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Skip Montanaroe5d7f7f2002-09-20 14:16:59 +00003+++++++++++
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Anthony Baxterb0c66302004-11-04 05:23:17 +00005(editors: check NEWS.help for information about editing NEWS using ReST.)
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Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +00007What's New in Python 2.7 alpha 1
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10*Release date: XX-XXX-20XX*
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12Core and Builtins
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14
Benjamin Peterson5083dc52009-04-25 00:41:22 +000015- Issue #5283: Setting __class__ in __del__ caused a segfault.
16
Mark Dickinson95bc9802009-04-24 12:46:53 +000017- Issue #5816: complex(repr(z)) now recovers z exactly, even when
18 z involves nans, infs or negative zeros.
19
Eric Smithaca19e62009-04-22 13:29:05 +000020- Implement PEP 378, Format Specifier for Thousands Separator, for
21 floats, ints, and longs.
22
23- Issue #5515: 'n' formatting for ints, longs, and floats handles
24 leading zero formatting poorly.
25
26- Issue #5772: For float.__format__, don't add a trailing ".0" if
27 we're using no type code and we have an exponent.
28
Mark Dickinson6736cf82009-04-20 21:13:33 +000029- Issue #3166: Make long -> float (and int -> float) conversions
30 correctly rounded.
31
Benjamin Petersond4d400c2009-04-18 20:12:47 +000032- Issue #5787: object.__getattribute__(some_type, "__bases__") segfaulted on
33 some builtin types.
34
Mark Dickinson1bdf7e92009-04-18 14:59:42 +000035- Issue #1869: fix a couple of minor round() issues. round(5e15+1)
36 was giving 5e15+2; round(-0.0) was losing the sign of the zero.
37
Benjamin Peterson99d36f12009-04-15 21:26:36 +000038- Issue #5759: float() didn't call __float__ on str subclasses.
39
Georg Brandl3c4a5462009-04-12 12:08:12 +000040- Issue #5704: the "-3" command-line option now implies "-t".
41
R. David Murray0374a822009-04-09 21:54:50 +000042- Issue #2170: refactored xml.dom.minidom.normalize, increasing both
43 its clarity and its speed.
44
Antoine Pitrou789be0c2009-04-02 21:18:34 +000045- Issue #2396: the memoryview object was backported from Python 3.1.
46
Georg Brandld3f03fa2009-04-02 18:09:04 +000047- Fix a problem in PyErr_NormalizeException that leads to "undetected errors"
48 when hitting the recursion limit under certain circumstances.
49
Brett Cannon15ba4da2009-04-01 18:03:59 +000050- Issue #1665206: Remove the last eager import in _warnings.c and make it lazy.
51
Ronald Oussorene0154ed2009-03-30 23:10:35 +000052- Issue #4865: On MacOSX /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages is added to
53 the end sys.path, for compatibility with the system install of Python.
54
Antoine Pitrouf8387af2009-03-23 18:41:45 +000055- Issue #4688: Add a heuristic so that tuples and dicts containing only
56 untrackable objects are not tracked by the garbage collector. This can
57 reduce the size of collections and therefore the garbage collection overhead
58 on long-running programs, depending on their particular use of datatypes.
59
Mark Dickinson0b666bf2009-03-23 18:25:13 +000060- Issue #5512: Rewrite PyLong long division algorithm (x_divrem) to
61 improve its performance. Long divisions and remainder operations
62 are now between 50% and 150% faster.
63
Mark Dickinsonefc82f72009-03-20 15:51:55 +000064- Issue #4258: Make it possible to use base 2**30 instead of base
65 2**15 for the internal representation of integers, for performance
66 reasons. Base 2**30 is enabled by default on 64-bit machines. Add
67 --enable-big-digits option to configure, which overrides the
68 default. Add sys.long_info structseq to provide information about
69 the internal format.
70
Benjamin Peterson6ffe8522009-03-18 20:52:15 +000071- Issue #4034: Fix weird attribute error messages of the traceback object. (As a
72 result traceback.__members__ no longer exists.)
73
Mark Dickinson6b265f12009-03-18 16:07:26 +000074- Issue #4474: PyUnicode_FromWideChar now converts characters outside
75 the BMP to surrogate pairs, on systems with sizeof(wchar_t) == 4
76 and sizeof(Py_UNICODE) == 2.
77
Eric Smith6f42edb2009-03-14 11:57:26 +000078- Issue #5237: Allow auto-numbered fields in str.format(). For
79 example: '{} {}'.format(1, 2) == '1 2'.
80
Brett Cannon6c4cff02009-03-11 04:51:06 +000081- Issue #3652: Make the 'line' argument for warnings.showwarning() a
82 requirement. Means the DeprecationWarning from Python 2.6 can go away.
83
Eric Smithe9fb6862009-02-20 14:02:36 +000084- Issue #5247: Improve error message when unknown format codes are
85 used when using str.format() with str, unicode, long, int, and
86 float arguments.
87
Raymond Hettinger08259e82009-02-18 23:10:19 +000088- Running Python with the -3 option now also warns about classic division
89 for ints and longs.
90
Mark Dickinson2ffb26f2009-02-15 10:13:41 +000091- Issue #5260: Long integers now consume less memory: average
92 saving is 2 bytes per long on a 32-bit system and 6 bytes per long
93 on a 64-bit system.
94
Antoine Pitrou76a4b892009-02-13 13:52:33 +000095- Issue #5186: Reduce hash collisions for objects with no __hash__ method by
96 rotating the object pointer by 4 bits to the right.
97
Mark Dickinsonc97c9092009-02-09 14:18:43 +000098- Issue #4575: Fix Py_IS_INFINITY macro to work correctly on x87 FPUs:
99 it now forces its argument to double before testing for infinity.
100
Benjamin Petersone18ef192009-01-20 14:21:16 +0000101- Issue #4978: Passing keyword arguments as unicode strings is now allowed.
102
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +0000103- Issue #1242657: the __len__() and __length_hint__() calls in several tools
Raymond Hettingerb5163702009-02-02 21:50:13 +0000104 were suppressing all exceptions. These include list(), filter(), map(),
105 zip(), and bytearray().
106
Benjamin Peterson596d3062009-01-19 15:42:23 +0000107- os.ftruncate raises OSErrors instead of IOErrors for consistency with other os
108 functions.
109
Benjamin Peterson5848d1f2009-01-19 00:08:08 +0000110- Issue #4991: Passing invalid file descriptors to io.FileIO now raises an
111 OSError.
112
Amaury Forgeot d'Arca18392a2009-01-13 23:19:08 +0000113- Issue #4807: Port the _winreg module to Windows CE.
114
Antoine Pitrouc2f02212009-01-13 23:13:52 +0000115- Issue #4935: The overflow checking code in the expandtabs() method common
116 to str, bytes and bytearray could be optimized away by the compiler, letting
117 the interpreter segfault instead of raising an error.
118
Amaury Forgeot d'Arca40d5732009-01-12 23:36:55 +0000119- Issue #3720: Fix a crash when an iterator modifies its class and removes its
120 __next__ method.
121
Martin v. Löwise3422fa2009-01-12 08:11:24 +0000122- Issue #4893: Use NT threading on CE.
123
Martin v. Löwis1b3bef22009-01-12 07:57:11 +0000124- Issue #4915: Port sysmodule to Windows CE.
125
Antoine Pitrou4c5ecb72009-01-09 21:40:55 +0000126- Issue #4074: Change the criteria for doing a full garbage collection (i.e.
127 collecting the oldest generation) so that allocating lots of objects without
128 destroying them does not show quadratic performance. Based on a proposal by
129 Martin von Löwis at
130 http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2008-June/080579.html.
131
Martin v. Löwisb90304a2009-01-07 18:40:40 +0000132- Issue #4850: Change COUNT_ALLOCS variables to Py_ssize_t.
133
Antoine Pitroue96d4ea2009-01-06 18:10:47 +0000134- Issue #1180193: When importing a module from a .pyc (or .pyo) file with
135 an existing .py counterpart, override the co_filename attributes of all
136 code objects if the original filename is obsolete (which can happen if the
137 file has been renamed, moved, or if it is accessed through different paths).
138 Patch by Ziga Seilnacht and Jean-Paul Calderone.
139
Martin v. Löwis5344c992009-01-02 20:32:55 +0000140- Issue #4075: Use OutputDebugStringW in Py_FatalError.
141
Hirokazu Yamamoto99a1b202009-01-01 15:45:39 +0000142- Issue #4797: IOError.filename was not set when _fileio.FileIO failed to open
143 file with `str' filename on Windows.
144
Antoine Pitrouaa687902009-01-01 14:11:22 +0000145- Issue #3680: Reference cycles created through a dict, set or deque iterator
146 did not get collected.
147
Nick Coghlan180e4002008-12-30 01:18:48 +0000148- Issue #4701: PyObject_Hash now implicitly calls PyType_Ready on types
149 where the tp_hash and tp_dict slots are both NULL.
150
Benjamin Peterson7af65562008-12-29 17:56:58 +0000151- Issue #4764: With io.open, IOError.filename is set when trying to open a
152 directory on POSIX systems.
153
Benjamin Petersonfe231b02008-12-29 17:47:42 +0000154- Issue #4764: IOError.filename is set when trying to open a directory on POSIX
155 systems.
156
Georg Brandl6425a2f2008-12-28 11:54:53 +0000157- Issue #4759: None is now allowed as the first argument of
158 bytearray.translate(). It was always allowed for bytes.translate().
159
Skip Montanarof205c132008-12-23 03:30:15 +0000160- Added test case to ensure attempts to read from a file opened for writing
161 fail.
162
Antoine Pitrou73c0e652008-12-17 22:46:54 +0000163- Issue #2467: gc.DEBUG_STATS reported invalid elapsed times. Also, always
164 print elapsed times, not only when some objects are uncollectable /
165 unreachable. Original patch by Neil Schemenauer.
166
Mark Dickinson1a707982008-12-17 16:14:37 +0000167- Issue #3439: Add a bit_length method to int and long.
168
Antoine Pitroud0c35152008-12-17 00:38:28 +0000169- Issue #2183: Simplify and optimize bytecode for list comprehensions.
170 Original patch by Neal Norwitz.
171
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcad9b5992008-12-10 23:22:49 +0000172- Issue #4597: Fixed exception handling when the __exit__ function of a
173 context manager returns a value that cannot be converted to a bool.
174
Jeffrey Yasskinffd42cf2008-12-10 07:35:02 +0000175- Issue #4597: Fixed several opcodes that weren't always propagating
176 exceptions.
177
Mark Dickinson826f3fe2008-12-05 21:55:28 +0000178- Issue #4445: Replace "sizeof(PyStringObject)" with
179 "offsetof(PyStringObject, ob_sval) + 1" when allocating memory for
180 str instances. On a typical machine this saves 3 bytes of memory
181 (on average) per string allocation.
182
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcdc619012008-11-22 20:01:18 +0000183- Issue #3996: On Windows, the PyOS_CheckStack function would cause the
184 interpreter to abort ("Fatal Python error: Could not reset the stack!")
185 instead of throwing a MemoryError.
186
Raymond Hettinger7989a4d2008-12-03 15:42:10 +0000187- Issue #3689: The list reversed iterator now supports __length_hint__
188 instead of __len__. Behavior now matches other reversed iterators.
189
Benjamin Petersonc078f922008-11-21 22:27:24 +0000190- Issue #4367: Python would segfault during compiling when the unicodedata
191 module couldn't be imported and \N escapes were present.
192
Vinay Sajip213faca2008-12-03 23:22:58 +0000193- Issue #4233: Changed semantic of ``_fileio.FileIO``'s ``close()``
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc32265652008-11-20 23:34:31 +0000194 method on file objects with closefd=False. The file descriptor is still
195 kept open but the file object behaves like a closed file. The ``FileIO``
196 object also got a new readonly attribute ``closefd``.
197
Benjamin Peterson46cc6d12008-11-19 21:49:09 +0000198- Issue #4348: Some bytearray methods returned that didn't cause any change to
199 the bytearray, returned the same bytearray instead of a copy.
200
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc7cfe7ea2008-11-18 22:19:37 +0000201- Issue #4317: Fixed a crash in the imageop.rgb2rgb8() function.
202
Benjamin Peterson273c2332008-11-17 22:39:09 +0000203- Issue #4230: If ``__getattr__`` is a descriptor, it now functions correctly.
204
Benjamin Peterson6624a9f2008-11-03 15:14:51 +0000205- Issue #4048: The parser module now correctly validates relative imports.
206
Benjamin Petersondcee09d2008-10-31 02:16:05 +0000207- Issue #4225: ``from __future__ import unicode_literals`` didn't work in an
208 exec statement.
209
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc69a9c5b2008-10-30 21:18:34 +0000210- Issue #4176: Fixed a crash when pickling an object which ``__reduce__``
211 method does not return iterators for the 4th and 5th items.
212
Benjamin Petersonbdca9422008-10-26 20:21:13 +0000213- Issue #4209: Enabling unicode_literals and the print_function in the same
214 __future__ import didn't work.
215
Benjamin Peterson399b1fe2008-10-25 02:53:28 +0000216- Using ``nonlocal`` as a variable name will now raise a Py3k SyntaxWarning
Georg Brandl7fb00ad2008-10-25 07:00:52 +0000217 because it is a reserved word in 3.x.
Benjamin Peterson399b1fe2008-10-25 02:53:28 +0000218
Hirokazu Yamamoto10a018c2008-10-09 10:00:30 +0000219- On windows, os.chdir given unicode was not working if GetCurrentDirectoryW
220 returned a path longer than MAX_PATH. (But It's doubtful this code path is
221 really executed because I cannot move to such directory on win2k)
222
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd78b9dc2008-10-07 20:32:10 +0000223- Issue #4069: When set.remove(element) is used with a set element, the element
224 is temporarily replaced with an equivalent frozenset. But the eventual
225 KeyError would always report the empty frozenset([]) as the missing key. Now
226 it correctly refers to the initial element.
227
Antoine Pitrouae5bece2008-12-06 21:29:24 +0000228- Issue #4509: Various issues surrounding resize of bytearray objects to
229 which there are buffer exports.
230
Benjamin Peterson8d5934b2008-12-27 18:24:11 +0000231- Issue #4748: Lambda generators no longer return a value.
232
Kristján Valur Jónsson6220e412009-01-12 09:20:34 +0000233- Issue #3582: Use native TLS functions on Windows
234
Gregory P. Smithae91d092009-03-02 05:13:57 +0000235- The re.sub(), re.subn() and re.split() functions now accept a flags parameter.
236
Matthias Kloseedb5e1e2009-04-04 14:18:13 +0000237- Issue #3845: In PyRun_SimpleFileExFlags avoid invalid memory access with
238 short file names.
239
Matthias Klose91a3b9e2009-04-05 21:19:13 +0000240- Issue #1113244: Py_XINCREF, Py_DECREF, Py_XDECREF: Add `do { ... } while (0)'
241 to avoid compiler warnings.
Matthias Klose0610e082009-04-05 12:43:08 +0000242
Gregory P. Smith2b3eb372009-04-05 23:48:26 +0000243- Issue #5705: os.setuid() would not accept values > 2**31-1 but pwd.getpwnam()
244 returned them on 64bit platforms.
245
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +0000246Library
247-------
Benjamin Petersonb3dd5482009-02-26 19:07:18 +0000248
Thomas Heller5c6af802009-04-24 20:31:47 +0000249- Issue #3102: All global symbols that the _ctypes extension defines
250 are now prefixed with 'Py' or '_ctypes'.
251
Thomas Hellerec21ccd2009-04-24 20:00:41 +0000252- Issue #5041: ctypes does now allow pickling wide character.
253
Mark Dickinson4af8e742009-04-24 13:56:07 +0000254- Issue #5812: For the two-argument form of the Fraction constructor,
255 Fraction(m, n), m and n are permitted to be arbitrary Rational
256 instances.
257
Mark Dickinson8100bd82009-04-22 18:15:25 +0000258- Issue #5812: Fraction('1e6') is valid: more generally, any string
259 that's valid for float() is now valid for Fraction(), with the
260 exception of strings representing NaNs and infinities.
261
Tarek Ziadé31559b62009-04-20 14:29:42 +0000262- Issue #5795: Fixed test_distutils failure on Debian ppc.
263
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +0000264- Issue #5768: Fixed bug in Unicode output logic and test case for same.
265
R. David Murrayabc26602009-04-13 16:56:32 +0000266- Issue #1161031: fix readwrite select flag handling: POLLPRI now
267 results in a handle_expt_event call, not handle_read_event, and POLLERR
268 and POLLNVAL now call handle_close, not handle_expt_event. Also,
269 dispatcher now has an 'ignore_log_types' attribute for suppressing
270 log messages, which is set to 'warning' by default.
271
Tarek Ziadé156c31a2009-04-13 12:34:01 +0000272- Issue #5607: fixed Distutils test_get_platform for Mac OS X fat binaries.
273
Georg Brandl21cf5ee2009-04-12 17:24:11 +0000274- Issue #5741: don't disallow "%%" (which is an escape for "%") when setting
275 a value in SafeConfigParser.
276
Tarek Ziadé942825f2009-04-11 14:55:07 +0000277- Issue #5732: added a new command in Distutils: check.
278
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +0000279- Issue #5731: Distutils bdist_wininst no longer worked on non-Windows
Tarek Ziadéad958262009-04-09 21:36:44 +0000280 platforms. Initial patch by Paul Moore.
281
Gregory P. Smith923ba362009-04-06 06:33:26 +0000282- Issue #2254: Fix CGIHTTPServer information disclosure. Relative paths are
283 now collapsed within the url properly before looking in cgi_directories.
284
Tarek Ziadé64408fb2009-04-05 22:51:09 +0000285- Issue #5095: Added bdist_msi to the list of bdist supported formats.
286 Initial fix by Steven Bethard.
287
Tarek Ziadéfaa6b122009-04-05 21:44:08 +0000288- Issue #1491431: Fixed distutils.filelist.glob_to_re for edge cases.
289 Initial fix by Wayne Davison.
290
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +0000291- Issue #5693: TestSuite.__iter__ can now be consistently overridden in subclasses.
Michael Foordf2dfef12009-04-05 19:19:28 +0000292
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +0000293- Issue #5694: removed spurious test output in Distutils (test_clean).
Tarek Ziadé453d9532009-04-05 18:31:24 +0000294
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +0000295- Issue #5471: Fix os.path.expanduser() for $HOME set to '/'.
Georg Brandl3f0ef202009-04-05 14:48:49 +0000296
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +0000297- Issue #1326077: fix the formatting of SyntaxErrors by the traceback module.
Georg Brandl1956d5c2009-04-05 14:25:41 +0000298
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +0000299- Issue #1726172: fix IndexError in the case of and empty response in ftplib.
Georg Brandl50ba6e12009-04-05 10:48:47 +0000300
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +0000301- Issue #2625: added missing iteritems() call to the for loop in
R. David Murray52720c52009-04-02 14:05:35 +0000302 mailbox.MH.get_message().
303
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +0000304- Issue #5585: Add the ability to call an initializer to mulitiprocessing.manager
Andrew M. Kuchling59631852009-04-09 11:23:36 +0000305 so that users can install custom handlers/etc.
Jesse Noller7152f6d2009-04-02 05:17:26 +0000306
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +0000307- Issue #3551: Patch multiprocessing to raise a proper exception if the size of the
Jesse Noller5053fbb2009-04-02 04:22:09 +0000308 object when writefile is called causes a ERROR_NO_SYSTEM_RESOURCES. Added docs
309 to note the limitation
310
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +0000311- unittest.assertNotEqual() now uses the inequality operator (!=) instead
Michael Foord345b2fe2009-04-02 03:20:38 +0000312 of the equality operator.
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +0000313
Michael Foord345b2fe2009-04-02 03:20:38 +0000314- Issue #5663: better failure messages for unittest asserts. Default assertTrue
315 and assertFalse messages are now useful. TestCase has a longMessage attribute.
316 This defaults to False, but if set to True useful error messages are shown in
317 addition to explicit messages passed to assert methods.
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +0000318
Jesse Nollerb502bc72009-04-02 02:32:55 +0000319- Issue #3110: Add additional protect around SEM_VALUE_MAX for multiprocessing
320
Georg Brandl58b8b952009-04-01 21:54:21 +0000321- In Pdb, prevent the reassignment of __builtin__._ by sys.displayhook on
322 printing out values.
323
Georg Brandl5942b912009-04-01 21:05:44 +0000324- Issue #4572: added SEEK_* symbolic constants to io module.
325
Brett Cannonad078a02009-04-01 16:00:34 +0000326- Issue #1665206 (partially): Move imports in cgitb to the top of the module
327 instead of performing them in functions. Helps prevent import deadlocking in
328 threads.
329
Raymond Hettinger66c4a6b2009-04-01 18:50:56 +0000330- Issue #5647: MutableSet.__iand__() no longer mutates self during iteration.
331
Georg Brandle92d4b62009-04-01 04:21:14 +0000332- Actually make the SimpleXMLRPCServer CGI handler work.
333
R. David Murraya83da352009-04-01 03:21:43 +0000334- Issue #2522: locale.format now checks its first argument to ensure it has
335 been passed only one pattern, avoiding mysterious errors where it appeared
336 that it was failing to do localization.
337
Tarek Ziadé9e47ce42009-03-31 22:27:23 +0000338- Issue #5583: Added optional Extensions in Distutils. Initial patch by Georg
339 Brandl.
340
Jesse Noller42f9b4e2009-03-31 22:20:35 +0000341- Issue #5619: Multiprocessing children disobey the debug flag and causes
342 popups on windows buildbots. Patch applied to work around this issue.
343
Benjamin Petersond906ea62009-03-31 21:34:42 +0000344- Issue #5632: Thread.ident was None for the main thread and threads not created
345 with the threading module.
346
Jesse Noller1f0a5552009-03-31 18:27:14 +0000347- Issue #5400: Added patch for multiprocessing on netbsd compilation/support
348
Hirokazu Yamamoto9d2ee5d2009-03-31 13:13:05 +0000349- Issue #5387: Fixed mmap.move crash by integer overflow.
350
Jesse Noller82eb5902009-03-30 23:29:31 +0000351- Issue #5261: Patch multiprocessing's semaphore.c to support context
352 manager use: "with multiprocessing.Lock()" works now.
353
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +0000354- Issue #5177: Multiprocessing's SocketListener class now uses
Jesse Noller459a6482009-03-30 15:50:42 +0000355 socket.SO_REUSEADDR on all connections so that the user no longer needs
356 to wait 120 seconds for the socket to expire.
357
Guilherme Polo1972d162009-03-27 21:43:08 +0000358- Adjusted _tkinter to compile without warnings when WITH_THREAD is not
359 defined (part of issue #5035).
360
Marc-André Lemburgcbdf15b2009-03-25 19:45:33 +0000361- Issue #5561: Removed the sys.version_info shortcuts from platform's
362 python_version() and python_version_tuple() since they produced different
363 output compared to previous Python versions.
364
Benjamin Peterson692428e2009-03-23 21:50:21 +0000365- Issue #1034053: unittest now supports skipping tests and expected failures.
366
Gregory P. Smith28399852009-03-31 16:54:10 +0000367- The unittest.TestCase.assertRaises() method now returns a context manager when
368 not given a callable so that code to be tested can be written inline using
369 a with statement.
370
371- The unittest.TestCase.assertEqual() now displays the differences in lists,
372 tuples, dicts and sets on failure. Many new handy type and comparison
373 specific assert* methods have been added that fail with error messages
374 actually useful for debugging. Contributed in part by Google. [Issue #2578]
375
Lars Gustäbel2020a592009-03-22 20:09:33 +0000376- Issue #5068: Fixed the tarfile._BZ2Proxy.read() method that would loop
377 forever on incomplete input. That caused tarfile.open() to hang when used
378 with mode 'r' or 'r:bz2' and a fileobj argument that contained no data or
379 partial bzip2 compressed data.
380
Benjamin Petersonb364bfe2009-03-22 17:45:11 +0000381- Issue #5536: urllib.urlretrieve makes sure to close the file it's writing to
382 even if an exception occurs.
383
Raymond Hettinger91852ca2009-03-19 19:19:03 +0000384- Issue #5381: Added object_pairs_hook to the json module. This allows
385 OrderedDicts to be built by the decoder.
386
Mark Dickinson277859d2009-03-17 23:03:46 +0000387- Issue #2110: Add support for thousands separator and 'n' type
388 specifier to Decimal.__format__
389
Mark Dickinsonb065e522009-03-17 18:01:03 +0000390- Fix Decimal.__format__ bug that swapped the meanings of the '<' and
391 '>' alignment characters.
392
Antoine Pitroufeeafff2009-03-14 00:07:21 +0000393- Issue #1222: locale.format() bug when the thousands separator is a space
394 character.
395
Tarek Ziadé61585c22009-03-11 12:48:04 +0000396- Issue #5472: Fixed distutils.test_util tear down. Original patch by
397 Tim Golden.
398
Raymond Hettinger56411aa2009-03-10 12:50:59 +0000399- collections.deque() objects now have a read-only attribute called maxlen.
400
Guilherme Polo15d57652009-03-07 02:14:38 +0000401- Issue #2638: Show a window constructed with tkSimpleDialog.Dialog only after
402 it is has been populated and properly configured in order to prevent
403 window flashing.
404
Guilherme Polo3768b2f2009-03-07 01:47:49 +0000405- Issue #4792: Prevent a segfault in _tkinter by using the
406 guaranteed to be safe interp argument given to the PythonCmd in place of
407 the Tcl interpreter taken from a PythonCmd_ClientData.
408
Guilherme Polo6d6c1fd2009-03-07 01:19:12 +0000409- Issue #5193: Guarantee that Tkinter.Text.search returns a string.
410
Tarek Ziadé943b24e2009-03-07 00:32:45 +0000411- Issue #5394: removed > 2.3 syntax from distutils.msvc9compiler.
412 Original patch by Akira Kitada.
413
Hirokazu Yamamoto264fc122009-03-05 14:21:12 +0000414- Issue #5385: Fixed mmap crash after resize failure on windows.
415
Hirokazu Yamamotoeacbbdf2009-03-03 22:18:14 +0000416- Issue #5179: Fixed subprocess handle leak on failure on windows.
417
Raymond Hettingerbc512d32009-03-03 04:45:34 +0000418- PEP 372: Added collections.OrderedDict().
419
Raymond Hettinger88a91642009-03-03 04:51:24 +0000420- The _asdict() for method for namedtuples now returns an OrderedDict().
421
Raymond Hettingere89b8e92009-03-03 05:00:37 +0000422- The configparser module now defaults to using an ordered dictionary.
423
Benjamin Peterson7d49bba2009-03-02 22:41:42 +0000424- Issue #4308: httplib.IncompleteRead's repr doesn't include all of the data all
425 ready received.
426
Benjamin Petersonad58b7c2009-03-02 03:35:12 +0000427- Issue #5401: Fixed a performance problem in mimetypes when ``from mimetypes
428 import guess_extension`` was used.
429
Hirokazu Yamamotob0e10c72009-02-28 12:13:07 +0000430- Issue #1733986: Fixed mmap crash in accessing elements of second map object
431 with same tagname but larger size than first map. (Windows)
432
Hirokazu Yamamotof2dc8852009-02-28 10:31:54 +0000433- Issue #5386: mmap.write_byte didn't check map size, so it could cause buffer
434 overrun.
435
Tarek Ziadé73347352009-02-28 10:08:02 +0000436- Issue #1533164: Installed but not listed *.pyo was breaking Distutils
437 bdist_rpm command.
438
439- Issue #5378: added --quiet option to Distutils bdist_rpm command.
440
Tarek Ziadédda92f72009-02-27 12:53:34 +0000441- Issue #5052: make Distutils compatible with 2.3 again.
442
Benjamin Petersonb3dd5482009-02-26 19:07:18 +0000443- Deprecated methods of symtable.Symbol have been removed: is_keywordarg(),
444 is_vararg(), and is_in_tuple().
445
Tarek Ziadée3bc0ef2009-02-25 22:29:27 +0000446- Issue #5316: Fixed buildbot failures introduced by multiple inheritance
447 in Distutils tests.
448
Vinay Sajip1a0d2be2009-02-19 12:31:32 +0000449- Issue #5287: Add exception handling around findCaller() call to help out
450 IronPython.
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +0000451
Hirokazu Yamamoto17a837e2009-02-17 13:17:26 +0000452- Issue #5282: Fixed mmap resize on 32bit windows and unix. When offset > 0,
453 The file was resized to wrong size.
454
Hirokazu Yamamotof6bbd0e2009-02-17 10:12:10 +0000455- Issue #5292: Fixed mmap crash on its boundary access m[len(m)].
456
Vinay Sajip1a0d2be2009-02-19 12:31:32 +0000457- Issue #2279: distutils.sdist.add_defaults now add files
Tarek Ziadé7dd53392009-02-16 21:38:01 +0000458 from the package_data and the data_files metadata.
459
Vinay Sajip1a0d2be2009-02-19 12:31:32 +0000460- Issue #5257: refactored all tests in distutils, so they use
Tarek Ziadé13699002009-02-14 14:10:23 +0000461 support.TempdirManager, to avoid writing in the tests directory.
462
Tarek Ziadé2432b0b2009-02-13 23:00:43 +0000463- Issue #4524: distutils build_script command failed with --with-suffix=3.
464 Initial patch by Amaury Forgeot d'Arc.
465
Tarek Ziadé275958a2009-02-13 22:22:03 +0000466- Issue #2461: added tests for distutils.util
467
Gregory P. Smith3605b5c2009-02-11 23:45:25 +0000468- Issue #1008086: Fixed socket.inet_aton() to always return 4 bytes even on
469 LP64 platforms (most 64-bit Linux, bsd, unix systems).
470
Thomas Heller3689ae22009-02-10 18:43:01 +0000471- Issue #5203: Fixed ctypes segfaults when passing a unicode string to a
472 function without argtypes (only occurs if HAVE_USABLE_WCHAR_T is false).
473
Tarek Ziadé74fbf602009-02-10 12:31:09 +0000474- Issue #3386: distutils.sysconfig.get_python_lib prefix argument was ignored
475 under NT and OS2. Patch by Philip Jenvey.
476
Brett Cannon28d10882009-02-10 02:07:38 +0000477- Issue #5128: Make compileall properly inspect bytecode to determine if needs
478 to be recreated. This avoids a timing hole thanks to the old reliance on the
479 ctime of the files involved.
480
Guilherme Poloa66cf5b2009-02-09 20:50:27 +0000481- Issue #5122: Synchronize tk load failure check to prevent a potential
482 deadlock.
483
Raymond Hettinger322daea2009-02-10 01:24:05 +0000484- Issue #1818: collections.namedtuple() now supports a keyword argument
485 'rename' which lets invalid fieldnames be automatically converted to
486 positional names in the form, _1, _2, ...
487
Guilherme Polod2ea0332009-02-09 16:41:09 +0000488- Issue #4890: Handle empty text search pattern in Tkinter.Text.search.
489
Vinay Sajipb20af942009-02-08 19:06:08 +0000490- Issue #5170: Fixed Unicode output bug in logging and added test case.
491 This is a regression which did not occur in 2.5.
492
Nick Coghlan0194f5b2009-02-08 03:17:00 +0000493- Issue #4512 (part 2): Promote ``ZipImporter._get_filename()`` to be a
494 public documented method ``ZipImporter.get_filename()``.
495
Nick Coghland39600e2009-02-08 01:26:34 +0000496- Issue #4195: The ``runpy`` module (and the ``-m`` switch) now support
497 the execution of packages by looking for and executing a ``__main__``
Nick Coghlanc3623b12009-02-08 01:46:01 +0000498 submodule when a package name is supplied. Initial patch by Andi
499 Vajda.
Nick Coghland39600e2009-02-08 01:26:34 +0000500
Guilherme Polo363161a2009-02-06 22:48:07 +0000501- Issue #1731706: Call Tcl_ConditionFinalize for Tcl_Conditions that will
502 not be used again (this requires Tcl/Tk 8.3.1), also fix a memory leak in
503 Tkapp_Call when calling from a thread different than the one that created
504 the Tcl interpreter. Patch by Robert Hancock.
Guilherme Polo14ff18d2009-02-06 22:26:22 +0000505
Vinay Sajipb20af942009-02-08 19:06:08 +0000506- Issue #1520877: Now distutils.sysconfig reads $AR from the
Tarek Ziadé05adf072009-02-06 01:15:51 +0000507 environment/Makefile. Patch by Douglas Greiman.
508
Eric Smith81fe0932009-02-06 00:48:26 +0000509- Issue #4285: Change sys.version_info to be a named tuple. Patch by
510 Ross Light.
511
Tarek Ziadéd5eb9852009-02-06 00:31:59 +0000512- Issue #1276768: The verbose option was not used in the code of
513 distutils.file_util and distutils.dir_util.
514
Vinay Sajipb20af942009-02-08 19:06:08 +0000515- Issue #5132: Fixed trouble building extensions under Solaris with
Tarek Ziadé0d4fd342009-02-05 22:52:52 +0000516 --enabled-shared activated. Initial patch by Dave Peterson.
517
Guilherme Polod7bb4d42009-02-02 21:14:14 +0000518- Issue #1581476: Always use the Tcl global namespace when calling into Tcl.
519
Antoine Pitrou707c5932009-01-29 20:19:34 +0000520- Issue #2047: shutil.move() could believe that its destination path was
521 inside its source path if it began with the same letters (e.g. "src" vs.
522 "src.new").
523
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +0000524- Issue #4920: Fixed .next() vs .__next__() issues in the ABCs for
Raymond Hettingerf779e6f2009-01-28 23:02:26 +0000525 Iterator and MutableSet.
526
Guilherme Polocda93aa2009-01-28 13:09:03 +0000527- Added the ttk module. See issue #2983: Ttk support for Tkinter.
528
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +0000529- Issue #5021: doctest.testfile() did not create __name__ and
Raymond Hettingerecf252a2009-01-27 10:03:04 +0000530 collections.namedtuple() relied on __name__ being defined.
531
Brett Cannon93881c62009-01-26 01:16:50 +0000532- Backport importlib from Python 3.1. Only the import_module() function has
533 been backported to help facilitate transitions from 2.7 to 3.1.
534
Tarek Ziadéaaedcef2009-01-25 23:34:00 +0000535- Issue #1885: distutils. When running sdist with --formats=tar,gztar
536 the tar file was overriden by the gztar one.
537
Tarek Ziadéef249b12009-01-25 18:19:25 +0000538- Issue #4863: distutils.mwerkscompiler has been removed.
539
Raymond Hettingerd081abc2009-01-27 02:58:49 +0000540- Added a new itertools functions: combinations_with_replacement()
541 and compress().
Raymond Hettinger2bcb8e92009-01-25 21:04:14 +0000542
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +0000543- Issue #5032: added a step argument to itertools.count() and
Raymond Hettinger31c769c2009-02-12 05:39:46 +0000544 allowed non-integer arguments.
545
Jesse Nollerb5a4b0a2009-01-25 03:36:13 +0000546- Fix and properly document the multiprocessing module's logging
547 support, expose the internal levels and provide proper usage
548 examples.
549
Mark Dickinsona3ecd2c2009-01-24 16:40:29 +0000550- Issue #1672332: fix unpickling of subnormal floats, which was
551 producing a ValueError on some platforms.
552
Martin v. Löwisf081e1c2009-01-24 15:47:27 +0000553- Issue #3881: Help Tcl to load even when started through the
554 unreadable local symlink to "Program Files" on Vista.
555
Martin v. Löwis0dfcfc82009-01-24 14:00:33 +0000556- Issue #4710: Extract directories properly in the zipfile module;
557 allow adding directories to a zipfile.
558
Vinay Sajipb20af942009-02-08 19:06:08 +0000559- Issue #3807: _multiprocessing build fails when configure is passed
Jesse Nollerf6da8d12009-01-23 14:04:41 +0000560 --without-threads argument. When this occurs, _multiprocessing will
561 be disabled, and not compiled.
562
Antoine Pitroue741cc62009-01-21 00:45:36 +0000563- Issue #5008: When a file is opened in append mode with the new IO library,
564 do an explicit seek to the end of file (so that e.g. tell() returns the
565 file size rather than 0). This is consistent with the behaviour of the
566 traditional 2.x file object.
567
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +0000568- Issue #5013: Fixed a bug in FileHandler which occurred when the delay
569 parameter was set.
570
Raymond Hettinger933d3a72009-01-20 20:34:19 +0000571- Issue #4998: The memory saving effect of __slots__ had been lost on Fractions
572 which inherited from numbers.py which did not have __slots__ defined. The
Mark Dickinson39c6f7f2009-02-12 17:55:42 +0000573 numbers hierarchy now has its own __slots__ declarations.
Raymond Hettinger933d3a72009-01-20 20:34:19 +0000574
Jesse Noller9a5b2ad2009-01-19 15:12:22 +0000575- Issue #3321: _multiprocessing.Connection() doesn't check handle; added checks
576 for *nix machines for negative handles and large int handles. Without this check
577 it is possible to segfault the interpreter.
578
Jesse Noller6ab22152009-01-18 02:45:38 +0000579- Issue #4449: AssertionError in mp_benchmarks.py, caused by an underlying issue
580 in sharedctypes.py.
581
Benjamin Peterson5e5fbb62009-01-17 22:27:54 +0000582- Issue #1225107: inspect.isclass() returned True for instances with a custom
583 __getattr__.
584
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd25f87a2009-01-17 16:40:17 +0000585- Issue #3997: zipfiles generated with more than 65536 files could not be
586 opened with other applications.
587
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcb54447f2009-01-13 23:39:22 +0000588- Issue #1162154: inspect.getmembers() now skips attributes that raise
589 AttributeError, e.g. a __slots__ attribute which has not been set.
590
591- Issue #1696199: Add collections.Counter() for rapid and convenient
Raymond Hettingerf94d7fa2009-01-12 22:58:41 +0000592 counting.
593
Antoine Pitroubd4b5f22009-01-10 16:15:24 +0000594- Issue #3860: GzipFile and BZ2File now support the context manager protocol.
595
Antoine Pitrouf0d2c3f2009-01-04 21:29:23 +0000596- Issue #4272: Add an optional argument to the GzipFile constructor to override
597 the timestamp in the gzip stream. The default value remains the current time.
598 The information can be used by e.g. gunzip when decompressing. Patch by
599 Jacques Frechet.
600
Mark Dickinson514d4832009-01-04 21:25:40 +0000601- Restore Python 2.3 compatibility for decimal.py.
602
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +0000603- Issue #1702551: distutils sdist was not excluding VCS directories under
Tarek Ziadé85d6fb52009-01-04 00:04:49 +0000604 Windows. Inital solution by Guy Dalberto.
605
Guilherme Poloe7f14032009-01-03 21:51:09 +0000606- The _tkinter module functions "createfilehandler", "deletefilehandler",
607 "createtimerhandler", "mainloop", "dooneevent" and "quit" have been
608 deprecated for removal in 3.x
609
Raymond Hettingerf4d85972009-01-03 19:02:23 +0000610- Issue #4796: Added Decimal.from_float() and Context.create_decimal_from_float()
611 to the decimal module.
612
Mark Dickinsonc5de0962009-01-02 23:07:08 +0000613- Issue #4812: add missing underscore prefix to some internal-use-only
614 constants in the decimal module. (Dec_0 becomes _Dec_0, etc.)
615
Benjamin Peterson8ad09a42008-12-31 23:48:39 +0000616- Issue #4795: inspect.isgeneratorfunction() returns False instead of None when
617 the function is not a generator.
618
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +0000619- Issue #4702: Throwing a DistutilsPlatformError instead of IOError in case
620 no MSVC compiler is found under Windows. Original patch by Philip Jenvey.
Tarek Ziadéb1a85412008-12-30 23:03:41 +0000621
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +0000622- Issue #4646: distutils was choking on empty options arg in the setup
Tarek Ziadéc13acb12008-12-29 22:23:53 +0000623 function. Original patch by Thomas Heller.
624
Georg Brandlfe427892009-01-03 22:03:11 +0000625- Fractions.from_float() no longer loses precision for integers too big to
626 cast as floats.
627
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +0000628- Issue #4790: The nsmallest() and nlargest() functions in the heapq module
Georg Brandlfe427892009-01-03 22:03:11 +0000629 did unnecessary work in the common case where no key function was specified.
630
Martin v. Löwis732479f2008-12-29 16:22:25 +0000631- Issue #3767: Convert Tk object to string in tkColorChooser.
632
Martin v. Löwise2eb2b42008-12-29 15:51:01 +0000633- Issue #3248: Allow placing ScrolledText in a PanedWindow.
634
Antoine Pitrou697ca3d2008-12-28 14:09:36 +0000635- Issue #4444: Allow assertRaises() to be used as a context handler, so that
636 the code under test can be written inline if more practical.
637
Georg Brandlc3a98032008-12-27 18:20:04 +0000638- Issue #4739: Add pydoc help topics for symbols, so that e.g. help('@')
639 works as expected in the interactive environment.
640
Antoine Pitrou6f193e02008-12-27 15:43:12 +0000641- Issue #4756: zipfile.is_zipfile() now supports file-like objects. Patch by
642 Gabriel Genellina.
643
Tarek Ziadée4c75bb2008-12-24 19:10:05 +0000644- Issue #4400: .pypirc default generated file was broken in distutils.
645
Benjamin Peterson54686e32008-12-24 15:10:27 +0000646- Issue #4736: io.BufferedRWPair's closed property now functions properly.
647
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc31949b92008-12-15 21:47:57 +0000648- Issue #3954: Fix a potential SystemError in _hotshot.logreader error
649 handling.
650
Antoine Pitrou655fbf12008-12-14 17:40:51 +0000651- Issue #4574: fix a crash in io.IncrementalNewlineDecoder when a carriage
652 return encodes to more than one byte in the source encoding (e.g. UTF-16)
653 and gets split on a chunk boundary.
654
Nick Coghlana2053472008-12-14 10:54:50 +0000655- Issue #4223: inspect.getsource() will now correctly display source code
656 for packages loaded via zipimport (or any other conformant PEP 302
657 loader). Original patch by Alexander Belopolsky.
658
659- Issue #4201: pdb can now access and display source code loaded via
660 zipimport (or any other conformant PEP 302 loader). Original patch by
661 Alexander Belopolsky.
662
663- Issue #4197: doctests in modules loaded via zipimport (or any other PEP
664 302 conformant loader) will now work correctly in most cases (they
665 are still subject to the constraints that exist for all code running
666 from inside a module loaded via a PEP 302 loader and attempting to
667 perform IO operations based on __file__). Original patch by
668 Alexander Belopolsky.
669
670- Issues #4082 and #4512: Add runpy support to zipimport in a manner that
671 allows backporting to maintenance branches. Original patch by
672 Alexander Belopolsky.
673
Antoine Pitrou74af3bb2008-12-13 23:12:30 +0000674- Issue #4163: Use unicode-friendly word splitting in the textwrap functions
675 when given an unicode string.
676
Lars Gustäbel3b027422008-12-12 13:58:03 +0000677- Issue #4616: TarFile.utime(): Restore directory times on Windows.
678
Facundo Batistae29d4352008-12-11 04:19:46 +0000679- Issue #4084: Fix max, min, max_mag and min_mag Decimal methods to
680 give correct results in the case where one argument is a quiet NaN
681 and the other is a finite number that requires rounding.
682
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc240028c2008-12-11 00:03:42 +0000683- Issue #1030250: Distutils created directories even when run with the
684 --dry-run option.
685
Skip Montanaro45313fe2008-12-06 17:43:30 +0000686- Issue #4483: _dbm module now builds on systems with gdbm & gdbm_compat
687 libs.
688
Georg Brandlfe879e82008-12-05 12:09:41 +0000689- Issue #4529: fix the parser module's validation of try-except-finally
690 statements.
691
Georg Brandla07435d2008-12-05 09:23:14 +0000692- Issue #4458: getopt.gnu_getopt() now recognizes a single "-" as an argument,
693 not a malformed option.
694
Gregory P. Smith26576802008-12-05 02:27:01 +0000695- Added the subprocess.check_output() convenience function to get output
Gregory P. Smith97f49f42008-12-04 20:21:09 +0000696 from a subprocess on success or raise an exception on error.
697
Fred Drake52481032008-12-04 18:25:17 +0000698- Issue #1055234: cgi.parse_header(): Fixed parsing of header parameters to
699 support unusual filenames (such as those containing semi-colons) in
700 Content-Disposition headers.
701
Vinay Sajip6831d6b2008-12-04 20:32:18 +0000702- Issue #4384: Added logging integration with warnings module using
703 captureWarnings(). This change includes a NullHandler which does nothing;
704 it will be of use to library developers who want to avoid the "No handlers
705 could be found for logger XXX" message which can appear if the library user
706 doesn't configure logging.
Vinay Sajip213faca2008-12-03 23:22:58 +0000707
Christian Heimesaa674712008-11-28 11:02:32 +0000708- Issue #3741: DISTUTILS_USE_SDK set causes msvc9compiler.py to raise an
709 exception.
710
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd4294172008-11-21 22:05:48 +0000711- Issue #4363: The uuid.uuid1() and uuid.uuid4() functions now work even if
712 the ctypes module is not present.
713
Benjamin Petersonbfc51562008-11-22 01:59:15 +0000714- FileIO's mode attribute now always includes ``"b"``.
715
Martin v. Löwisbb9b1f12008-11-19 09:09:41 +0000716- Issue #4116: Resolve member name conflict in ScrolledCanvas.__init__.
717
Brett Cannone3d0bf72008-11-15 22:40:44 +0000718- httplib.HTTPConnection.putheader() now accepts an arbitrary number of values
719 for any header, matching what the documentation has claimed for a while.
720
Hirokazu Yamamotob9828f62008-11-03 18:03:06 +0000721- Issue #3774: Fixed an error when create a Tkinter menu item without command
722 and then remove it.
723
Thomas Heller1fac5a42008-10-30 20:18:13 +0000724- Fixed a modulefinder crash on certain relative imports.
725
Benjamin Petersonc18574c2008-10-22 21:16:34 +0000726- Issue #4150: Pdb's "up" command now works for generator frames in post-mortem
727 debugging.
728
Benjamin Petersone4dc1752008-10-21 22:20:31 +0000729- Issue #4092: Return ArgInfo as promised in the documentation from
730 inspect.getargvalues.
731
Georg Brandlf3776a12008-10-08 18:47:17 +0000732- Issue #3935: Properly support list subclasses in bisect's C implementation.
733
Martin v. Löwis96a9f232008-10-06 15:15:40 +0000734- Issue #4014: Don't claim that Python has an Alpha release status, in addition
735 to claiming it is Mature.
736
Alexandre Vassalotti6067f782008-12-27 07:13:01 +0000737- Issue #4730: Fixed the cPickle module to handle correctly astral characters
738 when protocol 0 is used.
739
Ronald Oussoren0238497e2009-01-02 14:10:20 +0000740- Issue #1594: MacOS.GetCreatorAndType now always returns a big-endian result,
741 to be consistent with Apple tools.
742
Ronald Oussoren63b74fe2009-01-02 14:46:19 +0000743- Issue #900949: plat-mac/videoreader.py no longer relies on a non-existing
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +0000744 module.
Ronald Oussoren63b74fe2009-01-02 14:46:19 +0000745
Ronald Oussoren7f8cbf02009-01-02 14:48:17 +0000746- Issue #16278952: plat-mac/videoreader.py now correctly imports MediaDescr
747
Ronald Oussoren919697c2009-01-02 14:52:09 +0000748- Issue #1737832 : plat-mac/EasyDialog.py no longer uses the broken aepack
749 module.
750
Ronald Oussorenabcc1682009-01-02 15:00:05 +0000751- Issue #1149804: macostools.mkdirs now even works when another process
752 creates one of the needed subdirectories.
753
Ronald Oussoren072bb402009-01-02 15:25:36 +0000754- Issue #900506: added --no-zipimport flag to the bundlebuilder script
755
756- Issue #841800: bundlebuilder now works with 'python -O'
757
Matthias Klose43723e22009-01-10 17:00:42 +0000758- Issue #4861: ctypes.util.find_library(): Robustify. Fix library detection on
759 biarch systems. Try to rely on ldconfig only, without using objdump and gcc.
760
Gregory P. Smithde1a8b72009-01-31 22:57:30 +0000761- Issue #5104: The socket module now raises OverflowError when 16-bit port and
762 protocol numbers are supplied outside the allowed 0-65536 range on bind()
763 and getservbyport().
764
Neil Schemenauer92c3b212009-02-07 00:54:41 +0000765- Issue #999042: The Python compiler now handles explict global statements
766 correctly (should be assigned using STORE_GLOBAL opcode).
767
Matthias Klosea5d58c82009-04-05 21:00:48 +0000768- Issue #2703: SimpleXMLRPCDispatcher.__init__: Provide default values for
769 new arguments introduced in 2.5.
770
Antoine Pitroue555f582008-12-27 20:34:52 +0000771Tools/Demos
772-----------
773
Guilherme Polo4eae0782009-01-28 15:56:01 +0000774- Ttk demos added in Demo/tkinter/ttk/
775
Antoine Pitroue555f582008-12-27 20:34:52 +0000776- Issue #4677: add two list comprehension tests to pybench.
777
Brett Cannon60b15d22008-10-06 22:44:37 +0000778Build
779-----
780
Matthias Klose8ad554f2009-02-22 23:14:26 +0000781- Link the shared python library with $(MODLIBS).
782
Martin v. Löwisa3e3cb72009-02-10 13:09:19 +0000783- Issue #5134: Silence compiler warnings when compiling sqlite with VC++.
784
Martin v. Löwisfee1c7f2009-02-02 14:23:16 +0000785- Issue #4494: Fix build with Py_NO_ENABLE_SHARED on Windows.
786
Martin v. Löwiseefda272009-01-11 09:43:55 +0000787- Issue #4895: Use _strdup on Windows CE.
788
Ronald Oussorenf7d54052009-01-02 10:48:31 +0000789- Issue #4472: "configure --enable-shared" now works on OSX
790
Benjamin Petersonfd9633e2008-12-28 15:37:31 +0000791- Issues #4728 and #4060: WORDS_BIGEDIAN is now correct in Universal builds.
792
Martin v. Löwiscb6c3592008-11-30 11:08:26 +0000793- Issue #4389: Add icon to the uninstall entry in "add-and-remove-programs".
794
Martin v. Löwis63470982008-11-19 13:51:44 +0000795- Issue #4289: Remove Cancel button from AdvancedDlg.
796
Martin v. Löwis3d6f8ff2008-11-07 18:51:50 +0000797- Issue #1656675: Register a drop handler for .py* files on Windows.
798
Martin v. Löwis692c2f82008-11-06 16:43:00 +0000799- Issue #4120: Exclude manifest from extension modules in VS2008.
800
Martin v. Löwis0f3e7692008-10-17 13:43:01 +0000801- Issue #4091: Install pythonxy.dll in system32 again.
802
Martin v. Löwiseba774b2008-10-13 11:23:35 +0000803- Issue #4018: Disable "for me" installations on Vista.
804
Brett Cannon60b15d22008-10-06 22:44:37 +0000805- Issue #3758: Add ``patchcheck`` build target to .PHONY.
806
Martin v. Löwisbb86d832008-11-04 20:40:09 +0000807- Issue #4204: Fixed module build errors on FreeBSD 4.
808
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc07d539d2008-10-14 21:47:22 +0000809C-API
810-----
811
Brett Cannonc4f90eb2009-04-02 03:17:39 +0000812- Issue #1419652: Change the first argument to PyImport_AppendInittab() to
813 ``const char *`` as the string is stored beyond the call.
814
Benjamin Peterson5781f322009-02-16 21:09:09 +0000815- Some PyBytes_* aliases have been removed because they don't exist in 3.x.
816
Mark Dickinson4015f622009-02-10 15:46:50 +0000817- Issue #5175: PyLong_AsUnsignedLongLong now raises OverflowError
818 for negative arguments. Previously, it raised TypeError.
819
Benjamin Petersoncf2ce242008-12-22 20:52:53 +0000820- Issue #4720: The format for PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords can begin with '|'.
821
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc3538a312008-12-15 22:29:14 +0000822- Issue #3632: from the gdb debugger, the 'pyo' macro can now be called when
823 the GIL is released, or owned by another thread.
824
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc07d539d2008-10-14 21:47:22 +0000825- Issue #4122: On Windows, fix a compilation error when using the
826 Py_UNICODE_ISSPACE macro in an extension module.
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +0000827
Kristján Valur Jónssonc22ab182009-01-12 09:24:04 +0000828- Issue #4293: Py_AddPendingCall is now thread safe and can be used for
829 asynchronous notifications to python from any thread. Documentation added.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc07d539d2008-10-14 21:47:22 +0000830
Benjamin Peterson9dfe6a82008-11-24 04:09:03 +0000831Extension Modules
832-----------------
833
Gregory P. Smithea388262009-02-13 03:00:00 +0000834- Issue #3745: Fix hashlib to always reject unicode and non buffer-api
835 supporting objects as input no matter how it was compiled (built in
836 implementations or external openssl library).
837
Mark Dickinsona200dd52009-01-15 15:17:43 +0000838- Issue #4397: Fix occasional test_socket failure on OS X.
Mark Dickinsone82cdae2009-01-15 14:54:37 +0000839
Martin v. Löwisb3b7d852009-01-11 09:26:54 +0000840- Issue #4279: Fix build of parsermodule under Cygwin.
841
Martin v. Löwis9ac49272009-01-02 20:40:14 +0000842- Issue #4051: Prevent conflict of UNICODE macros in cPickle.
843
Georg Brandl6269fec2009-01-01 12:15:31 +0000844- Issue #4228: Pack negative values the same way as 2.4 in struct's L format.
845
Martin v. Löwis03824e42008-12-29 18:17:34 +0000846- Issue #1040026: Fix os.times result on systems where HZ is incorrect.
847
Mark Dickinson4c96fa52008-12-11 19:28:08 +0000848- Issues #3167, #3682: Fix test_math failures for log, log10 on Solaris,
849 OpenBSD.
850
Martin v. Löwisbcb017f2008-11-30 19:28:27 +0000851- Issue #4365: Add crtassem.h constants to the msvcrt module.
852
Benjamin Peterson9dfe6a82008-11-24 04:09:03 +0000853- Issue #4396: The parser module now correctly validates the with statement.
854
Jack Diederichd60c29e2009-03-31 23:46:48 +0000855- Issue #5228: Make functools.partial objects can now be pickled.
856
Guilherme Polob1a98de2009-01-28 20:03:26 +0000857Tests
858-----
859
Nick Coghlan5533ff62009-04-22 15:26:04 +0000860- Issue #5354: New test support function import_fresh_module() makes
861 it easy to import both normal and optimised versions of modules.
862 test_heapq and test_warnings have been adjusted to use it, tests for
863 other modules with both C and Python implementations in the stdlib
864 can be adjusted to use it over time.
865
Brett Cannonce3d2212009-04-01 20:25:48 +0000866- Fix test_warnings to no longer reset the warnings filter.
867
Brett Cannon2da4d622009-04-01 19:57:10 +0000868- Fix test_logging to no longer reset the warnings filter.
869
Georg Brandld8fb6ac2009-04-01 00:04:33 +0000870- Issue #5635: Fix running test_sys with tracing enabled.
871
R. David Murray41448c52009-03-31 19:57:24 +0000872- regrtest no longer treats ImportError as equivalent to SkipTest. Imports
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +0000873 that should cause a test to be skipped are now done using import_module
R. David Murray41448c52009-03-31 19:57:24 +0000874 from test support, which does the conversion.
875
Guilherme Polob1a98de2009-01-28 20:03:26 +0000876- Issue #5083: New 'gui' resource for regrtest.
877
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +0000878
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +0000879What's New in Python 2.6 final
880==============================
881
Barry Warsawafa14362008-10-01 21:46:40 +0000882*Release date: 01-Oct-2008*
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +0000883
884Core and Builtins
885-----------------
886
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfc5ea392008-09-26 22:34:08 +0000887- Issue #3967: Fixed a crash in the count() and find() methods of string-like
888 objects, when the "start" parameter is a huge value.
889
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc17617a02008-09-25 20:52:56 +0000890- Issue #3965: Fixed a crash on Windows when open() is given an invalid
891 filename or mode, and the filename is a unicode string.
892
Martin v. Löwise86b07c2008-09-25 04:12:50 +0000893- Bug #3951: Py_USING_MEMORY_DEBUGGER should not be enabled by default.
894
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +0000895Library
896-------
897
Martin v. Löwise563aa42008-09-29 22:09:07 +0000898- Issue #3965: Allow repeated calls to turtle.Screen, by making it a
899 true singleton object.
900
Brett Cannonb2d61bd2008-09-29 03:41:21 +0000901- Issue #3895: It was possible to crash the interpreter when an external timer
902 was used with cProfile that returned an object that could not be converted
903 into a float.
904
Benjamin Peterson22d3c922008-09-25 20:35:45 +0000905- Issue #3950: Made turtle respect scale factors.
906
Thomas Hellera85c95d2008-09-24 18:26:05 +0000907- Issue #3547: Fixed ctypes structures bitfields of varying integer
908 sizes.
909
Benjamin Peterson2c7470d2008-09-21 21:27:51 +0000910- Issue #3879: A regression in urllib.getproxies_enviroment was fixed.
911
Gregory P. Smith08067492008-09-30 20:41:13 +0000912- Issue #3863: Disabled a unit test of fork being called from a thread
913 when running on platforms known to exhibit OS bugs when attempting that.
914
Martin v. Löwis175d0072008-09-19 15:21:07 +0000915Build
916-----
917
Martin v. Löwisd69c9042008-10-01 11:19:50 +0000918- Bug #3989: Package the 2to3 script (as 2to3.py) in the Windows
919 installer.
920
Martin v. Löwis175d0072008-09-19 15:21:07 +0000921- Bug #3887: Package x64 version of CRT for AMD64 Windows binaries.
922
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +0000923
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +0000924What's New in Python 2.6 release candidate 2?
925=============================================
926
Barry Warsaw6af16192008-09-18 04:33:43 +0000927*Release date: 17-Sep-2008*
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +0000928
929Core and Builtins
930-----------------
931
Benjamin Peterson8c2b7dc2008-09-18 01:22:16 +0000932Extension Modules
933-----------------
934
Benjamin Peterson8d77d442008-09-30 01:31:49 +0000935- Security Issue #2: imageop did not validate arguments correctly and could
936 segfault as a result.
937
Benjamin Peterson8c2b7dc2008-09-18 01:22:16 +0000938- Issue #3886: Possible integer overflows in the _hashopenssl module were
939 closed.
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +0000940
Antoine Pitrou3c9f5412008-09-13 20:30:30 +0000941Tools/Demos
942-----------
943
944- Issue #3850: recursion tests in Misc/find_recursion_limit.py can raise
945 AttributeError instead of RuntimeError, depending in which C API call
946 exactly the recursion limit is exceeded. Consequently, both exception types
947 are caught and silenced.
948
Martin v. Löwis4eb18f92008-09-14 20:22:39 +0000949Build
950-----
951
952- Issue #3617: Include a licensing statement regarding the Microsoft
953 C runtime in the Windows installer.
954
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +0000955
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +0000956What's New in Python 2.6 release candidate 1?
957=============================================
958
Barry Warsaw1e62aec2008-09-12 23:25:57 +0000959*Release date: 12-Sep-2008*
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +0000960
961Core and Builtins
962-----------------
963
Martin v. Löwis9fa5a282008-09-11 06:53:30 +0000964- Issue #3642: Suppress warning in obmalloc when size_t is larger than uint.
965
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc05e34492008-09-10 22:04:45 +0000966- Issue #3743: In a few places, PY_FORMAT_SIZE_T was incorrectly used with
967 PyString_FromFormat or PyErr_Format to display size_t values. The macro
968 PY_FORMAT_SIZE_T is designed to select the correct format for the OS
969 ``printf`` function, whereas PyString_FromFormat has an independent
970 implementation and uses "%zd" on all platforms for size_t values.
971 This makes a difference on win64, where ``printf`` needs "%Id" to display
972 64bit values.
973
Benjamin Peterson97179b02008-09-09 20:55:01 +0000974- Issue #3634: _weakref.ref(Exception).__init__() gave invalid return value on
975 error.
976
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd3ffb892008-09-09 07:24:30 +0000977- Issue #3777: long() applied to a float object now always return a long
978 object; previously an int would be returned for small values. the __long__
979 method is allowed to return either an int or a long, but the behaviour of
980 float objects should not change to respect backward compatibility.
981
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc3571fbf2008-09-01 19:52:00 +0000982- Issue #3751: str.rpartition would perform a left-partition when called with
983 a unicode argument.
984
Benjamin Peterson17f03ca2008-09-01 14:18:30 +0000985- Issue #3683: Fix compilation when --without-threads is given.
986
Antoine Pitroud4ae97b2008-08-29 18:39:48 +0000987- Issue #3668: Fix a memory leak with the "s*" argument parser in
Vinay Sajip35e3b032008-09-01 14:33:59 +0000988 PyArg_ParseTuple and friends, which occurred when the argument for "s*"
Antoine Pitroud4ae97b2008-08-29 18:39:48 +0000989 was correctly parsed but parsing of subsequent arguments failed.
990
Vinay Sajip35e3b032008-09-01 14:33:59 +0000991- Issue #2534: speed up isinstance() and issubclass() by 50-70%, so as to
Antoine Pitrou0668c622008-08-26 22:42:08 +0000992 match Python 2.5 speed despite the __instancecheck__ / __subclasscheck__
993 mechanism. In the process, fix a bug where isinstance() and issubclass(),
994 when given a tuple of classes as second argument, were looking up
995 __instancecheck__ / __subclasscheck__ on the tuple rather than on each
996 type object.
997
Neal Norwitz18aa3882008-08-24 05:04:52 +0000998- Fix crashes on memory allocation failure found with failmalloc.
999
1000- Fix memory leaks found with valgrind and update suppressions file.
1001
1002- Fix compiler warnings in opt mode which would lead to invalid memory reads.
1003
1004- Fix problem using wrong name in decimal module reported by pychecker.
1005
Christian Heimes7d4c3172008-08-22 19:47:25 +00001006- Silenced another compiler warning about a used but not defined
1007 function 'stringlib_contains_obj'.
1008
Benjamin Peterson712ee922008-08-24 18:10:20 +00001009- Added warnings on the use of ``__getslice__``, ``__setslice__``, or
1010 ``__delslice__``.
1011
Gregory P. Smith2bb25cc2008-09-02 05:29:51 +00001012- Issue #3678: Correctly pass LDFLAGS and LDLAST to the linker on shared
1013 library targets in the Makefile.
1014
Gregory P. Smith980b99b2008-09-07 05:15:18 +00001015- Issue #1204: The configure script now tests for additional libraries
1016 that may be required when linking against readline. This fixes issues
1017 with x86_64 builds on some platforms (a few Linux flavors and OpenBSD).
1018
Benjamin Peterson14cb6bc2008-08-26 17:08:40 +00001019C-API
1020-----
1021
1022- Aliased PyObject_Bytes to PyObject_Str.
1023
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +00001024Library
1025-------
1026
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc24cb3822008-09-11 20:56:13 +00001027- Issue #3640: Pickling a list or a dict uses less local variables, to reduce
1028 stack usage in the case of deeply nested objects.
1029
Guido van Rossume3c4fd92008-09-10 14:27:00 +00001030- Issue #3629: Fix sre "bytecode" validator for an end case.
1031
Martin v. Löwis24329ba2008-09-10 13:38:12 +00001032- Issue #3811: The Unicode database was updated to 5.1.
1033
Nick Coghland2e09382008-09-11 12:11:06 +00001034- Issue #3781: Further warnings.catch_warnings() cleanup to prevent
1035 silent misbehaviour when a single instance is nested in multiple
1036 with statements, or when the methods are invoked in the wrong order.
1037
Vinay Sajip844f7412008-09-09 13:42:08 +00001038- Issue #3809: Fixed spurious 'test.blah' file left behind by test_logging.
1039
Nick Coghland2e09382008-09-11 12:11:06 +00001040- Issue #3781: Clean up the API for warnings.catch_warnings() by having it
Brett Cannon672237d2008-09-09 00:49:16 +00001041 return a list or None rather than a custom object.
1042
Benjamin Peterson6ac7d7c2008-09-06 19:28:11 +00001043- Issue #1638033: Cookie.Morsel gained the httponly attribute.
1044
Antoine Pitrouebcd0ce2008-09-05 23:30:23 +00001045- Issue #3535: zipfile couldn't read some zip files larger than 2GB.
1046
1047- Issue #3776: Deprecate the bsddb package for removal in 3.0.
Brett Cannon32476fc2008-09-05 18:33:51 +00001048
Hirokazu Yamamoto42e459e2008-09-04 14:25:30 +00001049- Issue #3762: platform.architecture() fails if python is lanched via
1050 its symbolic link.
1051
Vinay Sajip65d66e12008-09-04 07:31:21 +00001052- Issue #3772: Fixed regression problem in StreamHandler.emit().
1053
Facundo Batistac585df92008-09-03 22:35:50 +00001054- Issue 600362: Relocated parse_qs() and parse_qsl(), from the cgi module
1055 to the urlparse one. Added a PendingDeprecationWarning in the old
1056 module, it will be deprecated in the future.
1057
Marc-André Lemburgb339b2a2008-09-03 11:13:56 +00001058- Issue #2562: Fix distutils PKG-INFO writing logic to allow having
1059 non-ascii characters and Unicode in setup.py meta-data.
1060
1061- Issue #3726: Allow spaces in separators in logging configuration files.
Vinay Sajip6a2fd812008-09-03 09:20:05 +00001062
Marc-André Lemburg31a0a142008-09-02 12:11:19 +00001063- Issue #3719: platform.architecture() fails if there are spaces in the
1064 path to the Python binary.
1065
Brett Cannon1eaf0742008-09-02 01:25:16 +00001066- Issue 3602: Moved test.test_support.catch_warning() to
1067 warnings.catch_warnings() along with some API cleanup. Expanding the tests
1068 for catch_warnings() also led to an improvement in the raising of a
1069 DeprecationWarning related to warnings.warn_explicit().
1070
Benjamin Peterson973e6c22008-09-01 23:12:58 +00001071- The deprecation warnings for the old camelCase threading API were removed.
1072
Vinay Sajip35e3b032008-09-01 14:33:59 +00001073- logging: fixed lack of use of encoding attribute specified on a stream.
1074
Christian Heimesa27a62e2008-08-22 19:55:54 +00001075- Silenced a trivial compiler warning in the sqlite module.
1076
Christian Heimes1cc69632008-08-22 20:10:27 +00001077- Fixed two format strings in the _collections module.
1078
Benjamin Peterson17f03ca2008-09-01 14:18:30 +00001079- Issue #3703: _fileio.FileIO gave unhelpful error message when trying to open a
1080 directory.
Benjamin Petersonf22c26e2008-09-01 14:13:43 +00001081
Gregory P. Smithd7122032008-09-02 05:36:11 +00001082- Issue #3708: os.urandom no longer goes into an infinite loop when passed a
1083 non-integer floating point number.
1084
Vinay Sajip65d66e12008-09-04 07:31:21 +00001085- Issue #3110: multiprocessing fails to compiel on solaris 10 due to missing
Jesse Nollerb814d6a2008-09-03 18:10:30 +00001086 SEM_VALUE_MAX.
1087
Benjamin Peterson37346b22008-08-23 20:27:43 +00001088Extension Modules
1089-----------------
1090
Jesse Noller438195f2009-01-18 21:04:36 +00001091- Issue #4301: Patch the logging module to add processName support, remove
1092 _check_logger_class from multiprocessing.
1093
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc293924b2008-09-02 23:19:56 +00001094- Issue #2975: When compiling several extension modules with Visual Studio 2008
1095 from the same python interpreter, some environment variables would grow
1096 without limit.
1097
Benjamin Peterson37346b22008-08-23 20:27:43 +00001098- Issue #3643: Added a few more checks to _testcapi to prevent segfaults by
1099 exploitation of poor argument checking.
1100
Gerhard Häringef2276b2008-09-12 13:54:06 +00001101- sqlite3: Changed docstring of iterdump() to mark method as "Non-standard".
1102
Gerhard Häring6e1afcf2008-09-12 18:58:57 +00001103- Issue #3103: Reduced globals symbols used by sqlite3 module and made sure all
1104 remaining ones have "pysqlite_" prefix.
1105
Gerhard Häringe6872eb2008-09-12 22:33:22 +00001106- Issue #3846: Release the GIL during sqlite3_prepare calls. This improves
1107 concurrent access to the same SQLite database from multiple
1108 threads/processes.
1109
Brett Cannona0b74442008-09-03 22:45:11 +00001110Tests
1111-----
1112
Nick Coghland2e09382008-09-11 12:11:06 +00001113- Issue #3781: Add test.test_support.check_warnings() as a convenience
1114 wrapper for warnings.catch_warnings() that makes it easier to check
1115 that expected warning messages are being reported.
1116
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfeb8cad2008-09-06 20:53:51 +00001117- Issue #3796: Some tests functions were not enabled in test_float.
1118
1119- Issue #3768: Move test_py3kwarn over to the new API for catch_warnings().
Brett Cannona0b74442008-09-03 22:45:11 +00001120
Brett Cannoncdeb24b2008-09-05 22:59:17 +00001121Build
1122-----
1123
Martin v. Löwisab0b29b2008-09-13 08:11:57 +00001124- Issue #3833: Use a different upgrade code for Win64 installers.
1125
Martin v. Löwis3f5fda82008-09-08 13:50:10 +00001126- Issue #2271: Set SecureCustomProperties so that installation will properly
1127 use the TARGETDIR even for unprivileged users.
1128
Martin v. Löwis67543a92008-09-08 12:02:45 +00001129- Allow passing the MSI file name to merge.py.
1130
Vinay Sajip844f7412008-09-09 13:42:08 +00001131- Issue #3758: Rename the 'check' target to 'patchcheck' so as to not clash
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfeb8cad2008-09-06 20:53:51 +00001132 with GNU build target guidelines.
Brett Cannoncdeb24b2008-09-05 22:59:17 +00001133
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +00001134
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00001135What's New in Python 2.6 beta 3?
1136================================
1137
Barry Warsaw07a4a382008-08-21 01:15:08 +00001138*Release date: 20-Aug-2008*
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00001139
1140Core and Builtins
1141-----------------
1142
Guido van Rossumf8402962008-08-20 15:01:50 +00001143- Issue #1878: Remove Py_TPFLAGS_HAVE_VERSION_TAG from
1144 Py_TPFLAGS_DEFAULT when not building the core. This means 3rd party
1145 extensions do not automatically benefit from the class attribute
1146 cache; they will have to explicitly add Py_TPFLAGS_HAVE_VERSION_TAG
1147 to their tp_flags field if they care. This is a backwards
1148 compatibility feature; in 3.0, all types will use the cache by
1149 default.
1150
Benjamin Petersonf647dc12008-08-20 01:27:30 +00001151- Keyword arguments can now follow starred arguments. (``f(a, *args,
1152 keyword=23)`` is now valid syntax.)
1153
Thomas Heller0ad5ae02008-08-19 19:25:04 +00001154- ctypes function pointers that are COM methods have a boolean True
1155 value again.
1156
Martin v. Löwisf91d46a2008-08-12 14:49:50 +00001157- Issue #3139: Make buffer-interface thread-safe wrt. PyArg_ParseTuple,
1158 by denying s# to parse objects that have a releasebuffer procedure,
1159 and introducing s*.
1160
Georg Brandl1e13ea92008-08-11 09:07:59 +00001161- Issue #3537: Fix an assertion failure when an empty but presized dict
1162 object was stored in the freelist.
1163
Mark Dickinsonb6467572008-08-04 21:30:09 +00001164- Issue #1481296: Make long(float('nan')) and int(float('nan')) raise
1165 ValueError consistently across platforms.
1166
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc39fd6722008-07-31 21:28:03 +00001167- Issue #3479: On platforms where sizeof(int) is smaller than sizeof(long)
1168 (64bit Unix, for example), unichr() would truncate its argument and return
1169 u'\x00' for unichr(2**32). Now it properly raises an OverflowError.
1170
Neal Norwitze7d8be82008-07-31 17:17:14 +00001171- Apply security patches from Apple.
1172
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc246daed2008-07-31 00:42:16 +00001173- Issue #2542: Now that issubclass() may call arbitrary code, ensure that
1174 PyErr_ExceptionMatches returns 0 when an exception occurs there.
1175
Antoine Pitrou92f82162008-07-25 22:22:08 +00001176- Issue #1819: function calls with several named parameters are now on
1177 average 35% faster (as measured by pybench).
1178
Amaury Forgeot d'Arce4921fe2008-07-21 22:00:38 +00001179- Issue #2378: An unexpected UnboundLocalError or NameError could appear when
1180 the python debugger steps into a class statement: the free variables (local
1181 variables defined in an outer scope) would be deleted from the outer scope.
1182
Gregory P. Smith0470bab2008-07-22 04:46:32 +00001183- Issue #2620: Overflow checking when allocating or reallocating memory
1184 was not always being done properly in some python types and extension
1185 modules. PyMem_MALLOC, PyMem_REALLOC, PyMem_NEW and PyMem_RESIZE have
1186 all been updated to perform better checks and places in the code that
1187 would previously leak memory on the error path when such an allocation
1188 failed have been fixed.
1189
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00001190Library
1191-------
1192
Hirokazu Yamamoto838c79f2008-08-20 13:14:07 +00001193- Issue #3612: Added some missing basic types in ctypes.wintypes.
1194
Benjamin Petersone977ad42008-08-20 01:42:01 +00001195- The methods ``is_in_tuple()``, ``is_vararg()``, and ``is_keywordarg()`` of
1196 symtable.Symbol have been deprecated for removal in 3.0 and the next release.
1197
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc351ffb82008-08-18 19:23:47 +00001198- Issue #2234: distutils failed for some versions of the cygwin compiler. The
1199 version reported by these tools does not necessarily follow the python
1200 version numbering scheme, so the module is less strict when parsing it.
1201
Nick Coghlanf70385a2008-08-18 12:42:46 +00001202- Issue #2235: Added Py3k warnings for types which will become unhashable
1203 under the stricter __hash__ inheritance rules in 3.0. Several types
1204 which did not meet the rules for hash invariants and were already
1205 unhashable in 3.0 have now been explicitly flagged as unhashable in
1206 2.6 as well (collections.Mapping, collections.Set, unittest.TestSuite,
1207 xml.dom.minidom.NamedNodeMap, numbers.Number, UserList.UserList)
1208
Brett Cannon88f801d2008-08-18 00:46:22 +00001209- Update __all__ for cookielib, csv, os, urllib2, and weakref to include things
1210 imported into the module but exposed as part of the module's API.
1211
Brett Cannon7b96f072008-08-18 00:41:11 +00001212- Remove an unneeded import of abc.ABCMeta from 'inspect'.
1213
Brett Cannon46225e72008-08-18 00:36:52 +00001214- Remove unneeded imports of 'sys' and 'warnings' from 'io'.
1215
Brett Cannon25c9d6a2008-08-17 22:10:11 +00001216- Remove unneeded imports of 'warnings' from shelve, filecmp, and dummy_thread.
1217
Hirokazu Yamamoto41a81eb2008-08-17 13:10:46 +00001218- Issue #3575: Incremental decoder's decode function now takes bytearray
1219 by using 's*' instead of 't#'.
1220
Mark Dickinson3e4caeb2009-02-21 20:27:01 +00001221- Issue #2222: Fixed reference leak when occurred os.rename()
Hirokazu Yamamoto7f30a682008-08-17 09:46:56 +00001222 fails unicode conversion on 2nd parameter. (windows only)
1223
Facundo Batista94f243a2008-08-17 03:38:39 +00001224- Issue 2464. urllib2 now supports a malformation in the URL received
1225 in a redirect.
1226
Brett Cannonabe423e2008-08-16 21:47:07 +00001227- Silence the DeprecationWarning raised when importing mimetools in
Brett Cannon721b1452008-08-16 22:00:27 +00001228 BaseHTTPServer, cgi (and rfc822), httplib.
Brett Cannonabe423e2008-08-16 21:47:07 +00001229
Facundo Batistaeb90b782008-08-16 14:44:07 +00001230- Issue #2776: fixed small issue when handling an URL with double slash
1231 after a 302 response in the case of not going through a proxy.
1232
Antoine Pitroub90a8be2008-08-15 21:03:21 +00001233- Issue #2676: in the email package, content-type parsing was hanging on
1234 pathological input because of quadratic or exponential behaviour of a
1235 regular expression.
1236
Antoine Pitrou11ec65d2008-08-14 21:04:30 +00001237- Issue #3476: binary buffered reading through the new "io" library is now
1238 thread-safe.
1239
Brett Cannonbf3157b2008-08-14 05:00:03 +00001240- Silence the DeprecationWarning of rfc822 when it is imported by mimetools
1241 since mimetools itself is deprecated. Because modules are cached, all
1242 subsequent imports of rfc822 will not raise a visible DeprecationWarning.
1243
Antoine Pitrou9fcd4b32008-08-11 17:21:36 +00001244- Issue #3134: shutil referenced undefined WindowsError symbol.
1245
Robert Schuppenies14646332008-08-10 11:01:53 +00001246- Issue #1342811: Fix leak in Tkinter.Menu.delete. Commands associated to
1247 menu entries were not deleted.
1248
Brett Cannon83e81842008-08-09 23:30:55 +00001249- Copied the implementation of reduce() to _functools.reduce() to have a
1250 version that did not raise a DeprecationWarning under -3.
1251
Antoine Pitrou76b8bee2008-08-09 17:27:23 +00001252- Issue #3205: When iterating over a BZ2File fails allocating memory, raise
1253 a MemoryError rather than silently stop the iteration.
1254
Guido van Rossum59ce9012008-08-09 14:55:34 +00001255- Issue #3487: sre "bytecode" validator. Passing invalid "re-bytecode"
1256 to _sre.compile() will now be rejected. This should not affect anybody
1257 since the re.compile() function never generates invalid re-bytecode.
1258
Skip Montanaroa032bf42008-08-08 22:52:51 +00001259- Issue #3436: Make csv.DictReader's fieldnames attribute a property so that
1260 upon first access it can be automatically initialized from the csv file if
1261 it wasn't initialized during instantiation.
1262
Brett Cannon3aa2a492008-08-06 22:28:09 +00001263- Issue #2338: Create imp.reload() to help with transitioning to Python 3.0 as
1264 the reload() built-in has been removed.
1265
Brett Cannon7e30b672008-08-04 21:52:25 +00001266- Changed code in the following modules/packages to remove warnings raised
Brett Cannonc1b76e42008-08-09 23:06:16 +00001267 while running under the ``-3`` flag: aifc, asynchat, asyncore, bdb, bsddb,
Brett Cannon047e4a92008-08-17 04:16:04 +00001268 ConfigParser, cookielib, csv, difflib, distutils, DocXMLRPCServer, email,
1269 filecmp, fileinput, inspect, logging, modulefinder, pdb, pickle, profile,
1270 pstats, pydoc, re, rlcompleter, SimpleXMLRPCServer, shelve, socket,
1271 subprocess, sqlite3, tarfile, Tkinter, test.test_support, textwrap,
1272 threading, tokenize, traceback, urlparse, wsgiref, xml, xmlrpclib.
Brett Cannon7e30b672008-08-04 21:52:25 +00001273
Lars Gustäbel727bd0b2008-08-02 11:26:39 +00001274- Issue #3039: Fix tarfile.TarFileCompat.writestr() which always
1275 raised an AttributeError.
1276
Benjamin Peterson01a24322008-07-28 23:35:27 +00001277- Issue #2523: Fix quadratic behaviour when read()ing a binary file without
Antoine Pitroude781a42008-08-09 12:43:23 +00001278 asking for a specific length. This problem only affected files opened
1279 using the new "io" module, not the built-in open() function.
Benjamin Peterson01a24322008-07-28 23:35:27 +00001280
Mark Dickinsonfe84cce2008-07-27 06:39:07 +00001281- Issue #3449: Update decimal module to use most recent specification
1282 (v. 1.68) and tests (v. 2.58) from IBM.
1283
Skip Montanarof9ac43f2008-07-27 00:50:41 +00001284- Issue 3437: Bug fix in robotparser parsing of Allow: lines.
1285
Raymond Hettinger8c664e82008-07-25 18:43:33 +00001286- Issue 1592: Improve error reporting when operations are attempted
1287 on a closed shelf.
1288
Georg Brandlf9efabb2008-07-23 15:16:45 +00001289- Deprecate the "ast" parser function aliases.
1290
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00001291- Issue #3120: On 64-bit Windows the subprocess module was truncating handles.
1292
1293- Issue #3303: Fix a crash in locale.strcoll() when calling it with
1294 invalid arguments.
1295
1296- Issue #3302: Fix several crashes when calling locale's gettext functions
1297 with None arguments.
1298
1299- Issue #3389: Allow resolving dotted names for handlers in logging
1300 configuration files.
1301
1302- Deprecate the sunaudio module for removal in Python 3.0.
1303
Antoine Pitrou5fdfa3e2008-07-25 19:42:26 +00001304- Issue #3394: zipfile.writestr sets external attributes when passed a
1305 file name rather than a ZipInfo instance, so files are extracted with
1306 mode 0600 rather than 000 under Unix.
1307
Gregory P. Smitha36f8fe2008-08-04 00:13:29 +00001308- Issue #1857: subprocess.Popen.poll gained an additional _deadstate keyword
1309 argument in python 2.5, this broke code that subclassed Popen to include its
1310 own poll method. Fixed my moving _deadstate to an _internal_poll method.
1311
Martin v. Löwis8dbf3642008-08-01 14:10:26 +00001312Build
1313-----
1314
1315- Generate the PatternGrammar pickle during "make install".
1316
Nick Coghlan2a0c2b12008-08-04 12:47:17 +00001317Documentation
1318-------------
1319
Nick Coghlan6e8fef02008-08-18 13:14:22 +00001320- Issue #2235: the C API function PyObject_HashNotImplemented and its
1321 interaction with the tp_hash slot (added in 2.6b2) are now documented
1322
Nick Coghlan2a0c2b12008-08-04 12:47:17 +00001323- Issue #643841: The language reference now provides more detailed
1324 coverage of the lookup process for special methods. The disclaimers
1325 regarding lack of coverage of new-style classes have also been
1326 removed, since the coverage is now fairly reasonable.
1327
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00001328
Raymond Hettingere3ae6552008-06-20 04:18:15 +00001329What's New in Python 2.6 beta 2?
1330================================
1331
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00001332*Release date: 17-Jul-2008*
1333
Raymond Hettingere3ae6552008-06-20 04:18:15 +00001334Core and Builtins
1335-----------------
1336
Georg Brandl3e483f62008-07-16 22:57:41 +00001337- Issue #3156: Fix inconsistent behavior of the bytearray type: all
1338 its methods now allow for items objects that can be converted to
1339 an integer using operator.index().
1340
Mark Dickinson64b7e502008-07-16 09:40:03 +00001341- Issue #3360: Fix incorrect parsing of '020000000000.0', which
1342 produced a ValueError instead of giving the correct float.
1343
Eric Smitha5fa5a22008-07-16 00:11:49 +00001344- Issue #3083: Add alternate (#) formatting for bin, oct, hex output
1345 for str.format(). This adds the prefix 0b, 0o, or 0x, respectively.
1346
Mark Dickinson7103aa42008-07-15 19:08:33 +00001347- Issue #3008: the float type has a new instance method 'float.hex'
1348 and a new class method 'float.fromhex' to convert floating-point
1349 numbers to and from hexadecimal strings, respectively.
1350
Nick Coghlan6d6bd442008-07-15 15:40:22 +00001351- Issue #2235: __hash__ is once again inherited by default. To allow
1352 collections.Hashable to remain meaningful in the presence of the
1353 default hash implementation (object.__hash__), it is now possible
1354 to explicit block inheritance of hash by setting __hash__=None at
1355 the Python level, or tp_hash=PyObject_HashNotImplemented at the C
1356 level.
1357
Nick Coghlanb028f502008-07-13 14:52:36 +00001358- Issue #3221: Issue a RuntimeWarning instead of raising SystemError if
1359 the parent module cannot be found while performing an absolute import.
1360 This means that an incorrectly defined __package__ attribute will
1361 now only prevent relative imports in that module rather than causing
1362 all imports from that module to fail.
1363
Nick Coghlan14ff9942008-07-08 14:21:42 +00001364- Issue #2517: Allow unicode messages in Exceptions again by correctly
1365 bypassing the instance dictionary when looking up __unicode__ on
1366 new-style classes.
1367
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcbdd941f2008-07-01 20:38:04 +00001368- Issue #3242: Fix a crash inside the print statement, if sys.stdout is
1369 set to a custom object whose write() method happens to install
1370 another file in sys.stdout.
1371
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc1f40c8a2008-06-30 22:42:40 +00001372- Issue #3088: Corrected a race condition in classes derived from
1373 threading.local: the first member set by a thread could be saved in
1374 another thread's dictionary.
1375
Mark Dickinson1ec2fcd2008-06-20 14:53:43 +00001376- Issue #3004: Minor change to slice.indices(): the start and stop
1377 arguments are now treated identically, making the behaviour easier
1378 to describe and understand. For example, slice(None, -10,
1379 1).indices(9) now returns (0, 0, 1) instead of (0, -1, 1), and
1380 slice(None, 10, -1).indices(10) returns (9, 9, -1) instead of (9,
1381 10, -1).
1382
Georg Brandl278fc502008-07-19 12:46:12 +00001383- Issue #3219: Calling a function with repeated keyword arguments,
1384 f(a=2, a=23), would not cause a syntax error. This was a regression
1385 from 2.4 caused by the switch to the new compiler.
Benjamin Peterson175e4d92008-07-01 19:34:52 +00001386
Georg Brandl278fc502008-07-19 12:46:12 +00001387- Issue #2862: Make int and float freelist management consistent with
1388 other freelists. Changes their CompactFreeList apis into
1389 ClearFreeList apis and calls them via gc.collect().
Gregory P. Smith2fe77062008-07-06 03:35:58 +00001390
Brett Cannon8bb8fa52008-07-02 01:57:08 +00001391Library
1392-------
1393
Thomas Heller57adf222008-08-14 19:10:48 +00001394- Issue #3554: ctypes.string_at and ctypes.wstring_at did call Python
1395 api functions without holding the GIL, which could lead to a fatal
1396 error when they failed.
1397
Martin v. Löwisaabf4042008-08-02 07:20:25 +00001398- Issue #799428: Fix Tkinter.Misc._nametowidget to unwrap Tcl command objects.
1399
Jesse Noller7fb96402008-07-17 21:01:05 +00001400- Issue #3395: fix reference in test_multiprocessing to old debugInfo method
1401
Georg Brandla24869a2008-07-16 22:33:18 +00001402- Issue #3312: Fix two crashes in sqlite3.
1403
Georg Brandl86cbf812008-07-16 21:31:41 +00001404- Issue #1608818: Fix misbehavior in os.listdir() if readdir() fails.
1405
Jesse Noller13e9d582008-07-16 14:32:36 +00001406- Issue #3125: Remove copy_reg in multiprocessing and replace it with
1407 ForkingPickler.register() to resolve conflict with ctypes.
1408
Vinay Sajip51e65192008-07-18 09:01:10 +00001409- Issue #3090: Fixed ARCHFLAGS parsing on OS/X
Jesse Noller13e9d582008-07-16 14:32:36 +00001410
Thomas Heller880f5292008-07-15 19:39:38 +00001411- Issue #3313: Fixed a crash when a failed dlopen() call does not set
1412 a valid dlerror() message.
1413
Thomas Heller2bad6572008-07-15 17:19:50 +00001414- Issue #3258: Fixed a crash when a ctypes POINTER type to an
1415 incomplete structure was created.
1416
Brett Cannon3d0b9f02008-07-13 01:15:07 +00001417- Issue #3339: dummy_thread.acquire() should not return None.
1418
Raymond Hettingerb01713e2008-07-10 14:34:57 +00001419- Issue #3285: Fractions from_float() and from_decimal() accept Integral arguments.
1420
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +00001421- Issue #3301: Bisect module behaved badly when lo was negative.
Raymond Hettinger3cd1e422008-07-10 14:03:19 +00001422
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc0f7cddc2008-07-06 21:34:39 +00001423- Issue #839496: SimpleHTTPServer used to open text files in text mode. This is
1424 both unnecessary (HTTP allows text content to be sent in several forms) and
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +00001425 wrong because the actual transmitted size could differ from the
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc0f7cddc2008-07-06 21:34:39 +00001426 content-length. The problem had been corrected in the 2.4 branch, but never
1427 merged into trunk.
1428
Georg Brandle78fbcc2008-07-05 10:13:36 +00001429- Issue #2663: add filtering capability to shutil.copytree().
1430
Martin v. Löwis8c436412008-07-03 12:51:14 +00001431- Issue #1622: Correct interpretation of various ZIP header fields.
1432
1433- Issue #1526: Allow more than 64k files to be added to Zip64 file.
1434
1435- Issue #1746: Correct handling of zipfile archive comments (previously
1436 archives with comments over 4k were flagged as invalid). Allow writing
Vinay Sajip51e65192008-07-18 09:01:10 +00001437 Zip files with archives by setting the 'comment' attribute of a ZipFile.
Martin v. Löwis8c436412008-07-03 12:51:14 +00001438
Vinay Sajip51e65192008-07-18 09:01:10 +00001439- Issue #449227: The rlcompleter module now adds "(" to callable objects
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +00001440 when completed.
Facundo Batista66c52772008-07-02 16:52:55 +00001441
Nick Coghlanc060b0e2008-07-02 13:09:19 +00001442- Issue #3190: Pydoc now hides the automatic module attribute __package__ (the
1443 handling is now the same as that of other special attributes like __name__).
1444
Brett Cannon8bb8fa52008-07-02 01:57:08 +00001445- Issue #2885 (partial): The urllib.urlopen() function has been deprecated for
1446 removal in Python 3.0 in favor of urllib2.urlopen().
1447
Gregory P. Smithf4140642008-07-06 07:16:40 +00001448- Issue #2113: Fix error in subprocess.Popen if the select system call is
1449 interrupted by a signal.
1450
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +00001451- Issue #3309: Fix bz2.BZFile iterator to release its internal lock
Gregory P. Smith3b1e6b22008-07-07 04:31:58 +00001452 properly when raising an exception due to the bz2file being closed.
1453 Prevents a deadlock.
1454
Gregory P. Smithc4691ec2008-07-07 05:09:12 +00001455- Issue #3094: httplib.HTTPSConnection Host: headers no longer include the
1456 redundant ":443" port number designation when the connection is using the
1457 default https port (443).
1458
Gregory P. Smithdb3409c2008-07-17 03:13:05 +00001459- Issue #874900: after an os.fork() call the threading module state is cleaned
1460 up in the child process to prevent deadlock and report proper thread counts
1461 if the new process uses the threading module.
1462
Nick Coghlan38469e22008-07-13 12:23:47 +00001463Tests
1464-----
1465
1466- test.test_support.catch_warning now keeps track of all warnings it sees
1467 and is now better documented. Explicit unit tests for this context manager
1468 have been added to test_warnings.
1469
Martin v. Löwisd84fd952008-06-30 06:57:39 +00001470Build
1471-----
1472
1473- Issue #3215: Build sqlite3 as sqlite3.dll, not sqlite3.pyd.
1474
Brett Cannon8bb8fa52008-07-02 01:57:08 +00001475
Brett Cannon97aa1ae2008-07-11 00:12:52 +00001476Documentation
1477-------------
1478
Brett Cannonfeef51d2008-07-11 00:50:01 +00001479- Document that robotparser has been renamed to urllib.robotparser in
Brett Cannon963ffdb2008-07-11 00:48:57 +00001480 Python 3.0.
1481
Brett Cannonf6afa332008-07-11 00:16:30 +00001482- Document that urlparse has been renamed to urllib.parse in Python 3.0.
1483
Brett Cannon97aa1ae2008-07-11 00:12:52 +00001484- Document that urllib2 is split across multiple modules and renamed in
1485 Python 3.0.
1486
1487- Document that urllib is split across multiple modules and renamed in
1488 Python 3.0.
1489
1490
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00001491What's New in Python 2.6 beta 1?
1492================================
1493
Barry Warsawb5d17402008-06-19 01:48:07 +00001494*Release date: 18-June-2008*
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00001495
1496Core and Builtins
1497-----------------
1498
Brett Cannondea1b562008-06-27 00:31:13 +00001499- Issue #3211: warnings.warn_explicit() did not guard against its 'registry'
1500 argument being anything other than a dict or None. Also fixed a bug in error
1501 handling when 'message' and 'category' were both set to None, triggering a
1502 bus error.
1503
Amaury Forgeot d'Arca8919fe2008-06-16 19:12:42 +00001504- Issue #3100: Corrected a crash on deallocation of a subclassed weakref which
1505 holds the last (strong) reference to its referent.
1506
Georg Brandl89f48872008-06-11 18:55:38 +00001507- Add future_builtins.ascii().
1508
Raymond Hettinger5c4d3d02008-06-09 13:07:27 +00001509- Several set methods now accept multiple arguments: update(), union(),
Raymond Hettinger4267be62008-06-11 10:30:54 +00001510 intersection(), intersection_update(), difference(), and difference_update().
Raymond Hettingeree4bcad2008-06-09 08:33:37 +00001511
Robert Schuppenies51df0642008-06-01 16:16:17 +00001512- Issue #2898: Added sys.getsizeof() to retrieve size of objects in bytes.
1513
Martin v. Löwis99815892008-06-01 07:20:46 +00001514- New environment variable PYTHONIOENCODING.
1515
Martin v. Löwis4dd019f2008-05-20 08:11:19 +00001516- Patch #2488: Add sys.maxsize.
1517
Georg Brandla9916b52008-05-17 22:11:54 +00001518- Issue #2353: file.xreadlines() now emits a Py3k warning.
1519
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001520- Issue #2863: generators now have a ``gen.__name__`` attribute that
1521 equals ``gen.gi_code.co_name``, like ``func.__name___`` that equals
1522 ``func.func_code.co_name``. The repr() of a generator now also
1523 contains this name.
Georg Brandlc91210c2008-05-15 15:08:32 +00001524
Georg Brandlbd85eb12008-05-14 06:34:15 +00001525- Issue #2831: enumerate() now has a ``start`` argument.
1526
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001527- Issue #2801: fix bug in the float.is_integer method where a
1528 ValueError was sometimes incorrectly raised.
Mark Dickinsone81c3762008-05-09 16:14:15 +00001529
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001530- Issue #2790: sys.flags was not properly exposing its bytes_warning
1531 attribute.
Brett Cannon3c1d50a2008-05-08 20:23:54 +00001532
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001533- Issue #2196: hasattr() now lets exceptions which do not inherit
1534 Exception (KeyboardInterrupt, and SystemExit) propagate instead of
1535 ignoring them.
Benjamin Petersonb9030f42008-05-12 00:41:23 +00001536
Gregory P. Smith9d534572008-06-11 07:41:16 +00001537- Added checks for integer overflows, contributed by Google. Some are
1538 only available if asserts are left in the code, in cases where they
1539 can't be triggered from Python code.
1540
1541
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00001542Extension Modules
1543-----------------
Guido van Rossum84b1e0f2008-08-20 14:57:20 +00001544- Issue #1179: [CVE-2007-4965] Integer overflow in imageop module.
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00001545
Raymond Hettinger305480c2008-06-16 01:42:40 +00001546- Issue #3116: marshal.dumps() had quadratic behavior for strings > 32Mb.
1547
Andrew M. Kuchling2126bab2008-06-22 13:39:11 +00001548- Issue #2138: Add factorial() to the math module.
Raymond Hettingerecbdd2e2008-06-09 06:54:45 +00001549
Raymond Hettinger6d7702e2008-05-31 03:24:31 +00001550- The heapq module does comparisons using LT instead of LE. This
1551 makes its implementation match that used by list.sort().
1552
Mark Dickinson99dfe922008-05-23 01:35:30 +00001553- Issue #2819: add full-precision summation function to math module,
1554 based on Hettinger's ASPN Python Cookbook recipe.
1555
Georg Brandl88659b02008-05-20 08:40:43 +00001556- Issue #2592: delegate nb_index and the floor/truediv slots in
1557 weakref.proxy.
1558
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001559- Support os.O_ASYNC and fcntl.FASYNC if the constants exist on the
1560 platform.
Georg Brandl5049a852008-05-16 13:10:15 +00001561
Brett Cannon044616a2008-05-15 02:33:55 +00001562- Support for Windows 9x has been removed from the winsound module.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcf9b54c22008-05-12 21:30:24 +00001563
Jesus Cea09c01782008-09-28 23:24:19 +00001564- bsddb module updated to version 4.7.3.
Jesus Cea4907d272008-08-31 14:00:51 +00001565 http://www.jcea.es/programacion/pybsddb.htm#bsddb3-4.7.3. This
1566 code should be compatible with Python 3.0.
Jesus Ceaef9764f2008-05-13 18:45:46 +00001567
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001568- Issue #2858: Fix potential memory corruption when
1569 bsddb.db.DBEnv.lock_get and other bsddb.db object constructors
1570 raised an exception.
Gregory P. Smith664782e2008-05-17 06:12:02 +00001571
Gregory P. Smith5d7d6c32008-05-25 08:32:04 +00001572- Issue #2669: bsddb/__init__.py iteration no longer silently fails when
1573 the database has changed size during iteration. It now raises a
1574 RuntimeError in the same manner as a dictionary.
1575
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001576- Issue #2870: cmathmodule.c compile error.
Christian Heimes0bd23c02008-05-16 10:23:31 +00001577
Benjamin Petersond8a89722008-08-18 16:40:03 +00001578- Added a threading.Thread.ident property.
Gregory P. Smith8856dda2008-06-01 23:48:47 +00001579
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00001580Library
1581-------
1582
Vinay Sajip1e022682008-06-29 21:27:15 +00001583- logging.config: Removed out-of-date comment in _install_handlers and
1584 used issubclass in place of equality comparison of classes.
1585
Facundo Batista5596b0c2008-06-22 13:36:20 +00001586- Issue #2722: Now the os.getcwd() supports very long path names.
1587
Facundo Batista2da91c32008-06-21 17:43:56 +00001588- Issue #2888: Fixed the behaviour of pprint when working with nested
1589 structures, to match the behaviour of 2.5 and 3.0 (now follows the common
1590 sense).
1591
Facundo Batistaa6a4d502008-06-21 18:58:04 +00001592- Issue #1817: cgi now correctly handles the querystring on POST requests
1593
Vinay Sajip8dc20fd2008-06-19 22:41:08 +00001594- Issue #3136: fileConfig()'s disabling of old loggers is now conditional via
1595 an optional disable_existing_loggers parameter, but the default value is
1596 such that the old behaviour is preserved. Thanks to Leandro Lucarella for
1597 the patch.
1598
Vinay Sajip9828b7e2008-06-17 11:04:02 +00001599- Issue #3126: StreamHandler and FileHandler check before calling "flush" and
1600 "close" that the stream object has these, using hasattr (thanks to bobf for
1601 the patch).
1602
Benjamin Peterson5c0be322008-06-13 15:11:50 +00001603- Issue #2912: platform.uname now tries to determine unknown information even if
1604 os.uname exists.
1605
Benjamin Peterson26305a02008-06-12 22:33:06 +00001606- The rfc822 module has been deprecated for removal in 3.0.
1607
Benjamin Petersona03722f2008-06-12 14:23:49 +00001608- The mimetools module has been deprecated for removal in 3.0.
1609
Thomas Heller1cec7aa2008-06-10 14:07:12 +00001610- The ctypes.byref function now takes an optional second parameter
1611 which allows to specify an offset in bytes for the constructed
1612 pointer-like object.
1613
Georg Brandl8509db52008-06-10 07:45:28 +00001614- Added the ast module.
1615
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00001616- Added the multiprocessing module, PEP 371.
Benjamin Peterson6f7ae692008-06-11 20:04:30 +00001617
Georg Brandl7be19aa2008-06-07 15:59:10 +00001618- Factored out the indentation cleaning from inspect.getdoc() into
1619 inspect.cleandoc() to ease standalone use.
1620
Thomas Hellerfbb9c0b2008-06-06 08:33:46 +00001621- Issue #1798: Add ctypes calling convention that allows safe access
1622 to errno.
1623
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00001624- Issue #2404: ctypes objects support the new pep3118 buffer interface.
Thomas Heller59475e92008-06-05 17:52:59 +00001625
Vinay Sajip9828b7e2008-06-17 11:04:02 +00001626- Patch #2125: Add GetInteger and GetString methods for
Martin v. Löwisffe62ed2008-06-02 08:40:06 +00001627 msilib.Record objects.
1628
Gregory P. Smith137d8242008-06-02 04:05:52 +00001629- Issue #2782: The datetime module's strftime methods now accept
1630 unicode format strings just as time.strftime always has.
1631
Georg Brandlac19d852008-06-01 21:19:14 +00001632- The sgmllib and htmllib modules have been deprecated for removal
1633 in Python 3.0.
1634
1635- Issue #3011: locale module alias table was updated to the latest
1636 version from the X.org locale.alias file.
Marc-André Lemburgadff65b2008-05-30 20:52:18 +00001637
Thomas Heller9287acf2008-05-29 19:42:34 +00001638- Issue #1797 (partial fix): ctypes NULL function pointers have a
1639 False boolean value now.
1640
Georg Brandld0b592f2008-05-29 07:45:26 +00001641- Issue #2985: Allow 64-bit integer responses (``<i8>``) in XMLRPC
1642 transfers.
1643
1644- Issue #2877: The UserString.MutableString class has been removed in
1645 Python 3.0.
Brett Cannonabb34fe2008-05-29 05:08:50 +00001646
Lars Gustäbelb1a54a32008-05-27 12:39:23 +00001647- Do not close external file objects passed to tarfile.open(mode='w:bz2')
1648 when the TarFile is closed.
1649
Georg Brandle08e3d02008-05-25 08:07:37 +00001650- Issue #2959: For consistency with other file-like objects, gzip's
1651 GzipFile.close() can now be called multiple times without raising
1652 an exception.
1653
Martin v. Löwis27e4a172008-05-23 15:18:28 +00001654- Issue #1390: Raise ValueError in toxml when an invalid comment would
1655 otherwise be produced.
1656
Vinay Sajipc0128832008-05-20 15:37:22 +00001657- Issue #2914: TimedRotatingFileHandler now takes an optional keyword
1658 argument "utc" to use UTC time rather than local time.
1659
1660- Issue #2929: TimedRotatingFileHandler was using the wrong path when
1661 deleting old log files (filename only instead of full path).
1662
Georg Brandl112aa502008-05-20 08:25:48 +00001663- Issue #1775025: You can now specify zipfile members to open(),
1664 read() or extract() via a ZipInfo instance. This allows handling
1665 duplicate filenames in zipfiles.
1666
Georg Brandl28fdfa92008-05-17 17:57:01 +00001667- Issue #961805: Fix Text.edit_modified() in Tkinter.
1668
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001669- Issue #1793: Function ctypes.util.find_msvcrt() added that returns
Thomas Heller95ba13f2008-05-16 20:06:31 +00001670 the name of the C runtime library that Python uses.
1671 ctypes.util.find_library(name) now call this function when name is
1672 'm' or 'c'.
1673
Brett Cannonfa40bbf2008-05-16 00:50:02 +00001674- The statvfs module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
1675
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001676- The sunaudiodev and SUNAUDIODEV modules have been deprecated for
1677 removal in Python 3.0.
1678
1679- The WAIT module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
1680 3.0.
1681
1682- The torgb module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
1683 3.0.
1684
1685- The SV module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
1686 3.0.
1687
1688- The readcd module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
Brett Cannon22248172008-05-16 00:10:24 +00001689 Python 3.0.
1690
Brett Cannon11ae6e72008-05-15 03:49:00 +00001691- The panelparser module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
1692 Python 3.0.
1693
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001694- The panel module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
1695 3.0.
Brett Cannon7e375862008-05-15 03:46:27 +00001696
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001697- The jpeg module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
1698 3.0.
Brett Cannon89f5d9c2008-05-15 03:44:00 +00001699
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001700- The IOCTL module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
1701 3.0.
Brett Cannond8c41ec2008-05-15 03:41:55 +00001702
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001703- The IN module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
1704 3.0.
Brett Cannon6328b292008-05-15 03:36:13 +00001705
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001706- The imgfile module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
Brett Cannon178582e2008-05-15 03:20:36 +00001707 Python 3.0.
1708
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001709- The GLWS module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
1710 3.0.
Brett Cannon72ccc402008-05-15 03:17:24 +00001711
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001712- The GET module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
1713 3.0.
Brett Cannon2773b6f2008-05-15 03:14:57 +00001714
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001715- The fm module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
1716 3.0.
1717
1718- The FL, flp, and fl modules from IRIX have been deprecated for
1719 removal in Python 3.0.
1720
1721- The FILE module on IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
1722 3.0.
1723
1724- The ERRNO module on IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
1725 3.0.
1726
1727- The DEVICE, GL, gl, and cgen modules (which indirectly includes
1728 cgensupport) have been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
Brett Cannon044616a2008-05-15 02:33:55 +00001729
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001730- The CL, CL_old, and cl modules for IRIX have been deprecated for
1731 removal in Python 3.0.
1732
1733- The cdplayer module for IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
Brett Cannon650f5162008-05-14 21:12:12 +00001734 Python 3.0.
1735
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001736- The cddb module for IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
1737 3.0.
Brett Cannon9eebe492008-05-14 20:34:22 +00001738
Brett Cannonddf949f2008-05-14 20:31:38 +00001739- The cd and CD modules for IRIX have been deprecated for removal in
1740 Python 3.0.
1741
Brett Cannon34721d52008-05-14 01:08:21 +00001742- The al and AL modules for IRIX have been deprecated for removal in
1743 Python 3.0.
1744
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001745- Issue #1713041: fix pprint's handling of maximum depth.
Georg Brandl23da6e62008-05-12 16:26:52 +00001746
Brett Cannonbb141bb2008-05-12 03:47:47 +00001747- The timing module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
1748
Brett Cannonac861b52008-05-12 03:45:59 +00001749- The sv module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
1750
Brett Cannon43e5ef42008-05-12 03:19:20 +00001751- The multifile module has been deprecated as per PEP 4.
1752
Brett Cannon42bfa902008-05-12 00:08:34 +00001753- The imageop module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
1754
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001755- Issue #2250: Exceptions raised during evaluation of names in
1756 rlcompleter's ``Completer.complete()`` method are now caught and
1757 ignored.
Georg Brandl627a6662008-05-11 21:03:42 +00001758
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001759- Issue #2659: Added ``break_on_hyphens`` option to textwrap
1760 TextWrapper class.
Georg Brandl6f95ae52008-05-11 10:42:28 +00001761
Brett Cannon2a869132008-05-11 03:01:47 +00001762- The mhlib module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
1763
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001764- The linuxaudiodev module has been deprecated for removal in Python
1765 3.0.
Brett Cannondf0a7172008-05-11 00:50:51 +00001766
Brett Cannon27508d42008-05-10 22:45:07 +00001767- The ihooks module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
1768
Brett Cannonfe598512008-05-10 22:11:45 +00001769- The fpformat module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
1770
Brett Cannone35a3a12008-05-10 21:22:43 +00001771- The dl module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
1772
Brett Cannond5a09852008-05-10 03:14:32 +00001773- The Canvas module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
1774
Brett Cannon6192df12008-05-10 02:58:26 +00001775- The compiler package has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
1776
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001777- The Bastion and rexec modules have been deprecated for removal in
1778 Python 3.0.
Brett Cannoncda73a42008-05-10 02:53:46 +00001779
Brett Cannon768d44f2008-05-10 02:47:54 +00001780- The bsddb185 module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
1781
Brett Cannon9ac39742008-05-09 22:51:58 +00001782- The pure module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
1783
Mark Dickinsonf8476c12008-05-09 17:54:23 +00001784- Issue #2487: change the semantics of math.ldexp(x, n) when n is too
1785 large to fit in a C long. ldexp(x, n) now returns a zero (with
1786 suitable sign) if n is large and negative; previously, it raised
1787 OverflowError.
1788
Brett Cannonfa24d9a2008-05-09 05:32:42 +00001789- The toaiff module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
1790
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001791- The test.testall module has been deprecated for removal in Python
1792 3.0.
Brett Cannon3c759142008-05-09 05:25:37 +00001793
Brett Cannond7265d62008-05-09 05:18:40 +00001794- The new module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
1795
Brett Cannone3b19402008-05-08 20:36:09 +00001796- The user module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
1797
Brett Cannon6071cc82008-05-08 19:52:45 +00001798- The stringold module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
1799
1800- The mutex module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
Brett Cannon9d441822008-05-08 19:26:08 +00001801
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00001802- The imputil module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
1803
Brett Cannoncae4f5f2008-05-08 20:24:43 +00001804- test.test_support.catch_warning() gained a 'record' argument.
1805
Benjamin Peterson0893a0a2008-05-09 00:27:01 +00001806- os.path.walk is deprecated in favor of os.walk.
1807
Georg Brandl9020ff82008-05-11 14:17:13 +00001808- pdb gained the "until" command.
Benjamin Peterson98353942008-05-11 14:13:25 +00001809
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001810- The Mac Modules (including Carbon) have been deprecated for removal
1811 in Python 3.0.
Benjamin Peterson23681932008-05-12 21:42:13 +00001812
Vinay Sajip9828b7e2008-06-17 11:04:02 +00001813- Library: on MacOS X you can now set ``ARCHFLAGS`` in the shell
Ronald Oussoren5640ce22008-06-05 12:58:24 +00001814 environment to control the '-arch' flags that are used to build
1815 an extension. This was added for compatibility with Apple's build
1816 of Python.
1817
1818- The bundled OSX-specific copy of libbffi is now in sync with the version
1819 shipped with PyObjC 2.0 and includes support for x86_64 and ppc64 platforms.
1820
Georg Brandl25c34082008-08-18 23:09:49 +00001821- The threading module gained aliases for names that will be removed in the
1822 3.x series.
Benjamin Peterson0fbcf692008-06-11 17:27:50 +00001823
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00001824Build
1825-----
1826
Martin v. Löwiscc0f2b22008-06-13 18:12:51 +00001827- 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 +00001828
Martin v. Löwis8c255e42008-05-23 15:06:50 +00001829- Patch #1722225: Support QNX 6.
1830
Brett Cannonb61d8012008-05-11 23:39:04 +00001831- ``Lib/lib-old`` is now added to sys.path.
1832
Ronald Oussoren5640ce22008-06-05 12:58:24 +00001833- On MacOS X it is now possible to install the framework in 64-bit
1834 mode or even as a 4-way universal binary (that is, PPC, i386,
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00001835 PPC64 and x86_64 support in one binary).
Ronald Oussoren5640ce22008-06-05 12:58:24 +00001836
1837 This is controlled by the configure argument ``--with-universal-archs``:
1838
1839 - ``--with-universal-archs=all``: install 4-way universal
1840
1841 - ``--with-universal-archs=32-bit``: install 2-way universal, 32-bit (the default)
1842
1843 - ``--with-universal-archs=64-bit``: install 2-way universal, 64-bit
1844
1845 This option should be used in combination with ``--enable-universalsdk=``.
1846
1847 NOTE: 64-bit and 4-way builds are only suppported on Mac OS X 10.5 (or later).
1848
1849
Christian Heimes7a990612008-05-26 13:15:11 +00001850C API
1851-----
1852
Georg Brandl74a1dea2008-05-28 11:21:39 +00001853- Add ``PyType_Modified()`` as a public API to clear the type cache.
1854
1855- The PyBytes functions have been renamed to PyByteArray.
Christian Heimes7a990612008-05-26 13:15:11 +00001856
1857- The PyString functions have been renamed to PyBytes. A batch of
1858 defines were added so that the linker still sees the original
1859 PyString names.
1860
Georg Brandl5e7b1c02008-05-16 17:40:23 +00001861
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00001862What's New in Python 2.6 alpha 3?
Barry Warsaw65475fd2008-03-01 17:11:41 +00001863=================================
1864
Barry Warsaw6cc79402008-05-08 13:16:19 +00001865*Release date: 08-May-2008*
Barry Warsaw65475fd2008-03-01 17:11:41 +00001866
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd21fb4c2008-03-05 01:50:33 +00001867Core and builtins
1868-----------------
Georg Brandl80055f62008-03-25 07:56:27 +00001869
Georg Brandl28e08732008-04-30 19:47:09 +00001870- Issue #2719: backported the ``next()`` builtin from Python 3.
1871
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001872- Issue #2681: The octal literal ``0o8`` was incorrecly acctepted. Now
1873 it properly raises a SyntaxError.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc52167212008-04-24 18:07:05 +00001874
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001875- Issue #2617: Reserved -J and -X arguments for Jython, IronPython and
1876 other implementations of Python.
Christian Heimes7a98d272008-04-12 13:03:03 +00001877
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001878- Implemented PEP 370: Per user site-packages directory.
Christian Heimesaf748c32008-05-06 22:41:46 +00001879
Andrew M. Kuchling46d6b682008-04-30 16:19:55 +00001880Extension Modules
1881-----------------
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00001882
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001883- Issue #2670: Fix a failure in urllib2.build_opener(), when passed
1884 two handlers that derive the same default base class.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc96865852008-04-22 21:14:41 +00001885
Christian Heimese74c8f22008-04-19 02:23:57 +00001886- Added kill, terminate and send_signal(sig) to subprocess.Popen.
1887
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001888- Added phase(z) -> phi, polar(z) -> r, phi and rect(r, phi) -> z to
1889 the cmath module.
Christian Heimes6f341092008-04-18 23:13:07 +00001890
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001891- Four new methods were added to the math and cmath modules: acosh,
1892 asinh, atanh and log1p.
Christian Heimes6f341092008-04-18 23:13:07 +00001893
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001894- zlib.decompressobj().flush(value) no longer crashes the interpreter
1895 when passed a value less than or equal to zero.
Gregory P. Smith671c5d92008-04-09 18:18:43 +00001896
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001897- Issue #1631171: Re-implement the 'warnings' module in C (the
1898 original Python code has been kept as backup). This will allow for
1899 using the 'warning's machinery in such places as the parser where
1900 use of pure Python code is not possible. Both the ``showarning()``
1901 and ``formatwarning()`` gain an optional 'line' argument which is
1902 not called by default for backwards-compatibility reasons. Setting
1903 ``warnings.showwarning()`` to an implementation that lacks support
1904 for the ``line`` argument will raise a DeprecationWarning.
Brett Cannone9746892008-04-12 23:44:07 +00001905
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00001906Library
1907-------
1908
Brett Cannonf8436822008-05-06 23:41:32 +00001909- The audiodev module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
1910
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001911- Issue #2750: Add the 'json' package. Based on simplejson 1.9 and
1912 contributed by Bob Ippolito.
Brett Cannon4b964f92008-05-05 20:21:38 +00001913
Martin v. Löwis471617d2008-05-05 17:16:58 +00001914- Issue #1734346: Support Unicode file names for zipfiles.
1915
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001916- Issue #2581: distutils: Vista UAC/elevation support for
1917 bdist_wininst.
Mark Hammond7c5c8e62008-05-02 12:48:15 +00001918
Mark Dickinsonfe536f52008-04-25 16:59:09 +00001919- Issue #2635: Fix bug in 'fix_sentence_endings' textwrap.fill option,
1920 where an extra space was added after a word containing (but not
1921 ending in) '.', '!' or '?'.
1922
Thomas Heller6ad5fbb2008-04-25 15:44:16 +00001923- Add from_buffer() and from_buffer_copy() class methods to ctypes
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00001924 data types.
Thomas Heller6ad5fbb2008-04-25 15:44:16 +00001925
Neal Norwitz2b0bea52008-04-25 03:40:17 +00001926- Issue #2682: ctypes callback functions no longer contain a cyclic
Thomas Hellerbf027c42008-04-24 18:14:19 +00001927 reference to themselves.
1928
Gregory P. Smithd59fefb2008-04-22 08:11:33 +00001929- The getpass module has been improved on Unix. It now uses /dev/tty
1930 by default and uses stderr instead of stdout. A GetPassWarning is
1931 issued when input echo cannot be controlled.
Gregory P. Smith41e30182008-04-21 21:31:08 +00001932
Skip Montanarob131f042008-04-18 20:35:46 +00001933- Issue #2014: Allow XML-RPC datetime objects to have dates before
1934 1900-01-01.
1935
Nick Coghlan106fc482008-04-15 10:25:31 +00001936- Issue #2439: Added new function pkgutil.get_data(), which is a
1937 convenience wrapper for the PEP 302 get_data() API.
1938
Thomas Heller046e6a42008-04-14 16:10:07 +00001939- Issue #2616: The ctypes.pointer() and ctypes.POINTER() functions are
1940 now implemented in C for better performance.
1941
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001942- Issue #2408: The ``_types`` module, which was used as in
1943 implementation detail of the public ``types`` module, has been
1944 removed and replaced by pure python code.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc02f33b42008-04-08 23:10:07 +00001945
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001946- Issue #2513: distutils on Windows is now capable of cross-compiling
Mark Hammond495cf992008-04-07 01:53:39 +00001947 extension modules between 32 and 64 bit platforms. See the distutls
1948 build documentation for more information.
1949
Gregory P. Smithaa63d0d2008-04-06 23:11:17 +00001950- Issue #815646: Individual file objects may now be used from multiple
1951 threads at once without fear of crashing the Python interpreter. If
1952 file.close() is called while an object is in use by another thread
1953 an IOError exception will be raised and the file will not be closed.
1954
Thomas Hellerf7906482008-04-04 19:43:25 +00001955- The bundled libffi copy is now in sync with the recently released
1956 libffi3.0.5 version, apart from some small changes to
1957 Modules/_ctypes/libffi/configure.ac.
1958
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001959- Issue #2385: distutils.core.run_script() makes __file__ available,
1960 so the controlled environment will more closely mirror the typical
1961 script environment. This supports setup.py scripts that refer to
1962 data files.
Fred Drake46c58c12008-04-04 05:41:30 +00001963
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00001964Tests
1965-----
Trent Nelsone41b0062008-04-08 23:47:30 +00001966
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001967- Issue #2550: The approach used by client/server code for obtaining
1968 ports to listen on in network-oriented tests has been refined in an
1969 effort to facilitate running multiple instances of the entire
1970 regression test suite in parallel without issue.
1971 test_support.bind_port() has been fixed such that it will always
1972 return a unique port -- which wasn't always the case with the
1973 previous implementation, especially if socket options had been set
1974 that affected address reuse (i.e. SO_REUSEADDR, SO_REUSEPORT). The
1975 new implementation of bind_port() will actually raise an exception
1976 if it is passed an AF_INET/SOCK_STREAM socket with either the
1977 SO_REUSEADDR or SO_REUSEPORT socket option set. Furthermore, if
1978 available, bind_port() will set the SO_EXCLUSIVEADDRUSE option on
1979 the socket it's been passed. This currently only applies to
1980 Windows. This option prevents any other sockets from binding to the
1981 host/port we've bound to, thus removing the possibility of the
1982 'non-deterministic' behaviour, as Microsoft puts it, that occurs
1983 when a second SOCK_STREAM socket binds and accepts to a host/port
1984 that's already been bound by another socket. The optional preferred
1985 port parameter to bind_port() has been removed. Under no
1986 circumstances should tests be hard coding ports!
1987
1988 test_support.find_unused_port() has also been introduced, which will
1989 pass a temporary socket object to bind_port() in order to obtain an
1990 unused port. The temporary socket object is then closed and
1991 deleted, and the port is returned. This method should only be used
1992 for obtaining an unused port in order to pass to an external program
1993 (i.e. the -accept [port] argument to openssl's s_server mode) or as
1994 a parameter to a server-oriented class that doesn't give you direct
1995 access to the underlying socket used.
1996
1997 Finally, test_support.HOST has been introduced, which should be used
1998 for the host argument of any relevant socket calls (i.e. bind and
1999 connect).
Trent Nelsone41b0062008-04-08 23:47:30 +00002000
2001 The following tests were updated to following the new conventions:
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002002 test_socket, test_smtplib, test_asyncore, test_ssl, test_httplib,
Trent Nelsone41b0062008-04-08 23:47:30 +00002003 test_poplib, test_ftplib, test_telnetlib, test_socketserver,
2004 test_asynchat and test_socket_ssl.
2005
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002006 It is now possible for multiple instances of the regression test
2007 suite to run in parallel without issue.
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00002008
2009Build
2010-----
2011
Mark Dickinson65134662008-04-25 16:11:04 +00002012- Issue #1496032: On alpha, use -mieee when gcc is the compiler.
2013
Thomas Hellerdc96a772008-04-04 10:07:55 +00002014- Issue #2544: On HP-UX systems, use 'gcc -shared' for linking when
2015 gcc is used as compiler.
2016
Ronald Oussoren580c7fe2008-05-02 19:45:11 +00002017- Issue #2573: On MacOS X it is now possible to install the framework
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002018 with a different name using --with-framework-name=NAME.
Ronald Oussoren580c7fe2008-05-02 19:45:11 +00002019
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00002020C API
2021-----
2022
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002023- Added implementation of copysign, acosh, asinh, atanh and log1p to
2024 the new files Include/pymath.h and Python/pymath.h for platforms
2025 which provide the functions through their libm. The files also
2026 contains several helpers and constants for math.
Christian Heimes6f341092008-04-18 23:13:07 +00002027
Benjamin Petersondacde0d2008-05-26 17:43:53 +00002028- Added a new convenience macro, PyErr_WarnPy3k, for issuing Py3k warnings.
Benjamin Petersona692c4d2008-04-27 02:28:02 +00002029
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00002030
2031What's New in Python 2.6 alpha 2?
2032=================================
2033
2034*Release date: 02-Apr-2008*
2035
2036Core and builtins
2037-----------------
2038
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002039- Issue #1733757: The interpreter would hang on shutdown if the
2040 tracing function set by sys.settrace is still active and happens to
2041 call threading.currentThread().
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd7a26512008-04-03 23:07:55 +00002042
Georg Brandl91e0cda2008-03-29 01:50:06 +00002043- Patch #1442: properly report exceptions when the PYTHONSTARTUP file
2044 cannot be executed.
2045
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc69b747b2008-03-28 20:30:50 +00002046- The compilation of a class nested in another class used to leak one
2047 reference on the outer class name.
2048
Georg Brandlfc8eef32008-03-28 12:11:56 +00002049- Patch #1810: compile() can now compile _ast trees as returned by
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002050 ``compile(..., PyCF_ONLY_AST)``.
Georg Brandlfc8eef32008-03-28 12:11:56 +00002051
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002052- Patch #2426: Added sqlite3.Connection.iterdump method to allow easy
2053 dumping of databases. Contributed by Paul Kippes at PyCon 2008.
Gregory P. Smithb9803422008-03-28 08:32:09 +00002054
Georg Brandldeaf2ca2008-03-27 13:27:31 +00002055- Patch #2477: Added from __future__ import unicode_literals.
Christian Heimes3c608332008-03-26 22:01:37 +00002056
Christian Heimes8c78cc32008-03-26 12:53:58 +00002057- Added backport of bytearray type.
2058
Georg Brandl80055f62008-03-25 07:56:27 +00002059- Issue #2355: add Py3k warning for buffer().
2060
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc9a0d3462008-03-23 09:55:29 +00002061- Issue #1477: With narrow Unicode builds, the unicode escape sequence
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002062 \Uxxxxxxxx did not accept values outside the Basic Multilingual
2063 Plane. This affected raw unicode literals and the
2064 'raw-unicode-escape' codec. Now UTF-16 surrogates are generated in
2065 this case, like normal unicode literals and the 'unicode-escape'
2066 codec.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc9a0d3462008-03-23 09:55:29 +00002067
Georg Brandl65bb42d2008-03-21 20:38:24 +00002068- Issue #2348: add Py3k warning for file.softspace.
2069
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002070- Issue #2346/#2347: add Py3k warnings for __methods__ and
2071 __members__.
Georg Brandl07e56812008-03-21 20:21:46 +00002072
Georg Brandl5a444242008-03-21 20:11:46 +00002073- Issue #2358: Add a Py3k warning on sys.exc_clear() usage.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd21fb4c2008-03-05 01:50:33 +00002074
Martin v. Löwisa4d77892008-03-19 04:39:13 +00002075- Issue #2400: Allow relative imports to "import *".
2076
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002077- Issue #1745: Backport print function with ``from __future__ import
2078 print_function``.
Eric Smith7c478942008-03-18 23:45:49 +00002079
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002080- Issue #2332: add new attribute names for instance method objects.
2081 The two changes are: im_self -> __self__ and im_func -> __func__
Neal Norwitzb1d3d962008-03-18 04:46:00 +00002082
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002083- Issue #2379: Raise a Py3K warning for __getitem__ or __getslice__ on
Guido van Rossum6d91be32008-03-18 04:42:22 +00002084 exception instances.
2085
Guido van Rossum04edb522008-03-18 02:49:46 +00002086- Issue #2371: Add a Py3k warning when catching an exception that
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002087 doesn't derive from BaseException.
2088
2089- Issue #2341: Add a Py3k warning when raising an exception that
2090 doesn't derive from BaseException.
Guido van Rossum04edb522008-03-18 02:49:46 +00002091
Neal Norwitz419fd492008-03-17 20:22:43 +00002092- Issue #2321: use pymalloc for unicode object string data to reduce
2093 memory usage in some circumstances.
2094
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002095- PEP 3127: octal literals now start with "0o". Old-style octal
2096 literals are still valid. There are binary literals with a prefix of
2097 "0b". This also affects int(x, 0).
Eric Smith0aed07a2008-03-17 19:43:40 +00002098
Georg Brandl1e7c3752008-03-25 08:37:23 +00002099- Issue #2359: Adding deprecation warnings for array.{read,write}.
2100
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002101- Issue #1779871: GNU gcc can now build Python on OS X because the
Jeffrey Yasskin1b4e45b2008-03-17 14:40:53 +00002102 flags -Wno-long-double, -no-cpp-precomp, and -mno-fused-madd are no
2103 longer passed.
2104
Neal Norwitz400aeda2008-03-15 22:03:18 +00002105- Add a warning when asserting a non-empty tuple which is always true.
2106
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002107- Issue #2179: speed up with statement execution by storing the exit
2108 method on the stack instead of in a temporary variable (patch by
2109 Jeffrey Yaskin)
Nick Coghlan7af53be2008-03-07 14:13:28 +00002110
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002111- Issue #2238: Some syntax errors in *args and **kwargs expressions
2112 could give bogus error messages.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd21fb4c2008-03-05 01:50:33 +00002113
Sean Reifscheider68fa8e62008-03-20 00:50:07 +00002114- Issue #2143: Fix embedded readline() hang on SSL socket EOF.
2115
Andrew M. Kuchling46d6b682008-04-30 16:19:55 +00002116Extension Modules
2117-----------------
Martin v. Löwisaef18b12008-03-24 13:31:16 +00002118
2119- Patch #2240: Implement signal.setitimer and signal.getitimer.
2120
Thomas Heller78b8f442008-03-05 14:53:39 +00002121Library
2122-------
2123
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002124- Issue #2315: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now accounts
2125 for daylight savings time in calculating the next rollover.
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00002126
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002127- Issue #2316: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now
2128 calculates rollovers correctly even when nothing is logged for a
2129 while.
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00002130
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002131- Issue #2317: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now uses
2132 improved logic for removing old files.
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00002133
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002134- Issue #2495: tokenize.untokenize now inserts a space between two
2135 consecutive string literals; previously, ["" ""] was rendered as
2136 [""""], which is incorrect python code.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcda0c0252008-03-27 23:23:54 +00002137
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002138- Issue #2248: return the result of the QUIT command. from
2139 SMTP.quit().
Georg Brandldeaf2ca2008-03-27 13:27:31 +00002140
Christian Heimes8c78cc32008-03-26 12:53:58 +00002141- Backport of Python 3.0's io module.
2142
Mark Dickinson8e85ffa2008-03-25 18:47:59 +00002143- Issue #2482: Make sure that the coefficient of a Decimal is always
2144 stored as a str instance, not as a unicode instance. This ensures
2145 that str(Decimal) is always an instance of str.
2146
Mark Dickinson3b24ccb2008-03-25 14:33:23 +00002147- Issue #2478: fix failure of decimal.Decimal(0).sqrt()
2148
Georg Brandl77354cf2008-03-21 20:01:51 +00002149- Issue #2432: give DictReader the dialect and line_num attributes
2150 advertised in the docs.
2151
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002152- Issue #2460: Make Ellipsis object copyable.
Raymond Hettingerb72233c2008-03-24 08:17:39 +00002153
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002154- Issue #1681432: Add triangular distribution to the random module
Raymond Hettingerbbc50ea2008-03-23 13:32:32 +00002155
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002156- Issue #2136: urllib2's auth handler now allows single-quoted realms
2157 in the WWW-Authenticate header.
Georg Brandl33124322008-03-21 19:54:00 +00002158
Marc-André Lemburga1867752008-03-20 18:08:00 +00002159- Issue #2434: Enhanced platform.win32_ver() to also work on Python
2160 installation which do not have the win32all package installed.
2161
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002162- Added support to platform.uname() to also report the machine and
2163 processor information on Windows XP and later. As a result,
Marc-André Lemburga1867752008-03-20 18:08:00 +00002164 platform.machine() and platform.processor() will report this
2165 information as well.
2166
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002167- The library implementing the 2to3 conversion, lib2to3, was added to
2168 the standard distribution.
Martin v. Löwis5e37bae2008-03-19 04:43:46 +00002169
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002170- Issue #1747858: Fix chown to work with large uid's and gid's on
2171 64-bit platforms.
Gregory P. Smith37f3f432008-03-18 20:40:01 +00002172
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002173- Issue #1202: zlib.crc32 and zlib.adler32 no longer return different
2174 values on 32-bit vs. 64-bit python interpreters. Both were correct,
2175 but they now both return a signed integer object for consistency.
Gregory P. Smithf48f9d32008-03-17 18:48:05 +00002176
Skip Montanaro32ed8c22008-03-15 16:07:11 +00002177- Issue #1158: add %f format (fractions of a second represented as
2178 microseconds) to datetime objects. Understood by both strptime and
2179 strftime.
2180
Mark Dickinsonc23b8a72008-03-14 14:23:37 +00002181- Issue #705836: struct.pack(">f", x) now raises OverflowError on all
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002182 platforms when x is too large to fit into an IEEE 754 float;
2183 previously it only raised OverflowError on non IEEE 754 platforms.
Mark Dickinsonc23b8a72008-03-14 14:23:37 +00002184
Andrew M. Kuchlingaac5c862008-05-11 14:00:00 +00002185- Issues #2166, #1741 and #1531505: now distutils deals with HOME
2186 correctly under win32
2187
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002188- Patch #1858: distutils: added multiple server support in .pypirc
Andrew M. Kuchlingaac5c862008-05-11 14:00:00 +00002189
Facundo Batistac54aec12008-03-08 16:50:27 +00002190- Issue #1106316: pdb.post_mortem()'s parameter, "traceback", is now
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002191 optional: it defaults to the traceback of the exception that is
2192 currently being handled (is mandatory to be in the middle of an
2193 exception, otherwise it raises ValueError).
Facundo Batistac54aec12008-03-08 16:50:27 +00002194
Jeffrey Yasskine75f59a2008-03-07 06:22:15 +00002195- Issue #1193577: A .shutdown() method has been added to SocketServers
2196 which terminates the .serve_forever() loop.
2197
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002198- Issue #2220: handle rlcompleter attribute match failure more
2199 gracefully.
Georg Brandl98aa8052008-03-06 07:45:52 +00002200
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002201- Issue #2225: py_compile, when executed as a script, now returns a
2202 non- zero status code if not all files could be compiled
2203 successfully.
Georg Brandla7bd27f2008-03-06 07:41:16 +00002204
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002205- Bug #1725737: In distutils' sdist, exclude RCS, CVS etc. also in the
Georg Brandl810ea292008-03-06 07:34:52 +00002206 root directory, and also exclude .hg, .git, .bzr, and _darcs.
2207
Thomas Hellerf3c05592008-03-05 15:34:29 +00002208- Issue #1872: The struct module typecode for _Bool has been changed
2209 from 't' to '?'.
2210
Thomas Heller78b8f442008-03-05 14:53:39 +00002211- The bundled libffi copy is now in sync with the recently released
2212 libffi3.0.4 version, apart from some small changes to
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002213 Modules/_ctypes/libffi/configure.ac. On OS X, preconfigured libffi
2214 files are used. On all linux systems the --with-system-ffi
2215 configure option defaults to "yes".
Thomas Heller78b8f442008-03-05 14:53:39 +00002216
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002217- Issue #1577: shutil.move() now calls os.rename() if the destination
2218 is a directory instead of copying-then-remove-source.
Sean Reifscheider493894c2008-03-18 17:24:12 +00002219
Martin v. Löwisd2bbe522008-03-06 06:55:22 +00002220Tests
2221-----
2222
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002223- test_nis no longer fails when test.test_support.verbose is true and
2224 NIS is not set up on the testing machine.
Brett Cannon7919d982008-03-19 16:50:13 +00002225
Brett Cannona5573b32008-03-18 04:16:06 +00002226- Output comparison tests are no longer supported.
2227
Brett Cannonb7ec8e52008-03-18 03:46:22 +00002228- Rewrite test_errno to use unittest and no longer be a no-op.
2229
Brett Cannon0bb79502008-03-18 01:58:56 +00002230- GHOP 234: Convert test_extcall to doctest.
2231
Brett Cannonba17cfc2008-03-18 01:50:25 +00002232- GHOP 290: Convert test_dbm and test_dummy_threading to unittest.
2233
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002234- GHOP 293: Convert test_strftime, test_getargs, and test_pep247 to
2235 unittest.
Brett Cannon6eeaddc2008-03-18 01:00:07 +00002236
Brett Cannon1f5182b2008-03-13 21:09:28 +00002237- Issue #2055: Convert test_fcntl to unittest.
2238
Brett Cannon4a6e8d62008-03-13 21:02:16 +00002239- Issue 1960: Convert test_gdbm to unittest.
2240
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002241- GHOP 294: Convert test_contains, test_crypt, and test_select to
2242 unittest.
Brett Cannon2e0f9f32008-03-13 20:47:41 +00002243
Brett Cannonb8d37352008-03-13 20:33:10 +00002244- GHOP 238: Convert test_tokenize to use doctest.
2245
Brett Cannon66865d22008-03-13 20:27:00 +00002246- GHOP 237: Rewrite test_thread using unittest.
2247
Martin v. Löwisd2bbe522008-03-06 06:55:22 +00002248- Patch #2232: os.tmpfile might fail on Windows if the user has no
2249 permission to create files in the root directory.
2250
Martin v. Löwisbf7b0b72008-03-14 13:56:09 +00002251Build
2252-----
2253
Martin v. Löwiscdbc9772008-03-24 12:57:53 +00002254- A new script 2to3 is now installed, to run the 2.x to 3.x converter.
2255
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002256- Python/memmove.c and Python/strerror.c have been removed; both
2257 functions are in the C89 standard library.
Brett Cannonaa5778d2008-03-18 04:09:00 +00002258
Martin v. Löwisbf7b0b72008-03-14 13:56:09 +00002259- Patch #2284: Add -x64 option to rt.bat.
Barry Warsaw65475fd2008-03-01 17:11:41 +00002260
Christian Heimes3c608332008-03-26 22:01:37 +00002261C API
2262-----
2263
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00002264- Patch #2477: Added PyParser_ParseFileFlagsEx() and
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002265 PyParser_ParseStringFlagsFilenameEx().
2266
Christian Heimes3c608332008-03-26 22:01:37 +00002267
Nick Coghlanbb0996c2006-09-03 01:20:46 +00002268What's New in Python 2.6 alpha 1?
2269=================================
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00002270
Barry Warsaw7c075232008-03-01 02:53:36 +00002271*Release date: 29-Feb-2008*
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00002272
2273Core and builtins
2274-----------------
2275
Fred Drakea8ee94b2008-03-01 02:45:07 +00002276- Issue #2051: pyc and pyo files are no longer created with permission
Barry Warsaw52973612008-03-01 02:23:38 +00002277 644. The mode is now inherited from the py file.
Christian Heimes40346852008-02-23 17:52:07 +00002278
Georg Brandlad61bc82008-02-23 15:11:18 +00002279- Issue #2067: file.__exit__() now calls subclasses' close() method.
2280
2281- Patch #1759: Backport of PEP 3129 class decorators.
Christian Heimes5224d282008-02-23 15:01:05 +00002282
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00002283- Issue #1881: An internal parser limit has been increased. Also see
Facundo Batistafc2d0102008-02-23 12:01:13 +00002284 issue 215555 for a discussion.
2285
Eric Smitha73fbe72008-02-23 03:09:44 +00002286- Added the future_builtins module, which contains hex() and oct().
2287 These are the PEP 3127 version of these functions, designed to be
2288 compatible with the hex() and oct() builtins from Python 3.0. They
2289 differ slightly in their output formats from the existing, unchanged
2290 Python 2.6 builtins. The expected usage of the future_builtins
2291 module is:
2292 from future_builtins import hex, oct
2293
Eric Smith7ef40bf2008-02-20 23:34:22 +00002294- Issue #1600: Modifed PyOS_ascii_formatd to use at most 2 digit
2295 exponents for exponents with absolute value < 100. Follows C99
2296 standard. This is a change on Windows, which would use 3 digits.
2297 Also, added 'n' to the formats that PyOS_ascii_formatd understands,
2298 so that any alterations it does to the resulting string will be
2299 available in stringlib/formatter.h (for float.__format__).
2300
Eric Smith5a3c1352008-02-19 13:21:56 +00002301- Implemented PEP 3101, Advanced String Formatting. This adds a new
2302 builtin format(); a format() method for str and unicode; a
2303 __format__() method to object, str, unicode, int, long, float, and
2304 datetime; the class string.Formatter; and the C API
2305 PyObject_Format().
2306
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002307- Fixed several potential crashes, all caused by specially crafted
2308 __del__ methods exploiting objects in temporarily inconsistent
2309 state.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc632fad32008-02-16 20:55:24 +00002310
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00002311- Issue #2115: Important speedup in setting __slot__ attributes. Also
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002312 prevent a possible crash: an Abstract Base Class would try to access
2313 a slot on a registered virtual subclass.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc60d6c7f2008-02-15 21:22:45 +00002314
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002315- Fixed repr() and str() of complex numbers with infinity or nan as
2316 real or imaginary part.
Christian Heimes2f0da532008-02-15 06:57:08 +00002317
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002318- Clear all free lists during a gc.collect() of the highest generation
2319 in order to allow pymalloc to free more arenas. Python may give back
2320 memory to the OS earlier.
Christian Heimes3b718a72008-02-14 12:47:33 +00002321
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002322- Issue #2045: Fix an infinite recursion triggered when printing a
2323 subclass of collections.defaultdict, if its default_factory is set
2324 to a bound method.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcb01aa432008-02-08 00:56:02 +00002325
Christian Heimesf75dbef2008-02-08 00:11:31 +00002326- Fixed a minor memory leak in dictobject.c. The content of the free
2327 list was not freed on interpreter shutdown.
2328
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002329- Limit free list of method and builtin function objects to 256
2330 entries each.
Christian Heimes6075a822008-02-06 12:44:34 +00002331
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002332- Patch #1953: Added ``sys._compact_freelists()`` and the C API
2333 functions ``PyInt_CompactFreeList`` and ``PyFloat_CompactFreeList``
Christian Heimes422051a2008-02-04 18:00:12 +00002334 to compact the internal free lists of pre-allocted ints and floats.
2335
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002336- Issue #1983: Fixed return type of fork(), fork1() and forkpty()
2337 calls. Python expected the return type int but the fork familie
2338 returns pi_t.
Christian Heimes951cc0f2008-01-31 23:08:23 +00002339
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002340- Issue #1678380: Fix a bug that identifies 0j and -0j when they
2341 appear in the same code unit.
Mark Dickinson105be772008-01-31 22:17:37 +00002342
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002343- Issue #2025: Add tuple.count() and tuple.index() methods to comply
2344 with the collections.Sequence API.
Raymond Hettinger5b07ebc2008-02-07 00:54:20 +00002345
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002346- Patch #1970 by Antoine Pitrou: Speedup unicode whitespace and
2347 linebreak detection
Christian Heimes4d4f2702008-01-30 11:32:37 +00002348
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002349- Added ``PyType_ClearCache()`` and ``sys._clear_type_cache`` to clear
2350 the internal lookup cache for ref leak tests.
Christian Heimes908caac2008-01-27 23:34:59 +00002351
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002352- Patch #1473257: generator objects gain a gi_code attribute. This is
2353 the same object as the func_code attribute of the function that
2354 produced the generator.
Georg Brandl0cdf9a32008-01-26 14:14:20 +00002355
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002356- Issue #1920: "while 0" statements were completely removed by the
2357 compiler, even in the presence of an "else" clause, which is
2358 supposed to be run when the condition is false. Now the compiler
2359 correctly emits bytecode for the "else" suite.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc31eaafe2008-01-24 22:59:25 +00002360
Guido van Rossumeead05f2008-01-24 18:21:02 +00002361- A few crashers fixed: weakref_in_del.py (issue #1377858);
2362 loosing_dict_ref.py (issue #1303614, test67.py);
2363 borrowed_ref_[34].py (not in tracker).
2364
Vinay Sajipd7cf32e2008-01-24 12:43:33 +00002365- Issue #1069410: The "can't load dll" message box on Windows is
Christian Heimesb2302ba2008-01-23 17:15:06 +00002366 suppressed while an extension is loaded by calling SetErrorMode in
2367 dynload_win.c. The error is still reported properly.
2368
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002369- Issue #1915: Python compiles with --enable-unicode=no again. However
Christian Heimes082c9b02008-01-23 14:20:50 +00002370 several extension methods and modules do not work without unicode
2371 support.
2372
Georg Brandl26543b12008-01-21 18:36:51 +00002373- Issue #1882: when compiling code from a string, encoding cookies in the
2374 second line of code were not always recognized correctly.
2375
Georg Brandl14404b62008-01-19 19:27:05 +00002376- Issue #1679: "0x" was taken as a valid integer literal.
2377
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00002378- Issue #1865: ``bytes`` as an alias for ``str`` and b"" as an alias "" were
Christian Heimes288e89a2008-01-18 18:24:07 +00002379 added.
2380
Christian Heimesc94e2b52008-01-14 04:13:37 +00002381- sys.float_info / PyFloat_GetInfo: The floating point information
2382 object was converted from a dict to a specialized structseq object.
2383
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002384- Patch #1816: Added sys.flags structseq. It exposes the status of
2385 most command line arguments and PYTHON* environment variables.
Christian Heimesf31b69f2008-01-14 03:42:48 +00002386
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002387- Objects/structseq.c: Implemented new structseq representation. The
2388 patch makes structseqs (e.g. the return value of os.stat) more
2389 readable.
Christian Heimes9c201962008-01-14 03:33:52 +00002390
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002391- Patch #1700288: added a type attribute cache that caches method
2392 accesses, resulting in speedups in heavily object-oriented code.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arce4c270c2008-01-14 00:29:41 +00002393
Neal Norwitz3fc15b82008-01-10 05:42:58 +00002394- Bug #1776: __import__() no longer accepts filenames on any platform.
2395 The first parameter to __import__() must be a valid module name.
Christian Heimes3403f152008-01-09 19:56:33 +00002396
Georg Brandlaed6c662008-01-07 17:25:53 +00002397- Patch #1668: renamed THREADDEBUG envvar to PYTHONTHREADDEBUG.
2398
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002399- Patch #602345: Add -B command line option, PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE
2400 envvar and sys.dont_write_bytecode attribute. All these can be set
2401 to forbid Python to attempt to write compiled bytecode files.
Georg Brandl2da0fce2008-01-07 17:09:35 +00002402
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002403- Improve some exception messages when Windows fails to load an
2404 extension module. Now we get for example '%1 is not a valid Win32
2405 application' instead of 'error code 193'.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arce0b76952008-01-04 02:04:15 +00002406
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002407- Bug #1481296: Fixed long(float('nan')) != 0L.
Christian Heimes8267d1d2008-01-04 00:37:34 +00002408
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002409- Issue #1640: Added math.isinf(x), math.isnan(x) and math.copysign(x,
2410 y) functions.
Christian Heimese2ca4242008-01-03 20:23:15 +00002411
Christian Heimes0a8143f2007-12-18 23:22:54 +00002412- Issue #1635: Platform independent creation and representation of NaN
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002413 and INF. float("nan"), float("inf") and float("-inf") now work on
2414 every platform with IEEE 754 semantics.
Christian Heimes0a8143f2007-12-18 23:22:54 +00002415
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002416- Compiler now generates simpler and faster code for dictionary
2417 literals. The oparg for BUILD_MAP now indicates an estimated
2418 dictionary size. There is a new opcode, STORE_MAP, for adding
2419 entries to the dictionary.
Raymond Hettingerfd7ed402007-12-18 21:24:09 +00002420
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002421- Issue #1638: %zd configure test fails on Linux.
Christian Heimesdb3d6cb2007-12-16 21:39:43 +00002422
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002423- Issue #1620: New property decorator syntax was modifying the
2424 decorator in place instead of creating a new decorator object.
Christian Heimes90e10e72007-12-14 02:35:23 +00002425
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002426- Issue #1538: Avoid copying string in split/rsplit if the split char
2427 is not found.
Skip Montanaro26015492007-12-08 15:33:24 +00002428
Andrew M. Kuchling395fe442007-12-05 13:27:20 +00002429- Issue #1553: An erroneous __length_hint__ can make list() raise a
Christian Heimes7cc1c6f2007-12-05 12:52:34 +00002430 SystemError.
2431
Nick Coghlanef01d822007-12-03 12:55:17 +00002432- PEP 366: Allow explicit relative imports when executing modules
2433 inside packages with the -m switch via a new module level
2434 __package__ attribute.
2435
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002436- Issue #1402: Fix a crash on exit, when another thread is still
2437 running, and if the deallocation of its frames somehow calls the
2438 PyGILState_Ensure() / PyGILState_Release() functions.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcbe49a902007-11-30 20:37:22 +00002439
Christian Heimes28104c52007-11-27 23:16:44 +00002440- Expose the Py_Py3kWarningFlag as sys.py3kwarning.
2441
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00002442- Issue #1445: Fix a SystemError when accessing the ``cell_contents``
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcce7d10c2007-11-24 13:44:17 +00002443 attribute of an empty cell object.
2444
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002445- Issue #1460: The utf-7 incremental decoder did not accept truncated
2446 input. It now correctly saves its state between chunks of data.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcf57375a2007-11-21 01:38:26 +00002447
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002448- Patch #1739468: Directories and zipfiles containing a __main__.py
2449 file can now be directly executed by passing their name to the
2450 interpreter. The directory/zipfile is automatically inserted as the
2451 first entry in sys.path.
Nick Coghlan327a39b2007-11-18 11:56:28 +00002452
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002453- Issue #1265: Fix a problem with sys.settrace, if the tracing
2454 function uses a generator expression when at the same time the
2455 executed code is closing a paused generator.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc0d75f092007-11-13 21:54:28 +00002456
Raymond Hettinger1760c8a2007-11-08 02:52:43 +00002457- sets and frozensets now have an isdisjoint() method.
2458
Raymond Hettinger3f8caa32007-10-24 01:28:33 +00002459- optimize the performance of builtin.sum().
2460
Neal Norwitz44f326e2007-10-05 05:29:17 +00002461- Fix warnings found by the new version of the Coverity checker.
2462
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002463- The enumerate() builtin function is no longer bounded to sequences
2464 smaller than LONG_MAX. Formerly, it raised an OverflowError. Now,
2465 automatically shifts from ints to longs.
Raymond Hettinger8f669372007-10-03 21:18:11 +00002466
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002467- Issue #1686386: Tuple's tp_repr did not take into account the
2468 possibility of having a self-referential tuple, which is possible
2469 from C code. Nor did object's tp_str consider that a type's tp_str
2470 could do something that could lead to an inifinite recursion.
2471 Py_ReprEnter() and Py_EnterRecursiveCall(), respectively, fixed the
2472 issues.
Brett Cannon0b14f242007-09-30 19:45:10 +00002473
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002474- Issue #1164: It was possible to trigger deadlock when using the
2475 'print' statement to write to a file since the GIL was not released
2476 as needed. Now PyObject_Print() does the right thing along with
2477 various tp_print implementations of the built-in types and those in
2478 the collections module.
Brett Cannon01531592007-09-17 03:28:34 +00002479
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002480- Issue #1147: Exceptions were directly allowing string exceptions in
2481 their throw() method even though string exceptions no longer
2482 allowed.
Brett Cannon4c20bc42007-09-11 21:02:28 +00002483
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002484- Issue #1096: Prevent a segfault from getting the repr of a very
2485 deeply nested list by using the recursion counter.
Brett Cannona0c05512007-09-10 21:38:27 +00002486
Brett Cannon1e534b52007-09-07 04:18:30 +00002487- Issue #1202533: Fix infinite recursion calls triggered by calls to
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002488 PyObject_Call() never calling back out to Python code to trigger
2489 recursion depth updates/checks. Required the creation of a static
2490 RuntimeError instance in case normalizing an exception put the
2491 recursion check value past its limit. Fixes crashers
2492 infinite_rec_(1|2|4|5).py.
Brett Cannon1e534b52007-09-07 04:18:30 +00002493
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002494- Patch #1031213: Decode source line in SyntaxErrors back to its
2495 original source encoding.
Martin v. Löwisa5136192007-09-04 14:19:28 +00002496
Georg Brandl7c3b50d2007-07-12 08:38:00 +00002497- Patch #1673759: add a missing overflow check when formatting floats
2498 with %G.
2499
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002500- Prevent expandtabs() on string and unicode objects from causing a
2501 segfault when a large width is passed on 32-bit platforms.
Neal Norwitz7dbd2a32007-06-09 03:36:34 +00002502
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002503- Issue #1733488: Fix compilation of bufferobject.c on AIX.
Martin v. Löwisda587ab2007-06-08 17:29:20 +00002504
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002505- Issue #1722485: remove docstrings again when running with -OO.
Georg Brandla5ea6892007-06-01 11:33:33 +00002506
Neal Norwitz0ac60192007-05-27 04:08:54 +00002507- Add new attribute names for function objects. All the func_* become
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002508 __*__ attributes. (Some already existed, e.g., __doc__ and
2509 __name__.)
Neal Norwitz0ac60192007-05-27 04:08:54 +00002510
Neal Norwitz8b2bfbc2007-05-23 06:35:32 +00002511- Add -3 option to the interpreter to warn about features that are
2512 deprecated and will be changed/removed in Python 3.0.
2513
Georg Brandl2134e752007-05-21 20:34:16 +00002514- Patch #1686487: you can now pass any mapping after '**' in function
2515 calls.
2516
Collin Winter62903052007-05-18 23:11:24 +00002517- except clauses may now be spelled either "except E, target:" or
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002518 "except E as target:". This is to provide forwards compatibility
2519 with Python 3.0.
Collin Winter62903052007-05-18 23:11:24 +00002520
Brett Cannon229cee22007-05-05 01:34:02 +00002521- Deprecate BaseException.message as per PEP 352.
2522
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002523- Issue #1303614: don't expose object's __dict__ when the dict is
Armin Rigo9790a272007-05-02 19:23:31 +00002524 inherited from a builtin base.
2525
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00002526- When __slots__ are set to a unicode string, make it work the same as
Neal Norwitzcbd9ee62007-04-14 05:25:50 +00002527 setting a plain string, ie don't expand to single letter identifiers.
2528
Raymond Hettinger13936692007-04-11 18:40:58 +00002529- Request #1191699: Slices can now be pickled.
2530
Raymond Hettinger4db5fe92007-04-12 04:10:00 +00002531- Request #1193128: str.translate() now allows a None argument for
2532 translations that only remove characters without re-mapping the
2533 remaining characters.
2534
Georg Brandl5cb76c12007-03-21 09:00:39 +00002535- Patch #1682205: a TypeError while unpacking an iterable is no longer
2536 masked by a generic one with the message "unpack non-sequence".
2537
Neal Norwitzaa754b72007-03-21 06:39:48 +00002538- Remove unused file Python/fmod.c.
2539
Guido van Rossum143b5642007-03-23 04:58:42 +00002540- Bug #1683368: The object.__init__() and object.__new__() methods are
2541 now stricter in rejecting excess arguments. The only time when
2542 either allows excess arguments is when it is not overridden and the
2543 other one is. For backwards compatibility, when both are
2544 overridden, it is a deprecation warning (for now; maybe a Py3k
Guido van Rossum234b1ff2007-03-23 19:39:01 +00002545 warning later). Also, type.__init__() insists on the same signature
2546 as supported by type.__new__().
Guido van Rossum143b5642007-03-23 04:58:42 +00002547
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002548- Patch #1675423: PyComplex_AsCComplex() now tries to convert an
2549 object to complex using its __complex__() method before falling back
2550 to the __float__() method. Therefore, the functions in the cmath
2551 module now can operate on objects that define a __complex__()
2552 method.
Georg Brandl2b869942007-03-17 16:08:45 +00002553
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002554- Patch #1623563: allow __class__ assignment for classes with
2555 __slots__. The old and the new class are still required to have the
2556 same slot names.
Žiga Seilnacht6f2d09c2007-03-16 11:59:38 +00002557
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002558- Patch #1642547: Fix an error/crash when encountering syntax errors
2559 in complex if statements.
Collin Winter77c67bd2007-03-16 04:11:30 +00002560
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002561- Patch #1462488: Python no longer segfaults when
2562 ``object.__reduce_ex__()`` is called with an object that is faking
2563 its type.
Žiga Seilnacht20f43d32007-03-15 11:44:55 +00002564
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002565- Patch #1680015: Don't modify __slots__ tuple if it contains an
2566 unicode name.
Žiga Seilnacht71436f02007-03-14 12:24:09 +00002567
Georg Brandl5240d742007-03-13 20:46:32 +00002568- Patch #1444529: the builtin compile() now accepts keyword arguments.
2569
Georg Brandl7b9c5552007-03-12 14:30:05 +00002570- Bug #1678647: write a newline after printing an exception in any
2571 case, even when converting the value to a string failed.
2572
Georg Brandl871f1bc2007-03-12 13:17:36 +00002573- The dir() function has been extended to call the __dir__() method on
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002574 its argument, if it exists. If not, it will work like before. This
2575 allows customizing the output of dir() in the presence of a
2576 __getattr__().
Georg Brandl871f1bc2007-03-12 13:17:36 +00002577
Collin Winter276887b2007-03-12 16:11:39 +00002578- Patch #922167: Python no longer segfaults when faced with infinitely
2579 self-recursive reload() calls (as reported by bug #742342).
2580
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002581- Patch #1675981: remove unreachable code from ``type.__new__()``
2582 method.
Žiga Seilnacht89032082007-03-11 15:54:54 +00002583
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002584- Patch #1491866: change the complex() constructor to allow
2585 parthensized forms. This means complex(repr(x)) now works instead of
2586 raising a ValueError.
Collin Wintere38051d2007-03-09 20:33:07 +00002587
Georg Brandlaa2321b2007-03-07 00:40:28 +00002588- Patch #703779: unset __file__ in __main__ after running a file. This
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002589 makes the filenames the warning module prints much more sensible
2590 when a PYTHONSTARTUP file is used.
Georg Brandlaa2321b2007-03-07 00:40:28 +00002591
Georg Brandl49aafc92007-03-07 00:34:46 +00002592- Variant of patch #697613: don't exit the interpreter on a SystemExit
2593 exception if the -i command line option or PYTHONINSPECT environment
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002594 variable is given, but break into the interactive interpreter just
2595 like on other exceptions or normal program exit.
Georg Brandl49aafc92007-03-07 00:34:46 +00002596
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002597- Patch #1638879: don't accept strings with embedded NUL bytes in
2598 long().
Georg Brandl00cd8182007-03-06 18:41:12 +00002599
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002600- Bug #1674503: close the file opened by execfile() in an error
2601 condition.
Georg Brandl098cd692007-03-06 12:17:50 +00002602
Georg Brandl0fca97a2007-03-05 22:28:08 +00002603- Patch #1674228: when assigning a slice (old-style), check for the
2604 sq_ass_slice instead of the sq_slice slot.
2605
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002606- When printing an unraisable error, don't print exceptions. before
2607 the name. This duplicates the behavior whening normally printing
2608 exceptions.
Neal Norwitz88516a62007-02-26 22:41:45 +00002609
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002610- Bug #1653736: Properly discard third argument to
2611 slot_nb_inplace_power.
Martin v. Löwisfd963262007-02-09 12:19:32 +00002612
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002613- PEP 352: Raising a string exception now triggers a TypeError.
2614 Attempting to catch a string exception raises DeprecationWarning.
Brett Cannon129bd522007-01-30 21:34:36 +00002615
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002616- Bug #1377858: Fix the segfaulting of the interpreter when an object
2617 created a weakref on itself during a __del__ call for new-style
2618 classes (classic classes still have the bug).
Brett Cannonf5bee302007-01-23 23:21:22 +00002619
Martin v. Löwis6c5c5022007-01-23 21:11:47 +00002620- Bug #1579370: Make PyTraceBack_Here use the current thread, not the
2621 frame's thread state.
2622
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002623- patch #1630975: Fix crash when replacing sys.stdout in
2624 sitecustomize.py.
Thomas Wouters6ed19652007-01-23 13:50:49 +00002625
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002626- Prevent seg fault on shutdown which could occur if an object raised
2627 a warning.
Neal Norwitz72cd02c2007-01-05 05:25:22 +00002628
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002629- Bug #1566280: Explicitly invoke threading._shutdown from Py_Main, to
2630 avoid relying on atexit.
Martin v. Löwis7b7c9d42007-01-04 21:06:12 +00002631
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002632- Bug #1590891: random.randrange don't return correct value for big
2633 number.
Raymond Hettinger94547f72006-12-20 06:42:06 +00002634
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002635- Patch #1586791: Better exception messages for some operations on
2636 strings, tuples and lists.
Georg Brandl283a1352006-11-19 08:48:30 +00002637
Martin v. Löwis056dac12006-11-12 18:24:26 +00002638- Bug #1067760: Deprecate passing floats to file.seek.
2639
Martin v. Löwisa346c092006-11-08 06:48:36 +00002640- Bug #1591996: Correctly forward exception in instance_contains().
2641
Neal Norwitz85dbec62006-11-04 19:25:22 +00002642- Bug #1588287: fix invalid assertion for `1,2` in debug builds.
2643
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002644- Bug #1576657: when setting a KeyError for a tuple key, make sure
2645 that the tuple isn't used as the "exception arguments tuple".
Georg Brandlb9f4ad32006-10-29 18:31:42 +00002646
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002647- Bug #1565514: SystemError not raised on too many nested blocks.
Neal Norwitz21997af2006-10-28 21:19:07 +00002648
Thomas Hellerdf08f0b2006-10-27 18:31:36 +00002649- Bug #1576174: WindowsError now displays the windows error code
2650 again, no longer the posix error code.
2651
Martin v. Löwisb5bc5372006-10-27 06:16:31 +00002652- Patch #1549049: Support long values in structmember, issue warnings
2653 if the assigned value for structmember fields gets truncated.
2654
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002655- Update the peephole optimizer to remove more dead code (jumps after
2656 returns) and inline unconditional jumps to returns.
Neal Norwitzcbeb6872006-10-14 21:33:38 +00002657
Georg Brandl2c1375c2006-10-12 11:27:59 +00002658- Bug #1545497: when given an explicit base, int() did ignore NULs
2659 embedded in the string to convert.
2660
Georg Brandl846f73a2006-10-08 07:11:54 +00002661- Bug #1569998: break inside a try statement (outside a loop) is now
2662 recognized and rejected.
2663
Armin Rigo7ccbca92006-10-04 12:17:45 +00002664- list.pop(x) accepts any object x following the __index__ protocol.
2665
Armin Rigo7ccbca92006-10-04 12:17:45 +00002666- A number of places, including integer negation and absolute value,
2667 were fixed to not rely on undefined behaviour of the C compiler
2668 anymore.
Martin v. Löwis820d6ac2006-10-04 05:47:34 +00002669
Georg Brandl3267d282006-09-30 09:03:42 +00002670- Bug #1566800: make sure that EnvironmentError can be called with any
2671 number of arguments, as was the case in Python 2.4.
2672
Georg Brandl5d59c092006-09-30 08:43:30 +00002673- Patch #1567691: super() and new.instancemethod() now don't accept
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002674 keyword arguments any more (previously they accepted them, but
2675 didn't use them).
Georg Brandl5d59c092006-09-30 08:43:30 +00002676
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002677- Fix a bug in the parser's future statement handling that led to
2678 "with" not being recognized as a keyword after, e.g., this
2679 statement: from __future__ import division, with_statement
Georg Brandla10d3af2006-09-24 12:35:36 +00002680
Neal Norwitz3a230172006-09-22 08:18:10 +00002681- Bug #1557232: fix seg fault with def f((((x)))) and def f(((x),)).
2682
Neal Norwitz4a8fbdb2006-09-22 08:16:26 +00002683- Fix %zd string formatting on Mac OS X so it prints negative numbers.
2684
Brett Cannonf6aa86e2006-09-20 18:43:13 +00002685- Allow exception instances to be directly sliced again.
2686
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002687- Bug #1551432: Exceptions do not define an explicit __unicode__
2688 method. This allows calling unicode() on exceptions classes
2689 directly to succeed.
Brett Cannon9adeab72006-09-20 18:34:28 +00002690
Georg Brandl4e933132006-09-06 20:05:58 +00002691- Bug #1542051: Exceptions now correctly call PyObject_GC_UnTrack.
2692 Also make sure that every exception class has __module__ set to
2693 'exceptions'.
2694
Georg Brandl98775df2006-09-06 06:09:31 +00002695- Bug #1550983: emit better error messages for erroneous relative
2696 imports (if not in package and if beyond toplevel package).
2697
Tim Petersc10c9d02006-09-05 02:18:09 +00002698- Overflow checking code in integer division ran afoul of new gcc
2699 optimizations. Changed to be more standard-conforming.
2700
Neal Norwitz4f096d92006-08-21 19:47:08 +00002701- Patch #1542451: disallow continue anywhere under a finally.
2702
Neal Norwitza22975f2006-09-05 02:24:03 +00002703- Patch #1546288: fix seg fault in dict_equal due to ref counting bug.
2704
Neal Norwitzd34e4272006-09-05 02:36:20 +00002705- The return tuple from str.rpartition(sep) is (tail, sep, head) where
2706 head is the original string if sep was not found.
2707
Neal Norwitzdac090d2006-09-05 03:53:08 +00002708- Bug #1520864: unpacking singleton tuples in list comprehensions and
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002709 generator expressions (x for x, in ... ) works again. Fixing this
2710 problem required changing the .pyc magic number. This means that
2711 .pyc files generated before 2.5c2 will be regenerated.
Neal Norwitzdac090d2006-09-05 03:53:08 +00002712
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00002713- ``with`` and ``as`` are now keywords.
Neal Norwitzca460d92006-09-06 06:28:06 +00002714
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002715- Bug #1664966: Fix crash in exec if Unicode filename can't be
2716 decoded.
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00002717
Guido van Rossumcad37242008-01-15 17:59:29 +00002718- Issue #1537: Changed GeneratorExit's base class from Exception to
2719 BaseException.
Christian Heimes44eeaec2007-12-03 20:01:02 +00002720
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002721- Issue #1703448: A joined thread could show up in the
Gregory P. Smith95cd5c02008-01-22 01:20:42 +00002722 threading.enumerate() list after the join() for a brief period until
2723 it actually exited.
2724
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00002725
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00002726Library
2727-------
2728
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002729- Patch #2274: Add heapq.heappushpop().
Raymond Hettinger53bdf092008-03-13 19:03:51 +00002730
Christian Heimes608c1d82008-03-03 18:28:04 +00002731- Add inspect.isabstract(object) to fix bug #2223
2732
Mark Dickinson1ddf1d82008-02-29 02:16:37 +00002733- Add a __format__ method to Decimal, to support PEP 3101.
2734
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002735- Add a timing parameter when using trace.Trace to print out
2736 timestamps.
Neal Norwitzca376612008-02-26 08:21:28 +00002737
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002738- Issue #1627: httplib now ignores negative Content-Length headers.
Georg Brandl8c460d52008-02-24 00:14:24 +00002739
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002740- Issue #900744: If an invalid chunked-encoding header is sent by a
2741 server, httplib will now raise IncompleteRead and close the
2742 connection instead of raising ValueError.
Georg Brandl23635032008-02-24 00:03:22 +00002743
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002744- Issue #1492: The content type of BaseHTTPServer error messages can
2745 now be overridden.
Georg Brandl16479232008-02-23 15:02:28 +00002746
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002747- Issue #1781: ConfigParser now does not let you add the "default" section
Facundo Batistab12f0b52008-02-23 12:46:10 +00002748 (ignore-case)
2749
Guido van Rossum8bc09652008-02-21 18:18:37 +00002750- Removed uses of dict.has_key() from distutils, and uses of
2751 callable() from copy_reg.py, so the interpreter now starts up
2752 without warnings when '-3' is given. More work like this needs to
2753 be done in the rest of the stdlib.
2754
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002755- Issue #1916: added isgenerator() and isgeneratorfunction() to
2756 inspect.py.
Facundo Batista759bfc62008-02-18 03:43:43 +00002757
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002758- Issue #1224: Fixed bad url parsing when path begins with double
2759 slash.
Facundo Batistad14600e2008-02-18 12:48:43 +00002760
Thomas Hellera06a1a82008-02-13 20:21:53 +00002761- ctypes instances that are not or do not contain pointers can now be
2762 pickled.
2763
Martin v. Löwisdad88dc2008-02-12 18:47:34 +00002764- Patch #1966: Break infinite loop in httplib when the servers
2765 implements the chunked encoding incorrectly.
2766
Mark Dickinsond058cd22008-02-10 21:29:51 +00002767- Rename rational.py to fractions.py and the rational.Rational class
2768 to fractions.Fraction, to avoid the name clash with the abstract
2769 base class numbers.Rational. See discussion in issue #1682.
2770
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002771- The pickletools module now provides an optimize() function that
2772 eliminates unused PUT opcodes from a pickle string.
Raymond Hettingerda614dc2008-02-10 20:35:16 +00002773
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002774- Patch #2021: Allow tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile and
2775 SpooledTemporaryFile to be used in with statements by correctly
2776 supporting the context management protocol.
Nick Coghlanac094dc2008-02-10 07:32:52 +00002777
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002778- Patch #1979: Add rich comparisons to Decimal, and make Decimal
2779 comparisons involving a NaN follow the IEEE 754 standard.
Mark Dickinson2fc92632008-02-06 22:10:50 +00002780
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002781- Issue #2004: tarfile.py: Use mode 0700 for temporary directories and
2782 default permissions for missing directories.
Lars Gustäbel0192e432008-02-05 11:51:40 +00002783
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002784- Issue #175006: The debugger used to skip the condition of a "while"
2785 statement after the first iteration. Now it correctly steps on the
2786 expression, and breakpoints on the "while" statement are honored on
2787 each loop.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc6fd03bb2008-02-04 21:45:05 +00002788
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002789- Issue #1765140: add an optional delay argument to FileHandler and
2790 its subclasses. Defaults to false (existing behaviour), but if true,
Vinay Sajipd7cf32e2008-01-24 12:43:33 +00002791 defers opening the file until the first call to emit().
2792
Raymond Hettingerc226c312008-01-23 00:04:40 +00002793- The pprint module now supports sets and frozensets.
2794
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002795- Issue #1221598: add optional callbacks to ftplib.FTP's storbinary()
2796 and storlines() methods. (Contributed by Phil Schwartz)
Gregory P. Smithc64386b2008-01-22 00:19:41 +00002797
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002798- Issue #1715: include sub-extension modules in pydoc's text output.
Georg Brandlf2dae0e2008-01-21 21:05:49 +00002799
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002800- Issue #1836: fix an off-by-one bug in TimedRotatingHandler's
2801 rollover time calculation.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00002802
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002803- Issue #1021: fix a bug to allow basicConfig to accept NOTSET as a
2804 level.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00002805
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002806- Issue #932563: add LoggerAdapter convenience class to make it easier
2807 to add contextual information in logging output.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00002808
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002809- Issue #1760556: fix a bug to avoid FileHandler throwing an exception
2810 in flush().
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00002811
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002812- Bug #1530959: distutils' build command now uses different build
2813 directory when building extension modules against versions of Python
2814 compiled with ``--with-pydebug``.
Georg Brandl50160152008-01-21 17:42:40 +00002815
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002816- Issue #1555501: move plistlib from plat-mac directory to general
2817 library.
Georg Brandl864de822008-01-21 16:34:07 +00002818
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002819- Issue #1269: fix a bug in pstats.add_callers() and add a unit test
2820 file for pstats.
Georg Brandl66e73632008-01-21 10:24:59 +00002821
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002822- Issue #1669: don't allow shutil.rmtree() to be called on a symlink
2823 to a directory.
Georg Brandl52353982008-01-20 14:17:42 +00002824
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002825- Issue #1664522: in urllib, don't read non-existing directories in
2826 ftp mode, returning a 0-byte file -- raise an IOError instead.
Georg Brandld5e6cf22008-01-20 12:18:17 +00002827
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002828- Issue #856047: respect the ``no_proxy`` environment variable when
2829 using the ``http_proxy`` etc. environment variables in urllib.
Georg Brandl22350112008-01-20 12:05:43 +00002830
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002831- Issue #1178141: add a getcode() method to the addinfourls that
2832 urllib.open() returns so that you can retrieve the HTTP status code.
Georg Brandl9b0d46d2008-01-20 11:43:03 +00002833
Gregory P. Smithf25680a2008-01-20 01:26:04 +00002834- Issue #1003: Fix zipfile decryption check, it would fail zip files
2835 with extended local headers.
2836
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002837- Issue #1189216: Fix the zipfile module to work on archives with
2838 headers past the 2**31 byte boundary.
Gregory P. Smith350d03b2008-01-19 23:10:52 +00002839
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002840- Issue #1336: fix a race condition in subprocess.Popen if the garbage
Gregory P. Smithb9ba0752008-01-19 21:00:37 +00002841 collector kicked in at the wrong time that would cause the process
2842 to hang when the child wrote to stderr.
2843
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002844- Issue #1146: fix how textwrap breaks a long word that would start in
2845 the last column of a line.
Georg Brandlc6fde722008-01-19 19:48:19 +00002846
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002847- Issue #1693149: trace.py --ignore-module - accept multiple
2848 comma-separated modules to be given.
Skip Montanaro562133b2008-01-19 18:47:24 +00002849
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002850- Issue #1822: MIMEMultipart.is_multipart() behaves correctly for a
2851 just-created (and empty) instance. Thanks Jonathan Share.
Facundo Batista2b1b1952008-01-19 12:32:27 +00002852
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002853- Issue #1861: Added an attribute to the sched module which returns an
2854 ordered list of upcoming events (displayed as named tuples).
Raymond Hettinger44bd6c02008-01-17 19:31:38 +00002855
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002856- Issue #1837: The queue module now also supports a LIFO queue and a
2857 priority queue.
Raymond Hettinger3ad2acc82008-01-16 23:49:35 +00002858
Andrew M. Kuchling4a2762d2008-01-20 00:00:38 +00002859- Patch #1048820: Add insert-mode editing to curses.textpad.Textbox
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00002860 (patch by Stefan Wehr). Also, fix an off-by-one bug in
Andrew M. Kuchling4a2762d2008-01-20 00:00:38 +00002861 Textbox.gather().
2862
Thomas Heller02ec2892008-01-16 19:37:33 +00002863- Issue #1831: ctypes now raises a TypeError if conflicting positional
2864 and named arguments are passed to a Structure or Union initializer.
Thomas Heller415c1e32008-01-16 19:45:51 +00002865 When too many positional arguments are passed, also a TypeError is
2866 raised instead of a ValueError.
Thomas Heller02ec2892008-01-16 19:37:33 +00002867
Thomas Heller902d3072008-01-16 19:16:27 +00002868- Convert the internal ctypes array type cache to a WeakValueDict so
2869 that array types do not live longer than needed.
2870
Guido van Rossumcad37242008-01-15 17:59:29 +00002871- Issue #1786: pdb should use its own stdin/stdout around an exec call
2872 and when creating a recursive instance.
2873
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002874- Issue #1698398: ZipFile.printdir() crashed because the format string
2875 expected a tuple type of length six instead of time.struct_time
2876 object.
Raymond Hettinger351e1a32008-01-14 22:58:05 +00002877
Mark Dickinson59bc20b2008-01-12 01:56:00 +00002878- Issue #1780: The Decimal constructor now accepts arbitrary leading
2879 and trailing whitespace when constructing from a string.
2880 Context.create_decimal no longer accepts trailing newlines.
2881
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002882- Decimal.as_tuple(), difflib.find_longest_match() and inspect
2883 functions that returned a tuple now return a named tuple.
Georg Brandl2f32c392008-01-11 09:20:58 +00002884
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00002885- Doctest now returns results as a named tuple for readability:
Raymond Hettingerfff4e6e2008-01-11 01:25:54 +00002886 (0, 7) --> TestResults(failed=0, attempted=7)
2887
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002888- Issue #846388:q re.match is interruptible now, which is particularly
Facundo Batista4473d222008-01-08 21:10:12 +00002889 good for long regular expression matches.
2890
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002891- Patch #1137: allow setting buffer_size attribute on pyexpat Parser
2892 objects to set the character data buffer size.
Andrew M. Kuchlinge0a49b62008-01-08 14:30:55 +00002893
Facundo Batista52b25792008-01-08 12:25:20 +00002894- Issue #1757: The hash of a Decimal instance is no longer affected by
2895 the current context.
2896
Georg Brandl62416bc2008-01-07 18:47:44 +00002897- Patch #467924: add ZipFile.extract() and ZipFile.extractall() in the
2898 zipfile module.
2899
Christian Heimesfb2d25a2008-01-07 16:12:44 +00002900- Issue #1646: Make socket support the TIPC protocol.
2901
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002902- Bug #1742: return os.curdir from os.path.relpath() if both arguments
2903 are equal instead of raising an exception.
Georg Brandl183a0842008-01-06 14:27:15 +00002904
Guido van Rossumc6a04c22008-01-05 22:19:06 +00002905- Patch #1637: fix urlparse for URLs like 'http://x.com?arg=/foo'.
2906
Guido van Rossumced4eb02008-01-05 01:21:57 +00002907- Patch #1698: allow '@' in username parsed by urlparse.py.
2908
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002909- Issue #1735: TarFile.extractall() now correctly sets directory
2910 permissions and times.
Lars Gustäbel2ee1c762008-01-04 14:00:33 +00002911
Christian Heimes06875612008-01-04 13:21:07 +00002912- Bug #1713: posixpath.ismount() claims symlink to a mountpoint is a mountpoint.
2913
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002914- Bug #1687: Fxed plistlib.py restricts <integer> to Python int when
2915 writing
Christian Heimes06131882008-01-04 00:04:52 +00002916
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002917- Issue #1700: Regular expression inline flags incorrectly handle
2918 certain unicode characters.
Guido van Rossumae04c332008-01-03 19:12:44 +00002919
Jeffrey Yasskin2f3c16b2008-01-03 02:21:52 +00002920- Issue #1689: PEP 3141, numeric abstract base classes.
2921
Martin v. Löwis84b9aab2008-01-01 21:09:07 +00002922- Tk issue #1851526: Return results from Python callbacks to Tcl as
2923 Tcl objects.
2924
Thomas Heller153038e2007-12-18 19:00:34 +00002925- Issue #1642: Fix segfault in ctypes when trying to delete attributes.
2926
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002927- Issue #1727780: Support loading pickles of random.Random objects
2928 created on 32-bit systems on 64-bit systems, and vice versa. As a
2929 consequence of the change, Random pickles created by Python 2.6
2930 cannot be loaded in Python 2.5.
Martin v. Löwis6b449f42007-12-03 19:20:02 +00002931
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002932- Issue #1455: The distutils package now supports VS 2005 and VS 2008
2933 for both the msvccompiler and cygwincompiler.
Christian Heimesc654fc22007-12-03 13:55:16 +00002934
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002935- Issue #1531: tarfile.py: Read fileobj from the current offset, do
2936 not seek to the start.
Lars Gustäbel77b2d632007-12-01 21:02:12 +00002937
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002938- Issue #1534: Added a dictionary sys.float_info with information
2939 about the internal floating point type to the sys module.
Christian Heimesdfdfaab2007-12-01 11:20:10 +00002940
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002941- Issue #1429818: patch for trace and doctest modules so they play
2942 nicely together.
Skip Montanaro58a6f442007-11-24 14:30:47 +00002943
Brett Cannon43e53f82007-11-21 00:47:36 +00002944- doctest made a bad assumption that a package's __loader__.get_data()
2945 method used universal newlines.
2946
Nick Coghlan90b858e2007-11-07 11:57:51 +00002947- Issue #1705170: contextlib.contextmanager was still swallowing
2948 StopIteration in some cases. This should no longer happen.
2949
Thomas Heller486b1b02007-11-02 19:10:24 +00002950- Issue #1292: On alpha, arm, ppc, and s390 linux systems the
2951 --with-system-ffi configure option defaults to "yes".
2952
Hye-Shik Changa838a802007-10-28 11:19:02 +00002953- IN module for FreeBSD 8 is added and preexisting FreeBSD 6 and 7
2954 files are updated.
2955
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002956- Issues #1181, #1287: unsetenv() is now called when the
2957 os.environ.pop() and os.environ.clear() methods are used.
Georg Brandl1a94ec22007-10-24 21:40:38 +00002958
Thomas Heller91ac4222007-10-19 18:11:41 +00002959- ctypes will now work correctly on 32-bit systems when Python is
2960 configured with --with-system-ffi.
2961
Thomas Heller7fee6dd2007-10-11 19:51:32 +00002962- Patch #1203: ctypes now does work on OS X when Python is built with
Georg Brandl1a94ec22007-10-24 21:40:38 +00002963 --disable-toolbox-glue.
Thomas Heller7fee6dd2007-10-11 19:51:32 +00002964
Raymond Hettingera7fc4b12007-10-05 02:47:07 +00002965- collections.deque() now supports a "maxlen" argument.
2966
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002967- itertools.count() is no longer bounded to LONG_MAX. Formerly, it
2968 raised an OverflowError. Now, automatically shifts from ints to
2969 longs.
Raymond Hettinger50e90e22007-10-04 00:20:27 +00002970
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002971- Added itertools.product() which forms the Cartesian product of the
2972 input iterables.
Raymond Hettingerc5705a82008-02-22 19:50:06 +00002973
Raymond Hettinger66f91ea2008-03-05 20:59:58 +00002974- Added itertools.combinations() and itertools.permutations().
Raymond Hettinger93e804d2008-02-26 23:40:50 +00002975
Georg Brandlaff85e22007-09-20 16:06:07 +00002976- Patch #1541463: optimize performance of cgi.FieldStorage operations.
2977
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002978- Decimal is fully updated to the latest Decimal Specification
2979 (v1.66).
Facundo Batistab67da232007-09-17 16:26:50 +00002980
Georg Brandl8fd3ecf2007-09-12 19:00:07 +00002981- Bug #1153: repr.repr() now doesn't require set and dictionary items
2982 to be orderable to properly represent them.
2983
Thomas Heller2825b2e2007-09-07 06:32:17 +00002984- A 'c_longdouble' type was added to the ctypes module.
2985
Martin v. Löwis7dcb83c2007-08-30 19:04:09 +00002986- Bug #1709599: Run test_1565150 only if the file system is NTFS.
2987
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002988- When encountering a password-protected robots.txt file the
2989 RobotFileParser no longer prompts interactively for a username and
2990 password (bug 813986).
Skip Montanaro3e275362007-08-29 01:33:45 +00002991
Lars Gustäbel0f4a14b2007-08-28 12:31:09 +00002992- TarFile.__init__() no longer fails if no name argument is passed and
2993 the fileobj argument has no usable name attribute (e.g. StringIO).
2994
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002995- The functools module now provides 'reduce', for forward
2996 compatibility with Python 3000.
Guido van Rossum95f1a1b2007-08-27 20:52:10 +00002997
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002998- Server-side SSL support and cert verification added, by Bill
2999 Janssen.
Guido van Rossum4f2c3dd2007-08-25 15:08:43 +00003000
Bill Janssenf413fb02007-08-30 18:08:06 +00003001- socket.ssl deprecated; use new ssl module instead.
3002
Georg Brandl8ec57542007-08-24 06:10:01 +00003003- uuid creation is now threadsafe.
3004
Hye-Shik Chang23901042007-08-20 06:49:18 +00003005- EUC-KR codec now handles the cheot-ga-keut composed make-up hangul
3006 syllables.
3007
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003008- GB18030 codec now can encode additional two-byte characters that are
3009 missing in GBK.
Hye-Shik Changf3e93a02007-08-04 04:10:18 +00003010
Walter Dörwald6e390802007-08-17 16:41:28 +00003011- Add new codecs for UTF-32, UTF-32-LE and UTF-32-BE.
3012
Martin v. Löwisf1e0b3f2007-07-28 07:03:05 +00003013- Bug #1704793: Return UTF-16 pair if unicodedata.lookup cannot
3014 represent the result in a single character.
3015
Martin v. Löwisf25e35b2007-07-27 18:28:22 +00003016- Bug #978833: Close https sockets by releasing the _ssl object.
3017
Martin v. Löwis254b8f92007-07-25 16:24:23 +00003018- Change location of the package index to pypi.python.org/pypi
3019
Thomas Hellerfa704c62007-07-13 17:12:23 +00003020- Bug #1701409: Fix a segfault in printing ctypes.c_char_p and
3021 ctypes.c_wchar_p when they point to an invalid location. As a
3022 sideeffect the representation of these instances has changed.
3023
Lars Gustäbel104490e2007-06-18 11:42:11 +00003024- tarfile.py: Added "exclude" keyword argument to TarFile.add().
3025
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003026- Bug #1734723: Fix repr.Repr() so it doesn't ignore the maxtuple
3027 attribute.
Neal Norwitzc161cb92007-06-11 07:29:43 +00003028
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003029- The urlopen function of urllib2 now has an optional timeout
3030 parameter (note that it actually works with HTTP, HTTPS, FTP and
3031 FTPS connections).
Facundo Batista10951d52007-06-06 17:15:23 +00003032
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003033- In ftplib, the FTP.ntransfercmd method, when in passive mode, now
3034 uses the socket.create_connection function, using the timeout
3035 specified at connection time.
Facundo Batista92493122007-06-06 15:13:37 +00003036
Hye-Shik Chang9b541402007-06-05 18:58:51 +00003037- Bug #1728403: Fix a bug that CJKCodecs StreamReader hangs when it
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003038 reads a file that ends with incomplete sequence and sizehint
3039 argument for .read() is specified.
Hye-Shik Chang9b541402007-06-05 18:58:51 +00003040
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003041- Bug #1730389: Change time.strptime() to use ``\s+`` instead of
3042 ``\s*`` when matching spaces in the specified format argument.
Brett Cannonf7188ce2007-06-03 23:13:41 +00003043
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003044- Bugs #1668596/#1720897: distutils now copies data files even if
3045 package_dir is empty.
Neal Norwitz4a700bb2007-06-01 07:29:12 +00003046
Brett Cannonc2aa09a2007-05-31 19:20:00 +00003047- sha now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
3048
Brett Cannon7eec2172007-05-30 22:24:28 +00003049- md5 now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
3050
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003051- Issue #1385: The hmac module now computes the correct hmac when
3052 using hashes with a block size other than 64 bytes (such as sha384
3053 and sha512).
Gregory P. Smithe1ac4f12007-11-06 00:19:03 +00003054
Brett Cannonc249bda2007-05-30 21:48:58 +00003055- mimify now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
3056
Brett Cannon90134c92007-05-30 20:46:26 +00003057- MimeWriter now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
3058
Lars Gustäbela0fcb932007-05-27 19:49:30 +00003059- tarfile.py: Improved unicode support. Unicode input names are now
3060 officially supported. Added "errors" argument to the TarFile class.
3061
Facundo Batista711a54e2007-05-24 17:50:54 +00003062- urllib.ftpwrapper class now accepts an optional timeout.
3063
Georg Brandlc90bc752007-05-24 16:49:29 +00003064- shlex.split() now has an optional "posix" parameter.
3065
Brett Cannon41bf2fa2007-05-20 23:57:38 +00003066- The posixfile module now raises a DeprecationWarning.
3067
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003068- Remove the gopherlib module. This also leads to the removal of
3069 gopher support in urllib/urllib2.
Brett Cannond75f0432007-05-16 22:42:29 +00003070
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003071- Fix bug in marshal where bad data would cause a segfault due to lack
3072 of an infinite recursion check.
Neal Norwitzb1a9b372007-05-16 20:05:11 +00003073
Neal Norwitze0e70a42007-05-16 05:06:33 +00003074- Removed plat-freebsd2 and plat-freebsd3 directories (and IN.py in
3075 the directories).
3076
Georg Brandla09a96a2007-05-15 20:19:34 +00003077- HTML-escape the plain traceback in cgitb's HTML output, to prevent
3078 the traceback inadvertently or maliciously closing the comment and
3079 injecting HTML into the error page.
3080
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003081- The popen2 module and os.popen* are deprecated. Use the subprocess
3082 module.
Neal Norwitz42dd86b2007-05-11 06:57:33 +00003083
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003084- Added an optional credentials argument to SMTPHandler, for use with
3085 SMTP servers which require authentication.
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00003086
3087- Patch #1695948: Added optional timeout parameter to SocketHandler.
3088
3089- Bug #1652788: Minor fix for currentframe.
3090
3091- Patch #1598415: Added WatchedFileHandler to better support external
3092 log file rotation using e.g. newsyslog or logrotate. This handler is
3093 only useful in Unix/Linux environments.
3094
Georg Brandlfb4b3b72007-04-24 15:27:13 +00003095- Bug #1706381: Specifying the SWIG option "-c++" in the setup.py file
3096 (as opposed to the command line) will now write file names ending in
3097 ".cpp" too.
3098
Facundo Batistad918a652007-04-24 13:54:38 +00003099- As specified in RFC 2616, an HTTP response like 2xx indicates that
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003100 the client's request was successfully received, understood, and
3101 accepted. Now in these cases no error is raised in urllib (issue
3102 #1177) and urllib2.
Facundo Batistad918a652007-04-24 13:54:38 +00003103
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003104- Bug #1290505: time.strptime's internal cache of locale information
3105 is now properly recreated when the locale is changed.
Brett Cannonc6906652007-04-01 18:47:27 +00003106
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003107- Patch #1685563: remove (don't add) duplicate paths in
3108 distutils.MSVCCompiler.
Neal Norwitz8f35f442007-04-01 18:24:22 +00003109
Facundo Batistab6a5c9d2007-03-29 18:22:35 +00003110- Added a timeout parameter to the constructor of other protocols
3111 (telnetlib, ftplib, smtplib and poplib). This is second part of the
3112 work started with create_connection() and timeout in httplib, and
3113 closes patch #723312.
3114
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00003115- Patch #1676823: Added create_connection() to socket.py, which may be
3116 called with a timeout, and use it from httplib (whose HTTPConnection
Facundo Batista70f996b2007-05-21 17:32:32 +00003117 and HTTPSConnection now accept an optional timeout).
Facundo Batista07c78be2007-03-23 18:54:07 +00003118
Martin v. Löwis0af33882007-03-23 13:27:15 +00003119- Bug #978833: Revert r50844, as it broke _socketobject.dup.
3120
Žiga Seilnacht7492e422007-03-21 20:07:56 +00003121- Bug #1675967: re patterns pickled with Python 2.4 and earlier can
3122 now be unpickled with Python 2.5 and newer.
3123
Collin Wintera8785cc2007-03-19 18:52:08 +00003124- Patch #1630118: add a SpooledTemporaryFile class to tempfile.py.
3125
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003126- Patch #1273829: os.walk() now has a "followlinks" parameter. If set
3127 to True (which is not the default), it visits symlinks pointing to
Georg Brandlcae9f3d2007-03-21 09:10:29 +00003128 directories.
3129
Georg Brandl8f06d022007-03-16 07:55:09 +00003130- Bug #1681228: the webbrowser module now correctly uses the default
3131 GNOME or KDE browser, depending on whether there is a session of one
3132 of those present. Also, it tries the Windows default browser before
3133 trying Mozilla variants.
3134
Collin Winter6f187742007-03-16 22:16:08 +00003135- Patch #1339796: add a relpath() function to os.path.
3136
Georg Brandlab1f4672007-03-15 07:41:30 +00003137- Patch #1681153: the wave module now closes a file object it opened if
3138 initialization failed.
3139
Georg Brandlf66b6032007-03-14 08:27:52 +00003140- Bug #767111: fix long-standing bug in urllib which caused an
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003141 AttributeError instead of an IOError when the server's response
3142 didn't contain a valid HTTP status line.
Georg Brandlf66b6032007-03-14 08:27:52 +00003143
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003144- Patch #957650: "%var%" environment variable references are now
3145 properly expanded in ntpath.expandvars(), also "~user" home
3146 directory references are recognized and handled on Windows.
Georg Brandl03b90d82007-03-13 22:07:36 +00003147
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003148- Patch #1429539: pdb now correctly initializes the __main__ module
3149 for the debugged script, which means that imports from __main__ work
Georg Brandlb6ae6aa2007-03-13 21:58:44 +00003150 correctly now.
3151
Georg Brandlbad6f192007-03-13 21:32:56 +00003152- The nonobvious commands.getstatus() function is now deprecated.
3153
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003154- Patch #1393667: pdb now has a "run" command which restarts the
3155 debugged Python program, optionally with different arguments.
Georg Brandl8e84c652007-03-13 21:08:15 +00003156
Thomas Heller5dc4fe02007-03-13 20:42:52 +00003157- Patch #1649190: Adding support for _Bool to ctypes as c_bool.
3158
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003159- Patch #1530482: add pydoc.render_doc() which returns the
3160 documentation for a thing instead of paging it to stdout, which
3161 pydoc.doc() does.
Georg Brandl8441f152007-03-13 20:02:57 +00003162
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003163- Patch #1533909: the timeit module now accepts callables in addition
3164 to strings for the code to time and the setup code. Also added two
3165 convenience functions for instantiating a Timer and calling its
3166 methods.
Georg Brandld9bef352007-03-13 19:32:21 +00003167
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003168- Patch #1537850: tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile now has a "delete"
3169 parameter which can be set to False to prevent the default
3170 delete-on-close behavior.
Georg Brandl35ef9c12007-03-13 18:31:49 +00003171
Georg Brandl9e6b4702007-03-13 18:15:41 +00003172- Patch #1581073: add a flag to textwrap that prevents the dropping of
3173 whitespace while wrapping.
3174
Georg Brandl92a6bae2007-03-13 17:43:32 +00003175- Patch #1603688: ConfigParser.SafeConfigParser now checks values that
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003176 are set for invalid interpolation sequences that would lead to
3177 errors on reading back those values.
Georg Brandl92a6bae2007-03-13 17:43:32 +00003178
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003179- Added support for the POSIX.1-2001 (pax) format to
3180 tarfile.py. Extended and cleaned up the test suite. Added a new
3181 testtar.tar.
Lars Gustäbelc64e4022007-03-13 10:47:19 +00003182
Martin v. Löwisbdd0f392007-03-13 10:24:00 +00003183- Patch #1449244: Support Unicode strings in
3184 email.message.Message.{set_charset,get_content_charset}.
3185
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003186- Patch #1542681: add entries for "with", "as" and "CONTEXTMANAGERS"
3187 to pydoc's help keywords.
Georg Brandlb6a87542007-03-13 10:06:48 +00003188
Georg Brandl4ffc8f52007-03-13 09:41:31 +00003189- Patch #1555098: use str.join() instead of repeated string
3190 concatenation in robotparser.
3191
Georg Brandl94fe3f52007-03-13 09:32:11 +00003192- Patch #1635454: the csv.DictWriter class now includes the offending
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003193 field names in its exception message if you try to write a record
3194 with a dictionary containing fields not in the CSV field names list.
Georg Brandl94fe3f52007-03-13 09:32:11 +00003195
Georg Brandlceede5c2007-03-13 08:14:27 +00003196- Patch #1668100: urllib2 now correctly raises URLError instead of
3197 OSError if accessing a local file via the file:// protocol fails.
3198
Martin v. Löwis2681beb2007-03-12 11:01:10 +00003199- Patch #1677862: Require a space or tab after import in .pth files.
3200
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003201- Patch #1192590: Fix pdb's "ignore" and "condition" commands so they
3202 trap the IndexError caused by passing in an invalid breakpoint
3203 number.
Collin Winter2faa9e12007-03-11 16:00:20 +00003204
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003205- Patch #1599845: Add an option to disable the implicit calls to
3206 server_bind() and server_activate() in the constructors for
3207 TCPServer, SimpleXMLRPCServer and DocXMLRPCServer.
Collin Winterae041062007-03-10 14:41:48 +00003208
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003209- Bug #1531963: Make SocketServer.TCPServer's server_address always be
3210 equal to calling getsockname() on the server's socket. Fixed by
Collin Winterfaaa2042007-03-10 03:35:34 +00003211 patch #1545011.
Collin Winter22c42ba2007-03-10 02:51:26 +00003212
Andrew M. Kuchlinge45a77a2008-01-19 16:26:13 +00003213- Patch #742598: Add .timeout attribute to SocketServer that calls
3214 .handle_timeout() when no requests are received.
3215
Thomas Heller2456a3c2007-03-09 20:39:22 +00003216- Bug #1651235: When a tuple was passed to a ctypes function call,
3217 Python would crash instead of raising an error.
3218
Thomas Hellerc2f77252007-03-09 19:21:28 +00003219- Bug #1646630: ctypes.string_at(buf, 0) and ctypes.wstring_at(buf, 0)
3220 returned string up to the first NUL character.
3221
Martin v. Löwis1190a382007-03-09 15:35:55 +00003222- Patch #957003: Implement smtplib.LMTP.
3223
Collin Winterfb728de2007-03-09 03:26:32 +00003224- Patch #1481079: add support for HTTP_REFERER to CGIHTTPServer.
3225
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003226- Patch #1675424: Added tests for uncovered code in the zipfile
3227 module. The KeyError raised by Zipfile.getinfo for nonexistent
3228 names now has a descriptive message.
Georg Brandl4b3ab6f2007-07-12 09:59:22 +00003229
Martin v. Löwis05c075d2007-03-07 11:04:33 +00003230- Bug #1115886: os.path.splitext('.cshrc') gives now ('.cshrc', '').
3231
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003232- unittest now verifies more of its assumptions. In particular,
3233 TestCase and TestSuite subclasses (not instances) are no longer
3234 accepted in TestSuite.addTest(). This should cause no
3235 incompatibility since it never made sense with ordinary subclasses
3236 -- the failure just occurred later, with a more cumbersome
3237 exception.
Georg Brandl9caadf82007-03-08 18:37:31 +00003238
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003239- Patch #787789: allow to pass custom TestRunner instances to
3240 unittest's main() function.
Georg Brandld0a96252007-03-07 09:21:06 +00003241
Georg Brandl15c5ce92007-03-07 09:09:40 +00003242- Patches #1550273, #1550272: fix a few bugs in unittest and add a
3243 comprehensive test suite for the module.
3244
Georg Brandl71ff6462007-03-07 08:31:51 +00003245- Patch #1001604: glob.glob() now returns unicode filenames if it was
3246 given a unicode argument and os.listdir() returns unicode filenames.
3247
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003248- Patch #1673619: setup.py identifies extension modules it doesn't
3249 know how to build and those it knows how to build but that fail to
3250 build.
Skip Montanarod1287322007-03-06 15:41:38 +00003251
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00003252- Patch #912410: Replace HTML entity references for attribute values
Martin v. Löwisab8a6bb2007-03-06 14:43:00 +00003253 in HTMLParser.
3254
Georg Brandlff432e62007-03-06 13:37:45 +00003255- Patch #1663234: you can now run doctest on test files and modules
3256 using "python -m doctest [-v] filename ...".
3257
Martin v. Löwis3eb76482007-03-06 10:41:24 +00003258- Patch #1121142: Implement ZipFile.open.
3259
Skip Montanarof694b1b2007-03-04 20:54:12 +00003260- Taught setup.py how to locate Berkeley DB on Macs using MacPorts.
3261
Raymond Hettinger00166c52007-02-19 04:08:43 +00003262- Added heapq.merge() for merging sorted input streams.
3263
Raymond Hettingercd3c1082007-10-23 21:23:07 +00003264- Added collections.namedtuple() for assigning field names to tuples.
Raymond Hettingerc37e5e02007-03-01 06:16:43 +00003265
Raymond Hettingerd36862c2007-02-21 05:20:38 +00003266- Added itertools.izip_longest().
3267
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003268- Have the encoding package's search function dynamically import using
3269 absolute import semantics.
Brett Cannon971a0122007-02-15 22:54:39 +00003270
Lars Gustäbel5b1a7852007-02-13 16:09:24 +00003271- Patch #1647484: Renamed GzipFile's filename attribute to name.
3272
Martin v. Löwis84f6de92007-02-13 10:10:39 +00003273- Patch #1517891: Mode 'a' for ZipFile now creates the file if it
3274 doesn't exist.
3275
Martin v. Löwisc6d626e2007-02-13 09:49:38 +00003276- Patch #698833: Support file decryption in zipfile.
3277
Martin v. Löwis07aa3ed2007-02-13 08:34:45 +00003278- Patch #685268: Consider a package's __path__ in imputil.
3279
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003280- Patch #1463026: Support default namespace in XMLGenerator.
Martin v. Löwis2bad58f2007-02-12 12:21:10 +00003281
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003282- Patch #1571379: Make trace's --ignore-dir facility work in the face
3283 of relative directory names.
Skip Montanaro691acf22007-02-11 18:24:37 +00003284
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003285- Bug #1600860: Search for shared python library in LIBDIR, not
3286 lib/python/config, on "linux" and "gnu" systems.
Martin v. Löwis0a203262007-02-09 12:36:48 +00003287
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003288- Patch #1652681: tarfile.py: create nonexistent files in append mode
3289 and allow appending to empty files.
Lars Gustäbel3f8aca12007-02-06 18:38:13 +00003290
Peter Astrand5f9c6ae2007-02-06 15:37:50 +00003291- Bug #1124861: Automatically create pipes if GetStdHandle fails in
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00003292 subprocess.
Peter Astrand5f9c6ae2007-02-06 15:37:50 +00003293
Georg Brandl4ba9e5b2007-01-27 17:59:42 +00003294- Patch #1634778: add missing encoding aliases for iso8859_15 and
3295 iso8859_16.
3296
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003297- Patch #1638243: the compiler package is now able to correctly
3298 compile a with statement; previously, executing code containing a
3299 with statement compiled by the compiler package crashed the
3300 interpreter.
Georg Brandlab496842007-01-27 17:43:02 +00003301
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00003302- Bug #1643943: Fix time.strptime's support for the %U directive.
3303
Lars Gustäbel0713a682007-02-19 09:54:47 +00003304- Patch #1507247: tarfile.py: use current umask for intermediate
3305 directories.
3306
Georg Brandldd7b0522007-01-21 10:35:10 +00003307- Patch #1627441: close sockets properly in urllib2.
3308
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003309- Bug #494589: make ntpath.expandvars behave according to its
3310 docstring.
Sjoerd Mullender33a0a062007-01-16 16:42:38 +00003311
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00003312- Changed platform module API python_version_tuple() to actually
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00003313 return a tuple (it used to return a list).
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00003314
3315- Added new platform module APIs python_branch(), python_revision(),
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00003316 python_implementation() and linux_distribution().
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00003317
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00003318- Added support for IronPython and Jython to the platform module.
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00003319
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003320- The sets module has been deprecated. Use the built-in set/frozenset
3321 types instead.
Brett Cannon093b6702007-01-13 00:29:49 +00003322
Thomas Heller6fd45492007-01-12 20:21:53 +00003323- Bug #1610795: make ctypes.util.find_library work on BSD systems.
3324
Thomas Heller8138c262007-01-11 21:18:56 +00003325- Fixes for 64-bit Windows: In ctypes.wintypes, correct the
3326 definitions of HANDLE, WPARAM, LPARAM data types. Make
3327 parameterless foreign function calls work.
3328
Thomas Hellerfb9d7872007-01-10 20:12:13 +00003329- The version number of the ctypes package changed to "1.1.0".
3330
Vinay Sajipab41c102007-01-09 14:51:36 +00003331- Bug #1627575: logging: Added _open() method to FileHandler which can
3332 be used to reopen files. The FileHandler instance now saves the
3333 encoding (which can be None) in an attribute called "encoding".
3334
Vinay Sajipc9137262007-01-08 18:52:36 +00003335- Bug #411881: logging.handlers: bare except clause removed from
3336 SMTPHandler.emit. Now, only ImportError is trapped.
3337
3338- Bug #411881: logging.handlers: bare except clause removed from
3339 SocketHandler.createSocket. Now, only socket.error is trapped.
3340
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003341- Bug #411881: logging: bare except clause removed from
3342 LogRecord.__init__. Now, only ValueError, TypeError and
3343 AttributeError are trapped.
Vinay Sajipc9137262007-01-08 18:52:36 +00003344
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003345- Patch #1504073: Fix tarfile.open() for mode "r" with a fileobj
3346 argument.
Lars Gustäbela7ba6fc2006-12-27 10:30:46 +00003347
Andrew M. Kuchling71662322006-12-27 03:31:24 +00003348- Patch #1182394 from Shane Holloway: speed up HMAC.hexdigest.
3349
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003350- Patch #1262036: Prevent TarFiles from being added to themselves
3351 under certain conditions.
Lars Gustäbela4b23812006-12-23 17:57:23 +00003352
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003353- Patch #1230446: tarfile.py: fix ExFileObject so that read() and
3354 tell() work correctly together with readline().
Lars Gustäbel6baa5022006-12-23 16:40:13 +00003355
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003356- Patch #1484695: The tarfile module now raises a HeaderError
3357 exception if a buffer given to frombuf() is invalid.
Georg Brandlebbeed72006-12-19 22:06:46 +00003358
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00003359- Bug #1503765: Fix a problem in logging.config with spaces in comma-
3360 separated lists read from logging config files.
3361
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003362- Patch #1604907: Fix problems in logging.handlers caused at logging
3363 shutdown when syslog handlers fail to initialize because of syslogd
3364 problems.
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00003365
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003366- Patch #1608267: fix a race condition in os.makedirs() if the
3367 directory to be created is already there.
Georg Brandlb1307432006-12-09 09:08:29 +00003368
Georg Brandl87fa5592006-12-06 22:21:18 +00003369- Patch #1610437: fix a tarfile bug with long filename headers.
3370
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003371- Patch #1371075: Make ConfigParser accept optional dict type for
3372 ordering, sorting, etc.
Martin v. Löwisa00bcac2006-12-03 12:01:53 +00003373
Thomas Helleref583a42006-11-28 20:21:54 +00003374- Bug #1563807: _ctypes built on AIX fails with ld ffi error.
3375
Thomas Heller25d208b2006-11-24 18:45:39 +00003376- Bug #1598620: A ctypes Structure cannot contain itself.
3377
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003378- Patch #1070046: Marshal new-style objects like InstanceType in
3379 xmlrpclib.
Martin v. Löwis07529352006-11-19 18:51:54 +00003380
Martin v. Löwiscffcc8b2006-11-19 10:41:41 +00003381- cStringIO.truncate(-1) now raises an IOError, like StringIO and
3382 regular files.
3383
Martin v. Löwisbba003e2006-11-18 18:42:11 +00003384- Patch #1472877: Fix Tix subwidget name resolution.
3385
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003386- Patch #1594554: Always close a tkSimpleDialog on ok(), even if an
3387 exception occurs.
Martin v. Löwisef5fd3e2006-11-18 18:05:35 +00003388
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003389- Patch #1538878: Don't make tkSimpleDialog dialogs transient if the
3390 parent window is withdrawn.
Martin v. Löwisc73a4a42006-11-18 18:00:23 +00003391
Georg Brandl54082112006-11-16 16:50:59 +00003392- Bug #1597824: return the registered function from atexit.register()
3393 to facilitate usage as a decorator.
3394
Martin v. Löwis45cd4ff2006-11-12 18:56:03 +00003395- Patch #1360200: Use unmangled_version RPM spec field to deal with
3396 file name mangling.
3397
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003398- Patch #1359217: Process 2xx response in an ftplib transfer that
3399 precedes an 1xx response.
Martin v. Löwis36cbc082006-11-12 18:48:13 +00003400
Martin v. Löwis065f0c82006-11-12 10:41:39 +00003401- Patch #1355023: support whence argument for GzipFile.seek.
3402
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00003403- Patch #1065257: Support passing open files as body in
Martin v. Löwis040a9272006-11-12 10:32:47 +00003404 HTTPConnection.request().
3405
Andrew M. Kuchlinga3e5d372006-11-09 13:27:07 +00003406- Bug #1569790: mailbox.py: Maildir.get_folder() and MH.get_folder()
3407 weren't passing the message factory on to newly created Maildir/MH
3408 objects.
3409
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003410- Patch #1514543: mailbox.py: In the Maildir class, report errors if
3411 there's a filename clash instead of possibly losing a message.
3412 (Patch by David Watson.)
Andrew M. Kuchling978d8282006-11-09 21:16:46 +00003413
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003414- Patch #1514544: Try to ensure that messages/indexes have been
3415 physically written to disk after calling .flush() or
3416 .close(). (Patch by David Watson.)
Andrew M. Kuchlingb5686da2006-11-09 13:51:14 +00003417
Guido van Rossumaf16ece2008-02-21 19:46:35 +00003418- Patch #1592250: Add elide argument to Tkinter.Text.search.
Martin v. Löwis038cad72006-11-09 11:27:32 +00003419
Guido van Rossumaf16ece2008-02-21 19:46:35 +00003420- Patch #838546: Make terminal become controlling in pty.fork().
Martin v. Löwisb2bba732006-11-09 11:06:03 +00003421
Martin v. Löwis5361e9a2006-11-08 07:35:55 +00003422- Patch #1351744: Add askyesnocancel helper for tkMessageBox.
3423
Martin v. Löwis5310e502006-11-04 18:14:06 +00003424- Patch #1060577: Extract list of RPM files from spec file in
Guido van Rossumaf16ece2008-02-21 19:46:35 +00003425 bdist_rpm.
Martin v. Löwis5310e502006-11-04 18:14:06 +00003426
Georg Brandl2c9838e2006-10-29 14:39:09 +00003427- Bug #1586613: fix zlib and bz2 codecs' incremental en/decoders.
3428
Georg Brandl3354f282006-10-29 09:16:12 +00003429- Patch #1583880: fix tarfile's problems with long names and posix/
3430 GNU modes.
3431
Georg Brandl5addf702006-10-29 08:53:06 +00003432- Bug #1586448: the compiler module now emits the same bytecode for
3433 list comprehensions as the builtin compiler, using the LIST_APPEND
3434 opcode.
3435
Georg Brandl8f99f812006-10-29 08:39:22 +00003436- Fix codecs.EncodedFile which did not use file_encoding in 2.5.0, and
3437 fix all codecs file wrappers to work correctly with the "with"
3438 statement (bug #1586513).
3439
Thomas Heller112d1a62006-10-27 19:05:53 +00003440- Lib/modulefinder.py now handles absolute and relative imports
3441 correctly.
3442
Martin v. Löwisee82c0e2006-10-27 07:13:28 +00003443- Patch #1567274: Support SMTP over TLS.
3444
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003445- Patch #1560695: Add .note.GNU-stack to ctypes' sysv.S so that ctypes
3446 isn't considered as requiring executable stacks.
Martin v. Löwis1b2f6272006-10-22 10:55:15 +00003447
Thomas Hellerd2ea4a22006-10-17 19:30:48 +00003448- ctypes callback functions only support 'fundamental' data types as
3449 result type. Raise an error when something else is used. This is a
3450 partial fix for Bug #1574584.
3451
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003452- Fix turtle so that time.sleep is imported for the entire library.
3453 Allows the demo2 function to be executed on its own instead of only
3454 when the module is run as a script.
Brett Cannond80e0c82006-10-16 03:09:52 +00003455
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003456- Bug #813342: Start the IDLE subprocess with -Qnew if the parent is
3457 started with that option.
Georg Brandld0761532006-10-12 07:57:21 +00003458
Martin v. Löwisf43893a2006-10-09 20:44:25 +00003459- Bug #1565150: Fix subsecond processing for os.utime on Windows.
3460
Martin v. Löwis8b274262006-10-04 15:25:28 +00003461- Support for MSVC 8 was added to bdist_wininst.
3462
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003463- Bug #1446043: correctly raise a LookupError if an encoding name
3464 given to encodings.search_function() contains a dot.
Georg Brandla92979a2006-09-30 11:22:28 +00003465
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003466- Bug #1560617: in pyclbr, return full module name not only for
3467 classes, but also for functions.
Georg Brandl154324a2006-09-30 11:06:47 +00003468
Georg Brandl05b3c452006-09-30 10:58:01 +00003469- Bug #1457823: cgi.(Sv)FormContentDict's constructor now takes
3470 keep_blank_values and strict_parsing keyword arguments.
3471
Georg Brandl8d1e5bf2006-09-30 09:13:21 +00003472- Bug #1566602: correct failure of posixpath unittest when $HOME ends
3473 with a slash.
3474
Georg Brandl8c667452006-09-30 07:31:57 +00003475- Bug #1565661: in webbrowser, split() the command for the default
3476 GNOME browser in case it is a command with args.
3477
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003478- Made the error message for time.strptime when the data data and
3479 format do match be more clear.
Brett Cannon11b35352006-09-26 23:38:24 +00003480
Georg Brandlc7986ce2006-09-24 12:50:24 +00003481- Fix a bug in traceback.format_exception_only() that led to an error
3482 being raised when print_exc() was called without an exception set.
3483 In version 2.4, this printed "None", restored that behavior.
3484
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003485- Make webbrowser.BackgroundBrowser usable in Windows (it wasn't
3486 because the close_fds arg to subprocess.Popen is not supported).
Georg Brandl2c94bf72006-09-24 10:36:01 +00003487
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003488- Reverted patch #1504333 to sgmllib because it introduced an infinite
3489 loop.
Neal Norwitzbcc119a2006-09-11 04:24:09 +00003490
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003491- Patch #1553314: Fix the inspect.py slowdown that was hurting IPython
3492 & SAGE by adding smarter caching in inspect.getmodule()
Nick Coghlanb3c18f82006-09-08 10:04:38 +00003493
Georg Brandl4e933132006-09-06 20:05:58 +00003494- Fix missing import of the types module in logging.config.
3495
Nick Coghlanbb0996c2006-09-03 01:20:46 +00003496- Patch #1550886: Fix decimal module context management implementation
Neal Norwitza22975f2006-09-05 02:24:03 +00003497 to match the localcontext() example from PEP 343.
Nick Coghlanbb0996c2006-09-03 01:20:46 +00003498
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003499- Bug #1545341: The 'classifier' keyword argument to the Distutils
3500 setup() function now accepts tuples as well as lists.
Andrew M. Kuchling99994792006-10-09 17:10:12 +00003501
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003502- Bug #1541863: uuid.uuid1 failed to generate unique identifiers on
3503 systems with low clock resolution.
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00003504
Gustavo Niemeyerc36bede2006-09-07 00:48:33 +00003505- Bug #1531862: Do not close standard file descriptors in subprocess.
3506
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003507- idle: Honor the "Cancel" action in the save dialog (Debian bug
3508 #299092).
Matthias Klosea398e2d2007-01-11 11:44:04 +00003509
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003510- Fix utf-8-sig incremental decoder, which didn't recognise a BOM when
3511 the first chunk fed to the decoder started with a BOM, but was
3512 longer than 3 bytes.
Georg Brandl27562782006-10-27 20:39:43 +00003513
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003514- The implementation of UnicodeError objects has been simplified
3515 (start and end attributes are now stored directly as Py_ssize_t
3516 members).
Walter Dörwald84a3efe2007-06-13 16:57:12 +00003517
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003518- Issue #829951: In the smtplib module, SMTP.starttls() now complies
3519 with RFC 3207 and forgets any knowledge obtained from the server not
3520 obtained from the TLS negotiation itself. Patch contributed by Bill
3521 Fenner.
Gregory P. Smith2b3ba582008-01-17 08:03:17 +00003522
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003523- Issue #1339: The smtplib.SMTP class has been refactored a bit such
Gregory P. Smithbde4ae42008-01-17 08:35:49 +00003524 that the SMTP.starttls() caller no longer needs to call ehlo()
3525 beforehand. SMTP.starttls() now raises an exception of the server
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003526 does not claim to support starttls. Adds the
3527 SMTP.ehlo_or_helo_if_needed() method. Patch contributed by Bill
3528 Fenner.
Gregory P. Smithbde4ae42008-01-17 08:35:49 +00003529
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003530- Patch #1089358: Add signal.siginterrupt, a wrapper around
3531 siginterrupt(3).
Georg Brandl29604a12008-01-26 14:03:47 +00003532
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00003533Extension Modules
3534-----------------
3535
Georg Brandl392c6fc2008-05-25 07:25:25 +00003536- Patch #1657: added select.epoll and select.kqueue.
Christian Heimes0e9ab5f2008-03-21 23:49:44 +00003537
Georg Brandlebcfd112008-02-23 23:04:35 +00003538- Patch #1506171: added operator.methodcaller().
3539
Georg Brandle2065c62008-02-23 23:02:23 +00003540- Patch #1826: operator.attrgetter() now supports dotted attribute paths.
3541
Georg Brandl392c6fc2008-05-25 07:25:25 +00003542- Patch #1957: syslogmodule: Release GIL when calling syslog(3).
Christian Heimesf0476e82008-02-23 17:42:31 +00003543
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003544- Bug #2112: mmap.error is now a subclass of EnvironmentError and not
3545 a direct EnvironmentError.
Facundo Batistae1396882008-02-17 18:59:29 +00003546
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003547- Bug #2111: mmap segfaults when trying to write a block opened with
3548 PROT_READ.
Christian Heimes7adfad82008-02-15 08:20:11 +00003549
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003550- Bug #2063: correct order of utime and stime in os.times() result on
3551 Windows.
Georg Brandl0a40ffb2008-02-13 07:20:22 +00003552
Martin v. Löwise0d30ef2008-02-12 13:47:26 +00003553- Patch #1736: Fix file name handling of _msi.FCICreate.
3554
Hye-Shik Chang01612e72008-02-08 17:10:20 +00003555- Updated ``big5hkscs`` codec to the HKSCS revision of 2004.
3556
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003557- Issue #1940: make it possible to use curses.filter() before
3558 curses.initscr() as the documentation says.
Georg Brandl29604a12008-01-26 14:03:47 +00003559
Christian Heimes7f39c9f2008-01-25 12:18:43 +00003560- Backport of _fileio module from Python 3.0.
3561
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003562- Patch #1087741: mmap.mmap is now a class, not a factory function. It
3563 is also subclassable now.
Georg Brandl5ca3fd82008-01-21 14:18:14 +00003564
Georg Brandl56112892008-01-20 13:59:46 +00003565- Patch #1648: added ``sys.getprofile()`` and ``sys.gettrace()``.
3566
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003567- Patch #1663329: added ``os.closerange()`` function to quickly close
3568 a range of file descriptors without considering errors.
Georg Brandl309501a2008-01-19 20:22:13 +00003569
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003570- Patch #976880: ``mmap`` objects now have an ``rfind`` method that
Andrew M. Kuchling5c60bfc2008-01-19 18:18:41 +00003571 works as expected. ``mmap.find`` also takes an optional ``end``
3572 parameter.
3573
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003574- _winreg's HKEY object has gained __enter__ and __exit__ methods to
3575 support the context manager protocol. The _winreg module also
3576 gained a new function ``ExpandEnvironmentStrings`` to expand
3577 REG_EXPAND_SZ keys.
Christian Heimesb39a7562008-01-08 15:46:10 +00003578
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003579- itertools.starmap() now accepts any iterable input. Previously, it
3580 required the function inputs to be tuples.
Raymond Hettinger47317092008-01-17 03:02:14 +00003581
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003582- itertools.chain() now has an alternate constructor,
3583 chain.from_iterable().
Raymond Hettingerb4cbc982008-02-28 22:46:41 +00003584
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003585- Issue #1646: Make socket support TIPC. The socket module now has
3586 support for TIPC under Linux, see http://tipc.sf.net/ for more
3587 information.
Christian Heimesfb2d25a2008-01-07 16:12:44 +00003588
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003589- Added interface for Windows' WSAIoctl to socket object and added an
3590 example for a simple network sniffer.
Christian Heimes04ae9162008-01-04 15:23:30 +00003591
Guido van Rossum076d9ee2008-01-03 23:54:04 +00003592- Bug #1301: Bad assert in _tkinter fixed.
3593
Christian Heimescdaa2cb2007-12-31 14:47:07 +00003594- Added bdist_wininst executable for VS 2008.
3595
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003596- Bug #1604: collections.deque.__init__(iterable) now clears any prior
3597 contents before adding elements from the iterable. This fix brings
3598 the behavior into line with that for list.__init__().
Raymond Hettingeradf9ffd2007-12-13 00:08:37 +00003599
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003600- Added wide char functions to msvcrt module: getwch, getwche, putwch
3601 and ungetwch. The functions accept or return unicode.
Christian Heimes7c7f6af2007-12-10 15:12:41 +00003602
Martin v. Löwis69233e82007-12-04 08:39:16 +00003603- os.access now returns True on Windows for any existing directory.
3604
Christian Heimes28104c52007-11-27 23:16:44 +00003605- Added warnpy3k function to the warnings module.
3606
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003607- Marshal.dumps() now expects exact type matches for int, long, float,
3608 complex, tuple, list, dict, set, and frozenset. Formerly, it would
3609 silently miscode subclasses of those types. Now, it raises a
3610 ValueError instead.
Raymond Hettinger12e94202007-11-07 01:13:09 +00003611
Martin v. Löwis58bd49f2007-09-04 13:13:14 +00003612- Patch #1388440: Add set_completion_display_matches_hook and
3613 get_completion_type to readline.
3614
Thomas Helleref4fff32007-07-13 17:46:54 +00003615- Bug #1649098: Avoid declaration of zero-sized array declaration in
3616 structure.
3617
Brett Cannondc48b742007-05-20 07:09:50 +00003618- Removed the rgbimg module; been deprecated since Python 2.5.
3619
Neal Norwitz59f58aa2007-05-19 03:48:47 +00003620- Bug #1721309: prevent bsddb module from freeing random memory.
3621
Gregory P. Smith82eafe62007-10-18 17:17:57 +00003622- Bug #1233: fix bsddb.dbshelve.DBShelf append method to work as
3623 intended for RECNO databases.
3624
Gregory P. Smithec10a4a2007-11-05 02:32:26 +00003625- pybsddb.sf.net Bug #477182: Load the database flags at database open
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003626 time so that opening a database previously created with the DB_DUP
3627 or DB_DUPSORT flag set will keep the proper behavior on subsequent
3628 opens. Specifically: dictionary assignment to a DB object will
3629 replace all values for a given key when the database allows
3630 duplicate values. DB users should use DB.put(k, v) when they want
3631 to store duplicates; not DB[k] = v.
Gregory P. Smithec10a4a2007-11-05 02:32:26 +00003632
Gregory P. Smithac11e022007-11-05 02:56:31 +00003633- Add the bsddb.db.DBEnv.lock_id_free method.
3634
Martin v. Löwis3bf573f2007-04-04 18:30:36 +00003635- Bug #1686475: Support stat'ing open files on Windows again.
3636
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003637- Patch #1185447: binascii.b2a_qp() now correctly quotes binary
3638 characters with ASCII value less than 32. Also, it correctly quotes
3639 dots only if they occur on a single line, as opposed to the previous
3640 behavior of quoting dots if they are the second character of any
3641 line.
Georg Brandl4aef7272007-03-13 22:49:43 +00003642
Georg Brandla47337f2007-03-13 12:34:25 +00003643- Bug #1622896: fix a rare corner case where the bz2 module raised an
3644 error in spite of a succesful compression.
3645
Georg Brandl40c62612007-03-06 18:59:11 +00003646- Patch #1654417: make operator.{get,set,del}slice use the full range
3647 of Py_ssize_t.
3648
Guido van Rossum2054ee92007-03-06 15:50:01 +00003649- Patch #1646728: datetime.fromtimestamp fails with negative
3650 fractional times. With unittest.
3651
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003652- Patch #1490190: posixmodule now includes os.chflags() and
3653 os.lchflags() functions on platforms where the underlying system
3654 calls are available.
Martin v. Löwis382abef2007-02-19 10:55:19 +00003655
Georg Brandl983d1002007-02-15 11:29:04 +00003656- Patch #1494140: Add documentation for the new struct.Struct object.
3657
Martin v. Löwis45423a72007-02-14 10:07:37 +00003658- Patch #1432399: Support the HCI protocol for bluetooth sockets
3659
Martin v. Löwisb1cc1d42007-02-13 12:14:19 +00003660- Patch #1657276: Make NETLINK_DNRTMSG conditional.
3661
Martin v. Löwis4c11a922007-02-08 09:13:36 +00003662- Bug #1653736: Complain about keyword arguments to time.isoformat.
3663
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003664- Bug #1486663: don't reject keyword arguments for subclasses of
3665 builtin types.
Georg Brandlb84c1372007-01-21 10:28:43 +00003666
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003667- Patch #1610575: The struct module now supports the 't' code, for C99
3668 _Bool.
Martin v. Löwisaef4c6b2007-01-21 09:33:07 +00003669
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003670- Patch #1635058: ensure that htonl and friends never accept or return
3671 negative numbers, per the underlying C implementation.
Guido van Rossumbb2cc692007-01-14 17:03:32 +00003672
Martin v. Löwis046c4d12006-12-03 11:23:45 +00003673- Patch #1544279: Improve thread-safety of the socket module by moving
3674 the sock_addr_t storage out of the socket object.
3675
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003676- Patch #1019808: fix bug that causes an incorrect error to be
3677 returned when a socket timeout is set and a connection attempt
3678 fails.
Andrew M. Kuchling060e6852008-01-19 20:47:59 +00003679
Neal Norwitz45e230a2006-11-19 21:26:53 +00003680- Speed up function calls into the math module.
3681
Georg Brandl25aabf42006-11-16 17:08:45 +00003682- Bug #1588217: don't parse "= " as a soft line break in binascii's
3683 a2b_qp() function, instead leave it in the string as quopri.decode()
3684 does.
3685
Neal Norwitz4fe44232006-11-21 05:26:22 +00003686- Bug #1599782: Fix segfault on bsddb.db.DB().type().
3687
Martin v. Löwis012bc722006-10-15 09:43:39 +00003688- Bug #1567666: Emulate GetFileAttributesExA for Win95.
3689
Martin v. Löwis18aaa562006-10-15 08:43:33 +00003690- Patch #1576166: Support os.utime for directories on Windows NT+.
3691
Georg Brandl412a9ea2006-10-09 19:03:06 +00003692- Patch #1572724: fix typo ('=' instead of '==') in _msi.c.
3693
Hye-Shik Changb7883462006-10-08 13:48:34 +00003694- Bug #1572832: fix a bug in ISO-2022 codecs which may cause segfault
3695 when encoding non-BMP unicode characters.
3696
Georg Brandl4ddfcd32006-09-30 11:17:34 +00003697- Bug #1556784: allow format strings longer than 127 characters in
3698 datetime's strftime function.
3699
Jack Diederichd10a0f72006-09-21 20:34:49 +00003700- Fix itertools.count(n) to work with negative numbers again.
3701
Martin v. Löwis43fd99c2006-09-16 17:36:37 +00003702- RLIMIT_SBSIZE was added to the resource module where available.
3703
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003704- Bug #1551427: fix a wrong NULL pointer check in the win32 version of
3705 os.urandom().
Georg Brandl74bb7832006-09-06 06:03:59 +00003706
Neal Norwitz6aefa912006-09-02 02:50:35 +00003707- Bug #1548092: fix curses.tparm seg fault on invalid input.
3708
Andrew M. Kuchling62182c82008-01-08 14:56:02 +00003709- Patch #1114: fix curses module compilation on 64-bit AIX, & possibly
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003710 other 64-bit LP64 platforms where attr_t is not the same size as a
3711 long. (Contributed by Luke Mewburn.)
Andrew M. Kuchling62182c82008-01-08 14:56:02 +00003712
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003713- Bug #1550714: fix SystemError from itertools.tee on negative value
3714 for n.
Neal Norwitz69e88972006-09-02 02:58:13 +00003715
Hye-Shik Chang199f1db2006-09-05 12:07:09 +00003716- Fixed a few bugs on cjkcodecs:
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003717 - gbk and gb18030 codec now handle U+30FB KATAKANA MIDDLE DOT
3718 correctly.
Hye-Shik Chang199f1db2006-09-05 12:07:09 +00003719 - iso2022_jp_2 codec now encodes into G0 for KS X 1001, GB2312
3720 codepoints to conform the standard.
Hye-Shik Chang2cad3e92006-09-05 12:14:57 +00003721 - iso2022_jp_3 and iso2022_jp_2004 codec can encode JIS X 0213:2
Hye-Shik Chang199f1db2006-09-05 12:07:09 +00003722 codepoints now.
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00003723
Andrew M. Kuchling43889c02006-09-27 16:37:30 +00003724- Bug #1552726: in readline.c, avoid repeatedly polling in interactive
3725 mode by only placing a timeout on the select() if an input hook has
3726 been defined. This prevents an interactive Python from waking up 10
3727 times per second. Patch by Richard Boulton.
3728
Gregory P. Smithf09c6262007-03-17 22:33:35 +00003729- fixed a bug with bsddb.DB.stat: the flags and txn keyword arguments
3730 were transposed.
3731
Jesus Cea4907d272008-08-31 14:00:51 +00003732- Added support for linking the bsddb module against BerkeleyDB 4.5.x,
3733 4.6.x and 4.7.x.
Gregory P. Smith8b96a352007-01-05 01:59:42 +00003734
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003735- Bug #1633621: if curses.resizeterm() or curses.resize_term() is
3736 called, update _curses.LINES, _curses.COLS, curses.LINES and
3737 curses.COLS.
Andrew M. Kuchling43889c02006-09-27 16:37:30 +00003738
Matthias Klosee19e0c22007-04-03 04:35:59 +00003739- Fix an off-by-one bug in locale.strxfrm().
3740
Matthias Klose38336402007-09-04 20:46:02 +00003741- Fix libffi configure for hppa*-*-linux* | parisc*-*-linux*.
3742
Matthias Klose9afb9852007-10-24 20:00:44 +00003743- Build using system ffi library on arm*-linux*.
3744
Christian Heimes3f065a42007-11-21 01:17:28 +00003745- Bug #1372: zlibmodule.c: int overflow in PyZlib_decompress
Matthias Klosee19e0c22007-04-03 04:35:59 +00003746
Gregory P. Smitheeed5b72008-02-03 07:20:53 +00003747- bsddb module: Fix memory leak when using database cursors on
3748 databases without a DBEnv.
3749
Gerhard Häring11ab8072008-03-02 13:12:27 +00003750- The sqlite3 module was updated to pysqlite 2.4.1.
3751
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00003752Tests
3753-----
3754
Brett Cannon56c4deb2008-03-03 00:38:58 +00003755- Refactor test_logging to use unittest.
Brett Cannonf9db8a32008-02-17 01:59:18 +00003756
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003757- Refactor test_profile and test_cprofile to use the same code to
3758 profile.
Georg Brandlb7090772008-02-05 19:58:17 +00003759
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003760- Make test_runpy reentrant by fixing _check_module to clear out any
3761 module being tested. Was causing an error by __import__ doing a
3762 reload on the second run and thus suppressing bytecode recreation.
Brett Cannondbed7a72007-08-23 14:53:17 +00003763
Brett Cannonea2835a2007-03-14 21:44:15 +00003764- Capture socket connection resets and timeouts in test_socket_ssl and
3765 test_urllib2net and raise test.test_support.ResourceDenied.
Brett Cannoned001842007-03-14 21:40:13 +00003766
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003767- Patch #1559413: Fix test_cmd_line if sys.executable contains a
3768 space.
Martin v. Löwiscd1210a2007-03-14 20:02:31 +00003769
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003770- Added test.test_support.TransientResource which is a context manager
3771 to surround calls to resources that are not guaranteed to work even
3772 if test.test_support.requires says that the resource should exist.
Brett Cannona30fcb42007-03-08 23:58:11 +00003773
Brett Cannone05e6b02007-01-29 04:41:44 +00003774- Added a test for slicing of an exception.
3775
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003776- Added test.test_support.EnvironmentVarGuard. It's a class that
3777 provides a context manager so that one can temporarily set or unset
3778 environment variables.
Brett Cannon92d54d52007-01-04 00:23:49 +00003779
Thomas Heller112d1a62006-10-27 19:05:53 +00003780- Added some tests for modulefinder.
3781
Brett Cannon373d90b2006-10-03 23:23:14 +00003782- Converted test_imp to use unittest.
3783
Neal Norwitz919d5cc2006-09-05 02:35:08 +00003784- Fix bsddb test_basics.test06_Transactions to check the version
3785 number properly.
3786
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003787- test.test_support.catch_warning is a new context manager that can be
3788 used to catch the warnings issued by the warning framework.
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00003789
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00003790Tools
3791-----
3792
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003793- Tools/scripts/reindent.py now creates the backup file using
3794 shutil.copy to preserve user/group and permissions. Added also a
3795 --nobackup option to not create the backup if the user is concerned
3796 regarding this. Check issue 1050828 for more details.
Facundo Batistaf88a0772008-02-17 16:21:13 +00003797
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003798- Tools/scripts/win_add2path.py was added. The simple script modifes
3799 the PATH environment var of the HKCU tree and adds the python bin
3800 and script directory.
Christian Heimesbd865db2008-01-18 11:58:50 +00003801
Skip Montanaro3e275362007-08-29 01:33:45 +00003802- Tools/18n/pygettext.py was added to the list of scripts installed by
3803 Tools/scripts/setup.py (tracker item 642309).
3804
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003805- Added IronPython and Jython support to pybench (part of which was
3806 patch #1563844).
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00003807
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003808- Made some minor changes to pybench output to allow the user to see
3809 which Python version is running pybench.
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00003810
3811- Added support for the new platform module feature
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003812 platform.python_implementation(); this will now be saved in the
3813 benchmark pickle.
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00003814
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00003815
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00003816Documentation
3817-------------
3818
Vinay Sajipd7cf32e2008-01-24 12:43:33 +00003819- RFE #1765140: Updated documentation on FileHandler and subclasses to
3820 include new optional delay argument.
3821
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003822- Bug #932563: Added section on getting contextual information into
3823 logging output, and added documentation for the new LoggerAdapter
3824 class.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00003825
3826- Bug #1295: Added information about caching of formatted exception
3827 information in the LogRecord by Formatter.format().
3828
Georg Brandl9467bc52007-07-12 09:37:49 +00003829- Bug #1637365: add subsection about "__name__ == __main__" to the
3830 Python tutorial.
3831
Georg Brandl3dc6e902007-04-25 06:24:59 +00003832- Patch #1698768: updated the "using Python on the Mac" intro.
3833
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003834- Bug #1569057: Document that calling file.next() when the file is
3835 open for writing is undefined.
Brett Cannon55a18642007-04-08 04:29:32 +00003836
Žiga Seilnachtc64ad482007-03-24 14:24:26 +00003837- Patch #1489771: the syntax rules in Python Reference Manual were
3838 updated to reflect the current Python syntax.
3839
Martin v. Löwis2f401d72007-03-23 10:35:49 +00003840- Patch #1686451: Fix return type for
3841 PySequence_{Count,Index,Fast_GET_SIZE}.
3842
Georg Brandl0692a262007-03-13 07:50:57 +00003843- Patch #1679379: add documentation for fnmatch.translate().
3844
Collin Winterb7b2b4e2007-03-09 18:09:10 +00003845- Bug #1629566: clarify the docs on the return values of parsedate()
3846 and parsedate_tz() in email.utils and rfc822.
3847
Georg Brandld28b9fc2007-03-06 10:02:47 +00003848- Patch #1671450: add a section about subclassing builtin types to the
3849 "extending and embedding" tutorial.
3850
Georg Brandlb26b1c62007-01-17 21:19:58 +00003851- Bug #1629125: fix wrong data type (int -> Py_ssize_t) in PyDict_Next
3852 docs.
3853
Georg Brandla4c8e322006-10-12 08:22:53 +00003854- Bug #1565919: document set types in the Language Reference.
3855
Georg Brandl44a7b3a2006-09-30 12:02:57 +00003856- Bug #1546052: clarify that PyString_FromString(AndSize) copies the
3857 string pointed to by its parameter.
3858
Georg Brandlfb257732006-09-30 09:06:45 +00003859- Bug #1566663: remove obsolete example from datetime docs.
3860
Georg Brandl648c1102006-08-18 07:27:59 +00003861- Bug #1541682: Fix example in the "Refcount details" API docs.
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003862 Additionally, remove a faulty example showing PySequence_SetItem
3863 applied to a newly created list object and add notes that this isn't
3864 a good idea.
Georg Brandl648c1102006-08-18 07:27:59 +00003865
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00003866
Georg Brandl27562782006-10-27 20:39:43 +00003867Tools/Demos
3868-----------
3869
3870- Patch #1552024: add decorator support to unparse.py demo script.
Marc-André Lemburg96148682006-09-06 20:40:22 +00003871
Brett Cannonc8939d22006-09-20 19:28:35 +00003872- Make auto-generated python.vim file list built-ins and exceptions in
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003873 alphatbetical order. Makes output more deterministic and easier to
3874 tell if the file is stale or not.
Brett Cannonc8939d22006-09-20 19:28:35 +00003875
Marc-André Lemburg96148682006-09-06 20:40:22 +00003876- Bug #1546372: Fixed small bugglet in pybench that caused a missing
3877 file not to get reported properly.
3878
3879
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00003880Build
3881-----
3882
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003883- Have the search path for building extensions follow the declared
3884 order in $CPPFLAGS and $LDFLAGS when adding directories from those
3885 environment variables.
Brett Cannon70c0c022008-02-03 09:59:21 +00003886
Christian Heimes951cc0f2008-01-31 23:08:23 +00003887- Bug #1983: Added a check to pyport to verify that sizeof(pid_t) is
3888 smaller or equal sizeof(long).
3889
Christian Heimescba36bb2008-01-30 22:54:18 +00003890- Bug #1234: Fixed semaphore errors on AIX 5.2
3891
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003892- Issue #1726: Remove Python/atof.c from PCBuild/pythoncore.vcproj.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00003893
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003894- Removed PCbuild8/ directory and added a new build directory for VS
3895 2005 based on the VS 2008 build directory to PC/VS8.0. The script
3896 PCbuild/vs8to9.py was added to sync changes from PCbuild to
3897 PC/VS8.0.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00003898
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003899- Moved PCbuild/ directory for VS 2003 to PC/VS7.1 and renamed
3900 PCBuild9/ directory to PCBuild/.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00003901
Martin v. Löwiscb78de62007-12-29 18:49:21 +00003902- Bug #1699: Define _BSD_SOURCE only on OpenBSD.
3903
Guido van Rossum7c862f82007-12-13 20:50:10 +00003904- Bug #1608: use -fwrapv when GCC supports it. This is important,
3905 newer GCC versions may optimize away overflow buffer overflow checks
3906 without this option!
3907
Martin v. Löwis63bf1492007-11-12 05:14:05 +00003908- Patch #1418: Make the AC_REPLACE_FUNCS object files actually work.
3909
Raymond Hettingerdc1d1ba2007-11-07 02:45:46 +00003910- Add a FAST_LOOPS build option that speeds-up looping by trading away
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003911 periodic threadstate and signal checking in tight loops. By
3912 default, this option is turned-off. It should only be enabled in
3913 debugged, performance critical applications.
Raymond Hettingerdc1d1ba2007-11-07 02:45:46 +00003914
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003915- Patch #786737: Allow building in a tree of symlinks pointing to a
3916 readonly source.
Martin v. Löwisd44a4e92007-09-05 11:47:34 +00003917
Martin v. Löwis8bc77e42007-09-01 06:36:03 +00003918- Bug #1737210: Change Manufacturer of Windows installer to PSF.
3919
Martin v. Löwis75c23bd2007-08-30 18:25:47 +00003920- Bug #1746880: Correctly install DLLs into system32 folder on Win64.
3921
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003922- Define _BSD_SOURCE, to get access to POSIX extensions on OpenBSD
3923 4.1+.
Martin v. Löwis76760b02007-07-31 19:57:56 +00003924
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003925- Stop supporting AtheOS and cause a build error in configure for the
3926 platform.
Brett Cannon19fab762007-06-02 03:02:29 +00003927
Georg Brandldb846032007-03-31 18:56:11 +00003928- Bug #1655392: don't add -L/usr/lib/pythonX.Y/config to the LDFLAGS
3929 returned by python-config if Python was built with --enable-shared
3930 because that prevented the shared library from being used.
3931
Georg Brandl18c47f62007-03-13 10:19:22 +00003932- Patch #1569798: fix a bug in distutils when building Python from a
3933 directory within sys.exec_prefix.
3934
Martin v. Löwiseb623572007-03-12 10:50:39 +00003935- Bug #1675511: Use -Kpic instead of -xcode=pic32 on Solaris/x86.
3936
Martin v. Löwis4d542ec2006-11-25 15:39:19 +00003937- Disable _XOPEN_SOURCE on NetBSD 1.x.
3938
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003939- configure now checks whether gcc supports the PyArg_ParseTuple
3940 format attribute.
Martin v. Löwisaac13162006-10-19 10:58:46 +00003941
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00003942- Bug #1578513: Cross compilation was broken by a change to configure.
Martin v. Löwisfefbc202006-10-17 18:59:23 +00003943 Repair so that it's back to how it was in 2.4.3.
3944
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003945- Patch #1576954: Update VC6 build directory; remove redundant files
3946 in VC7.
Martin v. Löwisc9e82f62006-10-15 07:54:40 +00003947
Martin v. Löwisebe26702006-10-02 14:55:51 +00003948- Bug #1568842: Fix test for uintptr_t.
3949
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003950- Patch #1540470: for OpenBSD 4.0.
Neal Norwitz4bc2c092006-09-05 02:57:01 +00003951
Matthias Klosed149d0c2006-12-03 17:16:41 +00003952- Fix build failure on kfreebsd and on the hurd.
3953
Matthias Kloseebde1492006-12-09 12:15:27 +00003954- Fix the build of the library reference in info format.
3955
Matthias Kloseeb8ff672007-08-02 21:33:13 +00003956- Allow Emacs 22 for building the documentation in info format.
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00003957
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003958- Makefile.pre.in(buildbottest): Run an optional script
3959 pybuildbot.identify to include some information about the build
3960 environment.
Matthias Klose642ac852007-09-04 18:17:36 +00003961
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00003962
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00003963C API
3964-----
3965
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003966- Unified naming convention for free lists and their limits. All free
3967 lists in Object/ are named ``free_list``, the counter ``numfree``
3968 and the upper limit is a macro ``PyName_MAXFREELIST`` inside an
3969 #ifndef block.
Christian Heimes5b970ad2008-02-06 13:33:44 +00003970
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003971- ``PySet_Add()`` can now modify a newly created frozenset. Similarly
3972 to ``PyTuple_SetItem``, it can be used to populate a brand new
3973 frozenset; but it does not steal a reference to the added item.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arccab3d982008-02-03 22:51:43 +00003974
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00003975- Added ``PySet_Check()`` and ``PyFrozenSet_Check()`` to the set API.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arccab3d982008-02-03 22:51:43 +00003976
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003977- Backport of PyUnicode_FromString(), _FromStringAndSize(), _Format
3978 and _FormatV from Python 3.0. Made PyLong_AsSsize_t and
3979 PyLong_FromSsize_t public functions.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00003980
3981- Patch #1720595: add T_BOOL to the range of structmember types.
3982
3983- Issue #1534: Added ``PyFloat_GetMax()``, ``PyFloat_GetMin()`` and
3984 ``PyFloat_GetInfo()`` to the float API.
3985
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003986- Issue #1521: On 64bit platforms, using PyArgs_ParseTuple with the t#
3987 of w# format code incorrectly truncated the length to an int, even
3988 when PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN is set. The str.decode method used to return
3989 incorrect results with huge strings.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00003990
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003991- Issue #1629: Renamed Py_Size, Py_Type and Py_Refcnt to Py_SIZE,
3992 Py_TYPE and Py_REFCNT.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00003993
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003994- PEP 3123: Provide forward compatibility with Python 3.0, while
3995 keeping backwards compatibility. Add Py_Refcnt, Py_Type, Py_Size,
3996 and PyVarObject_HEAD_INIT.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00003997
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003998- Py_ssize_t fields work in structmember when HAVE_LONG_LONG is not
3999 defined.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00004000
4001- Patch #1733960: Allow T_LONGLONG to accept ints.
4002
4003- T_PYSSIZET can now be used in PyMemberDef lists for Py_ssize_t members.
4004
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00004005- Added a new API function ``PyImport_ImportModuleNoBlock``.
4006
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00004007- Bug #1637022: Prefix AST symbols with _Py_.
4008
4009- Fix some leftovers from the conversion from int to Py_ssize_t
4010 (relevant to strings and sequences of more than 2**31 items).
4011
4012- Make _PyGILState_NoteThreadState() static, it was not used anywhere
4013 outside of pystate.c and should not be necessary.
4014
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004015- ``PyImport_Import`` and ``PyImport_ImportModule`` now always do
4016 absolute imports. In earlier versions they might have used relative
4017 imports under some conditions.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00004018
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004019- Added case insensitive comparison methods ``PyOS_stricmp(char*,
4020 char*)`` and ``PyOS_strnicmp(char*, char*, Py_ssize_t)``.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00004021
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004022- Bug #1542693: remove semi-colon at end of PyImport_ImportModuleEx
4023 macro so it can be used as an expression.
Neal Norwitz8a267062006-08-19 04:25:29 +00004024
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00004025
Martin v. Löwis2607e6c2006-11-21 18:20:25 +00004026Windows
4027-------
4028
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004029- Patch #1706: Drop support for Win9x, WinME and NT4. Python now
4030 requires Windows 2000 or greater. The _WINVER and NTDDI_VERSION
4031 macros are set to Win2k for x86/32bit builds and WinXP for AMD64
4032 builds.
Christian Heimes95d64472008-02-09 19:55:22 +00004033
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004034- Conditionalize definition of _CRT_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE and
4035 _CRT_NONSTDC_NO_DEPRECATE.
Martin v. Löwis2607e6c2006-11-21 18:20:25 +00004036
Martin v. Löwisd476a402007-10-12 08:56:52 +00004037- Bug #1216: Restore support for Visual Studio 2002.
4038
Martin v. Löwis2607e6c2006-11-21 18:20:25 +00004039
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00004040Mac
4041---
4042
Brett Cannonf0cb1d72007-05-31 20:01:11 +00004043- cfmfile now raises a DeprecationWarning.
4044
Brett Cannon791d56f2007-05-31 19:40:42 +00004045- buildtools now raises a DeprecationWarning.
4046
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004047- Removed the macfs module. It had been deprecated since Python 2.5.
4048 This lead to the deprecation of macostools.touched() as it relied
4049 solely on macfs and was a no-op under OS X.
Brett Cannon5e263512007-05-20 23:17:38 +00004050
Skip Montanaroe5d7f7f2002-09-20 14:16:59 +00004051----
4052
4053**(For information about older versions, consult the HISTORY file.)**