Heller2825b2e2007-09-07 06:32:17 +00007334- A 'c_longdouble' type was added to the ctypes module.
7335
Martin v. Löwis7dcb83c2007-08-30 19:04:09 +00007336- Bug #1709599: Run test_1565150 only if the file system is NTFS.
7337
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007338- When encountering a password-protected robots.txt file the
7339 RobotFileParser no longer prompts interactively for a username and
7340 password (bug 813986).
Skip Montanaro3e275362007-08-29 01:33:45 +00007341
Lars Gustäbel0f4a14b2007-08-28 12:31:09 +00007342- TarFile.__init__() no longer fails if no name argument is passed and
7343 the fileobj argument has no usable name attribute (e.g. StringIO).
7344
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007345- The functools module now provides 'reduce', for forward
7346 compatibility with Python 3000.
Guido van Rossum95f1a1b2007-08-27 20:52:10 +00007347
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007348- Server-side SSL support and cert verification added, by Bill
7349 Janssen.
Guido van Rossum4f2c3dd2007-08-25 15:08:43 +00007350
Bill Janssenf413fb02007-08-30 18:08:06 +00007351- socket.ssl deprecated; use new ssl module instead.
7352
Georg Brandl8ec57542007-08-24 06:10:01 +00007353- uuid creation is now threadsafe.
7354
Hye-Shik Chang23901042007-08-20 06:49:18 +00007355- EUC-KR codec now handles the cheot-ga-keut composed make-up hangul
7356 syllables.
7357
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007358- GB18030 codec now can encode additional two-byte characters that are
7359 missing in GBK.
Hye-Shik Changf3e93a02007-08-04 04:10:18 +00007360
Walter Dörwald6e390802007-08-17 16:41:28 +00007361- Add new codecs for UTF-32, UTF-32-LE and UTF-32-BE.
7362
Martin v. Löwisf1e0b3f2007-07-28 07:03:05 +00007363- Bug #1704793: Return UTF-16 pair if unicodedata.lookup cannot
7364 represent the result in a single character.
7365
Martin v. Löwisf25e35b2007-07-27 18:28:22 +00007366- Bug #978833: Close https sockets by releasing the _ssl object.
7367
Martin v. Löwis254b8f92007-07-25 16:24:23 +00007368- Change location of the package index to pypi.python.org/pypi
7369
Thomas Hellerfa704c62007-07-13 17:12:23 +00007370- Bug #1701409: Fix a segfault in printing ctypes.c_char_p and
7371 ctypes.c_wchar_p when they point to an invalid location. As a
7372 sideeffect the representation of these instances has changed.
7373
Lars Gustäbel104490e2007-06-18 11:42:11 +00007374- tarfile.py: Added "exclude" keyword argument to TarFile.add().
7375
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007376- Bug #1734723: Fix repr.Repr() so it doesn't ignore the maxtuple
7377 attribute.
Neal Norwitzc161cb92007-06-11 07:29:43 +00007378
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007379- The urlopen function of urllib2 now has an optional timeout
7380 parameter (note that it actually works with HTTP, HTTPS, FTP and
7381 FTPS connections).
Facundo Batista10951d52007-06-06 17:15:23 +00007382
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007383- In ftplib, the FTP.ntransfercmd method, when in passive mode, now
7384 uses the socket.create_connection function, using the timeout
7385 specified at connection time.
Facundo Batista92493122007-06-06 15:13:37 +00007386
Hye-Shik Chang9b541402007-06-05 18:58:51 +00007387- Bug #1728403: Fix a bug that CJKCodecs StreamReader hangs when it
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007388 reads a file that ends with incomplete sequence and sizehint
7389 argument for .read() is specified.
Hye-Shik Chang9b541402007-06-05 18:58:51 +00007390
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007391- Bug #1730389: Change time.strptime() to use ``\s+`` instead of
7392 ``\s*`` when matching spaces in the specified format argument.
Brett Cannonf7188ce2007-06-03 23:13:41 +00007393
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007394- Bugs #1668596/#1720897: distutils now copies data files even if
7395 package_dir is empty.
Neal Norwitz4a700bb2007-06-01 07:29:12 +00007396
Brett Cannonc2aa09a2007-05-31 19:20:00 +00007397- sha now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
7398
Brett Cannon7eec2172007-05-30 22:24:28 +00007399- md5 now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
7400
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007401- Issue #1385: The hmac module now computes the correct hmac when
7402 using hashes with a block size other than 64 bytes (such as sha384
7403 and sha512).
Gregory P. Smithe1ac4f12007-11-06 00:19:03 +00007404
Brett Cannonc249bda2007-05-30 21:48:58 +00007405- mimify now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
7406
Brett Cannon90134c92007-05-30 20:46:26 +00007407- MimeWriter now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
7408
Lars Gustäbela0fcb932007-05-27 19:49:30 +00007409- tarfile.py: Improved unicode support. Unicode input names are now
7410 officially supported. Added "errors" argument to the TarFile class.
7411
Facundo Batista711a54e2007-05-24 17:50:54 +00007412- urllib.ftpwrapper class now accepts an optional timeout.
7413
Georg Brandlc90bc752007-05-24 16:49:29 +00007414- shlex.split() now has an optional "posix" parameter.
7415
Brett Cannon41bf2fa2007-05-20 23:57:38 +00007416- The posixfile module now raises a DeprecationWarning.
7417
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007418- Remove the gopherlib module. This also leads to the removal of
7419 gopher support in urllib/urllib2.
Brett Cannond75f0432007-05-16 22:42:29 +00007420
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007421- Fix bug in marshal where bad data would cause a segfault due to lack
7422 of an infinite recursion check.
Neal Norwitzb1a9b372007-05-16 20:05:11 +00007423
Neal Norwitze0e70a42007-05-16 05:06:33 +00007424- Removed plat-freebsd2 and plat-freebsd3 directories (and IN.py in
7425 the directories).
7426
Georg Brandla09a96a2007-05-15 20:19:34 +00007427- HTML-escape the plain traceback in cgitb's HTML output, to prevent
7428 the traceback inadvertently or maliciously closing the comment and
7429 injecting HTML into the error page.
7430
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007431- The popen2 module and os.popen* are deprecated. Use the subprocess
7432 module.
Neal Norwitz42dd86b2007-05-11 06:57:33 +00007433
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007434- Added an optional credentials argument to SMTPHandler, for use with
7435 SMTP servers which require authentication.
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00007436
7437- Patch #1695948: Added optional timeout parameter to SocketHandler.
7438
7439- Bug #1652788: Minor fix for currentframe.
7440
7441- Patch #1598415: Added WatchedFileHandler to better support external
7442 log file rotation using e.g. newsyslog or logrotate. This handler is
7443 only useful in Unix/Linux environments.
7444
Georg Brandlfb4b3b72007-04-24 15:27:13 +00007445- Bug #1706381: Specifying the SWIG option "-c++" in the setup.py file
7446 (as opposed to the command line) will now write file names ending in
7447 ".cpp" too.
7448
Facundo Batistad918a652007-04-24 13:54:38 +00007449- As specified in RFC 2616, an HTTP response like 2xx indicates that
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007450 the client's request was successfully received, understood, and
7451 accepted. Now in these cases no error is raised in urllib (issue
7452 #1177) and urllib2.
Facundo Batistad918a652007-04-24 13:54:38 +00007453
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007454- Bug #1290505: time.strptime's internal cache of locale information
7455 is now properly recreated when the locale is changed.
Brett Cannonc6906652007-04-01 18:47:27 +00007456
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007457- Patch #1685563: remove (don't add) duplicate paths in
7458 distutils.MSVCCompiler.
Neal Norwitz8f35f442007-04-01 18:24:22 +00007459
Facundo Batistab6a5c9d2007-03-29 18:22:35 +00007460- Added a timeout parameter to the constructor of other protocols
7461 (telnetlib, ftplib, smtplib and poplib). This is second part of the
7462 work started with create_connection() and timeout in httplib, and
7463 closes patch #723312.
7464
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00007465- Patch #1676823: Added create_connection() to socket.py, which may be
7466 called with a timeout, and use it from httplib (whose HTTPConnection
Facundo Batista70f996b2007-05-21 17:32:32 +00007467 and HTTPSConnection now accept an optional timeout).
Facundo Batista07c78be2007-03-23 18:54:07 +00007468
Martin v. Löwis0af33882007-03-23 13:27:15 +00007469- Bug #978833: Revert r50844, as it broke _socketobject.dup.
7470
Žiga Seilnacht7492e422007-03-21 20:07:56 +00007471- Bug #1675967: re patterns pickled with Python 2.4 and earlier can
7472 now be unpickled with Python 2.5 and newer.
7473
Collin Wintera8785cc2007-03-19 18:52:08 +00007474- Patch #1630118: add a SpooledTemporaryFile class to tempfile.py.
7475
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007476- Patch #1273829: os.walk() now has a "followlinks" parameter. If set
7477 to True (which is not the default), it visits symlinks pointing to
Georg Brandlcae9f3d2007-03-21 09:10:29 +00007478 directories.
7479
Georg Brandl8f06d022007-03-16 07:55:09 +00007480- Bug #1681228: the webbrowser module now correctly uses the default
7481 GNOME or KDE browser, depending on whether there is a session of one
7482 of those present. Also, it tries the Windows default browser before
7483 trying Mozilla variants.
7484
Collin Winter6f187742007-03-16 22:16:08 +00007485- Patch #1339796: add a relpath() function to os.path.
7486
Georg Brandlab1f4672007-03-15 07:41:30 +00007487- Patch #1681153: the wave module now closes a file object it opened if
7488 initialization failed.
7489
Georg Brandlf66b6032007-03-14 08:27:52 +00007490- Bug #767111: fix long-standing bug in urllib which caused an
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007491 AttributeError instead of an IOError when the server's response
7492 didn't contain a valid HTTP status line.
Georg Brandlf66b6032007-03-14 08:27:52 +00007493
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007494- Patch #957650: "%var%" environment variable references are now
7495 properly expanded in ntpath.expandvars(), also "~user" home
7496 directory references are recognized and handled on Windows.
Georg Brandl03b90d82007-03-13 22:07:36 +00007497
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007498- Patch #1429539: pdb now correctly initializes the __main__ module
7499 for the debugged script, which means that imports from __main__ work
Georg Brandlb6ae6aa2007-03-13 21:58:44 +00007500 correctly now.
7501
Georg Brandlbad6f192007-03-13 21:32:56 +00007502- The nonobvious commands.getstatus() function is now deprecated.
7503
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007504- Patch #1393667: pdb now has a "run" command which restarts the
7505 debugged Python program, optionally with different arguments.
Georg Brandl8e84c652007-03-13 21:08:15 +00007506
Thomas Heller5dc4fe02007-03-13 20:42:52 +00007507- Patch #1649190: Adding support for _Bool to ctypes as c_bool.
7508
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007509- Patch #1530482: add pydoc.render_doc() which returns the
7510 documentation for a thing instead of paging it to stdout, which
7511 pydoc.doc() does.
Georg Brandl8441f152007-03-13 20:02:57 +00007512
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007513- Patch #1533909: the timeit module now accepts callables in addition
7514 to strings for the code to time and the setup code. Also added two
7515 convenience functions for instantiating a Timer and calling its
7516 methods.
Georg Brandld9bef352007-03-13 19:32:21 +00007517
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007518- Patch #1537850: tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile now has a "delete"
7519 parameter which can be set to False to prevent the default
7520 delete-on-close behavior.
Georg Brandl35ef9c12007-03-13 18:31:49 +00007521
Georg Brandl9e6b4702007-03-13 18:15:41 +00007522- Patch #1581073: add a flag to textwrap that prevents the dropping of
7523 whitespace while wrapping.
7524
Georg Brandl92a6bae2007-03-13 17:43:32 +00007525- Patch #1603688: ConfigParser.SafeConfigParser now checks values that
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007526 are set for invalid interpolation sequences that would lead to
7527 errors on reading back those values.
Georg Brandl92a6bae2007-03-13 17:43:32 +00007528
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007529- Added support for the POSIX.1-2001 (pax) format to
7530 tarfile.py. Extended and cleaned up the test suite. Added a new
7531 testtar.tar.
Lars Gustäbelc64e4022007-03-13 10:47:19 +00007532
Martin v. Löwisbdd0f392007-03-13 10:24:00 +00007533- Patch #1449244: Support Unicode strings in
7534 email.message.Message.{set_charset,get_content_charset}.
7535
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007536- Patch #1542681: add entries for "with", "as" and "CONTEXTMANAGERS"
7537 to pydoc's help keywords.
Georg Brandlb6a87542007-03-13 10:06:48 +00007538
Georg Brandl4ffc8f52007-03-13 09:41:31 +00007539- Patch #1555098: use str.join() instead of repeated string
7540 concatenation in robotparser.
7541
Georg Brandl94fe3f52007-03-13 09:32:11 +00007542- Patch #1635454: the csv.DictWriter class now includes the offending
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007543 field names in its exception message if you try to write a record
7544 with a dictionary containing fields not in the CSV field names list.
Georg Brandl94fe3f52007-03-13 09:32:11 +00007545
Georg Brandlceede5c2007-03-13 08:14:27 +00007546- Patch #1668100: urllib2 now correctly raises URLError instead of
7547 OSError if accessing a local file via the file:// protocol fails.
7548
Martin v. Löwis2681beb2007-03-12 11:01:10 +00007549- Patch #1677862: Require a space or tab after import in .pth files.
7550
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007551- Patch #1192590: Fix pdb's "ignore" and "condition" commands so they
7552 trap the IndexError caused by passing in an invalid breakpoint
7553 number.
Collin Winter2faa9e12007-03-11 16:00:20 +00007554
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007555- Patch #1599845: Add an option to disable the implicit calls to
7556 server_bind() and server_activate() in the constructors for
7557 TCPServer, SimpleXMLRPCServer and DocXMLRPCServer.
Collin Winterae041062007-03-10 14:41:48 +00007558
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007559- Bug #1531963: Make SocketServer.TCPServer's server_address always be
7560 equal to calling getsockname() on the server's socket. Fixed by
Collin Winterfaaa2042007-03-10 03:35:34 +00007561 patch #1545011.
Collin Winter22c42ba2007-03-10 02:51:26 +00007562
Andrew M. Kuchlinge45a77a2008-01-19 16:26:13 +00007563- Patch #742598: Add .timeout attribute to SocketServer that calls
7564 .handle_timeout() when no requests are received.
7565
Thomas Heller2456a3c2007-03-09 20:39:22 +00007566- Bug #1651235: When a tuple was passed to a ctypes function call,
7567 Python would crash instead of raising an error.
7568
Thomas Hellerc2f77252007-03-09 19:21:28 +00007569- Bug #1646630: ctypes.string_at(buf, 0) and ctypes.wstring_at(buf, 0)
7570 returned string up to the first NUL character.
7571
Martin v. Löwis1190a382007-03-09 15:35:55 +00007572- Patch #957003: Implement smtplib.LMTP.
7573
Collin Winterfb728de2007-03-09 03:26:32 +00007574- Patch #1481079: add support for HTTP_REFERER to CGIHTTPServer.
7575
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007576- Patch #1675424: Added tests for uncovered code in the zipfile
7577 module. The KeyError raised by Zipfile.getinfo for nonexistent
7578 names now has a descriptive message.
Georg Brandl4b3ab6f2007-07-12 09:59:22 +00007579
Martin v. Löwis05c075d2007-03-07 11:04:33 +00007580- Bug #1115886: os.path.splitext('.cshrc') gives now ('.cshrc', '').
7581
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007582- unittest now verifies more of its assumptions. In particular,
7583 TestCase and TestSuite subclasses (not instances) are no longer
7584 accepted in TestSuite.addTest(). This should cause no
7585 incompatibility since it never made sense with ordinary subclasses
7586 -- the failure just occurred later, with a more cumbersome
7587 exception.
Georg Brandl9caadf82007-03-08 18:37:31 +00007588
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007589- Patch #787789: allow to pass custom TestRunner instances to
7590 unittest's main() function.
Georg Brandld0a96252007-03-07 09:21:06 +00007591
Georg Brandl15c5ce92007-03-07 09:09:40 +00007592- Patches #1550273, #1550272: fix a few bugs in unittest and add a
7593 comprehensive test suite for the module.
7594
Georg Brandl71ff6462007-03-07 08:31:51 +00007595- Patch #1001604: glob.glob() now returns unicode filenames if it was
7596 given a unicode argument and os.listdir() returns unicode filenames.
7597
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007598- Patch #1673619: setup.py identifies extension modules it doesn't
7599 know how to build and those it knows how to build but that fail to
7600 build.
Skip Montanarod1287322007-03-06 15:41:38 +00007601
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00007602- Patch #912410: Replace HTML entity references for attribute values
Martin v. Löwisab8a6bb2007-03-06 14:43:00 +00007603 in HTMLParser.
7604
Georg Brandlff432e62007-03-06 13:37:45 +00007605- Patch #1663234: you can now run doctest on test files and modules
7606 using "python -m doctest [-v] filename ...".
7607
Martin v. Löwis3eb76482007-03-06 10:41:24 +00007608- Patch #1121142: Implement ZipFile.open.
7609
Skip Montanarof694b1b2007-03-04 20:54:12 +00007610- Taught setup.py how to locate Berkeley DB on Macs using MacPorts.
7611
Raymond Hettinger00166c52007-02-19 04:08:43 +00007612- Added heapq.merge() for merging sorted input streams.
7613
Raymond Hettingercd3c1082007-10-23 21:23:07 +00007614- Added collections.namedtuple() for assigning field names to tuples.
Raymond Hettingerc37e5e02007-03-01 06:16:43 +00007615
Raymond Hettingerd36862c2007-02-21 05:20:38 +00007616- Added itertools.izip_longest().
7617
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007618- Have the encoding package's search function dynamically import using
7619 absolute import semantics.
Brett Cannon971a0122007-02-15 22:54:39 +00007620
Lars Gustäbel5b1a7852007-02-13 16:09:24 +00007621- Patch #1647484: Renamed GzipFile's filename attribute to name.
7622
Martin v. Löwis84f6de92007-02-13 10:10:39 +00007623- Patch #1517891: Mode 'a' for ZipFile now creates the file if it
7624 doesn't exist.
7625
Martin v. Löwisc6d626e2007-02-13 09:49:38 +00007626- Patch #698833: Support file decryption in zipfile.
7627
Martin v. Löwis07aa3ed2007-02-13 08:34:45 +00007628- Patch #685268: Consider a package's __path__ in imputil.
7629
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007630- Patch #1463026: Support default namespace in XMLGenerator.
Martin v. Löwis2bad58f2007-02-12 12:21:10 +00007631
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007632- Patch #1571379: Make trace's --ignore-dir facility work in the face
7633 of relative directory names.
Skip Montanaro691acf22007-02-11 18:24:37 +00007634
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007635- Bug #1600860: Search for shared python library in LIBDIR, not
7636 lib/python/config, on "linux" and "gnu" systems.
Martin v. Löwis0a203262007-02-09 12:36:48 +00007637
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007638- Patch #1652681: tarfile.py: create nonexistent files in append mode
7639 and allow appending to empty files.
Lars Gustäbel3f8aca12007-02-06 18:38:13 +00007640
Peter Astrand5f9c6ae2007-02-06 15:37:50 +00007641- Bug #1124861: Automatically create pipes if GetStdHandle fails in
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00007642 subprocess.
Peter Astrand5f9c6ae2007-02-06 15:37:50 +00007643
Georg Brandl4ba9e5b2007-01-27 17:59:42 +00007644- Patch #1634778: add missing encoding aliases for iso8859_15 and
7645 iso8859_16.
7646
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007647- Patch #1638243: the compiler package is now able to correctly
7648 compile a with statement; previously, executing code containing a
7649 with statement compiled by the compiler package crashed the
7650 interpreter.
Georg Brandlab496842007-01-27 17:43:02 +00007651
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00007652- Bug #1643943: Fix time.strptime's support for the %U directive.
7653
Lars Gustäbel0713a682007-02-19 09:54:47 +00007654- Patch #1507247: tarfile.py: use current umask for intermediate
7655 directories.
7656
Georg Brandldd7b0522007-01-21 10:35:10 +00007657- Patch #1627441: close sockets properly in urllib2.
7658
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007659- Bug #494589: make ntpath.expandvars behave according to its
7660 docstring.
Sjoerd Mullender33a0a062007-01-16 16:42:38 +00007661
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00007662- Changed platform module API python_version_tuple() to actually
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00007663 return a tuple (it used to return a list).
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00007664
7665- Added new platform module APIs python_branch(), python_revision(),
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00007666 python_implementation() and linux_distribution().
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00007667
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00007668- Added support for IronPython and Jython to the platform module.
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00007669
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007670- The sets module has been deprecated. Use the built-in set/frozenset
7671 types instead.
Brett Cannon093b6702007-01-13 00:29:49 +00007672
Thomas Heller6fd45492007-01-12 20:21:53 +00007673- Bug #1610795: make ctypes.util.find_library work on BSD systems.
7674
Thomas Heller8138c262007-01-11 21:18:56 +00007675- Fixes for 64-bit Windows: In ctypes.wintypes, correct the
7676 definitions of HANDLE, WPARAM, LPARAM data types. Make
7677 parameterless foreign function calls work.
7678
Thomas Hellerfb9d7872007-01-10 20:12:13 +00007679- The version number of the ctypes package changed to "1.1.0".
7680
Vinay Sajipab41c102007-01-09 14:51:36 +00007681- Bug #1627575: logging: Added _open() method to FileHandler which can
7682 be used to reopen files. The FileHandler instance now saves the
7683 encoding (which can be None) in an attribute called "encoding".
7684
Vinay Sajipc9137262007-01-08 18:52:36 +00007685- Bug #411881: logging.handlers: bare except clause removed from
7686 SMTPHandler.emit. Now, only ImportError is trapped.
7687
7688- Bug #411881: logging.handlers: bare except clause removed from
7689 SocketHandler.createSocket. Now, only socket.error is trapped.
7690
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007691- Bug #411881: logging: bare except clause removed from
7692 LogRecord.__init__. Now, only ValueError, TypeError and
7693 AttributeError are trapped.
Vinay Sajipc9137262007-01-08 18:52:36 +00007694
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007695- Patch #1504073: Fix tarfile.open() for mode "r" with a fileobj
7696 argument.
Lars Gustäbela7ba6fc2006-12-27 10:30:46 +00007697
Andrew M. Kuchling71662322006-12-27 03:31:24 +00007698- Patch #1182394 from Shane Holloway: speed up HMAC.hexdigest.
7699
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007700- Patch #1262036: Prevent TarFiles from being added to themselves
7701 under certain conditions.
Lars Gustäbela4b23812006-12-23 17:57:23 +00007702
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007703- Patch #1230446: tarfile.py: fix ExFileObject so that read() and
7704 tell() work correctly together with readline().
Lars Gustäbel6baa5022006-12-23 16:40:13 +00007705
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007706- Patch #1484695: The tarfile module now raises a HeaderError
7707 exception if a buffer given to frombuf() is invalid.
Georg Brandlebbeed72006-12-19 22:06:46 +00007708
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00007709- Bug #1503765: Fix a problem in logging.config with spaces in comma-
7710 separated lists read from logging config files.
7711
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007712- Patch #1604907: Fix problems in logging.handlers caused at logging
7713 shutdown when syslog handlers fail to initialize because of syslogd
7714 problems.
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00007715
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007716- Patch #1608267: fix a race condition in os.makedirs() if the
7717 directory to be created is already there.
Georg Brandlb1307432006-12-09 09:08:29 +00007718
Georg Brandl87fa5592006-12-06 22:21:18 +00007719- Patch #1610437: fix a tarfile bug with long filename headers.
7720
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007721- Patch #1371075: Make ConfigParser accept optional dict type for
7722 ordering, sorting, etc.
Martin v. Löwisa00bcac2006-12-03 12:01:53 +00007723
Thomas Helleref583a42006-11-28 20:21:54 +00007724- Bug #1563807: _ctypes built on AIX fails with ld ffi error.
7725
Thomas Heller25d208b2006-11-24 18:45:39 +00007726- Bug #1598620: A ctypes Structure cannot contain itself.
7727
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007728- Patch #1070046: Marshal new-style objects like InstanceType in
7729 xmlrpclib.
Martin v. Löwis07529352006-11-19 18:51:54 +00007730
Martin v. Löwiscffcc8b2006-11-19 10:41:41 +00007731- cStringIO.truncate(-1) now raises an IOError, like StringIO and
7732 regular files.
7733
Martin v. Löwisbba003e2006-11-18 18:42:11 +00007734- Patch #1472877: Fix Tix subwidget name resolution.
7735
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007736- Patch #1594554: Always close a tkSimpleDialog on ok(), even if an
7737 exception occurs.
Martin v. Löwisef5fd3e2006-11-18 18:05:35 +00007738
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007739- Patch #1538878: Don't make tkSimpleDialog dialogs transient if the
7740 parent window is withdrawn.
Martin v. Löwisc73a4a42006-11-18 18:00:23 +00007741
Georg Brandl54082112006-11-16 16:50:59 +00007742- Bug #1597824: return the registered function from atexit.register()
7743 to facilitate usage as a decorator.
7744
Martin v. Löwis45cd4ff2006-11-12 18:56:03 +00007745- Patch #1360200: Use unmangled_version RPM spec field to deal with
7746 file name mangling.
7747
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007748- Patch #1359217: Process 2xx response in an ftplib transfer that
7749 precedes an 1xx response.
Martin v. Löwis36cbc082006-11-12 18:48:13 +00007750
Martin v. Löwis065f0c82006-11-12 10:41:39 +00007751- Patch #1355023: support whence argument for GzipFile.seek.
7752
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00007753- Patch #1065257: Support passing open files as body in
Martin v. Löwis040a9272006-11-12 10:32:47 +00007754 HTTPConnection.request().
7755
Andrew M. Kuchlinga3e5d372006-11-09 13:27:07 +00007756- Bug #1569790: mailbox.py: Maildir.get_folder() and MH.get_folder()
7757 weren't passing the message factory on to newly created Maildir/MH
7758 objects.
7759
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007760- Patch #1514543: mailbox.py: In the Maildir class, report errors if
7761 there's a filename clash instead of possibly losing a message.
7762 (Patch by David Watson.)
Andrew M. Kuchling978d8282006-11-09 21:16:46 +00007763
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007764- Patch #1514544: Try to ensure that messages/indexes have been
7765 physically written to disk after calling .flush() or
7766 .close(). (Patch by David Watson.)
Andrew M. Kuchlingb5686da2006-11-09 13:51:14 +00007767
Guido van Rossumaf16ece2008-02-21 19:46:35 +00007768- Patch #1592250: Add elide argument to Tkinter.Text.search.
Martin v. Löwis038cad72006-11-09 11:27:32 +00007769
Guido van Rossumaf16ece2008-02-21 19:46:35 +00007770- Patch #838546: Make terminal become controlling in pty.fork().
Martin v. Löwisb2bba732006-11-09 11:06:03 +00007771
Martin v. Löwis5361e9a2006-11-08 07:35:55 +00007772- Patch #1351744: Add askyesnocancel helper for tkMessageBox.
7773
Martin v. Löwis5310e502006-11-04 18:14:06 +00007774- Patch #1060577: Extract list of RPM files from spec file in
Guido van Rossumaf16ece2008-02-21 19:46:35 +00007775 bdist_rpm.
Martin v. Löwis5310e502006-11-04 18:14:06 +00007776
Georg Brandl2c9838e2006-10-29 14:39:09 +00007777- Bug #1586613: fix zlib and bz2 codecs' incremental en/decoders.
7778
Georg Brandl3354f282006-10-29 09:16:12 +00007779- Patch #1583880: fix tarfile's problems with long names and posix/
7780 GNU modes.
7781
Georg Brandl5addf702006-10-29 08:53:06 +00007782- Bug #1586448: the compiler module now emits the same bytecode for
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00007783 list comprehensions as the built-in compiler, using the LIST_APPEND
Georg Brandl5addf702006-10-29 08:53:06 +00007784 opcode.
7785
Georg Brandl8f99f812006-10-29 08:39:22 +00007786- Fix codecs.EncodedFile which did not use file_encoding in 2.5.0, and
7787 fix all codecs file wrappers to work correctly with the "with"
7788 statement (bug #1586513).
7789
Thomas Heller112d1a62006-10-27 19:05:53 +00007790- Lib/modulefinder.py now handles absolute and relative imports
7791 correctly.
7792
Martin v. Löwisee82c0e2006-10-27 07:13:28 +00007793- Patch #1567274: Support SMTP over TLS.
7794
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007795- Patch #1560695: Add .note.GNU-stack to ctypes' sysv.S so that ctypes
7796 isn't considered as requiring executable stacks.
Martin v. Löwis1b2f6272006-10-22 10:55:15 +00007797
Thomas Hellerd2ea4a22006-10-17 19:30:48 +00007798- ctypes callback functions only support 'fundamental' data types as
7799 result type. Raise an error when something else is used. This is a
7800 partial fix for Bug #1574584.
7801
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007802- Fix turtle so that time.sleep is imported for the entire library.
7803 Allows the demo2 function to be executed on its own instead of only
7804 when the module is run as a script.
Brett Cannond80e0c82006-10-16 03:09:52 +00007805
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007806- Bug #813342: Start the IDLE subprocess with -Qnew if the parent is
7807 started with that option.
Georg Brandld0761532006-10-12 07:57:21 +00007808
Martin v. Löwisf43893a2006-10-09 20:44:25 +00007809- Bug #1565150: Fix subsecond processing for os.utime on Windows.
7810
Martin v. Löwis8b274262006-10-04 15:25:28 +00007811- Support for MSVC 8 was added to bdist_wininst.
7812
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007813- Bug #1446043: correctly raise a LookupError if an encoding name
7814 given to encodings.search_function() contains a dot.
Georg Brandla92979a2006-09-30 11:22:28 +00007815
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007816- Bug #1560617: in pyclbr, return full module name not only for
7817 classes, but also for functions.
Georg Brandl154324a2006-09-30 11:06:47 +00007818
Georg Brandl05b3c452006-09-30 10:58:01 +00007819- Bug #1457823: cgi.(Sv)FormContentDict's constructor now takes
7820 keep_blank_values and strict_parsing keyword arguments.
7821
Georg Brandl8d1e5bf2006-09-30 09:13:21 +00007822- Bug #1566602: correct failure of posixpath unittest when $HOME ends
7823 with a slash.
7824
Georg Brandl8c667452006-09-30 07:31:57 +00007825- Bug #1565661: in webbrowser, split() the command for the default
7826 GNOME browser in case it is a command with args.
7827
Georg Brandl5a85d5c2009-06-24 06:41:19 +00007828- Made the error message for time.strptime when the data and
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007829 format do match be more clear.
Brett Cannon11b35352006-09-26 23:38:24 +00007830
Georg Brandlc7986ce2006-09-24 12:50:24 +00007831- Fix a bug in traceback.format_exception_only() that led to an error
7832 being raised when print_exc() was called without an exception set.
7833 In version 2.4, this printed "None", restored that behavior.
7834
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007835- Make webbrowser.BackgroundBrowser usable in Windows (it wasn't
7836 because the close_fds arg to subprocess.Popen is not supported).
Georg Brandl2c94bf72006-09-24 10:36:01 +00007837
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007838- Reverted patch #1504333 to sgmllib because it introduced an infinite
7839 loop.
Neal Norwitzbcc119a2006-09-11 04:24:09 +00007840
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007841- Patch #1553314: Fix the inspect.py slowdown that was hurting IPython
7842 & SAGE by adding smarter caching in inspect.getmodule()
Nick Coghlanb3c18f82006-09-08 10:04:38 +00007843
Georg Brandl4e933132006-09-06 20:05:58 +00007844- Fix missing import of the types module in logging.config.
7845
Nick Coghlanbb0996c2006-09-03 01:20:46 +00007846- Patch #1550886: Fix decimal module context management implementation
Neal Norwitza22975f2006-09-05 02:24:03 +00007847 to match the localcontext() example from PEP 343.
Nick Coghlanbb0996c2006-09-03 01:20:46 +00007848
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007849- Bug #1545341: The 'classifier' keyword argument to the Distutils
7850 setup() function now accepts tuples as well as lists.
Andrew M. Kuchling99994792006-10-09 17:10:12 +00007851
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007852- Bug #1541863: uuid.uuid1 failed to generate unique identifiers on
7853 systems with low clock resolution.
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00007854
Gustavo Niemeyerc36bede2006-09-07 00:48:33 +00007855- Bug #1531862: Do not close standard file descriptors in subprocess.
7856
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007857- idle: Honor the "Cancel" action in the save dialog (Debian bug
7858 #299092).
Matthias Klosea398e2d2007-01-11 11:44:04 +00007859
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007860- Fix utf-8-sig incremental decoder, which didn't recognise a BOM when
7861 the first chunk fed to the decoder started with a BOM, but was
7862 longer than 3 bytes.
Georg Brandl27562782006-10-27 20:39:43 +00007863
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007864- The implementation of UnicodeError objects has been simplified
7865 (start and end attributes are now stored directly as Py_ssize_t
7866 members).
Walter Dörwald84a3efe2007-06-13 16:57:12 +00007867
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007868- Issue #829951: In the smtplib module, SMTP.starttls() now complies
7869 with RFC 3207 and forgets any knowledge obtained from the server not
7870 obtained from the TLS negotiation itself. Patch contributed by Bill
7871 Fenner.
Gregory P. Smith2b3ba582008-01-17 08:03:17 +00007872
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007873- Issue #1339: The smtplib.SMTP class has been refactored a bit such
Gregory P. Smithbde4ae42008-01-17 08:35:49 +00007874 that the SMTP.starttls() caller no longer needs to call ehlo()
7875 beforehand. SMTP.starttls() now raises an exception of the server
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007876 does not claim to support starttls. Adds the
7877 SMTP.ehlo_or_helo_if_needed() method. Patch contributed by Bill
7878 Fenner.
Gregory P. Smithbde4ae42008-01-17 08:35:49 +00007879
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007880- Patch #1089358: Add signal.siginterrupt, a wrapper around
7881 siginterrupt(3).
Georg Brandl29604a12008-01-26 14:03:47 +00007882
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00007883Extension Modules
7884-----------------
7885
Georg Brandl392c6fc2008-05-25 07:25:25 +00007886- Patch #1657: added select.epoll and select.kqueue.
Christian Heimes0e9ab5f2008-03-21 23:49:44 +00007887
Georg Brandlebcfd112008-02-23 23:04:35 +00007888- Patch #1506171: added operator.methodcaller().
7889
Georg Brandle2065c62008-02-23 23:02:23 +00007890- Patch #1826: operator.attrgetter() now supports dotted attribute paths.
7891
Georg Brandl392c6fc2008-05-25 07:25:25 +00007892- Patch #1957: syslogmodule: Release GIL when calling syslog(3).
Christian Heimesf0476e82008-02-23 17:42:31 +00007893
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007894- Bug #2112: mmap.error is now a subclass of EnvironmentError and not
7895 a direct EnvironmentError.
Facundo Batistae1396882008-02-17 18:59:29 +00007896
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007897- Bug #2111: mmap segfaults when trying to write a block opened with
7898 PROT_READ.
Christian Heimes7adfad82008-02-15 08:20:11 +00007899
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007900- Bug #2063: correct order of utime and stime in os.times() result on
7901 Windows.
Georg Brandl0a40ffb2008-02-13 07:20:22 +00007902
Martin v. Löwise0d30ef2008-02-12 13:47:26 +00007903- Patch #1736: Fix file name handling of _msi.FCICreate.
7904
Hye-Shik Chang01612e72008-02-08 17:10:20 +00007905- Updated ``big5hkscs`` codec to the HKSCS revision of 2004.
7906
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007907- Issue #1940: make it possible to use curses.filter() before
7908 curses.initscr() as the documentation says.
Georg Brandl29604a12008-01-26 14:03:47 +00007909
Christian Heimes7f39c9f2008-01-25 12:18:43 +00007910- Backport of _fileio module from Python 3.0.
7911
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007912- Patch #1087741: mmap.mmap is now a class, not a factory function. It
7913 is also subclassable now.
Georg Brandl5ca3fd82008-01-21 14:18:14 +00007914
Georg Brandl56112892008-01-20 13:59:46 +00007915- Patch #1648: added ``sys.getprofile()`` and ``sys.gettrace()``.
7916
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007917- Patch #1663329: added ``os.closerange()`` function to quickly close
7918 a range of file descriptors without considering errors.
Georg Brandl309501a2008-01-19 20:22:13 +00007919
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007920- Patch #976880: ``mmap`` objects now have an ``rfind`` method that
Andrew M. Kuchling5c60bfc2008-01-19 18:18:41 +00007921 works as expected. ``mmap.find`` also takes an optional ``end``
7922 parameter.
7923
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007924- _winreg's HKEY object has gained __enter__ and __exit__ methods to
7925 support the context manager protocol. The _winreg module also
7926 gained a new function ``ExpandEnvironmentStrings`` to expand
7927 REG_EXPAND_SZ keys.
Christian Heimesb39a7562008-01-08 15:46:10 +00007928
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007929- itertools.starmap() now accepts any iterable input. Previously, it
7930 required the function inputs to be tuples.
Raymond Hettinger47317092008-01-17 03:02:14 +00007931
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007932- itertools.chain() now has an alternate constructor,
7933 chain.from_iterable().
Raymond Hettingerb4cbc982008-02-28 22:46:41 +00007934
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007935- Issue #1646: Make socket support TIPC. The socket module now has
7936 support for TIPC under Linux, see http://tipc.sf.net/ for more
7937 information.
Christian Heimesfb2d25a2008-01-07 16:12:44 +00007938
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007939- Added interface for Windows' WSAIoctl to socket object and added an
7940 example for a simple network sniffer.
Christian Heimes04ae9162008-01-04 15:23:30 +00007941
Guido van Rossum076d9ee2008-01-03 23:54:04 +00007942- Bug #1301: Bad assert in _tkinter fixed.
7943
Christian Heimescdaa2cb2007-12-31 14:47:07 +00007944- Added bdist_wininst executable for VS 2008.
7945
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007946- Bug #1604: collections.deque.__init__(iterable) now clears any prior
7947 contents before adding elements from the iterable. This fix brings
7948 the behavior into line with that for list.__init__().
Raymond Hettingeradf9ffd2007-12-13 00:08:37 +00007949
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007950- Added wide char functions to msvcrt module: getwch, getwche, putwch
7951 and ungetwch. The functions accept or return unicode.
Christian Heimes7c7f6af2007-12-10 15:12:41 +00007952
Martin v. Löwis69233e82007-12-04 08:39:16 +00007953- os.access now returns True on Windows for any existing directory.
7954
Christian Heimes28104c52007-11-27 23:16:44 +00007955- Added warnpy3k function to the warnings module.
7956
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007957- Marshal.dumps() now expects exact type matches for int, long, float,
7958 complex, tuple, list, dict, set, and frozenset. Formerly, it would
7959 silently miscode subclasses of those types. Now, it raises a
7960 ValueError instead.
Raymond Hettinger12e94202007-11-07 01:13:09 +00007961
Martin v. Löwis58bd49f2007-09-04 13:13:14 +00007962- Patch #1388440: Add set_completion_display_matches_hook and
7963 get_completion_type to readline.
7964
Thomas Helleref4fff32007-07-13 17:46:54 +00007965- Bug #1649098: Avoid declaration of zero-sized array declaration in
7966 structure.
7967
Brett Cannondc48b742007-05-20 07:09:50 +00007968- Removed the rgbimg module; been deprecated since Python 2.5.
7969
Neal Norwitz59f58aa2007-05-19 03:48:47 +00007970- Bug #1721309: prevent bsddb module from freeing random memory.
7971
Gregory P. Smith82eafe62007-10-18 17:17:57 +00007972- Bug #1233: fix bsddb.dbshelve.DBShelf append method to work as
7973 intended for RECNO databases.
7974
Gregory P. Smithec10a4a2007-11-05 02:32:26 +00007975- pybsddb.sf.net Bug #477182: Load the database flags at database open
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007976 time so that opening a database previously created with the DB_DUP
7977 or DB_DUPSORT flag set will keep the proper behavior on subsequent
7978 opens. Specifically: dictionary assignment to a DB object will
7979 replace all values for a given key when the database allows
7980 duplicate values. DB users should use DB.put(k, v) when they want
7981 to store duplicates; not DB[k] = v.
Gregory P. Smithec10a4a2007-11-05 02:32:26 +00007982
Gregory P. Smithac11e022007-11-05 02:56:31 +00007983- Add the bsddb.db.DBEnv.lock_id_free method.
7984
Martin v. Löwis3bf573f2007-04-04 18:30:36 +00007985- Bug #1686475: Support stat'ing open files on Windows again.
7986
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007987- Patch #1185447: binascii.b2a_qp() now correctly quotes binary
7988 characters with ASCII value less than 32. Also, it correctly quotes
7989 dots only if they occur on a single line, as opposed to the previous
7990 behavior of quoting dots if they are the second character of any
7991 line.
Georg Brandl4aef7272007-03-13 22:49:43 +00007992
Georg Brandla47337f2007-03-13 12:34:25 +00007993- Bug #1622896: fix a rare corner case where the bz2 module raised an
7994 error in spite of a succesful compression.
7995
Georg Brandl40c62612007-03-06 18:59:11 +00007996- Patch #1654417: make operator.{get,set,del}slice use the full range
7997 of Py_ssize_t.
7998
Guido van Rossum2054ee92007-03-06 15:50:01 +00007999- Patch #1646728: datetime.fromtimestamp fails with negative
8000 fractional times. With unittest.
8001
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008002- Patch #1490190: posixmodule now includes os.chflags() and
8003 os.lchflags() functions on platforms where the underlying system
8004 calls are available.
Martin v. Löwis382abef2007-02-19 10:55:19 +00008005
Georg Brandl983d1002007-02-15 11:29:04 +00008006- Patch #1494140: Add documentation for the new struct.Struct object.
8007
Martin v. Löwis45423a72007-02-14 10:07:37 +00008008- Patch #1432399: Support the HCI protocol for bluetooth sockets
8009
Martin v. Löwisb1cc1d42007-02-13 12:14:19 +00008010- Patch #1657276: Make NETLINK_DNRTMSG conditional.
8011
Martin v. Löwis4c11a922007-02-08 09:13:36 +00008012- Bug #1653736: Complain about keyword arguments to time.isoformat.
8013
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008014- Bug #1486663: don't reject keyword arguments for subclasses of
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00008015 built-in types.
Georg Brandlb84c1372007-01-21 10:28:43 +00008016
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008017- Patch #1610575: The struct module now supports the 't' code, for C99
8018 _Bool.
Martin v. Löwisaef4c6b2007-01-21 09:33:07 +00008019
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008020- Patch #1635058: ensure that htonl and friends never accept or return
8021 negative numbers, per the underlying C implementation.
Guido van Rossumbb2cc692007-01-14 17:03:32 +00008022
Martin v. Löwis046c4d12006-12-03 11:23:45 +00008023- Patch #1544279: Improve thread-safety of the socket module by moving
8024 the sock_addr_t storage out of the socket object.
8025
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008026- Patch #1019808: fix bug that causes an incorrect error to be
8027 returned when a socket timeout is set and a connection attempt
8028 fails.
Andrew M. Kuchling060e6852008-01-19 20:47:59 +00008029
Neal Norwitz45e230a2006-11-19 21:26:53 +00008030- Speed up function calls into the math module.
8031
Georg Brandl25aabf42006-11-16 17:08:45 +00008032- Bug #1588217: don't parse "= " as a soft line break in binascii's
8033 a2b_qp() function, instead leave it in the string as quopri.decode()
8034 does.
8035
Neal Norwitz4fe44232006-11-21 05:26:22 +00008036- Bug #1599782: Fix segfault on bsddb.db.DB().type().
8037
Martin v. Löwis012bc722006-10-15 09:43:39 +00008038- Bug #1567666: Emulate GetFileAttributesExA for Win95.
8039
Martin v. Löwis18aaa562006-10-15 08:43:33 +00008040- Patch #1576166: Support os.utime for directories on Windows NT+.
8041
Georg Brandl412a9ea2006-10-09 19:03:06 +00008042- Patch #1572724: fix typo ('=' instead of '==') in _msi.c.
8043
Hye-Shik Changb7883462006-10-08 13:48:34 +00008044- Bug #1572832: fix a bug in ISO-2022 codecs which may cause segfault
8045 when encoding non-BMP unicode characters.
8046
Georg Brandl4ddfcd32006-09-30 11:17:34 +00008047- Bug #1556784: allow format strings longer than 127 characters in
8048 datetime's strftime function.
8049
Jack Diederichd10a0f72006-09-21 20:34:49 +00008050- Fix itertools.count(n) to work with negative numbers again.
8051
Martin v. Löwis43fd99c2006-09-16 17:36:37 +00008052- RLIMIT_SBSIZE was added to the resource module where available.
8053
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008054- Bug #1551427: fix a wrong NULL pointer check in the win32 version of
8055 os.urandom().
Georg Brandl74bb7832006-09-06 06:03:59 +00008056
Neal Norwitz6aefa912006-09-02 02:50:35 +00008057- Bug #1548092: fix curses.tparm seg fault on invalid input.
8058
Andrew M. Kuchling62182c82008-01-08 14:56:02 +00008059- Patch #1114: fix curses module compilation on 64-bit AIX, & possibly
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008060 other 64-bit LP64 platforms where attr_t is not the same size as a
8061 long. (Contributed by Luke Mewburn.)
Andrew M. Kuchling62182c82008-01-08 14:56:02 +00008062
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008063- Bug #1550714: fix SystemError from itertools.tee on negative value
8064 for n.
Neal Norwitz69e88972006-09-02 02:58:13 +00008065
Hye-Shik Chang199f1db2006-09-05 12:07:09 +00008066- Fixed a few bugs on cjkcodecs:
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008067 - gbk and gb18030 codec now handle U+30FB KATAKANA MIDDLE DOT
8068 correctly.
Hye-Shik Chang199f1db2006-09-05 12:07:09 +00008069 - iso2022_jp_2 codec now encodes into G0 for KS X 1001, GB2312
8070 codepoints to conform the standard.
Hye-Shik Chang2cad3e92006-09-05 12:14:57 +00008071 - iso2022_jp_3 and iso2022_jp_2004 codec can encode JIS X 0213:2
Hye-Shik Chang199f1db2006-09-05 12:07:09 +00008072 codepoints now.
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00008073
Andrew M. Kuchling43889c02006-09-27 16:37:30 +00008074- Bug #1552726: in readline.c, avoid repeatedly polling in interactive
8075 mode by only placing a timeout on the select() if an input hook has
8076 been defined. This prevents an interactive Python from waking up 10
8077 times per second. Patch by Richard Boulton.
8078
Gregory P. Smithf09c6262007-03-17 22:33:35 +00008079- fixed a bug with bsddb.DB.stat: the flags and txn keyword arguments
8080 were transposed.
8081
Jesus Cea4907d272008-08-31 14:00:51 +00008082- Added support for linking the bsddb module against BerkeleyDB 4.5.x,
8083 4.6.x and 4.7.x.
Gregory P. Smith8b96a352007-01-05 01:59:42 +00008084
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008085- Bug #1633621: if curses.resizeterm() or curses.resize_term() is
8086 called, update _curses.LINES, _curses.COLS, curses.LINES and
8087 curses.COLS.
Andrew M. Kuchling43889c02006-09-27 16:37:30 +00008088
Matthias Klosee19e0c22007-04-03 04:35:59 +00008089- Fix an off-by-one bug in locale.strxfrm().
8090
Matthias Klose38336402007-09-04 20:46:02 +00008091- Fix libffi configure for hppa*-*-linux* | parisc*-*-linux*.
8092
Matthias Klose9afb9852007-10-24 20:00:44 +00008093- Build using system ffi library on arm*-linux*.
8094
Christian Heimes3f065a42007-11-21 01:17:28 +00008095- Bug #1372: zlibmodule.c: int overflow in PyZlib_decompress
Matthias Klosee19e0c22007-04-03 04:35:59 +00008096
Gregory P. Smitheeed5b72008-02-03 07:20:53 +00008097- bsddb module: Fix memory leak when using database cursors on
8098 databases without a DBEnv.
8099
Gerhard Häring11ab8072008-03-02 13:12:27 +00008100- The sqlite3 module was updated to pysqlite 2.4.1.
8101
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00008102Tests
8103-----
8104
Brett Cannon56c4deb2008-03-03 00:38:58 +00008105- Refactor test_logging to use unittest.
Brett Cannonf9db8a32008-02-17 01:59:18 +00008106
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008107- Refactor test_profile and test_cprofile to use the same code to
8108 profile.
Georg Brandlb7090772008-02-05 19:58:17 +00008109
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008110- Make test_runpy reentrant by fixing _check_module to clear out any
8111 module being tested. Was causing an error by __import__ doing a
8112 reload on the second run and thus suppressing bytecode recreation.
Brett Cannondbed7a72007-08-23 14:53:17 +00008113
Brett Cannonea2835a2007-03-14 21:44:15 +00008114- Capture socket connection resets and timeouts in test_socket_ssl and
8115 test_urllib2net and raise test.test_support.ResourceDenied.
Brett Cannoned001842007-03-14 21:40:13 +00008116
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008117- Patch #1559413: Fix test_cmd_line if sys.executable contains a
8118 space.
Martin v. Löwiscd1210a2007-03-14 20:02:31 +00008119
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008120- Added test.test_support.TransientResource which is a context manager
8121 to surround calls to resources that are not guaranteed to work even
8122 if test.test_support.requires says that the resource should exist.
Brett Cannona30fcb42007-03-08 23:58:11 +00008123
Brett Cannone05e6b02007-01-29 04:41:44 +00008124- Added a test for slicing of an exception.
8125
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008126- Added test.test_support.EnvironmentVarGuard. It's a class that
8127 provides a context manager so that one can temporarily set or unset
8128 environment variables.
Brett Cannon92d54d52007-01-04 00:23:49 +00008129
Thomas Heller112d1a62006-10-27 19:05:53 +00008130- Added some tests for modulefinder.
8131
Brett Cannon373d90b2006-10-03 23:23:14 +00008132- Converted test_imp to use unittest.
8133
Neal Norwitz919d5cc2006-09-05 02:35:08 +00008134- Fix bsddb test_basics.test06_Transactions to check the version
8135 number properly.
8136
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008137- test.test_support.catch_warning is a new context manager that can be
8138 used to catch the warnings issued by the warning framework.
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00008139
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00008140Tools
8141-----
8142
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008143- Tools/scripts/reindent.py now creates the backup file using
8144 shutil.copy to preserve user/group and permissions. Added also a
8145 --nobackup option to not create the backup if the user is concerned
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00008146 regarding this. Check issue #1050828 for more details.
Facundo Batistaf88a0772008-02-17 16:21:13 +00008147
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008148- Tools/scripts/win_add2path.py was added. The simple script modifes
8149 the PATH environment var of the HKCU tree and adds the python bin
8150 and script directory.
Christian Heimesbd865db2008-01-18 11:58:50 +00008151
Skip Montanaro3e275362007-08-29 01:33:45 +00008152- Tools/18n/pygettext.py was added to the list of scripts installed by
8153 Tools/scripts/setup.py (tracker item 642309).
8154
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008155- Added IronPython and Jython support to pybench (part of which was
8156 patch #1563844).
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00008157
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008158- Made some minor changes to pybench output to allow the user to see
8159 which Python version is running pybench.
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00008160
8161- Added support for the new platform module feature
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008162 platform.python_implementation(); this will now be saved in the
8163 benchmark pickle.
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00008164
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00008165
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00008166Documentation
8167-------------
8168
Vinay Sajipd7cf32e2008-01-24 12:43:33 +00008169- RFE #1765140: Updated documentation on FileHandler and subclasses to
8170 include new optional delay argument.
8171
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008172- Bug #932563: Added section on getting contextual information into
8173 logging output, and added documentation for the new LoggerAdapter
8174 class.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00008175
8176- Bug #1295: Added information about caching of formatted exception
8177 information in the LogRecord by Formatter.format().
8178
Georg Brandl9467bc52007-07-12 09:37:49 +00008179- Bug #1637365: add subsection about "__name__ == __main__" to the
8180 Python tutorial.
8181
Georg Brandl3dc6e902007-04-25 06:24:59 +00008182- Patch #1698768: updated the "using Python on the Mac" intro.
8183
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008184- Bug #1569057: Document that calling file.next() when the file is
8185 open for writing is undefined.
Brett Cannon55a18642007-04-08 04:29:32 +00008186
Žiga Seilnachtc64ad482007-03-24 14:24:26 +00008187- Patch #1489771: the syntax rules in Python Reference Manual were
8188 updated to reflect the current Python syntax.
8189
Martin v. Löwis2f401d72007-03-23 10:35:49 +00008190- Patch #1686451: Fix return type for
8191 PySequence_{Count,Index,Fast_GET_SIZE}.
8192
Georg Brandl0692a262007-03-13 07:50:57 +00008193- Patch #1679379: add documentation for fnmatch.translate().
8194
Collin Winterb7b2b4e2007-03-09 18:09:10 +00008195- Bug #1629566: clarify the docs on the return values of parsedate()
8196 and parsedate_tz() in email.utils and rfc822.
8197
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00008198- Patch #1671450: add a section about subclassing built-in types to the
Georg Brandld28b9fc2007-03-06 10:02:47 +00008199 "extending and embedding" tutorial.
8200
Georg Brandlb26b1c62007-01-17 21:19:58 +00008201- Bug #1629125: fix wrong data type (int -> Py_ssize_t) in PyDict_Next
8202 docs.
8203
Georg Brandla4c8e322006-10-12 08:22:53 +00008204- Bug #1565919: document set types in the Language Reference.
8205
Georg Brandl44a7b3a2006-09-30 12:02:57 +00008206- Bug #1546052: clarify that PyString_FromString(AndSize) copies the
8207 string pointed to by its parameter.
8208
Georg Brandlfb257732006-09-30 09:06:45 +00008209- Bug #1566663: remove obsolete example from datetime docs.
8210
Georg Brandl648c1102006-08-18 07:27:59 +00008211- Bug #1541682: Fix example in the "Refcount details" API docs.
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008212 Additionally, remove a faulty example showing PySequence_SetItem
8213 applied to a newly created list object and add notes that this isn't
8214 a good idea.
Georg Brandl648c1102006-08-18 07:27:59 +00008215
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00008216
Georg Brandl27562782006-10-27 20:39:43 +00008217Tools/Demos
8218-----------
8219
8220- Patch #1552024: add decorator support to unparse.py demo script.
Marc-André Lemburg96148682006-09-06 20:40:22 +00008221
Brett Cannonc8939d22006-09-20 19:28:35 +00008222- Make auto-generated python.vim file list built-ins and exceptions in
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008223 alphatbetical order. Makes output more deterministic and easier to
8224 tell if the file is stale or not.
Brett Cannonc8939d22006-09-20 19:28:35 +00008225
Marc-André Lemburg96148682006-09-06 20:40:22 +00008226- Bug #1546372: Fixed small bugglet in pybench that caused a missing
8227 file not to get reported properly.
8228
8229
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00008230Build
8231-----
8232
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008233- Have the search path for building extensions follow the declared
8234 order in $CPPFLAGS and $LDFLAGS when adding directories from those
8235 environment variables.
Brett Cannon70c0c022008-02-03 09:59:21 +00008236
Christian Heimes951cc0f2008-01-31 23:08:23 +00008237- Bug #1983: Added a check to pyport to verify that sizeof(pid_t) is
8238 smaller or equal sizeof(long).
8239
Christian Heimescba36bb2008-01-30 22:54:18 +00008240- Bug #1234: Fixed semaphore errors on AIX 5.2
8241
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008242- Issue #1726: Remove Python/atof.c from PCBuild/pythoncore.vcproj.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00008243
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008244- Removed PCbuild8/ directory and added a new build directory for VS
8245 2005 based on the VS 2008 build directory to PC/VS8.0. The script
8246 PCbuild/vs8to9.py was added to sync changes from PCbuild to
8247 PC/VS8.0.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00008248
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008249- Moved PCbuild/ directory for VS 2003 to PC/VS7.1 and renamed
8250 PCBuild9/ directory to PCBuild/.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00008251
Martin v. Löwiscb78de62007-12-29 18:49:21 +00008252- Bug #1699: Define _BSD_SOURCE only on OpenBSD.
8253
Guido van Rossum7c862f82007-12-13 20:50:10 +00008254- Bug #1608: use -fwrapv when GCC supports it. This is important,
8255 newer GCC versions may optimize away overflow buffer overflow checks
8256 without this option!
8257
Martin v. Löwis63bf1492007-11-12 05:14:05 +00008258- Patch #1418: Make the AC_REPLACE_FUNCS object files actually work.
8259
Raymond Hettingerdc1d1ba2007-11-07 02:45:46 +00008260- Add a FAST_LOOPS build option that speeds-up looping by trading away
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008261 periodic threadstate and signal checking in tight loops. By
8262 default, this option is turned-off. It should only be enabled in
8263 debugged, performance critical applications.
Raymond Hettingerdc1d1ba2007-11-07 02:45:46 +00008264
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008265- Patch #786737: Allow building in a tree of symlinks pointing to a
8266 readonly source.
Martin v. Löwisd44a4e92007-09-05 11:47:34 +00008267
Martin v. Löwis8bc77e42007-09-01 06:36:03 +00008268- Bug #1737210: Change Manufacturer of Windows installer to PSF.
8269
Martin v. Löwis75c23bd2007-08-30 18:25:47 +00008270- Bug #1746880: Correctly install DLLs into system32 folder on Win64.
8271
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008272- Define _BSD_SOURCE, to get access to POSIX extensions on OpenBSD
8273 4.1+.
Martin v. Löwis76760b02007-07-31 19:57:56 +00008274
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008275- Stop supporting AtheOS and cause a build error in configure for the
8276 platform.
Brett Cannon19fab762007-06-02 03:02:29 +00008277
Georg Brandldb846032007-03-31 18:56:11 +00008278- Bug #1655392: don't add -L/usr/lib/pythonX.Y/config to the LDFLAGS
8279 returned by python-config if Python was built with --enable-shared
8280 because that prevented the shared library from being used.
8281
Georg Brandl18c47f62007-03-13 10:19:22 +00008282- Patch #1569798: fix a bug in distutils when building Python from a
8283 directory within sys.exec_prefix.
8284
Martin v. Löwiseb623572007-03-12 10:50:39 +00008285- Bug #1675511: Use -Kpic instead of -xcode=pic32 on Solaris/x86.
8286
Martin v. Löwis4d542ec2006-11-25 15:39:19 +00008287- Disable _XOPEN_SOURCE on NetBSD 1.x.
8288
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008289- configure now checks whether gcc supports the PyArg_ParseTuple
8290 format attribute.
Martin v. Löwisaac13162006-10-19 10:58:46 +00008291
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00008292- Bug #1578513: Cross compilation was broken by a change to configure.
Martin v. Löwisfefbc202006-10-17 18:59:23 +00008293 Repair so that it's back to how it was in 2.4.3.
8294
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008295- Patch #1576954: Update VC6 build directory; remove redundant files
8296 in VC7.
Martin v. Löwisc9e82f62006-10-15 07:54:40 +00008297
Martin v. Löwisebe26702006-10-02 14:55:51 +00008298- Bug #1568842: Fix test for uintptr_t.
8299
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008300- Patch #1540470: for OpenBSD 4.0.
Neal Norwitz4bc2c092006-09-05 02:57:01 +00008301
Matthias Klosed149d0c2006-12-03 17:16:41 +00008302- Fix build failure on kfreebsd and on the hurd.
8303
Matthias Kloseebde1492006-12-09 12:15:27 +00008304- Fix the build of the library reference in info format.
8305
Matthias Kloseeb8ff672007-08-02 21:33:13 +00008306- Allow Emacs 22 for building the documentation in info format.
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00008307
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008308- Makefile.pre.in(buildbottest): Run an optional script
8309 pybuildbot.identify to include some information about the build
8310 environment.
Matthias Klose642ac852007-09-04 18:17:36 +00008311
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00008312
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00008313C API
8314-----
8315
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008316- Unified naming convention for free lists and their limits. All free
8317 lists in Object/ are named ``free_list``, the counter ``numfree``
8318 and the upper limit is a macro ``PyName_MAXFREELIST`` inside an
8319 #ifndef block.
Christian Heimes5b970ad2008-02-06 13:33:44 +00008320
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008321- ``PySet_Add()`` can now modify a newly created frozenset. Similarly
8322 to ``PyTuple_SetItem``, it can be used to populate a brand new
8323 frozenset; but it does not steal a reference to the added item.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arccab3d982008-02-03 22:51:43 +00008324
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00008325- Added ``PySet_Check()`` and ``PyFrozenSet_Check()`` to the set API.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arccab3d982008-02-03 22:51:43 +00008326
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008327- Backport of PyUnicode_FromString(), _FromStringAndSize(), _Format
8328 and _FormatV from Python 3.0. Made PyLong_AsSsize_t and
8329 PyLong_FromSsize_t public functions.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00008330
8331- Patch #1720595: add T_BOOL to the range of structmember types.
8332
8333- Issue #1534: Added ``PyFloat_GetMax()``, ``PyFloat_GetMin()`` and
8334 ``PyFloat_GetInfo()`` to the float API.
8335
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008336- Issue #1521: On 64bit platforms, using PyArgs_ParseTuple with the t#
8337 of w# format code incorrectly truncated the length to an int, even
8338 when PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN is set. The str.decode method used to return
8339 incorrect results with huge strings.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00008340
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008341- Issue #1629: Renamed Py_Size, Py_Type and Py_Refcnt to Py_SIZE,
8342 Py_TYPE and Py_REFCNT.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00008343
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008344- PEP 3123: Provide forward compatibility with Python 3.0, while
8345 keeping backwards compatibility. Add Py_Refcnt, Py_Type, Py_Size,
8346 and PyVarObject_HEAD_INIT.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00008347
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008348- Py_ssize_t fields work in structmember when HAVE_LONG_LONG is not
8349 defined.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00008350
8351- Patch #1733960: Allow T_LONGLONG to accept ints.
8352
8353- T_PYSSIZET can now be used in PyMemberDef lists for Py_ssize_t members.
8354
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00008355- Added a new API function ``PyImport_ImportModuleNoBlock``.
8356
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00008357- Bug #1637022: Prefix AST symbols with _Py_.
8358
8359- Fix some leftovers from the conversion from int to Py_ssize_t
8360 (relevant to strings and sequences of more than 2**31 items).
8361
8362- Make _PyGILState_NoteThreadState() static, it was not used anywhere
8363 outside of pystate.c and should not be necessary.
8364
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008365- ``PyImport_Import`` and ``PyImport_ImportModule`` now always do
8366 absolute imports. In earlier versions they might have used relative
8367 imports under some conditions.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00008368
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008369- Added case insensitive comparison methods ``PyOS_stricmp(char*,
8370 char*)`` and ``PyOS_strnicmp(char*, char*, Py_ssize_t)``.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00008371
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008372- Bug #1542693: remove semi-colon at end of PyImport_ImportModuleEx
8373 macro so it can be used as an expression.
Neal Norwitz8a267062006-08-19 04:25:29 +00008374
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00008375
Martin v. Löwis2607e6c2006-11-21 18:20:25 +00008376Windows
8377-------
8378
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008379- Patch #1706: Drop support for Win9x, WinME and NT4. Python now
8380 requires Windows 2000 or greater. The _WINVER and NTDDI_VERSION
8381 macros are set to Win2k for x86/32bit builds and WinXP for AMD64
8382 builds.
Christian Heimes95d64472008-02-09 19:55:22 +00008383
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008384- Conditionalize definition of _CRT_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE and
8385 _CRT_NONSTDC_NO_DEPRECATE.
Martin v. Löwis2607e6c2006-11-21 18:20:25 +00008386
Martin v. Löwisd476a402007-10-12 08:56:52 +00008387- Bug #1216: Restore support for Visual Studio 2002.
8388
Martin v. Löwis2607e6c2006-11-21 18:20:25 +00008389
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00008390Mac
8391---
8392
Brett Cannonf0cb1d72007-05-31 20:01:11 +00008393- cfmfile now raises a DeprecationWarning.
8394
Brett Cannon791d56f2007-05-31 19:40:42 +00008395- buildtools now raises a DeprecationWarning.
8396
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008397- Removed the macfs module. It had been deprecated since Python 2.5.
8398 This lead to the deprecation of macostools.touched() as it relied
8399 solely on macfs and was a no-op under OS X.
Brett Cannon5e263512007-05-20 23:17:38 +00008400
Skip Montanaroe5d7f7f2002-09-20 14:16:59 +00008401----
8402
8403**(For information about older versions, consult the HISTORY file.)**