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Anthony Baxter51bcb682006-04-05 14:51:42 +00007What's New in Python 2.5 alpha 2?
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9
10*Release date: XX-XXX-2006*
11
12Core and builtins
13-----------------
14
Thomas Heller1b046642006-04-18 18:51:06 +000015- Bug #1465834: 'bdist_wininst preinstall script support' was fixed
16 by converting these apis from macros into exported functions again:
17
18 PyParser_SimpleParseFile PyParser_SimpleParseString PyRun_AnyFile
19 PyRun_AnyFileEx PyRun_AnyFileFlags PyRun_File PyRun_FileEx
20 PyRun_FileFlags PyRun_InteractiveLoop PyRun_InteractiveOne
21 PyRun_SimpleFile PyRun_SimpleFileEx PyRun_SimpleString
22 PyRun_String Py_CompileString
23
Martin v. Löwis45294a92006-04-18 06:24:08 +000024- Under COUNT_ALLOCS, types are not necessarily immortal anymore.
25
Martin v. Löwis19ab6c92006-04-16 18:55:50 +000026- All uses of PyStructSequence_InitType have been changed to initialize
27 the type objects only once, even if the interpreter is initialized
28 multiple times.
29
Neal Norwitz61546162006-04-14 05:20:28 +000030- Bug #1454485, array.array('u') could crash the interpreter. This was
31 due to PyArgs_ParseTuple(args, 'u#', ...) trying to convert buffers (strings)
32 to unicode when it didn't make sense. 'u#' now requires a unicode string.
33
34- Py_UNICODE is unsigned. It was always documented as unsigned, but
35 due to a bug had a signed value in previous versions.
36
Tim Peters3a5e8b12006-04-11 01:44:07 +000037- Patch #837242: ``id()`` of any Python object always gives a positive
38 number now, which might be a long integer. ``PyLong_FromVoidPtr`` and
39 ``PyLong_AsVoidPtr`` have been changed accordingly. Note that it has
Tim Peters527f6522006-04-11 01:47:17 +000040 never been correct to implement a ``__hash()__`` method that returns the
Tim Peters3a5e8b12006-04-11 01:44:07 +000041 ``id()`` of an object:
Martin v. Löwis0bc2ab92006-04-10 20:28:17 +000042
Tim Peters3a5e8b12006-04-11 01:44:07 +000043 def __hash__(self):
44 return id(self) # WRONG
45
46 because a hash result must be a (short) Python int but it was always
47 possible for ``id()`` to return a Python long. However, because ``id()``
Tim Peters527f6522006-04-11 01:47:17 +000048 could return negative values before, on a 32-bit box an ``id()`` result
Tim Peters3a5e8b12006-04-11 01:44:07 +000049 was always usable as a hash value before this patch. That's no longer
50 necessarily so.
51
52- Python on OS X 10.3 and above now uses dlopen() (via dynload_shlib.c)
Anthony Baxter82201742006-04-09 15:07:40 +000053 to load extension modules and now provides the dl module. As a result,
Tim Peters3a5e8b12006-04-11 01:44:07 +000054 sys.setdlopenflags() now works correctly on these systems. (SF patch
Anthony Baxter82201742006-04-09 15:07:40 +000055 #1454844)
56
Phillip J. Eby51dd7d92006-04-11 01:21:31 +000057- Patch #1463867: enhanced garbage collection to allow cleanup of cycles
58 involving generators that have paused outside of any ``try`` or ``with``
59 blocks. (In 2.5a1, a paused generator that was part of a reference
60 cycle could not be garbage collected, regardless of whether it was
61 paused in a ``try`` or ``with`` block.)
Anthony Baxter82201742006-04-09 15:07:40 +000062
Anthony Baxter51bcb682006-04-05 14:51:42 +000063Extension Modules
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65
Martin v. Löwis7e75f1a2006-04-15 08:35:59 +000066- Patch #1191065: Fix preprocessor problems on systems where recvfrom
67 is a macro.
68
Georg Brandlbbfe4fa2006-04-11 06:47:43 +000069- Bug #1467952: os.listdir() now correctly raises an error if readdir()
70 fails with an error condition.
71
Gregory P. Smith3adc4aa2006-04-13 19:19:01 +000072- Fixed bsddb.db.DBError derived exceptions so they can be unpickled.
73
74- Bug #1117761: bsddb.*open() no longer raises an exception when using
75 the cachesize parameter.
76
77- Bug #1149413: bsddb.*open() no longer raises an exception when using
78 a temporary db (file=None) with the 'n' flag to truncate on open.
79
80- Bug #1332852: bsddb module minimum BerkeleyDB version raised to 3.3
81 as older versions cause excessive test failures.
Gregory P. Smith7f5b6f42006-04-08 07:10:51 +000082
Armin Rigoa9017c32006-04-19 11:50:27 +000083- Patch #1062014: AF_UNIX sockets under Linux have a special
84 abstract namespace that is now fully supported.
85
Anthony Baxter51bcb682006-04-05 14:51:42 +000086Library
87-------
88
Greg Wardab05edc2006-04-23 03:47:58 +000089- Updated optparse module to Optik 1.5.1 (allow numeric constants in
90 hex, octal, or binary; add ``append_const`` action; keep going if
91 gettext cannot be imported; added ``OptionParser.destroy()`` method;
92 added ``epilog`` for better help generation).
93
Tim Peters21fbd572006-04-21 21:18:10 +000094- Bug #1473760: ``tempfile.TemporaryFile()`` could hang on Windows, when
95 called from a thread spawned as a side effect of importing a module.
96
Phillip J. Eby17a35f92006-04-18 16:45:14 +000097- New modules: setuptools, easy_install, and pkg_resources, to support
98 building, installing, and using Python eggs, respectively.
99
100- The pydoc module now supports documenting packages contained in
101 .zip or .egg files.
102
103- The pkgutil module now has several new utility functions, such
104 as ``walk_packages()`` to support working with packages that are either
105 in the filesystem or zip files.
106
Andrew M. Kuchling1da4a942006-04-22 02:32:43 +0000107- The mailbox module can now modify and delete messages from
108 mailboxes, in addition to simply reading them. Thanks to Gregory
109 K. Johnson for writing the code, and to the 2005 Google Summer of
110 Code for funding his work.
Phillip J. Eby17a35f92006-04-18 16:45:14 +0000111
Tim Petersc7605f22006-04-17 21:12:33 +0000112- The ``__del__`` method of class ``local`` in module ``_threading_local``
113 returned before accomplishing any of its intended cleanup.
114
Martin v. Löwisbd30f522006-04-17 17:08:37 +0000115- Patch #790710: Add breakpoint command lists in pdb.
116
Martin v. Löwis0db2a982006-04-16 20:55:38 +0000117- Patch #1063914: Add Tkinter.Misc.clipboard_get().
118
Martin v. Löwis4b501e62006-04-15 08:41:11 +0000119- Patch #1191700: Adjust column alignment in bdb breakpoint lists.
120
Anthony Baxtere29002c2006-04-12 12:07:31 +0000121- SimpleXMLRPCServer relied on the fcntl module, which is unavailable on
122 Windows. Bug #1469163.
123
Phillip J. Eby47032112006-04-11 01:07:43 +0000124- The warnings, linecache, inspect, traceback, site, and doctest modules
125 were updated to work correctly with modules imported from zipfiles or
126 via other PEP 302 __loader__ objects.
127
Martin v. Löwis17de8ff2006-04-10 15:55:37 +0000128- Patch #1467770: Reduce usage of subprocess._active to processes which
129 the application hasn't waited on.
130
Martin v. Löwisb04dee92006-04-10 08:34:21 +0000131- Patch #1462222: Fix Tix.Grid.
132
Neal Norwitza31bf182006-04-09 03:35:43 +0000133- Fix exception when doing glob.glob('anything*/')
134
Skip Montanaro262fb922006-04-21 02:31:07 +0000135- The pstats.Stats class accepts an optional stream keyword argument to
136 direct output to an alternate file-like object.
137
Anthony Baxter51bcb682006-04-05 14:51:42 +0000138Build
139-----
140
Martin v. Löwis4be4e652006-04-17 19:25:49 +0000141- The Makefile now has a reindent target, which runs reindent.py on
142 the library.
143
Martin v. Löwis48bbaf22006-04-15 18:06:54 +0000144- Patch #1470875: Building Python with MS Free Compiler
145
Martin v. Löwisc90b17e2006-04-15 08:13:05 +0000146- Patch #1161914: Add a python-config script.
Martin v. Löwis48bbaf22006-04-15 18:06:54 +0000147
Martin v. Löwis0f48d982006-04-14 14:34:26 +0000148- Patch #1324762:Remove ccpython.cc; replace --with-cxx with
149 --with-cxx-main. Link with C++ compiler only if --with-cxx-main was
Andrew M. Kuchlingdb4018f2006-04-14 14:54:18 +0000150 specified. (Can be overridden by explicitly setting LINKCC.) Decouple
Martin v. Löwis0f48d982006-04-14 14:34:26 +0000151 CXX from --with-cxx-main, see description in README.
152
Martin v. Löwis10acfd02006-04-10 12:39:36 +0000153- Patch #1429775: Link extension modules with the shared libpython.
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Anthony Baxter51bcb682006-04-05 14:51:42 +0000155C API
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157
158Tests
159-----
160
Phillip J. Eby51dd7d92006-04-11 01:21:31 +0000161- The test_contextlib test in 2.5a1 wasn't actually run unless you ran
162 it separately and by hand. It also wasn't cleaning up its changes to
163 the current Decimal context.
164
Marc-André Lemburgd0b8e832006-04-19 15:48:59 +0000165Tools
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167
168- Added the Python benchmark suite pybench to the Tools/ directory;
169 contributed by Marc-Andre Lemburg.
Phillip J. Eby51dd7d92006-04-11 01:21:31 +0000170
Anthony Baxter51bcb682006-04-05 14:51:42 +0000171Documentation
172-------------
173
174
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Raymond Hettinger4901a1f2004-12-02 08:59:14 +0000176What's New in Python 2.5 alpha 1?
177=================================
178
Anthony Baxterebed3f62006-04-03 15:03:44 +0000179*Release date: 05-APR-2006*
Anthony Baxter12b6f6c2005-03-29 13:36:16 +0000180
Raymond Hettinger4901a1f2004-12-02 08:59:14 +0000181Core and builtins
182-----------------
183
Nick Coghlan43832302006-04-23 17:04:07 +0000184- PEP 338: -m command line switch now delegates to runpy.run_module
185 allowing it to support modules in packages and zipfiles
186
Martin v. Löwisc661b882006-04-20 04:54:23 +0000187- On Windows, .DLL is not an accepted file name extension for
188 extension modules anymore; extensions are only found if they
189 end in .PYD.
190
Martin v. Löwisea62d252006-04-03 10:56:49 +0000191- Bug #1421664: sys.stderr.encoding is now set to the same value as
192 sys.stdout.encoding.
193
Neal Norwitz92e212f2006-04-03 04:48:37 +0000194- __import__ accepts keyword arguments.
195
Georg Brandlccadf842006-03-31 18:54:53 +0000196- Patch #1460496: round() now accepts keyword arguments.
197
Anthony Baxter262c00a2006-03-30 10:53:17 +0000198- Fixed bug #1459029 - unicode reprs were double-escaped.
199
Hye-Shik Changd478f342006-03-23 12:32:36 +0000200- Patch #1396919: The system scope threads are reenabled on FreeBSD
201 5.4 and later versions.
202
Neal Norwitze98ccf62006-03-23 05:39:47 +0000203- Bug #1115379: Compiling a Unicode string with an encoding declaration
204 now gives a SyntaxError.
205
Georg Brandlabd1ff82006-03-18 07:59:59 +0000206- Previously, Python code had no easy way to access the contents of a
207 cell object. Now, a ``cell_contents`` attribute has been added
208 (closes patch #1170323).
209
Tim Peterscf79aac2006-03-16 01:14:46 +0000210- Patch #1123430: Python's small-object allocator now returns an arena to
211 the system ``free()`` when all memory within an arena becomes unused
212 again. Prior to Python 2.5, arenas (256KB chunks of memory) were never
213 freed. Some applications will see a drop in virtual memory size now,
214 especially long-running applications that, from time to time, temporarily
215 use a large number of small objects. Note that when Python returns an
216 arena to the platform C's ``free()``, there's no guarantee that the
Andrew M. Kuchling1da4a942006-04-22 02:32:43 +0000217 platform C library will in turn return that memory to the operating system.
218 The effect of the patch is to stop making that impossible, and in tests it
Tim Peterscf79aac2006-03-16 01:14:46 +0000219 appears to be effective at least on Microsoft C and gcc-based systems.
220 Thanks to Evan Jones for hard work and patience.
221
Georg Brandl533ff6f2006-03-08 18:09:27 +0000222- Patch #1434038: property() now uses the getter's docstring if there is
223 no "doc" argument given. This makes it possible to legitimately use
224 property() as a decorator to produce a read-only property.
225
Guido van Rossum9aa37ab2006-03-07 18:54:08 +0000226- PEP 357, patch 1436368: add an __index__ method to int/long and a matching
227 nb_index slot to the PyNumberMethods struct. The slot is consulted instead
228 of requiring an int or long in slicing and a few other contexts, enabling
229 other objects (e.g. Numeric Python's integers) to be used as slice indices.
230
Neal Norwitz995acdf2006-03-07 05:01:00 +0000231- Fixed various bugs reported by Coverity's Prevent tool.
232
Brett Cannonbf364092006-03-01 04:25:17 +0000233- PEP 352, patch #1104669: Make exceptions new-style objects. Introduced the
234 new exception base class, BaseException, which has a new message attribute.
235 KeyboardInterrupt and SystemExit to directly inherit from BaseException now.
236 Raising a string exception now raises a DeprecationWarning.
237
Thomas Woutersfb609f42006-02-28 16:37:25 +0000238- Patch #1438387, PEP 328: relative and absolute imports. Imports can now be
239 explicitly relative, using 'from .module import name' to mean 'from the same
240 package as this module is in. Imports without dots still default to the
241 old relative-then-absolute, unless 'from __future__ import
242 absolute_import' is used.
243
Brett Cannona7446e32006-02-27 23:39:10 +0000244- Properly check if 'warnings' raises an exception (usually when a filter set
245 to "error" is triggered) when raising a warning for raising string
246 exceptions.
247
Andrew M. Kuchling7034f6b2006-04-01 10:50:08 +0000248- CO_GENERATOR_ALLOWED is no longer defined. This behavior is the default.
Neal Norwitz0023a2f2006-02-27 23:24:48 +0000249 The name was removed from Include/code.h.
250
Andrew M. Kuchling7034f6b2006-04-01 10:50:08 +0000251- PEP 308: conditional expressions were added: (x if cond else y).
Neal Norwitzeb651252006-02-27 16:47:12 +0000252
Guido van Rossum1968ad32006-02-25 22:38:04 +0000253- Patch 1433928:
254 - The copy module now "copies" function objects (as atomic objects).
255 - dict.__getitem__ now looks for a __missing__ hook before raising
256 KeyError.
257
Tim Peters84ef21c2006-02-28 20:39:06 +0000258- PEP 343: with statement implemented. Needs ``from __future__ import
259 with_statement``. Use of 'with' as a variable will generate a warning.
260 Use of 'as' as a variable will also generate a warning (unless it's
Neal Norwitz055ec242006-02-28 20:06:49 +0000261 part of an import statement).
Guido van Rossum1a5e21e2006-02-28 21:57:43 +0000262 The following objects have __context__ methods:
263 - The built-in file type.
264 - The thread.LockType type.
265 - The following types defined by the threading module:
266 Lock, RLock, Condition, Semaphore, BoundedSemaphore.
267 - The decimal.Context class.
Guido van Rossumc2e20742006-02-27 22:32:47 +0000268
Marc-André Lemburgfe4b34c2006-02-19 15:22:22 +0000269- Fix the encodings package codec search function to only search
270 inside its own package. Fixes problem reported in patch #1433198.
271
272 Note: Codec packages should implement and register their own
273 codec search function. PEP 100 has the details.
274
Martin v. Löwis18e16552006-02-15 17:27:45 +0000275- PEP 353: Using ssize_t as the index type.
276
Neal Norwitzfc76d632006-01-10 06:03:13 +0000277- Patch #1400181, fix unicode string formatting to not use the locale.
278 This is how string objects work. u'%f' could use , instead of .
279 for the decimal point. Now both strings and unicode always use periods.
280
Neal Norwitz671b9e32006-01-09 07:07:12 +0000281- Bug #1244610, #1392915, fix build problem on OpenBSD 3.7 and 3.8.
282 configure would break checking curses.h.
283
Georg Brandlcd4d1e82005-12-27 17:37:07 +0000284- Bug #959576: The pwd module is now builtin. This allows Python to be
285 built on UNIX platforms without $HOME set.
286
Neal Norwitzc10978f2005-12-19 06:07:16 +0000287- Bug #1072182, fix some potential problems if characters are signed.
288
Neal Norwitz5d0ad502005-12-19 04:27:42 +0000289- Bug #889500, fix line number on SyntaxWarning for global declarations.
290
Neal Norwitzdb83eb32005-12-18 05:29:30 +0000291- Bug #1378022, UTF-8 files with a leading BOM crashed the interpreter.
292
Neal Norwitze7214a12005-12-18 05:03:17 +0000293- Support for converting hex strings to floats no longer works.
294 This was not portable. float('0x3') now raises a ValueError.
295
Barry Warsaw2a38a862005-12-18 01:27:35 +0000296- Patch #1382163: Expose Subversion revision number to Python. New C API
Barry Warsawd3c38ff2006-03-07 09:46:03 +0000297 function Py_GetBuildNumber(). New attribute sys.subversion. Build number
Barry Warsaw2a38a862005-12-18 01:27:35 +0000298 is now displayed in interactive prompt banner.
299
Georg Brandlfa166682005-12-17 21:45:17 +0000300- Implementation of PEP 341 - Unification of try/except and try/finally.
301 "except" clauses can now be written together with a "finally" clause in
Neal Norwitz11ca77e2005-12-17 22:24:12 +0000302 one try statement instead of two nested ones. Patch #1355913.
Georg Brandlfa166682005-12-17 21:45:17 +0000303
Hye-Shik Chang835b2432005-12-17 04:38:31 +0000304- Bug #1379994: Builtin unicode_escape and raw_unicode_escape codec
305 now encodes backslash correctly.
306
Martin v. Löwisb45b3152005-11-28 17:34:23 +0000307- Patch #1350409: Work around signal handling bug in Visual Studio 2005.
308
Andrew M. Kuchling7034f6b2006-04-01 10:50:08 +0000309- Bug #1281408: Py_BuildValue now works correctly even with unsigned longs
Georg Brandlf06e30a2005-11-24 15:37:42 +0000310 and long longs.
311
Neal Norwitz67715f02005-11-09 06:59:35 +0000312- SF Bug #1350188, "setdlopenflags" leads to crash upon "import"
Tim Peters3a5e8b12006-04-11 01:44:07 +0000313 It was possible for dlerror() to return a NULL pointer, so
Andrew M. Kuchling7034f6b2006-04-01 10:50:08 +0000314 it will now use a default error message in this case.
Neal Norwitz67715f02005-11-09 06:59:35 +0000315
Marc-André Lemburga5bafc42005-10-23 13:43:40 +0000316- Replaced most Unicode charmap codecs with new ones using the
317 new Unicode translate string feature in the builtin charmap
318 codec; the codecs were created from the mapping tables available
319 at ftp.unicode.org and contain a few updates (e.g. the Mac OS
320 encodings now include a mapping for the Apple logo)
321
Tim Peterse3547fd2005-12-16 23:13:57 +0000322- Added a few more codecs for Mac OS encodings
Marc-André Lemburga5bafc42005-10-23 13:43:40 +0000323
Andrew M. Kuchling7034f6b2006-04-01 10:50:08 +0000324- Sped up some Unicode operations.
Neal Norwitzfed9b3e2005-10-21 06:32:02 +0000325
Martin v. Löwisbd260da2006-02-26 19:42:26 +0000326- A new AST parser implementation was completed. The abstract
327 syntax tree is available for read-only (non-compile) access
Martin v. Löwis577b5b92006-02-27 15:23:19 +0000328 to Python code; an _ast module was added.
Neal Norwitzfed9b3e2005-10-21 06:32:02 +0000329
Andrew M. Kuchling7034f6b2006-04-01 10:50:08 +0000330- SF bug #1167751: fix incorrect code being produced for generator expressions.
Neal Norwitz16af7342005-10-21 06:25:33 +0000331 The following code now raises a SyntaxError: foo(a = i for i in range(10))
332
Neal Norwitz708e51a2005-10-03 04:48:15 +0000333- SF Bug #976608: fix SystemError when mtime of an imported file is -1.
334
Neal Norwitz11bd1192005-10-03 00:54:56 +0000335- SF Bug #887946: fix segfault when redirecting stdin from a directory.
336 Provide a warning when a directory is passed on the command line.
337
Neal Norwitz40d37812005-10-02 01:48:49 +0000338- Fix segfault with invalid coding.
339
340- SF bug #772896: unknown encoding results in MemoryError.
341
Andrew M. Kuchling7034f6b2006-04-01 10:50:08 +0000342- All iterators now have a Boolean value of True. Formerly, some iterators
Raymond Hettinger6b27cda2005-09-24 21:23:05 +0000343 supported a __len__() method which evaluated to False when the iterator
344 was empty.
345
Guido van Rossum630db602005-09-20 18:49:54 +0000346- On 64-bit platforms, when __len__() returns a value that cannot be
347 represented as a C int, raise OverflowError.
348
Skip Montanarof8948ca2005-09-19 03:54:46 +0000349- test__locale is skipped on OS X < 10.4 (only partial locale support is
Walter Dörwald6611a8b2005-10-09 19:28:35 +0000350 present).
Skip Montanarof8948ca2005-09-19 03:54:46 +0000351
Georg Brandl80bbf3f2005-09-14 19:38:29 +0000352- SF bug #893549: parsing keyword arguments was broken with a few format
353 codes.
354
Guido van Rossum8ee3e5a2005-09-14 18:09:42 +0000355- Changes donated by Elemental Security to make it work on AIX 5.3
356 with IBM's 64-bit compiler (SF patch #1284289). This also closes SF
357 bug #105470: test_pwd fails on 64bit system (Opteron).
358
Guido van Rossum539c6622005-09-14 17:49:54 +0000359- Changes donated by Elemental Security to make it work on HP-UX 11 on
360 Itanium2 with HP's 64-bit compiler (SF patch #1225212).
361
Georg Brandl4550b8d2005-08-26 06:43:52 +0000362- Disallow keyword arguments for type constructors that don't use them
Georg Brandl02c42872005-08-26 06:42:30 +0000363 (fixes bug #1119418).
364
Martin v. Löwisd35edda2005-08-24 08:39:24 +0000365- Forward UnicodeDecodeError into SyntaxError for source encoding errors.
366
Barry Warsawe2eca0b2005-08-15 18:14:19 +0000367- SF bug #900092: When tracing (e.g. for hotshot), restore 'return' events for
368 exceptions that cause a function to exit.
369
Raymond Hettinger9f1a6792005-07-31 01:16:36 +0000370- The implementation of set() and frozenset() was revised to use its
371 own internal data structure. Memory consumption is reduced by 1/3
372 and there are modest speed-ups as well. The API is unchanged.
373
Tim Petersde7990b2005-07-17 23:45:23 +0000374- SF bug #1238681: freed pointer is used in longobject.c:long_pow().
375
Michael W. Hudson0edc7a02005-07-12 10:21:19 +0000376- SF bug #1229429: PyObject_CallMethod failed to decrement some
377 reference counts in some error exit cases.
378
Tim Petersecc6e6a2005-07-10 22:30:55 +0000379- SF bug #1185883: Python's small-object memory allocator took over
380 a block managed by the platform C library whenever a realloc specified
381 a small new size. However, there's no portable way to know then how
Andrew M. Kuchling7034f6b2006-04-01 10:50:08 +0000382 much of the address space following the pointer is valid, so there's no
Tim Petersecc6e6a2005-07-10 22:30:55 +0000383 portable way to copy data from the C-managed block into Python's
384 small-object space without risking a memory fault. Python's small-object
385 realloc now leaves such blocks under the control of the platform C
386 realloc.
387
Michael W. Hudsonb8963812005-07-05 15:21:58 +0000388- SF bug #1232517: An overflow error was not detected properly when
389 attempting to convert a large float to an int in os.utime().
390
Raymond Hettinger3296e692005-06-29 23:29:56 +0000391- SF bug #1224347: hex longs now print with lowercase letters just
392 like their int counterparts.
393
Michael W. Hudson188d4362005-06-20 16:52:57 +0000394- SF bug #1163563: the original fix for bug #1010677 ("thread Module
395 Breaks PyGILState_Ensure()") broke badly in the case of multiple
396 interpreter states; back out that fix and do a better job (see
397 http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2005-June/054258.html
398 for a longer write-up of the problem).
399
Michael W. Hudsondf888462005-06-03 14:41:55 +0000400- SF patch #1180995: marshal now uses a binary format by default when
401 serializing floats.
402
Michael W. Hudsonda85a902005-06-01 11:34:22 +0000403- SF patch #1181301: on platforms that appear to use IEEE 754 floats,
404 the routines that promise to produce IEEE 754 binary representations
405 of floats now simply copy bytes around.
406
Skip Montanarobbf12ba2005-05-20 03:07:06 +0000407- bug #967182: disallow opening files with 'wU' or 'aU' as specified by PEP
408 278.
409
Brett Cannonc3647ac2005-04-26 03:45:26 +0000410- patch #1109424: int, long, float, complex, and unicode now check for the
411 proper magic slot for type conversions when subclassed. Previously the
412 magic slot was ignored during conversion. Semantics now match the way
413 subclasses of str always behaved. int/long/float, conversion of an instance
Walter Dörwald78a78b02005-09-01 12:04:29 +0000414 to the base class has been moved to the proper nb_* magic slot and out of
Brett Cannonc3647ac2005-04-26 03:45:26 +0000415 PyNumber_*().
416 Thanks Walter Dörwald.
417
Barry Warsawc8d907c2005-04-19 23:43:40 +0000418- Descriptors defined in C with a PyGetSetDef structure, where the setter is
419 NULL, now raise an AttributeError when attempting to set or delete the
420 attribute. Previously a TypeError was raised, but this was inconsistent
421 with the equivalent pure-Python implementation.
422
Michael W. Hudson774479c2005-04-18 08:46:17 +0000423- It is now safe to call PyGILState_Release() before
424 PyEval_InitThreads() (note that if there is reason to believe there
425 are multiple threads around you still must call PyEval_InitThreads()
426 before using the Python API; this fix is for extension modules that
427 have no way of knowing if Python is multi-threaded yet).
428
Michael W. Hudsone3afc592005-04-07 10:11:19 +0000429- Typing Ctrl-C whilst raw_input() was waiting in a build with threads
430 disabled caused a crash.
431
Michael W. Hudsonb330adf2005-03-31 09:35:44 +0000432- Bug #1165306: instancemethod_new allowed the creation of a method
433 with im_class == im_self == NULL, which caused a crash when called.
434
Tim Petersecc6e6a2005-07-10 22:30:55 +0000435- Move exception finalisation later in the shutdown process - this
Anthony Baxter12b6f6c2005-03-29 13:36:16 +0000436 fixes the crash seen in bug #1165761
437
Raymond Hettinger96229b12005-03-11 06:49:40 +0000438- Added two new builtins, any() and all().
439
Brett Cannon409d8f22005-03-05 06:47:57 +0000440- Defining a class with empty parentheses is now allowed
Brett Cannonf4189912005-04-09 02:30:16 +0000441 (e.g., ``class C(): pass`` is no longer a syntax error).
442 Patch #1176012 added support to the 'parser' module and 'compiler' package
443 (thanks to logistix for that added support).
Brett Cannon409d8f22005-03-05 06:47:57 +0000444
Martin v. Löwis96d743e2005-03-03 23:00:26 +0000445- Patch #1115086: Support PY_LONGLONG in structmember.
446
Raymond Hettingerb67cc802005-03-03 16:45:19 +0000447- Bug #1155938: new style classes did not check that __init__() was
448 returning None.
449
Tim Petersecc6e6a2005-07-10 22:30:55 +0000450- Patch #802188: Report characters after line continuation character
Martin v. Löwis4bf108d2005-03-03 11:45:45 +0000451 ('\') with a specific error message.
452
Martin v. Löwisff232d72005-03-03 09:24:38 +0000453- Bug #723201: Raise a TypeError for passing bad objects to 'L' format.
454
Michael W. Hudson8e1afab2005-02-17 14:55:21 +0000455- Bug #1124295: the __name__ attribute of file objects was
456 inadvertently made inaccessible in restricted mode.
457
Tim Petersecc6e6a2005-07-10 22:30:55 +0000458- Bug #1074011: closing sys.std{out,err} now causes a flush() and
Martin v. Löwis8e3ca8a2005-01-23 09:41:49 +0000459 an ferror() call.
460
Raymond Hettinger3b0c7c22004-12-03 08:30:39 +0000461- min() and max() now support key= arguments with the same meaning as in
462 list.sort().
463
Raymond Hettingerc34f8672005-01-02 06:17:33 +0000464- The peephole optimizer now performs simple constant folding in expressions:
465 (2+3) --> (5).
466
Raymond Hettingera422c342005-01-11 03:03:27 +0000467- set and frozenset objects can now be marshalled. SF #1098985.
468
Michael W. Hudsonfaa76482005-01-31 17:09:25 +0000469- Bug #1077106: Poor argument checking could cause memory corruption
470 in calls to os.read().
Raymond Hettinger4901a1f2004-12-02 08:59:14 +0000471
Jeremy Hyltonab630502005-02-04 18:44:06 +0000472- The parser did not complain about future statements in illegal
473 positions. It once again reports a syntax error if a future
474 statement occurs after anything other than a doc string.
475
Neil Schemenauercf52c072005-08-12 17:34:58 +0000476- Change the %s format specifier for str objects so that it returns a
477 unicode instance if the argument is not an instance of basestring and
478 calling __str__ on the argument returns a unicode instance.
479
Tim Petersf4e69282006-02-27 17:15:31 +0000480- Patch #1413181: changed ``PyThreadState_Delete()`` to forget about the
481 current thread state when the auto-GIL-state machinery knows about
482 it (since the thread state is being deleted, continuing to remember it
483 can't help, but can hurt if another thread happens to get created with
484 the same thread id).
485
Raymond Hettinger4901a1f2004-12-02 08:59:14 +0000486Extension Modules
487-----------------
488
Georg Brandl43f08a82006-03-31 18:01:16 +0000489- Patch #1380952: fix SSL objects timing out on consecutive read()s
490
Neal Norwitz05a45592006-03-20 06:30:08 +0000491- Patch #1309579: wait3 and wait4 were added to the posix module.
492
Anthony Baxterfa869072006-03-20 05:21:58 +0000493- Patch #1231053: The audioop module now supports encoding/decoding of alaw.
494 In addition, the existing ulaw code was updated.
495
Georg Brandlbc45a3f2006-03-17 19:17:34 +0000496- RFE #567972: Socket objects' family, type and proto properties are
Georg Brandl72d7a782006-03-22 06:44:14 +0000497 now exposed via new attributes.
Georg Brandlbc45a3f2006-03-17 19:17:34 +0000498
Neal Norwitz10be10c2006-03-16 06:50:13 +0000499- Everything under lib-old was removed. This includes the following modules:
500 Para, addpack, cmp, cmpcache, codehack, dircmp, dump, find, fmt, grep,
Tim Petersc9d78aa2006-03-26 23:27:58 +0000501 lockfile, newdir, ni, packmail, poly, rand, statcache, tb, tzparse,
Neal Norwitz10be10c2006-03-16 06:50:13 +0000502 util, whatsound, whrandom, zmod
503
504- The following modules were removed: regsub, reconvert, regex, regex_syntax.
505
506- re and sre were swapped, so help(re) provides full help. importing sre
Neal Norwitzefbeaef2006-03-16 06:40:39 +0000507 is deprecated. The undocumented re.engine variable no longer exists.
508
Hye-Shik Changabb903f2006-03-13 10:20:08 +0000509- Bug #1448490: Fixed a bug that ISO-2022 codecs could not handle
510 SS2 (single-shift 2) escape sequences correctly.
511
Martin v. Löwis480f1bb2006-03-09 23:38:20 +0000512- The unicodedata module was updated to the 4.1 version of the Unicode
513 database. The 3.2 version is still available as unicodedata.db_3_2_0
514 for applications that require this specific version (such as IDNA).
515
Neal Norwitzb62c4332006-03-04 18:35:47 +0000516- The timing module is no longer built by default. It was deprecated
517 in PEP 4 in Python 2.0 or earlier.
518
Guido van Rossum1968ad32006-02-25 22:38:04 +0000519- Patch 1433928: Added a new type, defaultdict, to the collections module.
520 This uses the new __missing__ hook behavior added to dict (see above).
521
Georg Brandldbd83392006-02-20 09:42:33 +0000522- Bug #854823: socketmodule now builds on Sun platforms even when
523 INET_ADDRSTRLEN is not defined.
524
Georg Brandlf4f44152006-02-18 22:29:33 +0000525- Patch #1393157: os.startfile() now has an optional argument to specify
526 a "command verb" to invoke on the file.
527
Neal Norwitz082b2df2006-02-07 07:04:46 +0000528- Bug #876637, prevent stack corruption when socket descriptor
529 is larger than FD_SETSIZE.
530
Neal Norwitz0e6bc8c2006-02-05 05:45:43 +0000531- Patch #1407135, bug #1424041: harmonize mmap behavior of anonymous memory.
532 mmap.mmap(-1, size) now returns anonymous memory in both Unix and Windows.
533 mmap.mmap(0, size) should not be used on Windows for anonymous memory.
534
Martin v. Löwis57a34e82006-02-04 19:12:37 +0000535- Patch #1422385: The nis module now supports access to domains other
536 than the system default domain.
537
Martin v. Löwis14694662006-02-03 12:54:16 +0000538- Use Win32 API to implement os.stat/fstat. As a result, subsecond timestamps
539 are reported, the limit on path name lengths is removed, and stat reports
540 WindowsError now (instead of OSError).
541
Gregory P. Smithcfc4a8d2006-01-29 19:46:23 +0000542- Add bsddb.db.DBEnv.set_tx_timestamp allowing time based database recovery.
543
Neal Norwitz62a21122006-01-25 05:21:55 +0000544- Bug #1413192, fix seg fault in bsddb if a transaction was deleted
545 before the env.
546
Martin v. Löwis11017b12006-01-14 18:12:57 +0000547- Patch #1103116: Basic AF_NETLINK support.
548
Neal Norwitz3b4fff82006-01-11 08:54:45 +0000549- Bug #1402308, (possible) segfault when using mmap.mmap(-1, ...)
550
Neal Norwitz88bbd732006-01-10 07:05:44 +0000551- Bug #1400822, _curses over{lay,write} doesn't work when passing 6 ints.
552 Also fix ungetmouse() which did not accept arguments properly.
553 The code now conforms to the documented signature.
554
Neal Norwitz5e3d8622006-01-09 06:24:35 +0000555- Bug #1400115, Fix segfault when calling curses.panel.userptr()
556 without prior setting of the userptr.
557
Neal Norwitz40c6b472006-01-05 05:43:35 +0000558- Fix 64-bit problems in bsddb.
559
Neal Norwitz8856fb72005-12-18 03:34:22 +0000560- Patch #1365916: fix some unsafe 64-bit mmap methods.
561
Hye-Shik Changc5c57e62005-12-12 11:48:32 +0000562- Bug #1290333: Added a workaround for cjkcodecs' _codecs_cn build
563 problem on AIX.
564
Georg Brandla13c2442005-11-22 19:30:31 +0000565- Bug #869197: os.setgroups rejects long integer arguments
566
Neal Norwitz0f46bbf2005-11-03 05:00:25 +0000567- Bug #1346533, select.poll() doesn't raise an error if timeout > sys.maxint
568
Neal Norwitz7b631792005-11-02 05:26:07 +0000569- Bug #1344508, Fix UNIX mmap leaking file descriptors
570
Neal Norwitzf3396542005-10-28 05:52:22 +0000571- Patch #1338314, Bug #1336623: fix tarfile so it can extract
572 REGTYPE directories from tarfiles written by old programs.
573
Gregory P. Smithe101df92006-01-24 20:09:45 +0000574- Patch #1407992, fixes broken bsddb module db associate when using
575 BerkeleyDB 3.3, 4.0 or 4.1.
576
577- Get bsddb module to build with BerkeleyDB version 4.4
578
579- Get bsddb module to build with BerkeleyDB version 3.2
Neal Norwitzfed9b3e2005-10-21 06:32:02 +0000580
Neal Norwitz484d9a42005-09-30 04:46:49 +0000581- Patch #1309009, Fix segfault in pyexpat when the XML document is in latin_1,
582 but Python incorrectly assumes it is in UTF-8 format
583
Georg Brandle677adc2005-09-29 13:40:49 +0000584- Fix parse errors in the readline module when compiling without threads.
585
Hye-Shik Chang9ceebd52005-09-24 14:58:47 +0000586- Patch #1288833: Removed thread lock from socket.getaddrinfo on
587 FreeBSD 5.3 and later versions which got thread-safe getaddrinfo(3).
588
Michael W. Hudson10402a32005-09-22 09:19:01 +0000589- Patches #1298449 and #1298499: Add some missing checks for error
590 returns in cStringIO.c.
591
Neal Norwitz058bde12005-09-21 06:44:25 +0000592- Patch #1297028: fix segfault if call type on MultibyteCodec,
593 MultibyteStreamReader, or MultibyteStreamWriter
594
Neal Norwitzcfe7dd92005-09-19 06:49:27 +0000595- Fix memory leak in posix.access().
596
Martin v. Löwis8b291e22005-09-18 08:17:56 +0000597- Patch #1213831: Fix typo in unicodedata._getcode.
598
Georg Brandlfb1ef852005-09-14 20:53:32 +0000599- Bug #1007046: os.startfile() did not accept unicode strings encoded in
600 the file system encoding.
601
Georg Brandld2e3ba72005-08-26 08:34:00 +0000602- Patch #756021: Special-case socket.inet_aton('255.255.255.255') for
603 platforms that don't have inet_aton().
Georg Brandl02760f92005-08-25 13:10:41 +0000604
Georg Brandld2e3ba72005-08-26 08:34:00 +0000605- Bug #1215928: Fix bz2.BZ2File.seek() for 64-bit file offsets.
606
607- Bug #1191043: Fix bz2.BZ2File.(x)readlines for files containing one
Georg Brandl02760f92005-08-25 13:10:41 +0000608 line without newlines.
609
Georg Brandl38387b82005-08-24 07:17:40 +0000610- Bug #728515: mmap.resize() now resizes the file on Unix as it did
611 on Windows.
612
Walter Dörwalda05834e2005-10-09 19:38:21 +0000613- Patch #1180695: Add nanosecond stat resolution, and st_gen,
Martin v. Löwisebd9d5b2005-08-09 15:00:59 +0000614 st_birthtime for FreeBSD.
615
Michael W. Hudson8137bea2005-07-27 20:24:40 +0000616- Patch #1231069: The fcntl.ioctl function now uses the 'I' code for
617 the request code argument, which results in more C-like behaviour
618 for large or negative values.
619
Tim Petersecc6e6a2005-07-10 22:30:55 +0000620- Bug #1234979: For the argument of thread.Lock.acquire, the Windows
Andrew M. Kuchling88b85822005-08-23 00:57:07 +0000621 implementation treated all integer values except 1 as false.
Georg Brandlaf410b52005-07-08 22:26:13 +0000622
Georg Brandl6b95f1d2005-06-03 19:47:00 +0000623- Bug #1194181: bz2.BZ2File didn't handle mode 'U' correctly.
624
Hye-Shik Chang5f937a72005-06-02 13:09:30 +0000625- Patch #1212117: os.stat().st_flags is now accessible as a attribute
626 if available on the platform.
627
Skip Montanaro5ff14922005-05-16 02:42:22 +0000628- Patch #1103951: Expose O_SHLOCK and O_EXLOCK in the posix module if
629 available on the platform.
630
Michael W. Hudsonb330adf2005-03-31 09:35:44 +0000631- Bug #1166660: The readline module could segfault if hook functions
632 were set in a different thread than that which called readline.
633
Raymond Hettinger4aec61e2005-03-18 21:20:23 +0000634- collections.deque objects now support a remove() method.
635
Raymond Hettinger984f9bb2005-03-09 16:38:48 +0000636- operator.itemgetter() and operator.attrgetter() now support retrieving
637 multiple fields. This provides direct support for sorting on multiple
638 keys (primary, secondary, etc).
639
Martin v. Löwisb60ae992005-03-08 09:10:29 +0000640- os.access now supports Unicode path names on non-Win32 systems.
641
Martin v. Löwisfd78a6f2005-03-04 14:37:01 +0000642- Patches #925152, #1118602: Avoid reading after the end of the buffer
643 in pyexpat.GetInputContext.
644
Tim Petersecc6e6a2005-07-10 22:30:55 +0000645- Patches #749830, #1144555: allow UNIX mmap size to default to current
Martin v. Löwis7fe60c02005-03-03 11:22:44 +0000646 file size.
647
Raymond Hettinger9c323f82005-02-28 19:39:44 +0000648- Added functional.partial(). See PEP309.
649
Martin v. Löwis9533e342005-02-27 20:33:25 +0000650- Patch #1093585: raise a ValueError for negative history items in readline.
651 {remove_history,replace_history}
652
Fred Drake9c131f22005-01-23 15:16:08 +0000653- The spwd module has been added, allowing access to the shadow password
654 database.
Martin v. Löwisc3001752005-01-23 09:27:24 +0000655
Martin v. Löwisfe33d0b2005-01-16 08:57:39 +0000656- stat_float_times is now True.
657
Raymond Hettingerb0900e62004-12-16 16:23:40 +0000658- array.array objects are now picklable.
659
Raymond Hettingera6b45cc2004-12-07 07:05:57 +0000660- the cPickle module no longer accepts the deprecated None option in the
661 args tuple returned by __reduce__().
662
Raymond Hettingerb2594052004-12-05 09:25:51 +0000663- itertools.islice() now accepts None for the start and step arguments.
664 This allows islice() to work more readily with slices:
665 islice(s.start, s.stop, s.step)
666
Skip Montanaro0af3ade2005-01-13 04:12:31 +0000667- datetime.datetime() now has a strptime class method which can be used to
668 create datetime object using a string and format.
Raymond Hettinger4901a1f2004-12-02 08:59:14 +0000669
Matthias Klosed77f8b32006-04-03 16:34:56 +0000670- Patch #1117961: Replace the MD5 implementation from RSA Data Security Inc
Matthias Klose8e39ec72006-04-03 16:27:50 +0000671 with the implementation from http://sourceforge.net/projects/libmd5-rfc/.
672
Raymond Hettinger4901a1f2004-12-02 08:59:14 +0000673Library
674-------
675
Nick Coghlan43832302006-04-23 17:04:07 +0000676- PEP 338: new module runpy defines a run_module function to support
677 executing modules which provide access to source code or a code object
678 via the PEP 302 import mechanisms.
679
Anthony Baxter93f5b932006-04-03 08:05:07 +0000680- The email module's parsedate_tz function now sets the daylight savings
681 flag to -1 (unknown) since it can't tell from the date whether it should
682 be set.
683
Fred Drakead5177c2006-04-01 22:14:43 +0000684- Patch #624325: urlparse.urlparse() and urlparse.urlsplit() results
685 now sport attributes that provide access to the parts of the result.
686
Georg Brandl7f6b67c2006-04-01 08:35:18 +0000687- Patch #1462498: sgmllib now handles entity and character references
688 in attribute values.
689
Anthony Baxterc51ee692006-04-01 00:57:31 +0000690- Added the sqlite3 package. This is based on pysqlite2.1.3, and provides
Georg Brandl828fdef2006-04-01 08:59:03 +0000691 a DB-API interface in the standard library. You'll need sqlite 3.0.8 or
Tim Peters3a5e8b12006-04-11 01:44:07 +0000692 later to build this - if you have an earlier version, the C extension
Anthony Baxterc51ee692006-04-01 00:57:31 +0000693 module will not be built.
694
Tim Petersc17976e2006-04-01 00:26:53 +0000695- Bug #1460340: ``random.sample(dict)`` failed in various ways. Dicts
696 aren't officially supported here, and trying to use them will probably
697 raise an exception some day. But dicts have been allowed, and "mostly
698 worked", so support for them won't go away without warning.
699
Georg Brandl338ef7d2006-03-31 18:42:16 +0000700- Bug #1445068: getpass.getpass() can now be given an explicit stream
701 argument to specify where to write the prompt.
702
Georg Brandl22ec80b2006-03-31 18:25:44 +0000703- Patch #1462313, bug #1443328: the pickle modules now can handle classes
704 that have __private names in their __slots__.
705
Neal Norwitz6974a512006-04-10 00:25:01 +0000706- Bug #1250170: mimetools now handles socket.gethostname() failures gracefully.
Georg Brandldd2245f2006-03-31 17:18:06 +0000707
Phillip J. Eby59821cf2006-03-30 02:16:40 +0000708- patch #1457316: "setup.py upload" now supports --identity to select the
709 key to be used for signing the uploaded code.
710
Raymond Hettingerfd3fcf02006-03-24 20:43:29 +0000711- Queue.Queue objects now support .task_done() and .join() methods
712 to make it easier to monitor when daemon threads have completed
713 processing all enqueued tasks. Patch #1455676.
714
Martin v. Löwisbd8dbab2006-03-23 18:18:35 +0000715- popen2.Popen objects now preserve the command in a .cmd attribute.
716
Thomas Hellerc61c0492006-03-22 10:09:27 +0000717- Added the ctypes ffi package.
718
Barry Warsaw4d90bbd2006-03-22 02:45:50 +0000719- email 4.0 package now integrated. This is largely the same as the email 3.0
720 package that was included in Python 2.3, except that PEP 8 module names are
721 now used (e.g. mail.message instead of email.Message). The MIME classes
722 have been moved to a subpackage (e.g. email.mime.text instead of
723 email.MIMEText). The old names are still supported for now. Several
724 deprecated Message methods have been removed and lots of bugs have been
725 fixed. More details can be found in the email package documentation.
726
Walter Dörwald40108c92006-03-27 08:15:44 +0000727- Patches #1436130/#1443155: codecs.lookup() now returns a CodecInfo object
728 (a subclass of tuple) that provides incremental decoders and encoders
729 (a way to use stateful codecs without the stream API). Python functions
730 codecs.getincrementaldecoder() and codecs.getincrementalencoder() as well
731 as C functions PyCodec_IncrementalEncoder() and PyCodec_IncrementalDecoder()
732 have been added.
Walter Dörwaldabb02e52006-03-15 11:35:15 +0000733
Walter Dörwald067db482006-03-15 22:17:27 +0000734- Patch #1359365: Calling next() on a closed StringIO.String object raises
735 a ValueError instead of a StopIteration now (like file and cString.String do).
736 cStringIO.StringIO.isatty() will raise a ValueError now if close() has been
737 called before (like file and StringIO.StringIO do).
Walter Dörwald197e8322006-03-15 22:13:13 +0000738
Martin v. Löwis04824ce2006-03-10 21:26:16 +0000739- A regrtest option -w was added to re-run failed tests in verbose mode.
740
Georg Brandle2b46772006-03-09 23:22:43 +0000741- Patch #1446372: quit and exit can now be called from the interactive
742 interpreter to exit.
743
Barry Warsawd3c38ff2006-03-07 09:46:03 +0000744- The function get_count() has been added to the gc module, and gc.collect()
745 grew an optional 'generation' argument.
746
Martin v. Löwisfbab90e2006-03-05 13:36:04 +0000747- A library msilib to generate Windows Installer files, and a distutils
748 command bdist_msi have been added.
749
Guido van Rossum1a5e21e2006-02-28 21:57:43 +0000750- PEP 343: new module contextlib.py defines decorator @contextmanager
751 and helpful context managers nested() and closing().
752
Martin v. Löwis415ed932006-02-27 19:56:30 +0000753- The compiler package now supports future imports after the module docstring.
754
Georg Brandl8f7c54e2006-02-20 08:40:38 +0000755- Bug #1413790: zipfile now sanitizes absolute archive names that are
756 not allowed by the specs.
757
Georg Brandlc98eeed2006-02-19 14:57:47 +0000758- Patch #1215184: FileInput now can be given an opening hook which can
759 be used to control how files are opened.
760
Georg Brandlc029f872006-02-19 14:12:34 +0000761- Patch #1212287: fileinput.input() now has a mode parameter for
762 specifying the file mode input files should be opened with.
763
Georg Brandl67e9fb92006-02-19 13:56:17 +0000764- Patch #1215184: fileinput now has a fileno() function for getting the
765 current file number.
766
Georg Brandl602b9ba2006-02-19 13:26:36 +0000767- Patch #1349274: gettext.install() now optionally installs additional
768 translation functions other than _() in the builtin namespace.
769
Georg Brandle4662172006-02-19 09:51:27 +0000770- Patch #1337756: fileinput now accepts Unicode filenames.
771
Georg Brandl7b4e7c22006-02-18 21:10:56 +0000772- Patch #1373643: The chunk module can now read chunks larger than
773 two gigabytes.
774
Georg Brandl21dd1af2006-02-17 13:35:13 +0000775- Patch #1417555: SimpleHTTPServer now returns Last-Modified headers.
776
Georg Brandlbd3bc4d2006-02-17 09:52:53 +0000777- Bug #1430298: It is now possible to send a mail with an empty
778 return address using smtplib.
779
Georg Brandl0e1abe22006-02-17 09:48:14 +0000780- Bug #1432260: The names of lambda functions are now properly displayed
781 in pydoc.
Georg Brandl501dd0d2006-02-17 09:45:40 +0000782
Martin v. Löwis00756902006-02-05 17:09:41 +0000783- Patch #1412872: zipfile now sets the creator system to 3 (Unix)
784 unless the system is Win32.
785
Tim Petersda1329b2006-02-27 16:50:01 +0000786- Patch #1349118: urllib now supports user:pass@ style proxy
Martin v. Löwis3e865952006-01-24 15:51:21 +0000787 specifications, raises IOErrors when proxies for unsupported protocols
788 are defined, and uses the https proxy on https redirections.
789
Georg Brandl531ceba2006-01-21 07:20:56 +0000790- Bug #902075: urllib2 now supports 'host:port' style proxy specifications.
791
792- Bug #1407902: Add support for sftp:// URIs to urlparse.
Georg Brandl89f35ac2006-01-20 17:24:23 +0000793
Georg Brandlb709c2c2006-01-20 09:07:35 +0000794- Bug #1371247: Update Windows locale identifiers in locale.py.
795
Neal Norwitzf60cd472006-01-14 07:05:13 +0000796- Bug #1394565: SimpleHTTPServer now doesn't choke on query parameters
Georg Brandl45ab2332006-01-13 17:05:56 +0000797 any more.
Georg Brandlb709c2c2006-01-20 09:07:35 +0000798
Georg Brandl4edd9892006-01-13 16:59:46 +0000799- Bug #1403410: The warnings module now doesn't get confused
800 when it can't find out the module name it generates a warning for.
Georg Brandlb709c2c2006-01-20 09:07:35 +0000801
Martin v. Löwis412ed3b2006-01-08 10:45:39 +0000802- Patch #1177307: Added a new codec utf_8_sig for UTF-8 with a BOM signature.
803
Neal Norwitzab86f8e2005-12-23 21:44:36 +0000804- Patch #1157027: cookielib mishandles RFC 2109 cookies in Netscape mode
805
Neal Norwitz338e7862005-12-23 21:27:46 +0000806- Patch #1117398: cookielib.LWPCookieJar and .MozillaCookieJar now raise
807 LoadError as documented, instead of IOError. For compatibility,
808 LoadError subclasses IOError.
809
Brett Cannon3cbd0382005-12-16 22:49:23 +0000810- Added the hashlib module. It provides secure hash functions for MD5 and
Tim Peterse3547fd2005-12-16 23:13:57 +0000811 SHA1, 224, 256, 384, and 512. Note that recent developments make the
812 historic MD5 and SHA1 unsuitable for cryptographic-strength applications.
813 In <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2005-December/058850.html>
814 Ronald L. Rivest offered this advice for Python:
815
816 "The consensus of researchers in this area (at least as
817 expressed at the NIST Hash Function Workshop 10/31/05),
818 is that SHA-256 is a good choice for the time being, but
819 that research should continue, and other alternatives may
820 arise from this research. The larger SHA's also seem OK."
Brett Cannon3cbd0382005-12-16 22:49:23 +0000821
Fredrik Lundh7e0aef02005-12-12 18:54:55 +0000822- Added a subset of Fredrik Lundh's ElementTree package. Available
823 modules are xml.etree.ElementTree, xml.etree.ElementPath, and
824 xml.etree.ElementInclude, from ElementTree 1.2.6.
825
Martin v. Löwis307021f2005-11-27 16:59:04 +0000826- Patch #1162825: Support non-ASCII characters in IDLE window titles.
827
Georg Brandl1f663572005-11-26 16:50:44 +0000828- Bug #1365984: urllib now opens "data:" URLs again.
829
Brett Cannonad07ff22005-11-23 02:15:50 +0000830- Patch #1314396: prevent deadlock for threading.Thread.join() when an exception
831 is raised within the method itself on a previous call (e.g., passing in an
832 illegal argument)
833
Brett Cannon5d0bf942005-11-02 23:04:26 +0000834- Bug #1340337: change time.strptime() to always return ValueError when there
835 is an error in the format string.
836
Georg Brandle8f24432005-10-03 14:16:44 +0000837- Patch #754022: Greatly enhanced webbrowser.py (by Oleg Broytmann).
838
Walter Dörwalda05834e2005-10-09 19:38:21 +0000839- Bug #729103: pydoc.py: Fix docother() method to accept additional
Georg Brandl8b813db2005-10-01 16:32:31 +0000840 "parent" argument.
841
Georg Brandlaa935172005-09-29 20:49:16 +0000842- Patch #1300515: xdrlib.py: Fix pack_fstring() to really use null bytes
843 for padding.
844
Georg Brandl80ba8e82005-09-29 20:16:07 +0000845- Bug #1296004: httplib.py: Limit maximal amount of data read from the
846 socket to avoid a MemoryError on Windows.
847
Matthias Klosef3f231f2005-09-20 07:02:49 +0000848- Patch #1166948: locale.py: Prefer LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE and LANG over LANGUAGE
849 to get the correct encoding.
850
851- Patch #1166938: locale.py: Parse LANGUAGE as a colon separated list of
852 languages.
853
Martin v. Löwis4ed67382005-09-18 08:34:39 +0000854- Patch #1268314: Cache lines in StreamReader.readlines for performance.
855
Brett Cannona783d062005-09-15 02:34:56 +0000856- Bug #1290505: Fix clearing the regex cache for time.strptime().
857
Martin v. Löwis5dbdc592005-08-27 10:07:56 +0000858- Bug #1167128: Fix size of a symlink in a tarfile to be 0.
859
Georg Brandl5a650a22005-08-26 08:51:34 +0000860- Patch #810023: Fix off-by-one bug in urllib.urlretrieve reporthook
861 functionality.
862
Martin v. Löwis8b595142005-08-25 11:03:38 +0000863- Bug #1163178: Make IDNA return an empty string when the input is empty.
864
Georg Brandl532efab2005-08-24 22:34:21 +0000865- Patch #848017: Make Cookie more RFC-compliant. Use CRLF as default output
Andrew M. Kuchling7034f6b2006-04-01 10:50:08 +0000866 separator and do not output trailing semicolon.
Georg Brandl532efab2005-08-24 22:34:21 +0000867
Georg Brandlb9256022005-08-24 18:46:39 +0000868- Patch #1062060: urllib.urlretrieve() now raises a new exception, named
869 ContentTooShortException, when the actually downloaded size does not
870 match the Content-Length header.
871
Martin v. Löwis0a5d4a22005-08-24 14:55:22 +0000872- Bug #1121494: distutils.dir_utils.mkpath now accepts Unicode strings.
873
Martin v. Löwis56066d22005-08-24 07:38:12 +0000874- Bug #1178484: Return complete lines from codec stream readers
875 even if there is an exception in later lines, resulting in
Walter Dörwalda05834e2005-10-09 19:38:21 +0000876 correct line numbers for decoding errors in source code.
Martin v. Löwis56066d22005-08-24 07:38:12 +0000877
Georg Brandl6d2b3462005-08-24 07:36:17 +0000878- Bug #1192315: Disallow negative arguments to clear() in pdb.
879
Martin v. Löwisb813c532005-08-07 20:51:04 +0000880- Patch #827386: Support absolute source paths in msvccompiler.py.
881
Georg Brandl649f8e72005-08-03 07:30:12 +0000882- Patch #1105730: Apply the new implementation of commonprefix in posixpath
883 to ntpath, macpath, os2emxpath and riscospath.
884
Guido van Rossum755149f2005-07-27 00:00:44 +0000885- Fix a problem in Tkinter introduced by SF patch #869468: delete bogus
886 __hasattr__ and __delattr__ methods on class Tk that were breaking
887 Tkdnd.
888
Georg Brandl5dbda752005-07-17 20:27:41 +0000889- Bug #1015140: disambiguated the term "article id" in nntplib docs and
890 docstrings to either "article number" or "message id".
891
Georg Brandla4a8b822005-07-15 09:13:21 +0000892- Bug #1238170: threading.Thread.__init__ no longer has "kwargs={}" as a
893 parameter, but uses the usual "kwargs=None".
894
Andrew M. Kuchling88b85822005-08-23 00:57:07 +0000895- textwrap now processes text chunks at O(n) speed instead of O(n**2).
Raymond Hettinger8bfa8932005-07-15 06:53:35 +0000896 Patch #1209527 (Contributed by Connelly).
897
Georg Brandl5c5fe2f2005-07-14 06:40:47 +0000898- urllib2 has now an attribute 'httpresponses' mapping from HTTP status code
899 to W3C name (404 -> 'Not Found'). RFE #1216944.
900
Georg Brandl9e43acf2005-07-04 17:16:07 +0000901- Bug #1177468: Don't cache the /dev/urandom file descriptor for os.urandom,
902 as this can cause problems with apps closing all file descriptors.
903
Andrew M. Kuchling7034f6b2006-04-01 10:50:08 +0000904- Bug #839151: Fix an attempt to access sys.argv in the warnings module;
Andrew M. Kuchling88b85822005-08-23 00:57:07 +0000905 it can be missing in embedded interpreters
Georg Brandl5284b532005-06-26 22:54:58 +0000906
Georg Brandl2f210b62005-06-26 22:09:06 +0000907- Bug #1155638: Fix a bug which affected HTTP 0.9 responses in httplib.
908
Georg Brandlfbff1bc2005-06-26 21:36:25 +0000909- Bug #1100201: Cross-site scripting was possible on BaseHTTPServer via
910 error messages.
911
Georg Brandl379f99d2005-06-26 21:09:38 +0000912- Bug #1108948: Cookie.py produced invalid JavaScript code.
913
Raymond Hettingerda99d1c2005-06-21 07:43:58 +0000914- The tokenize module now detects and reports indentation errors.
915 Bug #1224621.
916
Raymond Hettinger68c04532005-06-10 11:05:19 +0000917- The tokenize module has a new untokenize() function to support a full
Andrew M. Kuchling7034f6b2006-04-01 10:50:08 +0000918 roundtrip from lexed tokens back to Python source code. In addition,
Raymond Hettinger68c04532005-06-10 11:05:19 +0000919 the generate_tokens() function now accepts a callable argument that
920 terminates by raising StopIteration.
921
Georg Brandl9166e1a2005-06-04 09:20:03 +0000922- Bug #1196315: fix weakref.WeakValueDictionary constructor.
923
Georg Brandl268e61c2005-06-03 14:28:50 +0000924- Bug #1213894: os.path.realpath didn't resolve symlinks that were the first
925 component of the path.
926
Skip Montanaro174dd222005-05-14 20:54:16 +0000927- Patch #1120353: The xmlrpclib module provides better, more transparent,
928 support for datetime.{datetime,date,time} objects. With use_datetime set
929 to True, applications shouldn't have to fiddle with the DateTime wrapper
930 class at all.
931
Martin v. Löwis55f1bb82005-03-21 20:56:35 +0000932- distutils.commands.upload was added to support uploading distribution
933 files to PyPI.
934
Walter Dörwalda6e8a4a2005-03-31 13:57:38 +0000935- distutils.commands.register now encodes the data as UTF-8 before posting
936 them to PyPI.
937
Raymond Hettinger267b8682005-03-27 10:47:39 +0000938- decimal operator and comparison methods now return NotImplemented
939 instead of raising a TypeError when interacting with other types. This
940 allows other classes to implement __radd__ style methods and have them
941 work as expected.
942
Raymond Hettingerbea3f6f2005-03-15 04:59:17 +0000943- Bug #1163325: Decimal infinities failed to hash. Attempting to
944 hash a NaN raised an InvalidOperation instead of a TypeError.
945
Tim Petersecc6e6a2005-07-10 22:30:55 +0000946- Patch #918101: Add tarfile open mode r|* for auto-detection of the
Martin v. Löwis78be7df2005-03-05 12:47:42 +0000947 stream compression; add, for symmetry reasons, r:* as a synonym of r.
948
Martin v. Löwis00a73e72005-03-04 19:40:34 +0000949- Patch #1043890: Add extractall method to tarfile.
950
Martin v. Löwisc72dd382005-03-04 13:50:17 +0000951- Patch #1075887: Don't require MSVC in distutils if there is nothing
952 to build.
953
Martin v. Löwis637431b2005-03-03 23:12:42 +0000954- Patch #1103407: Properly deal with tarfile iterators when untarring
955 symbolic links on Windows.
956
Tim Petersecc6e6a2005-07-10 22:30:55 +0000957- Patch #645894: Use getrusage for computing the time consumption in
Martin v. Löwisa4dac402005-03-03 11:39:45 +0000958 profile.py if available.
959
Martin v. Löwisdf37c8c2005-03-03 11:08:03 +0000960- Patch #1046831: Use get_python_version where appropriate in sysconfig.py.
961
Martin v. Löwisc5574e82005-03-03 10:57:37 +0000962- Patch #1117454: Remove code to special-case cookies without values
963 in LWPCookieJar.
964
Martin v. Löwis4ea3ead2005-03-03 10:48:12 +0000965- Patch #1117339: Add cookielib special name tests.
966
Martin v. Löwise869eb12005-03-03 09:46:07 +0000967- Patch #1112812: Make bsddb/__init__.py more friendly for modulefinder.
968
Martin v. Löwisf2a8d632005-03-03 08:35:22 +0000969- Patch #1110248: SYNC_FLUSH the zlib buffer for GZipFile.flush.
970
Martin v. Löwisdf241532005-03-03 08:17:42 +0000971- Patch #1107973: Allow to iterate over the lines of a tarfile.ExFileObject.
972
Martin v. Löwis8ed338a2005-03-03 08:12:27 +0000973- Patch #1104111: Alter setup.py --help and --help-commands.
974
Martin v. Löwis4afe1542005-03-01 08:09:28 +0000975- Patch #1121234: Properly cleanup _exit and tkerror commands.
976
Martin v. Löwisc2a0ac22005-02-24 20:22:10 +0000977- Patch #1049151: xdrlib now unpacks booleans as True or False.
978
Raymond Hettingerbab41432005-02-05 01:31:19 +0000979- Fixed bug in a NameError bug in cookielib. Patch #1116583.
980
Guido van Rossumd0641422005-02-03 15:01:24 +0000981- Applied a security fix to SimpleXMLRPCserver (PSF-2005-001). This
982 disables recursive traversal through instance attributes, which can
983 be exploited in various ways.
984
Tim Peterse3547fd2005-12-16 23:13:57 +0000985- Bug #1222790: in SimpleXMLRPCServer, set the reuse-address and close-on-exec
Andrew M. Kuchling3a976052005-12-04 15:07:41 +0000986 flags on the HTTP listening socket.
987
Andrew M. Kuchlinge63fde72005-12-04 15:36:57 +0000988- Bug #792570: SimpleXMLRPCServer had problems if the request grew too large.
989 Fixed by reading the HTTP body in chunks instead of one big socket.read().
990
Tim Peterse3547fd2005-12-16 23:13:57 +0000991- Patches #893642, #1039083: add allow_none, encoding arguments to constructors of
Andrew M. Kuchling10a16de2005-12-04 16:34:40 +0000992 SimpleXMLRPCServer and CGIXMLRPCRequestHandler.
993
Martin v. Löwis1d11de62005-01-29 13:29:23 +0000994- Bug #1110478: Revert os.environ.update to do putenv again.
995
Thomas Hellerd6c6e222005-01-20 19:20:16 +0000996- Bug #1103844: fix distutils.install.dump_dirs() with negated options.
997
Martin v. Löwis22b457e2005-01-16 08:40:58 +0000998- os.{SEEK_SET, SEEK_CUR, SEEK_END} have been added for convenience.
999
Andrew McNamaraa08eecb2005-01-12 03:25:27 +00001000- Enhancements to the csv module:
1001
1002 + Dialects are now validated by the underlying C code, better
Georg Brandl7eb4b7d2005-07-22 21:49:32 +00001003 reflecting its capabilities, and improving its compliance with
Tim Petersecc6e6a2005-07-10 22:30:55 +00001004 PEP 305.
Andrew McNamaraa08eecb2005-01-12 03:25:27 +00001005 + Dialect parameter parsing has been re-implemented to improve error
1006 reporting.
1007 + quotechar=None and quoting=QUOTE_NONE now work the way PEP 305
1008 dictates.
1009 + the parser now removes the escapechar prefix from escaped characters.
Andrew McNamara0f0599d2005-01-12 09:45:18 +00001010 + when quoting=QUOTE_NONNUMERIC, the writer now tests for numeric
Andrew M. Kuchling6db67822006-04-18 14:04:57 +00001011 types, rather than any object that can be represented as a numeric.
Andrew McNamara0f0599d2005-01-12 09:45:18 +00001012 + when quoting=QUOTE_NONNUMERIC, the reader now casts unquoted fields
1013 to floats.
Andrew McNamaraf69d94f2005-01-13 11:30:54 +00001014 + reader now allows \r characters to be quoted (previously it only allowed
1015 \n to be quoted).
Andrew McNamarac89f2842005-01-12 07:44:42 +00001016 + writer doublequote handling improved.
Andrew McNamaraa08eecb2005-01-12 03:25:27 +00001017 + Dialect classes passed to the module are no longer instantiated by
1018 the module before being parsed (the former validation scheme required
1019 this, but the mechanism was unreliable).
1020 + The dialect registry now contains instances of the internal
1021 C-coded dialect type, rather than references to python objects.
1022 + the internal c-coded dialect type is now immutable.
1023 + register_dialect now accepts the same keyword dialect specifications
1024 as the reader and writer, allowing the user to register dialects
1025 without first creating a dialect class.
1026 + a configurable limit to the size of parsed fields has been added -
1027 previously, an unmatched quote character could result in the entire
1028 file being read into the field buffer before an error was reported.
Andrew McNamara31d88962005-01-12 03:45:10 +00001029 + A new module method csv.field_size_limit() has been added that sets
Andrew McNamaraa08eecb2005-01-12 03:25:27 +00001030 the parser field size limit (returning the former limit). The initial
1031 limit is 128kB.
Andrew McNamara7f2053e2005-01-12 11:17:16 +00001032 + A line_num attribute has been added to the reader object, which tracks
1033 the number of lines read from the source iterator. This is not
1034 the same as the number of records returned, as records can span
1035 multiple lines.
Andrew McNamaraa08eecb2005-01-12 03:25:27 +00001036 + reader and writer objects were not being registered with the cyclic-GC.
1037 This has been fixed.
1038
Brett Cannone6539c42005-01-08 02:43:53 +00001039- _DummyThread objects in the threading module now delete self.__block that is
1040 inherited from _Thread since it uses up a lock allocated by 'thread'. The
1041 lock primitives tend to be limited in number and thus should not be wasted on
1042 a _DummyThread object. Fixes bug #1089632.
1043
Raymond Hettinger97db05d2005-01-07 08:15:41 +00001044- The imghdr module now detects Exif files.
1045
Raymond Hettinger6065d322004-12-20 23:51:53 +00001046- StringIO.truncate() now correctly adjusts the size attribute.
1047 (Bug #951915).
1048
Marc-André Lemburgbb4f1bd2004-12-10 21:58:14 +00001049- locale.py now uses an updated locale alias table (built using
1050 Tools/i18n/makelocalealias.py, a tool to parse the X11 locale
1051 alias file); the encoding lookup was enhanced to use Python's
Andrew M. Kuchling88b85822005-08-23 00:57:07 +00001052 encoding alias table.
Marc-André Lemburgbb4f1bd2004-12-10 21:58:14 +00001053
Raymond Hettinger3557f422004-12-07 12:02:02 +00001054- moved deprecated modules to Lib/lib-old: whrandom, tzparse, statcache.
1055
Raymond Hettingera6b45cc2004-12-07 07:05:57 +00001056- the pickle module no longer accepts the deprecated None option in the
1057 args tuple returned by __reduce__().
1058
Brett Cannon84667c02004-12-07 03:25:18 +00001059- optparse now optionally imports gettext. This allows its use in setup.py.
1060
Raymond Hettinger3489cad2004-12-05 05:20:42 +00001061- the pickle module no longer uses the deprecated bin parameter.
1062
Raymond Hettinger1bc82f82004-12-05 03:58:17 +00001063- the shelve module no longer uses the deprecated binary parameter.
1064
Raymond Hettinger6c92d762004-12-05 03:28:00 +00001065- the pstats module no longer uses the deprecated ignore() method.
1066
Raymond Hettingerf3fa9462004-12-05 01:58:09 +00001067- the filecmp module no longer uses the deprecated use_statcache argument.
1068
Raymond Hettinger664347b2004-12-04 21:21:53 +00001069- unittest.TestCase.run() and unittest.TestSuite.run() can now be successfully
1070 extended or overridden by subclasses. Formerly, the subclassed method would
1071 be ignored by the rest of the module. (Bug #1078905).
1072
Raymond Hettinger4901a1f2004-12-02 08:59:14 +00001073- heapq.nsmallest() and heapq.nlargest() now support key= arguments with
Raymond Hettinger3b0c7c22004-12-03 08:30:39 +00001074 the same meaning as in list.sort().
Raymond Hettinger4901a1f2004-12-02 08:59:14 +00001075
Walter Dörwald36733692004-12-22 12:50:50 +00001076- Bug #1076985: ``codecs.StreamReader.readline()`` now calls ``read()`` only
1077 once when a size argument is given. This prevents a buffer overflow in the
1078 tokenizer with very long source lines.
1079
Barry Warsaw538561e2006-01-01 21:48:54 +00001080- Bug #1083110: ``zlib.decompress.flush()`` would segfault if called
1081 immediately after creating the object, without any intervening
1082 ``.decompress()`` calls.
Andrew M. Kuchling3b585b32004-12-28 20:10:48 +00001083
Skip Montanaro05885812005-01-16 20:48:27 +00001084- The reconvert.quote function can now emit triple-quoted strings. The
1085 reconvert module now has some simple documentation.
Raymond Hettinger4901a1f2004-12-02 08:59:14 +00001086
Walter Dörwaldaf3b39a2005-02-18 13:22:43 +00001087- ``UserString.MutableString`` now supports negative indices in
1088 ``__setitem__`` and ``__delitem__``
1089
Greg Ward40407942005-03-05 02:53:17 +00001090- Bug #1149508: ``textwrap`` now handles hyphenated numbers (eg. "2004-03-05")
1091 correctly.
1092
Walter Dörwaldbc8e6422005-04-21 21:32:03 +00001093- Partial fixes for SF bugs #1163244 and #1175396: If a chunk read by
1094 ``codecs.StreamReader.readline()`` has a trailing "\r", read one more
1095 character even if the user has passed a size parameter to get a proper
1096 line ending. Remove the special handling of a "\r\n" that has been split
1097 between two lines.
1098
Walter Dörwalda47d1c02005-08-30 10:23:14 +00001099- Bug #1251300: On UCS-4 builds the "unicode-internal" codec will now complain
1100 about illegal code points. The codec now supports PEP 293 style error
1101 handlers.
1102
Walter Dörwald78a78b02005-09-01 12:04:29 +00001103- Bug #1235646: ``codecs.StreamRecoder.next()`` now reencodes the data it reads
Walter Dörwaldc5238b82005-09-01 11:56:53 +00001104 from the input stream, so that the output is a byte string in the correct
1105 encoding instead of a unicode string.
Greg Ward40407942005-03-05 02:53:17 +00001106
Gustavo Niemeyer6fa0c5a2005-09-14 08:54:39 +00001107- Bug #1202493: Fixing SRE parser to handle '{}' as perl does, rather than
1108 considering it exactly like a '*'.
1109
Walter Dörwald007f8df2005-10-09 19:42:27 +00001110- Bug #1245379: Add "unicode-1-1-utf-7" as an alias for "utf-7" to
1111 ``encodings.aliases``.
Gustavo Niemeyer6fa0c5a2005-09-14 08:54:39 +00001112
Walter Dörwald09f0dd52005-11-21 19:10:07 +00001113- ` uu.encode()`` and ``uu.decode()`` now support unicode filenames.
1114
Gustavo Niemeyer548148812006-01-31 18:34:13 +00001115- Patch #1413711: Certain patterns of differences were making difflib
1116 touch the recursion limit.
1117
Walter Dörwald58917a62006-03-31 15:26:22 +00001118- Bug #947906: An object oriented interface has been added to the calendar
1119 module. It's possible to generate HTML calendar now and the module can be
Walter Dörwald48d5e502006-04-01 07:57:00 +00001120 called as a script (e.g. via ``python -mcalendar``). Localized month and
1121 weekday names can be ouput (even if an exotic encoding is used) using
1122 special classes that use unicode.
Walter Dörwald58917a62006-03-31 15:26:22 +00001123
Raymond Hettinger4901a1f2004-12-02 08:59:14 +00001124Build
1125-----
1126
Neal Norwitz602d3392006-03-31 08:21:40 +00001127- Fix test_float, test_long, and test_struct failures on Tru64 with gcc
1128 by using -mieee gcc option.
1129
Martin v. Löwis86d66262006-02-17 08:40:11 +00001130- Patch #1432345: Make python compile on DragonFly.
1131
Martin v. Löwis856bf9a2006-02-14 20:42:55 +00001132- Build support for Win64-AMD64 was added.
1133
Martin v. Löwisa55e55e2006-02-11 15:55:14 +00001134- Patch #1428494: Prefer linking against ncursesw over ncurses library.
1135
Martin v. Löwisfd9a72a2006-01-08 10:07:33 +00001136- Patch #881820: look for openpty and forkpty also in libbsd.
1137
Martin v. Löwis64c33dd2006-01-03 07:42:14 +00001138- The sources of zlib are now part of the Python distribution (zlib 1.2.3).
1139 The zlib module is now builtin on Windows.
1140
Martin v. Löwisd5845ec2005-12-30 12:31:38 +00001141- Use -xcode=pic32 for CCSHARED on Solaris with SunPro.
1142
Martin v. Löwis147fbe52005-08-07 21:09:30 +00001143- Bug #1189330: configure did not correctly determine the necessary
1144 value of LINKCC if python was built with GCC 4.0.
1145
Trent Mick8321b422005-07-26 02:29:21 +00001146- Upgrade Windows build to zlib 1.2.3 which eliminates a potential security
1147 vulnerability in zlib 1.2.1 and 1.2.2.
1148
Brett Cannon08cd5982005-04-24 22:26:38 +00001149- EXTRA_CFLAGS has been introduced as an environment variable to hold compiler
1150 flags that change binary compatibility. Changes were also made to
1151 distutils.sysconfig to also use the environment variable when used during
Martin v. Löwisd7c795e2005-04-25 07:14:03 +00001152 compilation of the interpreter and of C extensions through distutils.
Brett Cannon08cd5982005-04-24 22:26:38 +00001153
Bob Ippolitoed233462005-03-29 13:47:59 +00001154- SF patch 1171735: Darwin 8's headers are anal about POSIX compliance,
1155 and linking has changed (prebinding is now deprecated, and libcc_dynamic
1156 no longer exists). This configure patch makes things right.
1157
Martin v. Löwise2713be2005-03-08 15:03:08 +00001158- Bug #1158607: Build with --disable-unicode again.
1159
Brett Cannon46d96232005-02-16 00:07:19 +00001160- spwdmodule.c is built only if either HAVE_GETSPNAM or HAVE_HAVE_GETSPENT is
1161 defined. Discovered as a result of not being able to build on OS X.
1162
Brett Cannon516592f2004-12-07 00:42:59 +00001163- setup.py now uses the directories specified in LDFLAGS using the -L option
1164 and in CPPFLAGS using the -I option for adding library and include
1165 directories, respectively, for compiling extension modules against. This has
1166 led to the core being compiled using the values in CPPFLAGS. It also removes
1167 the need for the special-casing of both DarwinPorts and Fink for darwin since
1168 the proper directories can be specified in LDFLAGS (``-L/sw/lib`` for Fink,
1169 ``-L/opt/local/lib`` for DarwinPorts) and CPPFLAGS (``-I/sw/include`` for
1170 Fink, ``-I/opt/local/include`` for DarwinPorts).
1171
Brett Cannon43802422005-02-10 20:48:03 +00001172- Test in configure.in that checks for tzset no longer dependent on tm->tm_zone
1173 to exist in the struct (not required by either ISO C nor the UNIX 2 spec).
1174 Tests for sanity in tzname when HAVE_TZNAME defined were also defined.
1175 Closes bug #1096244. Thanks Gregory Bond.
1176
Raymond Hettinger4901a1f2004-12-02 08:59:14 +00001177C API
1178-----
1179
Tim Petersc9d78aa2006-03-26 23:27:58 +00001180- ``PyMem_{Del, DEL}`` and ``PyMem_{Free, FREE}`` no longer map to
1181 ``PyObject_{Free, FREE}``. They map to the system ``free()`` now. If memory
1182 is obtained via the ``PyObject_`` family, it must be released via the
1183 ``PyObject_`` family, and likewise for the ``PyMem_`` family. This has
1184 always been officially true, but when Python's small-object allocator was
1185 introduced, an attempt was made to cater to a few extension modules
1186 discovered at the time that obtained memory via ``PyObject_New`` but
1187 released it via ``PyMem_DEL``. It's years later, and if such code still
1188 exists it will fail now (probably with segfaults, but calling wrong
1189 low-level memory management functions can yield many symptoms).
1190
Raymond Hettingerbeb31012005-08-16 03:47:52 +00001191- Added a C API for set and frozenset objects.
1192
Raymond Hettinger66517482004-12-03 11:45:13 +00001193- Removed PyRange_New().
1194
Walter Dörwaldd1c1e102005-10-06 20:29:57 +00001195- Patch #1313939: PyUnicode_DecodeCharmap() accepts a unicode string as the
1196 mapping argument now. This string is used as a mapping table. Byte values
1197 greater than the length of the string and 0xFFFE are treated as undefined
1198 mappings.
1199
Raymond Hettinger4901a1f2004-12-02 08:59:14 +00001200
1201Tests
1202-----
1203
Martin v. Löwis4d394df2005-01-23 09:19:22 +00001204- In test_os, st_?time is now truncated before comparing it with ST_?TIME.
Raymond Hettinger4901a1f2004-12-02 08:59:14 +00001205
Hye-Shik Changaaa2f1d2005-12-10 17:44:27 +00001206- Patch #1276356: New resource "urlfetch" is implemented. This enables
1207 even impatient people to run tests that require remote files.
1208
Brett Cannonced04e02005-02-13 22:53:22 +00001209
1210Documentation
1211-------------
1212
Georg Brandl8cb30772006-01-20 09:34:29 +00001213- Bug #1402224: Add warning to dl docs about crashes.
1214
Georg Brandla3a93ae2006-01-20 09:14:36 +00001215- Bug #1396471: Document that Windows' ftell() can return invalid
1216 values for text files with UNIX-style line endings.
1217
Georg Brandl32252422005-09-14 20:42:00 +00001218- Bug #1274828: Document os.path.splitunc().
1219
Georg Brandl79c122f2005-08-24 07:31:33 +00001220- Bug #1190204: Clarify which directories are searched by site.py.
1221
Georg Brandl6f2bbd32005-08-24 07:26:55 +00001222- Bug #1193849: Clarify os.path.expanduser() documentation.
1223
Georg Brandlf13c4ba2005-08-02 10:28:08 +00001224- Bug #1243192: re.UNICODE and re.LOCALE affect \d, \D, \s and \S.
1225
Georg Brandl150db732005-07-18 08:53:17 +00001226- Bug #755617: Document the effects of os.chown() on Windows.
1227
Georg Brandl379f99d2005-06-26 21:09:38 +00001228- Patch #1180012: The documentation for modulefinder is now in the library reference.
1229
1230- Patch #1213031: Document that os.chown() accepts argument values of -1.
1231
1232- Bug #1190563: Document os.waitpid() return value with WNOHANG flag.
1233
1234- Bug #1175022: Correct the example code for property().
1235
Georg Brandl40c71652005-06-25 21:08:46 +00001236- Document the IterableUserDict class in the UserDict module.
1237 Closes bug #1166582.
1238
Brett Cannonced04e02005-02-13 22:53:22 +00001239- Remove all latent references for "Macintosh" that referred to semantics for
1240 Mac OS 9 and change to reflect the state for OS X.
1241 Closes patch #1095802. Thanks Jack Jansen.
1242
Raymond Hettinger4901a1f2004-12-02 08:59:14 +00001243Mac
1244---
1245
1246
Hye-Shik Chang4e422812005-07-17 02:36:59 +00001247New platforms
1248-------------
1249
1250- FreeBSD 7 support is added.
1251
Raymond Hettinger4901a1f2004-12-02 08:59:14 +00001252
1253Tools/Demos
1254-----------
1255
Brett Cannonacde7342006-03-01 04:28:00 +00001256- Created Misc/Vim/vim_syntax.py to auto-generate a python.vim file in that
1257 directory for syntax highlighting in Vim. Vim directory was added and placed
1258 vimrc to it (was previous up a level).
1259
Georg Brandl56897312005-08-24 18:32:30 +00001260- Added two new files to Tools/scripts: pysource.py, which recursively
1261 finds Python source files, and findnocoding.py, which finds Python
1262 source files that need an encoding declaration.
1263 Patch #784089, credits to Oleg Broytmann.
1264
Georg Brandl379f99d2005-06-26 21:09:38 +00001265- Bug #1072853: pindent.py used an uninitialized variable.
1266
Martin v. Löwisab9ec162005-04-09 10:53:34 +00001267- Patch #1177597: Correct Complex.__init__.
Raymond Hettinger4901a1f2004-12-02 08:59:14 +00001268
Barry Warsaw538561e2006-01-01 21:48:54 +00001269- Fixed a display glitch in Pynche, which could cause the right arrow to
1270 wiggle over by a pixel.
Raymond Hettinger4901a1f2004-12-02 08:59:14 +00001271
Skip Montanaroe5d7f7f2002-09-20 14:16:59 +00001272----
1273
1274**(For information about older versions, consult the HISTORY file.)**