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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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Serhiy Storchaka95997452013-01-15 14:42:59 +020012- Issue #14850: Now a chamap decoder treates U+FFFE as "undefined mapping"
13 in any mapping, not only in an unicode string.
14
Serhiy Storchakac4b82c02013-01-08 23:12:00 +020015- Issue #11461: Fix the incremental UTF-16 decoder. Original patch by
16 Amaury Forgeot d'Arc.
17
Victor Stinner23a32ba2013-01-03 03:33:21 +010018- Issue #16367: Fix FileIO.readall() on Windows for files larger than 2 GB.
19
Benjamin Petersona708adf2013-01-02 12:21:32 -060020- Issue #15516: Fix a bug in PyString_FromFormat where it failed to properly
21 ignore errors from a __int__() method.
22
Benjamin Peterson6b3f8d32013-01-02 09:36:23 -060023- Issue #16839: Fix a segfault when calling unicode() on a classic class early
24 in interpreter initialization.
25
Serhiy Storchakacf095f82012-12-28 09:31:59 +020026- Issue #16761: Calling ``int()`` and ``long()`` with *base* argument only
27 now raises TypeError.
28
Brian Curtin33e05e72012-12-27 14:37:06 -060029- Issue #16759: Support the full DWORD (unsigned long) range in Reg2Py
30 when retreiving a REG_DWORD value. This corrects functions like
31 winreg.QueryValueEx that may have been returning truncated values.
32
Brian Curtin0e091b02012-12-27 12:28:51 -060033- Issue #14420: Support the full DWORD (unsigned long) range in Py2Reg
34 when passed a REG_DWORD value. Fixes ValueError in winreg.SetValueEx when
35 given a long.
36
Mark Dickinson9fade762012-12-24 16:33:18 +000037- Issue #13863: Work around buggy 'fstat' implementation on Windows / NTFS that
38 lead to incorrect timestamps (off by one hour) being stored in .pyc files on
39 some systems.
40
Antoine Pitroud38c9902012-12-08 21:15:26 +010041- Issue #16602: When a weakref's target was part of a long deallocation
42 chain, the object could remain reachable through its weakref even though
43 its refcount had dropped to zero.
44
Mark Dickinsonb1cc6aa2012-11-25 17:11:33 +000045- Issue #9011: Fix hacky AST code that modified the CST when compiling
46 a negated numeric literal.
47
Ezio Melottidb5947f2012-11-18 13:46:38 +020048- Issue #16306: Fix multiple error messages when unknown command line
49 parameters where passed to the interpreter. Patch by Hieu Nguyen.
50
Antoine Pitroue3ae3212012-11-17 21:14:58 +010051- Issue #15379: Fix passing of non-BMP characters as integers for the charmap
52 decoder (already working as unicode strings). Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
53
Antoine Pitroub704eab2012-11-11 19:36:51 +010054- Issue #16453: Fix equality testing of dead weakref objects.
55
Gregory P. Smithc1ce93a2012-11-10 20:38:17 -080056- Issue #9535: Fix pending signals that have been received but not yet
57 handled by Python to not persist after os.fork() in the child process.
58
Hynek Schlawackb271b3e2012-11-07 09:41:28 +010059- Issue #15001: fix segfault on "del sys.modules['__main__']". Patch by Victor
60 Stinner.
61
Ezio Melotti751a50f2012-11-05 00:06:50 +020062- Issue #5057: the peepholer no longer optimizes subscription on unicode
Ezio Melottic18cc0e2012-11-05 00:03:21 +020063 literals (e.g. u'foo'[0]) in order to produce compatible pyc files between
64 narrow and wide builds.
65
Ezio Melotti67dc4a82012-11-03 21:10:45 +020066- Issue #8401: assigning an int to a bytearray slice (e.g. b[3:4] = 5) now
67 raises an error.
68
Mark Dickinson75d36002012-10-28 10:00:46 +000069- Issue #14700: Fix buggy overflow checks for large width and precision
70 in string formatting operations.
71
Benjamin Peterson0ec820f2012-10-31 14:05:55 -040072- Issue #16345: Fix an infinite loop when ``fromkeys`` on a dict subclass
Benjamin Petersonc40ddae2012-10-31 14:16:09 -040073 received a nonempty dict from the constructor.
Benjamin Peterson0ec820f2012-10-31 14:05:55 -040074
Nick Coghlanb48c0282012-10-19 21:58:18 +100075- Issue #6074: Ensure cached bytecode files can always be updated by the
76 user that created them, even when the source file is read-only.
77
Chris Jerdonekad4b0002012-10-07 20:37:54 -070078- Issue #14783: Improve int() and long() docstrings and switch docstrings for
79 unicode(), slice(), range(), and xrange() to use multi-line signatures.
80
Mark Dickinson218a8ab2012-09-28 20:36:36 +010081- Issue #16030: Fix overflow bug in computing the `repr` of an xrange object
82 with large start, step or length.
83
84- Issue #16029: Fix overflow bug occurring when pickling xranges with large
85 start, step or length.
86
Christian Heimes671138f2012-09-25 13:29:30 +020087- Issue #16037: Limit httplib's _read_status() function to work around broken
88 HTTP servers and reduce memory usage. It's actually a backport of a Python
89 3.2 fix. Thanks to Adrien Kunysz.
90
Jesus Cea7ddd9c22012-12-05 14:41:11 +010091- Issue #16588: Silence unused-but-set warnings in Python/thread_pthread
92
Antoine Pitrou58098a72012-09-06 00:59:49 +020093- Issue #13992: The trashcan mechanism is now thread-safe. This eliminates
94 sporadic crashes in multi-thread programs when several long deallocator
95 chains ran concurrently and involved subclasses of built-in container
96 types.
97
Benjamin Peterson23d49d32012-08-28 17:55:35 -040098- Issue #15801: Make sure mappings passed to '%' formatting are actually
99 subscriptable.
100
Antoine Pitrouc5bef752012-08-15 23:16:51 +0200101- Issue #15604: Update uses of PyObject_IsTrue() to check for and handle
102 errors correctly. Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
103
Andrew Svetlov15fc2202012-07-26 17:19:40 +0300104- Issue #15041: Update "see also" list in tkinter documentation.
105
Antoine Pitrou715a63b2012-07-21 00:52:06 +0200106- Issue #14579: Fix error handling bug in the utf-16 decoder. Patch by
107 Serhiy Storchaka.
108
Meador Inge6642d1f2012-07-18 14:09:04 -0500109- Issue #15368: An issue that caused bytecode generation to be
110 non-deterministic when using randomized hashing (-R) has been fixed.
111
Jesus Ceae884be62012-10-03 02:13:05 +0200112- Issue #15897: zipimport.c doesn't check return value of fseek().
113 Patch by Felipe Cruz.
114
Jesus Ceabdf1b9e2012-10-31 17:00:19 +0100115- Issue #16369: Global PyTypeObjects not initialized with PyType_Ready(...).
116
Ezio Melotti50bc66a2012-11-03 21:29:08 +0200117- Issue #15033: Fix the exit status bug when modules invoked using -m switch,
Senthil Kumaran3b30b192012-07-04 19:50:29 -0700118 return the proper failure return value (1). Patch contributed by Jeff Knupp.
119
Gregory P. Smithb2ac4d62012-06-25 20:57:36 -0700120- Issue #12268: File readline, readlines and read() methods no longer lose
121 data when an underlying read system call is interrupted. IOError is no
122 longer raised due to a read system call returning EINTR from within these
123 methods.
124
Éric Araujoe5567cc2012-07-03 01:23:46 -0400125- Issue #13512: Create ~/.pypirc securely (CVE-2011-4944). Initial patch by
126 Philip Jenvey, tested by Mageia and Debian.
127
Éric Araujo3cf202e2012-07-03 01:12:42 -0400128- Issue #7719: Make distutils ignore ``.nfs*`` files instead of choking later
129 on. Initial patch by SilentGhost and Jeff Ramnani.
130
Hynek Schlawack9bd4bf22012-06-21 19:45:19 +0200131- Issue #10053: Don't close FDs when FileIO.__init__ fails. Loosely based on
132 the work by Hirokazu Yamamoto.
133
Antoine Pitrouff0e22b2012-05-28 22:22:34 +0200134- Issue #14775: Fix a potential quadratic dict build-up due to the garbage
135 collector repeatedly trying to untrack dicts.
136
Petri Lehtinen5f397062012-05-19 18:34:06 +0300137- Issue #14494: Fix __future__.py and its documentation to note that
138 absolute imports are the default behavior in 3.0 instead of 2.7.
139 Patch by Sven Marnach.
140
Antoine Pitrou284fa082012-05-09 13:24:31 +0200141- Issue #14761: Fix potential leak on an error case in the import machinery.
142
Benjamin Peterson042c47b2012-05-01 09:51:09 -0400143- Issue #14699: Fix calling the classmethod descriptor directly.
144
Benjamin Petersond157a4c2012-04-24 11:06:25 -0400145- Issue #11603 (again): Setting __repr__ to __str__ now raises a RuntimeError
146 when repr() or str() is called on such an object.
147
148- Issue #14658: Fix binding a special method to a builtin implementation of a
149 special method with a different name.
150
Benjamin Peterson76605552012-04-18 11:14:31 -0400151- Issue #14612: Fix jumping around with blocks by setting f_lineno.
152
Mark Dickinson9c0baf72012-04-15 15:19:06 +0100153- Issue #13889: Check and (if necessary) set FPU control word before calling
154 any of the dtoa.c string <-> float conversion functions, on MSVC builds of
155 Python. This fixes issues when embedding Python in a Delphi app.
156
Antoine Pitrou02a38012012-04-05 14:07:52 +0200157- Issue #14505: Fix file descriptor leak when deallocating file objects
158 created with PyFile_FromString().
159
Benjamin Petersonf73813a2012-04-02 11:15:17 -0400160- Issue #14474: Save and restore exception state in thread.start_new_thread()
161 while writing error message if the thread leaves a unhandled exception.
162
Antoine Pitroufe941772012-04-01 16:05:46 +0200163- Issue #13019: Fix potential reference leaks in bytearray.extend(). Patch
164 by Suman Saha.
165
Benjamin Petersoneff19a12012-03-22 08:19:04 -0400166- Issue #14378: Fix compiling ast.ImportFrom nodes with a "__future__" string as
167 the module name that was not interned.
168
Gregory P. Smithfcdf04b2012-03-18 16:07:10 -0700169- Issue #14331: Use significantly less stack space when importing modules by
170 allocating path buffers on the heap instead of the stack.
171
Benjamin Peterson6e7832b2012-03-16 09:32:59 -0500172- Issue #14334: Prevent in a segfault in type.__getattribute__ when it was not
Benjamin Petersondbc52f82012-03-16 10:58:46 -0500173 passed strings. Also fix segfaults in the __getattribute__ and __setattr__
174 methods of old-style classes.
Benjamin Peterson6e7832b2012-03-16 09:32:59 -0500175
Ezio Melotti11f8b682012-03-12 01:17:02 +0200176- Issue #14161: fix the __repr__ of file objects to escape the file name.
177
Benjamin Petersona8d45852012-03-07 18:41:11 -0600178- Issue #1469629: Allow cycles through an object's __dict__ slot to be
179 collected. (For example if ``x.__dict__ is x``).
180
Antoine Pitrou6a1cd1b2012-02-27 00:45:12 +0100181- Issue #13521: dict.setdefault() now does only one lookup for the given key,
182 making it "atomic" for many purposes. Patch by Filip Gruszczyński.
183
krisvale479c8f82012-03-22 20:17:42 +0000184- Issue #10538: When using the "s*" code with PyArg_ParseTuple() to fill a
185 Py_buffer structure with data from an object supporting only the old
186 PyBuffer interface, a reference to the source objects is now properly added
187 to the Py_buffer.obj member.
188
Benjamin Petersona84f4682012-03-07 19:17:57 -0600189Library
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191
Richard Oudkerk90b5d922013-01-14 23:09:14 +0000192- Issue #10527: Use poll() instead of select() for multiprocessing pipes.
193
Serhiy Storchaka80a9fd72013-01-15 00:29:51 +0200194- Issue #9720: zipfile now writes correct local headers for files larger than
195 4 GiB.
196
Serhiy Storchakaeebcb5f2013-01-12 18:12:27 +0200197- Issue #16829: IDLE printing no longer fails if there are spaces or other
198 special characters in the file path.
199
Ezio Melotti5c4e32b2013-01-11 08:32:01 +0200200- Issue #13899: \A, \Z, and \B now correctly match the A, Z, and B literals
201 when used inside character classes (e.g. '[\A]'). Patch by Matthew Barnett.
202
Raymond Hettinger2cdb6432013-01-12 00:05:00 -0800203- Issue #16398: Optimize deque.rotate() so that it only moves pointers
204 and doesn't touch the underlying data with increfs and decrefs.
205
R David Murray32851d62013-01-10 21:10:40 -0500206- Issue #15109: Fix regression in sqlite3's iterdump method where it would
207 die with an encoding error if the database contained string values
208 containing non-ASCII. (Regression was introduced by fix for 9750).
209
R David Murrayd6186842013-01-10 11:30:51 -0500210- Issue #15545: Fix regression in sqlite3's iterdump method where it was
211 failing if the connection used a row factory (such as sqlite3.Row) that
212 produced unsortable objects. (Regression was introduced by fix for 9750).
213
Nadeem Vawda895cc222013-01-02 22:59:51 +0100214- Issue #16828: Fix error incorrectly raised by bz2.compress(''). Patch by
215 Martin Packman.
216
Serhiy Storchaka14224422013-01-01 22:27:45 +0200217- Issue #16819: IDLE method completion now correctly works for unicode literals.
218
Richard Oudkerk7450a812013-01-01 17:25:09 +0000219- Issue #9586: Redefine SEM_FAILED on MacOSX to keep compiler happy.
220
Giampaolo Rodola'cef20062012-12-31 17:23:09 +0100221- Issue 10527: make multiprocessing use poll() instead of select() if available.
222
Serhiy Storchakadbaac372013-01-02 11:56:58 +0200223- Issue #16485: Now file descriptors are closed if file header patching failed
224 on closing an aifc file.
Serhiy Storchaka4ed797e2012-12-29 22:25:59 +0200225
Antoine Pitrou40f12ab2012-12-28 19:03:43 +0100226- Issue #12065: connect_ex() on an SSL socket now returns the original errno
227 when the socket's timeout expires (it used to return None).
228
Serhiy Storchaka61006a22012-12-27 21:34:23 +0200229- Issue #16504: IDLE now catches SyntaxErrors raised by tokenizer. Patch by
230 Roger Serwy.
231
Senthil Kumaran2f01e232012-12-26 01:45:22 -0800232- Issue #16702: test_urllib2_localnet tests now correctly ignores proxies for
233 localhost tests.
234
Senthil Kumaran1974baa2012-12-24 13:56:54 -0800235- Issue #16713: Fix the parsing of tel url with params using urlparse module.
236
Andrew Svetlov1c6c90f2012-12-23 20:09:01 +0200237- Issue #16443: Add docstrings to regular expression match objects.
238 Patch by Anton Kasyanov.
239
Petri Lehtinenab7dd182012-12-20 21:06:14 +0200240- Issue #8853: Allow port to be of type long for socket.getaddrinfo().
241
Benjamin Peterson92014422012-12-20 12:55:52 -0600242- Issue #16597: In buffered and text IO, call close() on the underlying stream
243 if invoking flush() fails.
244
Senthil Kumaranf8a6b002012-12-23 09:00:47 -0800245- Issue #15701: Fix HTTPError info method call to return the headers information.
246
Giampaolo Rodola'c2a81692012-12-17 14:30:48 +0100247- Issue #16646: ftplib.FTP.makeport() might lose socket error details.
248 (patch by Serhiy Storchaka)
249
Antoine Pitrou124ee8b2012-12-16 13:55:47 +0100250- Issue #16626: Fix infinite recursion in glob.glob() on Windows when the
251 pattern contains a wildcard in the drive or UNC path. Patch by Serhiy
252 Storchaka.
253
Antoine Pitrou4113d2b2012-12-15 19:11:54 +0100254- Issue #16298: In HTTPResponse.read(), close the socket when there is no
255 Content-Length and the incoming stream is finished. Patch by Eran
256 Rundstein.
257
Antoine Pitrou7dddec42012-12-09 14:46:18 +0100258- Issue #16248: Disable code execution from the user's home directory by
259 tkinter when the -E flag is passed to Python. Patch by Zachary Ware.
260
Antoine Pitrou8eeda722012-12-08 11:05:50 +0100261- Issue #16628: Fix a memory leak in ctypes.resize().
262
Éric Araujo2320fa02012-12-08 22:26:57 -0500263- Issue #13614: Fix setup.py register failure with invalid rst in description.
264 Patch by Julien Courteau and Pierre Paul Lefebvre.
265
Antoine Pitroub83575b2012-12-02 12:52:36 +0100266- Issue #10182: The re module doesn't truncate indices to 32 bits anymore.
267 Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
268
Benjamin Peterson256aaf72012-11-29 10:57:01 -0500269- Issue #16573: In 2to3, treat enumerate() like a consuming call, so superfluous
270 list() calls aren't added to filter(), map(), and zip() which are directly
271 passed enumerate().
272
Ezio Melottidef6ee52012-11-29 02:22:49 +0200273- Issue #16476: Fix json.tool to avoid including trailing whitespace.
274
Antoine Pitroub83ea142012-11-20 22:30:42 +0100275- Issue #1160: Fix compiling large regular expressions on UCS2 builds.
276 Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
277
Ezio Melotti9e949722012-11-18 13:18:06 +0200278- Issue #14313: zipfile now raises NotImplementedError when the compression
279 type is unknown.
280
Antoine Pitrou02512fb2012-11-17 23:56:53 +0100281- Issue #16408: Fix file descriptors not being closed in error conditions
282 in the zipfile module. Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
283
Gregory P. Smith9d3b6e92012-11-10 22:49:03 -0800284- Issue #16327: The subprocess module no longer leaks file descriptors
285 used for stdin/stdout/stderr pipes to the child when fork() fails.
286
Gregory P. Smithf2705ae2012-11-10 21:13:20 -0800287- Issue #14396: Handle the odd rare case of waitpid returning 0 when not
288 expected in subprocess.Popen.wait().
289
Nadeem Vawda3c309702012-11-11 03:14:56 +0100290- Issue #16411: Fix a bug where zlib.decompressobj().flush() might try to access
291 previously-freed memory. Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
292
Nadeem Vawda252f4dc2012-11-11 02:14:15 +0100293- Issue #16350: zlib.decompressobj().decompress() now accumulates data from
Nadeem Vawda6cad3712012-11-05 00:55:06 +0100294 successive calls after EOF in unused_data, instead of only saving the argument
Nadeem Vawda252f4dc2012-11-11 02:14:15 +0100295 to the last call. decompressobj().flush() now correctly sets unused_data and
296 unconsumed_tail. A bug in the handling of MemoryError when setting the
297 unconsumed_tail attribute has also been fixed. Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
Nadeem Vawda6cad3712012-11-05 00:55:06 +0100298
Ezio Melottief317382012-11-03 20:31:12 +0200299- Issue #12759: sre_parse now raises a proper error when the name of the group
300 is missing. Initial patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
301
Ezio Melotti7d24b162012-11-03 17:30:51 +0200302- Issue #16152: fix tokenize to ignore whitespace at the end of the code when
303 no newline is found. Patch by Ned Batchelder.
304
Andrew Svetlov5018db72012-11-01 22:39:14 +0200305- Issue #1207589: Add Cut/Copy/Paste items to IDLE right click Context Menu
306 Patch by Todd Rovito.
307
Antoine Pitrou0552fc22012-11-01 20:13:54 +0100308- Issue #16230: Fix a crash in select.select() when one the lists changes
309 size while iterated on. Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
310
Antoine Pitroue9e35c32012-11-01 20:07:40 +0100311- Issue #16228: Fix a crash in the json module where a list changes size
312 while it is being encoded. Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
313
Petri Lehtinen5c89c192012-10-29 21:16:57 +0200314- Issue #14897: Enhance error messages of struct.pack and
315 struct.pack_into. Patch by Matti Mäki.
316
R David Murray54eed2e2012-10-27 14:42:36 -0400317- Issue #12890: cgitb no longer prints spurious <p> tags in text
318 mode when the logdir option is specified.
319
Nadeem Vawda45dba1d2012-10-21 23:09:08 +0200320- Issue #14398: Fix size truncation and overflow bugs in the bz2 module.
321
Nadeem Vawdadd72b3f2012-10-21 18:15:05 +0200322- Issue #5148: Ignore 'U' in mode given to gzip.open() and gzip.GzipFile().
323
Antoine Pitroue97a24d2012-10-21 14:09:05 +0200324- Issue #16220: wsgiref now always calls close() on an iterable response.
325 Patch by Brent Tubbs.
326
Jesus Ceaf34e4de2012-11-17 03:38:17 +0100327- Issue #16461: Wave library should be able to deal with 4GB wav files,
328 and sample rate of 44100 Hz.
329
Brian Curtinc1924ab2012-10-11 16:16:50 -0500330- Issue #16176: Properly identify Windows 8 via platform.platform()
331
Gregory P. Smith0798cbc2012-09-29 12:02:48 -0700332- Issue #15756: subprocess.poll() now properly handles errno.ECHILD to
333 return a returncode of 0 when the child has already exited or cannot
334 be waited on.
335
Michael Foordbf2ad342012-09-28 12:54:56 +0100336- Issue #12376: Pass on parameters in TextTestResult.__init__ super call
337
Petri Lehtinena4fd0dc2012-09-25 21:57:59 +0300338- Issue #15222: Insert blank line after each message in mbox mailboxes
339
Senthil Kumarand41dc7c2012-09-25 02:48:21 -0700340- Issue #16013: Fix CSV Reader parsing issue with ending quote characters.
341 Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
342
Ezio Melotticadff702012-09-21 17:26:35 +0300343- Issue #15421: fix an OverflowError in Calendar.itermonthdates() after
344 datetime.MAXYEAR. Patch by Cédric Krier.
345
Ezio Melotti6d6fb3a2012-09-19 08:11:03 +0300346- Issue #15970: xml.etree.ElementTree now serializes correctly the empty HTML
347 elements 'meta' and 'param'.
348
Jesus Cea8b54d6d2012-09-10 00:22:39 +0200349- Issue #15676: Now "mmap" check for empty files before doing the
350 offset check. Patch by Steven Willis.
351
Antoine Pitroue299cae2012-09-07 23:49:07 +0200352- Issue #15340: Fix importing the random module when /dev/urandom cannot
353 be opened. This was a regression caused by the hash randomization patch.
354
Antoine Pitrouc5eec0e2012-09-05 20:11:49 +0200355- Issue #15841: The readable(), writable() and seekable() methods of
356 io.BytesIO and io.StringIO objects now raise ValueError when the object has
357 been closed. Patch by Alessandro Moura.
358
Jesus Cea3e94e142012-10-04 15:06:57 +0200359- Issue #16112: platform.architecture does not correctly escape argument to
360 /usr/bin/file. Patch by David Benjamin.
361
R David Murray20101872012-08-31 23:15:28 -0400362- Issue #12776,#11839: call argparse type function (specified by add_argument)
363 only once. Before, the type function was called twice in the case where the
364 default was specified and the argument was given as well. This was
365 especially problematic for the FileType type, as a default file would always
366 be opened, even if a file argument was specified on the command line.
367
Barry Warsaw03fcfbe2012-09-11 21:06:29 -0400368- Issue #15906: Fix a regression in argparse caused by the preceding change,
369 when action='append', type='str' and default=[].
370
Ronald Oussorena00b1002012-08-25 11:18:48 +0200371- Issue #13370: Ensure that ctypes works on Mac OS X when Python is
372 compiled using the clang compiler
373
Mark Dickinson088cec32012-08-24 20:06:30 +0100374- Issue #15544: Fix Decimal.__float__ to work with payload-carrying NaNs.
375
Petri Lehtinen4efdc092012-08-20 21:05:56 +0300376- Issue #15199: Fix JavaScript's default MIME type to application/javascript.
377 Patch by Bohuslav Kabrda.
378
Mark Dickinson2de4be22012-08-18 12:31:34 +0100379- Issue #15477: In cmath and math modules, add workaround for platforms whose
380 system-supplied log1p function doesn't respect signs of zeros.
381
Petri Lehtinen2d44cee2012-08-15 14:22:46 +0300382- Issue #11062: Fix adding a message from file to Babyl mailbox.
383
Richard Oudkerkfaee75c2012-08-14 11:41:19 +0100384- Issue #15646: Prevent equivalent of a fork bomb when using
385 multiprocessing on Windows without the "if __name__ == '__main__'"
386 idiom.
387
Brian Curtina9391052012-08-09 23:04:42 -0500388- Issue #15567: Fix NameError when running threading._test
389
Meador Inge2d639d52012-08-10 22:05:45 -0500390- Issue #15424: Add a __sizeof__ implementation for array objects.
391 Patch by Ludwig Hähne.
392
Andrew Svetlov8ba844a2012-08-04 21:45:23 +0300393- Issue #13052: Fix IDLE crashing when replace string in Search/Replace dialog
394 ended with '\'. Patch by Roger Serwy.
395
Antoine Pitrou1fa9f7b2012-08-02 20:37:12 +0200396- Issue #15538: Fix compilation of the getnameinfo() / getaddrinfo()
397 emulation code. Patch by Philipp Hagemeister.
398
Andrew Svetlov8a15c372012-07-31 19:51:27 +0300399- Issue #9803: Don't close IDLE on saving if breakpoint is open.
400 Patch by Roger Serwy.
401
Andrew Svetlov2d968482012-07-30 20:04:53 +0300402- Issue #12288: Consider '0' and '0.0' as valid initialvalue
403 for tkinter SimpleDialog.
404
Antoine Pitroubaee34c2012-07-30 00:01:06 +0200405- Issue #15489: Add a __sizeof__ implementation for BytesIO objects.
406 Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
407
Jesus Cead4e58dc2012-08-03 14:48:23 +0200408- Issue #15469: Add a __sizeof__ implementation for deque objects.
409 Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
410
Antoine Pitroubff5df02012-07-29 19:02:46 +0200411- Issue #15487: Add a __sizeof__ implementation for buffered I/O objects.
412 Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
413
Jesus Cea3e3192d2012-08-03 14:25:53 +0200414- Issue #15512: Add a __sizeof__ implementation for parser.
415 Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
416
Meador Inge87c5b942012-07-23 09:27:00 -0500417- Issue #15402: An issue in the struct module that caused sys.getsizeof to
418 return incorrect results for struct.Struct instances has been fixed.
419 Initial patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
420
R David Murray0f111c12012-07-22 21:55:12 -0400421- Issue #15232: when mangle_from is True, email.Generator now correctly mangles
R David Murray70098452012-07-24 14:24:42 -0400422 lines that start with 'From ' that occur in a MIME preamble or epilog.
R David Murray0f111c12012-07-22 21:55:12 -0400423
R David Murray68f555c2012-07-21 22:54:34 -0400424- Issue #13922: argparse no longer incorrectly strips '--'s that appear
425 after the first one.
426
R David Murray056c31f2012-07-21 22:35:00 -0400427- Issue #12353: argparse now correctly handles null argument values.
428
Meador Inge25be3f62012-07-18 23:51:05 -0500429- Issue #6493: An issue in ctypes on Windows that caused structure bitfields
430 of type ctypes.c_uint32 and width 32 to incorrectly be set has been fixed.
431
Gregory P. Smithe0c22202012-07-15 22:16:06 -0700432- Issue #14635: telnetlib will use poll() rather than select() when possible
433 to avoid failing due to the select() file descriptor limit.
434
Antoine Pitrouc2ec9922012-07-06 18:48:24 +0200435- Issue #15247: FileIO now raises an error when given a file descriptor
436 pointing to a directory.
437
Mark Dickinsone0afb722012-06-30 17:19:35 +0100438- Issue #14591: Fix bug in Random.jumpahead that could produce an invalid
439 Mersenne Twister state on 64-bit machines.
440
Petri Lehtinend07de402012-06-29 15:09:12 +0300441- Issue #5346: Preserve permissions of mbox, MMDF and Babyl mailbox
442 files on flush().
443
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd958cc92012-06-29 01:42:46 +0200444- Issue #15219: Fix a reference leak when hashlib.new() is called with
445 invalid parameters.
446
Petri Lehtinen45f0d982012-06-28 13:48:17 +0300447- Issue #9559: If messages were only added, a new file is no longer
448 created and renamed over the old file when flush() is called on an
449 mbox, MMDF or Babyl mailbox.
450
Alexander Belopolskye99d3a12012-06-21 20:57:39 -0400451- Issue #14653: email.utils.mktime_tz() no longer relies on system
452 mktime() when timezone offest is supplied.
453
Richard Oudkerke4b99382012-07-27 14:05:46 +0100454- Issue #6056: Make multiprocessing use setblocking(True) on the
455 sockets it uses. Original patch by J Derek Wilson.
456
Richard Oudkerk4215d272012-06-18 15:37:31 +0100457- Issue #15101: Make pool finalizer avoid joining current thread.
458
Meador Inge43f42fc2012-06-16 21:05:50 -0500459- Issue #15054: A bug in tokenize.tokenize that caused string literals
460 with 'b' and 'br' prefixes to be incorrectly tokenized has been fixed.
461 Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
462
Petri Lehtinen48ee6902012-06-18 10:42:05 +0300463- Issue #15036: Mailbox no longer throws an error if a flush is done
464 between operations when removing or changing multiple items in mbox,
465 MMDF, or Babyl mailboxes.
Petri Lehtinen7cf66992012-06-15 20:50:51 +0300466
Richard Oudkerk926f58d2012-06-11 15:11:35 +0100467- Issue #10133: Make multiprocessing deallocate buffer if socket read
468 fails. Patch by Hallvard B Furuseth.
469
Richard Oudkerk2182e052012-06-06 19:01:14 +0100470- Issue #13854: Make multiprocessing properly handle non-integer
471 non-string argument to SystemExit.
472
Richard Oudkerkd44a4a22012-06-06 17:52:18 +0100473- Issue #12157: Make pool.map() empty iterables correctly. Initial
474 patch by mouad.
475
Ned Deily10e93a62012-12-31 15:06:38 -0800476- Issue #14958: Change IDLE systax highlighting to recognize all string and byte
477 literals currently supported in Python 2.7.
478
Ned Deily5e247b72012-05-31 09:17:29 -0700479- Issue #14962: Update text coloring in IDLE shell window after changing
480 options. Patch by Roger Serwy.
481
Ned Deily71489842012-05-29 10:42:34 -0700482- Issue #10997: Prevent a duplicate entry in IDLE's "Recent Files" menu.
483
Terry Jan Reedy5525eb72012-06-07 19:50:30 -0400484- Issue #12510: Attempting to get invalid tooltip no longer closes Idle.
Terry Jan Reedyd9d276b2012-05-27 21:28:42 -0400485 Original patch by Roger Serwy.
486
Terry Jan Reedyeaa7e782012-05-26 20:33:32 -0400487- Issue #10365: File open dialog now works instead of crashing
488 even when parent window is closed. Patch by Roger Serwy.
489
Terry Jan Reedy42f7b7e2012-05-26 16:55:43 -0400490- Issue #14876: Use user-selected font for highlight configuration.
491 Patch by Roger Serwy.
492
Senthil Kumaran37484dc2012-05-24 21:54:34 +0800493- Issue #14036: Add an additional check to validate that port in urlparse does
494 not go in illegal range and returns None.
495
Antoine Pitroucd8799f2012-05-23 23:16:14 +0200496- Issue #14888: Fix misbehaviour of the _md5 module when called on data
497 larger than 2**32 bytes.
498
Jesus Cea03a9d2a2012-09-10 21:04:42 +0200499- Issue #15908: Fix misbehaviour of the sha1 module when called on data
500 larger than 2**32 bytes.
501
Jesus Cea3fb774e2012-09-10 21:39:07 +0200502- Issue #15910: Fix misbehaviour of _md5 and sha1 modules when "updating"
503 on data larger than 2**32 bytes.
504
Ezio Melottied8cf7a2012-05-21 17:46:55 -0600505- Issue #14875: Use float('inf') instead of float('1e66666') in the json module.
506
Ned Deily77e77a12012-05-19 23:35:05 -0700507- Issue #14572: Prevent build failures with pre-3.5.0 versions of
508 sqlite3, such as was shipped with Centos 5 and Mac OS X 10.4.
509
Senthil Kumaranf439a362012-05-20 12:02:44 +0800510- Issue #14426: Correct the Date format in Expires attribute of Set-Cookie
511 Header in Cookie.py.
512
Senthil Kumaran618802d2012-05-19 16:52:21 +0800513- Issue #14721: Send proper header, Content-length: 0 when the body is an empty
514 string ''. Initial Patch contributed by Arve Knudsen.
515
Ezio Melotti6d9c1b12012-05-19 17:12:17 +0300516- Issue #14072: Fix parsing of 'tel' URIs in urlparse by making the check for
517 ports stricter.
518
Senthil Kumaranea24dda2012-05-19 08:10:40 +0800519- Issue #9374: Generic parsing of query and fragment portions of url for any
520 scheme. Supported both by RFC3986 and RFC2396.
521
Petri Lehtinen280e9f72012-05-18 21:51:11 +0300522- Issue #14798: Fix the functions in pyclbr to raise an ImportError
523 when the first part of a dotted name is not a package. Patch by
524 Xavier de Gaye.
525
R David Murray69493922012-05-16 14:01:03 -0400526- Issue #14832: fixed the order of the argument references in the error
527 message produced by unittest's assertItemsEqual.
528
Antoine Pitrou38fbd792012-05-16 15:01:40 +0200529- Issue #14829: Fix bisect issues under 64-bit Windows.
530
Ned Deily724a55c2012-05-15 18:05:57 -0700531- Issue #14777: tkinter may return undecoded UTF-8 bytes as a string when
532 accessing the Tk clipboard. Modify clipboad_get() to first request type
533 UTF8_STRING when no specific type is requested in an X11 windowing
534 environment, falling back to the current default type STRING if that fails.
535 Original patch by Thomas Kluyver.
536
Senthil Kumaran6a2a6c22012-05-15 22:24:10 +0800537- Issue #12541: Be lenient with quotes around Realm field with HTTP Basic
538 Authentation in urllib2.
539
Ned Deilyacdc56d2012-05-10 17:45:49 -0700540- Issue #14662: Prevent shutil failures on OS X when destination does not
541 support chflag operations. Patch by Hynek Schlawack.
542
Antoine Pitrouc2b714c2012-05-10 20:17:46 +0200543- Issue #14157: Fix time.strptime failing without a year on February 29th.
544 Patch by Hynek Schlawack.
545
Jesus Ceaf2011e32012-05-10 05:01:11 +0200546- Issue #14768: os.path.expanduser('~/a') doesn't works correctly when HOME is '/'.
547
Senthil Kumaran7f6d4e12012-05-01 10:36:28 +0800548- Issue #13183: Fix pdb skipping frames after hitting a breakpoint and running
549 step. Patch by Xavier de Gaye.
550
Antoine Pitrou38153162012-04-25 17:31:12 +0200551- Issue #14664: It is now possible to use @unittest.skip{If,Unless} on a
552 test class that doesn't inherit from TestCase (i.e. a mixin).
553
Lars Gustäbel231d4742012-04-24 22:42:08 +0200554- Issue #14160: TarFile.extractfile() failed to resolve symbolic links when
555 the links were not located in an archive subdirectory.
556
R David Murrayc313b1d2012-04-23 13:27:11 -0400557- Issue #14638: pydoc now treats non-string __name__ values as if they
558 were missing, instead of raising an error.
559
Senthil Kumaran4c20c4e2012-04-23 23:52:40 +0800560- Issue #13684: Fix httplib tunnel issue of infinite loops for certain sites
561 which send EOF without trailing \r\n.
Ezio Melottied8cf7a2012-05-21 17:46:55 -0600562
Antoine Pitrou52849bf2012-04-19 23:55:01 +0200563- Issue #14308: Fix an exception when a "dummy" thread is in the threading
564 module's active list after a fork().
565
Ezio Melottic45868e2012-04-18 19:08:41 -0600566- Issue #14538: HTMLParser can now parse correctly start tags that contain
567 a bare '/'.
568
Vinay Sajip7e9c9d52012-04-16 14:38:23 +0100569- Issue #14452: SysLogHandler no longer inserts a UTF-8 BOM into the message.
570
Mark Dickinson0407e962012-04-15 16:43:19 +0100571- Issue #13496: Fix potential overflow in bisect.bisect algorithm when applied
572 to a collection of size > sys.maxsize / 2.
573
R David Murray9955ad42012-04-13 21:27:00 -0400574- Issue #14399: zipfile now recognizes that the archive has been modified even
575 if only the comment is changed. As a consequence of this fix, ZipFile is now
576 a new style class.
R David Murray3f4ccba2012-04-12 18:42:47 -0400577
Antoine Pitroufa1d8412012-04-09 00:47:24 +0200578- Issue #7978: SocketServer now restarts the select() call when EINTR is
579 returned. This avoids crashing the server loop when a signal is received.
580 Patch by Jerzy Kozera.
581
Andrew Svetlov8af87292012-03-31 14:34:16 +0300582- Issue #14409: IDLE now properly executes commands in the Shell window
583 when it cannot read the normal config files on startup and
584 has to use the built-in default key bindings.
585 There was previously a bug in one of the defaults.
Andrew Svetlovc37db102012-03-29 19:54:58 +0300586
Giampaolo Rodola'96cb5d12012-03-22 16:06:43 +0100587- Issue #10340: asyncore - properly handle EINVAL in dispatcher constructor on
588 OSX; avoid to call handle_connect in case of a disconnected socket which
589 was not meant to connect.
590
R David Murrayb3f95d72012-03-21 15:02:30 -0400591- Issue #12757: Fix the skipping of doctests when python is run with -OO so
592 that it works in unittest's verbose mode as well as non-verbose mode.
593
Andrew Svetlov7c010ee2012-03-21 13:35:08 +0200594- Issue #3573: IDLE hangs when passing invalid command line args
595 (directory(ies) instead of file(s)) (Patch by Guilherme Polo)
596
Giampaolo Rodola'3d3cf482012-03-20 16:46:57 +0100597- Issue #13694: asynchronous connect in asyncore.dispatcher does not set addr
598 attribute.
599
Senthil Kumaran51a65c92012-03-16 01:07:16 -0700600- Issue #10484: Fix the CGIHTTPServer's PATH_INFO handling problem.
601
Senthil Kumaran4c592112012-03-15 13:24:40 -0700602- Issue #11199: Fix the with urllib which hangs on particular ftp urls.
603
Martin v. Löwisf163efd2012-03-13 14:46:22 -0700604- Issue #5219: Prevent event handler cascade in IDLE.
605
Antoine Pitrouf60845b2012-03-11 19:29:12 +0100606- Issue #14252: Fix subprocess.Popen.terminate() to not raise an error under
607 Windows when the child process has already exited.
608
Benjamin Petersona84f4682012-03-07 19:17:57 -0600609- Issue #14195: An issue that caused weakref.WeakSet instances to incorrectly
610 return True for a WeakSet instance 'a' in both 'a < a' and 'a > a' has been
611 fixed.
612
613- Issue #14159: Fix the len() of weak sets to return a better approximation
614 when some objects are dead or dying. Moreover, the implementation is now
615 O(1) rather than O(n).
616
617- Issue #2945: Make the distutils upload command aware of bdist_rpm products.
618
619- Issue #13447: Add a test file to host regression tests for bugs in the
620 scripts found in the Tools directory.
621
622- Issue #6884: Fix long-standing bugs with MANIFEST.in parsing in distutils
623 on Windows.
624
Chris Withers2cc0b072012-11-09 15:48:17 +0000625- Issue #16441: Avoid excessive memory usage working with large gzip
626 files using the gzip module.
627
Ned Deilyec8f8f72013-01-09 22:04:35 -0800628- Issue #15782: Prevent compile errors of OS X Carbon modules _Fm, _Qd, and
629 _Qdoffs when compiling with an SDK of 10.7 or later. The OS X APIs they
630 wrap have long been deprecated and have now been removed with 10.7.
631 These modules were already empty for 64-bit builds and have been removed
632 in Python 3.
633
Christian Heimes8112ea22012-09-24 13:17:08 +0200634Extension Modules
635-----------------
636
Gregory P. Smith0d68ab32012-11-27 10:19:29 -0800637- Fix the leak of a dict in the time module when used in an embedded
638 interpreter that is repeatedly initialized and shutdown and reinitialized.
639
Gregory P. Smith99716162012-10-12 13:02:06 -0700640- Issue #12268: File readline, readlines and read or readall methods
641 no longer lose data when an underlying read system call is interrupted
642 within an io module object. IOError is no longer raised due to a read
643 system call returning EINTR from within these methods.
644
Christian Heimes8112ea22012-09-24 13:17:08 +0200645- Issue #16012: Fix a regression in pyexpat. The parser's UseForeignDTD()
646 method doesn't require an argument again.
647
Antoine Pitrou9945a642012-04-16 03:34:44 +0200648Tests
649-----
650
Serhiy Storchaka8cd7f822013-01-11 11:59:59 +0200651- Issue #15539: Added regression tests for Tools/scripts/pindent.py.
652
Chris Jerdonek3684c792012-12-27 18:14:01 -0800653- Issue #15324: Fix regrtest parsing of --fromfile and --randomize options.
654
Hynek Schlawack4a5a4c22012-12-27 10:24:21 +0100655- Issue #16618: Add more regression tests for glob.
656 Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
657
Hynek Schlawack646c7b52012-12-16 12:30:57 +0100658- Issue #16664: Add regression tests for glob's behaviour concerning entries
659 starting with a ".". Patch by Sebastian Kreft.
660
Victor Stinner8c7c6972012-12-04 10:07:16 +0100661- Issue #15747: ZFS always returns EOPNOTSUPP when attempting to set the
662 UF_IMMUTABLE flag (via either chflags or lchflags); refactor affected
663 tests in test_posix.py to account for this.
664
Ezio Melottid8feba92012-11-29 02:14:52 +0200665- Issue #16549: Add tests for json.tools. Initial patch by Berker Peksag
666 and Serhiy Storchaka.
667
Ezio Melotti282d3312012-11-26 19:22:58 +0200668- Issue #16559: Add more tests for the json module, including some from the
669 official test suite at json.org. Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
670
Trent Nelsone9992292012-10-26 22:21:46 -0400671- Issue #16274: Fix test_asyncore on Solaris. Patch by Giampaolo Rodola'.
672
Petri Lehtinen9ad6a562012-10-23 14:39:34 +0300673- Issue #15040: Close files in mailbox tests for PyPy compatibility.
674 Original patch by Matti Picus.
675
Petri Lehtinen80f45532012-09-01 14:25:48 +0300676- Issue #15802: Fix test logic in TestMaildir.test_create_tmp. Patch
677 by Serhiy Storchaka.
678
Trent Nelsonda4277a2012-08-29 09:20:41 -0400679- Issue #15765: Extend a previous fix to Solaris and OpenBSD for quirky
680 getcwd() behaviour (issue #9185) to NetBSD as well.
681
Antoine Pitrou0e3a4c82012-08-18 20:51:05 +0200682- Issue #15615: Add some tests for the json module's handling of invalid
683 input data. Patch by Kushal Das.
684
Brian Curtinbc77d362012-08-13 17:26:48 -0500685- Issue #15496: Add directory removal helpers for tests on Windows.
686 Patch by Jeremy Kloth.
687
Nick Coghlana0933122012-06-17 19:03:39 +1000688- Issue #15043: test_gdb is now skipped entirely if gdb security settings
689 block loading of the gdb hooks
690
Antoine Pitrou9945a642012-04-16 03:34:44 +0200691- Issue #14589: Update certificate chain for sha256.tbs-internet.com, fixing
692 a test failure in test_ssl.
693
Antoine Pitrou4b536d42012-03-31 23:53:07 +0200694Build
695-----
696
Charles-François Natalibe2b9072013-01-08 19:47:00 +0100697- Issue #16836: Enable IPv6 support even if IPv6 is disabled on the build host.
698
Ezio Melottic820de52012-09-30 22:41:37 +0300699- Issue #15923: fix a mistake in asdl_c.py that resulted in a TypeError after
700 2801bf875a24 (see #15801).
701
doko@ubuntu.com3d2fc152012-09-21 13:51:40 +0200702- Issue #11715: Fix multiarch detection without having Debian development
703 tools (dpkg-dev) installed.
704
Trent Nelsonf6407a12012-08-30 14:56:13 +0000705- Issue #15819: Make sure we can build Python out-of-tree from a readonly
706 source directory. (Somewhat related to Issue #9860.)
707
Ned Deily10fc1042012-09-08 18:47:27 -0700708- Issue #15822: Ensure 2to3 grammar pickles are properly installed.
Ned Deily8622f092012-08-22 23:26:06 -0700709
Ned Deily67028042012-08-05 14:42:45 -0700710- Issue #15560: Fix building _sqlite3 extension on OS X with an SDK.
711
Martin v. Löwis33f8c3a2012-08-01 10:05:27 +0200712- Issue #8847: Disable COMDAT folding in Windows PGO builds.
713
Ned Deilyd8ec4642012-07-30 04:07:49 -0700714- Issue #14018: Fix OS X Tcl/Tk framework checking when using OS X SDKs.
715
Martin v. Löwised11a5d2012-05-20 10:42:17 +0200716- Issue #8767: Restore building with --disable-unicode.
717 Patch by Stefano Taschini.
718
Martin v. Löwisfd0afed2012-05-15 17:26:31 +0200719- Build against bzip2 1.0.6 and openssl 0.9.8x on Windows.
720
Charles-François Natali0d3db3a2012-04-12 19:11:54 +0200721- Issue #14557: Fix extensions build on HP-UX. Patch by Adi Roiban.
722
Antoine Pitrou4b536d42012-03-31 23:53:07 +0200723- Issue #14437: Fix building the _io module under Cygwin.
724
Ezio Melottidc118792012-11-09 11:46:19 +0100725Tools/Demos
726-----------
727
Serhiy Storchaka8cd7f822013-01-11 11:59:59 +0200728- Issue #15539: Fix a number of bugs in Tools/scripts/pindent.py. Now
729 pindent.py works with a "with" statement. pindent.py no longer produces
730 improper indentation. pindent.py now works with continued lines broken after
731 "class" or "def" keywords and with continuations at the start of line.
732
Ezio Melottidc118792012-11-09 11:46:19 +0100733- Issue #13301: use ast.literal_eval() instead of eval() in Tools/i18n/msgfmt.py
734 Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
735
Ezio Melottie48daea2012-05-06 16:15:35 +0300736Documentation
Senthil Kumaran0c472c32012-07-22 19:36:03 -0700737-------------
Terry Jan Reedy45ed0122012-07-08 17:35:26 -0400738
Ezio Melotti58abc5b2013-01-05 00:49:48 +0200739- Issue #13094: add "Why do lambdas defined in a loop with different values
740 all return the same result?" programming FAQ.
741
Brian Curtinbc453ca2012-12-17 00:17:49 -0600742- Issue #14901: Update portions of the Windows FAQ.
743 Patch by Ashish Nitin Patil.
744
Chris Jerdonek8da82682012-11-29 19:03:37 -0800745- Issue #15990: Improve argument/parameter documentation.
746
Chris Jerdonek08012312012-11-14 12:36:53 -0800747- Issue #16400: Update the description of which versions of a given package
748 PyPI displays.
749
Nadeem Vawda04050b82012-11-11 13:52:10 +0100750- Issue #15677: Document that zlib and gzip accept a compression level of 0 to
751 mean 'no compression'. Patch by Brian Brazil.
752
Ezio Melotti3d072062012-10-27 22:04:56 +0300753- Issue #8040: added a version switcher to the documentation. Patch by
754 Yury Selivanov.
755
Chris Jerdonek1906c0c2012-10-08 23:18:17 -0700756- Issue #16115: Improve subprocess.Popen() documentation around args, shell,
757 and executable arguments.
758
Ezio Melotti31a9e832012-10-02 05:34:38 +0300759- Issue #15979: Improve timeit documentation.
760
Chris Jerdonek71d74b02012-09-30 21:07:56 -0700761- Issue #16036: Improve documentation of built-in int()'s signature and
762 arguments.
763
Barry Warsaw0dea9362012-09-25 10:32:53 -0400764- Issue #15935: Clarification of argparse docs, re: add_argument() type and
765 default arguments. Patch contributed by Chris Jerdonek.
766
Petri Lehtinenf9e1f112012-09-01 07:27:58 +0300767- Issue #13769: Document the effect of ensure_ascii to the return type
768 of JSON decoding functions.
769
Hynek Schlawack7d978902012-08-28 12:33:46 +0200770- Issue #14880: Fix kwargs notation in csv.reader, .writer & .register_dialect.
771 Patch by Chris Rebert.
772
Antoine Pitrouf3e0a692012-08-24 19:46:17 +0200773- Issue #14674: Add a discussion of the json module's standard compliance.
774 Patch by Chris Rebert.
775
Senthil Kumaran2f76f732012-08-12 11:58:53 -0700776- Issue #15630: Add an example for "continue" stmt in the tutorial. Patch by
777 Daniel Ellis.
778
Terry Jan Reedy45ed0122012-07-08 17:35:26 -0400779- Issue #13557: Clarify effect of giving two different namespaces to exec or
780 execfile().
Ezio Melottie48daea2012-05-06 16:15:35 +0300781
782- Issue #14034: added the argparse tutorial.
783
Senthil Kumaran0c472c32012-07-22 19:36:03 -0700784- Issue #15250: Document that filecmp.dircmp compares files shallowly. Patch
785 contributed by Chris Jerdonek.
786
Benjamin Petersona84f4682012-03-07 19:17:57 -0600787
Gregory P. Smithc8ff4602012-03-14 15:28:10 -0700788What's New in Python 2.7.3 release candidate 2?
789===============================================
790
Benjamin Petersonee933ec2012-03-15 12:25:54 -0500791*Release date: 2012-03-17*
Gregory P. Smithc8ff4602012-03-14 15:28:10 -0700792
793Library
794-------
795
796- Issue #14234: CVE-2012-0876: Randomize hashes of xml attributes in the hash
797 table internal to the pyexpat module's copy of the expat library to avoid a
798 denial of service due to hash collisions. Patch by David Malcolm with some
799 modifications by the expat project.
800
801
Benjamin Petersona84f4682012-03-07 19:17:57 -0600802What's New in Python 2.7.3 release candidate 1?
803===============================================
804
805*Release date: 2012-02-23*
806
807Core and Builtins
808-----------------
809
Antoine Pitrouc66ed452012-02-15 02:51:43 +0100810- Issue #13020: Fix a reference leak when allocating a structsequence object
811 fails. Patch by Suman Saha.
812
Barry Warsaw1e13eb02012-02-20 20:42:21 -0500813- Issue #13703: oCERT-2011-003: add -R command-line option and PYTHONHASHSEED
814 environment variable, to provide an opt-in way to protect against denial of
815 service attacks due to hash collisions within the dict and set types. Patch
816 by David Malcolm, based on work by Victor Stinner.
817
Antoine Pitroud1c818a2012-01-24 17:44:06 +0100818- Issue #11235: Fix OverflowError when trying to import a source file whose
819 modification time doesn't fit in a 32-bit timestamp.
820
Jason R. Coombs042370e2011-12-26 10:15:15 -0500821- Issue #11638: Unicode strings in 'name' and 'version' no longer cause
822 UnicodeDecodeErrors.
823
Antoine Pitrou5b4b2da2011-12-15 14:15:31 +0100824- Fix the fix for issue #12149: it was incorrect, although it had the side
825 effect of appearing to resolve the issue. Thanks to Mark Shannon for
826 noticing.
827
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc4bf21e22011-12-07 21:46:48 +0100828- Issue #13546: Fixed an overflow issue that could crash the intepreter when
829 calling sys.setrecursionlimit((1<<31)-1).
830
Antoine Pitrou30402542011-11-15 01:49:40 +0100831- Issue #13333: The UTF-7 decoder now accepts lone surrogates (the encoder
832 already accepts them).
833
Petri Lehtinen8028dc22011-10-30 20:59:10 +0200834- Issue #10519: Avoid unnecessary recursive function calls in
835 setobject.c.
836
Benjamin Peterson0c0d7562011-10-27 08:21:59 -0400837- Issue #13268: Fix the assert statement when a tuple is passed as the message.
838
Petri Lehtinen8ffbab82011-10-24 20:59:29 +0300839- Issue #13018: Fix reference leaks in error paths in dictobject.c.
840 Patch by Suman Saha.
841
Senthil Kumaran797b95b2011-10-21 00:32:59 +0800842- Issue #12604: VTRACE macro expanded to no-op in _sre.c to avoid compiler
843 warnings. Patch by Josh Triplett and Petri Lehtinen.
844
Mark Hammond323b5da2011-10-17 11:05:36 +1100845- Issue #7833: Extension modules built using distutils on Windows will no
846 longer include a "manifest" to prevent them failing at import time in some
847 embedded situations.
848
Benjamin Petersona7b09762011-10-15 13:43:21 -0400849- Issue #13186: Fix __delitem__ on old-style instances when invoked through
850 PySequence_DelItem.
851
Charles-François Natali40ab0022011-10-12 22:29:09 +0200852- Issue #13156: Revert the patch for issue #10517 (reset TLS upon fork()),
853 which was only relevant for the native pthread TLS implementation.
854
Victor Stinner63c22fa2011-09-23 19:37:03 +0200855- Issue #7732: Fix a crash on importing a module if a directory has the same
856 name than a Python module (e.g. "__init__.py"): don't close the file twice.
857
Mark Dickinsondbbed042011-09-19 16:38:08 +0100858- Issue #12973: Fix overflow checks that invoked undefined behaviour in
859 int.__pow__. These overflow checks were causing int.__pow__ to produce
860 incorrect results with recent versions of Clang, as a result of the
Mark Dickinsona96b0d12011-09-24 09:01:16 +0100861 compiler optimizing the check away. Also fix similar overflow checks
862 in list_repeat (listobject.c) and islice_next (itertoolsmodule.c). These
863 bugs caused test failures with recent versions of Clang.
Mark Dickinsondbbed042011-09-19 16:38:08 +0100864
Ezio Melotti15d6b652011-08-15 09:22:24 +0300865- Issue #12266: Fix str.capitalize() to correctly uppercase/lowercase
866 titlecased and cased non-letter characters.
867
Benjamin Peterson6c18ff02011-07-22 10:41:44 -0500868- Issues #12610 and #12609: Verify that user generated AST has correct string
869 and identifier types before compiling.
870
Barry Warsawc5643282011-07-19 17:06:30 -0400871- Issue #11627: Fix segfault when __new__ on a exception returns a
872 non-exception class.
Benjamin Petersonc3349cd2011-07-15 14:15:40 -0500873
Antoine Pitrou16166452011-07-12 22:04:20 +0200874- Issue #12149: Update the method cache after a type's dictionnary gets
875 cleared by the garbage collector. This fixes a segfault when an instance
876 and its type get caught in a reference cycle, and the instance's
877 deallocator calls one of the methods on the type (e.g. when subclassing
878 IOBase). Diagnosis and patch by Davide Rizzo.
879
Florent Xiclunaa1f948b2012-01-24 21:05:10 +0100880- Issue #12501: Remove Py3k warning for callable. callable() is supported
881 again in Python 3.2.
Victor Stinnerba8b3a22011-07-08 02:07:45 +0200882
Victor Stinner59729ff2011-07-05 11:28:19 +0200883- Issue #9611, #9015: FileIO.read(), FileIO.readinto(), FileIO.write() and
884 os.write() clamp the length to INT_MAX on Windows.
885
Victor Stinnerd3c7e172011-05-30 23:49:13 +0200886- Issue #1195: my_fgets() now always clears errors before calling fgets(). Fix
Victor Stinner08563d92011-05-30 23:44:13 +0200887 the following case: sys.stdin.read() stopped with CTRL+d (end of file),
888 raw_input() interrupted by CTRL+c.
889
Łukasz Langa7a153902011-10-18 17:16:00 +0200890- Issue #10860: httplib now correctly handles an empty port after port
891 delimiter in URLs.
892
Barry Warsawc5643282011-07-19 17:06:30 -0400893- dict_proxy objects now display their contents rather than just the class
894 name.
Raymond Hettingerbf7a2662011-06-30 00:44:36 +0100895
Victor Stinner08563d92011-05-30 23:44:13 +0200896Library
897-------
Éric Araujoa13cd392011-09-10 05:39:45 +0200898
Petri Lehtinen4ab701b2012-02-21 13:58:40 +0200899- Issue #8033: sqlite3: Fix 64-bit integer handling in user functions
900 on 32-bit architectures. Initial patch by Philippe Devalkeneer.
901
Ezio Melotti36b73612012-02-21 09:22:16 +0200902- HTMLParser is now able to handle slashes in the start tag.
903
Charles-François Natali66f3cc62012-02-18 14:15:38 +0100904- Issue #14001: CVE-2012-0845: xmlrpc: Fix an endless loop in
905 SimpleXMLRPCServer upon malformed POST request.
906
Gregory P. Smith14dc5102012-02-16 00:44:50 -0800907- Issue #2489: pty.spawn could consume 100% cpu when it encountered an EOF.
908
Antoine Pitroudd7e0712012-02-15 22:25:27 +0100909- Issue #13014: Fix a possible reference leak in SSLSocket.getpeercert().
910
Ezio Melottid2307cb2012-02-15 12:44:23 +0200911- Issue #13987: HTMLParser is now able to handle EOFs in the middle of a
Ezio Melotti65d36da2012-02-15 13:19:10 +0200912 construct and malformed start tags.
Ezio Melottid2307cb2012-02-15 12:44:23 +0200913
Antoine Pitrouc39cd782012-02-15 02:42:46 +0100914- Issue #13015: Fix a possible reference leak in defaultdict.__repr__.
915 Patch by Suman Saha.
916
Meador Ingeff337cc2012-02-13 22:22:06 -0600917- Issue #13979: A bug in ctypes.util.find_library that caused
918 the wrong library name to be returned has been fixed.
919
Éric Araujoe897a742012-02-15 16:28:20 +0100920- Issue #1326113: distutils' build_ext command --libraries option now
921 correctly parses multiple values separated by whitespace or commas.
922
Ezio Melottif1174432012-02-13 16:28:54 +0200923- Issue #13993: HTMLParser is now able to handle broken end tags.
924
Ezio Melotti4b92cc32012-02-13 16:10:44 +0200925- Issue #13960: HTMLParser is now able to handle broken comments.
926
Petri Lehtinen587209f2012-02-12 21:03:02 +0200927- Issue #9750: Fix sqlite3.Connection.iterdump on tables and fields
928 with a name that is a keyword or contains quotes. Patch by Marko
929 Kohtala.
930
Florent Xiclunac2279652012-02-12 14:49:03 +0100931- Issue #13994: Earlier partial revert of Distutils enhancements in 2.7
Ned Deilyc47a4592012-02-11 20:40:24 +0100932 has left two versions of customize_compiler, the original in
933 distutils.sysconfig and another copy in distutils.ccompiler, with some
934 parts of distutils calling one and others using the other.
935 Complete the revert back to only having one in distutils.sysconfig as
936 is the case in 3.x.
937
Ned Deily0d0ea482012-02-10 12:59:06 +0100938- Issue #13590: On OS X 10.7 and 10.6 with Xcode 4.2, building
939 Distutils-based packages with C extension modules may fail because
940 Apple has removed gcc-4.2, the version used to build python.org
941 64-bit/32-bit Pythons. If the user does not explicitly override
942 the default C compiler by setting the CC environment variable,
943 Distutils will now attempt to compile extension modules with clang
944 if gcc-4.2 is required but not found. Also as a convenience, if
945 the user does explicitly set CC, substitute its value as the default
946 compiler in the Distutils LDSHARED configuration variable for OS X.
947 (Note, the python.org 32-bit-only Pythons use gcc-4.0 and the 10.4u
948 SDK, neither of which are available in Xcode 4. This change does not
949 attempt to override settings to support their use with Xcode 4.)
950
Senthil Kumaran59e7c8f2012-02-09 18:22:01 +0800951- Issue #9021: Add an introduction to the copy module documentation.
952
Senthil Kumaran607e31e2012-02-09 17:43:31 +0800953- Issue #6005: Examples in the socket library documentation use sendall, where
954 relevant, instead send method.
955
Petri Lehtinenc7fd5232011-05-09 12:24:09 +0200956- Issue #10811: Fix recursive usage of cursors. Instead of crashing,
957 raise a ProgrammingError now.
958
Ned Deily2c8bf042012-02-06 00:55:50 +0100959- Issue #10881: Fix test_site failures with OS X framework builds.
960
Terry Jan Reedyadb87e22012-02-05 15:10:55 -0500961- Issue #964437 Make IDLE help window non-modal.
962 Patch by Guilherme Polo and Roger Serwy.
963
Ned Deily61c95342012-02-04 18:35:23 +0100964- Issue #13933: IDLE auto-complete did not work with some imported
965 module, like hashlib. (Patch by Roger Serwy)
966
Ned Deilyfbc56fd2012-02-03 02:39:49 +0100967- Issue #13901: Prevent test_distutils failures on OS X with --enable-shared.
968
Petri Lehtinen0518f472012-02-01 22:20:12 +0200969- Issue #13676: Handle strings with embedded zeros correctly in sqlite3.
970
Terry Jan Reedyb98000a2012-01-31 02:09:25 -0500971- Issue #13506: Add '' to path for IDLE Shell when started and restarted with Restart Shell.
972 Original patches by Marco Scataglini and Roger Serwy.
973
Antoine Pitrou88c51e82012-01-28 22:01:59 +0100974- Issue #13806: The size check in audioop decompression functions was too
975 strict and could reject valid compressed data. Patch by Oleg Plakhotnyuk.
976
Antoine Pitroud358e052012-01-27 09:42:45 +0100977- Issue #13885: CVE-2011-3389: the _ssl module would always disable the CBC
978 IV attack countermeasure.
979
Senthil Kumaranb05f91d2012-01-21 11:45:12 +0800980- Issue #6631: Disallow relative file paths in urllib urlopen methods.
981
Nadeem Vawdad7664de2012-01-19 00:40:46 +0200982- Issue #13781: Prevent gzip.GzipFile from using the dummy filename provided by
983 file objects opened with os.fdopen().
984
Antoine Pitrou3b6a3142012-01-17 17:13:04 +0100985- Issue #13589: Fix some serialization primitives in the aifc module.
986 Patch by Oleg Plakhotnyuk.
987
Jesus Cea4a8ba192012-01-18 03:51:38 +0100988- Issue #13803: Under Solaris, distutils doesn't include bitness
989 in the directory name.
990
Senthil Kumaranbcd833f2012-01-11 00:09:24 +0800991- Issue #13642: Unquote before b64encoding user:password during Basic
992 Authentication. Patch contributed by Joonas Kuorilehto and Michele Orrù.
993
Antoine Pitroud76088d2012-01-03 22:46:48 +0100994- Issue #13636: Weak ciphers are now disabled by default in the ssl module
995 (except when SSLv2 is explicitly asked for).
996
Senthil Kumaran84c18aa2011-12-23 11:14:56 +0800997- Issue #12798: Updated the mimetypes documentation.
998
Lars Gustäbel7d4d0742011-12-21 19:27:50 +0100999- Issue #13639: Accept unicode filenames in tarfile.open(mode="w|gz").
1000
Antoine Pitroub8572a12011-12-21 10:16:14 +01001001- Issue #1785: Fix inspect and pydoc with misbehaving descriptors.
1002
Antoine Pitrou7a3d8ae2011-12-18 19:27:45 +01001003- Issue #7502: Fix equality comparison for DocTestCase instances. Patch by
1004 Cédric Krier.
1005
Charles-François Natali41616302011-12-18 18:22:24 +01001006- Issue #11870: threading: Properly reinitialize threads internal locks and
1007 condition variables to avoid deadlocks in child processes.
1008
Charles-François Natalif3d35f02011-12-18 15:52:48 +01001009- Issue #8035: urllib: Fix a bug where the client could remain stuck after a
1010 redirection or an error.
1011
Ned Deilyd8fdbad2011-12-14 15:05:42 -08001012- Issue #4625: If IDLE cannot write to its recent file or breakpoint
1013 files, display a message popup and continue rather than crash.
1014 (original patch by Roger Serwy)
1015
Lars Gustäbel9a388632011-12-06 13:07:09 +01001016- tarfile.py: Correctly detect bzip2 compressed streams with blocksizes
1017 other than 900k.
1018
Raymond Hettingerf5377022011-12-11 22:31:09 -08001019- Issue #13573: The csv.writer now uses the repr() for floats rather than str().
1020 This allows floats to round-trip without loss of precision.
1021
Petri Lehtinen49e49a22011-12-02 21:09:30 +02001022- Issue #13439: Fix many errors in turtle docstrings.
1023
Antoine Pitroua5d5bb92011-11-25 21:28:15 +01001024- Issue #12856: Ensure child processes do not inherit the parent's random
1025 seed for filename generation in the tempfile module. Patch by Brian
1026 Harring.
1027
Antoine Pitrouaa1c9672011-11-23 01:39:19 +01001028- Issue #13458: Fix a memory leak in the ssl module when decoding a
1029 certificate with a subjectAltName. Patch by Robert Xiao.
1030
Victor Stinner53853c32011-11-22 22:20:13 +01001031- Issue #13415: os.unsetenv() doesn't ignore errors anymore.
1032
Antoine Pitrou5aa7df32011-11-21 20:16:44 +01001033- Issue #13322: Fix BufferedWriter.write() to ensure that BlockingIOError is
1034 raised when the wrapped raw file is non-blocking and the write would block.
1035 Previous code assumed that the raw write() would raise BlockingIOError, but
1036 RawIOBase.write() is defined to returned None when the call would block.
1037 Patch by sbt.
1038
Ezio Melotti00dc60b2011-11-18 18:00:40 +02001039- Issue #13358: HTMLParser now calls handle_data only once for each CDATA.
1040
Ezio Melotti93bbb6a2011-11-18 17:30:28 +02001041- Issue #4147: minidom's toprettyxml no longer adds whitespace around a text
1042 node when it is the only child of an element. Initial patch by Dan
1043 Kenigsberg.
1044
Ned Deily174c4f82011-11-15 18:29:02 -08001045- Issue #8793: Prevent IDLE crash when given strings with invalid hex escape
1046 sequences.
1047
Ezio Melotti0f1571c2011-11-14 18:04:05 +02001048- Issues #1745761, #755670, #13357, #12629, #1200313: HTMLParser now correctly
1049 handles non-valid attributes, including adjacent and unquoted attributes.
1050
Antoine Pitrou6a570d62011-11-10 00:33:50 +01001051- Issue #13373: multiprocessing.Queue.get() could sometimes block indefinitely
1052 when called with a timeout. Patch by Arnaud Ysmal.
1053
Petri Lehtinen416ecff2011-11-05 10:18:50 +02001054- Issue #3067: Enhance the documentation and docstring of
1055 locale.setlocale().
1056
Petri Lehtinen49aa72e2011-11-05 09:50:37 +02001057- Issue #13254: Fix Maildir initialization so that maildir contents
1058 are read correctly.
1059
Florent Xicluna5f761d72011-11-04 10:15:57 +01001060- Issue #13140: Fix the daemon_threads attribute of ThreadingMixIn.
1061
Florent Xiclunac4a11bd2011-11-01 23:47:46 +01001062- Issue #2892: preserve iterparse events in case of SyntaxError.
1063
Ezio Melotti7e82b272011-11-01 14:09:56 +02001064- Issue #670664: Fix HTMLParser to correctly handle the content of
1065 ``<script>...</script>`` and ``<style>...</style>``.
1066
1067- Issue #10817: Fix urlretrieve function to raise ContentTooShortError even
Senthil Kumaran87e58552011-11-01 02:44:45 +08001068 when reporthook is None. Patch by Jyrki Pulliainen.
1069
Ezio Melotti7e82b272011-11-01 14:09:56 +02001070- Issue #13296: Fix IDLE to clear compile __future__ flags on shell restart.
Ned Deily86d669b2011-10-30 19:58:04 -07001071 (Patch by Roger Serwy)
1072
Florent Xicluna67d5d0e2011-10-29 03:38:56 +02001073- Issue #7334: close source files on ElementTree.parse and iterparse.
1074
Vinay Sajipc515eba2011-10-24 23:26:00 +01001075- Issue #13232: logging: Improved logging of exceptions in the presence of
1076 multiple encodings.
1077
Charles-François Natali46f990e2011-10-24 18:43:51 +02001078- Issue #10332: multiprocessing: fix a race condition when a Pool is closed
1079 before all tasks have completed.
1080
Antoine Pitrou5a77fe92011-10-22 21:26:01 +02001081- Issue #1548891: The cStringIO.StringIO() constructor now encodes unicode
1082 arguments with the system default encoding just like the write() method
Éric Araujob21f51a2011-10-23 04:37:51 +02001083 does, instead of converting it to a raw buffer. This also fixes handling of
1084 unicode input in the shlex module (#6988, #1170).
Antoine Pitrou5a77fe92011-10-22 21:26:01 +02001085
Florent Xicluna47fb1922011-10-20 23:21:58 +02001086- Issue #9168: now smtpd is able to bind privileged port.
1087
Senthil Kumaran797b95b2011-10-21 00:32:59 +08001088- Issue #12529: fix cgi.parse_header issue on strings with double-quotes and
1089 semicolons together. Patch by Ben Darnell and Petri Lehtinen.
1090
Senthil Kumaranddd40312011-10-20 01:38:35 +08001091- Issue #6090: zipfile raises a ValueError when a document with a timestamp
1092 earlier than 1980 is provided. Patch contributed by Petri Lehtinen.
1093
Nadeem Vawdadeb1ce72011-10-17 19:33:38 +02001094- Issue #13194: zlib.compressobj().copy() and zlib.decompressobj().copy() are
1095 now available on Windows.
1096
Éric Araujo017e5352011-10-09 07:11:19 +02001097- Issue #13114: Fix the distutils commands check and register when the
1098 long description is a Unicode string with non-ASCII characters.
1099
Ned Deilybd9d07c2011-10-06 14:29:49 -07001100- Issue #7367: Fix pkgutil.walk_paths to skip directories whose
1101 contents cannot be read.
1102
1103- Issue #7425: Prevent pydoc -k failures due to module import errors.
1104 (Backport to 2.7 of existing 3.x fix)
1105
Antoine Pitrouace2ccf2011-10-04 13:38:04 +02001106- Issue #13099: Fix sqlite3.Cursor.lastrowid under a Turkish locale.
1107 Reported and diagnosed by Thomas Kluyver.
1108
Antoine Pitrou561a8212011-10-04 09:34:48 +02001109- Issue #7689: Allow pickling of dynamically created classes when their
1110 metaclass is registered with copy_reg. Patch by Nicolas M. Thiéry and
1111 Craig Citro.
1112
Charles-François Natali564f8902011-09-29 19:43:01 +02001113- Issue #13058: ossaudiodev: fix a file descriptor leak on error. Patch by
1114 Thomas Jarosch.
1115
Victor Stinner51b71982011-09-23 01:15:32 +02001116- Issue #12931: xmlrpclib now encodes Unicode URI to ISO-8859-1, instead of
1117 failing with a UnicodeDecodeError.
1118
Éric Araujoa13cd392011-09-10 05:39:45 +02001119- Issue #8933: distutils' PKG-INFO files will now correctly report
1120 Metadata-Version: 1.1 instead of 1.0 if a Classifier or Download-URL field is
1121 present.
1122
Éric Araujo0f2dbf32011-09-03 00:47:07 +02001123- Issue #8286: The distutils command sdist will print a warning message instead
1124 of crashing when an invalid path is given in the manifest template.
Victor Stinner08563d92011-05-30 23:44:13 +02001125
Lars Gustäbel8babfdf2011-09-05 17:04:18 +02001126- Issue #12841: tarfile unnecessarily checked the existence of numerical user
1127 and group ids on extraction. If one of them did not exist the respective id
1128 of the current user (i.e. root) was used for the file and ownership
1129 information was lost.
1130
Éric Araujo429b8902011-08-30 01:48:59 +02001131- Issue #10946: The distutils commands bdist_dumb, bdist_wininst and bdist_msi
1132 now respect a --skip-build option given to bdist.
1133
Charles-François Natalifda7b372011-08-28 16:22:33 +02001134- Issue #12287: Fix a stack corruption in ossaudiodev module when the FD is
1135 greater than FD_SETSIZE.
1136
Nadeem Vawdabbabbae2011-08-28 11:23:57 +02001137- Issue #12839: Fix crash in zlib module due to version mismatch.
1138 Fix by Richard M. Tew.
1139
Charles-François Natali2a34eb32011-08-25 21:20:54 +02001140- Issue #12786: Set communication pipes used by subprocess.Popen CLOEXEC to
1141 avoid them being inherited by other subprocesses.
1142
Antoine Pitrou77657e42011-08-24 22:41:05 +02001143- Issue #4106: Fix occasional exceptions printed out by multiprocessing on
1144 interpreter shutdown.
1145
Antoine Pitroua1a8da82011-08-23 19:54:20 +02001146- Issue #11657: Fix sending file descriptors over 255 over a multiprocessing
1147 Pipe.
1148
Antoine Pitrou808cec52011-08-20 15:40:58 +02001149- Issue #12213: Fix a buffering bug with interleaved reads and writes that
1150 could appear on io.BufferedRandom streams.
1151
Victor Stinneracacbaa2011-08-20 14:02:38 +02001152- Issue #12326: sys.platform is now always 'linux2' on Linux, even if Python
1153 is compiled on Linux 3.
1154
Jesus Cead256ca12011-09-19 16:57:18 +02001155- Issue #13007: whichdb should recognize gdbm 1.9 magic numbers.
1156
Éric Araujoe7329f42011-08-19 03:07:39 +02001157- Issue #9173: Let shutil._make_archive work if the logger argument is None.
1158
Charles-François Natalib02302c2011-08-18 17:18:28 +02001159- Issue #12650: Fix a race condition where a subprocess.Popen could leak
1160 resources (FD/zombie) when killed at the wrong time.
1161
Barry Warsaw39935f42011-08-15 19:50:35 -04001162- Issue #12752: Fix regression which prevented locale.normalize() from
1163 accepting unicode strings.
1164
Senthil Kumaranf432aec2011-08-03 18:31:59 +08001165- Issue #12683: urlparse updated to include svn as schemes that uses relative
1166 paths. (svn from 1.5 onwards support relative path).
1167
Éric Araujo33af2632011-08-02 03:16:12 +02001168- Issue #11933: Fix incorrect mtime comparison in distutils.
1169
Éric Araujo560bf852011-07-31 02:04:00 +02001170- Issues #11104, #8688: Fix the behavior of distutils' sdist command with
1171 manually-maintained MANIFEST files.
1172
Éric Araujo9a528302011-07-29 17:34:35 +02001173- Issue #8887: "pydoc somebuiltin.somemethod" (or help('somebuiltin.somemethod')
1174 in Python code) now finds the doc of the method.
1175
Charles-François Natali0cf7e252011-07-27 19:36:40 +02001176- Issue #12603: Fix pydoc.synopsis() on files with non-negative st_mtime.
1177
Raymond Hettinger55e5e272011-07-28 23:56:38 -07001178- Issue #12514: Use try/finally to assure the timeit module restores garbage
1179 collections when it is done.
1180
Ross Lagerwalld8e39012011-07-27 18:54:53 +02001181- Issue #12607: In subprocess, fix issue where if stdin, stdout or stderr is
1182 given as a low fd, it gets overwritten.
1183
Ross Lagerwall528c4ad2011-07-25 07:23:58 +02001184- Issue #12102: Document that buffered files must be flushed before being used
1185 with mmap. Patch by Steffen Daode Nurpmeso.
1186
Charles-François Natali3de8c732011-07-24 22:33:35 +02001187- Issue #12560: Build libpython.so on OpenBSD. Patch by Stefan Sperling.
1188
Antoine Pitrou4cfae022011-07-24 02:51:01 +02001189- Issue #1813: Fix codec lookup and setting/getting locales under Turkish
1190 locales.
1191
Nadeem Vawda0d2889f2011-07-23 16:13:01 +02001192- Issue #10883: Fix socket leaks in urllib when using FTP.
Nadeem Vawdab42c53e2011-07-23 15:51:16 +02001193
Charles-François Natali97781b02011-07-22 23:43:42 +02001194- Issue #12592: Make Python build on OpenBSD 5 (and future major releases).
1195
Charles-François Natali4929eb92011-07-21 19:41:04 +02001196- Issue #12372: POSIX semaphores are broken on AIX: don't use them.
1197
Antoine Pitrou495ee8f2011-07-20 00:26:23 +02001198- Issue #12571: Add a plat-linux3 directory mirroring the plat-linux2
1199 directory, so that "import DLFCN" and other similar imports work on
1200 Linux 3.0.
1201
R David Murray95225952011-07-18 21:34:04 -04001202- Issue #7484: smtplib no longer puts <> around addresses in VRFY and EXPN
1203 commands; they aren't required and in fact postfix doesn't support that form.
1204
Antoine Pitrou304f0f92011-07-15 21:22:50 +02001205- Issue #11603: Fix a crash when __str__ is rebound as __repr__. Patch by
1206 Andreas Stührk.
1207
Charles-François Natali26591402011-07-14 19:49:02 +02001208- Issue #12502: asyncore: fix polling loop with AF_UNIX sockets.
1209
Victor Stinnerbf547fd2011-07-13 21:47:31 +02001210- Issue #4376: ctypes now supports nested structures in a endian different than
1211 the parent structure. Patch by Vlad Riscutia.
1212
Victor Stinnere7901312011-07-05 14:08:01 +02001213- Issue #12493: subprocess: Popen.communicate() now also handles EINTR errors
1214 if the process has only one pipe.
1215
Victor Stinner65c15352011-07-04 03:05:37 +02001216- Issue #12467: warnings: fix a race condition if a warning is emitted at
1217 shutdown, if globals()['__file__'] is None.
1218
Charles-François Natali414d0fa2011-07-02 13:56:19 +02001219- Issue #12352: Fix a deadlock in multiprocessing.Heap when a block is freed by
1220 the garbage collector while the Heap lock is held.
1221
Ned Deily87e82bb2011-06-28 19:52:59 -07001222- Issue #9516: On Mac OS X, change Distutils to no longer globally attempt to
1223 check or set the MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET environment variable for the
1224 interpreter process. This could cause failures in non-Distutils subprocesses
1225 and was unreliable since tests or user programs could modify the interpreter
1226 environment after Distutils set it. Instead, have Distutils set the the
1227 deployment target only in the environment of each build subprocess. It is
1228 still possible to globally override the default by setting
1229 MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET before launching the interpreter; its value must be
1230 greater or equal to the default value, the value with which the interpreter
1231 was built.
1232
Raymond Hettinger2c316a32011-06-25 17:14:53 +02001233- Issue #11802: The cache in filecmp now has a maximum size of 100 so that
1234 it won't grow without bound.
1235
Ross Lagerwallffa8e2f2011-06-25 09:55:10 +02001236- Issue #12404: Remove C89 incompatible code from mmap module. Patch by Akira
1237 Kitada.
1238
R David Murrayf1138bb2011-06-17 22:23:04 -04001239- Issue #11700: mailbox proxy object close methods can now be called multiple
1240 times without error, and _ProxyFile now closes the wrapped file.
1241
Victor Stinnerc74a6ba2011-06-17 14:06:27 +02001242- Issue #12133: AbstractHTTPHandler.do_open() of urllib.request closes the HTTP
1243 connection if its getresponse() method fails with a socket error. Patch
1244 written by Ezio Melotti.
1245
Benjamin Peterson0eb4ac42011-06-11 15:53:11 -05001246- Issue #9284: Allow inspect.findsource() to find the source of doctest
1247 functions.
1248
R David Murray873c5832011-06-09 16:01:09 -04001249- Issue #10694: zipfile now ignores garbage at the end of a zipfile.
1250
Brian Curtincaea7e82011-06-08 19:29:53 -05001251- Issue #11583: Speed up os.path.isdir on Windows by using GetFileAttributes
1252 instead of os.stat.
1253
Mark Dickinsona493ca32011-06-04 18:24:15 +01001254- Issue #12080: Fix a performance issue in Decimal._power_exact that caused
1255 some corner-case Decimal.__pow__ calls to take an unreasonably long time.
1256
Raymond Hettinger45b08292011-06-02 20:40:35 -07001257- Named tuples now work correctly with vars().
1258
Barry Warsawc5643282011-07-19 17:06:30 -04001259- sys.setcheckinterval() now updates the current ticker count as well as
1260 updating the check interval, so if the user decreases the check interval,
1261 the ticker doesn't have to wind down to zero from the old starting point
1262 before the new interval takes effect. And if the user increases the
1263 interval, it makes sure the new limit takes effect right away rather have an
1264 early task switch before recognizing the new interval.
Raymond Hettinger19b851d2011-06-01 18:21:42 -07001265
Victor Stinner776e69b2011-06-01 01:03:00 +02001266- Issue #12085: Fix an attribute error in subprocess.Popen destructor if the
1267 constructor has failed, e.g. because of an undeclared keyword argument. Patch
1268 written by Oleg Oshmyan.
1269
Barry Warsawc5643282011-07-19 17:06:30 -04001270Extension Modules
1271-----------------
1272
Meador Ingefe7aa492012-05-28 13:52:59 -05001273- Issue #9041: An issue in ctypes.c_longdouble, ctypes.c_double, and
1274 ctypes.c_float that caused an incorrect exception to be returned in the
1275 case of overflow has been fixed.
1276
Jesus Cea23fbd8c2012-01-17 00:17:10 +01001277- bsddb module: Erratic behaviour of "DBEnv->rep_elect()" because a typo.
1278 Possible crash.
1279
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcdee76e62012-01-13 22:53:25 +01001280- Issue #13774: json: Fix a SystemError when a bogus encoding is passed to
1281 json.loads().
1282
Charles-François Natali3aa59e32012-01-02 15:38:27 +01001283- Issue #9975: socket: Fix incorrect use of flowinfo and scope_id. Patch by
1284 Vilmos Nebehaj.
1285
Nadeem Vawda36248152011-10-13 13:52:46 +02001286- Issue #13159: FileIO, BZ2File, and the built-in file class now use a
1287 linear-time buffer growth strategy instead of a quadratic one.
1288
Charles-François Natali9ffcbf72011-10-06 19:09:45 +02001289- Issue #13070: Fix a crash when a TextIOWrapper caught in a reference cycle
1290 would be finalized after the reference to its underlying BufferedRWPair's
1291 writer got cleared by the GC.
1292
Meador Ingead349a12011-10-03 21:34:04 -05001293- Issue #12881: ctypes: Fix segfault with large structure field names.
1294
Meador Ingefe150032011-09-27 20:35:28 -05001295- Issue #13013: ctypes: Fix a reference leak in PyCArrayType_from_ctype.
1296 Thanks to Suman Saha for finding the bug and providing a patch.
1297
Jesus Ceac23484b2011-09-21 03:47:39 +02001298- Issue #13022: Fix: _multiprocessing.recvfd() doesn't check that
1299 file descriptor was actually received.
1300
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc439c25e2011-09-12 20:12:09 +02001301- Issue #12483: ctypes: Fix a crash when the destruction of a callback
1302 object triggers the garbage collector.
1303
Jesus Cea6ebaca12011-09-10 04:35:18 +02001304- Issue #12950: Fix passing file descriptors in multiprocessing, under
1305 OpenIndiana/Illumos.
1306
Amaury Forgeot d'Arccf316a12011-09-02 20:32:23 +02001307- Issue #12764: Fix a crash in ctypes when the name of a Structure field is not
1308 a string.
1309
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc3d7f2362011-08-30 21:04:35 +02001310- Issue #9651: Fix a crash when ctypes.create_string_buffer(0) was passed to
1311 some functions like file.write().
1312
Barry Warsawc5643282011-07-19 17:06:30 -04001313- Issue #10309: Define _GNU_SOURCE so that mremap() gets the proper
1314 signature. Without this, architectures where sizeof void* != sizeof int are
1315 broken. Patch given by Hallvard B Furuseth.
1316
Ned Deily43e10542011-06-27 23:41:53 -07001317Build
1318-----
1319
Martin v. Löwisa1b2af82012-02-21 18:12:02 +01001320- Issue #6807: Run msisupport.mak earlier.
1321
Martin v. Löwisef281bd2012-02-21 17:07:32 +01001322- Issue #10580: Minor grammar change in Windows installer.
1323
Ned Deilyc5df5632012-02-19 02:19:12 +01001324- Issue #12627: Implement PEP 394 for Python 2.7 ("python2").
1325
Ned Deily43e10542011-06-27 23:41:53 -07001326- Issue #8746: Correct faulty configure checks so that os.chflags() and
1327 os.lchflags() are once again built on systems that support these
1328 functions (*BSD and OS X). Also add new stat file flags for OS X
1329 (UF_HIDDEN and UF_COMPRESSED).
1330
Jason R. Coombsfee77452011-07-27 14:05:37 -04001331Tools/Demos
1332-----------
1333
Nadeem Vawdaf00011a2012-02-22 11:40:09 +02001334- Issue #14053: patchcheck.py ("make patchcheck") now works with MQ patches.
1335 Patch by Francisco Martín Brugué.
1336
Gregory P. Smith12426992012-02-12 15:51:21 -08001337- Issue #13930: 2to3 is now able to write its converted output files to another
1338 directory tree as well as copying unchanged files and altering the file
1339 suffix. See its new -o, -W and --add-suffix options. This makes it more
1340 useful in many automated code translation workflows.
1341
Jason R. Coombsfee77452011-07-27 14:05:37 -04001342- Issue #10639: reindent.py no longer converts newlines and will raise
1343 an error if attempting to convert a file with mixed newlines.
1344
Victor Stinner99cff3f2011-12-19 13:59:58 +01001345- Issue #13628: python-gdb.py is now able to retrieve more frames in the Python
1346 traceback if Python is optimized.
1347
Victor Stinnerd9f52922011-05-30 23:58:21 +02001348Tests
1349-----
1350
Martin v. Löwisc02e1e62012-07-29 16:30:50 +02001351- Issue #15467: Move helpers for __sizeof__ tests into test_support.
1352 Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
1353
Petri Lehtinen437b1492012-02-17 21:34:41 +02001354- Issue #11689: Fix a variable scoping error in an sqlite3 test.
1355 Initial patch by Torsten Landschoff.
1356
Ned Deily1aacd7b2011-10-31 16:14:52 -07001357- Issue #13304: Skip test case if user site-packages disabled (-s or
1358 PYTHONNOUSERSITE). (Patch by Carl Meyer)
1359
Barry Warsawbf0cafa2011-10-28 16:16:58 -04001360- Issue #13218: Fix test_ssl failures on Debian/Ubuntu.
1361
Charles-François Natalicdaafe02011-08-23 19:42:02 +02001362- Issue #12821: Fix test_fcntl failures on OpenBSD 5.
1363
Éric Araujo498da2c2011-07-31 17:59:28 +02001364- Issue #12331: The test suite for lib2to3 can now run from an installed
1365 Python.
1366
Ned Deily0ab67ee2011-07-13 15:05:31 -07001367- Issue #12549: Correct test_platform to not fail when OS X returns 'x86_64'
1368 as the processor type on some Mac systems.
1369
Antoine Pitrou4a4a0fe2011-07-09 02:34:05 +02001370- Skip network tests when getaddrinfo() returns EAI_AGAIN, meaning a temporary
1371 failure in name resolution.
1372
Jesus Ceacb65f322011-11-08 16:06:44 +01001373- Issue #11812: Solve transient socket failure to connect to 'localhost'
1374 in test_telnetlib.py.
1375
Jesus Cea71094b52011-11-08 15:54:42 +01001376- Solved a potential deadlock in test_telnetlib.py. Related to issue #11812.
1377
Antoine Pitrou29603082011-07-08 19:40:15 +02001378- Avoid failing in test_robotparser when mueblesmoraleda.com is flaky and
1379 an overzealous DNS service (e.g. OpenDNS) redirects to a placeholder
1380 Web site.
1381
Antoine Pitroua4d58d22011-07-08 19:14:19 +02001382- Avoid failing in test_urllibnet.test_bad_address when some overzealous
1383 DNS service (e.g. OpenDNS) resolves a non-existent domain name. The test
1384 is now skipped instead.
1385
Ned Deily46268c42011-07-03 21:52:35 -07001386- Issue #8716: Avoid crashes caused by Aqua Tk on OSX when attempting to run
1387 test_tk or test_ttk_guionly under a username that is not currently logged
1388 in to the console windowserver (as may be the case under buildbot or ssh).
1389
Ned Deily63144c62011-06-28 00:39:19 -07001390- Issue #12141: Install a copy of template C module file so that
1391 test_build_ext of test_distutils is no longer silently skipped when
1392 run outside of a build directory.
1393
Ned Deily43e10542011-06-27 23:41:53 -07001394- Issue #8746: Add additional tests for os.chflags() and os.lchflags().
1395 Patch by Garrett Cooper.
1396
Ned Deily64e59952011-06-27 23:09:31 -07001397- Issue #10736: Fix test_ttk test_widgets failures with Cocoa Tk 8.5.9
1398 on Mac OS X. (Patch by Ronald Oussoren)
1399
Victor Stinnerd9f52922011-05-30 23:58:21 +02001400- Issue #12057: Add tests for ISO 2022 codecs (iso2022_jp, iso2022_jp_2,
1401 iso2022_kr).
1402
Florent Xiclunadf10d7c2011-10-23 23:07:22 +02001403Documentation
1404-------------
1405
Petri Lehtinena15a8d22012-03-01 21:28:00 +02001406- Issues #13491 and #13995: Fix many errors in sqlite3 documentation.
1407 Initial patch for #13491 by Johannes Vogel.
Petri Lehtinen002b2022012-02-16 21:42:34 +02001408
Petri Lehtinenfe6f9d02012-02-02 21:11:28 +02001409- Issue #13402: Document absoluteness of sys.executable.
1410
Brett Cannon64b2b6a2012-01-26 18:32:24 -05001411- Issue #13883: PYTHONCASEOK also works on OS X, OS/2, and RiscOS.
1412
Meador Ingeda747c32012-01-19 00:17:44 -06001413- Issue #2134: The tokenize documentation has been clarified to explain why
1414 all operator and delimiter tokens are treated as token.OP tokens.
1415
Meador Inge52957182011-12-03 12:13:42 -06001416- Issue #13513: Fix io.IOBase documentation to correctly link to the
1417 io.IOBase.readline method instead of the readline module.
1418
Nick Coghlan86711572011-10-24 22:19:40 +10001419- Issue #13237: Reorganise subprocess documentation to emphasise convenience
1420 functions and the most commonly needed arguments to Popen.
1421
Florent Xiclunadf10d7c2011-10-23 23:07:22 +02001422- Issue #13141: Demonstrate recommended style for SocketServer examples.
1423
Victor Stinner08563d92011-05-30 23:44:13 +02001424
Benjamin Peterson5ee84482010-11-28 04:49:23 +00001425What's New in Python 2.7.2?
1426===========================
1427
Benjamin Peterson9843ba52011-06-11 09:42:44 -05001428*Release date: 2011-06-11*
Benjamin Petersonf14e4202011-05-31 18:44:55 -05001429
Benjamin Peterson43ee1a52011-06-10 11:32:52 -05001430Library
1431-------
1432
1433- Issue #12009: Fixed regression in netrc file comment handling.
1434
Benjamin Peterson4ba009d2011-05-31 18:59:49 -05001435Extension Modules
1436-----------------
1437
1438- Issue #1221: Make pyexpat.__version__ equal to the Python version.
1439
Benjamin Petersonf14e4202011-05-31 18:44:55 -05001440
1441What's New in Python 2.7.2 release candidate 1?
1442===============================================
1443
Benjamin Petersoncd207052011-05-29 16:50:27 -05001444*Release date: 2011-05-29*
Benjamin Peterson5ee84482010-11-28 04:49:23 +00001445
1446Core and Builtins
1447-----------------
1448
Ned Deily482f9082011-05-28 00:11:54 -07001449- Issue #9670: Increase the default stack size for secondary threads on
1450 Mac OS X and FreeBSD to reduce the chances of a crash instead of a
1451 "maximum recursion depth" RuntimeError exception.
1452 (patch by Ronald Oussoren)
1453
Benjamin Petersonef1122c2011-06-03 16:17:22 -05001454- Correct lookup of __dir__ on objects. This allows old-style classes to have
1455 __dir__. It also causes errors besides AttributeError found on lookup to be
1456 propagated.
Benjamin Peterson8de87a62011-05-23 16:11:05 -05001457
Victor Stinner2c585f62011-05-10 00:22:59 +02001458- Issue #1195: Fix input() if it is interrupted by CTRL+d and then CTRL+c,
1459 clear the end-of-file indicator after CTRL+d.
1460
Victor Stinner0a92d182011-05-03 15:09:24 +02001461- Issue #8651: PyArg_Parse*() functions raise an OverflowError if the file
1462 doesn't have PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN define and the size doesn't fit in an int
1463 (length bigger than 2^31-1 bytes).
1464
Victor Stinner645b9f62011-05-03 15:06:11 +02001465- Issue #8651: Fix "z#" format of PyArg_Parse*() function: the size was not
1466 written if PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN is defined.
1467
Victor Stinnere363ec12011-05-01 23:43:37 +02001468- Issue #9756: When calling a method descriptor or a slot wrapper descriptor,
1469 the check of the object type doesn't read the __class__ attribute anymore.
1470 Fix a crash if a class override its __class__ attribute (e.g. a proxy of the
Victor Stinner97cf5852011-05-01 23:51:11 +02001471 str type). Patch written by Andreas Stührk.
Victor Stinnere363ec12011-05-01 23:43:37 +02001472
Antoine Pitrou1f9eb152011-04-27 19:26:06 +02001473- Issue #10517: After fork(), reinitialize the TLS used by the PyGILState_*
1474 APIs, to avoid a crash with the pthread implementation in RHEL 5. Patch
1475 by Charles-François Natali.
1476
Ezio Melottie3685f62011-04-26 05:12:51 +03001477- Issue #6780: fix starts/endswith error message to mention that tuples are
1478 accepted too.
1479
Ezio Melottic283a852011-04-15 16:14:04 +03001480- Issue #5057: fix a bug in the peepholer that led to non-portable pyc files
1481 between narrow and wide builds while optimizing BINARY_SUBSCR on non-BMP
1482 chars (e.g. u"\U00012345"[0]).
1483
Victor Stinner5de51ac2011-04-09 16:09:08 +02001484- Issue #11650: PyOS_StdioReadline() retries fgets() if it was interrupted
1485 (EINTR), for example if the program is stopped with CTRL+z on Mac OS X. Patch
1486 written by Charles-Francois Natali.
1487
Mark Dickinson874d59e2011-03-26 12:18:00 +00001488- Issue #11144: Ensure that int(a_float) returns an int whenever possible.
1489 Previously, there were some corner cases where a long was returned even
1490 though the result was within the range of an int.
1491
Antoine Pitrou2ddaaff2011-03-09 12:54:00 +01001492- Issue #11450: Don't truncate hg version info in Py_GetBuildInfo() when
1493 there are many tags (e.g. when using mq). Patch by Nadeem Vawda.
1494
Antoine Pitrou3013b162011-01-18 19:06:19 +00001495- Issue #10451: memoryview objects could allow to mutate a readable buffer.
1496 Initial patch by Ross Lagerwall.
1497
Benjamin Peterson9b911ca2011-01-12 15:49:47 +00001498- Issue #10892: Don't segfault when trying to delete __abstractmethods__ from a
1499 class.
1500
Antoine Pitrou5a72e762011-01-07 21:49:44 +00001501- Issue #8020: Avoid a crash where the small objects allocator would read
1502 non-Python managed memory while it is being modified by another thread.
1503 Patch by Matt Bandy.
1504
Raymond Hettinger57a86892011-01-25 21:43:29 +00001505- Issue #11004: Repaired edge case in deque.count().
1506
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcac514c82011-01-03 00:50:57 +00001507- Issue #8278: On Windows and with a NTFS filesystem, os.stat() and os.utime()
1508 can now handle dates after 2038.
1509
R. David Murray64a1e7c2010-12-15 01:36:03 +00001510- Issue #4236: Py_InitModule4 now checks the import machinery directly
1511 rather than the Py_IsInitialized flag, avoiding a Fatal Python
1512 error in certain circumstances when an import is done in __del__.
1513
Jesus Cea44e81682011-04-20 16:39:15 +02001514- issue #11828: startswith and endswith don't accept None as slice index.
1515 Patch by Torsten Becker.
1516
Benjamin Peterson07f54512010-12-11 04:25:57 +00001517- Issue #10674: Remove unused 'dictmaker' rule from grammar.
1518
Mark Dickinsonecf8ec62010-12-04 12:30:41 +00001519- Issue #10596: Fix float.__mod__ to have the same behaviour as
1520 float.__divmod__ with respect to signed zeros. -4.0 % 4.0 should be
1521 0.0, not -0.0.
1522
Eli Bendersky680e6eb2011-03-04 06:14:56 +00001523- Issue #11386: bytearray.pop() now throws IndexError when the bytearray is
1524 empty, instead of OverflowError.
1525
Benjamin Peterson5ee84482010-11-28 04:49:23 +00001526Library
1527-------
Antoine Pitrou47900cf2010-12-17 17:45:12 +00001528
Ned Deilyd8b17232011-07-26 18:16:08 -07001529- Issue #12590: IDLE editor window now always displays the first line
1530 when opening a long file. With Tk 8.5, the first line was hidden.
1531
Benjamin Peterson4fa68ab2011-05-26 09:56:41 -05001532- Issue #12161: Cause StringIO.getvalue() to raise a ValueError when used on a
1533 closed StringIO instance.
1534
Victor Stinnerdbfba162011-05-26 13:37:25 +02001535- Issue #12182: Fix pydoc.HTMLDoc.multicolumn() if Python uses the new (true)
1536 division (python -Qnew). Patch written by Ralf W. Grosse-Kunstleve.
1537
Victor Stinnerdaf17e92011-05-25 22:52:37 +02001538- Issue #12175: RawIOBase.readall() now returns None if read() returns None.
1539
Victor Stinner5100a402011-05-25 22:15:36 +02001540- Issue #12175: FileIO.readall() now raises a ValueError instead of an IOError
1541 if the file is closed.
1542
Charles-François Natalib94e0cd2011-05-24 23:10:54 +02001543- Issue #1441530: In imaplib, use makefile() to wrap the SSL socket to avoid
1544 heap fragmentation and MemoryError with some malloc implementations.
1545
Victor Stinner40b41e12011-05-24 22:29:13 +02001546- Issue #12100: Don't reset incremental encoders of CJK codecs at each call to
1547 their encode() method anymore, but continue to call the reset() method if the
1548 final argument is True.
1549
Victor Stinnerf58f1c32011-05-21 02:13:22 +02001550- Issue #12124: zipimport doesn't keep a reference to zlib.decompress() anymore
1551 to be able to unload the module.
1552
Ronald Oussorenb13cacf2011-05-17 15:13:46 +02001553- Issue #11088: don't crash when using F5 to run a script in IDLE on MacOSX
1554 with Tk 8.5.
1555
Ronald Oussoren372954e2011-05-17 13:22:30 +02001556- Issue #10154, #10090: change the normalization of UTF-8 to "UTF-8" instead
1557 of "UTF8" in the locale module as the latter is not supported MacOSX and OpenBSD.
1558
Victor Stinnerf58f1c32011-05-21 02:13:22 +02001559- Issue #9516: avoid errors in sysconfig when MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET is
Ronald Oussoren53b6a5f2011-05-15 16:51:10 +02001560 set in shell.
1561
Nadeem Vawda0cc4fd92011-05-14 14:29:07 +02001562- Issue #12050: zlib.decompressobj().decompress() now clears the unconsumed_tail
1563 attribute when called without a max_length argument.
1564
Antoine Pitrouee46a7b2011-05-13 00:31:52 +02001565- Issue #12062: In the `io` module, fix a flushing bug when doing a certain
1566 type of I/O sequence on a file opened in read+write mode (namely: reading,
1567 seeking a bit forward, writing, then seeking before the previous write but
1568 still within buffered data, and writing again).
1569
Antoine Pitrou47d1d0d2011-05-10 19:16:03 +02001570- Issue #8498: In socket.accept(), allow to specify 0 as a backlog value in
1571 order to accept exactly one connection. Patch by Daniel Evers.
1572
Victor Stinnerb1241f92011-05-10 01:52:03 +02001573- Issue #12012: ssl.PROTOCOL_SSLv2 becomes optional.
1574
Martin v. Löwis591c2df2011-05-09 08:19:13 +02001575- Issue #11164: Remove obsolete allnodes test from minidom test.
1576
Antoine Pitrou21ce8f02011-05-07 19:59:33 +02001577- Issue #11927: SMTP_SSL now uses port 465 by default as documented. Patch
1578 by Kasun Herath.
1579
Ezio Melotti50bc66a2012-11-03 21:29:08 +02001580- Issue #11999: fixed sporadic sync failure mailbox.Maildir due to its trying to
R David Murray8b26c4b2011-05-06 21:56:22 -04001581 detect mtime changes by comparing to the system clock instead of to the
1582 previous value of the mtime.
1583
Ronald Oussoren58d6b1b2011-05-06 11:31:33 +02001584- Issue #10684: shutil.move used to delete a folder on case insensitive
1585 filesystems when the source and destination name where the same except
1586 for the case.
1587
Ezio Melottidf8a8f72011-05-04 14:40:53 +03001588- Issue #11982: fix json.loads('""') to return u'' rather than ''.
1589
Victor Stinner112d48a2011-05-03 14:36:36 +02001590- Issue #11277: mmap.mmap() calls fcntl(fd, F_FULLFSYNC) on Mac OS X to get
1591 around a mmap bug with sparse files. Patch written by Steffen Daode Nurpmeso.
1592
Senthil Kumaran011525e2011-04-28 15:30:31 +08001593- Issue #10761: Fix tarfile.extractall failure when symlinked files are
1594 present. Initial patch by Scott Leerssen.
1595
Ezio Melotti34b32d62011-04-27 09:45:46 +03001596- Issue #11763: don't use difflib in TestCase.assertMultiLineEqual if the
1597 strings are too long.
1598
Senthil Kumaran5dc68682011-04-26 21:17:45 +08001599- Issue #11236: getpass.getpass responds to ctrl-c or ctrl-z on terminal.
1600
Victor Stinner33feeab2011-04-18 16:33:28 +02001601- Issue #11768: The signal handler of the signal module only calls
1602 Py_AddPendingCall() for the first signal to fix a deadlock on reentrant or
1603 parallel calls. PyErr_SetInterrupt() writes also into the wake up file.
1604
Raymond Hettingere0156c42011-04-19 09:48:39 -07001605- Issue #11875: collections.OrderedDict's __reduce__ was temporarily
1606 mutating the object instead of just working on a copy.
1607
Martin v. Löwis2d253dd2011-04-17 22:29:40 +02001608- Issue #11442: Add a charset parameter to the Content-type in SimpleHTTPServer
1609 to avoid XSS attacks.
1610
Senthil Kumaranddaea1c2011-04-15 18:07:33 +08001611- Issue #11467: Fix urlparse behavior when handling urls which contains scheme
1612 specific part only digits. Patch by Santoso Wijaya.
1613
Raymond Hettinger37c0fe52011-04-15 13:12:21 -07001614- collections.Counter().copy() now works correctly for subclasses.
1615
Senthil Kumarana99b7612011-04-14 12:54:35 +08001616- Issue #11474: Fix the bug with url2pathname() handling of '/C|/' on Windows.
1617 Patch by Santoso Wijaya.
1618
Ezio Melotti2b96f092011-04-13 05:37:29 +03001619- Issue #9233: Fix json.loads('{}') to return a dict (instead of a list), when
1620 _json is not available.
1621
1622- Issue #11703: urllib2.geturl() does not return correct url when the original
Senthil Kumaran0531d6f2011-04-13 09:47:20 +08001623 url contains #fragment.
1624
R David Murrayea8b6ef2011-04-12 21:00:26 -04001625- Issue #10019: Fixed regression in json module where an indent of 0 stopped
1626 adding newlines and acted instead like 'None'.
1627
brian.curtin16f98b72011-04-11 18:05:33 -05001628- Issue #5162: Treat services like frozen executables to allow child spawning
1629 from multiprocessing.forking on Windows.
1630
Ezio Melotti8b4367e2011-04-11 03:44:28 +03001631- Issue #4877: Fix a segfault in xml.parsers.expat while attempting to parse
1632 a closed file.
1633
Raymond Hettingere4579c32011-04-11 17:27:42 -07001634- Issue #11830: Remove unnecessary introspection code in the decimal module.
1635 It was causing a failed import in the Turkish locale where the locale
1636 sensitive str.upper() method caused a name mismatch.
1637
Antoine Pitrou7dfc8742011-04-11 00:26:42 +02001638- Issue #8428: Fix a race condition in multiprocessing.Pool when terminating
1639 worker processes: new processes would be spawned while the pool is being
1640 shut down. Patch by Charles-François Natali.
1641
Ezio Melotti8b4367e2011-04-11 03:44:28 +03001642- Issue #7311: Fix HTMLParser to accept non-ASCII attribute values.
Ezio Melotti9f1ffb22011-04-05 20:40:52 +03001643
Ross Lagerwall104c3f12011-04-05 15:24:34 +02001644- Issue #10963: Ensure that subprocess.communicate() never raises EPIPE.
1645
guido@google.com2bc23b82011-03-24 10:44:17 -07001646- Issue #11662: Make urllib and urllib2 ignore redirections if the
guido@google.comdb3080e2011-03-28 13:53:40 -07001647 scheme is not HTTP, HTTPS or FTP (CVE-2011-1521).
Antoine Pitrou47900cf2010-12-17 17:45:12 +00001648
Benjamin Peterson77d46602011-03-28 17:32:31 -05001649- Issue #11256: Fix inspect.getcallargs on functions that take only keyword
1650 arguments.
1651
Martin v. Löwis03f7e232011-03-27 20:58:52 +02001652- Issue #11696: Fix ID generation in msilib.
1653
Mark Dickinsond687be02011-03-27 16:15:24 +01001654- Issue #9696: Fix exception incorrectly raised by xdrlib.Packer.pack_int when
1655 trying to pack a negative (in-range) integer.
1656
Mark Dickinson1829e8f2011-03-27 15:32:05 +01001657- Issue #11675: multiprocessing.[Raw]Array objects created from an integer size
1658 are now zeroed on creation. This matches the behaviour specified by the
1659 documentation.
1660
Martin v. Löwis49b0ce02011-03-27 10:10:46 +02001661- Issue #7639: Fix short file name generation in bdist_msi.
1662
Raymond Hettinger9aa5a342011-03-25 16:00:13 -07001663- Issue #11666: let help() display named tuple attributes and methods
1664 that start with a leading underscore.
1665
Mark Dickinsonf9e9a6f2011-03-25 22:01:06 +00001666- Issue #11673: Fix multiprocessing Array and RawArray constructors to accept a
1667 size of type 'long', rather than only accepting 'int'.
1668
Éric Araujo374274d2011-03-19 04:29:36 +01001669- Issue #10042: Fixed the total_ordering decorator to handle cross-type
1670 comparisons that could lead to infinite recursion.
1671
Michael Foord51368672011-03-17 12:59:38 -04001672- Issue #10979: unittest stdout buffering now works with class and module
1673 setup and teardown.
1674
Ronald Oussoren2ab59942011-03-16 09:47:15 -04001675- Issue #11569: use absolute path to the sysctl command in multiprocessing to
1676 ensure that it will be found regardless of the shell PATH. This ensures
1677 that multiprocessing.cpu_count works on default installs of MacOSX.
1678
Michael Foord51368672011-03-17 12:59:38 -04001679- Issue #11500: Fixed a bug in the os x proxy bypass code for fully qualified
1680 IP addresses in the proxy exception list.
Ronald Oussoren1aa999c2011-03-14 18:53:59 -04001681
Mark Dickinson2c8c62e2011-03-12 11:05:32 +00001682- Issue #11131: Fix sign of zero in plus and minus operations when
1683 the context rounding mode is ROUND_FLOOR.
1684
Ned Deily9d4836e2011-03-09 02:31:55 -08001685- Issue #5622: Fix curses.wrapper to raise correct exception if curses
1686 initialization fails.
1687
Antoine Pitroud6f3a3e2011-03-06 02:03:34 +01001688- Issue #11391: Writing to a mmap object created with
1689 ``mmap.PROT_READ|mmap.PROT_EXEC`` would segfault instead of raising a
1690 TypeError. Patch by Charles-François Natali.
1691
R. David Murray1a337902011-03-03 18:17:40 +00001692- Issue #11306: mailbox in certain cases adapts to an inability to open
1693 certain files in read-write mode. Previously it detected this by
1694 checking for EACCES, now it also checks for EROFS.
1695
Giampaolo Rodolàd65224f2011-03-03 14:17:51 +00001696- Issue #11265: asyncore now correctly handles EPIPE, EBADF and EAGAIN errors
1697 on accept(), send() and recv().
1698
Antoine Pitroud3f6ea12011-02-26 23:35:27 +00001699- Issue #11326: Add the missing connect_ex() implementation for SSL sockets,
1700 and make it work for non-blocking connects.
1701
Antoine Pitrou6439c002011-02-25 21:35:47 +00001702- Issue #10956: Buffered I/O classes retry reading or writing after a signal
1703 has arrived and the handler returned successfully.
1704
Georg Brandl28046022011-02-25 11:01:04 +00001705- Issue #10680: Fix mutually exclusive arguments for argument groups in
1706 argparse.
1707
Antoine Pitrouf4d2b3d2011-02-21 23:59:20 +00001708- Issue #4681: Allow mmap() to work on file sizes and offsets larger than
1709 4GB, even on 32-bit builds. Initial patch by Ross Lagerwall, adapted for
1710 32-bit Windows.
1711
Georg Brandl52f83952011-02-25 10:39:23 +00001712- Issue #10360: In WeakSet, do not raise TypeErrors when testing for
1713 membership of non-weakrefable objects.
1714
1715- Issue #10549: Fix pydoc traceback when text-documenting certain classes.
1716
1717- Issue #940286: pydoc.Helper.help() ignores input/output init parameters.
1718
Barry Warsaw42bb7ca2011-02-14 20:04:00 +00001719- Issue #11171: Fix detection of config/Makefile when --prefix !=
1720 --exec-prefix, which caused Python to not start.
1721
R. David Murray008c0442011-02-11 23:03:13 +00001722- Issue #11116: any error during addition of a message to a mailbox now causes
1723 a rollback, instead of leaving the mailbox partially modified.
1724
Antoine Pitrou820021e2011-01-31 21:47:45 +00001725- Issue #8275: Fix passing of callback arguments with ctypes under Win64.
1726 Patch by Stan Mihai.
1727
Ned Deily60651532011-01-31 00:52:49 +00001728- Issue #10940: Workaround an IDLE hang on Mac OS X 10.6 when using the
1729 menu accelerators for Open Module, Go to Line, and New Indent Width.
1730 The accelerators still work but no longer appear in the menu items.
1731
Ned Deily2a6f4b32011-01-30 00:18:47 +00001732- Issue #10907: Warn OS X 10.6 IDLE users to use ActiveState Tcl/Tk 8.5, rather
1733 than the currently problematic Apple-supplied one, when running with the
1734 64-/32-bit installer variant.
1735
Ned Deilyefc527a2011-01-29 19:30:39 +00001736- Issue #11052: Correct IDLE menu accelerators on Mac OS X for Save
1737 commands.
1738
Vinay Sajipcdb83882011-01-21 23:35:57 +00001739- Issue #10949: Improved robustness of rotating file handlers.
1740
Antoine Pitrou8a0eede2011-01-20 21:20:18 +00001741- Issue #10955: Fix a potential crash when trying to mmap() a file past its
1742 length. Initial patch by Ross Lagerwall.
1743
Antoine Pitrou63a3f152011-01-19 15:27:24 +00001744- Issue #10898: Allow compiling the posix module when the C library defines
1745 a symbol named FSTAT.
1746
Ned Deily4a705502011-01-18 04:33:22 +00001747- Issue #6075: IDLE on Mac OS X now works with both Carbon AquaTk and
1748 Cocoa AquaTk.
1749
Antoine Pitrou9989d852011-01-15 16:18:57 +00001750- Issue #10916: mmap should not segfault when a file is mapped using 0 as
1751 length and a non-zero offset, and an attempt to read past the end of file
1752 is made (IndexError is raised instead). Patch by Ross Lagerwall.
1753
Terry Reedyf7dd7992011-01-10 22:15:19 +00001754- Issue #10875: Update Regular Expression HOWTO; patch by 'SilentGhost'.
1755
Antoine Pitrou5a72e762011-01-07 21:49:44 +00001756- Issue #10827: Changed the rules for 2-digit years. The time.asctime
1757 function will now format any year when ``time.accept2dyear`` is
1758 false and will accept years >= 1000 otherwise. The year range
1759 accepted by ``time.mktime`` and ``time.strftime`` is still system
1760 dependent, but ``time.mktime`` will now accept full range supported
1761 by the OS. Conversion of 2-digit years to 4-digit is deprecated.
1762
Georg Brandl6adb9792011-01-09 07:53:14 +00001763- Issue #10869: Fixed bug where ast.increment_lineno modified the root
1764 node twice.
1765
Antoine Pitrou1f1613f2011-01-06 18:30:26 +00001766- Issue #7858: Raise an error properly when os.utime() fails under Windows
1767 on an existing file.
1768
Antoine Pitrou77c1b382011-01-06 17:19:05 +00001769- Issue #3839: wsgiref should not override a Content-Length header set by
1770 the application. Initial patch by Clovis Fabricio.
1771
Antoine Pitrou91ce0d92011-01-03 18:45:09 +00001772- Issue #10806, issue #9905: Fix subprocess pipes when some of the standard
1773 file descriptors (0, 1, 2) are closed in the parent process. Initial
1774 patch by Ross Lagerwall.
1775
Antoine Pitroub0614612011-01-02 20:04:52 +00001776- Issue #4662: os.tempnam(), os.tmpfile() and os.tmpnam() now raise a py3k
1777 DeprecationWarning.
1778
Raymond Hettinger8ebebd82011-01-02 01:03:26 +00001779- Subclasses of collections.OrderedDict now work correctly with __missing__.
1780
Éric Araujo86f90742011-03-21 00:15:26 +01001781- Issue #10753 - Characters ';', '=' and ',' in the PATH_INFO environment
Senthil Kumaran559395f2010-12-29 06:30:19 +00001782 variable won't be quoted when the URI is constructed by the wsgiref.util 's
1783 request_uri method. According to RFC 3986, these characters can be a part of
1784 params in PATH component of URI and need not be quoted.
1785
Éric Araujo86f90742011-03-21 00:15:26 +01001786- Issue #10738: Fix webbrowser.Opera.raise_opts
Terry Reedy0df73672010-12-28 19:53:32 +00001787
Éric Araujo86f90742011-03-21 00:15:26 +01001788- Issue #9824: SimpleCookie now encodes , and ; in values to cater to how
R. David Murray08fc7012010-12-28 19:11:03 +00001789 browsers actually parse cookies.
1790
R. David Murray5360d002010-12-27 19:17:17 +00001791- Issue #1379416: eliminated a source of accidental unicode promotion in
1792 email.header.Header.encode.
1793
R. David Murray5874ed62010-12-26 22:29:53 +00001794- Issue #5258/#10642: if site.py encounters a .pth file that generates an error,
1795 it now prints the filename, line number, and traceback to stderr and skips
1796 the rest of that individual file, instead of stopping processing entirely.
1797
Antoine Pitroufc9ead62010-12-21 21:26:55 +00001798- Issue #10750: The ``raw`` attribute of buffered IO objects is now read-only.
1799
Daniel Stutzbach57cf0af2011-01-04 18:47:17 +00001800- Issue #10242: unittest.TestCase.assertItemsEqual makes too many assumptions
Michael Foorde6e0e262010-12-19 15:52:56 +00001801 about input.
1802
Michael Foorda17f0762010-12-19 14:53:19 +00001803- Issue #10611: SystemExit should not cause a unittest test run to exit.
1804
Antoine Pitroud7b6ac62010-12-18 18:18:21 +00001805- Issue #6791: Limit header line length (to 65535 bytes) in http.client,
1806 to avoid denial of services from the other party.
1807
R. David Murray3f752ab2010-12-18 17:22:18 +00001808- Issue #10404: Use ctl-button-1 on OSX for the context menu in Idle.
1809
1810- Issue #9907: Fix tab handling on OSX when using editline by calling
R. David Murray7a697252010-12-18 03:52:09 +00001811 rl_initialize first, then setting our custom defaults, then reading .editrc.
1812
Antoine Pitrou47900cf2010-12-17 17:45:12 +00001813- Issue #4188: Avoid creating dummy thread objects when logging operations
1814 from the threading module (with the internal verbose flag activated).
1815
Senthil Kumaran5c7fd6e2010-12-17 04:56:02 +00001816- Issue #9721: Fix the behavior of urljoin when the relative url starts with a
1817 ';' character. Patch by Wes Chow.
Benjamin Peterson5ee84482010-11-28 04:49:23 +00001818
Antoine Pitrou47d9b0e2010-12-16 17:11:34 +00001819- Issue #10714: Limit length of incoming request in http.server to 65536 bytes
1820 for security reasons. Initial patch by Ross Lagerwall.
1821
Éric Araujoe04c13c2010-12-15 21:15:25 +00001822- Issue #9558: Fix distutils.command.build_ext with VS 8.0.
1823
R. David Murraydacb8042010-12-14 14:34:16 +00001824- Issue #10695: passing the port as a string value to telnetlib no longer
1825 causes debug mode to fail.
1826
Ronald Oussoren8ec374c2010-12-07 16:02:59 +00001827- Issue #10107: Warn about unsaved files in IDLE on OSX.
1828
Ronald Oussoren517858a2010-12-07 16:13:17 +00001829- Issue #10406: Enable Rstrip IDLE extension on OSX (just like on other
1830 platforms).
1831
Antoine Pitrou4cb64ad2010-12-03 19:31:52 +00001832- Issue #10478: Reentrant calls inside buffered IO objects (for example by
1833 way of a signal handler) now raise a RuntimeError instead of freezing the
1834 current process.
1835
Éric Araujofb3de6b2010-12-03 19:24:49 +00001836- Issue #10497: Fix incorrect use of gettext in argparse.
1837
R. David Murrayd75cc912010-12-02 03:16:23 +00001838- Issue #10464: netrc now correctly handles lines with embedded '#' characters.
1839
Gregory P. Smith312efbc2010-12-14 15:02:53 +00001840- Issue #1731717: Fixed the problem where subprocess.wait() could cause an
1841 OSError exception when The OS had been told to ignore SIGCLD in our process
1842 or otherwise not wait for exiting child processes.
1843
Steven Bethardf8583ac2011-01-24 20:40:15 +00001844- Issue #9509: argparse now properly handles IOErrors raised by
1845 argparse.FileType.
1846
Steven Bethard3f69a052011-03-26 19:59:02 +01001847- Issue #9348: Raise an early error if argparse nargs and metavar don't match.
1848
1849- Issue #8982: Improve the documentation for the argparse Namespace object.
1850
Steven Bethard5e0062d2011-03-26 21:50:38 +01001851- Issue #9343: Document that argparse parent parsers must be configured before
1852 their children.
1853
Steven Bethardbc3b1042011-03-27 13:57:55 +02001854- Issue #9026: Fix order of argparse sub-commands in help messages.
1855
Steven Betharde3c11b42011-04-04 01:47:52 +02001856- Issue #9347: Fix formatting for tuples in argparse type= error messages.
1857
R. David Murray2a4b3fc2010-12-11 02:13:04 +00001858Extension Modules
1859-----------------
1860
Benjamin Peterson6116d4a2011-05-17 18:31:20 -05001861- Stop using the old interface for providing methods and attributes in the _sre
1862 module. Among other things, this gives these classes ``__class__``
1863 attributes. (See #12099)
1864
Ezio Melotti0639be62011-05-07 19:21:22 +03001865- Issue #10169: Fix argument parsing in socket.sendto() to avoid error masking.
1866
Ezio Melottic1ec7b52011-05-11 00:55:35 +03001867- Issue #12051: Fix segfault in json.dumps() while encoding highly-nested
1868 objects using the C accelerations.
1869
Ezio Melotticec46492011-05-07 17:40:23 +03001870- Issue #12017: Fix segfault in json.loads() while decoding highly-nested
1871 objects using the C accelerations.
1872
Benjamin Petersonf21ad922011-03-26 17:56:28 -05001873- Issue #1838: Prevent segfault in ctypes, when _as_parameter_ on a class is set
1874 to an instance of the class.
1875
R. David Murray2a4b3fc2010-12-11 02:13:04 +00001876- Issue #678250: Make mmap flush a noop on ACCESS_READ and ACCESS_COPY.
1877
Antoine Pitrouf11d1832011-01-02 19:37:45 +00001878Build
1879-----
1880
Ned Deily22f63b52011-05-28 05:56:14 -07001881- Issue #11217: For 64-bit/32-bit Mac OS X universal framework builds,
1882 ensure "make install" creates symlinks in --prefix bin for the "-32"
1883 files in the framework bin directory like the installer does.
1884
Thomas Wouters5edae7e2011-03-06 11:48:05 -08001885- Issue #11411: Fix 'make DESTDIR=' with a relative destination.
1886
Georg Brandl94800df2011-02-25 11:09:02 +00001887- Issue #10709: Add updated AIX notes in Misc/README.AIX.
1888
1889- Issue #11184: Fix large-file support on AIX.
1890
Georg Brandl71f4fbb2011-02-25 11:04:50 +00001891- Issue #941346: Fix broken shared library build on AIX.
1892
Ned Deilye6cc7d62011-02-21 21:00:09 +00001893- Issue #11268: Prevent Mac OS X Installer failure if Documentation
1894 package had previously been installed.
1895
Ned Deily68adfdc2011-02-07 16:52:25 +00001896- Issue #11079: The /Applications/Python x.x folder created by the Mac
1897 OS X installers now includes a link to the installed documentation.
1898
Ned Deily53c460d2011-01-30 01:43:40 +00001899- Issue #11054: Allow Mac OS X installer builds to again work on 10.5 with
1900 the system-provided Python.
1901
1902- Issue #10843: Update third-party library versions used in OS X
1903 32-bit installer builds: bzip2 1.0.6, readline 6.1.2, SQLite 3.7.4
1904 (with FTS3/FTS4 and RTREE enabled), and ncursesw 5.5 (wide-char
1905 support enabled).
1906
Antoine Pitrou9828b562011-01-03 19:11:32 +00001907- Don't run pgen twice when using make -j.
1908
Antoine Pitrou31e85952011-01-03 18:57:14 +00001909- Issue #7716: Under Solaris, don't assume existence of /usr/xpg4/bin/grep in
1910 the configure script but use $GREP instead. Patch by Fabian Groffen.
1911
Antoine Pitrouf11d1832011-01-02 19:37:45 +00001912- Issue #10475: Don't hardcode compilers for LDSHARED/LDCXXSHARED on NetBSD
1913 and DragonFly BSD. Patch by Nicolas Joly.
1914
David Malcolm4c29e1c2011-01-06 17:39:24 +00001915- Issue #10655: Fix the build on PowerPC on Linux with GCC when building with
1916 timestamp profiling (--with-tsc): the preprocessor test for the PowerPC
1917 support now looks for "__powerpc__" as well as "__ppc__": the latter seems to
1918 only be present on OS X; the former is the correct one for Linux with GCC.
1919
Ronald Oussoren19199832011-03-14 11:57:39 -04001920- Issue #1099: Fix the build on MacOSX when building a framework with pydebug
1921 using GCC 4.0.
1922
Raymond Hettinger179816d2011-04-12 18:54:46 -07001923IDLE
1924----
1925
1926- Issue #11718: IDLE's open module dialog couldn't find the __init__.py
1927 file in a package.
1928
R. David Murray0960bc52010-12-04 17:24:46 +00001929Tests
1930-----
1931
Ned Deilyc4f97f42011-05-29 02:36:17 -07001932- Issue #12205: Fix test_subprocess failure due to uninstalled test data.
1933
Ezio Melottie3992eb2011-05-14 06:24:53 +03001934- Issue #5723: Improve json tests to be executed with and without accelerations.
1935
Ezio Melotti5c5d7e22011-05-09 06:54:53 +03001936- Issue #11910: Fix test_heapq to skip the C tests when _heapq is missing.
1937
Nadeem Vawdabafc6a92011-04-19 01:35:58 +02001938- Fix test_startfile to wait for child process to terminate before finishing.
1939
Ross Lagerwallfe2f1ad2011-04-09 20:39:50 +02001940- Issue #11719: Fix message about unexpected test_msilib skip on non-Windows
1941 platforms. Patch by Nadeem Vawda.
1942
Ned Deily5f511822011-04-05 17:16:09 -07001943- Issue #7108: Fix test_commands to not fail when special attributes ('@'
1944 or '.') appear in 'ls -l' output.
1945
R David Murraycdd5fc92011-03-13 22:37:18 -04001946- Issue #11490: test_subprocess:test_leaking_fds_on_error no longer gives a
1947 false positive if the last directory in the path is inaccessible.
1948
Antoine Pitrou8bc59fa2011-01-12 18:56:09 +00001949- Issue #10822: Fix test_posix:test_getgroups failure under Solaris. Patch
1950 by Ross Lagerwall.
1951
Antoine Pitrou8c688be2011-01-03 20:49:01 +00001952- Issue #6293: Have regrtest.py echo back sys.flags. This is done by default
1953 in whole runs and enabled selectively using ``--header`` when running an
1954 explicit list of tests. Original patch by Collin Winter.
1955
R. David Murrayf8a63912010-12-14 16:26:30 +00001956- Issue #775964: test_grp now skips YP/NIS entries instead of failing when
1957 encountering them.
1958
R. David Murray0960bc52010-12-04 17:24:46 +00001959- Issue #7110: regrtest now sends test failure reports and single-failure
1960 tracebacks to stderr rather than stdout.
1961
Benjamin Peterson5ee84482010-11-28 04:49:23 +00001962
Benjamin Petersondb4c3342010-11-13 23:32:58 +00001963What's New in Python 2.7.1?
1964===========================
1965
Benjamin Peterson3e0fa422010-11-27 14:40:29 +00001966*Release date: 2010-11-27*
Benjamin Petersondb4c3342010-11-13 23:32:58 +00001967
1968Library
1969-------
1970
Éric Araujo54274ad2011-02-03 00:12:18 +00001971- Issue #2236: distutils' mkpath ignored the mode parameter.
1972
1973- Fix typo in one sdist option (medata-check).
1974
Raymond Hettinger061bf7a2010-11-30 03:15:35 +00001975- Issue #10323: itertools.islice() now consumes the minimum number of
1976 inputs before stopping. Formerly, the final state of the underlying
1977 iterator was undefined.
1978
Alexander Belopolsky1fea5c42010-11-30 01:18:17 +00001979- Issue #10565: The collections.Iterator ABC now checks for both
1980 ``__iter__`` and ``next``.
1981
Georg Brandl79f096a2010-11-26 07:57:57 +00001982- Issue #10092: Properly reset locale in calendar.Locale*Calendar classes.
1983
Martin v. Löwise03c7782010-11-22 10:53:46 +00001984- Issue #10459: Update CJK character names to Unicode 5.2.
1985
Georg Brandl5ded7912010-11-26 07:35:31 +00001986- Issue #6098: Don't claim DOM level 3 conformance in minidom.
1987
Senthil Kumaran9a5897b2010-11-29 12:41:03 +00001988- Issue #10561: In pdb, clear the breakpoints by the breakpoint number.
1989
Georg Brandl5ded7912010-11-26 07:35:31 +00001990- Issue #5762: Fix AttributeError raised by ``xml.dom.minidom`` when an empty
1991 XML namespace attribute is encountered.
1992
Georg Brandl86e0c892010-11-26 07:22:28 +00001993- Issue #1710703: Write structures for an empty ZIP archive when a ZipFile is
1994 created in modes 'a' or 'w' and then closed without adding any files. Raise
1995 BadZipfile (rather than IOError) when opening small non-ZIP files.
1996
Senthil Kumaran0b7cac12010-11-22 05:04:33 +00001997- Issue #4493: urllib2 adds '/' in front of path components which does not
1998 start with '/. Common behavior exhibited by browsers and other clients.
1999
Brian Curtin2d011ed2010-11-21 23:50:51 +00002000- Issue #6378: idle.bat now runs with the appropriate Python version rather than
2001 the system default. Patch by Sridhar Ratnakumar.
2002
Éric Araujo4fadd532010-11-20 20:02:41 +00002003- Issue #10407: Fix one NameError in distutils.
2004
Georg Brandl839c1132010-11-20 11:29:38 +00002005- Issue #10198: fix duplicate header written to wave files when writeframes()
2006 is called without data.
2007
Benjamin Peterson4fec9ce2010-11-20 17:31:08 +00002008- Issue #10467: Fix BytesIO.readinto() after seeking into a position after the
2009 end of the file.
2010
Senthil Kumaran501bfd82010-11-14 03:31:52 +00002011- Issue #5111: IPv6 Host in the Header is wrapped inside [ ]. Patch by Chandru.
2012
Martin v. Löwiseebd0172010-11-14 18:17:39 +00002013Build
2014-----
2015
Brian Curtin69a106a2010-11-22 02:08:49 +00002016- Backport r83399 to allow test_distutils to pass on installed versions.
2017
Martin v. Löwiseebd0172010-11-14 18:17:39 +00002018- Issue #1303434: Generate ZIP file containing all PDBs.
2019
Ezio Melotti2623a372010-11-21 13:34:58 +00002020Tests
2021-----
2022
2023- Issue #9424: Replace deprecated assert* methods in the Python test suite.
2024
Ezio Melottibf8484e2010-11-24 21:54:47 +00002025Documentation
2026-------------
2027
2028- Issue #10299: List the built-in functions in a table in functions.rst.
2029
Benjamin Petersondb4c3342010-11-13 23:32:58 +00002030
Benjamin Petersoncc214172010-11-13 17:33:04 +00002031What's New in Python 2.7.1 release candidate 1?
2032===============================================
Benjamin Petersone3c10452010-07-03 14:51:25 +00002033
Benjamin Petersoncc214172010-11-13 17:33:04 +00002034*Release date: 2010-11-13*
Benjamin Petersone3c10452010-07-03 14:51:25 +00002035
2036Core and Builtins
2037-----------------
2038
Raymond Hettinger2ad17e12010-10-30 08:17:46 +00002039- Issue #10221: dict.pop(k) now has a key error message that includes the
2040 missing key (same message d[k] returns for missing keys).
2041
Barry Warsawfa658272010-11-02 21:03:09 +00002042- Issue #10125: Don't segfault when the iterator passed to
2043 ``file.writelines()`` closes the file.
Benjamin Petersonbf775542010-10-16 19:20:12 +00002044
Barry Warsawfa658272010-11-02 21:03:09 +00002045- Issue #10186: Fix the SyntaxError caret when the offset is equal to the
2046 length of the offending line.
Benjamin Petersonf99f33d2010-10-24 03:00:35 +00002047
Benjamin Petersonf76942d2010-10-16 03:51:38 +00002048- Issue #9997: Don't let the name "top" have special significance in scope
2049 resolution.
2050
R. David Murray1d9d16e2010-10-16 00:43:13 +00002051- Issue #9862: Compensate for broken PIPE_BUF in AIX by hard coding
2052 its value as the default 512 when compiling on AIX.
2053
Jesus Cea33c722b2010-11-04 21:39:52 +00002054- Issue #9675: CObject use is marked as a Py3k warning, not a deprecation
2055 warning.
2056
Benjamin Petersondc954242010-10-12 23:02:35 +00002057- Issue #10068: Global objects which have reference cycles with their module's
2058 dict are now cleared again. This causes issue #7140 to appear again.
2059
Mark Dickinsoncb61e5d2010-09-26 10:37:12 +00002060- Issue #9869: Make long() and PyNumber_Long return something of type
2061 long for a class whose __long__ method returns a plain int. This
2062 fixes an interpreter crash when initializing an instance of a long
2063 subclass from an object whose __long__ method returns a plain int.
2064
Benjamin Petersona5d5cc42010-10-02 00:08:58 +00002065- Issue #10006: type.__abstractmethods__ now raises an AttributeError.
2066
Antoine Pitrou0a7b65b2010-09-08 12:40:49 +00002067- Issue #9797: pystate.c wrongly assumed that zero couldn't be a valid
2068 thread-local storage key.
2069
Victor Stinnercaafd772010-09-08 10:51:01 +00002070- Issue #4947: The write() method of sys.stdout and sys.stderr uses their
2071 encoding and errors attributes instead of using utf-8 in strict mode, to get
2072 the same behaviour than the print statement.
2073
Antoine Pitrou9cf85f12010-09-01 21:17:34 +00002074- Issue #9737: Fix a crash when trying to delete a slice or an item from
2075 a memoryview object.
2076
Martin v. Löwis6086b0d2010-08-19 09:09:04 +00002077- Restore GIL in nis_cat in case of error.
2078
Benjamin Peterson6f3d6a92010-08-25 23:17:42 +00002079- Issue #9688: __basicsize__ and __itemsize__ must be accessed as Py_ssize_t.
2080
Florent Xicluna172e15f2010-08-09 20:02:00 +00002081- Issue #8530: Prevent stringlib fastsearch from reading beyond the front
2082 of an array.
2083
Raymond Hettinger3ad323e2010-08-06 10:18:56 +00002084- Issue #83755: Implicit set-to-frozenset conversion was not thread-safe.
2085
Mark Dickinsonaad57bd2010-08-01 10:45:15 +00002086- Issue #9416: Fix some issues with complex formatting where the
2087 output with no type specifier failed to match the str output:
2088
2089 - format(complex(-0.0, 2.0), '-') omitted the real part from the output,
2090 - format(complex(0.0, 2.0), '-') included a sign and parentheses.
2091
Antoine Pitrou32669782010-07-11 12:14:05 +00002092- Issue #7616: Fix copying of overlapping memoryview slices with the Intel
2093 compiler.
Benjamin Petersone3c10452010-07-03 14:51:25 +00002094
2095Library
2096-------
2097
Éric Araujo86f90742011-03-21 00:15:26 +01002098- Issue #9926: Wrapped TestSuite subclass does not get __call__ executed
Michael Foord75152ea2010-11-20 17:40:49 +00002099
Antoine Pitrou7eaa4482010-11-09 23:15:18 +00002100- Issue #4471: Properly shutdown socket in IMAP.shutdown(). Patch by
2101 Lorenzo M. Catucci.
2102
Éric Araujo2f0a0402010-11-06 15:46:46 +00002103- Issue #10126: Fix distutils' test_build when Python was built with
2104 --enable-shared.
Michael Foord75152ea2010-11-20 17:40:49 +00002105
Éric Araujo2f0a0402010-11-06 15:46:46 +00002106- Fix typo in one sdist option (medata-check).
2107
2108- Issue #9199: Fix incorrect use of distutils.cmd.Command.announce.
2109
2110- Issue #1718574: Fix options that were supposed to accept arguments but did
2111 not in build_clib.
2112
Éric Araujoe9954b52010-11-06 04:53:42 +00002113- Issue #9281: Prevent race condition with mkdir in distutils. Patch by
2114 Arfrever.
2115
Éric Araujoe28665a2010-11-06 04:36:28 +00002116- Issue #10229: Fix caching error in gettext.
2117
Éric Araujod1feff72010-11-06 04:06:18 +00002118- Issue #10252: Close file objects in a timely manner in distutils code and
2119 tests. Patch by Brian Brazil, completed by Éric Araujo.
2120
Antoine Pitrou6b1167c2010-11-05 19:55:02 +00002121- Issue #10311: The signal module now restores errno before returning from
2122 its low-level signal handler. Patch by Hallvard B Furuseth.
2123
Barry Warsawfa658272010-11-02 21:03:09 +00002124- Issue #10038: json.loads() on str should always return unicode (regression
2125 from Python 2.6). Patch by Walter Dörwald.
Michael Foorde5dc24e2010-11-01 22:11:53 +00002126
Barry Warsawfa658272010-11-02 21:03:09 +00002127- Issue #120176: Wrapped TestSuite subclass does not get __call__ executed.
2128
2129- Issue #6706: asyncore accept() method no longer raises
2130 EWOULDBLOCK/ECONNABORTED on incomplete connection attempt but returns None
2131 instead.
Giampaolo Rodolà19e9fef2010-11-01 15:07:14 +00002132
Antoine Pitrou61d14b72010-10-31 16:17:36 +00002133- Issue #10266: uu.decode didn't close in_file explicitly when it was given
2134 as a filename. Patch by Brian Brazil.
2135
Antoine Pitrou3917c092010-10-31 13:12:48 +00002136- Issue #10246: uu.encode didn't close file objects explicitly when filenames
2137 were given to it. Patch by Brian Brazil.
2138
Antoine Pitrou594a0462010-10-31 13:05:48 +00002139- Issue #10253: FileIO leaks a file descriptor when trying to open a file
2140 for append that isn't seekable. Patch by Brian Brazil.
2141
Raymond Hettingercbba8d42010-10-30 07:29:44 +00002142- Issue #6105: json.dumps now respects OrderedDict's iteration order.
2143
Antoine Pitrou638cee62010-10-28 14:50:57 +00002144- Issue #9295: Fix a crash under Windows when calling close() on a file
2145 object with custom buffering from two threads at once.
2146
Antoine Pitrou7f081022010-10-27 18:43:21 +00002147- Issue #5027: The standard ``xml`` namespace is now understood by
2148 xml.sax.saxutils.XMLGenerator as being bound to
2149 http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace. Patch by Troy J. Farrell.
2150
Brian Curtin4cc54032010-10-21 14:48:22 +00002151- Issue #10163: Skip unreadable registry keys during mimetypes
2152 initialization.
2153
Hirokazu Yamamoto50f7d7e2010-10-18 13:55:29 +00002154- Issue #5117: Fixed root directory related issue on posixpath.relpath() and
2155 ntpath.relpath().
2156
Éric Araujo86f90742011-03-21 00:15:26 +01002157- Issue #9409: Fix the regex to match all kind of filenames, for interactive
Florent Xiclunab67660f2010-10-14 21:10:45 +00002158 debugging in doctests.
2159
Victor Stinnerd2f6ae62010-10-12 22:53:51 +00002160- Issue #6612: Fix site and sysconfig to catch os.getcwd() error, eg. if the
2161 current directory was deleted. Patch written by W. Trevor King.
2162
Fred Drake577acb42010-10-11 19:13:04 +00002163- Issue #10045: Improved performance when writing after seeking past the
2164 end of the "file" in cStringIO.
2165
Vinay Sajip5e8349e2010-10-10 20:36:04 +00002166- Issue #9948: Fixed problem of losing filename case information.
2167
Antoine Pitrou58dab672010-10-10 09:54:59 +00002168- Issue #9437: Fix building C extensions with non-default LDFLAGS.
2169
Antoine Pitrou76a66aa2010-10-06 21:26:52 +00002170- Issue #9759: GzipFile now raises ValueError when an operation is attempted
2171 after the file is closed. Patch by Jeffrey Finkelstein.
2172
Éric Araujoc17776f2010-10-04 23:59:35 +00002173- Issue #9042: Fix interaction of custom translation classes and caching in
2174 gettext.
2175
Lars Gustäbel6aab8d02010-10-04 15:37:53 +00002176- Issue #9065: tarfile no longer uses "root" as the default for the uname and
2177 gname field.
2178
R. David Murray10a86762010-10-02 16:26:05 +00002179- Issue #1050268: parseaddr now correctly quotes double quote and backslash
2180 characters that appear inside quoted strings in email addresses.
2181
R. David Murray20ad3632010-10-01 15:48:49 +00002182- Issue #10004: quoprimime no longer generates a traceback when confronted
2183 with invalid characters after '=' in a Q-encoded word.
2184
Antoine Pitrou66b5df62010-09-27 18:16:46 +00002185- Issue #9950: Fix socket.sendall() crash or misbehaviour when a signal is
2186 received. Now sendall() properly calls signal handlers if necessary,
2187 and retries sending if these returned successfully, including on sockets
2188 with a timeout.
2189
Vinay Sajip3eac5912010-09-25 17:48:25 +00002190- Issue #9947: logging: Fixed locking bug in stopListening.
2191
Vinay Sajip546885e2010-09-25 17:42:36 +00002192- Issue #9945: logging: Fixed locking bugs in addHandler/removeHandler.
2193
Alexander Belopolsky517185e2010-09-24 18:14:18 +00002194- Issue #9936: Fixed executable lines' search in the trace module.
2195
Antoine Pitrou2c7d6852010-09-23 19:55:24 +00002196- Issue #9928: Properly initialize the types exported by the bz2 module.
2197
Antoine Pitrou6391b342010-09-14 18:48:19 +00002198- Issue #9854: The default read() implementation in io.RawIOBase now
2199 handles non-blocking readinto() returning None correctly.
2200
Antoine Pitrouf7f390a2010-09-14 14:37:18 +00002201- Issue #9729: Fix the signature of SSLSocket.recvfrom() and
2202 SSLSocket.sendto() to match the corresponding socket methods. Also,
2203 fix various SSLSocket methods to raise socket.error rather than an
2204 unhelpful TypeError when called on an unconnected socket. Original patch
2205 by Andrew Bennetts.
2206
Raymond Hettinger74f869e2010-09-13 22:14:36 +00002207- Issue #9826: OrderedDict.__repr__ can now handle self-referential
2208 values: d['x'] = d.
2209
Victor Stinner8fc843b2010-09-17 23:35:50 +00002210- Issue #767645: Set os.path.supports_unicode_filenames to True on Mac OS X.
Victor Stinner46287f52010-09-13 20:31:34 +00002211
Antoine Pitroue4195e82010-09-12 14:56:27 +00002212- Issue #9837: The read() method of ZipExtFile objects (as returned by
2213 ZipFile.open()) could return more bytes than requested.
2214
Raymond Hettinger20397532010-09-12 02:11:45 +00002215- Issue #9825: removed __del__ from the definition of collections.OrderedDict.
2216 This prevents user-created self-referencing ordered dictionaries from
2217 becoming permanently uncollectable GC garbage. The downside is that
2218 removing __del__ means that the internal doubly-linked list has to wait for
2219 GC collection rather than freeing memory immediately when the refcnt drops
2220 to zero.
2221
Raymond Hettingerffd2a422010-09-10 10:47:22 +00002222- Issue #9816: random.Random.jumpahead(n) did not produce a sufficiently
Victor Stinnerd2f6ae62010-10-12 22:53:51 +00002223 different internal state for small values of n. Fixed by salting the
Raymond Hettingerffd2a422010-09-10 10:47:22 +00002224 value.
2225
Antoine Pitrouc818ed42010-09-07 21:40:25 +00002226- Issue #9792: In case of connection failure, socket.create_connection()
2227 would swallow the exception and raise a new one, making it impossible
2228 to fetch the original errno, or to filter timeout errors. Now the
2229 original error is re-raised.
2230
Antoine Pitrouf4f61712010-09-07 16:34:47 +00002231- Issue #9758: When fcntl.ioctl() was called with mutable_flag set to True,
2232 and the passed buffer was exactly 1024 bytes long, the buffer wouldn't
2233 be updated back after the system call. Original patch by Brian Brazil.
2234
Antoine Pitroudca9de92010-09-04 17:52:26 +00002235- Issue #1100562: Fix deep-copying of objects derived from the list and
2236 dict types. Patch by Michele Orrù and Björn Lindqvist.
2237
Fred Drakea1e627d2010-09-03 03:55:50 +00002238- Issue #7005: Fixed output of None values for RawConfigParser.write and
2239 ConfigParser.write.
2240
Daniel Stutzbach66c981b2010-08-31 20:29:39 +00002241- Issue #808164: Fixed socket.close to avoid references to globals, to
2242 avoid issues when socket.close is called from a __del__ method.
2243
Terry Reedyd2d2ae92010-11-11 23:22:19 +00002244- Issue #2986: difflib.SequenceMatcher gets a new parameter, autojunk, which
2245 can be set to False to turn off the previously undocumented 'popularity'
2246 heuristic. Patch by Terry Reedy and Eli Bendersky
2247
Senthil Kumaran7e8fd5e2010-08-26 06:20:13 +00002248- Issue #8797: urllib2 does a retry for Basic Authentication failure instead of
2249 falling into recursion.
2250
R. David Murray7c4bf552010-08-25 01:45:57 +00002251- Issue #1194222: email.utils.parsedate now returns RFC2822 compliant four
2252 character years even if the message contains RFC822 two character years.
2253
Daniel Stutzbach91287322010-08-24 21:09:30 +00002254- Issue #8750: Fixed MutableSet's methods to correctly handle
2255 reflexive operations, namely x -= x and x ^= x.
2256
Victor Stinnercaafd772010-09-08 10:51:01 +00002257- Issue #9129: smtpd.py is vulnerable to DoS attacks deriving from missing
Giampaolo Rodolà8664d742010-08-23 22:48:51 +00002258 error handling when accepting a new connection.
2259
Giampaolo Rodolà63308d72010-08-23 21:58:47 +00002260- Issue #658749: asyncore's connect() method now correctly interprets winsock
2261 errors.
2262
Vinay Sajip1ddd51f2010-08-23 17:50:30 +00002263- Issue #9501: Fixed logging regressions in cleanup code.
2264
Raymond Hettinger917bba12010-08-22 08:01:58 +00002265- Issue #9214: Set operations on KeysView or ItemsView in the collections
2266 module now correctly return a set. (Patch by Eli Bendersky.)
2267
Antoine Pitrou3ebaed62010-08-21 19:17:25 +00002268- Issue #9617: Signals received during a low-level write operation aren't
2269 ignored by the buffered IO layer anymore.
2270
Benjamin Peterson52c36052010-08-21 03:03:22 +00002271- Issue #2521: Use weakrefs on for caching in the abc module, so that classes
2272 are not held onto after they are deleted elsewhere.
2273
Raymond Hettingera54b2da2010-08-17 19:03:06 +00002274- Issue #9626: the view methods for collections.OrderedDict() were returning
2275 the unordered versions inherited from dict. Those methods are now
2276 overridden to provide ordered views.
2277
Éric Araujo0389ae62010-08-14 03:07:46 +00002278- Issue #8688: MANIFEST files created by distutils now include a magic
2279 comment indicating they are generated. Manually maintained MANIFESTs
2280 without this marker will not be overwritten or removed.
2281
Antoine Pitroue1436d12010-08-12 15:25:51 +00002282- Issue #7467: when reading a file from a ZIP archive, its CRC is checked
2283 and a BadZipfile error is raised if it doesn't match (as used to be the
2284 case in Python 2.5 and earlier).
2285
Antoine Pitroucb4f47c2010-08-11 13:40:17 +00002286- Issue #9550: a BufferedReader could issue an additional read when the
2287 original read request had been satisfied, which could block indefinitely
2288 when the underlying raw IO channel was e.g. a socket. Report and original
2289 patch by Jason V. Miller.
2290
Fred Drake0a1fa0e2010-08-10 13:09:54 +00002291- Issue #9551: Don't raise TypeError when setting the value to None for
2292 SafeConfigParser instances constructed with allow_no_value == True.
2293
Antoine Pitrou8cdede42010-08-10 00:04:13 +00002294- Issue #6915: Under Windows, os.listdir() didn't release the Global
2295 Interpreter Lock around all system calls. Original patch by Ryan Kelly.
2296
Antoine Pitrou99009162010-08-09 22:51:24 +00002297- Issue #3757: thread-local objects now support cyclic garbage collection.
2298 Thread-local objects involved in reference cycles will be deallocated
2299 timely by the cyclic GC, even if the underlying thread is still running.
2300
Florent Xicluna2f1b1ff2010-08-09 20:46:49 +00002301- Issue #6231: Fix xml.etree.ElementInclude to include the tail of the
2302 current node.
2303
Thomas Heller5c7589c2010-08-08 18:28:59 +00002304- Issue #6869: Fix a refcount problem in the _ctypes extension.
2305
Thomas Heller001d3a12010-08-08 17:56:41 +00002306- Issue5504 - ctypes should now work with systems where mmap can't be
2307 PROT_WRITE and PROT_EXEC.
2308
Senthil Kumarane677ecf2010-08-08 11:56:31 +00002309- Fix Issue8280 - urllib2's Request method will remove fragements in the url.
2310 This is how it is supposed to work, wget and curl do the same. Previous
2311 behavior was wrong.
2312
Giampaolo Rodolà47617ab2010-08-04 08:35:25 +00002313- Issue #2944: asyncore doesn't handle connection refused correctly.
2314
R. David Murray75a292e2010-08-04 00:05:50 +00002315- Issue #3196: email header decoding is now forgiving if an RFC2047
2316 encoded word encoded in base64 is lacking padding.
2317
R. David Murray1cbf78e2010-08-03 18:14:01 +00002318- Issue #9444: Argparse now uses the first element of prefix_chars as
2319 the option character for the added 'h/help' option if prefix_chars
2320 does not contain a '-', instead of raising an error.
2321
Georg Brandl7f0c3ff2010-08-01 21:18:52 +00002322- Issue #9354: Provide getsockopt() in asyncore's file_wrapper.
2323
Florent Xicluna92847452010-09-13 17:36:36 +00002324- Issue #9428: Fix running scripts with the profile/cProfile modules from
2325 the command line.
2326
Georg Brandl9c5efad2010-08-02 21:29:14 +00002327- Issue #7781: Fix restricting stats by entry counts in the pstats
2328 interactive browser.
2329
2330- Issue #9209: Do not crash in the pstats interactive browser on invalid
2331 regular expressions.
2332
Georg Brandla2a92cf2010-08-02 17:34:58 +00002333- Issue #7372: Fix pstats regression when stripping paths from profile
2334 data generated with the profile module.
2335
Georg Brandl2bd953e2010-08-01 20:59:03 +00002336- Issue #4108: In urllib.robotparser, if there are multiple 'User-agent: *'
2337 entries, consider the first one.
2338
Antoine Pitrou39703012010-08-01 20:13:11 +00002339- Issue #8397: Raise an error when attempting to mix iteration and regular
2340 reads on a BZ2File object, rather than returning incorrect results.
2341
Georg Brandl50775992010-08-01 19:33:15 +00002342- Issue #5294: Fix the behavior of pdb's "continue" command when called
2343 in the top-level debugged frame.
2344
2345- Issue #5727: Restore the ability to use readline when calling into pdb
2346 in doctests.
2347
2348- Issue #6719: In pdb, do not stop somewhere in the encodings machinery
2349 if the source file to be debugged is in a non-builtin encoding.
2350
2351- Issue #8048: Prevent doctests from failing when sys.displayhook has
2352 been reassigned.
2353
2354- Issue #8015: In pdb, do not crash when an empty line is entered as
2355 a breakpoint command.
2356
Antoine Pitrou607951d2010-08-01 16:57:17 +00002357- Issue #9448: Fix a leak of OS resources (mutexes or semaphores) when
2358 re-initializing a buffered IO object by calling its ``__init__`` method.
2359
Georg Brandle2773252010-08-01 19:14:56 +00002360- Issue #7909: Do not touch paths with the special prefixes ``\\.\``
2361 or ``\\?\`` in ntpath.normpath().
2362
Georg Brandl004c74d2010-08-01 19:06:51 +00002363- Issue #5146: Handle UID THREAD command correctly in imaplib.
2364
2365- Issue #5147: Fix the header generated for cookie files written by
2366 http.cookiejar.MozillaCookieJar.
2367
2368- Issue #8198: In pydoc, output all help text to the correct stream
2369 when sys.stdout is reassigned.
2370
Georg Brandl0347c712010-08-01 19:02:09 +00002371- Issue #7395: Fix tracebacks in pstats interactive browser.
2372
2373- Issue #8230: Fix Lib/test/sortperf.py.
2374
Georg Brandl78e69572010-08-01 18:52:52 +00002375- Issue #1713: Fix os.path.ismount(), which returned true for symbolic links
2376 across devices.
2377
2378- Issue #8826: Properly load old-style "expires" attribute in http.cookies.
2379
2380- Issue #1690103: Fix initial namespace for code run with trace.main().
2381
Georg Brandl1f05e2e2010-08-01 08:22:05 +00002382- Issue #8471: In doctest, properly reset the output stream to an empty
2383 string when Unicode was previously output.
2384
R. David Murray58f15b62010-08-01 04:04:03 +00002385- Issue #8620: when a Cmd is fed input that reaches EOF without a final
2386 newline, it no longer truncates the last character of the last command line.
2387
Victor Stinner73363e82010-07-28 01:39:45 +00002388- Issue #6213: Implement getstate() and setstate() methods of utf-8-sig and
2389 utf-16 incremental encoders.
2390
Brian Curtinb2ec2322010-07-26 02:40:17 +00002391- Issue #7113: Speed up loading in ConfigParser. Patch by Łukasz Langa.
2392
Gregory P. Smith2a91ce82010-07-25 19:11:36 +00002393- Issue #3704: cookielib was not properly handling URLs with a / in the
2394 parameters.
2395
Victor Stinner8b0d84e2010-07-24 02:51:49 +00002396- Issue #9032: XML-RPC client retries the request on EPIPE error. The EPIPE
2397 error occurs when the server closes the socket and the client sends a big
2398 XML-RPC request.
2399
Victor Stinner2c6aee92010-07-24 02:46:16 +00002400- Issue #5542: Remove special logic that closes HTTPConnection socket on EPIPE.
2401
Victor Stinner4c16d122010-07-24 01:07:52 +00002402- Issue #4629: getopt raises an error if an argument ends with = whereas getopt
2403 doesn't except a value (eg. --help= is rejected if getopt uses ['help='] long
2404 options).
2405
Ronald Oussoren3a04a252010-07-23 12:41:00 +00002406- Issue #7895: platform.mac_ver() no longer crashes after calling os.fork()
2407
Antoine Pitrou7a7013e2010-07-21 16:47:28 +00002408- Issue #5395: array.fromfile() would raise a spurious EOFError when an
2409 I/O error occurred. Now an IOError is raised instead. Patch by chuck
2410 (Jan Hosang).
2411
R. David Murrayf6cbdcb2010-07-09 13:25:56 +00002412- Issue #7646: The fnmatch pattern cache no longer grows without bound.
2413
Mark Dickinson7ea29b02010-07-08 21:28:31 +00002414- Issue #9136: Fix 'dictionary changed size during iteration'
2415 RuntimeError produced when profiling the decimal module. This was
2416 due to a dangerous iteration over 'locals()' in Context.__init__.
2417
2418- Fix extreme speed issue in Decimal.pow when the base is an exact
2419 power of 10 and the exponent is tiny (for example,
2420 Decimal(10) ** Decimal('1e-999999999')).
2421
R. David Murray3caf7b92010-07-05 16:06:05 +00002422- Issue #9161: Fix regression in optparse's acceptance of unicode
2423 strings in add_option calls.
2424
Mark Dickinson75b44b32010-07-04 16:47:56 +00002425- Issue #9130: Fix validation of relative imports in parser module.
2426
Mark Dickinsona7ee59b2010-07-04 16:23:54 +00002427- Issue #9128: Fix validation of class decorators in parser module.
Benjamin Petersone3c10452010-07-03 14:51:25 +00002428
Ronald Oussoren75956202010-07-11 08:52:52 +00002429- Issue #9164: Ensure sysconfig handles dupblice archs while building on OSX
2430
Alexander Belopolsky9d17da32010-09-13 16:45:02 +00002431- Issue #9315: Fix for the trace module to record correct class name
2432 for tracing methods.
2433
Benjamin Petersone3c10452010-07-03 14:51:25 +00002434Extension Modules
2435-----------------
2436
Georg Brandl67c27332010-10-24 14:16:05 +00002437- Issue #9054: Fix a crash occurring when using the pyexpat module
2438 with expat version 2.0.1.
2439
Brian Curtin1390dd72010-10-01 16:44:03 +00002440- Issue #10003: Allow handling of SIGBREAK on Windows. Fixes a regression
Victor Stinnerd2f6ae62010-10-12 22:53:51 +00002441 introduced by issue #9324.
Brian Curtin1390dd72010-10-01 16:44:03 +00002442
Antoine Pitroue6ebcda2010-09-04 21:24:42 +00002443- Issue #8734: Avoid crash in msvcrt.get_osfhandle() when an invalid file
2444 descriptor is provided. Patch by Pascal Chambon.
2445
Antoine Pitrou247e2fd2010-09-04 17:27:10 +00002446- Issue #7736: Release the GIL around calls to opendir() and closedir()
2447 in the posix module. Patch by Marcin Bachry.
2448
Benjamin Peterson52c36052010-08-21 03:03:22 +00002449- As a result of issue #2521, the _weakref module is now compiled into the
2450 interpreter by default.
2451
Brian Curtin24af0e92010-08-06 19:41:01 +00002452- Issue #9324: Add parameter validation to signal.signal on Windows in order
2453 to prevent crashes.
2454
Mark Dickinson5e684332010-08-06 09:44:48 +00002455- Issue #9526: Remove some outdated (int) casts that were preventing
2456 the array module from working correctly with arrays of more than
2457 2**31 elements.
2458
Mark Dickinsonf38d8882010-08-03 18:46:28 +00002459- Fix memory leak in ssl._ssl._test_decode_cert.
2460
Mark Dickinson0f981282010-08-03 16:54:19 +00002461- Issue #8065: Fix memory leak in readline module (from failure to
2462 free the result of history_get_history_state()).
2463
Mark Dickinson4ee98532010-08-03 16:18:39 +00002464- Issue #9450: Fix memory leak in readline.replace_history_item and
2465 readline.remove_history_item for readline version >= 5.0.
2466
Brian Curtinba6c08e2010-08-01 15:47:53 +00002467- Issue #8105: Validate file descriptor passed to mmap.mmap on Windows.
2468
Georg Brandla4917272010-07-31 21:22:36 +00002469- Issue #1019882: Fix IndexError when loading certain hotshot stats.
2470
Mark Dickinson96527c32010-07-29 21:44:47 +00002471- Issue #9422: Fix memory leak when re-initializing a struct.Struct object.
2472
Ronald Oussoren9e7ffae2010-07-24 09:46:41 +00002473- Issue #7900: The getgroups(2) system call on MacOSX behaves rather oddly
2474 compared to other unix systems. In particular, os.getgroups() does
2475 not reflect any changes made using os.setgroups() but basicly always
2476 returns the same information as the id command.
2477
2478 os.getgroups() can now return more than 16 groups on MacOSX.
2479
Mark Dickinsoncac0b832010-07-18 07:55:55 +00002480- Issue #9277: Fix bug in struct.pack for bools in standard mode
2481 (e.g., struct.pack('>?')): if conversion to bool raised an exception
2482 then that exception wasn't properly propagated on machines where
2483 char is unsigned.
2484
Matthias Klose6e86bf72010-07-30 21:27:18 +00002485- Issue #7567: Don't call `setupterm' twice.
2486
Ronald Oussoren19199832011-03-14 11:57:39 -04002487
Antoine Pitrou2fba0b32010-09-08 21:12:36 +00002488Tools/Demos
2489-----------
2490
Benjamin Peterson4de6b062010-10-13 22:07:17 +00002491- Issue #7287: Demo/imputil/knee.py was removed.
2492
Antoine Pitrou2fba0b32010-09-08 21:12:36 +00002493- Issue #9188: The gdb extension now handles correctly narrow (UCS2) as well
2494 as wide (UCS4) unicode builds for both the host interpreter (embedded
2495 inside gdb) and the interpreter under test.
2496
Benjamin Peterson4082d9b2010-07-17 20:41:16 +00002497Build
2498-----
2499
Antoine Pitroue0c5f3c2010-10-27 20:35:26 +00002500- Issue #8852: Allow the socket module to build on OpenSolaris.
2501
Antoine Pitrou7be5a652010-10-10 08:14:41 +00002502- Issue #10054: Some platforms provide uintptr_t in inttypes.h. Patch by
2503 Akira Kitada.
2504
Antoine Pitrou22ad2452010-10-09 15:28:59 +00002505- Issue #10055: Make json C89-compliant in UCS4 mode.
2506
Antoine Pitrou285cd162010-09-21 15:23:17 +00002507- Issue #1633863: Don't ignore $CC under AIX.
2508
Hirokazu Yamamotoc4caa9c2010-09-18 22:33:33 +00002509- Issue #9810: Compile bzip2 source files in python's project file
2510 directly. It used to be built with bzip2's makefile.
2511
Antoine Pitrouaabdceb2010-09-10 20:03:17 +00002512- Issue #941346: Improve the build process under AIX and allow Python to
2513 be built as a shared library. Patch by Sébastien Sablé.
2514
Antoine Pitrou85729812010-09-07 14:55:24 +00002515- Issue #4026: Make the fcntl extension build under AIX. Patch by Sébastien
2516 Sablé.
2517
Antoine Pitroua74c3342010-09-03 16:15:17 +00002518- Issue #3101: Helper functions _add_one_to_index_C() and
2519 _add_one_to_index_F() become _Py_add_one_to_index_C() and
2520 _Py_add_one_to_index_F(), respectively.
Antoine Pitrou1fcdba82010-09-01 13:02:50 +00002521
2522- Issue #9700: define HAVE_BROKEN_POSIX_SEMAPHORES under AIX 6.x. Patch by
2523 Sébastien Sablé.
2524
Benjamin Peterson4082d9b2010-07-17 20:41:16 +00002525- Issue #9280: Make sharedinstall depend on sharedmods.
2526
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00002527- Issue #9275: The OSX installer once again installs links to binaries in
2528 ``/usr/local/bin``.
Ronald Oussoren8a14db82010-07-23 11:13:03 +00002529
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00002530- Issue #9392: A framework build on OSX will once again use a versioned name
2531 of the ``2to3`` tool, that is you can use ``2to3-2.7`` to select the Python
2532 2.7 edition of 2to3.
Ronald Oussoren0969c672010-07-29 13:18:19 +00002533
Ronald Oussorenec2fe002010-09-28 14:01:49 +00002534- Issue #9701: The MacOSX installer can patch the shell profile to ensure that
2535 the "bin" directory inside the framework is on the shell's search path. This
2536 feature now also supports the ZSH shell.
2537
Ronald Oussoren24215252010-10-20 13:11:46 +00002538- Issue #7473: avoid link errors when building a framework with a different
2539 set of architectures than the one that is currently installed.
Ronald Oussorenec2fe002010-09-28 14:01:49 +00002540
Antoine Pitrou22db7352010-07-08 18:54:04 +00002541Tests
2542-----
2543
Hirokazu Yamamoto1f504f12010-10-08 09:41:13 +00002544- Issue #9978: Wait until subprocess completes initialization. (Win32KillTests
2545 in test_os)
2546
Antoine Pitrou767cbc42010-09-18 18:15:33 +00002547- Issue #9894: Do not hardcode ENOENT in test_subprocess.
2548
Florent Xicluna92847452010-09-13 17:36:36 +00002549- Issue #9323: Make test.regrtest.__file__ absolute, this was not always the
2550 case when running profile or trace, for example.
2551
Alexander Belopolsky9d17da32010-09-13 16:45:02 +00002552- Issue #9315: Added tests for the trace module. Patch by Eli Bendersky.
Florent Xicluna92847452010-09-13 17:36:36 +00002553
Florent Xiclunac0c0b142010-09-13 08:53:00 +00002554- Strengthen test_unicode with explicit type checking for assertEqual tests.
2555
Giampaolo Rodolà633e4742010-08-14 17:04:46 +00002556- Issue #8857: Provide a test case for socket.getaddrinfo.
2557
Florent Xicluna172e15f2010-08-09 20:02:00 +00002558- Issue #7564: Skip test_ioctl if another process is attached to /dev/tty.
2559
Mark Dickinson28669332010-08-07 13:07:11 +00002560- Issue #8433: Fix test_curses failure with newer versions of ncurses.
2561
Antoine Pitrou185fae72010-08-04 15:54:33 +00002562- Issue #9496: Provide a test suite for the rlcompleter module. Patch by
2563 Michele Orrù.
2564
Antoine Pitrou22db7352010-07-08 18:54:04 +00002565- Issue #8605: Skip test_gdb if Python is compiled with optimizations.
2566
Ronald Oussoren8928e322010-09-28 14:43:59 +00002567- Issue #9568: Fix test_urllib2_localnet on OS X 10.3.
2568
Brett Cannon8c4fa112010-07-21 09:52:10 +00002569Documentation
2570-------------
2571
Matthias Klose3e8230d2010-09-12 16:51:29 +00002572- Issue #9817: Add expat COPYING file; add expat, libffi and expat licenses
2573 to Doc/license.rst.
2574
Brian Curtin4d808892010-08-05 19:00:45 +00002575- Issue #9524: Document that two CTRL* signals are meant for use only
2576 with os.kill.
2577
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00002578- Issue #9255: Document that the 'test' package is for internal Python use
2579 only.
Brett Cannon9ae2cb72010-07-23 12:07:27 +00002580
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00002581- Issue #7829: Document in dis that bytecode is an implementation detail.
Brett Cannon8c4fa112010-07-21 09:52:10 +00002582
Benjamin Petersone3c10452010-07-03 14:51:25 +00002583
Benjamin Peterson4f612592010-06-21 17:28:30 +00002584What's New in Python 2.7?
2585=========================
2586
Benjamin Petersonc60082d2010-07-03 13:56:13 +00002587*Release date: 2010-07-03*
Benjamin Peterson4f612592010-06-21 17:28:30 +00002588
2589Core and Builtins
2590-----------------
2591
Benjamin Peterson947ce582010-06-24 00:12:40 +00002592- Prevent assignment to set literals.
2593
Benjamin Peterson4f612592010-06-21 17:28:30 +00002594Library
2595-------
2596
Antoine Pitroua4083502010-08-28 18:29:13 +00002597- Issue #1868: Eliminate subtle timing issues in thread-local objects by
2598 getting rid of the cached copy of thread-local attribute dictionary.
2599
Benjamin Peterson6a336f62010-07-03 13:57:30 +00002600- Issue #9125: Add recognition of 'except ... as ...' syntax to parser module.
2601
2602Extension Modules
2603-----------------
2604
Benjamin Petersonc670b7e2010-07-03 13:49:23 +00002605- Issue #7673: Fix security vulnerability (CVE-2010-2089) in the audioop module,
2606 ensure that the input string length is a multiple of the frame size.
Victor Stinner15e5b1b2010-07-03 13:36:19 +00002607
Antoine Pitrou0dddf602010-06-25 00:03:21 +00002608- Issue #9075: In the ssl module, remove the setting of a ``debug`` flag
2609 on an OpenSSL structure.
2610
Benjamin Peterson00633672010-07-03 13:56:56 +00002611
Michael Foord83d35762010-06-10 16:32:00 +00002612What's New in Python 2.7 release candidate 2?
2613=============================================
Benjamin Peterson2f3d9f92010-06-06 02:09:33 +00002614
Benjamin Petersonbfcedf42010-06-21 15:57:57 +00002615*Release date: 2010-06-20*
Benjamin Peterson2f3d9f92010-06-06 02:09:33 +00002616
2617Core and Builtins
2618-----------------
2619
Benjamin Petersonb9133892010-06-22 19:16:37 +00002620- Issue #9058: Remove assertions about INT_MAX in UnicodeDecodeError.
2621
Nick Coghlan8842c352010-06-13 06:50:39 +00002622- Issue #8202: Previous change to ``sys.argv[0]`` handling for -m command line
2623 option reverted due to unintended side effects on handling of ``sys.path``.
2624 See tracker issue for details.
2625
Antoine Pitroucca3a3f2010-06-11 21:42:26 +00002626- Issue #8941: decoding big endian UTF-32 data in UCS-2 builds could crash
2627 the interpreter with characters outside the Basic Multilingual Plane
2628 (higher than 0x10000).
2629
Benjamin Petersonfa4c59f2010-06-08 14:53:29 +00002630- In the unicode/str.format(), raise a ValueError when indexes to arguments are
2631 too large.
Benjamin Peterson13e934a2010-06-07 22:23:23 +00002632
Benjamin Petersonafa1b302010-06-21 15:27:46 +00002633Build
2634-----
2635
2636- Issue #8854: Fix finding Visual Studio 2008 on Windows x64.
2637
Benjamin Peterson2f3d9f92010-06-06 02:09:33 +00002638Library
2639-------
Mark Dickinsone979ec82010-06-13 10:50:29 +00002640
Victor Stinner15e5b1b2010-07-03 13:36:19 +00002641- Issue #6589: cleanup asyncore.socket_map in case smtpd.SMTPServer constructor
Giampaolo Rodolàe00e2f02010-06-30 17:38:28 +00002642 raises an exception.
2643
Thomas Hellerf1800992010-06-21 14:00:24 +00002644- Issue #8959: fix regression caused by using unmodified libffi
2645 library on Windows. ctypes does now again check the stack before
2646 and after calling foreign functions.
2647
R. David Murraydf1cf302010-06-17 01:36:52 +00002648- Issue #8720: fix regression caused by fix for #4050 by making getsourcefile
2649 smart enough to find source files in the linecache.
2650
Mark Dickinsone979ec82010-06-13 10:50:29 +00002651- Issue #8986: math.erfc was incorrectly raising OverflowError for
2652 values between -27.3 and -30.0 on some platforms.
2653
Vinay Sajip936efc72010-06-11 22:56:50 +00002654- Issue #8924: logging: Improved error handling for Unicode in exception text.
Benjamin Peterson2f3d9f92010-06-06 02:09:33 +00002655
Michael Foord83d35762010-06-10 16:32:00 +00002656- Issue #8948: cleanup functions and class / module setups and teardowns are
2657 now honored in unittest debug methods.
2658
Tarek Ziadé770fd152010-06-06 20:05:20 +00002659Documentation
2660-------------
2661
2662- Issues #8909: Added the size of the bitmap used in the installer created by
2663 distutils' bdist_wininst. Patch by Anatoly Techtonik.
2664
Victor Stinnerb65bd2e2010-06-11 19:22:28 +00002665Misc
2666----
2667
2668- Issue #8362: Add maintainers.rst: list of module maintainers
2669
Benjamin Peterson2f3d9f92010-06-06 02:09:33 +00002670
Antoine Pitrou6001b0b2010-05-09 18:32:48 +00002671What's New in Python 2.7 Release Candidate 1?
2672=============================================
Benjamin Peterson534b8de2010-05-08 18:53:42 +00002673
Benjamin Peterson77d534e2010-06-06 00:22:09 +00002674*Release date: 2010-06-05*
Benjamin Peterson534b8de2010-05-08 18:53:42 +00002675
2676Core and Builtins
2677-----------------
2678
Ezio Melottiab2eb0e2010-06-05 19:21:32 +00002679- Issue #8271: during the decoding of an invalid UTF-8 byte sequence, only the
2680 start byte and the continuation byte(s) are now considered invalid, instead
2681 of the number of bytes specified by the start byte.
2682 E.g.: '\xf1\x80AB'.decode('utf-8', 'replace') now returns u'\ufffdAB' and
2683 replaces with U+FFFD only the start byte ('\xf1') and the continuation byte
2684 ('\x80') even if '\xf1' is the start byte of a 4-bytes sequence.
2685 Previous versions returned a single u'\ufffd'.
2686
Mark Dickinson23f0d6b2010-06-05 11:52:24 +00002687- Issue #8627: Remove bogus "Overriding __cmp__ blocks inheritance of
Mark Dickinsone4b83e02010-06-05 12:14:43 +00002688 __hash__ in 3.x" warning. Also fix "XXX undetected error" that
2689 arises from the "Overriding __eq__ blocks inheritance ..." warning
2690 when turned into an exception: in this case the exception simply
2691 gets ignored.
Mark Dickinson23f0d6b2010-06-05 11:52:24 +00002692
Mark Dickinson4ca7c3c2010-05-30 13:18:10 +00002693- Issue #8748: Fix two issues with comparisons between complex and integer
2694 objects. (1) The comparison could incorrectly return True in some cases
2695 (2**53+1 == complex(2**53) == 2**53), breaking transivity of equality.
2696 (2) The comparison raised an OverflowError for large integers, leading
2697 to unpredictable exceptions when combining integers and complex objects
2698 in sets or dicts.
2699
Mark Dickinson81336372010-05-30 12:12:25 +00002700- Issue #5211: Implicit coercion for the complex type is now completely
2701 removed. (Coercion for arithmetic operations was already removed in 2.7
2702 alpha 4, but coercion for rich comparisons was accidentally left in.)
2703
Victor Stinnerc49dfcc2010-05-25 22:30:32 +00002704- Issue #3798: Write sys.exit() message to sys.stderr to use stderr encoding
2705 and error handler, instead of writing to the C stderr file in utf-8
2706
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002707- Issue #7902: When using explicit relative import syntax, don't try implicit
2708 relative import semantics.
Brett Cannoneb3cd302010-05-20 18:37:55 +00002709
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002710- Issue #7079: Fix a possible crash when closing a file object while using it
2711 from another thread. Patch by Daniel Stutzbach.
Antoine Pitrou83137c22010-05-17 19:56:59 +00002712
Victor Stinnerb65bd2e2010-06-11 19:22:28 +00002713- Issue #8868: Fix that ensures that python scripts have access to the
Ronald Oussoren27c72e92010-06-02 03:47:14 +00002714 Window Server again in a framework build on MacOSX 10.5 or earlier.
2715
Antoine Pitrou6a265602010-05-21 17:12:38 +00002716C-API
2717-----
2718
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002719- Issue #5753: A new C API function, :cfunc:`PySys_SetArgvEx`, allows embedders
2720 of the interpreter to set sys.argv without also modifying sys.path. This
2721 helps fix `CVE-2008-5983
Antoine Pitrou6a265602010-05-21 17:12:38 +00002722 <http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-5983>`_.
2723
Benjamin Peterson534b8de2010-05-08 18:53:42 +00002724Library
2725-------
2726
Michael Foordd8918592010-06-05 19:51:38 +00002727- Issue #8302: SkipTest in unittest.TestCase.setUpClass or setUpModule is now
2728 reported as a skip rather than an error.
2729
2730- Issue #8351: Excessively large diffs due to
2731 unittest.TestCase.assertSequenceEqual are no longer included in failure
2732 reports.
2733
Alexander Belopolsky3b818bf2010-06-05 14:54:26 +00002734- Issue #8899: time.struct_time now has class and atribute docstrings.
2735
R. David Murraye7e505b2010-06-04 19:51:06 +00002736- Issue #4487: email now accepts as charset aliases all codec aliases
2737 accepted by the codecs module.
2738
Martin v. Löwiseba67c02010-06-04 19:39:07 +00002739- Issue #6470: Drop UNC prefix in FixTk.
2740
R. David Murray61746d52010-06-03 15:43:20 +00002741- Issue #5610: feedparser no longer eats extra characters at the end of
2742 a body part if the body part ends with a \r\n.
2743
Lars Gustäbel2ee9c6f2010-06-03 09:56:22 +00002744- Issue #8833: tarfile created hard link entries with a size field != 0 by
2745 mistake.
2746
R. David Murray52dcd452010-06-02 22:03:15 +00002747- Issue #1368247: set_charset (and therefore MIMEText) now automatically
2748 encodes a unicode _payload to the output_charset.
2749
Alexander Belopolsky9292ee02010-05-27 20:55:27 +00002750- Issue #7150: Raise OverflowError if the result of adding or subtracting
2751 timedelta from date or datetime falls outside of the MINYEAR:MAXYEAR range.
2752
Victor Stinner04ee3372010-05-24 21:37:28 +00002753- Issue #6662: Fix parsing of malformatted charref (&#bad;), patch written by
2754 Fredrik Håård
Victor Stinner554a3b82010-05-24 21:33:24 +00002755
Georg Brandlf0757a22010-05-24 21:29:07 +00002756- Issue #8016: Add the CP858 codec.
2757
Georg Brandl5d0ca2c2010-05-22 11:29:19 +00002758- Issue #3924: Ignore cookies with invalid "version" field in cookielib.
2759
Victor Stinner7df55da2010-05-22 13:37:56 +00002760- Issue #6268: Fix seek() method of codecs.open(), don't read or write the BOM
2761 twice after seek(0). Fix also reset() method of codecs, UTF-16, UTF-32 and
2762 StreamWriter classes.
Victor Stinner262be5e2010-05-22 02:11:07 +00002763
Victor Stinnerd6703b52010-05-21 22:50:28 +00002764- Issue #5640: Fix Shift-JIS incremental encoder for error handlers different
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002765 than 'strict'.
Victor Stinnerd6703b52010-05-21 22:50:28 +00002766
Benjamin Peterson266e4542010-05-21 21:31:24 +00002767- Issue #8782: Add a trailing newline in linecache.updatecache to the last line
2768 of files without one.
2769
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002770- Issue #8729: Return NotImplemented from ``collections.Mapping.__eq__()`` when
Benjamin Petersoneb318d32010-05-21 20:51:45 +00002771 comparing to a non-mapping.
2772
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002773- Issue #8759: Fix user paths in sysconfig for posix and os2 schemes.
Tarek Ziadé8f692272010-05-19 22:20:14 +00002774
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002775- Issue #1285086: Speed up ``urllib.quote()`` and urllib.unquote for simple
2776 cases.
Florent Xiclunaaf87f9f2010-05-17 13:35:09 +00002777
Tarek Ziadé422545f2010-05-17 10:06:20 +00002778- Issue #8688: Distutils now recalculates MANIFEST everytime.
2779
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002780- Issue #5099: The ``__del__()`` method of ``subprocess.Popen`` (and the methods
2781 it calls) referenced global objects, causing errors to pop up during
2782 interpreter shutdown.
Brett Cannon42a0ba72010-05-14 00:21:48 +00002783
Mark Dickinson932e1622010-05-10 16:07:42 +00002784Extension Modules
2785-----------------
2786
Stefan Krah449aa862010-06-03 12:39:50 +00002787- Issue #7384: If the system readline library is linked against ncurses,
2788 the curses module must be linked against ncurses as well. Otherwise it
2789 is not safe to load both the readline and curses modules in an application.
2790
Brian Curtinb64c89b2010-05-25 15:06:15 +00002791- Issue #2810: Fix cases where the Windows registry API returns
2792 ERROR_MORE_DATA, requiring a re-try in order to get the complete result.
2793
Mark Dickinson932e1622010-05-10 16:07:42 +00002794- Issue #8674: Fixed a number of incorrect or undefined-behaviour-inducing
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002795 overflow checks in the ``audioop`` module.
Benjamin Peterson534b8de2010-05-08 18:53:42 +00002796
Brett Cannonda9af752010-05-13 23:59:41 +00002797Tests
2798-----
2799
R. David Murray4653fb52010-06-03 20:19:25 +00002800- Issue #8889: test_support.transient_internet rewritten so that the new
2801 checks also work on FreeBSD, which lacks EAI_NODATA.
2802
2803- Issue #8835: test_support.transient_internet() catches gaierror(EAI_NONAME)
Victor Stinner03883622010-05-27 22:29:48 +00002804 and gaierror(EAI_NODATA)
2805
Victor Stinner708c0722010-05-26 17:25:28 +00002806- Issue #7449: Skip test_socketserver if threading support is disabled
2807
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002808- On darwin, ``test_site`` assumed that a framework build was being used,
2809 leading to a failure where four directories were expected for site-packages
2810 instead of two in a non-framework build.
Brett Cannonda9af752010-05-13 23:59:41 +00002811
Martin v. Löwisb41afb52010-05-28 15:28:47 +00002812Build
2813-----
2814
Martin v. Löwis16b2a5e2010-06-04 19:15:32 +00002815- Display installer warning that Windows 2000 won't be supported in future
2816 releases.
2817
Victor Stinnerb65bd2e2010-06-11 19:22:28 +00002818- Issues #1759169, #8864: Drop _XOPEN_SOURCE on Solaris, define it for
Martin v. Löwis26eec582010-06-04 17:18:42 +00002819 multiprocessing only.
Brett Cannonda9af752010-05-13 23:59:41 +00002820
Martin v. Löwis5aafc172010-06-04 18:04:42 +00002821Tools/Demos
2822-----------
2823
2824- Issue #5464: Implement plural forms in msgfmt.py.
2825
2826
Antoine Pitrouab5ce722010-04-11 22:45:47 +00002827What's New in Python 2.7 beta 2?
2828================================
Benjamin Peterson12409062010-04-10 18:53:58 +00002829
Benjamin Petersonc2516072010-05-08 17:08:17 +00002830*Release date: 2010-05-08*
Benjamin Peterson12409062010-04-10 18:53:58 +00002831
2832Core and Builtins
2833-----------------
2834
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002835- Run Clang 2.7's static analyzer for ``Objects/`` and ``Python/``.
Brett Cannon5fb89df2010-05-05 20:54:53 +00002836
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002837- Issue #1533: Fix inconsistency in range function argument processing: any
2838 non-float non-integer argument is now converted to an integer (if possible)
2839 using its __int__ method. Previously, only small arguments were treated this
2840 way; larger arguments (those whose __int__ was outside the range of a C long)
2841 would produce a TypeError.
Mark Dickinsona8d26682010-05-04 16:18:25 +00002842
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002843- Issue #8202: ``sys.argv[0]`` is now set to '-m' instead of '-c' when searching
2844 for the module file to be executed with the -m command line option.
Nick Coghlanc5e44852010-04-28 14:51:08 +00002845
Brett Cannon19949692010-04-25 22:33:36 +00002846- Issue #7319: When -Q is used, do not silence DeprecationWarning.
2847
Antoine Pitrou18e63fb2010-04-21 22:53:29 +00002848- Issue #7332: Remove the 16KB stack-based buffer in
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002849 ``PyMarshal_ReadLastObjectFromFile``, which doesn't bring any noticeable
Antoine Pitrou18e63fb2010-04-21 22:53:29 +00002850 benefit compared to the dynamic memory allocation fallback. Patch by
2851 Charles-François Natali.
2852
Benjamin Peterson821a8ea2010-04-16 22:35:38 +00002853- Issue #8417: Raise an OverflowError when an integer larger than sys.maxsize is
2854 passed to bytearray.
2855
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002856- Issue #7072: ``isspace(0xa0)`` is true on Mac OS X.
Ronald Oussoren37805e52010-04-18 13:47:49 +00002857
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002858- Issue #8404: Fix set operations on dictionary views.
Alexandre Vassalotti268e4872010-05-04 03:21:51 +00002859
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002860- Issue #8084: PEP 370 now conforms to system conventions for framework builds
2861 on MacOS X. That is, ``python setup.py install --user`` will install into
2862 ``~/Library/Python/2.7`` instead of ``~/.local``.
Ronald Oussoren2f88bfd2010-05-08 10:29:06 +00002863
Benjamin Peterson12409062010-04-10 18:53:58 +00002864Library
2865-------
2866
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002867- Issue #8681: Make the zlib module's error messages more informative when the
2868 zlib itself doesn't give any detailed explanation.
Antoine Pitroufc3bfad2010-05-11 23:42:28 +00002869
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002870- Issue #8571: Fix an internal error when compressing or decompressing a chunk
2871 larger than 1GB with the zlib module's compressor and decompressor objects.
Antoine Pitrou3843cd82010-05-07 16:50:34 +00002872
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002873- Issue #8573: asyncore ``_strerror()`` function might throw ValueError.
Giampaolo Rodolàf7454fa2010-05-06 17:57:06 +00002874
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002875- Issue #8483: asyncore.dispatcher's __getattr__ method produced confusing error
2876 messages when accessing undefined class attributes because of the cheap
2877 inheritance with the underlying socket object. The cheap inheritance has been
2878 deprecated.
Giampaolo Rodolàf7454fa2010-05-06 17:57:06 +00002879
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002880- Issue #4265: ``shutil.copyfile()`` was leaking file descriptors when disk
2881 fills. Patch by Tres Seaver.
Tarek Ziadé38f81222010-05-05 22:15:31 +00002882
Barry Warsaw8efa8672010-05-05 16:17:22 +00002883- Issue #7755: Use an unencumbered audio file for tests.
2884
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002885- Issue #8621: ``uuid.uuid4()`` returned the same sequence of values in the
2886 parent and any children created using ``os.fork`` on Mac OS X 10.6.
Ronald Oussoren33206962010-05-05 14:48:37 +00002887
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002888- Issue #8313: ``traceback.format_exception_only()`` encodes unicode message to
2889 ASCII with backslashreplace error handler if ``str(value)`` failed.
Victor Stinner926fd4e2010-05-05 12:40:49 +00002890
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002891- Issue #8567: Fix precedence of signals in Decimal module: when a Decimal
2892 operation raises multiple signals and more than one of those signals is
2893 trapped, the specification determines the order in which the signals should be
2894 handled. In many cases this order wasn't being followed, leading to the wrong
2895 Python exception being raised.
Mark Dickinson4f96f5f2010-05-04 14:25:50 +00002896
Antoine Pitrouf7fd8e42010-05-03 16:25:33 +00002897- Issue #7865: The close() method of :mod:`io` objects should not swallow
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002898 exceptions raised by the implicit flush(). Also ensure that calling close()
2899 several times is supported. Patch by Pascal Chambon.
Antoine Pitrouf7fd8e42010-05-03 16:25:33 +00002900
Vinay Sajip27a13702010-05-03 15:11:53 +00002901- Issue #8576: logging updated to remove usage of find_unused_port().
2902
Antoine Pitrou951919f2010-05-02 19:51:14 +00002903- Issue #4687: Fix accuracy of garbage collection runtimes displayed with
2904 gc.DEBUG_STATS.
2905
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002906- Issue #8354: The siginterrupt setting is now preserved for all signals, not
2907 just SIGCHLD.
Jean-Paul Calderonee54ddf12010-05-08 20:06:02 +00002908
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002909- Issue #7192: ``webbrowser.get("firefox")`` now works on Mac OS X, as does
2910 ``webbrowser.get("safari")``.
Ronald Oussoren4ef1c7e2010-05-02 09:48:21 +00002911
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002912- Issue #8577: ``distutils.sysconfig.get_python_inc()`` now makes a difference
Tarek Ziadéa5cd1822010-04-30 12:15:12 +00002913 between the build dir and the source dir when looking for "python.h" or
2914 "Include".
2915
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002916- Issue #8464: tarfile no longer creates files with execute permissions set when
2917 mode="w|" is used.
Lars Gustäbel5c4c4612010-04-29 15:23:38 +00002918
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002919- Issue #7834: Fix connect() of Bluetooth L2CAP sockets with recent versions of
2920 the Linux kernel. Patch by Yaniv Aknin.
Antoine Pitrouf56a2882010-04-29 10:05:40 +00002921
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002922- Issue #6312: Fix http HEAD request when the transfer encoding is chunked. It
2923 should correctly return an empty response now.
Senthil Kumaraned9204342010-04-28 17:20:43 +00002924
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002925- Issue #7490: To facilitate sharing of doctests between 2.x and 3.x test
2926 suites, the ``IGNORE_EXCEPTION_DETAIL`` directive now also ignores the module
2927 location of the raised exception. Based on initial patch by Lennart Regebro.
Nick Coghlandfb45df2010-04-28 14:29:06 +00002928
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002929- Issue #8086: In :func:`ssl.DER_cert_to_PEM_cert()`, fix missing newline before
2930 the certificate footer. Patch by Kyle VanderBeek.
Antoine Pitrou4c7bcf12010-04-27 22:03:37 +00002931
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002932- Issue #8546: Reject None given as the buffering argument to ``_pyio.open()``.
Benjamin Petersona9bd6d52010-04-27 21:01:54 +00002933
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002934- Issue #8549: Fix compiling the _ssl extension under AIX. Patch by Sridhar
2935 Ratnakumar.
Antoine Pitrou1dc6b082010-04-27 19:09:59 +00002936
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002937- Issue #6656: Fix locale.format_string to handle escaped percents and mappings.
R. David Murray3939dcd2010-04-26 21:17:14 +00002938
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002939- Issue #2302: Fix a race condition in SocketServer.BaseServer.shutdown, where
2940 the method could block indefinitely if called just before the event loop
2941 started running. This also fixes the occasional freezes witnessed in
2942 test_httpservers.
Antoine Pitroua6240402010-04-25 21:40:32 +00002943
Antoine Pitroufc69af12010-04-24 20:04:58 +00002944- Issue #5103: SSL handshake would ignore the socket timeout and block
2945 indefinitely if the other end didn't respond.
2946
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002947- The do_handshake() method of SSL objects now adjusts the blocking mode of the
2948 SSL structure if necessary (as other methods already do).
Antoine Pitrou4d3e3722010-04-24 19:57:01 +00002949
Georg Brandl4341e542010-04-24 09:08:10 +00002950- Issue #7507: Quote "!" in pipes.quote(); it is special to some shells.
2951
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002952- Issue #5238: Calling makefile() on an SSL object would prevent the underlying
2953 socket from being closed until all objects get truely destroyed.
Antoine Pitroub558f172010-04-23 23:25:45 +00002954
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002955- Issue #7943: Fix circular reference created when instantiating an SSL socket.
2956 Initial patch by Péter Szabó.
Antoine Pitroudfb299b2010-04-23 22:54:59 +00002957
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002958- Issue #8451: Syslog module now uses basename(sys.argv[0]) instead of the
2959 string "python" as the *ident*. openlog() arguments are all optional and
2960 keywords.
Sean Reifscheiderf6ce3cb2010-04-23 08:31:55 +00002961
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002962- Issue #8108: Fix the unwrap() method of SSL objects when the socket has a
2963 non-infinite timeout. Also make that method friendlier with applications
Antoine Pitroua5c4b552010-04-22 23:33:02 +00002964 wanting to continue using the socket in clear-text mode, by disabling
2965 OpenSSL's internal readahead. Thanks to Darryl Miles for guidance.
2966
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002967- Issue #8484: Load all ciphers and digest algorithms when initializing the _ssl
2968 extension, such that verification of some SSL certificates doesn't fail
2969 because of an "unknown algorithm".
Antoine Pitrouc715a9e2010-04-21 19:28:03 +00002970
Victor Stinnera92e81b2010-04-20 22:28:31 +00002971- Issue #8437: Fix test_gdb failures, patch written by Dave Malcolm
2972
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002973- Issue #4814: The timeout parameter is now applied also for connections
2974 resulting from PORT/EPRT commands.
Giampaolo Rodolà607f7c02010-04-19 21:46:28 +00002975
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002976- Issue #8463: Add missing reference to bztar in shutil's documentation.
Tarek Ziadé8a12f942010-04-19 21:28:21 +00002977
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002978- Issue #8438: Remove reference to the missing "surrogateescape" encoding error
2979 handler from the new IO library.
Antoine Pitrou7c587bf2010-04-19 18:52:43 +00002980
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002981- Issue #3817: ftplib.FTP.abort() method now considers 225 a valid response code
2982 as stated in RFC-959 at chapter 5.4.
Giampaolo Rodolàcf445fc2010-04-18 12:55:03 +00002983
Martin v. Löwis24f09fd2010-04-17 22:40:40 +00002984- Issue #8279: Fix test_gdb failures.
2985
Antoine Pitrou0a6373c2010-04-17 17:10:38 +00002986- Issue #8322: Add a *ciphers* argument to SSL sockets, so as to change the
2987 available cipher list. Helps fix test_ssl with OpenSSL 1.0.0.
2988
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002989- Issue #2987: RFC 2732 support for urlparse (IPv6 addresses). Patch by Tony
Senthil Kumaran8c6d9d72010-04-16 02:46:46 +00002990 Locke and Hans Ulrich Niedermann.
2991
R. David Murray1a14d3d2010-04-12 16:35:19 +00002992- Issue #7585: difflib context and unified diffs now place a tab between
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002993 filename and date, conforming to the 'standards' they were originally designed
2994 to follow. This improves compatibility with patch tools.
R. David Murray1a14d3d2010-04-12 16:35:19 +00002995
R. David Murray27ef9372010-04-12 14:26:06 +00002996- Issue #7472: Fixed typo in email.encoders module; messages using ISO-2022
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002997 character sets will now consistently use a Content-Transfer-Encoding of 7bit
2998 rather than sometimes being marked as 8bit.
R. David Murray27ef9372010-04-12 14:26:06 +00002999
Martin v. Löwis7f7765c2010-04-12 05:18:16 +00003000- Issue #8330: Fix expected output in test_gdb.
3001
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003002- Issue #8374: Update the internal alias table in the :mod:`locale` module to
3003 cover recent locale changes and additions.
Antoine Pitrouab5ce722010-04-11 22:45:47 +00003004
Matthias Klose8a96d202010-04-21 22:18:52 +00003005Extension Modules
3006-----------------
3007
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003008- Issue #8644: Improved accuracy of ``timedelta.total_seconds()``.
Mark Dickinson7000e9e2010-05-09 09:30:06 +00003009
Brett Cannon945df9a2010-05-04 01:04:53 +00003010- Use Clang 2.7's static analyzer to find places to clean up some code.
3011
Matthias Klose8a96d202010-04-21 22:18:52 +00003012- Build the ossaudio extension on GNU/kFreeBSD.
3013
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003014- On Windows, ctypes does no longer check the stack before and after calling a
3015 foreign function. This allows to use the unmodified libffi library.
Thomas Heller06a7e202010-05-04 18:44:42 +00003016
Antoine Pitroua5c4b552010-04-22 23:33:02 +00003017Tests
3018-----
3019
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003020- Issue #8672: Add a zlib test ensuring that an incomplete stream can be handled
3021 by a decompressor object without errors (it returns incomplete uncompressed
3022 data).
Antoine Pitrou37ffc3e2010-05-11 23:32:31 +00003023
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003024- Issue #8490: asyncore now has a more solid test suite which actually tests its
3025 API.
Giampaolo Rodolàff46d6e2010-05-10 15:33:22 +00003026
Antoine Pitrou54f9f832010-04-30 23:08:48 +00003027- Issue #8576: Remove use of find_unused_port() in test_smtplib and
3028 test_multiprocessing. Patch by Paul Moore.
3029
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003030- Issue #7449: Fix many tests to support Python compiled without thread support.
3031 Patches written by Jerry Seutter.
Victor Stinnerd9d147b2010-04-27 21:46:03 +00003032
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003033- Issue #8108: test_ftplib's non-blocking SSL server now has proper handling of
3034 SSL shutdowns.
Antoine Pitroua5c4b552010-04-22 23:33:02 +00003035
Matthias Klose5183ebd2010-04-24 16:38:36 +00003036Build
3037-----
3038
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003039- Issue #8625: Turn off optimization in ``--with-pydebug`` builds with gcc.
Mark Dickinsond2f3e3f2010-05-05 22:23:58 +00003040 (Optimization was unintentionally turned on in gcc --with-pydebug builds in
3041 2.7 beta1 as a result of the issue #1628484 fix, combined with autoconf's
3042 strange choice of default CFLAGS produced by AC_PROG_CC for gcc.)
3043
Matthias Klose5183ebd2010-04-24 16:38:36 +00003044- Issue #8509: Fix quoting in help strings and code snippets in configure.in.
3045
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003046- Issue #3646: It is now easily possible to install a Python framework into your
3047 home directory on Mac OS X, see Mac/README for more information.
Ronald Oussoren01d149f2010-04-30 11:20:14 +00003048
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003049- Issue #8510: Update to autoconf 2.65.
Matthias Klosea0bea5d2010-05-08 10:00:28 +00003050
Brett Cannonc1f5c2f2010-05-02 21:51:23 +00003051Misc
3052----
3053
3054- Update the Vim syntax highlight file.
3055
Benjamin Peterson12409062010-04-10 18:53:58 +00003056
Benjamin Peterson5da7e7c2010-03-06 22:44:07 +00003057What's New in Python 2.7 beta 1?
3058================================
3059
Benjamin Petersonfbac6c12010-04-10 16:22:05 +00003060*Release date: 2010-04-10*
Benjamin Peterson5da7e7c2010-03-06 22:44:07 +00003061
3062Core and Builtins
3063-----------------
3064
Philip Jenveyaebbaeb2010-04-06 23:24:45 +00003065- Issue #7301: Add environment variable $PYTHONWARNINGS.
3066
Benjamin Peterson3a1dfa22010-04-06 21:50:00 +00003067- Issue #8329: Don't return the same lists from select.select when no fds are
3068 changed.
3069
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003070- Issue #8259: ``1L << (2**31)`` no longer produces an 'outrageous shift error'
Mark Dickinson82791672010-04-06 16:47:55 +00003071 on 64-bit machines. The shift count for either left or right shift is
3072 permitted to be up to sys.maxsize.
3073
Benjamin Peterson4ceeeb02010-04-03 22:48:51 +00003074- Ensure that tokenization of identifiers is not affected by locale.
3075
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003076- Issue #1222585: Added LDCXXSHARED for C++ support. Patch by Arfrever.
Tarek Ziadé00002952010-04-03 08:37:59 +00003077
Benjamin Peterson1c7c11e2010-04-03 01:28:57 +00003078- Raise a TypeError when trying to delete a T_STRING_INPLACE struct member.
3079
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003080- Issue #7994: Issue a PendingDeprecationWarning if object.__format__ is called
3081 with a non-empty format string. This is an effort to future-proof user
3082 code. If a derived class does not currently implement __format__ but later
3083 adds its own __format__, it would most likely break user code that had
Antoine Pitrou01a196a2011-01-02 20:05:11 +00003084 supplied a format string. This will be changed to a DeprecationWarning in
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003085 Python 3.3 and it will be an error in Python 3.4.
Eric Smithd44b2fc2010-04-02 12:30:56 +00003086
Antoine Pitroua57df2c2010-03-31 21:32:15 +00003087- Issue #8268: Old-style classes (not just instances) now support weak
3088 references.
3089
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003090- Issue #8211: Save/restore CFLAGS around AC_PROG_CC in configure.in, in case it
3091 is set.
Victor Stinner6cbf90f2010-03-25 00:21:53 +00003092
Victor Stinnerc7790ed2010-03-22 12:36:28 +00003093- Issue #1583863: An unicode subclass can now override the __unicode__ method
Victor Stinner95affc42010-03-22 12:24:37 +00003094
Benjamin Peterson96545892010-03-21 20:21:00 +00003095- Issue #6474: Make error message from passing an inadequate number of keyword
3096 arguments to a function correct.
3097
Benjamin Peterson0dee9c12010-03-17 20:41:42 +00003098- Issue #8164: Don't allow lambda functions to have a docstring.
3099
Victor Stinner66644262010-03-10 22:30:19 +00003100- Issue #3137: Don't ignore errors at startup, especially a keyboard interrupt
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003101 (SIGINT). If an error occurs while importing the site module, the error is
3102 printed and Python exits. Initialize the GIL before importing the site
Victor Stinner66644262010-03-10 22:30:19 +00003103 module.
3104
Collin Winter001a3952010-03-18 21:54:01 +00003105- Code objects now support weak references.
3106
Benjamin Peterson5da7e7c2010-03-06 22:44:07 +00003107Library
3108-------
3109
R. David Murray661303f2010-04-13 20:57:40 +00003110- Issue #5277: Fix quote counting when parsing RFC 2231 encoded parameters.
3111
Antoine Pitrouf9de5342010-04-05 21:35:07 +00003112- Issue #8321: Give access to OpenSSL version numbers from the `ssl` module,
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003113 using the new attributes `ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION`, `ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION_INFO` and
3114 `ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION_NUMBER`.
Antoine Pitrouf9de5342010-04-05 21:35:07 +00003115
Benjamin Peterson76a23c12010-04-04 23:23:22 +00003116- Issue #8310: Allow dis to examine new style classes.
3117
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003118- Issue #8257: The Decimal construct now accepts a float instance directly,
3119 converting that float to a Decimal of equal value:
Mark Dickinson8a950712010-04-03 15:47:46 +00003120
3121 >>> Decimal(1.1)
3122 Decimal('1.100000000000000088817841970012523233890533447265625')
3123
Raymond Hettinger34c35b22010-04-03 10:22:00 +00003124- collections.Counter() now supports a subtract() method.
3125
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003126- The functools module now has a total_ordering() class decorator to simplify
3127 the specification of rich comparisons.
Raymond Hettingera551f312010-04-04 18:34:45 +00003128
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003129- The functools module also adds cmp_to_key() as a tool to transition old-style
3130 comparison functions to new-style key-functions.
Raymond Hettingera551f312010-04-04 18:34:45 +00003131
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003132- Issue #8294: The Fraction constructor now accepts Decimal and float instances
3133 directly.
Mark Dickinson7c63eee2010-04-02 22:27:36 +00003134
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003135- Issue #7279: Comparisons involving a Decimal signaling NaN now signal
3136 InvalidOperation instead of returning False. (Comparisons involving a quiet
3137 NaN are unchanged.) Also, Decimal quiet NaNs are now hashable; Decimal
3138 signaling NaNs remain unhashable.
Mark Dickinsone096e822010-04-02 10:17:07 +00003139
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003140- Issue #2531: Comparison operations between floats and Decimal instances now
3141 return a result based on the numeric values of the operands; previously they
3142 returned an arbitrary result based on the relative ordering of id(float) and
3143 id(Decimal).
Mark Dickinson99d80962010-04-02 08:53:22 +00003144
Barry Warsawf7f2d6f2010-03-31 21:07:16 +00003145- Issue #8233: When run as a script, py_compile.py optionally takes a single
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003146 argument `-` which tells it to read files to compile from stdin. Each line is
3147 read on demand and the named file is compiled immediately. (Original patch by
3148 Piotr Ożarowski).
Barry Warsawf7f2d6f2010-03-31 21:07:16 +00003149
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003150- Issue #3135: Add ``inspect.getcallargs()``, which binds arguments to a
3151 function like a normal call.
Benjamin Peterson7e213252010-03-30 17:58:13 +00003152
Florent Xicluna58b65662010-03-30 16:29:03 +00003153- Backwards incompatible change: Unicode codepoints line tabulation (0x0B) and
3154 form feed (0x0C) are now considered linebreaks, as specified in Unicode
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003155 Standard Annex #14. See issue #7643. http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr14/
Florent Xicluna22b24382010-03-30 08:24:06 +00003156
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003157- Comparisons using one of <, <=, >, >= between a complex instance and a
3158 Fractions instance now raise TypeError instead of returning True/False. This
3159 makes Fraction <=> complex comparisons consistent with int <=> complex, float
3160 <=> complex, and complex <=> complex comparisons.
Mark Dickinson9588d992010-03-27 11:14:37 +00003161
Michael Foorde6410c52010-03-29 20:04:23 +00003162- Addition of ``WeakSet`` to the ``weakref`` module.
3163
Vinay Sajipb0623d62010-03-24 14:31:21 +00003164- logging: Added LOG_FTP to SysLogHandler and updated documentation.
3165
Florent Xicluna176cda12010-03-22 22:52:11 +00003166- Issue #8205: Remove the "Modules" directory from sys.path when Python is
3167 running from the build directory (POSIX only).
3168
Florent Xiclunae1f4c922010-03-22 22:45:50 +00003169- Issue #7667: Fix doctest failures with non-ASCII paths.
3170
Antoine Pitrou513d9ae2010-03-22 19:59:46 +00003171- Issue #7512: shutil.copystat() could raise an OSError when the filesystem
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003172 didn't support chflags() (for example ZFS under FreeBSD). The error is now
3173 silenced.
Antoine Pitrou513d9ae2010-03-22 19:59:46 +00003174
Florent Xicluna9e7a4c92010-03-22 16:07:38 +00003175- Issue #7703: ctypes supports both buffer() and memoryview(). The former is
3176 deprecated.
3177
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003178- Issue #7860: platform.uname now reports the correct 'machine' type when Python
3179 is running in WOW64 mode on 64 bit Windows.
R. David Murrayc9d1a782010-03-22 15:55:09 +00003180
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003181- logging: Added getChild utility method to Logger and added isEnabledFor method
3182 to LoggerAdapter.
Vinay Sajip804899b2010-03-22 15:29:01 +00003183
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003184- Issue #8201: logging: Handle situation of non-ASCII and Unicode logger names
3185 existing at the same time, causing a Unicode error when configuration code
3186 attempted to sort the existing loggers.
Vinay Sajip31e928e2010-03-22 13:02:28 +00003187
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003188- Issue #8200: logging: Handle errors when multiprocessing is not fully loaded
3189 when logging occurs.
Vinay Sajip3017a7b2010-03-22 12:33:08 +00003190
Antoine Pitroueee91cd2010-03-26 19:27:16 +00003191- Issue #3890, #8222: Fix recv() and recv_into() on non-blocking SSL sockets.
3192 Also, enable the SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY flag on SSL sockets, so that blocking
3193 reads and writes are always retried by OpenSSL itself.
Antoine Pitrou448da712010-03-21 19:33:38 +00003194
Florent Xiclunacf82fa62010-03-21 12:27:20 +00003195- Issue #8179: Fix macpath.realpath() on a non-existing path.
3196
Florent Xicluna2e0a53f2010-03-18 21:50:06 +00003197- Issue #8024: Update the Unicode database to 5.2.
3198
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003199- Issue #8104: socket.recv_into() and socket.recvfrom_into() now support writing
3200 into objects supporting the new buffer API, for example bytearrays or
3201 memoryviews.
Antoine Pitroud7b731d2010-03-17 22:45:39 +00003202
Matthias Klose8b411682010-03-16 10:48:52 +00003203- Issue #4961: Inconsistent/wrong result of askyesno function in tkMessageBox
3204 with Tcl/Tk-8.5.
3205
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003206- Issue #8140: Extend compileall to compile single files. Add -i option.
Matthias Kloseb13d04c2010-03-15 17:44:12 +00003207
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003208- Issue #7356: ctypes.util: Make parsing of ldconfig output independent of the
3209 locale.
Matthias Klose358e7ff2010-03-15 13:42:23 +00003210
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003211- Issue #7774: Set sys.executable to an empty string if ``argv[0]`` has been set
3212 to an non existent program name and Python is unable to retrieve the real
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003213 program name.
Victor Stinner75227342010-03-12 14:30:26 +00003214
Vinay Sajipecfa08f2010-03-12 09:16:10 +00003215- Issue #8117: logging: Improved algorithm for computing initial rollover time
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003216 for ``TimedRotatingFileHandler`` by using the modification time of an existing
3217 log file to compute the next rollover time. If the log file does not exist,
3218 the current time is used as the basis for the computation.
Vinay Sajip9098ee42010-03-12 06:01:21 +00003219
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003220- Issue #6472: The ``xml.etree`` package is updated to ElementTree 1.3. The
Florent Xicluna3e8c1892010-03-11 14:36:19 +00003221 cElementTree module is updated too.
3222
Florent Xicluna85677612010-03-10 23:58:42 +00003223- Issue #7880: Fix sysconfig when the python executable is a symbolic link.
3224
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003225- Issue #7624: Fix ``isinstance(foo(), collections.Callable)`` for old-style
Florent Xicluna47627d52010-03-08 15:20:28 +00003226 classes.
3227
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003228- Issue #7143: email: ``get_payload()`` used to strip any trailing newline from
3229 a base64 transfer-encoded payload *after* decoding it; it no longer does.
3230 This is a behavior change, so email's minor version number is now bumped, to
3231 version 4.0.2, for the 2.7 release.
R. David Murray4617e502010-03-08 02:04:06 +00003232
Larry Hastings3b958e32010-04-02 11:18:17 +00003233- Issue #8235: _socket: Add the constant ``SO_SETFIB``. SO_SETFIB is
3234 a socket option available on FreeBSD 7.1 and newer.
3235
Michael Foorda04c7a02010-04-02 22:55:59 +00003236- Issue #8038: unittest.TestCase.assertNotRegexpMatches
3237
3238- Addition of -b command line option to unittest for buffering stdout / stderr
3239 during test runs.
3240
Victor Stinnerdb990922010-05-15 21:00:59 +00003241- Issue #1220212: Added os.kill support for Windows, including support for
Brian Curtin85108e62010-04-02 23:31:28 +00003242 sending CTRL+C and CTRL+BREAK events to console subprocesses.
3243
Mark Dickinson154b7ad2010-03-07 16:24:45 +00003244Extension Modules
3245-----------------
3246
Martin v. Löwis16ea5482010-04-07 11:01:46 +00003247- Issue #8314: Fix unsigned long long bug in libffi on Sparc v8.
3248
Matthias Klosee9fbf2b2010-03-19 14:45:06 +00003249- Issue #1039, #8154: Fix os.execlp() crash with missing 2nd argument.
3250
Jesus Cea6557aac2010-03-22 14:22:26 +00003251- Issue #8156: bsddb module updated to version 4.8.4.
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003252 http://www.jcea.es/programacion/pybsddb.htm#bsddb3-4.8.4. This update drops
3253 support for Berkeley DB 4.0, and adds support for 4.8.
Matthias Klose54cc5392010-03-15 12:46:18 +00003254
Jesus Cea616de772010-04-28 10:32:30 +00003255- Issue #3928: os.mknod() now available in Solaris, also.
3256
Matthias Klose817acef2010-03-15 00:02:36 +00003257- Issue #8142: Update libffi to the 3.0.9 release.
3258
Mark Dickinson4846a8e2010-04-03 14:05:10 +00003259- Issue #8300: When passing a non-integer argument to struct.pack with any
3260 integer format code, struct.pack first attempts to convert the non-integer
3261 using its __index__ method. If that method is non-existent or raises
3262 TypeError it goes on to try the __int__ method, as described below.
3263
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003264- Issue #1530559: When passing a non-integer argument to struct.pack with *any*
3265 integer format code (one of 'bBhHiIlLqQ'), struct.pack attempts to use the
3266 argument's __int__ method to convert to an integer before packing. It also
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003267 produces a DeprecationWarning in this case. (In Python 2.6, the behaviour was
3268 inconsistent: __int__ was used for some integer codes but not for others, and
3269 the set of integer codes for which it was used differed between native packing
3270 and standard packing.)
Mark Dickinson154b7ad2010-03-07 16:24:45 +00003271
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003272- Issue #7347: _winreg: Add CreateKeyEx and DeleteKeyEx, as well as fix a bug in
3273 the return value of QueryReflectionKey.
Brian Curtin19479fa2010-04-02 21:51:37 +00003274
Antoine Pitrou02b3f0a2010-03-13 21:21:30 +00003275Tools/Demos
3276-----------
3277
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003278- Issue #7993: Add a test of IO packet processing bandwidth to ccbench. It
3279 measures the number of UDP packets processed per second depending on the
3280 number of background CPU-bound Python threads.
Benjamin Peterson5da7e7c2010-03-06 22:44:07 +00003281
Collin Wintera70f3492010-03-19 00:08:44 +00003282- python-config now supports multiple options on the same command line.
3283
Benjamin Peterson11d93232010-03-14 14:24:31 +00003284Build
3285-----
3286
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003287- Issue #8032: For gdb7, a python-gdb.py file is added to the build, allowing to
3288 use advanced gdb features when debugging Python.
Martin v. Löwisbf0dfb32010-04-01 07:40:51 +00003289
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003290- Issue #1628484: The Makefile doesn't ignore the CFLAGS environment variable
3291 anymore. It also forwards the LDFLAGS settings to the linker when building a
3292 shared library.
Antoine Pitrouf83b3082010-03-21 19:19:41 +00003293
Martin v. Löwis24e4e162010-03-15 13:00:17 +00003294- Issue #6716: Quote -x arguments of compileall in MSI installer.
3295
Benjamin Peterson11d93232010-03-14 14:24:31 +00003296- Issue #7705: Fix linking on FreeBSD.
3297
Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven6d22cfc2010-04-07 16:34:08 +00003298- Make sure that the FreeBSD build of the included libffi uses the proper
3299 assembly file.
3300
Larry Hastings402b73f2010-03-25 00:54:54 +00003301C-API
3302-----
3303
Antoine Pitrou76c86492010-04-01 16:42:11 +00003304- Issue #8276: PyEval_CallObject() is now only available in macro form. The
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003305 function declaration, which was kept for backwards compatibility reasons, is
3306 now removed (the macro was introduced in 1997!).
Antoine Pitrou76c86492010-04-01 16:42:11 +00003307
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003308- Issue #7992: A replacement PyCObject API, PyCapsule, has been backported from
3309 Python 3.1. All existing Python CObjects in the main distribution have been
3310 converted to capsules. To address backwards-compatibility concerns,
3311 PyCObject_AsVoidPtr() was changed to understand capsules.
Larry Hastings402b73f2010-03-25 00:54:54 +00003312
Florent Xicluna3cc8f212010-03-15 18:08:58 +00003313Tests
3314-----
3315
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003316- Issue #3864: Skip three test_signal tests on freebsd6 because they fail if any
3317 thread was previously started, most likely due to a platform bug.
R. David Murraye0e8a872010-04-17 05:26:26 +00003318
Antoine Pitrouab5ce722010-04-11 22:45:47 +00003319- Issue #8348: Fix test ftp url in test_urllib2net.
3320
3321- Issue #8204: Fix test_ttk notebook test by forcing focus.
3322
3323- Issue #8344: Fix test_ttk bug on FreeBSD.
3324
Antoine Pitrou3b4c9892010-04-06 17:21:09 +00003325- Issue #8193: Fix test_zlib failure with zlib 1.2.4.
3326
Antoine Pitrou6032c252010-03-30 18:49:45 +00003327- Issue #8248: Add some tests for the bool type. Patch by Gregory Nofi.
3328
Florent Xicluna75c66762010-03-30 16:31:14 +00003329- Issue #8263: Now regrtest.py will report a failure if it receives a
3330 KeyboardInterrupt (SIGINT).
3331
Florent Xicluna8aa5a582010-03-25 20:33:49 +00003332- Issue #8180 and #8207: Fix test_pep277 on OS X and add more tests for special
3333 Unicode normalization cases.
Florent Xicluna77a88492010-03-21 18:00:38 +00003334
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00003335- Issue #7783: test.test_support.open_urlresource invalidates the outdated files
3336 from the local cache.
Florent Xicluna3cc8f212010-03-15 18:08:58 +00003337
R. David Murray4617e502010-03-08 02:04:06 +00003338
Benjamin Peterson2d798ac2010-02-06 18:26:27 +00003339What's New in Python 2.7 alpha 4?
3340=================================
3341
Benjamin Peterson8e7c1172010-03-06 20:34:14 +00003342*Release date: 2010-03-06*
Benjamin Peterson2d798ac2010-02-06 18:26:27 +00003343
3344Core and Builtins
3345-----------------
3346
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003347- Issue #7544: Preallocate thread memory before creating the thread to avoid a
3348 fatal error in low memory condition.
Victor Stinner71fb87e2010-03-03 23:20:25 +00003349
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003350- Issue #7820: The parser tokenizer restores all bytes in the right if the BOM
3351 check fails.
Victor Stinnerd23d3932010-03-02 23:20:02 +00003352
Eric Smith2d9856d2010-02-24 14:15:36 +00003353- Issue #7309: Fix unchecked attribute access when converting
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003354 UnicodeEncodeError, UnicodeDecodeError, and UnicodeTranslateError to strings.
Eric Smith2d9856d2010-02-24 14:15:36 +00003355
Ezio Melotti32125152010-02-25 17:36:04 +00003356- Issue #7649: "u'%c' % char" now behaves like "u'%s' % char" and raises a
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003357 UnicodeDecodeError if 'char' is a byte string that can't be decoded using the
3358 default encoding.
Victor Stinnerf20f9c22010-02-23 23:16:07 +00003359
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003360- Issue #6902: Fix problem with built-in types format incorrectly with 0
3361 padding.
Eric Smith87bcb242010-02-23 00:11:16 +00003362
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003363- Issue #2560: Remove an unnecessary 'for' loop from ``my_fgets()`` in
Andrew M. Kuchlingb64d6132010-02-22 22:48:41 +00003364 Parser/myreadline.c.
3365
Eric Smithf32d4ac2010-02-22 18:33:47 +00003366- Issue #7988: Fix default alignment to be right aligned for
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003367 ``complex.__format__``. Now it matches other numeric types.
Eric Smithf32d4ac2010-02-22 18:33:47 +00003368
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003369- Issue #5211: The complex type no longer uses implicit coercion in mixed-type
3370 binary arithmetic operations.
Mark Dickinson82b34c52010-02-21 12:57:35 +00003371
Benjamin Peterson2d798ac2010-02-06 18:26:27 +00003372Library
3373-------
Georg Brandl7f0c3ff2010-08-01 21:18:52 +00003374
Senthil Kumaranc1d0ed22010-12-04 09:58:29 +00003375- Issue #7904: Changes to urllib.parse.urlsplit to handle schemes as defined by
3376 RFC3986. Anything before :// is considered a scheme and is followed by an
3377 authority (or netloc) and by '/' led path, which is optional.
3378
R. David Murray05b76312010-07-17 01:35:16 +00003379- Issue #1555570: email no longer inserts extra blank lines when a \r\n
3380 combo crosses an 8192 byte boundary.
Benjamin Peterson2d798ac2010-02-06 18:26:27 +00003381
Florent Xicluna0b9a18a2010-03-06 11:01:08 +00003382- Issue #6906: Tk should not set Unicode environment variables on Windows.
3383
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003384- Issue #1054943: Fix ``unicodedata.normalize('NFC', text)`` for the Public
Ezio Melotti8122bdd2010-03-14 10:13:49 +00003385 Review Issue #29 (http://unicode.org/review/pr-29.html).
Victor Stinner7c924ec2010-03-04 12:09:33 +00003386
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003387- Issue #7494: Fix a crash in ``_lsprof`` (cProfile) after clearing the profiler,
Victor Stinner56a51532010-03-04 00:10:12 +00003388 reset also the pointer to the current pointer context.
3389
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003390- Issue #7232: Add support for the context manager protocol to the
3391 ``tarfile.TarFile`` class.
Lars Gustäbel64581042010-03-03 11:55:48 +00003392
Barry Warsaw08a8fb32010-03-01 21:46:51 +00003393- Issue #7250: Fix info leak of os.environ across multi-run uses of
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003394 ``wsgiref.handlers.CGIHandler``.
Barry Warsaw08a8fb32010-03-01 21:46:51 +00003395
Florent Xiclunae7901c52010-03-01 20:45:01 +00003396- Issue #1729305: Fix doctest to handle encode error with "backslashreplace".
Florent Xicluna2a903b22010-02-27 13:31:23 +00003397
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003398- Issue #691291: ``codecs.open()`` should not convert end of lines on reading
3399 and writing.
Florent Xicluna82aa01f2010-02-27 11:19:18 +00003400
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003401- Issue #7975: Correct regression in dict methods supported by bsddb.dbshelve.
R. David Murray48605be2010-02-24 02:31:27 +00003402
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003403- Issue #7959: ctypes callback functions are now registered correctly with the
3404 cycle garbage collector.
Thomas Heller92bd0592010-02-23 20:11:44 +00003405
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003406- Issue #7970: ``email.Generator.flatten`` now correctly flattens
3407 message/rfc822 messages parsed by ``email.Parser.HeaderParser``.
R. David Murray51f12042010-02-21 04:23:00 +00003408
Ezio Melotti4cc80ca2010-02-20 08:09:39 +00003409- Issue #3426: ``os.path.abspath`` now returns unicode when its arg is unicode.
3410
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003411- Issue #7633: In the decimal module, ``Context`` class methods (with the
3412 exception of canonical and is_canonical) now accept instances of int and long
3413 wherever a Decimal instance is accepted, and implicitly convert that argument
3414 to Decimal. Previously only some arguments were converted.
Mark Dickinson6d8effb2010-02-18 14:27:02 +00003415
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003416- Issue #6003: Add an argument to ``zipfile.Zipfile.writestr`` to specify the
3417 compression type.
Ezio Melotti8f6a2872010-02-10 21:40:33 +00003418
Michael Foorddb43b5a2010-02-10 14:25:12 +00003419- Issue #7893: ``unittest.TextTestResult`` is made public and a ``resultclass``
3420 argument added to the TextTestRunner constructor allowing a different result
3421 class to be used without having to subclass.
Ezio Melotti8f6a2872010-02-10 21:40:33 +00003422
Ezio Melotti4cc80ca2010-02-20 08:09:39 +00003423- Issue #7588: ``unittest.TextTestResult.getDescription`` now includes the test
Michael Foorddb43b5a2010-02-10 14:25:12 +00003424 name in failure reports even if the test has a docstring.
Ronald Oussorendd25e862010-02-07 20:18:02 +00003425
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003426- Issue #5801: Remove spurious empty lines in wsgiref.
Tarek Ziadéb8708a22010-02-23 05:53:05 +00003427
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003428- Issue #1537721: Add a ``writeheader()`` method to ``csv.DictWriter``.
Dirkjan Ochtman86148172010-02-23 21:09:52 +00003429
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003430- Issue #7427: Improve the representation of httplib.BadStatusLine exceptions.
Dirkjan Ochtmanebc73dc2010-02-24 04:49:00 +00003431
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003432- Issue #7481: When a ``threading.Thread`` failed to start it would leave the
3433 instance stuck in initial state and present in ``threading.enumerate()``.
Gregory P. Smith613c7a52010-02-28 18:36:09 +00003434
Gregory P. Smithcce211f2010-03-01 00:05:08 +00003435- Issue #1068268: The subprocess module now handles EINTR in internal
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003436 ``os.waitpid()`` and ``os.read()`` system calls where appropriate.
Gregory P. Smithcce211f2010-03-01 00:05:08 +00003437
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003438- Issue #6729: Add ``ctypes.c_ssize_t`` to represent ssize_t.
Gregory P. Smith3c699d32010-03-01 04:56:12 +00003439
Steven Betharde9330e72010-03-02 08:38:09 +00003440- Issue #6247: The argparse module has been added to the standard library.
3441
Martin v. Löwis413fabc2010-02-18 09:22:20 +00003442Extension Modules
3443-----------------
3444
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003445- The sqlite3 module was updated to pysqlite 2.6.0. This fixes several obscure
Gerhard Häring3bbb6722010-03-05 09:12:37 +00003446 bugs and allows loading SQLite extensions from shared libraries.
3447
Florent Xiclunae7901c52010-03-01 20:45:01 +00003448- Issue #7808: Fix reference leaks in _bsddb and related tests.
3449
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003450- Issue #6544: Fix a reference leak in the kqueue implementation's error
Georg Brandlea370a92010-02-23 21:48:57 +00003451 handling.
3452
Martin v. Löwis413fabc2010-02-18 09:22:20 +00003453- Stop providing crtassem.h symbols when compiling with Visual Studio 2010, as
3454 msvcr100.dll is not a platform assembly anymore.
Benjamin Peterson2d798ac2010-02-06 18:26:27 +00003455
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003456- Issue #7242: On Solaris 9 and earlier calling ``os.fork()`` from within a
Gregory P. Smith9e5d1322010-03-01 01:22:39 +00003457 thread could raise an incorrect RuntimeError about not holding the import
3458 lock. The import lock is now reinitialized after fork.
3459
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003460- Issue #7999: ``os.setreuid()`` and ``os.setregid()`` would refuse to accept a
3461 -1 parameter on some platforms such as OS X.
Gregory P. Smith6a65f852010-03-01 05:43:43 +00003462
Ezio Melotti8f6a2872010-02-10 21:40:33 +00003463Tests
3464-----
3465
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003466- Issue #7849: The utility ``test.test_support.check_warnings()`` verifies if
3467 warnings are effectively raised. A new utility ``check_py3k_warnings()`` is
3468 available.
Florent Xicluna6de9e932010-03-07 12:18:33 +00003469
Florent Xicluna985478d2010-03-06 18:52:52 +00003470- The four path modules (genericpath, macpath, ntpath, posixpath) share a
3471 common TestCase for some tests: test_genericpath.CommonTest.
3472
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003473- Print platform information when running the whole test suite, or using the
3474 ``--verbose`` flag.
Florent Xicluna58526412010-03-06 17:24:36 +00003475
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003476- Issue #767675: Enable test_pep277 on POSIX platforms with Unicode-friendly
Florent Xiclunac0a9d412010-03-02 22:34:11 +00003477 filesystem encoding.
Florent Xicluna2db61fb2010-03-02 21:34:45 +00003478
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003479- Issue #6292: For the moment at least, the test suite runs cleanly if python
R. David Murrayf28fd242010-02-23 00:24:49 +00003480 is run with the -OO flag. Tests requiring docstrings are skipped.
3481
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003482- Issue #7712: test_support gained a new ``temp_cwd`` context manager which is
3483 now also used by regrtest to run all the tests in a temporary directory. The
3484 original CWD is saved in ``test.test_support.SAVEDCWD``. Thanks to Florent
3485 Xicluna who helped with the patch.
Ezio Melotti8f6a2872010-02-10 21:40:33 +00003486
Martin v. Löwis5e2dd862010-02-15 08:32:00 +00003487Build
3488-----
3489
Martin v. Löwis7875ef62010-02-15 21:41:12 +00003490- Issue #3920, #7903: Define _BSD_SOURCE on OpenBSD 4.4 through 4.9.
Martin v. Löwis5e2dd862010-02-15 08:32:00 +00003491
Ezio Melotti8f6a2872010-02-10 21:40:33 +00003492
Benjamin Petersondd6d92a2010-01-09 17:30:31 +00003493What's New in Python 2.7 alpha 3?
3494=================================
3495
Benjamin Petersona7be9d22010-02-06 16:37:32 +00003496*Release date: 2010-02-06*
Benjamin Petersondd6d92a2010-01-09 17:30:31 +00003497
3498Core and Builtins
3499-----------------
3500
Antoine Pitroubb445a12010-02-05 17:05:54 +00003501- Issue #5677: Explicitly forbid write operations on read-only file objects,
3502 and read operations on write-only file objects. On Windows, the system C
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003503 library would return a bogus result; on Solaris, it was possible to crash the
3504 interpreter. Patch by Stefan Krah.
Antoine Pitroubb445a12010-02-05 17:05:54 +00003505
Barry Warsawb1e66ee2010-02-05 18:45:25 +00003506- Issue #7853: Normalize exceptions before they are passed to a context
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003507 manager's ``__exit__()`` method.
Benjamin Peterson565d7852010-02-05 02:12:14 +00003508
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003509- Issue #7385: Fix a crash in ``PyMemoryView_FromObject()`` when
3510 ``PyObject_GetBuffer()`` fails. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
Antoine Pitrou526e4212010-02-02 22:36:17 +00003511
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003512- Issue #7819: Check ``sys.call_tracing()`` arguments types.
Victor Stinnerb4b0a292010-01-31 22:32:15 +00003513
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003514- Issue #7788: Fix an interpreter crash produced by deleting a list slice with
3515 very large step value.
Mark Dickinson36ecd672010-01-29 17:11:39 +00003516
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003517- Issue #7766: Change ``sys.getwindowsversion()`` return value to a named tuple
3518 and add the additional members returned in an OSVERSIONINFOEX structure. The
3519 new members are service_pack_major, service_pack_minor, suite_mask, and
3520 product_type.
Eric Smithee931b72010-01-27 00:28:29 +00003521
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003522- Issue #7561: Operations on empty bytearrays (such as ``int(bytearray())``)
3523 could crash in many places because of the ``PyByteArray_AS_STRING()`` macro
3524 returning NULL. The macro now returns a statically allocated empty string
3525 instead.
Antoine Pitroue80a6a42010-01-17 12:26:20 +00003526
Antoine Pitrou64672132010-01-13 07:55:48 +00003527- Issue #7622: Improve the split(), rsplit(), splitlines() and replace()
3528 methods of bytes, bytearray and unicode objects by using a common
3529 implementation based on stringlib's fast search. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
3530
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003531- Issue #7632: Fix various str -> float conversion bugs present in 2.7 alpha 2,
3532 including:
Mark Dickinson8efef5c2010-01-12 22:23:56 +00003533
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003534 (1) a serious 'wrong output' bug that could occur for long (> 40 digit) input
3535 strings,
3536 (2) a crash in dtoa.c that occurred in debug builds when parsing certain long
3537 numeric strings corresponding to subnormal values,
3538 (3) a memory leak for some values large enough to cause overflow, and
3539 (4) a number of flaws that could lead to incorrectly rounded results.
3540
3541- Issue #7319, #7770: Silence ``DeprecationWarning`` by default when the -3
3542 option is not used.
Brett Cannon6fdd3dc2010-01-10 02:56:19 +00003543
Alexandre Vassalottiee936a22010-01-09 23:35:54 +00003544- Issue #2335: Backport set literals syntax from Python 3.x.
3545
Alexandre Vassalotti7a8df802010-01-11 23:13:49 +00003546- Issue #2333: Backport set and dict comprehensions syntax from Python 3.x.
3547
Alexandre Vassalotti69eb5162010-01-11 23:17:10 +00003548- Issue #1967: Backport dictionary views from Python 3.x.
3549
Benjamin Petersondd6d92a2010-01-09 17:30:31 +00003550Library
3551-------
3552
Mark Dickinson42add992010-07-11 19:17:28 +00003553- Issue #9137: Fix issue in MutableMapping.update, which incorrectly
3554 treated keyword arguments called 'self' or 'other' specially.
3555
R. David Murray63e4fd72010-02-10 22:42:04 +00003556- Issue #7835: shelve should no longer produce mysterious warnings during
3557 interpreter shutdown.
3558
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003559- Issue #2746: Don't escape ampersands and angle brackets ("&", "<", ">") in
3560 XML processing instructions and comments. These raw characters are allowed
3561 by the XML specification, and are necessary when outputting e.g. PHP code in
3562 a processing instruction. Patch by Neil Muller.
Antoine Pitrou42fb6ab2010-02-09 17:08:05 +00003563
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003564- Issue #7869: logging: Improved diagnostic for format-time errors.
Vinay Sajip64e8b972010-02-07 12:56:54 +00003565
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003566- Issue #7868: logging: Added loggerClass attribute to Manager.
Vinay Sajip657514a2010-02-07 01:37:08 +00003567
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003568- Issue #7851: logging: Clarification on logging configuration files.
Vinay Sajip0e6e97d2010-02-04 20:23:45 +00003569
Antoine Pitroud840e512010-02-04 20:20:18 +00003570- Issue #4772: Raise a ValueError when an unknown Bluetooth protocol is
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003571 specified, rather than fall through to AF_PACKET (in the ``socket`` module).
Antoine Pitroud840e512010-02-04 20:20:18 +00003572 Also, raise ValueError rather than TypeError when an unknown TIPC address
3573 type is specified. Patch by Brian Curtin.
3574
Vinay Sajip28c382f2010-02-04 18:48:53 +00003575- logging: Implemented PEP 391.
3576
Antoine Pitrouf3fa0742010-01-31 22:26:04 +00003577- Issue #6939: Fix file I/O objects in the `io` module to keep the original
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003578 file position when calling `truncate()`. It would previously change the file
3579 position to the given argument, which goes against the tradition of
Antoine Pitrouf3fa0742010-01-31 22:26:04 +00003580 ftruncate() and other truncation APIs. Patch by Pascal Chambon.
3581
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003582- Issue #7610: Reworked implementation of the internal ``zipfile.ZipExtFile``
3583 class used to represent files stored inside an archive. The new
3584 implementation is significantly faster and can be wrapped in a
3585 ``io.BufferedReader`` object for more speedups. It also solves an issue
3586 where interleaved calls to ``read()`` and ``readline()`` give wrong results.
3587 Patch by Nir Aides.
Antoine Pitrou94c33eb2010-01-27 20:59:50 +00003588
Benjamin Peterson2deb5c72010-01-27 02:16:42 +00003589- Issue #7792: Registering non-classes to ABCs raised an obscure error.
3590
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003591- Removed the deprecated functions ``verify()`` and ``vereq()`` from
3592 Lib/test/test_support.py.
Ezio Melotti82230f92010-01-25 12:37:02 +00003593
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003594- Issue #7773: Fix an UnboundLocalError in ``platform.linux_distribution()``
3595 when the release file is empty.
Benjamin Petersona43f34c2010-01-25 03:31:13 +00003596
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003597- Issue #7748: Since unicode values are supported for some metadata options in
3598 Distutils, the DistributionMetadata get_* methods will now return an utf-8
3599 encoded string for them. This ensures that the upload and register commands
3600 send the correct values to PyPI without any error.
Tarek Ziadéf14c7fc2010-01-24 00:33:32 +00003601
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003602- Issue #1670765: Prevent ``email.generator.Generator`` from re-wrapping
R. David Murrayed44dfa2010-01-16 05:15:17 +00003603 headers in multipart/signed MIME parts, which fixes one of the sources of
3604 invalid modifications to such parts by Generator.
3605
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003606- Issue #7701: Fix crash in ``binascii.b2a_uu()`` in debug mode when given a
Antoine Pitrouc391ad02010-01-15 00:18:00 +00003607 1-byte argument. Patch by Victor Stinner.
3608
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003609- Issue #3299: Fix possible crash in the _sre module when given bad argument
3610 values in debug mode. Patch by Victor Stinner.
Antoine Pitrouefdddd32010-01-14 17:25:24 +00003611
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003612- Issue #7703: Add support for the new buffer API to functions of the binascii
3613 module. Backported from py3k by Florent Xicluna, with some additional tests.
Antoine Pitroufd3a60d2010-01-14 16:27:09 +00003614
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003615- Issue #2846: Add support for gzip.GzipFile reading zero-padded files. Patch
3616 by Brian Curtin.
Antoine Pitrou5a9112c2010-01-13 14:32:10 +00003617
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003618- Issue #5827: Make sure that normpath preserves unicode. Initial patch by
3619 Matt Giuca.
Ezio Melottib5689de2010-01-12 03:32:05 +00003620
Tarek Ziadédc0f4872010-01-11 22:50:29 +00003621- Issue #5372: Drop the reuse of .o files in Distutils' ccompiler (since
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003622 Extension extra options may change the output without changing the .c file).
3623 Initial patch by Collin Winter.
Tarek Ziadédc0f4872010-01-11 22:50:29 +00003624
Matthias Klose0d948ac2010-01-22 00:39:04 +00003625Extension Modules
3626-----------------
3627
3628- Expat: Fix DoS via XML document with malformed UTF-8 sequences
3629 (CVE_2009_3560).
3630
Antoine Pitrou8c510e72010-01-13 11:47:49 +00003631Build
3632-----
3633
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003634- Issue #7632: When Py_USING_MEMORY_DEBUGGER is defined, disable the private
3635 memory allocation scheme in dtoa.c and use PyMem_Malloc and PyMem_Free
3636 instead. Also disable caching of powers of 5.
Mark Dickinson9481c572010-01-17 20:57:56 +00003637
Ronald Oussorena55af9a2010-01-17 16:25:57 +00003638- Issue #7658: Ensure that the new pythonw executable works on OSX 10.4
3639
3640- Issue #7714: Use ``gcc -dumpversion`` to detect the version of GCC on
3641 MacOSX.
3642
Antoine Pitrou8c510e72010-01-13 11:47:49 +00003643- Issue #7661: Allow ctypes to be built from a non-ASCII directory path.
3644 Patch by Florent Xicluna.
3645
Antoine Pitrouc07336c2010-01-18 21:15:21 +00003646Tools/Demos
3647-----------
3648
3649- iobench (a file I/O benchmark) and ccbench (a concurrency benchmark) were
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003650 added to the ``Tools`` directory. They were previously living in the
Antoine Pitrouc07336c2010-01-18 21:15:21 +00003651 sandbox.
3652
R. David Murrayce6e4b02010-02-06 04:27:21 +00003653Tests
3654-----
3655
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003656- issue #7728: test_timeout was changed to use ``test_support.bind_port()``
R. David Murrayce6e4b02010-02-06 04:27:21 +00003657 instead of a hard coded port.
3658
Matthias Klose626d92a2010-01-31 16:05:13 +00003659Documentation
3660-------------
Victor Stinnerf20f9c22010-02-23 23:16:07 +00003661
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003662- Updated "Using Python" documentation to include description of CPython's -J,
3663 -U and -X options.
Barry Warsawb1e66ee2010-02-05 18:45:25 +00003664
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003665- Updated Python manual page (options -B, -O0, -s, environment variables
Matthias Klose626d92a2010-01-31 16:05:13 +00003666 PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE, PYTHONNOUSERSITE).
3667
Benjamin Petersondd6d92a2010-01-09 17:30:31 +00003668
Benjamin Peterson4f51baf2009-12-05 18:40:02 +00003669What's New in Python 2.7 alpha 2?
3670=================================
3671
Benjamin Petersonaa7e51f2010-01-09 16:34:06 +00003672*Release date: 2010-01-09*
Benjamin Peterson4f51baf2009-12-05 18:40:02 +00003673
3674Core and Builtins
3675-----------------
3676
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003677- The ``__complex__()`` method is now looked up on the class of instances to
3678 make it consistent with other special methods.
Benjamin Petersonecdae192010-01-04 00:43:01 +00003679
Antoine Pitrou5b7139a2010-01-02 21:12:58 +00003680- Issue #7462: Implement the stringlib fast search algorithm for the `rfind`,
3681 `rindex`, `rsplit` and `rpartition` methods. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
3682
Mark Dickinson1b34d252010-01-01 17:27:30 +00003683- Issue #5080: A number of functions and methods previously produced a
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003684 DeprecationWarning when passed a float argument where an integer was expected.
3685 These functions and methods now raise TypeError instead. The majority of the
3686 effects of this change are in the extension modules, but some core functions
3687 and methods are affected: notably the 'chr', 'range' and 'xrange' builtins,
3688 and many unicode/str methods.
Mark Dickinson1b34d252010-01-01 17:27:30 +00003689
Benjamin Peterson0f02d392009-12-30 19:34:10 +00003690- Issue #7604: Deleting an unset slotted attribute did not raise an
3691 AttributeError.
3692
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003693- Issue #7534: Fix handling of IEEE specials (infinities, nans, negative zero)
3694 in ** operator. The behaviour now conforms to that described in C99 Annex F.
Mark Dickinson99d652e2009-12-30 12:12:23 +00003695
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003696- Issue #7579: The msvcrt module now has docstrings for all its functions.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcc8a2ce72009-12-29 23:06:17 +00003697
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc8645a5c2009-12-29 22:03:38 +00003698- Issue #7413: Passing '\0' as the separator to datetime.datetime.isoformat()
3699 used to drop the time part of the result.
3700
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003701- Issue #1811: Improve accuracy and cross-platform consistency for true division
3702 of integers: the result of a/b is now correctly rounded for ints a and b (at
3703 least on IEEE 754 platforms), and in particular does not depend on the
3704 internal representation of a long.
Mark Dickinson46572832009-12-27 14:55:57 +00003705
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003706- Issue #6108: ``unicode(exception)`` and ``str(exception)`` should return the
3707 same message when only ``__str__()`` (and not ``__unicode__()``) is overridden
3708 in the subclass.
Ezio Melottif84caf42009-12-24 22:25:17 +00003709
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003710- Issue #6834: Replace the implementation for the 'python' and 'pythonw'
Ronald Oussoren92919a62009-12-24 13:30:58 +00003711 executables on OSX.
3712
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003713 These executables now work properly with the arch(1) command: ``arch -ppc
3714 python`` will start a universal binary version of python in PPC mode (unlike
3715 previous releases).
Ronald Oussoren92919a62009-12-24 13:30:58 +00003716
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003717- Issue #1680159: Unicode coercion during an 'in' operation no longer masks the
3718 underlying error when the coercion fails for the left hand operand.
R. David Murray0a0a1a82009-12-14 16:28:26 +00003719
Benjamin Peterson4895af42009-12-13 16:36:53 +00003720- Issue #7491: Metaclass's __cmp__ method was ignored.
3721
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003722- Issue #7466: Segmentation fault when the garbage collector is called in the
3723 middle of populating a tuple. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
Antoine Pitrou2a08b422009-12-13 16:18:14 +00003724
R. David Murrayc7298ff2009-12-14 21:57:39 +00003725
Benjamin Peterson4f51baf2009-12-05 18:40:02 +00003726Library
3727-------
3728
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003729- Issue #6963: Added "maxtasksperchild" argument to ``multiprocessing.Pool``,
3730 allowing for a maximum number of tasks within the pool to be completed by the
3731 worker before that worker is terminated, and a new one created to replace it.
Jesse Noller654ade32010-01-27 03:05:57 +00003732
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003733- Issue #7617: Make sure distutils.unixccompiler.UnixCCompiler recognizes gcc
3734 when it has a fully qualified configuration prefix. Initial patch by
3735 Arfrever.
Tarek Ziadéc25417f2010-01-08 23:42:23 +00003736
Antoine Pitrou80157252010-01-08 19:20:17 +00003737- Issue #7092: Remove py3k warning when importing cPickle. 2to3 handles
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003738 renaming of `cPickle` to `pickle`. The warning was annoying since there's no
3739 alternative to cPickle if you care about performance. Patch by Florent
Antoine Pitrou80157252010-01-08 19:20:17 +00003740 Xicluna.
3741
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003742- Issue #7455: Fix possible crash in cPickle on invalid input. Patch by Victor
3743 Stinner.
Antoine Pitrou0d423b82010-01-07 17:46:49 +00003744
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003745- Issue #7092: Fix the DeprecationWarnings emitted by the standard library when
3746 using the -3 flag. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
Antoine Pitroub9d49632010-01-04 23:22:44 +00003747
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003748- Issue #7471: Improve the performance of GzipFile's buffering mechanism, and
3749 make it implement the ``io.BufferedIOBase`` ABC to allow for further speedups
3750 by wrapping it in an ``io.BufferedReader``. Patch by Nir Aides.
Antoine Pitrou673ddf92010-01-03 22:29:56 +00003751
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003752- Issue #3972: ``httplib.HTTPConnection`` now accepts an optional source_address
Gregory P. Smith9d325212010-01-03 02:06:07 +00003753 parameter to allow specifying where your connections come from.
3754
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003755- ``socket.create_connection()`` now accepts an optional source_address
3756 parameter.
Gregory P. Smith79a3eb12010-01-03 01:29:44 +00003757
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003758- Issue #5511: ``zipfile.ZipFile`` can now be used as a context manager.
Ezio Melotti569e61f2009-12-30 06:14:51 +00003759 Initial patch by Brian Curtin.
3760
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003761- Distutils now correctly identifies the build architecture as "x86_64" when
3762 building on OSX 10.6 without "-arch" flags.
Ronald Oussorenca8e7ec2009-12-24 14:50:35 +00003763
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003764- Issue #7556: Distutils' msvc9compiler now opens the MSVC Manifest file in text
3765 mode.
Tarek Ziadé0479eb52009-12-21 23:37:44 +00003766
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003767- Issue #7552: Removed line feed in the base64 Authorization header in the
3768 Distutils upload command to avoid an error when PyPI reads it. This occurs on
3769 long passwords. Initial patch by JP St. Pierre.
Tarek Ziadé2421d562009-12-20 23:23:34 +00003770
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003771- Issue #7231: urllib2 cannot handle https with proxy requiring auth. Patch by
3772 Tatsuhiro Tsujikawa.
Senthil Kumaran7713acf2009-12-20 06:05:13 +00003773
Benjamin Petersonddd392c2009-12-13 19:19:07 +00003774- Issue #7349: Make methods of file objects in the io module accept None as an
3775 argument where file-like objects (ie StringIO and BytesIO) accept them to mean
3776 the same as passing no argument.
3777
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003778- Issue #7348: ``StringIO.StringIO.readline(-1)`` now acts as if it got no
3779 argument like other file objects.
Benjamin Petersonc4771d22009-12-13 17:31:31 +00003780
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003781- Issue #7357: tarfile no longer suppresses fatal extraction errors by default.
Lars Gustäbel92ca7562009-12-13 11:32:27 +00003782
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003783- Issue #7470: logging: Fix bug in Unicode encoding fallback.
Vinay Sajip5cc4e2a2009-12-11 09:16:01 +00003784
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003785- Issue #5949: Fixed IMAP4_SSL hang when the IMAP server response is missing
3786 proper end-of-line termination.
R. David Murray93321f32009-12-09 15:15:31 +00003787
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003788- Issue #7457: Added a read_pkg_file method to
3789 ``distutils.dist.DistributionMetadata``.
Benjamin Peterson4f51baf2009-12-05 18:40:02 +00003790
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003791- Issue #3745: Undo the 2.7a1 change to have hashlib to reject unicode and non
3792 buffer API supporting objects as input. That behavior is for 3.x only.
Gregory P. Smithfe32d302010-01-02 22:42:50 +00003793
Georg Brandl740cdc32009-12-28 08:34:58 +00003794C-API
3795-----
3796
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003797- Issue #7767: New function ``PyLong_AsLongLongAndOverflow()`` added, analogous
3798 to ``PyLong_AsLongAndOverflow()``.
Mark Dickinsona36507c2010-01-30 10:08:33 +00003799
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003800- Issue #5080: The argument parsing functions ``PyArg_ParseTuple()``,
3801 ``PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords()``, ``PyArg_VaParse()``,
3802 ``PyArg_VaParseTupleAndKeywords()`` and ``PyArg_Parse()`` no longer accept
3803 float arguments for integer format codes (other than 'L'): previously an
3804 attempt to pass a float resulted in a DeprecationWarning; now it gives a
3805 TypeError. For the 'L' format code (which previously had no warning) there is
3806 now a DeprecationWarning.
Mark Dickinson1b34d252010-01-01 17:27:30 +00003807
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003808- Issue #7033: Function ``PyErr_NewExceptionWithDoc()`` added.
Georg Brandl740cdc32009-12-28 08:34:58 +00003809
Martin v. Löwisb4261d52009-12-21 19:29:59 +00003810Build
3811-----
3812
Benjamin Petersonedfe72f2010-01-01 15:21:13 +00003813- Issue #6491: Allow --with-dbmliborder to specify that no dbms will be built.
3814
Benjamin Petersonb4abef62010-01-01 15:18:38 +00003815- Issue #6943: Use pkg-config to find the libffi headers when the
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003816 ``--with-system-ffi`` flag is used.
Benjamin Petersonb4abef62010-01-01 15:18:38 +00003817
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003818- Issue #7609: Add a ``--with-system-expat`` option that causes the system's
3819 expat library to be used for the pyexpat module instead of the one included
3820 with Python.
Benjamin Peterson2c196742009-12-31 03:17:18 +00003821
Benjamin Peterson500ce232009-12-30 02:58:50 +00003822- Issue #7589: Only build the nis module when the correct header files are
3823 found.
3824
Martin v. Löwisf477b932010-01-02 09:25:21 +00003825- Switch to OpenSSL 0.9.8l and sqlite 3.6.21 on Windows.
R. David Murray93321f32009-12-09 15:15:31 +00003826
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003827- Issue #7541: when using ``python-config`` with a framework install the
3828 compiler might use the wrong library.
Ronald Oussorenb5afe542009-12-24 14:17:19 +00003829
R. David Murrayc7298ff2009-12-14 21:57:39 +00003830Tests
3831-----
3832
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003833- Issue #7376: Instead of running a self-test (which was failing) when called
R. David Murray77e48ba2009-12-20 16:46:06 +00003834 with no arguments, doctest.py now gives a usage message.
3835
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003836- Issue #7396: Fix regrtest -s, which was broken by the -j enhancement.
R. David Murray98e3df32009-12-16 11:49:46 +00003837
R. David Murrayc7298ff2009-12-14 21:57:39 +00003838- Issue #7498: test_multiprocessing now uses test_support.find_unused_port
3839 instead of a hardcoded port number in test_rapid_restart.
3840
3841
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +00003842What's New in Python 2.7 alpha 1
3843================================
3844
Benjamin Peterson3513c872009-12-05 18:48:13 +00003845*Release date: 2009-12-05*
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +00003846
3847Core and Builtins
3848-----------------
3849
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003850- Issue #7419: ``locale.setlocale()`` could crash the interpreter on Windows
3851 when called with invalid values.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd7288712009-12-01 21:51:04 +00003852
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003853- Issue #3382: 'F' formatting for float and complex now convert the result to
3854 upper case. This only affects 'inf' and 'nan', since 'f' no longer converts
3855 to 'g' for large values.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd7288712009-12-01 21:51:04 +00003856
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003857- Remove switch from "%f" formatting to "%g" formatting for floats larger than
3858 1e50 in absolute value.
Mark Dickinson9dd5e162009-11-23 20:54:09 +00003859
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003860- Remove restrictions on precision when formatting floats. E.g., "%.120g" %
3861 1e-100 used to raise OverflowError, but now gives the requested 120
3862 significant digits instead.
Mark Dickinson18cfada2009-11-23 18:46:41 +00003863
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003864- Add Py3k warnings for parameter names in parentheses.
Benjamin Peterson89b1a5c2009-11-19 22:58:01 +00003865
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003866- Issue #7362: Give a proper error message for ``def f((x)=3): pass``.
Benjamin Peterson89b1a5c2009-11-19 22:58:01 +00003867
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003868- Issue #7085: Fix crash when importing some extensions in a thread on MacOSX
3869 10.6.
Ronald Oussoren315cd0c2009-11-19 16:25:21 +00003870
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003871- Issue #7117: ``repr(x)`` for a float x returns a result based on the shortest
3872 decimal string that's guaranteed to round back to x under correct rounding
3873 (with round-half-to-even rounding mode). Previously it gave a string based on
3874 rounding x to 17 decimal digits. repr(x) for a complex number behaves
3875 similarly. On platforms where the correctly-rounded strtod and dtoa code is
3876 not supported (see below), repr is unchanged.
Mark Dickinsonb678de82009-11-19 18:41:49 +00003877
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003878- Issue #7117: On almost all platforms: float-to-string and string-to-float
3879 conversions within Python are now correctly rounded. Places these conversions
3880 occur include: str for floats and complex numbers; the float and complex
3881 constructors; old-style and new-style numeric formatting; serialization and
3882 deserialization of floats and complex numbers using marshal, pickle and json;
3883 parsing of float and imaginary literals in Python code; Decimal-to-float
3884 conversion.
Mark Dickinsonb678de82009-11-19 18:41:49 +00003885
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003886 The conversions use a Python-adapted version of David Gay's well-known dtoa.c,
3887 providing correctly-rounded strtod and dtoa C functions. This code is
3888 supported on Windows, and on Unix-like platforms using gcc, icc or suncc as
3889 the C compiler. There may be a small number of platforms on which correct
3890 operation of this code cannot be guaranteed, so the code is not used: notably,
3891 this applies to platforms where the C double format is not IEEE 754 binary64,
3892 and to platforms on x86 hardware where the x87 FPU is set to 64-bit precision
3893 and Python's configure script is unable to determine how to change the FPU
3894 precision. On these platforms conversions use the platform strtod and dtoa,
3895 as before.
Mark Dickinsonb678de82009-11-19 18:41:49 +00003896
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003897- Issue #7117: Backport round implementation from Python 3.x. ``round()`` now
3898 uses the correctly-rounded string <-> float conversions described above (when
3899 available), and so produces correctly rounded results that will display nicely
3900 under the float repr. There are two related small changes: (1) round now
3901 accepts any class with an ``__index__()`` method for its second argument (but
3902 no longer accepts floats for the second argument), and (2) an excessively
3903 large second integer argument (e.g., ``round(1.234, 10**100)``) no longer
3904 raises an exception.
Mark Dickinsonbd15a062009-11-18 19:33:35 +00003905
Philip Jenveyfab8be22009-11-17 02:42:26 +00003906- Issue #1757126: Fix the cyrillic-asian alias for the ptcp154 encoding.
3907
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003908- Fix several issues with ``compile()``. The input can now contain Windows and
3909 Mac newlines and is no longer required to end in a newline.
Benjamin Petersone36199b2009-11-12 23:39:44 +00003910
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003911- Remove length limitation when constructing a complex number from a unicode
3912 string.
Mark Dickinsonc04c7c52009-10-26 22:28:14 +00003913
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003914- Issue #7244: ``itertools.izip_longest()`` no longer ignores exceptions raised
3915 during the formation of an output tuple.
Raymond Hettingerfa7dadd2009-11-01 20:45:16 +00003916
Mark Dickinson8d87dc02009-10-25 20:39:06 +00003917- Issue #1087418: Boost performance of bitwise operations for longs.
3918
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003919- Issue #1722344: ``threading._shutdown()`` is now called in ``Py_Finalize()``,
3920 which fixes the problem of some exceptions being thrown at shutdown when the
3921 interpreter is killed. Patch by Adam Olsen.
Antoine Pitrouefb60c02009-10-20 21:29:37 +00003922
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003923- Issue #7168: Document ``PyFloat_AsString()`` and ``PyFloat_AsReprString()``,
3924 and note that they are unsafe and deprecated.
Eric Smithc12781a2009-10-19 14:38:14 +00003925
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003926- Issue #7120: logging: Remove import of multiprocessing which is causing crash
3927 in GAE.
Vinay Sajip03d5c342009-10-16 14:06:44 +00003928
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003929- Issue #7140: The ``__dict__`` of a module should not be cleared unless the
3930 module is the only object holding a reference to it.
Benjamin Peterson196b0922009-10-15 15:44:46 +00003931
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003932- Issue #1754094: Improve the stack depth calculation in the compiler. There
3933 should be no other effect than a small decrease in memory use. Patch by
3934 Christopher Tur Lesniewski-Laas.
Neil Schemenauer7fdd1cb2009-10-14 17:17:14 +00003935
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003936- Issue #7084: Fix a (very unlikely) crash when printing a list from one thread,
3937 and mutating it from another one. Patch by Scott Dial.
Antoine Pitroubeaf6a02009-10-11 21:03:26 +00003938
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd0052d12009-10-06 19:56:32 +00003939- Issue #1571184: The Unicode database contains properties for more characters.
3940 The tables for code points representing numeric values, white spaces or line
3941 breaks are now generated from the official Unicode Character Database files,
3942 and include information from the Unihan.txt file.
3943
Benjamin Peterson7adbb5a2009-10-03 20:23:24 +00003944- Issue #7050: Fix a SystemError when trying to use unpacking and augmented
3945 assignment.
3946
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003947- Issue #5329: Fix ``os.popen*`` regression from 2.5 with commands as a sequence
3948 running through the shell. Patch by Jean-Paul Calderone and Jani Hakala.
Philip Jenvey8b902042009-09-29 19:10:15 +00003949
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003950- Issue #7019: Raise ValueError when unmarshalling bad long data, instead of
3951 producing internally inconsistent Python longs.
Mark Dickinson7e7a3ec2009-09-29 19:01:06 +00003952
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003953- Issue #6990: Fix ``threading.local`` subclasses leaving old state around after
3954 a reference cycle GC which could be recycled by new locals.
Philip Jenveydbf3b252009-09-29 04:32:44 +00003955
Benjamin Peterson9db55402009-09-18 21:47:27 +00003956- Issue #6300: unicode.encode, unicode.decode, str.decode, and str.encode now
Benjamin Peterson332d7212009-09-18 21:14:55 +00003957 take keyword arguments.
3958
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003959- Issue #6922: Fix an infinite loop when trying to decode an invalid UTF-32
3960 stream with a non-raising error handler like "replace" or "ignore".
Georg Brandle9741f32009-09-17 11:28:09 +00003961
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003962- Issue #6713: Improve performance of base 10 int -> string and long -> string
3963 conversions.
Mark Dickinsonaa2adc82009-09-16 22:10:56 +00003964
Thomas Wouters2920adb2009-09-16 20:36:34 +00003965- Issue #1590864: Fix potential deadlock when mixing threads and fork().
3966
Georg Brandl0674d3f2009-09-16 20:30:09 +00003967- Issue #6844: Do not emit DeprecationWarnings when accessing a "message"
3968 attribute on exceptions that was set explicitly.
3969
Mark Dickinsonc8a7c7c2009-09-06 10:03:31 +00003970- Issue #6846: Fix bug where bytearray.pop() returns negative integers.
3971
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003972- ``classmethod()`` no longer checks if its argument is callable.
Benjamin Peterson6fcf9b52009-09-01 22:27:57 +00003973
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003974- Issue #6750: A text file opened with ``io.open()`` could duplicate its output
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfff896b2009-08-29 18:14:40 +00003975 when writing from multiple threads at the same time.
3976
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003977- Issue #6704: Improve the col_offset in AST for "for" statements with a target
3978 of tuple unpacking.
Benjamin Petersonc0ba8282009-08-15 22:59:21 +00003979
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003980- Issue #6707: ``dir()`` on an uninitialized module caused a crash.
Benjamin Peterson4c6e8082009-08-15 13:16:38 +00003981
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003982- Issue #6540: Fixed crash for ``bytearray.translate()`` with invalid parameters.
Georg Brandlec812ca2009-07-22 11:57:15 +00003983
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003984- Issue #6573: ``set.union()`` stopped processing inputs if an instance of self
Raymond Hettingerc2b9e1a2009-07-27 20:32:04 +00003985 occurred in the argument chain.
3986
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc9d11fef2009-07-13 20:03:21 +00003987- Issue #1616979: Added the cp720 (Arabic DOS) encoding.
3988
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003989- Issue #6070: On posix platforms import no longer copies the execute bit from
3990 the .py file to the .pyc file if it is set. Patch by Marco N.
R. David Murray23a736a2009-07-07 01:06:13 +00003991
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003992- Issue #4618: When unicode arguments are passed to ``print()``, the default
Benjamin Peterson753d1622009-07-02 18:16:45 +00003993 separator and end should be unicode also.
3994
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00003995- Issue #6119: Fixed an incorrect Py3k warning about order comparisons of
3996 built-in functions and methods.
Benjamin Peterson1bf47652009-07-02 17:06:17 +00003997
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003998- Issue #6347: Include inttypes.h as well as stdint.h in pyport.h. This fixes a
3999 build failure on HP-UX: int32_t and uint32_t are defined in inttypes.h instead
4000 of stdint.h on that platform.
Mark Dickinson2f865b92009-06-30 15:32:30 +00004001
Hirokazu Yamamotoa3c56092009-06-28 10:23:00 +00004002- Issue #4856: Remove checks for win NT.
4003
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc595f7a52009-06-25 22:29:29 +00004004- Issue #2016: Fixed a crash in a corner case where the dictionary of keyword
4005 arguments could be modified during the function call setup.
4006
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc14fc6732009-06-23 21:09:09 +00004007- Removed the ipaddr module.
4008
Raymond Hettinger62641e92009-06-23 20:59:43 +00004009- Issue #6329: Fixed iteration for memoryview objects (it was being blocked
4010 because it wasn't recognized as a sequence).
4011
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004012- Issue #6289: Encoding errors from ``compile()`` were being masked.
Benjamin Peterson08a0bbc2009-06-16 00:29:31 +00004013
Benjamin Petersona72be3b2009-06-13 20:23:33 +00004014- When no module is given in a relative import, the module field of the
4015 ImportFrom AST node is now None instead of an empty string.
4016
Benjamin Peterson565e1b62009-06-13 03:46:30 +00004017- Assignment to None using import statements now raises a SyntaxError.
4018
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004019- Issue #4547: When debugging a very large function, it was not always possible
4020 to update the lineno attribute of the current frame.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcb02ceda2009-06-01 20:53:18 +00004021
Antoine Pitrou46dbe272009-05-30 21:27:00 +00004022- Issue #5330: C functions called with keyword arguments were not reported by
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004023 the various profiling modules (profile, cProfile). Patch by Hagen Fürstenau.
Antoine Pitrou46dbe272009-05-30 21:27:00 +00004024
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004025- Issue #5982: staticmethod and classmethod now expose the wrapped function with
4026 ``__func__``.
Raymond Hettinger578a2282009-05-29 04:58:52 +00004027
Raymond Hettinger822b87f2009-05-29 01:46:48 +00004028- Added support for multiple context managers in the same with-statement.
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004029 Deprecated ``contextlib.nested()`` which is no longer needed.
Georg Brandl944f6842009-05-25 21:02:56 +00004030
Benjamin Peterson1880d8b2009-05-25 13:13:44 +00004031- Issue #6101: A new opcode, SETUP_WITH, has been added to speed up the with
4032 statement and correctly lookup the __enter__ and __exit__ special methods.
4033
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004034- Issue #5829: complex("1e500") no longer raises OverflowError. This makes it
4035 consistent with float("1e500") and interpretation of real and imaginary
4036 literals.
Mark Dickinsona4e0efa2009-05-20 18:43:07 +00004037
Hirokazu Yamamotoa4f90182009-05-17 02:58:36 +00004038- Issue #3527: Removed Py_WIN_WIDE_FILENAMES which is not used any more.
4039
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004040- ``__instancecheck__()`` and ``__subclasscheck__()`` are now completely ignored
4041 on classic classes and instances.
Benjamin Petersoneb9fb2c2009-05-16 22:46:11 +00004042
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004043- Issue #5994: The marshal module now has docstrings.
R. David Murray525cffc2009-05-13 13:07:14 +00004044
Mark Dickinsonb1d45852009-05-11 15:33:08 +00004045- Issue #5981: Fix three minor inf/nan issues in float.fromhex:
Mark Dickinsonb1d45852009-05-11 15:33:08 +00004046
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004047 (1) inf and nan strings with trailing whitespace were incorrectly rejected;
4048 (2) parsing of strings representing infinities and nans was locale aware; and
4049 (3) the interpretation of fromhex('-nan') didn't match that of float('-nan').
Eric Smitha985a3a2009-05-05 18:26:08 +00004050
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004051- Issue #5920: For ``float.__format__()``, change the behavior with the empty
4052 presentation type (that is, not one of 'e', 'f', 'g', or 'n') to be like 'g'
4053 but with at least one decimal point and with a default precision
4054 of 12. Previously, the behavior the same but with a default precision of 6.
4055 This more closely matches ``str()``, and reduces surprises when adding
4056 alignment flags to the empty presentation type. This also affects the new
4057 complex.__format__ in the same way.
4058
4059- Issue #5890: In subclasses of 'property' the __doc__ attribute was shadowed by
4060 classtype's, even if it was None. property now inserts the __doc__ into the
4061 subclass instance __dict__.
R. David Murray7ba8e1c2009-05-04 22:16:24 +00004062
Antoine Pitrou653dece2009-05-04 18:32:32 +00004063- Issue #4426: The UTF-7 decoder was too strict and didn't accept some legal
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004064 sequences. Patch by Nick Barnes and Victor Stinner.
Antoine Pitrou653dece2009-05-04 18:32:32 +00004065
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004066- Issue #1588: Add complex.__format__. For example, ``format(complex(1, 2./3),
4067 '.5')`` now produces a sensible result.
Eric Smith9139cc62009-04-30 00:58:58 +00004068
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004069- Issue #5864: Fix empty format code formatting for floats so that it never
4070 gives more than the requested number of significant digits.
Mark Dickinson92fcc9c2009-04-29 20:41:00 +00004071
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004072- Issue #5793: Rationalize isdigit / isalpha / tolower, etc. Includes new
4073 Py_ISDIGIT / Py_ISALPHA / Py_TOLOWER, etc. in pctypes.h.
Eric Smithcac7af62009-04-27 19:04:37 +00004074
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004075- Issue #4971: Fix titlecase for characters that are their own titlecase, but
4076 not their own uppercase.
Martin v. Löwis99f27792009-04-26 00:53:18 +00004077
Eric Smith068f0652009-04-25 21:40:15 +00004078- Issue #5835: Deprecate PyOS_ascii_formatd and replace it with
4079 _PyOS_double_to_string or PyOS_double_to_string.
4080
Benjamin Peterson5083dc52009-04-25 00:41:22 +00004081- Issue #5283: Setting __class__ in __del__ caused a segfault.
4082
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004083- Issue #5816: ``complex(repr(z))`` now recovers z exactly, even when z involves
4084 nans, infs or negative zeros.
Mark Dickinson95bc9802009-04-24 12:46:53 +00004085
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004086- Implement PEP 378, Format Specifier for Thousands Separator, for floats, ints,
4087 and longs.
Eric Smithaca19e62009-04-22 13:29:05 +00004088
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004089- Issue #5515: 'n' formatting for ints, longs, and floats handles leading zero
4090 formatting poorly.
Eric Smithaca19e62009-04-22 13:29:05 +00004091
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004092- Issue #5772: For float.__format__, don't add a trailing ".0" if we're using no
4093 type code and we have an exponent.
Eric Smithaca19e62009-04-22 13:29:05 +00004094
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004095- Issue #3166: Make long -> float (and int -> float) conversions correctly
4096 rounded.
Mark Dickinson6736cf82009-04-20 21:13:33 +00004097
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004098- Issue #5787: ``object.__getattribute__(some_type, "__bases__")`` segfaulted on
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00004099 some built-in types.
Benjamin Petersond4d400c2009-04-18 20:12:47 +00004100
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004101- Issue #1869: Fix a couple of minor round() issues. ``round(5e15+1)`` was
4102 giving 5e15+2; ``round(-0.0)`` was losing the sign of the zero.
Mark Dickinson1bdf7e92009-04-18 14:59:42 +00004103
Benjamin Peterson99d36f12009-04-15 21:26:36 +00004104- Issue #5759: float() didn't call __float__ on str subclasses.
4105
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004106- Issue #5704: The "-3" command-line option now implies "-t".
Georg Brandl3c4a5462009-04-12 12:08:12 +00004107
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004108- Issue #2170: Refactored ``xml.dom.minidom.normalize``, increasing both its
4109 clarity and its speed.
R. David Murray0374a822009-04-09 21:54:50 +00004110
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004111- Issue #2396: The memoryview object was backported from Python 3.1.
Antoine Pitrou789be0c2009-04-02 21:18:34 +00004112
Georg Brandld3f03fa2009-04-02 18:09:04 +00004113- Fix a problem in PyErr_NormalizeException that leads to "undetected errors"
4114 when hitting the recursion limit under certain circumstances.
4115
Brett Cannon15ba4da2009-04-01 18:03:59 +00004116- Issue #1665206: Remove the last eager import in _warnings.c and make it lazy.
4117
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004118- Issue #4865: On MacOSX /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages is added to the end
4119 sys.path, for compatibility with the system install of Python.
Ronald Oussorene0154ed2009-03-30 23:10:35 +00004120
Antoine Pitrouf8387af2009-03-23 18:41:45 +00004121- Issue #4688: Add a heuristic so that tuples and dicts containing only
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004122 untrackable objects are not tracked by the garbage collector. This can reduce
4123 the size of collections and therefore the garbage collection overhead on
4124 long-running programs, depending on their particular use of datatypes.
Antoine Pitrouf8387af2009-03-23 18:41:45 +00004125
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004126- Issue #5512: Rewrite PyLong long division algorithm (x_divrem) to improve its
4127 performance. Long divisions and remainder operations are now between 50% and
4128 150% faster.
Mark Dickinson0b666bf2009-03-23 18:25:13 +00004129
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004130- Issue #4258: Make it possible to use base 2**30 instead of base 2**15 for the
4131 internal representation of integers, for performance reasons. Base 2**30 is
4132 enabled by default on 64-bit machines. Add --enable-big-digits option to
4133 configure, which overrides the default. Add sys.long_info structseq to
4134 provide information about the internal format.
Mark Dickinsonefc82f72009-03-20 15:51:55 +00004135
Benjamin Peterson6ffe8522009-03-18 20:52:15 +00004136- Issue #4034: Fix weird attribute error messages of the traceback object. (As a
4137 result traceback.__members__ no longer exists.)
4138
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004139- Issue #4474: PyUnicode_FromWideChar now converts characters outside the BMP to
4140 surrogate pairs, on systems with sizeof(wchar_t) == 4 and sizeof(Py_UNICODE)
4141 == 2.
Mark Dickinson6b265f12009-03-18 16:07:26 +00004142
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004143- Issue #5237: Allow auto-numbered fields in str.format(). For example: ``'{}
4144 {}'.format(1, 2) == '1 2'``.
Eric Smith6f42edb2009-03-14 11:57:26 +00004145
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004146- Issue #3652: Make the 'line' argument for ``warnings.showwarning()`` a
Brett Cannon6c4cff02009-03-11 04:51:06 +00004147 requirement. Means the DeprecationWarning from Python 2.6 can go away.
4148
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004149- Issue #5247: Improve error message when unknown format codes are used when
4150 using ``str.format()`` with str, unicode, long, int, and float arguments.
Eric Smithe9fb6862009-02-20 14:02:36 +00004151
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004152- Running Python with the -3 option now also warns about classic division for
4153 ints and longs.
Raymond Hettinger08259e82009-02-18 23:10:19 +00004154
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004155- Issue #5260: Long integers now consume less memory: average saving is 2 bytes
4156 per long on a 32-bit system and 6 bytes per long on a 64-bit system.
Mark Dickinson2ffb26f2009-02-15 10:13:41 +00004157
Antoine Pitrou76a4b892009-02-13 13:52:33 +00004158- Issue #5186: Reduce hash collisions for objects with no __hash__ method by
4159 rotating the object pointer by 4 bits to the right.
4160
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004161- Issue #4575: Fix Py_IS_INFINITY macro to work correctly on x87 FPUs: it now
4162 forces its argument to double before testing for infinity.
Mark Dickinsonc97c9092009-02-09 14:18:43 +00004163
Benjamin Petersone18ef192009-01-20 14:21:16 +00004164- Issue #4978: Passing keyword arguments as unicode strings is now allowed.
4165
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +00004166- Issue #1242657: the __len__() and __length_hint__() calls in several tools
Raymond Hettingerb5163702009-02-02 21:50:13 +00004167 were suppressing all exceptions. These include list(), filter(), map(),
4168 zip(), and bytearray().
4169
Benjamin Peterson596d3062009-01-19 15:42:23 +00004170- os.ftruncate raises OSErrors instead of IOErrors for consistency with other os
4171 functions.
4172
Benjamin Peterson5848d1f2009-01-19 00:08:08 +00004173- Issue #4991: Passing invalid file descriptors to io.FileIO now raises an
4174 OSError.
4175
Amaury Forgeot d'Arca18392a2009-01-13 23:19:08 +00004176- Issue #4807: Port the _winreg module to Windows CE.
4177
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004178- Issue #4935: The overflow checking code in the expandtabs() method common to
4179 str, bytes and bytearray could be optimized away by the compiler, letting the
4180 interpreter segfault instead of raising an error.
Antoine Pitrouc2f02212009-01-13 23:13:52 +00004181
Amaury Forgeot d'Arca40d5732009-01-12 23:36:55 +00004182- Issue #3720: Fix a crash when an iterator modifies its class and removes its
4183 __next__ method.
4184
Martin v. Löwise3422fa2009-01-12 08:11:24 +00004185- Issue #4893: Use NT threading on CE.
4186
Martin v. Löwis1b3bef22009-01-12 07:57:11 +00004187- Issue #4915: Port sysmodule to Windows CE.
4188
Antoine Pitrou4c5ecb72009-01-09 21:40:55 +00004189- Issue #4074: Change the criteria for doing a full garbage collection (i.e.
4190 collecting the oldest generation) so that allocating lots of objects without
4191 destroying them does not show quadratic performance. Based on a proposal by
Benjamin Petersond50a5d52009-07-13 00:03:20 +00004192 Martin von Löwis at
Antoine Pitrou4c5ecb72009-01-09 21:40:55 +00004193 http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2008-June/080579.html.
4194
Martin v. Löwisb90304a2009-01-07 18:40:40 +00004195- Issue #4850: Change COUNT_ALLOCS variables to Py_ssize_t.
4196
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004197- Issue #1180193: When importing a module from a .pyc (or .pyo) file with an
4198 existing .py counterpart, override the co_filename attributes of all code
4199 objects if the original filename is obsolete (which can happen if the file has
4200 been renamed, moved, or if it is accessed through different paths). Patch by
4201 Ziga Seilnacht and Jean-Paul Calderone.
Antoine Pitroue96d4ea2009-01-06 18:10:47 +00004202
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004203- Issue #4075: Use ``OutputDebugStringW()`` in Py_FatalError.
Martin v. Löwis5344c992009-01-02 20:32:55 +00004204
Hirokazu Yamamoto99a1b202009-01-01 15:45:39 +00004205- Issue #4797: IOError.filename was not set when _fileio.FileIO failed to open
4206 file with `str' filename on Windows.
4207
Antoine Pitrouaa687902009-01-01 14:11:22 +00004208- Issue #3680: Reference cycles created through a dict, set or deque iterator
4209 did not get collected.
4210
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004211- Issue #4701: PyObject_Hash now implicitly calls PyType_Ready on types where
4212 the tp_hash and tp_dict slots are both NULL.
Nick Coghlan180e4002008-12-30 01:18:48 +00004213
Benjamin Peterson7af65562008-12-29 17:56:58 +00004214- Issue #4764: With io.open, IOError.filename is set when trying to open a
4215 directory on POSIX systems.
4216
Benjamin Petersonfe231b02008-12-29 17:47:42 +00004217- Issue #4764: IOError.filename is set when trying to open a directory on POSIX
4218 systems.
4219
Georg Brandl6425a2f2008-12-28 11:54:53 +00004220- Issue #4759: None is now allowed as the first argument of
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004221 ``bytearray.translate()``. It was always allowed for ``bytes.translate()``.
Georg Brandl6425a2f2008-12-28 11:54:53 +00004222
Skip Montanarof205c132008-12-23 03:30:15 +00004223- Added test case to ensure attempts to read from a file opened for writing
4224 fail.
4225
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004226- Issue #2467: gc.DEBUG_STATS reported invalid elapsed times. Also, always print
4227 elapsed times, not only when some objects are uncollectable/unreachable.
4228 Original patch by Neil Schemenauer.
Antoine Pitrou73c0e652008-12-17 22:46:54 +00004229
Mark Dickinson1a707982008-12-17 16:14:37 +00004230- Issue #3439: Add a bit_length method to int and long.
4231
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004232- Issue #2183: Simplify and optimize bytecode for list comprehensions. Original
4233 patch by Neal Norwitz.
Antoine Pitroud0c35152008-12-17 00:38:28 +00004234
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004235- Issue #4597: Fixed exception handling when the __exit__ function of a context
4236 manager returns a value that cannot be converted to a bool.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcad9b5992008-12-10 23:22:49 +00004237
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004238- Issue #4597: Fixed several opcodes that weren't always propagating exceptions.
Jeffrey Yasskinffd42cf2008-12-10 07:35:02 +00004239
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004240- Issue #4445: Replace ``sizeof(PyStringObject)`` with
4241 ``offsetof(PyStringObject, ob_sval) + 1`` when allocating memory for str
4242 instances. On a typical machine this saves 3 bytes of memory (on average) per
4243 string allocation.
Mark Dickinson826f3fe2008-12-05 21:55:28 +00004244
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcdc619012008-11-22 20:01:18 +00004245- Issue #3996: On Windows, the PyOS_CheckStack function would cause the
4246 interpreter to abort ("Fatal Python error: Could not reset the stack!")
4247 instead of throwing a MemoryError.
4248
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004249- Issue #3689: The list reversed iterator now supports __length_hint__ instead
4250 of __len__. Behavior now matches other reversed iterators.
Raymond Hettinger7989a4d2008-12-03 15:42:10 +00004251
Benjamin Petersonc078f922008-11-21 22:27:24 +00004252- Issue #4367: Python would segfault during compiling when the unicodedata
4253 module couldn't be imported and \N escapes were present.
4254
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004255- Issue #4233: Changed semantic of ``_fileio.FileIO``'s ``close()`` method on
4256 file objects with closefd=False. The file descriptor is still kept open but
4257 the file object behaves like a closed file. The ``FileIO`` object also got a
4258 new readonly attribute ``closefd``.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc32265652008-11-20 23:34:31 +00004259
Benjamin Peterson46cc6d12008-11-19 21:49:09 +00004260- Issue #4348: Some bytearray methods returned that didn't cause any change to
4261 the bytearray, returned the same bytearray instead of a copy.
4262
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004263- Issue #4317: Fixed a crash in the ``imageop.rgb2rgb8()`` function.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc7cfe7ea2008-11-18 22:19:37 +00004264
Benjamin Peterson273c2332008-11-17 22:39:09 +00004265- Issue #4230: If ``__getattr__`` is a descriptor, it now functions correctly.
4266
Benjamin Peterson6624a9f2008-11-03 15:14:51 +00004267- Issue #4048: The parser module now correctly validates relative imports.
4268
Benjamin Petersondcee09d2008-10-31 02:16:05 +00004269- Issue #4225: ``from __future__ import unicode_literals`` didn't work in an
4270 exec statement.
4271
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004272- Issue #4176: Fixed a crash when pickling an object which ``__reduce__`` method
4273 does not return iterators for the 4th and 5th items.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc69a9c5b2008-10-30 21:18:34 +00004274
Benjamin Petersonbdca9422008-10-26 20:21:13 +00004275- Issue #4209: Enabling unicode_literals and the print_function in the same
4276 __future__ import didn't work.
4277
Benjamin Peterson399b1fe2008-10-25 02:53:28 +00004278- Using ``nonlocal`` as a variable name will now raise a Py3k SyntaxWarning
Georg Brandl7fb00ad2008-10-25 07:00:52 +00004279 because it is a reserved word in 3.x.
Benjamin Peterson399b1fe2008-10-25 02:53:28 +00004280
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004281- On windows, ``os.chdir()`` given unicode was not working if
4282 GetCurrentDirectoryW returned a path longer than MAX_PATH. (But It's doubtful
4283 this code path is really executed because I cannot move to such directory on
4284 win2k)
Hirokazu Yamamoto10a018c2008-10-09 10:00:30 +00004285
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004286- Issue #4069: When ``set.remove(element)`` is used with a set element, the
4287 element is temporarily replaced with an equivalent frozenset. But the
4288 eventual KeyError would always report the empty ``frozenset()`` as the missing
4289 key. Now it correctly refers to the initial element.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd78b9dc2008-10-07 20:32:10 +00004290
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004291- Issue #4509: Various issues surrounding resize of bytearray objects to which
4292 there are buffer exports.
Antoine Pitrouae5bece2008-12-06 21:29:24 +00004293
Benjamin Peterson8d5934b2008-12-27 18:24:11 +00004294- Issue #4748: Lambda generators no longer return a value.
4295
Kristján Valur Jónsson6220e412009-01-12 09:20:34 +00004296- Issue #3582: Use native TLS functions on Windows
4297
Gregory P. Smithae91d092009-03-02 05:13:57 +00004298- The re.sub(), re.subn() and re.split() functions now accept a flags parameter.
4299
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004300- Issue #3845: In PyRun_SimpleFileExFlags avoid invalid memory access with short
4301 file names.
Matthias Kloseedb5e1e2009-04-04 14:18:13 +00004302
Matthias Klose91a3b9e2009-04-05 21:19:13 +00004303- Issue #1113244: Py_XINCREF, Py_DECREF, Py_XDECREF: Add `do { ... } while (0)'
4304 to avoid compiler warnings.
Matthias Klose0610e082009-04-05 12:43:08 +00004305
Gregory P. Smith2b3eb372009-04-05 23:48:26 +00004306- Issue #5705: os.setuid() would not accept values > 2**31-1 but pwd.getpwnam()
4307 returned them on 64bit platforms.
4308
Walter Dörwalded960ac2009-05-03 22:36:33 +00004309- Issue #5108: Handle %s like %S and %R in PyUnicode_FromFormatV(): Call
4310 PyUnicode_DecodeUTF8() once, remember the result and output it in a second
4311 step. This avoids problems with counting UTF-8 bytes that ignores the effect
4312 of using the replace error handler in PyUnicode_DecodeUTF8().
4313
Walter Dörwald726ba8e2009-05-06 14:32:35 +00004314- Issue #3739: The unicode-internal encoder now reports the number of characters
4315 consumed like any other encoder (instead of the number of bytes).
4316
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004317- Issue #2422: When compiled with the ``--with-valgrind`` option, the pymalloc
4318 allocator will be automatically disabled when running under Valgrind. This
4319 gives improved memory leak detection when running under Valgrind, while taking
4320 advantage of pymalloc at other times.
Benjamin Peterson91c12eb2009-12-03 02:52:39 +00004321
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +00004322Library
4323-------
Benjamin Petersonb3dd5482009-02-26 19:07:18 +00004324
Raymond Hettinger5f516ed2010-04-03 18:10:37 +00004325- Add count() and reverse() methods to collections.deque().
Raymond Hettingera5fd24e2009-12-10 06:42:54 +00004326
Raymond Hettinger0b3263b2009-12-10 06:00:33 +00004327- Fix variations of extending deques: d.extend(d) d.extendleft(d) d+=d
4328
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004329- Issue #6986: Fix crash in the JSON C accelerator when called with the wrong
4330 parameter types. Patch by Victor Stinner.
Antoine Pitrou187177f2009-12-08 15:40:51 +00004331
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004332- logging: Added optional "secure" parameter to SMTPHandler, to enable use of
Vinay Sajip48305662009-12-06 17:57:11 +00004333 TLS with authentication credentials.
4334
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004335- Issue #1923: Fixed the removal of meaningful spaces when PKG-INFO is generated
4336 in Distutils. Patch by Stephen Emslie.
Tarek Ziadé4f383172009-12-06 09:22:40 +00004337
Martin v. Löwisc218a2f2009-12-03 20:53:51 +00004338- Issue #4120: Drop reference to CRT from manifest when building extensions with
4339 msvc9compiler.
4340
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004341- Issue #7333: The ``posix`` module gains an ``initgroups()`` function providing
4342 access to the initgroups(3) C library call on Unix systems which implement it.
4343 Patch by Jean-Paul Calderone.
Antoine Pitrou30b3b352009-12-02 20:37:54 +00004344
Tarek Ziadéa5076a22009-11-29 22:20:30 +00004345- Issue #7408: Fixed distutils.tests.sdist so it doesn't check for group
4346 ownership when the group is not forced, because the group may be different
4347 from the user's group and inherit from its container when the test is run.
4348
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004349- Issue #1515: Enable use of deepcopy() with instance methods. Patch by Robert
4350 Collins.
Antoine Pitroud16f57b2009-11-28 15:55:58 +00004351
Vinay Sajip01801d12009-11-27 14:03:36 +00004352- Issue #7403: logging: Fixed possible race condition in lock creation.
4353
Antoine Pitrouacbe3bd2009-11-27 13:18:34 +00004354- Issue #6845: Add restart support for binary upload in ftplib. The
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004355 ``storbinary()`` method of FTP and FTP_TLS objects gains an optional "rest"
Antoine Pitrouacbe3bd2009-11-27 13:18:34 +00004356 argument. Patch by Pablo Mouzo.
4357
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004358- Issue #5788: ``datetime.timedelta`` objects get a new ``total_seconds()``
4359 method returning the total number of seconds in the duration. Patch by Brian
4360 Quinlan.
Antoine Pitroubcfaf802009-11-25 22:59:36 +00004361
Vinay Sajipc470d682009-11-25 09:03:30 +00004362- Issue #6615: logging: Used weakrefs in internal handler list.
4363
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004364- Issue #1488943: ``difflib.Differ`` doesn't always add hints for tab
4365 characters.
Senthil Kumaran5c456e62009-11-23 18:41:31 +00004366
Lars Gustäbeldd866d52009-11-22 18:30:53 +00004367- Issue #6123: tarfile now opens empty archives correctly and consistently
4368 raises ReadError on empty files.
4369
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004370- Issue #7354: distutils.tests.test_msvc9compiler - dragfullwindows can be 2.
Tarek Ziadé39de1fc2009-11-19 05:33:16 +00004371
Ezio Melotti3373a3a2010-01-16 18:38:01 +00004372- Issue #5037: Proxy the __unicode__ special method to __unicode__ instead of
4373 __str__.
Benjamin Petersondc3c2392009-11-19 03:00:02 +00004374
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004375- Issue #7341: Close the internal file object in the TarFile constructor in case
4376 of an error.
Lars Gustäbel355538e2009-11-18 20:24:54 +00004377
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004378- Issue #7293: ``distutils.test_msvc9compiler`` is fixed to work on any fresh
4379 Windows box. Help provided by David Bolen.
Tarek Ziadéacccafc2009-11-18 08:46:56 +00004380
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004381- Issue #7328: pydoc no longer corrupts sys.path when run with the '-m' switch.
Nick Coghlan11db64e2009-11-15 22:36:47 +00004382
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004383- Issue #2054: ftplib now provides an FTP_TLS class to do secure FTP using TLS
4384 or SSL. Patch by Giampaolo Rodola'.
Antoine Pitrouccd5e022009-11-15 17:22:09 +00004385
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004386- Issue #4969: The mimetypes module now reads the MIME database from the
4387 registry under Windows. Patch by Gabriel Genellina.
Antoine Pitroud5b34d42009-11-15 14:10:48 +00004388
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004389- Issue #6816: runpy now provides a run_path function that allows Python code to
4390 execute file paths that refer to source or compiled Python files as well as
4391 zipfiles, directories and other valid sys.path entries that contain a
Nick Coghlan49868cb2009-11-15 07:30:34 +00004392 __main__.py file. This allows applications that run other Python scripts to
4393 support the same flexibility as the CPython command line itself.
4394
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004395- Issue #7318: multiprocessing now uses a timeout when it fails to establish a
4396 connection with another process, rather than looping endlessly. The default
4397 timeout is 20 seconds, which should be amply sufficient for local connections.
Antoine Pitrouc562ca42009-11-13 22:31:18 +00004398
Antoine Pitrou0734c632009-11-10 20:49:30 +00004399- Issue #7197: Allow unittest.TextTestRunner objects to be pickled and
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004400 unpickled. This fixes crashes under Windows when trying to run
Antoine Pitrou0734c632009-11-10 20:49:30 +00004401 test_multiprocessing in verbose mode.
4402
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004403- Issue #7282: Fix a memory leak when an RLock was used in a thread other than
4404 those started through ``threading.Thread`` (for example, using
4405 ``thread.start_new_thread()``.
Antoine Pitroud7158d42009-11-09 16:00:11 +00004406
Antoine Pitrou99c160b2009-11-05 13:42:29 +00004407- Issue #7264: Fix a possible deadlock when deallocating thread-local objects
4408 which are part of a reference cycle.
4409
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004410- Issue #7211: Allow 64-bit values for the ``ident`` and ``data`` fields of
4411 kevent objects on 64-bit systems. Patch by Michael Broghton.
Antoine Pitrou323b9da2009-11-04 19:25:14 +00004412
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004413- Issue #6896: ``mailbox.Maildir`` now invalidates its internal cache each time
Antoine Pitrouaec41242009-11-02 11:34:27 +00004414 a modification is done through it. This fixes inconsistencies and test
4415 failures on systems with slightly bogus mtime behaviour.
4416
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004417- Issue #7246 & Issue #7208: getpass now properly flushes input before reading
4418 from stdin so that existing input does not confuse it and lead to incorrect
4419 entry or an IOError. It also properly flushes it afterwards to avoid the
4420 terminal echoing the input afterwards on OSes such as Solaris.
Gregory P. Smith38f5d8f2009-11-01 18:33:55 +00004421
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004422- Issue #7233: Fix a number of two-argument Decimal methods to make sure that
4423 they accept an int or long as the second argument. Also fix buggy handling of
4424 large arguments (those with coefficient longer than the current precision) in
4425 shift and rotate.
Mark Dickinson0c673122009-10-29 12:04:00 +00004426
Lars Gustäbel8c06ccc2009-10-29 09:15:00 +00004427- Issue #4750: Store the basename of the original filename in the gzip FNAME
4428 header as required by RFC 1952.
4429
Tarek Ziadé40b998b2009-10-27 23:06:10 +00004430- Issue #1180: Added a new global option to ignore ~/.pydistutils.cfg in
4431 Distutils.
4432
Tarek Ziadéd24cab82009-10-27 21:20:27 +00004433- Issue #7218: Fix test_site for win32, the directory comparison was done with
4434 an uppercase.
4435
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004436- Issue #7205: Fix a possible deadlock when using a BZ2File object from several
4437 threads at once.
Antoine Pitroudd629662009-10-27 17:41:58 +00004438
Tarek Ziadéb9c1cfc2009-10-24 15:10:37 +00004439- Issue #7071: byte-compilation in Distutils is now done with respect to
4440 sys.dont_write_bytecode.
4441
Vinay Sajipc470d682009-11-25 09:03:30 +00004442- Issue #7066: archive_util.make_archive now restores the cwd if an error is
Tarek Ziadé672422a2009-10-24 13:29:44 +00004443 raised. Initial patch by Ezio Melotti.
4444
Antoine Pitroufa94e802009-10-24 12:23:18 +00004445- Issue #6218: io.StringIO and io.BytesIO instances are now picklable with
4446 protocol 2.
4447
Vinay Sajip5ac65282009-10-21 20:22:14 +00004448- Issue #7077: logging: SysLogHandler now treats Unicode as per RFC 5424.
4449
Mark Dickinsona7a52ab2009-10-20 13:33:03 +00004450- Issue #7099: Decimal.is_normal now returns True for numbers with exponent
4451 larger than emax.
4452
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004453- Issue #5833: Fix extra space character in readline completion with the GNU
4454 readline library version 6.0.
Antoine Pitroue0899802009-10-19 18:20:21 +00004455
Antoine Pitrou5ba84912009-10-19 17:59:07 +00004456- Issue #7133: SSL objects now support the new buffer API.
4457
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004458- Issue #7149: urllib fails on OSX in the proxy detection code.
Ronald Oussoren31802d02009-10-18 07:07:00 +00004459
Benjamin Petersonc63457b2009-10-15 03:06:55 +00004460- Issue #7069: Make inspect.isabstract() return a boolean.
4461
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004462- Add support to the ``ihooks`` module for relative imports.
Neil Schemenauere6039f02009-10-14 19:23:53 +00004463
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004464- Issue #6894: Fixed the issue urllib2 doesn't respect "no_proxy" environment.
Senthil Kumaran27468662009-10-11 02:00:07 +00004465
Vinay Sajip1c77b7f2009-10-10 20:32:36 +00004466- Issue #7086: Added TCP support to SysLogHandler, and tidied up some
4467 anachronisms in the code which were a relic of 1.5.2 compatibility.
Vinay Sajip03d5c342009-10-16 14:06:44 +00004468
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004469- Issue #7082: When falling back to the MIME 'name' parameter, the correct place
4470 to look for it is the Content-Type header.
R. David Murray0c8bee62009-10-09 21:50:54 +00004471
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004472- Issue #7048: Force Decimal.logb to round its result when that result is too
4473 large to fit in the current precision.
Mark Dickinson15ae41c2009-10-07 19:22:05 +00004474
Vinay Sajip03d5c342009-10-16 14:06:44 +00004475- Issue #6516: Added owner/group support when creating tar archives in
Tarek Ziadé1b486712009-10-02 23:49:48 +00004476 Distutils.
4477
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004478- Issue #7031: Add ``TestCase.assert(Not)IsInstance()`` methods.
Georg Brandl12fafe62009-10-01 21:02:39 +00004479
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004480- Issue #6790: Make it possible again to pass an ``array.array`` to
4481 ``httplib.HTTPConnection.send``. Patch by Kirk McDonald.
Antoine Pitrou72481782009-09-29 17:48:18 +00004482
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004483- Issue #6236, #6348: Fix various failures in the `io` module under AIX and
4484 other platforms, when using a non-gcc compiler. Patch by egreen.
Antoine Pitrou2a466582009-09-21 21:17:48 +00004485
Tarek Ziadé99773352009-09-21 13:41:08 +00004486- Issue #6954: Fixed crash when using DISTUTILS_DEBUG flag in Distutils.
4487
Ronald Oussoren51f06332009-09-20 10:31:22 +00004488- Issue #6851: Fix urllib.urlopen crash on secondairy threads on OSX 10.6
4489
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004490- Issue #4606: Passing 'None' if ctypes argtype is set to POINTER(...) does now
4491 always result in NULL.
Thomas Heller6be522b2009-09-18 20:05:44 +00004492
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004493- Issue #5042: ctypes Structure sub-subclass does now initialize correctly with
4494 base class positional arguments.
Thomas Heller7a352c02009-09-18 18:55:17 +00004495
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004496- Issue #6938: Fix a TypeError in string formatting of a multiprocessing debug
4497 message.
Georg Brandlc40e60e2009-09-18 09:18:27 +00004498
Matthias Klose924eab62009-09-13 15:09:24 +00004499- Issue #6635: Fix profiler printing usage message.
4500
Lars Gustäbel21121e62009-09-12 10:28:15 +00004501- Issue #6856: Add a filter keyword argument to TarFile.add().
4502
Tarek Ziadébed26a32009-09-09 08:14:20 +00004503- Issue #6163: Fixed HP-UX runtime library dir options in
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004504 distutils.unixcompiler. Initial patch by Sridhar Ratnakumar and Michael
4505 Haubenwallner.
Tarek Ziadébed26a32009-09-09 08:14:20 +00004506
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004507- Issue #6857: Default format() alignment should be '>' for Decimal instances.
Mark Dickinson5cfa8042009-09-08 20:20:19 +00004508
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004509- Issue #6795: int(Decimal('nan')) now raises ValueError instead of returning
4510 NaN or raising InvalidContext. Also, fix infinite recursion in
4511 long(Decimal('nan')).
Mark Dickinson968f1692009-09-07 18:04:58 +00004512
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004513- Issue #6850: Fix bug in Decimal._parse_format_specifier for formats with no
4514 type specifier.
Mark Dickinson491ea552009-09-07 16:17:41 +00004515
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004516- Issue #4937: plat-mac/bundlebuilder refers to non-existing version.plist.
Ronald Oussoren626faeb2009-09-06 12:23:18 +00004517
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004518- Issue #6838: Use a list to accumulate the value instead of repeatedly
4519 concatenating strings in httplib's HTTPResponse._read_chunked providing a
4520 significant speed increase when downloading large files servend with a
4521 Transfer-Encoding of 'chunked'.
Chris Withers7f3ea6a2009-09-04 16:32:22 +00004522
Georg Brandld22b9512009-09-04 08:17:04 +00004523- Issue #5275: In Cookie's Cookie.load(), properly handle non-string arguments
4524 as documented.
4525
Georg Brandl2e1308f2009-09-04 06:59:20 +00004526- Issue #2666: Handle BROWSER environment variable properly for unknown browser
4527 names in the webbrowser module.
4528
Lars Gustäbelf7cda522009-08-28 19:23:44 +00004529- Issue #6054: Do not normalize stored pathnames in tarfile.
4530
Mark Dickinson7a7739d2009-08-28 13:25:02 +00004531- Issue #6794: Fix Decimal.compare_total and Decimal.compare_total_mag: NaN
4532 payloads are now ordered by integer value rather than lexicographically.
4533
Tarek Ziadé764fc232009-08-20 21:23:13 +00004534- Issue #6693: New functions in site.py to get user/global site packages paths.
4535
Gregory P. Smith4e63d542009-08-20 09:39:38 +00004536- The thread.lock type now supports weak references.
4537
Guilherme Polo7b50c4f2009-08-18 14:46:57 +00004538- Issue #1356969: Add missing info methods in Tix.HList.
4539
Guilherme Polo6b3c7092009-08-18 14:23:00 +00004540- Issue #1522587: New constants and methods for the Tix.Grid widget.
4541
Guilherme Polo6c823f82009-08-18 13:29:20 +00004542- Issue #1250469: Fix the return value of Tix.PanedWindow.panes.
4543
Guilherme Polod3e6e4b2009-08-18 13:23:08 +00004544- Issue #1119673: Do not override Tkinter.Text methods when creating a
4545 ScrolledText.
4546
Gregory P. Smithb98d6b22009-08-16 18:52:58 +00004547- Issue #6665: Fix fnmatch to properly match filenames with newlines in them.
4548
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004549- Issue #1135: Add the XView and YView mix-ins to avoid duplicating the xview*
4550 and yview* methods.
Guilherme Poloe45f0172009-08-14 14:36:45 +00004551
Antoine Pitrou20e1f932009-08-06 20:18:29 +00004552- Issue #6629: Fix a data corruption issue in the new `io` package, which could
4553 occur when writing to a BufferedRandom object (e.g. a file opened in "rb+" or
4554 "wb+" mode) after having buffered a certain amount of data for reading. This
4555 bug was not present in the pure Python implementation.
4556
Jesse Noller8497efe2009-08-06 02:05:56 +00004557- Issue #4660: If a multiprocessing.JoinableQueue.put() was preempted, it was
4558 possible to get a spurious 'task_done() called too many times' error.
4559
Gregory P. Smithc4ad0342009-08-13 18:54:50 +00004560- Issue #1628205: Socket file objects returned by socket.socket.makefile() now
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004561 properly handles EINTR within the read, readline, write & flush methods. The
4562 socket.sendall() method now properly handles interrupted system calls.
Gregory P. Smithc4ad0342009-08-13 18:54:50 +00004563
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004564- Issue #6595: The Decimal constructor now allows arbitrary Unicode decimal
4565 digits in input, as recommended by the standard. Previously it was restricted
4566 to accepting [0-9].
Mark Dickinson4326ad82009-08-02 10:59:36 +00004567
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc3e5b0272009-07-28 22:15:30 +00004568- Issue #6511: ZipFile now raises BadZipfile (instead of an IOError) when
4569 opening an empty or very small file.
4570
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc74b30162009-07-23 19:26:02 +00004571- Issue #6553: Fixed a crash in cPickle.load(), when given a file-like object
4572 containing incomplete data.
4573
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004574- Issue #6545: Removed assert statements in distutils.Extension, so the behavior
4575 is similar when used with -O.
Tarek Ziadéaf2406f2009-07-22 08:55:19 +00004576
Benjamin Petersond7b0eeb2009-07-19 20:18:21 +00004577- unittest has been split up into a package. All old names should still work.
4578
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004579- Issue #6431: Make Fraction type return NotImplemented when it doesn't know how
4580 to handle a comparison without loss of precision. Also add correct handling
4581 of infinities and nans for comparisons with float.
Mark Dickinson88a0a2e2009-07-18 15:18:18 +00004582
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc74b30162009-07-23 19:26:02 +00004583- Issue #6415: Fixed warnings.warn segfault on bad formatted string.
Hirokazu Yamamoto1a3d0852009-07-17 06:26:54 +00004584
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004585- Issue #6466: Now distutils.cygwinccompiler and distutils.emxccompiler uses the
4586 same refactored function to get gcc/ld/dllwrap versions numbers. It's
4587 ``distutils.util.get_compiler_versions()``. Added deprecation warnings for
4588 the obsolete get_versions() functions.
Tarek Ziadéa99dedf2009-07-16 15:35:45 +00004589
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004590- Issue #6433: Fixed issues with multiprocessing.pool.map hanging on empty list.
Jesse Noller7530e472009-07-16 14:23:04 +00004591
Vinay Sajipcbb24b32009-07-13 11:21:05 +00004592- Issue #6314: logging: Extra checks on the "level" argument in more places.
4593
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc74b8d332009-07-11 14:33:51 +00004594- Issue #2622: Fixed an ImportError when importing email.messsage from a
4595 standalone application built with py2exe or py2app.
4596
Vinay Sajipcbb24b32009-07-13 11:21:05 +00004597- Issue #6455: Fixed test_build_ext under win32.
Tarek Ziadé8c400012009-07-10 09:10:33 +00004598
Vinay Sajipcbb24b32009-07-13 11:21:05 +00004599- Issue #6377: Enabled the compiler option, and deprecate its usage as an
Tarek Ziadée670e5a2009-07-06 12:50:46 +00004600 attribute.
4601
Tarek Ziadé63f17382009-07-04 02:02:41 +00004602- Issue #6413: Fixed the log level in distutils.dist for announce.
4603
Gregory P. Smithc197d0a2009-07-04 01:55:11 +00004604- Issue #3392: The subprocess communicate() method no longer fails in select()
4605 when file descriptors are large; communicate() now uses poll() when possible.
4606
Tarek Ziadé65ec61e2009-07-03 08:22:56 +00004607- Issue #6403: Fixed package path usage in build_ext.
4608
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004609- Issues #5155, #5313, #5331: multiprocessing.Process._bootstrap was
Jesse Noller1b90efb2009-06-30 17:11:52 +00004610 unconditionally calling "os.close(sys.stdin.fileno())" resulting in file
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004611 descriptor errors.
Jesse Noller1b90efb2009-06-30 17:11:52 +00004612
Vinay Sajipcbb24b32009-07-13 11:21:05 +00004613- Issue #6365: Distutils build_ext inplace mode was copying the compiled
Tarek Ziadé3fbcc602009-06-29 16:13:39 +00004614 extension in a subdirectory if the extension name had dots.
4615
Hirokazu Yamamoto99ebc632009-06-29 14:29:31 +00004616- Issue #6344: Fixed a crash of mmap.read() when passed a negative argument.
4617
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004618- Issue #5230: pydoc would report no documentation found if a module generated a
4619 'not found' import error when loaded; it now reports the import errors.
R. David Murrayef087da2009-06-23 18:02:46 +00004620 Thanks to Lucas Prado Melo for initial fix and collaboration on the tests.
4621
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004622- Issue #6314: ``logging.basicConfig()`` performs extra checks on the "level"
Vinay Sajip603fb6d2009-06-21 17:37:27 +00004623 argument.
4624
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004625- Issue #6164: Added an AIX specific linker argument in Distutils unixcompiler.
4626 Original patch by Sridhar Ratnakumar.
Tarek Ziadé439bf932009-06-20 13:57:20 +00004627
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004628- Issue #6274: Fixed possible file descriptors leak in subprocess.py.
Facundo Batista8c826b72009-06-19 18:02:28 +00004629
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc5fe420e2009-06-18 22:32:50 +00004630- Issue #6189: Restored compatibility of subprocess.py with Python 2.2.
4631
Tarek Ziadéfdefc0a2009-06-16 07:29:52 +00004632- Issue #6287: Added the license field in Distutils documentation.
4633
Tarek Ziadéa1cc0402009-06-15 23:30:13 +00004634- Issue #6286: Now Distutils upload command is based on urllib2 instead of
4635 httplib, allowing the usage of http_proxy.
4636
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004637- Issue #6271: mmap tried to close invalid file handle (-1) for anonymous maps
4638 on Unix.
Hirokazu Yamamoto983a4652009-06-14 03:53:55 +00004639
Antoine Pitrou19690592009-06-12 20:14:08 +00004640- Issue #6215: All bug fixes and enhancements from the Python 3.1 io library
4641 (including the fast C implementation) have been backported to the standard
4642 ``io`` module.
4643
Martin v. Löwis2dcd7a02009-06-12 17:28:31 +00004644- Issue #6258: Support AMD64 in bdist_msi.
4645
Vinay Sajip334ffe82010-01-15 23:27:05 +00004646- Issue #6252: Fixed bug in next rollover time computation in
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00004647 TimedRotatingFileHandler.
4648
Tarek Ziadéc7498f52009-06-11 09:13:36 +00004649- Issue #6263: Fixed syntax error in distutils.cygwincompiler.
4650
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004651- Issue #5201: distutils.sysconfig.parse_makefile() now understands ``$$`` in
4652 Makefiles. This prevents compile errors when using syntax like:
4653 ``LDFLAGS='-rpath=\$$LIB:/some/other/path'``. Patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
Tarek Ziadé25d2bae2009-06-11 08:12:20 +00004654
Georg Brandle6632b42009-06-04 08:58:32 +00004655- Issue #5767: Removed sgmlop support from xmlrpclib.
4656
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004657- Issue #6131: test_modulefinder leaked when run after test_distutils. Patch by
4658 Hirokazu Yamamoto.
Tarek Ziadé3e3eace2009-05-29 08:08:07 +00004659
Tarek Ziadé9e5d2dc2009-05-28 12:53:54 +00004660- Issue #6048: Now Distutils uses the tarfile module in archive_util.
4661
Raymond Hettingerb4d2d312009-05-29 01:36:26 +00004662- Issue #5150: IDLE's format menu now has an option to strip trailing
4663 whitespace.
4664
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004665- Issue #6121: pydoc now ignores leading and trailing spaces in the argument to
4666 the 'help' function.
R. David Murrayd67ea7d2009-05-27 20:07:21 +00004667
Benjamin Peterson176a56c2009-05-25 00:48:58 +00004668- In unittest, using a skipping decorator on a class is now equivalent to
4669 skipping every test on the class. The ClassTestSuite class has been removed.
4670
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004671- Issue #6050: Don't fail extracting a directory from a zipfile if the directory
4672 already exists.
Martin v. Löwis0b09c422009-05-24 19:30:52 +00004673
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004674- Issue #5311: bdist_msi can now build packages that do not depend on a specific
4675 Python version.
Martin v. Löwis53b578e2009-05-24 19:10:52 +00004676
Antoine Pitroud49e3752009-05-24 15:40:09 +00004677- Issue #1309352: fcntl now converts its third arguments to a C `long` rather
4678 than an int, which makes some operations possible under 64-bit Linux (e.g.
4679 DN_MULTISHOT with F_NOTIFY).
4680
Senthil Kumarane266f252009-05-24 09:14:50 +00004681- Issue #1424152: Fix for httplib, urllib2 to support SSL while working through
4682 proxy. Original patch by Christopher Li, changes made by Senthil Kumaran.
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00004683
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004684- Issue #1983: Fix functions taking or returning a process identifier to use the
4685 dedicated C type ``pid_t`` instead of a C ``int``. Some platforms have a
4686 process identifier type wider than the standard C integer type.
Antoine Pitrou5e858fe2009-05-23 15:37:45 +00004687
R. David Murrayad3058e2009-05-23 00:48:58 +00004688- Issue #4066: smtplib.SMTP_SSL._get_socket now correctly returns the socket.
4689 Patch by Farhan Ahmad, test by Marcin Bachry.
4690
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004691- Issue #6062: In distutils, fixed the package option of build_ext. Feedback
Tarek Ziadé7d7127d2009-05-19 16:17:21 +00004692 and tests on pywin32 by Tim Golden.
4693
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004694- Issue #6053: Fixed distutils tests on win32. Patch by Hirokazu Yamamoto.
Tarek Ziadé07bbfcc2009-05-18 12:21:26 +00004695
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004696- Issue #6046: Fixed the library extension when distutils build_ext is used in
4697 place. Initial patch by Roumen Petrov.
Tarek Ziadéfcc7f032009-05-18 08:03:37 +00004698
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00004699- Issue #6041: Now distutils `sdist` and `register` commands use `check` as a
Tarek Ziadécb768042009-05-16 16:37:06 +00004700 subcommand.
4701
Antoine Pitrou775fd662009-05-15 16:54:52 +00004702- Issue #2116: Weak references and weak dictionaries now support copy()ing and
4703 deepcopy()ing.
4704
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004705- Issue #1655: Make imaplib IPv6-capable. Patch by Derek Morr.
Antoine Pitrou52035a02009-05-15 11:50:29 +00004706
Antoine Pitrou42b5bcf2009-05-14 21:48:09 +00004707- Issue #5918: Fix a crash in the parser module.
4708
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004709- Issue #1664: Make nntplib IPv6-capable. Patch by Derek Morr.
Antoine Pitroueed30d82009-05-14 21:22:08 +00004710
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004711- Issue #6022: A test file was created in the current working directory by
Tarek Ziadécbb4f9e2009-05-14 20:14:13 +00004712 test_get_outputs in Distutils.
4713
R. David Murray996ba022009-05-13 17:14:11 +00004714- Issue #4050: inspect.findsource/getsource now raise an IOError if the 'source'
4715 file is a binary. Patch by Brodie Rao, tests by Daniel Diniz.
4716
Tarek Ziadé972480d2009-05-12 17:07:14 +00004717- Issue #5977: distutils build_ext.get_outputs was not taking into account the
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004718 inplace option. Initial patch by kxroberto.
Tarek Ziadé972480d2009-05-12 17:07:14 +00004719
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004720- Issue #5984: distutils.command.build_ext.check_extensions_list checks were
4721 broken for old-style extensions.
Tarek Ziadéd5d83422009-05-10 10:12:08 +00004722
Vinay Sajipf9b01fe2009-05-09 12:07:17 +00004723- Issue #5971: StreamHandler.handleError now swallows IOErrors which occur when
4724 trying to print a traceback.
4725
Tarek Ziadé812d7712009-05-09 10:06:00 +00004726- Issue #5976: Fixed Distutils test_check_environ.
4727
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004728- Issue #5900: Ensure RUNPATH is added to extension modules with RPATH if GNU ld
4729 is used. Original patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
Tarek Ziadée2be83d2009-05-09 08:28:53 +00004730
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004731- Issue #5941: Distutils build_clib command was not working anymore because of
4732 an incomplete costumization of the archiver command. Added ARFLAGS in the
4733 Makefile besides AR and make Distutils use it. Original patch by David
Tarek Ziadé99f660a2009-05-07 21:20:34 +00004734 Cournapeau.
4735
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00004736- Issue #5955: aifc's close method did not close the file it wrapped, now it
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004737 does. This also means getfp method now returns the real fp.
R. David Murrayd3bf34c2009-05-07 16:29:19 +00004738
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004739- Issue #4875: On win32, ctypes.util.find_library does no longer return
4740 directories.
Thomas Hellera57773e2009-05-05 18:55:47 +00004741
Georg Brandl4d4313d2009-05-05 08:54:11 +00004742- Issue #5142: Add the ability to skip modules while stepping to pdb.
4743
Georg Brandle3869c42009-05-05 08:30:28 +00004744- Issue #1309567: Fix linecache behavior of stripping subdirectories when
4745 looking for files given by a relative filename.
4746
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004747- Issue #5692: In ``zipfile.Zipfile``, fix wrong path calculation when
Antoine Pitrou97377bf2009-05-04 21:17:17 +00004748 extracting a file to the root directory.
4749
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004750- Issue #5913: ``os.listdir()`` should fail for empty path on windows.
Hirokazu Yamamoto406d7aa2009-05-04 05:28:39 +00004751
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004752- Issue #5084: Unpickling now interns the attribute names of pickled objects,
4753 saving memory and avoiding growth in size of subsequent pickles. Proposal and
4754 original patch by Jake McGuire.
Antoine Pitrou74309892009-05-02 21:13:23 +00004755
Antoine Pitrou1fc02312009-05-01 20:55:35 +00004756- Issue #3002: ``shutil.copyfile()`` and ``shutil.copytree()`` now raise an
4757 error when a named pipe is encountered, rather than blocking infinitely.
4758
Gregory P. Smith1d499262009-05-01 19:59:52 +00004759- Issue #3959: The ipaddr module has been added to the standard library.
4760 Contributed by Google.
4761
R. David Murray25b4add2009-04-29 13:17:37 +00004762- Issue #2245: aifc now skips chunk types it doesn't recognize, per spec.
4763
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004764- Issue #5874: distutils.tests.test_config_cmd is not locale-sensitive anymore.
Tarek Ziadéa1b91d92009-04-29 08:03:46 +00004765
Thomas Heller90c61a22009-04-28 19:23:41 +00004766- Issue #4305: ctypes should now build again on mipsel-linux-gnu
4767
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004768- Issue #1734234: Massively speedup ``unicodedata.normalize()`` when the string
4769 is already in normalized form, by performing a quick check beforehand.
Antoine Pitroue988e282009-04-27 21:53:26 +00004770 Original patch by Rauli Ruohonen.
4771
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004772- Issue #5853: Calling a function of the mimetypes module from several threads
Antoine Pitrouf2651e12009-04-27 20:50:20 +00004773 at once could hit the recursion limit if the mimetypes database hadn't been
4774 initialized before.
4775
Vinay Sajipe34d6aa2009-04-27 13:44:27 +00004776- Issue #5854: Updated __all__ to include some missing names and remove some
4777 names which should not be exported.
4778
4779- Issue #5810: Fixed Distutils test_build_scripts so it uses
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004780 ``sysconfig.get_config_vars()``.
Tarek Ziadébcddf672009-04-25 12:51:59 +00004781
Tarek Ziadéd567c382009-04-25 12:38:08 +00004782- Issue #4951: Fixed failure in test_httpservers.
4783
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004784- Issue #3102: All global symbols that the _ctypes extension defines are now
4785 prefixed with 'Py' or '_ctypes'.
Thomas Heller5c6af802009-04-24 20:31:47 +00004786
Thomas Hellerec21ccd2009-04-24 20:00:41 +00004787- Issue #5041: ctypes does now allow pickling wide character.
4788
Mark Dickinson4af8e742009-04-24 13:56:07 +00004789- Issue #5812: For the two-argument form of the Fraction constructor,
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004790 ``Fraction(m, n)``, m and n are permitted to be arbitrary Rational instances.
Mark Dickinson4af8e742009-04-24 13:56:07 +00004791
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004792- Issue #5812: Fraction('1e6') is valid: more generally, any string that's valid
4793 for float() is now valid for Fraction(), with the exception of strings
4794 representing NaNs and infinities.
Mark Dickinson8100bd82009-04-22 18:15:25 +00004795
Tarek Ziadé31559b62009-04-20 14:29:42 +00004796- Issue #5795: Fixed test_distutils failure on Debian ppc.
4797
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +00004798- Issue #5768: Fixed bug in Unicode output logic and test case for same.
4799
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004800- Issue #1161031: Fix readwrite select flag handling: POLLPRI now results in a
4801 handle_expt_event call, not handle_read_event, and POLLERR and POLLNVAL now
4802 call handle_close, not handle_expt_event. Also, dispatcher now has an
4803 'ignore_log_types' attribute for suppressing log messages, which is set to
4804 'warning' by default.
R. David Murrayabc26602009-04-13 16:56:32 +00004805
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004806- Issue #5607: Fixed Distutils test_get_platform for Mac OS X fat binaries.
Tarek Ziadé156c31a2009-04-13 12:34:01 +00004807
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004808- Issue #5741: Don't disallow "%%" (which is an escape for "%") when setting a
4809 value in SafeConfigParser.
Georg Brandl21cf5ee2009-04-12 17:24:11 +00004810
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004811- Issue #5732: Added a new command in Distutils: check.
Tarek Ziadé942825f2009-04-11 14:55:07 +00004812
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +00004813- Issue #5731: Distutils bdist_wininst no longer worked on non-Windows
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004814 platforms. Initial patch by Paul Moore.
Tarek Ziadéad958262009-04-09 21:36:44 +00004815
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004816- Issue #2254: Fix CGIHTTPServer information disclosure. Relative paths are now
4817 collapsed within the url properly before looking in cgi_directories.
Gregory P. Smith923ba362009-04-06 06:33:26 +00004818
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004819- Issue #5095: Added bdist_msi to the list of bdist supported formats. Initial
4820 fix by Steven Bethard.
Tarek Ziadé64408fb2009-04-05 22:51:09 +00004821
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004822- Issue #1491431: Fixed distutils.filelist.glob_to_re for edge cases. Initial
4823 fix by Wayne Davison.
Tarek Ziadéfaa6b122009-04-05 21:44:08 +00004824
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004825- Issue #5693: TestSuite.__iter__ can now be consistently overridden in
4826 subclasses.
Michael Foordf2dfef12009-04-05 19:19:28 +00004827
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004828- Issue #5694: Removed spurious test output in Distutils (test_clean).
Tarek Ziadé453d9532009-04-05 18:31:24 +00004829
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +00004830- Issue #5471: Fix os.path.expanduser() for $HOME set to '/'.
Georg Brandl3f0ef202009-04-05 14:48:49 +00004831
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004832- Issue #1326077: Fix the formatting of SyntaxErrors by the traceback module.
Georg Brandl1956d5c2009-04-05 14:25:41 +00004833
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004834- Issue #1726172: Fix IndexError in the case of and empty response in ftplib.
Georg Brandl50ba6e12009-04-05 10:48:47 +00004835
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004836- Issue #2625: Added missing iteritems() call to the for loop in
R. David Murray52720c52009-04-02 14:05:35 +00004837 mailbox.MH.get_message().
4838
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004839- Issue #5585: Add the ability to call an initializer to
4840 mulitiprocessing.manager so that users can install custom handlers/etc.
Jesse Noller7152f6d2009-04-02 05:17:26 +00004841
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004842- Issue #3551: Patch multiprocessing to raise a proper exception if the size of
4843 the object when writefile is called causes a ERROR_NO_SYSTEM_RESOURCES. Added
4844 docs to note the limitation.
Jesse Noller5053fbb2009-04-02 04:22:09 +00004845
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004846- unittest.assertNotEqual() now uses the inequality operator (!=) instead of the
4847 equality operator.
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00004848
4849- Issue #6001: Test discovery for unittest. Implemented in
Michael Foordb4a81c82009-05-29 20:33:46 +00004850 unittest.TestLoader.discover and from the command line.
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +00004851
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004852- Issue #5679: The methods unittest.TestCase.addCleanup and doCleanups were
4853 added. addCleanup allows you to add cleanup functions that will be called
Michael Foord07ef4872009-05-02 22:43:34 +00004854 unconditionally (after setUp if setUp fails, otherwise after tearDown). This
4855 allows for much simpler resource allocation and deallocation during tests.
4856
4857- Issue #3379: unittest.main now takes an optional exit argument. If False main
4858 doesn't call sys.exit allowing it to be used from the interactive interpreter.
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00004859
4860- Issue #5995: unittest.main now takes an optional verbosity argument allowing
Michael Foord5d31e052009-05-11 17:59:43 +00004861 test modules to be run with a higher than default verbosity.
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00004862
4863- Issue #5995: A fix to allow you to run "python -m unittest test_module" or
Michael Foord5d31e052009-05-11 17:59:43 +00004864 "python -m unittest test_module.TestClass" from the command line.
Michael Foord07ef4872009-05-02 22:43:34 +00004865
4866- Issue #5728: unittest.TestResult has new startTestRun and stopTestRun methods;
4867 called immediately before and after a test run.
4868
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004869- Issue #5663: Better failure messages for unittest asserts. Default assertTrue
Michael Foord345b2fe2009-04-02 03:20:38 +00004870 and assertFalse messages are now useful. TestCase has a longMessage attribute.
4871 This defaults to False, but if set to True useful error messages are shown in
4872 addition to explicit messages passed to assert methods.
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +00004873
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004874- Issue #3110: Add additional protect around SEM_VALUE_MAX for multiprocessing.
Jesse Nollerb502bc72009-04-02 02:32:55 +00004875
Georg Brandl58b8b952009-04-01 21:54:21 +00004876- In Pdb, prevent the reassignment of __builtin__._ by sys.displayhook on
4877 printing out values.
4878
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004879- Issue #4572: Added SEEK_* symbolic constants to io module.
Georg Brandl5942b912009-04-01 21:05:44 +00004880
Brett Cannonad078a02009-04-01 16:00:34 +00004881- Issue #1665206 (partially): Move imports in cgitb to the top of the module
4882 instead of performing them in functions. Helps prevent import deadlocking in
4883 threads.
4884
Raymond Hettinger66c4a6b2009-04-01 18:50:56 +00004885- Issue #5647: MutableSet.__iand__() no longer mutates self during iteration.
4886
Georg Brandle92d4b62009-04-01 04:21:14 +00004887- Actually make the SimpleXMLRPCServer CGI handler work.
4888
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004889- Issue #2522: locale.format() now checks its first argument to ensure it has
R. David Murraya83da352009-04-01 03:21:43 +00004890 been passed only one pattern, avoiding mysterious errors where it appeared
4891 that it was failing to do localization.
4892
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004893- Issue #5583: Added optional extensions in Distutils. Initial patch by Georg
Tarek Ziadé9e47ce42009-03-31 22:27:23 +00004894 Brandl.
4895
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004896- Issue #5619: Multiprocessing children disobey the debug flag and causes popups
4897 on windows buildbots. Patch applied to work around this issue.
Jesse Noller42f9b4e2009-03-31 22:20:35 +00004898
Benjamin Petersond906ea62009-03-31 21:34:42 +00004899- Issue #5632: Thread.ident was None for the main thread and threads not created
4900 with the threading module.
4901
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004902- Issue #5400: Added patch for multiprocessing on netbsd compilation/support.
Jesse Noller1f0a5552009-03-31 18:27:14 +00004903
Hirokazu Yamamoto9d2ee5d2009-03-31 13:13:05 +00004904- Issue #5387: Fixed mmap.move crash by integer overflow.
4905
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004906- Issue #5261: Patch multiprocessing's semaphore.c to support context manager
4907 use: "with multiprocessing.Lock()" works now.
Jesse Noller82eb5902009-03-30 23:29:31 +00004908
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +00004909- Issue #5177: Multiprocessing's SocketListener class now uses
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004910 socket.SO_REUSEADDR on all connections so that the user no longer needs to
4911 wait 120 seconds for the socket to expire.
Jesse Noller459a6482009-03-30 15:50:42 +00004912
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004913- Adjusted _tkinter to compile without warnings when WITH_THREAD is not defined
4914 (part of issue #5035).
Guilherme Polo1972d162009-03-27 21:43:08 +00004915
Marc-André Lemburgcbdf15b2009-03-25 19:45:33 +00004916- Issue #5561: Removed the sys.version_info shortcuts from platform's
4917 python_version() and python_version_tuple() since they produced different
4918 output compared to previous Python versions.
4919
Benjamin Peterson692428e2009-03-23 21:50:21 +00004920- Issue #1034053: unittest now supports skipping tests and expected failures.
4921
Gregory P. Smith28399852009-03-31 16:54:10 +00004922- The unittest.TestCase.assertRaises() method now returns a context manager when
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004923 not given a callable so that code to be tested can be written inline using a
4924 with statement.
Gregory P. Smith28399852009-03-31 16:54:10 +00004925
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004926- Issue #2578: The unittest.TestCase.assertEqual() now displays the differences
4927 in lists, tuples, dicts and sets on failure. Many new handy type and
4928 comparison specific assert* methods have been added that fail with error
4929 messages actually useful for debugging. Contributed in part by Google.
Gregory P. Smith28399852009-03-31 16:54:10 +00004930
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004931- Issue #5068: Fixed the tarfile._BZ2Proxy.read() method that would loop forever
4932 on incomplete input. That caused tarfile.open() to hang when used with mode
4933 'r' or 'r:bz2' and a fileobj argument that contained no data or partial bzip2
4934 compressed data.
Lars Gustäbel2020a592009-03-22 20:09:33 +00004935
Benjamin Petersonb364bfe2009-03-22 17:45:11 +00004936- Issue #5536: urllib.urlretrieve makes sure to close the file it's writing to
4937 even if an exception occurs.
4938
Raymond Hettinger91852ca2009-03-19 19:19:03 +00004939- Issue #5381: Added object_pairs_hook to the json module. This allows
4940 OrderedDicts to be built by the decoder.
4941
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004942- Issue #2110: Add support for thousands separator and 'n' type specifier to
4943 ``Decimal.__format__()``.
Mark Dickinson277859d2009-03-17 23:03:46 +00004944
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004945- Fix Decimal.__format__ bug that swapped the meanings of the '<' and '>'
4946 alignment characters.
Mark Dickinsonb065e522009-03-17 18:01:03 +00004947
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004948- Issue #1222: ``locale.format()`` bug when the thousands separator is a space
Antoine Pitroufeeafff2009-03-14 00:07:21 +00004949 character.
4950
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004951- Issue #5472: Fixed distutils.test_util tear down. Original patch by Tim
4952 Golden.
Tarek Ziadé61585c22009-03-11 12:48:04 +00004953
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004954- collections.deque objects now have a read-only attribute called maxlen.
Raymond Hettinger56411aa2009-03-10 12:50:59 +00004955
Guilherme Polo15d57652009-03-07 02:14:38 +00004956- Issue #2638: Show a window constructed with tkSimpleDialog.Dialog only after
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004957 it is has been populated and properly configured in order to prevent window
4958 flashing.
Guilherme Polo15d57652009-03-07 02:14:38 +00004959
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004960- Issue #4792: Prevent a segfault in _tkinter by using the guaranteed to be safe
4961 interp argument given to the PythonCmd in place of the Tcl interpreter taken
4962 from a PythonCmd_ClientData.
Guilherme Polo3768b2f2009-03-07 01:47:49 +00004963
Guilherme Polo6d6c1fd2009-03-07 01:19:12 +00004964- Issue #5193: Guarantee that Tkinter.Text.search returns a string.
4965
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004966- Issue #5394: Removed > 2.3 syntax from distutils.msvc9compiler.
Tarek Ziadé943b24e2009-03-07 00:32:45 +00004967 Original patch by Akira Kitada.
4968
Hirokazu Yamamoto264fc122009-03-05 14:21:12 +00004969- Issue #5385: Fixed mmap crash after resize failure on windows.
4970
Hirokazu Yamamotoeacbbdf2009-03-03 22:18:14 +00004971- Issue #5179: Fixed subprocess handle leak on failure on windows.
4972
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004973- PEP 372: Added collections.OrderedDict().
Raymond Hettingerbc512d32009-03-03 04:45:34 +00004974
Raymond Hettinger88a91642009-03-03 04:51:24 +00004975- The _asdict() for method for namedtuples now returns an OrderedDict().
4976
Raymond Hettingere89b8e92009-03-03 05:00:37 +00004977- The configparser module now defaults to using an ordered dictionary.
4978
Benjamin Peterson7d49bba2009-03-02 22:41:42 +00004979- Issue #4308: httplib.IncompleteRead's repr doesn't include all of the data all
4980 ready received.
4981
Benjamin Petersonad58b7c2009-03-02 03:35:12 +00004982- Issue #5401: Fixed a performance problem in mimetypes when ``from mimetypes
4983 import guess_extension`` was used.
4984
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004985- Issue #1733986: Fixed mmap crash on Windows in accessing elements of second
4986 map object with same tagname but larger size than first map.
Hirokazu Yamamotob0e10c72009-02-28 12:13:07 +00004987
Hirokazu Yamamotof2dc8852009-02-28 10:31:54 +00004988- Issue #5386: mmap.write_byte didn't check map size, so it could cause buffer
4989 overrun.
4990
Tarek Ziadé73347352009-02-28 10:08:02 +00004991- Issue #1533164: Installed but not listed *.pyo was breaking Distutils
4992 bdist_rpm command.
4993
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004994- Issue #5378: Added --quiet option to Distutils bdist_rpm command.
Tarek Ziadé73347352009-02-28 10:08:02 +00004995
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004996- Issue #5052: Make Distutils compatible with 2.3 again.
Tarek Ziadédda92f72009-02-27 12:53:34 +00004997
Benjamin Petersonb3dd5482009-02-26 19:07:18 +00004998- Deprecated methods of symtable.Symbol have been removed: is_keywordarg(),
4999 is_vararg(), and is_in_tuple().
5000
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005001- Issue #5316: Fixed buildbot failures introduced by multiple inheritance in
5002 Distutils tests.
Tarek Ziadée3bc0ef2009-02-25 22:29:27 +00005003
Vinay Sajip1a0d2be2009-02-19 12:31:32 +00005004- Issue #5287: Add exception handling around findCaller() call to help out
5005 IronPython.
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +00005006
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005007- Issue #5282: Fixed mmap resize on 32bit Windows and Unix. When ``offset >
5008 0``, the file was resized to wrong size.
Hirokazu Yamamoto17a837e2009-02-17 13:17:26 +00005009
Hirokazu Yamamotof6bbd0e2009-02-17 10:12:10 +00005010- Issue #5292: Fixed mmap crash on its boundary access m[len(m)].
5011
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005012- Issue #2279: distutils.sdist.add_defaults now add files from the package_data
5013 and the data_files metadata.
Tarek Ziadé7dd53392009-02-16 21:38:01 +00005014
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005015- Issue #5257: Refactored all tests in distutils, so they use
Tarek Ziadé13699002009-02-14 14:10:23 +00005016 support.TempdirManager, to avoid writing in the tests directory.
5017
Tarek Ziadé2432b0b2009-02-13 23:00:43 +00005018- Issue #4524: distutils build_script command failed with --with-suffix=3.
5019 Initial patch by Amaury Forgeot d'Arc.
5020
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005021- Issue #2461: Added tests for distutils.util.
Tarek Ziadé275958a2009-02-13 22:22:03 +00005022
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005023- Issue #1008086: Fixed socket.inet_aton() to always return 4 bytes even on LP64
5024 platforms (most 64-bit Linux, bsd, unix systems).
Gregory P. Smith3605b5c2009-02-11 23:45:25 +00005025
Thomas Heller3689ae22009-02-10 18:43:01 +00005026- Issue #5203: Fixed ctypes segfaults when passing a unicode string to a
5027 function without argtypes (only occurs if HAVE_USABLE_WCHAR_T is false).
5028
Tarek Ziadé74fbf602009-02-10 12:31:09 +00005029- Issue #3386: distutils.sysconfig.get_python_lib prefix argument was ignored
5030 under NT and OS2. Patch by Philip Jenvey.
5031
Brett Cannon28d10882009-02-10 02:07:38 +00005032- Issue #5128: Make compileall properly inspect bytecode to determine if needs
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005033 to be recreated. This avoids a timing hole thanks to the old reliance on the
Brett Cannon28d10882009-02-10 02:07:38 +00005034 ctime of the files involved.
5035
Guilherme Poloa66cf5b2009-02-09 20:50:27 +00005036- Issue #5122: Synchronize tk load failure check to prevent a potential
5037 deadlock.
5038
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005039- Issue #1818: collections.namedtuple() now supports a keyword argument 'rename'
5040 which lets invalid fieldnames be automatically converted to positional names
5041 in the form, _1, _2, ...
Raymond Hettinger322daea2009-02-10 01:24:05 +00005042
Guilherme Polod2ea0332009-02-09 16:41:09 +00005043- Issue #4890: Handle empty text search pattern in Tkinter.Text.search.
5044
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005045- Issue #5170: Fixed Unicode output bug in logging and added test case. This is
5046 a regression which did not occur in 2.5.
Vinay Sajipb20af942009-02-08 19:06:08 +00005047
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005048- Issue #4512 (part 2): Promote ``ZipImporter._get_filename()`` to be a public
5049 documented method ``ZipImporter.get_filename()``.
Nick Coghlan0194f5b2009-02-08 03:17:00 +00005050
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005051- Issue #4195: The ``runpy`` module (and the ``-m`` switch) now support the
5052 execution of packages by looking for and executing a ``__main__`` submodule
5053 when a package name is supplied. Initial patch by Andi Vajda.
Nick Coghland39600e2009-02-08 01:26:34 +00005054
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005055- Issue #1731706: Call Tcl_ConditionFinalize for Tcl_Conditions that will not be
5056 used again (this requires Tcl/Tk 8.3.1), also fix a memory leak in Tkapp_Call
5057 when calling from a thread different than the one that created the Tcl
5058 interpreter. Patch by Robert Hancock.
Guilherme Polo14ff18d2009-02-06 22:26:22 +00005059
Vinay Sajipb20af942009-02-08 19:06:08 +00005060- Issue #1520877: Now distutils.sysconfig reads $AR from the
Tarek Ziadé05adf072009-02-06 01:15:51 +00005061 environment/Makefile. Patch by Douglas Greiman.
5062
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005063- Issue #4285: Change sys.version_info to be a named tuple. Patch by Ross
5064 Light.
Eric Smith81fe0932009-02-06 00:48:26 +00005065
Tarek Ziadéd5eb9852009-02-06 00:31:59 +00005066- Issue #1276768: The verbose option was not used in the code of
5067 distutils.file_util and distutils.dir_util.
5068
Vinay Sajipb20af942009-02-08 19:06:08 +00005069- Issue #5132: Fixed trouble building extensions under Solaris with
Tarek Ziadé0d4fd342009-02-05 22:52:52 +00005070 --enabled-shared activated. Initial patch by Dave Peterson.
5071
Guilherme Polod7bb4d42009-02-02 21:14:14 +00005072- Issue #1581476: Always use the Tcl global namespace when calling into Tcl.
5073
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005074- Issue #2047: shutil.move() could believe that its destination path was inside
5075 its source path if it began with the same letters (e.g. "src" vs. "src.new").
Antoine Pitrou707c5932009-01-29 20:19:34 +00005076
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005077- Issue #4920: Fixed .next() vs .__next__() issues in the ABCs for Iterator and
5078 MutableSet.
Raymond Hettingerf779e6f2009-01-28 23:02:26 +00005079
Guilherme Polocda93aa2009-01-28 13:09:03 +00005080- Added the ttk module. See issue #2983: Ttk support for Tkinter.
5081
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005082- Issue #5021: doctest.testfile() did not create __name__ and
Raymond Hettingerecf252a2009-01-27 10:03:04 +00005083 collections.namedtuple() relied on __name__ being defined.
5084
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005085- Backport importlib from Python 3.1. Only the import_module() function has been
5086 backported to help facilitate transitions from 2.7 to 3.1.
Brett Cannon93881c62009-01-26 01:16:50 +00005087
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005088- Issue #1885: distutils: When running sdist with --formats=tar,gztar the tar
5089 file was overriden by the gztar one.
Tarek Ziadéaaedcef2009-01-25 23:34:00 +00005090
Tarek Ziadéef249b12009-01-25 18:19:25 +00005091- Issue #4863: distutils.mwerkscompiler has been removed.
5092
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005093- Added new itertools functions: combinations_with_replacement() and compress().
Raymond Hettinger2bcb8e92009-01-25 21:04:14 +00005094
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005095- Issue #5032: Added a step argument to itertools.count() and allowed
5096 non-integer arguments.
Raymond Hettinger31c769c2009-02-12 05:39:46 +00005097
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005098- Fix and properly document the multiprocessing module's logging support, expose
5099 the internal levels and provide proper usage examples.
Jesse Nollerb5a4b0a2009-01-25 03:36:13 +00005100
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005101- Issue #1672332: Fix unpickling of subnormal floats, which was
Mark Dickinsona3ecd2c2009-01-24 16:40:29 +00005102 producing a ValueError on some platforms.
5103
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005104- Issue #3881: Help Tcl to load even when started through the unreadable local
5105 symlink to "Program Files" on Vista.
Martin v. Löwisf081e1c2009-01-24 15:47:27 +00005106
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005107- Issue #4710: Extract directories properly in the zipfile module; allow adding
5108 directories to a zipfile.
Martin v. Löwis0dfcfc82009-01-24 14:00:33 +00005109
Vinay Sajipb20af942009-02-08 19:06:08 +00005110- Issue #3807: _multiprocessing build fails when configure is passed
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005111 --without-threads argument. When this occurs, _multiprocessing will be
5112 disabled, and not compiled.
Jesse Nollerf6da8d12009-01-23 14:04:41 +00005113
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005114- Issue #5008: When a file is opened in append mode with the new IO library, do
5115 an explicit seek to the end of file (so that e.g. tell() returns the file size
5116 rather than 0). This is consistent with the behaviour of the traditional 2.x
5117 file object.
Antoine Pitroue741cc62009-01-21 00:45:36 +00005118
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +00005119- Issue #5013: Fixed a bug in FileHandler which occurred when the delay
5120 parameter was set.
5121
Raymond Hettinger933d3a72009-01-20 20:34:19 +00005122- Issue #4998: The memory saving effect of __slots__ had been lost on Fractions
5123 which inherited from numbers.py which did not have __slots__ defined. The
Mark Dickinson39c6f7f2009-02-12 17:55:42 +00005124 numbers hierarchy now has its own __slots__ declarations.
Raymond Hettinger933d3a72009-01-20 20:34:19 +00005125
Jesse Noller9a5b2ad2009-01-19 15:12:22 +00005126- Issue #3321: _multiprocessing.Connection() doesn't check handle; added checks
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005127 for *nix machines for negative handles and large int handles. Without this
5128 check it is possible to segfault the interpreter.
Jesse Noller9a5b2ad2009-01-19 15:12:22 +00005129
Jesse Noller6ab22152009-01-18 02:45:38 +00005130- Issue #4449: AssertionError in mp_benchmarks.py, caused by an underlying issue
5131 in sharedctypes.py.
5132
Benjamin Peterson5e5fbb62009-01-17 22:27:54 +00005133- Issue #1225107: inspect.isclass() returned True for instances with a custom
5134 __getattr__.
5135
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005136- Issue #3997: Zipfiles generated with more than 65536 files could not be opened
5137 with other applications.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd25f87a2009-01-17 16:40:17 +00005138
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005139- Issue #1162154: ``inspect.getmembers()`` now skips attributes that raise
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcb54447f2009-01-13 23:39:22 +00005140 AttributeError, e.g. a __slots__ attribute which has not been set.
5141
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005142- Issue #1696199: Add collections.Counter() for rapid and convenient counting.
Raymond Hettingerf94d7fa2009-01-12 22:58:41 +00005143
Antoine Pitroubd4b5f22009-01-10 16:15:24 +00005144- Issue #3860: GzipFile and BZ2File now support the context manager protocol.
5145
Antoine Pitrouf0d2c3f2009-01-04 21:29:23 +00005146- Issue #4272: Add an optional argument to the GzipFile constructor to override
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005147 the timestamp in the gzip stream. The default value remains the current time.
5148 The information can be used by e.g. gunzip when decompressing. Patch by
Antoine Pitrouf0d2c3f2009-01-04 21:29:23 +00005149 Jacques Frechet.
5150
Mark Dickinson514d4832009-01-04 21:25:40 +00005151- Restore Python 2.3 compatibility for decimal.py.
5152
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +00005153- Issue #1702551: distutils sdist was not excluding VCS directories under
Ezio Melotti50bc66a2012-11-03 21:29:08 +02005154 Windows. Initial solution by Guy Dalberto.
Tarek Ziadé85d6fb52009-01-04 00:04:49 +00005155
Guilherme Poloe7f14032009-01-03 21:51:09 +00005156- The _tkinter module functions "createfilehandler", "deletefilehandler",
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005157 "createtimerhandler", "mainloop", "dooneevent" and "quit" have been deprecated
5158 for removal in 3.x
Guilherme Poloe7f14032009-01-03 21:51:09 +00005159
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005160- Issue #4796: Added Decimal.from_float() and
5161 Context.create_decimal_from_float() to the decimal module.
Raymond Hettingerf4d85972009-01-03 19:02:23 +00005162
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005163- Issue #4812: Add missing underscore prefix to some internal-use-only constants
5164 in the decimal module. (Dec_0 becomes _Dec_0, etc.)
Mark Dickinsonc5de0962009-01-02 23:07:08 +00005165
Benjamin Peterson8ad09a42008-12-31 23:48:39 +00005166- Issue #4795: inspect.isgeneratorfunction() returns False instead of None when
5167 the function is not a generator.
5168
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005169- Issue #4702: Throwing a DistutilsPlatformError instead of IOError in case no
5170 MSVC compiler is found under Windows. Original patch by Philip Jenvey.
Tarek Ziadéb1a85412008-12-30 23:03:41 +00005171
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005172- Issue #4646: distutils was choking on empty options arg in the setup function.
5173 Original patch by Thomas Heller.
Tarek Ziadéc13acb12008-12-29 22:23:53 +00005174
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005175- Fractions.from_float() no longer loses precision for integers too big to cast
5176 as floats.
Georg Brandlfe427892009-01-03 22:03:11 +00005177
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005178- Issue #4790: The nsmallest() and nlargest() functions in the heapq module did
5179 unnecessary work in the common case where no key function was specified.
Georg Brandlfe427892009-01-03 22:03:11 +00005180
Martin v. Löwis732479f2008-12-29 16:22:25 +00005181- Issue #3767: Convert Tk object to string in tkColorChooser.
5182
Martin v. Löwise2eb2b42008-12-29 15:51:01 +00005183- Issue #3248: Allow placing ScrolledText in a PanedWindow.
5184
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005185- Issue #4444: Allow assertRaises() to be used as a context handler, so that the
5186 code under test can be written inline if more practical.
Antoine Pitrou697ca3d2008-12-28 14:09:36 +00005187
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005188- Issue #4739: Add pydoc help topics for symbols, so that e.g. help('@') works
5189 as expected in the interactive environment.
Georg Brandlc3a98032008-12-27 18:20:04 +00005190
Antoine Pitrou6f193e02008-12-27 15:43:12 +00005191- Issue #4756: zipfile.is_zipfile() now supports file-like objects. Patch by
5192 Gabriel Genellina.
5193
Tarek Ziadée4c75bb2008-12-24 19:10:05 +00005194- Issue #4400: .pypirc default generated file was broken in distutils.
5195
Benjamin Peterson54686e32008-12-24 15:10:27 +00005196- Issue #4736: io.BufferedRWPair's closed property now functions properly.
5197
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005198- Issue #3954: Fix a potential SystemError in _hotshot.logreader error handling.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc31949b92008-12-15 21:47:57 +00005199
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005200- Issue #4574: Fix a crash in io.IncrementalNewlineDecoder when a carriage
5201 return encodes to more than one byte in the source encoding (e.g. UTF-16) and
5202 gets split on a chunk boundary.
Antoine Pitrou655fbf12008-12-14 17:40:51 +00005203
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005204- Issue #4223: inspect.getsource() will now correctly display source code for
5205 packages loaded via zipimport (or any other conformant PEP 302
Nick Coghlana2053472008-12-14 10:54:50 +00005206 loader). Original patch by Alexander Belopolsky.
5207
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005208- Issue #4201: pdb can now access and display source code loaded via zipimport
5209 (or any other conformant PEP 302 loader). Original patch by Alexander
5210 Belopolsky.
Nick Coghlana2053472008-12-14 10:54:50 +00005211
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005212- Issue #4197: Doctests in modules loaded via zipimport (or any other PEP 302
5213 conformant loader) will now work correctly in most cases (they are still
5214 subject to the constraints that exist for all code running from inside a
5215 module loaded via a PEP 302 loader and attempting to perform IO operations
5216 based on __file__). Original patch by Alexander Belopolsky.
Nick Coghlana2053472008-12-14 10:54:50 +00005217
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005218- Issues #4082 and #4512: Add runpy support to zipimport in a manner that allows
5219 backporting to maintenance branches. Original patch by Alexander Belopolsky.
Nick Coghlana2053472008-12-14 10:54:50 +00005220
Antoine Pitrou74af3bb2008-12-13 23:12:30 +00005221- Issue #4163: Use unicode-friendly word splitting in the textwrap functions
5222 when given an unicode string.
5223
Lars Gustäbel3b027422008-12-12 13:58:03 +00005224- Issue #4616: TarFile.utime(): Restore directory times on Windows.
5225
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005226- Issue #4084: Fix max, min, max_mag and min_mag Decimal methods to give correct
5227 results in the case where one argument is a quiet NaN and the other is a
5228 finite number that requires rounding.
Facundo Batistae29d4352008-12-11 04:19:46 +00005229
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005230- Issue #1030250: Distutils created directories even when run with the --dry-run
5231 option.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc240028c2008-12-11 00:03:42 +00005232
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005233- Issue #4483: _dbm module now builds on systems with gdbm & gdbm_compat libs.
Skip Montanaro45313fe2008-12-06 17:43:30 +00005234
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005235- Issue #4529: Fix the parser module's validation of try-except-finally
Georg Brandlfe879e82008-12-05 12:09:41 +00005236 statements.
5237
Georg Brandla07435d2008-12-05 09:23:14 +00005238- Issue #4458: getopt.gnu_getopt() now recognizes a single "-" as an argument,
5239 not a malformed option.
5240
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005241- Added the subprocess.check_output() convenience function to get output from a
5242 subprocess on success or raise an exception on error.
Gregory P. Smith97f49f42008-12-04 20:21:09 +00005243
Fred Drake52481032008-12-04 18:25:17 +00005244- Issue #1055234: cgi.parse_header(): Fixed parsing of header parameters to
5245 support unusual filenames (such as those containing semi-colons) in
5246 Content-Disposition headers.
5247
Vinay Sajip6831d6b2008-12-04 20:32:18 +00005248- Issue #4384: Added logging integration with warnings module using
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005249 captureWarnings(). This change includes a NullHandler which does nothing; it
5250 will be of use to library developers who want to avoid the "No handlers could
5251 be found for logger XXX" message which can appear if the library user doesn't
5252 configure logging.
Vinay Sajip213faca2008-12-03 23:22:58 +00005253
Christian Heimesaa674712008-11-28 11:02:32 +00005254- Issue #3741: DISTUTILS_USE_SDK set causes msvc9compiler.py to raise an
5255 exception.
5256
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005257- Issue #4363: The uuid.uuid1() and uuid.uuid4() functions now work even if the
5258 ctypes module is not present.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd4294172008-11-21 22:05:48 +00005259
Benjamin Petersonbfc51562008-11-22 01:59:15 +00005260- FileIO's mode attribute now always includes ``"b"``.
5261
Martin v. Löwisbb9b1f12008-11-19 09:09:41 +00005262- Issue #4116: Resolve member name conflict in ScrolledCanvas.__init__.
5263
Brett Cannone3d0bf72008-11-15 22:40:44 +00005264- httplib.HTTPConnection.putheader() now accepts an arbitrary number of values
5265 for any header, matching what the documentation has claimed for a while.
5266
Hirokazu Yamamotob9828f62008-11-03 18:03:06 +00005267- Issue #3774: Fixed an error when create a Tkinter menu item without command
5268 and then remove it.
5269
Thomas Heller1fac5a42008-10-30 20:18:13 +00005270- Fixed a modulefinder crash on certain relative imports.
5271
Benjamin Petersonc18574c2008-10-22 21:16:34 +00005272- Issue #4150: Pdb's "up" command now works for generator frames in post-mortem
5273 debugging.
5274
Benjamin Petersone4dc1752008-10-21 22:20:31 +00005275- Issue #4092: Return ArgInfo as promised in the documentation from
5276 inspect.getargvalues.
5277
Georg Brandlf3776a12008-10-08 18:47:17 +00005278- Issue #3935: Properly support list subclasses in bisect's C implementation.
5279
Martin v. Löwis96a9f232008-10-06 15:15:40 +00005280- Issue #4014: Don't claim that Python has an Alpha release status, in addition
5281 to claiming it is Mature.
5282
Alexandre Vassalotti6067f782008-12-27 07:13:01 +00005283- Issue #4730: Fixed the cPickle module to handle correctly astral characters
5284 when protocol 0 is used.
5285
Ronald Oussoren0238497e2009-01-02 14:10:20 +00005286- Issue #1594: MacOS.GetCreatorAndType now always returns a big-endian result,
5287 to be consistent with Apple tools.
5288
Ronald Oussoren63b74fe2009-01-02 14:46:19 +00005289- Issue #900949: plat-mac/videoreader.py no longer relies on a non-existing
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +00005290 module.
Ronald Oussoren63b74fe2009-01-02 14:46:19 +00005291
Ronald Oussoren7f8cbf02009-01-02 14:48:17 +00005292- Issue #16278952: plat-mac/videoreader.py now correctly imports MediaDescr
5293
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005294- Issue #1737832: plat-mac/EasyDialog.py no longer uses the broken aepack
Ronald Oussoren919697c2009-01-02 14:52:09 +00005295 module.
5296
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005297- Issue #1149804: macostools.mkdirs now even works when another process creates
5298 one of the needed subdirectories.
Ronald Oussorenabcc1682009-01-02 15:00:05 +00005299
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005300- Issue #900506: added --no-zipimport flag to the bundlebuilder script.
Ronald Oussoren072bb402009-01-02 15:25:36 +00005301
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005302- Issue #841800: bundlebuilder now works with 'python -O'.
Ronald Oussoren072bb402009-01-02 15:25:36 +00005303
Matthias Klose43723e22009-01-10 17:00:42 +00005304- Issue #4861: ctypes.util.find_library(): Robustify. Fix library detection on
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005305 biarch systems. Try to rely on ldconfig only, without using objdump and gcc.
Matthias Klose43723e22009-01-10 17:00:42 +00005306
Gregory P. Smithde1a8b72009-01-31 22:57:30 +00005307- Issue #5104: The socket module now raises OverflowError when 16-bit port and
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005308 protocol numbers are supplied outside the allowed 0-65536 range on bind() and
5309 getservbyport().
Gregory P. Smithde1a8b72009-01-31 22:57:30 +00005310
Neil Schemenauer92c3b212009-02-07 00:54:41 +00005311- Issue #999042: The Python compiler now handles explict global statements
5312 correctly (should be assigned using STORE_GLOBAL opcode).
5313
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005314- Issue #2703: SimpleXMLRPCDispatcher.__init__: Provide default values for new
5315 arguments introduced in 2.5.
Matthias Klosea5d58c82009-04-05 21:00:48 +00005316
Walter Dörwald5d98ec72009-04-25 14:03:16 +00005317- Issue #5828 (Invalid behavior of unicode.lower): Fixed bogus logic in
5318 makeunicodedata.py and regenerated the Unicode database (This fixes
5319 u'\u1d79'.lower() == '\x00').
5320
Jeroen Ruigrok van der Wervenb87b3342009-05-08 14:11:23 +00005321- Windows locale mapping updated to Vista.
5322
Antoine Pitroue555f582008-12-27 20:34:52 +00005323Tools/Demos
5324-----------
5325
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005326- Ttk demos added in Demo/tkinter/ttk/.
Guilherme Polo4eae0782009-01-28 15:56:01 +00005327
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005328- Issue #4677: Add two list comprehension tests to pybench.
Antoine Pitroue555f582008-12-27 20:34:52 +00005329
Brett Cannon60b15d22008-10-06 22:44:37 +00005330Build
5331-----
5332
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005333- Issue #6603: Change READ_TIMESTAMP macro in ceval.c so that it compiles
5334 correctly under gcc on x86-64. This fixes a reported problem with the
5335 --with-tsc build on x86-64.
Mark Dickinson504a1512009-10-31 10:11:28 +00005336
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005337- Add 2 new options to ``--with-universal-archs`` on MacOSX: ``intel`` builds a
5338 distribution with ``i386`` and ``x86_64`` architectures, while ``3-way``
5339 builds a distribution with the ``ppc``, ``i386`` and ``x86_64`` architectures.
Vinay Sajip03d5c342009-10-16 14:06:44 +00005340
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005341- Issue #6802: Fix build issues on MacOSX 10.6.
Ronald Oussoren25967582009-09-06 10:00:26 +00005342
Guilherme Polo1ce2d532009-08-16 14:38:57 +00005343- Issue #6244: Allow detect_tkinter to look for Tcl/Tk 8.6.
5344
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00005345- Issue #5390: Add uninstall icon independent of whether file extensions are
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005346 installed.
Martin v. Löwisecb4f952009-06-28 09:32:39 +00005347
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00005348- Issue #5809: Specifying both --enable-framework and --enable-shared is an
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005349 error. Configure now explicity tells you about this.
Ronald Oussoren450d5612009-06-08 21:12:41 +00005350
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005351- Issue #3585: Add pkg-config support. It creates a python-2.7.pc file and a
5352 python.pc symlink in the $(LIBDIR)/pkgconfig directory. Patch by Clinton Roy.
Antoine Pitrouf2caeed2009-05-24 20:23:57 +00005353
Benjamin Petersone5afa3b2009-05-23 19:24:37 +00005354- Issue #6094: Build correctly with Subversion 1.7.
5355
Martin v. Löwis588b54b2009-05-05 16:10:16 +00005356- Issue #5847: Remove -n switch on "Edit with IDLE" menu item.
5357
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005358- Issue #5726: Make Modules/ld_so_aix return the actual exit code of the linker,
5359 rather than always exit successfully. Patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
Antoine Pitrou3fd4ea92009-05-01 21:16:14 +00005360
Matthias Klose10cbe482009-04-29 17:18:19 +00005361- Issue #4587: Add configure option --with-dbmliborder=db1:db2:... to specify
Vinay Sajipf9b01fe2009-05-09 12:07:17 +00005362 the order that backends for the dbm extension are checked.
Matthias Klose10cbe482009-04-29 17:18:19 +00005363
Matthias Klose8ad554f2009-02-22 23:14:26 +00005364- Link the shared python library with $(MODLIBS).
5365
Martin v. Löwisa3e3cb72009-02-10 13:09:19 +00005366- Issue #5134: Silence compiler warnings when compiling sqlite with VC++.
5367
Martin v. Löwisfee1c7f2009-02-02 14:23:16 +00005368- Issue #4494: Fix build with Py_NO_ENABLE_SHARED on Windows.
5369
Martin v. Löwiseefda272009-01-11 09:43:55 +00005370- Issue #4895: Use _strdup on Windows CE.
5371
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005372- Issue #4472: ``configure --enable-shared`` now works on OSX.
Ronald Oussorenf7d54052009-01-02 10:48:31 +00005373
Benjamin Petersonfd9633e2008-12-28 15:37:31 +00005374- Issues #4728 and #4060: WORDS_BIGEDIAN is now correct in Universal builds.
5375
Martin v. Löwiscb6c3592008-11-30 11:08:26 +00005376- Issue #4389: Add icon to the uninstall entry in "add-and-remove-programs".
5377
Martin v. Löwis63470982008-11-19 13:51:44 +00005378- Issue #4289: Remove Cancel button from AdvancedDlg.
5379
Martin v. Löwis3d6f8ff2008-11-07 18:51:50 +00005380- Issue #1656675: Register a drop handler for .py* files on Windows.
5381
Martin v. Löwis692c2f82008-11-06 16:43:00 +00005382- Issue #4120: Exclude manifest from extension modules in VS2008.
5383
Martin v. Löwis0f3e7692008-10-17 13:43:01 +00005384- Issue #4091: Install pythonxy.dll in system32 again.
5385
Martin v. Löwiseba774b2008-10-13 11:23:35 +00005386- Issue #4018: Disable "for me" installations on Vista.
5387
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005388- Issue #3758: Add ``patchcheck`` build target to ``.PHONY``.
Brett Cannon60b15d22008-10-06 22:44:37 +00005389
Martin v. Löwisbb86d832008-11-04 20:40:09 +00005390- Issue #4204: Fixed module build errors on FreeBSD 4.
5391
Tarek Ziadéc4a4aeb2009-08-21 14:28:38 +00005392Documentation
5393-------------
5394
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005395- Issue #6556: Fixed the Distutils configuration files location explanation for
5396 Windows.
Tarek Ziadéc4a4aeb2009-08-21 14:28:38 +00005397
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005398- Issue #6801: symmetric_difference_update also accepts ``|``. Thanks to Carl
5399 Chenet.
Tarek Ziadé3092ed92009-08-29 13:33:21 +00005400
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc07d539d2008-10-14 21:47:22 +00005401C-API
5402-----
5403
Mark Dickinsone31d3002009-12-21 11:21:25 +00005404- Issue #7528: Add PyLong_AsLongAndOverflow (backported from py3k).
5405
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005406- Issue #7228: Add '%lld' and '%llu' support to PyString_FromFormat(V) and
5407 PyErr_Format, on machines with HAVE_LONG_LONG defined.
Mark Dickinson82864d12009-11-15 16:18:58 +00005408
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005409- Add new C-API function PyOS_string_to_double, and deprecated PyOS_ascii_atof
5410 and PyOS_ascii_strtod.
Mark Dickinson09823a22009-10-31 09:42:39 +00005411
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005412- Removed _PyOS_double_to_string. Use PyOS_double_to_string instead. This is in
5413 preparation for (but not strictly related to) issue #7117, short float repr.
Mark Dickinsonba26b392009-10-31 09:28:12 +00005414
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005415- Issue #6624: PyArg_ParseTuple with "s" format when parsing argument with NULL:
5416 Bogus TypeError detail string.
Sean Reifscheider9279e7d2009-08-01 23:54:55 +00005417
Jeffrey Yasskinf7f858d2009-05-08 22:23:21 +00005418- Issue #5954: Add a PyFrame_GetLineNumber() function to replace most uses of
5419 PyCode_Addr2Line().
5420
Jeffrey Yasskin1aa47002009-05-08 21:51:06 +00005421- Issue #5959: Add a PyCode_NewEmpty() function to create a new empty code
5422 object at a specified file, function, and line number.
5423
Brett Cannonc4f90eb2009-04-02 03:17:39 +00005424- Issue #1419652: Change the first argument to PyImport_AppendInittab() to
5425 ``const char *`` as the string is stored beyond the call.
5426
Benjamin Peterson5781f322009-02-16 21:09:09 +00005427- Some PyBytes_* aliases have been removed because they don't exist in 3.x.
5428
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005429- Issue #5175: PyLong_AsUnsignedLongLong now raises OverflowError for negative
5430 arguments. Previously, it raised TypeError.
Mark Dickinson4015f622009-02-10 15:46:50 +00005431
Benjamin Petersoncf2ce242008-12-22 20:52:53 +00005432- Issue #4720: The format for PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords can begin with '|'.
5433
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005434- Issue #3632: From the gdb debugger, the 'pyo' macro can now be called when the
5435 GIL is released, or owned by another thread.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc3538a312008-12-15 22:29:14 +00005436
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc07d539d2008-10-14 21:47:22 +00005437- Issue #4122: On Windows, fix a compilation error when using the
5438 Py_UNICODE_ISSPACE macro in an extension module.
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +00005439
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005440- Issue #4293: Py_AddPendingCall() is now thread safe and can be used for
Kristján Valur Jónssonc22ab182009-01-12 09:24:04 +00005441 asynchronous notifications to python from any thread. Documentation added.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc07d539d2008-10-14 21:47:22 +00005442
Benjamin Peterson9dfe6a82008-11-24 04:09:03 +00005443Extension Modules
5444-----------------
5445
Martin v. Löwis50ea4562009-11-27 13:56:01 +00005446- Issue #6508: Add posix.{getresuid,getresgid,setresuid,setresgid}.
5447
Mark Dickinson3d830822009-10-08 15:54:10 +00005448- Issue #7078: Set struct.__doc__ from _struct.__doc__.
5449
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005450- Issue #3366: Add erf, erfc, expm1, gamma, lgamma functions to math module.
Mark Dickinsonb93fff02009-09-28 18:54:55 +00005451
Brett Cannon4d947432009-09-22 00:29:48 +00005452- Issue #6823: Allow time.strftime() to accept a tuple with a isdst field
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005453 outside of the range of [-1, 1] by normalizing the value to within that range.
Brett Cannon4d947432009-09-22 00:29:48 +00005454
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005455- Issue #6877: Make it possible to link the readline extension to libedit on
5456 OSX.
Ronald Oussoren9f20d9d2009-09-20 14:18:15 +00005457
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005458- Issue #6944: Fix a SystemError when socket.getnameinfo() was called with
5459 something other than a tuple as first argument.
Georg Brandlab849892009-09-19 07:35:07 +00005460
Benjamin Peterson7f6d0832009-09-08 23:04:22 +00005461- Issue #6865: Fix reference counting issue in the initialization of the pwd
5462 module.
5463
Mark Dickinson6b3f1ef2009-09-06 21:21:05 +00005464- Issue #6848: Fix curses module build failure on OS X 10.6.
5465
Brett Cannon764465f2009-08-13 19:27:12 +00005466- Fix a segfault in expat when given a specially crafted input lead to the
Matthias Klose3b0f9b02010-01-22 00:34:48 +00005467 tokenizer not stopping. CVE-2009-3720.
Brett Cannon764465f2009-08-13 19:27:12 +00005468
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005469- Issue #6561: '\d' in a regex now matches only characters with Unicode category
5470 'Nd' (Number, Decimal Digit). Previously it also matched characters with
5471 category 'No'.
Mark Dickinsonfe67bd92009-07-28 20:35:03 +00005472
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005473- Issue #1523: Remove deprecated overflow wrapping for struct.pack with an
5474 integer format code ('bBhHiIlLqQ'). Packing an out-of-range integer now
5475 consistently raises struct.error.
Mark Dickinson5fd3af22009-07-07 15:08:28 +00005476
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005477- Issues #1530559, #1741130: Fix various struct.pack inconsistencies for the
5478 integer formats ('bBhHiIlLqQ'). In the following, '*' represents any of '=',
5479 '<', '>'.
Mark Dickinson463dc4b2009-07-05 10:01:24 +00005480
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005481 - Packing a float now always gives a Deprecation Warning. Previously it
5482 only warned for 'I', 'L', '*B', '*H', '*I', '*L'.
Mark Dickinson463dc4b2009-07-05 10:01:24 +00005483
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005484 - If x is not an int, long or float, then packing x will always result in
5485 struct.error. Previously an x with an __int__ method could be packed by
5486 'b', 'B', 'h', 'H', 'i', 'l', '*b', '*h' ,'*i', '*l', and an x with a
5487 __long__ method could be packed by 'q', 'Q', '*q', '*Q'; for x with
5488 neither __int__ nor __long__, TypeError used to be raised (with a
5489 confusing error message) for 'I', 'L', '*B', '*H', '*I', '*L', and
5490 struct.error in other cases.
Mark Dickinson463dc4b2009-07-05 10:01:24 +00005491
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005492 Note: as of Python 2.7 beta 1, the above is out of date. In 2.7 beta 1, any
5493 argument with an __int__ method can be packed, but use of this feature
5494 triggers a DeprecationWarning.
Mark Dickinson154b7ad2010-03-07 16:24:45 +00005495
Martin v. Löwis4f16d3b2009-05-29 15:58:08 +00005496- Issue #4873: Fix resource leaks in error cases of pwd and grp.
5497
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005498- Issue #4751: For hashlib algorithms provided by OpenSSL, the Python GIL is now
5499 released during computation on data lengths >= 2048 bytes.
Gregory P. Smithd02eeda2009-05-04 00:16:49 +00005500
Gregory P. Smithea388262009-02-13 03:00:00 +00005501- Issue #3745: Fix hashlib to always reject unicode and non buffer-api
5502 supporting objects as input no matter how it was compiled (built in
Gregory P. Smithfe32d302010-01-02 22:42:50 +00005503 implementations or external openssl library). NOTE: Undone in 2.7a2.
Gregory P. Smithea388262009-02-13 03:00:00 +00005504
Mark Dickinsona200dd52009-01-15 15:17:43 +00005505- Issue #4397: Fix occasional test_socket failure on OS X.
Mark Dickinsone82cdae2009-01-15 14:54:37 +00005506
Martin v. Löwisb3b7d852009-01-11 09:26:54 +00005507- Issue #4279: Fix build of parsermodule under Cygwin.
5508
Martin v. Löwis9ac49272009-01-02 20:40:14 +00005509- Issue #4051: Prevent conflict of UNICODE macros in cPickle.
5510
Georg Brandl6269fec2009-01-01 12:15:31 +00005511- Issue #4228: Pack negative values the same way as 2.4 in struct's L format.
5512
Martin v. Löwis03824e42008-12-29 18:17:34 +00005513- Issue #1040026: Fix os.times result on systems where HZ is incorrect.
5514
Mark Dickinson4c96fa52008-12-11 19:28:08 +00005515- Issues #3167, #3682: Fix test_math failures for log, log10 on Solaris,
5516 OpenBSD.
5517
Martin v. Löwisbcb017f2008-11-30 19:28:27 +00005518- Issue #4365: Add crtassem.h constants to the msvcrt module.
5519
Benjamin Peterson9dfe6a82008-11-24 04:09:03 +00005520- Issue #4396: The parser module now correctly validates the with statement.
5521
Jack Diederichd60c29e2009-03-31 23:46:48 +00005522- Issue #5228: Make functools.partial objects can now be pickled.
5523
Guilherme Polob1a98de2009-01-28 20:03:26 +00005524Tests
5525-----
5526
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005527- Issue #7431: Use TESTFN in test_linecache instead of trying to create a file
5528 in the Lib/test directory, which might be read-only for the user running the
5529 tests.
R. David Murray820b0ea2009-12-03 23:57:59 +00005530
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005531- Issue #7324: Add a sanity check to regrtest argument parsing to catch the case
5532 of an option with no handler.
R. David Murrayda826892009-11-15 00:04:32 +00005533
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005534- Issue #7312: Add a -F flag to run the selected tests in a loop until a test
5535 fails. Can be combined with -j.
R. David Murray7f7eea62009-11-14 15:18:22 +00005536
Antoine Pitrou310c9fe2009-11-11 20:55:07 +00005537- Issue #7295: Do not use a hardcoded file name in test_tarfile.
5538
Antoine Pitrouc98efe02009-11-06 22:34:35 +00005539- Issue #7270: Add some dedicated unit tests for multi-thread synchronization
5540 primitives such as Lock, RLock, Condition, Event and Semaphore.
5541
Antoine Pitrou59c44f32009-10-30 17:07:08 +00005542- Issue #7222: Make thread "reaping" more reliable so that reference
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005543 leak-chasing test runs give sensible results. The previous method of reaping
5544 threads could return successfully while some Thread objects were still
5545 referenced. This also introduces a new private function: ``thread._count()``.
Antoine Pitrou59c44f32009-10-30 17:07:08 +00005546
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005547- Issue #7151: Fixed regrtest -j so that output to stderr from a test no longer
5548 runs the risk of causing the worker thread to fail.
R. David Murray282396f2009-10-18 21:12:37 +00005549
Antoine Pitrou58d2f262009-10-10 20:52:11 +00005550- Issue #7055: test___all__ now greedily detects all modules which have an
5551 __all__ attribute, rather than using a hardcoded and incomplete list.
5552
R. David Murray14dcd432009-10-14 13:58:07 +00005553- Issue #7058: Added save/restore for things like sys.argv and cwd to
5554 runtest_inner in regrtest, with warnings if the called test modifies them,
5555 and a new section in the summary report at the end.
R. David Murrayabe3d3e2009-10-05 17:03:09 +00005556
Mark Dickinson245d9152009-10-04 18:38:39 +00005557- Issue #7042: Fix test_signal (test_itimer_virtual) failure on OS X 10.6.
5558
Brett Cannone7e941e2009-09-03 21:25:21 +00005559- Issue #6806: test_platform failed under OS X 10.6.0 because ``sw_ver`` leaves
5560 off the trailing 0 in the version number.
5561
Guilherme Polo7f146ab2009-06-21 17:22:50 +00005562- Issue #5450: Moved tests involving loading tk from Lib/test/test_tcl to
5563 Lib/lib-tk/test/test_tkinter/test_loadtk. With this, these tests demonstrate
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005564 the same behaviour as test_ttkguionly (and now also test_tk) which is to skip
5565 the tests if DISPLAY is defined but can't be used.
Guilherme Polo7f146ab2009-06-21 17:22:50 +00005566
Antoine Pitrou4698d992009-05-31 14:20:14 +00005567- Issue #6152: New option '-j'/'--multiprocess' for regrtest allows running
5568 regression tests in parallel, shortening the total runtime.
5569
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005570- Issue #5354: New test support function import_fresh_module() makes it easy to
5571 import both normal and optimised versions of modules. test_heapq and
5572 test_warnings have been adjusted to use it, tests for other modules with both
5573 C and Python implementations in the stdlib can be adjusted to use it over
5574 time.
Nick Coghlan5533ff62009-04-22 15:26:04 +00005575
Brett Cannonce3d2212009-04-01 20:25:48 +00005576- Fix test_warnings to no longer reset the warnings filter.
5577
Brett Cannon2da4d622009-04-01 19:57:10 +00005578- Fix test_logging to no longer reset the warnings filter.
5579
Georg Brandld8fb6ac2009-04-01 00:04:33 +00005580- Issue #5635: Fix running test_sys with tracing enabled.
5581
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00005582- regrtest no longer treats ImportError as equivalent to SkipTest. Imports that
5583 should cause a test to be skipped are now done using import_module from test
5584 support, which does the conversion.
R. David Murray41448c52009-03-31 19:57:24 +00005585
Guilherme Polob1a98de2009-01-28 20:03:26 +00005586- Issue #5083: New 'gui' resource for regrtest.
5587
Walter Dörwalda1453172009-04-25 12:15:07 +00005588- Issue #5837: Certain sequences of calls to set() and unset() for
5589 support.EnvironmentVarGuard objects restored the environment variables
5590 incorrectly on __exit__.
5591
Alexandre Vassalotti999ecc02009-07-15 18:19:47 +00005592- Issue #2389: Array objects are now pickled in a portable manner.
5593
Brett Cannon813c43a2009-11-08 21:35:28 +00005594Misc
5595----
5596
5597- Issue #5611: Auto-detect whether a C file uses tabs or spaces in Vim.
5598
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +00005599
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +00005600What's New in Python 2.6 final
5601==============================
5602
Barry Warsawafa14362008-10-01 21:46:40 +00005603*Release date: 01-Oct-2008*
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +00005604
5605Core and Builtins
5606-----------------
5607
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfc5ea392008-09-26 22:34:08 +00005608- Issue #3967: Fixed a crash in the count() and find() methods of string-like
5609 objects, when the "start" parameter is a huge value.
5610
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc17617a02008-09-25 20:52:56 +00005611- Issue #3965: Fixed a crash on Windows when open() is given an invalid
5612 filename or mode, and the filename is a unicode string.
5613
Martin v. Löwise86b07c2008-09-25 04:12:50 +00005614- Bug #3951: Py_USING_MEMORY_DEBUGGER should not be enabled by default.
5615
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +00005616Library
5617-------
5618
Martin v. Löwise563aa42008-09-29 22:09:07 +00005619- Issue #3965: Allow repeated calls to turtle.Screen, by making it a
5620 true singleton object.
5621
Brett Cannonb2d61bd2008-09-29 03:41:21 +00005622- Issue #3895: It was possible to crash the interpreter when an external timer
5623 was used with cProfile that returned an object that could not be converted
5624 into a float.
5625
Benjamin Peterson22d3c922008-09-25 20:35:45 +00005626- Issue #3950: Made turtle respect scale factors.
5627
Thomas Hellera85c95d2008-09-24 18:26:05 +00005628- Issue #3547: Fixed ctypes structures bitfields of varying integer
5629 sizes.
5630
Benjamin Peterson2c7470d2008-09-21 21:27:51 +00005631- Issue #3879: A regression in urllib.getproxies_enviroment was fixed.
5632
Gregory P. Smith08067492008-09-30 20:41:13 +00005633- Issue #3863: Disabled a unit test of fork being called from a thread
5634 when running on platforms known to exhibit OS bugs when attempting that.
5635
Martin v. Löwis175d0072008-09-19 15:21:07 +00005636Build
5637-----
5638
Martin v. Löwisd69c9042008-10-01 11:19:50 +00005639- Bug #3989: Package the 2to3 script (as 2to3.py) in the Windows
5640 installer.
5641
Martin v. Löwis175d0072008-09-19 15:21:07 +00005642- Bug #3887: Package x64 version of CRT for AMD64 Windows binaries.
5643
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +00005644
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +00005645What's New in Python 2.6 release candidate 2?
5646=============================================
5647
Barry Warsaw6af16192008-09-18 04:33:43 +00005648*Release date: 17-Sep-2008*
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +00005649
5650Core and Builtins
5651-----------------
5652
Benjamin Peterson8c2b7dc2008-09-18 01:22:16 +00005653Extension Modules
5654-----------------
5655
Benjamin Peterson8d77d442008-09-30 01:31:49 +00005656- Security Issue #2: imageop did not validate arguments correctly and could
5657 segfault as a result.
5658
Benjamin Peterson8c2b7dc2008-09-18 01:22:16 +00005659- Issue #3886: Possible integer overflows in the _hashopenssl module were
5660 closed.
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +00005661
Antoine Pitrou3c9f5412008-09-13 20:30:30 +00005662Tools/Demos
5663-----------
5664
Georg Brandl2bd92a52009-10-11 21:10:07 +00005665- Issue #3850: recursion tests in Tools/scripts/find_recursion_limit.py can raise
Antoine Pitrou3c9f5412008-09-13 20:30:30 +00005666 AttributeError instead of RuntimeError, depending in which C API call
5667 exactly the recursion limit is exceeded. Consequently, both exception types
5668 are caught and silenced.
5669
Martin v. Löwis4eb18f92008-09-14 20:22:39 +00005670Build
5671-----
5672
5673- Issue #3617: Include a licensing statement regarding the Microsoft
5674 C runtime in the Windows installer.
5675
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +00005676
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +00005677What's New in Python 2.6 release candidate 1?
5678=============================================
5679
Barry Warsaw1e62aec2008-09-12 23:25:57 +00005680*Release date: 12-Sep-2008*
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +00005681
5682Core and Builtins
5683-----------------
5684
Martin v. Löwis9fa5a282008-09-11 06:53:30 +00005685- Issue #3642: Suppress warning in obmalloc when size_t is larger than uint.
5686
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc05e34492008-09-10 22:04:45 +00005687- Issue #3743: In a few places, PY_FORMAT_SIZE_T was incorrectly used with
5688 PyString_FromFormat or PyErr_Format to display size_t values. The macro
5689 PY_FORMAT_SIZE_T is designed to select the correct format for the OS
5690 ``printf`` function, whereas PyString_FromFormat has an independent
5691 implementation and uses "%zd" on all platforms for size_t values.
5692 This makes a difference on win64, where ``printf`` needs "%Id" to display
5693 64bit values.
5694
Benjamin Peterson97179b02008-09-09 20:55:01 +00005695- Issue #3634: _weakref.ref(Exception).__init__() gave invalid return value on
5696 error.
5697
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd3ffb892008-09-09 07:24:30 +00005698- Issue #3777: long() applied to a float object now always return a long
5699 object; previously an int would be returned for small values. the __long__
5700 method is allowed to return either an int or a long, but the behaviour of
5701 float objects should not change to respect backward compatibility.
5702
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc3571fbf2008-09-01 19:52:00 +00005703- Issue #3751: str.rpartition would perform a left-partition when called with
5704 a unicode argument.
5705
Benjamin Peterson17f03ca2008-09-01 14:18:30 +00005706- Issue #3683: Fix compilation when --without-threads is given.
5707
Antoine Pitroud4ae97b2008-08-29 18:39:48 +00005708- Issue #3668: Fix a memory leak with the "s*" argument parser in
Vinay Sajip35e3b032008-09-01 14:33:59 +00005709 PyArg_ParseTuple and friends, which occurred when the argument for "s*"
Antoine Pitroud4ae97b2008-08-29 18:39:48 +00005710 was correctly parsed but parsing of subsequent arguments failed.
5711
Vinay Sajip35e3b032008-09-01 14:33:59 +00005712- Issue #2534: speed up isinstance() and issubclass() by 50-70%, so as to
Antoine Pitrou0668c622008-08-26 22:42:08 +00005713 match Python 2.5 speed despite the __instancecheck__ / __subclasscheck__
5714 mechanism. In the process, fix a bug where isinstance() and issubclass(),
5715 when given a tuple of classes as second argument, were looking up
5716 __instancecheck__ / __subclasscheck__ on the tuple rather than on each
5717 type object.
5718
Neal Norwitz18aa3882008-08-24 05:04:52 +00005719- Fix crashes on memory allocation failure found with failmalloc.
5720
5721- Fix memory leaks found with valgrind and update suppressions file.
5722
5723- Fix compiler warnings in opt mode which would lead to invalid memory reads.
5724
5725- Fix problem using wrong name in decimal module reported by pychecker.
5726
Christian Heimes7d4c3172008-08-22 19:47:25 +00005727- Silenced another compiler warning about a used but not defined
5728 function 'stringlib_contains_obj'.
5729
Benjamin Peterson712ee922008-08-24 18:10:20 +00005730- Added warnings on the use of ``__getslice__``, ``__setslice__``, or
5731 ``__delslice__``.
5732
Gregory P. Smith2bb25cc2008-09-02 05:29:51 +00005733- Issue #3678: Correctly pass LDFLAGS and LDLAST to the linker on shared
5734 library targets in the Makefile.
5735
Gregory P. Smith980b99b2008-09-07 05:15:18 +00005736- Issue #1204: The configure script now tests for additional libraries
5737 that may be required when linking against readline. This fixes issues
5738 with x86_64 builds on some platforms (a few Linux flavors and OpenBSD).
5739
Benjamin Peterson14cb6bc2008-08-26 17:08:40 +00005740C-API
5741-----
5742
5743- Aliased PyObject_Bytes to PyObject_Str.
5744
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +00005745Library
5746-------
5747
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc24cb3822008-09-11 20:56:13 +00005748- Issue #3640: Pickling a list or a dict uses less local variables, to reduce
5749 stack usage in the case of deeply nested objects.
5750
Guido van Rossume3c4fd92008-09-10 14:27:00 +00005751- Issue #3629: Fix sre "bytecode" validator for an end case.
5752
Martin v. Löwis24329ba2008-09-10 13:38:12 +00005753- Issue #3811: The Unicode database was updated to 5.1.
5754
Nick Coghland2e09382008-09-11 12:11:06 +00005755- Issue #3781: Further warnings.catch_warnings() cleanup to prevent
5756 silent misbehaviour when a single instance is nested in multiple
5757 with statements, or when the methods are invoked in the wrong order.
5758
Vinay Sajip844f7412008-09-09 13:42:08 +00005759- Issue #3809: Fixed spurious 'test.blah' file left behind by test_logging.
5760
Nick Coghland2e09382008-09-11 12:11:06 +00005761- Issue #3781: Clean up the API for warnings.catch_warnings() by having it
Brett Cannon672237d2008-09-09 00:49:16 +00005762 return a list or None rather than a custom object.
5763
Benjamin Peterson6ac7d7c2008-09-06 19:28:11 +00005764- Issue #1638033: Cookie.Morsel gained the httponly attribute.
5765
Antoine Pitrouebcd0ce2008-09-05 23:30:23 +00005766- Issue #3535: zipfile couldn't read some zip files larger than 2GB.
5767
5768- Issue #3776: Deprecate the bsddb package for removal in 3.0.
Brett Cannon32476fc2008-09-05 18:33:51 +00005769
Hirokazu Yamamoto42e459e2008-09-04 14:25:30 +00005770- Issue #3762: platform.architecture() fails if python is lanched via
5771 its symbolic link.
5772
Vinay Sajip65d66e12008-09-04 07:31:21 +00005773- Issue #3772: Fixed regression problem in StreamHandler.emit().
5774
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00005775- Issue #600362: Relocated parse_qs() and parse_qsl(), from the cgi module
Facundo Batistac585df92008-09-03 22:35:50 +00005776 to the urlparse one. Added a PendingDeprecationWarning in the old
5777 module, it will be deprecated in the future.
5778
Marc-André Lemburgb339b2a2008-09-03 11:13:56 +00005779- Issue #2562: Fix distutils PKG-INFO writing logic to allow having
5780 non-ascii characters and Unicode in setup.py meta-data.
5781
5782- Issue #3726: Allow spaces in separators in logging configuration files.
Vinay Sajip6a2fd812008-09-03 09:20:05 +00005783
Marc-André Lemburg31a0a142008-09-02 12:11:19 +00005784- Issue #3719: platform.architecture() fails if there are spaces in the
5785 path to the Python binary.
5786
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00005787- Issue #3602: Moved test.test_support.catch_warning() to
Brett Cannon1eaf0742008-09-02 01:25:16 +00005788 warnings.catch_warnings() along with some API cleanup. Expanding the tests
5789 for catch_warnings() also led to an improvement in the raising of a
5790 DeprecationWarning related to warnings.warn_explicit().
5791
Benjamin Peterson973e6c22008-09-01 23:12:58 +00005792- The deprecation warnings for the old camelCase threading API were removed.
5793
Vinay Sajip35e3b032008-09-01 14:33:59 +00005794- logging: fixed lack of use of encoding attribute specified on a stream.
5795
Christian Heimesa27a62e2008-08-22 19:55:54 +00005796- Silenced a trivial compiler warning in the sqlite module.
5797
Christian Heimes1cc69632008-08-22 20:10:27 +00005798- Fixed two format strings in the _collections module.
5799
Benjamin Peterson17f03ca2008-09-01 14:18:30 +00005800- Issue #3703: _fileio.FileIO gave unhelpful error message when trying to open a
5801 directory.
Benjamin Petersonf22c26e2008-09-01 14:13:43 +00005802
Gregory P. Smithd7122032008-09-02 05:36:11 +00005803- Issue #3708: os.urandom no longer goes into an infinite loop when passed a
5804 non-integer floating point number.
5805
Vinay Sajip65d66e12008-09-04 07:31:21 +00005806- Issue #3110: multiprocessing fails to compiel on solaris 10 due to missing
Jesse Nollerb814d6a2008-09-03 18:10:30 +00005807 SEM_VALUE_MAX.
5808
Benjamin Peterson37346b22008-08-23 20:27:43 +00005809Extension Modules
5810-----------------
5811
Jesse Noller438195f2009-01-18 21:04:36 +00005812- Issue #4301: Patch the logging module to add processName support, remove
5813 _check_logger_class from multiprocessing.
5814
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc293924b2008-09-02 23:19:56 +00005815- Issue #2975: When compiling several extension modules with Visual Studio 2008
5816 from the same python interpreter, some environment variables would grow
5817 without limit.
5818
Benjamin Peterson37346b22008-08-23 20:27:43 +00005819- Issue #3643: Added a few more checks to _testcapi to prevent segfaults by
5820 exploitation of poor argument checking.
5821
Gerhard Häringef2276b2008-09-12 13:54:06 +00005822- sqlite3: Changed docstring of iterdump() to mark method as "Non-standard".
5823
Gerhard Häring6e1afcf2008-09-12 18:58:57 +00005824- Issue #3103: Reduced globals symbols used by sqlite3 module and made sure all
5825 remaining ones have "pysqlite_" prefix.
5826
Gerhard Häringe6872eb2008-09-12 22:33:22 +00005827- Issue #3846: Release the GIL during sqlite3_prepare calls. This improves
5828 concurrent access to the same SQLite database from multiple
5829 threads/processes.
5830
Brett Cannona0b74442008-09-03 22:45:11 +00005831Tests
5832-----
5833
Nick Coghland2e09382008-09-11 12:11:06 +00005834- Issue #3781: Add test.test_support.check_warnings() as a convenience
5835 wrapper for warnings.catch_warnings() that makes it easier to check
5836 that expected warning messages are being reported.
5837
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfeb8cad2008-09-06 20:53:51 +00005838- Issue #3796: Some tests functions were not enabled in test_float.
5839
5840- Issue #3768: Move test_py3kwarn over to the new API for catch_warnings().
Brett Cannona0b74442008-09-03 22:45:11 +00005841
Brett Cannoncdeb24b2008-09-05 22:59:17 +00005842Build
5843-----
5844
Martin v. Löwisab0b29b2008-09-13 08:11:57 +00005845- Issue #3833: Use a different upgrade code for Win64 installers.
5846
Martin v. Löwis3f5fda82008-09-08 13:50:10 +00005847- Issue #2271: Set SecureCustomProperties so that installation will properly
5848 use the TARGETDIR even for unprivileged users.
5849
Martin v. Löwis67543a92008-09-08 12:02:45 +00005850- Allow passing the MSI file name to merge.py.
5851
Vinay Sajip844f7412008-09-09 13:42:08 +00005852- Issue #3758: Rename the 'check' target to 'patchcheck' so as to not clash
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfeb8cad2008-09-06 20:53:51 +00005853 with GNU build target guidelines.
Brett Cannoncdeb24b2008-09-05 22:59:17 +00005854
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +00005855
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00005856What's New in Python 2.6 beta 3?
5857================================
5858
Barry Warsaw07a4a382008-08-21 01:15:08 +00005859*Release date: 20-Aug-2008*
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00005860
5861Core and Builtins
5862-----------------
5863
Guido van Rossumf8402962008-08-20 15:01:50 +00005864- Issue #1878: Remove Py_TPFLAGS_HAVE_VERSION_TAG from
5865 Py_TPFLAGS_DEFAULT when not building the core. This means 3rd party
5866 extensions do not automatically benefit from the class attribute
5867 cache; they will have to explicitly add Py_TPFLAGS_HAVE_VERSION_TAG
5868 to their tp_flags field if they care. This is a backwards
5869 compatibility feature; in 3.0, all types will use the cache by
5870 default.
5871
Benjamin Petersonf647dc12008-08-20 01:27:30 +00005872- Keyword arguments can now follow starred arguments. (``f(a, *args,
5873 keyword=23)`` is now valid syntax.)
5874
Thomas Heller0ad5ae02008-08-19 19:25:04 +00005875- ctypes function pointers that are COM methods have a boolean True
5876 value again.
5877
Martin v. Löwisf91d46a2008-08-12 14:49:50 +00005878- Issue #3139: Make buffer-interface thread-safe wrt. PyArg_ParseTuple,
5879 by denying s# to parse objects that have a releasebuffer procedure,
5880 and introducing s*.
5881
Georg Brandl1e13ea92008-08-11 09:07:59 +00005882- Issue #3537: Fix an assertion failure when an empty but presized dict
5883 object was stored in the freelist.
5884
Mark Dickinsonb6467572008-08-04 21:30:09 +00005885- Issue #1481296: Make long(float('nan')) and int(float('nan')) raise
5886 ValueError consistently across platforms.
5887
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc39fd6722008-07-31 21:28:03 +00005888- Issue #3479: On platforms where sizeof(int) is smaller than sizeof(long)
5889 (64bit Unix, for example), unichr() would truncate its argument and return
5890 u'\x00' for unichr(2**32). Now it properly raises an OverflowError.
5891
Neal Norwitze7d8be82008-07-31 17:17:14 +00005892- Apply security patches from Apple.
5893
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc246daed2008-07-31 00:42:16 +00005894- Issue #2542: Now that issubclass() may call arbitrary code, ensure that
5895 PyErr_ExceptionMatches returns 0 when an exception occurs there.
5896
Antoine Pitrou92f82162008-07-25 22:22:08 +00005897- Issue #1819: function calls with several named parameters are now on
5898 average 35% faster (as measured by pybench).
5899
Amaury Forgeot d'Arce4921fe2008-07-21 22:00:38 +00005900- Issue #2378: An unexpected UnboundLocalError or NameError could appear when
5901 the python debugger steps into a class statement: the free variables (local
5902 variables defined in an outer scope) would be deleted from the outer scope.
5903
Gregory P. Smith0470bab2008-07-22 04:46:32 +00005904- Issue #2620: Overflow checking when allocating or reallocating memory
5905 was not always being done properly in some python types and extension
5906 modules. PyMem_MALLOC, PyMem_REALLOC, PyMem_NEW and PyMem_RESIZE have
5907 all been updated to perform better checks and places in the code that
5908 would previously leak memory on the error path when such an allocation
5909 failed have been fixed.
5910
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00005911Library
5912-------
5913
Hirokazu Yamamoto838c79f2008-08-20 13:14:07 +00005914- Issue #3612: Added some missing basic types in ctypes.wintypes.
5915
Benjamin Petersone977ad42008-08-20 01:42:01 +00005916- The methods ``is_in_tuple()``, ``is_vararg()``, and ``is_keywordarg()`` of
5917 symtable.Symbol have been deprecated for removal in 3.0 and the next release.
5918
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc351ffb82008-08-18 19:23:47 +00005919- Issue #2234: distutils failed for some versions of the cygwin compiler. The
5920 version reported by these tools does not necessarily follow the python
5921 version numbering scheme, so the module is less strict when parsing it.
5922
Nick Coghlanf70385a2008-08-18 12:42:46 +00005923- Issue #2235: Added Py3k warnings for types which will become unhashable
5924 under the stricter __hash__ inheritance rules in 3.0. Several types
5925 which did not meet the rules for hash invariants and were already
5926 unhashable in 3.0 have now been explicitly flagged as unhashable in
5927 2.6 as well (collections.Mapping, collections.Set, unittest.TestSuite,
5928 xml.dom.minidom.NamedNodeMap, numbers.Number, UserList.UserList)
5929
Brett Cannon88f801d2008-08-18 00:46:22 +00005930- Update __all__ for cookielib, csv, os, urllib2, and weakref to include things
5931 imported into the module but exposed as part of the module's API.
5932
Brett Cannon7b96f072008-08-18 00:41:11 +00005933- Remove an unneeded import of abc.ABCMeta from 'inspect'.
5934
Brett Cannon46225e72008-08-18 00:36:52 +00005935- Remove unneeded imports of 'sys' and 'warnings' from 'io'.
5936
Brett Cannon25c9d6a2008-08-17 22:10:11 +00005937- Remove unneeded imports of 'warnings' from shelve, filecmp, and dummy_thread.
5938
Hirokazu Yamamoto41a81eb2008-08-17 13:10:46 +00005939- Issue #3575: Incremental decoder's decode function now takes bytearray
5940 by using 's*' instead of 't#'.
5941
Mark Dickinson3e4caeb2009-02-21 20:27:01 +00005942- Issue #2222: Fixed reference leak when occurred os.rename()
Hirokazu Yamamoto7f30a682008-08-17 09:46:56 +00005943 fails unicode conversion on 2nd parameter. (windows only)
5944
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00005945- Issue #2464: urllib2 now supports a malformation in the URL received
Facundo Batista94f243a2008-08-17 03:38:39 +00005946 in a redirect.
5947
Brett Cannonabe423e2008-08-16 21:47:07 +00005948- Silence the DeprecationWarning raised when importing mimetools in
Brett Cannon721b1452008-08-16 22:00:27 +00005949 BaseHTTPServer, cgi (and rfc822), httplib.
Brett Cannonabe423e2008-08-16 21:47:07 +00005950
Facundo Batistaeb90b782008-08-16 14:44:07 +00005951- Issue #2776: fixed small issue when handling an URL with double slash
5952 after a 302 response in the case of not going through a proxy.
5953
Antoine Pitroub90a8be2008-08-15 21:03:21 +00005954- Issue #2676: in the email package, content-type parsing was hanging on
5955 pathological input because of quadratic or exponential behaviour of a
5956 regular expression.
5957
Antoine Pitrou11ec65d2008-08-14 21:04:30 +00005958- Issue #3476: binary buffered reading through the new "io" library is now
5959 thread-safe.
5960
Brett Cannonbf3157b2008-08-14 05:00:03 +00005961- Silence the DeprecationWarning of rfc822 when it is imported by mimetools
5962 since mimetools itself is deprecated. Because modules are cached, all
5963 subsequent imports of rfc822 will not raise a visible DeprecationWarning.
5964
Antoine Pitrou9fcd4b32008-08-11 17:21:36 +00005965- Issue #3134: shutil referenced undefined WindowsError symbol.
5966
Robert Schuppenies14646332008-08-10 11:01:53 +00005967- Issue #1342811: Fix leak in Tkinter.Menu.delete. Commands associated to
5968 menu entries were not deleted.
5969
Brett Cannon83e81842008-08-09 23:30:55 +00005970- Copied the implementation of reduce() to _functools.reduce() to have a
5971 version that did not raise a DeprecationWarning under -3.
5972
Antoine Pitrou76b8bee2008-08-09 17:27:23 +00005973- Issue #3205: When iterating over a BZ2File fails allocating memory, raise
5974 a MemoryError rather than silently stop the iteration.
5975
Guido van Rossum59ce9012008-08-09 14:55:34 +00005976- Issue #3487: sre "bytecode" validator. Passing invalid "re-bytecode"
5977 to _sre.compile() will now be rejected. This should not affect anybody
5978 since the re.compile() function never generates invalid re-bytecode.
5979
Skip Montanaroa032bf42008-08-08 22:52:51 +00005980- Issue #3436: Make csv.DictReader's fieldnames attribute a property so that
5981 upon first access it can be automatically initialized from the csv file if
5982 it wasn't initialized during instantiation.
5983
Brett Cannon3aa2a492008-08-06 22:28:09 +00005984- Issue #2338: Create imp.reload() to help with transitioning to Python 3.0 as
5985 the reload() built-in has been removed.
5986
Brett Cannon7e30b672008-08-04 21:52:25 +00005987- Changed code in the following modules/packages to remove warnings raised
Brett Cannonc1b76e42008-08-09 23:06:16 +00005988 while running under the ``-3`` flag: aifc, asynchat, asyncore, bdb, bsddb,
Brett Cannon047e4a92008-08-17 04:16:04 +00005989 ConfigParser, cookielib, csv, difflib, distutils, DocXMLRPCServer, email,
5990 filecmp, fileinput, inspect, logging, modulefinder, pdb, pickle, profile,
5991 pstats, pydoc, re, rlcompleter, SimpleXMLRPCServer, shelve, socket,
5992 subprocess, sqlite3, tarfile, Tkinter, test.test_support, textwrap,
5993 threading, tokenize, traceback, urlparse, wsgiref, xml, xmlrpclib.
Brett Cannon7e30b672008-08-04 21:52:25 +00005994
Lars Gustäbel727bd0b2008-08-02 11:26:39 +00005995- Issue #3039: Fix tarfile.TarFileCompat.writestr() which always
5996 raised an AttributeError.
5997
Benjamin Peterson01a24322008-07-28 23:35:27 +00005998- Issue #2523: Fix quadratic behaviour when read()ing a binary file without
Antoine Pitroude781a42008-08-09 12:43:23 +00005999 asking for a specific length. This problem only affected files opened
6000 using the new "io" module, not the built-in open() function.
Benjamin Peterson01a24322008-07-28 23:35:27 +00006001
Mark Dickinsonfe84cce2008-07-27 06:39:07 +00006002- Issue #3449: Update decimal module to use most recent specification
6003 (v. 1.68) and tests (v. 2.58) from IBM.
6004
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00006005- Issue #3437: Bug fix in robotparser parsing of Allow: lines.
Skip Montanarof9ac43f2008-07-27 00:50:41 +00006006
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00006007- Issue #1592: Improve error reporting when operations are attempted
Raymond Hettinger8c664e82008-07-25 18:43:33 +00006008 on a closed shelf.
6009
Georg Brandlf9efabb2008-07-23 15:16:45 +00006010- Deprecate the "ast" parser function aliases.
6011
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00006012- Issue #3120: On 64-bit Windows the subprocess module was truncating handles.
6013
6014- Issue #3303: Fix a crash in locale.strcoll() when calling it with
6015 invalid arguments.
6016
6017- Issue #3302: Fix several crashes when calling locale's gettext functions
6018 with None arguments.
6019
6020- Issue #3389: Allow resolving dotted names for handlers in logging
6021 configuration files.
6022
6023- Deprecate the sunaudio module for removal in Python 3.0.
6024
Antoine Pitrou5fdfa3e2008-07-25 19:42:26 +00006025- Issue #3394: zipfile.writestr sets external attributes when passed a
6026 file name rather than a ZipInfo instance, so files are extracted with
6027 mode 0600 rather than 000 under Unix.
6028
Gregory P. Smitha36f8fe2008-08-04 00:13:29 +00006029- Issue #1857: subprocess.Popen.poll gained an additional _deadstate keyword
6030 argument in python 2.5, this broke code that subclassed Popen to include its
6031 own poll method. Fixed my moving _deadstate to an _internal_poll method.
6032
Martin v. Löwis8dbf3642008-08-01 14:10:26 +00006033Build
6034-----
6035
6036- Generate the PatternGrammar pickle during "make install".
6037
Nick Coghlan2a0c2b12008-08-04 12:47:17 +00006038Documentation
6039-------------
6040
Nick Coghlan6e8fef02008-08-18 13:14:22 +00006041- Issue #2235: the C API function PyObject_HashNotImplemented and its
6042 interaction with the tp_hash slot (added in 2.6b2) are now documented
6043
Nick Coghlan2a0c2b12008-08-04 12:47:17 +00006044- Issue #643841: The language reference now provides more detailed
6045 coverage of the lookup process for special methods. The disclaimers
6046 regarding lack of coverage of new-style classes have also been
6047 removed, since the coverage is now fairly reasonable.
6048
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00006049
Raymond Hettingere3ae6552008-06-20 04:18:15 +00006050What's New in Python 2.6 beta 2?
6051================================
6052
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00006053*Release date: 17-Jul-2008*
6054
Raymond Hettingere3ae6552008-06-20 04:18:15 +00006055Core and Builtins
6056-----------------
6057
Georg Brandl3e483f62008-07-16 22:57:41 +00006058- Issue #3156: Fix inconsistent behavior of the bytearray type: all
6059 its methods now allow for items objects that can be converted to
6060 an integer using operator.index().
6061
Mark Dickinson64b7e502008-07-16 09:40:03 +00006062- Issue #3360: Fix incorrect parsing of '020000000000.0', which
6063 produced a ValueError instead of giving the correct float.
6064
Eric Smitha5fa5a22008-07-16 00:11:49 +00006065- Issue #3083: Add alternate (#) formatting for bin, oct, hex output
6066 for str.format(). This adds the prefix 0b, 0o, or 0x, respectively.
6067
Mark Dickinson7103aa42008-07-15 19:08:33 +00006068- Issue #3008: the float type has a new instance method 'float.hex'
6069 and a new class method 'float.fromhex' to convert floating-point
6070 numbers to and from hexadecimal strings, respectively.
6071
Nick Coghlan6d6bd442008-07-15 15:40:22 +00006072- Issue #2235: __hash__ is once again inherited by default. To allow
6073 collections.Hashable to remain meaningful in the presence of the
6074 default hash implementation (object.__hash__), it is now possible
6075 to explicit block inheritance of hash by setting __hash__=None at
6076 the Python level, or tp_hash=PyObject_HashNotImplemented at the C
6077 level.
6078
Nick Coghlanb028f502008-07-13 14:52:36 +00006079- Issue #3221: Issue a RuntimeWarning instead of raising SystemError if
6080 the parent module cannot be found while performing an absolute import.
6081 This means that an incorrectly defined __package__ attribute will
6082 now only prevent relative imports in that module rather than causing
6083 all imports from that module to fail.
6084
Nick Coghlan14ff9942008-07-08 14:21:42 +00006085- Issue #2517: Allow unicode messages in Exceptions again by correctly
6086 bypassing the instance dictionary when looking up __unicode__ on
6087 new-style classes.
6088
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcbdd941f2008-07-01 20:38:04 +00006089- Issue #3242: Fix a crash inside the print statement, if sys.stdout is
6090 set to a custom object whose write() method happens to install
6091 another file in sys.stdout.
6092
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc1f40c8a2008-06-30 22:42:40 +00006093- Issue #3088: Corrected a race condition in classes derived from
6094 threading.local: the first member set by a thread could be saved in
6095 another thread's dictionary.
6096
Mark Dickinson1ec2fcd2008-06-20 14:53:43 +00006097- Issue #3004: Minor change to slice.indices(): the start and stop
6098 arguments are now treated identically, making the behaviour easier
6099 to describe and understand. For example, slice(None, -10,
6100 1).indices(9) now returns (0, 0, 1) instead of (0, -1, 1), and
6101 slice(None, 10, -1).indices(10) returns (9, 9, -1) instead of (9,
6102 10, -1).
6103
Georg Brandl278fc502008-07-19 12:46:12 +00006104- Issue #3219: Calling a function with repeated keyword arguments,
6105 f(a=2, a=23), would not cause a syntax error. This was a regression
6106 from 2.4 caused by the switch to the new compiler.
Benjamin Peterson175e4d92008-07-01 19:34:52 +00006107
Georg Brandl278fc502008-07-19 12:46:12 +00006108- Issue #2862: Make int and float freelist management consistent with
6109 other freelists. Changes their CompactFreeList apis into
6110 ClearFreeList apis and calls them via gc.collect().
Gregory P. Smith2fe77062008-07-06 03:35:58 +00006111
Brett Cannon8bb8fa52008-07-02 01:57:08 +00006112Library
6113-------
6114
Thomas Heller57adf222008-08-14 19:10:48 +00006115- Issue #3554: ctypes.string_at and ctypes.wstring_at did call Python
6116 api functions without holding the GIL, which could lead to a fatal
6117 error when they failed.
6118
Martin v. Löwisaabf4042008-08-02 07:20:25 +00006119- Issue #799428: Fix Tkinter.Misc._nametowidget to unwrap Tcl command objects.
6120
Jesse Noller7fb96402008-07-17 21:01:05 +00006121- Issue #3395: fix reference in test_multiprocessing to old debugInfo method
6122
Georg Brandla24869a2008-07-16 22:33:18 +00006123- Issue #3312: Fix two crashes in sqlite3.
6124
Georg Brandl86cbf812008-07-16 21:31:41 +00006125- Issue #1608818: Fix misbehavior in os.listdir() if readdir() fails.
6126
Jesse Noller13e9d582008-07-16 14:32:36 +00006127- Issue #3125: Remove copy_reg in multiprocessing and replace it with
6128 ForkingPickler.register() to resolve conflict with ctypes.
6129
Vinay Sajip51e65192008-07-18 09:01:10 +00006130- Issue #3090: Fixed ARCHFLAGS parsing on OS/X
Jesse Noller13e9d582008-07-16 14:32:36 +00006131
Thomas Heller880f5292008-07-15 19:39:38 +00006132- Issue #3313: Fixed a crash when a failed dlopen() call does not set
6133 a valid dlerror() message.
6134
Thomas Heller2bad6572008-07-15 17:19:50 +00006135- Issue #3258: Fixed a crash when a ctypes POINTER type to an
6136 incomplete structure was created.
6137
Brett Cannon3d0b9f02008-07-13 01:15:07 +00006138- Issue #3339: dummy_thread.acquire() should not return None.
6139
Raymond Hettingerb01713e2008-07-10 14:34:57 +00006140- Issue #3285: Fractions from_float() and from_decimal() accept Integral arguments.
6141
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +00006142- Issue #3301: Bisect module behaved badly when lo was negative.
Raymond Hettinger3cd1e422008-07-10 14:03:19 +00006143
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc0f7cddc2008-07-06 21:34:39 +00006144- Issue #839496: SimpleHTTPServer used to open text files in text mode. This is
6145 both unnecessary (HTTP allows text content to be sent in several forms) and
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +00006146 wrong because the actual transmitted size could differ from the
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc0f7cddc2008-07-06 21:34:39 +00006147 content-length. The problem had been corrected in the 2.4 branch, but never
6148 merged into trunk.
6149
Georg Brandle78fbcc2008-07-05 10:13:36 +00006150- Issue #2663: add filtering capability to shutil.copytree().
6151
Martin v. Löwis8c436412008-07-03 12:51:14 +00006152- Issue #1622: Correct interpretation of various ZIP header fields.
6153
6154- Issue #1526: Allow more than 64k files to be added to Zip64 file.
6155
6156- Issue #1746: Correct handling of zipfile archive comments (previously
6157 archives with comments over 4k were flagged as invalid). Allow writing
Vinay Sajip51e65192008-07-18 09:01:10 +00006158 Zip files with archives by setting the 'comment' attribute of a ZipFile.
Martin v. Löwis8c436412008-07-03 12:51:14 +00006159
Vinay Sajip51e65192008-07-18 09:01:10 +00006160- Issue #449227: The rlcompleter module now adds "(" to callable objects
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +00006161 when completed.
Facundo Batista66c52772008-07-02 16:52:55 +00006162
Nick Coghlanc060b0e2008-07-02 13:09:19 +00006163- Issue #3190: Pydoc now hides the automatic module attribute __package__ (the
6164 handling is now the same as that of other special attributes like __name__).
6165
Brett Cannon8bb8fa52008-07-02 01:57:08 +00006166- Issue #2885 (partial): The urllib.urlopen() function has been deprecated for
6167 removal in Python 3.0 in favor of urllib2.urlopen().
6168
Gregory P. Smithf4140642008-07-06 07:16:40 +00006169- Issue #2113: Fix error in subprocess.Popen if the select system call is
6170 interrupted by a signal.
6171
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +00006172- Issue #3309: Fix bz2.BZFile iterator to release its internal lock
Gregory P. Smith3b1e6b22008-07-07 04:31:58 +00006173 properly when raising an exception due to the bz2file being closed.
6174 Prevents a deadlock.
6175
Gregory P. Smithc4691ec2008-07-07 05:09:12 +00006176- Issue #3094: httplib.HTTPSConnection Host: headers no longer include the
6177 redundant ":443" port number designation when the connection is using the
6178 default https port (443).
6179
Gregory P. Smithdb3409c2008-07-17 03:13:05 +00006180- Issue #874900: after an os.fork() call the threading module state is cleaned
6181 up in the child process to prevent deadlock and report proper thread counts
6182 if the new process uses the threading module.
6183
Nick Coghlan38469e22008-07-13 12:23:47 +00006184Tests
6185-----
6186
6187- test.test_support.catch_warning now keeps track of all warnings it sees
6188 and is now better documented. Explicit unit tests for this context manager
6189 have been added to test_warnings.
6190
Martin v. Löwisd84fd952008-06-30 06:57:39 +00006191Build
6192-----
6193
6194- Issue #3215: Build sqlite3 as sqlite3.dll, not sqlite3.pyd.
6195
Brett Cannon8bb8fa52008-07-02 01:57:08 +00006196
Brett Cannon97aa1ae2008-07-11 00:12:52 +00006197Documentation
6198-------------
6199
Brett Cannonfeef51d2008-07-11 00:50:01 +00006200- Document that robotparser has been renamed to urllib.robotparser in
Brett Cannon963ffdb2008-07-11 00:48:57 +00006201 Python 3.0.
6202
Brett Cannonf6afa332008-07-11 00:16:30 +00006203- Document that urlparse has been renamed to urllib.parse in Python 3.0.
6204
Brett Cannon97aa1ae2008-07-11 00:12:52 +00006205- Document that urllib2 is split across multiple modules and renamed in
6206 Python 3.0.
6207
6208- Document that urllib is split across multiple modules and renamed in
6209 Python 3.0.
6210
6211
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00006212What's New in Python 2.6 beta 1?
6213================================
6214
Barry Warsawb5d17402008-06-19 01:48:07 +00006215*Release date: 18-June-2008*
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00006216
6217Core and Builtins
6218-----------------
6219
Brett Cannondea1b562008-06-27 00:31:13 +00006220- Issue #3211: warnings.warn_explicit() did not guard against its 'registry'
6221 argument being anything other than a dict or None. Also fixed a bug in error
6222 handling when 'message' and 'category' were both set to None, triggering a
6223 bus error.
6224
Amaury Forgeot d'Arca8919fe2008-06-16 19:12:42 +00006225- Issue #3100: Corrected a crash on deallocation of a subclassed weakref which
6226 holds the last (strong) reference to its referent.
6227
Georg Brandl89f48872008-06-11 18:55:38 +00006228- Add future_builtins.ascii().
6229
Raymond Hettinger5c4d3d02008-06-09 13:07:27 +00006230- Several set methods now accept multiple arguments: update(), union(),
Raymond Hettinger4267be62008-06-11 10:30:54 +00006231 intersection(), intersection_update(), difference(), and difference_update().
Raymond Hettingeree4bcad2008-06-09 08:33:37 +00006232
Robert Schuppenies51df0642008-06-01 16:16:17 +00006233- Issue #2898: Added sys.getsizeof() to retrieve size of objects in bytes.
6234
Martin v. Löwis99815892008-06-01 07:20:46 +00006235- New environment variable PYTHONIOENCODING.
6236
Martin v. Löwis4dd019f2008-05-20 08:11:19 +00006237- Patch #2488: Add sys.maxsize.
6238
Georg Brandla9916b52008-05-17 22:11:54 +00006239- Issue #2353: file.xreadlines() now emits a Py3k warning.
6240
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006241- Issue #2863: generators now have a ``gen.__name__`` attribute that
6242 equals ``gen.gi_code.co_name``, like ``func.__name___`` that equals
6243 ``func.func_code.co_name``. The repr() of a generator now also
6244 contains this name.
Georg Brandlc91210c2008-05-15 15:08:32 +00006245
Georg Brandlbd85eb12008-05-14 06:34:15 +00006246- Issue #2831: enumerate() now has a ``start`` argument.
6247
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006248- Issue #2801: fix bug in the float.is_integer method where a
6249 ValueError was sometimes incorrectly raised.
Mark Dickinsone81c3762008-05-09 16:14:15 +00006250
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006251- Issue #2790: sys.flags was not properly exposing its bytes_warning
6252 attribute.
Brett Cannon3c1d50a2008-05-08 20:23:54 +00006253
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006254- Issue #2196: hasattr() now lets exceptions which do not inherit
6255 Exception (KeyboardInterrupt, and SystemExit) propagate instead of
6256 ignoring them.
Benjamin Petersonb9030f42008-05-12 00:41:23 +00006257
Gregory P. Smith9d534572008-06-11 07:41:16 +00006258- Added checks for integer overflows, contributed by Google. Some are
6259 only available if asserts are left in the code, in cases where they
6260 can't be triggered from Python code.
6261
6262
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00006263Extension Modules
6264-----------------
Guido van Rossum84b1e0f2008-08-20 14:57:20 +00006265- Issue #1179: [CVE-2007-4965] Integer overflow in imageop module.
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00006266
Raymond Hettinger305480c2008-06-16 01:42:40 +00006267- Issue #3116: marshal.dumps() had quadratic behavior for strings > 32Mb.
6268
Andrew M. Kuchling2126bab2008-06-22 13:39:11 +00006269- Issue #2138: Add factorial() to the math module.
Raymond Hettingerecbdd2e2008-06-09 06:54:45 +00006270
Raymond Hettinger6d7702e2008-05-31 03:24:31 +00006271- The heapq module does comparisons using LT instead of LE. This
6272 makes its implementation match that used by list.sort().
6273
Mark Dickinson99dfe922008-05-23 01:35:30 +00006274- Issue #2819: add full-precision summation function to math module,
6275 based on Hettinger's ASPN Python Cookbook recipe.
6276
Georg Brandl88659b02008-05-20 08:40:43 +00006277- Issue #2592: delegate nb_index and the floor/truediv slots in
6278 weakref.proxy.
6279
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006280- Support os.O_ASYNC and fcntl.FASYNC if the constants exist on the
6281 platform.
Georg Brandl5049a852008-05-16 13:10:15 +00006282
Brett Cannon044616a2008-05-15 02:33:55 +00006283- Support for Windows 9x has been removed from the winsound module.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcf9b54c22008-05-12 21:30:24 +00006284
Jesus Cea09c01782008-09-28 23:24:19 +00006285- bsddb module updated to version 4.7.3.
Jesus Cea4907d272008-08-31 14:00:51 +00006286 http://www.jcea.es/programacion/pybsddb.htm#bsddb3-4.7.3. This
6287 code should be compatible with Python 3.0.
Jesus Ceaef9764f2008-05-13 18:45:46 +00006288
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006289- Issue #2858: Fix potential memory corruption when
6290 bsddb.db.DBEnv.lock_get and other bsddb.db object constructors
6291 raised an exception.
Gregory P. Smith664782e2008-05-17 06:12:02 +00006292
Gregory P. Smith5d7d6c32008-05-25 08:32:04 +00006293- Issue #2669: bsddb/__init__.py iteration no longer silently fails when
6294 the database has changed size during iteration. It now raises a
6295 RuntimeError in the same manner as a dictionary.
6296
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006297- Issue #2870: cmathmodule.c compile error.
Christian Heimes0bd23c02008-05-16 10:23:31 +00006298
Benjamin Petersond8a89722008-08-18 16:40:03 +00006299- Added a threading.Thread.ident property.
Gregory P. Smith8856dda2008-06-01 23:48:47 +00006300
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00006301Library
6302-------
6303
Vinay Sajip1e022682008-06-29 21:27:15 +00006304- logging.config: Removed out-of-date comment in _install_handlers and
6305 used issubclass in place of equality comparison of classes.
6306
Facundo Batista5596b0c2008-06-22 13:36:20 +00006307- Issue #2722: Now the os.getcwd() supports very long path names.
6308
Facundo Batista2da91c32008-06-21 17:43:56 +00006309- Issue #2888: Fixed the behaviour of pprint when working with nested
6310 structures, to match the behaviour of 2.5 and 3.0 (now follows the common
6311 sense).
6312
Facundo Batistaa6a4d502008-06-21 18:58:04 +00006313- Issue #1817: cgi now correctly handles the querystring on POST requests
6314
Vinay Sajip8dc20fd2008-06-19 22:41:08 +00006315- Issue #3136: fileConfig()'s disabling of old loggers is now conditional via
6316 an optional disable_existing_loggers parameter, but the default value is
6317 such that the old behaviour is preserved. Thanks to Leandro Lucarella for
6318 the patch.
6319
Vinay Sajip9828b7e2008-06-17 11:04:02 +00006320- Issue #3126: StreamHandler and FileHandler check before calling "flush" and
6321 "close" that the stream object has these, using hasattr (thanks to bobf for
6322 the patch).
6323
Benjamin Peterson5c0be322008-06-13 15:11:50 +00006324- Issue #2912: platform.uname now tries to determine unknown information even if
6325 os.uname exists.
6326
Benjamin Peterson26305a02008-06-12 22:33:06 +00006327- The rfc822 module has been deprecated for removal in 3.0.
6328
Benjamin Petersona03722f2008-06-12 14:23:49 +00006329- The mimetools module has been deprecated for removal in 3.0.
6330
Thomas Heller1cec7aa2008-06-10 14:07:12 +00006331- The ctypes.byref function now takes an optional second parameter
6332 which allows to specify an offset in bytes for the constructed
6333 pointer-like object.
6334
Georg Brandl8509db52008-06-10 07:45:28 +00006335- Added the ast module.
6336
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00006337- Added the multiprocessing module, PEP 371.
Benjamin Peterson6f7ae692008-06-11 20:04:30 +00006338
Georg Brandl7be19aa2008-06-07 15:59:10 +00006339- Factored out the indentation cleaning from inspect.getdoc() into
6340 inspect.cleandoc() to ease standalone use.
6341
Thomas Hellerfbb9c0b2008-06-06 08:33:46 +00006342- Issue #1798: Add ctypes calling convention that allows safe access
6343 to errno.
6344
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00006345- Issue #2404: ctypes objects support the new pep3118 buffer interface.
Thomas Heller59475e92008-06-05 17:52:59 +00006346
Vinay Sajip9828b7e2008-06-17 11:04:02 +00006347- Patch #2125: Add GetInteger and GetString methods for
Martin v. Löwisffe62ed2008-06-02 08:40:06 +00006348 msilib.Record objects.
6349
Gregory P. Smith137d8242008-06-02 04:05:52 +00006350- Issue #2782: The datetime module's strftime methods now accept
6351 unicode format strings just as time.strftime always has.
6352
Georg Brandlac19d852008-06-01 21:19:14 +00006353- The sgmllib and htmllib modules have been deprecated for removal
6354 in Python 3.0.
6355
6356- Issue #3011: locale module alias table was updated to the latest
6357 version from the X.org locale.alias file.
Marc-André Lemburgadff65b2008-05-30 20:52:18 +00006358
Thomas Heller9287acf2008-05-29 19:42:34 +00006359- Issue #1797 (partial fix): ctypes NULL function pointers have a
6360 False boolean value now.
6361
Georg Brandld0b592f2008-05-29 07:45:26 +00006362- Issue #2985: Allow 64-bit integer responses (``<i8>``) in XMLRPC
6363 transfers.
6364
6365- Issue #2877: The UserString.MutableString class has been removed in
6366 Python 3.0.
Brett Cannonabb34fe2008-05-29 05:08:50 +00006367
Lars Gustäbelb1a54a32008-05-27 12:39:23 +00006368- Do not close external file objects passed to tarfile.open(mode='w:bz2')
6369 when the TarFile is closed.
6370
Georg Brandle08e3d02008-05-25 08:07:37 +00006371- Issue #2959: For consistency with other file-like objects, gzip's
6372 GzipFile.close() can now be called multiple times without raising
6373 an exception.
6374
Martin v. Löwis27e4a172008-05-23 15:18:28 +00006375- Issue #1390: Raise ValueError in toxml when an invalid comment would
6376 otherwise be produced.
6377
Vinay Sajipc0128832008-05-20 15:37:22 +00006378- Issue #2914: TimedRotatingFileHandler now takes an optional keyword
6379 argument "utc" to use UTC time rather than local time.
6380
6381- Issue #2929: TimedRotatingFileHandler was using the wrong path when
6382 deleting old log files (filename only instead of full path).
6383
Georg Brandl112aa502008-05-20 08:25:48 +00006384- Issue #1775025: You can now specify zipfile members to open(),
6385 read() or extract() via a ZipInfo instance. This allows handling
6386 duplicate filenames in zipfiles.
6387
Georg Brandl28fdfa92008-05-17 17:57:01 +00006388- Issue #961805: Fix Text.edit_modified() in Tkinter.
6389
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006390- Issue #1793: Function ctypes.util.find_msvcrt() added that returns
Thomas Heller95ba13f2008-05-16 20:06:31 +00006391 the name of the C runtime library that Python uses.
6392 ctypes.util.find_library(name) now call this function when name is
6393 'm' or 'c'.
6394
Brett Cannonfa40bbf2008-05-16 00:50:02 +00006395- The statvfs module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
6396
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006397- The sunaudiodev and SUNAUDIODEV modules have been deprecated for
6398 removal in Python 3.0.
6399
6400- The WAIT module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
6401 3.0.
6402
6403- The torgb module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
6404 3.0.
6405
6406- The SV module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
6407 3.0.
6408
6409- The readcd module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
Brett Cannon22248172008-05-16 00:10:24 +00006410 Python 3.0.
6411
Brett Cannon11ae6e72008-05-15 03:49:00 +00006412- The panelparser module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
6413 Python 3.0.
6414
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006415- The panel module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
6416 3.0.
Brett Cannon7e375862008-05-15 03:46:27 +00006417
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006418- The jpeg module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
6419 3.0.
Brett Cannon89f5d9c2008-05-15 03:44:00 +00006420
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006421- The IOCTL module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
6422 3.0.
Brett Cannond8c41ec2008-05-15 03:41:55 +00006423
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006424- The IN module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
6425 3.0.
Brett Cannon6328b292008-05-15 03:36:13 +00006426
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006427- The imgfile module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
Brett Cannon178582e2008-05-15 03:20:36 +00006428 Python 3.0.
6429
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006430- The GLWS module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
6431 3.0.
Brett Cannon72ccc402008-05-15 03:17:24 +00006432
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006433- The GET module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
6434 3.0.
Brett Cannon2773b6f2008-05-15 03:14:57 +00006435
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006436- The fm module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
6437 3.0.
6438
6439- The FL, flp, and fl modules from IRIX have been deprecated for
6440 removal in Python 3.0.
6441
6442- The FILE module on IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
6443 3.0.
6444
6445- The ERRNO module on IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
6446 3.0.
6447
6448- The DEVICE, GL, gl, and cgen modules (which indirectly includes
6449 cgensupport) have been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
Brett Cannon044616a2008-05-15 02:33:55 +00006450
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006451- The CL, CL_old, and cl modules for IRIX have been deprecated for
6452 removal in Python 3.0.
6453
6454- The cdplayer module for IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
Brett Cannon650f5162008-05-14 21:12:12 +00006455 Python 3.0.
6456
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006457- The cddb module for IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
6458 3.0.
Brett Cannon9eebe492008-05-14 20:34:22 +00006459
Brett Cannonddf949f2008-05-14 20:31:38 +00006460- The cd and CD modules for IRIX have been deprecated for removal in
6461 Python 3.0.
6462
Brett Cannon34721d52008-05-14 01:08:21 +00006463- The al and AL modules for IRIX have been deprecated for removal in
6464 Python 3.0.
6465
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006466- Issue #1713041: fix pprint's handling of maximum depth.
Georg Brandl23da6e62008-05-12 16:26:52 +00006467
Brett Cannonbb141bb2008-05-12 03:47:47 +00006468- The timing module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
6469
Brett Cannonac861b52008-05-12 03:45:59 +00006470- The sv module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
6471
Brett Cannon43e5ef42008-05-12 03:19:20 +00006472- The multifile module has been deprecated as per PEP 4.
6473
Brett Cannon42bfa902008-05-12 00:08:34 +00006474- The imageop module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
6475
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006476- Issue #2250: Exceptions raised during evaluation of names in
6477 rlcompleter's ``Completer.complete()`` method are now caught and
6478 ignored.
Georg Brandl627a6662008-05-11 21:03:42 +00006479
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006480- Issue #2659: Added ``break_on_hyphens`` option to textwrap
6481 TextWrapper class.
Georg Brandl6f95ae52008-05-11 10:42:28 +00006482
Brett Cannon2a869132008-05-11 03:01:47 +00006483- The mhlib module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
6484
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006485- The linuxaudiodev module has been deprecated for removal in Python
6486 3.0.
Brett Cannondf0a7172008-05-11 00:50:51 +00006487
Brett Cannon27508d42008-05-10 22:45:07 +00006488- The ihooks module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
6489
Brett Cannonfe598512008-05-10 22:11:45 +00006490- The fpformat module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
6491
Brett Cannone35a3a12008-05-10 21:22:43 +00006492- The dl module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
6493
Brett Cannond5a09852008-05-10 03:14:32 +00006494- The Canvas module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
6495
Brett Cannon6192df12008-05-10 02:58:26 +00006496- The compiler package has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
6497
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006498- The Bastion and rexec modules have been deprecated for removal in
6499 Python 3.0.
Brett Cannoncda73a42008-05-10 02:53:46 +00006500
Brett Cannon768d44f2008-05-10 02:47:54 +00006501- The bsddb185 module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
6502
Brett Cannon9ac39742008-05-09 22:51:58 +00006503- The pure module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
6504
Mark Dickinsonf8476c12008-05-09 17:54:23 +00006505- Issue #2487: change the semantics of math.ldexp(x, n) when n is too
6506 large to fit in a C long. ldexp(x, n) now returns a zero (with
6507 suitable sign) if n is large and negative; previously, it raised
6508 OverflowError.
6509
Brett Cannonfa24d9a2008-05-09 05:32:42 +00006510- The toaiff module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
6511
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006512- The test.testall module has been deprecated for removal in Python
6513 3.0.
Brett Cannon3c759142008-05-09 05:25:37 +00006514
Brett Cannond7265d62008-05-09 05:18:40 +00006515- The new module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
6516
Brett Cannone3b19402008-05-08 20:36:09 +00006517- The user module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
6518
Brett Cannon6071cc82008-05-08 19:52:45 +00006519- The stringold module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
6520
6521- The mutex module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
Brett Cannon9d441822008-05-08 19:26:08 +00006522
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00006523- The imputil module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
6524
Brett Cannoncae4f5f2008-05-08 20:24:43 +00006525- test.test_support.catch_warning() gained a 'record' argument.
6526
Benjamin Peterson0893a0a2008-05-09 00:27:01 +00006527- os.path.walk is deprecated in favor of os.walk.
6528
Georg Brandl9020ff82008-05-11 14:17:13 +00006529- pdb gained the "until" command.
Benjamin Peterson98353942008-05-11 14:13:25 +00006530
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006531- The Mac Modules (including Carbon) have been deprecated for removal
6532 in Python 3.0.
Benjamin Peterson23681932008-05-12 21:42:13 +00006533
Vinay Sajip9828b7e2008-06-17 11:04:02 +00006534- Library: on MacOS X you can now set ``ARCHFLAGS`` in the shell
Ronald Oussoren5640ce22008-06-05 12:58:24 +00006535 environment to control the '-arch' flags that are used to build
6536 an extension. This was added for compatibility with Apple's build
6537 of Python.
6538
6539- The bundled OSX-specific copy of libbffi is now in sync with the version
6540 shipped with PyObjC 2.0 and includes support for x86_64 and ppc64 platforms.
6541
Georg Brandl25c34082008-08-18 23:09:49 +00006542- The threading module gained aliases for names that will be removed in the
6543 3.x series.
Benjamin Peterson0fbcf692008-06-11 17:27:50 +00006544
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00006545Build
6546-----
6547
Martin v. Löwiscc0f2b22008-06-13 18:12:51 +00006548- 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 +00006549
Martin v. Löwis8c255e42008-05-23 15:06:50 +00006550- Patch #1722225: Support QNX 6.
6551
Brett Cannonb61d8012008-05-11 23:39:04 +00006552- ``Lib/lib-old`` is now added to sys.path.
6553
Ronald Oussoren5640ce22008-06-05 12:58:24 +00006554- On MacOS X it is now possible to install the framework in 64-bit
6555 mode or even as a 4-way universal binary (that is, PPC, i386,
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00006556 PPC64 and x86_64 support in one binary).
Ronald Oussoren5640ce22008-06-05 12:58:24 +00006557
6558 This is controlled by the configure argument ``--with-universal-archs``:
6559
6560 - ``--with-universal-archs=all``: install 4-way universal
6561
6562 - ``--with-universal-archs=32-bit``: install 2-way universal, 32-bit (the default)
6563
6564 - ``--with-universal-archs=64-bit``: install 2-way universal, 64-bit
6565
6566 This option should be used in combination with ``--enable-universalsdk=``.
6567
6568 NOTE: 64-bit and 4-way builds are only suppported on Mac OS X 10.5 (or later).
6569
6570
Christian Heimes7a990612008-05-26 13:15:11 +00006571C API
6572-----
6573
Georg Brandl74a1dea2008-05-28 11:21:39 +00006574- Add ``PyType_Modified()`` as a public API to clear the type cache.
6575
6576- The PyBytes functions have been renamed to PyByteArray.
Christian Heimes7a990612008-05-26 13:15:11 +00006577
6578- The PyString functions have been renamed to PyBytes. A batch of
6579 defines were added so that the linker still sees the original
6580 PyString names.
6581
Georg Brandl5e7b1c02008-05-16 17:40:23 +00006582
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00006583What's New in Python 2.6 alpha 3?
Barry Warsaw65475fd2008-03-01 17:11:41 +00006584=================================
6585
Barry Warsaw6cc79402008-05-08 13:16:19 +00006586*Release date: 08-May-2008*
Barry Warsaw65475fd2008-03-01 17:11:41 +00006587
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd21fb4c2008-03-05 01:50:33 +00006588Core and builtins
6589-----------------
Georg Brandl80055f62008-03-25 07:56:27 +00006590
Georg Brandl28e08732008-04-30 19:47:09 +00006591- Issue #2719: backported the ``next()`` builtin from Python 3.
6592
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006593- Issue #2681: The octal literal ``0o8`` was incorrecly acctepted. Now
6594 it properly raises a SyntaxError.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc52167212008-04-24 18:07:05 +00006595
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006596- Issue #2617: Reserved -J and -X arguments for Jython, IronPython and
6597 other implementations of Python.
Christian Heimes7a98d272008-04-12 13:03:03 +00006598
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006599- Implemented PEP 370: Per user site-packages directory.
Christian Heimesaf748c32008-05-06 22:41:46 +00006600
Andrew M. Kuchling46d6b682008-04-30 16:19:55 +00006601Extension Modules
6602-----------------
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00006603
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006604- Issue #2670: Fix a failure in urllib2.build_opener(), when passed
6605 two handlers that derive the same default base class.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc96865852008-04-22 21:14:41 +00006606
Christian Heimese74c8f22008-04-19 02:23:57 +00006607- Added kill, terminate and send_signal(sig) to subprocess.Popen.
6608
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006609- Added phase(z) -> phi, polar(z) -> r, phi and rect(r, phi) -> z to
6610 the cmath module.
Christian Heimes6f341092008-04-18 23:13:07 +00006611
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006612- Four new methods were added to the math and cmath modules: acosh,
6613 asinh, atanh and log1p.
Christian Heimes6f341092008-04-18 23:13:07 +00006614
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006615- zlib.decompressobj().flush(value) no longer crashes the interpreter
6616 when passed a value less than or equal to zero.
Gregory P. Smith671c5d92008-04-09 18:18:43 +00006617
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006618- Issue #1631171: Re-implement the 'warnings' module in C (the
6619 original Python code has been kept as backup). This will allow for
6620 using the 'warning's machinery in such places as the parser where
6621 use of pure Python code is not possible. Both the ``showarning()``
6622 and ``formatwarning()`` gain an optional 'line' argument which is
6623 not called by default for backwards-compatibility reasons. Setting
6624 ``warnings.showwarning()`` to an implementation that lacks support
6625 for the ``line`` argument will raise a DeprecationWarning.
Brett Cannone9746892008-04-12 23:44:07 +00006626
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00006627Library
6628-------
6629
Brett Cannonf8436822008-05-06 23:41:32 +00006630- The audiodev module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
6631
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006632- Issue #2750: Add the 'json' package. Based on simplejson 1.9 and
6633 contributed by Bob Ippolito.
Brett Cannon4b964f92008-05-05 20:21:38 +00006634
Martin v. Löwis471617d2008-05-05 17:16:58 +00006635- Issue #1734346: Support Unicode file names for zipfiles.
6636
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006637- Issue #2581: distutils: Vista UAC/elevation support for
6638 bdist_wininst.
Mark Hammond7c5c8e62008-05-02 12:48:15 +00006639
Mark Dickinsonfe536f52008-04-25 16:59:09 +00006640- Issue #2635: Fix bug in 'fix_sentence_endings' textwrap.fill option,
6641 where an extra space was added after a word containing (but not
6642 ending in) '.', '!' or '?'.
6643
Thomas Heller6ad5fbb2008-04-25 15:44:16 +00006644- Add from_buffer() and from_buffer_copy() class methods to ctypes
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00006645 data types.
Thomas Heller6ad5fbb2008-04-25 15:44:16 +00006646
Neal Norwitz2b0bea52008-04-25 03:40:17 +00006647- Issue #2682: ctypes callback functions no longer contain a cyclic
Thomas Hellerbf027c42008-04-24 18:14:19 +00006648 reference to themselves.
6649
Gregory P. Smithd59fefb2008-04-22 08:11:33 +00006650- The getpass module has been improved on Unix. It now uses /dev/tty
6651 by default and uses stderr instead of stdout. A GetPassWarning is
6652 issued when input echo cannot be controlled.
Gregory P. Smith41e30182008-04-21 21:31:08 +00006653
Skip Montanarob131f042008-04-18 20:35:46 +00006654- Issue #2014: Allow XML-RPC datetime objects to have dates before
6655 1900-01-01.
6656
Nick Coghlan106fc482008-04-15 10:25:31 +00006657- Issue #2439: Added new function pkgutil.get_data(), which is a
6658 convenience wrapper for the PEP 302 get_data() API.
6659
Thomas Heller046e6a42008-04-14 16:10:07 +00006660- Issue #2616: The ctypes.pointer() and ctypes.POINTER() functions are
6661 now implemented in C for better performance.
6662
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006663- Issue #2408: The ``_types`` module, which was used as in
6664 implementation detail of the public ``types`` module, has been
6665 removed and replaced by pure python code.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc02f33b42008-04-08 23:10:07 +00006666
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006667- Issue #2513: distutils on Windows is now capable of cross-compiling
Mark Hammond495cf992008-04-07 01:53:39 +00006668 extension modules between 32 and 64 bit platforms. See the distutls
6669 build documentation for more information.
6670
Gregory P. Smithaa63d0d2008-04-06 23:11:17 +00006671- Issue #815646: Individual file objects may now be used from multiple
6672 threads at once without fear of crashing the Python interpreter. If
6673 file.close() is called while an object is in use by another thread
6674 an IOError exception will be raised and the file will not be closed.
6675
Thomas Hellerf7906482008-04-04 19:43:25 +00006676- The bundled libffi copy is now in sync with the recently released
6677 libffi3.0.5 version, apart from some small changes to
6678 Modules/_ctypes/libffi/configure.ac.
6679
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006680- Issue #2385: distutils.core.run_script() makes __file__ available,
6681 so the controlled environment will more closely mirror the typical
6682 script environment. This supports setup.py scripts that refer to
6683 data files.
Fred Drake46c58c12008-04-04 05:41:30 +00006684
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00006685Tests
6686-----
Trent Nelsone41b0062008-04-08 23:47:30 +00006687
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006688- Issue #2550: The approach used by client/server code for obtaining
6689 ports to listen on in network-oriented tests has been refined in an
6690 effort to facilitate running multiple instances of the entire
6691 regression test suite in parallel without issue.
6692 test_support.bind_port() has been fixed such that it will always
6693 return a unique port -- which wasn't always the case with the
6694 previous implementation, especially if socket options had been set
6695 that affected address reuse (i.e. SO_REUSEADDR, SO_REUSEPORT). The
6696 new implementation of bind_port() will actually raise an exception
6697 if it is passed an AF_INET/SOCK_STREAM socket with either the
6698 SO_REUSEADDR or SO_REUSEPORT socket option set. Furthermore, if
6699 available, bind_port() will set the SO_EXCLUSIVEADDRUSE option on
6700 the socket it's been passed. This currently only applies to
6701 Windows. This option prevents any other sockets from binding to the
6702 host/port we've bound to, thus removing the possibility of the
6703 'non-deterministic' behaviour, as Microsoft puts it, that occurs
6704 when a second SOCK_STREAM socket binds and accepts to a host/port
6705 that's already been bound by another socket. The optional preferred
6706 port parameter to bind_port() has been removed. Under no
6707 circumstances should tests be hard coding ports!
6708
6709 test_support.find_unused_port() has also been introduced, which will
6710 pass a temporary socket object to bind_port() in order to obtain an
6711 unused port. The temporary socket object is then closed and
6712 deleted, and the port is returned. This method should only be used
6713 for obtaining an unused port in order to pass to an external program
6714 (i.e. the -accept [port] argument to openssl's s_server mode) or as
6715 a parameter to a server-oriented class that doesn't give you direct
6716 access to the underlying socket used.
6717
6718 Finally, test_support.HOST has been introduced, which should be used
6719 for the host argument of any relevant socket calls (i.e. bind and
6720 connect).
Trent Nelsone41b0062008-04-08 23:47:30 +00006721
6722 The following tests were updated to following the new conventions:
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006723 test_socket, test_smtplib, test_asyncore, test_ssl, test_httplib,
Trent Nelsone41b0062008-04-08 23:47:30 +00006724 test_poplib, test_ftplib, test_telnetlib, test_socketserver,
6725 test_asynchat and test_socket_ssl.
6726
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006727 It is now possible for multiple instances of the regression test
6728 suite to run in parallel without issue.
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00006729
6730Build
6731-----
6732
Mark Dickinson65134662008-04-25 16:11:04 +00006733- Issue #1496032: On alpha, use -mieee when gcc is the compiler.
6734
Thomas Hellerdc96a772008-04-04 10:07:55 +00006735- Issue #2544: On HP-UX systems, use 'gcc -shared' for linking when
6736 gcc is used as compiler.
6737
Ronald Oussoren580c7fe2008-05-02 19:45:11 +00006738- Issue #2573: On MacOS X it is now possible to install the framework
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006739 with a different name using --with-framework-name=NAME.
Ronald Oussoren580c7fe2008-05-02 19:45:11 +00006740
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00006741C API
6742-----
6743
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006744- Added implementation of copysign, acosh, asinh, atanh and log1p to
6745 the new files Include/pymath.h and Python/pymath.h for platforms
6746 which provide the functions through their libm. The files also
6747 contains several helpers and constants for math.
Christian Heimes6f341092008-04-18 23:13:07 +00006748
Benjamin Petersondacde0d2008-05-26 17:43:53 +00006749- Added a new convenience macro, PyErr_WarnPy3k, for issuing Py3k warnings.
Benjamin Petersona692c4d2008-04-27 02:28:02 +00006750
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00006751
6752What's New in Python 2.6 alpha 2?
6753=================================
6754
6755*Release date: 02-Apr-2008*
6756
6757Core and builtins
6758-----------------
6759
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006760- Issue #1733757: The interpreter would hang on shutdown if the
6761 tracing function set by sys.settrace is still active and happens to
6762 call threading.currentThread().
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd7a26512008-04-03 23:07:55 +00006763
Georg Brandl91e0cda2008-03-29 01:50:06 +00006764- Patch #1442: properly report exceptions when the PYTHONSTARTUP file
6765 cannot be executed.
6766
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc69b747b2008-03-28 20:30:50 +00006767- The compilation of a class nested in another class used to leak one
6768 reference on the outer class name.
6769
Georg Brandlfc8eef32008-03-28 12:11:56 +00006770- Patch #1810: compile() can now compile _ast trees as returned by
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006771 ``compile(..., PyCF_ONLY_AST)``.
Georg Brandlfc8eef32008-03-28 12:11:56 +00006772
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006773- Patch #2426: Added sqlite3.Connection.iterdump method to allow easy
6774 dumping of databases. Contributed by Paul Kippes at PyCon 2008.
Gregory P. Smithb9803422008-03-28 08:32:09 +00006775
Georg Brandldeaf2ca2008-03-27 13:27:31 +00006776- Patch #2477: Added from __future__ import unicode_literals.
Christian Heimes3c608332008-03-26 22:01:37 +00006777
Christian Heimes8c78cc32008-03-26 12:53:58 +00006778- Added backport of bytearray type.
6779
Georg Brandl80055f62008-03-25 07:56:27 +00006780- Issue #2355: add Py3k warning for buffer().
6781
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc9a0d3462008-03-23 09:55:29 +00006782- Issue #1477: With narrow Unicode builds, the unicode escape sequence
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006783 \Uxxxxxxxx did not accept values outside the Basic Multilingual
6784 Plane. This affected raw unicode literals and the
6785 'raw-unicode-escape' codec. Now UTF-16 surrogates are generated in
6786 this case, like normal unicode literals and the 'unicode-escape'
6787 codec.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc9a0d3462008-03-23 09:55:29 +00006788
Georg Brandl65bb42d2008-03-21 20:38:24 +00006789- Issue #2348: add Py3k warning for file.softspace.
6790
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006791- Issue #2346/#2347: add Py3k warnings for __methods__ and
6792 __members__.
Georg Brandl07e56812008-03-21 20:21:46 +00006793
Georg Brandl5a444242008-03-21 20:11:46 +00006794- Issue #2358: Add a Py3k warning on sys.exc_clear() usage.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd21fb4c2008-03-05 01:50:33 +00006795
Martin v. Löwisa4d77892008-03-19 04:39:13 +00006796- Issue #2400: Allow relative imports to "import *".
6797
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006798- Issue #1745: Backport print function with ``from __future__ import
6799 print_function``.
Eric Smith7c478942008-03-18 23:45:49 +00006800
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006801- Issue #2332: add new attribute names for instance method objects.
6802 The two changes are: im_self -> __self__ and im_func -> __func__
Neal Norwitzb1d3d962008-03-18 04:46:00 +00006803
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006804- Issue #2379: Raise a Py3K warning for __getitem__ or __getslice__ on
Guido van Rossum6d91be32008-03-18 04:42:22 +00006805 exception instances.
6806
Guido van Rossum04edb522008-03-18 02:49:46 +00006807- Issue #2371: Add a Py3k warning when catching an exception that
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006808 doesn't derive from BaseException.
6809
6810- Issue #2341: Add a Py3k warning when raising an exception that
6811 doesn't derive from BaseException.
Guido van Rossum04edb522008-03-18 02:49:46 +00006812
Neal Norwitz419fd492008-03-17 20:22:43 +00006813- Issue #2321: use pymalloc for unicode object string data to reduce
6814 memory usage in some circumstances.
6815
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006816- PEP 3127: octal literals now start with "0o". Old-style octal
6817 literals are still valid. There are binary literals with a prefix of
6818 "0b". This also affects int(x, 0).
Eric Smith0aed07a2008-03-17 19:43:40 +00006819
Georg Brandl1e7c3752008-03-25 08:37:23 +00006820- Issue #2359: Adding deprecation warnings for array.{read,write}.
6821
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006822- Issue #1779871: GNU gcc can now build Python on OS X because the
Jeffrey Yasskin1b4e45b2008-03-17 14:40:53 +00006823 flags -Wno-long-double, -no-cpp-precomp, and -mno-fused-madd are no
6824 longer passed.
6825
Neal Norwitz400aeda2008-03-15 22:03:18 +00006826- Add a warning when asserting a non-empty tuple which is always true.
6827
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006828- Issue #2179: speed up with statement execution by storing the exit
6829 method on the stack instead of in a temporary variable (patch by
6830 Jeffrey Yaskin)
Nick Coghlan7af53be2008-03-07 14:13:28 +00006831
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006832- Issue #2238: Some syntax errors in *args and **kwargs expressions
6833 could give bogus error messages.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd21fb4c2008-03-05 01:50:33 +00006834
Sean Reifscheider68fa8e62008-03-20 00:50:07 +00006835- Issue #2143: Fix embedded readline() hang on SSL socket EOF.
6836
Andrew M. Kuchling46d6b682008-04-30 16:19:55 +00006837Extension Modules
6838-----------------
Martin v. Löwisaef18b12008-03-24 13:31:16 +00006839
6840- Patch #2240: Implement signal.setitimer and signal.getitimer.
6841
Thomas Heller78b8f442008-03-05 14:53:39 +00006842Library
6843-------
6844
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006845- Issue #2315: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now accounts
6846 for daylight savings time in calculating the next rollover.
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00006847
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006848- Issue #2316: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now
6849 calculates rollovers correctly even when nothing is logged for a
6850 while.
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00006851
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006852- Issue #2317: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now uses
6853 improved logic for removing old files.
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00006854
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006855- Issue #2495: tokenize.untokenize now inserts a space between two
6856 consecutive string literals; previously, ["" ""] was rendered as
6857 [""""], which is incorrect python code.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcda0c0252008-03-27 23:23:54 +00006858
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006859- Issue #2248: return the result of the QUIT command. from
6860 SMTP.quit().
Georg Brandldeaf2ca2008-03-27 13:27:31 +00006861
Christian Heimes8c78cc32008-03-26 12:53:58 +00006862- Backport of Python 3.0's io module.
6863
Mark Dickinson8e85ffa2008-03-25 18:47:59 +00006864- Issue #2482: Make sure that the coefficient of a Decimal is always
6865 stored as a str instance, not as a unicode instance. This ensures
6866 that str(Decimal) is always an instance of str.
6867
Mark Dickinson3b24ccb2008-03-25 14:33:23 +00006868- Issue #2478: fix failure of decimal.Decimal(0).sqrt()
6869
Georg Brandl77354cf2008-03-21 20:01:51 +00006870- Issue #2432: give DictReader the dialect and line_num attributes
6871 advertised in the docs.
6872
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006873- Issue #2460: Make Ellipsis object copyable.
Raymond Hettingerb72233c2008-03-24 08:17:39 +00006874
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006875- Issue #1681432: Add triangular distribution to the random module
Raymond Hettingerbbc50ea2008-03-23 13:32:32 +00006876
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006877- Issue #2136: urllib2's auth handler now allows single-quoted realms
6878 in the WWW-Authenticate header.
Georg Brandl33124322008-03-21 19:54:00 +00006879
Marc-André Lemburga1867752008-03-20 18:08:00 +00006880- Issue #2434: Enhanced platform.win32_ver() to also work on Python
6881 installation which do not have the win32all package installed.
6882
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006883- Added support to platform.uname() to also report the machine and
6884 processor information on Windows XP and later. As a result,
Marc-André Lemburga1867752008-03-20 18:08:00 +00006885 platform.machine() and platform.processor() will report this
6886 information as well.
6887
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006888- The library implementing the 2to3 conversion, lib2to3, was added to
6889 the standard distribution.
Martin v. Löwis5e37bae2008-03-19 04:43:46 +00006890
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006891- Issue #1747858: Fix chown to work with large uid's and gid's on
6892 64-bit platforms.
Gregory P. Smith37f3f432008-03-18 20:40:01 +00006893
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006894- Issue #1202: zlib.crc32 and zlib.adler32 no longer return different
6895 values on 32-bit vs. 64-bit python interpreters. Both were correct,
6896 but they now both return a signed integer object for consistency.
Gregory P. Smithf48f9d32008-03-17 18:48:05 +00006897
Skip Montanaro32ed8c22008-03-15 16:07:11 +00006898- Issue #1158: add %f format (fractions of a second represented as
6899 microseconds) to datetime objects. Understood by both strptime and
6900 strftime.
6901
Mark Dickinsonc23b8a72008-03-14 14:23:37 +00006902- Issue #705836: struct.pack(">f", x) now raises OverflowError on all
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006903 platforms when x is too large to fit into an IEEE 754 float;
6904 previously it only raised OverflowError on non IEEE 754 platforms.
Mark Dickinsonc23b8a72008-03-14 14:23:37 +00006905
Andrew M. Kuchlingaac5c862008-05-11 14:00:00 +00006906- Issues #2166, #1741 and #1531505: now distutils deals with HOME
6907 correctly under win32
6908
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006909- Patch #1858: distutils: added multiple server support in .pypirc
Andrew M. Kuchlingaac5c862008-05-11 14:00:00 +00006910
Facundo Batistac54aec12008-03-08 16:50:27 +00006911- Issue #1106316: pdb.post_mortem()'s parameter, "traceback", is now
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006912 optional: it defaults to the traceback of the exception that is
6913 currently being handled (is mandatory to be in the middle of an
6914 exception, otherwise it raises ValueError).
Facundo Batistac54aec12008-03-08 16:50:27 +00006915
Jeffrey Yasskine75f59a2008-03-07 06:22:15 +00006916- Issue #1193577: A .shutdown() method has been added to SocketServers
6917 which terminates the .serve_forever() loop.
6918
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006919- Issue #2220: handle rlcompleter attribute match failure more
6920 gracefully.
Georg Brandl98aa8052008-03-06 07:45:52 +00006921
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006922- Issue #2225: py_compile, when executed as a script, now returns a
6923 non- zero status code if not all files could be compiled
6924 successfully.
Georg Brandla7bd27f2008-03-06 07:41:16 +00006925
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006926- Bug #1725737: In distutils' sdist, exclude RCS, CVS etc. also in the
Georg Brandl810ea292008-03-06 07:34:52 +00006927 root directory, and also exclude .hg, .git, .bzr, and _darcs.
6928
Thomas Hellerf3c05592008-03-05 15:34:29 +00006929- Issue #1872: The struct module typecode for _Bool has been changed
6930 from 't' to '?'.
6931
Thomas Heller78b8f442008-03-05 14:53:39 +00006932- The bundled libffi copy is now in sync with the recently released
6933 libffi3.0.4 version, apart from some small changes to
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006934 Modules/_ctypes/libffi/configure.ac. On OS X, preconfigured libffi
6935 files are used. On all linux systems the --with-system-ffi
6936 configure option defaults to "yes".
Thomas Heller78b8f442008-03-05 14:53:39 +00006937
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006938- Issue #1577: shutil.move() now calls os.rename() if the destination
6939 is a directory instead of copying-then-remove-source.
Sean Reifscheider493894c2008-03-18 17:24:12 +00006940
Martin v. Löwisd2bbe522008-03-06 06:55:22 +00006941Tests
6942-----
6943
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006944- test_nis no longer fails when test.test_support.verbose is true and
6945 NIS is not set up on the testing machine.
Brett Cannon7919d982008-03-19 16:50:13 +00006946
Brett Cannona5573b32008-03-18 04:16:06 +00006947- Output comparison tests are no longer supported.
6948
Brett Cannonb7ec8e52008-03-18 03:46:22 +00006949- Rewrite test_errno to use unittest and no longer be a no-op.
6950
Brett Cannon0bb79502008-03-18 01:58:56 +00006951- GHOP 234: Convert test_extcall to doctest.
6952
Brett Cannonba17cfc2008-03-18 01:50:25 +00006953- GHOP 290: Convert test_dbm and test_dummy_threading to unittest.
6954
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006955- GHOP 293: Convert test_strftime, test_getargs, and test_pep247 to
6956 unittest.
Brett Cannon6eeaddc2008-03-18 01:00:07 +00006957
Brett Cannon1f5182b2008-03-13 21:09:28 +00006958- Issue #2055: Convert test_fcntl to unittest.
6959
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00006960- Issue #1960: Convert test_gdbm to unittest.
Brett Cannon4a6e8d62008-03-13 21:02:16 +00006961
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006962- GHOP 294: Convert test_contains, test_crypt, and test_select to
6963 unittest.
Brett Cannon2e0f9f32008-03-13 20:47:41 +00006964
Brett Cannonb8d37352008-03-13 20:33:10 +00006965- GHOP 238: Convert test_tokenize to use doctest.
6966
Brett Cannon66865d22008-03-13 20:27:00 +00006967- GHOP 237: Rewrite test_thread using unittest.
6968
Martin v. Löwisd2bbe522008-03-06 06:55:22 +00006969- Patch #2232: os.tmpfile might fail on Windows if the user has no
6970 permission to create files in the root directory.
6971
Martin v. Löwisbf7b0b72008-03-14 13:56:09 +00006972Build
6973-----
6974
Martin v. Löwiscdbc9772008-03-24 12:57:53 +00006975- A new script 2to3 is now installed, to run the 2.x to 3.x converter.
6976
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006977- Python/memmove.c and Python/strerror.c have been removed; both
6978 functions are in the C89 standard library.
Brett Cannonaa5778d2008-03-18 04:09:00 +00006979
Martin v. Löwisbf7b0b72008-03-14 13:56:09 +00006980- Patch #2284: Add -x64 option to rt.bat.
Barry Warsaw65475fd2008-03-01 17:11:41 +00006981
Christian Heimes3c608332008-03-26 22:01:37 +00006982C API
6983-----
6984
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00006985- Patch #2477: Added PyParser_ParseFileFlagsEx() and
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006986 PyParser_ParseStringFlagsFilenameEx().
6987
Christian Heimes3c608332008-03-26 22:01:37 +00006988
Nick Coghlanbb0996c2006-09-03 01:20:46 +00006989What's New in Python 2.6 alpha 1?
6990=================================
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00006991
Barry Warsaw7c075232008-03-01 02:53:36 +00006992*Release date: 29-Feb-2008*
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00006993
6994Core and builtins
6995-----------------
6996
Fred Drakea8ee94b2008-03-01 02:45:07 +00006997- Issue #2051: pyc and pyo files are no longer created with permission
Barry Warsaw52973612008-03-01 02:23:38 +00006998 644. The mode is now inherited from the py file.
Christian Heimes40346852008-02-23 17:52:07 +00006999
Georg Brandlad61bc82008-02-23 15:11:18 +00007000- Issue #2067: file.__exit__() now calls subclasses' close() method.
7001
7002- Patch #1759: Backport of PEP 3129 class decorators.
Christian Heimes5224d282008-02-23 15:01:05 +00007003
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00007004- Issue #1881: An internal parser limit has been increased. Also see
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00007005 issue #215555 for a discussion.
Facundo Batistafc2d0102008-02-23 12:01:13 +00007006
Eric Smitha73fbe72008-02-23 03:09:44 +00007007- Added the future_builtins module, which contains hex() and oct().
7008 These are the PEP 3127 version of these functions, designed to be
7009 compatible with the hex() and oct() builtins from Python 3.0. They
7010 differ slightly in their output formats from the existing, unchanged
7011 Python 2.6 builtins. The expected usage of the future_builtins
7012 module is:
7013 from future_builtins import hex, oct
7014
Eric Smith7ef40bf2008-02-20 23:34:22 +00007015- Issue #1600: Modifed PyOS_ascii_formatd to use at most 2 digit
7016 exponents for exponents with absolute value < 100. Follows C99
7017 standard. This is a change on Windows, which would use 3 digits.
7018 Also, added 'n' to the formats that PyOS_ascii_formatd understands,
7019 so that any alterations it does to the resulting string will be
7020 available in stringlib/formatter.h (for float.__format__).
7021
Eric Smith5a3c1352008-02-19 13:21:56 +00007022- Implemented PEP 3101, Advanced String Formatting. This adds a new
7023 builtin format(); a format() method for str and unicode; a
7024 __format__() method to object, str, unicode, int, long, float, and
7025 datetime; the class string.Formatter; and the C API
7026 PyObject_Format().
7027
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007028- Fixed several potential crashes, all caused by specially crafted
7029 __del__ methods exploiting objects in temporarily inconsistent
7030 state.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc632fad32008-02-16 20:55:24 +00007031
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00007032- Issue #2115: Important speedup in setting __slot__ attributes. Also
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007033 prevent a possible crash: an Abstract Base Class would try to access
7034 a slot on a registered virtual subclass.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc60d6c7f2008-02-15 21:22:45 +00007035
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007036- Fixed repr() and str() of complex numbers with infinity or nan as
7037 real or imaginary part.
Christian Heimes2f0da532008-02-15 06:57:08 +00007038
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007039- Clear all free lists during a gc.collect() of the highest generation
7040 in order to allow pymalloc to free more arenas. Python may give back
7041 memory to the OS earlier.
Christian Heimes3b718a72008-02-14 12:47:33 +00007042
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007043- Issue #2045: Fix an infinite recursion triggered when printing a
7044 subclass of collections.defaultdict, if its default_factory is set
7045 to a bound method.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcb01aa432008-02-08 00:56:02 +00007046
Christian Heimesf75dbef2008-02-08 00:11:31 +00007047- Fixed a minor memory leak in dictobject.c. The content of the free
7048 list was not freed on interpreter shutdown.
7049
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00007050- Limit free list of method and built-in function objects to 256
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007051 entries each.
Christian Heimes6075a822008-02-06 12:44:34 +00007052
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007053- Patch #1953: Added ``sys._compact_freelists()`` and the C API
7054 functions ``PyInt_CompactFreeList`` and ``PyFloat_CompactFreeList``
Christian Heimes422051a2008-02-04 18:00:12 +00007055 to compact the internal free lists of pre-allocted ints and floats.
7056
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007057- Issue #1983: Fixed return type of fork(), fork1() and forkpty()
7058 calls. Python expected the return type int but the fork familie
7059 returns pi_t.
Christian Heimes951cc0f2008-01-31 23:08:23 +00007060
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007061- Issue #1678380: Fix a bug that identifies 0j and -0j when they
7062 appear in the same code unit.
Mark Dickinson105be772008-01-31 22:17:37 +00007063
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007064- Issue #2025: Add tuple.count() and tuple.index() methods to comply
7065 with the collections.Sequence API.
Raymond Hettinger5b07ebc2008-02-07 00:54:20 +00007066
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007067- Patch #1970 by Antoine Pitrou: Speedup unicode whitespace and
7068 linebreak detection
Christian Heimes4d4f2702008-01-30 11:32:37 +00007069
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007070- Added ``PyType_ClearCache()`` and ``sys._clear_type_cache`` to clear
7071 the internal lookup cache for ref leak tests.
Christian Heimes908caac2008-01-27 23:34:59 +00007072
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007073- Patch #1473257: generator objects gain a gi_code attribute. This is
7074 the same object as the func_code attribute of the function that
7075 produced the generator.
Georg Brandl0cdf9a32008-01-26 14:14:20 +00007076
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007077- Issue #1920: "while 0" statements were completely removed by the
7078 compiler, even in the presence of an "else" clause, which is
7079 supposed to be run when the condition is false. Now the compiler
7080 correctly emits bytecode for the "else" suite.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc31eaafe2008-01-24 22:59:25 +00007081
Guido van Rossumeead05f2008-01-24 18:21:02 +00007082- A few crashers fixed: weakref_in_del.py (issue #1377858);
7083 loosing_dict_ref.py (issue #1303614, test67.py);
7084 borrowed_ref_[34].py (not in tracker).
7085
Vinay Sajipd7cf32e2008-01-24 12:43:33 +00007086- Issue #1069410: The "can't load dll" message box on Windows is
Christian Heimesb2302ba2008-01-23 17:15:06 +00007087 suppressed while an extension is loaded by calling SetErrorMode in
7088 dynload_win.c. The error is still reported properly.
7089
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007090- Issue #1915: Python compiles with --enable-unicode=no again. However
Christian Heimes082c9b02008-01-23 14:20:50 +00007091 several extension methods and modules do not work without unicode
7092 support.
7093
Georg Brandl26543b12008-01-21 18:36:51 +00007094- Issue #1882: when compiling code from a string, encoding cookies in the
7095 second line of code were not always recognized correctly.
7096
Georg Brandl14404b62008-01-19 19:27:05 +00007097- Issue #1679: "0x" was taken as a valid integer literal.
7098
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00007099- Issue #1865: ``bytes`` as an alias for ``str`` and b"" as an alias "" were
Christian Heimes288e89a2008-01-18 18:24:07 +00007100 added.
7101
Christian Heimesc94e2b52008-01-14 04:13:37 +00007102- sys.float_info / PyFloat_GetInfo: The floating point information
7103 object was converted from a dict to a specialized structseq object.
7104
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007105- Patch #1816: Added sys.flags structseq. It exposes the status of
7106 most command line arguments and PYTHON* environment variables.
Christian Heimesf31b69f2008-01-14 03:42:48 +00007107
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007108- Objects/structseq.c: Implemented new structseq representation. The
7109 patch makes structseqs (e.g. the return value of os.stat) more
7110 readable.
Christian Heimes9c201962008-01-14 03:33:52 +00007111
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007112- Patch #1700288: added a type attribute cache that caches method
7113 accesses, resulting in speedups in heavily object-oriented code.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arce4c270c2008-01-14 00:29:41 +00007114
Neal Norwitz3fc15b82008-01-10 05:42:58 +00007115- Bug #1776: __import__() no longer accepts filenames on any platform.
7116 The first parameter to __import__() must be a valid module name.
Christian Heimes3403f152008-01-09 19:56:33 +00007117
Georg Brandlaed6c662008-01-07 17:25:53 +00007118- Patch #1668: renamed THREADDEBUG envvar to PYTHONTHREADDEBUG.
7119
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007120- Patch #602345: Add -B command line option, PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE
7121 envvar and sys.dont_write_bytecode attribute. All these can be set
7122 to forbid Python to attempt to write compiled bytecode files.
Georg Brandl2da0fce2008-01-07 17:09:35 +00007123
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007124- Improve some exception messages when Windows fails to load an
7125 extension module. Now we get for example '%1 is not a valid Win32
7126 application' instead of 'error code 193'.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arce0b76952008-01-04 02:04:15 +00007127
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007128- Bug #1481296: Fixed long(float('nan')) != 0L.
Christian Heimes8267d1d2008-01-04 00:37:34 +00007129
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007130- Issue #1640: Added math.isinf(x), math.isnan(x) and math.copysign(x,
7131 y) functions.
Christian Heimese2ca4242008-01-03 20:23:15 +00007132
Christian Heimes0a8143f2007-12-18 23:22:54 +00007133- Issue #1635: Platform independent creation and representation of NaN
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007134 and INF. float("nan"), float("inf") and float("-inf") now work on
7135 every platform with IEEE 754 semantics.
Christian Heimes0a8143f2007-12-18 23:22:54 +00007136
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007137- Compiler now generates simpler and faster code for dictionary
7138 literals. The oparg for BUILD_MAP now indicates an estimated
7139 dictionary size. There is a new opcode, STORE_MAP, for adding
7140 entries to the dictionary.
Raymond Hettingerfd7ed402007-12-18 21:24:09 +00007141
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007142- Issue #1638: %zd configure test fails on Linux.
Christian Heimesdb3d6cb2007-12-16 21:39:43 +00007143
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007144- Issue #1620: New property decorator syntax was modifying the
7145 decorator in place instead of creating a new decorator object.
Christian Heimes90e10e72007-12-14 02:35:23 +00007146
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007147- Issue #1538: Avoid copying string in split/rsplit if the split char
7148 is not found.
Skip Montanaro26015492007-12-08 15:33:24 +00007149
Andrew M. Kuchling395fe442007-12-05 13:27:20 +00007150- Issue #1553: An erroneous __length_hint__ can make list() raise a
Christian Heimes7cc1c6f2007-12-05 12:52:34 +00007151 SystemError.
7152
Nick Coghlanef01d822007-12-03 12:55:17 +00007153- PEP 366: Allow explicit relative imports when executing modules
7154 inside packages with the -m switch via a new module level
7155 __package__ attribute.
7156
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007157- Issue #1402: Fix a crash on exit, when another thread is still
7158 running, and if the deallocation of its frames somehow calls the
7159 PyGILState_Ensure() / PyGILState_Release() functions.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcbe49a902007-11-30 20:37:22 +00007160
Christian Heimes28104c52007-11-27 23:16:44 +00007161- Expose the Py_Py3kWarningFlag as sys.py3kwarning.
7162
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00007163- Issue #1445: Fix a SystemError when accessing the ``cell_contents``
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcce7d10c2007-11-24 13:44:17 +00007164 attribute of an empty cell object.
7165
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007166- Issue #1460: The utf-7 incremental decoder did not accept truncated
7167 input. It now correctly saves its state between chunks of data.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcf57375a2007-11-21 01:38:26 +00007168
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007169- Patch #1739468: Directories and zipfiles containing a __main__.py
7170 file can now be directly executed by passing their name to the
7171 interpreter. The directory/zipfile is automatically inserted as the
7172 first entry in sys.path.
Nick Coghlan327a39b2007-11-18 11:56:28 +00007173
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007174- Issue #1265: Fix a problem with sys.settrace, if the tracing
7175 function uses a generator expression when at the same time the
7176 executed code is closing a paused generator.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc0d75f092007-11-13 21:54:28 +00007177
Raymond Hettinger1760c8a2007-11-08 02:52:43 +00007178- sets and frozensets now have an isdisjoint() method.
7179
Raymond Hettinger3f8caa32007-10-24 01:28:33 +00007180- optimize the performance of builtin.sum().
7181
Neal Norwitz44f326e2007-10-05 05:29:17 +00007182- Fix warnings found by the new version of the Coverity checker.
7183
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00007184- The enumerate() built-in function is no longer bounded to sequences
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007185 smaller than LONG_MAX. Formerly, it raised an OverflowError. Now,
7186 automatically shifts from ints to longs.
Raymond Hettinger8f669372007-10-03 21:18:11 +00007187
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007188- Issue #1686386: Tuple's tp_repr did not take into account the
7189 possibility of having a self-referential tuple, which is possible
7190 from C code. Nor did object's tp_str consider that a type's tp_str
7191 could do something that could lead to an inifinite recursion.
7192 Py_ReprEnter() and Py_EnterRecursiveCall(), respectively, fixed the
7193 issues.
Brett Cannon0b14f242007-09-30 19:45:10 +00007194
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007195- Issue #1164: It was possible to trigger deadlock when using the
7196 'print' statement to write to a file since the GIL was not released
7197 as needed. Now PyObject_Print() does the right thing along with
7198 various tp_print implementations of the built-in types and those in
7199 the collections module.
Brett Cannon01531592007-09-17 03:28:34 +00007200
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007201- Issue #1147: Exceptions were directly allowing string exceptions in
7202 their throw() method even though string exceptions no longer
7203 allowed.
Brett Cannon4c20bc42007-09-11 21:02:28 +00007204
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007205- Issue #1096: Prevent a segfault from getting the repr of a very
7206 deeply nested list by using the recursion counter.
Brett Cannona0c05512007-09-10 21:38:27 +00007207
Brett Cannon1e534b52007-09-07 04:18:30 +00007208- Issue #1202533: Fix infinite recursion calls triggered by calls to
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007209 PyObject_Call() never calling back out to Python code to trigger
7210 recursion depth updates/checks. Required the creation of a static
7211 RuntimeError instance in case normalizing an exception put the
7212 recursion check value past its limit. Fixes crashers
7213 infinite_rec_(1|2|4|5).py.
Brett Cannon1e534b52007-09-07 04:18:30 +00007214
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007215- Patch #1031213: Decode source line in SyntaxErrors back to its
7216 original source encoding.
Martin v. Löwisa5136192007-09-04 14:19:28 +00007217
Georg Brandl7c3b50d2007-07-12 08:38:00 +00007218- Patch #1673759: add a missing overflow check when formatting floats
7219 with %G.
7220
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007221- Prevent expandtabs() on string and unicode objects from causing a
7222 segfault when a large width is passed on 32-bit platforms.
Neal Norwitz7dbd2a32007-06-09 03:36:34 +00007223
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007224- Issue #1733488: Fix compilation of bufferobject.c on AIX.
Martin v. Löwisda587ab2007-06-08 17:29:20 +00007225
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007226- Issue #1722485: remove docstrings again when running with -OO.
Georg Brandla5ea6892007-06-01 11:33:33 +00007227
Neal Norwitz0ac60192007-05-27 04:08:54 +00007228- Add new attribute names for function objects. All the func_* become
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007229 __*__ attributes. (Some already existed, e.g., __doc__ and
7230 __name__.)
Neal Norwitz0ac60192007-05-27 04:08:54 +00007231
Neal Norwitz8b2bfbc2007-05-23 06:35:32 +00007232- Add -3 option to the interpreter to warn about features that are
7233 deprecated and will be changed/removed in Python 3.0.
7234
Georg Brandl2134e752007-05-21 20:34:16 +00007235- Patch #1686487: you can now pass any mapping after '**' in function
7236 calls.
7237
Collin Winter62903052007-05-18 23:11:24 +00007238- except clauses may now be spelled either "except E, target:" or
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007239 "except E as target:". This is to provide forwards compatibility
7240 with Python 3.0.
Collin Winter62903052007-05-18 23:11:24 +00007241
Brett Cannon229cee22007-05-05 01:34:02 +00007242- Deprecate BaseException.message as per PEP 352.
7243
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007244- Issue #1303614: don't expose object's __dict__ when the dict is
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00007245 inherited from a built-in base.
Armin Rigo9790a272007-05-02 19:23:31 +00007246
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00007247- When __slots__ are set to a unicode string, make it work the same as
Neal Norwitzcbd9ee62007-04-14 05:25:50 +00007248 setting a plain string, ie don't expand to single letter identifiers.
7249
Raymond Hettinger13936692007-04-11 18:40:58 +00007250- Request #1191699: Slices can now be pickled.
7251
Raymond Hettinger4db5fe92007-04-12 04:10:00 +00007252- Request #1193128: str.translate() now allows a None argument for
7253 translations that only remove characters without re-mapping the
7254 remaining characters.
7255
Georg Brandl5cb76c12007-03-21 09:00:39 +00007256- Patch #1682205: a TypeError while unpacking an iterable is no longer
7257 masked by a generic one with the message "unpack non-sequence".
7258
Neal Norwitzaa754b72007-03-21 06:39:48 +00007259- Remove unused file Python/fmod.c.
7260
Guido van Rossum143b5642007-03-23 04:58:42 +00007261- Bug #1683368: The object.__init__() and object.__new__() methods are
7262 now stricter in rejecting excess arguments. The only time when
7263 either allows excess arguments is when it is not overridden and the
7264 other one is. For backwards compatibility, when both are
7265 overridden, it is a deprecation warning (for now; maybe a Py3k
Guido van Rossum234b1ff2007-03-23 19:39:01 +00007266 warning later). Also, type.__init__() insists on the same signature
7267 as supported by type.__new__().
Guido van Rossum143b5642007-03-23 04:58:42 +00007268
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007269- Patch #1675423: PyComplex_AsCComplex() now tries to convert an
7270 object to complex using its __complex__() method before falling back
7271 to the __float__() method. Therefore, the functions in the cmath
7272 module now can operate on objects that define a __complex__()
7273 method.
Georg Brandl2b869942007-03-17 16:08:45 +00007274
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007275- Patch #1623563: allow __class__ assignment for classes with
7276 __slots__. The old and the new class are still required to have the
7277 same slot names.
Žiga Seilnacht6f2d09c2007-03-16 11:59:38 +00007278
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007279- Patch #1642547: Fix an error/crash when encountering syntax errors
7280 in complex if statements.
Collin Winter77c67bd2007-03-16 04:11:30 +00007281
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007282- Patch #1462488: Python no longer segfaults when
7283 ``object.__reduce_ex__()`` is called with an object that is faking
7284 its type.
Žiga Seilnacht20f43d32007-03-15 11:44:55 +00007285
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007286- Patch #1680015: Don't modify __slots__ tuple if it contains an
7287 unicode name.
Žiga Seilnacht71436f02007-03-14 12:24:09 +00007288
Georg Brandl5240d742007-03-13 20:46:32 +00007289- Patch #1444529: the builtin compile() now accepts keyword arguments.
7290
Georg Brandl7b9c5552007-03-12 14:30:05 +00007291- Bug #1678647: write a newline after printing an exception in any
7292 case, even when converting the value to a string failed.
7293
Georg Brandl871f1bc2007-03-12 13:17:36 +00007294- The dir() function has been extended to call the __dir__() method on
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007295 its argument, if it exists. If not, it will work like before. This
7296 allows customizing the output of dir() in the presence of a
7297 __getattr__().
Georg Brandl871f1bc2007-03-12 13:17:36 +00007298
Collin Winter276887b2007-03-12 16:11:39 +00007299- Patch #922167: Python no longer segfaults when faced with infinitely
7300 self-recursive reload() calls (as reported by bug #742342).
7301
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007302- Patch #1675981: remove unreachable code from ``type.__new__()``
7303 method.
Žiga Seilnacht89032082007-03-11 15:54:54 +00007304
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007305- Patch #1491866: change the complex() constructor to allow
7306 parthensized forms. This means complex(repr(x)) now works instead of
7307 raising a ValueError.
Collin Wintere38051d2007-03-09 20:33:07 +00007308
Georg Brandlaa2321b2007-03-07 00:40:28 +00007309- Patch #703779: unset __file__ in __main__ after running a file. This
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007310 makes the filenames the warning module prints much more sensible
7311 when a PYTHONSTARTUP file is used.
Georg Brandlaa2321b2007-03-07 00:40:28 +00007312
Georg Brandl49aafc92007-03-07 00:34:46 +00007313- Variant of patch #697613: don't exit the interpreter on a SystemExit
7314 exception if the -i command line option or PYTHONINSPECT environment
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007315 variable is given, but break into the interactive interpreter just
7316 like on other exceptions or normal program exit.
Georg Brandl49aafc92007-03-07 00:34:46 +00007317
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007318- Patch #1638879: don't accept strings with embedded NUL bytes in
7319 long().
Georg Brandl00cd8182007-03-06 18:41:12 +00007320
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007321- Bug #1674503: close the file opened by execfile() in an error
7322 condition.
Georg Brandl098cd692007-03-06 12:17:50 +00007323
Georg Brandl0fca97a2007-03-05 22:28:08 +00007324- Patch #1674228: when assigning a slice (old-style), check for the
7325 sq_ass_slice instead of the sq_slice slot.
7326
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007327- When printing an unraisable error, don't print exceptions. before
7328 the name. This duplicates the behavior whening normally printing
7329 exceptions.
Neal Norwitz88516a62007-02-26 22:41:45 +00007330
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007331- Bug #1653736: Properly discard third argument to
7332 slot_nb_inplace_power.
Martin v. Löwisfd963262007-02-09 12:19:32 +00007333
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007334- PEP 352: Raising a string exception now triggers a TypeError.
7335 Attempting to catch a string exception raises DeprecationWarning.
Brett Cannon129bd522007-01-30 21:34:36 +00007336
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007337- Bug #1377858: Fix the segfaulting of the interpreter when an object
7338 created a weakref on itself during a __del__ call for new-style
7339 classes (classic classes still have the bug).
Brett Cannonf5bee302007-01-23 23:21:22 +00007340
Martin v. Löwis6c5c5022007-01-23 21:11:47 +00007341- Bug #1579370: Make PyTraceBack_Here use the current thread, not the
7342 frame's thread state.
7343
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007344- patch #1630975: Fix crash when replacing sys.stdout in
7345 sitecustomize.py.
Thomas Wouters6ed19652007-01-23 13:50:49 +00007346
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007347- Prevent seg fault on shutdown which could occur if an object raised
7348 a warning.
Neal Norwitz72cd02c2007-01-05 05:25:22 +00007349
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007350- Bug #1566280: Explicitly invoke threading._shutdown from Py_Main, to
7351 avoid relying on atexit.
Martin v. Löwis7b7c9d42007-01-04 21:06:12 +00007352
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007353- Bug #1590891: random.randrange don't return correct value for big
7354 number.
Raymond Hettinger94547f72006-12-20 06:42:06 +00007355
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007356- Patch #1586791: Better exception messages for some operations on
7357 strings, tuples and lists.
Georg Brandl283a1352006-11-19 08:48:30 +00007358
Martin v. Löwis056dac12006-11-12 18:24:26 +00007359- Bug #1067760: Deprecate passing floats to file.seek.
7360
Martin v. Löwisa346c092006-11-08 06:48:36 +00007361- Bug #1591996: Correctly forward exception in instance_contains().
7362
Neal Norwitz85dbec62006-11-04 19:25:22 +00007363- Bug #1588287: fix invalid assertion for `1,2` in debug builds.
7364
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007365- Bug #1576657: when setting a KeyError for a tuple key, make sure
7366 that the tuple isn't used as the "exception arguments tuple".
Georg Brandlb9f4ad32006-10-29 18:31:42 +00007367
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007368- Bug #1565514: SystemError not raised on too many nested blocks.
Neal Norwitz21997af2006-10-28 21:19:07 +00007369
Thomas Hellerdf08f0b2006-10-27 18:31:36 +00007370- Bug #1576174: WindowsError now displays the windows error code
7371 again, no longer the posix error code.
7372
Martin v. Löwisb5bc5372006-10-27 06:16:31 +00007373- Patch #1549049: Support long values in structmember, issue warnings
7374 if the assigned value for structmember fields gets truncated.
7375
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007376- Update the peephole optimizer to remove more dead code (jumps after
7377 returns) and inline unconditional jumps to returns.
Neal Norwitzcbeb6872006-10-14 21:33:38 +00007378
Georg Brandl2c1375c2006-10-12 11:27:59 +00007379- Bug #1545497: when given an explicit base, int() did ignore NULs
7380 embedded in the string to convert.
7381
Georg Brandl846f73a2006-10-08 07:11:54 +00007382- Bug #1569998: break inside a try statement (outside a loop) is now
7383 recognized and rejected.
7384
Armin Rigo7ccbca92006-10-04 12:17:45 +00007385- list.pop(x) accepts any object x following the __index__ protocol.
7386
Armin Rigo7ccbca92006-10-04 12:17:45 +00007387- A number of places, including integer negation and absolute value,
7388 were fixed to not rely on undefined behaviour of the C compiler
7389 anymore.
Martin v. Löwis820d6ac2006-10-04 05:47:34 +00007390
Georg Brandl3267d282006-09-30 09:03:42 +00007391- Bug #1566800: make sure that EnvironmentError can be called with any
7392 number of arguments, as was the case in Python 2.4.
7393
Georg Brandl5d59c092006-09-30 08:43:30 +00007394- Patch #1567691: super() and new.instancemethod() now don't accept
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007395 keyword arguments any more (previously they accepted them, but
7396 didn't use them).
Georg Brandl5d59c092006-09-30 08:43:30 +00007397
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007398- Fix a bug in the parser's future statement handling that led to
7399 "with" not being recognized as a keyword after, e.g., this
7400 statement: from __future__ import division, with_statement
Georg Brandla10d3af2006-09-24 12:35:36 +00007401
Neal Norwitz3a230172006-09-22 08:18:10 +00007402- Bug #1557232: fix seg fault with def f((((x)))) and def f(((x),)).
7403
Neal Norwitz4a8fbdb2006-09-22 08:16:26 +00007404- Fix %zd string formatting on Mac OS X so it prints negative numbers.
7405
Brett Cannonf6aa86e2006-09-20 18:43:13 +00007406- Allow exception instances to be directly sliced again.
7407
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007408- Bug #1551432: Exceptions do not define an explicit __unicode__
7409 method. This allows calling unicode() on exceptions classes
7410 directly to succeed.
Brett Cannon9adeab72006-09-20 18:34:28 +00007411
Georg Brandl4e933132006-09-06 20:05:58 +00007412- Bug #1542051: Exceptions now correctly call PyObject_GC_UnTrack.
7413 Also make sure that every exception class has __module__ set to
7414 'exceptions'.
7415
Georg Brandl98775df2006-09-06 06:09:31 +00007416- Bug #1550983: emit better error messages for erroneous relative
7417 imports (if not in package and if beyond toplevel package).
7418
Tim Petersc10c9d02006-09-05 02:18:09 +00007419- Overflow checking code in integer division ran afoul of new gcc
7420 optimizations. Changed to be more standard-conforming.
7421
Neal Norwitz4f096d92006-08-21 19:47:08 +00007422- Patch #1542451: disallow continue anywhere under a finally.
7423
Neal Norwitza22975f2006-09-05 02:24:03 +00007424- Patch #1546288: fix seg fault in dict_equal due to ref counting bug.
7425
Neal Norwitzd34e4272006-09-05 02:36:20 +00007426- The return tuple from str.rpartition(sep) is (tail, sep, head) where
7427 head is the original string if sep was not found.
7428
Neal Norwitzdac090d2006-09-05 03:53:08 +00007429- Bug #1520864: unpacking singleton tuples in list comprehensions and
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007430 generator expressions (x for x, in ... ) works again. Fixing this
7431 problem required changing the .pyc magic number. This means that
7432 .pyc files generated before 2.5c2 will be regenerated.
Neal Norwitzdac090d2006-09-05 03:53:08 +00007433
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00007434- ``with`` and ``as`` are now keywords.
Neal Norwitzca460d92006-09-06 06:28:06 +00007435
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007436- Bug #1664966: Fix crash in exec if Unicode filename can't be
7437 decoded.
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00007438
Guido van Rossumcad37242008-01-15 17:59:29 +00007439- Issue #1537: Changed GeneratorExit's base class from Exception to
7440 BaseException.
Christian Heimes44eeaec2007-12-03 20:01:02 +00007441
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007442- Issue #1703448: A joined thread could show up in the
Gregory P. Smith95cd5c02008-01-22 01:20:42 +00007443 threading.enumerate() list after the join() for a brief period until
7444 it actually exited.
7445
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00007446
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00007447Library
7448-------
7449
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007450- Patch #2274: Add heapq.heappushpop().
Raymond Hettinger53bdf092008-03-13 19:03:51 +00007451
Christian Heimes608c1d82008-03-03 18:28:04 +00007452- Add inspect.isabstract(object) to fix bug #2223
7453
Mark Dickinson1ddf1d82008-02-29 02:16:37 +00007454- Add a __format__ method to Decimal, to support PEP 3101.
7455
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007456- Add a timing parameter when using trace.Trace to print out
7457 timestamps.
Neal Norwitzca376612008-02-26 08:21:28 +00007458
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007459- Issue #1627: httplib now ignores negative Content-Length headers.
Georg Brandl8c460d52008-02-24 00:14:24 +00007460
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007461- Issue #900744: If an invalid chunked-encoding header is sent by a
7462 server, httplib will now raise IncompleteRead and close the
7463 connection instead of raising ValueError.
Georg Brandl23635032008-02-24 00:03:22 +00007464
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007465- Issue #1492: The content type of BaseHTTPServer error messages can
7466 now be overridden.
Georg Brandl16479232008-02-23 15:02:28 +00007467
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007468- Issue #1781: ConfigParser now does not let you add the "default" section
Facundo Batistab12f0b52008-02-23 12:46:10 +00007469 (ignore-case)
7470
Guido van Rossum8bc09652008-02-21 18:18:37 +00007471- Removed uses of dict.has_key() from distutils, and uses of
7472 callable() from copy_reg.py, so the interpreter now starts up
7473 without warnings when '-3' is given. More work like this needs to
7474 be done in the rest of the stdlib.
7475
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007476- Issue #1916: added isgenerator() and isgeneratorfunction() to
7477 inspect.py.
Facundo Batista759bfc62008-02-18 03:43:43 +00007478
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007479- Issue #1224: Fixed bad url parsing when path begins with double
7480 slash.
Facundo Batistad14600e2008-02-18 12:48:43 +00007481
Thomas Hellera06a1a82008-02-13 20:21:53 +00007482- ctypes instances that are not or do not contain pointers can now be
7483 pickled.
7484
Martin v. Löwisdad88dc2008-02-12 18:47:34 +00007485- Patch #1966: Break infinite loop in httplib when the servers
7486 implements the chunked encoding incorrectly.
7487
Mark Dickinsond058cd22008-02-10 21:29:51 +00007488- Rename rational.py to fractions.py and the rational.Rational class
7489 to fractions.Fraction, to avoid the name clash with the abstract
7490 base class numbers.Rational. See discussion in issue #1682.
7491
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007492- The pickletools module now provides an optimize() function that
7493 eliminates unused PUT opcodes from a pickle string.
Raymond Hettingerda614dc2008-02-10 20:35:16 +00007494
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007495- Patch #2021: Allow tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile and
7496 SpooledTemporaryFile to be used in with statements by correctly
7497 supporting the context management protocol.
Nick Coghlanac094dc2008-02-10 07:32:52 +00007498
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007499- Patch #1979: Add rich comparisons to Decimal, and make Decimal
7500 comparisons involving a NaN follow the IEEE 754 standard.
Mark Dickinson2fc92632008-02-06 22:10:50 +00007501
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007502- Issue #2004: tarfile.py: Use mode 0700 for temporary directories and
7503 default permissions for missing directories.
Lars Gustäbel0192e432008-02-05 11:51:40 +00007504
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007505- Issue #175006: The debugger used to skip the condition of a "while"
7506 statement after the first iteration. Now it correctly steps on the
7507 expression, and breakpoints on the "while" statement are honored on
7508 each loop.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc6fd03bb2008-02-04 21:45:05 +00007509
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007510- Issue #1765140: add an optional delay argument to FileHandler and
7511 its subclasses. Defaults to false (existing behaviour), but if true,
Vinay Sajipd7cf32e2008-01-24 12:43:33 +00007512 defers opening the file until the first call to emit().
7513
Raymond Hettingerc226c312008-01-23 00:04:40 +00007514- The pprint module now supports sets and frozensets.
7515
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007516- Issue #1221598: add optional callbacks to ftplib.FTP's storbinary()
7517 and storlines() methods. (Contributed by Phil Schwartz)
Gregory P. Smithc64386b2008-01-22 00:19:41 +00007518
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007519- Issue #1715: include sub-extension modules in pydoc's text output.
Georg Brandlf2dae0e2008-01-21 21:05:49 +00007520
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007521- Issue #1836: fix an off-by-one bug in TimedRotatingHandler's
7522 rollover time calculation.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00007523
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007524- Issue #1021: fix a bug to allow basicConfig to accept NOTSET as a
7525 level.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00007526
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007527- Issue #932563: add LoggerAdapter convenience class to make it easier
7528 to add contextual information in logging output.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00007529
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007530- Issue #1760556: fix a bug to avoid FileHandler throwing an exception
7531 in flush().
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00007532
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007533- Bug #1530959: distutils' build command now uses different build
7534 directory when building extension modules against versions of Python
7535 compiled with ``--with-pydebug``.
Georg Brandl50160152008-01-21 17:42:40 +00007536
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007537- Issue #1555501: move plistlib from plat-mac directory to general
7538 library.
Georg Brandl864de822008-01-21 16:34:07 +00007539
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007540- Issue #1269: fix a bug in pstats.add_callers() and add a unit test
7541 file for pstats.
Georg Brandl66e73632008-01-21 10:24:59 +00007542
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007543- Issue #1669: don't allow shutil.rmtree() to be called on a symlink
7544 to a directory.
Georg Brandl52353982008-01-20 14:17:42 +00007545
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007546- Issue #1664522: in urllib, don't read non-existing directories in
7547 ftp mode, returning a 0-byte file -- raise an IOError instead.
Georg Brandld5e6cf22008-01-20 12:18:17 +00007548
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007549- Issue #856047: respect the ``no_proxy`` environment variable when
7550 using the ``http_proxy`` etc. environment variables in urllib.
Georg Brandl22350112008-01-20 12:05:43 +00007551
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007552- Issue #1178141: add a getcode() method to the addinfourls that
7553 urllib.open() returns so that you can retrieve the HTTP status code.
Georg Brandl9b0d46d2008-01-20 11:43:03 +00007554
Gregory P. Smithf25680a2008-01-20 01:26:04 +00007555- Issue #1003: Fix zipfile decryption check, it would fail zip files
7556 with extended local headers.
7557
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007558- Issue #1189216: Fix the zipfile module to work on archives with
7559 headers past the 2**31 byte boundary.
Gregory P. Smith350d03b2008-01-19 23:10:52 +00007560
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007561- Issue #1336: fix a race condition in subprocess.Popen if the garbage
Gregory P. Smithb9ba0752008-01-19 21:00:37 +00007562 collector kicked in at the wrong time that would cause the process
7563 to hang when the child wrote to stderr.
7564
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007565- Issue #1146: fix how textwrap breaks a long word that would start in
7566 the last column of a line.
Georg Brandlc6fde722008-01-19 19:48:19 +00007567
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007568- Issue #1693149: trace.py --ignore-module - accept multiple
7569 comma-separated modules to be given.
Skip Montanaro562133b2008-01-19 18:47:24 +00007570
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007571- Issue #1822: MIMEMultipart.is_multipart() behaves correctly for a
7572 just-created (and empty) instance. Thanks Jonathan Share.
Facundo Batista2b1b1952008-01-19 12:32:27 +00007573
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007574- Issue #1861: Added an attribute to the sched module which returns an
7575 ordered list of upcoming events (displayed as named tuples).
Raymond Hettinger44bd6c02008-01-17 19:31:38 +00007576
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007577- Issue #1837: The queue module now also supports a LIFO queue and a
7578 priority queue.
Raymond Hettinger3ad2acc82008-01-16 23:49:35 +00007579
Andrew M. Kuchling4a2762d2008-01-20 00:00:38 +00007580- Patch #1048820: Add insert-mode editing to curses.textpad.Textbox
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00007581 (patch by Stefan Wehr). Also, fix an off-by-one bug in
Andrew M. Kuchling4a2762d2008-01-20 00:00:38 +00007582 Textbox.gather().
7583
Thomas Heller02ec2892008-01-16 19:37:33 +00007584- Issue #1831: ctypes now raises a TypeError if conflicting positional
7585 and named arguments are passed to a Structure or Union initializer.
Thomas Heller415c1e32008-01-16 19:45:51 +00007586 When too many positional arguments are passed, also a TypeError is
7587 raised instead of a ValueError.
Thomas Heller02ec2892008-01-16 19:37:33 +00007588
Thomas Heller902d3072008-01-16 19:16:27 +00007589- Convert the internal ctypes array type cache to a WeakValueDict so
7590 that array types do not live longer than needed.
7591
Guido van Rossumcad37242008-01-15 17:59:29 +00007592- Issue #1786: pdb should use its own stdin/stdout around an exec call
7593 and when creating a recursive instance.
7594
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007595- Issue #1698398: ZipFile.printdir() crashed because the format string
7596 expected a tuple type of length six instead of time.struct_time
7597 object.
Raymond Hettinger351e1a32008-01-14 22:58:05 +00007598
Mark Dickinson59bc20b2008-01-12 01:56:00 +00007599- Issue #1780: The Decimal constructor now accepts arbitrary leading
7600 and trailing whitespace when constructing from a string.
7601 Context.create_decimal no longer accepts trailing newlines.
7602
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007603- Decimal.as_tuple(), difflib.find_longest_match() and inspect
7604 functions that returned a tuple now return a named tuple.
Georg Brandl2f32c392008-01-11 09:20:58 +00007605
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00007606- Doctest now returns results as a named tuple for readability:
Raymond Hettingerfff4e6e2008-01-11 01:25:54 +00007607 (0, 7) --> TestResults(failed=0, attempted=7)
7608
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007609- Issue #846388:q re.match is interruptible now, which is particularly
Facundo Batista4473d222008-01-08 21:10:12 +00007610 good for long regular expression matches.
7611
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007612- Patch #1137: allow setting buffer_size attribute on pyexpat Parser
7613 objects to set the character data buffer size.
Andrew M. Kuchlinge0a49b62008-01-08 14:30:55 +00007614
Facundo Batista52b25792008-01-08 12:25:20 +00007615- Issue #1757: The hash of a Decimal instance is no longer affected by
7616 the current context.
7617
Georg Brandl62416bc2008-01-07 18:47:44 +00007618- Patch #467924: add ZipFile.extract() and ZipFile.extractall() in the
7619 zipfile module.
7620
Christian Heimesfb2d25a2008-01-07 16:12:44 +00007621- Issue #1646: Make socket support the TIPC protocol.
7622
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007623- Bug #1742: return os.curdir from os.path.relpath() if both arguments
7624 are equal instead of raising an exception.
Georg Brandl183a0842008-01-06 14:27:15 +00007625
Guido van Rossumc6a04c22008-01-05 22:19:06 +00007626- Patch #1637: fix urlparse for URLs like 'http://x.com?arg=/foo'.
7627
Guido van Rossumced4eb02008-01-05 01:21:57 +00007628- Patch #1698: allow '@' in username parsed by urlparse.py.
7629
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007630- Issue #1735: TarFile.extractall() now correctly sets directory
7631 permissions and times.
Lars Gustäbel2ee1c762008-01-04 14:00:33 +00007632
Christian Heimes06875612008-01-04 13:21:07 +00007633- Bug #1713: posixpath.ismount() claims symlink to a mountpoint is a mountpoint.
7634
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007635- Bug #1687: Fxed plistlib.py restricts <integer> to Python int when
7636 writing
Christian Heimes06131882008-01-04 00:04:52 +00007637
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007638- Issue #1700: Regular expression inline flags incorrectly handle
7639 certain unicode characters.
Guido van Rossumae04c332008-01-03 19:12:44 +00007640
Jeffrey Yasskin2f3c16b2008-01-03 02:21:52 +00007641- Issue #1689: PEP 3141, numeric abstract base classes.
7642
Martin v. Löwis84b9aab2008-01-01 21:09:07 +00007643- Tk issue #1851526: Return results from Python callbacks to Tcl as
7644 Tcl objects.
7645
Thomas Heller153038e2007-12-18 19:00:34 +00007646- Issue #1642: Fix segfault in ctypes when trying to delete attributes.
7647
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007648- Issue #1727780: Support loading pickles of random.Random objects
7649 created on 32-bit systems on 64-bit systems, and vice versa. As a
7650 consequence of the change, Random pickles created by Python 2.6
7651 cannot be loaded in Python 2.5.
Martin v. Löwis6b449f42007-12-03 19:20:02 +00007652
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007653- Issue #1455: The distutils package now supports VS 2005 and VS 2008
7654 for both the msvccompiler and cygwincompiler.
Christian Heimesc654fc22007-12-03 13:55:16 +00007655
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007656- Issue #1531: tarfile.py: Read fileobj from the current offset, do
7657 not seek to the start.
Lars Gustäbel77b2d632007-12-01 21:02:12 +00007658
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007659- Issue #1534: Added a dictionary sys.float_info with information
7660 about the internal floating point type to the sys module.
Christian Heimesdfdfaab2007-12-01 11:20:10 +00007661
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007662- Issue #1429818: patch for trace and doctest modules so they play
7663 nicely together.
Skip Montanaro58a6f442007-11-24 14:30:47 +00007664
Brett Cannon43e53f82007-11-21 00:47:36 +00007665- doctest made a bad assumption that a package's __loader__.get_data()
7666 method used universal newlines.
7667
Nick Coghlan90b858e2007-11-07 11:57:51 +00007668- Issue #1705170: contextlib.contextmanager was still swallowing
7669 StopIteration in some cases. This should no longer happen.
7670
Thomas Heller486b1b02007-11-02 19:10:24 +00007671- Issue #1292: On alpha, arm, ppc, and s390 linux systems the
7672 --with-system-ffi configure option defaults to "yes".
7673
Hye-Shik Changa838a802007-10-28 11:19:02 +00007674- IN module for FreeBSD 8 is added and preexisting FreeBSD 6 and 7
7675 files are updated.
7676
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007677- Issues #1181, #1287: unsetenv() is now called when the
7678 os.environ.pop() and os.environ.clear() methods are used.
Georg Brandl1a94ec22007-10-24 21:40:38 +00007679
Thomas Heller91ac4222007-10-19 18:11:41 +00007680- ctypes will now work correctly on 32-bit systems when Python is
7681 configured with --with-system-ffi.
7682
Thomas Heller7fee6dd2007-10-11 19:51:32 +00007683- Patch #1203: ctypes now does work on OS X when Python is built with
Georg Brandl1a94ec22007-10-24 21:40:38 +00007684 --disable-toolbox-glue.
Thomas Heller7fee6dd2007-10-11 19:51:32 +00007685
Raymond Hettingera7fc4b12007-10-05 02:47:07 +00007686- collections.deque() now supports a "maxlen" argument.
7687
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007688- itertools.count() is no longer bounded to LONG_MAX. Formerly, it
7689 raised an OverflowError. Now, automatically shifts from ints to
7690 longs.
Raymond Hettinger50e90e22007-10-04 00:20:27 +00007691
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007692- Added itertools.product() which forms the Cartesian product of the
7693 input iterables.
Raymond Hettingerc5705a82008-02-22 19:50:06 +00007694
Raymond Hettinger66f91ea2008-03-05 20:59:58 +00007695- Added itertools.combinations() and itertools.permutations().
Raymond Hettinger93e804d2008-02-26 23:40:50 +00007696
Georg Brandlaff85e22007-09-20 16:06:07 +00007697- Patch #1541463: optimize performance of cgi.FieldStorage operations.
7698
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007699- Decimal is fully updated to the latest Decimal Specification
7700 (v1.66).
Facundo Batistab67da232007-09-17 16:26:50 +00007701
Georg Brandl8fd3ecf2007-09-12 19:00:07 +00007702- Bug #1153: repr.repr() now doesn't require set and dictionary items
7703 to be orderable to properly represent them.
7704
Thomas Heller2825b2e2007-09-07 06:32:17 +00007705- A 'c_longdouble' type was added to the ctypes module.
7706
Martin v. Löwis7dcb83c2007-08-30 19:04:09 +00007707- Bug #1709599: Run test_1565150 only if the file system is NTFS.
7708
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007709- When encountering a password-protected robots.txt file the
7710 RobotFileParser no longer prompts interactively for a username and
7711 password (bug 813986).
Skip Montanaro3e275362007-08-29 01:33:45 +00007712
Lars Gustäbel0f4a14b2007-08-28 12:31:09 +00007713- TarFile.__init__() no longer fails if no name argument is passed and
7714 the fileobj argument has no usable name attribute (e.g. StringIO).
7715
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007716- The functools module now provides 'reduce', for forward
7717 compatibility with Python 3000.
Guido van Rossum95f1a1b2007-08-27 20:52:10 +00007718
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007719- Server-side SSL support and cert verification added, by Bill
7720 Janssen.
Guido van Rossum4f2c3dd2007-08-25 15:08:43 +00007721
Bill Janssenf413fb02007-08-30 18:08:06 +00007722- socket.ssl deprecated; use new ssl module instead.
7723
Georg Brandl8ec57542007-08-24 06:10:01 +00007724- uuid creation is now threadsafe.
7725
Hye-Shik Chang23901042007-08-20 06:49:18 +00007726- EUC-KR codec now handles the cheot-ga-keut composed make-up hangul
7727 syllables.
7728
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007729- GB18030 codec now can encode additional two-byte characters that are
7730 missing in GBK.
Hye-Shik Changf3e93a02007-08-04 04:10:18 +00007731
Walter Dörwald6e390802007-08-17 16:41:28 +00007732- Add new codecs for UTF-32, UTF-32-LE and UTF-32-BE.
7733
Martin v. Löwisf1e0b3f2007-07-28 07:03:05 +00007734- Bug #1704793: Return UTF-16 pair if unicodedata.lookup cannot
7735 represent the result in a single character.
7736
Martin v. Löwisf25e35b2007-07-27 18:28:22 +00007737- Bug #978833: Close https sockets by releasing the _ssl object.
7738
Martin v. Löwis254b8f92007-07-25 16:24:23 +00007739- Change location of the package index to pypi.python.org/pypi
7740
Thomas Hellerfa704c62007-07-13 17:12:23 +00007741- Bug #1701409: Fix a segfault in printing ctypes.c_char_p and
7742 ctypes.c_wchar_p when they point to an invalid location. As a
7743 sideeffect the representation of these instances has changed.
7744
Lars Gustäbel104490e2007-06-18 11:42:11 +00007745- tarfile.py: Added "exclude" keyword argument to TarFile.add().
7746
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007747- Bug #1734723: Fix repr.Repr() so it doesn't ignore the maxtuple
7748 attribute.
Neal Norwitzc161cb92007-06-11 07:29:43 +00007749
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007750- The urlopen function of urllib2 now has an optional timeout
7751 parameter (note that it actually works with HTTP, HTTPS, FTP and
7752 FTPS connections).
Facundo Batista10951d52007-06-06 17:15:23 +00007753
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007754- In ftplib, the FTP.ntransfercmd method, when in passive mode, now
7755 uses the socket.create_connection function, using the timeout
7756 specified at connection time.
Facundo Batista92493122007-06-06 15:13:37 +00007757
Hye-Shik Chang9b541402007-06-05 18:58:51 +00007758- Bug #1728403: Fix a bug that CJKCodecs StreamReader hangs when it
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007759 reads a file that ends with incomplete sequence and sizehint
7760 argument for .read() is specified.
Hye-Shik Chang9b541402007-06-05 18:58:51 +00007761
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007762- Bug #1730389: Change time.strptime() to use ``\s+`` instead of
7763 ``\s*`` when matching spaces in the specified format argument.
Brett Cannonf7188ce2007-06-03 23:13:41 +00007764
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007765- Bugs #1668596/#1720897: distutils now copies data files even if
7766 package_dir is empty.
Neal Norwitz4a700bb2007-06-01 07:29:12 +00007767
Brett Cannonc2aa09a2007-05-31 19:20:00 +00007768- sha now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
7769
Brett Cannon7eec2172007-05-30 22:24:28 +00007770- md5 now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
7771
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007772- Issue #1385: The hmac module now computes the correct hmac when
7773 using hashes with a block size other than 64 bytes (such as sha384
7774 and sha512).
Gregory P. Smithe1ac4f12007-11-06 00:19:03 +00007775
Brett Cannonc249bda2007-05-30 21:48:58 +00007776- mimify now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
7777
Brett Cannon90134c92007-05-30 20:46:26 +00007778- MimeWriter now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
7779
Lars Gustäbela0fcb932007-05-27 19:49:30 +00007780- tarfile.py: Improved unicode support. Unicode input names are now
7781 officially supported. Added "errors" argument to the TarFile class.
7782
Facundo Batista711a54e2007-05-24 17:50:54 +00007783- urllib.ftpwrapper class now accepts an optional timeout.
7784
Georg Brandlc90bc752007-05-24 16:49:29 +00007785- shlex.split() now has an optional "posix" parameter.
7786
Brett Cannon41bf2fa2007-05-20 23:57:38 +00007787- The posixfile module now raises a DeprecationWarning.
7788
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007789- Remove the gopherlib module. This also leads to the removal of
7790 gopher support in urllib/urllib2.
Brett Cannond75f0432007-05-16 22:42:29 +00007791
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007792- Fix bug in marshal where bad data would cause a segfault due to lack
7793 of an infinite recursion check.
Neal Norwitzb1a9b372007-05-16 20:05:11 +00007794
Neal Norwitze0e70a42007-05-16 05:06:33 +00007795- Removed plat-freebsd2 and plat-freebsd3 directories (and IN.py in
7796 the directories).
7797
Georg Brandla09a96a2007-05-15 20:19:34 +00007798- HTML-escape the plain traceback in cgitb's HTML output, to prevent
7799 the traceback inadvertently or maliciously closing the comment and
7800 injecting HTML into the error page.
7801
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007802- The popen2 module and os.popen* are deprecated. Use the subprocess
7803 module.
Neal Norwitz42dd86b2007-05-11 06:57:33 +00007804
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007805- Added an optional credentials argument to SMTPHandler, for use with
7806 SMTP servers which require authentication.
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00007807
7808- Patch #1695948: Added optional timeout parameter to SocketHandler.
7809
7810- Bug #1652788: Minor fix for currentframe.
7811
7812- Patch #1598415: Added WatchedFileHandler to better support external
7813 log file rotation using e.g. newsyslog or logrotate. This handler is
7814 only useful in Unix/Linux environments.
7815
Georg Brandlfb4b3b72007-04-24 15:27:13 +00007816- Bug #1706381: Specifying the SWIG option "-c++" in the setup.py file
7817 (as opposed to the command line) will now write file names ending in
7818 ".cpp" too.
7819
Facundo Batistad918a652007-04-24 13:54:38 +00007820- As specified in RFC 2616, an HTTP response like 2xx indicates that
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007821 the client's request was successfully received, understood, and
7822 accepted. Now in these cases no error is raised in urllib (issue
7823 #1177) and urllib2.
Facundo Batistad918a652007-04-24 13:54:38 +00007824
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007825- Bug #1290505: time.strptime's internal cache of locale information
7826 is now properly recreated when the locale is changed.
Brett Cannonc6906652007-04-01 18:47:27 +00007827
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007828- Patch #1685563: remove (don't add) duplicate paths in
7829 distutils.MSVCCompiler.
Neal Norwitz8f35f442007-04-01 18:24:22 +00007830
Facundo Batistab6a5c9d2007-03-29 18:22:35 +00007831- Added a timeout parameter to the constructor of other protocols
7832 (telnetlib, ftplib, smtplib and poplib). This is second part of the
7833 work started with create_connection() and timeout in httplib, and
7834 closes patch #723312.
7835
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00007836- Patch #1676823: Added create_connection() to socket.py, which may be
7837 called with a timeout, and use it from httplib (whose HTTPConnection
Facundo Batista70f996b2007-05-21 17:32:32 +00007838 and HTTPSConnection now accept an optional timeout).
Facundo Batista07c78be2007-03-23 18:54:07 +00007839
Martin v. Löwis0af33882007-03-23 13:27:15 +00007840- Bug #978833: Revert r50844, as it broke _socketobject.dup.
7841
Žiga Seilnacht7492e422007-03-21 20:07:56 +00007842- Bug #1675967: re patterns pickled with Python 2.4 and earlier can
7843 now be unpickled with Python 2.5 and newer.
7844
Collin Wintera8785cc2007-03-19 18:52:08 +00007845- Patch #1630118: add a SpooledTemporaryFile class to tempfile.py.
7846
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007847- Patch #1273829: os.walk() now has a "followlinks" parameter. If set
7848 to True (which is not the default), it visits symlinks pointing to
Georg Brandlcae9f3d2007-03-21 09:10:29 +00007849 directories.
7850
Georg Brandl8f06d022007-03-16 07:55:09 +00007851- Bug #1681228: the webbrowser module now correctly uses the default
7852 GNOME or KDE browser, depending on whether there is a session of one
7853 of those present. Also, it tries the Windows default browser before
7854 trying Mozilla variants.
7855
Collin Winter6f187742007-03-16 22:16:08 +00007856- Patch #1339796: add a relpath() function to os.path.
7857
Georg Brandlab1f4672007-03-15 07:41:30 +00007858- Patch #1681153: the wave module now closes a file object it opened if
7859 initialization failed.
7860
Georg Brandlf66b6032007-03-14 08:27:52 +00007861- Bug #767111: fix long-standing bug in urllib which caused an
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007862 AttributeError instead of an IOError when the server's response
7863 didn't contain a valid HTTP status line.
Georg Brandlf66b6032007-03-14 08:27:52 +00007864
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007865- Patch #957650: "%var%" environment variable references are now
7866 properly expanded in ntpath.expandvars(), also "~user" home
7867 directory references are recognized and handled on Windows.
Georg Brandl03b90d82007-03-13 22:07:36 +00007868
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007869- Patch #1429539: pdb now correctly initializes the __main__ module
7870 for the debugged script, which means that imports from __main__ work
Georg Brandlb6ae6aa2007-03-13 21:58:44 +00007871 correctly now.
7872
Georg Brandlbad6f192007-03-13 21:32:56 +00007873- The nonobvious commands.getstatus() function is now deprecated.
7874
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007875- Patch #1393667: pdb now has a "run" command which restarts the
7876 debugged Python program, optionally with different arguments.
Georg Brandl8e84c652007-03-13 21:08:15 +00007877
Thomas Heller5dc4fe02007-03-13 20:42:52 +00007878- Patch #1649190: Adding support for _Bool to ctypes as c_bool.
7879
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007880- Patch #1530482: add pydoc.render_doc() which returns the
7881 documentation for a thing instead of paging it to stdout, which
7882 pydoc.doc() does.
Georg Brandl8441f152007-03-13 20:02:57 +00007883
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007884- Patch #1533909: the timeit module now accepts callables in addition
7885 to strings for the code to time and the setup code. Also added two
7886 convenience functions for instantiating a Timer and calling its
7887 methods.
Georg Brandld9bef352007-03-13 19:32:21 +00007888
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007889- Patch #1537850: tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile now has a "delete"
7890 parameter which can be set to False to prevent the default
7891 delete-on-close behavior.
Georg Brandl35ef9c12007-03-13 18:31:49 +00007892
Georg Brandl9e6b4702007-03-13 18:15:41 +00007893- Patch #1581073: add a flag to textwrap that prevents the dropping of
7894 whitespace while wrapping.
7895
Georg Brandl92a6bae2007-03-13 17:43:32 +00007896- Patch #1603688: ConfigParser.SafeConfigParser now checks values that
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007897 are set for invalid interpolation sequences that would lead to
7898 errors on reading back those values.
Georg Brandl92a6bae2007-03-13 17:43:32 +00007899
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007900- Added support for the POSIX.1-2001 (pax) format to
7901 tarfile.py. Extended and cleaned up the test suite. Added a new
7902 testtar.tar.
Lars Gustäbelc64e4022007-03-13 10:47:19 +00007903
Martin v. Löwisbdd0f392007-03-13 10:24:00 +00007904- Patch #1449244: Support Unicode strings in
7905 email.message.Message.{set_charset,get_content_charset}.
7906
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007907- Patch #1542681: add entries for "with", "as" and "CONTEXTMANAGERS"
7908 to pydoc's help keywords.
Georg Brandlb6a87542007-03-13 10:06:48 +00007909
Georg Brandl4ffc8f52007-03-13 09:41:31 +00007910- Patch #1555098: use str.join() instead of repeated string
7911 concatenation in robotparser.
7912
Georg Brandl94fe3f52007-03-13 09:32:11 +00007913- Patch #1635454: the csv.DictWriter class now includes the offending
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007914 field names in its exception message if you try to write a record
7915 with a dictionary containing fields not in the CSV field names list.
Georg Brandl94fe3f52007-03-13 09:32:11 +00007916
Georg Brandlceede5c2007-03-13 08:14:27 +00007917- Patch #1668100: urllib2 now correctly raises URLError instead of
7918 OSError if accessing a local file via the file:// protocol fails.
7919
Martin v. Löwis2681beb2007-03-12 11:01:10 +00007920- Patch #1677862: Require a space or tab after import in .pth files.
7921
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007922- Patch #1192590: Fix pdb's "ignore" and "condition" commands so they
7923 trap the IndexError caused by passing in an invalid breakpoint
7924 number.
Collin Winter2faa9e12007-03-11 16:00:20 +00007925
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007926- Patch #1599845: Add an option to disable the implicit calls to
7927 server_bind() and server_activate() in the constructors for
7928 TCPServer, SimpleXMLRPCServer and DocXMLRPCServer.
Collin Winterae041062007-03-10 14:41:48 +00007929
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007930- Bug #1531963: Make SocketServer.TCPServer's server_address always be
7931 equal to calling getsockname() on the server's socket. Fixed by
Collin Winterfaaa2042007-03-10 03:35:34 +00007932 patch #1545011.
Collin Winter22c42ba2007-03-10 02:51:26 +00007933
Andrew M. Kuchlinge45a77a2008-01-19 16:26:13 +00007934- Patch #742598: Add .timeout attribute to SocketServer that calls
7935 .handle_timeout() when no requests are received.
7936
Thomas Heller2456a3c2007-03-09 20:39:22 +00007937- Bug #1651235: When a tuple was passed to a ctypes function call,
7938 Python would crash instead of raising an error.
7939
Thomas Hellerc2f77252007-03-09 19:21:28 +00007940- Bug #1646630: ctypes.string_at(buf, 0) and ctypes.wstring_at(buf, 0)
7941 returned string up to the first NUL character.
7942
Martin v. Löwis1190a382007-03-09 15:35:55 +00007943- Patch #957003: Implement smtplib.LMTP.
7944
Collin Winterfb728de2007-03-09 03:26:32 +00007945- Patch #1481079: add support for HTTP_REFERER to CGIHTTPServer.
7946
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007947- Patch #1675424: Added tests for uncovered code in the zipfile
7948 module. The KeyError raised by Zipfile.getinfo for nonexistent
7949 names now has a descriptive message.
Georg Brandl4b3ab6f2007-07-12 09:59:22 +00007950
Martin v. Löwis05c075d2007-03-07 11:04:33 +00007951- Bug #1115886: os.path.splitext('.cshrc') gives now ('.cshrc', '').
7952
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007953- unittest now verifies more of its assumptions. In particular,
7954 TestCase and TestSuite subclasses (not instances) are no longer
7955 accepted in TestSuite.addTest(). This should cause no
7956 incompatibility since it never made sense with ordinary subclasses
7957 -- the failure just occurred later, with a more cumbersome
7958 exception.
Georg Brandl9caadf82007-03-08 18:37:31 +00007959
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007960- Patch #787789: allow to pass custom TestRunner instances to
7961 unittest's main() function.
Georg Brandld0a96252007-03-07 09:21:06 +00007962
Georg Brandl15c5ce92007-03-07 09:09:40 +00007963- Patches #1550273, #1550272: fix a few bugs in unittest and add a
7964 comprehensive test suite for the module.
7965
Georg Brandl71ff6462007-03-07 08:31:51 +00007966- Patch #1001604: glob.glob() now returns unicode filenames if it was
7967 given a unicode argument and os.listdir() returns unicode filenames.
7968
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007969- Patch #1673619: setup.py identifies extension modules it doesn't
7970 know how to build and those it knows how to build but that fail to
7971 build.
Skip Montanarod1287322007-03-06 15:41:38 +00007972
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00007973- Patch #912410: Replace HTML entity references for attribute values
Martin v. Löwisab8a6bb2007-03-06 14:43:00 +00007974 in HTMLParser.
7975
Georg Brandlff432e62007-03-06 13:37:45 +00007976- Patch #1663234: you can now run doctest on test files and modules
7977 using "python -m doctest [-v] filename ...".
7978
Martin v. Löwis3eb76482007-03-06 10:41:24 +00007979- Patch #1121142: Implement ZipFile.open.
7980
Skip Montanarof694b1b2007-03-04 20:54:12 +00007981- Taught setup.py how to locate Berkeley DB on Macs using MacPorts.
7982
Raymond Hettinger00166c52007-02-19 04:08:43 +00007983- Added heapq.merge() for merging sorted input streams.
7984
Raymond Hettingercd3c1082007-10-23 21:23:07 +00007985- Added collections.namedtuple() for assigning field names to tuples.
Raymond Hettingerc37e5e02007-03-01 06:16:43 +00007986
Raymond Hettingerd36862c2007-02-21 05:20:38 +00007987- Added itertools.izip_longest().
7988
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007989- Have the encoding package's search function dynamically import using
7990 absolute import semantics.
Brett Cannon971a0122007-02-15 22:54:39 +00007991
Lars Gustäbel5b1a7852007-02-13 16:09:24 +00007992- Patch #1647484: Renamed GzipFile's filename attribute to name.
7993
Martin v. Löwis84f6de92007-02-13 10:10:39 +00007994- Patch #1517891: Mode 'a' for ZipFile now creates the file if it
7995 doesn't exist.
7996
Martin v. Löwisc6d626e2007-02-13 09:49:38 +00007997- Patch #698833: Support file decryption in zipfile.
7998
Martin v. Löwis07aa3ed2007-02-13 08:34:45 +00007999- Patch #685268: Consider a package's __path__ in imputil.
8000
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008001- Patch #1463026: Support default namespace in XMLGenerator.
Martin v. Löwis2bad58f2007-02-12 12:21:10 +00008002
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008003- Patch #1571379: Make trace's --ignore-dir facility work in the face
8004 of relative directory names.
Skip Montanaro691acf22007-02-11 18:24:37 +00008005
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008006- Bug #1600860: Search for shared python library in LIBDIR, not
8007 lib/python/config, on "linux" and "gnu" systems.
Martin v. Löwis0a203262007-02-09 12:36:48 +00008008
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008009- Patch #1652681: tarfile.py: create nonexistent files in append mode
8010 and allow appending to empty files.
Lars Gustäbel3f8aca12007-02-06 18:38:13 +00008011
Peter Astrand5f9c6ae2007-02-06 15:37:50 +00008012- Bug #1124861: Automatically create pipes if GetStdHandle fails in
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00008013 subprocess.
Peter Astrand5f9c6ae2007-02-06 15:37:50 +00008014
Georg Brandl4ba9e5b2007-01-27 17:59:42 +00008015- Patch #1634778: add missing encoding aliases for iso8859_15 and
8016 iso8859_16.
8017
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008018- Patch #1638243: the compiler package is now able to correctly
8019 compile a with statement; previously, executing code containing a
8020 with statement compiled by the compiler package crashed the
8021 interpreter.
Georg Brandlab496842007-01-27 17:43:02 +00008022
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00008023- Bug #1643943: Fix time.strptime's support for the %U directive.
8024
Lars Gustäbel0713a682007-02-19 09:54:47 +00008025- Patch #1507247: tarfile.py: use current umask for intermediate
8026 directories.
8027
Georg Brandldd7b0522007-01-21 10:35:10 +00008028- Patch #1627441: close sockets properly in urllib2.
8029
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008030- Bug #494589: make ntpath.expandvars behave according to its
8031 docstring.
Sjoerd Mullender33a0a062007-01-16 16:42:38 +00008032
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00008033- Changed platform module API python_version_tuple() to actually
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00008034 return a tuple (it used to return a list).
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00008035
8036- Added new platform module APIs python_branch(), python_revision(),
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00008037 python_implementation() and linux_distribution().
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00008038
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00008039- Added support for IronPython and Jython to the platform module.
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00008040
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008041- The sets module has been deprecated. Use the built-in set/frozenset
8042 types instead.
Brett Cannon093b6702007-01-13 00:29:49 +00008043
Thomas Heller6fd45492007-01-12 20:21:53 +00008044- Bug #1610795: make ctypes.util.find_library work on BSD systems.
8045
Thomas Heller8138c262007-01-11 21:18:56 +00008046- Fixes for 64-bit Windows: In ctypes.wintypes, correct the
8047 definitions of HANDLE, WPARAM, LPARAM data types. Make
8048 parameterless foreign function calls work.
8049
Thomas Hellerfb9d7872007-01-10 20:12:13 +00008050- The version number of the ctypes package changed to "1.1.0".
8051
Vinay Sajipab41c102007-01-09 14:51:36 +00008052- Bug #1627575: logging: Added _open() method to FileHandler which can
8053 be used to reopen files. The FileHandler instance now saves the
8054 encoding (which can be None) in an attribute called "encoding".
8055
Vinay Sajipc9137262007-01-08 18:52:36 +00008056- Bug #411881: logging.handlers: bare except clause removed from
8057 SMTPHandler.emit. Now, only ImportError is trapped.
8058
8059- Bug #411881: logging.handlers: bare except clause removed from
8060 SocketHandler.createSocket. Now, only socket.error is trapped.
8061
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008062- Bug #411881: logging: bare except clause removed from
8063 LogRecord.__init__. Now, only ValueError, TypeError and
8064 AttributeError are trapped.
Vinay Sajipc9137262007-01-08 18:52:36 +00008065
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008066- Patch #1504073: Fix tarfile.open() for mode "r" with a fileobj
8067 argument.
Lars Gustäbela7ba6fc2006-12-27 10:30:46 +00008068
Andrew M. Kuchling71662322006-12-27 03:31:24 +00008069- Patch #1182394 from Shane Holloway: speed up HMAC.hexdigest.
8070
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008071- Patch #1262036: Prevent TarFiles from being added to themselves
8072 under certain conditions.
Lars Gustäbela4b23812006-12-23 17:57:23 +00008073
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008074- Patch #1230446: tarfile.py: fix ExFileObject so that read() and
8075 tell() work correctly together with readline().
Lars Gustäbel6baa5022006-12-23 16:40:13 +00008076
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008077- Patch #1484695: The tarfile module now raises a HeaderError
8078 exception if a buffer given to frombuf() is invalid.
Georg Brandlebbeed72006-12-19 22:06:46 +00008079
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00008080- Bug #1503765: Fix a problem in logging.config with spaces in comma-
8081 separated lists read from logging config files.
8082
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008083- Patch #1604907: Fix problems in logging.handlers caused at logging
8084 shutdown when syslog handlers fail to initialize because of syslogd
8085 problems.
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00008086
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008087- Patch #1608267: fix a race condition in os.makedirs() if the
8088 directory to be created is already there.
Georg Brandlb1307432006-12-09 09:08:29 +00008089
Georg Brandl87fa5592006-12-06 22:21:18 +00008090- Patch #1610437: fix a tarfile bug with long filename headers.
8091
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008092- Patch #1371075: Make ConfigParser accept optional dict type for
8093 ordering, sorting, etc.
Martin v. Löwisa00bcac2006-12-03 12:01:53 +00008094
Thomas Helleref583a42006-11-28 20:21:54 +00008095- Bug #1563807: _ctypes built on AIX fails with ld ffi error.
8096
Thomas Heller25d208b2006-11-24 18:45:39 +00008097- Bug #1598620: A ctypes Structure cannot contain itself.
8098
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008099- Patch #1070046: Marshal new-style objects like InstanceType in
8100 xmlrpclib.
Martin v. Löwis07529352006-11-19 18:51:54 +00008101
Martin v. Löwiscffcc8b2006-11-19 10:41:41 +00008102- cStringIO.truncate(-1) now raises an IOError, like StringIO and
8103 regular files.
8104
Martin v. Löwisbba003e2006-11-18 18:42:11 +00008105- Patch #1472877: Fix Tix subwidget name resolution.
8106
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008107- Patch #1594554: Always close a tkSimpleDialog on ok(), even if an
8108 exception occurs.
Martin v. Löwisef5fd3e2006-11-18 18:05:35 +00008109
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008110- Patch #1538878: Don't make tkSimpleDialog dialogs transient if the
8111 parent window is withdrawn.
Martin v. Löwisc73a4a42006-11-18 18:00:23 +00008112
Georg Brandl54082112006-11-16 16:50:59 +00008113- Bug #1597824: return the registered function from atexit.register()
8114 to facilitate usage as a decorator.
8115
Martin v. Löwis45cd4ff2006-11-12 18:56:03 +00008116- Patch #1360200: Use unmangled_version RPM spec field to deal with
8117 file name mangling.
8118
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008119- Patch #1359217: Process 2xx response in an ftplib transfer that
8120 precedes an 1xx response.
Martin v. Löwis36cbc082006-11-12 18:48:13 +00008121
Martin v. Löwis065f0c82006-11-12 10:41:39 +00008122- Patch #1355023: support whence argument for GzipFile.seek.
8123
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00008124- Patch #1065257: Support passing open files as body in
Martin v. Löwis040a9272006-11-12 10:32:47 +00008125 HTTPConnection.request().
8126
Andrew M. Kuchlinga3e5d372006-11-09 13:27:07 +00008127- Bug #1569790: mailbox.py: Maildir.get_folder() and MH.get_folder()
8128 weren't passing the message factory on to newly created Maildir/MH
8129 objects.
8130
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008131- Patch #1514543: mailbox.py: In the Maildir class, report errors if
8132 there's a filename clash instead of possibly losing a message.
8133 (Patch by David Watson.)
Andrew M. Kuchling978d8282006-11-09 21:16:46 +00008134
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008135- Patch #1514544: Try to ensure that messages/indexes have been
8136 physically written to disk after calling .flush() or
8137 .close(). (Patch by David Watson.)
Andrew M. Kuchlingb5686da2006-11-09 13:51:14 +00008138
Guido van Rossumaf16ece2008-02-21 19:46:35 +00008139- Patch #1592250: Add elide argument to Tkinter.Text.search.
Martin v. Löwis038cad72006-11-09 11:27:32 +00008140
Guido van Rossumaf16ece2008-02-21 19:46:35 +00008141- Patch #838546: Make terminal become controlling in pty.fork().
Martin v. Löwisb2bba732006-11-09 11:06:03 +00008142
Martin v. Löwis5361e9a2006-11-08 07:35:55 +00008143- Patch #1351744: Add askyesnocancel helper for tkMessageBox.
8144
Martin v. Löwis5310e502006-11-04 18:14:06 +00008145- Patch #1060577: Extract list of RPM files from spec file in
Guido van Rossumaf16ece2008-02-21 19:46:35 +00008146 bdist_rpm.
Martin v. Löwis5310e502006-11-04 18:14:06 +00008147
Georg Brandl2c9838e2006-10-29 14:39:09 +00008148- Bug #1586613: fix zlib and bz2 codecs' incremental en/decoders.
8149
Georg Brandl3354f282006-10-29 09:16:12 +00008150- Patch #1583880: fix tarfile's problems with long names and posix/
8151 GNU modes.
8152
Georg Brandl5addf702006-10-29 08:53:06 +00008153- Bug #1586448: the compiler module now emits the same bytecode for
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00008154 list comprehensions as the built-in compiler, using the LIST_APPEND
Georg Brandl5addf702006-10-29 08:53:06 +00008155 opcode.
8156
Georg Brandl8f99f812006-10-29 08:39:22 +00008157- Fix codecs.EncodedFile which did not use file_encoding in 2.5.0, and
8158 fix all codecs file wrappers to work correctly with the "with"
8159 statement (bug #1586513).
8160
Thomas Heller112d1a62006-10-27 19:05:53 +00008161- Lib/modulefinder.py now handles absolute and relative imports
8162 correctly.
8163
Martin v. Löwisee82c0e2006-10-27 07:13:28 +00008164- Patch #1567274: Support SMTP over TLS.
8165
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008166- Patch #1560695: Add .note.GNU-stack to ctypes' sysv.S so that ctypes
8167 isn't considered as requiring executable stacks.
Martin v. Löwis1b2f6272006-10-22 10:55:15 +00008168
Thomas Hellerd2ea4a22006-10-17 19:30:48 +00008169- ctypes callback functions only support 'fundamental' data types as
8170 result type. Raise an error when something else is used. This is a
8171 partial fix for Bug #1574584.
8172
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008173- Fix turtle so that time.sleep is imported for the entire library.
8174 Allows the demo2 function to be executed on its own instead of only
8175 when the module is run as a script.
Brett Cannond80e0c82006-10-16 03:09:52 +00008176
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008177- Bug #813342: Start the IDLE subprocess with -Qnew if the parent is
8178 started with that option.
Georg Brandld0761532006-10-12 07:57:21 +00008179
Martin v. Löwisf43893a2006-10-09 20:44:25 +00008180- Bug #1565150: Fix subsecond processing for os.utime on Windows.
8181
Martin v. Löwis8b274262006-10-04 15:25:28 +00008182- Support for MSVC 8 was added to bdist_wininst.
8183
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008184- Bug #1446043: correctly raise a LookupError if an encoding name
8185 given to encodings.search_function() contains a dot.
Georg Brandla92979a2006-09-30 11:22:28 +00008186
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008187- Bug #1560617: in pyclbr, return full module name not only for
8188 classes, but also for functions.
Georg Brandl154324a2006-09-30 11:06:47 +00008189
Georg Brandl05b3c452006-09-30 10:58:01 +00008190- Bug #1457823: cgi.(Sv)FormContentDict's constructor now takes
8191 keep_blank_values and strict_parsing keyword arguments.
8192
Georg Brandl8d1e5bf2006-09-30 09:13:21 +00008193- Bug #1566602: correct failure of posixpath unittest when $HOME ends
8194 with a slash.
8195
Georg Brandl8c667452006-09-30 07:31:57 +00008196- Bug #1565661: in webbrowser, split() the command for the default
8197 GNOME browser in case it is a command with args.
8198
Georg Brandl5a85d5c2009-06-24 06:41:19 +00008199- Made the error message for time.strptime when the data and
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008200 format do match be more clear.
Brett Cannon11b35352006-09-26 23:38:24 +00008201
Georg Brandlc7986ce2006-09-24 12:50:24 +00008202- Fix a bug in traceback.format_exception_only() that led to an error
8203 being raised when print_exc() was called without an exception set.
8204 In version 2.4, this printed "None", restored that behavior.
8205
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008206- Make webbrowser.BackgroundBrowser usable in Windows (it wasn't
8207 because the close_fds arg to subprocess.Popen is not supported).
Georg Brandl2c94bf72006-09-24 10:36:01 +00008208
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008209- Reverted patch #1504333 to sgmllib because it introduced an infinite
8210 loop.
Neal Norwitzbcc119a2006-09-11 04:24:09 +00008211
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008212- Patch #1553314: Fix the inspect.py slowdown that was hurting IPython
8213 & SAGE by adding smarter caching in inspect.getmodule()
Nick Coghlanb3c18f82006-09-08 10:04:38 +00008214
Georg Brandl4e933132006-09-06 20:05:58 +00008215- Fix missing import of the types module in logging.config.
8216
Nick Coghlanbb0996c2006-09-03 01:20:46 +00008217- Patch #1550886: Fix decimal module context management implementation
Neal Norwitza22975f2006-09-05 02:24:03 +00008218 to match the localcontext() example from PEP 343.
Nick Coghlanbb0996c2006-09-03 01:20:46 +00008219
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008220- Bug #1545341: The 'classifier' keyword argument to the Distutils
8221 setup() function now accepts tuples as well as lists.
Andrew M. Kuchling99994792006-10-09 17:10:12 +00008222
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008223- Bug #1541863: uuid.uuid1 failed to generate unique identifiers on
8224 systems with low clock resolution.
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00008225
Gustavo Niemeyerc36bede2006-09-07 00:48:33 +00008226- Bug #1531862: Do not close standard file descriptors in subprocess.
8227
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008228- idle: Honor the "Cancel" action in the save dialog (Debian bug
8229 #299092).
Matthias Klosea398e2d2007-01-11 11:44:04 +00008230
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008231- Fix utf-8-sig incremental decoder, which didn't recognise a BOM when
8232 the first chunk fed to the decoder started with a BOM, but was
8233 longer than 3 bytes.
Georg Brandl27562782006-10-27 20:39:43 +00008234
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008235- The implementation of UnicodeError objects has been simplified
8236 (start and end attributes are now stored directly as Py_ssize_t
8237 members).
Walter Dörwald84a3efe2007-06-13 16:57:12 +00008238
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008239- Issue #829951: In the smtplib module, SMTP.starttls() now complies
8240 with RFC 3207 and forgets any knowledge obtained from the server not
8241 obtained from the TLS negotiation itself. Patch contributed by Bill
8242 Fenner.
Gregory P. Smith2b3ba582008-01-17 08:03:17 +00008243
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008244- Issue #1339: The smtplib.SMTP class has been refactored a bit such
Gregory P. Smithbde4ae42008-01-17 08:35:49 +00008245 that the SMTP.starttls() caller no longer needs to call ehlo()
8246 beforehand. SMTP.starttls() now raises an exception of the server
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008247 does not claim to support starttls. Adds the
8248 SMTP.ehlo_or_helo_if_needed() method. Patch contributed by Bill
8249 Fenner.
Gregory P. Smithbde4ae42008-01-17 08:35:49 +00008250
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008251- Patch #1089358: Add signal.siginterrupt, a wrapper around
8252 siginterrupt(3).
Georg Brandl29604a12008-01-26 14:03:47 +00008253
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00008254Extension Modules
8255-----------------
8256
Georg Brandl392c6fc2008-05-25 07:25:25 +00008257- Patch #1657: added select.epoll and select.kqueue.
Christian Heimes0e9ab5f2008-03-21 23:49:44 +00008258
Georg Brandlebcfd112008-02-23 23:04:35 +00008259- Patch #1506171: added operator.methodcaller().
8260
Georg Brandle2065c62008-02-23 23:02:23 +00008261- Patch #1826: operator.attrgetter() now supports dotted attribute paths.
8262
Georg Brandl392c6fc2008-05-25 07:25:25 +00008263- Patch #1957: syslogmodule: Release GIL when calling syslog(3).
Christian Heimesf0476e82008-02-23 17:42:31 +00008264
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008265- Bug #2112: mmap.error is now a subclass of EnvironmentError and not
8266 a direct EnvironmentError.
Facundo Batistae1396882008-02-17 18:59:29 +00008267
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008268- Bug #2111: mmap segfaults when trying to write a block opened with
8269 PROT_READ.
Christian Heimes7adfad82008-02-15 08:20:11 +00008270
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008271- Bug #2063: correct order of utime and stime in os.times() result on
8272 Windows.
Georg Brandl0a40ffb2008-02-13 07:20:22 +00008273
Martin v. Löwise0d30ef2008-02-12 13:47:26 +00008274- Patch #1736: Fix file name handling of _msi.FCICreate.
8275
Hye-Shik Chang01612e72008-02-08 17:10:20 +00008276- Updated ``big5hkscs`` codec to the HKSCS revision of 2004.
8277
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008278- Issue #1940: make it possible to use curses.filter() before
8279 curses.initscr() as the documentation says.
Georg Brandl29604a12008-01-26 14:03:47 +00008280
Christian Heimes7f39c9f2008-01-25 12:18:43 +00008281- Backport of _fileio module from Python 3.0.
8282
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008283- Patch #1087741: mmap.mmap is now a class, not a factory function. It
8284 is also subclassable now.
Georg Brandl5ca3fd82008-01-21 14:18:14 +00008285
Georg Brandl56112892008-01-20 13:59:46 +00008286- Patch #1648: added ``sys.getprofile()`` and ``sys.gettrace()``.
8287
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008288- Patch #1663329: added ``os.closerange()`` function to quickly close
8289 a range of file descriptors without considering errors.
Georg Brandl309501a2008-01-19 20:22:13 +00008290
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008291- Patch #976880: ``mmap`` objects now have an ``rfind`` method that
Andrew M. Kuchling5c60bfc2008-01-19 18:18:41 +00008292 works as expected. ``mmap.find`` also takes an optional ``end``
8293 parameter.
8294
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008295- _winreg's HKEY object has gained __enter__ and __exit__ methods to
8296 support the context manager protocol. The _winreg module also
8297 gained a new function ``ExpandEnvironmentStrings`` to expand
8298 REG_EXPAND_SZ keys.
Christian Heimesb39a7562008-01-08 15:46:10 +00008299
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008300- itertools.starmap() now accepts any iterable input. Previously, it
8301 required the function inputs to be tuples.
Raymond Hettinger47317092008-01-17 03:02:14 +00008302
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008303- itertools.chain() now has an alternate constructor,
8304 chain.from_iterable().
Raymond Hettingerb4cbc982008-02-28 22:46:41 +00008305
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008306- Issue #1646: Make socket support TIPC. The socket module now has
8307 support for TIPC under Linux, see http://tipc.sf.net/ for more
8308 information.
Christian Heimesfb2d25a2008-01-07 16:12:44 +00008309
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008310- Added interface for Windows' WSAIoctl to socket object and added an
8311 example for a simple network sniffer.
Christian Heimes04ae9162008-01-04 15:23:30 +00008312
Guido van Rossum076d9ee2008-01-03 23:54:04 +00008313- Bug #1301: Bad assert in _tkinter fixed.
8314
Christian Heimescdaa2cb2007-12-31 14:47:07 +00008315- Added bdist_wininst executable for VS 2008.
8316
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008317- Bug #1604: collections.deque.__init__(iterable) now clears any prior
8318 contents before adding elements from the iterable. This fix brings
8319 the behavior into line with that for list.__init__().
Raymond Hettingeradf9ffd2007-12-13 00:08:37 +00008320
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008321- Added wide char functions to msvcrt module: getwch, getwche, putwch
8322 and ungetwch. The functions accept or return unicode.
Christian Heimes7c7f6af2007-12-10 15:12:41 +00008323
Martin v. Löwis69233e82007-12-04 08:39:16 +00008324- os.access now returns True on Windows for any existing directory.
8325
Christian Heimes28104c52007-11-27 23:16:44 +00008326- Added warnpy3k function to the warnings module.
8327
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008328- Marshal.dumps() now expects exact type matches for int, long, float,
8329 complex, tuple, list, dict, set, and frozenset. Formerly, it would
8330 silently miscode subclasses of those types. Now, it raises a
8331 ValueError instead.
Raymond Hettinger12e94202007-11-07 01:13:09 +00008332
Martin v. Löwis58bd49f2007-09-04 13:13:14 +00008333- Patch #1388440: Add set_completion_display_matches_hook and
8334 get_completion_type to readline.
8335
Thomas Helleref4fff32007-07-13 17:46:54 +00008336- Bug #1649098: Avoid declaration of zero-sized array declaration in
8337 structure.
8338
Brett Cannondc48b742007-05-20 07:09:50 +00008339- Removed the rgbimg module; been deprecated since Python 2.5.
8340
Neal Norwitz59f58aa2007-05-19 03:48:47 +00008341- Bug #1721309: prevent bsddb module from freeing random memory.
8342
Gregory P. Smith82eafe62007-10-18 17:17:57 +00008343- Bug #1233: fix bsddb.dbshelve.DBShelf append method to work as
8344 intended for RECNO databases.
8345
Gregory P. Smithec10a4a2007-11-05 02:32:26 +00008346- pybsddb.sf.net Bug #477182: Load the database flags at database open
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008347 time so that opening a database previously created with the DB_DUP
8348 or DB_DUPSORT flag set will keep the proper behavior on subsequent
8349 opens. Specifically: dictionary assignment to a DB object will
8350 replace all values for a given key when the database allows
8351 duplicate values. DB users should use DB.put(k, v) when they want
8352 to store duplicates; not DB[k] = v.
Gregory P. Smithec10a4a2007-11-05 02:32:26 +00008353
Gregory P. Smithac11e022007-11-05 02:56:31 +00008354- Add the bsddb.db.DBEnv.lock_id_free method.
8355
Martin v. Löwis3bf573f2007-04-04 18:30:36 +00008356- Bug #1686475: Support stat'ing open files on Windows again.
8357
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008358- Patch #1185447: binascii.b2a_qp() now correctly quotes binary
8359 characters with ASCII value less than 32. Also, it correctly quotes
8360 dots only if they occur on a single line, as opposed to the previous
8361 behavior of quoting dots if they are the second character of any
8362 line.
Georg Brandl4aef7272007-03-13 22:49:43 +00008363
Georg Brandla47337f2007-03-13 12:34:25 +00008364- Bug #1622896: fix a rare corner case where the bz2 module raised an
8365 error in spite of a succesful compression.
8366
Georg Brandl40c62612007-03-06 18:59:11 +00008367- Patch #1654417: make operator.{get,set,del}slice use the full range
8368 of Py_ssize_t.
8369
Guido van Rossum2054ee92007-03-06 15:50:01 +00008370- Patch #1646728: datetime.fromtimestamp fails with negative
8371 fractional times. With unittest.
8372
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008373- Patch #1490190: posixmodule now includes os.chflags() and
8374 os.lchflags() functions on platforms where the underlying system
8375 calls are available.
Martin v. Löwis382abef2007-02-19 10:55:19 +00008376
Georg Brandl983d1002007-02-15 11:29:04 +00008377- Patch #1494140: Add documentation for the new struct.Struct object.
8378
Martin v. Löwis45423a72007-02-14 10:07:37 +00008379- Patch #1432399: Support the HCI protocol for bluetooth sockets
8380
Martin v. Löwisb1cc1d42007-02-13 12:14:19 +00008381- Patch #1657276: Make NETLINK_DNRTMSG conditional.
8382
Martin v. Löwis4c11a922007-02-08 09:13:36 +00008383- Bug #1653736: Complain about keyword arguments to time.isoformat.
8384
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008385- Bug #1486663: don't reject keyword arguments for subclasses of
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00008386 built-in types.
Georg Brandlb84c1372007-01-21 10:28:43 +00008387
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008388- Patch #1610575: The struct module now supports the 't' code, for C99
8389 _Bool.
Martin v. Löwisaef4c6b2007-01-21 09:33:07 +00008390
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008391- Patch #1635058: ensure that htonl and friends never accept or return
8392 negative numbers, per the underlying C implementation.
Guido van Rossumbb2cc692007-01-14 17:03:32 +00008393
Martin v. Löwis046c4d12006-12-03 11:23:45 +00008394- Patch #1544279: Improve thread-safety of the socket module by moving
8395 the sock_addr_t storage out of the socket object.
8396
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008397- Patch #1019808: fix bug that causes an incorrect error to be
8398 returned when a socket timeout is set and a connection attempt
8399 fails.
Andrew M. Kuchling060e6852008-01-19 20:47:59 +00008400
Neal Norwitz45e230a2006-11-19 21:26:53 +00008401- Speed up function calls into the math module.
8402
Georg Brandl25aabf42006-11-16 17:08:45 +00008403- Bug #1588217: don't parse "= " as a soft line break in binascii's
8404 a2b_qp() function, instead leave it in the string as quopri.decode()
8405 does.
8406
Neal Norwitz4fe44232006-11-21 05:26:22 +00008407- Bug #1599782: Fix segfault on bsddb.db.DB().type().
8408
Martin v. Löwis012bc722006-10-15 09:43:39 +00008409- Bug #1567666: Emulate GetFileAttributesExA for Win95.
8410
Martin v. Löwis18aaa562006-10-15 08:43:33 +00008411- Patch #1576166: Support os.utime for directories on Windows NT+.
8412
Georg Brandl412a9ea2006-10-09 19:03:06 +00008413- Patch #1572724: fix typo ('=' instead of '==') in _msi.c.
8414
Hye-Shik Changb7883462006-10-08 13:48:34 +00008415- Bug #1572832: fix a bug in ISO-2022 codecs which may cause segfault
8416 when encoding non-BMP unicode characters.
8417
Georg Brandl4ddfcd32006-09-30 11:17:34 +00008418- Bug #1556784: allow format strings longer than 127 characters in
8419 datetime's strftime function.
8420
Jack Diederichd10a0f72006-09-21 20:34:49 +00008421- Fix itertools.count(n) to work with negative numbers again.
8422
Martin v. Löwis43fd99c2006-09-16 17:36:37 +00008423- RLIMIT_SBSIZE was added to the resource module where available.
8424
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008425- Bug #1551427: fix a wrong NULL pointer check in the win32 version of
8426 os.urandom().
Georg Brandl74bb7832006-09-06 06:03:59 +00008427
Neal Norwitz6aefa912006-09-02 02:50:35 +00008428- Bug #1548092: fix curses.tparm seg fault on invalid input.
8429
Andrew M. Kuchling62182c82008-01-08 14:56:02 +00008430- Patch #1114: fix curses module compilation on 64-bit AIX, & possibly
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008431 other 64-bit LP64 platforms where attr_t is not the same size as a
8432 long. (Contributed by Luke Mewburn.)
Andrew M. Kuchling62182c82008-01-08 14:56:02 +00008433
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008434- Bug #1550714: fix SystemError from itertools.tee on negative value
8435 for n.
Neal Norwitz69e88972006-09-02 02:58:13 +00008436
Hye-Shik Chang199f1db2006-09-05 12:07:09 +00008437- Fixed a few bugs on cjkcodecs:
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008438 - gbk and gb18030 codec now handle U+30FB KATAKANA MIDDLE DOT
8439 correctly.
Hye-Shik Chang199f1db2006-09-05 12:07:09 +00008440 - iso2022_jp_2 codec now encodes into G0 for KS X 1001, GB2312
8441 codepoints to conform the standard.
Hye-Shik Chang2cad3e92006-09-05 12:14:57 +00008442 - iso2022_jp_3 and iso2022_jp_2004 codec can encode JIS X 0213:2
Hye-Shik Chang199f1db2006-09-05 12:07:09 +00008443 codepoints now.
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00008444
Andrew M. Kuchling43889c02006-09-27 16:37:30 +00008445- Bug #1552726: in readline.c, avoid repeatedly polling in interactive
8446 mode by only placing a timeout on the select() if an input hook has
8447 been defined. This prevents an interactive Python from waking up 10
8448 times per second. Patch by Richard Boulton.
8449
Gregory P. Smithf09c6262007-03-17 22:33:35 +00008450- fixed a bug with bsddb.DB.stat: the flags and txn keyword arguments
8451 were transposed.
8452
Jesus Cea4907d272008-08-31 14:00:51 +00008453- Added support for linking the bsddb module against BerkeleyDB 4.5.x,
8454 4.6.x and 4.7.x.
Gregory P. Smith8b96a352007-01-05 01:59:42 +00008455
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008456- Bug #1633621: if curses.resizeterm() or curses.resize_term() is
8457 called, update _curses.LINES, _curses.COLS, curses.LINES and
8458 curses.COLS.
Andrew M. Kuchling43889c02006-09-27 16:37:30 +00008459
Matthias Klosee19e0c22007-04-03 04:35:59 +00008460- Fix an off-by-one bug in locale.strxfrm().
8461
Matthias Klose38336402007-09-04 20:46:02 +00008462- Fix libffi configure for hppa*-*-linux* | parisc*-*-linux*.
8463
Matthias Klose9afb9852007-10-24 20:00:44 +00008464- Build using system ffi library on arm*-linux*.
8465
Christian Heimes3f065a42007-11-21 01:17:28 +00008466- Bug #1372: zlibmodule.c: int overflow in PyZlib_decompress
Matthias Klosee19e0c22007-04-03 04:35:59 +00008467
Gregory P. Smitheeed5b72008-02-03 07:20:53 +00008468- bsddb module: Fix memory leak when using database cursors on
8469 databases without a DBEnv.
8470
Gerhard Häring11ab8072008-03-02 13:12:27 +00008471- The sqlite3 module was updated to pysqlite 2.4.1.
8472
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00008473Tests
8474-----
8475
Brett Cannon56c4deb2008-03-03 00:38:58 +00008476- Refactor test_logging to use unittest.
Brett Cannonf9db8a32008-02-17 01:59:18 +00008477
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008478- Refactor test_profile and test_cprofile to use the same code to
8479 profile.
Georg Brandlb7090772008-02-05 19:58:17 +00008480
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008481- Make test_runpy reentrant by fixing _check_module to clear out any
8482 module being tested. Was causing an error by __import__ doing a
8483 reload on the second run and thus suppressing bytecode recreation.
Brett Cannondbed7a72007-08-23 14:53:17 +00008484
Brett Cannonea2835a2007-03-14 21:44:15 +00008485- Capture socket connection resets and timeouts in test_socket_ssl and
8486 test_urllib2net and raise test.test_support.ResourceDenied.
Brett Cannoned001842007-03-14 21:40:13 +00008487
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008488- Patch #1559413: Fix test_cmd_line if sys.executable contains a
8489 space.
Martin v. Löwiscd1210a2007-03-14 20:02:31 +00008490
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008491- Added test.test_support.TransientResource which is a context manager
8492 to surround calls to resources that are not guaranteed to work even
8493 if test.test_support.requires says that the resource should exist.
Brett Cannona30fcb42007-03-08 23:58:11 +00008494
Brett Cannone05e6b02007-01-29 04:41:44 +00008495- Added a test for slicing of an exception.
8496
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008497- Added test.test_support.EnvironmentVarGuard. It's a class that
8498 provides a context manager so that one can temporarily set or unset
8499 environment variables.
Brett Cannon92d54d52007-01-04 00:23:49 +00008500
Thomas Heller112d1a62006-10-27 19:05:53 +00008501- Added some tests for modulefinder.
8502
Brett Cannon373d90b2006-10-03 23:23:14 +00008503- Converted test_imp to use unittest.
8504
Neal Norwitz919d5cc2006-09-05 02:35:08 +00008505- Fix bsddb test_basics.test06_Transactions to check the version
8506 number properly.
8507
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008508- test.test_support.catch_warning is a new context manager that can be
8509 used to catch the warnings issued by the warning framework.
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00008510
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00008511Tools
8512-----
8513
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008514- Tools/scripts/reindent.py now creates the backup file using
8515 shutil.copy to preserve user/group and permissions. Added also a
8516 --nobackup option to not create the backup if the user is concerned
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00008517 regarding this. Check issue #1050828 for more details.
Facundo Batistaf88a0772008-02-17 16:21:13 +00008518
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008519- Tools/scripts/win_add2path.py was added. The simple script modifes
8520 the PATH environment var of the HKCU tree and adds the python bin
8521 and script directory.
Christian Heimesbd865db2008-01-18 11:58:50 +00008522
Skip Montanaro3e275362007-08-29 01:33:45 +00008523- Tools/18n/pygettext.py was added to the list of scripts installed by
8524 Tools/scripts/setup.py (tracker item 642309).
8525
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008526- Added IronPython and Jython support to pybench (part of which was
8527 patch #1563844).
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00008528
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008529- Made some minor changes to pybench output to allow the user to see
8530 which Python version is running pybench.
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00008531
8532- Added support for the new platform module feature
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008533 platform.python_implementation(); this will now be saved in the
8534 benchmark pickle.
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00008535
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00008536
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00008537Documentation
8538-------------
8539
Vinay Sajipd7cf32e2008-01-24 12:43:33 +00008540- RFE #1765140: Updated documentation on FileHandler and subclasses to
8541 include new optional delay argument.
8542
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008543- Bug #932563: Added section on getting contextual information into
8544 logging output, and added documentation for the new LoggerAdapter
8545 class.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00008546
8547- Bug #1295: Added information about caching of formatted exception
8548 information in the LogRecord by Formatter.format().
8549
Georg Brandl9467bc52007-07-12 09:37:49 +00008550- Bug #1637365: add subsection about "__name__ == __main__" to the
8551 Python tutorial.
8552
Georg Brandl3dc6e902007-04-25 06:24:59 +00008553- Patch #1698768: updated the "using Python on the Mac" intro.
8554
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008555- Bug #1569057: Document that calling file.next() when the file is
8556 open for writing is undefined.
Brett Cannon55a18642007-04-08 04:29:32 +00008557
Žiga Seilnachtc64ad482007-03-24 14:24:26 +00008558- Patch #1489771: the syntax rules in Python Reference Manual were
8559 updated to reflect the current Python syntax.
8560
Martin v. Löwis2f401d72007-03-23 10:35:49 +00008561- Patch #1686451: Fix return type for
8562 PySequence_{Count,Index,Fast_GET_SIZE}.
8563
Georg Brandl0692a262007-03-13 07:50:57 +00008564- Patch #1679379: add documentation for fnmatch.translate().
8565
Collin Winterb7b2b4e2007-03-09 18:09:10 +00008566- Bug #1629566: clarify the docs on the return values of parsedate()
8567 and parsedate_tz() in email.utils and rfc822.
8568
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00008569- Patch #1671450: add a section about subclassing built-in types to the
Georg Brandld28b9fc2007-03-06 10:02:47 +00008570 "extending and embedding" tutorial.
8571
Georg Brandlb26b1c62007-01-17 21:19:58 +00008572- Bug #1629125: fix wrong data type (int -> Py_ssize_t) in PyDict_Next
8573 docs.
8574
Georg Brandla4c8e322006-10-12 08:22:53 +00008575- Bug #1565919: document set types in the Language Reference.
8576
Georg Brandl44a7b3a2006-09-30 12:02:57 +00008577- Bug #1546052: clarify that PyString_FromString(AndSize) copies the
8578 string pointed to by its parameter.
8579
Georg Brandlfb257732006-09-30 09:06:45 +00008580- Bug #1566663: remove obsolete example from datetime docs.
8581
Georg Brandl648c1102006-08-18 07:27:59 +00008582- Bug #1541682: Fix example in the "Refcount details" API docs.
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008583 Additionally, remove a faulty example showing PySequence_SetItem
8584 applied to a newly created list object and add notes that this isn't
8585 a good idea.
Georg Brandl648c1102006-08-18 07:27:59 +00008586
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00008587
Georg Brandl27562782006-10-27 20:39:43 +00008588Tools/Demos
8589-----------
8590
8591- Patch #1552024: add decorator support to unparse.py demo script.
Marc-André Lemburg96148682006-09-06 20:40:22 +00008592
Brett Cannonc8939d22006-09-20 19:28:35 +00008593- Make auto-generated python.vim file list built-ins and exceptions in
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008594 alphatbetical order. Makes output more deterministic and easier to
8595 tell if the file is stale or not.
Brett Cannonc8939d22006-09-20 19:28:35 +00008596
Marc-André Lemburg96148682006-09-06 20:40:22 +00008597- Bug #1546372: Fixed small bugglet in pybench that caused a missing
8598 file not to get reported properly.
8599
8600
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00008601Build
8602-----
8603
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008604- Have the search path for building extensions follow the declared
8605 order in $CPPFLAGS and $LDFLAGS when adding directories from those
8606 environment variables.
Brett Cannon70c0c022008-02-03 09:59:21 +00008607
Christian Heimes951cc0f2008-01-31 23:08:23 +00008608- Bug #1983: Added a check to pyport to verify that sizeof(pid_t) is
8609 smaller or equal sizeof(long).
8610
Christian Heimescba36bb2008-01-30 22:54:18 +00008611- Bug #1234: Fixed semaphore errors on AIX 5.2
8612
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008613- Issue #1726: Remove Python/atof.c from PCBuild/pythoncore.vcproj.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00008614
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008615- Removed PCbuild8/ directory and added a new build directory for VS
8616 2005 based on the VS 2008 build directory to PC/VS8.0. The script
8617 PCbuild/vs8to9.py was added to sync changes from PCbuild to
8618 PC/VS8.0.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00008619
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008620- Moved PCbuild/ directory for VS 2003 to PC/VS7.1 and renamed
8621 PCBuild9/ directory to PCBuild/.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00008622
Martin v. Löwiscb78de62007-12-29 18:49:21 +00008623- Bug #1699: Define _BSD_SOURCE only on OpenBSD.
8624
Guido van Rossum7c862f82007-12-13 20:50:10 +00008625- Bug #1608: use -fwrapv when GCC supports it. This is important,
8626 newer GCC versions may optimize away overflow buffer overflow checks
8627 without this option!
8628
Martin v. Löwis63bf1492007-11-12 05:14:05 +00008629- Patch #1418: Make the AC_REPLACE_FUNCS object files actually work.
8630
Raymond Hettingerdc1d1ba2007-11-07 02:45:46 +00008631- Add a FAST_LOOPS build option that speeds-up looping by trading away
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008632 periodic threadstate and signal checking in tight loops. By
8633 default, this option is turned-off. It should only be enabled in
8634 debugged, performance critical applications.
Raymond Hettingerdc1d1ba2007-11-07 02:45:46 +00008635
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008636- Patch #786737: Allow building in a tree of symlinks pointing to a
8637 readonly source.
Martin v. Löwisd44a4e92007-09-05 11:47:34 +00008638
Martin v. Löwis8bc77e42007-09-01 06:36:03 +00008639- Bug #1737210: Change Manufacturer of Windows installer to PSF.
8640
Martin v. Löwis75c23bd2007-08-30 18:25:47 +00008641- Bug #1746880: Correctly install DLLs into system32 folder on Win64.
8642
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008643- Define _BSD_SOURCE, to get access to POSIX extensions on OpenBSD
8644 4.1+.
Martin v. Löwis76760b02007-07-31 19:57:56 +00008645
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008646- Stop supporting AtheOS and cause a build error in configure for the
8647 platform.
Brett Cannon19fab762007-06-02 03:02:29 +00008648
Georg Brandldb846032007-03-31 18:56:11 +00008649- Bug #1655392: don't add -L/usr/lib/pythonX.Y/config to the LDFLAGS
8650 returned by python-config if Python was built with --enable-shared
8651 because that prevented the shared library from being used.
8652
Georg Brandl18c47f62007-03-13 10:19:22 +00008653- Patch #1569798: fix a bug in distutils when building Python from a
8654 directory within sys.exec_prefix.
8655
Martin v. Löwiseb623572007-03-12 10:50:39 +00008656- Bug #1675511: Use -Kpic instead of -xcode=pic32 on Solaris/x86.
8657
Martin v. Löwis4d542ec2006-11-25 15:39:19 +00008658- Disable _XOPEN_SOURCE on NetBSD 1.x.
8659
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008660- configure now checks whether gcc supports the PyArg_ParseTuple
8661 format attribute.
Martin v. Löwisaac13162006-10-19 10:58:46 +00008662
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00008663- Bug #1578513: Cross compilation was broken by a change to configure.
Martin v. Löwisfefbc202006-10-17 18:59:23 +00008664 Repair so that it's back to how it was in 2.4.3.
8665
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008666- Patch #1576954: Update VC6 build directory; remove redundant files
8667 in VC7.
Martin v. Löwisc9e82f62006-10-15 07:54:40 +00008668
Martin v. Löwisebe26702006-10-02 14:55:51 +00008669- Bug #1568842: Fix test for uintptr_t.
8670
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008671- Patch #1540470: for OpenBSD 4.0.
Neal Norwitz4bc2c092006-09-05 02:57:01 +00008672
Matthias Klosed149d0c2006-12-03 17:16:41 +00008673- Fix build failure on kfreebsd and on the hurd.
8674
Matthias Kloseebde1492006-12-09 12:15:27 +00008675- Fix the build of the library reference in info format.
8676
Matthias Kloseeb8ff672007-08-02 21:33:13 +00008677- Allow Emacs 22 for building the documentation in info format.
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00008678
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008679- Makefile.pre.in(buildbottest): Run an optional script
8680 pybuildbot.identify to include some information about the build
8681 environment.
Matthias Klose642ac852007-09-04 18:17:36 +00008682
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00008683
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00008684C API
8685-----
8686
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008687- Unified naming convention for free lists and their limits. All free
8688 lists in Object/ are named ``free_list``, the counter ``numfree``
8689 and the upper limit is a macro ``PyName_MAXFREELIST`` inside an
8690 #ifndef block.
Christian Heimes5b970ad2008-02-06 13:33:44 +00008691
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008692- ``PySet_Add()`` can now modify a newly created frozenset. Similarly
8693 to ``PyTuple_SetItem``, it can be used to populate a brand new
8694 frozenset; but it does not steal a reference to the added item.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arccab3d982008-02-03 22:51:43 +00008695
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00008696- Added ``PySet_Check()`` and ``PyFrozenSet_Check()`` to the set API.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arccab3d982008-02-03 22:51:43 +00008697
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008698- Backport of PyUnicode_FromString(), _FromStringAndSize(), _Format
8699 and _FormatV from Python 3.0. Made PyLong_AsSsize_t and
8700 PyLong_FromSsize_t public functions.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00008701
8702- Patch #1720595: add T_BOOL to the range of structmember types.
8703
8704- Issue #1534: Added ``PyFloat_GetMax()``, ``PyFloat_GetMin()`` and
8705 ``PyFloat_GetInfo()`` to the float API.
8706
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008707- Issue #1521: On 64bit platforms, using PyArgs_ParseTuple with the t#
8708 of w# format code incorrectly truncated the length to an int, even
8709 when PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN is set. The str.decode method used to return
8710 incorrect results with huge strings.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00008711
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008712- Issue #1629: Renamed Py_Size, Py_Type and Py_Refcnt to Py_SIZE,
8713 Py_TYPE and Py_REFCNT.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00008714
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008715- PEP 3123: Provide forward compatibility with Python 3.0, while
8716 keeping backwards compatibility. Add Py_Refcnt, Py_Type, Py_Size,
8717 and PyVarObject_HEAD_INIT.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00008718
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008719- Py_ssize_t fields work in structmember when HAVE_LONG_LONG is not
8720 defined.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00008721
8722- Patch #1733960: Allow T_LONGLONG to accept ints.
8723
8724- T_PYSSIZET can now be used in PyMemberDef lists for Py_ssize_t members.
8725
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00008726- Added a new API function ``PyImport_ImportModuleNoBlock``.
8727
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00008728- Bug #1637022: Prefix AST symbols with _Py_.
8729
8730- Fix some leftovers from the conversion from int to Py_ssize_t
8731 (relevant to strings and sequences of more than 2**31 items).
8732
8733- Make _PyGILState_NoteThreadState() static, it was not used anywhere
8734 outside of pystate.c and should not be necessary.
8735
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008736- ``PyImport_Import`` and ``PyImport_ImportModule`` now always do
8737 absolute imports. In earlier versions they might have used relative
8738 imports under some conditions.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00008739
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008740- Added case insensitive comparison methods ``PyOS_stricmp(char*,
8741 char*)`` and ``PyOS_strnicmp(char*, char*, Py_ssize_t)``.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00008742
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008743- Bug #1542693: remove semi-colon at end of PyImport_ImportModuleEx
8744 macro so it can be used as an expression.
Neal Norwitz8a267062006-08-19 04:25:29 +00008745
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00008746
Martin v. Löwis2607e6c2006-11-21 18:20:25 +00008747Windows
8748-------
8749
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008750- Patch #1706: Drop support for Win9x, WinME and NT4. Python now
8751 requires Windows 2000 or greater. The _WINVER and NTDDI_VERSION
8752 macros are set to Win2k for x86/32bit builds and WinXP for AMD64
8753 builds.
Christian Heimes95d64472008-02-09 19:55:22 +00008754
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008755- Conditionalize definition of _CRT_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE and
8756 _CRT_NONSTDC_NO_DEPRECATE.
Martin v. Löwis2607e6c2006-11-21 18:20:25 +00008757
Martin v. Löwisd476a402007-10-12 08:56:52 +00008758- Bug #1216: Restore support for Visual Studio 2002.
8759
Martin v. Löwis2607e6c2006-11-21 18:20:25 +00008760
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00008761Mac
8762---
8763
Brett Cannonf0cb1d72007-05-31 20:01:11 +00008764- cfmfile now raises a DeprecationWarning.
8765
Brett Cannon791d56f2007-05-31 19:40:42 +00008766- buildtools now raises a DeprecationWarning.
8767
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00008768- Removed the macfs module. It had been deprecated since Python 2.5.
8769 This lead to the deprecation of macostools.touched() as it relied
8770 solely on macfs and was a no-op under OS X.
Brett Cannon5e263512007-05-20 23:17:38 +00008771
Skip Montanaroe5d7f7f2002-09-20 14:16:59 +00008772----
8773
8774**(For information about older versions, consult the HISTORY file.)**