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Barry Warsawd3c87652009-10-02 20:23:50 +00007What's New in Python 2.6.4a1?
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9
10*Release date: XX-XXX-20XX*
11
12Core and Builtins
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14
Mark Dickinsonc3a12772009-10-03 08:15:49 +000015- Issue #7019: Raise ValueError when unmarshalling bad long data, instead
16 of producing internally inconsistent Python longs.
17
Barry Warsawd3c87652009-10-02 20:23:50 +000018Library
19-------
20
Tarek Ziadé9d236902009-10-06 12:35:46 +000021- Issue #7068: Fixed the partial renaming that occured in r72594.
22
Tarek Ziadé3c8de0f2009-10-05 17:35:51 +000023- Issue #7064: Fixed the incompatibility with Setuptools in distutils
24 when running the build_ext command.
25
Georg Brandl2b4df432009-10-04 09:03:59 +000026- Issue #7052: Removed nonexisting NullHandler from logging.__all__.
27
Tarek Ziadé2bb5b482009-10-03 01:21:38 +000028- Issue #7039: Fixed distutils.tests.test_sysconfig when running on
29 installation with no build.
Barry Warsawd3c87652009-10-02 20:23:50 +000030
Mark Dickinson5fab1692009-10-04 18:41:25 +000031Tests
32-----
33
34- Issue #7042: Fix test_signal (test_itimer_virtual) failure on OS X 10.6.
35
Georg Brandl2b4df432009-10-04 09:03:59 +000036
Barry Warsawe948ea02009-10-01 23:39:49 +000037What's New in Python 2.6.3
38==========================
39
40*Release date: 02-Oct-2009*
41
Barry Warsaw103e3232009-09-29 22:41:09 +000042What's New in Python 2.6.3rc1
43=============================
Barry Warsaw63a976e2009-04-14 13:16:19 +000044
Barry Warsaw103e3232009-09-29 22:41:09 +000045*Release date: 29-Sep-2009*
Benjamin Petersonc843a472009-04-15 21:46:14 +000046
47Core and Builtins
48-----------------
49
Philip Jenvey78652962009-09-29 19:18:11 +000050- Issue #5329: Fix os.popen* regression from 2.5 with commands as a
51 sequence running through the shell. Patch by Jean-Paul Calderone
52 and Jani Hakala.
53
Philip Jenvey87b4e722009-09-29 04:41:54 +000054- Issue #6990: Fix threading.local subclasses leaving old state around
55 after a reference cycle GC which could be recycled by new locals.
56
Georg Brandlf7a09be2009-09-17 11:33:31 +000057- Issue #6922: Fix an infinite loop when trying to decode an invalid
58 UTF-32 stream with a non-raising error handler like "replace" or "ignore".
59
Thomas Wouters1170b992009-09-16 20:38:23 +000060- Issue #1590864: Fix potential deadlock when mixing threads and fork().
61
Georg Brandl89971032009-09-16 20:34:51 +000062- Issue #6844: Do not emit DeprecationWarnings when accessing a "message"
63 attribute on exceptions that was set explicitly.
64
Mark Dickinsonb61c0352009-09-06 10:05:28 +000065- Issue #6846: Fix bug where bytearray.pop() returns negative integers.
66
Benjamin Petersonf492c362009-08-15 13:18:47 +000067- Issue #6707: dir() on an uninitialized module caused a crash.
68
Georg Brandl11a81b22009-07-22 12:03:09 +000069- Issue #6540: Fixed crash for bytearray.translate() with invalid parameters.
70
Raymond Hettinger30006c72009-07-27 20:33:25 +000071- Issue #6573: set.union() stopped processing inputs if an instance of self
72 occurred in the argument chain.
73
R. David Murraye38b0a82009-07-19 01:44:23 +000074- Issue #6070: On posix platforms import no longer copies the execute bit
75 from the .py file to the .pyc file if it is set.
76
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc99be0812009-06-01 22:04:41 +000077- Issue #4547: When debugging a very large function, it was not always
78 possible to update the lineno attribute of the current frame.
79
Benjamin Peterson7d6b0142009-07-02 18:19:47 +000080- Issue #4618: When unicode arguments are passed to print(), the default
81 separator and end should be unicode also.
82
Barry Warsaw2599a1e2009-09-30 15:53:33 +000083- Issue #6119: Fixed a incorrect Py3k warning about order comparisons of
84 builtin functions and methods.
Benjamin Petersonf9214692009-07-02 17:19:22 +000085
Antoine Pitrou6987d542009-05-30 21:43:48 +000086- Issue #5330: C functions called with keyword arguments were not reported by
Barry Warsaw2599a1e2009-09-30 15:53:33 +000087 the various profiling modules (profile, cProfile). Patch by Hagen Fürstenau.
Antoine Pitrou6987d542009-05-30 21:43:48 +000088
Eric Smithf73758f2009-05-23 14:04:31 +000089- Issue #6089: str.format can raise SystemError with certain invalid
90 field specifiers.
91
R. David Murray98c78792009-05-13 13:13:18 +000092- Issue #5994: the marshal module now has docstrings.
93
Mark Dickinsonce057172009-05-11 16:09:39 +000094- Issue #5981: Fix two minor inf/nan issues in float.fromhex: (1) inf
95 and nan strings with trailing whitespace were incorrectly rejected
96 and (2) the interpretation of fromhex('-nan') didn't match that of
97 float('-nan').
98
R. David Murray05afa1a2009-05-05 00:52:14 +000099- Issue #5890: in subclasses of 'property' the __doc__ attribute was
100 shadowed by classtype's, even if it was None. property now
101 inserts the __doc__ into the subclass instance __dict__.
102
Mark Dickinsone05e8402009-05-04 13:30:43 +0000103- Issue #5724: (See also issue #4575.) Fix Py_IS_INFINITY macro to
104 work correctly on x87 FPUs: it now forces its argument to double
105 before testing for infinity.
106
Martin v. Löwis2a574ae2009-04-26 01:01:58 +0000107- Issue #4971: Fix titlecase for characters that are their own
108 titlecase, but not their own uppercase.
109
Mark Dickinson22999a62009-04-25 13:16:50 +0000110- Issue #5829: complex('1e-500') no longer raises an exception
111
Benjamin Peterson4585ca92009-04-18 20:50:24 +0000112- Issue #5787: object.__getattribute__(some_type, "__bases__") segfaulted on
113 some builtin types.
114
Benjamin Petersonaf75a5f2009-04-25 00:44:44 +0000115- Issue #5283: Setting __class__ in __del__ caused a segfault.
116
Benjamin Petersonc843a472009-04-15 21:46:14 +0000117- Issue #5759: float() didn't call __float__ on str subclasses.
Barry Warsaw63a976e2009-04-14 13:16:19 +0000118
Walter Dörwaldf11232e2009-05-03 22:38:54 +0000119- Issue #5108: Handle %s like %S and %R in PyUnicode_FromFormatV(): Call
120 PyUnicode_DecodeUTF8() once, remember the result and output it in a second
121 step. This avoids problems with counting UTF-8 bytes that ignores the effect
122 of using the replace error handler in PyUnicode_DecodeUTF8().
123
Thomas Heller50101de2009-04-24 20:18:22 +0000124Library
R. David Murray7cd8f2b2009-04-15 23:00:41 +0000125-------
126
Antoine Pitrou530e1ac2009-09-29 18:14:09 +0000127- Issue #6790: Make it possible again to pass an `array.array` to
128 `httplib.HTTPConnection.send`. Patch by Kirk McDonald.
129
Antoine Pitrou5cc3d032009-09-21 21:36:48 +0000130- Issue #6236, #6348: Fix various failures in the `io` module under AIX
131 and other platforms, when using a non-gcc compiler. Patch by egreen.
132
Ronald Oussoren40617a82009-09-20 10:37:33 +0000133- Issue #6851: Fix urllib.urlopen crash on secondairy threads on OSX 10.6
134
Tarek Ziadéde2a1072009-09-19 09:58:51 +0000135- Issue #6947: Fix distutils test on windows. Patch by Hirokazu Yamamoto.
136
Thomas Hellera6683c82009-09-18 20:12:29 +0000137- Issue #4606: Passing 'None' if ctypes argtype is set to POINTER(...)
138 does now always result in NULL.
139
140- Issue #5042: ctypes Structure sub-subclass does now initialize
141 correctly with base class positional arguments.
Thomas Heller820aefe2009-09-18 19:32:08 +0000142
Georg Brandl894dff42009-09-18 09:19:52 +0000143- Issue #6938: Fix a TypeError in string formatting of a multiprocessing
144 debug message.
145
Matthias Klose58235772009-09-13 15:12:47 +0000146- Issue #6635: Fix profiler printing usage message.
147
Mark Dickinsonc05b7892009-09-08 19:22:18 +0000148- Issue #6795: int(Decimal('nan')) now raises ValueError instead of
149 returning NaN or raising InvalidContext. Also, fix infinite recursion
150 in long(Decimal('nan')).
151
Mark Dickinsonc3c112d2009-09-07 16:19:35 +0000152- Issue #6850: Fix bug in Decimal._parse_format_specifier for formats
153 with no type specifier.
154
Ronald Oussoren79655052009-09-06 12:26:54 +0000155- Issue #4937: plat-mac/bundlebuilder revers to non-existing version.plist
156
Chris Withers49148cf2009-09-04 16:51:16 +0000157- Issue #6838: Use a list to accumulate the value instead of
158 repeatedly concatenating strings in httplib's
159 HTTPResponse._read_chunked providing a significant speed increase
160 when downloading large files servend with a Transfer-Encoding of 'chunked'.
161
Mark Dickinson7f265b72009-08-28 13:35:02 +0000162- Issue #6794: Fix Decimal.compare_total and Decimal.compare_total_mag: NaN
163 payloads are now ordered by integer value rather than lexicographically.
164
Gregory P. Smith1cfc9c02009-08-15 06:40:49 +0000165- Issue #6117: Fix O(n**2) performance degradation when outputting lots of
166 small data on a buffered socket.socket.makefile() object.
167
Raymond Hettingerd6119ef2009-08-04 18:49:26 +0000168- Issue #6637: defaultdict.copy() did not work when the default factory
169 was left unspecified. Also, the eval/repr round-trip would fail when
170 the default_factory was None.
171
Senthil Kumaran308681c2009-07-26 12:36:08 +0000172- Issue #1424152: Fix for httplib, urllib2 to support SSL while working through
173 proxy. Original patch by Christopher Li, changes made by Senthil Kumaran.
174
R. David Murray17438dc2009-07-21 17:02:14 +0000175- Issues #5155, 5313, 5331: multiprocessing.Process._bootstrap was
176 unconditionally calling "os.close(sys.stdin.fileno())" resulting in file
177 descriptor errors
178
Hirokazu Yamamotofcaa2102009-07-17 06:33:03 +0000179- Issue #6415: Fixed warnings.warn sagfault on bad formatted string.
180
Hirokazu Yamamotob7b811c2009-06-29 14:37:28 +0000181- Issue #6344: Fixed a crash of mmap.read() when passed a negative argument.
182
R. David Murrayc4c84e12009-06-23 20:37:26 +0000183- Issue #5230: pydoc would report no documentation found if a module generated
184 a 'not found' import error when loaded; it now reports the import errors.
185 Thanks to Lucas Prado Melo for initial fix and collaboration on the tests.
186
Facundo Batista07638b92009-06-19 19:51:26 +0000187- Issue #6274: Fixed possible file descriptors leak in subprocess.py
188
Hirokazu Yamamoto86c8efc2009-06-14 04:48:42 +0000189- Issue #6271: mmap tried to close invalid file handle (-1) when annonymous.
190 (On Unix)
191
Martin v. Löwis1cfa3922009-06-13 09:07:01 +0000192- Issue #6258: Support AMD64 in bdist_msi.
193
Vinay Sajipff4018f2009-06-11 10:01:04 +0000194- Issue #5262: Fixed bug in next rollover time computation in
195 TimedRotatingFileHandler.
196
R. David Murray2edb85d2009-05-27 20:16:24 +0000197- Issue #6121: pydoc now ignores leading and trailing spaces in the
198 argument to the 'help' function.
199
Martin v. Löwise7e46f82009-05-24 19:42:14 +0000200- Issue #6050: Don't fail extracting a directory from a zipfile if
201 the directory already exists.
202
Raymond Hettinger4f1e1632009-05-27 02:17:26 +0000203- collections.namedtuple() was not working with the following field
204 names: cls, self, tuple, itemgetter, and property.
205
Antoine Pitrou6c3064b2009-05-24 15:41:43 +0000206- Issue #1309352: fcntl now converts its third arguments to a C `long` rather
207 than an int, which makes some operations possible under 64-bit Linux (e.g.
208 DN_MULTISHOT with F_NOTIFY).
209
Antoine Pitrou794b3fc2009-05-23 15:47:13 +0000210- Issue #1983: Fix functions taking or returning a process identifier to use
211 the dedicated C type ``pid_t`` instead of a C ``int``. Some platforms have
212 a process identifier type wider than the standard C integer type.
213
R. David Murrayeb059b82009-05-23 01:42:42 +0000214- Issue #4066: smtplib.SMTP_SSL._get_socket now correctly returns the socket.
215 Patch by Farhan Ahmad, test by Marcin Bachry.
216
Antoine Pitroufe8fb462009-05-15 12:03:56 +0000217- Issue #1655: Make imaplib IPv6-capable. Patch by Derek Morr.
218
Antoine Pitrou250bf342009-05-14 21:29:45 +0000219- Issue #1664: Make nntplib IPv6-capable. Patch by Derek Morr.
220
Vinay Sajip28274ab2009-05-09 12:11:30 +0000221- Issue #5971: StreamHandler.handleError now swallows IOErrors which occur when
222 trying to print a traceback.
223
R. David Murrayd0a45392009-05-07 16:45:44 +0000224- Issue 5955: aifc's close method did not close the file it wrapped,
225 now it does. This also means getfp method now returns the real fp.
226
Thomas Heller54e02482009-05-05 18:59:30 +0000227- Issue #4875: On win32, ctypes.util.find_library does no longer
228 return directories.
229
Antoine Pitroue199a492009-05-04 21:24:37 +0000230- Issue #5692: In :class:`zipfile.Zipfile`, fix wrong path calculation when
231 extracting a file to the root directory.
232
R. David Murraycecc3a02009-04-29 14:54:29 +0000233- Issue #2245: aifc now skips chunk types it doesn't recognize, per spec.
234
Thomas Heller01e117f2009-04-28 20:01:18 +0000235- Issue #4305: ctypes should now build again on mipsel-linux-gnu
236
Antoine Pitrou7d834a52009-04-27 21:01:13 +0000237- Issue #5853: calling a function of the mimetypes module from several threads
238 at once could hit the recursion limit if the mimetypes database hadn't been
239 initialized before.
240
Thomas Heller50101de2009-04-24 20:18:22 +0000241- Issue #5041: ctypes does now allow pickling wide character.
242
Vinay Sajip03d327d2009-04-16 19:14:09 +0000243- Issue #5768: Fixed bug in Unicode output logic and test case for same.
244
R. David Murray7cd8f2b2009-04-15 23:00:41 +0000245- Issue #1161031: fix readwrite select flag handling: POLLPRI now
246 results in a handle_expt_event call, not handle_read_event, and POLLERR
247 and POLLNVAL now call handle_close, not handle_expt_event. Also,
248 dispatcher now has an 'ignore_log_types' attribute for suppressing
249 log messages, which is set to 'warning' by default.
250
Walter Dörwald6c863d12009-04-25 14:05:52 +0000251- Issue #5828 (Invalid behavior of unicode.lower): Fixed bogus logic in
252 makeunicodedata.py and regenerated the Unicode database (This fixes
253 u'\u1d79'.lower() == '\x00').
254
Gregory P. Smithe1e67642009-06-26 08:19:19 +0000255- Issue #1202: zipfile module would cause a DeprecationWarning when storing
256 files with a CRC32 > 2**31-1.
257
Matthias Klose692a4aa2009-09-13 15:51:51 +0000258- Issue #6163: Fixed HP-UX runtime library dir options in
259 distutils.unixcompiler. Initial patch by Sridhar Ratnakumar and
260 Michael Haubenwallner.
261
262- Issue #4660: If a multiprocessing.JoinableQueue.put() was preempted, it was
263 possible to get a spurious 'task_done() called too many times' error.
264
265- Issue #6595: The Decimal constructor now allows arbitrary Unicode
266 decimal digits in input, as recommended by the standard. Previously
267 it was restricted to accepting [0-9].
268
269- Issue #6553: Fixed a crash in cPickle.load(), when given a file-like object
270 containing incomplete data.
271
272- Issue #2622: Fixed an ImportError when importing email.messsage from a
273 standalone application built with py2exe or py2app.
274
275- Issue #6455: Fixed test_build_ext under win32.
276
277- Issue #6403: Fixed package path usage in build_ext.
278
279- Issue #6287: Added the license field in Distutils documentation.
280
281- Issue #6263: Fixed syntax error in distutils.cygwincompiler.
282
283- Issue #5201: distutils.sysconfig.parse_makefile() now understands `$$`
284 in Makefiles. This prevents compile errors when using syntax like:
285 `LDFLAGS='-rpath=\$$LIB:/some/other/path'`. Patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
286
287- Issue #6062: In distutils, fixed the package option of build_ext. Feedback
288 and tests on pywin32 by Tim Golden.
289
290- Issue #1309567: Fix linecache behavior of stripping subdirectories when
291 looking for files given by a relative filename.
292
293- Issue #6046: Fixed the library extension when distutils build_ext is used
294 inplace. Initial patch by Roumen Petrov.
295
296- Issue #6022: a test file was created in the current working directory by
297 test_get_outputs in Distutils.
298
299- Issue #5977: distutils build_ext.get_outputs was not taking into account the
300 inplace option. Initial patch by kxroberto.
301
Barry Warsaw2599a1e2009-09-30 15:53:33 +0000302- Issue #5984: distutils.command.build_ext.check_extensions_list checks were
303 broken for old-style extensions.
Matthias Klose692a4aa2009-09-13 15:51:51 +0000304
305- Issue #5854: Updated __all__ to include some missing names and remove some
306 names which should not be exported.
307
308- Issue #5810: Fixed Distutils test_build_scripts so it uses
309 sysconfig.get_config_vars.
310
311- Issue #6865: Fix reference counting issue in the initialization of the pwd
312 module.
313
Martin v. Löwis416b2622009-05-29 16:00:23 +0000314Extension Modules
315-----------------
316
Georg Brandl3ad28472009-09-19 07:46:24 +0000317- Issue #6944: Fix a SystemError when socket.getnameinfo() was called
318 with something other than a tuple as first argument.
319
Mark Dickinson02a9ce32009-09-06 21:23:05 +0000320- Issue #6848: Fix curses module build failure on OS X 10.6.
321
Brett Cannon559eb082009-08-13 19:45:44 +0000322- Fix expat to not segfault with specially crafted input.
323
Martin v. Löwis416b2622009-05-29 16:00:23 +0000324- Issue #4873: Fix resource leaks in error cases of pwd and grp.
325
Antoine Pitrou8151da02009-05-01 21:24:56 +0000326Build
327-----
328
Matthias Klose2697ff22009-09-23 18:33:48 +0000329- Issue #6980: Fix ctypes build failure on armel-linux-gnueabi with
330 -mfloat-abi=softfp.
331
Ronald Oussoren461f2202009-09-06 10:54:28 +0000332- Issue #6802: Fix build issues on MacOSX 10.6
333
Martin v. Löwis230d2a22009-06-28 09:35:10 +0000334- Issue 5390: Add uninstall icon independent of whether file
335 extensions are installed.
336
Benjamin Peterson2eb65452009-05-23 19:35:33 +0000337- Issue #6094: Build correctly with Subversion 1.7.
338
Antoine Pitrou8151da02009-05-01 21:24:56 +0000339- Issue #5726: Make Modules/ld_so_aix return the actual exit code of the
340 linker, rather than always exit successfully. Patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
341
Matthias Klose692a4aa2009-09-13 15:51:51 +0000342- Issue 5809: Specifying both --enable-framework and --enable-shared is
343 an error. Configure now explicity tells you about this.
344
Tarek Ziadé8caea6f2009-08-21 14:30:02 +0000345Documentation
346-------------
347
348- Issue #6556: Fixed the Distutils configuration files location explanation
349 for Windows.
350
Tarek Ziadé95b09912009-08-29 13:37:34 +0000351- Issue #6801 : symmetric_difference_update also accepts |.
352 Thanks to Carl Chenet.
353
Walter Dörwald729df012009-04-25 12:23:49 +0000354Tests
355-----
356
357- Issue #5837: Certain sequences of calls to set() and unset() for
358 support.EnvironmentVarGuard objects restored the environment variables
359 incorrectly on __exit__.
360
Barry Warsaw63a976e2009-04-14 13:16:19 +0000361
Matthias Klose692a4aa2009-09-13 15:51:51 +0000362What's New in Python 2.6.2
363==========================
364
365*Release date: 14-Apr-2009*
366
367
Barry Warsaw90971e02009-04-07 01:54:02 +0000368What's New in Python 2.6.2 rc 1
369===============================
Barry Warsaw6b257f42008-12-05 05:03:06 +0000370
Barry Warsaw90971e02009-04-07 01:54:02 +0000371*Release date: 06-Apr-2009*
Barry Warsaw6b257f42008-12-05 05:03:06 +0000372
373Core and Builtins
374-----------------
375
Raymond Hettinger9293eb92009-02-24 12:25:32 +0000376- xrange() is now registered as a Sequence.
377
Georg Brandle9b91212009-04-05 21:26:31 +0000378- Fix a problem in PyErr_NormalizeException that leads to "undetected errors"
379 when hitting the recursion limit under certain circumstances.
380
381- Issue #1665206: Remove the last eager import in _warnings.c and make it lazy.
382
Barry Warsaw90971e02009-04-07 01:54:02 +0000383- Issue #4034: Fix weird attribute error messages of the traceback object. (As
384 a result traceback.__members__ no longer exists.)
Benjamin Peterson53f098c2009-03-18 21:49:29 +0000385
Eric Smith1718b472009-02-20 14:07:55 +0000386- Issue #5247: Improve error message when unknown format codes are
387 used when using str.format() with str, unicode, long, int, and
388 float arguments.
389
Raymond Hettinger32596522009-02-18 23:12:48 +0000390- Running Python with the -3 option now also warns about classic division
391 for ints and longs.
392
Vinay Sajip6badbe92009-01-20 22:49:13 +0000393- Issue #5013: Fixed a bug in FileHandler which occurred when the delay
394 parameter was set.
395
Raymond Hettinger24e28722009-02-02 22:44:06 +0000396- Issue 1242657: the __len__() and __length_hint__() calls in several tools
397 were suppressing all exceptions. These include list(), filter(), map(),
398 zip(), and bytearray().
399
Antoine Pitroua1b22ce2009-01-13 23:25:47 +0000400- Issue #4935: The overflow checking code in the expandtabs() method common
401 to str, bytes and bytearray could be optimized away by the compiler, letting
402 the interpreter segfault instead of raising an error.
403
Georg Brandl686d53e2009-01-14 00:08:09 +0000404- Issue #4915: Port sysmodule to Windows CE.
405
Antoine Pitrou5b0767c2009-01-06 19:00:59 +0000406- Issue #1180193: When importing a module from a .pyc (or .pyo) file with
407 an existing .py counterpart, override the co_filename attributes of all
408 code objects if the original filename is obsolete (which can happen if the
409 file has been renamed, moved, or if it is accessed through different paths).
410 Patch by Ziga Seilnacht and Jean-Paul Calderone.
411
Georg Brandl734373c2009-01-03 21:55:17 +0000412- Issue #4075: Use OutputDebugStringW in Py_FatalError.
413
414- Issue #4797: IOError.filename was not set when _fileio.FileIO failed to open
415 file with `str' filename on Windows.
416
Georg Brandl47fe9812009-01-01 15:46:10 +0000417- Issue #3680: Reference cycles created through a dict, set or deque iterator
418 did not get collected.
419
Nick Coghland4656402008-12-30 01:36:00 +0000420- Issue #4701: PyObject_Hash now implicitly calls PyType_Ready on types
421 where the tp_hash and tp_dict slots are both NULL.
422
Georg Brandl47fe9812009-01-01 15:46:10 +0000423- Issue #4764: With io.open, IOError.filename is set when trying to open a
424 directory on POSIX systems.
425
426- Issue #4764: IOError.filename is set when trying to open a directory on POSIX
427 systems.
428
429- Issue #4759: None is now allowed as the first argument of
430 bytearray.translate(). It was always allowed for bytes.translate().
431
Georg Brandlef29f862008-12-28 11:55:24 +0000432- Issue #4759: fix a segfault for bytearray.translate(x, None).
433
Skip Montanaro6a00c742008-12-23 03:35:04 +0000434- Added test case to ensure attempts to read from a file opened for writing
435 fail.
436
Jeffrey Yasskin69614982008-12-11 05:21:18 +0000437- Issue #4597: Fixed several opcodes that weren't always propagating
438 exceptions.
439
Benjamin Petersonc6e80eb2008-12-21 17:01:26 +0000440- Issue #2467: gc.DEBUG_STATS reported invalid elapsed times. Also, always
441 print elapsed times, not only when some objects are uncollectable /
442 unreachable. Original patch by Neil Schemenauer.
443
Jeffrey Yasskin69614982008-12-11 05:21:18 +0000444- Issue #4589: Fixed exception handling when the __exit__ function of a
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc79c9f762008-12-10 23:56:33 +0000445 context manager returns a value that cannot be converted to a bool.
446
Vinay Sajip6badbe92009-01-20 22:49:13 +0000447- Issue #4233: Changed semantic of ``_fileio.FileIO``'s ``close()``
Georg Brandld2094602008-12-05 08:51:30 +0000448 method on file objects with closefd=False. The file descriptor is still
449 kept open but the file object behaves like a closed file. The ``FileIO``
450 object also got a new readonly attribute ``closefd``.
451
Georg Brandlfa71a902008-12-05 09:08:28 +0000452- Issue #3689: The list reversed iterator now supports __length_hint__
453 instead of __len__. Behavior now matches other reversed iterators.
454
Antoine Pitrou599db7f2008-12-07 00:07:51 +0000455- Issue #4509: Various issues surrounding resize of bytearray objects to
456 which there are buffer exports.
457
Matthias Klosea8da9e02009-04-04 14:19:56 +0000458- Issue #3845: In PyRun_SimpleFileExFlags avoid invalid memory access with
459 short file names.
460
Gregory P. Smithdd7b6302009-04-06 06:47:37 +0000461- Issue #5705: os.setuid() would not accept values > 2**31-1 but pwd.getpwnam()
462 returned them on 64bit platforms.
463
Barry Warsaw6b257f42008-12-05 05:03:06 +0000464Library
465-------
466
Georg Brandldcfed0e2009-04-12 17:26:19 +0000467- Issue #5741: don't disallow "%%" (which is an escape for "%") when setting
468 a value in SafeConfigParser.
469
Vinay Sajip03d327d2009-04-16 19:14:09 +0000470- Issue #5731: Distutils bdist_wininst no longer worked on non-Windows
Tarek Ziadéb9f1a0c2009-04-09 22:48:19 +0000471 platforms. Initial patch by Paul Moore.
472
Tarek Ziadé0daf2f32009-04-05 21:47:02 +0000473- Issue #1491431: Fixed distutils.filelist.glob_to_re for edge cases.
474 Initial fix by Wayne Davison.
475
Georg Brandle9b91212009-04-05 21:26:31 +0000476- Issue 5471: Fix os.path.expanduser() for $HOME set to '/'.
477
Georg Brandlf7a1efc2009-04-05 10:51:10 +0000478- Issue 1726172: fix IndexError in the case of and empty response in ftplib.
479
Georg Brandl9b08e052009-04-05 21:21:05 +0000480- In Pdb, prevent the reassignment of __builtin__._ by sys.displayhook on
481 printing out values.
482
483- Issue #4572: added SEEK_* symbolic constants to io module.
484
485- Issue #1665206 (partially): Move imports in cgitb to the top of the module
486 instead of performing them in functions. Helps prevent import deadlocking in
487 threads.
488
489- Issue #5647: MutableSet.__iand__() no longer mutates self during iteration.
490
491- Actually make the SimpleXMLRPCServer CGI handler work.
492
R. David Murray51c6b212009-04-02 14:09:49 +0000493- Issue 2625: added missing iteritems() call to the for loop in
494 mailbox.MH.get_message().
495
Raymond Hettinger51ac4f42009-04-01 18:57:45 +0000496- Issue #5647: MutableSet.__iand__() no longer mutates self during iteration.
497
Jesse Noller70b11f02009-03-31 22:25:20 +0000498- Issue #5619: Multiprocessing children disobey the debug flag and causes
499 popups on windows buildbots. Patch applied to work around this issue.
500
Barry Warsaw90971e02009-04-07 01:54:02 +0000501- Issue #5632: Thread.ident was None for the main thread and threads not
502 created with the threading module.
Benjamin Peterson61611f82009-03-31 21:40:18 +0000503
Jesse Noller6be88da2009-03-31 18:39:39 +0000504- Issue #5400: Added patch for multiprocessing on netbsd compilation/support
505
Jesse Noller8b56d472009-03-31 15:01:45 +0000506- Fix and properly document the multiprocessing module's logging
507 support, expose the internal levels and provide proper usage
508 examples.
509
Hirokazu Yamamoto60098042009-03-31 13:22:01 +0000510- Issue #5387: Fixed mmap.move crash by integer overflow.
511
Jesse Nollerf0d21c72009-03-30 23:38:36 +0000512- Issue #5261: Patch multiprocessing's semaphore.c to support context
513 manager use: "with multiprocessing.Lock()" works now.
514
Vinay Sajip03d327d2009-04-16 19:14:09 +0000515- Issue #5177: Multiprocessing's SocketListener class now uses
Jesse Nollerb48cfa62009-03-30 16:19:10 +0000516 socket.SO_REUSEADDR on all connections so that the user no longer needs
517 to wait 120 seconds for the socket to expire.
518
519- Adjusted _tkinter to compile without warnings when WITH_THREAD is not
520 defined (part of issue #5035).
521
Marc-André Lemburg152f2222009-03-25 19:52:04 +0000522- Issue #5561: Removed the sys.version_info shortcuts from platform's
523 python_version() and python_version_tuple() since they produced different
524 output compared to previous Python versions.
525
Lars Gustäbel9e2a09a2009-03-22 20:22:29 +0000526- Issue #5068: Fixed the tarfile._BZ2Proxy.read() method that would loop
527 forever on incomplete input. That caused tarfile.open() to hang when used
528 with mode 'r' or 'r:bz2' and a fileobj argument that contained no data or
529 partial bzip2 compressed data.
530
Benjamin Peterson373498f2009-03-22 17:49:21 +0000531- Issue #5536: urllib.urlretrieve makes sure to close the file it's writing to
532 even if an exception occurs.
533
Mark Dickinson71416822009-03-17 18:07:41 +0000534- Fix Decimal.__format__ bug that swapped the meanings of the '<' and
535 '>' alignment characters.
536
Antoine Pitroua099d142009-03-14 00:13:36 +0000537- Issue #1222: locale.format() bug when the thousands separator is a space
538 character.
539
Guilherme Poloc4f54fd2009-03-07 01:51:48 +0000540- Issue #4792: Prevent a segfault in _tkinter by using the
541 guaranteed to be safe interp argument given to the PythonCmd in place of
542 the Tcl interpreter taken from a PythonCmd_ClientData.
543
544- Issue #5193: Guarantee that Tkinter.Text.search returns a string.
545
Hirokazu Yamamotoec5294f2009-03-05 14:30:13 +0000546- Issue #5385: Fixed mmap crash after resize failure on windows.
547
Hirokazu Yamamoto857c00e2009-03-03 22:55:00 +0000548- Issue #5179: Fixed subprocess handle leak on failure on windows.
549
Barry Warsaw90971e02009-04-07 01:54:02 +0000550- Issue #4308: httplib.IncompleteRead's repr doesn't include all of the data
551 all ready received.
Benjamin Petersona97bed92009-03-02 22:46:11 +0000552
Benjamin Petersone392b4f2009-03-02 03:42:39 +0000553- Issue #5401: Fixed a performance problem in mimetypes when ``from mimetypes
554 import guess_extension`` was used.
555
Hirokazu Yamamoto4b27e962009-02-28 12:42:16 +0000556- Issue #1733986: Fixed mmap crash in accessing elements of second map object
557 with same tagname but larger size than first map. (Windows)
558
Hirokazu Yamamotoe363fa02009-02-28 11:39:45 +0000559- Issue #5386: mmap.write_byte didn't check map size, so it could cause buffer
560 overrun.
561
Hirokazu Yamamoto978bacd2009-02-18 15:11:55 +0000562- Issue #5292: Fixed mmap crash on its boundary access m[len(m)].
563
564- Issue #5282: Fixed mmap resize on 32bit windows and unix. When offset > 0,
565 The file was resized to wrong size.
566
Vinay Sajip83470422009-02-17 17:47:15 +0000567- Issue #5287: Add exception handling around findCaller() call in logging to
568 help out IronPython.
569
Tarek Ziadé19fe0c82009-02-13 23:02:44 +0000570- Issue #4524: distutils build_script command failed with --with-suffix=3.
571 Initial patch by Amaury Forgeot d'Arc.
572
Mark Dickinsona84f2652009-02-12 18:05:07 +0000573- Issue #4998: The memory saving effect of __slots__ had been lost on Fractions
574 which inherited from numbers.py which did not have __slots__ defined. The
575 numbers hierarchy now has its own __slots__ declarations.
576
Thomas Heller07750562009-02-10 18:46:11 +0000577- Issue #5203: Fixed ctypes segfaults when passing a unicode string to a
578 function without argtypes (only occurs if HAVE_USABLE_WCHAR_T is false).
579
Jesse Nollere6bab482009-03-30 16:11:16 +0000580- Issue #3321: _multiprocessing.Connection() doesn't check handle; added checks
Barry Warsaw90971e02009-04-07 01:54:02 +0000581 for *nix machines for negative handles and large int handles. Without this
582 check it is possible to segfault the interpreter.
Jesse Nollere6bab482009-03-30 16:11:16 +0000583
Barry Warsaw90971e02009-04-07 01:54:02 +0000584- Issue #4449: AssertionError in mp_benchmarks.py, caused by an underlying
585 issue in sharedctypes.py.
Jesse Nollere6bab482009-03-30 16:11:16 +0000586
Tarek Ziadé436eb082009-02-10 12:33:42 +0000587- Issue #3386: distutils.sysconfig.get_python_lib prefix argument was ignored
588 under NT and OS2. Patch by Philip Jenvey.
589
Guilherme Polo4bf471f2009-02-09 16:43:02 +0000590- Issue #4890: Handle empty text search pattern in Tkinter.Text.search.
591
Vinay Sajip9c786582009-02-08 19:14:41 +0000592- Issue #5170: Fixed Unicode output bug in logging and added test case.
593 This is a regression which did not occur in 2.5.
594
Guilherme Poloc8a20da2009-02-06 22:52:31 +0000595- Partial fix to issue #1731706: memory leak in Tkapp_Call when calling
596 from a thread different than the one that created the Tcl interpreter.
597 Patch by Robert Hancock.
598
Vinay Sajip9c786582009-02-08 19:14:41 +0000599- Issue #5132: Fixed trouble building extensions under Solaris with
Tarek Ziadéf28849a2009-02-05 22:55:00 +0000600 --enabled-shared activated. Initial patch by Dave Peterson.
601
Guilherme Polob2dbd432009-02-02 21:15:41 +0000602- Issue #1581476: Always use the Tcl global namespace when calling into Tcl.
603
Antoine Pitrou4ad77e22009-01-29 20:30:51 +0000604- Issue #2047: shutil.move() could believe that its destination path was
605 inside its source path if it began with the same letters (e.g. "src" vs.
606 "src.new").
607
Raymond Hettingerc9794482009-01-28 23:14:58 +0000608- Issue 4920: Fixed .next() vs .__next__() issues in the ABCs for
609 Iterator and MutableSet.
610
Raymond Hettinger8c0cee82009-01-27 10:30:26 +0000611- Issue 5021: doctest.testfile() did not create __name__ and
612 collections.namedtuple() relied on __name__ being defined.
613
Martin v. Löwise8b471c2009-01-24 15:50:00 +0000614- Issue #3881: Help Tcl to load even when started through the
615 unreadable local symlink to "Program Files" on Vista.
616
Martin v. Löwis3a8071a2009-01-24 14:04:33 +0000617- Issue #4710: Extract directories properly in the zipfile module;
618 allow adding directories to a zipfile.
619
Antoine Pitrou19fec8b2009-01-21 00:56:37 +0000620- Issue #5008: When a file is opened in append mode with the new IO library,
621 do an explicit seek to the end of file (so that e.g. tell() returns the
622 file size rather than 0). This is consistent with the behaviour of the
623 traditional 2.x file object.
624
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc0293c802009-01-17 16:46:35 +0000625- Issue #3997: zipfiles generated with more than 65536 files could not be
626 opened with other applications.
627
Raymond Hettinger825758c2009-01-08 05:20:19 +0000628- Issue 4816: itertools.combinations() and itertools.product were raising
629 a ValueError for values of *r* larger than the input iterable. They now
630 correctly return an empty iterator.
631
Raymond Hettinger8f726922009-01-03 09:27:41 +0000632- Fractions.from_float() no longer loses precision for integers too big to
Raymond Hettinger40188782009-01-03 09:24:18 +0000633 cast as floats.
634
Raymond Hettingerd263bd82008-12-31 04:18:44 +0000635- Issue 4790: The nsmallest() and nlargest() functions in the heapq module
636 did unnecessary work in the common case where no key function was specified.
637
Martin v. Löwis918ae522008-12-29 16:23:43 +0000638- Issue #3767: Convert Tk object to string in tkColorChooser.
639
Martin v. Löwis659bf292008-12-29 15:53:25 +0000640- Issue #3248: Allow placing ScrolledText in a PanedWindow.
641
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc360d8cf2008-12-15 22:16:00 +0000642- Issue #3954: Fix a potential SystemError in _hotshot.logreader error
643 handling.
644
Antoine Pitrouf8638a82008-12-14 18:08:37 +0000645- Issue #4574: fix a crash in io.IncrementalNewlineDecoder when a carriage
646 return encodes to more than one byte in the source encoding (e.g. UTF-16)
647 and gets split on a chunk boundary.
648
Nick Coghlan30327242008-12-14 11:30:16 +0000649- Issue #4223: inspect.getsource() will now correctly display source code
650 for packages loaded via zipimport (or any other conformant PEP 302
651 loader). Original patch by Alexander Belopolsky.
652
653- Issue #4201: pdb can now access and display source code loaded via
654 zipimport (or any other conformant PEP 302 loader). Original patch by
655 Alexander Belopolsky.
656
657- Issue #4197: doctests in modules loaded via zipimport (or any other PEP
658 302 conformant loader) will now work correctly in most cases (they
659 are still subject to the constraints that exist for all code running
660 from inside a module loaded via a PEP 302 loader and attempting to
661 perform IO operations based on __file__). Original patch by
662 Alexander Belopolsky.
663
664- Issues #4082 and #4512: Add runpy support to zipimport in a manner that
665 allows backporting to maintenance branches. Original patch by
666 Alexander Belopolsky.
667
Lars Gustäbel696d6ba2008-12-12 14:14:42 +0000668- Issue #4616: TarFile.utime(): Restore directory times on Windows.
669
Skip Montanarob7387a52008-12-06 17:39:54 +0000670- Issue #4483: _dbm module now builds on systems with gdbm & gdbm_compat
671 libs.
672
Georg Brandlfa71a902008-12-05 09:08:28 +0000673- FileIO's mode attribute now always includes ``"b"``.
674
Matthias Klosee1e6ed12009-01-10 17:11:11 +0000675- Issue #4861: ctypes.util.find_library(): Robustify. Fix library detection on
676 biarch systems. Try to rely on ldconfig only, without using objdump and gcc.
677
Matthias Klosea65e3302009-04-05 21:35:06 +0000678- Issue #2703: SimpleXMLRPCDispatcher.__init__: Provide default values for
679 new arguments introduced in 2.5.
680
Tarek Ziadéf66326f2009-01-26 17:20:15 +0000681- Issue #1885: distutils. When running sdist with --formats=tar,gztar
682 the tar file was overriden by the gztar one.
683
Raymond Hettinger1f4f0812009-02-03 03:44:39 +0000684- Registered Decimal as a numbers.Number so that isinstance(d, Number) works.
Raymond Hettinger45fd4762009-02-03 03:42:07 +0000685
Mark Dickinson3df16922009-01-24 21:30:14 +0000686- Issue #1672332: fix unpickling of subnormal floats, which was
687 producing a ValueError on some platforms.
688
Mark Dickinsonc95c6f12009-01-04 21:30:17 +0000689- Restore Python 2.3 compatibility for decimal.py.
690
Vinay Sajip6badbe92009-01-20 22:49:13 +0000691- Issue #1702551: distutils sdist was not excluding VCS directories under
Tarek Ziadé653cb622009-01-04 00:07:14 +0000692 Windows. Inital solution by Guy Dalberto.
693
Mark Dickinsonfd6032d2009-01-02 23:16:51 +0000694- Issue #4812: add missing underscore prefix to some internal-use-only
695 constants in the decimal module. (Dec_0 becomes _Dec_0, etc.)
696
Georg Brandl47fe9812009-01-01 15:46:10 +0000697- Issue #4795: inspect.isgeneratorfunction() returns False instead of None when
698 the function is not a generator.
699
Vinay Sajip6badbe92009-01-20 22:49:13 +0000700- Issue #4702: Throwing a DistutilsPlatformError instead of IOError in case
701 no MSVC compiler is found under Windows. Original patch by Philip Jenvey.
Tarek Ziadée4ea6bc2008-12-30 23:06:46 +0000702
Georg Brandl47fe9812009-01-01 15:46:10 +0000703 - Issue #4739: Add pydoc help topics for symbols, so that e.g. help('@')
704 works as expected in the interactive environment.
705
706- Issue #4756: zipfile.is_zipfile() now supports file-like objects. Patch by
707 Gabriel Genellina.
708
Vinay Sajip6badbe92009-01-20 22:49:13 +0000709- Issue #4646: distutils was choking on empty options arg in the setup
Tarek Ziadé0edab542008-12-29 22:36:22 +0000710 function. Original patch by Thomas Heller.
711
Tarek Ziadéba486082008-12-27 13:28:42 +0000712- Issue #4400: .pypirc default generated file was broken in distutils.
713
Benjamin Peterson828a7062008-12-27 17:05:29 +0000714- Issue #4736: io.BufferedRWPair's closed property now functions properly.
715
716- Issue #3954: Fix a potential SystemError in _hotshot.logreader error
717 handling.
718
Benjamin Petersonc6e80eb2008-12-21 17:01:26 +0000719- Issue #4163: Use unicode-friendly word splitting in the textwrap functions
720 when given an unicode string.
721
722- Issue #4616: TarFile.utime(): Restore directory times on Windows.
723
Mark Dickinson7c62f892008-12-11 09:17:40 +0000724- Issue #4084: Fix max, min, max_mag and min_mag Decimal methods to
725 give correct results in the case where one argument is a quiet NaN
726 and the other is a finite number that requires rounding.
727
Benjamin Petersonc6e80eb2008-12-21 17:01:26 +0000728- Issue #1030250: Distutils created directories even when run with the
729 --dry-run option.
730
731- Issue #4483: _dbm module now builds on systems with gdbm & gdbm_compat
732 libs.
733
Georg Brandlf3a0b862008-12-07 14:47:12 +0000734- Issue #4529: fix the parser module's validation of try-except-finally
735 statements.
736
737- Issue #4458: getopt.gnu_getopt() now recognizes a single "-" as an argument,
738 not a malformed option.
739
740- Added the subprocess.check_output() convenience function to get output
741 from a subprocess on success or raise an exception on error.
742
Fred Drake0c7dfa32008-12-04 19:01:28 +0000743- Issue #1055234: cgi.parse_header(): Fixed parsing of header parameters to
744 support unusual filenames (such as those containing semi-colons) in
745 Content-Disposition headers.
746
Matthias Klose19f6e212009-04-05 22:12:56 +0000747- Issue #4730: Fixed the cPickle module to handle correctly astral characters
748 when protocol 0 is used.
749
750- Issue #16278952: plat-mac/videoreader.py now correctly imports MediaDescr
751
752- Issue #1737832 : plat-mac/EasyDialog.py no longer uses the broken aepack
753 module.
754
755- Issue #1149804: macostools.mkdirs now even works when another process
756 creates one of the needed subdirectories.
757
758Tools/Demos
759-----------
760
761- Issue #4677: add two list comprehension tests to pybench.
762
763Extension Modules
764-----------------
765
766- Issue #4301: Patch the logging module to add processName support, remove
767 _check_logger_class from multiprocessing.
768
769- Issue #1040026: Fix os.times result on systems where HZ is incorrect.
770
771- Issue #4397: Fix occasional test_socket failure on OS X.
772
773- Issue #4279: Fix build of parsermodule under Cygwin.
774
775- Issue #4051: Prevent conflict of UNICODE macros in cPickle.
776
777- Issue #4228: Pack negative values the same way as 2.4 in struct's L format.
778
779- Issue #1040026: Fix os.times result on systems where HZ is incorrect.
780
781- Issues #3167, #3682: Fix test_math failures for log, log10 on Solaris,
782 OpenBSD.
783
784Build
785-----
786
787- Link the shared python library with $(MODLIBS).
788
789- Issue #5134: Silence compiler warnings when compiling sqlite with VC++.
790
791- Issue #4494: Fix build with Py_NO_ENABLE_SHARED on Windows.
792
793- Issue #4895: Use _strdup on Windows CE.
794
795- Issue #4472: "configure --enable-shared" now works on OSX
796
797- Issues #4728 and #4060: WORDS_BIGEDIAN is now correct in Universal builds.
798
Matthias Klose19f6e212009-04-05 22:12:56 +0000799C-API
800-----
801
802- Issue #4720: The format for PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords can begin with '|'.
803
804- Issue #3632: from the gdb debugger, the 'pyo' macro can now be called when
805 the GIL is released, or owned by another thread.
806
807Tests
808-----
809
810- Issue #5635: Fix running test_sys with tracing enabled.
811
812- regrtest no longer treats ImportError as equivalent to SkipTest. Imports
Vinay Sajip03d327d2009-04-16 19:14:09 +0000813 that should cause a test to be skipped are now done using import_module
Matthias Klose19f6e212009-04-05 22:12:56 +0000814 from test support, which does the conversion.
815
816- Issue #5083: New 'gui' resource for regrtest.
817
818
819What's New in Python 2.6.1
820==========================
821
822*Release date: 04-Dec-2008*
823
824Core and Builtins
825-----------------
826
827- Issue #3996: On Windows, the PyOS_CheckStack function would cause the
828 interpreter to abort ("Fatal Python error: Could not reset the stack!")
829 instead of throwing a MemoryError.
830
831- Issue #4367: Python would segfault during compiling when the unicodedata
832 module couldn't be imported and \N escapes were present.
833
834- Issue #4348: Some bytearray methods returned that didn't cause any change to
835 the bytearray, returned the same bytearray instead of a copy.
836
837- Issue #4317: Fixed a crash in the imageop.rgb2rgb8() function.
838
839- Issue #4230: If ``__getattr__`` is a descriptor, it now functions correctly.
840
841- Issue #4048: The parser module now correctly validates relative imports.
842
843- Issue #4225: ``from __future__ import unicode_literals`` didn't work in an
844 exec statement.
845
846- Issue #4176: Fixed a crash when pickling an object which ``__reduce__``
847 method does not return iterators for the 4th and 5th items.
848
849- Issue #4209: Enabling unicode_literals and the print_function in the same
850 __future__ import didn't work.
851
852- On windows, os.chdir given unicode was not working if GetCurrentDirectoryW
853 returned a path longer than MAX_PATH. (But It's doubtful this code path is
854 really executed because I cannot move to such directory on win2k)
855
856- Issue #4069: When set.remove(element) is used with a set element, the element
857 is temporarily replaced with an equivalent frozenset. But the eventual
858 KeyError would always report the empty frozenset([]) as the missing key. Now
859 it correctly refers to the initial element.
860
861- Fixed C99 style comments in several files. Python is now C89 compatible
862 again.
863
864Library
865-------
866
Christian Heimes268be912008-11-28 11:03:48 +0000867- Issue #3741: DISTUTILS_USE_SDK set causes msvc9compiler.py to raise an
868 exception.
869
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc42491ce2008-11-21 22:08:14 +0000870- Issue #4363: The uuid.uuid1() and uuid.uuid4() functions now work even if
871 the ctypes module is not present.
872
Martin v. Löwisfc1e0ef2008-11-19 09:11:49 +0000873- Issue #4116: Resolve member name conflict in ScrolledCanvas.__init__.
874
Hirokazu Yamamotob2d81422008-11-03 18:10:24 +0000875- Issue #3774: Fixed an error when create a Tkinter menu item without command
876 and then remove it.
877
Thomas Heller68daeb02008-10-30 20:29:54 +0000878- Fixed a modulefinder crash on certain relative imports.
879
Benjamin Petersonaf956f12008-10-22 21:19:41 +0000880- Issue #4150: Pdb's "up" command now works for generator frames in post-mortem
881 debugging.
882
Benjamin Peterson3e808612008-10-21 22:28:54 +0000883- Issue #4092: Return ArgInfo as promised in the documentation from
884 inspect.getargvalues.
885
Georg Brandl4aef7032008-11-07 08:56:27 +0000886- Issue #3935: Properly support list subclasses in bisect's C implementation.
887
Martin v. Löwis74013d62008-10-06 15:17:35 +0000888- Issue #4014: Don't claim that Python has an Alpha release status, in addition
889 to claiming it is Mature.
890
Brett Cannon7e17a762008-10-06 22:47:18 +0000891Build
892-----
893
Matthias Klose5b377472009-04-05 22:20:45 +0000894- Issue #4389: Add icon to the uninstall entry in "add-and-remove-programs".
895
896- Issue #4289: Remove Cancel button from AdvancedDlg.
897
Martin v. Löwis49ae6122008-11-07 18:54:47 +0000898- Issue #1656675: Register a drop handler for .py* files on Windows.
899
Martin v. Löwise55ab5e2008-11-06 17:29:54 +0000900- Issue #4120: Exclude manifest from extension modules in VS2008.
901
Martin v. Löwis3f3ccbe2008-10-17 13:43:58 +0000902- Issue #4091: Install pythonxy.dll in system32 again.
903
Martin v. Löwisa6474662008-10-13 11:28:58 +0000904- Issue #4018: Disable "for me" installations on Vista.
905
Brett Cannon7e17a762008-10-06 22:47:18 +0000906- Issue #3758: Add ``patchcheck`` build target to .PHONY.
907
Martin v. Löwis7f08c1f2008-11-04 20:43:31 +0000908- Issue #4204: Fixed module build errors on FreeBSD 4.
909
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc38e46fc2008-10-14 22:00:06 +0000910C-API
911-----
912
913- Issue #4122: On Windows, fix a compilation error when using the
914 Py_UNICODE_ISSPACE macro in an extension module.
915
Benjamin Peterson9e233a52008-11-24 04:19:49 +0000916Extension Modules
917-----------------
918
Martin v. Löwis1d8592b2008-12-01 04:49:40 +0000919- Issue #4365: Add crtassem.h constants to the msvcrt module.
920
Benjamin Peterson9e233a52008-11-24 04:19:49 +0000921- Issue #4396: The parser module now correctly validates the with statement.
922
Barry Warsawa5a38c52008-10-02 03:08:34 +0000923
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +0000924What's New in Python 2.6 final
925==============================
926
Barry Warsawafa14362008-10-01 21:46:40 +0000927*Release date: 01-Oct-2008*
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +0000928
929Core and Builtins
930-----------------
931
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfc5ea392008-09-26 22:34:08 +0000932- Issue #3967: Fixed a crash in the count() and find() methods of string-like
933 objects, when the "start" parameter is a huge value.
934
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc17617a02008-09-25 20:52:56 +0000935- Issue #3965: Fixed a crash on Windows when open() is given an invalid
936 filename or mode, and the filename is a unicode string.
937
Martin v. Löwise86b07c2008-09-25 04:12:50 +0000938- Bug #3951: Py_USING_MEMORY_DEBUGGER should not be enabled by default.
939
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +0000940Library
941-------
942
Martin v. Löwise563aa42008-09-29 22:09:07 +0000943- Issue #3965: Allow repeated calls to turtle.Screen, by making it a
944 true singleton object.
945
Brett Cannonb2d61bd2008-09-29 03:41:21 +0000946- Issue #3895: It was possible to crash the interpreter when an external timer
947 was used with cProfile that returned an object that could not be converted
948 into a float.
949
Benjamin Peterson22d3c922008-09-25 20:35:45 +0000950- Issue #3950: Made turtle respect scale factors.
951
Thomas Hellera85c95d2008-09-24 18:26:05 +0000952- Issue #3547: Fixed ctypes structures bitfields of varying integer
953 sizes.
954
Benjamin Peterson2c7470d2008-09-21 21:27:51 +0000955- Issue #3879: A regression in urllib.getproxies_enviroment was fixed.
956
Gregory P. Smith08067492008-09-30 20:41:13 +0000957- Issue #3863: Disabled a unit test of fork being called from a thread
958 when running on platforms known to exhibit OS bugs when attempting that.
959
Martin v. Löwis175d0072008-09-19 15:21:07 +0000960Build
961-----
962
Martin v. Löwisd69c9042008-10-01 11:19:50 +0000963- Bug #3989: Package the 2to3 script (as 2to3.py) in the Windows
964 installer.
965
Martin v. Löwis175d0072008-09-19 15:21:07 +0000966- Bug #3887: Package x64 version of CRT for AMD64 Windows binaries.
967
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +0000968
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +0000969What's New in Python 2.6 release candidate 2?
970=============================================
971
Barry Warsaw6af16192008-09-18 04:33:43 +0000972*Release date: 17-Sep-2008*
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +0000973
974Core and Builtins
975-----------------
976
Benjamin Peterson8c2b7dc2008-09-18 01:22:16 +0000977Extension Modules
978-----------------
979
Benjamin Peterson8d77d442008-09-30 01:31:49 +0000980- Security Issue #2: imageop did not validate arguments correctly and could
981 segfault as a result.
982
Benjamin Peterson8c2b7dc2008-09-18 01:22:16 +0000983- Issue #3886: Possible integer overflows in the _hashopenssl module were
984 closed.
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +0000985
Antoine Pitrou3c9f5412008-09-13 20:30:30 +0000986Tools/Demos
987-----------
988
989- Issue #3850: recursion tests in Misc/find_recursion_limit.py can raise
990 AttributeError instead of RuntimeError, depending in which C API call
991 exactly the recursion limit is exceeded. Consequently, both exception types
992 are caught and silenced.
993
Martin v. Löwis4eb18f92008-09-14 20:22:39 +0000994Build
995-----
996
997- Issue #3617: Include a licensing statement regarding the Microsoft
998 C runtime in the Windows installer.
999
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +00001000
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +00001001What's New in Python 2.6 release candidate 1?
1002=============================================
1003
Barry Warsaw1e62aec2008-09-12 23:25:57 +00001004*Release date: 12-Sep-2008*
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +00001005
1006Core and Builtins
1007-----------------
1008
Martin v. Löwis9fa5a282008-09-11 06:53:30 +00001009- Issue #3642: Suppress warning in obmalloc when size_t is larger than uint.
1010
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc05e34492008-09-10 22:04:45 +00001011- Issue #3743: In a few places, PY_FORMAT_SIZE_T was incorrectly used with
1012 PyString_FromFormat or PyErr_Format to display size_t values. The macro
1013 PY_FORMAT_SIZE_T is designed to select the correct format for the OS
1014 ``printf`` function, whereas PyString_FromFormat has an independent
1015 implementation and uses "%zd" on all platforms for size_t values.
1016 This makes a difference on win64, where ``printf`` needs "%Id" to display
1017 64bit values.
1018
Benjamin Peterson97179b02008-09-09 20:55:01 +00001019- Issue #3634: _weakref.ref(Exception).__init__() gave invalid return value on
1020 error.
1021
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd3ffb892008-09-09 07:24:30 +00001022- Issue #3777: long() applied to a float object now always return a long
1023 object; previously an int would be returned for small values. the __long__
1024 method is allowed to return either an int or a long, but the behaviour of
1025 float objects should not change to respect backward compatibility.
1026
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc3571fbf2008-09-01 19:52:00 +00001027- Issue #3751: str.rpartition would perform a left-partition when called with
1028 a unicode argument.
1029
Benjamin Peterson17f03ca2008-09-01 14:18:30 +00001030- Issue #3683: Fix compilation when --without-threads is given.
1031
Antoine Pitroud4ae97b2008-08-29 18:39:48 +00001032- Issue #3668: Fix a memory leak with the "s*" argument parser in
Vinay Sajip35e3b032008-09-01 14:33:59 +00001033 PyArg_ParseTuple and friends, which occurred when the argument for "s*"
Antoine Pitroud4ae97b2008-08-29 18:39:48 +00001034 was correctly parsed but parsing of subsequent arguments failed.
1035
Vinay Sajip35e3b032008-09-01 14:33:59 +00001036- Issue #2534: speed up isinstance() and issubclass() by 50-70%, so as to
Antoine Pitrou0668c622008-08-26 22:42:08 +00001037 match Python 2.5 speed despite the __instancecheck__ / __subclasscheck__
1038 mechanism. In the process, fix a bug where isinstance() and issubclass(),
1039 when given a tuple of classes as second argument, were looking up
1040 __instancecheck__ / __subclasscheck__ on the tuple rather than on each
1041 type object.
1042
Neal Norwitz18aa3882008-08-24 05:04:52 +00001043- Fix crashes on memory allocation failure found with failmalloc.
1044
1045- Fix memory leaks found with valgrind and update suppressions file.
1046
1047- Fix compiler warnings in opt mode which would lead to invalid memory reads.
1048
1049- Fix problem using wrong name in decimal module reported by pychecker.
1050
Christian Heimes7d4c3172008-08-22 19:47:25 +00001051- Silenced another compiler warning about a used but not defined
1052 function 'stringlib_contains_obj'.
1053
Benjamin Peterson712ee922008-08-24 18:10:20 +00001054- Added warnings on the use of ``__getslice__``, ``__setslice__``, or
1055 ``__delslice__``.
1056
Gregory P. Smith2bb25cc2008-09-02 05:29:51 +00001057- Issue #3678: Correctly pass LDFLAGS and LDLAST to the linker on shared
1058 library targets in the Makefile.
1059
Gregory P. Smith980b99b2008-09-07 05:15:18 +00001060- Issue #1204: The configure script now tests for additional libraries
1061 that may be required when linking against readline. This fixes issues
1062 with x86_64 builds on some platforms (a few Linux flavors and OpenBSD).
1063
Benjamin Peterson14cb6bc2008-08-26 17:08:40 +00001064C-API
1065-----
1066
1067- Aliased PyObject_Bytes to PyObject_Str.
1068
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +00001069Library
1070-------
1071
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc24cb3822008-09-11 20:56:13 +00001072- Issue #3640: Pickling a list or a dict uses less local variables, to reduce
1073 stack usage in the case of deeply nested objects.
1074
Guido van Rossume3c4fd92008-09-10 14:27:00 +00001075- Issue #3629: Fix sre "bytecode" validator for an end case.
1076
Martin v. Löwis24329ba2008-09-10 13:38:12 +00001077- Issue #3811: The Unicode database was updated to 5.1.
1078
Nick Coghland2e09382008-09-11 12:11:06 +00001079- Issue #3781: Further warnings.catch_warnings() cleanup to prevent
1080 silent misbehaviour when a single instance is nested in multiple
1081 with statements, or when the methods are invoked in the wrong order.
1082
Vinay Sajip844f7412008-09-09 13:42:08 +00001083- Issue #3809: Fixed spurious 'test.blah' file left behind by test_logging.
1084
Nick Coghland2e09382008-09-11 12:11:06 +00001085- Issue #3781: Clean up the API for warnings.catch_warnings() by having it
Brett Cannon672237d2008-09-09 00:49:16 +00001086 return a list or None rather than a custom object.
1087
Benjamin Peterson6ac7d7c2008-09-06 19:28:11 +00001088- Issue #1638033: Cookie.Morsel gained the httponly attribute.
1089
Antoine Pitrouebcd0ce2008-09-05 23:30:23 +00001090- Issue #3535: zipfile couldn't read some zip files larger than 2GB.
1091
1092- Issue #3776: Deprecate the bsddb package for removal in 3.0.
Brett Cannon32476fc2008-09-05 18:33:51 +00001093
Hirokazu Yamamoto42e459e2008-09-04 14:25:30 +00001094- Issue #3762: platform.architecture() fails if python is lanched via
1095 its symbolic link.
1096
Vinay Sajip65d66e12008-09-04 07:31:21 +00001097- Issue #3772: Fixed regression problem in StreamHandler.emit().
1098
Facundo Batistac585df92008-09-03 22:35:50 +00001099- Issue 600362: Relocated parse_qs() and parse_qsl(), from the cgi module
1100 to the urlparse one. Added a PendingDeprecationWarning in the old
1101 module, it will be deprecated in the future.
1102
Marc-André Lemburgb339b2a2008-09-03 11:13:56 +00001103- Issue #2562: Fix distutils PKG-INFO writing logic to allow having
1104 non-ascii characters and Unicode in setup.py meta-data.
1105
1106- Issue #3726: Allow spaces in separators in logging configuration files.
Vinay Sajip6a2fd812008-09-03 09:20:05 +00001107
Marc-André Lemburg31a0a142008-09-02 12:11:19 +00001108- Issue #3719: platform.architecture() fails if there are spaces in the
1109 path to the Python binary.
1110
Brett Cannon1eaf0742008-09-02 01:25:16 +00001111- Issue 3602: Moved test.test_support.catch_warning() to
1112 warnings.catch_warnings() along with some API cleanup. Expanding the tests
1113 for catch_warnings() also led to an improvement in the raising of a
1114 DeprecationWarning related to warnings.warn_explicit().
1115
Benjamin Peterson973e6c22008-09-01 23:12:58 +00001116- The deprecation warnings for the old camelCase threading API were removed.
1117
Vinay Sajip35e3b032008-09-01 14:33:59 +00001118- logging: fixed lack of use of encoding attribute specified on a stream.
1119
Christian Heimesa27a62e2008-08-22 19:55:54 +00001120- Silenced a trivial compiler warning in the sqlite module.
1121
Christian Heimes1cc69632008-08-22 20:10:27 +00001122- Fixed two format strings in the _collections module.
1123
Benjamin Peterson17f03ca2008-09-01 14:18:30 +00001124- Issue #3703: _fileio.FileIO gave unhelpful error message when trying to open a
1125 directory.
Benjamin Petersonf22c26e2008-09-01 14:13:43 +00001126
Gregory P. Smithd7122032008-09-02 05:36:11 +00001127- Issue #3708: os.urandom no longer goes into an infinite loop when passed a
1128 non-integer floating point number.
1129
Vinay Sajip65d66e12008-09-04 07:31:21 +00001130- Issue #3110: multiprocessing fails to compiel on solaris 10 due to missing
Jesse Nollerb814d6a2008-09-03 18:10:30 +00001131 SEM_VALUE_MAX.
1132
Benjamin Peterson37346b22008-08-23 20:27:43 +00001133Extension Modules
1134-----------------
1135
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc293924b2008-09-02 23:19:56 +00001136- Issue #2975: When compiling several extension modules with Visual Studio 2008
1137 from the same python interpreter, some environment variables would grow
1138 without limit.
1139
Benjamin Peterson37346b22008-08-23 20:27:43 +00001140- Issue #3643: Added a few more checks to _testcapi to prevent segfaults by
1141 exploitation of poor argument checking.
1142
Gerhard Häringef2276b2008-09-12 13:54:06 +00001143- sqlite3: Changed docstring of iterdump() to mark method as "Non-standard".
1144
Gerhard Häring6e1afcf2008-09-12 18:58:57 +00001145- Issue #3103: Reduced globals symbols used by sqlite3 module and made sure all
1146 remaining ones have "pysqlite_" prefix.
1147
Gerhard Häringe6872eb2008-09-12 22:33:22 +00001148- Issue #3846: Release the GIL during sqlite3_prepare calls. This improves
1149 concurrent access to the same SQLite database from multiple
1150 threads/processes.
1151
Brett Cannona0b74442008-09-03 22:45:11 +00001152Tests
1153-----
1154
Nick Coghland2e09382008-09-11 12:11:06 +00001155- Issue #3781: Add test.test_support.check_warnings() as a convenience
1156 wrapper for warnings.catch_warnings() that makes it easier to check
1157 that expected warning messages are being reported.
1158
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfeb8cad2008-09-06 20:53:51 +00001159- Issue #3796: Some tests functions were not enabled in test_float.
1160
1161- Issue #3768: Move test_py3kwarn over to the new API for catch_warnings().
Brett Cannona0b74442008-09-03 22:45:11 +00001162
Brett Cannoncdeb24b2008-09-05 22:59:17 +00001163Build
1164-----
1165
Martin v. Löwisab0b29b2008-09-13 08:11:57 +00001166- Issue #3833: Use a different upgrade code for Win64 installers.
1167
Martin v. Löwis3f5fda82008-09-08 13:50:10 +00001168- Issue #2271: Set SecureCustomProperties so that installation will properly
1169 use the TARGETDIR even for unprivileged users.
1170
Martin v. Löwis67543a92008-09-08 12:02:45 +00001171- Allow passing the MSI file name to merge.py.
1172
Vinay Sajip844f7412008-09-09 13:42:08 +00001173- Issue #3758: Rename the 'check' target to 'patchcheck' so as to not clash
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfeb8cad2008-09-06 20:53:51 +00001174 with GNU build target guidelines.
Brett Cannoncdeb24b2008-09-05 22:59:17 +00001175
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +00001176
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00001177What's New in Python 2.6 beta 3?
1178================================
1179
Barry Warsaw07a4a382008-08-21 01:15:08 +00001180*Release date: 20-Aug-2008*
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00001181
1182Core and Builtins
1183-----------------
1184
Guido van Rossumf8402962008-08-20 15:01:50 +00001185- Issue #1878: Remove Py_TPFLAGS_HAVE_VERSION_TAG from
1186 Py_TPFLAGS_DEFAULT when not building the core. This means 3rd party
1187 extensions do not automatically benefit from the class attribute
1188 cache; they will have to explicitly add Py_TPFLAGS_HAVE_VERSION_TAG
1189 to their tp_flags field if they care. This is a backwards
1190 compatibility feature; in 3.0, all types will use the cache by
1191 default.
1192
Benjamin Petersonf647dc12008-08-20 01:27:30 +00001193- Keyword arguments can now follow starred arguments. (``f(a, *args,
1194 keyword=23)`` is now valid syntax.)
1195
Thomas Heller0ad5ae02008-08-19 19:25:04 +00001196- ctypes function pointers that are COM methods have a boolean True
1197 value again.
1198
Martin v. Löwisf91d46a2008-08-12 14:49:50 +00001199- Issue #3139: Make buffer-interface thread-safe wrt. PyArg_ParseTuple,
1200 by denying s# to parse objects that have a releasebuffer procedure,
1201 and introducing s*.
1202
Georg Brandl1e13ea92008-08-11 09:07:59 +00001203- Issue #3537: Fix an assertion failure when an empty but presized dict
1204 object was stored in the freelist.
1205
Mark Dickinsonb6467572008-08-04 21:30:09 +00001206- Issue #1481296: Make long(float('nan')) and int(float('nan')) raise
1207 ValueError consistently across platforms.
1208
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc39fd6722008-07-31 21:28:03 +00001209- Issue #3479: On platforms where sizeof(int) is smaller than sizeof(long)
1210 (64bit Unix, for example), unichr() would truncate its argument and return
1211 u'\x00' for unichr(2**32). Now it properly raises an OverflowError.
1212
Neal Norwitze7d8be82008-07-31 17:17:14 +00001213- Apply security patches from Apple.
1214
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc246daed2008-07-31 00:42:16 +00001215- Issue #2542: Now that issubclass() may call arbitrary code, ensure that
1216 PyErr_ExceptionMatches returns 0 when an exception occurs there.
1217
Antoine Pitrou92f82162008-07-25 22:22:08 +00001218- Issue #1819: function calls with several named parameters are now on
1219 average 35% faster (as measured by pybench).
1220
Amaury Forgeot d'Arce4921fe2008-07-21 22:00:38 +00001221- Issue #2378: An unexpected UnboundLocalError or NameError could appear when
1222 the python debugger steps into a class statement: the free variables (local
1223 variables defined in an outer scope) would be deleted from the outer scope.
1224
Gregory P. Smith0470bab2008-07-22 04:46:32 +00001225- Issue #2620: Overflow checking when allocating or reallocating memory
1226 was not always being done properly in some python types and extension
1227 modules. PyMem_MALLOC, PyMem_REALLOC, PyMem_NEW and PyMem_RESIZE have
1228 all been updated to perform better checks and places in the code that
1229 would previously leak memory on the error path when such an allocation
1230 failed have been fixed.
1231
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00001232Library
1233-------
1234
Hirokazu Yamamoto838c79f2008-08-20 13:14:07 +00001235- Issue #3612: Added some missing basic types in ctypes.wintypes.
1236
Benjamin Petersone977ad42008-08-20 01:42:01 +00001237- The methods ``is_in_tuple()``, ``is_vararg()``, and ``is_keywordarg()`` of
1238 symtable.Symbol have been deprecated for removal in 3.0 and the next release.
1239
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc351ffb82008-08-18 19:23:47 +00001240- Issue #2234: distutils failed for some versions of the cygwin compiler. The
1241 version reported by these tools does not necessarily follow the python
1242 version numbering scheme, so the module is less strict when parsing it.
1243
Nick Coghlanf70385a2008-08-18 12:42:46 +00001244- Issue #2235: Added Py3k warnings for types which will become unhashable
1245 under the stricter __hash__ inheritance rules in 3.0. Several types
1246 which did not meet the rules for hash invariants and were already
1247 unhashable in 3.0 have now been explicitly flagged as unhashable in
1248 2.6 as well (collections.Mapping, collections.Set, unittest.TestSuite,
1249 xml.dom.minidom.NamedNodeMap, numbers.Number, UserList.UserList)
1250
Brett Cannon88f801d2008-08-18 00:46:22 +00001251- Update __all__ for cookielib, csv, os, urllib2, and weakref to include things
1252 imported into the module but exposed as part of the module's API.
1253
Brett Cannon7b96f072008-08-18 00:41:11 +00001254- Remove an unneeded import of abc.ABCMeta from 'inspect'.
1255
Brett Cannon46225e72008-08-18 00:36:52 +00001256- Remove unneeded imports of 'sys' and 'warnings' from 'io'.
1257
Brett Cannon25c9d6a2008-08-17 22:10:11 +00001258- Remove unneeded imports of 'warnings' from shelve, filecmp, and dummy_thread.
1259
Hirokazu Yamamoto41a81eb2008-08-17 13:10:46 +00001260- Issue #3575: Incremental decoder's decode function now takes bytearray
1261 by using 's*' instead of 't#'.
1262
Jesus Cea585ad8a2009-07-02 15:37:21 +00001263- Issue #2222: Fixed reference leak when occurred os.rename()
Hirokazu Yamamoto7f30a682008-08-17 09:46:56 +00001264 fails unicode conversion on 2nd parameter. (windows only)
1265
Facundo Batista94f243a2008-08-17 03:38:39 +00001266- Issue 2464. urllib2 now supports a malformation in the URL received
1267 in a redirect.
1268
Brett Cannonabe423e2008-08-16 21:47:07 +00001269- Silence the DeprecationWarning raised when importing mimetools in
Brett Cannon721b1452008-08-16 22:00:27 +00001270 BaseHTTPServer, cgi (and rfc822), httplib.
Brett Cannonabe423e2008-08-16 21:47:07 +00001271
Facundo Batistaeb90b782008-08-16 14:44:07 +00001272- Issue #2776: fixed small issue when handling an URL with double slash
1273 after a 302 response in the case of not going through a proxy.
1274
Antoine Pitroub90a8be2008-08-15 21:03:21 +00001275- Issue #2676: in the email package, content-type parsing was hanging on
1276 pathological input because of quadratic or exponential behaviour of a
1277 regular expression.
1278
Antoine Pitrou11ec65d2008-08-14 21:04:30 +00001279- Issue #3476: binary buffered reading through the new "io" library is now
1280 thread-safe.
1281
Brett Cannonbf3157b2008-08-14 05:00:03 +00001282- Silence the DeprecationWarning of rfc822 when it is imported by mimetools
1283 since mimetools itself is deprecated. Because modules are cached, all
1284 subsequent imports of rfc822 will not raise a visible DeprecationWarning.
1285
Antoine Pitrou9fcd4b32008-08-11 17:21:36 +00001286- Issue #3134: shutil referenced undefined WindowsError symbol.
1287
Robert Schuppenies14646332008-08-10 11:01:53 +00001288- Issue #1342811: Fix leak in Tkinter.Menu.delete. Commands associated to
1289 menu entries were not deleted.
1290
Brett Cannon83e81842008-08-09 23:30:55 +00001291- Copied the implementation of reduce() to _functools.reduce() to have a
1292 version that did not raise a DeprecationWarning under -3.
1293
Antoine Pitrou76b8bee2008-08-09 17:27:23 +00001294- Issue #3205: When iterating over a BZ2File fails allocating memory, raise
1295 a MemoryError rather than silently stop the iteration.
1296
Guido van Rossum59ce9012008-08-09 14:55:34 +00001297- Issue #3487: sre "bytecode" validator. Passing invalid "re-bytecode"
1298 to _sre.compile() will now be rejected. This should not affect anybody
1299 since the re.compile() function never generates invalid re-bytecode.
1300
Skip Montanaroa032bf42008-08-08 22:52:51 +00001301- Issue #3436: Make csv.DictReader's fieldnames attribute a property so that
1302 upon first access it can be automatically initialized from the csv file if
1303 it wasn't initialized during instantiation.
1304
Brett Cannon3aa2a492008-08-06 22:28:09 +00001305- Issue #2338: Create imp.reload() to help with transitioning to Python 3.0 as
1306 the reload() built-in has been removed.
1307
Brett Cannon7e30b672008-08-04 21:52:25 +00001308- Changed code in the following modules/packages to remove warnings raised
Brett Cannonc1b76e42008-08-09 23:06:16 +00001309 while running under the ``-3`` flag: aifc, asynchat, asyncore, bdb, bsddb,
Brett Cannon047e4a92008-08-17 04:16:04 +00001310 ConfigParser, cookielib, csv, difflib, distutils, DocXMLRPCServer, email,
1311 filecmp, fileinput, inspect, logging, modulefinder, pdb, pickle, profile,
1312 pstats, pydoc, re, rlcompleter, SimpleXMLRPCServer, shelve, socket,
1313 subprocess, sqlite3, tarfile, Tkinter, test.test_support, textwrap,
1314 threading, tokenize, traceback, urlparse, wsgiref, xml, xmlrpclib.
Brett Cannon7e30b672008-08-04 21:52:25 +00001315
Lars Gustäbel727bd0b2008-08-02 11:26:39 +00001316- Issue #3039: Fix tarfile.TarFileCompat.writestr() which always
1317 raised an AttributeError.
1318
Benjamin Peterson01a24322008-07-28 23:35:27 +00001319- Issue #2523: Fix quadratic behaviour when read()ing a binary file without
Antoine Pitroude781a42008-08-09 12:43:23 +00001320 asking for a specific length. This problem only affected files opened
1321 using the new "io" module, not the built-in open() function.
Benjamin Peterson01a24322008-07-28 23:35:27 +00001322
Mark Dickinsonfe84cce2008-07-27 06:39:07 +00001323- Issue #3449: Update decimal module to use most recent specification
1324 (v. 1.68) and tests (v. 2.58) from IBM.
1325
Skip Montanarof9ac43f2008-07-27 00:50:41 +00001326- Issue 3437: Bug fix in robotparser parsing of Allow: lines.
1327
Raymond Hettinger8c664e82008-07-25 18:43:33 +00001328- Issue 1592: Improve error reporting when operations are attempted
1329 on a closed shelf.
1330
Georg Brandlf9efabb2008-07-23 15:16:45 +00001331- Deprecate the "ast" parser function aliases.
1332
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00001333- Issue #3120: On 64-bit Windows the subprocess module was truncating handles.
1334
1335- Issue #3303: Fix a crash in locale.strcoll() when calling it with
1336 invalid arguments.
1337
1338- Issue #3302: Fix several crashes when calling locale's gettext functions
1339 with None arguments.
1340
1341- Issue #3389: Allow resolving dotted names for handlers in logging
1342 configuration files.
1343
1344- Deprecate the sunaudio module for removal in Python 3.0.
1345
Antoine Pitrou5fdfa3e2008-07-25 19:42:26 +00001346- Issue #3394: zipfile.writestr sets external attributes when passed a
1347 file name rather than a ZipInfo instance, so files are extracted with
1348 mode 0600 rather than 000 under Unix.
1349
Gregory P. Smitha36f8fe2008-08-04 00:13:29 +00001350- Issue #1857: subprocess.Popen.poll gained an additional _deadstate keyword
1351 argument in python 2.5, this broke code that subclassed Popen to include its
1352 own poll method. Fixed my moving _deadstate to an _internal_poll method.
1353
Martin v. Löwis8dbf3642008-08-01 14:10:26 +00001354Build
1355-----
1356
1357- Generate the PatternGrammar pickle during "make install".
1358
Nick Coghlan2a0c2b12008-08-04 12:47:17 +00001359Documentation
1360-------------
1361
Nick Coghlan6e8fef02008-08-18 13:14:22 +00001362- Issue #2235: the C API function PyObject_HashNotImplemented and its
1363 interaction with the tp_hash slot (added in 2.6b2) are now documented
1364
Nick Coghlan2a0c2b12008-08-04 12:47:17 +00001365- Issue #643841: The language reference now provides more detailed
1366 coverage of the lookup process for special methods. The disclaimers
1367 regarding lack of coverage of new-style classes have also been
1368 removed, since the coverage is now fairly reasonable.
1369
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00001370
Raymond Hettingere3ae6552008-06-20 04:18:15 +00001371What's New in Python 2.6 beta 2?
1372================================
1373
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00001374*Release date: 17-Jul-2008*
1375
Raymond Hettingere3ae6552008-06-20 04:18:15 +00001376Core and Builtins
1377-----------------
1378
Georg Brandl3e483f62008-07-16 22:57:41 +00001379- Issue #3156: Fix inconsistent behavior of the bytearray type: all
1380 its methods now allow for items objects that can be converted to
1381 an integer using operator.index().
1382
Mark Dickinson64b7e502008-07-16 09:40:03 +00001383- Issue #3360: Fix incorrect parsing of '020000000000.0', which
1384 produced a ValueError instead of giving the correct float.
1385
Eric Smitha5fa5a22008-07-16 00:11:49 +00001386- Issue #3083: Add alternate (#) formatting for bin, oct, hex output
1387 for str.format(). This adds the prefix 0b, 0o, or 0x, respectively.
1388
Mark Dickinson7103aa42008-07-15 19:08:33 +00001389- Issue #3008: the float type has a new instance method 'float.hex'
1390 and a new class method 'float.fromhex' to convert floating-point
1391 numbers to and from hexadecimal strings, respectively.
1392
Nick Coghlan6d6bd442008-07-15 15:40:22 +00001393- Issue #2235: __hash__ is once again inherited by default. To allow
1394 collections.Hashable to remain meaningful in the presence of the
1395 default hash implementation (object.__hash__), it is now possible
1396 to explicit block inheritance of hash by setting __hash__=None at
1397 the Python level, or tp_hash=PyObject_HashNotImplemented at the C
1398 level.
1399
Nick Coghlanb028f502008-07-13 14:52:36 +00001400- Issue #3221: Issue a RuntimeWarning instead of raising SystemError if
1401 the parent module cannot be found while performing an absolute import.
1402 This means that an incorrectly defined __package__ attribute will
1403 now only prevent relative imports in that module rather than causing
1404 all imports from that module to fail.
1405
Nick Coghlan14ff9942008-07-08 14:21:42 +00001406- Issue #2517: Allow unicode messages in Exceptions again by correctly
1407 bypassing the instance dictionary when looking up __unicode__ on
1408 new-style classes.
1409
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcbdd941f2008-07-01 20:38:04 +00001410- Issue #3242: Fix a crash inside the print statement, if sys.stdout is
1411 set to a custom object whose write() method happens to install
1412 another file in sys.stdout.
1413
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc1f40c8a2008-06-30 22:42:40 +00001414- Issue #3088: Corrected a race condition in classes derived from
1415 threading.local: the first member set by a thread could be saved in
1416 another thread's dictionary.
1417
Mark Dickinson1ec2fcd2008-06-20 14:53:43 +00001418- Issue #3004: Minor change to slice.indices(): the start and stop
1419 arguments are now treated identically, making the behaviour easier
1420 to describe and understand. For example, slice(None, -10,
1421 1).indices(9) now returns (0, 0, 1) instead of (0, -1, 1), and
1422 slice(None, 10, -1).indices(10) returns (9, 9, -1) instead of (9,
1423 10, -1).
1424
Georg Brandl278fc502008-07-19 12:46:12 +00001425- Issue #3219: Calling a function with repeated keyword arguments,
1426 f(a=2, a=23), would not cause a syntax error. This was a regression
1427 from 2.4 caused by the switch to the new compiler.
Benjamin Peterson175e4d92008-07-01 19:34:52 +00001428
Georg Brandl278fc502008-07-19 12:46:12 +00001429- Issue #2862: Make int and float freelist management consistent with
1430 other freelists. Changes their CompactFreeList apis into
1431 ClearFreeList apis and calls them via gc.collect().
Gregory P. Smith2fe77062008-07-06 03:35:58 +00001432
Brett Cannon8bb8fa52008-07-02 01:57:08 +00001433Library
1434-------
1435
Thomas Heller57adf222008-08-14 19:10:48 +00001436- Issue #3554: ctypes.string_at and ctypes.wstring_at did call Python
1437 api functions without holding the GIL, which could lead to a fatal
1438 error when they failed.
1439
Martin v. Löwisaabf4042008-08-02 07:20:25 +00001440- Issue #799428: Fix Tkinter.Misc._nametowidget to unwrap Tcl command objects.
1441
Jesse Noller7fb96402008-07-17 21:01:05 +00001442- Issue #3395: fix reference in test_multiprocessing to old debugInfo method
1443
Georg Brandla24869a2008-07-16 22:33:18 +00001444- Issue #3312: Fix two crashes in sqlite3.
1445
Georg Brandl86cbf812008-07-16 21:31:41 +00001446- Issue #1608818: Fix misbehavior in os.listdir() if readdir() fails.
1447
Jesse Noller13e9d582008-07-16 14:32:36 +00001448- Issue #3125: Remove copy_reg in multiprocessing and replace it with
1449 ForkingPickler.register() to resolve conflict with ctypes.
1450
Vinay Sajip51e65192008-07-18 09:01:10 +00001451- Issue #3090: Fixed ARCHFLAGS parsing on OS/X
Jesse Noller13e9d582008-07-16 14:32:36 +00001452
Thomas Heller880f5292008-07-15 19:39:38 +00001453- Issue #3313: Fixed a crash when a failed dlopen() call does not set
1454 a valid dlerror() message.
1455
Thomas Heller2bad6572008-07-15 17:19:50 +00001456- Issue #3258: Fixed a crash when a ctypes POINTER type to an
1457 incomplete structure was created.
1458
Brett Cannon3d0b9f02008-07-13 01:15:07 +00001459- Issue #3339: dummy_thread.acquire() should not return None.
1460
Raymond Hettingerb01713e2008-07-10 14:34:57 +00001461- Issue #3285: Fractions from_float() and from_decimal() accept Integral arguments.
1462
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +00001463- Issue #3301: Bisect module behaved badly when lo was negative.
Raymond Hettinger3cd1e422008-07-10 14:03:19 +00001464
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc0f7cddc2008-07-06 21:34:39 +00001465- Issue #839496: SimpleHTTPServer used to open text files in text mode. This is
1466 both unnecessary (HTTP allows text content to be sent in several forms) and
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +00001467 wrong because the actual transmitted size could differ from the
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc0f7cddc2008-07-06 21:34:39 +00001468 content-length. The problem had been corrected in the 2.4 branch, but never
1469 merged into trunk.
1470
Georg Brandle78fbcc2008-07-05 10:13:36 +00001471- Issue #2663: add filtering capability to shutil.copytree().
1472
Martin v. Löwis8c436412008-07-03 12:51:14 +00001473- Issue #1622: Correct interpretation of various ZIP header fields.
1474
1475- Issue #1526: Allow more than 64k files to be added to Zip64 file.
1476
1477- Issue #1746: Correct handling of zipfile archive comments (previously
1478 archives with comments over 4k were flagged as invalid). Allow writing
Vinay Sajip51e65192008-07-18 09:01:10 +00001479 Zip files with archives by setting the 'comment' attribute of a ZipFile.
Martin v. Löwis8c436412008-07-03 12:51:14 +00001480
Vinay Sajip51e65192008-07-18 09:01:10 +00001481- Issue #449227: The rlcompleter module now adds "(" to callable objects
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +00001482 when completed.
Facundo Batista66c52772008-07-02 16:52:55 +00001483
Nick Coghlanc060b0e2008-07-02 13:09:19 +00001484- Issue #3190: Pydoc now hides the automatic module attribute __package__ (the
1485 handling is now the same as that of other special attributes like __name__).
1486
Brett Cannon8bb8fa52008-07-02 01:57:08 +00001487- Issue #2885 (partial): The urllib.urlopen() function has been deprecated for
1488 removal in Python 3.0 in favor of urllib2.urlopen().
1489
Gregory P. Smithf4140642008-07-06 07:16:40 +00001490- Issue #2113: Fix error in subprocess.Popen if the select system call is
1491 interrupted by a signal.
1492
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +00001493- Issue #3309: Fix bz2.BZFile iterator to release its internal lock
Gregory P. Smith3b1e6b22008-07-07 04:31:58 +00001494 properly when raising an exception due to the bz2file being closed.
1495 Prevents a deadlock.
1496
Gregory P. Smithc4691ec2008-07-07 05:09:12 +00001497- Issue #3094: httplib.HTTPSConnection Host: headers no longer include the
1498 redundant ":443" port number designation when the connection is using the
1499 default https port (443).
1500
Gregory P. Smithdb3409c2008-07-17 03:13:05 +00001501- Issue #874900: after an os.fork() call the threading module state is cleaned
1502 up in the child process to prevent deadlock and report proper thread counts
1503 if the new process uses the threading module.
1504
Nick Coghlan38469e22008-07-13 12:23:47 +00001505Tests
1506-----
1507
1508- test.test_support.catch_warning now keeps track of all warnings it sees
1509 and is now better documented. Explicit unit tests for this context manager
1510 have been added to test_warnings.
1511
Martin v. Löwisd84fd952008-06-30 06:57:39 +00001512Build
1513-----
1514
1515- Issue #3215: Build sqlite3 as sqlite3.dll, not sqlite3.pyd.
1516
Brett Cannon8bb8fa52008-07-02 01:57:08 +00001517
Brett Cannon97aa1ae2008-07-11 00:12:52 +00001518Documentation
1519-------------
1520
Brett Cannonfeef51d2008-07-11 00:50:01 +00001521- Document that robotparser has been renamed to urllib.robotparser in
Brett Cannon963ffdb2008-07-11 00:48:57 +00001522 Python 3.0.
1523
Brett Cannonf6afa332008-07-11 00:16:30 +00001524- Document that urlparse has been renamed to urllib.parse in Python 3.0.
1525
Brett Cannon97aa1ae2008-07-11 00:12:52 +00001526- Document that urllib2 is split across multiple modules and renamed in
1527 Python 3.0.
1528
1529- Document that urllib is split across multiple modules and renamed in
1530 Python 3.0.
1531
1532
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00001533What's New in Python 2.6 beta 1?
1534================================
1535
Barry Warsawb5d17402008-06-19 01:48:07 +00001536*Release date: 18-June-2008*
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00001537
1538Core and Builtins
1539-----------------
1540
Brett Cannondea1b562008-06-27 00:31:13 +00001541- Issue #3211: warnings.warn_explicit() did not guard against its 'registry'
1542 argument being anything other than a dict or None. Also fixed a bug in error
1543 handling when 'message' and 'category' were both set to None, triggering a
1544 bus error.
1545
Amaury Forgeot d'Arca8919fe2008-06-16 19:12:42 +00001546- Issue #3100: Corrected a crash on deallocation of a subclassed weakref which
1547 holds the last (strong) reference to its referent.
1548
Georg Brandl89f48872008-06-11 18:55:38 +00001549- Add future_builtins.ascii().
1550
Raymond Hettinger5c4d3d02008-06-09 13:07:27 +00001551- Several set methods now accept multiple arguments: update(), union(),
Raymond Hettinger4267be62008-06-11 10:30:54 +00001552 intersection(), intersection_update(), difference(), and difference_update().
Raymond Hettingeree4bcad2008-06-09 08:33:37 +00001553
Robert Schuppenies51df0642008-06-01 16:16:17 +00001554- Issue #2898: Added sys.getsizeof() to retrieve size of objects in bytes.
1555
Martin v. Löwis99815892008-06-01 07:20:46 +00001556- New environment variable PYTHONIOENCODING.
1557
Martin v. Löwis4dd019f2008-05-20 08:11:19 +00001558- Patch #2488: Add sys.maxsize.
1559
Georg Brandla9916b52008-05-17 22:11:54 +00001560- Issue #2353: file.xreadlines() now emits a Py3k warning.
1561
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001562- Issue #2863: generators now have a ``gen.__name__`` attribute that
1563 equals ``gen.gi_code.co_name``, like ``func.__name___`` that equals
1564 ``func.func_code.co_name``. The repr() of a generator now also
1565 contains this name.
Georg Brandlc91210c2008-05-15 15:08:32 +00001566
Georg Brandlbd85eb12008-05-14 06:34:15 +00001567- Issue #2831: enumerate() now has a ``start`` argument.
1568
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001569- Issue #2801: fix bug in the float.is_integer method where a
1570 ValueError was sometimes incorrectly raised.
Mark Dickinsone81c3762008-05-09 16:14:15 +00001571
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001572- Issue #2790: sys.flags was not properly exposing its bytes_warning
1573 attribute.
Brett Cannon3c1d50a2008-05-08 20:23:54 +00001574
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001575- Issue #2196: hasattr() now lets exceptions which do not inherit
1576 Exception (KeyboardInterrupt, and SystemExit) propagate instead of
1577 ignoring them.
Benjamin Petersonb9030f42008-05-12 00:41:23 +00001578
Gregory P. Smith9d534572008-06-11 07:41:16 +00001579- Added checks for integer overflows, contributed by Google. Some are
1580 only available if asserts are left in the code, in cases where they
1581 can't be triggered from Python code.
1582
1583
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00001584Extension Modules
1585-----------------
Guido van Rossum84b1e0f2008-08-20 14:57:20 +00001586- Issue #1179: [CVE-2007-4965] Integer overflow in imageop module.
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00001587
Raymond Hettinger305480c2008-06-16 01:42:40 +00001588- Issue #3116: marshal.dumps() had quadratic behavior for strings > 32Mb.
1589
Andrew M. Kuchling2126bab2008-06-22 13:39:11 +00001590- Issue #2138: Add factorial() to the math module.
Raymond Hettingerecbdd2e2008-06-09 06:54:45 +00001591
Raymond Hettinger6d7702e2008-05-31 03:24:31 +00001592- The heapq module does comparisons using LT instead of LE. This
1593 makes its implementation match that used by list.sort().
1594
Mark Dickinson99dfe922008-05-23 01:35:30 +00001595- Issue #2819: add full-precision summation function to math module,
1596 based on Hettinger's ASPN Python Cookbook recipe.
1597
Georg Brandl88659b02008-05-20 08:40:43 +00001598- Issue #2592: delegate nb_index and the floor/truediv slots in
1599 weakref.proxy.
1600
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001601- Support os.O_ASYNC and fcntl.FASYNC if the constants exist on the
1602 platform.
Georg Brandl5049a852008-05-16 13:10:15 +00001603
Brett Cannon044616a2008-05-15 02:33:55 +00001604- Support for Windows 9x has been removed from the winsound module.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcf9b54c22008-05-12 21:30:24 +00001605
Jesus Cea09c01782008-09-28 23:24:19 +00001606- bsddb module updated to version 4.7.3.
Jesus Cea4907d272008-08-31 14:00:51 +00001607 http://www.jcea.es/programacion/pybsddb.htm#bsddb3-4.7.3. This
1608 code should be compatible with Python 3.0.
Jesus Ceaef9764f2008-05-13 18:45:46 +00001609
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001610- Issue #2858: Fix potential memory corruption when
1611 bsddb.db.DBEnv.lock_get and other bsddb.db object constructors
1612 raised an exception.
Gregory P. Smith664782e2008-05-17 06:12:02 +00001613
Gregory P. Smith5d7d6c32008-05-25 08:32:04 +00001614- Issue #2669: bsddb/__init__.py iteration no longer silently fails when
1615 the database has changed size during iteration. It now raises a
1616 RuntimeError in the same manner as a dictionary.
1617
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001618- Issue #2870: cmathmodule.c compile error.
Christian Heimes0bd23c02008-05-16 10:23:31 +00001619
Benjamin Petersond8a89722008-08-18 16:40:03 +00001620- Added a threading.Thread.ident property.
Gregory P. Smith8856dda2008-06-01 23:48:47 +00001621
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00001622Library
1623-------
1624
Vinay Sajip1e022682008-06-29 21:27:15 +00001625- logging.config: Removed out-of-date comment in _install_handlers and
1626 used issubclass in place of equality comparison of classes.
1627
Facundo Batista5596b0c2008-06-22 13:36:20 +00001628- Issue #2722: Now the os.getcwd() supports very long path names.
1629
Facundo Batista2da91c32008-06-21 17:43:56 +00001630- Issue #2888: Fixed the behaviour of pprint when working with nested
1631 structures, to match the behaviour of 2.5 and 3.0 (now follows the common
1632 sense).
1633
Facundo Batistaa6a4d502008-06-21 18:58:04 +00001634- Issue #1817: cgi now correctly handles the querystring on POST requests
1635
Vinay Sajip8dc20fd2008-06-19 22:41:08 +00001636- Issue #3136: fileConfig()'s disabling of old loggers is now conditional via
1637 an optional disable_existing_loggers parameter, but the default value is
1638 such that the old behaviour is preserved. Thanks to Leandro Lucarella for
1639 the patch.
1640
Vinay Sajip9828b7e2008-06-17 11:04:02 +00001641- Issue #3126: StreamHandler and FileHandler check before calling "flush" and
1642 "close" that the stream object has these, using hasattr (thanks to bobf for
1643 the patch).
1644
Benjamin Peterson5c0be322008-06-13 15:11:50 +00001645- Issue #2912: platform.uname now tries to determine unknown information even if
1646 os.uname exists.
1647
Benjamin Peterson26305a02008-06-12 22:33:06 +00001648- The rfc822 module has been deprecated for removal in 3.0.
1649
Benjamin Petersona03722f2008-06-12 14:23:49 +00001650- The mimetools module has been deprecated for removal in 3.0.
1651
Thomas Heller1cec7aa2008-06-10 14:07:12 +00001652- The ctypes.byref function now takes an optional second parameter
1653 which allows to specify an offset in bytes for the constructed
1654 pointer-like object.
1655
Georg Brandl8509db52008-06-10 07:45:28 +00001656- Added the ast module.
1657
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00001658- Added the multiprocessing module, PEP 371.
Benjamin Peterson6f7ae692008-06-11 20:04:30 +00001659
Georg Brandl7be19aa2008-06-07 15:59:10 +00001660- Factored out the indentation cleaning from inspect.getdoc() into
1661 inspect.cleandoc() to ease standalone use.
1662
Thomas Hellerfbb9c0b2008-06-06 08:33:46 +00001663- Issue #1798: Add ctypes calling convention that allows safe access
1664 to errno.
1665
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00001666- Issue #2404: ctypes objects support the new pep3118 buffer interface.
Thomas Heller59475e92008-06-05 17:52:59 +00001667
Vinay Sajip9828b7e2008-06-17 11:04:02 +00001668- Patch #2125: Add GetInteger and GetString methods for
Martin v. Löwisffe62ed2008-06-02 08:40:06 +00001669 msilib.Record objects.
1670
Gregory P. Smith137d8242008-06-02 04:05:52 +00001671- Issue #2782: The datetime module's strftime methods now accept
1672 unicode format strings just as time.strftime always has.
1673
Georg Brandlac19d852008-06-01 21:19:14 +00001674- The sgmllib and htmllib modules have been deprecated for removal
1675 in Python 3.0.
1676
1677- Issue #3011: locale module alias table was updated to the latest
1678 version from the X.org locale.alias file.
Marc-André Lemburgadff65b2008-05-30 20:52:18 +00001679
Thomas Heller9287acf2008-05-29 19:42:34 +00001680- Issue #1797 (partial fix): ctypes NULL function pointers have a
1681 False boolean value now.
1682
Georg Brandld0b592f2008-05-29 07:45:26 +00001683- Issue #2985: Allow 64-bit integer responses (``<i8>``) in XMLRPC
1684 transfers.
1685
1686- Issue #2877: The UserString.MutableString class has been removed in
1687 Python 3.0.
Brett Cannonabb34fe2008-05-29 05:08:50 +00001688
Lars Gustäbelb1a54a32008-05-27 12:39:23 +00001689- Do not close external file objects passed to tarfile.open(mode='w:bz2')
1690 when the TarFile is closed.
1691
Georg Brandle08e3d02008-05-25 08:07:37 +00001692- Issue #2959: For consistency with other file-like objects, gzip's
1693 GzipFile.close() can now be called multiple times without raising
1694 an exception.
1695
Martin v. Löwis27e4a172008-05-23 15:18:28 +00001696- Issue #1390: Raise ValueError in toxml when an invalid comment would
1697 otherwise be produced.
1698
Vinay Sajipc0128832008-05-20 15:37:22 +00001699- Issue #2914: TimedRotatingFileHandler now takes an optional keyword
1700 argument "utc" to use UTC time rather than local time.
1701
1702- Issue #2929: TimedRotatingFileHandler was using the wrong path when
1703 deleting old log files (filename only instead of full path).
1704
Georg Brandl112aa502008-05-20 08:25:48 +00001705- Issue #1775025: You can now specify zipfile members to open(),
1706 read() or extract() via a ZipInfo instance. This allows handling
1707 duplicate filenames in zipfiles.
1708
Georg Brandl28fdfa92008-05-17 17:57:01 +00001709- Issue #961805: Fix Text.edit_modified() in Tkinter.
1710
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001711- Issue #1793: Function ctypes.util.find_msvcrt() added that returns
Thomas Heller95ba13f2008-05-16 20:06:31 +00001712 the name of the C runtime library that Python uses.
1713 ctypes.util.find_library(name) now call this function when name is
1714 'm' or 'c'.
1715
Brett Cannonfa40bbf2008-05-16 00:50:02 +00001716- The statvfs module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
1717
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001718- The sunaudiodev and SUNAUDIODEV modules have been deprecated for
1719 removal in Python 3.0.
1720
1721- The WAIT module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
1722 3.0.
1723
1724- The torgb module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
1725 3.0.
1726
1727- The SV module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
1728 3.0.
1729
1730- The readcd module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
Brett Cannon22248172008-05-16 00:10:24 +00001731 Python 3.0.
1732
Brett Cannon11ae6e72008-05-15 03:49:00 +00001733- The panelparser module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
1734 Python 3.0.
1735
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001736- The panel module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
1737 3.0.
Brett Cannon7e375862008-05-15 03:46:27 +00001738
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001739- The jpeg module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
1740 3.0.
Brett Cannon89f5d9c2008-05-15 03:44:00 +00001741
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001742- The IOCTL module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
1743 3.0.
Brett Cannond8c41ec2008-05-15 03:41:55 +00001744
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001745- The IN module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
1746 3.0.
Brett Cannon6328b292008-05-15 03:36:13 +00001747
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001748- The imgfile module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
Brett Cannon178582e2008-05-15 03:20:36 +00001749 Python 3.0.
1750
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001751- The GLWS module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
1752 3.0.
Brett Cannon72ccc402008-05-15 03:17:24 +00001753
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001754- The GET module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
1755 3.0.
Brett Cannon2773b6f2008-05-15 03:14:57 +00001756
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001757- The fm module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
1758 3.0.
1759
1760- The FL, flp, and fl modules from IRIX have been deprecated for
1761 removal in Python 3.0.
1762
1763- The FILE module on IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
1764 3.0.
1765
1766- The ERRNO module on IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
1767 3.0.
1768
1769- The DEVICE, GL, gl, and cgen modules (which indirectly includes
1770 cgensupport) have been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
Brett Cannon044616a2008-05-15 02:33:55 +00001771
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001772- The CL, CL_old, and cl modules for IRIX have been deprecated for
1773 removal in Python 3.0.
1774
1775- The cdplayer module for IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
Brett Cannon650f5162008-05-14 21:12:12 +00001776 Python 3.0.
1777
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001778- The cddb module for IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
1779 3.0.
Brett Cannon9eebe492008-05-14 20:34:22 +00001780
Brett Cannonddf949f2008-05-14 20:31:38 +00001781- The cd and CD modules for IRIX have been deprecated for removal in
1782 Python 3.0.
1783
Brett Cannon34721d52008-05-14 01:08:21 +00001784- The al and AL modules for IRIX have been deprecated for removal in
1785 Python 3.0.
1786
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001787- Issue #1713041: fix pprint's handling of maximum depth.
Georg Brandl23da6e62008-05-12 16:26:52 +00001788
Brett Cannonbb141bb2008-05-12 03:47:47 +00001789- The timing module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
1790
Brett Cannonac861b52008-05-12 03:45:59 +00001791- The sv module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
1792
Brett Cannon43e5ef42008-05-12 03:19:20 +00001793- The multifile module has been deprecated as per PEP 4.
1794
Brett Cannon42bfa902008-05-12 00:08:34 +00001795- The imageop module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
1796
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001797- Issue #2250: Exceptions raised during evaluation of names in
1798 rlcompleter's ``Completer.complete()`` method are now caught and
1799 ignored.
Georg Brandl627a6662008-05-11 21:03:42 +00001800
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001801- Issue #2659: Added ``break_on_hyphens`` option to textwrap
1802 TextWrapper class.
Georg Brandl6f95ae52008-05-11 10:42:28 +00001803
Brett Cannon2a869132008-05-11 03:01:47 +00001804- The mhlib module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
1805
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001806- The linuxaudiodev module has been deprecated for removal in Python
1807 3.0.
Brett Cannondf0a7172008-05-11 00:50:51 +00001808
Brett Cannon27508d42008-05-10 22:45:07 +00001809- The ihooks module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
1810
Brett Cannonfe598512008-05-10 22:11:45 +00001811- The fpformat module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
1812
Brett Cannone35a3a12008-05-10 21:22:43 +00001813- The dl module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
1814
Brett Cannond5a09852008-05-10 03:14:32 +00001815- The Canvas module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
1816
Brett Cannon6192df12008-05-10 02:58:26 +00001817- The compiler package has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
1818
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001819- The Bastion and rexec modules have been deprecated for removal in
1820 Python 3.0.
Brett Cannoncda73a42008-05-10 02:53:46 +00001821
Brett Cannon768d44f2008-05-10 02:47:54 +00001822- The bsddb185 module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
1823
Brett Cannon9ac39742008-05-09 22:51:58 +00001824- The pure module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
1825
Mark Dickinsonf8476c12008-05-09 17:54:23 +00001826- Issue #2487: change the semantics of math.ldexp(x, n) when n is too
1827 large to fit in a C long. ldexp(x, n) now returns a zero (with
1828 suitable sign) if n is large and negative; previously, it raised
1829 OverflowError.
1830
Brett Cannonfa24d9a2008-05-09 05:32:42 +00001831- The toaiff module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
1832
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001833- The test.testall module has been deprecated for removal in Python
1834 3.0.
Brett Cannon3c759142008-05-09 05:25:37 +00001835
Brett Cannond7265d62008-05-09 05:18:40 +00001836- The new module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
1837
Brett Cannone3b19402008-05-08 20:36:09 +00001838- The user module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
1839
Brett Cannon6071cc82008-05-08 19:52:45 +00001840- The stringold module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
1841
1842- The mutex module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
Brett Cannon9d441822008-05-08 19:26:08 +00001843
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00001844- The imputil module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
1845
Brett Cannoncae4f5f2008-05-08 20:24:43 +00001846- test.test_support.catch_warning() gained a 'record' argument.
1847
Benjamin Peterson0893a0a2008-05-09 00:27:01 +00001848- os.path.walk is deprecated in favor of os.walk.
1849
Georg Brandl9020ff82008-05-11 14:17:13 +00001850- pdb gained the "until" command.
Benjamin Peterson98353942008-05-11 14:13:25 +00001851
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001852- The Mac Modules (including Carbon) have been deprecated for removal
1853 in Python 3.0.
Benjamin Peterson23681932008-05-12 21:42:13 +00001854
Vinay Sajip9828b7e2008-06-17 11:04:02 +00001855- Library: on MacOS X you can now set ``ARCHFLAGS`` in the shell
Ronald Oussoren5640ce22008-06-05 12:58:24 +00001856 environment to control the '-arch' flags that are used to build
1857 an extension. This was added for compatibility with Apple's build
1858 of Python.
1859
1860- The bundled OSX-specific copy of libbffi is now in sync with the version
1861 shipped with PyObjC 2.0 and includes support for x86_64 and ppc64 platforms.
1862
Georg Brandl25c34082008-08-18 23:09:49 +00001863- The threading module gained aliases for names that will be removed in the
1864 3.x series.
Benjamin Peterson0fbcf692008-06-11 17:27:50 +00001865
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00001866Build
1867-----
1868
Martin v. Löwiscc0f2b22008-06-13 18:12:51 +00001869- 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 +00001870
Martin v. Löwis8c255e42008-05-23 15:06:50 +00001871- Patch #1722225: Support QNX 6.
1872
Brett Cannonb61d8012008-05-11 23:39:04 +00001873- ``Lib/lib-old`` is now added to sys.path.
1874
Ronald Oussoren5640ce22008-06-05 12:58:24 +00001875- On MacOS X it is now possible to install the framework in 64-bit
1876 mode or even as a 4-way universal binary (that is, PPC, i386,
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00001877 PPC64 and x86_64 support in one binary).
Ronald Oussoren5640ce22008-06-05 12:58:24 +00001878
1879 This is controlled by the configure argument ``--with-universal-archs``:
1880
1881 - ``--with-universal-archs=all``: install 4-way universal
1882
1883 - ``--with-universal-archs=32-bit``: install 2-way universal, 32-bit (the default)
1884
1885 - ``--with-universal-archs=64-bit``: install 2-way universal, 64-bit
1886
1887 This option should be used in combination with ``--enable-universalsdk=``.
1888
1889 NOTE: 64-bit and 4-way builds are only suppported on Mac OS X 10.5 (or later).
1890
1891
Christian Heimes7a990612008-05-26 13:15:11 +00001892C API
1893-----
1894
Georg Brandl74a1dea2008-05-28 11:21:39 +00001895- Add ``PyType_Modified()`` as a public API to clear the type cache.
1896
1897- The PyBytes functions have been renamed to PyByteArray.
Christian Heimes7a990612008-05-26 13:15:11 +00001898
1899- The PyString functions have been renamed to PyBytes. A batch of
1900 defines were added so that the linker still sees the original
1901 PyString names.
1902
Georg Brandl5e7b1c02008-05-16 17:40:23 +00001903
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00001904What's New in Python 2.6 alpha 3?
Barry Warsaw65475fd2008-03-01 17:11:41 +00001905=================================
1906
Barry Warsaw6cc79402008-05-08 13:16:19 +00001907*Release date: 08-May-2008*
Barry Warsaw65475fd2008-03-01 17:11:41 +00001908
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd21fb4c2008-03-05 01:50:33 +00001909Core and builtins
1910-----------------
Georg Brandl80055f62008-03-25 07:56:27 +00001911
Georg Brandl28e08732008-04-30 19:47:09 +00001912- Issue #2719: backported the ``next()`` builtin from Python 3.
1913
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001914- Issue #2681: The octal literal ``0o8`` was incorrecly acctepted. Now
1915 it properly raises a SyntaxError.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc52167212008-04-24 18:07:05 +00001916
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001917- Issue #2617: Reserved -J and -X arguments for Jython, IronPython and
1918 other implementations of Python.
Christian Heimes7a98d272008-04-12 13:03:03 +00001919
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001920- Implemented PEP 370: Per user site-packages directory.
Christian Heimesaf748c32008-05-06 22:41:46 +00001921
Andrew M. Kuchling46d6b682008-04-30 16:19:55 +00001922Extension Modules
1923-----------------
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00001924
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001925- Issue #2670: Fix a failure in urllib2.build_opener(), when passed
1926 two handlers that derive the same default base class.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc96865852008-04-22 21:14:41 +00001927
Christian Heimese74c8f22008-04-19 02:23:57 +00001928- Added kill, terminate and send_signal(sig) to subprocess.Popen.
1929
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001930- Added phase(z) -> phi, polar(z) -> r, phi and rect(r, phi) -> z to
1931 the cmath module.
Christian Heimes6f341092008-04-18 23:13:07 +00001932
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001933- Four new methods were added to the math and cmath modules: acosh,
1934 asinh, atanh and log1p.
Christian Heimes6f341092008-04-18 23:13:07 +00001935
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001936- zlib.decompressobj().flush(value) no longer crashes the interpreter
1937 when passed a value less than or equal to zero.
Gregory P. Smith671c5d92008-04-09 18:18:43 +00001938
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001939- Issue #1631171: Re-implement the 'warnings' module in C (the
1940 original Python code has been kept as backup). This will allow for
1941 using the 'warning's machinery in such places as the parser where
1942 use of pure Python code is not possible. Both the ``showarning()``
1943 and ``formatwarning()`` gain an optional 'line' argument which is
1944 not called by default for backwards-compatibility reasons. Setting
1945 ``warnings.showwarning()`` to an implementation that lacks support
1946 for the ``line`` argument will raise a DeprecationWarning.
Brett Cannone9746892008-04-12 23:44:07 +00001947
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00001948Library
1949-------
1950
Brett Cannonf8436822008-05-06 23:41:32 +00001951- The audiodev module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
1952
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001953- Issue #2750: Add the 'json' package. Based on simplejson 1.9 and
1954 contributed by Bob Ippolito.
Brett Cannon4b964f92008-05-05 20:21:38 +00001955
Martin v. Löwis471617d2008-05-05 17:16:58 +00001956- Issue #1734346: Support Unicode file names for zipfiles.
1957
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001958- Issue #2581: distutils: Vista UAC/elevation support for
1959 bdist_wininst.
Mark Hammond7c5c8e62008-05-02 12:48:15 +00001960
Mark Dickinsonfe536f52008-04-25 16:59:09 +00001961- Issue #2635: Fix bug in 'fix_sentence_endings' textwrap.fill option,
1962 where an extra space was added after a word containing (but not
1963 ending in) '.', '!' or '?'.
1964
Thomas Heller6ad5fbb2008-04-25 15:44:16 +00001965- Add from_buffer() and from_buffer_copy() class methods to ctypes
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00001966 data types.
Thomas Heller6ad5fbb2008-04-25 15:44:16 +00001967
Neal Norwitz2b0bea52008-04-25 03:40:17 +00001968- Issue #2682: ctypes callback functions no longer contain a cyclic
Thomas Hellerbf027c42008-04-24 18:14:19 +00001969 reference to themselves.
1970
Gregory P. Smithd59fefb2008-04-22 08:11:33 +00001971- The getpass module has been improved on Unix. It now uses /dev/tty
1972 by default and uses stderr instead of stdout. A GetPassWarning is
1973 issued when input echo cannot be controlled.
Gregory P. Smith41e30182008-04-21 21:31:08 +00001974
Skip Montanarob131f042008-04-18 20:35:46 +00001975- Issue #2014: Allow XML-RPC datetime objects to have dates before
1976 1900-01-01.
1977
Nick Coghlan106fc482008-04-15 10:25:31 +00001978- Issue #2439: Added new function pkgutil.get_data(), which is a
1979 convenience wrapper for the PEP 302 get_data() API.
1980
Thomas Heller046e6a42008-04-14 16:10:07 +00001981- Issue #2616: The ctypes.pointer() and ctypes.POINTER() functions are
1982 now implemented in C for better performance.
1983
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001984- Issue #2408: The ``_types`` module, which was used as in
1985 implementation detail of the public ``types`` module, has been
1986 removed and replaced by pure python code.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc02f33b42008-04-08 23:10:07 +00001987
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001988- Issue #2513: distutils on Windows is now capable of cross-compiling
Mark Hammond495cf992008-04-07 01:53:39 +00001989 extension modules between 32 and 64 bit platforms. See the distutls
1990 build documentation for more information.
1991
Gregory P. Smithaa63d0d2008-04-06 23:11:17 +00001992- Issue #815646: Individual file objects may now be used from multiple
1993 threads at once without fear of crashing the Python interpreter. If
1994 file.close() is called while an object is in use by another thread
1995 an IOError exception will be raised and the file will not be closed.
1996
Thomas Hellerf7906482008-04-04 19:43:25 +00001997- The bundled libffi copy is now in sync with the recently released
1998 libffi3.0.5 version, apart from some small changes to
1999 Modules/_ctypes/libffi/configure.ac.
2000
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002001- Issue #2385: distutils.core.run_script() makes __file__ available,
2002 so the controlled environment will more closely mirror the typical
2003 script environment. This supports setup.py scripts that refer to
2004 data files.
Fred Drake46c58c12008-04-04 05:41:30 +00002005
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00002006Tests
2007-----
Trent Nelsone41b0062008-04-08 23:47:30 +00002008
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002009- Issue #2550: The approach used by client/server code for obtaining
2010 ports to listen on in network-oriented tests has been refined in an
2011 effort to facilitate running multiple instances of the entire
2012 regression test suite in parallel without issue.
2013 test_support.bind_port() has been fixed such that it will always
2014 return a unique port -- which wasn't always the case with the
2015 previous implementation, especially if socket options had been set
2016 that affected address reuse (i.e. SO_REUSEADDR, SO_REUSEPORT). The
2017 new implementation of bind_port() will actually raise an exception
2018 if it is passed an AF_INET/SOCK_STREAM socket with either the
2019 SO_REUSEADDR or SO_REUSEPORT socket option set. Furthermore, if
2020 available, bind_port() will set the SO_EXCLUSIVEADDRUSE option on
2021 the socket it's been passed. This currently only applies to
2022 Windows. This option prevents any other sockets from binding to the
2023 host/port we've bound to, thus removing the possibility of the
2024 'non-deterministic' behaviour, as Microsoft puts it, that occurs
2025 when a second SOCK_STREAM socket binds and accepts to a host/port
2026 that's already been bound by another socket. The optional preferred
2027 port parameter to bind_port() has been removed. Under no
2028 circumstances should tests be hard coding ports!
2029
2030 test_support.find_unused_port() has also been introduced, which will
2031 pass a temporary socket object to bind_port() in order to obtain an
2032 unused port. The temporary socket object is then closed and
2033 deleted, and the port is returned. This method should only be used
2034 for obtaining an unused port in order to pass to an external program
2035 (i.e. the -accept [port] argument to openssl's s_server mode) or as
2036 a parameter to a server-oriented class that doesn't give you direct
2037 access to the underlying socket used.
2038
2039 Finally, test_support.HOST has been introduced, which should be used
2040 for the host argument of any relevant socket calls (i.e. bind and
2041 connect).
Trent Nelsone41b0062008-04-08 23:47:30 +00002042
2043 The following tests were updated to following the new conventions:
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002044 test_socket, test_smtplib, test_asyncore, test_ssl, test_httplib,
Trent Nelsone41b0062008-04-08 23:47:30 +00002045 test_poplib, test_ftplib, test_telnetlib, test_socketserver,
2046 test_asynchat and test_socket_ssl.
2047
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002048 It is now possible for multiple instances of the regression test
2049 suite to run in parallel without issue.
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00002050
2051Build
2052-----
2053
Mark Dickinson65134662008-04-25 16:11:04 +00002054- Issue #1496032: On alpha, use -mieee when gcc is the compiler.
2055
Thomas Hellerdc96a772008-04-04 10:07:55 +00002056- Issue #2544: On HP-UX systems, use 'gcc -shared' for linking when
2057 gcc is used as compiler.
2058
Ronald Oussoren580c7fe2008-05-02 19:45:11 +00002059- Issue #2573: On MacOS X it is now possible to install the framework
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002060 with a different name using --with-framework-name=NAME.
Ronald Oussoren580c7fe2008-05-02 19:45:11 +00002061
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00002062C API
2063-----
2064
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002065- Added implementation of copysign, acosh, asinh, atanh and log1p to
2066 the new files Include/pymath.h and Python/pymath.h for platforms
2067 which provide the functions through their libm. The files also
2068 contains several helpers and constants for math.
Christian Heimes6f341092008-04-18 23:13:07 +00002069
Benjamin Petersondacde0d2008-05-26 17:43:53 +00002070- Added a new convenience macro, PyErr_WarnPy3k, for issuing Py3k warnings.
Benjamin Petersona692c4d2008-04-27 02:28:02 +00002071
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00002072
2073What's New in Python 2.6 alpha 2?
2074=================================
2075
2076*Release date: 02-Apr-2008*
2077
2078Core and builtins
2079-----------------
2080
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002081- Issue #1733757: The interpreter would hang on shutdown if the
2082 tracing function set by sys.settrace is still active and happens to
2083 call threading.currentThread().
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd7a26512008-04-03 23:07:55 +00002084
Georg Brandl91e0cda2008-03-29 01:50:06 +00002085- Patch #1442: properly report exceptions when the PYTHONSTARTUP file
2086 cannot be executed.
2087
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc69b747b2008-03-28 20:30:50 +00002088- The compilation of a class nested in another class used to leak one
2089 reference on the outer class name.
2090
Georg Brandlfc8eef32008-03-28 12:11:56 +00002091- Patch #1810: compile() can now compile _ast trees as returned by
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002092 ``compile(..., PyCF_ONLY_AST)``.
Georg Brandlfc8eef32008-03-28 12:11:56 +00002093
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002094- Patch #2426: Added sqlite3.Connection.iterdump method to allow easy
2095 dumping of databases. Contributed by Paul Kippes at PyCon 2008.
Gregory P. Smithb9803422008-03-28 08:32:09 +00002096
Georg Brandldeaf2ca2008-03-27 13:27:31 +00002097- Patch #2477: Added from __future__ import unicode_literals.
Christian Heimes3c608332008-03-26 22:01:37 +00002098
Christian Heimes8c78cc32008-03-26 12:53:58 +00002099- Added backport of bytearray type.
2100
Georg Brandl80055f62008-03-25 07:56:27 +00002101- Issue #2355: add Py3k warning for buffer().
2102
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc9a0d3462008-03-23 09:55:29 +00002103- Issue #1477: With narrow Unicode builds, the unicode escape sequence
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002104 \Uxxxxxxxx did not accept values outside the Basic Multilingual
2105 Plane. This affected raw unicode literals and the
2106 'raw-unicode-escape' codec. Now UTF-16 surrogates are generated in
2107 this case, like normal unicode literals and the 'unicode-escape'
2108 codec.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc9a0d3462008-03-23 09:55:29 +00002109
Georg Brandl65bb42d2008-03-21 20:38:24 +00002110- Issue #2348: add Py3k warning for file.softspace.
2111
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002112- Issue #2346/#2347: add Py3k warnings for __methods__ and
2113 __members__.
Georg Brandl07e56812008-03-21 20:21:46 +00002114
Georg Brandl5a444242008-03-21 20:11:46 +00002115- Issue #2358: Add a Py3k warning on sys.exc_clear() usage.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd21fb4c2008-03-05 01:50:33 +00002116
Martin v. Löwisa4d77892008-03-19 04:39:13 +00002117- Issue #2400: Allow relative imports to "import *".
2118
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002119- Issue #1745: Backport print function with ``from __future__ import
2120 print_function``.
Eric Smith7c478942008-03-18 23:45:49 +00002121
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002122- Issue #2332: add new attribute names for instance method objects.
2123 The two changes are: im_self -> __self__ and im_func -> __func__
Neal Norwitzb1d3d962008-03-18 04:46:00 +00002124
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002125- Issue #2379: Raise a Py3K warning for __getitem__ or __getslice__ on
Guido van Rossum6d91be32008-03-18 04:42:22 +00002126 exception instances.
2127
Guido van Rossum04edb522008-03-18 02:49:46 +00002128- Issue #2371: Add a Py3k warning when catching an exception that
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002129 doesn't derive from BaseException.
2130
2131- Issue #2341: Add a Py3k warning when raising an exception that
2132 doesn't derive from BaseException.
Guido van Rossum04edb522008-03-18 02:49:46 +00002133
Neal Norwitz419fd492008-03-17 20:22:43 +00002134- Issue #2321: use pymalloc for unicode object string data to reduce
2135 memory usage in some circumstances.
2136
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002137- PEP 3127: octal literals now start with "0o". Old-style octal
2138 literals are still valid. There are binary literals with a prefix of
2139 "0b". This also affects int(x, 0).
Eric Smith0aed07a2008-03-17 19:43:40 +00002140
Georg Brandl1e7c3752008-03-25 08:37:23 +00002141- Issue #2359: Adding deprecation warnings for array.{read,write}.
2142
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002143- Issue #1779871: GNU gcc can now build Python on OS X because the
Jeffrey Yasskin1b4e45b2008-03-17 14:40:53 +00002144 flags -Wno-long-double, -no-cpp-precomp, and -mno-fused-madd are no
2145 longer passed.
2146
Neal Norwitz400aeda2008-03-15 22:03:18 +00002147- Add a warning when asserting a non-empty tuple which is always true.
2148
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002149- Issue #2179: speed up with statement execution by storing the exit
2150 method on the stack instead of in a temporary variable (patch by
2151 Jeffrey Yaskin)
Nick Coghlan7af53be2008-03-07 14:13:28 +00002152
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002153- Issue #2238: Some syntax errors in *args and **kwargs expressions
2154 could give bogus error messages.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd21fb4c2008-03-05 01:50:33 +00002155
Sean Reifscheider68fa8e62008-03-20 00:50:07 +00002156- Issue #2143: Fix embedded readline() hang on SSL socket EOF.
2157
Andrew M. Kuchling46d6b682008-04-30 16:19:55 +00002158Extension Modules
2159-----------------
Martin v. Löwisaef18b12008-03-24 13:31:16 +00002160
2161- Patch #2240: Implement signal.setitimer and signal.getitimer.
2162
Thomas Heller78b8f442008-03-05 14:53:39 +00002163Library
2164-------
2165
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002166- Issue #2315: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now accounts
2167 for daylight savings time in calculating the next rollover.
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00002168
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002169- Issue #2316: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now
2170 calculates rollovers correctly even when nothing is logged for a
2171 while.
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00002172
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002173- Issue #2317: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now uses
2174 improved logic for removing old files.
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00002175
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002176- Issue #2495: tokenize.untokenize now inserts a space between two
2177 consecutive string literals; previously, ["" ""] was rendered as
2178 [""""], which is incorrect python code.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcda0c0252008-03-27 23:23:54 +00002179
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002180- Issue #2248: return the result of the QUIT command. from
2181 SMTP.quit().
Georg Brandldeaf2ca2008-03-27 13:27:31 +00002182
Christian Heimes8c78cc32008-03-26 12:53:58 +00002183- Backport of Python 3.0's io module.
2184
Mark Dickinson8e85ffa2008-03-25 18:47:59 +00002185- Issue #2482: Make sure that the coefficient of a Decimal is always
2186 stored as a str instance, not as a unicode instance. This ensures
2187 that str(Decimal) is always an instance of str.
2188
Mark Dickinson3b24ccb2008-03-25 14:33:23 +00002189- Issue #2478: fix failure of decimal.Decimal(0).sqrt()
2190
Georg Brandl77354cf2008-03-21 20:01:51 +00002191- Issue #2432: give DictReader the dialect and line_num attributes
2192 advertised in the docs.
2193
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002194- Issue #2460: Make Ellipsis object copyable.
Raymond Hettingerb72233c2008-03-24 08:17:39 +00002195
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002196- Issue #1681432: Add triangular distribution to the random module
Raymond Hettingerbbc50ea2008-03-23 13:32:32 +00002197
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002198- Issue #2136: urllib2's auth handler now allows single-quoted realms
2199 in the WWW-Authenticate header.
Georg Brandl33124322008-03-21 19:54:00 +00002200
Marc-André Lemburga1867752008-03-20 18:08:00 +00002201- Issue #2434: Enhanced platform.win32_ver() to also work on Python
2202 installation which do not have the win32all package installed.
2203
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002204- Added support to platform.uname() to also report the machine and
2205 processor information on Windows XP and later. As a result,
Marc-André Lemburga1867752008-03-20 18:08:00 +00002206 platform.machine() and platform.processor() will report this
2207 information as well.
2208
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002209- The library implementing the 2to3 conversion, lib2to3, was added to
2210 the standard distribution.
Martin v. Löwis5e37bae2008-03-19 04:43:46 +00002211
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002212- Issue #1747858: Fix chown to work with large uid's and gid's on
2213 64-bit platforms.
Gregory P. Smith37f3f432008-03-18 20:40:01 +00002214
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002215- Issue #1202: zlib.crc32 and zlib.adler32 no longer return different
2216 values on 32-bit vs. 64-bit python interpreters. Both were correct,
2217 but they now both return a signed integer object for consistency.
Gregory P. Smithf48f9d32008-03-17 18:48:05 +00002218
Skip Montanaro32ed8c22008-03-15 16:07:11 +00002219- Issue #1158: add %f format (fractions of a second represented as
2220 microseconds) to datetime objects. Understood by both strptime and
2221 strftime.
2222
Mark Dickinsonc23b8a72008-03-14 14:23:37 +00002223- Issue #705836: struct.pack(">f", x) now raises OverflowError on all
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002224 platforms when x is too large to fit into an IEEE 754 float;
2225 previously it only raised OverflowError on non IEEE 754 platforms.
Mark Dickinsonc23b8a72008-03-14 14:23:37 +00002226
Andrew M. Kuchlingaac5c862008-05-11 14:00:00 +00002227- Issues #2166, #1741 and #1531505: now distutils deals with HOME
2228 correctly under win32
2229
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002230- Patch #1858: distutils: added multiple server support in .pypirc
Andrew M. Kuchlingaac5c862008-05-11 14:00:00 +00002231
Facundo Batistac54aec12008-03-08 16:50:27 +00002232- Issue #1106316: pdb.post_mortem()'s parameter, "traceback", is now
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002233 optional: it defaults to the traceback of the exception that is
2234 currently being handled (is mandatory to be in the middle of an
2235 exception, otherwise it raises ValueError).
Facundo Batistac54aec12008-03-08 16:50:27 +00002236
Jeffrey Yasskine75f59a2008-03-07 06:22:15 +00002237- Issue #1193577: A .shutdown() method has been added to SocketServers
2238 which terminates the .serve_forever() loop.
2239
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002240- Issue #2220: handle rlcompleter attribute match failure more
2241 gracefully.
Georg Brandl98aa8052008-03-06 07:45:52 +00002242
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002243- Issue #2225: py_compile, when executed as a script, now returns a
2244 non- zero status code if not all files could be compiled
2245 successfully.
Georg Brandla7bd27f2008-03-06 07:41:16 +00002246
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002247- Bug #1725737: In distutils' sdist, exclude RCS, CVS etc. also in the
Georg Brandl810ea292008-03-06 07:34:52 +00002248 root directory, and also exclude .hg, .git, .bzr, and _darcs.
2249
Thomas Hellerf3c05592008-03-05 15:34:29 +00002250- Issue #1872: The struct module typecode for _Bool has been changed
2251 from 't' to '?'.
2252
Thomas Heller78b8f442008-03-05 14:53:39 +00002253- The bundled libffi copy is now in sync with the recently released
2254 libffi3.0.4 version, apart from some small changes to
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002255 Modules/_ctypes/libffi/configure.ac. On OS X, preconfigured libffi
2256 files are used. On all linux systems the --with-system-ffi
2257 configure option defaults to "yes".
Thomas Heller78b8f442008-03-05 14:53:39 +00002258
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002259- Issue #1577: shutil.move() now calls os.rename() if the destination
2260 is a directory instead of copying-then-remove-source.
Sean Reifscheider493894c2008-03-18 17:24:12 +00002261
Martin v. Löwisd2bbe522008-03-06 06:55:22 +00002262Tests
2263-----
2264
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002265- test_nis no longer fails when test.test_support.verbose is true and
2266 NIS is not set up on the testing machine.
Brett Cannon7919d982008-03-19 16:50:13 +00002267
Brett Cannona5573b32008-03-18 04:16:06 +00002268- Output comparison tests are no longer supported.
2269
Brett Cannonb7ec8e52008-03-18 03:46:22 +00002270- Rewrite test_errno to use unittest and no longer be a no-op.
2271
Brett Cannon0bb79502008-03-18 01:58:56 +00002272- GHOP 234: Convert test_extcall to doctest.
2273
Brett Cannonba17cfc2008-03-18 01:50:25 +00002274- GHOP 290: Convert test_dbm and test_dummy_threading to unittest.
2275
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002276- GHOP 293: Convert test_strftime, test_getargs, and test_pep247 to
2277 unittest.
Brett Cannon6eeaddc2008-03-18 01:00:07 +00002278
Brett Cannon1f5182b2008-03-13 21:09:28 +00002279- Issue #2055: Convert test_fcntl to unittest.
2280
Brett Cannon4a6e8d62008-03-13 21:02:16 +00002281- Issue 1960: Convert test_gdbm to unittest.
2282
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002283- GHOP 294: Convert test_contains, test_crypt, and test_select to
2284 unittest.
Brett Cannon2e0f9f32008-03-13 20:47:41 +00002285
Brett Cannonb8d37352008-03-13 20:33:10 +00002286- GHOP 238: Convert test_tokenize to use doctest.
2287
Brett Cannon66865d22008-03-13 20:27:00 +00002288- GHOP 237: Rewrite test_thread using unittest.
2289
Martin v. Löwisd2bbe522008-03-06 06:55:22 +00002290- Patch #2232: os.tmpfile might fail on Windows if the user has no
2291 permission to create files in the root directory.
2292
Martin v. Löwisbf7b0b72008-03-14 13:56:09 +00002293Build
2294-----
2295
Martin v. Löwiscdbc9772008-03-24 12:57:53 +00002296- A new script 2to3 is now installed, to run the 2.x to 3.x converter.
2297
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002298- Python/memmove.c and Python/strerror.c have been removed; both
2299 functions are in the C89 standard library.
Brett Cannonaa5778d2008-03-18 04:09:00 +00002300
Martin v. Löwisbf7b0b72008-03-14 13:56:09 +00002301- Patch #2284: Add -x64 option to rt.bat.
Barry Warsaw65475fd2008-03-01 17:11:41 +00002302
Christian Heimes3c608332008-03-26 22:01:37 +00002303C API
2304-----
2305
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00002306- Patch #2477: Added PyParser_ParseFileFlagsEx() and
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002307 PyParser_ParseStringFlagsFilenameEx().
2308
Christian Heimes3c608332008-03-26 22:01:37 +00002309
Nick Coghlanbb0996c2006-09-03 01:20:46 +00002310What's New in Python 2.6 alpha 1?
2311=================================
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00002312
Barry Warsaw7c075232008-03-01 02:53:36 +00002313*Release date: 29-Feb-2008*
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00002314
2315Core and builtins
2316-----------------
2317
Fred Drakea8ee94b2008-03-01 02:45:07 +00002318- Issue #2051: pyc and pyo files are no longer created with permission
Barry Warsaw52973612008-03-01 02:23:38 +00002319 644. The mode is now inherited from the py file.
Christian Heimes40346852008-02-23 17:52:07 +00002320
Georg Brandlad61bc82008-02-23 15:11:18 +00002321- Issue #2067: file.__exit__() now calls subclasses' close() method.
2322
2323- Patch #1759: Backport of PEP 3129 class decorators.
Christian Heimes5224d282008-02-23 15:01:05 +00002324
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00002325- Issue #1881: An internal parser limit has been increased. Also see
Facundo Batistafc2d0102008-02-23 12:01:13 +00002326 issue 215555 for a discussion.
2327
Eric Smitha73fbe72008-02-23 03:09:44 +00002328- Added the future_builtins module, which contains hex() and oct().
2329 These are the PEP 3127 version of these functions, designed to be
2330 compatible with the hex() and oct() builtins from Python 3.0. They
2331 differ slightly in their output formats from the existing, unchanged
2332 Python 2.6 builtins. The expected usage of the future_builtins
2333 module is:
2334 from future_builtins import hex, oct
2335
Eric Smith7ef40bf2008-02-20 23:34:22 +00002336- Issue #1600: Modifed PyOS_ascii_formatd to use at most 2 digit
2337 exponents for exponents with absolute value < 100. Follows C99
2338 standard. This is a change on Windows, which would use 3 digits.
2339 Also, added 'n' to the formats that PyOS_ascii_formatd understands,
2340 so that any alterations it does to the resulting string will be
2341 available in stringlib/formatter.h (for float.__format__).
2342
Eric Smith5a3c1352008-02-19 13:21:56 +00002343- Implemented PEP 3101, Advanced String Formatting. This adds a new
2344 builtin format(); a format() method for str and unicode; a
2345 __format__() method to object, str, unicode, int, long, float, and
2346 datetime; the class string.Formatter; and the C API
2347 PyObject_Format().
2348
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002349- Fixed several potential crashes, all caused by specially crafted
2350 __del__ methods exploiting objects in temporarily inconsistent
2351 state.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc632fad32008-02-16 20:55:24 +00002352
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00002353- Issue #2115: Important speedup in setting __slot__ attributes. Also
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002354 prevent a possible crash: an Abstract Base Class would try to access
2355 a slot on a registered virtual subclass.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc60d6c7f2008-02-15 21:22:45 +00002356
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002357- Fixed repr() and str() of complex numbers with infinity or nan as
2358 real or imaginary part.
Christian Heimes2f0da532008-02-15 06:57:08 +00002359
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002360- Clear all free lists during a gc.collect() of the highest generation
2361 in order to allow pymalloc to free more arenas. Python may give back
2362 memory to the OS earlier.
Christian Heimes3b718a72008-02-14 12:47:33 +00002363
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002364- Issue #2045: Fix an infinite recursion triggered when printing a
2365 subclass of collections.defaultdict, if its default_factory is set
2366 to a bound method.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcb01aa432008-02-08 00:56:02 +00002367
Christian Heimesf75dbef2008-02-08 00:11:31 +00002368- Fixed a minor memory leak in dictobject.c. The content of the free
2369 list was not freed on interpreter shutdown.
2370
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002371- Limit free list of method and builtin function objects to 256
2372 entries each.
Christian Heimes6075a822008-02-06 12:44:34 +00002373
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002374- Patch #1953: Added ``sys._compact_freelists()`` and the C API
2375 functions ``PyInt_CompactFreeList`` and ``PyFloat_CompactFreeList``
Christian Heimes422051a2008-02-04 18:00:12 +00002376 to compact the internal free lists of pre-allocted ints and floats.
2377
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002378- Issue #1983: Fixed return type of fork(), fork1() and forkpty()
2379 calls. Python expected the return type int but the fork familie
2380 returns pi_t.
Christian Heimes951cc0f2008-01-31 23:08:23 +00002381
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002382- Issue #1678380: Fix a bug that identifies 0j and -0j when they
2383 appear in the same code unit.
Mark Dickinson105be772008-01-31 22:17:37 +00002384
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002385- Issue #2025: Add tuple.count() and tuple.index() methods to comply
2386 with the collections.Sequence API.
Raymond Hettinger5b07ebc2008-02-07 00:54:20 +00002387
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002388- Patch #1970 by Antoine Pitrou: Speedup unicode whitespace and
2389 linebreak detection
Christian Heimes4d4f2702008-01-30 11:32:37 +00002390
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002391- Added ``PyType_ClearCache()`` and ``sys._clear_type_cache`` to clear
2392 the internal lookup cache for ref leak tests.
Christian Heimes908caac2008-01-27 23:34:59 +00002393
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002394- Patch #1473257: generator objects gain a gi_code attribute. This is
2395 the same object as the func_code attribute of the function that
2396 produced the generator.
Georg Brandl0cdf9a32008-01-26 14:14:20 +00002397
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002398- Issue #1920: "while 0" statements were completely removed by the
2399 compiler, even in the presence of an "else" clause, which is
2400 supposed to be run when the condition is false. Now the compiler
2401 correctly emits bytecode for the "else" suite.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc31eaafe2008-01-24 22:59:25 +00002402
Guido van Rossumeead05f2008-01-24 18:21:02 +00002403- A few crashers fixed: weakref_in_del.py (issue #1377858);
2404 loosing_dict_ref.py (issue #1303614, test67.py);
2405 borrowed_ref_[34].py (not in tracker).
2406
Vinay Sajipd7cf32e2008-01-24 12:43:33 +00002407- Issue #1069410: The "can't load dll" message box on Windows is
Christian Heimesb2302ba2008-01-23 17:15:06 +00002408 suppressed while an extension is loaded by calling SetErrorMode in
2409 dynload_win.c. The error is still reported properly.
2410
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002411- Issue #1915: Python compiles with --enable-unicode=no again. However
Christian Heimes082c9b02008-01-23 14:20:50 +00002412 several extension methods and modules do not work without unicode
2413 support.
2414
Georg Brandl26543b12008-01-21 18:36:51 +00002415- Issue #1882: when compiling code from a string, encoding cookies in the
2416 second line of code were not always recognized correctly.
2417
Georg Brandl14404b62008-01-19 19:27:05 +00002418- Issue #1679: "0x" was taken as a valid integer literal.
2419
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00002420- Issue #1865: ``bytes`` as an alias for ``str`` and b"" as an alias "" were
Christian Heimes288e89a2008-01-18 18:24:07 +00002421 added.
2422
Christian Heimesc94e2b52008-01-14 04:13:37 +00002423- sys.float_info / PyFloat_GetInfo: The floating point information
2424 object was converted from a dict to a specialized structseq object.
2425
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002426- Patch #1816: Added sys.flags structseq. It exposes the status of
2427 most command line arguments and PYTHON* environment variables.
Christian Heimesf31b69f2008-01-14 03:42:48 +00002428
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002429- Objects/structseq.c: Implemented new structseq representation. The
2430 patch makes structseqs (e.g. the return value of os.stat) more
2431 readable.
Christian Heimes9c201962008-01-14 03:33:52 +00002432
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002433- Patch #1700288: added a type attribute cache that caches method
2434 accesses, resulting in speedups in heavily object-oriented code.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arce4c270c2008-01-14 00:29:41 +00002435
Neal Norwitz3fc15b82008-01-10 05:42:58 +00002436- Bug #1776: __import__() no longer accepts filenames on any platform.
2437 The first parameter to __import__() must be a valid module name.
Christian Heimes3403f152008-01-09 19:56:33 +00002438
Georg Brandlaed6c662008-01-07 17:25:53 +00002439- Patch #1668: renamed THREADDEBUG envvar to PYTHONTHREADDEBUG.
2440
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002441- Patch #602345: Add -B command line option, PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE
2442 envvar and sys.dont_write_bytecode attribute. All these can be set
2443 to forbid Python to attempt to write compiled bytecode files.
Georg Brandl2da0fce2008-01-07 17:09:35 +00002444
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002445- Improve some exception messages when Windows fails to load an
2446 extension module. Now we get for example '%1 is not a valid Win32
2447 application' instead of 'error code 193'.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arce0b76952008-01-04 02:04:15 +00002448
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002449- Bug #1481296: Fixed long(float('nan')) != 0L.
Christian Heimes8267d1d2008-01-04 00:37:34 +00002450
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002451- Issue #1640: Added math.isinf(x), math.isnan(x) and math.copysign(x,
2452 y) functions.
Christian Heimese2ca4242008-01-03 20:23:15 +00002453
Christian Heimes0a8143f2007-12-18 23:22:54 +00002454- Issue #1635: Platform independent creation and representation of NaN
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002455 and INF. float("nan"), float("inf") and float("-inf") now work on
2456 every platform with IEEE 754 semantics.
Christian Heimes0a8143f2007-12-18 23:22:54 +00002457
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002458- Compiler now generates simpler and faster code for dictionary
2459 literals. The oparg for BUILD_MAP now indicates an estimated
2460 dictionary size. There is a new opcode, STORE_MAP, for adding
2461 entries to the dictionary.
Raymond Hettingerfd7ed402007-12-18 21:24:09 +00002462
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002463- Issue #1638: %zd configure test fails on Linux.
Christian Heimesdb3d6cb2007-12-16 21:39:43 +00002464
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002465- Issue #1620: New property decorator syntax was modifying the
2466 decorator in place instead of creating a new decorator object.
Christian Heimes90e10e72007-12-14 02:35:23 +00002467
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002468- Issue #1538: Avoid copying string in split/rsplit if the split char
2469 is not found.
Skip Montanaro26015492007-12-08 15:33:24 +00002470
Andrew M. Kuchling395fe442007-12-05 13:27:20 +00002471- Issue #1553: An erroneous __length_hint__ can make list() raise a
Christian Heimes7cc1c6f2007-12-05 12:52:34 +00002472 SystemError.
2473
Nick Coghlanef01d822007-12-03 12:55:17 +00002474- PEP 366: Allow explicit relative imports when executing modules
2475 inside packages with the -m switch via a new module level
2476 __package__ attribute.
2477
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002478- Issue #1402: Fix a crash on exit, when another thread is still
2479 running, and if the deallocation of its frames somehow calls the
2480 PyGILState_Ensure() / PyGILState_Release() functions.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcbe49a902007-11-30 20:37:22 +00002481
Christian Heimes28104c52007-11-27 23:16:44 +00002482- Expose the Py_Py3kWarningFlag as sys.py3kwarning.
2483
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00002484- Issue #1445: Fix a SystemError when accessing the ``cell_contents``
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcce7d10c2007-11-24 13:44:17 +00002485 attribute of an empty cell object.
2486
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002487- Issue #1460: The utf-7 incremental decoder did not accept truncated
2488 input. It now correctly saves its state between chunks of data.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcf57375a2007-11-21 01:38:26 +00002489
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002490- Patch #1739468: Directories and zipfiles containing a __main__.py
2491 file can now be directly executed by passing their name to the
2492 interpreter. The directory/zipfile is automatically inserted as the
2493 first entry in sys.path.
Nick Coghlan327a39b2007-11-18 11:56:28 +00002494
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002495- Issue #1265: Fix a problem with sys.settrace, if the tracing
2496 function uses a generator expression when at the same time the
2497 executed code is closing a paused generator.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc0d75f092007-11-13 21:54:28 +00002498
Raymond Hettinger1760c8a2007-11-08 02:52:43 +00002499- sets and frozensets now have an isdisjoint() method.
2500
Raymond Hettinger3f8caa32007-10-24 01:28:33 +00002501- optimize the performance of builtin.sum().
2502
Neal Norwitz44f326e2007-10-05 05:29:17 +00002503- Fix warnings found by the new version of the Coverity checker.
2504
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002505- The enumerate() builtin function is no longer bounded to sequences
2506 smaller than LONG_MAX. Formerly, it raised an OverflowError. Now,
2507 automatically shifts from ints to longs.
Raymond Hettinger8f669372007-10-03 21:18:11 +00002508
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002509- Issue #1686386: Tuple's tp_repr did not take into account the
2510 possibility of having a self-referential tuple, which is possible
2511 from C code. Nor did object's tp_str consider that a type's tp_str
2512 could do something that could lead to an inifinite recursion.
2513 Py_ReprEnter() and Py_EnterRecursiveCall(), respectively, fixed the
2514 issues.
Brett Cannon0b14f242007-09-30 19:45:10 +00002515
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002516- Issue #1164: It was possible to trigger deadlock when using the
2517 'print' statement to write to a file since the GIL was not released
2518 as needed. Now PyObject_Print() does the right thing along with
2519 various tp_print implementations of the built-in types and those in
2520 the collections module.
Brett Cannon01531592007-09-17 03:28:34 +00002521
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002522- Issue #1147: Exceptions were directly allowing string exceptions in
2523 their throw() method even though string exceptions no longer
2524 allowed.
Brett Cannon4c20bc42007-09-11 21:02:28 +00002525
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002526- Issue #1096: Prevent a segfault from getting the repr of a very
2527 deeply nested list by using the recursion counter.
Brett Cannona0c05512007-09-10 21:38:27 +00002528
Brett Cannon1e534b52007-09-07 04:18:30 +00002529- Issue #1202533: Fix infinite recursion calls triggered by calls to
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002530 PyObject_Call() never calling back out to Python code to trigger
2531 recursion depth updates/checks. Required the creation of a static
2532 RuntimeError instance in case normalizing an exception put the
2533 recursion check value past its limit. Fixes crashers
2534 infinite_rec_(1|2|4|5).py.
Brett Cannon1e534b52007-09-07 04:18:30 +00002535
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002536- Patch #1031213: Decode source line in SyntaxErrors back to its
2537 original source encoding.
Martin v. Löwisa5136192007-09-04 14:19:28 +00002538
Georg Brandl7c3b50d2007-07-12 08:38:00 +00002539- Patch #1673759: add a missing overflow check when formatting floats
2540 with %G.
2541
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002542- Prevent expandtabs() on string and unicode objects from causing a
2543 segfault when a large width is passed on 32-bit platforms.
Neal Norwitz7dbd2a32007-06-09 03:36:34 +00002544
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002545- Issue #1733488: Fix compilation of bufferobject.c on AIX.
Martin v. Löwisda587ab2007-06-08 17:29:20 +00002546
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002547- Issue #1722485: remove docstrings again when running with -OO.
Georg Brandla5ea6892007-06-01 11:33:33 +00002548
Neal Norwitz0ac60192007-05-27 04:08:54 +00002549- Add new attribute names for function objects. All the func_* become
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002550 __*__ attributes. (Some already existed, e.g., __doc__ and
2551 __name__.)
Neal Norwitz0ac60192007-05-27 04:08:54 +00002552
Neal Norwitz8b2bfbc2007-05-23 06:35:32 +00002553- Add -3 option to the interpreter to warn about features that are
2554 deprecated and will be changed/removed in Python 3.0.
2555
Georg Brandl2134e752007-05-21 20:34:16 +00002556- Patch #1686487: you can now pass any mapping after '**' in function
2557 calls.
2558
Collin Winter62903052007-05-18 23:11:24 +00002559- except clauses may now be spelled either "except E, target:" or
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002560 "except E as target:". This is to provide forwards compatibility
2561 with Python 3.0.
Collin Winter62903052007-05-18 23:11:24 +00002562
Brett Cannon229cee22007-05-05 01:34:02 +00002563- Deprecate BaseException.message as per PEP 352.
2564
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002565- Issue #1303614: don't expose object's __dict__ when the dict is
Armin Rigo9790a272007-05-02 19:23:31 +00002566 inherited from a builtin base.
2567
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00002568- When __slots__ are set to a unicode string, make it work the same as
Neal Norwitzcbd9ee62007-04-14 05:25:50 +00002569 setting a plain string, ie don't expand to single letter identifiers.
2570
Raymond Hettinger13936692007-04-11 18:40:58 +00002571- Request #1191699: Slices can now be pickled.
2572
Raymond Hettinger4db5fe92007-04-12 04:10:00 +00002573- Request #1193128: str.translate() now allows a None argument for
2574 translations that only remove characters without re-mapping the
2575 remaining characters.
2576
Georg Brandl5cb76c12007-03-21 09:00:39 +00002577- Patch #1682205: a TypeError while unpacking an iterable is no longer
2578 masked by a generic one with the message "unpack non-sequence".
2579
Neal Norwitzaa754b72007-03-21 06:39:48 +00002580- Remove unused file Python/fmod.c.
2581
Guido van Rossum143b5642007-03-23 04:58:42 +00002582- Bug #1683368: The object.__init__() and object.__new__() methods are
2583 now stricter in rejecting excess arguments. The only time when
2584 either allows excess arguments is when it is not overridden and the
2585 other one is. For backwards compatibility, when both are
2586 overridden, it is a deprecation warning (for now; maybe a Py3k
Guido van Rossum234b1ff2007-03-23 19:39:01 +00002587 warning later). Also, type.__init__() insists on the same signature
2588 as supported by type.__new__().
Guido van Rossum143b5642007-03-23 04:58:42 +00002589
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002590- Patch #1675423: PyComplex_AsCComplex() now tries to convert an
2591 object to complex using its __complex__() method before falling back
2592 to the __float__() method. Therefore, the functions in the cmath
2593 module now can operate on objects that define a __complex__()
2594 method.
Georg Brandl2b869942007-03-17 16:08:45 +00002595
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002596- Patch #1623563: allow __class__ assignment for classes with
2597 __slots__. The old and the new class are still required to have the
2598 same slot names.
Žiga Seilnacht6f2d09c2007-03-16 11:59:38 +00002599
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002600- Patch #1642547: Fix an error/crash when encountering syntax errors
2601 in complex if statements.
Collin Winter77c67bd2007-03-16 04:11:30 +00002602
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002603- Patch #1462488: Python no longer segfaults when
2604 ``object.__reduce_ex__()`` is called with an object that is faking
2605 its type.
Žiga Seilnacht20f43d32007-03-15 11:44:55 +00002606
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002607- Patch #1680015: Don't modify __slots__ tuple if it contains an
2608 unicode name.
Žiga Seilnacht71436f02007-03-14 12:24:09 +00002609
Georg Brandl5240d742007-03-13 20:46:32 +00002610- Patch #1444529: the builtin compile() now accepts keyword arguments.
2611
Georg Brandl7b9c5552007-03-12 14:30:05 +00002612- Bug #1678647: write a newline after printing an exception in any
2613 case, even when converting the value to a string failed.
2614
Georg Brandl871f1bc2007-03-12 13:17:36 +00002615- The dir() function has been extended to call the __dir__() method on
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002616 its argument, if it exists. If not, it will work like before. This
2617 allows customizing the output of dir() in the presence of a
2618 __getattr__().
Georg Brandl871f1bc2007-03-12 13:17:36 +00002619
Collin Winter276887b2007-03-12 16:11:39 +00002620- Patch #922167: Python no longer segfaults when faced with infinitely
2621 self-recursive reload() calls (as reported by bug #742342).
2622
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002623- Patch #1675981: remove unreachable code from ``type.__new__()``
2624 method.
Žiga Seilnacht89032082007-03-11 15:54:54 +00002625
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002626- Patch #1491866: change the complex() constructor to allow
2627 parthensized forms. This means complex(repr(x)) now works instead of
2628 raising a ValueError.
Collin Wintere38051d2007-03-09 20:33:07 +00002629
Georg Brandlaa2321b2007-03-07 00:40:28 +00002630- Patch #703779: unset __file__ in __main__ after running a file. This
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002631 makes the filenames the warning module prints much more sensible
2632 when a PYTHONSTARTUP file is used.
Georg Brandlaa2321b2007-03-07 00:40:28 +00002633
Georg Brandl49aafc92007-03-07 00:34:46 +00002634- Variant of patch #697613: don't exit the interpreter on a SystemExit
2635 exception if the -i command line option or PYTHONINSPECT environment
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002636 variable is given, but break into the interactive interpreter just
2637 like on other exceptions or normal program exit.
Georg Brandl49aafc92007-03-07 00:34:46 +00002638
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002639- Patch #1638879: don't accept strings with embedded NUL bytes in
2640 long().
Georg Brandl00cd8182007-03-06 18:41:12 +00002641
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002642- Bug #1674503: close the file opened by execfile() in an error
2643 condition.
Georg Brandl098cd692007-03-06 12:17:50 +00002644
Georg Brandl0fca97a2007-03-05 22:28:08 +00002645- Patch #1674228: when assigning a slice (old-style), check for the
2646 sq_ass_slice instead of the sq_slice slot.
2647
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002648- When printing an unraisable error, don't print exceptions. before
2649 the name. This duplicates the behavior whening normally printing
2650 exceptions.
Neal Norwitz88516a62007-02-26 22:41:45 +00002651
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002652- Bug #1653736: Properly discard third argument to
2653 slot_nb_inplace_power.
Martin v. Löwisfd963262007-02-09 12:19:32 +00002654
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002655- PEP 352: Raising a string exception now triggers a TypeError.
2656 Attempting to catch a string exception raises DeprecationWarning.
Brett Cannon129bd522007-01-30 21:34:36 +00002657
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002658- Bug #1377858: Fix the segfaulting of the interpreter when an object
2659 created a weakref on itself during a __del__ call for new-style
2660 classes (classic classes still have the bug).
Brett Cannonf5bee302007-01-23 23:21:22 +00002661
Martin v. Löwis6c5c5022007-01-23 21:11:47 +00002662- Bug #1579370: Make PyTraceBack_Here use the current thread, not the
2663 frame's thread state.
2664
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002665- patch #1630975: Fix crash when replacing sys.stdout in
2666 sitecustomize.py.
Thomas Wouters6ed19652007-01-23 13:50:49 +00002667
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002668- Prevent seg fault on shutdown which could occur if an object raised
2669 a warning.
Neal Norwitz72cd02c2007-01-05 05:25:22 +00002670
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002671- Bug #1566280: Explicitly invoke threading._shutdown from Py_Main, to
2672 avoid relying on atexit.
Martin v. Löwis7b7c9d42007-01-04 21:06:12 +00002673
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002674- Bug #1590891: random.randrange don't return correct value for big
2675 number.
Raymond Hettinger94547f72006-12-20 06:42:06 +00002676
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002677- Patch #1586791: Better exception messages for some operations on
2678 strings, tuples and lists.
Georg Brandl283a1352006-11-19 08:48:30 +00002679
Martin v. Löwis056dac12006-11-12 18:24:26 +00002680- Bug #1067760: Deprecate passing floats to file.seek.
2681
Martin v. Löwisa346c092006-11-08 06:48:36 +00002682- Bug #1591996: Correctly forward exception in instance_contains().
2683
Neal Norwitz85dbec62006-11-04 19:25:22 +00002684- Bug #1588287: fix invalid assertion for `1,2` in debug builds.
2685
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002686- Bug #1576657: when setting a KeyError for a tuple key, make sure
2687 that the tuple isn't used as the "exception arguments tuple".
Georg Brandlb9f4ad32006-10-29 18:31:42 +00002688
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002689- Bug #1565514: SystemError not raised on too many nested blocks.
Neal Norwitz21997af2006-10-28 21:19:07 +00002690
Thomas Hellerdf08f0b2006-10-27 18:31:36 +00002691- Bug #1576174: WindowsError now displays the windows error code
2692 again, no longer the posix error code.
2693
Martin v. Löwisb5bc5372006-10-27 06:16:31 +00002694- Patch #1549049: Support long values in structmember, issue warnings
2695 if the assigned value for structmember fields gets truncated.
2696
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002697- Update the peephole optimizer to remove more dead code (jumps after
2698 returns) and inline unconditional jumps to returns.
Neal Norwitzcbeb6872006-10-14 21:33:38 +00002699
Georg Brandl2c1375c2006-10-12 11:27:59 +00002700- Bug #1545497: when given an explicit base, int() did ignore NULs
2701 embedded in the string to convert.
2702
Georg Brandl846f73a2006-10-08 07:11:54 +00002703- Bug #1569998: break inside a try statement (outside a loop) is now
2704 recognized and rejected.
2705
Armin Rigo7ccbca92006-10-04 12:17:45 +00002706- list.pop(x) accepts any object x following the __index__ protocol.
2707
Armin Rigo7ccbca92006-10-04 12:17:45 +00002708- A number of places, including integer negation and absolute value,
2709 were fixed to not rely on undefined behaviour of the C compiler
2710 anymore.
Martin v. Löwis820d6ac2006-10-04 05:47:34 +00002711
Georg Brandl3267d282006-09-30 09:03:42 +00002712- Bug #1566800: make sure that EnvironmentError can be called with any
2713 number of arguments, as was the case in Python 2.4.
2714
Georg Brandl5d59c092006-09-30 08:43:30 +00002715- Patch #1567691: super() and new.instancemethod() now don't accept
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002716 keyword arguments any more (previously they accepted them, but
2717 didn't use them).
Georg Brandl5d59c092006-09-30 08:43:30 +00002718
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002719- Fix a bug in the parser's future statement handling that led to
2720 "with" not being recognized as a keyword after, e.g., this
2721 statement: from __future__ import division, with_statement
Georg Brandla10d3af2006-09-24 12:35:36 +00002722
Neal Norwitz3a230172006-09-22 08:18:10 +00002723- Bug #1557232: fix seg fault with def f((((x)))) and def f(((x),)).
2724
Neal Norwitz4a8fbdb2006-09-22 08:16:26 +00002725- Fix %zd string formatting on Mac OS X so it prints negative numbers.
2726
Brett Cannonf6aa86e2006-09-20 18:43:13 +00002727- Allow exception instances to be directly sliced again.
2728
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002729- Bug #1551432: Exceptions do not define an explicit __unicode__
2730 method. This allows calling unicode() on exceptions classes
2731 directly to succeed.
Brett Cannon9adeab72006-09-20 18:34:28 +00002732
Georg Brandl4e933132006-09-06 20:05:58 +00002733- Bug #1542051: Exceptions now correctly call PyObject_GC_UnTrack.
2734 Also make sure that every exception class has __module__ set to
2735 'exceptions'.
2736
Georg Brandl98775df2006-09-06 06:09:31 +00002737- Bug #1550983: emit better error messages for erroneous relative
2738 imports (if not in package and if beyond toplevel package).
2739
Tim Petersc10c9d02006-09-05 02:18:09 +00002740- Overflow checking code in integer division ran afoul of new gcc
2741 optimizations. Changed to be more standard-conforming.
2742
Neal Norwitz4f096d92006-08-21 19:47:08 +00002743- Patch #1542451: disallow continue anywhere under a finally.
2744
Neal Norwitza22975f2006-09-05 02:24:03 +00002745- Patch #1546288: fix seg fault in dict_equal due to ref counting bug.
2746
Neal Norwitzd34e4272006-09-05 02:36:20 +00002747- The return tuple from str.rpartition(sep) is (tail, sep, head) where
2748 head is the original string if sep was not found.
2749
Neal Norwitzdac090d2006-09-05 03:53:08 +00002750- Bug #1520864: unpacking singleton tuples in list comprehensions and
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002751 generator expressions (x for x, in ... ) works again. Fixing this
2752 problem required changing the .pyc magic number. This means that
2753 .pyc files generated before 2.5c2 will be regenerated.
Neal Norwitzdac090d2006-09-05 03:53:08 +00002754
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00002755- ``with`` and ``as`` are now keywords.
Neal Norwitzca460d92006-09-06 06:28:06 +00002756
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002757- Bug #1664966: Fix crash in exec if Unicode filename can't be
2758 decoded.
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00002759
Guido van Rossumcad37242008-01-15 17:59:29 +00002760- Issue #1537: Changed GeneratorExit's base class from Exception to
2761 BaseException.
Christian Heimes44eeaec2007-12-03 20:01:02 +00002762
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002763- Issue #1703448: A joined thread could show up in the
Gregory P. Smith95cd5c02008-01-22 01:20:42 +00002764 threading.enumerate() list after the join() for a brief period until
2765 it actually exited.
2766
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00002767
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00002768Library
2769-------
2770
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002771- Patch #2274: Add heapq.heappushpop().
Raymond Hettinger53bdf092008-03-13 19:03:51 +00002772
Christian Heimes608c1d82008-03-03 18:28:04 +00002773- Add inspect.isabstract(object) to fix bug #2223
2774
Mark Dickinson1ddf1d82008-02-29 02:16:37 +00002775- Add a __format__ method to Decimal, to support PEP 3101.
2776
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002777- Add a timing parameter when using trace.Trace to print out
2778 timestamps.
Neal Norwitzca376612008-02-26 08:21:28 +00002779
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002780- Issue #1627: httplib now ignores negative Content-Length headers.
Georg Brandl8c460d52008-02-24 00:14:24 +00002781
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002782- Issue #900744: If an invalid chunked-encoding header is sent by a
2783 server, httplib will now raise IncompleteRead and close the
2784 connection instead of raising ValueError.
Georg Brandl23635032008-02-24 00:03:22 +00002785
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002786- Issue #1492: The content type of BaseHTTPServer error messages can
2787 now be overridden.
Georg Brandl16479232008-02-23 15:02:28 +00002788
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002789- Issue #1781: ConfigParser now does not let you add the "default" section
Facundo Batistab12f0b52008-02-23 12:46:10 +00002790 (ignore-case)
2791
Guido van Rossum8bc09652008-02-21 18:18:37 +00002792- Removed uses of dict.has_key() from distutils, and uses of
2793 callable() from copy_reg.py, so the interpreter now starts up
2794 without warnings when '-3' is given. More work like this needs to
2795 be done in the rest of the stdlib.
2796
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002797- Issue #1916: added isgenerator() and isgeneratorfunction() to
2798 inspect.py.
Facundo Batista759bfc62008-02-18 03:43:43 +00002799
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002800- Issue #1224: Fixed bad url parsing when path begins with double
2801 slash.
Facundo Batistad14600e2008-02-18 12:48:43 +00002802
Thomas Hellera06a1a82008-02-13 20:21:53 +00002803- ctypes instances that are not or do not contain pointers can now be
2804 pickled.
2805
Martin v. Löwisdad88dc2008-02-12 18:47:34 +00002806- Patch #1966: Break infinite loop in httplib when the servers
2807 implements the chunked encoding incorrectly.
2808
Mark Dickinsond058cd22008-02-10 21:29:51 +00002809- Rename rational.py to fractions.py and the rational.Rational class
2810 to fractions.Fraction, to avoid the name clash with the abstract
2811 base class numbers.Rational. See discussion in issue #1682.
2812
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002813- The pickletools module now provides an optimize() function that
2814 eliminates unused PUT opcodes from a pickle string.
Raymond Hettingerda614dc2008-02-10 20:35:16 +00002815
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002816- Patch #2021: Allow tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile and
2817 SpooledTemporaryFile to be used in with statements by correctly
2818 supporting the context management protocol.
Nick Coghlanac094dc2008-02-10 07:32:52 +00002819
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002820- Patch #1979: Add rich comparisons to Decimal, and make Decimal
2821 comparisons involving a NaN follow the IEEE 754 standard.
Mark Dickinson2fc92632008-02-06 22:10:50 +00002822
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002823- Issue #2004: tarfile.py: Use mode 0700 for temporary directories and
2824 default permissions for missing directories.
Lars Gustäbel0192e432008-02-05 11:51:40 +00002825
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002826- Issue #175006: The debugger used to skip the condition of a "while"
2827 statement after the first iteration. Now it correctly steps on the
2828 expression, and breakpoints on the "while" statement are honored on
2829 each loop.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc6fd03bb2008-02-04 21:45:05 +00002830
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002831- Issue #1765140: add an optional delay argument to FileHandler and
2832 its subclasses. Defaults to false (existing behaviour), but if true,
Vinay Sajipd7cf32e2008-01-24 12:43:33 +00002833 defers opening the file until the first call to emit().
2834
Raymond Hettingerc226c312008-01-23 00:04:40 +00002835- The pprint module now supports sets and frozensets.
2836
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002837- Issue #1221598: add optional callbacks to ftplib.FTP's storbinary()
2838 and storlines() methods. (Contributed by Phil Schwartz)
Gregory P. Smithc64386b2008-01-22 00:19:41 +00002839
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002840- Issue #1715: include sub-extension modules in pydoc's text output.
Georg Brandlf2dae0e2008-01-21 21:05:49 +00002841
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002842- Issue #1836: fix an off-by-one bug in TimedRotatingHandler's
2843 rollover time calculation.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00002844
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002845- Issue #1021: fix a bug to allow basicConfig to accept NOTSET as a
2846 level.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00002847
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002848- Issue #932563: add LoggerAdapter convenience class to make it easier
2849 to add contextual information in logging output.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00002850
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002851- Issue #1760556: fix a bug to avoid FileHandler throwing an exception
2852 in flush().
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00002853
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002854- Bug #1530959: distutils' build command now uses different build
2855 directory when building extension modules against versions of Python
2856 compiled with ``--with-pydebug``.
Georg Brandl50160152008-01-21 17:42:40 +00002857
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002858- Issue #1555501: move plistlib from plat-mac directory to general
2859 library.
Georg Brandl864de822008-01-21 16:34:07 +00002860
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002861- Issue #1269: fix a bug in pstats.add_callers() and add a unit test
2862 file for pstats.
Georg Brandl66e73632008-01-21 10:24:59 +00002863
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002864- Issue #1669: don't allow shutil.rmtree() to be called on a symlink
2865 to a directory.
Georg Brandl52353982008-01-20 14:17:42 +00002866
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002867- Issue #1664522: in urllib, don't read non-existing directories in
2868 ftp mode, returning a 0-byte file -- raise an IOError instead.
Georg Brandld5e6cf22008-01-20 12:18:17 +00002869
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002870- Issue #856047: respect the ``no_proxy`` environment variable when
2871 using the ``http_proxy`` etc. environment variables in urllib.
Georg Brandl22350112008-01-20 12:05:43 +00002872
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002873- Issue #1178141: add a getcode() method to the addinfourls that
2874 urllib.open() returns so that you can retrieve the HTTP status code.
Georg Brandl9b0d46d2008-01-20 11:43:03 +00002875
Gregory P. Smithf25680a2008-01-20 01:26:04 +00002876- Issue #1003: Fix zipfile decryption check, it would fail zip files
2877 with extended local headers.
2878
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002879- Issue #1189216: Fix the zipfile module to work on archives with
2880 headers past the 2**31 byte boundary.
Gregory P. Smith350d03b2008-01-19 23:10:52 +00002881
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002882- Issue #1336: fix a race condition in subprocess.Popen if the garbage
Gregory P. Smithb9ba0752008-01-19 21:00:37 +00002883 collector kicked in at the wrong time that would cause the process
2884 to hang when the child wrote to stderr.
2885
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002886- Issue #1146: fix how textwrap breaks a long word that would start in
2887 the last column of a line.
Georg Brandlc6fde722008-01-19 19:48:19 +00002888
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002889- Issue #1693149: trace.py --ignore-module - accept multiple
2890 comma-separated modules to be given.
Skip Montanaro562133b2008-01-19 18:47:24 +00002891
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002892- Issue #1822: MIMEMultipart.is_multipart() behaves correctly for a
2893 just-created (and empty) instance. Thanks Jonathan Share.
Facundo Batista2b1b1952008-01-19 12:32:27 +00002894
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002895- Issue #1861: Added an attribute to the sched module which returns an
2896 ordered list of upcoming events (displayed as named tuples).
Raymond Hettinger44bd6c02008-01-17 19:31:38 +00002897
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002898- Issue #1837: The queue module now also supports a LIFO queue and a
2899 priority queue.
Raymond Hettinger3ad2acc82008-01-16 23:49:35 +00002900
Andrew M. Kuchling4a2762d2008-01-20 00:00:38 +00002901- Patch #1048820: Add insert-mode editing to curses.textpad.Textbox
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00002902 (patch by Stefan Wehr). Also, fix an off-by-one bug in
Andrew M. Kuchling4a2762d2008-01-20 00:00:38 +00002903 Textbox.gather().
2904
Thomas Heller02ec2892008-01-16 19:37:33 +00002905- Issue #1831: ctypes now raises a TypeError if conflicting positional
2906 and named arguments are passed to a Structure or Union initializer.
Thomas Heller415c1e32008-01-16 19:45:51 +00002907 When too many positional arguments are passed, also a TypeError is
2908 raised instead of a ValueError.
Thomas Heller02ec2892008-01-16 19:37:33 +00002909
Thomas Heller902d3072008-01-16 19:16:27 +00002910- Convert the internal ctypes array type cache to a WeakValueDict so
2911 that array types do not live longer than needed.
2912
Guido van Rossumcad37242008-01-15 17:59:29 +00002913- Issue #1786: pdb should use its own stdin/stdout around an exec call
2914 and when creating a recursive instance.
2915
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002916- Issue #1698398: ZipFile.printdir() crashed because the format string
2917 expected a tuple type of length six instead of time.struct_time
2918 object.
Raymond Hettinger351e1a32008-01-14 22:58:05 +00002919
Mark Dickinson59bc20b2008-01-12 01:56:00 +00002920- Issue #1780: The Decimal constructor now accepts arbitrary leading
2921 and trailing whitespace when constructing from a string.
2922 Context.create_decimal no longer accepts trailing newlines.
2923
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002924- Decimal.as_tuple(), difflib.find_longest_match() and inspect
2925 functions that returned a tuple now return a named tuple.
Georg Brandl2f32c392008-01-11 09:20:58 +00002926
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00002927- Doctest now returns results as a named tuple for readability:
Raymond Hettingerfff4e6e2008-01-11 01:25:54 +00002928 (0, 7) --> TestResults(failed=0, attempted=7)
2929
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002930- Issue #846388:q re.match is interruptible now, which is particularly
Facundo Batista4473d222008-01-08 21:10:12 +00002931 good for long regular expression matches.
2932
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002933- Patch #1137: allow setting buffer_size attribute on pyexpat Parser
2934 objects to set the character data buffer size.
Andrew M. Kuchlinge0a49b62008-01-08 14:30:55 +00002935
Facundo Batista52b25792008-01-08 12:25:20 +00002936- Issue #1757: The hash of a Decimal instance is no longer affected by
2937 the current context.
2938
Georg Brandl62416bc2008-01-07 18:47:44 +00002939- Patch #467924: add ZipFile.extract() and ZipFile.extractall() in the
2940 zipfile module.
2941
Christian Heimesfb2d25a2008-01-07 16:12:44 +00002942- Issue #1646: Make socket support the TIPC protocol.
2943
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002944- Bug #1742: return os.curdir from os.path.relpath() if both arguments
2945 are equal instead of raising an exception.
Georg Brandl183a0842008-01-06 14:27:15 +00002946
Guido van Rossumc6a04c22008-01-05 22:19:06 +00002947- Patch #1637: fix urlparse for URLs like 'http://x.com?arg=/foo'.
2948
Guido van Rossumced4eb02008-01-05 01:21:57 +00002949- Patch #1698: allow '@' in username parsed by urlparse.py.
2950
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002951- Issue #1735: TarFile.extractall() now correctly sets directory
2952 permissions and times.
Lars Gustäbel2ee1c762008-01-04 14:00:33 +00002953
Christian Heimes06875612008-01-04 13:21:07 +00002954- Bug #1713: posixpath.ismount() claims symlink to a mountpoint is a mountpoint.
2955
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002956- Bug #1687: Fxed plistlib.py restricts <integer> to Python int when
2957 writing
Christian Heimes06131882008-01-04 00:04:52 +00002958
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002959- Issue #1700: Regular expression inline flags incorrectly handle
2960 certain unicode characters.
Guido van Rossumae04c332008-01-03 19:12:44 +00002961
Jeffrey Yasskin2f3c16b2008-01-03 02:21:52 +00002962- Issue #1689: PEP 3141, numeric abstract base classes.
2963
Martin v. Löwis84b9aab2008-01-01 21:09:07 +00002964- Tk issue #1851526: Return results from Python callbacks to Tcl as
2965 Tcl objects.
2966
Thomas Heller153038e2007-12-18 19:00:34 +00002967- Issue #1642: Fix segfault in ctypes when trying to delete attributes.
2968
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002969- Issue #1727780: Support loading pickles of random.Random objects
2970 created on 32-bit systems on 64-bit systems, and vice versa. As a
2971 consequence of the change, Random pickles created by Python 2.6
2972 cannot be loaded in Python 2.5.
Martin v. Löwis6b449f42007-12-03 19:20:02 +00002973
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002974- Issue #1455: The distutils package now supports VS 2005 and VS 2008
2975 for both the msvccompiler and cygwincompiler.
Christian Heimesc654fc22007-12-03 13:55:16 +00002976
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002977- Issue #1531: tarfile.py: Read fileobj from the current offset, do
2978 not seek to the start.
Lars Gustäbel77b2d632007-12-01 21:02:12 +00002979
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002980- Issue #1534: Added a dictionary sys.float_info with information
2981 about the internal floating point type to the sys module.
Christian Heimesdfdfaab2007-12-01 11:20:10 +00002982
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002983- Issue #1429818: patch for trace and doctest modules so they play
2984 nicely together.
Skip Montanaro58a6f442007-11-24 14:30:47 +00002985
Brett Cannon43e53f82007-11-21 00:47:36 +00002986- doctest made a bad assumption that a package's __loader__.get_data()
2987 method used universal newlines.
2988
Nick Coghlan90b858e2007-11-07 11:57:51 +00002989- Issue #1705170: contextlib.contextmanager was still swallowing
2990 StopIteration in some cases. This should no longer happen.
2991
Thomas Heller486b1b02007-11-02 19:10:24 +00002992- Issue #1292: On alpha, arm, ppc, and s390 linux systems the
2993 --with-system-ffi configure option defaults to "yes".
2994
Hye-Shik Changa838a802007-10-28 11:19:02 +00002995- IN module for FreeBSD 8 is added and preexisting FreeBSD 6 and 7
2996 files are updated.
2997
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002998- Issues #1181, #1287: unsetenv() is now called when the
2999 os.environ.pop() and os.environ.clear() methods are used.
Georg Brandl1a94ec22007-10-24 21:40:38 +00003000
Thomas Heller91ac4222007-10-19 18:11:41 +00003001- ctypes will now work correctly on 32-bit systems when Python is
3002 configured with --with-system-ffi.
3003
Thomas Heller7fee6dd2007-10-11 19:51:32 +00003004- Patch #1203: ctypes now does work on OS X when Python is built with
Georg Brandl1a94ec22007-10-24 21:40:38 +00003005 --disable-toolbox-glue.
Thomas Heller7fee6dd2007-10-11 19:51:32 +00003006
Raymond Hettingera7fc4b12007-10-05 02:47:07 +00003007- collections.deque() now supports a "maxlen" argument.
3008
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003009- itertools.count() is no longer bounded to LONG_MAX. Formerly, it
3010 raised an OverflowError. Now, automatically shifts from ints to
3011 longs.
Raymond Hettinger50e90e22007-10-04 00:20:27 +00003012
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003013- Added itertools.product() which forms the Cartesian product of the
3014 input iterables.
Raymond Hettingerc5705a82008-02-22 19:50:06 +00003015
Raymond Hettinger66f91ea2008-03-05 20:59:58 +00003016- Added itertools.combinations() and itertools.permutations().
Raymond Hettinger93e804d2008-02-26 23:40:50 +00003017
Georg Brandlaff85e22007-09-20 16:06:07 +00003018- Patch #1541463: optimize performance of cgi.FieldStorage operations.
3019
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003020- Decimal is fully updated to the latest Decimal Specification
3021 (v1.66).
Facundo Batistab67da232007-09-17 16:26:50 +00003022
Georg Brandl8fd3ecf2007-09-12 19:00:07 +00003023- Bug #1153: repr.repr() now doesn't require set and dictionary items
3024 to be orderable to properly represent them.
3025
Thomas Heller2825b2e2007-09-07 06:32:17 +00003026- A 'c_longdouble' type was added to the ctypes module.
3027
Martin v. Löwis7dcb83c2007-08-30 19:04:09 +00003028- Bug #1709599: Run test_1565150 only if the file system is NTFS.
3029
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003030- When encountering a password-protected robots.txt file the
3031 RobotFileParser no longer prompts interactively for a username and
3032 password (bug 813986).
Skip Montanaro3e275362007-08-29 01:33:45 +00003033
Lars Gustäbel0f4a14b2007-08-28 12:31:09 +00003034- TarFile.__init__() no longer fails if no name argument is passed and
3035 the fileobj argument has no usable name attribute (e.g. StringIO).
3036
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003037- The functools module now provides 'reduce', for forward
3038 compatibility with Python 3000.
Guido van Rossum95f1a1b2007-08-27 20:52:10 +00003039
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003040- Server-side SSL support and cert verification added, by Bill
3041 Janssen.
Guido van Rossum4f2c3dd2007-08-25 15:08:43 +00003042
Bill Janssenf413fb02007-08-30 18:08:06 +00003043- socket.ssl deprecated; use new ssl module instead.
3044
Georg Brandl8ec57542007-08-24 06:10:01 +00003045- uuid creation is now threadsafe.
3046
Hye-Shik Chang23901042007-08-20 06:49:18 +00003047- EUC-KR codec now handles the cheot-ga-keut composed make-up hangul
3048 syllables.
3049
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003050- GB18030 codec now can encode additional two-byte characters that are
3051 missing in GBK.
Hye-Shik Changf3e93a02007-08-04 04:10:18 +00003052
Walter Dörwald6e390802007-08-17 16:41:28 +00003053- Add new codecs for UTF-32, UTF-32-LE and UTF-32-BE.
3054
Martin v. Löwisf1e0b3f2007-07-28 07:03:05 +00003055- Bug #1704793: Return UTF-16 pair if unicodedata.lookup cannot
3056 represent the result in a single character.
3057
Martin v. Löwisf25e35b2007-07-27 18:28:22 +00003058- Bug #978833: Close https sockets by releasing the _ssl object.
3059
Martin v. Löwis254b8f92007-07-25 16:24:23 +00003060- Change location of the package index to pypi.python.org/pypi
3061
Thomas Hellerfa704c62007-07-13 17:12:23 +00003062- Bug #1701409: Fix a segfault in printing ctypes.c_char_p and
3063 ctypes.c_wchar_p when they point to an invalid location. As a
3064 sideeffect the representation of these instances has changed.
3065
Lars Gustäbel104490e2007-06-18 11:42:11 +00003066- tarfile.py: Added "exclude" keyword argument to TarFile.add().
3067
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003068- Bug #1734723: Fix repr.Repr() so it doesn't ignore the maxtuple
3069 attribute.
Neal Norwitzc161cb92007-06-11 07:29:43 +00003070
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003071- The urlopen function of urllib2 now has an optional timeout
3072 parameter (note that it actually works with HTTP, HTTPS, FTP and
3073 FTPS connections).
Facundo Batista10951d52007-06-06 17:15:23 +00003074
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003075- In ftplib, the FTP.ntransfercmd method, when in passive mode, now
3076 uses the socket.create_connection function, using the timeout
3077 specified at connection time.
Facundo Batista92493122007-06-06 15:13:37 +00003078
Hye-Shik Chang9b541402007-06-05 18:58:51 +00003079- Bug #1728403: Fix a bug that CJKCodecs StreamReader hangs when it
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003080 reads a file that ends with incomplete sequence and sizehint
3081 argument for .read() is specified.
Hye-Shik Chang9b541402007-06-05 18:58:51 +00003082
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003083- Bug #1730389: Change time.strptime() to use ``\s+`` instead of
3084 ``\s*`` when matching spaces in the specified format argument.
Brett Cannonf7188ce2007-06-03 23:13:41 +00003085
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003086- Bugs #1668596/#1720897: distutils now copies data files even if
3087 package_dir is empty.
Neal Norwitz4a700bb2007-06-01 07:29:12 +00003088
Brett Cannonc2aa09a2007-05-31 19:20:00 +00003089- sha now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
3090
Brett Cannon7eec2172007-05-30 22:24:28 +00003091- md5 now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
3092
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003093- Issue #1385: The hmac module now computes the correct hmac when
3094 using hashes with a block size other than 64 bytes (such as sha384
3095 and sha512).
Gregory P. Smithe1ac4f12007-11-06 00:19:03 +00003096
Brett Cannonc249bda2007-05-30 21:48:58 +00003097- mimify now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
3098
Brett Cannon90134c92007-05-30 20:46:26 +00003099- MimeWriter now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
3100
Lars Gustäbela0fcb932007-05-27 19:49:30 +00003101- tarfile.py: Improved unicode support. Unicode input names are now
3102 officially supported. Added "errors" argument to the TarFile class.
3103
Facundo Batista711a54e2007-05-24 17:50:54 +00003104- urllib.ftpwrapper class now accepts an optional timeout.
3105
Georg Brandlc90bc752007-05-24 16:49:29 +00003106- shlex.split() now has an optional "posix" parameter.
3107
Brett Cannon41bf2fa2007-05-20 23:57:38 +00003108- The posixfile module now raises a DeprecationWarning.
3109
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003110- Remove the gopherlib module. This also leads to the removal of
3111 gopher support in urllib/urllib2.
Brett Cannond75f0432007-05-16 22:42:29 +00003112
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003113- Fix bug in marshal where bad data would cause a segfault due to lack
3114 of an infinite recursion check.
Neal Norwitzb1a9b372007-05-16 20:05:11 +00003115
Neal Norwitze0e70a42007-05-16 05:06:33 +00003116- Removed plat-freebsd2 and plat-freebsd3 directories (and IN.py in
3117 the directories).
3118
Georg Brandla09a96a2007-05-15 20:19:34 +00003119- HTML-escape the plain traceback in cgitb's HTML output, to prevent
3120 the traceback inadvertently or maliciously closing the comment and
3121 injecting HTML into the error page.
3122
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003123- The popen2 module and os.popen* are deprecated. Use the subprocess
3124 module.
Neal Norwitz42dd86b2007-05-11 06:57:33 +00003125
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003126- Added an optional credentials argument to SMTPHandler, for use with
3127 SMTP servers which require authentication.
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00003128
3129- Patch #1695948: Added optional timeout parameter to SocketHandler.
3130
3131- Bug #1652788: Minor fix for currentframe.
3132
3133- Patch #1598415: Added WatchedFileHandler to better support external
3134 log file rotation using e.g. newsyslog or logrotate. This handler is
3135 only useful in Unix/Linux environments.
3136
Georg Brandlfb4b3b72007-04-24 15:27:13 +00003137- Bug #1706381: Specifying the SWIG option "-c++" in the setup.py file
3138 (as opposed to the command line) will now write file names ending in
3139 ".cpp" too.
3140
Facundo Batistad918a652007-04-24 13:54:38 +00003141- As specified in RFC 2616, an HTTP response like 2xx indicates that
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003142 the client's request was successfully received, understood, and
3143 accepted. Now in these cases no error is raised in urllib (issue
3144 #1177) and urllib2.
Facundo Batistad918a652007-04-24 13:54:38 +00003145
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003146- Bug #1290505: time.strptime's internal cache of locale information
3147 is now properly recreated when the locale is changed.
Brett Cannonc6906652007-04-01 18:47:27 +00003148
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003149- Patch #1685563: remove (don't add) duplicate paths in
3150 distutils.MSVCCompiler.
Neal Norwitz8f35f442007-04-01 18:24:22 +00003151
Facundo Batistab6a5c9d2007-03-29 18:22:35 +00003152- Added a timeout parameter to the constructor of other protocols
3153 (telnetlib, ftplib, smtplib and poplib). This is second part of the
3154 work started with create_connection() and timeout in httplib, and
3155 closes patch #723312.
3156
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00003157- Patch #1676823: Added create_connection() to socket.py, which may be
3158 called with a timeout, and use it from httplib (whose HTTPConnection
Facundo Batista70f996b2007-05-21 17:32:32 +00003159 and HTTPSConnection now accept an optional timeout).
Facundo Batista07c78be2007-03-23 18:54:07 +00003160
Martin v. Löwis0af33882007-03-23 13:27:15 +00003161- Bug #978833: Revert r50844, as it broke _socketobject.dup.
3162
Žiga Seilnacht7492e422007-03-21 20:07:56 +00003163- Bug #1675967: re patterns pickled with Python 2.4 and earlier can
3164 now be unpickled with Python 2.5 and newer.
3165
Collin Wintera8785cc2007-03-19 18:52:08 +00003166- Patch #1630118: add a SpooledTemporaryFile class to tempfile.py.
3167
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003168- Patch #1273829: os.walk() now has a "followlinks" parameter. If set
3169 to True (which is not the default), it visits symlinks pointing to
Georg Brandlcae9f3d2007-03-21 09:10:29 +00003170 directories.
3171
Georg Brandl8f06d022007-03-16 07:55:09 +00003172- Bug #1681228: the webbrowser module now correctly uses the default
3173 GNOME or KDE browser, depending on whether there is a session of one
3174 of those present. Also, it tries the Windows default browser before
3175 trying Mozilla variants.
3176
Collin Winter6f187742007-03-16 22:16:08 +00003177- Patch #1339796: add a relpath() function to os.path.
3178
Georg Brandlab1f4672007-03-15 07:41:30 +00003179- Patch #1681153: the wave module now closes a file object it opened if
3180 initialization failed.
3181
Georg Brandlf66b6032007-03-14 08:27:52 +00003182- Bug #767111: fix long-standing bug in urllib which caused an
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003183 AttributeError instead of an IOError when the server's response
3184 didn't contain a valid HTTP status line.
Georg Brandlf66b6032007-03-14 08:27:52 +00003185
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003186- Patch #957650: "%var%" environment variable references are now
3187 properly expanded in ntpath.expandvars(), also "~user" home
3188 directory references are recognized and handled on Windows.
Georg Brandl03b90d82007-03-13 22:07:36 +00003189
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003190- Patch #1429539: pdb now correctly initializes the __main__ module
3191 for the debugged script, which means that imports from __main__ work
Georg Brandlb6ae6aa2007-03-13 21:58:44 +00003192 correctly now.
3193
Georg Brandlbad6f192007-03-13 21:32:56 +00003194- The nonobvious commands.getstatus() function is now deprecated.
3195
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003196- Patch #1393667: pdb now has a "run" command which restarts the
3197 debugged Python program, optionally with different arguments.
Georg Brandl8e84c652007-03-13 21:08:15 +00003198
Thomas Heller5dc4fe02007-03-13 20:42:52 +00003199- Patch #1649190: Adding support for _Bool to ctypes as c_bool.
3200
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003201- Patch #1530482: add pydoc.render_doc() which returns the
3202 documentation for a thing instead of paging it to stdout, which
3203 pydoc.doc() does.
Georg Brandl8441f152007-03-13 20:02:57 +00003204
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003205- Patch #1533909: the timeit module now accepts callables in addition
3206 to strings for the code to time and the setup code. Also added two
3207 convenience functions for instantiating a Timer and calling its
3208 methods.
Georg Brandld9bef352007-03-13 19:32:21 +00003209
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003210- Patch #1537850: tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile now has a "delete"
3211 parameter which can be set to False to prevent the default
3212 delete-on-close behavior.
Georg Brandl35ef9c12007-03-13 18:31:49 +00003213
Georg Brandl9e6b4702007-03-13 18:15:41 +00003214- Patch #1581073: add a flag to textwrap that prevents the dropping of
3215 whitespace while wrapping.
3216
Georg Brandl92a6bae2007-03-13 17:43:32 +00003217- Patch #1603688: ConfigParser.SafeConfigParser now checks values that
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003218 are set for invalid interpolation sequences that would lead to
3219 errors on reading back those values.
Georg Brandl92a6bae2007-03-13 17:43:32 +00003220
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003221- Added support for the POSIX.1-2001 (pax) format to
3222 tarfile.py. Extended and cleaned up the test suite. Added a new
3223 testtar.tar.
Lars Gustäbelc64e4022007-03-13 10:47:19 +00003224
Martin v. Löwisbdd0f392007-03-13 10:24:00 +00003225- Patch #1449244: Support Unicode strings in
3226 email.message.Message.{set_charset,get_content_charset}.
3227
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003228- Patch #1542681: add entries for "with", "as" and "CONTEXTMANAGERS"
3229 to pydoc's help keywords.
Georg Brandlb6a87542007-03-13 10:06:48 +00003230
Georg Brandl4ffc8f52007-03-13 09:41:31 +00003231- Patch #1555098: use str.join() instead of repeated string
3232 concatenation in robotparser.
3233
Georg Brandl94fe3f52007-03-13 09:32:11 +00003234- Patch #1635454: the csv.DictWriter class now includes the offending
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003235 field names in its exception message if you try to write a record
3236 with a dictionary containing fields not in the CSV field names list.
Georg Brandl94fe3f52007-03-13 09:32:11 +00003237
Georg Brandlceede5c2007-03-13 08:14:27 +00003238- Patch #1668100: urllib2 now correctly raises URLError instead of
3239 OSError if accessing a local file via the file:// protocol fails.
3240
Martin v. Löwis2681beb2007-03-12 11:01:10 +00003241- Patch #1677862: Require a space or tab after import in .pth files.
3242
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003243- Patch #1192590: Fix pdb's "ignore" and "condition" commands so they
3244 trap the IndexError caused by passing in an invalid breakpoint
3245 number.
Collin Winter2faa9e12007-03-11 16:00:20 +00003246
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003247- Patch #1599845: Add an option to disable the implicit calls to
3248 server_bind() and server_activate() in the constructors for
3249 TCPServer, SimpleXMLRPCServer and DocXMLRPCServer.
Collin Winterae041062007-03-10 14:41:48 +00003250
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003251- Bug #1531963: Make SocketServer.TCPServer's server_address always be
3252 equal to calling getsockname() on the server's socket. Fixed by
Collin Winterfaaa2042007-03-10 03:35:34 +00003253 patch #1545011.
Collin Winter22c42ba2007-03-10 02:51:26 +00003254
Andrew M. Kuchlinge45a77a2008-01-19 16:26:13 +00003255- Patch #742598: Add .timeout attribute to SocketServer that calls
3256 .handle_timeout() when no requests are received.
3257
Thomas Heller2456a3c2007-03-09 20:39:22 +00003258- Bug #1651235: When a tuple was passed to a ctypes function call,
3259 Python would crash instead of raising an error.
3260
Thomas Hellerc2f77252007-03-09 19:21:28 +00003261- Bug #1646630: ctypes.string_at(buf, 0) and ctypes.wstring_at(buf, 0)
3262 returned string up to the first NUL character.
3263
Martin v. Löwis1190a382007-03-09 15:35:55 +00003264- Patch #957003: Implement smtplib.LMTP.
3265
Collin Winterfb728de2007-03-09 03:26:32 +00003266- Patch #1481079: add support for HTTP_REFERER to CGIHTTPServer.
3267
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003268- Patch #1675424: Added tests for uncovered code in the zipfile
3269 module. The KeyError raised by Zipfile.getinfo for nonexistent
3270 names now has a descriptive message.
Georg Brandl4b3ab6f2007-07-12 09:59:22 +00003271
Martin v. Löwis05c075d2007-03-07 11:04:33 +00003272- Bug #1115886: os.path.splitext('.cshrc') gives now ('.cshrc', '').
3273
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003274- unittest now verifies more of its assumptions. In particular,
3275 TestCase and TestSuite subclasses (not instances) are no longer
3276 accepted in TestSuite.addTest(). This should cause no
3277 incompatibility since it never made sense with ordinary subclasses
3278 -- the failure just occurred later, with a more cumbersome
3279 exception.
Georg Brandl9caadf82007-03-08 18:37:31 +00003280
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003281- Patch #787789: allow to pass custom TestRunner instances to
3282 unittest's main() function.
Georg Brandld0a96252007-03-07 09:21:06 +00003283
Georg Brandl15c5ce92007-03-07 09:09:40 +00003284- Patches #1550273, #1550272: fix a few bugs in unittest and add a
3285 comprehensive test suite for the module.
3286
Georg Brandl71ff6462007-03-07 08:31:51 +00003287- Patch #1001604: glob.glob() now returns unicode filenames if it was
3288 given a unicode argument and os.listdir() returns unicode filenames.
3289
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003290- Patch #1673619: setup.py identifies extension modules it doesn't
3291 know how to build and those it knows how to build but that fail to
3292 build.
Skip Montanarod1287322007-03-06 15:41:38 +00003293
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00003294- Patch #912410: Replace HTML entity references for attribute values
Martin v. Löwisab8a6bb2007-03-06 14:43:00 +00003295 in HTMLParser.
3296
Georg Brandlff432e62007-03-06 13:37:45 +00003297- Patch #1663234: you can now run doctest on test files and modules
3298 using "python -m doctest [-v] filename ...".
3299
Martin v. Löwis3eb76482007-03-06 10:41:24 +00003300- Patch #1121142: Implement ZipFile.open.
3301
Skip Montanarof694b1b2007-03-04 20:54:12 +00003302- Taught setup.py how to locate Berkeley DB on Macs using MacPorts.
3303
Raymond Hettinger00166c52007-02-19 04:08:43 +00003304- Added heapq.merge() for merging sorted input streams.
3305
Raymond Hettingercd3c1082007-10-23 21:23:07 +00003306- Added collections.namedtuple() for assigning field names to tuples.
Raymond Hettingerc37e5e02007-03-01 06:16:43 +00003307
Raymond Hettingerd36862c2007-02-21 05:20:38 +00003308- Added itertools.izip_longest().
3309
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003310- Have the encoding package's search function dynamically import using
3311 absolute import semantics.
Brett Cannon971a0122007-02-15 22:54:39 +00003312
Lars Gustäbel5b1a7852007-02-13 16:09:24 +00003313- Patch #1647484: Renamed GzipFile's filename attribute to name.
3314
Martin v. Löwis84f6de92007-02-13 10:10:39 +00003315- Patch #1517891: Mode 'a' for ZipFile now creates the file if it
3316 doesn't exist.
3317
Martin v. Löwisc6d626e2007-02-13 09:49:38 +00003318- Patch #698833: Support file decryption in zipfile.
3319
Martin v. Löwis07aa3ed2007-02-13 08:34:45 +00003320- Patch #685268: Consider a package's __path__ in imputil.
3321
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003322- Patch #1463026: Support default namespace in XMLGenerator.
Martin v. Löwis2bad58f2007-02-12 12:21:10 +00003323
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003324- Patch #1571379: Make trace's --ignore-dir facility work in the face
3325 of relative directory names.
Skip Montanaro691acf22007-02-11 18:24:37 +00003326
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003327- Bug #1600860: Search for shared python library in LIBDIR, not
3328 lib/python/config, on "linux" and "gnu" systems.
Martin v. Löwis0a203262007-02-09 12:36:48 +00003329
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003330- Patch #1652681: tarfile.py: create nonexistent files in append mode
3331 and allow appending to empty files.
Lars Gustäbel3f8aca12007-02-06 18:38:13 +00003332
Peter Astrand5f9c6ae2007-02-06 15:37:50 +00003333- Bug #1124861: Automatically create pipes if GetStdHandle fails in
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00003334 subprocess.
Peter Astrand5f9c6ae2007-02-06 15:37:50 +00003335
Georg Brandl4ba9e5b2007-01-27 17:59:42 +00003336- Patch #1634778: add missing encoding aliases for iso8859_15 and
3337 iso8859_16.
3338
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003339- Patch #1638243: the compiler package is now able to correctly
3340 compile a with statement; previously, executing code containing a
3341 with statement compiled by the compiler package crashed the
3342 interpreter.
Georg Brandlab496842007-01-27 17:43:02 +00003343
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00003344- Bug #1643943: Fix time.strptime's support for the %U directive.
3345
Lars Gustäbel0713a682007-02-19 09:54:47 +00003346- Patch #1507247: tarfile.py: use current umask for intermediate
3347 directories.
3348
Georg Brandldd7b0522007-01-21 10:35:10 +00003349- Patch #1627441: close sockets properly in urllib2.
3350
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003351- Bug #494589: make ntpath.expandvars behave according to its
3352 docstring.
Sjoerd Mullender33a0a062007-01-16 16:42:38 +00003353
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00003354- Changed platform module API python_version_tuple() to actually
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00003355 return a tuple (it used to return a list).
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00003356
3357- Added new platform module APIs python_branch(), python_revision(),
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00003358 python_implementation() and linux_distribution().
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00003359
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00003360- Added support for IronPython and Jython to the platform module.
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00003361
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003362- The sets module has been deprecated. Use the built-in set/frozenset
3363 types instead.
Brett Cannon093b6702007-01-13 00:29:49 +00003364
Thomas Heller6fd45492007-01-12 20:21:53 +00003365- Bug #1610795: make ctypes.util.find_library work on BSD systems.
3366
Thomas Heller8138c262007-01-11 21:18:56 +00003367- Fixes for 64-bit Windows: In ctypes.wintypes, correct the
3368 definitions of HANDLE, WPARAM, LPARAM data types. Make
3369 parameterless foreign function calls work.
3370
Thomas Hellerfb9d7872007-01-10 20:12:13 +00003371- The version number of the ctypes package changed to "1.1.0".
3372
Vinay Sajipab41c102007-01-09 14:51:36 +00003373- Bug #1627575: logging: Added _open() method to FileHandler which can
3374 be used to reopen files. The FileHandler instance now saves the
3375 encoding (which can be None) in an attribute called "encoding".
3376
Vinay Sajipc9137262007-01-08 18:52:36 +00003377- Bug #411881: logging.handlers: bare except clause removed from
3378 SMTPHandler.emit. Now, only ImportError is trapped.
3379
3380- Bug #411881: logging.handlers: bare except clause removed from
3381 SocketHandler.createSocket. Now, only socket.error is trapped.
3382
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003383- Bug #411881: logging: bare except clause removed from
3384 LogRecord.__init__. Now, only ValueError, TypeError and
3385 AttributeError are trapped.
Vinay Sajipc9137262007-01-08 18:52:36 +00003386
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003387- Patch #1504073: Fix tarfile.open() for mode "r" with a fileobj
3388 argument.
Lars Gustäbela7ba6fc2006-12-27 10:30:46 +00003389
Andrew M. Kuchling71662322006-12-27 03:31:24 +00003390- Patch #1182394 from Shane Holloway: speed up HMAC.hexdigest.
3391
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003392- Patch #1262036: Prevent TarFiles from being added to themselves
3393 under certain conditions.
Lars Gustäbela4b23812006-12-23 17:57:23 +00003394
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003395- Patch #1230446: tarfile.py: fix ExFileObject so that read() and
3396 tell() work correctly together with readline().
Lars Gustäbel6baa5022006-12-23 16:40:13 +00003397
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003398- Patch #1484695: The tarfile module now raises a HeaderError
3399 exception if a buffer given to frombuf() is invalid.
Georg Brandlebbeed72006-12-19 22:06:46 +00003400
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00003401- Bug #1503765: Fix a problem in logging.config with spaces in comma-
3402 separated lists read from logging config files.
3403
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003404- Patch #1604907: Fix problems in logging.handlers caused at logging
3405 shutdown when syslog handlers fail to initialize because of syslogd
3406 problems.
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00003407
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003408- Patch #1608267: fix a race condition in os.makedirs() if the
3409 directory to be created is already there.
Georg Brandlb1307432006-12-09 09:08:29 +00003410
Georg Brandl87fa5592006-12-06 22:21:18 +00003411- Patch #1610437: fix a tarfile bug with long filename headers.
3412
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003413- Patch #1371075: Make ConfigParser accept optional dict type for
3414 ordering, sorting, etc.
Martin v. Löwisa00bcac2006-12-03 12:01:53 +00003415
Thomas Helleref583a42006-11-28 20:21:54 +00003416- Bug #1563807: _ctypes built on AIX fails with ld ffi error.
3417
Thomas Heller25d208b2006-11-24 18:45:39 +00003418- Bug #1598620: A ctypes Structure cannot contain itself.
3419
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003420- Patch #1070046: Marshal new-style objects like InstanceType in
3421 xmlrpclib.
Martin v. Löwis07529352006-11-19 18:51:54 +00003422
Martin v. Löwiscffcc8b2006-11-19 10:41:41 +00003423- cStringIO.truncate(-1) now raises an IOError, like StringIO and
3424 regular files.
3425
Martin v. Löwisbba003e2006-11-18 18:42:11 +00003426- Patch #1472877: Fix Tix subwidget name resolution.
3427
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003428- Patch #1594554: Always close a tkSimpleDialog on ok(), even if an
3429 exception occurs.
Martin v. Löwisef5fd3e2006-11-18 18:05:35 +00003430
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003431- Patch #1538878: Don't make tkSimpleDialog dialogs transient if the
3432 parent window is withdrawn.
Martin v. Löwisc73a4a42006-11-18 18:00:23 +00003433
Georg Brandl54082112006-11-16 16:50:59 +00003434- Bug #1597824: return the registered function from atexit.register()
3435 to facilitate usage as a decorator.
3436
Martin v. Löwis45cd4ff2006-11-12 18:56:03 +00003437- Patch #1360200: Use unmangled_version RPM spec field to deal with
3438 file name mangling.
3439
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003440- Patch #1359217: Process 2xx response in an ftplib transfer that
3441 precedes an 1xx response.
Martin v. Löwis36cbc082006-11-12 18:48:13 +00003442
Martin v. Löwis065f0c82006-11-12 10:41:39 +00003443- Patch #1355023: support whence argument for GzipFile.seek.
3444
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00003445- Patch #1065257: Support passing open files as body in
Martin v. Löwis040a9272006-11-12 10:32:47 +00003446 HTTPConnection.request().
3447
Andrew M. Kuchlinga3e5d372006-11-09 13:27:07 +00003448- Bug #1569790: mailbox.py: Maildir.get_folder() and MH.get_folder()
3449 weren't passing the message factory on to newly created Maildir/MH
3450 objects.
3451
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003452- Patch #1514543: mailbox.py: In the Maildir class, report errors if
3453 there's a filename clash instead of possibly losing a message.
3454 (Patch by David Watson.)
Andrew M. Kuchling978d8282006-11-09 21:16:46 +00003455
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003456- Patch #1514544: Try to ensure that messages/indexes have been
3457 physically written to disk after calling .flush() or
3458 .close(). (Patch by David Watson.)
Andrew M. Kuchlingb5686da2006-11-09 13:51:14 +00003459
Guido van Rossumaf16ece2008-02-21 19:46:35 +00003460- Patch #1592250: Add elide argument to Tkinter.Text.search.
Martin v. Löwis038cad72006-11-09 11:27:32 +00003461
Guido van Rossumaf16ece2008-02-21 19:46:35 +00003462- Patch #838546: Make terminal become controlling in pty.fork().
Martin v. Löwisb2bba732006-11-09 11:06:03 +00003463
Martin v. Löwis5361e9a2006-11-08 07:35:55 +00003464- Patch #1351744: Add askyesnocancel helper for tkMessageBox.
3465
Martin v. Löwis5310e502006-11-04 18:14:06 +00003466- Patch #1060577: Extract list of RPM files from spec file in
Guido van Rossumaf16ece2008-02-21 19:46:35 +00003467 bdist_rpm.
Martin v. Löwis5310e502006-11-04 18:14:06 +00003468
Georg Brandl2c9838e2006-10-29 14:39:09 +00003469- Bug #1586613: fix zlib and bz2 codecs' incremental en/decoders.
3470
Georg Brandl3354f282006-10-29 09:16:12 +00003471- Patch #1583880: fix tarfile's problems with long names and posix/
3472 GNU modes.
3473
Georg Brandl5addf702006-10-29 08:53:06 +00003474- Bug #1586448: the compiler module now emits the same bytecode for
3475 list comprehensions as the builtin compiler, using the LIST_APPEND
3476 opcode.
3477
Georg Brandl8f99f812006-10-29 08:39:22 +00003478- Fix codecs.EncodedFile which did not use file_encoding in 2.5.0, and
3479 fix all codecs file wrappers to work correctly with the "with"
3480 statement (bug #1586513).
3481
Thomas Heller112d1a62006-10-27 19:05:53 +00003482- Lib/modulefinder.py now handles absolute and relative imports
3483 correctly.
3484
Martin v. Löwisee82c0e2006-10-27 07:13:28 +00003485- Patch #1567274: Support SMTP over TLS.
3486
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003487- Patch #1560695: Add .note.GNU-stack to ctypes' sysv.S so that ctypes
3488 isn't considered as requiring executable stacks.
Martin v. Löwis1b2f6272006-10-22 10:55:15 +00003489
Thomas Hellerd2ea4a22006-10-17 19:30:48 +00003490- ctypes callback functions only support 'fundamental' data types as
3491 result type. Raise an error when something else is used. This is a
3492 partial fix for Bug #1574584.
3493
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003494- Fix turtle so that time.sleep is imported for the entire library.
3495 Allows the demo2 function to be executed on its own instead of only
3496 when the module is run as a script.
Brett Cannond80e0c82006-10-16 03:09:52 +00003497
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003498- Bug #813342: Start the IDLE subprocess with -Qnew if the parent is
3499 started with that option.
Georg Brandld0761532006-10-12 07:57:21 +00003500
Martin v. Löwisf43893a2006-10-09 20:44:25 +00003501- Bug #1565150: Fix subsecond processing for os.utime on Windows.
3502
Martin v. Löwis8b274262006-10-04 15:25:28 +00003503- Support for MSVC 8 was added to bdist_wininst.
3504
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003505- Bug #1446043: correctly raise a LookupError if an encoding name
3506 given to encodings.search_function() contains a dot.
Georg Brandla92979a2006-09-30 11:22:28 +00003507
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003508- Bug #1560617: in pyclbr, return full module name not only for
3509 classes, but also for functions.
Georg Brandl154324a2006-09-30 11:06:47 +00003510
Georg Brandl05b3c452006-09-30 10:58:01 +00003511- Bug #1457823: cgi.(Sv)FormContentDict's constructor now takes
3512 keep_blank_values and strict_parsing keyword arguments.
3513
Georg Brandl8d1e5bf2006-09-30 09:13:21 +00003514- Bug #1566602: correct failure of posixpath unittest when $HOME ends
3515 with a slash.
3516
Georg Brandl8c667452006-09-30 07:31:57 +00003517- Bug #1565661: in webbrowser, split() the command for the default
3518 GNOME browser in case it is a command with args.
3519
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003520- Made the error message for time.strptime when the data data and
3521 format do match be more clear.
Brett Cannon11b35352006-09-26 23:38:24 +00003522
Georg Brandlc7986ce2006-09-24 12:50:24 +00003523- Fix a bug in traceback.format_exception_only() that led to an error
3524 being raised when print_exc() was called without an exception set.
3525 In version 2.4, this printed "None", restored that behavior.
3526
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003527- Make webbrowser.BackgroundBrowser usable in Windows (it wasn't
3528 because the close_fds arg to subprocess.Popen is not supported).
Georg Brandl2c94bf72006-09-24 10:36:01 +00003529
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003530- Reverted patch #1504333 to sgmllib because it introduced an infinite
3531 loop.
Neal Norwitzbcc119a2006-09-11 04:24:09 +00003532
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003533- Patch #1553314: Fix the inspect.py slowdown that was hurting IPython
3534 & SAGE by adding smarter caching in inspect.getmodule()
Nick Coghlanb3c18f82006-09-08 10:04:38 +00003535
Georg Brandl4e933132006-09-06 20:05:58 +00003536- Fix missing import of the types module in logging.config.
3537
Nick Coghlanbb0996c2006-09-03 01:20:46 +00003538- Patch #1550886: Fix decimal module context management implementation
Neal Norwitza22975f2006-09-05 02:24:03 +00003539 to match the localcontext() example from PEP 343.
Nick Coghlanbb0996c2006-09-03 01:20:46 +00003540
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003541- Bug #1545341: The 'classifier' keyword argument to the Distutils
3542 setup() function now accepts tuples as well as lists.
Andrew M. Kuchling99994792006-10-09 17:10:12 +00003543
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003544- Bug #1541863: uuid.uuid1 failed to generate unique identifiers on
3545 systems with low clock resolution.
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00003546
Gustavo Niemeyerc36bede2006-09-07 00:48:33 +00003547- Bug #1531862: Do not close standard file descriptors in subprocess.
3548
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003549- idle: Honor the "Cancel" action in the save dialog (Debian bug
3550 #299092).
Matthias Klosea398e2d2007-01-11 11:44:04 +00003551
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003552- Fix utf-8-sig incremental decoder, which didn't recognise a BOM when
3553 the first chunk fed to the decoder started with a BOM, but was
3554 longer than 3 bytes.
Georg Brandl27562782006-10-27 20:39:43 +00003555
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003556- The implementation of UnicodeError objects has been simplified
3557 (start and end attributes are now stored directly as Py_ssize_t
3558 members).
Walter Dörwald84a3efe2007-06-13 16:57:12 +00003559
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003560- Issue #829951: In the smtplib module, SMTP.starttls() now complies
3561 with RFC 3207 and forgets any knowledge obtained from the server not
3562 obtained from the TLS negotiation itself. Patch contributed by Bill
3563 Fenner.
Gregory P. Smith2b3ba582008-01-17 08:03:17 +00003564
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003565- Issue #1339: The smtplib.SMTP class has been refactored a bit such
Gregory P. Smithbde4ae42008-01-17 08:35:49 +00003566 that the SMTP.starttls() caller no longer needs to call ehlo()
3567 beforehand. SMTP.starttls() now raises an exception of the server
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003568 does not claim to support starttls. Adds the
3569 SMTP.ehlo_or_helo_if_needed() method. Patch contributed by Bill
3570 Fenner.
Gregory P. Smithbde4ae42008-01-17 08:35:49 +00003571
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003572- Patch #1089358: Add signal.siginterrupt, a wrapper around
3573 siginterrupt(3).
Georg Brandl29604a12008-01-26 14:03:47 +00003574
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00003575Extension Modules
3576-----------------
3577
Georg Brandl392c6fc2008-05-25 07:25:25 +00003578- Patch #1657: added select.epoll and select.kqueue.
Christian Heimes0e9ab5f2008-03-21 23:49:44 +00003579
Georg Brandlebcfd112008-02-23 23:04:35 +00003580- Patch #1506171: added operator.methodcaller().
3581
Georg Brandle2065c62008-02-23 23:02:23 +00003582- Patch #1826: operator.attrgetter() now supports dotted attribute paths.
3583
Georg Brandl392c6fc2008-05-25 07:25:25 +00003584- Patch #1957: syslogmodule: Release GIL when calling syslog(3).
Christian Heimesf0476e82008-02-23 17:42:31 +00003585
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003586- Bug #2112: mmap.error is now a subclass of EnvironmentError and not
3587 a direct EnvironmentError.
Facundo Batistae1396882008-02-17 18:59:29 +00003588
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003589- Bug #2111: mmap segfaults when trying to write a block opened with
3590 PROT_READ.
Christian Heimes7adfad82008-02-15 08:20:11 +00003591
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003592- Bug #2063: correct order of utime and stime in os.times() result on
3593 Windows.
Georg Brandl0a40ffb2008-02-13 07:20:22 +00003594
Martin v. Löwise0d30ef2008-02-12 13:47:26 +00003595- Patch #1736: Fix file name handling of _msi.FCICreate.
3596
Hye-Shik Chang01612e72008-02-08 17:10:20 +00003597- Updated ``big5hkscs`` codec to the HKSCS revision of 2004.
3598
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003599- Issue #1940: make it possible to use curses.filter() before
3600 curses.initscr() as the documentation says.
Georg Brandl29604a12008-01-26 14:03:47 +00003601
Christian Heimes7f39c9f2008-01-25 12:18:43 +00003602- Backport of _fileio module from Python 3.0.
3603
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003604- Patch #1087741: mmap.mmap is now a class, not a factory function. It
3605 is also subclassable now.
Georg Brandl5ca3fd82008-01-21 14:18:14 +00003606
Georg Brandl56112892008-01-20 13:59:46 +00003607- Patch #1648: added ``sys.getprofile()`` and ``sys.gettrace()``.
3608
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003609- Patch #1663329: added ``os.closerange()`` function to quickly close
3610 a range of file descriptors without considering errors.
Georg Brandl309501a2008-01-19 20:22:13 +00003611
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003612- Patch #976880: ``mmap`` objects now have an ``rfind`` method that
Andrew M. Kuchling5c60bfc2008-01-19 18:18:41 +00003613 works as expected. ``mmap.find`` also takes an optional ``end``
3614 parameter.
3615
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003616- _winreg's HKEY object has gained __enter__ and __exit__ methods to
3617 support the context manager protocol. The _winreg module also
3618 gained a new function ``ExpandEnvironmentStrings`` to expand
3619 REG_EXPAND_SZ keys.
Christian Heimesb39a7562008-01-08 15:46:10 +00003620
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003621- itertools.starmap() now accepts any iterable input. Previously, it
3622 required the function inputs to be tuples.
Raymond Hettinger47317092008-01-17 03:02:14 +00003623
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003624- itertools.chain() now has an alternate constructor,
3625 chain.from_iterable().
Raymond Hettingerb4cbc982008-02-28 22:46:41 +00003626
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003627- Issue #1646: Make socket support TIPC. The socket module now has
3628 support for TIPC under Linux, see http://tipc.sf.net/ for more
3629 information.
Christian Heimesfb2d25a2008-01-07 16:12:44 +00003630
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003631- Added interface for Windows' WSAIoctl to socket object and added an
3632 example for a simple network sniffer.
Christian Heimes04ae9162008-01-04 15:23:30 +00003633
Guido van Rossum076d9ee2008-01-03 23:54:04 +00003634- Bug #1301: Bad assert in _tkinter fixed.
3635
Christian Heimescdaa2cb2007-12-31 14:47:07 +00003636- Added bdist_wininst executable for VS 2008.
3637
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003638- Bug #1604: collections.deque.__init__(iterable) now clears any prior
3639 contents before adding elements from the iterable. This fix brings
3640 the behavior into line with that for list.__init__().
Raymond Hettingeradf9ffd2007-12-13 00:08:37 +00003641
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003642- Added wide char functions to msvcrt module: getwch, getwche, putwch
3643 and ungetwch. The functions accept or return unicode.
Christian Heimes7c7f6af2007-12-10 15:12:41 +00003644
Martin v. Löwis69233e82007-12-04 08:39:16 +00003645- os.access now returns True on Windows for any existing directory.
3646
Christian Heimes28104c52007-11-27 23:16:44 +00003647- Added warnpy3k function to the warnings module.
3648
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003649- Marshal.dumps() now expects exact type matches for int, long, float,
3650 complex, tuple, list, dict, set, and frozenset. Formerly, it would
3651 silently miscode subclasses of those types. Now, it raises a
3652 ValueError instead.
Raymond Hettinger12e94202007-11-07 01:13:09 +00003653
Martin v. Löwis58bd49f2007-09-04 13:13:14 +00003654- Patch #1388440: Add set_completion_display_matches_hook and
3655 get_completion_type to readline.
3656
Thomas Helleref4fff32007-07-13 17:46:54 +00003657- Bug #1649098: Avoid declaration of zero-sized array declaration in
3658 structure.
3659
Brett Cannondc48b742007-05-20 07:09:50 +00003660- Removed the rgbimg module; been deprecated since Python 2.5.
3661
Neal Norwitz59f58aa2007-05-19 03:48:47 +00003662- Bug #1721309: prevent bsddb module from freeing random memory.
3663
Gregory P. Smith82eafe62007-10-18 17:17:57 +00003664- Bug #1233: fix bsddb.dbshelve.DBShelf append method to work as
3665 intended for RECNO databases.
3666
Gregory P. Smithec10a4a2007-11-05 02:32:26 +00003667- pybsddb.sf.net Bug #477182: Load the database flags at database open
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003668 time so that opening a database previously created with the DB_DUP
3669 or DB_DUPSORT flag set will keep the proper behavior on subsequent
3670 opens. Specifically: dictionary assignment to a DB object will
3671 replace all values for a given key when the database allows
3672 duplicate values. DB users should use DB.put(k, v) when they want
3673 to store duplicates; not DB[k] = v.
Gregory P. Smithec10a4a2007-11-05 02:32:26 +00003674
Gregory P. Smithac11e022007-11-05 02:56:31 +00003675- Add the bsddb.db.DBEnv.lock_id_free method.
3676
Martin v. Löwis3bf573f2007-04-04 18:30:36 +00003677- Bug #1686475: Support stat'ing open files on Windows again.
3678
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003679- Patch #1185447: binascii.b2a_qp() now correctly quotes binary
3680 characters with ASCII value less than 32. Also, it correctly quotes
3681 dots only if they occur on a single line, as opposed to the previous
3682 behavior of quoting dots if they are the second character of any
3683 line.
Georg Brandl4aef7272007-03-13 22:49:43 +00003684
Georg Brandla47337f2007-03-13 12:34:25 +00003685- Bug #1622896: fix a rare corner case where the bz2 module raised an
3686 error in spite of a succesful compression.
3687
Georg Brandl40c62612007-03-06 18:59:11 +00003688- Patch #1654417: make operator.{get,set,del}slice use the full range
3689 of Py_ssize_t.
3690
Guido van Rossum2054ee92007-03-06 15:50:01 +00003691- Patch #1646728: datetime.fromtimestamp fails with negative
3692 fractional times. With unittest.
3693
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003694- Patch #1490190: posixmodule now includes os.chflags() and
3695 os.lchflags() functions on platforms where the underlying system
3696 calls are available.
Martin v. Löwis382abef2007-02-19 10:55:19 +00003697
Georg Brandl983d1002007-02-15 11:29:04 +00003698- Patch #1494140: Add documentation for the new struct.Struct object.
3699
Martin v. Löwis45423a72007-02-14 10:07:37 +00003700- Patch #1432399: Support the HCI protocol for bluetooth sockets
3701
Martin v. Löwisb1cc1d42007-02-13 12:14:19 +00003702- Patch #1657276: Make NETLINK_DNRTMSG conditional.
3703
Martin v. Löwis4c11a922007-02-08 09:13:36 +00003704- Bug #1653736: Complain about keyword arguments to time.isoformat.
3705
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003706- Bug #1486663: don't reject keyword arguments for subclasses of
3707 builtin types.
Georg Brandlb84c1372007-01-21 10:28:43 +00003708
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003709- Patch #1610575: The struct module now supports the 't' code, for C99
3710 _Bool.
Martin v. Löwisaef4c6b2007-01-21 09:33:07 +00003711
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003712- Patch #1635058: ensure that htonl and friends never accept or return
3713 negative numbers, per the underlying C implementation.
Guido van Rossumbb2cc692007-01-14 17:03:32 +00003714
Martin v. Löwis046c4d12006-12-03 11:23:45 +00003715- Patch #1544279: Improve thread-safety of the socket module by moving
3716 the sock_addr_t storage out of the socket object.
3717
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003718- Patch #1019808: fix bug that causes an incorrect error to be
3719 returned when a socket timeout is set and a connection attempt
3720 fails.
Andrew M. Kuchling060e6852008-01-19 20:47:59 +00003721
Neal Norwitz45e230a2006-11-19 21:26:53 +00003722- Speed up function calls into the math module.
3723
Georg Brandl25aabf42006-11-16 17:08:45 +00003724- Bug #1588217: don't parse "= " as a soft line break in binascii's
3725 a2b_qp() function, instead leave it in the string as quopri.decode()
3726 does.
3727
Neal Norwitz4fe44232006-11-21 05:26:22 +00003728- Bug #1599782: Fix segfault on bsddb.db.DB().type().
3729
Martin v. Löwis012bc722006-10-15 09:43:39 +00003730- Bug #1567666: Emulate GetFileAttributesExA for Win95.
3731
Martin v. Löwis18aaa562006-10-15 08:43:33 +00003732- Patch #1576166: Support os.utime for directories on Windows NT+.
3733
Georg Brandl412a9ea2006-10-09 19:03:06 +00003734- Patch #1572724: fix typo ('=' instead of '==') in _msi.c.
3735
Hye-Shik Changb7883462006-10-08 13:48:34 +00003736- Bug #1572832: fix a bug in ISO-2022 codecs which may cause segfault
3737 when encoding non-BMP unicode characters.
3738
Georg Brandl4ddfcd32006-09-30 11:17:34 +00003739- Bug #1556784: allow format strings longer than 127 characters in
3740 datetime's strftime function.
3741
Jack Diederichd10a0f72006-09-21 20:34:49 +00003742- Fix itertools.count(n) to work with negative numbers again.
3743
Martin v. Löwis43fd99c2006-09-16 17:36:37 +00003744- RLIMIT_SBSIZE was added to the resource module where available.
3745
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003746- Bug #1551427: fix a wrong NULL pointer check in the win32 version of
3747 os.urandom().
Georg Brandl74bb7832006-09-06 06:03:59 +00003748
Neal Norwitz6aefa912006-09-02 02:50:35 +00003749- Bug #1548092: fix curses.tparm seg fault on invalid input.
3750
Andrew M. Kuchling62182c82008-01-08 14:56:02 +00003751- Patch #1114: fix curses module compilation on 64-bit AIX, & possibly
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003752 other 64-bit LP64 platforms where attr_t is not the same size as a
3753 long. (Contributed by Luke Mewburn.)
Andrew M. Kuchling62182c82008-01-08 14:56:02 +00003754
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003755- Bug #1550714: fix SystemError from itertools.tee on negative value
3756 for n.
Neal Norwitz69e88972006-09-02 02:58:13 +00003757
Hye-Shik Chang199f1db2006-09-05 12:07:09 +00003758- Fixed a few bugs on cjkcodecs:
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003759 - gbk and gb18030 codec now handle U+30FB KATAKANA MIDDLE DOT
3760 correctly.
Hye-Shik Chang199f1db2006-09-05 12:07:09 +00003761 - iso2022_jp_2 codec now encodes into G0 for KS X 1001, GB2312
3762 codepoints to conform the standard.
Hye-Shik Chang2cad3e92006-09-05 12:14:57 +00003763 - iso2022_jp_3 and iso2022_jp_2004 codec can encode JIS X 0213:2
Hye-Shik Chang199f1db2006-09-05 12:07:09 +00003764 codepoints now.
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00003765
Andrew M. Kuchling43889c02006-09-27 16:37:30 +00003766- Bug #1552726: in readline.c, avoid repeatedly polling in interactive
3767 mode by only placing a timeout on the select() if an input hook has
3768 been defined. This prevents an interactive Python from waking up 10
3769 times per second. Patch by Richard Boulton.
3770
Gregory P. Smithf09c6262007-03-17 22:33:35 +00003771- fixed a bug with bsddb.DB.stat: the flags and txn keyword arguments
3772 were transposed.
3773
Jesus Cea4907d272008-08-31 14:00:51 +00003774- Added support for linking the bsddb module against BerkeleyDB 4.5.x,
3775 4.6.x and 4.7.x.
Gregory P. Smith8b96a352007-01-05 01:59:42 +00003776
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003777- Bug #1633621: if curses.resizeterm() or curses.resize_term() is
3778 called, update _curses.LINES, _curses.COLS, curses.LINES and
3779 curses.COLS.
Andrew M. Kuchling43889c02006-09-27 16:37:30 +00003780
Matthias Klosee19e0c22007-04-03 04:35:59 +00003781- Fix an off-by-one bug in locale.strxfrm().
3782
Matthias Klose38336402007-09-04 20:46:02 +00003783- Fix libffi configure for hppa*-*-linux* | parisc*-*-linux*.
3784
Matthias Klose9afb9852007-10-24 20:00:44 +00003785- Build using system ffi library on arm*-linux*.
3786
Christian Heimes3f065a42007-11-21 01:17:28 +00003787- Bug #1372: zlibmodule.c: int overflow in PyZlib_decompress
Matthias Klosee19e0c22007-04-03 04:35:59 +00003788
Gregory P. Smitheeed5b72008-02-03 07:20:53 +00003789- bsddb module: Fix memory leak when using database cursors on
3790 databases without a DBEnv.
3791
Gerhard Häring11ab8072008-03-02 13:12:27 +00003792- The sqlite3 module was updated to pysqlite 2.4.1.
3793
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00003794Tests
3795-----
3796
Brett Cannon56c4deb2008-03-03 00:38:58 +00003797- Refactor test_logging to use unittest.
Brett Cannonf9db8a32008-02-17 01:59:18 +00003798
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003799- Refactor test_profile and test_cprofile to use the same code to
3800 profile.
Georg Brandlb7090772008-02-05 19:58:17 +00003801
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003802- Make test_runpy reentrant by fixing _check_module to clear out any
3803 module being tested. Was causing an error by __import__ doing a
3804 reload on the second run and thus suppressing bytecode recreation.
Brett Cannondbed7a72007-08-23 14:53:17 +00003805
Brett Cannonea2835a2007-03-14 21:44:15 +00003806- Capture socket connection resets and timeouts in test_socket_ssl and
3807 test_urllib2net and raise test.test_support.ResourceDenied.
Brett Cannoned001842007-03-14 21:40:13 +00003808
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003809- Patch #1559413: Fix test_cmd_line if sys.executable contains a
3810 space.
Martin v. Löwiscd1210a2007-03-14 20:02:31 +00003811
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003812- Added test.test_support.TransientResource which is a context manager
3813 to surround calls to resources that are not guaranteed to work even
3814 if test.test_support.requires says that the resource should exist.
Brett Cannona30fcb42007-03-08 23:58:11 +00003815
Brett Cannone05e6b02007-01-29 04:41:44 +00003816- Added a test for slicing of an exception.
3817
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003818- Added test.test_support.EnvironmentVarGuard. It's a class that
3819 provides a context manager so that one can temporarily set or unset
3820 environment variables.
Brett Cannon92d54d52007-01-04 00:23:49 +00003821
Thomas Heller112d1a62006-10-27 19:05:53 +00003822- Added some tests for modulefinder.
3823
Brett Cannon373d90b2006-10-03 23:23:14 +00003824- Converted test_imp to use unittest.
3825
Neal Norwitz919d5cc2006-09-05 02:35:08 +00003826- Fix bsddb test_basics.test06_Transactions to check the version
3827 number properly.
3828
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003829- test.test_support.catch_warning is a new context manager that can be
3830 used to catch the warnings issued by the warning framework.
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00003831
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00003832Tools
3833-----
3834
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003835- Tools/scripts/reindent.py now creates the backup file using
3836 shutil.copy to preserve user/group and permissions. Added also a
3837 --nobackup option to not create the backup if the user is concerned
3838 regarding this. Check issue 1050828 for more details.
Facundo Batistaf88a0772008-02-17 16:21:13 +00003839
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003840- Tools/scripts/win_add2path.py was added. The simple script modifes
3841 the PATH environment var of the HKCU tree and adds the python bin
3842 and script directory.
Christian Heimesbd865db2008-01-18 11:58:50 +00003843
Skip Montanaro3e275362007-08-29 01:33:45 +00003844- Tools/18n/pygettext.py was added to the list of scripts installed by
3845 Tools/scripts/setup.py (tracker item 642309).
3846
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003847- Added IronPython and Jython support to pybench (part of which was
3848 patch #1563844).
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00003849
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003850- Made some minor changes to pybench output to allow the user to see
3851 which Python version is running pybench.
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00003852
3853- Added support for the new platform module feature
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003854 platform.python_implementation(); this will now be saved in the
3855 benchmark pickle.
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00003856
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00003857
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00003858Documentation
3859-------------
3860
Vinay Sajipd7cf32e2008-01-24 12:43:33 +00003861- RFE #1765140: Updated documentation on FileHandler and subclasses to
3862 include new optional delay argument.
3863
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003864- Bug #932563: Added section on getting contextual information into
3865 logging output, and added documentation for the new LoggerAdapter
3866 class.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00003867
3868- Bug #1295: Added information about caching of formatted exception
3869 information in the LogRecord by Formatter.format().
3870
Georg Brandl9467bc52007-07-12 09:37:49 +00003871- Bug #1637365: add subsection about "__name__ == __main__" to the
3872 Python tutorial.
3873
Georg Brandl3dc6e902007-04-25 06:24:59 +00003874- Patch #1698768: updated the "using Python on the Mac" intro.
3875
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003876- Bug #1569057: Document that calling file.next() when the file is
3877 open for writing is undefined.
Brett Cannon55a18642007-04-08 04:29:32 +00003878
Žiga Seilnachtc64ad482007-03-24 14:24:26 +00003879- Patch #1489771: the syntax rules in Python Reference Manual were
3880 updated to reflect the current Python syntax.
3881
Martin v. Löwis2f401d72007-03-23 10:35:49 +00003882- Patch #1686451: Fix return type for
3883 PySequence_{Count,Index,Fast_GET_SIZE}.
3884
Georg Brandl0692a262007-03-13 07:50:57 +00003885- Patch #1679379: add documentation for fnmatch.translate().
3886
Collin Winterb7b2b4e2007-03-09 18:09:10 +00003887- Bug #1629566: clarify the docs on the return values of parsedate()
3888 and parsedate_tz() in email.utils and rfc822.
3889
Georg Brandld28b9fc2007-03-06 10:02:47 +00003890- Patch #1671450: add a section about subclassing builtin types to the
3891 "extending and embedding" tutorial.
3892
Georg Brandlb26b1c62007-01-17 21:19:58 +00003893- Bug #1629125: fix wrong data type (int -> Py_ssize_t) in PyDict_Next
3894 docs.
3895
Georg Brandla4c8e322006-10-12 08:22:53 +00003896- Bug #1565919: document set types in the Language Reference.
3897
Georg Brandl44a7b3a2006-09-30 12:02:57 +00003898- Bug #1546052: clarify that PyString_FromString(AndSize) copies the
3899 string pointed to by its parameter.
3900
Georg Brandlfb257732006-09-30 09:06:45 +00003901- Bug #1566663: remove obsolete example from datetime docs.
3902
Georg Brandl648c1102006-08-18 07:27:59 +00003903- Bug #1541682: Fix example in the "Refcount details" API docs.
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003904 Additionally, remove a faulty example showing PySequence_SetItem
3905 applied to a newly created list object and add notes that this isn't
3906 a good idea.
Georg Brandl648c1102006-08-18 07:27:59 +00003907
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00003908
Georg Brandl27562782006-10-27 20:39:43 +00003909Tools/Demos
3910-----------
3911
3912- Patch #1552024: add decorator support to unparse.py demo script.
Marc-André Lemburg96148682006-09-06 20:40:22 +00003913
Brett Cannonc8939d22006-09-20 19:28:35 +00003914- Make auto-generated python.vim file list built-ins and exceptions in
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003915 alphatbetical order. Makes output more deterministic and easier to
3916 tell if the file is stale or not.
Brett Cannonc8939d22006-09-20 19:28:35 +00003917
Marc-André Lemburg96148682006-09-06 20:40:22 +00003918- Bug #1546372: Fixed small bugglet in pybench that caused a missing
3919 file not to get reported properly.
3920
3921
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00003922Build
3923-----
3924
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003925- Have the search path for building extensions follow the declared
3926 order in $CPPFLAGS and $LDFLAGS when adding directories from those
3927 environment variables.
Brett Cannon70c0c022008-02-03 09:59:21 +00003928
Christian Heimes951cc0f2008-01-31 23:08:23 +00003929- Bug #1983: Added a check to pyport to verify that sizeof(pid_t) is
3930 smaller or equal sizeof(long).
3931
Christian Heimescba36bb2008-01-30 22:54:18 +00003932- Bug #1234: Fixed semaphore errors on AIX 5.2
3933
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003934- Issue #1726: Remove Python/atof.c from PCBuild/pythoncore.vcproj.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00003935
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003936- Removed PCbuild8/ directory and added a new build directory for VS
3937 2005 based on the VS 2008 build directory to PC/VS8.0. The script
3938 PCbuild/vs8to9.py was added to sync changes from PCbuild to
3939 PC/VS8.0.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00003940
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003941- Moved PCbuild/ directory for VS 2003 to PC/VS7.1 and renamed
3942 PCBuild9/ directory to PCBuild/.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00003943
Martin v. Löwiscb78de62007-12-29 18:49:21 +00003944- Bug #1699: Define _BSD_SOURCE only on OpenBSD.
3945
Guido van Rossum7c862f82007-12-13 20:50:10 +00003946- Bug #1608: use -fwrapv when GCC supports it. This is important,
3947 newer GCC versions may optimize away overflow buffer overflow checks
3948 without this option!
3949
Martin v. Löwis63bf1492007-11-12 05:14:05 +00003950- Patch #1418: Make the AC_REPLACE_FUNCS object files actually work.
3951
Raymond Hettingerdc1d1ba2007-11-07 02:45:46 +00003952- Add a FAST_LOOPS build option that speeds-up looping by trading away
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003953 periodic threadstate and signal checking in tight loops. By
3954 default, this option is turned-off. It should only be enabled in
3955 debugged, performance critical applications.
Raymond Hettingerdc1d1ba2007-11-07 02:45:46 +00003956
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003957- Patch #786737: Allow building in a tree of symlinks pointing to a
3958 readonly source.
Martin v. Löwisd44a4e92007-09-05 11:47:34 +00003959
Martin v. Löwis8bc77e42007-09-01 06:36:03 +00003960- Bug #1737210: Change Manufacturer of Windows installer to PSF.
3961
Martin v. Löwis75c23bd2007-08-30 18:25:47 +00003962- Bug #1746880: Correctly install DLLs into system32 folder on Win64.
3963
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003964- Define _BSD_SOURCE, to get access to POSIX extensions on OpenBSD
3965 4.1+.
Martin v. Löwis76760b02007-07-31 19:57:56 +00003966
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003967- Stop supporting AtheOS and cause a build error in configure for the
3968 platform.
Brett Cannon19fab762007-06-02 03:02:29 +00003969
Georg Brandldb846032007-03-31 18:56:11 +00003970- Bug #1655392: don't add -L/usr/lib/pythonX.Y/config to the LDFLAGS
3971 returned by python-config if Python was built with --enable-shared
3972 because that prevented the shared library from being used.
3973
Georg Brandl18c47f62007-03-13 10:19:22 +00003974- Patch #1569798: fix a bug in distutils when building Python from a
3975 directory within sys.exec_prefix.
3976
Martin v. Löwiseb623572007-03-12 10:50:39 +00003977- Bug #1675511: Use -Kpic instead of -xcode=pic32 on Solaris/x86.
3978
Martin v. Löwis4d542ec2006-11-25 15:39:19 +00003979- Disable _XOPEN_SOURCE on NetBSD 1.x.
3980
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003981- configure now checks whether gcc supports the PyArg_ParseTuple
3982 format attribute.
Martin v. Löwisaac13162006-10-19 10:58:46 +00003983
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00003984- Bug #1578513: Cross compilation was broken by a change to configure.
Martin v. Löwisfefbc202006-10-17 18:59:23 +00003985 Repair so that it's back to how it was in 2.4.3.
3986
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003987- Patch #1576954: Update VC6 build directory; remove redundant files
3988 in VC7.
Martin v. Löwisc9e82f62006-10-15 07:54:40 +00003989
Martin v. Löwisebe26702006-10-02 14:55:51 +00003990- Bug #1568842: Fix test for uintptr_t.
3991
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003992- Patch #1540470: for OpenBSD 4.0.
Neal Norwitz4bc2c092006-09-05 02:57:01 +00003993
Matthias Klosed149d0c2006-12-03 17:16:41 +00003994- Fix build failure on kfreebsd and on the hurd.
3995
Matthias Kloseebde1492006-12-09 12:15:27 +00003996- Fix the build of the library reference in info format.
3997
Matthias Kloseeb8ff672007-08-02 21:33:13 +00003998- Allow Emacs 22 for building the documentation in info format.
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00003999
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004000- Makefile.pre.in(buildbottest): Run an optional script
4001 pybuildbot.identify to include some information about the build
4002 environment.
Matthias Klose642ac852007-09-04 18:17:36 +00004003
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00004004
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00004005C API
4006-----
4007
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004008- Unified naming convention for free lists and their limits. All free
4009 lists in Object/ are named ``free_list``, the counter ``numfree``
4010 and the upper limit is a macro ``PyName_MAXFREELIST`` inside an
4011 #ifndef block.
Christian Heimes5b970ad2008-02-06 13:33:44 +00004012
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004013- ``PySet_Add()`` can now modify a newly created frozenset. Similarly
4014 to ``PyTuple_SetItem``, it can be used to populate a brand new
4015 frozenset; but it does not steal a reference to the added item.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arccab3d982008-02-03 22:51:43 +00004016
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00004017- Added ``PySet_Check()`` and ``PyFrozenSet_Check()`` to the set API.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arccab3d982008-02-03 22:51:43 +00004018
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004019- Backport of PyUnicode_FromString(), _FromStringAndSize(), _Format
4020 and _FormatV from Python 3.0. Made PyLong_AsSsize_t and
4021 PyLong_FromSsize_t public functions.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00004022
4023- Patch #1720595: add T_BOOL to the range of structmember types.
4024
4025- Issue #1534: Added ``PyFloat_GetMax()``, ``PyFloat_GetMin()`` and
4026 ``PyFloat_GetInfo()`` to the float API.
4027
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004028- Issue #1521: On 64bit platforms, using PyArgs_ParseTuple with the t#
4029 of w# format code incorrectly truncated the length to an int, even
4030 when PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN is set. The str.decode method used to return
4031 incorrect results with huge strings.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00004032
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004033- Issue #1629: Renamed Py_Size, Py_Type and Py_Refcnt to Py_SIZE,
4034 Py_TYPE and Py_REFCNT.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00004035
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004036- PEP 3123: Provide forward compatibility with Python 3.0, while
4037 keeping backwards compatibility. Add Py_Refcnt, Py_Type, Py_Size,
4038 and PyVarObject_HEAD_INIT.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00004039
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004040- Py_ssize_t fields work in structmember when HAVE_LONG_LONG is not
4041 defined.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00004042
4043- Patch #1733960: Allow T_LONGLONG to accept ints.
4044
4045- T_PYSSIZET can now be used in PyMemberDef lists for Py_ssize_t members.
4046
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00004047- Added a new API function ``PyImport_ImportModuleNoBlock``.
4048
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00004049- Bug #1637022: Prefix AST symbols with _Py_.
4050
4051- Fix some leftovers from the conversion from int to Py_ssize_t
4052 (relevant to strings and sequences of more than 2**31 items).
4053
4054- Make _PyGILState_NoteThreadState() static, it was not used anywhere
4055 outside of pystate.c and should not be necessary.
4056
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004057- ``PyImport_Import`` and ``PyImport_ImportModule`` now always do
4058 absolute imports. In earlier versions they might have used relative
4059 imports under some conditions.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00004060
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004061- Added case insensitive comparison methods ``PyOS_stricmp(char*,
4062 char*)`` and ``PyOS_strnicmp(char*, char*, Py_ssize_t)``.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00004063
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004064- Bug #1542693: remove semi-colon at end of PyImport_ImportModuleEx
4065 macro so it can be used as an expression.
Neal Norwitz8a267062006-08-19 04:25:29 +00004066
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00004067
Martin v. Löwis2607e6c2006-11-21 18:20:25 +00004068Windows
4069-------
4070
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004071- Patch #1706: Drop support for Win9x, WinME and NT4. Python now
4072 requires Windows 2000 or greater. The _WINVER and NTDDI_VERSION
4073 macros are set to Win2k for x86/32bit builds and WinXP for AMD64
4074 builds.
Christian Heimes95d64472008-02-09 19:55:22 +00004075
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004076- Conditionalize definition of _CRT_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE and
4077 _CRT_NONSTDC_NO_DEPRECATE.
Martin v. Löwis2607e6c2006-11-21 18:20:25 +00004078
Martin v. Löwisd476a402007-10-12 08:56:52 +00004079- Bug #1216: Restore support for Visual Studio 2002.
4080
Martin v. Löwis2607e6c2006-11-21 18:20:25 +00004081
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00004082Mac
4083---
4084
Brett Cannonf0cb1d72007-05-31 20:01:11 +00004085- cfmfile now raises a DeprecationWarning.
4086
Brett Cannon791d56f2007-05-31 19:40:42 +00004087- buildtools now raises a DeprecationWarning.
4088
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004089- Removed the macfs module. It had been deprecated since Python 2.5.
4090 This lead to the deprecation of macostools.touched() as it relied
4091 solely on macfs and was a no-op under OS X.
Brett Cannon5e263512007-05-20 23:17:38 +00004092
Skip Montanaroe5d7f7f2002-09-20 14:16:59 +00004093----
4094
4095**(For information about older versions, consult the HISTORY file.)**