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Skip Montanaroe5d7f7f2002-09-20 14:16:59 +00003+++++++++++
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Antoine Pitrouab5ce722010-04-11 22:45:47 +00007What's New in Python 2.7 beta 2?
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Benjamin Peterson12409062010-04-10 18:53:58 +00009
10*Release date: XXXX-XX-XX*
11
12Core and Builtins
13-----------------
14
Nick Coghlanc5e44852010-04-28 14:51:08 +000015- Issue #8202: sys.argv[0] is now set to '-m' instead of '-c' when
16 searching for the module file to be executed with the -m command
17 line option
18
Brett Cannon19949692010-04-25 22:33:36 +000019- Issue #7319: When -Q is used, do not silence DeprecationWarning.
20
Antoine Pitrou18e63fb2010-04-21 22:53:29 +000021- Issue #7332: Remove the 16KB stack-based buffer in
22 PyMarshal_ReadLastObjectFromFile, which doesn't bring any noticeable
23 benefit compared to the dynamic memory allocation fallback. Patch by
24 Charles-François Natali.
25
Benjamin Peterson821a8ea2010-04-16 22:35:38 +000026- Issue #8417: Raise an OverflowError when an integer larger than sys.maxsize is
27 passed to bytearray.
28
Ronald Oussoren37805e52010-04-18 13:47:49 +000029- Issue #7072: isspace(0xa0) is true on Mac OS X
30
Benjamin Peterson12409062010-04-10 18:53:58 +000031Library
32-------
33
Tarek Ziadéa5cd1822010-04-30 12:15:12 +000034- Issue #8577: distutils.sysconfig.get_python_inc() now makes a difference
35 between the build dir and the source dir when looking for "python.h" or
36 "Include".
37
Lars Gustäbel5c4c4612010-04-29 15:23:38 +000038- Issue #8464: tarfile no longer creates files with execute permissions set
39 when mode="w|" is used.
40
Antoine Pitrouf56a2882010-04-29 10:05:40 +000041- Issue #7834: Fix connect() of Bluetooth L2CAP sockets with recent versions
42 of the Linux kernel. Patch by Yaniv Aknin.
43
Senthil Kumaraned9204342010-04-28 17:20:43 +000044- Issue #6312: Fixed http HEAD request when the transfer encoding is chunked.
45 It should correctly return an empty response now.
46
Nick Coghlandfb45df2010-04-28 14:29:06 +000047- Issue #7490: to facilitate sharing of doctests between 2.x and 3.x test
48 suites, the IGNORE_EXCEPTION_DETAIL directive now also ignores the module
Nick Coghlan54677da2010-04-28 14:34:30 +000049 location of the raised exception. Based on initial patch by Lennart
50 Regebro.
Nick Coghlandfb45df2010-04-28 14:29:06 +000051
Antoine Pitrou4c7bcf12010-04-27 22:03:37 +000052- Issue #8086: In :func:`ssl.DER_cert_to_PEM_cert()`, fix missing newline
53 before the certificate footer. Patch by Kyle VanderBeek.
54
Benjamin Petersona9bd6d52010-04-27 21:01:54 +000055- Issue #8546: Reject None given as the buffering argument to _pyio.open.
56
Antoine Pitrou1dc6b082010-04-27 19:09:59 +000057- Issue #8549: Fix compiling the _ssl extension under AIX. Patch by
58 Sridhar Ratnakumar.
59
R. David Murray3939dcd2010-04-26 21:17:14 +000060- Issue #6656: fix locale.format_string to handle escaped percents
61 and mappings.
62
Antoine Pitroua6240402010-04-25 21:40:32 +000063- Issue #2302: Fix a race condition in SocketServer.BaseServer.shutdown,
64 where the method could block indefinitely if called just before the
65 event loop started running. This also fixes the occasional freezes
66 witnessed in test_httpservers.
67
Antoine Pitroufc69af12010-04-24 20:04:58 +000068- Issue #5103: SSL handshake would ignore the socket timeout and block
69 indefinitely if the other end didn't respond.
70
Antoine Pitrou4d3e3722010-04-24 19:57:01 +000071- The do_handshake() method of SSL objects now adjusts the blocking mode of
72 the SSL structure if necessary (as other methods already do).
73
Georg Brandl4341e542010-04-24 09:08:10 +000074- Issue #7507: Quote "!" in pipes.quote(); it is special to some shells.
75
Antoine Pitroub558f172010-04-23 23:25:45 +000076- Issue #5238: Calling makefile() on an SSL object would prevent the
77 underlying socket from being closed until all objects get truely destroyed.
78
Antoine Pitroudfb299b2010-04-23 22:54:59 +000079- Issue #7943: Fix circular reference created when instantiating an SSL
80 socket. Initial patch by Péter Szabó.
81
Sean Reifscheiderf6ce3cb2010-04-23 08:31:55 +000082- Issue #8451: Syslog module now uses basename(sys.argv[0]) instead of
83 the string "python" as the *ident*. openlog() arguments are all optional
84 and keywords.
85
Antoine Pitroua5c4b552010-04-22 23:33:02 +000086- Issue #8108: Fix the unwrap() method of SSL objects when the socket has
87 a non-infinite timeout. Also make that method friendlier with applications
88 wanting to continue using the socket in clear-text mode, by disabling
89 OpenSSL's internal readahead. Thanks to Darryl Miles for guidance.
90
Antoine Pitrouc715a9e2010-04-21 19:28:03 +000091- Issue #8484: Load all ciphers and digest algorithms when initializing
92 the _ssl extension, such that verification of some SSL certificates
93 doesn't fail because of an "unknown algorithm".
94
Victor Stinnera92e81b2010-04-20 22:28:31 +000095- Issue #8437: Fix test_gdb failures, patch written by Dave Malcolm
96
Giampaolo Rodolà607f7c02010-04-19 21:46:28 +000097- Issue #4814: timeout parameter is now applied also for connections resulting
98 from PORT/EPRT commands.
99
Tarek Ziadé8a12f942010-04-19 21:28:21 +0000100- Issue #8463: added missing reference to bztar in shutil's documentation.
101
Antoine Pitrou7c587bf2010-04-19 18:52:43 +0000102- Issue #8438: Remove reference to the missing "surrogateescape" encoding
103 error handler from the new IO library.
104
Giampaolo Rodolàcf445fc2010-04-18 12:55:03 +0000105- Issue #3817: ftplib.FTP.abort() method now considers 225 a valid response
106 code as stated in RFC-959 at chapter 5.4.
107
Martin v. Löwis24f09fd2010-04-17 22:40:40 +0000108- Issue #8279: Fix test_gdb failures.
109
Antoine Pitrou0a6373c2010-04-17 17:10:38 +0000110- Issue #8322: Add a *ciphers* argument to SSL sockets, so as to change the
111 available cipher list. Helps fix test_ssl with OpenSSL 1.0.0.
112
Senthil Kumaran8c6d9d72010-04-16 02:46:46 +0000113- Issue #2987: RFC2732 support for urlparse (IPv6 addresses). Patch by Tony
114 Locke and Hans Ulrich Niedermann.
115
R. David Murray1a14d3d2010-04-12 16:35:19 +0000116- Issue #7585: difflib context and unified diffs now place a tab between
117 filename and date, conforming to the 'standards' they were originally
118 designed to follow. This improves compatibility with patch tools.
119
R. David Murray27ef9372010-04-12 14:26:06 +0000120- Issue #7472: Fixed typo in email.encoders module; messages using ISO-2022
121 character sets will now consistently use a Content-Transfer-Encoding of
122 7bit rather than sometimes being marked as 8bit.
123
Martin v. Löwis7f7765c2010-04-12 05:18:16 +0000124- Issue #8330: Fix expected output in test_gdb.
125
Antoine Pitrouab5ce722010-04-11 22:45:47 +0000126- Issue #8374: Update the internal alias table in the :mod:`locale` module
127 to cover recent locale changes and additions.
128
Matthias Klose8a96d202010-04-21 22:18:52 +0000129Extension Modules
130-----------------
131
132- Build the ossaudio extension on GNU/kFreeBSD.
133
Antoine Pitroua5c4b552010-04-22 23:33:02 +0000134Tests
135-----
136
Victor Stinner6a102812010-04-27 23:55:59 +0000137- Issue #7449: Fix many tests to support Python compiled without thread
138 support. Patches written by Jerry Seutter.
Victor Stinnerd9d147b2010-04-27 21:46:03 +0000139
Antoine Pitroua5c4b552010-04-22 23:33:02 +0000140- Issue #8108: test_ftplib's non-blocking SSL server now has proper handling
141 of SSL shutdowns.
142
Matthias Klose5183ebd2010-04-24 16:38:36 +0000143Build
144-----
145
146- Issue #8509: Fix quoting in help strings and code snippets in configure.in.
147
Ronald Oussoren01d149f2010-04-30 11:20:14 +0000148- Issue #3646: It is now easily possible to install a Python framework into
149 your home directory on MacOSX, see Mac/README for more information.
150
Benjamin Peterson12409062010-04-10 18:53:58 +0000151
Benjamin Peterson5da7e7c2010-03-06 22:44:07 +0000152What's New in Python 2.7 beta 1?
153================================
154
Benjamin Petersonfbac6c12010-04-10 16:22:05 +0000155*Release date: 2010-04-10*
Benjamin Peterson5da7e7c2010-03-06 22:44:07 +0000156
157Core and Builtins
158-----------------
159
Philip Jenveyaebbaeb2010-04-06 23:24:45 +0000160- Issue #7301: Add environment variable $PYTHONWARNINGS.
161
Benjamin Peterson3a1dfa22010-04-06 21:50:00 +0000162- Issue #8329: Don't return the same lists from select.select when no fds are
163 changed.
164
Mark Dickinson82791672010-04-06 16:47:55 +0000165- Issue #8259: 1L << (2**31) no longer produces an 'outrageous shift error'
166 on 64-bit machines. The shift count for either left or right shift is
167 permitted to be up to sys.maxsize.
168
Benjamin Peterson4ceeeb02010-04-03 22:48:51 +0000169- Ensure that tokenization of identifiers is not affected by locale.
170
Tarek Ziadé00002952010-04-03 08:37:59 +0000171- Issue #1222585: Added LDCXXSHARED for C++ support. Patch by Arfrever.
172
Benjamin Peterson1c7c11e2010-04-03 01:28:57 +0000173- Raise a TypeError when trying to delete a T_STRING_INPLACE struct member.
174
Eric Smithd44b2fc2010-04-02 12:30:56 +0000175- Issue #7994: Issue a PendingDeprecationWarning if object.__format__
176 is called with a non-empty format string. This is an effort to
177 future-proof user code. If a derived class does not currently
178 implement __format__ but later adds its own __format__, it would
179 most likely break user code that had supplied a format string. This
180 will be changed to a DeprecationWaring in Python 3.3 and it will be
181 an error in Python 3.4.
182
Antoine Pitroua57df2c2010-03-31 21:32:15 +0000183- Issue #8268: Old-style classes (not just instances) now support weak
184 references.
185
Victor Stinner6cbf90f2010-03-25 00:21:53 +0000186- Issue #8211: Save/restore CFLAGS around AC_PROG_CC in configure.in, compiler
187 optimizations are disabled when --with-pydebug is used.
188
Victor Stinnerc7790ed2010-03-22 12:36:28 +0000189- Issue #1583863: An unicode subclass can now override the __unicode__ method
Victor Stinner95affc42010-03-22 12:24:37 +0000190
Benjamin Peterson96545892010-03-21 20:21:00 +0000191- Issue #6474: Make error message from passing an inadequate number of keyword
192 arguments to a function correct.
193
Benjamin Peterson0dee9c12010-03-17 20:41:42 +0000194- Issue #8164: Don't allow lambda functions to have a docstring.
195
Victor Stinner66644262010-03-10 22:30:19 +0000196- Issue #3137: Don't ignore errors at startup, especially a keyboard interrupt
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000197 (SIGINT). If an error occurs while importing the site module, the error is
198 printed and Python exits. Initialize the GIL before importing the site
Victor Stinner66644262010-03-10 22:30:19 +0000199 module.
200
Collin Winter001a3952010-03-18 21:54:01 +0000201- Code objects now support weak references.
202
Benjamin Peterson5da7e7c2010-03-06 22:44:07 +0000203Library
204-------
205
R. David Murray661303f2010-04-13 20:57:40 +0000206- Issue #5277: Fix quote counting when parsing RFC 2231 encoded parameters.
207
Antoine Pitrouf9de5342010-04-05 21:35:07 +0000208- Issue #8321: Give access to OpenSSL version numbers from the `ssl` module,
209 using the new attributes `ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION`, `ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION_INFO`
210 and `ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION_NUMBER`.
211
Benjamin Peterson76a23c12010-04-04 23:23:22 +0000212- Issue #8310: Allow dis to examine new style classes.
213
Mark Dickinson8a950712010-04-03 15:47:46 +0000214- Issue #8257: The Decimal construct now accepts a float instance
215 directly, converting that float to a Decimal of equal value:
216
217 >>> Decimal(1.1)
218 Decimal('1.100000000000000088817841970012523233890533447265625')
219
Raymond Hettinger34c35b22010-04-03 10:22:00 +0000220- collections.Counter() now supports a subtract() method.
221
Raymond Hettingera551f312010-04-04 18:34:45 +0000222- the functools module now has a total_ordering() class decorator
Georg Brandl4fabac52010-04-14 08:53:38 +0000223 to simplify the specification of rich comparisons.
Raymond Hettingera551f312010-04-04 18:34:45 +0000224
Raymond Hettingerbb006cf2010-04-04 21:45:01 +0000225- The functools module also adds cmp_to_key() as a tool to transition
Raymond Hettingera551f312010-04-04 18:34:45 +0000226 old-style comparison functions to new-style key-functions.
227
Mark Dickinson7c63eee2010-04-02 22:27:36 +0000228- Issue #8294: The Fraction constructor now accepts Decimal and float
229 instances directly.
230
Mark Dickinsone096e822010-04-02 10:17:07 +0000231- Issue #7279: Comparisons involving a Decimal signaling NaN now
232 signal InvalidOperation instead of returning False. (Comparisons
Mark Dickinsonf3eeca12010-04-02 10:35:12 +0000233 involving a quiet NaN are unchanged.) Also, Decimal quiet NaNs
234 are now hashable; Decimal signaling NaNs remain unhashable.
Mark Dickinsone096e822010-04-02 10:17:07 +0000235
Mark Dickinson99d80962010-04-02 08:53:22 +0000236- Issue #2531: Comparison operations between floats and Decimal
237 instances now return a result based on the numeric values of the
238 operands; previously they returned an arbitrary result based on
239 the relative ordering of id(float) and id(Decimal).
240
Barry Warsawf7f2d6f2010-03-31 21:07:16 +0000241- Issue #8233: When run as a script, py_compile.py optionally takes a single
242 argument `-` which tells it to read files to compile from stdin. Each line
243 is read on demand and the named file is compiled immediately. (Original
244 patch by Piotr Ożarowski).
245
246- Issue #3135: Add inspect.getcallargs, which binds arguments to a function
247 like a normal call.
Benjamin Peterson7e213252010-03-30 17:58:13 +0000248
Florent Xicluna58b65662010-03-30 16:29:03 +0000249- Backwards incompatible change: Unicode codepoints line tabulation (0x0B) and
250 form feed (0x0C) are now considered linebreaks, as specified in Unicode
251 Standard Annex #14. See issue #7643.
Florent Xicluna22b24382010-03-30 08:24:06 +0000252 http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr14/
253
Mark Dickinson9588d992010-03-27 11:14:37 +0000254- Comparisons using one of <, <=, >, >= between a complex instance and
255 a Fractions instance now raise TypeError instead of returning
256 True/False. This makes Fraction <=> complex comparisons consistent with
257 int <=> complex, float <=> complex, and complex <=> complex comparisons.
258
Michael Foorde6410c52010-03-29 20:04:23 +0000259- Addition of ``WeakSet`` to the ``weakref`` module.
260
Vinay Sajipb0623d62010-03-24 14:31:21 +0000261- logging: Added LOG_FTP to SysLogHandler and updated documentation.
262
Florent Xicluna176cda12010-03-22 22:52:11 +0000263- Issue #8205: Remove the "Modules" directory from sys.path when Python is
264 running from the build directory (POSIX only).
265
Florent Xiclunae1f4c922010-03-22 22:45:50 +0000266- Issue #7667: Fix doctest failures with non-ASCII paths.
267
Antoine Pitrou513d9ae2010-03-22 19:59:46 +0000268- Issue #7512: shutil.copystat() could raise an OSError when the filesystem
269 didn't support chflags() (for example ZFS under FreeBSD). The error is
270 now silenced.
271
Florent Xicluna9e7a4c92010-03-22 16:07:38 +0000272- Issue #7703: ctypes supports both buffer() and memoryview(). The former is
273 deprecated.
274
R. David Murrayc9d1a782010-03-22 15:55:09 +0000275- Issue #7860: platform.uname now reports the correct 'machine' type
276 when Python is running in WOW64 mode on 64 bit Windows.
277
Vinay Sajip804899b2010-03-22 15:29:01 +0000278- logging: Added getChild utility method to Logger and added isEnabledFor
279 method to LoggerAdapter.
280
Vinay Sajip31e928e2010-03-22 13:02:28 +0000281- Issue #8201: logging: Handle situation of non-ASCII and Unicode
282 logger names existing at the same time, causing a Unicode error
283 when configuration code attempted to sort the existing loggers.
284
Vinay Sajip3017a7b2010-03-22 12:33:08 +0000285- Issue #8200: logging: Handle errors when multiprocessing is not
286 fully loaded when logging occurs.
287
Antoine Pitroueee91cd2010-03-26 19:27:16 +0000288- Issue #3890, #8222: Fix recv() and recv_into() on non-blocking SSL sockets.
289 Also, enable the SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY flag on SSL sockets, so that blocking
290 reads and writes are always retried by OpenSSL itself.
Antoine Pitrou448da712010-03-21 19:33:38 +0000291
Florent Xiclunacf82fa62010-03-21 12:27:20 +0000292- Issue #8179: Fix macpath.realpath() on a non-existing path.
293
Florent Xicluna2e0a53f2010-03-18 21:50:06 +0000294- Issue #8024: Update the Unicode database to 5.2.
295
Antoine Pitroud7b731d2010-03-17 22:45:39 +0000296- Issue #8104: socket.recv_into() and socket.recvfrom_into() now support
297 writing into objects supporting the new buffer API, for example bytearrays
298 or memoryviews.
299
Matthias Klose8b411682010-03-16 10:48:52 +0000300- Issue #4961: Inconsistent/wrong result of askyesno function in tkMessageBox
301 with Tcl/Tk-8.5.
302
Matthias Kloseb13d04c2010-03-15 17:44:12 +0000303- Issue #8140: extend compileall to compile single files. Add -i option.
304
Matthias Klose358e7ff2010-03-15 13:42:23 +0000305- Issue #7356: ctypes.util: Make parsing of ldconfig output independent of
306 the locale.
307
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000308- Issue #7774: Set sys.executable to an empty string if ``argv[0]`` has been
Victor Stinner75227342010-03-12 14:30:26 +0000309 set to an non existent program name and Python is unable to retrieve the real
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000310 program name.
Victor Stinner75227342010-03-12 14:30:26 +0000311
Vinay Sajipecfa08f2010-03-12 09:16:10 +0000312- Issue #8117: logging: Improved algorithm for computing initial rollover time
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000313 for ``TimedRotatingFileHandler`` by using the modification time of an
314 existing log file to compute the next rollover time. If the log file does
315 not exist, the current time is used as the basis for the computation.
Vinay Sajip9098ee42010-03-12 06:01:21 +0000316
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000317- Issue #6472: The ``xml.etree`` package is updated to ElementTree 1.3. The
Florent Xicluna3e8c1892010-03-11 14:36:19 +0000318 cElementTree module is updated too.
319
Florent Xicluna85677612010-03-10 23:58:42 +0000320- Issue #7880: Fix sysconfig when the python executable is a symbolic link.
321
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000322- Issue #7624: Fix ``isinstance(foo(), collections.Callable)`` for old-style
Florent Xicluna47627d52010-03-08 15:20:28 +0000323 classes.
324
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000325- Issue #7143: email: ``get_payload()`` used to strip any trailing newline from
326 a base64 transfer-encoded payload *after* decoding it; it no longer does.
327 This is a behavior change, so email's minor version number is now bumped, to
328 version 4.0.2, for the 2.7 release.
R. David Murray4617e502010-03-08 02:04:06 +0000329
Larry Hastings3b958e32010-04-02 11:18:17 +0000330- Issue #8235: _socket: Add the constant ``SO_SETFIB``. SO_SETFIB is
331 a socket option available on FreeBSD 7.1 and newer.
332
Michael Foorda04c7a02010-04-02 22:55:59 +0000333- Issue #8038: unittest.TestCase.assertNotRegexpMatches
334
335- Addition of -b command line option to unittest for buffering stdout / stderr
336 during test runs.
337
Brian Curtin85108e62010-04-02 23:31:28 +0000338- Issue #1220212: Added os.kill support for Windows, including support for
339 sending CTRL+C and CTRL+BREAK events to console subprocesses.
340
Mark Dickinson154b7ad2010-03-07 16:24:45 +0000341Extension Modules
342-----------------
343
Martin v. Löwis16ea5482010-04-07 11:01:46 +0000344- Issue #8314: Fix unsigned long long bug in libffi on Sparc v8.
345
Matthias Klosee9fbf2b2010-03-19 14:45:06 +0000346- Issue #1039, #8154: Fix os.execlp() crash with missing 2nd argument.
347
Jesus Cea6557aac2010-03-22 14:22:26 +0000348- Issue #8156: bsddb module updated to version 4.8.4.
349 http://www.jcea.es/programacion/pybsddb.htm#bsddb3-4.8.4.
350 This update drops support for Berkeley DB 4.0, and adds support for 4.8.
Matthias Klose54cc5392010-03-15 12:46:18 +0000351
Jesus Cea616de772010-04-28 10:32:30 +0000352- Issue #3928: os.mknod() now available in Solaris, also.
353
Matthias Klose817acef2010-03-15 00:02:36 +0000354- Issue #8142: Update libffi to the 3.0.9 release.
355
Mark Dickinson4846a8e2010-04-03 14:05:10 +0000356- Issue #8300: When passing a non-integer argument to struct.pack with any
357 integer format code, struct.pack first attempts to convert the non-integer
358 using its __index__ method. If that method is non-existent or raises
359 TypeError it goes on to try the __int__ method, as described below.
360
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000361- Issue #1530559: When passing a non-integer argument to struct.pack with *any*
362 integer format code (one of 'bBhHiIlLqQ'), struct.pack attempts to use the
363 argument's __int__ method to convert to an integer before packing. It also
364 produces a DeprecationWarning in this case. (In Python 2.6, the behaviour
365 was inconsistent: __int__ was used for some integer codes but not for others,
366 and the set of integer codes for which it was used differed between native
367 packing and standard packing.)
Mark Dickinson154b7ad2010-03-07 16:24:45 +0000368
Brian Curtin19479fa2010-04-02 21:51:37 +0000369- Issue #7347: _winreg: Add CreateKeyEx and DeleteKeyEx, as well as fix a
370 bug in the return value of QueryReflectionKey.
371
Antoine Pitrou02b3f0a2010-03-13 21:21:30 +0000372Tools/Demos
373-----------
374
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000375- Issue #7993: Add a test of IO packet processing bandwidth to ccbench. It
376 measures the number of UDP packets processed per second depending on the
377 number of background CPU-bound Python threads.
Benjamin Peterson5da7e7c2010-03-06 22:44:07 +0000378
Collin Wintera70f3492010-03-19 00:08:44 +0000379- python-config now supports multiple options on the same command line.
380
Benjamin Peterson11d93232010-03-14 14:24:31 +0000381Build
382-----
383
Martin v. Löwisbf0dfb32010-04-01 07:40:51 +0000384- Issue #8032: For gdb7, a python-gdb.py file is added to the build,
385 allowing to use advanced gdb features when debugging Python.
386
Antoine Pitrouf83b3082010-03-21 19:19:41 +0000387- Issue #1628484: The Makefile doesn't ignore the CFLAGS environment
388 variable anymore. It also forwards the LDFLAGS settings to the linker
389 when building a shared library.
390
Martin v. Löwis24e4e162010-03-15 13:00:17 +0000391- Issue #6716: Quote -x arguments of compileall in MSI installer.
392
Benjamin Peterson11d93232010-03-14 14:24:31 +0000393- Issue #7705: Fix linking on FreeBSD.
394
Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven6d22cfc2010-04-07 16:34:08 +0000395- Make sure that the FreeBSD build of the included libffi uses the proper
396 assembly file.
397
Larry Hastings402b73f2010-03-25 00:54:54 +0000398C-API
399-----
400
Antoine Pitrou76c86492010-04-01 16:42:11 +0000401- Issue #8276: PyEval_CallObject() is now only available in macro form. The
402 function declaration, which was kept for backwards compatibility reasons,
403 is now removed (the macro was introduced in 1997!).
404
Larry Hastings402b73f2010-03-25 00:54:54 +0000405- Issue #7992: A replacement PyCObject API, PyCapsule, has been backported
Larry Hastings5ac006d2010-04-02 11:01:35 +0000406 from Python 3.1. All existing Python CObjects in the main distribution
407 have been converted to capsules. To address backwards-compatibility
408 concerns, PyCObject_AsVoidPtr() was changed to understand capsules.
Larry Hastings402b73f2010-03-25 00:54:54 +0000409
Florent Xicluna3cc8f212010-03-15 18:08:58 +0000410Tests
411-----
412
R. David Murraye0e8a872010-04-17 05:26:26 +0000413- Issue #3864: Skip three test_signal tests on freebsd6 because they fail
414 if any thread was previously started, most likely due to a platform bug.
415
Antoine Pitrouab5ce722010-04-11 22:45:47 +0000416- Issue #8348: Fix test ftp url in test_urllib2net.
417
418- Issue #8204: Fix test_ttk notebook test by forcing focus.
419
420- Issue #8344: Fix test_ttk bug on FreeBSD.
421
Antoine Pitrou3b4c9892010-04-06 17:21:09 +0000422- Issue #8193: Fix test_zlib failure with zlib 1.2.4.
423
Antoine Pitrou6032c252010-03-30 18:49:45 +0000424- Issue #8248: Add some tests for the bool type. Patch by Gregory Nofi.
425
Florent Xicluna75c66762010-03-30 16:31:14 +0000426- Issue #8263: Now regrtest.py will report a failure if it receives a
427 KeyboardInterrupt (SIGINT).
428
Florent Xicluna8aa5a582010-03-25 20:33:49 +0000429- Issue #8180 and #8207: Fix test_pep277 on OS X and add more tests for special
430 Unicode normalization cases.
Florent Xicluna77a88492010-03-21 18:00:38 +0000431
Florent Xicluna3cc8f212010-03-15 18:08:58 +0000432- Issue #7783: test.test_support.open_urlresource invalidates the outdated
433 files from the local cache.
434
R. David Murray4617e502010-03-08 02:04:06 +0000435
Benjamin Peterson2d798ac2010-02-06 18:26:27 +0000436What's New in Python 2.7 alpha 4?
437=================================
438
Benjamin Peterson8e7c1172010-03-06 20:34:14 +0000439*Release date: 2010-03-06*
Benjamin Peterson2d798ac2010-02-06 18:26:27 +0000440
441Core and Builtins
442-----------------
443
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000444- Issue #7544: Preallocate thread memory before creating the thread to avoid a
445 fatal error in low memory condition.
Victor Stinner71fb87e2010-03-03 23:20:25 +0000446
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000447- Issue #7820: The parser tokenizer restores all bytes in the right if the BOM
448 check fails.
Victor Stinnerd23d3932010-03-02 23:20:02 +0000449
Eric Smith2d9856d2010-02-24 14:15:36 +0000450- Issue #7309: Fix unchecked attribute access when converting
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000451 UnicodeEncodeError, UnicodeDecodeError, and UnicodeTranslateError to strings.
Eric Smith2d9856d2010-02-24 14:15:36 +0000452
Ezio Melotti32125152010-02-25 17:36:04 +0000453- Issue #7649: "u'%c' % char" now behaves like "u'%s' % char" and raises a
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000454 UnicodeDecodeError if 'char' is a byte string that can't be decoded using the
455 default encoding.
Victor Stinnerf20f9c22010-02-23 23:16:07 +0000456
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000457- Issue #6902: Fix problem with built-in types format incorrectly with 0
458 padding.
Eric Smith87bcb242010-02-23 00:11:16 +0000459
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000460- Issue #2560: Remove an unnecessary 'for' loop from ``my_fgets()`` in
Andrew M. Kuchlingb64d6132010-02-22 22:48:41 +0000461 Parser/myreadline.c.
462
Eric Smithf32d4ac2010-02-22 18:33:47 +0000463- Issue #7988: Fix default alignment to be right aligned for
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000464 ``complex.__format__``. Now it matches other numeric types.
Eric Smithf32d4ac2010-02-22 18:33:47 +0000465
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000466- Issue #5211: The complex type no longer uses implicit coercion in mixed-type
467 binary arithmetic operations.
Mark Dickinson82b34c52010-02-21 12:57:35 +0000468
Benjamin Peterson2d798ac2010-02-06 18:26:27 +0000469Library
470-------
471
Florent Xicluna0b9a18a2010-03-06 11:01:08 +0000472- Issue #6906: Tk should not set Unicode environment variables on Windows.
473
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000474- Issue #1054943: Fix ``unicodedata.normalize('NFC', text)`` for the Public
Ezio Melotti8122bdd2010-03-14 10:13:49 +0000475 Review Issue #29 (http://unicode.org/review/pr-29.html).
Victor Stinner7c924ec2010-03-04 12:09:33 +0000476
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000477- Issue #7494: Fix a crash in ``_lsprof`` (cProfile) after clearing the profiler,
Victor Stinner56a51532010-03-04 00:10:12 +0000478 reset also the pointer to the current pointer context.
479
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000480- Issue #7232: Add support for the context manager protocol to the
481 ``tarfile.TarFile`` class.
Lars Gustäbel64581042010-03-03 11:55:48 +0000482
Barry Warsaw08a8fb32010-03-01 21:46:51 +0000483- Issue #7250: Fix info leak of os.environ across multi-run uses of
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000484 ``wsgiref.handlers.CGIHandler``.
Barry Warsaw08a8fb32010-03-01 21:46:51 +0000485
Florent Xiclunae7901c52010-03-01 20:45:01 +0000486- Issue #1729305: Fix doctest to handle encode error with "backslashreplace".
Florent Xicluna2a903b22010-02-27 13:31:23 +0000487
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000488- Issue #691291: ``codecs.open()`` should not convert end of lines on reading
489 and writing.
Florent Xicluna82aa01f2010-02-27 11:19:18 +0000490
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000491- Issue #7975: Correct regression in dict methods supported by bsddb.dbshelve.
R. David Murray48605be2010-02-24 02:31:27 +0000492
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000493- Issue #7959: ctypes callback functions are now registered correctly with the
494 cycle garbage collector.
Thomas Heller92bd0592010-02-23 20:11:44 +0000495
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000496- Issue #7970: ``email.Generator.flatten`` now correctly flattens
497 message/rfc822 messages parsed by ``email.Parser.HeaderParser``.
R. David Murray51f12042010-02-21 04:23:00 +0000498
Ezio Melotti4cc80ca2010-02-20 08:09:39 +0000499- Issue #3426: ``os.path.abspath`` now returns unicode when its arg is unicode.
500
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000501- Issue #7633: In the decimal module, ``Context`` class methods (with the
502 exception of canonical and is_canonical) now accept instances of int and long
503 wherever a Decimal instance is accepted, and implicitly convert that argument
504 to Decimal. Previously only some arguments were converted.
Mark Dickinson6d8effb2010-02-18 14:27:02 +0000505
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000506- Issue #6003: Add an argument to ``zipfile.Zipfile.writestr`` to specify the
507 compression type.
Ezio Melotti8f6a2872010-02-10 21:40:33 +0000508
Michael Foorddb43b5a2010-02-10 14:25:12 +0000509- Issue #7893: ``unittest.TextTestResult`` is made public and a ``resultclass``
510 argument added to the TextTestRunner constructor allowing a different result
511 class to be used without having to subclass.
Ezio Melotti8f6a2872010-02-10 21:40:33 +0000512
Ezio Melotti4cc80ca2010-02-20 08:09:39 +0000513- Issue #7588: ``unittest.TextTestResult.getDescription`` now includes the test
Michael Foorddb43b5a2010-02-10 14:25:12 +0000514 name in failure reports even if the test has a docstring.
Ronald Oussorendd25e862010-02-07 20:18:02 +0000515
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000516- Issue #5801: Remove spurious empty lines in wsgiref.
Tarek Ziadéb8708a22010-02-23 05:53:05 +0000517
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000518- Issue #1537721: Add a ``writeheader()`` method to ``csv.DictWriter``.
Dirkjan Ochtman86148172010-02-23 21:09:52 +0000519
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000520- Issue #7427: Improve the representation of httplib.BadStatusLine exceptions.
Dirkjan Ochtmanebc73dc2010-02-24 04:49:00 +0000521
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000522- Issue #7481: When a ``threading.Thread`` failed to start it would leave the
523 instance stuck in initial state and present in ``threading.enumerate()``.
Gregory P. Smith613c7a52010-02-28 18:36:09 +0000524
Gregory P. Smithcce211f2010-03-01 00:05:08 +0000525- Issue #1068268: The subprocess module now handles EINTR in internal
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000526 ``os.waitpid()`` and ``os.read()`` system calls where appropriate.
Gregory P. Smithcce211f2010-03-01 00:05:08 +0000527
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000528- Issue #6729: Add ``ctypes.c_ssize_t`` to represent ssize_t.
Gregory P. Smith3c699d32010-03-01 04:56:12 +0000529
Steven Betharde9330e72010-03-02 08:38:09 +0000530- Issue #6247: The argparse module has been added to the standard library.
531
Martin v. Löwis413fabc2010-02-18 09:22:20 +0000532Extension Modules
533-----------------
534
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000535- The sqlite3 module was updated to pysqlite 2.6.0. This fixes several obscure
Gerhard Häring3bbb6722010-03-05 09:12:37 +0000536 bugs and allows loading SQLite extensions from shared libraries.
537
Florent Xiclunae7901c52010-03-01 20:45:01 +0000538- Issue #7808: Fix reference leaks in _bsddb and related tests.
539
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000540- Issue #6544: Fix a reference leak in the kqueue implementation's error
Georg Brandlea370a92010-02-23 21:48:57 +0000541 handling.
542
Martin v. Löwis413fabc2010-02-18 09:22:20 +0000543- Stop providing crtassem.h symbols when compiling with Visual Studio 2010, as
544 msvcr100.dll is not a platform assembly anymore.
Benjamin Peterson2d798ac2010-02-06 18:26:27 +0000545
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000546- Issue #7242: On Solaris 9 and earlier calling ``os.fork()`` from within a
Gregory P. Smith9e5d1322010-03-01 01:22:39 +0000547 thread could raise an incorrect RuntimeError about not holding the import
548 lock. The import lock is now reinitialized after fork.
549
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000550- Issue #7999: ``os.setreuid()`` and ``os.setregid()`` would refuse to accept a
551 -1 parameter on some platforms such as OS X.
Gregory P. Smith6a65f852010-03-01 05:43:43 +0000552
Ezio Melotti8f6a2872010-02-10 21:40:33 +0000553Tests
554-----
555
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000556- Issue #7849: The utility ``test.test_support.check_warnings()`` verifies if
557 warnings are effectively raised. A new utility ``check_py3k_warnings()`` is
558 available.
Florent Xicluna6de9e932010-03-07 12:18:33 +0000559
Florent Xicluna985478d2010-03-06 18:52:52 +0000560- The four path modules (genericpath, macpath, ntpath, posixpath) share a
561 common TestCase for some tests: test_genericpath.CommonTest.
562
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000563- Print platform information when running the whole test suite, or using the
564 ``--verbose`` flag.
Florent Xicluna58526412010-03-06 17:24:36 +0000565
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000566- Issue #767675: Enable test_pep277 on POSIX platforms with Unicode-friendly
Florent Xiclunac0a9d412010-03-02 22:34:11 +0000567 filesystem encoding.
Florent Xicluna2db61fb2010-03-02 21:34:45 +0000568
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000569- Issue #6292: For the moment at least, the test suite runs cleanly if python
R. David Murrayf28fd242010-02-23 00:24:49 +0000570 is run with the -OO flag. Tests requiring docstrings are skipped.
571
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000572- Issue #7712: test_support gained a new ``temp_cwd`` context manager which is
573 now also used by regrtest to run all the tests in a temporary directory. The
574 original CWD is saved in ``test.test_support.SAVEDCWD``. Thanks to Florent
575 Xicluna who helped with the patch.
Ezio Melotti8f6a2872010-02-10 21:40:33 +0000576
Martin v. Löwis5e2dd862010-02-15 08:32:00 +0000577Build
578-----
579
Martin v. Löwis7875ef62010-02-15 21:41:12 +0000580- Issue #3920, #7903: Define _BSD_SOURCE on OpenBSD 4.4 through 4.9.
Martin v. Löwis5e2dd862010-02-15 08:32:00 +0000581
Ezio Melotti8f6a2872010-02-10 21:40:33 +0000582
Benjamin Petersondd6d92a2010-01-09 17:30:31 +0000583What's New in Python 2.7 alpha 3?
584=================================
585
Benjamin Petersona7be9d22010-02-06 16:37:32 +0000586*Release date: 2010-02-06*
Benjamin Petersondd6d92a2010-01-09 17:30:31 +0000587
588Core and Builtins
589-----------------
590
Antoine Pitroubb445a12010-02-05 17:05:54 +0000591- Issue #5677: Explicitly forbid write operations on read-only file objects,
592 and read operations on write-only file objects. On Windows, the system C
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000593 library would return a bogus result; on Solaris, it was possible to crash the
594 interpreter. Patch by Stefan Krah.
Antoine Pitroubb445a12010-02-05 17:05:54 +0000595
Barry Warsawb1e66ee2010-02-05 18:45:25 +0000596- Issue #7853: Normalize exceptions before they are passed to a context
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000597 manager's ``__exit__()`` method.
Benjamin Peterson565d7852010-02-05 02:12:14 +0000598
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000599- Issue #7385: Fix a crash in ``PyMemoryView_FromObject()`` when
600 ``PyObject_GetBuffer()`` fails. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
Antoine Pitrou526e4212010-02-02 22:36:17 +0000601
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000602- Issue #7819: Check ``sys.call_tracing()`` arguments types.
Victor Stinnerb4b0a292010-01-31 22:32:15 +0000603
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000604- Issue #7788: Fix an interpreter crash produced by deleting a list slice with
605 very large step value.
Mark Dickinson36ecd672010-01-29 17:11:39 +0000606
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000607- Issue #7766: Change ``sys.getwindowsversion()`` return value to a named tuple
608 and add the additional members returned in an OSVERSIONINFOEX structure. The
609 new members are service_pack_major, service_pack_minor, suite_mask, and
610 product_type.
Eric Smithee931b72010-01-27 00:28:29 +0000611
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000612- Issue #7561: Operations on empty bytearrays (such as ``int(bytearray())``)
613 could crash in many places because of the ``PyByteArray_AS_STRING()`` macro
614 returning NULL. The macro now returns a statically allocated empty string
615 instead.
Antoine Pitroue80a6a42010-01-17 12:26:20 +0000616
Antoine Pitrou64672132010-01-13 07:55:48 +0000617- Issue #7622: Improve the split(), rsplit(), splitlines() and replace()
618 methods of bytes, bytearray and unicode objects by using a common
619 implementation based on stringlib's fast search. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
620
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000621- Issue #7632: Fix various str -> float conversion bugs present in 2.7 alpha 2,
622 including:
Mark Dickinson8efef5c2010-01-12 22:23:56 +0000623
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000624 (1) a serious 'wrong output' bug that could occur for long (> 40 digit) input
625 strings,
626 (2) a crash in dtoa.c that occurred in debug builds when parsing certain long
627 numeric strings corresponding to subnormal values,
628 (3) a memory leak for some values large enough to cause overflow, and
629 (4) a number of flaws that could lead to incorrectly rounded results.
630
631- Issue #7319, #7770: Silence ``DeprecationWarning`` by default when the -3
632 option is not used.
Brett Cannon6fdd3dc2010-01-10 02:56:19 +0000633
Alexandre Vassalottiee936a22010-01-09 23:35:54 +0000634- Issue #2335: Backport set literals syntax from Python 3.x.
635
Alexandre Vassalotti7a8df802010-01-11 23:13:49 +0000636- Issue #2333: Backport set and dict comprehensions syntax from Python 3.x.
637
Alexandre Vassalotti69eb5162010-01-11 23:17:10 +0000638- Issue #1967: Backport dictionary views from Python 3.x.
639
Benjamin Petersondd6d92a2010-01-09 17:30:31 +0000640Library
641-------
642
R. David Murray63e4fd72010-02-10 22:42:04 +0000643- Issue #7835: shelve should no longer produce mysterious warnings during
644 interpreter shutdown.
645
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000646- Issue #2746: Don't escape ampersands and angle brackets ("&", "<", ">") in
647 XML processing instructions and comments. These raw characters are allowed
648 by the XML specification, and are necessary when outputting e.g. PHP code in
649 a processing instruction. Patch by Neil Muller.
Antoine Pitrou42fb6ab2010-02-09 17:08:05 +0000650
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000651- Issue #7869: logging: Improved diagnostic for format-time errors.
Vinay Sajip64e8b972010-02-07 12:56:54 +0000652
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000653- Issue #7868: logging: Added loggerClass attribute to Manager.
Vinay Sajip657514a2010-02-07 01:37:08 +0000654
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000655- Issue #7851: logging: Clarification on logging configuration files.
Vinay Sajip0e6e97d2010-02-04 20:23:45 +0000656
Antoine Pitroud840e512010-02-04 20:20:18 +0000657- Issue #4772: Raise a ValueError when an unknown Bluetooth protocol is
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000658 specified, rather than fall through to AF_PACKET (in the ``socket`` module).
Antoine Pitroud840e512010-02-04 20:20:18 +0000659 Also, raise ValueError rather than TypeError when an unknown TIPC address
660 type is specified. Patch by Brian Curtin.
661
Vinay Sajip28c382f2010-02-04 18:48:53 +0000662- logging: Implemented PEP 391.
663
Antoine Pitrouf3fa0742010-01-31 22:26:04 +0000664- Issue #6939: Fix file I/O objects in the `io` module to keep the original
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000665 file position when calling `truncate()`. It would previously change the file
666 position to the given argument, which goes against the tradition of
Antoine Pitrouf3fa0742010-01-31 22:26:04 +0000667 ftruncate() and other truncation APIs. Patch by Pascal Chambon.
668
Benjamin Petersone06f7112010-01-28 02:15:02 +0000669- UserDict is now a new-style class.
670
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000671- Issue #7610: Reworked implementation of the internal ``zipfile.ZipExtFile``
672 class used to represent files stored inside an archive. The new
673 implementation is significantly faster and can be wrapped in a
674 ``io.BufferedReader`` object for more speedups. It also solves an issue
675 where interleaved calls to ``read()`` and ``readline()`` give wrong results.
676 Patch by Nir Aides.
Antoine Pitrou94c33eb2010-01-27 20:59:50 +0000677
Benjamin Peterson2deb5c72010-01-27 02:16:42 +0000678- Issue #7792: Registering non-classes to ABCs raised an obscure error.
679
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000680- Removed the deprecated functions ``verify()`` and ``vereq()`` from
681 Lib/test/test_support.py.
Ezio Melotti82230f92010-01-25 12:37:02 +0000682
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000683- Issue #7773: Fix an UnboundLocalError in ``platform.linux_distribution()``
684 when the release file is empty.
Benjamin Petersona43f34c2010-01-25 03:31:13 +0000685
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000686- Issue #7748: Since unicode values are supported for some metadata options in
687 Distutils, the DistributionMetadata get_* methods will now return an utf-8
688 encoded string for them. This ensures that the upload and register commands
689 send the correct values to PyPI without any error.
Tarek Ziadéf14c7fc2010-01-24 00:33:32 +0000690
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000691- Issue #1670765: Prevent ``email.generator.Generator`` from re-wrapping
R. David Murrayed44dfa2010-01-16 05:15:17 +0000692 headers in multipart/signed MIME parts, which fixes one of the sources of
693 invalid modifications to such parts by Generator.
694
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000695- Issue #7701: Fix crash in ``binascii.b2a_uu()`` in debug mode when given a
Antoine Pitrouc391ad02010-01-15 00:18:00 +0000696 1-byte argument. Patch by Victor Stinner.
697
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000698- Issue #3299: Fix possible crash in the _sre module when given bad argument
699 values in debug mode. Patch by Victor Stinner.
Antoine Pitrouefdddd32010-01-14 17:25:24 +0000700
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000701- Issue #7703: Add support for the new buffer API to functions of the binascii
702 module. Backported from py3k by Florent Xicluna, with some additional tests.
Antoine Pitroufd3a60d2010-01-14 16:27:09 +0000703
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000704- Issue #2846: Add support for gzip.GzipFile reading zero-padded files. Patch
705 by Brian Curtin.
Antoine Pitrou5a9112c2010-01-13 14:32:10 +0000706
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000707- Issue #5827: Make sure that normpath preserves unicode. Initial patch by
708 Matt Giuca.
Ezio Melottib5689de2010-01-12 03:32:05 +0000709
Tarek Ziadédc0f4872010-01-11 22:50:29 +0000710- Issue #5372: Drop the reuse of .o files in Distutils' ccompiler (since
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000711 Extension extra options may change the output without changing the .c file).
712 Initial patch by Collin Winter.
Tarek Ziadédc0f4872010-01-11 22:50:29 +0000713
Matthias Klose0d948ac2010-01-22 00:39:04 +0000714Extension Modules
715-----------------
716
717- Expat: Fix DoS via XML document with malformed UTF-8 sequences
718 (CVE_2009_3560).
719
Antoine Pitrou8c510e72010-01-13 11:47:49 +0000720Build
721-----
722
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000723- Issue #7632: When Py_USING_MEMORY_DEBUGGER is defined, disable the private
724 memory allocation scheme in dtoa.c and use PyMem_Malloc and PyMem_Free
725 instead. Also disable caching of powers of 5.
Mark Dickinson9481c572010-01-17 20:57:56 +0000726
Ronald Oussorena55af9a2010-01-17 16:25:57 +0000727- Issue #7658: Ensure that the new pythonw executable works on OSX 10.4
728
729- Issue #7714: Use ``gcc -dumpversion`` to detect the version of GCC on
730 MacOSX.
731
Antoine Pitrou8c510e72010-01-13 11:47:49 +0000732- Issue #7661: Allow ctypes to be built from a non-ASCII directory path.
733 Patch by Florent Xicluna.
734
Antoine Pitrouc07336c2010-01-18 21:15:21 +0000735Tools/Demos
736-----------
737
738- iobench (a file I/O benchmark) and ccbench (a concurrency benchmark) were
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000739 added to the ``Tools`` directory. They were previously living in the
Antoine Pitrouc07336c2010-01-18 21:15:21 +0000740 sandbox.
741
R. David Murrayce6e4b02010-02-06 04:27:21 +0000742Tests
743-----
744
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000745- issue #7728: test_timeout was changed to use ``test_support.bind_port()``
R. David Murrayce6e4b02010-02-06 04:27:21 +0000746 instead of a hard coded port.
747
Matthias Klose626d92a2010-01-31 16:05:13 +0000748Documentation
749-------------
Victor Stinnerf20f9c22010-02-23 23:16:07 +0000750
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000751- Updated "Using Python" documentation to include description of CPython's -J,
752 -U and -X options.
Barry Warsawb1e66ee2010-02-05 18:45:25 +0000753
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000754- Updated Python manual page (options -B, -O0, -s, environment variables
Matthias Klose626d92a2010-01-31 16:05:13 +0000755 PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE, PYTHONNOUSERSITE).
756
Benjamin Petersondd6d92a2010-01-09 17:30:31 +0000757
Benjamin Peterson4f51baf2009-12-05 18:40:02 +0000758What's New in Python 2.7 alpha 2?
759=================================
760
Benjamin Petersonaa7e51f2010-01-09 16:34:06 +0000761*Release date: 2010-01-09*
Benjamin Peterson4f51baf2009-12-05 18:40:02 +0000762
763Core and Builtins
764-----------------
765
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000766- The ``__complex__()`` method is now looked up on the class of instances to
767 make it consistent with other special methods.
Benjamin Petersonecdae192010-01-04 00:43:01 +0000768
Antoine Pitrou5b7139a2010-01-02 21:12:58 +0000769- Issue #7462: Implement the stringlib fast search algorithm for the `rfind`,
770 `rindex`, `rsplit` and `rpartition` methods. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
771
Mark Dickinson1b34d252010-01-01 17:27:30 +0000772- Issue #5080: A number of functions and methods previously produced a
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000773 DeprecationWarning when passed a float argument where an integer was expected.
774 These functions and methods now raise TypeError instead. The majority of the
775 effects of this change are in the extension modules, but some core functions
776 and methods are affected: notably the 'chr', 'range' and 'xrange' builtins,
777 and many unicode/str methods.
Mark Dickinson1b34d252010-01-01 17:27:30 +0000778
Benjamin Peterson0f02d392009-12-30 19:34:10 +0000779- Issue #7604: Deleting an unset slotted attribute did not raise an
780 AttributeError.
781
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000782- Issue #7534: Fix handling of IEEE specials (infinities, nans, negative zero)
783 in ** operator. The behaviour now conforms to that described in C99 Annex F.
Mark Dickinson99d652e2009-12-30 12:12:23 +0000784
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000785- Issue #7579: The msvcrt module now has docstrings for all its functions.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcc8a2ce72009-12-29 23:06:17 +0000786
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc8645a5c2009-12-29 22:03:38 +0000787- Issue #7413: Passing '\0' as the separator to datetime.datetime.isoformat()
788 used to drop the time part of the result.
789
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000790- Issue #1811: Improve accuracy and cross-platform consistency for true division
791 of integers: the result of a/b is now correctly rounded for ints a and b (at
792 least on IEEE 754 platforms), and in particular does not depend on the
793 internal representation of a long.
Mark Dickinson46572832009-12-27 14:55:57 +0000794
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000795- Issue #6108: ``unicode(exception)`` and ``str(exception)`` should return the
796 same message when only ``__str__()`` (and not ``__unicode__()``) is overridden
797 in the subclass.
Ezio Melottif84caf42009-12-24 22:25:17 +0000798
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000799- Issue #6834: Replace the implementation for the 'python' and 'pythonw'
Ronald Oussoren92919a62009-12-24 13:30:58 +0000800 executables on OSX.
801
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000802 These executables now work properly with the arch(1) command: ``arch -ppc
803 python`` will start a universal binary version of python in PPC mode (unlike
804 previous releases).
Ronald Oussoren92919a62009-12-24 13:30:58 +0000805
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000806- Issue #1680159: Unicode coercion during an 'in' operation no longer masks the
807 underlying error when the coercion fails for the left hand operand.
R. David Murray0a0a1a82009-12-14 16:28:26 +0000808
Benjamin Peterson4895af42009-12-13 16:36:53 +0000809- Issue #7491: Metaclass's __cmp__ method was ignored.
810
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000811- Issue #7466: Segmentation fault when the garbage collector is called in the
812 middle of populating a tuple. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
Antoine Pitrou2a08b422009-12-13 16:18:14 +0000813
R. David Murrayc7298ff2009-12-14 21:57:39 +0000814
Benjamin Peterson4f51baf2009-12-05 18:40:02 +0000815Library
816-------
817
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000818- Issue #6963: Added "maxtasksperchild" argument to ``multiprocessing.Pool``,
819 allowing for a maximum number of tasks within the pool to be completed by the
820 worker before that worker is terminated, and a new one created to replace it.
Jesse Noller654ade32010-01-27 03:05:57 +0000821
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000822- Issue #7617: Make sure distutils.unixccompiler.UnixCCompiler recognizes gcc
823 when it has a fully qualified configuration prefix. Initial patch by
824 Arfrever.
Tarek Ziadéc25417f2010-01-08 23:42:23 +0000825
Antoine Pitrou80157252010-01-08 19:20:17 +0000826- Issue #7092: Remove py3k warning when importing cPickle. 2to3 handles
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000827 renaming of `cPickle` to `pickle`. The warning was annoying since there's no
828 alternative to cPickle if you care about performance. Patch by Florent
Antoine Pitrou80157252010-01-08 19:20:17 +0000829 Xicluna.
830
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000831- Issue #7455: Fix possible crash in cPickle on invalid input. Patch by Victor
832 Stinner.
Antoine Pitrou0d423b82010-01-07 17:46:49 +0000833
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000834- Issue #7092: Fix the DeprecationWarnings emitted by the standard library when
835 using the -3 flag. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
Antoine Pitroub9d49632010-01-04 23:22:44 +0000836
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000837- Issue #7471: Improve the performance of GzipFile's buffering mechanism, and
838 make it implement the ``io.BufferedIOBase`` ABC to allow for further speedups
839 by wrapping it in an ``io.BufferedReader``. Patch by Nir Aides.
Antoine Pitrou673ddf92010-01-03 22:29:56 +0000840
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000841- Issue #3972: ``httplib.HTTPConnection`` now accepts an optional source_address
Gregory P. Smith9d325212010-01-03 02:06:07 +0000842 parameter to allow specifying where your connections come from.
843
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000844- ``socket.create_connection()`` now accepts an optional source_address
845 parameter.
Gregory P. Smith79a3eb12010-01-03 01:29:44 +0000846
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000847- Issue #5511: ``zipfile.ZipFile`` can now be used as a context manager.
Ezio Melotti569e61f2009-12-30 06:14:51 +0000848 Initial patch by Brian Curtin.
849
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000850- Distutils now correctly identifies the build architecture as "x86_64" when
851 building on OSX 10.6 without "-arch" flags.
Ronald Oussorenca8e7ec2009-12-24 14:50:35 +0000852
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000853- Issue #7556: Distutils' msvc9compiler now opens the MSVC Manifest file in text
854 mode.
Tarek Ziadé0479eb52009-12-21 23:37:44 +0000855
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000856- Issue #7552: Removed line feed in the base64 Authorization header in the
857 Distutils upload command to avoid an error when PyPI reads it. This occurs on
858 long passwords. Initial patch by JP St. Pierre.
Tarek Ziadé2421d562009-12-20 23:23:34 +0000859
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000860- Issue #7231: urllib2 cannot handle https with proxy requiring auth. Patch by
861 Tatsuhiro Tsujikawa.
Senthil Kumaran7713acf2009-12-20 06:05:13 +0000862
Benjamin Petersonddd392c2009-12-13 19:19:07 +0000863- Issue #7349: Make methods of file objects in the io module accept None as an
864 argument where file-like objects (ie StringIO and BytesIO) accept them to mean
865 the same as passing no argument.
866
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000867- Issue #7348: ``StringIO.StringIO.readline(-1)`` now acts as if it got no
868 argument like other file objects.
Benjamin Petersonc4771d22009-12-13 17:31:31 +0000869
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000870- Issue #7357: tarfile no longer suppresses fatal extraction errors by default.
Lars Gustäbel92ca7562009-12-13 11:32:27 +0000871
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000872- Issue #7470: logging: Fix bug in Unicode encoding fallback.
Vinay Sajip5cc4e2a2009-12-11 09:16:01 +0000873
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000874- Issue #5949: Fixed IMAP4_SSL hang when the IMAP server response is missing
875 proper end-of-line termination.
R. David Murray93321f32009-12-09 15:15:31 +0000876
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000877- Issue #7457: Added a read_pkg_file method to
878 ``distutils.dist.DistributionMetadata``.
Benjamin Peterson4f51baf2009-12-05 18:40:02 +0000879
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000880- Issue #3745: Undo the 2.7a1 change to have hashlib to reject unicode and non
881 buffer API supporting objects as input. That behavior is for 3.x only.
Gregory P. Smithfe32d302010-01-02 22:42:50 +0000882
Georg Brandl740cdc32009-12-28 08:34:58 +0000883C-API
884-----
885
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000886- Issue #7767: New function ``PyLong_AsLongLongAndOverflow()`` added, analogous
887 to ``PyLong_AsLongAndOverflow()``.
Mark Dickinsona36507c2010-01-30 10:08:33 +0000888
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000889- Issue #5080: The argument parsing functions ``PyArg_ParseTuple()``,
890 ``PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords()``, ``PyArg_VaParse()``,
891 ``PyArg_VaParseTupleAndKeywords()`` and ``PyArg_Parse()`` no longer accept
892 float arguments for integer format codes (other than 'L'): previously an
893 attempt to pass a float resulted in a DeprecationWarning; now it gives a
894 TypeError. For the 'L' format code (which previously had no warning) there is
895 now a DeprecationWarning.
Mark Dickinson1b34d252010-01-01 17:27:30 +0000896
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000897- Issue #7033: Function ``PyErr_NewExceptionWithDoc()`` added.
Georg Brandl740cdc32009-12-28 08:34:58 +0000898
Martin v. Löwisb4261d52009-12-21 19:29:59 +0000899Build
900-----
901
Benjamin Petersonedfe72f2010-01-01 15:21:13 +0000902- Issue #6491: Allow --with-dbmliborder to specify that no dbms will be built.
903
Benjamin Petersonb4abef62010-01-01 15:18:38 +0000904- Issue #6943: Use pkg-config to find the libffi headers when the
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000905 ``--with-system-ffi`` flag is used.
Benjamin Petersonb4abef62010-01-01 15:18:38 +0000906
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000907- Issue #7609: Add a ``--with-system-expat`` option that causes the system's
908 expat library to be used for the pyexpat module instead of the one included
909 with Python.
Benjamin Peterson2c196742009-12-31 03:17:18 +0000910
Benjamin Peterson500ce232009-12-30 02:58:50 +0000911- Issue #7589: Only build the nis module when the correct header files are
912 found.
913
Martin v. Löwisf477b932010-01-02 09:25:21 +0000914- Switch to OpenSSL 0.9.8l and sqlite 3.6.21 on Windows.
R. David Murray93321f32009-12-09 15:15:31 +0000915
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000916- Issue #7541: when using ``python-config`` with a framework install the
917 compiler might use the wrong library.
Ronald Oussorenb5afe542009-12-24 14:17:19 +0000918
R. David Murrayc7298ff2009-12-14 21:57:39 +0000919Tests
920-----
921
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000922- Issue #7376: Instead of running a self-test (which was failing) when called
R. David Murray77e48ba2009-12-20 16:46:06 +0000923 with no arguments, doctest.py now gives a usage message.
924
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000925- Issue #7396: Fix regrtest -s, which was broken by the -j enhancement.
R. David Murray98e3df32009-12-16 11:49:46 +0000926
R. David Murrayc7298ff2009-12-14 21:57:39 +0000927- Issue #7498: test_multiprocessing now uses test_support.find_unused_port
928 instead of a hardcoded port number in test_rapid_restart.
929
930
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +0000931What's New in Python 2.7 alpha 1
932================================
933
Benjamin Peterson3513c872009-12-05 18:48:13 +0000934*Release date: 2009-12-05*
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +0000935
936Core and Builtins
937-----------------
938
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000939- Issue #7419: ``locale.setlocale()`` could crash the interpreter on Windows
940 when called with invalid values.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd7288712009-12-01 21:51:04 +0000941
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000942- Issue #3382: 'F' formatting for float and complex now convert the result to
943 upper case. This only affects 'inf' and 'nan', since 'f' no longer converts
944 to 'g' for large values.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd7288712009-12-01 21:51:04 +0000945
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000946- Remove switch from "%f" formatting to "%g" formatting for floats larger than
947 1e50 in absolute value.
Mark Dickinson9dd5e162009-11-23 20:54:09 +0000948
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000949- Remove restrictions on precision when formatting floats. E.g., "%.120g" %
950 1e-100 used to raise OverflowError, but now gives the requested 120
951 significant digits instead.
Mark Dickinson18cfada2009-11-23 18:46:41 +0000952
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000953- Add Py3k warnings for parameter names in parentheses.
Benjamin Peterson89b1a5c2009-11-19 22:58:01 +0000954
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000955- Issue #7362: Give a proper error message for ``def f((x)=3): pass``.
Benjamin Peterson89b1a5c2009-11-19 22:58:01 +0000956
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000957- Issue #7085: Fix crash when importing some extensions in a thread on MacOSX
958 10.6.
Ronald Oussoren315cd0c2009-11-19 16:25:21 +0000959
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000960- Issue #7117: ``repr(x)`` for a float x returns a result based on the shortest
961 decimal string that's guaranteed to round back to x under correct rounding
962 (with round-half-to-even rounding mode). Previously it gave a string based on
963 rounding x to 17 decimal digits. repr(x) for a complex number behaves
964 similarly. On platforms where the correctly-rounded strtod and dtoa code is
965 not supported (see below), repr is unchanged.
Mark Dickinsonb678de82009-11-19 18:41:49 +0000966
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000967- Issue #7117: On almost all platforms: float-to-string and string-to-float
968 conversions within Python are now correctly rounded. Places these conversions
969 occur include: str for floats and complex numbers; the float and complex
970 constructors; old-style and new-style numeric formatting; serialization and
971 deserialization of floats and complex numbers using marshal, pickle and json;
972 parsing of float and imaginary literals in Python code; Decimal-to-float
973 conversion.
Mark Dickinsonb678de82009-11-19 18:41:49 +0000974
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000975 The conversions use a Python-adapted version of David Gay's well-known dtoa.c,
976 providing correctly-rounded strtod and dtoa C functions. This code is
977 supported on Windows, and on Unix-like platforms using gcc, icc or suncc as
978 the C compiler. There may be a small number of platforms on which correct
979 operation of this code cannot be guaranteed, so the code is not used: notably,
980 this applies to platforms where the C double format is not IEEE 754 binary64,
981 and to platforms on x86 hardware where the x87 FPU is set to 64-bit precision
982 and Python's configure script is unable to determine how to change the FPU
983 precision. On these platforms conversions use the platform strtod and dtoa,
984 as before.
Mark Dickinsonb678de82009-11-19 18:41:49 +0000985
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000986- Issue #7117: Backport round implementation from Python 3.x. ``round()`` now
987 uses the correctly-rounded string <-> float conversions described above (when
988 available), and so produces correctly rounded results that will display nicely
989 under the float repr. There are two related small changes: (1) round now
990 accepts any class with an ``__index__()`` method for its second argument (but
991 no longer accepts floats for the second argument), and (2) an excessively
992 large second integer argument (e.g., ``round(1.234, 10**100)``) no longer
993 raises an exception.
Mark Dickinsonbd15a062009-11-18 19:33:35 +0000994
Philip Jenveyfab8be22009-11-17 02:42:26 +0000995- Issue #1757126: Fix the cyrillic-asian alias for the ptcp154 encoding.
996
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000997- Fix several issues with ``compile()``. The input can now contain Windows and
998 Mac newlines and is no longer required to end in a newline.
Benjamin Petersone36199b2009-11-12 23:39:44 +0000999
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001000- Remove length limitation when constructing a complex number from a unicode
1001 string.
Mark Dickinsonc04c7c52009-10-26 22:28:14 +00001002
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001003- Issue #7244: ``itertools.izip_longest()`` no longer ignores exceptions raised
1004 during the formation of an output tuple.
Raymond Hettingerfa7dadd2009-11-01 20:45:16 +00001005
Mark Dickinson8d87dc02009-10-25 20:39:06 +00001006- Issue #1087418: Boost performance of bitwise operations for longs.
1007
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001008- Issue #1722344: ``threading._shutdown()`` is now called in ``Py_Finalize()``,
1009 which fixes the problem of some exceptions being thrown at shutdown when the
1010 interpreter is killed. Patch by Adam Olsen.
Antoine Pitrouefb60c02009-10-20 21:29:37 +00001011
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001012- Issue #7168: Document ``PyFloat_AsString()`` and ``PyFloat_AsReprString()``,
1013 and note that they are unsafe and deprecated.
Eric Smithc12781a2009-10-19 14:38:14 +00001014
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001015- Issue #7120: logging: Remove import of multiprocessing which is causing crash
1016 in GAE.
Vinay Sajip03d5c342009-10-16 14:06:44 +00001017
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001018- Issue #7140: The ``__dict__`` of a module should not be cleared unless the
1019 module is the only object holding a reference to it.
Benjamin Peterson196b0922009-10-15 15:44:46 +00001020
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001021- Issue #1754094: Improve the stack depth calculation in the compiler. There
1022 should be no other effect than a small decrease in memory use. Patch by
1023 Christopher Tur Lesniewski-Laas.
Neil Schemenauer7fdd1cb2009-10-14 17:17:14 +00001024
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001025- Issue #7084: Fix a (very unlikely) crash when printing a list from one thread,
1026 and mutating it from another one. Patch by Scott Dial.
Antoine Pitroubeaf6a02009-10-11 21:03:26 +00001027
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd0052d12009-10-06 19:56:32 +00001028- Issue #1571184: The Unicode database contains properties for more characters.
1029 The tables for code points representing numeric values, white spaces or line
1030 breaks are now generated from the official Unicode Character Database files,
1031 and include information from the Unihan.txt file.
1032
Benjamin Peterson7adbb5a2009-10-03 20:23:24 +00001033- Issue #7050: Fix a SystemError when trying to use unpacking and augmented
1034 assignment.
1035
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001036- Issue #5329: Fix ``os.popen*`` regression from 2.5 with commands as a sequence
1037 running through the shell. Patch by Jean-Paul Calderone and Jani Hakala.
Philip Jenvey8b902042009-09-29 19:10:15 +00001038
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001039- Issue #7019: Raise ValueError when unmarshalling bad long data, instead of
1040 producing internally inconsistent Python longs.
Mark Dickinson7e7a3ec2009-09-29 19:01:06 +00001041
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001042- Issue #6990: Fix ``threading.local`` subclasses leaving old state around after
1043 a reference cycle GC which could be recycled by new locals.
Philip Jenveydbf3b252009-09-29 04:32:44 +00001044
Benjamin Peterson9db55402009-09-18 21:47:27 +00001045- Issue #6300: unicode.encode, unicode.decode, str.decode, and str.encode now
Benjamin Peterson332d7212009-09-18 21:14:55 +00001046 take keyword arguments.
1047
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001048- Issue #6922: Fix an infinite loop when trying to decode an invalid UTF-32
1049 stream with a non-raising error handler like "replace" or "ignore".
Georg Brandle9741f32009-09-17 11:28:09 +00001050
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001051- Issue #6713: Improve performance of base 10 int -> string and long -> string
1052 conversions.
Mark Dickinsonaa2adc82009-09-16 22:10:56 +00001053
Thomas Wouters2920adb2009-09-16 20:36:34 +00001054- Issue #1590864: Fix potential deadlock when mixing threads and fork().
1055
Georg Brandl0674d3f2009-09-16 20:30:09 +00001056- Issue #6844: Do not emit DeprecationWarnings when accessing a "message"
1057 attribute on exceptions that was set explicitly.
1058
Mark Dickinsonc8a7c7c2009-09-06 10:03:31 +00001059- Issue #6846: Fix bug where bytearray.pop() returns negative integers.
1060
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001061- ``classmethod()`` no longer checks if its argument is callable.
Benjamin Peterson6fcf9b52009-09-01 22:27:57 +00001062
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001063- Issue #6750: A text file opened with ``io.open()`` could duplicate its output
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfff896b2009-08-29 18:14:40 +00001064 when writing from multiple threads at the same time.
1065
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001066- Issue #6704: Improve the col_offset in AST for "for" statements with a target
1067 of tuple unpacking.
Benjamin Petersonc0ba8282009-08-15 22:59:21 +00001068
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001069- Issue #6707: ``dir()`` on an uninitialized module caused a crash.
Benjamin Peterson4c6e8082009-08-15 13:16:38 +00001070
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001071- Issue #6540: Fixed crash for ``bytearray.translate()`` with invalid parameters.
Georg Brandlec812ca2009-07-22 11:57:15 +00001072
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001073- Issue #6573: ``set.union()`` stopped processing inputs if an instance of self
Raymond Hettingerc2b9e1a2009-07-27 20:32:04 +00001074 occurred in the argument chain.
1075
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc9d11fef2009-07-13 20:03:21 +00001076- Issue #1616979: Added the cp720 (Arabic DOS) encoding.
1077
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001078- Issue #6070: On posix platforms import no longer copies the execute bit from
1079 the .py file to the .pyc file if it is set. Patch by Marco N.
R. David Murray23a736a2009-07-07 01:06:13 +00001080
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001081- Issue #4618: When unicode arguments are passed to ``print()``, the default
Benjamin Peterson753d1622009-07-02 18:16:45 +00001082 separator and end should be unicode also.
1083
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00001084- Issue #6119: Fixed an incorrect Py3k warning about order comparisons of
1085 built-in functions and methods.
Benjamin Peterson1bf47652009-07-02 17:06:17 +00001086
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001087- Issue #6347: Include inttypes.h as well as stdint.h in pyport.h. This fixes a
1088 build failure on HP-UX: int32_t and uint32_t are defined in inttypes.h instead
1089 of stdint.h on that platform.
Mark Dickinson2f865b92009-06-30 15:32:30 +00001090
Hirokazu Yamamotoa3c56092009-06-28 10:23:00 +00001091- Issue #4856: Remove checks for win NT.
1092
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc595f7a52009-06-25 22:29:29 +00001093- Issue #2016: Fixed a crash in a corner case where the dictionary of keyword
1094 arguments could be modified during the function call setup.
1095
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc14fc6732009-06-23 21:09:09 +00001096- Removed the ipaddr module.
1097
Raymond Hettinger62641e92009-06-23 20:59:43 +00001098- Issue #6329: Fixed iteration for memoryview objects (it was being blocked
1099 because it wasn't recognized as a sequence).
1100
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001101- Issue #6289: Encoding errors from ``compile()`` were being masked.
Benjamin Peterson08a0bbc2009-06-16 00:29:31 +00001102
Benjamin Petersona72be3b2009-06-13 20:23:33 +00001103- When no module is given in a relative import, the module field of the
1104 ImportFrom AST node is now None instead of an empty string.
1105
Benjamin Peterson565e1b62009-06-13 03:46:30 +00001106- Assignment to None using import statements now raises a SyntaxError.
1107
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001108- Issue #4547: When debugging a very large function, it was not always possible
1109 to update the lineno attribute of the current frame.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcb02ceda2009-06-01 20:53:18 +00001110
Antoine Pitrou46dbe272009-05-30 21:27:00 +00001111- Issue #5330: C functions called with keyword arguments were not reported by
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001112 the various profiling modules (profile, cProfile). Patch by Hagen Fürstenau.
Antoine Pitrou46dbe272009-05-30 21:27:00 +00001113
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001114- Issue #5982: staticmethod and classmethod now expose the wrapped function with
1115 ``__func__``.
Raymond Hettinger578a2282009-05-29 04:58:52 +00001116
Raymond Hettinger822b87f2009-05-29 01:46:48 +00001117- Added support for multiple context managers in the same with-statement.
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001118 Deprecated ``contextlib.nested()`` which is no longer needed.
Georg Brandl944f6842009-05-25 21:02:56 +00001119
Benjamin Peterson1880d8b2009-05-25 13:13:44 +00001120- Issue #6101: A new opcode, SETUP_WITH, has been added to speed up the with
1121 statement and correctly lookup the __enter__ and __exit__ special methods.
1122
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001123- Issue #5829: complex("1e500") no longer raises OverflowError. This makes it
1124 consistent with float("1e500") and interpretation of real and imaginary
1125 literals.
Mark Dickinsona4e0efa2009-05-20 18:43:07 +00001126
Hirokazu Yamamotoa4f90182009-05-17 02:58:36 +00001127- Issue #3527: Removed Py_WIN_WIDE_FILENAMES which is not used any more.
1128
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001129- ``__instancecheck__()`` and ``__subclasscheck__()`` are now completely ignored
1130 on classic classes and instances.
Benjamin Petersoneb9fb2c2009-05-16 22:46:11 +00001131
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001132- Issue #5994: The marshal module now has docstrings.
R. David Murray525cffc2009-05-13 13:07:14 +00001133
Mark Dickinsonb1d45852009-05-11 15:33:08 +00001134- Issue #5981: Fix three minor inf/nan issues in float.fromhex:
Mark Dickinsonb1d45852009-05-11 15:33:08 +00001135
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001136 (1) inf and nan strings with trailing whitespace were incorrectly rejected;
1137 (2) parsing of strings representing infinities and nans was locale aware; and
1138 (3) the interpretation of fromhex('-nan') didn't match that of float('-nan').
Eric Smitha985a3a2009-05-05 18:26:08 +00001139
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001140- Issue #5920: For ``float.__format__()``, change the behavior with the empty
1141 presentation type (that is, not one of 'e', 'f', 'g', or 'n') to be like 'g'
1142 but with at least one decimal point and with a default precision
1143 of 12. Previously, the behavior the same but with a default precision of 6.
1144 This more closely matches ``str()``, and reduces surprises when adding
1145 alignment flags to the empty presentation type. This also affects the new
1146 complex.__format__ in the same way.
1147
1148- Issue #5890: In subclasses of 'property' the __doc__ attribute was shadowed by
1149 classtype's, even if it was None. property now inserts the __doc__ into the
1150 subclass instance __dict__.
R. David Murray7ba8e1c2009-05-04 22:16:24 +00001151
Antoine Pitrou653dece2009-05-04 18:32:32 +00001152- Issue #4426: The UTF-7 decoder was too strict and didn't accept some legal
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001153 sequences. Patch by Nick Barnes and Victor Stinner.
Antoine Pitrou653dece2009-05-04 18:32:32 +00001154
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001155- Issue #1588: Add complex.__format__. For example, ``format(complex(1, 2./3),
1156 '.5')`` now produces a sensible result.
Eric Smith9139cc62009-04-30 00:58:58 +00001157
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001158- Issue #5864: Fix empty format code formatting for floats so that it never
1159 gives more than the requested number of significant digits.
Mark Dickinson92fcc9c2009-04-29 20:41:00 +00001160
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001161- Issue #5793: Rationalize isdigit / isalpha / tolower, etc. Includes new
1162 Py_ISDIGIT / Py_ISALPHA / Py_TOLOWER, etc. in pctypes.h.
Eric Smithcac7af62009-04-27 19:04:37 +00001163
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001164- Issue #4971: Fix titlecase for characters that are their own titlecase, but
1165 not their own uppercase.
Martin v. Löwis99f27792009-04-26 00:53:18 +00001166
Eric Smith068f0652009-04-25 21:40:15 +00001167- Issue #5835: Deprecate PyOS_ascii_formatd and replace it with
1168 _PyOS_double_to_string or PyOS_double_to_string.
1169
Benjamin Peterson5083dc52009-04-25 00:41:22 +00001170- Issue #5283: Setting __class__ in __del__ caused a segfault.
1171
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001172- Issue #5816: ``complex(repr(z))`` now recovers z exactly, even when z involves
1173 nans, infs or negative zeros.
Mark Dickinson95bc9802009-04-24 12:46:53 +00001174
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001175- Implement PEP 378, Format Specifier for Thousands Separator, for floats, ints,
1176 and longs.
Eric Smithaca19e62009-04-22 13:29:05 +00001177
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001178- Issue #5515: 'n' formatting for ints, longs, and floats handles leading zero
1179 formatting poorly.
Eric Smithaca19e62009-04-22 13:29:05 +00001180
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001181- Issue #5772: For float.__format__, don't add a trailing ".0" if we're using no
1182 type code and we have an exponent.
Eric Smithaca19e62009-04-22 13:29:05 +00001183
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001184- Issue #3166: Make long -> float (and int -> float) conversions correctly
1185 rounded.
Mark Dickinson6736cf82009-04-20 21:13:33 +00001186
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001187- Issue #5787: ``object.__getattribute__(some_type, "__bases__")`` segfaulted on
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00001188 some built-in types.
Benjamin Petersond4d400c2009-04-18 20:12:47 +00001189
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001190- Issue #1869: Fix a couple of minor round() issues. ``round(5e15+1)`` was
1191 giving 5e15+2; ``round(-0.0)`` was losing the sign of the zero.
Mark Dickinson1bdf7e92009-04-18 14:59:42 +00001192
Benjamin Peterson99d36f12009-04-15 21:26:36 +00001193- Issue #5759: float() didn't call __float__ on str subclasses.
1194
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001195- Issue #5704: The "-3" command-line option now implies "-t".
Georg Brandl3c4a5462009-04-12 12:08:12 +00001196
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001197- Issue #2170: Refactored ``xml.dom.minidom.normalize``, increasing both its
1198 clarity and its speed.
R. David Murray0374a822009-04-09 21:54:50 +00001199
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001200- Issue #2396: The memoryview object was backported from Python 3.1.
Antoine Pitrou789be0c2009-04-02 21:18:34 +00001201
Georg Brandld3f03fa2009-04-02 18:09:04 +00001202- Fix a problem in PyErr_NormalizeException that leads to "undetected errors"
1203 when hitting the recursion limit under certain circumstances.
1204
Brett Cannon15ba4da2009-04-01 18:03:59 +00001205- Issue #1665206: Remove the last eager import in _warnings.c and make it lazy.
1206
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001207- Issue #4865: On MacOSX /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages is added to the end
1208 sys.path, for compatibility with the system install of Python.
Ronald Oussorene0154ed2009-03-30 23:10:35 +00001209
Antoine Pitrouf8387af2009-03-23 18:41:45 +00001210- Issue #4688: Add a heuristic so that tuples and dicts containing only
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001211 untrackable objects are not tracked by the garbage collector. This can reduce
1212 the size of collections and therefore the garbage collection overhead on
1213 long-running programs, depending on their particular use of datatypes.
Antoine Pitrouf8387af2009-03-23 18:41:45 +00001214
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001215- Issue #5512: Rewrite PyLong long division algorithm (x_divrem) to improve its
1216 performance. Long divisions and remainder operations are now between 50% and
1217 150% faster.
Mark Dickinson0b666bf2009-03-23 18:25:13 +00001218
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001219- Issue #4258: Make it possible to use base 2**30 instead of base 2**15 for the
1220 internal representation of integers, for performance reasons. Base 2**30 is
1221 enabled by default on 64-bit machines. Add --enable-big-digits option to
1222 configure, which overrides the default. Add sys.long_info structseq to
1223 provide information about the internal format.
Mark Dickinsonefc82f72009-03-20 15:51:55 +00001224
Benjamin Peterson6ffe8522009-03-18 20:52:15 +00001225- Issue #4034: Fix weird attribute error messages of the traceback object. (As a
1226 result traceback.__members__ no longer exists.)
1227
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001228- Issue #4474: PyUnicode_FromWideChar now converts characters outside the BMP to
1229 surrogate pairs, on systems with sizeof(wchar_t) == 4 and sizeof(Py_UNICODE)
1230 == 2.
Mark Dickinson6b265f12009-03-18 16:07:26 +00001231
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001232- Issue #5237: Allow auto-numbered fields in str.format(). For example: ``'{}
1233 {}'.format(1, 2) == '1 2'``.
Eric Smith6f42edb2009-03-14 11:57:26 +00001234
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001235- Issue #3652: Make the 'line' argument for ``warnings.showwarning()`` a
Brett Cannon6c4cff02009-03-11 04:51:06 +00001236 requirement. Means the DeprecationWarning from Python 2.6 can go away.
1237
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001238- Issue #5247: Improve error message when unknown format codes are used when
1239 using ``str.format()`` with str, unicode, long, int, and float arguments.
Eric Smithe9fb6862009-02-20 14:02:36 +00001240
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001241- Running Python with the -3 option now also warns about classic division for
1242 ints and longs.
Raymond Hettinger08259e82009-02-18 23:10:19 +00001243
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001244- Issue #5260: Long integers now consume less memory: average saving is 2 bytes
1245 per long on a 32-bit system and 6 bytes per long on a 64-bit system.
Mark Dickinson2ffb26f2009-02-15 10:13:41 +00001246
Antoine Pitrou76a4b892009-02-13 13:52:33 +00001247- Issue #5186: Reduce hash collisions for objects with no __hash__ method by
1248 rotating the object pointer by 4 bits to the right.
1249
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001250- Issue #4575: Fix Py_IS_INFINITY macro to work correctly on x87 FPUs: it now
1251 forces its argument to double before testing for infinity.
Mark Dickinsonc97c9092009-02-09 14:18:43 +00001252
Benjamin Petersone18ef192009-01-20 14:21:16 +00001253- Issue #4978: Passing keyword arguments as unicode strings is now allowed.
1254
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +00001255- Issue #1242657: the __len__() and __length_hint__() calls in several tools
Raymond Hettingerb5163702009-02-02 21:50:13 +00001256 were suppressing all exceptions. These include list(), filter(), map(),
1257 zip(), and bytearray().
1258
Benjamin Peterson596d3062009-01-19 15:42:23 +00001259- os.ftruncate raises OSErrors instead of IOErrors for consistency with other os
1260 functions.
1261
Benjamin Peterson5848d1f2009-01-19 00:08:08 +00001262- Issue #4991: Passing invalid file descriptors to io.FileIO now raises an
1263 OSError.
1264
Amaury Forgeot d'Arca18392a2009-01-13 23:19:08 +00001265- Issue #4807: Port the _winreg module to Windows CE.
1266
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001267- Issue #4935: The overflow checking code in the expandtabs() method common to
1268 str, bytes and bytearray could be optimized away by the compiler, letting the
1269 interpreter segfault instead of raising an error.
Antoine Pitrouc2f02212009-01-13 23:13:52 +00001270
Amaury Forgeot d'Arca40d5732009-01-12 23:36:55 +00001271- Issue #3720: Fix a crash when an iterator modifies its class and removes its
1272 __next__ method.
1273
Martin v. Löwise3422fa2009-01-12 08:11:24 +00001274- Issue #4893: Use NT threading on CE.
1275
Martin v. Löwis1b3bef22009-01-12 07:57:11 +00001276- Issue #4915: Port sysmodule to Windows CE.
1277
Antoine Pitrou4c5ecb72009-01-09 21:40:55 +00001278- Issue #4074: Change the criteria for doing a full garbage collection (i.e.
1279 collecting the oldest generation) so that allocating lots of objects without
1280 destroying them does not show quadratic performance. Based on a proposal by
Benjamin Petersond50a5d52009-07-13 00:03:20 +00001281 Martin von Löwis at
Antoine Pitrou4c5ecb72009-01-09 21:40:55 +00001282 http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2008-June/080579.html.
1283
Martin v. Löwisb90304a2009-01-07 18:40:40 +00001284- Issue #4850: Change COUNT_ALLOCS variables to Py_ssize_t.
1285
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001286- Issue #1180193: When importing a module from a .pyc (or .pyo) file with an
1287 existing .py counterpart, override the co_filename attributes of all code
1288 objects if the original filename is obsolete (which can happen if the file has
1289 been renamed, moved, or if it is accessed through different paths). Patch by
1290 Ziga Seilnacht and Jean-Paul Calderone.
Antoine Pitroue96d4ea2009-01-06 18:10:47 +00001291
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001292- Issue #4075: Use ``OutputDebugStringW()`` in Py_FatalError.
Martin v. Löwis5344c992009-01-02 20:32:55 +00001293
Hirokazu Yamamoto99a1b202009-01-01 15:45:39 +00001294- Issue #4797: IOError.filename was not set when _fileio.FileIO failed to open
1295 file with `str' filename on Windows.
1296
Antoine Pitrouaa687902009-01-01 14:11:22 +00001297- Issue #3680: Reference cycles created through a dict, set or deque iterator
1298 did not get collected.
1299
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001300- Issue #4701: PyObject_Hash now implicitly calls PyType_Ready on types where
1301 the tp_hash and tp_dict slots are both NULL.
Nick Coghlan180e4002008-12-30 01:18:48 +00001302
Benjamin Peterson7af65562008-12-29 17:56:58 +00001303- Issue #4764: With io.open, IOError.filename is set when trying to open a
1304 directory on POSIX systems.
1305
Benjamin Petersonfe231b02008-12-29 17:47:42 +00001306- Issue #4764: IOError.filename is set when trying to open a directory on POSIX
1307 systems.
1308
Georg Brandl6425a2f2008-12-28 11:54:53 +00001309- Issue #4759: None is now allowed as the first argument of
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001310 ``bytearray.translate()``. It was always allowed for ``bytes.translate()``.
Georg Brandl6425a2f2008-12-28 11:54:53 +00001311
Skip Montanarof205c132008-12-23 03:30:15 +00001312- Added test case to ensure attempts to read from a file opened for writing
1313 fail.
1314
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001315- Issue #2467: gc.DEBUG_STATS reported invalid elapsed times. Also, always print
1316 elapsed times, not only when some objects are uncollectable/unreachable.
1317 Original patch by Neil Schemenauer.
Antoine Pitrou73c0e652008-12-17 22:46:54 +00001318
Mark Dickinson1a707982008-12-17 16:14:37 +00001319- Issue #3439: Add a bit_length method to int and long.
1320
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001321- Issue #2183: Simplify and optimize bytecode for list comprehensions. Original
1322 patch by Neal Norwitz.
Antoine Pitroud0c35152008-12-17 00:38:28 +00001323
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001324- Issue #4597: Fixed exception handling when the __exit__ function of a context
1325 manager returns a value that cannot be converted to a bool.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcad9b5992008-12-10 23:22:49 +00001326
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001327- Issue #4597: Fixed several opcodes that weren't always propagating exceptions.
Jeffrey Yasskinffd42cf2008-12-10 07:35:02 +00001328
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001329- Issue #4445: Replace ``sizeof(PyStringObject)`` with
1330 ``offsetof(PyStringObject, ob_sval) + 1`` when allocating memory for str
1331 instances. On a typical machine this saves 3 bytes of memory (on average) per
1332 string allocation.
Mark Dickinson826f3fe2008-12-05 21:55:28 +00001333
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcdc619012008-11-22 20:01:18 +00001334- Issue #3996: On Windows, the PyOS_CheckStack function would cause the
1335 interpreter to abort ("Fatal Python error: Could not reset the stack!")
1336 instead of throwing a MemoryError.
1337
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001338- Issue #3689: The list reversed iterator now supports __length_hint__ instead
1339 of __len__. Behavior now matches other reversed iterators.
Raymond Hettinger7989a4d2008-12-03 15:42:10 +00001340
Benjamin Petersonc078f922008-11-21 22:27:24 +00001341- Issue #4367: Python would segfault during compiling when the unicodedata
1342 module couldn't be imported and \N escapes were present.
1343
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001344- Issue #4233: Changed semantic of ``_fileio.FileIO``'s ``close()`` method on
1345 file objects with closefd=False. The file descriptor is still kept open but
1346 the file object behaves like a closed file. The ``FileIO`` object also got a
1347 new readonly attribute ``closefd``.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc32265652008-11-20 23:34:31 +00001348
Benjamin Peterson46cc6d12008-11-19 21:49:09 +00001349- Issue #4348: Some bytearray methods returned that didn't cause any change to
1350 the bytearray, returned the same bytearray instead of a copy.
1351
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001352- Issue #4317: Fixed a crash in the ``imageop.rgb2rgb8()`` function.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc7cfe7ea2008-11-18 22:19:37 +00001353
Benjamin Peterson273c2332008-11-17 22:39:09 +00001354- Issue #4230: If ``__getattr__`` is a descriptor, it now functions correctly.
1355
Benjamin Peterson6624a9f2008-11-03 15:14:51 +00001356- Issue #4048: The parser module now correctly validates relative imports.
1357
Benjamin Petersondcee09d2008-10-31 02:16:05 +00001358- Issue #4225: ``from __future__ import unicode_literals`` didn't work in an
1359 exec statement.
1360
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001361- Issue #4176: Fixed a crash when pickling an object which ``__reduce__`` method
1362 does not return iterators for the 4th and 5th items.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc69a9c5b2008-10-30 21:18:34 +00001363
Benjamin Petersonbdca9422008-10-26 20:21:13 +00001364- Issue #4209: Enabling unicode_literals and the print_function in the same
1365 __future__ import didn't work.
1366
Benjamin Peterson399b1fe2008-10-25 02:53:28 +00001367- Using ``nonlocal`` as a variable name will now raise a Py3k SyntaxWarning
Georg Brandl7fb00ad2008-10-25 07:00:52 +00001368 because it is a reserved word in 3.x.
Benjamin Peterson399b1fe2008-10-25 02:53:28 +00001369
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001370- On windows, ``os.chdir()`` given unicode was not working if
1371 GetCurrentDirectoryW returned a path longer than MAX_PATH. (But It's doubtful
1372 this code path is really executed because I cannot move to such directory on
1373 win2k)
Hirokazu Yamamoto10a018c2008-10-09 10:00:30 +00001374
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001375- Issue #4069: When ``set.remove(element)`` is used with a set element, the
1376 element is temporarily replaced with an equivalent frozenset. But the
1377 eventual KeyError would always report the empty ``frozenset()`` as the missing
1378 key. Now it correctly refers to the initial element.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd78b9dc2008-10-07 20:32:10 +00001379
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001380- Issue #4509: Various issues surrounding resize of bytearray objects to which
1381 there are buffer exports.
Antoine Pitrouae5bece2008-12-06 21:29:24 +00001382
Benjamin Peterson8d5934b2008-12-27 18:24:11 +00001383- Issue #4748: Lambda generators no longer return a value.
1384
Kristján Valur Jónsson6220e412009-01-12 09:20:34 +00001385- Issue #3582: Use native TLS functions on Windows
1386
Gregory P. Smithae91d092009-03-02 05:13:57 +00001387- The re.sub(), re.subn() and re.split() functions now accept a flags parameter.
1388
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001389- Issue #3845: In PyRun_SimpleFileExFlags avoid invalid memory access with short
1390 file names.
Matthias Kloseedb5e1e2009-04-04 14:18:13 +00001391
Matthias Klose91a3b9e2009-04-05 21:19:13 +00001392- Issue #1113244: Py_XINCREF, Py_DECREF, Py_XDECREF: Add `do { ... } while (0)'
1393 to avoid compiler warnings.
Matthias Klose0610e082009-04-05 12:43:08 +00001394
Gregory P. Smith2b3eb372009-04-05 23:48:26 +00001395- Issue #5705: os.setuid() would not accept values > 2**31-1 but pwd.getpwnam()
1396 returned them on 64bit platforms.
1397
Walter Dörwalded960ac2009-05-03 22:36:33 +00001398- Issue #5108: Handle %s like %S and %R in PyUnicode_FromFormatV(): Call
1399 PyUnicode_DecodeUTF8() once, remember the result and output it in a second
1400 step. This avoids problems with counting UTF-8 bytes that ignores the effect
1401 of using the replace error handler in PyUnicode_DecodeUTF8().
1402
Walter Dörwald726ba8e2009-05-06 14:32:35 +00001403- Issue #3739: The unicode-internal encoder now reports the number of characters
1404 consumed like any other encoder (instead of the number of bytes).
1405
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001406- Issue #2422: When compiled with the ``--with-valgrind`` option, the pymalloc
1407 allocator will be automatically disabled when running under Valgrind. This
1408 gives improved memory leak detection when running under Valgrind, while taking
1409 advantage of pymalloc at other times.
Benjamin Peterson91c12eb2009-12-03 02:52:39 +00001410
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +00001411Library
1412-------
Benjamin Petersonb3dd5482009-02-26 19:07:18 +00001413
Raymond Hettinger5f516ed2010-04-03 18:10:37 +00001414- Add count() and reverse() methods to collections.deque().
Raymond Hettingera5fd24e2009-12-10 06:42:54 +00001415
Raymond Hettinger0b3263b2009-12-10 06:00:33 +00001416- Fix variations of extending deques: d.extend(d) d.extendleft(d) d+=d
1417
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001418- Issue #6986: Fix crash in the JSON C accelerator when called with the wrong
1419 parameter types. Patch by Victor Stinner.
Antoine Pitrou187177f2009-12-08 15:40:51 +00001420
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001421- logging: Added optional "secure" parameter to SMTPHandler, to enable use of
Vinay Sajip48305662009-12-06 17:57:11 +00001422 TLS with authentication credentials.
1423
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001424- Issue #1923: Fixed the removal of meaningful spaces when PKG-INFO is generated
1425 in Distutils. Patch by Stephen Emslie.
Tarek Ziadé4f383172009-12-06 09:22:40 +00001426
Martin v. Löwisc218a2f2009-12-03 20:53:51 +00001427- Issue #4120: Drop reference to CRT from manifest when building extensions with
1428 msvc9compiler.
1429
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001430- Issue #7333: The ``posix`` module gains an ``initgroups()`` function providing
1431 access to the initgroups(3) C library call on Unix systems which implement it.
1432 Patch by Jean-Paul Calderone.
Antoine Pitrou30b3b352009-12-02 20:37:54 +00001433
Tarek Ziadéa5076a22009-11-29 22:20:30 +00001434- Issue #7408: Fixed distutils.tests.sdist so it doesn't check for group
1435 ownership when the group is not forced, because the group may be different
1436 from the user's group and inherit from its container when the test is run.
1437
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001438- Issue #1515: Enable use of deepcopy() with instance methods. Patch by Robert
1439 Collins.
Antoine Pitroud16f57b2009-11-28 15:55:58 +00001440
Vinay Sajip01801d12009-11-27 14:03:36 +00001441- Issue #7403: logging: Fixed possible race condition in lock creation.
1442
Antoine Pitrouacbe3bd2009-11-27 13:18:34 +00001443- Issue #6845: Add restart support for binary upload in ftplib. The
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001444 ``storbinary()`` method of FTP and FTP_TLS objects gains an optional "rest"
Antoine Pitrouacbe3bd2009-11-27 13:18:34 +00001445 argument. Patch by Pablo Mouzo.
1446
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001447- Issue #5788: ``datetime.timedelta`` objects get a new ``total_seconds()``
1448 method returning the total number of seconds in the duration. Patch by Brian
1449 Quinlan.
Antoine Pitroubcfaf802009-11-25 22:59:36 +00001450
Vinay Sajipc470d682009-11-25 09:03:30 +00001451- Issue #6615: logging: Used weakrefs in internal handler list.
1452
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001453- Issue #1488943: ``difflib.Differ`` doesn't always add hints for tab
1454 characters.
Senthil Kumaran5c456e62009-11-23 18:41:31 +00001455
Lars Gustäbeldd866d52009-11-22 18:30:53 +00001456- Issue #6123: tarfile now opens empty archives correctly and consistently
1457 raises ReadError on empty files.
1458
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001459- Issue #7354: distutils.tests.test_msvc9compiler - dragfullwindows can be 2.
Tarek Ziadé39de1fc2009-11-19 05:33:16 +00001460
Ezio Melotti3373a3a2010-01-16 18:38:01 +00001461- Issue #5037: Proxy the __unicode__ special method to __unicode__ instead of
1462 __str__.
Benjamin Petersondc3c2392009-11-19 03:00:02 +00001463
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001464- Issue #7341: Close the internal file object in the TarFile constructor in case
1465 of an error.
Lars Gustäbel355538e2009-11-18 20:24:54 +00001466
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001467- Issue #7293: ``distutils.test_msvc9compiler`` is fixed to work on any fresh
1468 Windows box. Help provided by David Bolen.
Tarek Ziadéacccafc2009-11-18 08:46:56 +00001469
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001470- Issue #7328: pydoc no longer corrupts sys.path when run with the '-m' switch.
Nick Coghlan11db64e2009-11-15 22:36:47 +00001471
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001472- Issue #2054: ftplib now provides an FTP_TLS class to do secure FTP using TLS
1473 or SSL. Patch by Giampaolo Rodola'.
Antoine Pitrouccd5e022009-11-15 17:22:09 +00001474
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001475- Issue #4969: The mimetypes module now reads the MIME database from the
1476 registry under Windows. Patch by Gabriel Genellina.
Antoine Pitroud5b34d42009-11-15 14:10:48 +00001477
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001478- Issue #6816: runpy now provides a run_path function that allows Python code to
1479 execute file paths that refer to source or compiled Python files as well as
1480 zipfiles, directories and other valid sys.path entries that contain a
Nick Coghlan49868cb2009-11-15 07:30:34 +00001481 __main__.py file. This allows applications that run other Python scripts to
1482 support the same flexibility as the CPython command line itself.
1483
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001484- Issue #7318: multiprocessing now uses a timeout when it fails to establish a
1485 connection with another process, rather than looping endlessly. The default
1486 timeout is 20 seconds, which should be amply sufficient for local connections.
Antoine Pitrouc562ca42009-11-13 22:31:18 +00001487
Antoine Pitrou0734c632009-11-10 20:49:30 +00001488- Issue #7197: Allow unittest.TextTestRunner objects to be pickled and
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001489 unpickled. This fixes crashes under Windows when trying to run
Antoine Pitrou0734c632009-11-10 20:49:30 +00001490 test_multiprocessing in verbose mode.
1491
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001492- Issue #7282: Fix a memory leak when an RLock was used in a thread other than
1493 those started through ``threading.Thread`` (for example, using
1494 ``thread.start_new_thread()``.
Antoine Pitroud7158d42009-11-09 16:00:11 +00001495
Antoine Pitrou99c160b2009-11-05 13:42:29 +00001496- Issue #7264: Fix a possible deadlock when deallocating thread-local objects
1497 which are part of a reference cycle.
1498
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001499- Issue #7211: Allow 64-bit values for the ``ident`` and ``data`` fields of
1500 kevent objects on 64-bit systems. Patch by Michael Broghton.
Antoine Pitrou323b9da2009-11-04 19:25:14 +00001501
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001502- Issue #6896: ``mailbox.Maildir`` now invalidates its internal cache each time
Antoine Pitrouaec41242009-11-02 11:34:27 +00001503 a modification is done through it. This fixes inconsistencies and test
1504 failures on systems with slightly bogus mtime behaviour.
1505
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001506- Issue #7246 & Issue #7208: getpass now properly flushes input before reading
1507 from stdin so that existing input does not confuse it and lead to incorrect
1508 entry or an IOError. It also properly flushes it afterwards to avoid the
1509 terminal echoing the input afterwards on OSes such as Solaris.
Gregory P. Smith38f5d8f2009-11-01 18:33:55 +00001510
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001511- Issue #7233: Fix a number of two-argument Decimal methods to make sure that
1512 they accept an int or long as the second argument. Also fix buggy handling of
1513 large arguments (those with coefficient longer than the current precision) in
1514 shift and rotate.
Mark Dickinson0c673122009-10-29 12:04:00 +00001515
Lars Gustäbel8c06ccc2009-10-29 09:15:00 +00001516- Issue #4750: Store the basename of the original filename in the gzip FNAME
1517 header as required by RFC 1952.
1518
Tarek Ziadé40b998b2009-10-27 23:06:10 +00001519- Issue #1180: Added a new global option to ignore ~/.pydistutils.cfg in
1520 Distutils.
1521
Tarek Ziadéd24cab82009-10-27 21:20:27 +00001522- Issue #7218: Fix test_site for win32, the directory comparison was done with
1523 an uppercase.
1524
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001525- Issue #7205: Fix a possible deadlock when using a BZ2File object from several
1526 threads at once.
Antoine Pitroudd629662009-10-27 17:41:58 +00001527
Tarek Ziadéb9c1cfc2009-10-24 15:10:37 +00001528- Issue #7071: byte-compilation in Distutils is now done with respect to
1529 sys.dont_write_bytecode.
1530
Vinay Sajipc470d682009-11-25 09:03:30 +00001531- Issue #7066: archive_util.make_archive now restores the cwd if an error is
Tarek Ziadé672422a2009-10-24 13:29:44 +00001532 raised. Initial patch by Ezio Melotti.
1533
Antoine Pitroufa94e802009-10-24 12:23:18 +00001534- Issue #6218: io.StringIO and io.BytesIO instances are now picklable with
1535 protocol 2.
1536
Vinay Sajip5ac65282009-10-21 20:22:14 +00001537- Issue #7077: logging: SysLogHandler now treats Unicode as per RFC 5424.
1538
Mark Dickinsona7a52ab2009-10-20 13:33:03 +00001539- Issue #7099: Decimal.is_normal now returns True for numbers with exponent
1540 larger than emax.
1541
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001542- Issue #5833: Fix extra space character in readline completion with the GNU
1543 readline library version 6.0.
Antoine Pitroue0899802009-10-19 18:20:21 +00001544
Antoine Pitrou5ba84912009-10-19 17:59:07 +00001545- Issue #7133: SSL objects now support the new buffer API.
1546
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001547- Issue #7149: urllib fails on OSX in the proxy detection code.
Ronald Oussoren31802d02009-10-18 07:07:00 +00001548
Benjamin Petersonc63457b2009-10-15 03:06:55 +00001549- Issue #7069: Make inspect.isabstract() return a boolean.
1550
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001551- Add support to the ``ihooks`` module for relative imports.
Neil Schemenauere6039f02009-10-14 19:23:53 +00001552
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001553- Issue #6894: Fixed the issue urllib2 doesn't respect "no_proxy" environment.
Senthil Kumaran27468662009-10-11 02:00:07 +00001554
Vinay Sajip1c77b7f2009-10-10 20:32:36 +00001555- Issue #7086: Added TCP support to SysLogHandler, and tidied up some
1556 anachronisms in the code which were a relic of 1.5.2 compatibility.
Vinay Sajip03d5c342009-10-16 14:06:44 +00001557
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001558- Issue #7082: When falling back to the MIME 'name' parameter, the correct place
1559 to look for it is the Content-Type header.
R. David Murray0c8bee62009-10-09 21:50:54 +00001560
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001561- Issue #7048: Force Decimal.logb to round its result when that result is too
1562 large to fit in the current precision.
Mark Dickinson15ae41c2009-10-07 19:22:05 +00001563
Vinay Sajip03d5c342009-10-16 14:06:44 +00001564- Issue #6516: Added owner/group support when creating tar archives in
Tarek Ziadé1b486712009-10-02 23:49:48 +00001565 Distutils.
1566
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001567- Issue #7031: Add ``TestCase.assert(Not)IsInstance()`` methods.
Georg Brandl12fafe62009-10-01 21:02:39 +00001568
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001569- Issue #6790: Make it possible again to pass an ``array.array`` to
1570 ``httplib.HTTPConnection.send``. Patch by Kirk McDonald.
Antoine Pitrou72481782009-09-29 17:48:18 +00001571
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001572- Issue #6236, #6348: Fix various failures in the `io` module under AIX and
1573 other platforms, when using a non-gcc compiler. Patch by egreen.
Antoine Pitrou2a466582009-09-21 21:17:48 +00001574
Tarek Ziadé99773352009-09-21 13:41:08 +00001575- Issue #6954: Fixed crash when using DISTUTILS_DEBUG flag in Distutils.
1576
Ronald Oussoren51f06332009-09-20 10:31:22 +00001577- Issue #6851: Fix urllib.urlopen crash on secondairy threads on OSX 10.6
1578
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001579- Issue #4606: Passing 'None' if ctypes argtype is set to POINTER(...) does now
1580 always result in NULL.
Thomas Heller6be522b2009-09-18 20:05:44 +00001581
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001582- Issue #5042: ctypes Structure sub-subclass does now initialize correctly with
1583 base class positional arguments.
Thomas Heller7a352c02009-09-18 18:55:17 +00001584
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001585- Issue #6938: Fix a TypeError in string formatting of a multiprocessing debug
1586 message.
Georg Brandlc40e60e2009-09-18 09:18:27 +00001587
Matthias Klose924eab62009-09-13 15:09:24 +00001588- Issue #6635: Fix profiler printing usage message.
1589
Lars Gustäbel21121e62009-09-12 10:28:15 +00001590- Issue #6856: Add a filter keyword argument to TarFile.add().
1591
Tarek Ziadébed26a32009-09-09 08:14:20 +00001592- Issue #6163: Fixed HP-UX runtime library dir options in
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001593 distutils.unixcompiler. Initial patch by Sridhar Ratnakumar and Michael
1594 Haubenwallner.
Tarek Ziadébed26a32009-09-09 08:14:20 +00001595
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001596- Issue #6857: Default format() alignment should be '>' for Decimal instances.
Mark Dickinson5cfa8042009-09-08 20:20:19 +00001597
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001598- Issue #6795: int(Decimal('nan')) now raises ValueError instead of returning
1599 NaN or raising InvalidContext. Also, fix infinite recursion in
1600 long(Decimal('nan')).
Mark Dickinson968f1692009-09-07 18:04:58 +00001601
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001602- Issue #6850: Fix bug in Decimal._parse_format_specifier for formats with no
1603 type specifier.
Mark Dickinson491ea552009-09-07 16:17:41 +00001604
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001605- Issue #4937: plat-mac/bundlebuilder refers to non-existing version.plist.
Ronald Oussoren626faeb2009-09-06 12:23:18 +00001606
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001607- Issue #6838: Use a list to accumulate the value instead of repeatedly
1608 concatenating strings in httplib's HTTPResponse._read_chunked providing a
1609 significant speed increase when downloading large files servend with a
1610 Transfer-Encoding of 'chunked'.
Chris Withers7f3ea6a2009-09-04 16:32:22 +00001611
Georg Brandld22b9512009-09-04 08:17:04 +00001612- Issue #5275: In Cookie's Cookie.load(), properly handle non-string arguments
1613 as documented.
1614
Georg Brandl2e1308f2009-09-04 06:59:20 +00001615- Issue #2666: Handle BROWSER environment variable properly for unknown browser
1616 names in the webbrowser module.
1617
Lars Gustäbelf7cda522009-08-28 19:23:44 +00001618- Issue #6054: Do not normalize stored pathnames in tarfile.
1619
Mark Dickinson7a7739d2009-08-28 13:25:02 +00001620- Issue #6794: Fix Decimal.compare_total and Decimal.compare_total_mag: NaN
1621 payloads are now ordered by integer value rather than lexicographically.
1622
Tarek Ziadé764fc232009-08-20 21:23:13 +00001623- Issue #6693: New functions in site.py to get user/global site packages paths.
1624
Gregory P. Smith4e63d542009-08-20 09:39:38 +00001625- The thread.lock type now supports weak references.
1626
Guilherme Polo7b50c4f2009-08-18 14:46:57 +00001627- Issue #1356969: Add missing info methods in Tix.HList.
1628
Guilherme Polo6b3c7092009-08-18 14:23:00 +00001629- Issue #1522587: New constants and methods for the Tix.Grid widget.
1630
Guilherme Polo6c823f82009-08-18 13:29:20 +00001631- Issue #1250469: Fix the return value of Tix.PanedWindow.panes.
1632
Guilherme Polod3e6e4b2009-08-18 13:23:08 +00001633- Issue #1119673: Do not override Tkinter.Text methods when creating a
1634 ScrolledText.
1635
Gregory P. Smithb98d6b22009-08-16 18:52:58 +00001636- Issue #6665: Fix fnmatch to properly match filenames with newlines in them.
1637
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001638- Issue #1135: Add the XView and YView mix-ins to avoid duplicating the xview*
1639 and yview* methods.
Guilherme Poloe45f0172009-08-14 14:36:45 +00001640
Antoine Pitrou20e1f932009-08-06 20:18:29 +00001641- Issue #6629: Fix a data corruption issue in the new `io` package, which could
1642 occur when writing to a BufferedRandom object (e.g. a file opened in "rb+" or
1643 "wb+" mode) after having buffered a certain amount of data for reading. This
1644 bug was not present in the pure Python implementation.
1645
Jesse Noller8497efe2009-08-06 02:05:56 +00001646- Issue #4660: If a multiprocessing.JoinableQueue.put() was preempted, it was
1647 possible to get a spurious 'task_done() called too many times' error.
1648
Gregory P. Smithc4ad0342009-08-13 18:54:50 +00001649- Issue #1628205: Socket file objects returned by socket.socket.makefile() now
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001650 properly handles EINTR within the read, readline, write & flush methods. The
1651 socket.sendall() method now properly handles interrupted system calls.
Gregory P. Smithc4ad0342009-08-13 18:54:50 +00001652
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001653- Issue #6595: The Decimal constructor now allows arbitrary Unicode decimal
1654 digits in input, as recommended by the standard. Previously it was restricted
1655 to accepting [0-9].
Mark Dickinson4326ad82009-08-02 10:59:36 +00001656
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc3e5b0272009-07-28 22:15:30 +00001657- Issue #6511: ZipFile now raises BadZipfile (instead of an IOError) when
1658 opening an empty or very small file.
1659
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc74b30162009-07-23 19:26:02 +00001660- Issue #6553: Fixed a crash in cPickle.load(), when given a file-like object
1661 containing incomplete data.
1662
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001663- Issue #6545: Removed assert statements in distutils.Extension, so the behavior
1664 is similar when used with -O.
Tarek Ziadéaf2406f2009-07-22 08:55:19 +00001665
Benjamin Petersond7b0eeb2009-07-19 20:18:21 +00001666- unittest has been split up into a package. All old names should still work.
1667
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001668- Issue #6431: Make Fraction type return NotImplemented when it doesn't know how
1669 to handle a comparison without loss of precision. Also add correct handling
1670 of infinities and nans for comparisons with float.
Mark Dickinson88a0a2e2009-07-18 15:18:18 +00001671
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc74b30162009-07-23 19:26:02 +00001672- Issue #6415: Fixed warnings.warn segfault on bad formatted string.
Hirokazu Yamamoto1a3d0852009-07-17 06:26:54 +00001673
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001674- Issue #6466: Now distutils.cygwinccompiler and distutils.emxccompiler uses the
1675 same refactored function to get gcc/ld/dllwrap versions numbers. It's
1676 ``distutils.util.get_compiler_versions()``. Added deprecation warnings for
1677 the obsolete get_versions() functions.
Tarek Ziadéa99dedf2009-07-16 15:35:45 +00001678
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001679- Issue #6433: Fixed issues with multiprocessing.pool.map hanging on empty list.
Jesse Noller7530e472009-07-16 14:23:04 +00001680
Vinay Sajipcbb24b32009-07-13 11:21:05 +00001681- Issue #6314: logging: Extra checks on the "level" argument in more places.
1682
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc74b8d332009-07-11 14:33:51 +00001683- Issue #2622: Fixed an ImportError when importing email.messsage from a
1684 standalone application built with py2exe or py2app.
1685
Vinay Sajipcbb24b32009-07-13 11:21:05 +00001686- Issue #6455: Fixed test_build_ext under win32.
Tarek Ziadé8c400012009-07-10 09:10:33 +00001687
Vinay Sajipcbb24b32009-07-13 11:21:05 +00001688- Issue #6377: Enabled the compiler option, and deprecate its usage as an
Tarek Ziadée670e5a2009-07-06 12:50:46 +00001689 attribute.
1690
Tarek Ziadé63f17382009-07-04 02:02:41 +00001691- Issue #6413: Fixed the log level in distutils.dist for announce.
1692
Gregory P. Smithc197d0a2009-07-04 01:55:11 +00001693- Issue #3392: The subprocess communicate() method no longer fails in select()
1694 when file descriptors are large; communicate() now uses poll() when possible.
1695
Tarek Ziadé65ec61e2009-07-03 08:22:56 +00001696- Issue #6403: Fixed package path usage in build_ext.
1697
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001698- Issues #5155, #5313, #5331: multiprocessing.Process._bootstrap was
Jesse Noller1b90efb2009-06-30 17:11:52 +00001699 unconditionally calling "os.close(sys.stdin.fileno())" resulting in file
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001700 descriptor errors.
Jesse Noller1b90efb2009-06-30 17:11:52 +00001701
Vinay Sajipcbb24b32009-07-13 11:21:05 +00001702- Issue #6365: Distutils build_ext inplace mode was copying the compiled
Tarek Ziadé3fbcc602009-06-29 16:13:39 +00001703 extension in a subdirectory if the extension name had dots.
1704
Hirokazu Yamamoto99ebc632009-06-29 14:29:31 +00001705- Issue #6344: Fixed a crash of mmap.read() when passed a negative argument.
1706
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001707- Issue #5230: pydoc would report no documentation found if a module generated a
1708 'not found' import error when loaded; it now reports the import errors.
R. David Murrayef087da2009-06-23 18:02:46 +00001709 Thanks to Lucas Prado Melo for initial fix and collaboration on the tests.
1710
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001711- Issue #6314: ``logging.basicConfig()`` performs extra checks on the "level"
Vinay Sajip603fb6d2009-06-21 17:37:27 +00001712 argument.
1713
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001714- Issue #6164: Added an AIX specific linker argument in Distutils unixcompiler.
1715 Original patch by Sridhar Ratnakumar.
Tarek Ziadé439bf932009-06-20 13:57:20 +00001716
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001717- Issue #6274: Fixed possible file descriptors leak in subprocess.py.
Facundo Batista8c826b72009-06-19 18:02:28 +00001718
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc5fe420e2009-06-18 22:32:50 +00001719- Issue #6189: Restored compatibility of subprocess.py with Python 2.2.
1720
Tarek Ziadéfdefc0a2009-06-16 07:29:52 +00001721- Issue #6287: Added the license field in Distutils documentation.
1722
Tarek Ziadéa1cc0402009-06-15 23:30:13 +00001723- Issue #6286: Now Distutils upload command is based on urllib2 instead of
1724 httplib, allowing the usage of http_proxy.
1725
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001726- Issue #6271: mmap tried to close invalid file handle (-1) for anonymous maps
1727 on Unix.
Hirokazu Yamamoto983a4652009-06-14 03:53:55 +00001728
Antoine Pitrou19690592009-06-12 20:14:08 +00001729- Issue #6215: All bug fixes and enhancements from the Python 3.1 io library
1730 (including the fast C implementation) have been backported to the standard
1731 ``io`` module.
1732
Martin v. Löwis2dcd7a02009-06-12 17:28:31 +00001733- Issue #6258: Support AMD64 in bdist_msi.
1734
Vinay Sajip334ffe82010-01-15 23:27:05 +00001735- Issue #6252: Fixed bug in next rollover time computation in
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00001736 TimedRotatingFileHandler.
1737
Tarek Ziadéc7498f52009-06-11 09:13:36 +00001738- Issue #6263: Fixed syntax error in distutils.cygwincompiler.
1739
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001740- Issue #5201: distutils.sysconfig.parse_makefile() now understands ``$$`` in
1741 Makefiles. This prevents compile errors when using syntax like:
1742 ``LDFLAGS='-rpath=\$$LIB:/some/other/path'``. Patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
Tarek Ziadé25d2bae2009-06-11 08:12:20 +00001743
Georg Brandle6632b42009-06-04 08:58:32 +00001744- Issue #5767: Removed sgmlop support from xmlrpclib.
1745
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001746- Issue #6131: test_modulefinder leaked when run after test_distutils. Patch by
1747 Hirokazu Yamamoto.
Tarek Ziadé3e3eace2009-05-29 08:08:07 +00001748
Tarek Ziadé9e5d2dc2009-05-28 12:53:54 +00001749- Issue #6048: Now Distutils uses the tarfile module in archive_util.
1750
Raymond Hettingerb4d2d312009-05-29 01:36:26 +00001751- Issue #5150: IDLE's format menu now has an option to strip trailing
1752 whitespace.
1753
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001754- Issue #6121: pydoc now ignores leading and trailing spaces in the argument to
1755 the 'help' function.
R. David Murrayd67ea7d2009-05-27 20:07:21 +00001756
Benjamin Peterson176a56c2009-05-25 00:48:58 +00001757- In unittest, using a skipping decorator on a class is now equivalent to
1758 skipping every test on the class. The ClassTestSuite class has been removed.
1759
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001760- Issue #6050: Don't fail extracting a directory from a zipfile if the directory
1761 already exists.
Martin v. Löwis0b09c422009-05-24 19:30:52 +00001762
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001763- Issue #5311: bdist_msi can now build packages that do not depend on a specific
1764 Python version.
Martin v. Löwis53b578e2009-05-24 19:10:52 +00001765
Antoine Pitroud49e3752009-05-24 15:40:09 +00001766- Issue #1309352: fcntl now converts its third arguments to a C `long` rather
1767 than an int, which makes some operations possible under 64-bit Linux (e.g.
1768 DN_MULTISHOT with F_NOTIFY).
1769
Senthil Kumarane266f252009-05-24 09:14:50 +00001770- Issue #1424152: Fix for httplib, urllib2 to support SSL while working through
1771 proxy. Original patch by Christopher Li, changes made by Senthil Kumaran.
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00001772
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001773- Issue #1983: Fix functions taking or returning a process identifier to use the
1774 dedicated C type ``pid_t`` instead of a C ``int``. Some platforms have a
1775 process identifier type wider than the standard C integer type.
Antoine Pitrou5e858fe2009-05-23 15:37:45 +00001776
R. David Murrayad3058e2009-05-23 00:48:58 +00001777- Issue #4066: smtplib.SMTP_SSL._get_socket now correctly returns the socket.
1778 Patch by Farhan Ahmad, test by Marcin Bachry.
1779
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001780- Issue #6062: In distutils, fixed the package option of build_ext. Feedback
Tarek Ziadé7d7127d2009-05-19 16:17:21 +00001781 and tests on pywin32 by Tim Golden.
1782
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001783- Issue #6053: Fixed distutils tests on win32. Patch by Hirokazu Yamamoto.
Tarek Ziadé07bbfcc2009-05-18 12:21:26 +00001784
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001785- Issue #6046: Fixed the library extension when distutils build_ext is used in
1786 place. Initial patch by Roumen Petrov.
Tarek Ziadéfcc7f032009-05-18 08:03:37 +00001787
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00001788- Issue #6041: Now distutils `sdist` and `register` commands use `check` as a
Tarek Ziadécb768042009-05-16 16:37:06 +00001789 subcommand.
1790
Antoine Pitrou775fd662009-05-15 16:54:52 +00001791- Issue #2116: Weak references and weak dictionaries now support copy()ing and
1792 deepcopy()ing.
1793
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001794- Issue #1655: Make imaplib IPv6-capable. Patch by Derek Morr.
Antoine Pitrou52035a02009-05-15 11:50:29 +00001795
Antoine Pitrou42b5bcf2009-05-14 21:48:09 +00001796- Issue #5918: Fix a crash in the parser module.
1797
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001798- Issue #1664: Make nntplib IPv6-capable. Patch by Derek Morr.
Antoine Pitroueed30d82009-05-14 21:22:08 +00001799
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001800- Issue #6022: A test file was created in the current working directory by
Tarek Ziadécbb4f9e2009-05-14 20:14:13 +00001801 test_get_outputs in Distutils.
1802
R. David Murray996ba022009-05-13 17:14:11 +00001803- Issue #4050: inspect.findsource/getsource now raise an IOError if the 'source'
1804 file is a binary. Patch by Brodie Rao, tests by Daniel Diniz.
1805
Tarek Ziadé972480d2009-05-12 17:07:14 +00001806- Issue #5977: distutils build_ext.get_outputs was not taking into account the
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001807 inplace option. Initial patch by kxroberto.
Tarek Ziadé972480d2009-05-12 17:07:14 +00001808
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001809- Issue #5984: distutils.command.build_ext.check_extensions_list checks were
1810 broken for old-style extensions.
Tarek Ziadéd5d83422009-05-10 10:12:08 +00001811
Vinay Sajipf9b01fe2009-05-09 12:07:17 +00001812- Issue #5971: StreamHandler.handleError now swallows IOErrors which occur when
1813 trying to print a traceback.
1814
Tarek Ziadé812d7712009-05-09 10:06:00 +00001815- Issue #5976: Fixed Distutils test_check_environ.
1816
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001817- Issue #5900: Ensure RUNPATH is added to extension modules with RPATH if GNU ld
1818 is used. Original patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
Tarek Ziadée2be83d2009-05-09 08:28:53 +00001819
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001820- Issue #5941: Distutils build_clib command was not working anymore because of
1821 an incomplete costumization of the archiver command. Added ARFLAGS in the
1822 Makefile besides AR and make Distutils use it. Original patch by David
Tarek Ziadé99f660a2009-05-07 21:20:34 +00001823 Cournapeau.
1824
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001825- Issue 5955: aifc's close method did not close the file it wrapped, now it
1826 does. This also means getfp method now returns the real fp.
R. David Murrayd3bf34c2009-05-07 16:29:19 +00001827
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001828- Issue #4875: On win32, ctypes.util.find_library does no longer return
1829 directories.
Thomas Hellera57773e2009-05-05 18:55:47 +00001830
Georg Brandl4d4313d2009-05-05 08:54:11 +00001831- Issue #5142: Add the ability to skip modules while stepping to pdb.
1832
Georg Brandle3869c42009-05-05 08:30:28 +00001833- Issue #1309567: Fix linecache behavior of stripping subdirectories when
1834 looking for files given by a relative filename.
1835
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001836- Issue #5692: In ``zipfile.Zipfile``, fix wrong path calculation when
Antoine Pitrou97377bf2009-05-04 21:17:17 +00001837 extracting a file to the root directory.
1838
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001839- Issue #5913: ``os.listdir()`` should fail for empty path on windows.
Hirokazu Yamamoto406d7aa2009-05-04 05:28:39 +00001840
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001841- Issue #5084: Unpickling now interns the attribute names of pickled objects,
1842 saving memory and avoiding growth in size of subsequent pickles. Proposal and
1843 original patch by Jake McGuire.
Antoine Pitrou74309892009-05-02 21:13:23 +00001844
Antoine Pitrou1fc02312009-05-01 20:55:35 +00001845- Issue #3002: ``shutil.copyfile()`` and ``shutil.copytree()`` now raise an
1846 error when a named pipe is encountered, rather than blocking infinitely.
1847
Gregory P. Smith1d499262009-05-01 19:59:52 +00001848- Issue #3959: The ipaddr module has been added to the standard library.
1849 Contributed by Google.
1850
R. David Murray25b4add2009-04-29 13:17:37 +00001851- Issue #2245: aifc now skips chunk types it doesn't recognize, per spec.
1852
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001853- Issue #5874: distutils.tests.test_config_cmd is not locale-sensitive anymore.
Tarek Ziadéa1b91d92009-04-29 08:03:46 +00001854
Thomas Heller90c61a22009-04-28 19:23:41 +00001855- Issue #4305: ctypes should now build again on mipsel-linux-gnu
1856
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001857- Issue #1734234: Massively speedup ``unicodedata.normalize()`` when the string
1858 is already in normalized form, by performing a quick check beforehand.
Antoine Pitroue988e282009-04-27 21:53:26 +00001859 Original patch by Rauli Ruohonen.
1860
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001861- Issue #5853: Calling a function of the mimetypes module from several threads
Antoine Pitrouf2651e12009-04-27 20:50:20 +00001862 at once could hit the recursion limit if the mimetypes database hadn't been
1863 initialized before.
1864
Vinay Sajipe34d6aa2009-04-27 13:44:27 +00001865- Issue #5854: Updated __all__ to include some missing names and remove some
1866 names which should not be exported.
1867
1868- Issue #5810: Fixed Distutils test_build_scripts so it uses
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001869 ``sysconfig.get_config_vars()``.
Tarek Ziadébcddf672009-04-25 12:51:59 +00001870
Tarek Ziadéd567c382009-04-25 12:38:08 +00001871- Issue #4951: Fixed failure in test_httpservers.
1872
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001873- Issue #3102: All global symbols that the _ctypes extension defines are now
1874 prefixed with 'Py' or '_ctypes'.
Thomas Heller5c6af802009-04-24 20:31:47 +00001875
Thomas Hellerec21ccd2009-04-24 20:00:41 +00001876- Issue #5041: ctypes does now allow pickling wide character.
1877
Mark Dickinson4af8e742009-04-24 13:56:07 +00001878- Issue #5812: For the two-argument form of the Fraction constructor,
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001879 ``Fraction(m, n)``, m and n are permitted to be arbitrary Rational instances.
Mark Dickinson4af8e742009-04-24 13:56:07 +00001880
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001881- Issue #5812: Fraction('1e6') is valid: more generally, any string that's valid
1882 for float() is now valid for Fraction(), with the exception of strings
1883 representing NaNs and infinities.
Mark Dickinson8100bd82009-04-22 18:15:25 +00001884
Tarek Ziadé31559b62009-04-20 14:29:42 +00001885- Issue #5795: Fixed test_distutils failure on Debian ppc.
1886
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +00001887- Issue #5768: Fixed bug in Unicode output logic and test case for same.
1888
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001889- Issue #1161031: Fix readwrite select flag handling: POLLPRI now results in a
1890 handle_expt_event call, not handle_read_event, and POLLERR and POLLNVAL now
1891 call handle_close, not handle_expt_event. Also, dispatcher now has an
1892 'ignore_log_types' attribute for suppressing log messages, which is set to
1893 'warning' by default.
R. David Murrayabc26602009-04-13 16:56:32 +00001894
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001895- Issue #5607: Fixed Distutils test_get_platform for Mac OS X fat binaries.
Tarek Ziadé156c31a2009-04-13 12:34:01 +00001896
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001897- Issue #5741: Don't disallow "%%" (which is an escape for "%") when setting a
1898 value in SafeConfigParser.
Georg Brandl21cf5ee2009-04-12 17:24:11 +00001899
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001900- Issue #5732: Added a new command in Distutils: check.
Tarek Ziadé942825f2009-04-11 14:55:07 +00001901
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +00001902- Issue #5731: Distutils bdist_wininst no longer worked on non-Windows
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001903 platforms. Initial patch by Paul Moore.
Tarek Ziadéad958262009-04-09 21:36:44 +00001904
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001905- Issue #2254: Fix CGIHTTPServer information disclosure. Relative paths are now
1906 collapsed within the url properly before looking in cgi_directories.
Gregory P. Smith923ba362009-04-06 06:33:26 +00001907
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001908- Issue #5095: Added bdist_msi to the list of bdist supported formats. Initial
1909 fix by Steven Bethard.
Tarek Ziadé64408fb2009-04-05 22:51:09 +00001910
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001911- Issue #1491431: Fixed distutils.filelist.glob_to_re for edge cases. Initial
1912 fix by Wayne Davison.
Tarek Ziadéfaa6b122009-04-05 21:44:08 +00001913
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001914- Issue #5693: TestSuite.__iter__ can now be consistently overridden in
1915 subclasses.
Michael Foordf2dfef12009-04-05 19:19:28 +00001916
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001917- Issue #5694: Removed spurious test output in Distutils (test_clean).
Tarek Ziadé453d9532009-04-05 18:31:24 +00001918
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +00001919- Issue #5471: Fix os.path.expanduser() for $HOME set to '/'.
Georg Brandl3f0ef202009-04-05 14:48:49 +00001920
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001921- Issue #1326077: Fix the formatting of SyntaxErrors by the traceback module.
Georg Brandl1956d5c2009-04-05 14:25:41 +00001922
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001923- Issue #1726172: Fix IndexError in the case of and empty response in ftplib.
Georg Brandl50ba6e12009-04-05 10:48:47 +00001924
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001925- Issue #2625: Added missing iteritems() call to the for loop in
R. David Murray52720c52009-04-02 14:05:35 +00001926 mailbox.MH.get_message().
1927
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001928- Issue #5585: Add the ability to call an initializer to
1929 mulitiprocessing.manager so that users can install custom handlers/etc.
Jesse Noller7152f6d2009-04-02 05:17:26 +00001930
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001931- Issue #3551: Patch multiprocessing to raise a proper exception if the size of
1932 the object when writefile is called causes a ERROR_NO_SYSTEM_RESOURCES. Added
1933 docs to note the limitation.
Jesse Noller5053fbb2009-04-02 04:22:09 +00001934
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001935- unittest.assertNotEqual() now uses the inequality operator (!=) instead of the
1936 equality operator.
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00001937
1938- Issue #6001: Test discovery for unittest. Implemented in
Michael Foordb4a81c82009-05-29 20:33:46 +00001939 unittest.TestLoader.discover and from the command line.
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +00001940
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001941- Issue #5679: The methods unittest.TestCase.addCleanup and doCleanups were
1942 added. addCleanup allows you to add cleanup functions that will be called
Michael Foord07ef4872009-05-02 22:43:34 +00001943 unconditionally (after setUp if setUp fails, otherwise after tearDown). This
1944 allows for much simpler resource allocation and deallocation during tests.
1945
1946- Issue #3379: unittest.main now takes an optional exit argument. If False main
1947 doesn't call sys.exit allowing it to be used from the interactive interpreter.
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00001948
1949- Issue #5995: unittest.main now takes an optional verbosity argument allowing
Michael Foord5d31e052009-05-11 17:59:43 +00001950 test modules to be run with a higher than default verbosity.
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00001951
1952- Issue #5995: A fix to allow you to run "python -m unittest test_module" or
Michael Foord5d31e052009-05-11 17:59:43 +00001953 "python -m unittest test_module.TestClass" from the command line.
Michael Foord07ef4872009-05-02 22:43:34 +00001954
1955- Issue #5728: unittest.TestResult has new startTestRun and stopTestRun methods;
1956 called immediately before and after a test run.
1957
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001958- Issue #5663: Better failure messages for unittest asserts. Default assertTrue
Michael Foord345b2fe2009-04-02 03:20:38 +00001959 and assertFalse messages are now useful. TestCase has a longMessage attribute.
1960 This defaults to False, but if set to True useful error messages are shown in
1961 addition to explicit messages passed to assert methods.
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +00001962
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001963- Issue #3110: Add additional protect around SEM_VALUE_MAX for multiprocessing.
Jesse Nollerb502bc72009-04-02 02:32:55 +00001964
Georg Brandl58b8b952009-04-01 21:54:21 +00001965- In Pdb, prevent the reassignment of __builtin__._ by sys.displayhook on
1966 printing out values.
1967
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001968- Issue #4572: Added SEEK_* symbolic constants to io module.
Georg Brandl5942b912009-04-01 21:05:44 +00001969
Brett Cannonad078a02009-04-01 16:00:34 +00001970- Issue #1665206 (partially): Move imports in cgitb to the top of the module
1971 instead of performing them in functions. Helps prevent import deadlocking in
1972 threads.
1973
Raymond Hettinger66c4a6b2009-04-01 18:50:56 +00001974- Issue #5647: MutableSet.__iand__() no longer mutates self during iteration.
1975
Georg Brandle92d4b62009-04-01 04:21:14 +00001976- Actually make the SimpleXMLRPCServer CGI handler work.
1977
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001978- Issue #2522: locale.format() now checks its first argument to ensure it has
R. David Murraya83da352009-04-01 03:21:43 +00001979 been passed only one pattern, avoiding mysterious errors where it appeared
1980 that it was failing to do localization.
1981
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001982- Issue #5583: Added optional extensions in Distutils. Initial patch by Georg
Tarek Ziadé9e47ce42009-03-31 22:27:23 +00001983 Brandl.
1984
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001985- Issue #5619: Multiprocessing children disobey the debug flag and causes popups
1986 on windows buildbots. Patch applied to work around this issue.
Jesse Noller42f9b4e2009-03-31 22:20:35 +00001987
Benjamin Petersond906ea62009-03-31 21:34:42 +00001988- Issue #5632: Thread.ident was None for the main thread and threads not created
1989 with the threading module.
1990
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001991- Issue #5400: Added patch for multiprocessing on netbsd compilation/support.
Jesse Noller1f0a5552009-03-31 18:27:14 +00001992
Hirokazu Yamamoto9d2ee5d2009-03-31 13:13:05 +00001993- Issue #5387: Fixed mmap.move crash by integer overflow.
1994
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001995- Issue #5261: Patch multiprocessing's semaphore.c to support context manager
1996 use: "with multiprocessing.Lock()" works now.
Jesse Noller82eb5902009-03-30 23:29:31 +00001997
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +00001998- Issue #5177: Multiprocessing's SocketListener class now uses
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001999 socket.SO_REUSEADDR on all connections so that the user no longer needs to
2000 wait 120 seconds for the socket to expire.
Jesse Noller459a6482009-03-30 15:50:42 +00002001
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002002- Adjusted _tkinter to compile without warnings when WITH_THREAD is not defined
2003 (part of issue #5035).
Guilherme Polo1972d162009-03-27 21:43:08 +00002004
Marc-André Lemburgcbdf15b2009-03-25 19:45:33 +00002005- Issue #5561: Removed the sys.version_info shortcuts from platform's
2006 python_version() and python_version_tuple() since they produced different
2007 output compared to previous Python versions.
2008
Benjamin Peterson692428e2009-03-23 21:50:21 +00002009- Issue #1034053: unittest now supports skipping tests and expected failures.
2010
Gregory P. Smith28399852009-03-31 16:54:10 +00002011- The unittest.TestCase.assertRaises() method now returns a context manager when
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002012 not given a callable so that code to be tested can be written inline using a
2013 with statement.
Gregory P. Smith28399852009-03-31 16:54:10 +00002014
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002015- Issue #2578: The unittest.TestCase.assertEqual() now displays the differences
2016 in lists, tuples, dicts and sets on failure. Many new handy type and
2017 comparison specific assert* methods have been added that fail with error
2018 messages actually useful for debugging. Contributed in part by Google.
Gregory P. Smith28399852009-03-31 16:54:10 +00002019
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002020- Issue #5068: Fixed the tarfile._BZ2Proxy.read() method that would loop forever
2021 on incomplete input. That caused tarfile.open() to hang when used with mode
2022 'r' or 'r:bz2' and a fileobj argument that contained no data or partial bzip2
2023 compressed data.
Lars Gustäbel2020a592009-03-22 20:09:33 +00002024
Benjamin Petersonb364bfe2009-03-22 17:45:11 +00002025- Issue #5536: urllib.urlretrieve makes sure to close the file it's writing to
2026 even if an exception occurs.
2027
Raymond Hettinger91852ca2009-03-19 19:19:03 +00002028- Issue #5381: Added object_pairs_hook to the json module. This allows
2029 OrderedDicts to be built by the decoder.
2030
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002031- Issue #2110: Add support for thousands separator and 'n' type specifier to
2032 ``Decimal.__format__()``.
Mark Dickinson277859d2009-03-17 23:03:46 +00002033
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002034- Fix Decimal.__format__ bug that swapped the meanings of the '<' and '>'
2035 alignment characters.
Mark Dickinsonb065e522009-03-17 18:01:03 +00002036
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002037- Issue #1222: ``locale.format()`` bug when the thousands separator is a space
Antoine Pitroufeeafff2009-03-14 00:07:21 +00002038 character.
2039
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002040- Issue #5472: Fixed distutils.test_util tear down. Original patch by Tim
2041 Golden.
Tarek Ziadé61585c22009-03-11 12:48:04 +00002042
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002043- collections.deque objects now have a read-only attribute called maxlen.
Raymond Hettinger56411aa2009-03-10 12:50:59 +00002044
Guilherme Polo15d57652009-03-07 02:14:38 +00002045- Issue #2638: Show a window constructed with tkSimpleDialog.Dialog only after
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002046 it is has been populated and properly configured in order to prevent window
2047 flashing.
Guilherme Polo15d57652009-03-07 02:14:38 +00002048
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002049- Issue #4792: Prevent a segfault in _tkinter by using the guaranteed to be safe
2050 interp argument given to the PythonCmd in place of the Tcl interpreter taken
2051 from a PythonCmd_ClientData.
Guilherme Polo3768b2f2009-03-07 01:47:49 +00002052
Guilherme Polo6d6c1fd2009-03-07 01:19:12 +00002053- Issue #5193: Guarantee that Tkinter.Text.search returns a string.
2054
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002055- Issue #5394: Removed > 2.3 syntax from distutils.msvc9compiler.
Tarek Ziadé943b24e2009-03-07 00:32:45 +00002056 Original patch by Akira Kitada.
2057
Hirokazu Yamamoto264fc122009-03-05 14:21:12 +00002058- Issue #5385: Fixed mmap crash after resize failure on windows.
2059
Hirokazu Yamamotoeacbbdf2009-03-03 22:18:14 +00002060- Issue #5179: Fixed subprocess handle leak on failure on windows.
2061
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002062- PEP 372: Added collections.OrderedDict().
Raymond Hettingerbc512d32009-03-03 04:45:34 +00002063
Raymond Hettinger88a91642009-03-03 04:51:24 +00002064- The _asdict() for method for namedtuples now returns an OrderedDict().
2065
Raymond Hettingere89b8e92009-03-03 05:00:37 +00002066- The configparser module now defaults to using an ordered dictionary.
2067
Benjamin Peterson7d49bba2009-03-02 22:41:42 +00002068- Issue #4308: httplib.IncompleteRead's repr doesn't include all of the data all
2069 ready received.
2070
Benjamin Petersonad58b7c2009-03-02 03:35:12 +00002071- Issue #5401: Fixed a performance problem in mimetypes when ``from mimetypes
2072 import guess_extension`` was used.
2073
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002074- Issue #1733986: Fixed mmap crash on Windows in accessing elements of second
2075 map object with same tagname but larger size than first map.
Hirokazu Yamamotob0e10c72009-02-28 12:13:07 +00002076
Hirokazu Yamamotof2dc8852009-02-28 10:31:54 +00002077- Issue #5386: mmap.write_byte didn't check map size, so it could cause buffer
2078 overrun.
2079
Tarek Ziadé73347352009-02-28 10:08:02 +00002080- Issue #1533164: Installed but not listed *.pyo was breaking Distutils
2081 bdist_rpm command.
2082
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002083- Issue #5378: Added --quiet option to Distutils bdist_rpm command.
Tarek Ziadé73347352009-02-28 10:08:02 +00002084
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002085- Issue #5052: Make Distutils compatible with 2.3 again.
Tarek Ziadédda92f72009-02-27 12:53:34 +00002086
Benjamin Petersonb3dd5482009-02-26 19:07:18 +00002087- Deprecated methods of symtable.Symbol have been removed: is_keywordarg(),
2088 is_vararg(), and is_in_tuple().
2089
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002090- Issue #5316: Fixed buildbot failures introduced by multiple inheritance in
2091 Distutils tests.
Tarek Ziadée3bc0ef2009-02-25 22:29:27 +00002092
Vinay Sajip1a0d2be2009-02-19 12:31:32 +00002093- Issue #5287: Add exception handling around findCaller() call to help out
2094 IronPython.
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +00002095
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002096- Issue #5282: Fixed mmap resize on 32bit Windows and Unix. When ``offset >
2097 0``, the file was resized to wrong size.
Hirokazu Yamamoto17a837e2009-02-17 13:17:26 +00002098
Hirokazu Yamamotof6bbd0e2009-02-17 10:12:10 +00002099- Issue #5292: Fixed mmap crash on its boundary access m[len(m)].
2100
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002101- Issue #2279: distutils.sdist.add_defaults now add files from the package_data
2102 and the data_files metadata.
Tarek Ziadé7dd53392009-02-16 21:38:01 +00002103
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002104- Issue #5257: Refactored all tests in distutils, so they use
Tarek Ziadé13699002009-02-14 14:10:23 +00002105 support.TempdirManager, to avoid writing in the tests directory.
2106
Tarek Ziadé2432b0b2009-02-13 23:00:43 +00002107- Issue #4524: distutils build_script command failed with --with-suffix=3.
2108 Initial patch by Amaury Forgeot d'Arc.
2109
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002110- Issue #2461: Added tests for distutils.util.
Tarek Ziadé275958a2009-02-13 22:22:03 +00002111
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002112- Issue #1008086: Fixed socket.inet_aton() to always return 4 bytes even on LP64
2113 platforms (most 64-bit Linux, bsd, unix systems).
Gregory P. Smith3605b5c2009-02-11 23:45:25 +00002114
Thomas Heller3689ae22009-02-10 18:43:01 +00002115- Issue #5203: Fixed ctypes segfaults when passing a unicode string to a
2116 function without argtypes (only occurs if HAVE_USABLE_WCHAR_T is false).
2117
Tarek Ziadé74fbf602009-02-10 12:31:09 +00002118- Issue #3386: distutils.sysconfig.get_python_lib prefix argument was ignored
2119 under NT and OS2. Patch by Philip Jenvey.
2120
Brett Cannon28d10882009-02-10 02:07:38 +00002121- Issue #5128: Make compileall properly inspect bytecode to determine if needs
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002122 to be recreated. This avoids a timing hole thanks to the old reliance on the
Brett Cannon28d10882009-02-10 02:07:38 +00002123 ctime of the files involved.
2124
Guilherme Poloa66cf5b2009-02-09 20:50:27 +00002125- Issue #5122: Synchronize tk load failure check to prevent a potential
2126 deadlock.
2127
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002128- Issue #1818: collections.namedtuple() now supports a keyword argument 'rename'
2129 which lets invalid fieldnames be automatically converted to positional names
2130 in the form, _1, _2, ...
Raymond Hettinger322daea2009-02-10 01:24:05 +00002131
Guilherme Polod2ea0332009-02-09 16:41:09 +00002132- Issue #4890: Handle empty text search pattern in Tkinter.Text.search.
2133
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002134- Issue #5170: Fixed Unicode output bug in logging and added test case. This is
2135 a regression which did not occur in 2.5.
Vinay Sajipb20af942009-02-08 19:06:08 +00002136
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002137- Issue #4512 (part 2): Promote ``ZipImporter._get_filename()`` to be a public
2138 documented method ``ZipImporter.get_filename()``.
Nick Coghlan0194f5b2009-02-08 03:17:00 +00002139
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002140- Issue #4195: The ``runpy`` module (and the ``-m`` switch) now support the
2141 execution of packages by looking for and executing a ``__main__`` submodule
2142 when a package name is supplied. Initial patch by Andi Vajda.
Nick Coghland39600e2009-02-08 01:26:34 +00002143
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002144- Issue #1731706: Call Tcl_ConditionFinalize for Tcl_Conditions that will not be
2145 used again (this requires Tcl/Tk 8.3.1), also fix a memory leak in Tkapp_Call
2146 when calling from a thread different than the one that created the Tcl
2147 interpreter. Patch by Robert Hancock.
Guilherme Polo14ff18d2009-02-06 22:26:22 +00002148
Vinay Sajipb20af942009-02-08 19:06:08 +00002149- Issue #1520877: Now distutils.sysconfig reads $AR from the
Tarek Ziadé05adf072009-02-06 01:15:51 +00002150 environment/Makefile. Patch by Douglas Greiman.
2151
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002152- Issue #4285: Change sys.version_info to be a named tuple. Patch by Ross
2153 Light.
Eric Smith81fe0932009-02-06 00:48:26 +00002154
Tarek Ziadéd5eb9852009-02-06 00:31:59 +00002155- Issue #1276768: The verbose option was not used in the code of
2156 distutils.file_util and distutils.dir_util.
2157
Vinay Sajipb20af942009-02-08 19:06:08 +00002158- Issue #5132: Fixed trouble building extensions under Solaris with
Tarek Ziadé0d4fd342009-02-05 22:52:52 +00002159 --enabled-shared activated. Initial patch by Dave Peterson.
2160
Guilherme Polod7bb4d42009-02-02 21:14:14 +00002161- Issue #1581476: Always use the Tcl global namespace when calling into Tcl.
2162
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002163- Issue #2047: shutil.move() could believe that its destination path was inside
2164 its source path if it began with the same letters (e.g. "src" vs. "src.new").
Antoine Pitrou707c5932009-01-29 20:19:34 +00002165
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002166- Issue #4920: Fixed .next() vs .__next__() issues in the ABCs for Iterator and
2167 MutableSet.
Raymond Hettingerf779e6f2009-01-28 23:02:26 +00002168
Guilherme Polocda93aa2009-01-28 13:09:03 +00002169- Added the ttk module. See issue #2983: Ttk support for Tkinter.
2170
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002171- Issue #5021: doctest.testfile() did not create __name__ and
Raymond Hettingerecf252a2009-01-27 10:03:04 +00002172 collections.namedtuple() relied on __name__ being defined.
2173
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002174- Backport importlib from Python 3.1. Only the import_module() function has been
2175 backported to help facilitate transitions from 2.7 to 3.1.
Brett Cannon93881c62009-01-26 01:16:50 +00002176
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002177- Issue #1885: distutils: When running sdist with --formats=tar,gztar the tar
2178 file was overriden by the gztar one.
Tarek Ziadéaaedcef2009-01-25 23:34:00 +00002179
Tarek Ziadéef249b12009-01-25 18:19:25 +00002180- Issue #4863: distutils.mwerkscompiler has been removed.
2181
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002182- Added new itertools functions: combinations_with_replacement() and compress().
Raymond Hettinger2bcb8e92009-01-25 21:04:14 +00002183
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002184- Issue #5032: Added a step argument to itertools.count() and allowed
2185 non-integer arguments.
Raymond Hettinger31c769c2009-02-12 05:39:46 +00002186
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002187- Fix and properly document the multiprocessing module's logging support, expose
2188 the internal levels and provide proper usage examples.
Jesse Nollerb5a4b0a2009-01-25 03:36:13 +00002189
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002190- Issue #1672332: Fix unpickling of subnormal floats, which was
Mark Dickinsona3ecd2c2009-01-24 16:40:29 +00002191 producing a ValueError on some platforms.
2192
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002193- Issue #3881: Help Tcl to load even when started through the unreadable local
2194 symlink to "Program Files" on Vista.
Martin v. Löwisf081e1c2009-01-24 15:47:27 +00002195
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002196- Issue #4710: Extract directories properly in the zipfile module; allow adding
2197 directories to a zipfile.
Martin v. Löwis0dfcfc82009-01-24 14:00:33 +00002198
Vinay Sajipb20af942009-02-08 19:06:08 +00002199- Issue #3807: _multiprocessing build fails when configure is passed
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002200 --without-threads argument. When this occurs, _multiprocessing will be
2201 disabled, and not compiled.
Jesse Nollerf6da8d12009-01-23 14:04:41 +00002202
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002203- Issue #5008: When a file is opened in append mode with the new IO library, do
2204 an explicit seek to the end of file (so that e.g. tell() returns the file size
2205 rather than 0). This is consistent with the behaviour of the traditional 2.x
2206 file object.
Antoine Pitroue741cc62009-01-21 00:45:36 +00002207
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +00002208- Issue #5013: Fixed a bug in FileHandler which occurred when the delay
2209 parameter was set.
2210
Raymond Hettinger933d3a72009-01-20 20:34:19 +00002211- Issue #4998: The memory saving effect of __slots__ had been lost on Fractions
2212 which inherited from numbers.py which did not have __slots__ defined. The
Mark Dickinson39c6f7f2009-02-12 17:55:42 +00002213 numbers hierarchy now has its own __slots__ declarations.
Raymond Hettinger933d3a72009-01-20 20:34:19 +00002214
Jesse Noller9a5b2ad2009-01-19 15:12:22 +00002215- Issue #3321: _multiprocessing.Connection() doesn't check handle; added checks
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002216 for *nix machines for negative handles and large int handles. Without this
2217 check it is possible to segfault the interpreter.
Jesse Noller9a5b2ad2009-01-19 15:12:22 +00002218
Jesse Noller6ab22152009-01-18 02:45:38 +00002219- Issue #4449: AssertionError in mp_benchmarks.py, caused by an underlying issue
2220 in sharedctypes.py.
2221
Benjamin Peterson5e5fbb62009-01-17 22:27:54 +00002222- Issue #1225107: inspect.isclass() returned True for instances with a custom
2223 __getattr__.
2224
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002225- Issue #3997: Zipfiles generated with more than 65536 files could not be opened
2226 with other applications.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd25f87a2009-01-17 16:40:17 +00002227
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002228- Issue #1162154: ``inspect.getmembers()`` now skips attributes that raise
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcb54447f2009-01-13 23:39:22 +00002229 AttributeError, e.g. a __slots__ attribute which has not been set.
2230
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002231- Issue #1696199: Add collections.Counter() for rapid and convenient counting.
Raymond Hettingerf94d7fa2009-01-12 22:58:41 +00002232
Antoine Pitroubd4b5f22009-01-10 16:15:24 +00002233- Issue #3860: GzipFile and BZ2File now support the context manager protocol.
2234
Antoine Pitrouf0d2c3f2009-01-04 21:29:23 +00002235- Issue #4272: Add an optional argument to the GzipFile constructor to override
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002236 the timestamp in the gzip stream. The default value remains the current time.
2237 The information can be used by e.g. gunzip when decompressing. Patch by
Antoine Pitrouf0d2c3f2009-01-04 21:29:23 +00002238 Jacques Frechet.
2239
Mark Dickinson514d4832009-01-04 21:25:40 +00002240- Restore Python 2.3 compatibility for decimal.py.
2241
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +00002242- Issue #1702551: distutils sdist was not excluding VCS directories under
Tarek Ziadé85d6fb52009-01-04 00:04:49 +00002243 Windows. Inital solution by Guy Dalberto.
2244
Guilherme Poloe7f14032009-01-03 21:51:09 +00002245- The _tkinter module functions "createfilehandler", "deletefilehandler",
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002246 "createtimerhandler", "mainloop", "dooneevent" and "quit" have been deprecated
2247 for removal in 3.x
Guilherme Poloe7f14032009-01-03 21:51:09 +00002248
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002249- Issue #4796: Added Decimal.from_float() and
2250 Context.create_decimal_from_float() to the decimal module.
Raymond Hettingerf4d85972009-01-03 19:02:23 +00002251
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002252- Issue #4812: Add missing underscore prefix to some internal-use-only constants
2253 in the decimal module. (Dec_0 becomes _Dec_0, etc.)
Mark Dickinsonc5de0962009-01-02 23:07:08 +00002254
Benjamin Peterson8ad09a42008-12-31 23:48:39 +00002255- Issue #4795: inspect.isgeneratorfunction() returns False instead of None when
2256 the function is not a generator.
2257
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002258- Issue #4702: Throwing a DistutilsPlatformError instead of IOError in case no
2259 MSVC compiler is found under Windows. Original patch by Philip Jenvey.
Tarek Ziadéb1a85412008-12-30 23:03:41 +00002260
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002261- Issue #4646: distutils was choking on empty options arg in the setup function.
2262 Original patch by Thomas Heller.
Tarek Ziadéc13acb12008-12-29 22:23:53 +00002263
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002264- Fractions.from_float() no longer loses precision for integers too big to cast
2265 as floats.
Georg Brandlfe427892009-01-03 22:03:11 +00002266
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002267- Issue #4790: The nsmallest() and nlargest() functions in the heapq module did
2268 unnecessary work in the common case where no key function was specified.
Georg Brandlfe427892009-01-03 22:03:11 +00002269
Martin v. Löwis732479f2008-12-29 16:22:25 +00002270- Issue #3767: Convert Tk object to string in tkColorChooser.
2271
Martin v. Löwise2eb2b42008-12-29 15:51:01 +00002272- Issue #3248: Allow placing ScrolledText in a PanedWindow.
2273
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002274- Issue #4444: Allow assertRaises() to be used as a context handler, so that the
2275 code under test can be written inline if more practical.
Antoine Pitrou697ca3d2008-12-28 14:09:36 +00002276
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002277- Issue #4739: Add pydoc help topics for symbols, so that e.g. help('@') works
2278 as expected in the interactive environment.
Georg Brandlc3a98032008-12-27 18:20:04 +00002279
Antoine Pitrou6f193e02008-12-27 15:43:12 +00002280- Issue #4756: zipfile.is_zipfile() now supports file-like objects. Patch by
2281 Gabriel Genellina.
2282
Tarek Ziadée4c75bb2008-12-24 19:10:05 +00002283- Issue #4400: .pypirc default generated file was broken in distutils.
2284
Benjamin Peterson54686e32008-12-24 15:10:27 +00002285- Issue #4736: io.BufferedRWPair's closed property now functions properly.
2286
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002287- Issue #3954: Fix a potential SystemError in _hotshot.logreader error handling.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc31949b92008-12-15 21:47:57 +00002288
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002289- Issue #4574: Fix a crash in io.IncrementalNewlineDecoder when a carriage
2290 return encodes to more than one byte in the source encoding (e.g. UTF-16) and
2291 gets split on a chunk boundary.
Antoine Pitrou655fbf12008-12-14 17:40:51 +00002292
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002293- Issue #4223: inspect.getsource() will now correctly display source code for
2294 packages loaded via zipimport (or any other conformant PEP 302
Nick Coghlana2053472008-12-14 10:54:50 +00002295 loader). Original patch by Alexander Belopolsky.
2296
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002297- Issue #4201: pdb can now access and display source code loaded via zipimport
2298 (or any other conformant PEP 302 loader). Original patch by Alexander
2299 Belopolsky.
Nick Coghlana2053472008-12-14 10:54:50 +00002300
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002301- Issue #4197: Doctests in modules loaded via zipimport (or any other PEP 302
2302 conformant loader) will now work correctly in most cases (they are still
2303 subject to the constraints that exist for all code running from inside a
2304 module loaded via a PEP 302 loader and attempting to perform IO operations
2305 based on __file__). Original patch by Alexander Belopolsky.
Nick Coghlana2053472008-12-14 10:54:50 +00002306
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002307- Issues #4082 and #4512: Add runpy support to zipimport in a manner that allows
2308 backporting to maintenance branches. Original patch by Alexander Belopolsky.
Nick Coghlana2053472008-12-14 10:54:50 +00002309
Antoine Pitrou74af3bb2008-12-13 23:12:30 +00002310- Issue #4163: Use unicode-friendly word splitting in the textwrap functions
2311 when given an unicode string.
2312
Lars Gustäbel3b027422008-12-12 13:58:03 +00002313- Issue #4616: TarFile.utime(): Restore directory times on Windows.
2314
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002315- Issue #4084: Fix max, min, max_mag and min_mag Decimal methods to give correct
2316 results in the case where one argument is a quiet NaN and the other is a
2317 finite number that requires rounding.
Facundo Batistae29d4352008-12-11 04:19:46 +00002318
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002319- Issue #1030250: Distutils created directories even when run with the --dry-run
2320 option.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc240028c2008-12-11 00:03:42 +00002321
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002322- Issue #4483: _dbm module now builds on systems with gdbm & gdbm_compat libs.
Skip Montanaro45313fe2008-12-06 17:43:30 +00002323
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002324- Issue #4529: Fix the parser module's validation of try-except-finally
Georg Brandlfe879e82008-12-05 12:09:41 +00002325 statements.
2326
Georg Brandla07435d2008-12-05 09:23:14 +00002327- Issue #4458: getopt.gnu_getopt() now recognizes a single "-" as an argument,
2328 not a malformed option.
2329
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002330- Added the subprocess.check_output() convenience function to get output from a
2331 subprocess on success or raise an exception on error.
Gregory P. Smith97f49f42008-12-04 20:21:09 +00002332
Fred Drake52481032008-12-04 18:25:17 +00002333- Issue #1055234: cgi.parse_header(): Fixed parsing of header parameters to
2334 support unusual filenames (such as those containing semi-colons) in
2335 Content-Disposition headers.
2336
Vinay Sajip6831d6b2008-12-04 20:32:18 +00002337- Issue #4384: Added logging integration with warnings module using
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002338 captureWarnings(). This change includes a NullHandler which does nothing; it
2339 will be of use to library developers who want to avoid the "No handlers could
2340 be found for logger XXX" message which can appear if the library user doesn't
2341 configure logging.
Vinay Sajip213faca2008-12-03 23:22:58 +00002342
Christian Heimesaa674712008-11-28 11:02:32 +00002343- Issue #3741: DISTUTILS_USE_SDK set causes msvc9compiler.py to raise an
2344 exception.
2345
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002346- Issue #4363: The uuid.uuid1() and uuid.uuid4() functions now work even if the
2347 ctypes module is not present.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd4294172008-11-21 22:05:48 +00002348
Benjamin Petersonbfc51562008-11-22 01:59:15 +00002349- FileIO's mode attribute now always includes ``"b"``.
2350
Martin v. Löwisbb9b1f12008-11-19 09:09:41 +00002351- Issue #4116: Resolve member name conflict in ScrolledCanvas.__init__.
2352
Brett Cannone3d0bf72008-11-15 22:40:44 +00002353- httplib.HTTPConnection.putheader() now accepts an arbitrary number of values
2354 for any header, matching what the documentation has claimed for a while.
2355
Hirokazu Yamamotob9828f62008-11-03 18:03:06 +00002356- Issue #3774: Fixed an error when create a Tkinter menu item without command
2357 and then remove it.
2358
Thomas Heller1fac5a42008-10-30 20:18:13 +00002359- Fixed a modulefinder crash on certain relative imports.
2360
Benjamin Petersonc18574c2008-10-22 21:16:34 +00002361- Issue #4150: Pdb's "up" command now works for generator frames in post-mortem
2362 debugging.
2363
Benjamin Petersone4dc1752008-10-21 22:20:31 +00002364- Issue #4092: Return ArgInfo as promised in the documentation from
2365 inspect.getargvalues.
2366
Georg Brandlf3776a12008-10-08 18:47:17 +00002367- Issue #3935: Properly support list subclasses in bisect's C implementation.
2368
Martin v. Löwis96a9f232008-10-06 15:15:40 +00002369- Issue #4014: Don't claim that Python has an Alpha release status, in addition
2370 to claiming it is Mature.
2371
Alexandre Vassalotti6067f782008-12-27 07:13:01 +00002372- Issue #4730: Fixed the cPickle module to handle correctly astral characters
2373 when protocol 0 is used.
2374
Ronald Oussoren0238497e2009-01-02 14:10:20 +00002375- Issue #1594: MacOS.GetCreatorAndType now always returns a big-endian result,
2376 to be consistent with Apple tools.
2377
Ronald Oussoren63b74fe2009-01-02 14:46:19 +00002378- Issue #900949: plat-mac/videoreader.py no longer relies on a non-existing
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +00002379 module.
Ronald Oussoren63b74fe2009-01-02 14:46:19 +00002380
Ronald Oussoren7f8cbf02009-01-02 14:48:17 +00002381- Issue #16278952: plat-mac/videoreader.py now correctly imports MediaDescr
2382
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002383- Issue #1737832: plat-mac/EasyDialog.py no longer uses the broken aepack
Ronald Oussoren919697c2009-01-02 14:52:09 +00002384 module.
2385
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002386- Issue #1149804: macostools.mkdirs now even works when another process creates
2387 one of the needed subdirectories.
Ronald Oussorenabcc1682009-01-02 15:00:05 +00002388
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002389- Issue #900506: added --no-zipimport flag to the bundlebuilder script.
Ronald Oussoren072bb402009-01-02 15:25:36 +00002390
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002391- Issue #841800: bundlebuilder now works with 'python -O'.
Ronald Oussoren072bb402009-01-02 15:25:36 +00002392
Matthias Klose43723e22009-01-10 17:00:42 +00002393- Issue #4861: ctypes.util.find_library(): Robustify. Fix library detection on
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002394 biarch systems. Try to rely on ldconfig only, without using objdump and gcc.
Matthias Klose43723e22009-01-10 17:00:42 +00002395
Gregory P. Smithde1a8b72009-01-31 22:57:30 +00002396- Issue #5104: The socket module now raises OverflowError when 16-bit port and
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002397 protocol numbers are supplied outside the allowed 0-65536 range on bind() and
2398 getservbyport().
Gregory P. Smithde1a8b72009-01-31 22:57:30 +00002399
Neil Schemenauer92c3b212009-02-07 00:54:41 +00002400- Issue #999042: The Python compiler now handles explict global statements
2401 correctly (should be assigned using STORE_GLOBAL opcode).
2402
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002403- Issue #2703: SimpleXMLRPCDispatcher.__init__: Provide default values for new
2404 arguments introduced in 2.5.
Matthias Klosea5d58c82009-04-05 21:00:48 +00002405
Walter Dörwald5d98ec72009-04-25 14:03:16 +00002406- Issue #5828 (Invalid behavior of unicode.lower): Fixed bogus logic in
2407 makeunicodedata.py and regenerated the Unicode database (This fixes
2408 u'\u1d79'.lower() == '\x00').
2409
Jeroen Ruigrok van der Wervenb87b3342009-05-08 14:11:23 +00002410- Windows locale mapping updated to Vista.
2411
Antoine Pitroue555f582008-12-27 20:34:52 +00002412Tools/Demos
2413-----------
2414
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002415- Ttk demos added in Demo/tkinter/ttk/.
Guilherme Polo4eae0782009-01-28 15:56:01 +00002416
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002417- Issue #4677: Add two list comprehension tests to pybench.
Antoine Pitroue555f582008-12-27 20:34:52 +00002418
Brett Cannon60b15d22008-10-06 22:44:37 +00002419Build
2420-----
2421
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002422- Issue #6603: Change READ_TIMESTAMP macro in ceval.c so that it compiles
2423 correctly under gcc on x86-64. This fixes a reported problem with the
2424 --with-tsc build on x86-64.
Mark Dickinson504a1512009-10-31 10:11:28 +00002425
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002426- Add 2 new options to ``--with-universal-archs`` on MacOSX: ``intel`` builds a
2427 distribution with ``i386`` and ``x86_64`` architectures, while ``3-way``
2428 builds a distribution with the ``ppc``, ``i386`` and ``x86_64`` architectures.
Vinay Sajip03d5c342009-10-16 14:06:44 +00002429
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002430- Issue #6802: Fix build issues on MacOSX 10.6.
Ronald Oussoren25967582009-09-06 10:00:26 +00002431
Guilherme Polo1ce2d532009-08-16 14:38:57 +00002432- Issue #6244: Allow detect_tkinter to look for Tcl/Tk 8.6.
2433
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002434- Issue 5390: Add uninstall icon independent of whether file extensions are
2435 installed.
Martin v. Löwisecb4f952009-06-28 09:32:39 +00002436
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002437- Issue 5809: Specifying both --enable-framework and --enable-shared is an
2438 error. Configure now explicity tells you about this.
Ronald Oussoren450d5612009-06-08 21:12:41 +00002439
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002440- Issue #3585: Add pkg-config support. It creates a python-2.7.pc file and a
2441 python.pc symlink in the $(LIBDIR)/pkgconfig directory. Patch by Clinton Roy.
Antoine Pitrouf2caeed2009-05-24 20:23:57 +00002442
Benjamin Petersone5afa3b2009-05-23 19:24:37 +00002443- Issue #6094: Build correctly with Subversion 1.7.
2444
Martin v. Löwis588b54b2009-05-05 16:10:16 +00002445- Issue #5847: Remove -n switch on "Edit with IDLE" menu item.
2446
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002447- Issue #5726: Make Modules/ld_so_aix return the actual exit code of the linker,
2448 rather than always exit successfully. Patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
Antoine Pitrou3fd4ea92009-05-01 21:16:14 +00002449
Matthias Klose10cbe482009-04-29 17:18:19 +00002450- Issue #4587: Add configure option --with-dbmliborder=db1:db2:... to specify
Vinay Sajipf9b01fe2009-05-09 12:07:17 +00002451 the order that backends for the dbm extension are checked.
Matthias Klose10cbe482009-04-29 17:18:19 +00002452
Matthias Klose8ad554f2009-02-22 23:14:26 +00002453- Link the shared python library with $(MODLIBS).
2454
Martin v. Löwisa3e3cb72009-02-10 13:09:19 +00002455- Issue #5134: Silence compiler warnings when compiling sqlite with VC++.
2456
Martin v. Löwisfee1c7f2009-02-02 14:23:16 +00002457- Issue #4494: Fix build with Py_NO_ENABLE_SHARED on Windows.
2458
Martin v. Löwiseefda272009-01-11 09:43:55 +00002459- Issue #4895: Use _strdup on Windows CE.
2460
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002461- Issue #4472: ``configure --enable-shared`` now works on OSX.
Ronald Oussorenf7d54052009-01-02 10:48:31 +00002462
Benjamin Petersonfd9633e2008-12-28 15:37:31 +00002463- Issues #4728 and #4060: WORDS_BIGEDIAN is now correct in Universal builds.
2464
Martin v. Löwiscb6c3592008-11-30 11:08:26 +00002465- Issue #4389: Add icon to the uninstall entry in "add-and-remove-programs".
2466
Martin v. Löwis63470982008-11-19 13:51:44 +00002467- Issue #4289: Remove Cancel button from AdvancedDlg.
2468
Martin v. Löwis3d6f8ff2008-11-07 18:51:50 +00002469- Issue #1656675: Register a drop handler for .py* files on Windows.
2470
Martin v. Löwis692c2f82008-11-06 16:43:00 +00002471- Issue #4120: Exclude manifest from extension modules in VS2008.
2472
Martin v. Löwis0f3e7692008-10-17 13:43:01 +00002473- Issue #4091: Install pythonxy.dll in system32 again.
2474
Martin v. Löwiseba774b2008-10-13 11:23:35 +00002475- Issue #4018: Disable "for me" installations on Vista.
2476
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002477- Issue #3758: Add ``patchcheck`` build target to ``.PHONY``.
Brett Cannon60b15d22008-10-06 22:44:37 +00002478
Martin v. Löwisbb86d832008-11-04 20:40:09 +00002479- Issue #4204: Fixed module build errors on FreeBSD 4.
2480
Tarek Ziadéc4a4aeb2009-08-21 14:28:38 +00002481Documentation
2482-------------
2483
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002484- Issue #6556: Fixed the Distutils configuration files location explanation for
2485 Windows.
Tarek Ziadéc4a4aeb2009-08-21 14:28:38 +00002486
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002487- Issue #6801: symmetric_difference_update also accepts ``|``. Thanks to Carl
2488 Chenet.
Tarek Ziadé3092ed92009-08-29 13:33:21 +00002489
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc07d539d2008-10-14 21:47:22 +00002490C-API
2491-----
2492
Mark Dickinsone31d3002009-12-21 11:21:25 +00002493- Issue #7528: Add PyLong_AsLongAndOverflow (backported from py3k).
2494
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002495- Issue #7228: Add '%lld' and '%llu' support to PyString_FromFormat(V) and
2496 PyErr_Format, on machines with HAVE_LONG_LONG defined.
Mark Dickinson82864d12009-11-15 16:18:58 +00002497
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002498- Add new C-API function PyOS_string_to_double, and deprecated PyOS_ascii_atof
2499 and PyOS_ascii_strtod.
Mark Dickinson09823a22009-10-31 09:42:39 +00002500
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002501- Removed _PyOS_double_to_string. Use PyOS_double_to_string instead. This is in
2502 preparation for (but not strictly related to) issue #7117, short float repr.
Mark Dickinsonba26b392009-10-31 09:28:12 +00002503
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002504- Issue #6624: PyArg_ParseTuple with "s" format when parsing argument with NULL:
2505 Bogus TypeError detail string.
Sean Reifscheider9279e7d2009-08-01 23:54:55 +00002506
Jeffrey Yasskinf7f858d2009-05-08 22:23:21 +00002507- Issue #5954: Add a PyFrame_GetLineNumber() function to replace most uses of
2508 PyCode_Addr2Line().
2509
Jeffrey Yasskin1aa47002009-05-08 21:51:06 +00002510- Issue #5959: Add a PyCode_NewEmpty() function to create a new empty code
2511 object at a specified file, function, and line number.
2512
Brett Cannonc4f90eb2009-04-02 03:17:39 +00002513- Issue #1419652: Change the first argument to PyImport_AppendInittab() to
2514 ``const char *`` as the string is stored beyond the call.
2515
Benjamin Peterson5781f322009-02-16 21:09:09 +00002516- Some PyBytes_* aliases have been removed because they don't exist in 3.x.
2517
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002518- Issue #5175: PyLong_AsUnsignedLongLong now raises OverflowError for negative
2519 arguments. Previously, it raised TypeError.
Mark Dickinson4015f622009-02-10 15:46:50 +00002520
Benjamin Petersoncf2ce242008-12-22 20:52:53 +00002521- Issue #4720: The format for PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords can begin with '|'.
2522
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002523- Issue #3632: From the gdb debugger, the 'pyo' macro can now be called when the
2524 GIL is released, or owned by another thread.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc3538a312008-12-15 22:29:14 +00002525
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc07d539d2008-10-14 21:47:22 +00002526- Issue #4122: On Windows, fix a compilation error when using the
2527 Py_UNICODE_ISSPACE macro in an extension module.
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +00002528
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002529- Issue #4293: Py_AddPendingCall() is now thread safe and can be used for
Kristján Valur Jónssonc22ab182009-01-12 09:24:04 +00002530 asynchronous notifications to python from any thread. Documentation added.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc07d539d2008-10-14 21:47:22 +00002531
Benjamin Peterson9dfe6a82008-11-24 04:09:03 +00002532Extension Modules
2533-----------------
2534
Martin v. Löwis50ea4562009-11-27 13:56:01 +00002535- Issue #6508: Add posix.{getresuid,getresgid,setresuid,setresgid}.
2536
Mark Dickinson3d830822009-10-08 15:54:10 +00002537- Issue #7078: Set struct.__doc__ from _struct.__doc__.
2538
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002539- Issue #3366: Add erf, erfc, expm1, gamma, lgamma functions to math module.
Mark Dickinsonb93fff02009-09-28 18:54:55 +00002540
Brett Cannon4d947432009-09-22 00:29:48 +00002541- Issue #6823: Allow time.strftime() to accept a tuple with a isdst field
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002542 outside of the range of [-1, 1] by normalizing the value to within that range.
Brett Cannon4d947432009-09-22 00:29:48 +00002543
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002544- Issue #6877: Make it possible to link the readline extension to libedit on
2545 OSX.
Ronald Oussoren9f20d9d2009-09-20 14:18:15 +00002546
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002547- Issue #6944: Fix a SystemError when socket.getnameinfo() was called with
2548 something other than a tuple as first argument.
Georg Brandlab849892009-09-19 07:35:07 +00002549
Benjamin Peterson7f6d0832009-09-08 23:04:22 +00002550- Issue #6865: Fix reference counting issue in the initialization of the pwd
2551 module.
2552
Mark Dickinson6b3f1ef2009-09-06 21:21:05 +00002553- Issue #6848: Fix curses module build failure on OS X 10.6.
2554
Brett Cannon764465f2009-08-13 19:27:12 +00002555- Fix a segfault in expat when given a specially crafted input lead to the
Matthias Klose3b0f9b02010-01-22 00:34:48 +00002556 tokenizer not stopping. CVE-2009-3720.
Brett Cannon764465f2009-08-13 19:27:12 +00002557
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002558- Issue #6561: '\d' in a regex now matches only characters with Unicode category
2559 'Nd' (Number, Decimal Digit). Previously it also matched characters with
2560 category 'No'.
Mark Dickinsonfe67bd92009-07-28 20:35:03 +00002561
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002562- Issue #1523: Remove deprecated overflow wrapping for struct.pack with an
2563 integer format code ('bBhHiIlLqQ'). Packing an out-of-range integer now
2564 consistently raises struct.error.
Mark Dickinson5fd3af22009-07-07 15:08:28 +00002565
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002566- Issues #1530559, #1741130: Fix various struct.pack inconsistencies for the
2567 integer formats ('bBhHiIlLqQ'). In the following, '*' represents any of '=',
2568 '<', '>'.
Mark Dickinson463dc4b2009-07-05 10:01:24 +00002569
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002570 - Packing a float now always gives a Deprecation Warning. Previously it
2571 only warned for 'I', 'L', '*B', '*H', '*I', '*L'.
Mark Dickinson463dc4b2009-07-05 10:01:24 +00002572
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002573 - If x is not an int, long or float, then packing x will always result in
2574 struct.error. Previously an x with an __int__ method could be packed by
2575 'b', 'B', 'h', 'H', 'i', 'l', '*b', '*h' ,'*i', '*l', and an x with a
2576 __long__ method could be packed by 'q', 'Q', '*q', '*Q'; for x with
2577 neither __int__ nor __long__, TypeError used to be raised (with a
2578 confusing error message) for 'I', 'L', '*B', '*H', '*I', '*L', and
2579 struct.error in other cases.
Mark Dickinson463dc4b2009-07-05 10:01:24 +00002580
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002581 Note: as of Python 2.7 beta 1, the above is out of date. In 2.7 beta 1, any
2582 argument with an __int__ method can be packed, but use of this feature
2583 triggers a DeprecationWarning.
Mark Dickinson154b7ad2010-03-07 16:24:45 +00002584
Martin v. Löwis4f16d3b2009-05-29 15:58:08 +00002585- Issue #4873: Fix resource leaks in error cases of pwd and grp.
2586
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002587- Issue #4751: For hashlib algorithms provided by OpenSSL, the Python GIL is now
2588 released during computation on data lengths >= 2048 bytes.
Gregory P. Smithd02eeda2009-05-04 00:16:49 +00002589
Gregory P. Smithea388262009-02-13 03:00:00 +00002590- Issue #3745: Fix hashlib to always reject unicode and non buffer-api
2591 supporting objects as input no matter how it was compiled (built in
Gregory P. Smithfe32d302010-01-02 22:42:50 +00002592 implementations or external openssl library). NOTE: Undone in 2.7a2.
Gregory P. Smithea388262009-02-13 03:00:00 +00002593
Mark Dickinsona200dd52009-01-15 15:17:43 +00002594- Issue #4397: Fix occasional test_socket failure on OS X.
Mark Dickinsone82cdae2009-01-15 14:54:37 +00002595
Martin v. Löwisb3b7d852009-01-11 09:26:54 +00002596- Issue #4279: Fix build of parsermodule under Cygwin.
2597
Martin v. Löwis9ac49272009-01-02 20:40:14 +00002598- Issue #4051: Prevent conflict of UNICODE macros in cPickle.
2599
Georg Brandl6269fec2009-01-01 12:15:31 +00002600- Issue #4228: Pack negative values the same way as 2.4 in struct's L format.
2601
Martin v. Löwis03824e42008-12-29 18:17:34 +00002602- Issue #1040026: Fix os.times result on systems where HZ is incorrect.
2603
Mark Dickinson4c96fa52008-12-11 19:28:08 +00002604- Issues #3167, #3682: Fix test_math failures for log, log10 on Solaris,
2605 OpenBSD.
2606
Martin v. Löwisbcb017f2008-11-30 19:28:27 +00002607- Issue #4365: Add crtassem.h constants to the msvcrt module.
2608
Benjamin Peterson9dfe6a82008-11-24 04:09:03 +00002609- Issue #4396: The parser module now correctly validates the with statement.
2610
Jack Diederichd60c29e2009-03-31 23:46:48 +00002611- Issue #5228: Make functools.partial objects can now be pickled.
2612
Guilherme Polob1a98de2009-01-28 20:03:26 +00002613Tests
2614-----
2615
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002616- Issue #7431: Use TESTFN in test_linecache instead of trying to create a file
2617 in the Lib/test directory, which might be read-only for the user running the
2618 tests.
R. David Murray820b0ea2009-12-03 23:57:59 +00002619
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002620- Issue #7324: Add a sanity check to regrtest argument parsing to catch the case
2621 of an option with no handler.
R. David Murrayda826892009-11-15 00:04:32 +00002622
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002623- Issue #7312: Add a -F flag to run the selected tests in a loop until a test
2624 fails. Can be combined with -j.
R. David Murray7f7eea62009-11-14 15:18:22 +00002625
Antoine Pitrou310c9fe2009-11-11 20:55:07 +00002626- Issue #7295: Do not use a hardcoded file name in test_tarfile.
2627
Antoine Pitrouc98efe02009-11-06 22:34:35 +00002628- Issue #7270: Add some dedicated unit tests for multi-thread synchronization
2629 primitives such as Lock, RLock, Condition, Event and Semaphore.
2630
Antoine Pitrou59c44f32009-10-30 17:07:08 +00002631- Issue #7222: Make thread "reaping" more reliable so that reference
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002632 leak-chasing test runs give sensible results. The previous method of reaping
2633 threads could return successfully while some Thread objects were still
2634 referenced. This also introduces a new private function: ``thread._count()``.
Antoine Pitrou59c44f32009-10-30 17:07:08 +00002635
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002636- Issue #7151: Fixed regrtest -j so that output to stderr from a test no longer
2637 runs the risk of causing the worker thread to fail.
R. David Murray282396f2009-10-18 21:12:37 +00002638
Antoine Pitrou58d2f262009-10-10 20:52:11 +00002639- Issue #7055: test___all__ now greedily detects all modules which have an
2640 __all__ attribute, rather than using a hardcoded and incomplete list.
2641
R. David Murray14dcd432009-10-14 13:58:07 +00002642- Issue #7058: Added save/restore for things like sys.argv and cwd to
2643 runtest_inner in regrtest, with warnings if the called test modifies them,
2644 and a new section in the summary report at the end.
R. David Murrayabe3d3e2009-10-05 17:03:09 +00002645
Mark Dickinson245d9152009-10-04 18:38:39 +00002646- Issue #7042: Fix test_signal (test_itimer_virtual) failure on OS X 10.6.
2647
Brett Cannone7e941e2009-09-03 21:25:21 +00002648- Issue #6806: test_platform failed under OS X 10.6.0 because ``sw_ver`` leaves
2649 off the trailing 0 in the version number.
2650
Guilherme Polo7f146ab2009-06-21 17:22:50 +00002651- Issue #5450: Moved tests involving loading tk from Lib/test/test_tcl to
2652 Lib/lib-tk/test/test_tkinter/test_loadtk. With this, these tests demonstrate
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002653 the same behaviour as test_ttkguionly (and now also test_tk) which is to skip
2654 the tests if DISPLAY is defined but can't be used.
Guilherme Polo7f146ab2009-06-21 17:22:50 +00002655
Antoine Pitrou4698d992009-05-31 14:20:14 +00002656- Issue #6152: New option '-j'/'--multiprocess' for regrtest allows running
2657 regression tests in parallel, shortening the total runtime.
2658
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002659- Issue #5354: New test support function import_fresh_module() makes it easy to
2660 import both normal and optimised versions of modules. test_heapq and
2661 test_warnings have been adjusted to use it, tests for other modules with both
2662 C and Python implementations in the stdlib can be adjusted to use it over
2663 time.
Nick Coghlan5533ff62009-04-22 15:26:04 +00002664
Brett Cannonce3d2212009-04-01 20:25:48 +00002665- Fix test_warnings to no longer reset the warnings filter.
2666
Brett Cannon2da4d622009-04-01 19:57:10 +00002667- Fix test_logging to no longer reset the warnings filter.
2668
Georg Brandld8fb6ac2009-04-01 00:04:33 +00002669- Issue #5635: Fix running test_sys with tracing enabled.
2670
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002671- regrtest no longer treats ImportError as equivalent to SkipTest. Imports that
2672 should cause a test to be skipped are now done using import_module from test
2673 support, which does the conversion.
R. David Murray41448c52009-03-31 19:57:24 +00002674
Guilherme Polob1a98de2009-01-28 20:03:26 +00002675- Issue #5083: New 'gui' resource for regrtest.
2676
Walter Dörwalda1453172009-04-25 12:15:07 +00002677- Issue #5837: Certain sequences of calls to set() and unset() for
2678 support.EnvironmentVarGuard objects restored the environment variables
2679 incorrectly on __exit__.
2680
Alexandre Vassalotti999ecc02009-07-15 18:19:47 +00002681- Issue #2389: Array objects are now pickled in a portable manner.
2682
Brett Cannon813c43a2009-11-08 21:35:28 +00002683Misc
2684----
2685
2686- Issue #5611: Auto-detect whether a C file uses tabs or spaces in Vim.
2687
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +00002688
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +00002689What's New in Python 2.6 final
2690==============================
2691
Barry Warsawafa14362008-10-01 21:46:40 +00002692*Release date: 01-Oct-2008*
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +00002693
2694Core and Builtins
2695-----------------
2696
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfc5ea392008-09-26 22:34:08 +00002697- Issue #3967: Fixed a crash in the count() and find() methods of string-like
2698 objects, when the "start" parameter is a huge value.
2699
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc17617a02008-09-25 20:52:56 +00002700- Issue #3965: Fixed a crash on Windows when open() is given an invalid
2701 filename or mode, and the filename is a unicode string.
2702
Martin v. Löwise86b07c2008-09-25 04:12:50 +00002703- Bug #3951: Py_USING_MEMORY_DEBUGGER should not be enabled by default.
2704
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +00002705Library
2706-------
2707
Martin v. Löwise563aa42008-09-29 22:09:07 +00002708- Issue #3965: Allow repeated calls to turtle.Screen, by making it a
2709 true singleton object.
2710
Brett Cannonb2d61bd2008-09-29 03:41:21 +00002711- Issue #3895: It was possible to crash the interpreter when an external timer
2712 was used with cProfile that returned an object that could not be converted
2713 into a float.
2714
Benjamin Peterson22d3c922008-09-25 20:35:45 +00002715- Issue #3950: Made turtle respect scale factors.
2716
Thomas Hellera85c95d2008-09-24 18:26:05 +00002717- Issue #3547: Fixed ctypes structures bitfields of varying integer
2718 sizes.
2719
Benjamin Peterson2c7470d2008-09-21 21:27:51 +00002720- Issue #3879: A regression in urllib.getproxies_enviroment was fixed.
2721
Gregory P. Smith08067492008-09-30 20:41:13 +00002722- Issue #3863: Disabled a unit test of fork being called from a thread
2723 when running on platforms known to exhibit OS bugs when attempting that.
2724
Martin v. Löwis175d0072008-09-19 15:21:07 +00002725Build
2726-----
2727
Martin v. Löwisd69c9042008-10-01 11:19:50 +00002728- Bug #3989: Package the 2to3 script (as 2to3.py) in the Windows
2729 installer.
2730
Martin v. Löwis175d0072008-09-19 15:21:07 +00002731- Bug #3887: Package x64 version of CRT for AMD64 Windows binaries.
2732
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +00002733
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +00002734What's New in Python 2.6 release candidate 2?
2735=============================================
2736
Barry Warsaw6af16192008-09-18 04:33:43 +00002737*Release date: 17-Sep-2008*
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +00002738
2739Core and Builtins
2740-----------------
2741
Benjamin Peterson8c2b7dc2008-09-18 01:22:16 +00002742Extension Modules
2743-----------------
2744
Benjamin Peterson8d77d442008-09-30 01:31:49 +00002745- Security Issue #2: imageop did not validate arguments correctly and could
2746 segfault as a result.
2747
Benjamin Peterson8c2b7dc2008-09-18 01:22:16 +00002748- Issue #3886: Possible integer overflows in the _hashopenssl module were
2749 closed.
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +00002750
Antoine Pitrou3c9f5412008-09-13 20:30:30 +00002751Tools/Demos
2752-----------
2753
Georg Brandl2bd92a52009-10-11 21:10:07 +00002754- Issue #3850: recursion tests in Tools/scripts/find_recursion_limit.py can raise
Antoine Pitrou3c9f5412008-09-13 20:30:30 +00002755 AttributeError instead of RuntimeError, depending in which C API call
2756 exactly the recursion limit is exceeded. Consequently, both exception types
2757 are caught and silenced.
2758
Martin v. Löwis4eb18f92008-09-14 20:22:39 +00002759Build
2760-----
2761
2762- Issue #3617: Include a licensing statement regarding the Microsoft
2763 C runtime in the Windows installer.
2764
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +00002765
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +00002766What's New in Python 2.6 release candidate 1?
2767=============================================
2768
Barry Warsaw1e62aec2008-09-12 23:25:57 +00002769*Release date: 12-Sep-2008*
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +00002770
2771Core and Builtins
2772-----------------
2773
Martin v. Löwis9fa5a282008-09-11 06:53:30 +00002774- Issue #3642: Suppress warning in obmalloc when size_t is larger than uint.
2775
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc05e34492008-09-10 22:04:45 +00002776- Issue #3743: In a few places, PY_FORMAT_SIZE_T was incorrectly used with
2777 PyString_FromFormat or PyErr_Format to display size_t values. The macro
2778 PY_FORMAT_SIZE_T is designed to select the correct format for the OS
2779 ``printf`` function, whereas PyString_FromFormat has an independent
2780 implementation and uses "%zd" on all platforms for size_t values.
2781 This makes a difference on win64, where ``printf`` needs "%Id" to display
2782 64bit values.
2783
Benjamin Peterson97179b02008-09-09 20:55:01 +00002784- Issue #3634: _weakref.ref(Exception).__init__() gave invalid return value on
2785 error.
2786
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd3ffb892008-09-09 07:24:30 +00002787- Issue #3777: long() applied to a float object now always return a long
2788 object; previously an int would be returned for small values. the __long__
2789 method is allowed to return either an int or a long, but the behaviour of
2790 float objects should not change to respect backward compatibility.
2791
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc3571fbf2008-09-01 19:52:00 +00002792- Issue #3751: str.rpartition would perform a left-partition when called with
2793 a unicode argument.
2794
Benjamin Peterson17f03ca2008-09-01 14:18:30 +00002795- Issue #3683: Fix compilation when --without-threads is given.
2796
Antoine Pitroud4ae97b2008-08-29 18:39:48 +00002797- Issue #3668: Fix a memory leak with the "s*" argument parser in
Vinay Sajip35e3b032008-09-01 14:33:59 +00002798 PyArg_ParseTuple and friends, which occurred when the argument for "s*"
Antoine Pitroud4ae97b2008-08-29 18:39:48 +00002799 was correctly parsed but parsing of subsequent arguments failed.
2800
Vinay Sajip35e3b032008-09-01 14:33:59 +00002801- Issue #2534: speed up isinstance() and issubclass() by 50-70%, so as to
Antoine Pitrou0668c622008-08-26 22:42:08 +00002802 match Python 2.5 speed despite the __instancecheck__ / __subclasscheck__
2803 mechanism. In the process, fix a bug where isinstance() and issubclass(),
2804 when given a tuple of classes as second argument, were looking up
2805 __instancecheck__ / __subclasscheck__ on the tuple rather than on each
2806 type object.
2807
Neal Norwitz18aa3882008-08-24 05:04:52 +00002808- Fix crashes on memory allocation failure found with failmalloc.
2809
2810- Fix memory leaks found with valgrind and update suppressions file.
2811
2812- Fix compiler warnings in opt mode which would lead to invalid memory reads.
2813
2814- Fix problem using wrong name in decimal module reported by pychecker.
2815
Christian Heimes7d4c3172008-08-22 19:47:25 +00002816- Silenced another compiler warning about a used but not defined
2817 function 'stringlib_contains_obj'.
2818
Benjamin Peterson712ee922008-08-24 18:10:20 +00002819- Added warnings on the use of ``__getslice__``, ``__setslice__``, or
2820 ``__delslice__``.
2821
Gregory P. Smith2bb25cc2008-09-02 05:29:51 +00002822- Issue #3678: Correctly pass LDFLAGS and LDLAST to the linker on shared
2823 library targets in the Makefile.
2824
Gregory P. Smith980b99b2008-09-07 05:15:18 +00002825- Issue #1204: The configure script now tests for additional libraries
2826 that may be required when linking against readline. This fixes issues
2827 with x86_64 builds on some platforms (a few Linux flavors and OpenBSD).
2828
Benjamin Peterson14cb6bc2008-08-26 17:08:40 +00002829C-API
2830-----
2831
2832- Aliased PyObject_Bytes to PyObject_Str.
2833
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +00002834Library
2835-------
2836
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc24cb3822008-09-11 20:56:13 +00002837- Issue #3640: Pickling a list or a dict uses less local variables, to reduce
2838 stack usage in the case of deeply nested objects.
2839
Guido van Rossume3c4fd92008-09-10 14:27:00 +00002840- Issue #3629: Fix sre "bytecode" validator for an end case.
2841
Martin v. Löwis24329ba2008-09-10 13:38:12 +00002842- Issue #3811: The Unicode database was updated to 5.1.
2843
Nick Coghland2e09382008-09-11 12:11:06 +00002844- Issue #3781: Further warnings.catch_warnings() cleanup to prevent
2845 silent misbehaviour when a single instance is nested in multiple
2846 with statements, or when the methods are invoked in the wrong order.
2847
Vinay Sajip844f7412008-09-09 13:42:08 +00002848- Issue #3809: Fixed spurious 'test.blah' file left behind by test_logging.
2849
Nick Coghland2e09382008-09-11 12:11:06 +00002850- Issue #3781: Clean up the API for warnings.catch_warnings() by having it
Brett Cannon672237d2008-09-09 00:49:16 +00002851 return a list or None rather than a custom object.
2852
Benjamin Peterson6ac7d7c2008-09-06 19:28:11 +00002853- Issue #1638033: Cookie.Morsel gained the httponly attribute.
2854
Antoine Pitrouebcd0ce2008-09-05 23:30:23 +00002855- Issue #3535: zipfile couldn't read some zip files larger than 2GB.
2856
2857- Issue #3776: Deprecate the bsddb package for removal in 3.0.
Brett Cannon32476fc2008-09-05 18:33:51 +00002858
Hirokazu Yamamoto42e459e2008-09-04 14:25:30 +00002859- Issue #3762: platform.architecture() fails if python is lanched via
2860 its symbolic link.
2861
Vinay Sajip65d66e12008-09-04 07:31:21 +00002862- Issue #3772: Fixed regression problem in StreamHandler.emit().
2863
Facundo Batistac585df92008-09-03 22:35:50 +00002864- Issue 600362: Relocated parse_qs() and parse_qsl(), from the cgi module
2865 to the urlparse one. Added a PendingDeprecationWarning in the old
2866 module, it will be deprecated in the future.
2867
Marc-André Lemburgb339b2a2008-09-03 11:13:56 +00002868- Issue #2562: Fix distutils PKG-INFO writing logic to allow having
2869 non-ascii characters and Unicode in setup.py meta-data.
2870
2871- Issue #3726: Allow spaces in separators in logging configuration files.
Vinay Sajip6a2fd812008-09-03 09:20:05 +00002872
Marc-André Lemburg31a0a142008-09-02 12:11:19 +00002873- Issue #3719: platform.architecture() fails if there are spaces in the
2874 path to the Python binary.
2875
Brett Cannon1eaf0742008-09-02 01:25:16 +00002876- Issue 3602: Moved test.test_support.catch_warning() to
2877 warnings.catch_warnings() along with some API cleanup. Expanding the tests
2878 for catch_warnings() also led to an improvement in the raising of a
2879 DeprecationWarning related to warnings.warn_explicit().
2880
Benjamin Peterson973e6c22008-09-01 23:12:58 +00002881- The deprecation warnings for the old camelCase threading API were removed.
2882
Vinay Sajip35e3b032008-09-01 14:33:59 +00002883- logging: fixed lack of use of encoding attribute specified on a stream.
2884
Christian Heimesa27a62e2008-08-22 19:55:54 +00002885- Silenced a trivial compiler warning in the sqlite module.
2886
Christian Heimes1cc69632008-08-22 20:10:27 +00002887- Fixed two format strings in the _collections module.
2888
Benjamin Peterson17f03ca2008-09-01 14:18:30 +00002889- Issue #3703: _fileio.FileIO gave unhelpful error message when trying to open a
2890 directory.
Benjamin Petersonf22c26e2008-09-01 14:13:43 +00002891
Gregory P. Smithd7122032008-09-02 05:36:11 +00002892- Issue #3708: os.urandom no longer goes into an infinite loop when passed a
2893 non-integer floating point number.
2894
Vinay Sajip65d66e12008-09-04 07:31:21 +00002895- Issue #3110: multiprocessing fails to compiel on solaris 10 due to missing
Jesse Nollerb814d6a2008-09-03 18:10:30 +00002896 SEM_VALUE_MAX.
2897
Benjamin Peterson37346b22008-08-23 20:27:43 +00002898Extension Modules
2899-----------------
2900
Jesse Noller438195f2009-01-18 21:04:36 +00002901- Issue #4301: Patch the logging module to add processName support, remove
2902 _check_logger_class from multiprocessing.
2903
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc293924b2008-09-02 23:19:56 +00002904- Issue #2975: When compiling several extension modules with Visual Studio 2008
2905 from the same python interpreter, some environment variables would grow
2906 without limit.
2907
Benjamin Peterson37346b22008-08-23 20:27:43 +00002908- Issue #3643: Added a few more checks to _testcapi to prevent segfaults by
2909 exploitation of poor argument checking.
2910
Gerhard Häringef2276b2008-09-12 13:54:06 +00002911- sqlite3: Changed docstring of iterdump() to mark method as "Non-standard".
2912
Gerhard Häring6e1afcf2008-09-12 18:58:57 +00002913- Issue #3103: Reduced globals symbols used by sqlite3 module and made sure all
2914 remaining ones have "pysqlite_" prefix.
2915
Gerhard Häringe6872eb2008-09-12 22:33:22 +00002916- Issue #3846: Release the GIL during sqlite3_prepare calls. This improves
2917 concurrent access to the same SQLite database from multiple
2918 threads/processes.
2919
Brett Cannona0b74442008-09-03 22:45:11 +00002920Tests
2921-----
2922
Nick Coghland2e09382008-09-11 12:11:06 +00002923- Issue #3781: Add test.test_support.check_warnings() as a convenience
2924 wrapper for warnings.catch_warnings() that makes it easier to check
2925 that expected warning messages are being reported.
2926
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfeb8cad2008-09-06 20:53:51 +00002927- Issue #3796: Some tests functions were not enabled in test_float.
2928
2929- Issue #3768: Move test_py3kwarn over to the new API for catch_warnings().
Brett Cannona0b74442008-09-03 22:45:11 +00002930
Brett Cannoncdeb24b2008-09-05 22:59:17 +00002931Build
2932-----
2933
Martin v. Löwisab0b29b2008-09-13 08:11:57 +00002934- Issue #3833: Use a different upgrade code for Win64 installers.
2935
Martin v. Löwis3f5fda82008-09-08 13:50:10 +00002936- Issue #2271: Set SecureCustomProperties so that installation will properly
2937 use the TARGETDIR even for unprivileged users.
2938
Martin v. Löwis67543a92008-09-08 12:02:45 +00002939- Allow passing the MSI file name to merge.py.
2940
Vinay Sajip844f7412008-09-09 13:42:08 +00002941- Issue #3758: Rename the 'check' target to 'patchcheck' so as to not clash
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfeb8cad2008-09-06 20:53:51 +00002942 with GNU build target guidelines.
Brett Cannoncdeb24b2008-09-05 22:59:17 +00002943
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +00002944
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00002945What's New in Python 2.6 beta 3?
2946================================
2947
Barry Warsaw07a4a382008-08-21 01:15:08 +00002948*Release date: 20-Aug-2008*
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00002949
2950Core and Builtins
2951-----------------
2952
Guido van Rossumf8402962008-08-20 15:01:50 +00002953- Issue #1878: Remove Py_TPFLAGS_HAVE_VERSION_TAG from
2954 Py_TPFLAGS_DEFAULT when not building the core. This means 3rd party
2955 extensions do not automatically benefit from the class attribute
2956 cache; they will have to explicitly add Py_TPFLAGS_HAVE_VERSION_TAG
2957 to their tp_flags field if they care. This is a backwards
2958 compatibility feature; in 3.0, all types will use the cache by
2959 default.
2960
Benjamin Petersonf647dc12008-08-20 01:27:30 +00002961- Keyword arguments can now follow starred arguments. (``f(a, *args,
2962 keyword=23)`` is now valid syntax.)
2963
Thomas Heller0ad5ae02008-08-19 19:25:04 +00002964- ctypes function pointers that are COM methods have a boolean True
2965 value again.
2966
Martin v. Löwisf91d46a2008-08-12 14:49:50 +00002967- Issue #3139: Make buffer-interface thread-safe wrt. PyArg_ParseTuple,
2968 by denying s# to parse objects that have a releasebuffer procedure,
2969 and introducing s*.
2970
Georg Brandl1e13ea92008-08-11 09:07:59 +00002971- Issue #3537: Fix an assertion failure when an empty but presized dict
2972 object was stored in the freelist.
2973
Mark Dickinsonb6467572008-08-04 21:30:09 +00002974- Issue #1481296: Make long(float('nan')) and int(float('nan')) raise
2975 ValueError consistently across platforms.
2976
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc39fd6722008-07-31 21:28:03 +00002977- Issue #3479: On platforms where sizeof(int) is smaller than sizeof(long)
2978 (64bit Unix, for example), unichr() would truncate its argument and return
2979 u'\x00' for unichr(2**32). Now it properly raises an OverflowError.
2980
Neal Norwitze7d8be82008-07-31 17:17:14 +00002981- Apply security patches from Apple.
2982
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc246daed2008-07-31 00:42:16 +00002983- Issue #2542: Now that issubclass() may call arbitrary code, ensure that
2984 PyErr_ExceptionMatches returns 0 when an exception occurs there.
2985
Antoine Pitrou92f82162008-07-25 22:22:08 +00002986- Issue #1819: function calls with several named parameters are now on
2987 average 35% faster (as measured by pybench).
2988
Amaury Forgeot d'Arce4921fe2008-07-21 22:00:38 +00002989- Issue #2378: An unexpected UnboundLocalError or NameError could appear when
2990 the python debugger steps into a class statement: the free variables (local
2991 variables defined in an outer scope) would be deleted from the outer scope.
2992
Gregory P. Smith0470bab2008-07-22 04:46:32 +00002993- Issue #2620: Overflow checking when allocating or reallocating memory
2994 was not always being done properly in some python types and extension
2995 modules. PyMem_MALLOC, PyMem_REALLOC, PyMem_NEW and PyMem_RESIZE have
2996 all been updated to perform better checks and places in the code that
2997 would previously leak memory on the error path when such an allocation
2998 failed have been fixed.
2999
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00003000Library
3001-------
3002
Hirokazu Yamamoto838c79f2008-08-20 13:14:07 +00003003- Issue #3612: Added some missing basic types in ctypes.wintypes.
3004
Benjamin Petersone977ad42008-08-20 01:42:01 +00003005- The methods ``is_in_tuple()``, ``is_vararg()``, and ``is_keywordarg()`` of
3006 symtable.Symbol have been deprecated for removal in 3.0 and the next release.
3007
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc351ffb82008-08-18 19:23:47 +00003008- Issue #2234: distutils failed for some versions of the cygwin compiler. The
3009 version reported by these tools does not necessarily follow the python
3010 version numbering scheme, so the module is less strict when parsing it.
3011
Nick Coghlanf70385a2008-08-18 12:42:46 +00003012- Issue #2235: Added Py3k warnings for types which will become unhashable
3013 under the stricter __hash__ inheritance rules in 3.0. Several types
3014 which did not meet the rules for hash invariants and were already
3015 unhashable in 3.0 have now been explicitly flagged as unhashable in
3016 2.6 as well (collections.Mapping, collections.Set, unittest.TestSuite,
3017 xml.dom.minidom.NamedNodeMap, numbers.Number, UserList.UserList)
3018
Brett Cannon88f801d2008-08-18 00:46:22 +00003019- Update __all__ for cookielib, csv, os, urllib2, and weakref to include things
3020 imported into the module but exposed as part of the module's API.
3021
Brett Cannon7b96f072008-08-18 00:41:11 +00003022- Remove an unneeded import of abc.ABCMeta from 'inspect'.
3023
Brett Cannon46225e72008-08-18 00:36:52 +00003024- Remove unneeded imports of 'sys' and 'warnings' from 'io'.
3025
Brett Cannon25c9d6a2008-08-17 22:10:11 +00003026- Remove unneeded imports of 'warnings' from shelve, filecmp, and dummy_thread.
3027
Hirokazu Yamamoto41a81eb2008-08-17 13:10:46 +00003028- Issue #3575: Incremental decoder's decode function now takes bytearray
3029 by using 's*' instead of 't#'.
3030
Mark Dickinson3e4caeb2009-02-21 20:27:01 +00003031- Issue #2222: Fixed reference leak when occurred os.rename()
Hirokazu Yamamoto7f30a682008-08-17 09:46:56 +00003032 fails unicode conversion on 2nd parameter. (windows only)
3033
Facundo Batista94f243a2008-08-17 03:38:39 +00003034- Issue 2464. urllib2 now supports a malformation in the URL received
3035 in a redirect.
3036
Brett Cannonabe423e2008-08-16 21:47:07 +00003037- Silence the DeprecationWarning raised when importing mimetools in
Brett Cannon721b1452008-08-16 22:00:27 +00003038 BaseHTTPServer, cgi (and rfc822), httplib.
Brett Cannonabe423e2008-08-16 21:47:07 +00003039
Facundo Batistaeb90b782008-08-16 14:44:07 +00003040- Issue #2776: fixed small issue when handling an URL with double slash
3041 after a 302 response in the case of not going through a proxy.
3042
Antoine Pitroub90a8be2008-08-15 21:03:21 +00003043- Issue #2676: in the email package, content-type parsing was hanging on
3044 pathological input because of quadratic or exponential behaviour of a
3045 regular expression.
3046
Antoine Pitrou11ec65d2008-08-14 21:04:30 +00003047- Issue #3476: binary buffered reading through the new "io" library is now
3048 thread-safe.
3049
Brett Cannonbf3157b2008-08-14 05:00:03 +00003050- Silence the DeprecationWarning of rfc822 when it is imported by mimetools
3051 since mimetools itself is deprecated. Because modules are cached, all
3052 subsequent imports of rfc822 will not raise a visible DeprecationWarning.
3053
Antoine Pitrou9fcd4b32008-08-11 17:21:36 +00003054- Issue #3134: shutil referenced undefined WindowsError symbol.
3055
Robert Schuppenies14646332008-08-10 11:01:53 +00003056- Issue #1342811: Fix leak in Tkinter.Menu.delete. Commands associated to
3057 menu entries were not deleted.
3058
Brett Cannon83e81842008-08-09 23:30:55 +00003059- Copied the implementation of reduce() to _functools.reduce() to have a
3060 version that did not raise a DeprecationWarning under -3.
3061
Antoine Pitrou76b8bee2008-08-09 17:27:23 +00003062- Issue #3205: When iterating over a BZ2File fails allocating memory, raise
3063 a MemoryError rather than silently stop the iteration.
3064
Guido van Rossum59ce9012008-08-09 14:55:34 +00003065- Issue #3487: sre "bytecode" validator. Passing invalid "re-bytecode"
3066 to _sre.compile() will now be rejected. This should not affect anybody
3067 since the re.compile() function never generates invalid re-bytecode.
3068
Skip Montanaroa032bf42008-08-08 22:52:51 +00003069- Issue #3436: Make csv.DictReader's fieldnames attribute a property so that
3070 upon first access it can be automatically initialized from the csv file if
3071 it wasn't initialized during instantiation.
3072
Brett Cannon3aa2a492008-08-06 22:28:09 +00003073- Issue #2338: Create imp.reload() to help with transitioning to Python 3.0 as
3074 the reload() built-in has been removed.
3075
Brett Cannon7e30b672008-08-04 21:52:25 +00003076- Changed code in the following modules/packages to remove warnings raised
Brett Cannonc1b76e42008-08-09 23:06:16 +00003077 while running under the ``-3`` flag: aifc, asynchat, asyncore, bdb, bsddb,
Brett Cannon047e4a92008-08-17 04:16:04 +00003078 ConfigParser, cookielib, csv, difflib, distutils, DocXMLRPCServer, email,
3079 filecmp, fileinput, inspect, logging, modulefinder, pdb, pickle, profile,
3080 pstats, pydoc, re, rlcompleter, SimpleXMLRPCServer, shelve, socket,
3081 subprocess, sqlite3, tarfile, Tkinter, test.test_support, textwrap,
3082 threading, tokenize, traceback, urlparse, wsgiref, xml, xmlrpclib.
Brett Cannon7e30b672008-08-04 21:52:25 +00003083
Lars Gustäbel727bd0b2008-08-02 11:26:39 +00003084- Issue #3039: Fix tarfile.TarFileCompat.writestr() which always
3085 raised an AttributeError.
3086
Benjamin Peterson01a24322008-07-28 23:35:27 +00003087- Issue #2523: Fix quadratic behaviour when read()ing a binary file without
Antoine Pitroude781a42008-08-09 12:43:23 +00003088 asking for a specific length. This problem only affected files opened
3089 using the new "io" module, not the built-in open() function.
Benjamin Peterson01a24322008-07-28 23:35:27 +00003090
Mark Dickinsonfe84cce2008-07-27 06:39:07 +00003091- Issue #3449: Update decimal module to use most recent specification
3092 (v. 1.68) and tests (v. 2.58) from IBM.
3093
Skip Montanarof9ac43f2008-07-27 00:50:41 +00003094- Issue 3437: Bug fix in robotparser parsing of Allow: lines.
3095
Raymond Hettinger8c664e82008-07-25 18:43:33 +00003096- Issue 1592: Improve error reporting when operations are attempted
3097 on a closed shelf.
3098
Georg Brandlf9efabb2008-07-23 15:16:45 +00003099- Deprecate the "ast" parser function aliases.
3100
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00003101- Issue #3120: On 64-bit Windows the subprocess module was truncating handles.
3102
3103- Issue #3303: Fix a crash in locale.strcoll() when calling it with
3104 invalid arguments.
3105
3106- Issue #3302: Fix several crashes when calling locale's gettext functions
3107 with None arguments.
3108
3109- Issue #3389: Allow resolving dotted names for handlers in logging
3110 configuration files.
3111
3112- Deprecate the sunaudio module for removal in Python 3.0.
3113
Antoine Pitrou5fdfa3e2008-07-25 19:42:26 +00003114- Issue #3394: zipfile.writestr sets external attributes when passed a
3115 file name rather than a ZipInfo instance, so files are extracted with
3116 mode 0600 rather than 000 under Unix.
3117
Gregory P. Smitha36f8fe2008-08-04 00:13:29 +00003118- Issue #1857: subprocess.Popen.poll gained an additional _deadstate keyword
3119 argument in python 2.5, this broke code that subclassed Popen to include its
3120 own poll method. Fixed my moving _deadstate to an _internal_poll method.
3121
Martin v. Löwis8dbf3642008-08-01 14:10:26 +00003122Build
3123-----
3124
3125- Generate the PatternGrammar pickle during "make install".
3126
Nick Coghlan2a0c2b12008-08-04 12:47:17 +00003127Documentation
3128-------------
3129
Nick Coghlan6e8fef02008-08-18 13:14:22 +00003130- Issue #2235: the C API function PyObject_HashNotImplemented and its
3131 interaction with the tp_hash slot (added in 2.6b2) are now documented
3132
Nick Coghlan2a0c2b12008-08-04 12:47:17 +00003133- Issue #643841: The language reference now provides more detailed
3134 coverage of the lookup process for special methods. The disclaimers
3135 regarding lack of coverage of new-style classes have also been
3136 removed, since the coverage is now fairly reasonable.
3137
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00003138
Raymond Hettingere3ae6552008-06-20 04:18:15 +00003139What's New in Python 2.6 beta 2?
3140================================
3141
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00003142*Release date: 17-Jul-2008*
3143
Raymond Hettingere3ae6552008-06-20 04:18:15 +00003144Core and Builtins
3145-----------------
3146
Georg Brandl3e483f62008-07-16 22:57:41 +00003147- Issue #3156: Fix inconsistent behavior of the bytearray type: all
3148 its methods now allow for items objects that can be converted to
3149 an integer using operator.index().
3150
Mark Dickinson64b7e502008-07-16 09:40:03 +00003151- Issue #3360: Fix incorrect parsing of '020000000000.0', which
3152 produced a ValueError instead of giving the correct float.
3153
Eric Smitha5fa5a22008-07-16 00:11:49 +00003154- Issue #3083: Add alternate (#) formatting for bin, oct, hex output
3155 for str.format(). This adds the prefix 0b, 0o, or 0x, respectively.
3156
Mark Dickinson7103aa42008-07-15 19:08:33 +00003157- Issue #3008: the float type has a new instance method 'float.hex'
3158 and a new class method 'float.fromhex' to convert floating-point
3159 numbers to and from hexadecimal strings, respectively.
3160
Nick Coghlan6d6bd442008-07-15 15:40:22 +00003161- Issue #2235: __hash__ is once again inherited by default. To allow
3162 collections.Hashable to remain meaningful in the presence of the
3163 default hash implementation (object.__hash__), it is now possible
3164 to explicit block inheritance of hash by setting __hash__=None at
3165 the Python level, or tp_hash=PyObject_HashNotImplemented at the C
3166 level.
3167
Nick Coghlanb028f502008-07-13 14:52:36 +00003168- Issue #3221: Issue a RuntimeWarning instead of raising SystemError if
3169 the parent module cannot be found while performing an absolute import.
3170 This means that an incorrectly defined __package__ attribute will
3171 now only prevent relative imports in that module rather than causing
3172 all imports from that module to fail.
3173
Nick Coghlan14ff9942008-07-08 14:21:42 +00003174- Issue #2517: Allow unicode messages in Exceptions again by correctly
3175 bypassing the instance dictionary when looking up __unicode__ on
3176 new-style classes.
3177
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcbdd941f2008-07-01 20:38:04 +00003178- Issue #3242: Fix a crash inside the print statement, if sys.stdout is
3179 set to a custom object whose write() method happens to install
3180 another file in sys.stdout.
3181
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc1f40c8a2008-06-30 22:42:40 +00003182- Issue #3088: Corrected a race condition in classes derived from
3183 threading.local: the first member set by a thread could be saved in
3184 another thread's dictionary.
3185
Mark Dickinson1ec2fcd2008-06-20 14:53:43 +00003186- Issue #3004: Minor change to slice.indices(): the start and stop
3187 arguments are now treated identically, making the behaviour easier
3188 to describe and understand. For example, slice(None, -10,
3189 1).indices(9) now returns (0, 0, 1) instead of (0, -1, 1), and
3190 slice(None, 10, -1).indices(10) returns (9, 9, -1) instead of (9,
3191 10, -1).
3192
Georg Brandl278fc502008-07-19 12:46:12 +00003193- Issue #3219: Calling a function with repeated keyword arguments,
3194 f(a=2, a=23), would not cause a syntax error. This was a regression
3195 from 2.4 caused by the switch to the new compiler.
Benjamin Peterson175e4d92008-07-01 19:34:52 +00003196
Georg Brandl278fc502008-07-19 12:46:12 +00003197- Issue #2862: Make int and float freelist management consistent with
3198 other freelists. Changes their CompactFreeList apis into
3199 ClearFreeList apis and calls them via gc.collect().
Gregory P. Smith2fe77062008-07-06 03:35:58 +00003200
Brett Cannon8bb8fa52008-07-02 01:57:08 +00003201Library
3202-------
3203
Thomas Heller57adf222008-08-14 19:10:48 +00003204- Issue #3554: ctypes.string_at and ctypes.wstring_at did call Python
3205 api functions without holding the GIL, which could lead to a fatal
3206 error when they failed.
3207
Martin v. Löwisaabf4042008-08-02 07:20:25 +00003208- Issue #799428: Fix Tkinter.Misc._nametowidget to unwrap Tcl command objects.
3209
Jesse Noller7fb96402008-07-17 21:01:05 +00003210- Issue #3395: fix reference in test_multiprocessing to old debugInfo method
3211
Georg Brandla24869a2008-07-16 22:33:18 +00003212- Issue #3312: Fix two crashes in sqlite3.
3213
Georg Brandl86cbf812008-07-16 21:31:41 +00003214- Issue #1608818: Fix misbehavior in os.listdir() if readdir() fails.
3215
Jesse Noller13e9d582008-07-16 14:32:36 +00003216- Issue #3125: Remove copy_reg in multiprocessing and replace it with
3217 ForkingPickler.register() to resolve conflict with ctypes.
3218
Vinay Sajip51e65192008-07-18 09:01:10 +00003219- Issue #3090: Fixed ARCHFLAGS parsing on OS/X
Jesse Noller13e9d582008-07-16 14:32:36 +00003220
Thomas Heller880f5292008-07-15 19:39:38 +00003221- Issue #3313: Fixed a crash when a failed dlopen() call does not set
3222 a valid dlerror() message.
3223
Thomas Heller2bad6572008-07-15 17:19:50 +00003224- Issue #3258: Fixed a crash when a ctypes POINTER type to an
3225 incomplete structure was created.
3226
Brett Cannon3d0b9f02008-07-13 01:15:07 +00003227- Issue #3339: dummy_thread.acquire() should not return None.
3228
Raymond Hettingerb01713e2008-07-10 14:34:57 +00003229- Issue #3285: Fractions from_float() and from_decimal() accept Integral arguments.
3230
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +00003231- Issue #3301: Bisect module behaved badly when lo was negative.
Raymond Hettinger3cd1e422008-07-10 14:03:19 +00003232
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc0f7cddc2008-07-06 21:34:39 +00003233- Issue #839496: SimpleHTTPServer used to open text files in text mode. This is
3234 both unnecessary (HTTP allows text content to be sent in several forms) and
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +00003235 wrong because the actual transmitted size could differ from the
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc0f7cddc2008-07-06 21:34:39 +00003236 content-length. The problem had been corrected in the 2.4 branch, but never
3237 merged into trunk.
3238
Georg Brandle78fbcc2008-07-05 10:13:36 +00003239- Issue #2663: add filtering capability to shutil.copytree().
3240
Martin v. Löwis8c436412008-07-03 12:51:14 +00003241- Issue #1622: Correct interpretation of various ZIP header fields.
3242
3243- Issue #1526: Allow more than 64k files to be added to Zip64 file.
3244
3245- Issue #1746: Correct handling of zipfile archive comments (previously
3246 archives with comments over 4k were flagged as invalid). Allow writing
Vinay Sajip51e65192008-07-18 09:01:10 +00003247 Zip files with archives by setting the 'comment' attribute of a ZipFile.
Martin v. Löwis8c436412008-07-03 12:51:14 +00003248
Vinay Sajip51e65192008-07-18 09:01:10 +00003249- Issue #449227: The rlcompleter module now adds "(" to callable objects
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +00003250 when completed.
Facundo Batista66c52772008-07-02 16:52:55 +00003251
Nick Coghlanc060b0e2008-07-02 13:09:19 +00003252- Issue #3190: Pydoc now hides the automatic module attribute __package__ (the
3253 handling is now the same as that of other special attributes like __name__).
3254
Brett Cannon8bb8fa52008-07-02 01:57:08 +00003255- Issue #2885 (partial): The urllib.urlopen() function has been deprecated for
3256 removal in Python 3.0 in favor of urllib2.urlopen().
3257
Gregory P. Smithf4140642008-07-06 07:16:40 +00003258- Issue #2113: Fix error in subprocess.Popen if the select system call is
3259 interrupted by a signal.
3260
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +00003261- Issue #3309: Fix bz2.BZFile iterator to release its internal lock
Gregory P. Smith3b1e6b22008-07-07 04:31:58 +00003262 properly when raising an exception due to the bz2file being closed.
3263 Prevents a deadlock.
3264
Gregory P. Smithc4691ec2008-07-07 05:09:12 +00003265- Issue #3094: httplib.HTTPSConnection Host: headers no longer include the
3266 redundant ":443" port number designation when the connection is using the
3267 default https port (443).
3268
Gregory P. Smithdb3409c2008-07-17 03:13:05 +00003269- Issue #874900: after an os.fork() call the threading module state is cleaned
3270 up in the child process to prevent deadlock and report proper thread counts
3271 if the new process uses the threading module.
3272
Nick Coghlan38469e22008-07-13 12:23:47 +00003273Tests
3274-----
3275
3276- test.test_support.catch_warning now keeps track of all warnings it sees
3277 and is now better documented. Explicit unit tests for this context manager
3278 have been added to test_warnings.
3279
Martin v. Löwisd84fd952008-06-30 06:57:39 +00003280Build
3281-----
3282
3283- Issue #3215: Build sqlite3 as sqlite3.dll, not sqlite3.pyd.
3284
Brett Cannon8bb8fa52008-07-02 01:57:08 +00003285
Brett Cannon97aa1ae2008-07-11 00:12:52 +00003286Documentation
3287-------------
3288
Brett Cannonfeef51d2008-07-11 00:50:01 +00003289- Document that robotparser has been renamed to urllib.robotparser in
Brett Cannon963ffdb2008-07-11 00:48:57 +00003290 Python 3.0.
3291
Brett Cannonf6afa332008-07-11 00:16:30 +00003292- Document that urlparse has been renamed to urllib.parse in Python 3.0.
3293
Brett Cannon97aa1ae2008-07-11 00:12:52 +00003294- Document that urllib2 is split across multiple modules and renamed in
3295 Python 3.0.
3296
3297- Document that urllib is split across multiple modules and renamed in
3298 Python 3.0.
3299
3300
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00003301What's New in Python 2.6 beta 1?
3302================================
3303
Barry Warsawb5d17402008-06-19 01:48:07 +00003304*Release date: 18-June-2008*
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00003305
3306Core and Builtins
3307-----------------
3308
Brett Cannondea1b562008-06-27 00:31:13 +00003309- Issue #3211: warnings.warn_explicit() did not guard against its 'registry'
3310 argument being anything other than a dict or None. Also fixed a bug in error
3311 handling when 'message' and 'category' were both set to None, triggering a
3312 bus error.
3313
Amaury Forgeot d'Arca8919fe2008-06-16 19:12:42 +00003314- Issue #3100: Corrected a crash on deallocation of a subclassed weakref which
3315 holds the last (strong) reference to its referent.
3316
Georg Brandl89f48872008-06-11 18:55:38 +00003317- Add future_builtins.ascii().
3318
Raymond Hettinger5c4d3d02008-06-09 13:07:27 +00003319- Several set methods now accept multiple arguments: update(), union(),
Raymond Hettinger4267be62008-06-11 10:30:54 +00003320 intersection(), intersection_update(), difference(), and difference_update().
Raymond Hettingeree4bcad2008-06-09 08:33:37 +00003321
Robert Schuppenies51df0642008-06-01 16:16:17 +00003322- Issue #2898: Added sys.getsizeof() to retrieve size of objects in bytes.
3323
Martin v. Löwis99815892008-06-01 07:20:46 +00003324- New environment variable PYTHONIOENCODING.
3325
Martin v. Löwis4dd019f2008-05-20 08:11:19 +00003326- Patch #2488: Add sys.maxsize.
3327
Georg Brandla9916b52008-05-17 22:11:54 +00003328- Issue #2353: file.xreadlines() now emits a Py3k warning.
3329
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003330- Issue #2863: generators now have a ``gen.__name__`` attribute that
3331 equals ``gen.gi_code.co_name``, like ``func.__name___`` that equals
3332 ``func.func_code.co_name``. The repr() of a generator now also
3333 contains this name.
Georg Brandlc91210c2008-05-15 15:08:32 +00003334
Georg Brandlbd85eb12008-05-14 06:34:15 +00003335- Issue #2831: enumerate() now has a ``start`` argument.
3336
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003337- Issue #2801: fix bug in the float.is_integer method where a
3338 ValueError was sometimes incorrectly raised.
Mark Dickinsone81c3762008-05-09 16:14:15 +00003339
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003340- Issue #2790: sys.flags was not properly exposing its bytes_warning
3341 attribute.
Brett Cannon3c1d50a2008-05-08 20:23:54 +00003342
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003343- Issue #2196: hasattr() now lets exceptions which do not inherit
3344 Exception (KeyboardInterrupt, and SystemExit) propagate instead of
3345 ignoring them.
Benjamin Petersonb9030f42008-05-12 00:41:23 +00003346
Gregory P. Smith9d534572008-06-11 07:41:16 +00003347- Added checks for integer overflows, contributed by Google. Some are
3348 only available if asserts are left in the code, in cases where they
3349 can't be triggered from Python code.
3350
3351
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00003352Extension Modules
3353-----------------
Guido van Rossum84b1e0f2008-08-20 14:57:20 +00003354- Issue #1179: [CVE-2007-4965] Integer overflow in imageop module.
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00003355
Raymond Hettinger305480c2008-06-16 01:42:40 +00003356- Issue #3116: marshal.dumps() had quadratic behavior for strings > 32Mb.
3357
Andrew M. Kuchling2126bab2008-06-22 13:39:11 +00003358- Issue #2138: Add factorial() to the math module.
Raymond Hettingerecbdd2e2008-06-09 06:54:45 +00003359
Raymond Hettinger6d7702e2008-05-31 03:24:31 +00003360- The heapq module does comparisons using LT instead of LE. This
3361 makes its implementation match that used by list.sort().
3362
Mark Dickinson99dfe922008-05-23 01:35:30 +00003363- Issue #2819: add full-precision summation function to math module,
3364 based on Hettinger's ASPN Python Cookbook recipe.
3365
Georg Brandl88659b02008-05-20 08:40:43 +00003366- Issue #2592: delegate nb_index and the floor/truediv slots in
3367 weakref.proxy.
3368
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003369- Support os.O_ASYNC and fcntl.FASYNC if the constants exist on the
3370 platform.
Georg Brandl5049a852008-05-16 13:10:15 +00003371
Brett Cannon044616a2008-05-15 02:33:55 +00003372- Support for Windows 9x has been removed from the winsound module.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcf9b54c22008-05-12 21:30:24 +00003373
Jesus Cea09c01782008-09-28 23:24:19 +00003374- bsddb module updated to version 4.7.3.
Jesus Cea4907d272008-08-31 14:00:51 +00003375 http://www.jcea.es/programacion/pybsddb.htm#bsddb3-4.7.3. This
3376 code should be compatible with Python 3.0.
Jesus Ceaef9764f2008-05-13 18:45:46 +00003377
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003378- Issue #2858: Fix potential memory corruption when
3379 bsddb.db.DBEnv.lock_get and other bsddb.db object constructors
3380 raised an exception.
Gregory P. Smith664782e2008-05-17 06:12:02 +00003381
Gregory P. Smith5d7d6c32008-05-25 08:32:04 +00003382- Issue #2669: bsddb/__init__.py iteration no longer silently fails when
3383 the database has changed size during iteration. It now raises a
3384 RuntimeError in the same manner as a dictionary.
3385
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003386- Issue #2870: cmathmodule.c compile error.
Christian Heimes0bd23c02008-05-16 10:23:31 +00003387
Benjamin Petersond8a89722008-08-18 16:40:03 +00003388- Added a threading.Thread.ident property.
Gregory P. Smith8856dda2008-06-01 23:48:47 +00003389
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00003390Library
3391-------
3392
Vinay Sajip1e022682008-06-29 21:27:15 +00003393- logging.config: Removed out-of-date comment in _install_handlers and
3394 used issubclass in place of equality comparison of classes.
3395
Facundo Batista5596b0c2008-06-22 13:36:20 +00003396- Issue #2722: Now the os.getcwd() supports very long path names.
3397
Facundo Batista2da91c32008-06-21 17:43:56 +00003398- Issue #2888: Fixed the behaviour of pprint when working with nested
3399 structures, to match the behaviour of 2.5 and 3.0 (now follows the common
3400 sense).
3401
Facundo Batistaa6a4d502008-06-21 18:58:04 +00003402- Issue #1817: cgi now correctly handles the querystring on POST requests
3403
Vinay Sajip8dc20fd2008-06-19 22:41:08 +00003404- Issue #3136: fileConfig()'s disabling of old loggers is now conditional via
3405 an optional disable_existing_loggers parameter, but the default value is
3406 such that the old behaviour is preserved. Thanks to Leandro Lucarella for
3407 the patch.
3408
Vinay Sajip9828b7e2008-06-17 11:04:02 +00003409- Issue #3126: StreamHandler and FileHandler check before calling "flush" and
3410 "close" that the stream object has these, using hasattr (thanks to bobf for
3411 the patch).
3412
Benjamin Peterson5c0be322008-06-13 15:11:50 +00003413- Issue #2912: platform.uname now tries to determine unknown information even if
3414 os.uname exists.
3415
Benjamin Peterson26305a02008-06-12 22:33:06 +00003416- The rfc822 module has been deprecated for removal in 3.0.
3417
Benjamin Petersona03722f2008-06-12 14:23:49 +00003418- The mimetools module has been deprecated for removal in 3.0.
3419
Thomas Heller1cec7aa2008-06-10 14:07:12 +00003420- The ctypes.byref function now takes an optional second parameter
3421 which allows to specify an offset in bytes for the constructed
3422 pointer-like object.
3423
Georg Brandl8509db52008-06-10 07:45:28 +00003424- Added the ast module.
3425
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00003426- Added the multiprocessing module, PEP 371.
Benjamin Peterson6f7ae692008-06-11 20:04:30 +00003427
Georg Brandl7be19aa2008-06-07 15:59:10 +00003428- Factored out the indentation cleaning from inspect.getdoc() into
3429 inspect.cleandoc() to ease standalone use.
3430
Thomas Hellerfbb9c0b2008-06-06 08:33:46 +00003431- Issue #1798: Add ctypes calling convention that allows safe access
3432 to errno.
3433
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00003434- Issue #2404: ctypes objects support the new pep3118 buffer interface.
Thomas Heller59475e92008-06-05 17:52:59 +00003435
Vinay Sajip9828b7e2008-06-17 11:04:02 +00003436- Patch #2125: Add GetInteger and GetString methods for
Martin v. Löwisffe62ed2008-06-02 08:40:06 +00003437 msilib.Record objects.
3438
Gregory P. Smith137d8242008-06-02 04:05:52 +00003439- Issue #2782: The datetime module's strftime methods now accept
3440 unicode format strings just as time.strftime always has.
3441
Georg Brandlac19d852008-06-01 21:19:14 +00003442- The sgmllib and htmllib modules have been deprecated for removal
3443 in Python 3.0.
3444
3445- Issue #3011: locale module alias table was updated to the latest
3446 version from the X.org locale.alias file.
Marc-André Lemburgadff65b2008-05-30 20:52:18 +00003447
Thomas Heller9287acf2008-05-29 19:42:34 +00003448- Issue #1797 (partial fix): ctypes NULL function pointers have a
3449 False boolean value now.
3450
Georg Brandld0b592f2008-05-29 07:45:26 +00003451- Issue #2985: Allow 64-bit integer responses (``<i8>``) in XMLRPC
3452 transfers.
3453
3454- Issue #2877: The UserString.MutableString class has been removed in
3455 Python 3.0.
Brett Cannonabb34fe2008-05-29 05:08:50 +00003456
Lars Gustäbelb1a54a32008-05-27 12:39:23 +00003457- Do not close external file objects passed to tarfile.open(mode='w:bz2')
3458 when the TarFile is closed.
3459
Georg Brandle08e3d02008-05-25 08:07:37 +00003460- Issue #2959: For consistency with other file-like objects, gzip's
3461 GzipFile.close() can now be called multiple times without raising
3462 an exception.
3463
Martin v. Löwis27e4a172008-05-23 15:18:28 +00003464- Issue #1390: Raise ValueError in toxml when an invalid comment would
3465 otherwise be produced.
3466
Vinay Sajipc0128832008-05-20 15:37:22 +00003467- Issue #2914: TimedRotatingFileHandler now takes an optional keyword
3468 argument "utc" to use UTC time rather than local time.
3469
3470- Issue #2929: TimedRotatingFileHandler was using the wrong path when
3471 deleting old log files (filename only instead of full path).
3472
Georg Brandl112aa502008-05-20 08:25:48 +00003473- Issue #1775025: You can now specify zipfile members to open(),
3474 read() or extract() via a ZipInfo instance. This allows handling
3475 duplicate filenames in zipfiles.
3476
Georg Brandl28fdfa92008-05-17 17:57:01 +00003477- Issue #961805: Fix Text.edit_modified() in Tkinter.
3478
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003479- Issue #1793: Function ctypes.util.find_msvcrt() added that returns
Thomas Heller95ba13f2008-05-16 20:06:31 +00003480 the name of the C runtime library that Python uses.
3481 ctypes.util.find_library(name) now call this function when name is
3482 'm' or 'c'.
3483
Brett Cannonfa40bbf2008-05-16 00:50:02 +00003484- The statvfs module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
3485
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003486- The sunaudiodev and SUNAUDIODEV modules have been deprecated for
3487 removal in Python 3.0.
3488
3489- The WAIT module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
3490 3.0.
3491
3492- The torgb module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
3493 3.0.
3494
3495- The SV module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
3496 3.0.
3497
3498- The readcd module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
Brett Cannon22248172008-05-16 00:10:24 +00003499 Python 3.0.
3500
Brett Cannon11ae6e72008-05-15 03:49:00 +00003501- The panelparser module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
3502 Python 3.0.
3503
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003504- The panel module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
3505 3.0.
Brett Cannon7e375862008-05-15 03:46:27 +00003506
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003507- The jpeg module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
3508 3.0.
Brett Cannon89f5d9c2008-05-15 03:44:00 +00003509
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003510- The IOCTL module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
3511 3.0.
Brett Cannond8c41ec2008-05-15 03:41:55 +00003512
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003513- The IN module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
3514 3.0.
Brett Cannon6328b292008-05-15 03:36:13 +00003515
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003516- The imgfile module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
Brett Cannon178582e2008-05-15 03:20:36 +00003517 Python 3.0.
3518
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003519- The GLWS module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
3520 3.0.
Brett Cannon72ccc402008-05-15 03:17:24 +00003521
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003522- The GET module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
3523 3.0.
Brett Cannon2773b6f2008-05-15 03:14:57 +00003524
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003525- The fm module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
3526 3.0.
3527
3528- The FL, flp, and fl modules from IRIX have been deprecated for
3529 removal in Python 3.0.
3530
3531- The FILE module on IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
3532 3.0.
3533
3534- The ERRNO module on IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
3535 3.0.
3536
3537- The DEVICE, GL, gl, and cgen modules (which indirectly includes
3538 cgensupport) have been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
Brett Cannon044616a2008-05-15 02:33:55 +00003539
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003540- The CL, CL_old, and cl modules for IRIX have been deprecated for
3541 removal in Python 3.0.
3542
3543- The cdplayer module for IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
Brett Cannon650f5162008-05-14 21:12:12 +00003544 Python 3.0.
3545
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003546- The cddb module for IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
3547 3.0.
Brett Cannon9eebe492008-05-14 20:34:22 +00003548
Brett Cannonddf949f2008-05-14 20:31:38 +00003549- The cd and CD modules for IRIX have been deprecated for removal in
3550 Python 3.0.
3551
Brett Cannon34721d52008-05-14 01:08:21 +00003552- The al and AL modules for IRIX have been deprecated for removal in
3553 Python 3.0.
3554
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003555- Issue #1713041: fix pprint's handling of maximum depth.
Georg Brandl23da6e62008-05-12 16:26:52 +00003556
Brett Cannonbb141bb2008-05-12 03:47:47 +00003557- The timing module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
3558
Brett Cannonac861b52008-05-12 03:45:59 +00003559- The sv module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
3560
Brett Cannon43e5ef42008-05-12 03:19:20 +00003561- The multifile module has been deprecated as per PEP 4.
3562
Brett Cannon42bfa902008-05-12 00:08:34 +00003563- The imageop module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
3564
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003565- Issue #2250: Exceptions raised during evaluation of names in
3566 rlcompleter's ``Completer.complete()`` method are now caught and
3567 ignored.
Georg Brandl627a6662008-05-11 21:03:42 +00003568
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003569- Issue #2659: Added ``break_on_hyphens`` option to textwrap
3570 TextWrapper class.
Georg Brandl6f95ae52008-05-11 10:42:28 +00003571
Brett Cannon2a869132008-05-11 03:01:47 +00003572- The mhlib module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
3573
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003574- The linuxaudiodev module has been deprecated for removal in Python
3575 3.0.
Brett Cannondf0a7172008-05-11 00:50:51 +00003576
Brett Cannon27508d42008-05-10 22:45:07 +00003577- The ihooks module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
3578
Brett Cannonfe598512008-05-10 22:11:45 +00003579- The fpformat module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
3580
Brett Cannone35a3a12008-05-10 21:22:43 +00003581- The dl module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
3582
Brett Cannond5a09852008-05-10 03:14:32 +00003583- The Canvas module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
3584
Brett Cannon6192df12008-05-10 02:58:26 +00003585- The compiler package has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
3586
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003587- The Bastion and rexec modules have been deprecated for removal in
3588 Python 3.0.
Brett Cannoncda73a42008-05-10 02:53:46 +00003589
Brett Cannon768d44f2008-05-10 02:47:54 +00003590- The bsddb185 module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
3591
Brett Cannon9ac39742008-05-09 22:51:58 +00003592- The pure module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
3593
Mark Dickinsonf8476c12008-05-09 17:54:23 +00003594- Issue #2487: change the semantics of math.ldexp(x, n) when n is too
3595 large to fit in a C long. ldexp(x, n) now returns a zero (with
3596 suitable sign) if n is large and negative; previously, it raised
3597 OverflowError.
3598
Brett Cannonfa24d9a2008-05-09 05:32:42 +00003599- The toaiff module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
3600
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003601- The test.testall module has been deprecated for removal in Python
3602 3.0.
Brett Cannon3c759142008-05-09 05:25:37 +00003603
Brett Cannond7265d62008-05-09 05:18:40 +00003604- The new module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
3605
Brett Cannone3b19402008-05-08 20:36:09 +00003606- The user module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
3607
Brett Cannon6071cc82008-05-08 19:52:45 +00003608- The stringold module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
3609
3610- The mutex module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
Brett Cannon9d441822008-05-08 19:26:08 +00003611
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00003612- The imputil module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
3613
Brett Cannoncae4f5f2008-05-08 20:24:43 +00003614- test.test_support.catch_warning() gained a 'record' argument.
3615
Benjamin Peterson0893a0a2008-05-09 00:27:01 +00003616- os.path.walk is deprecated in favor of os.walk.
3617
Georg Brandl9020ff82008-05-11 14:17:13 +00003618- pdb gained the "until" command.
Benjamin Peterson98353942008-05-11 14:13:25 +00003619
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003620- The Mac Modules (including Carbon) have been deprecated for removal
3621 in Python 3.0.
Benjamin Peterson23681932008-05-12 21:42:13 +00003622
Vinay Sajip9828b7e2008-06-17 11:04:02 +00003623- Library: on MacOS X you can now set ``ARCHFLAGS`` in the shell
Ronald Oussoren5640ce22008-06-05 12:58:24 +00003624 environment to control the '-arch' flags that are used to build
3625 an extension. This was added for compatibility with Apple's build
3626 of Python.
3627
3628- The bundled OSX-specific copy of libbffi is now in sync with the version
3629 shipped with PyObjC 2.0 and includes support for x86_64 and ppc64 platforms.
3630
Georg Brandl25c34082008-08-18 23:09:49 +00003631- The threading module gained aliases for names that will be removed in the
3632 3.x series.
Benjamin Peterson0fbcf692008-06-11 17:27:50 +00003633
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00003634Build
3635-----
3636
Martin v. Löwiscc0f2b22008-06-13 18:12:51 +00003637- 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 +00003638
Martin v. Löwis8c255e42008-05-23 15:06:50 +00003639- Patch #1722225: Support QNX 6.
3640
Brett Cannonb61d8012008-05-11 23:39:04 +00003641- ``Lib/lib-old`` is now added to sys.path.
3642
Ronald Oussoren5640ce22008-06-05 12:58:24 +00003643- On MacOS X it is now possible to install the framework in 64-bit
3644 mode or even as a 4-way universal binary (that is, PPC, i386,
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00003645 PPC64 and x86_64 support in one binary).
Ronald Oussoren5640ce22008-06-05 12:58:24 +00003646
3647 This is controlled by the configure argument ``--with-universal-archs``:
3648
3649 - ``--with-universal-archs=all``: install 4-way universal
3650
3651 - ``--with-universal-archs=32-bit``: install 2-way universal, 32-bit (the default)
3652
3653 - ``--with-universal-archs=64-bit``: install 2-way universal, 64-bit
3654
3655 This option should be used in combination with ``--enable-universalsdk=``.
3656
3657 NOTE: 64-bit and 4-way builds are only suppported on Mac OS X 10.5 (or later).
3658
3659
Christian Heimes7a990612008-05-26 13:15:11 +00003660C API
3661-----
3662
Georg Brandl74a1dea2008-05-28 11:21:39 +00003663- Add ``PyType_Modified()`` as a public API to clear the type cache.
3664
3665- The PyBytes functions have been renamed to PyByteArray.
Christian Heimes7a990612008-05-26 13:15:11 +00003666
3667- The PyString functions have been renamed to PyBytes. A batch of
3668 defines were added so that the linker still sees the original
3669 PyString names.
3670
Georg Brandl5e7b1c02008-05-16 17:40:23 +00003671
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00003672What's New in Python 2.6 alpha 3?
Barry Warsaw65475fd2008-03-01 17:11:41 +00003673=================================
3674
Barry Warsaw6cc79402008-05-08 13:16:19 +00003675*Release date: 08-May-2008*
Barry Warsaw65475fd2008-03-01 17:11:41 +00003676
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd21fb4c2008-03-05 01:50:33 +00003677Core and builtins
3678-----------------
Georg Brandl80055f62008-03-25 07:56:27 +00003679
Georg Brandl28e08732008-04-30 19:47:09 +00003680- Issue #2719: backported the ``next()`` builtin from Python 3.
3681
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003682- Issue #2681: The octal literal ``0o8`` was incorrecly acctepted. Now
3683 it properly raises a SyntaxError.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc52167212008-04-24 18:07:05 +00003684
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003685- Issue #2617: Reserved -J and -X arguments for Jython, IronPython and
3686 other implementations of Python.
Christian Heimes7a98d272008-04-12 13:03:03 +00003687
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003688- Implemented PEP 370: Per user site-packages directory.
Christian Heimesaf748c32008-05-06 22:41:46 +00003689
Andrew M. Kuchling46d6b682008-04-30 16:19:55 +00003690Extension Modules
3691-----------------
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00003692
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003693- Issue #2670: Fix a failure in urllib2.build_opener(), when passed
3694 two handlers that derive the same default base class.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc96865852008-04-22 21:14:41 +00003695
Christian Heimese74c8f22008-04-19 02:23:57 +00003696- Added kill, terminate and send_signal(sig) to subprocess.Popen.
3697
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003698- Added phase(z) -> phi, polar(z) -> r, phi and rect(r, phi) -> z to
3699 the cmath module.
Christian Heimes6f341092008-04-18 23:13:07 +00003700
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003701- Four new methods were added to the math and cmath modules: acosh,
3702 asinh, atanh and log1p.
Christian Heimes6f341092008-04-18 23:13:07 +00003703
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003704- zlib.decompressobj().flush(value) no longer crashes the interpreter
3705 when passed a value less than or equal to zero.
Gregory P. Smith671c5d92008-04-09 18:18:43 +00003706
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003707- Issue #1631171: Re-implement the 'warnings' module in C (the
3708 original Python code has been kept as backup). This will allow for
3709 using the 'warning's machinery in such places as the parser where
3710 use of pure Python code is not possible. Both the ``showarning()``
3711 and ``formatwarning()`` gain an optional 'line' argument which is
3712 not called by default for backwards-compatibility reasons. Setting
3713 ``warnings.showwarning()`` to an implementation that lacks support
3714 for the ``line`` argument will raise a DeprecationWarning.
Brett Cannone9746892008-04-12 23:44:07 +00003715
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00003716Library
3717-------
3718
Brett Cannonf8436822008-05-06 23:41:32 +00003719- The audiodev module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
3720
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003721- Issue #2750: Add the 'json' package. Based on simplejson 1.9 and
3722 contributed by Bob Ippolito.
Brett Cannon4b964f92008-05-05 20:21:38 +00003723
Martin v. Löwis471617d2008-05-05 17:16:58 +00003724- Issue #1734346: Support Unicode file names for zipfiles.
3725
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003726- Issue #2581: distutils: Vista UAC/elevation support for
3727 bdist_wininst.
Mark Hammond7c5c8e62008-05-02 12:48:15 +00003728
Mark Dickinsonfe536f52008-04-25 16:59:09 +00003729- Issue #2635: Fix bug in 'fix_sentence_endings' textwrap.fill option,
3730 where an extra space was added after a word containing (but not
3731 ending in) '.', '!' or '?'.
3732
Thomas Heller6ad5fbb2008-04-25 15:44:16 +00003733- Add from_buffer() and from_buffer_copy() class methods to ctypes
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00003734 data types.
Thomas Heller6ad5fbb2008-04-25 15:44:16 +00003735
Neal Norwitz2b0bea52008-04-25 03:40:17 +00003736- Issue #2682: ctypes callback functions no longer contain a cyclic
Thomas Hellerbf027c42008-04-24 18:14:19 +00003737 reference to themselves.
3738
Gregory P. Smithd59fefb2008-04-22 08:11:33 +00003739- The getpass module has been improved on Unix. It now uses /dev/tty
3740 by default and uses stderr instead of stdout. A GetPassWarning is
3741 issued when input echo cannot be controlled.
Gregory P. Smith41e30182008-04-21 21:31:08 +00003742
Skip Montanarob131f042008-04-18 20:35:46 +00003743- Issue #2014: Allow XML-RPC datetime objects to have dates before
3744 1900-01-01.
3745
Nick Coghlan106fc482008-04-15 10:25:31 +00003746- Issue #2439: Added new function pkgutil.get_data(), which is a
3747 convenience wrapper for the PEP 302 get_data() API.
3748
Thomas Heller046e6a42008-04-14 16:10:07 +00003749- Issue #2616: The ctypes.pointer() and ctypes.POINTER() functions are
3750 now implemented in C for better performance.
3751
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003752- Issue #2408: The ``_types`` module, which was used as in
3753 implementation detail of the public ``types`` module, has been
3754 removed and replaced by pure python code.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc02f33b42008-04-08 23:10:07 +00003755
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003756- Issue #2513: distutils on Windows is now capable of cross-compiling
Mark Hammond495cf992008-04-07 01:53:39 +00003757 extension modules between 32 and 64 bit platforms. See the distutls
3758 build documentation for more information.
3759
Gregory P. Smithaa63d0d2008-04-06 23:11:17 +00003760- Issue #815646: Individual file objects may now be used from multiple
3761 threads at once without fear of crashing the Python interpreter. If
3762 file.close() is called while an object is in use by another thread
3763 an IOError exception will be raised and the file will not be closed.
3764
Thomas Hellerf7906482008-04-04 19:43:25 +00003765- The bundled libffi copy is now in sync with the recently released
3766 libffi3.0.5 version, apart from some small changes to
3767 Modules/_ctypes/libffi/configure.ac.
3768
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003769- Issue #2385: distutils.core.run_script() makes __file__ available,
3770 so the controlled environment will more closely mirror the typical
3771 script environment. This supports setup.py scripts that refer to
3772 data files.
Fred Drake46c58c12008-04-04 05:41:30 +00003773
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00003774Tests
3775-----
Trent Nelsone41b0062008-04-08 23:47:30 +00003776
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003777- Issue #2550: The approach used by client/server code for obtaining
3778 ports to listen on in network-oriented tests has been refined in an
3779 effort to facilitate running multiple instances of the entire
3780 regression test suite in parallel without issue.
3781 test_support.bind_port() has been fixed such that it will always
3782 return a unique port -- which wasn't always the case with the
3783 previous implementation, especially if socket options had been set
3784 that affected address reuse (i.e. SO_REUSEADDR, SO_REUSEPORT). The
3785 new implementation of bind_port() will actually raise an exception
3786 if it is passed an AF_INET/SOCK_STREAM socket with either the
3787 SO_REUSEADDR or SO_REUSEPORT socket option set. Furthermore, if
3788 available, bind_port() will set the SO_EXCLUSIVEADDRUSE option on
3789 the socket it's been passed. This currently only applies to
3790 Windows. This option prevents any other sockets from binding to the
3791 host/port we've bound to, thus removing the possibility of the
3792 'non-deterministic' behaviour, as Microsoft puts it, that occurs
3793 when a second SOCK_STREAM socket binds and accepts to a host/port
3794 that's already been bound by another socket. The optional preferred
3795 port parameter to bind_port() has been removed. Under no
3796 circumstances should tests be hard coding ports!
3797
3798 test_support.find_unused_port() has also been introduced, which will
3799 pass a temporary socket object to bind_port() in order to obtain an
3800 unused port. The temporary socket object is then closed and
3801 deleted, and the port is returned. This method should only be used
3802 for obtaining an unused port in order to pass to an external program
3803 (i.e. the -accept [port] argument to openssl's s_server mode) or as
3804 a parameter to a server-oriented class that doesn't give you direct
3805 access to the underlying socket used.
3806
3807 Finally, test_support.HOST has been introduced, which should be used
3808 for the host argument of any relevant socket calls (i.e. bind and
3809 connect).
Trent Nelsone41b0062008-04-08 23:47:30 +00003810
3811 The following tests were updated to following the new conventions:
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003812 test_socket, test_smtplib, test_asyncore, test_ssl, test_httplib,
Trent Nelsone41b0062008-04-08 23:47:30 +00003813 test_poplib, test_ftplib, test_telnetlib, test_socketserver,
3814 test_asynchat and test_socket_ssl.
3815
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003816 It is now possible for multiple instances of the regression test
3817 suite to run in parallel without issue.
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00003818
3819Build
3820-----
3821
Mark Dickinson65134662008-04-25 16:11:04 +00003822- Issue #1496032: On alpha, use -mieee when gcc is the compiler.
3823
Thomas Hellerdc96a772008-04-04 10:07:55 +00003824- Issue #2544: On HP-UX systems, use 'gcc -shared' for linking when
3825 gcc is used as compiler.
3826
Ronald Oussoren580c7fe2008-05-02 19:45:11 +00003827- Issue #2573: On MacOS X it is now possible to install the framework
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003828 with a different name using --with-framework-name=NAME.
Ronald Oussoren580c7fe2008-05-02 19:45:11 +00003829
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00003830C API
3831-----
3832
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003833- Added implementation of copysign, acosh, asinh, atanh and log1p to
3834 the new files Include/pymath.h and Python/pymath.h for platforms
3835 which provide the functions through their libm. The files also
3836 contains several helpers and constants for math.
Christian Heimes6f341092008-04-18 23:13:07 +00003837
Benjamin Petersondacde0d2008-05-26 17:43:53 +00003838- Added a new convenience macro, PyErr_WarnPy3k, for issuing Py3k warnings.
Benjamin Petersona692c4d2008-04-27 02:28:02 +00003839
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00003840
3841What's New in Python 2.6 alpha 2?
3842=================================
3843
3844*Release date: 02-Apr-2008*
3845
3846Core and builtins
3847-----------------
3848
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003849- Issue #1733757: The interpreter would hang on shutdown if the
3850 tracing function set by sys.settrace is still active and happens to
3851 call threading.currentThread().
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd7a26512008-04-03 23:07:55 +00003852
Georg Brandl91e0cda2008-03-29 01:50:06 +00003853- Patch #1442: properly report exceptions when the PYTHONSTARTUP file
3854 cannot be executed.
3855
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc69b747b2008-03-28 20:30:50 +00003856- The compilation of a class nested in another class used to leak one
3857 reference on the outer class name.
3858
Georg Brandlfc8eef32008-03-28 12:11:56 +00003859- Patch #1810: compile() can now compile _ast trees as returned by
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003860 ``compile(..., PyCF_ONLY_AST)``.
Georg Brandlfc8eef32008-03-28 12:11:56 +00003861
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003862- Patch #2426: Added sqlite3.Connection.iterdump method to allow easy
3863 dumping of databases. Contributed by Paul Kippes at PyCon 2008.
Gregory P. Smithb9803422008-03-28 08:32:09 +00003864
Georg Brandldeaf2ca2008-03-27 13:27:31 +00003865- Patch #2477: Added from __future__ import unicode_literals.
Christian Heimes3c608332008-03-26 22:01:37 +00003866
Christian Heimes8c78cc32008-03-26 12:53:58 +00003867- Added backport of bytearray type.
3868
Georg Brandl80055f62008-03-25 07:56:27 +00003869- Issue #2355: add Py3k warning for buffer().
3870
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc9a0d3462008-03-23 09:55:29 +00003871- Issue #1477: With narrow Unicode builds, the unicode escape sequence
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003872 \Uxxxxxxxx did not accept values outside the Basic Multilingual
3873 Plane. This affected raw unicode literals and the
3874 'raw-unicode-escape' codec. Now UTF-16 surrogates are generated in
3875 this case, like normal unicode literals and the 'unicode-escape'
3876 codec.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc9a0d3462008-03-23 09:55:29 +00003877
Georg Brandl65bb42d2008-03-21 20:38:24 +00003878- Issue #2348: add Py3k warning for file.softspace.
3879
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003880- Issue #2346/#2347: add Py3k warnings for __methods__ and
3881 __members__.
Georg Brandl07e56812008-03-21 20:21:46 +00003882
Georg Brandl5a444242008-03-21 20:11:46 +00003883- Issue #2358: Add a Py3k warning on sys.exc_clear() usage.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd21fb4c2008-03-05 01:50:33 +00003884
Martin v. Löwisa4d77892008-03-19 04:39:13 +00003885- Issue #2400: Allow relative imports to "import *".
3886
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003887- Issue #1745: Backport print function with ``from __future__ import
3888 print_function``.
Eric Smith7c478942008-03-18 23:45:49 +00003889
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003890- Issue #2332: add new attribute names for instance method objects.
3891 The two changes are: im_self -> __self__ and im_func -> __func__
Neal Norwitzb1d3d962008-03-18 04:46:00 +00003892
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003893- Issue #2379: Raise a Py3K warning for __getitem__ or __getslice__ on
Guido van Rossum6d91be32008-03-18 04:42:22 +00003894 exception instances.
3895
Guido van Rossum04edb522008-03-18 02:49:46 +00003896- Issue #2371: Add a Py3k warning when catching an exception that
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003897 doesn't derive from BaseException.
3898
3899- Issue #2341: Add a Py3k warning when raising an exception that
3900 doesn't derive from BaseException.
Guido van Rossum04edb522008-03-18 02:49:46 +00003901
Neal Norwitz419fd492008-03-17 20:22:43 +00003902- Issue #2321: use pymalloc for unicode object string data to reduce
3903 memory usage in some circumstances.
3904
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003905- PEP 3127: octal literals now start with "0o". Old-style octal
3906 literals are still valid. There are binary literals with a prefix of
3907 "0b". This also affects int(x, 0).
Eric Smith0aed07a2008-03-17 19:43:40 +00003908
Georg Brandl1e7c3752008-03-25 08:37:23 +00003909- Issue #2359: Adding deprecation warnings for array.{read,write}.
3910
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003911- Issue #1779871: GNU gcc can now build Python on OS X because the
Jeffrey Yasskin1b4e45b2008-03-17 14:40:53 +00003912 flags -Wno-long-double, -no-cpp-precomp, and -mno-fused-madd are no
3913 longer passed.
3914
Neal Norwitz400aeda2008-03-15 22:03:18 +00003915- Add a warning when asserting a non-empty tuple which is always true.
3916
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003917- Issue #2179: speed up with statement execution by storing the exit
3918 method on the stack instead of in a temporary variable (patch by
3919 Jeffrey Yaskin)
Nick Coghlan7af53be2008-03-07 14:13:28 +00003920
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003921- Issue #2238: Some syntax errors in *args and **kwargs expressions
3922 could give bogus error messages.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd21fb4c2008-03-05 01:50:33 +00003923
Sean Reifscheider68fa8e62008-03-20 00:50:07 +00003924- Issue #2143: Fix embedded readline() hang on SSL socket EOF.
3925
Andrew M. Kuchling46d6b682008-04-30 16:19:55 +00003926Extension Modules
3927-----------------
Martin v. Löwisaef18b12008-03-24 13:31:16 +00003928
3929- Patch #2240: Implement signal.setitimer and signal.getitimer.
3930
Thomas Heller78b8f442008-03-05 14:53:39 +00003931Library
3932-------
3933
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003934- Issue #2315: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now accounts
3935 for daylight savings time in calculating the next rollover.
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00003936
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003937- Issue #2316: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now
3938 calculates rollovers correctly even when nothing is logged for a
3939 while.
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00003940
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003941- Issue #2317: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now uses
3942 improved logic for removing old files.
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00003943
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003944- Issue #2495: tokenize.untokenize now inserts a space between two
3945 consecutive string literals; previously, ["" ""] was rendered as
3946 [""""], which is incorrect python code.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcda0c0252008-03-27 23:23:54 +00003947
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003948- Issue #2248: return the result of the QUIT command. from
3949 SMTP.quit().
Georg Brandldeaf2ca2008-03-27 13:27:31 +00003950
Christian Heimes8c78cc32008-03-26 12:53:58 +00003951- Backport of Python 3.0's io module.
3952
Mark Dickinson8e85ffa2008-03-25 18:47:59 +00003953- Issue #2482: Make sure that the coefficient of a Decimal is always
3954 stored as a str instance, not as a unicode instance. This ensures
3955 that str(Decimal) is always an instance of str.
3956
Mark Dickinson3b24ccb2008-03-25 14:33:23 +00003957- Issue #2478: fix failure of decimal.Decimal(0).sqrt()
3958
Georg Brandl77354cf2008-03-21 20:01:51 +00003959- Issue #2432: give DictReader the dialect and line_num attributes
3960 advertised in the docs.
3961
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003962- Issue #2460: Make Ellipsis object copyable.
Raymond Hettingerb72233c2008-03-24 08:17:39 +00003963
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003964- Issue #1681432: Add triangular distribution to the random module
Raymond Hettingerbbc50ea2008-03-23 13:32:32 +00003965
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003966- Issue #2136: urllib2's auth handler now allows single-quoted realms
3967 in the WWW-Authenticate header.
Georg Brandl33124322008-03-21 19:54:00 +00003968
Marc-André Lemburga1867752008-03-20 18:08:00 +00003969- Issue #2434: Enhanced platform.win32_ver() to also work on Python
3970 installation which do not have the win32all package installed.
3971
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003972- Added support to platform.uname() to also report the machine and
3973 processor information on Windows XP and later. As a result,
Marc-André Lemburga1867752008-03-20 18:08:00 +00003974 platform.machine() and platform.processor() will report this
3975 information as well.
3976
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003977- The library implementing the 2to3 conversion, lib2to3, was added to
3978 the standard distribution.
Martin v. Löwis5e37bae2008-03-19 04:43:46 +00003979
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003980- Issue #1747858: Fix chown to work with large uid's and gid's on
3981 64-bit platforms.
Gregory P. Smith37f3f432008-03-18 20:40:01 +00003982
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003983- Issue #1202: zlib.crc32 and zlib.adler32 no longer return different
3984 values on 32-bit vs. 64-bit python interpreters. Both were correct,
3985 but they now both return a signed integer object for consistency.
Gregory P. Smithf48f9d32008-03-17 18:48:05 +00003986
Skip Montanaro32ed8c22008-03-15 16:07:11 +00003987- Issue #1158: add %f format (fractions of a second represented as
3988 microseconds) to datetime objects. Understood by both strptime and
3989 strftime.
3990
Mark Dickinsonc23b8a72008-03-14 14:23:37 +00003991- Issue #705836: struct.pack(">f", x) now raises OverflowError on all
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003992 platforms when x is too large to fit into an IEEE 754 float;
3993 previously it only raised OverflowError on non IEEE 754 platforms.
Mark Dickinsonc23b8a72008-03-14 14:23:37 +00003994
Andrew M. Kuchlingaac5c862008-05-11 14:00:00 +00003995- Issues #2166, #1741 and #1531505: now distutils deals with HOME
3996 correctly under win32
3997
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003998- Patch #1858: distutils: added multiple server support in .pypirc
Andrew M. Kuchlingaac5c862008-05-11 14:00:00 +00003999
Facundo Batistac54aec12008-03-08 16:50:27 +00004000- Issue #1106316: pdb.post_mortem()'s parameter, "traceback", is now
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004001 optional: it defaults to the traceback of the exception that is
4002 currently being handled (is mandatory to be in the middle of an
4003 exception, otherwise it raises ValueError).
Facundo Batistac54aec12008-03-08 16:50:27 +00004004
Jeffrey Yasskine75f59a2008-03-07 06:22:15 +00004005- Issue #1193577: A .shutdown() method has been added to SocketServers
4006 which terminates the .serve_forever() loop.
4007
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004008- Issue #2220: handle rlcompleter attribute match failure more
4009 gracefully.
Georg Brandl98aa8052008-03-06 07:45:52 +00004010
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004011- Issue #2225: py_compile, when executed as a script, now returns a
4012 non- zero status code if not all files could be compiled
4013 successfully.
Georg Brandla7bd27f2008-03-06 07:41:16 +00004014
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004015- Bug #1725737: In distutils' sdist, exclude RCS, CVS etc. also in the
Georg Brandl810ea292008-03-06 07:34:52 +00004016 root directory, and also exclude .hg, .git, .bzr, and _darcs.
4017
Thomas Hellerf3c05592008-03-05 15:34:29 +00004018- Issue #1872: The struct module typecode for _Bool has been changed
4019 from 't' to '?'.
4020
Thomas Heller78b8f442008-03-05 14:53:39 +00004021- The bundled libffi copy is now in sync with the recently released
4022 libffi3.0.4 version, apart from some small changes to
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004023 Modules/_ctypes/libffi/configure.ac. On OS X, preconfigured libffi
4024 files are used. On all linux systems the --with-system-ffi
4025 configure option defaults to "yes".
Thomas Heller78b8f442008-03-05 14:53:39 +00004026
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004027- Issue #1577: shutil.move() now calls os.rename() if the destination
4028 is a directory instead of copying-then-remove-source.
Sean Reifscheider493894c2008-03-18 17:24:12 +00004029
Martin v. Löwisd2bbe522008-03-06 06:55:22 +00004030Tests
4031-----
4032
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004033- test_nis no longer fails when test.test_support.verbose is true and
4034 NIS is not set up on the testing machine.
Brett Cannon7919d982008-03-19 16:50:13 +00004035
Brett Cannona5573b32008-03-18 04:16:06 +00004036- Output comparison tests are no longer supported.
4037
Brett Cannonb7ec8e52008-03-18 03:46:22 +00004038- Rewrite test_errno to use unittest and no longer be a no-op.
4039
Brett Cannon0bb79502008-03-18 01:58:56 +00004040- GHOP 234: Convert test_extcall to doctest.
4041
Brett Cannonba17cfc2008-03-18 01:50:25 +00004042- GHOP 290: Convert test_dbm and test_dummy_threading to unittest.
4043
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004044- GHOP 293: Convert test_strftime, test_getargs, and test_pep247 to
4045 unittest.
Brett Cannon6eeaddc2008-03-18 01:00:07 +00004046
Brett Cannon1f5182b2008-03-13 21:09:28 +00004047- Issue #2055: Convert test_fcntl to unittest.
4048
Brett Cannon4a6e8d62008-03-13 21:02:16 +00004049- Issue 1960: Convert test_gdbm to unittest.
4050
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004051- GHOP 294: Convert test_contains, test_crypt, and test_select to
4052 unittest.
Brett Cannon2e0f9f32008-03-13 20:47:41 +00004053
Brett Cannonb8d37352008-03-13 20:33:10 +00004054- GHOP 238: Convert test_tokenize to use doctest.
4055
Brett Cannon66865d22008-03-13 20:27:00 +00004056- GHOP 237: Rewrite test_thread using unittest.
4057
Martin v. Löwisd2bbe522008-03-06 06:55:22 +00004058- Patch #2232: os.tmpfile might fail on Windows if the user has no
4059 permission to create files in the root directory.
4060
Martin v. Löwisbf7b0b72008-03-14 13:56:09 +00004061Build
4062-----
4063
Martin v. Löwiscdbc9772008-03-24 12:57:53 +00004064- A new script 2to3 is now installed, to run the 2.x to 3.x converter.
4065
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004066- Python/memmove.c and Python/strerror.c have been removed; both
4067 functions are in the C89 standard library.
Brett Cannonaa5778d2008-03-18 04:09:00 +00004068
Martin v. Löwisbf7b0b72008-03-14 13:56:09 +00004069- Patch #2284: Add -x64 option to rt.bat.
Barry Warsaw65475fd2008-03-01 17:11:41 +00004070
Christian Heimes3c608332008-03-26 22:01:37 +00004071C API
4072-----
4073
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00004074- Patch #2477: Added PyParser_ParseFileFlagsEx() and
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004075 PyParser_ParseStringFlagsFilenameEx().
4076
Christian Heimes3c608332008-03-26 22:01:37 +00004077
Nick Coghlanbb0996c2006-09-03 01:20:46 +00004078What's New in Python 2.6 alpha 1?
4079=================================
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00004080
Barry Warsaw7c075232008-03-01 02:53:36 +00004081*Release date: 29-Feb-2008*
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00004082
4083Core and builtins
4084-----------------
4085
Fred Drakea8ee94b2008-03-01 02:45:07 +00004086- Issue #2051: pyc and pyo files are no longer created with permission
Barry Warsaw52973612008-03-01 02:23:38 +00004087 644. The mode is now inherited from the py file.
Christian Heimes40346852008-02-23 17:52:07 +00004088
Georg Brandlad61bc82008-02-23 15:11:18 +00004089- Issue #2067: file.__exit__() now calls subclasses' close() method.
4090
4091- Patch #1759: Backport of PEP 3129 class decorators.
Christian Heimes5224d282008-02-23 15:01:05 +00004092
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00004093- Issue #1881: An internal parser limit has been increased. Also see
Facundo Batistafc2d0102008-02-23 12:01:13 +00004094 issue 215555 for a discussion.
4095
Eric Smitha73fbe72008-02-23 03:09:44 +00004096- Added the future_builtins module, which contains hex() and oct().
4097 These are the PEP 3127 version of these functions, designed to be
4098 compatible with the hex() and oct() builtins from Python 3.0. They
4099 differ slightly in their output formats from the existing, unchanged
4100 Python 2.6 builtins. The expected usage of the future_builtins
4101 module is:
4102 from future_builtins import hex, oct
4103
Eric Smith7ef40bf2008-02-20 23:34:22 +00004104- Issue #1600: Modifed PyOS_ascii_formatd to use at most 2 digit
4105 exponents for exponents with absolute value < 100. Follows C99
4106 standard. This is a change on Windows, which would use 3 digits.
4107 Also, added 'n' to the formats that PyOS_ascii_formatd understands,
4108 so that any alterations it does to the resulting string will be
4109 available in stringlib/formatter.h (for float.__format__).
4110
Eric Smith5a3c1352008-02-19 13:21:56 +00004111- Implemented PEP 3101, Advanced String Formatting. This adds a new
4112 builtin format(); a format() method for str and unicode; a
4113 __format__() method to object, str, unicode, int, long, float, and
4114 datetime; the class string.Formatter; and the C API
4115 PyObject_Format().
4116
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004117- Fixed several potential crashes, all caused by specially crafted
4118 __del__ methods exploiting objects in temporarily inconsistent
4119 state.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc632fad32008-02-16 20:55:24 +00004120
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00004121- Issue #2115: Important speedup in setting __slot__ attributes. Also
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004122 prevent a possible crash: an Abstract Base Class would try to access
4123 a slot on a registered virtual subclass.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc60d6c7f2008-02-15 21:22:45 +00004124
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004125- Fixed repr() and str() of complex numbers with infinity or nan as
4126 real or imaginary part.
Christian Heimes2f0da532008-02-15 06:57:08 +00004127
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004128- Clear all free lists during a gc.collect() of the highest generation
4129 in order to allow pymalloc to free more arenas. Python may give back
4130 memory to the OS earlier.
Christian Heimes3b718a72008-02-14 12:47:33 +00004131
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004132- Issue #2045: Fix an infinite recursion triggered when printing a
4133 subclass of collections.defaultdict, if its default_factory is set
4134 to a bound method.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcb01aa432008-02-08 00:56:02 +00004135
Christian Heimesf75dbef2008-02-08 00:11:31 +00004136- Fixed a minor memory leak in dictobject.c. The content of the free
4137 list was not freed on interpreter shutdown.
4138
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00004139- Limit free list of method and built-in function objects to 256
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004140 entries each.
Christian Heimes6075a822008-02-06 12:44:34 +00004141
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004142- Patch #1953: Added ``sys._compact_freelists()`` and the C API
4143 functions ``PyInt_CompactFreeList`` and ``PyFloat_CompactFreeList``
Christian Heimes422051a2008-02-04 18:00:12 +00004144 to compact the internal free lists of pre-allocted ints and floats.
4145
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004146- Issue #1983: Fixed return type of fork(), fork1() and forkpty()
4147 calls. Python expected the return type int but the fork familie
4148 returns pi_t.
Christian Heimes951cc0f2008-01-31 23:08:23 +00004149
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004150- Issue #1678380: Fix a bug that identifies 0j and -0j when they
4151 appear in the same code unit.
Mark Dickinson105be772008-01-31 22:17:37 +00004152
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004153- Issue #2025: Add tuple.count() and tuple.index() methods to comply
4154 with the collections.Sequence API.
Raymond Hettinger5b07ebc2008-02-07 00:54:20 +00004155
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004156- Patch #1970 by Antoine Pitrou: Speedup unicode whitespace and
4157 linebreak detection
Christian Heimes4d4f2702008-01-30 11:32:37 +00004158
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004159- Added ``PyType_ClearCache()`` and ``sys._clear_type_cache`` to clear
4160 the internal lookup cache for ref leak tests.
Christian Heimes908caac2008-01-27 23:34:59 +00004161
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004162- Patch #1473257: generator objects gain a gi_code attribute. This is
4163 the same object as the func_code attribute of the function that
4164 produced the generator.
Georg Brandl0cdf9a32008-01-26 14:14:20 +00004165
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004166- Issue #1920: "while 0" statements were completely removed by the
4167 compiler, even in the presence of an "else" clause, which is
4168 supposed to be run when the condition is false. Now the compiler
4169 correctly emits bytecode for the "else" suite.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc31eaafe2008-01-24 22:59:25 +00004170
Guido van Rossumeead05f2008-01-24 18:21:02 +00004171- A few crashers fixed: weakref_in_del.py (issue #1377858);
4172 loosing_dict_ref.py (issue #1303614, test67.py);
4173 borrowed_ref_[34].py (not in tracker).
4174
Vinay Sajipd7cf32e2008-01-24 12:43:33 +00004175- Issue #1069410: The "can't load dll" message box on Windows is
Christian Heimesb2302ba2008-01-23 17:15:06 +00004176 suppressed while an extension is loaded by calling SetErrorMode in
4177 dynload_win.c. The error is still reported properly.
4178
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004179- Issue #1915: Python compiles with --enable-unicode=no again. However
Christian Heimes082c9b02008-01-23 14:20:50 +00004180 several extension methods and modules do not work without unicode
4181 support.
4182
Georg Brandl26543b12008-01-21 18:36:51 +00004183- Issue #1882: when compiling code from a string, encoding cookies in the
4184 second line of code were not always recognized correctly.
4185
Georg Brandl14404b62008-01-19 19:27:05 +00004186- Issue #1679: "0x" was taken as a valid integer literal.
4187
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00004188- Issue #1865: ``bytes`` as an alias for ``str`` and b"" as an alias "" were
Christian Heimes288e89a2008-01-18 18:24:07 +00004189 added.
4190
Christian Heimesc94e2b52008-01-14 04:13:37 +00004191- sys.float_info / PyFloat_GetInfo: The floating point information
4192 object was converted from a dict to a specialized structseq object.
4193
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004194- Patch #1816: Added sys.flags structseq. It exposes the status of
4195 most command line arguments and PYTHON* environment variables.
Christian Heimesf31b69f2008-01-14 03:42:48 +00004196
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004197- Objects/structseq.c: Implemented new structseq representation. The
4198 patch makes structseqs (e.g. the return value of os.stat) more
4199 readable.
Christian Heimes9c201962008-01-14 03:33:52 +00004200
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004201- Patch #1700288: added a type attribute cache that caches method
4202 accesses, resulting in speedups in heavily object-oriented code.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arce4c270c2008-01-14 00:29:41 +00004203
Neal Norwitz3fc15b82008-01-10 05:42:58 +00004204- Bug #1776: __import__() no longer accepts filenames on any platform.
4205 The first parameter to __import__() must be a valid module name.
Christian Heimes3403f152008-01-09 19:56:33 +00004206
Georg Brandlaed6c662008-01-07 17:25:53 +00004207- Patch #1668: renamed THREADDEBUG envvar to PYTHONTHREADDEBUG.
4208
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004209- Patch #602345: Add -B command line option, PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE
4210 envvar and sys.dont_write_bytecode attribute. All these can be set
4211 to forbid Python to attempt to write compiled bytecode files.
Georg Brandl2da0fce2008-01-07 17:09:35 +00004212
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004213- Improve some exception messages when Windows fails to load an
4214 extension module. Now we get for example '%1 is not a valid Win32
4215 application' instead of 'error code 193'.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arce0b76952008-01-04 02:04:15 +00004216
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004217- Bug #1481296: Fixed long(float('nan')) != 0L.
Christian Heimes8267d1d2008-01-04 00:37:34 +00004218
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004219- Issue #1640: Added math.isinf(x), math.isnan(x) and math.copysign(x,
4220 y) functions.
Christian Heimese2ca4242008-01-03 20:23:15 +00004221
Christian Heimes0a8143f2007-12-18 23:22:54 +00004222- Issue #1635: Platform independent creation and representation of NaN
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004223 and INF. float("nan"), float("inf") and float("-inf") now work on
4224 every platform with IEEE 754 semantics.
Christian Heimes0a8143f2007-12-18 23:22:54 +00004225
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004226- Compiler now generates simpler and faster code for dictionary
4227 literals. The oparg for BUILD_MAP now indicates an estimated
4228 dictionary size. There is a new opcode, STORE_MAP, for adding
4229 entries to the dictionary.
Raymond Hettingerfd7ed402007-12-18 21:24:09 +00004230
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004231- Issue #1638: %zd configure test fails on Linux.
Christian Heimesdb3d6cb2007-12-16 21:39:43 +00004232
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004233- Issue #1620: New property decorator syntax was modifying the
4234 decorator in place instead of creating a new decorator object.
Christian Heimes90e10e72007-12-14 02:35:23 +00004235
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004236- Issue #1538: Avoid copying string in split/rsplit if the split char
4237 is not found.
Skip Montanaro26015492007-12-08 15:33:24 +00004238
Andrew M. Kuchling395fe442007-12-05 13:27:20 +00004239- Issue #1553: An erroneous __length_hint__ can make list() raise a
Christian Heimes7cc1c6f2007-12-05 12:52:34 +00004240 SystemError.
4241
Nick Coghlanef01d822007-12-03 12:55:17 +00004242- PEP 366: Allow explicit relative imports when executing modules
4243 inside packages with the -m switch via a new module level
4244 __package__ attribute.
4245
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004246- Issue #1402: Fix a crash on exit, when another thread is still
4247 running, and if the deallocation of its frames somehow calls the
4248 PyGILState_Ensure() / PyGILState_Release() functions.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcbe49a902007-11-30 20:37:22 +00004249
Christian Heimes28104c52007-11-27 23:16:44 +00004250- Expose the Py_Py3kWarningFlag as sys.py3kwarning.
4251
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00004252- Issue #1445: Fix a SystemError when accessing the ``cell_contents``
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcce7d10c2007-11-24 13:44:17 +00004253 attribute of an empty cell object.
4254
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004255- Issue #1460: The utf-7 incremental decoder did not accept truncated
4256 input. It now correctly saves its state between chunks of data.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcf57375a2007-11-21 01:38:26 +00004257
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004258- Patch #1739468: Directories and zipfiles containing a __main__.py
4259 file can now be directly executed by passing their name to the
4260 interpreter. The directory/zipfile is automatically inserted as the
4261 first entry in sys.path.
Nick Coghlan327a39b2007-11-18 11:56:28 +00004262
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004263- Issue #1265: Fix a problem with sys.settrace, if the tracing
4264 function uses a generator expression when at the same time the
4265 executed code is closing a paused generator.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc0d75f092007-11-13 21:54:28 +00004266
Raymond Hettinger1760c8a2007-11-08 02:52:43 +00004267- sets and frozensets now have an isdisjoint() method.
4268
Raymond Hettinger3f8caa32007-10-24 01:28:33 +00004269- optimize the performance of builtin.sum().
4270
Neal Norwitz44f326e2007-10-05 05:29:17 +00004271- Fix warnings found by the new version of the Coverity checker.
4272
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00004273- The enumerate() built-in function is no longer bounded to sequences
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004274 smaller than LONG_MAX. Formerly, it raised an OverflowError. Now,
4275 automatically shifts from ints to longs.
Raymond Hettinger8f669372007-10-03 21:18:11 +00004276
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004277- Issue #1686386: Tuple's tp_repr did not take into account the
4278 possibility of having a self-referential tuple, which is possible
4279 from C code. Nor did object's tp_str consider that a type's tp_str
4280 could do something that could lead to an inifinite recursion.
4281 Py_ReprEnter() and Py_EnterRecursiveCall(), respectively, fixed the
4282 issues.
Brett Cannon0b14f242007-09-30 19:45:10 +00004283
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004284- Issue #1164: It was possible to trigger deadlock when using the
4285 'print' statement to write to a file since the GIL was not released
4286 as needed. Now PyObject_Print() does the right thing along with
4287 various tp_print implementations of the built-in types and those in
4288 the collections module.
Brett Cannon01531592007-09-17 03:28:34 +00004289
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004290- Issue #1147: Exceptions were directly allowing string exceptions in
4291 their throw() method even though string exceptions no longer
4292 allowed.
Brett Cannon4c20bc42007-09-11 21:02:28 +00004293
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004294- Issue #1096: Prevent a segfault from getting the repr of a very
4295 deeply nested list by using the recursion counter.
Brett Cannona0c05512007-09-10 21:38:27 +00004296
Brett Cannon1e534b52007-09-07 04:18:30 +00004297- Issue #1202533: Fix infinite recursion calls triggered by calls to
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004298 PyObject_Call() never calling back out to Python code to trigger
4299 recursion depth updates/checks. Required the creation of a static
4300 RuntimeError instance in case normalizing an exception put the
4301 recursion check value past its limit. Fixes crashers
4302 infinite_rec_(1|2|4|5).py.
Brett Cannon1e534b52007-09-07 04:18:30 +00004303
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004304- Patch #1031213: Decode source line in SyntaxErrors back to its
4305 original source encoding.
Martin v. Löwisa5136192007-09-04 14:19:28 +00004306
Georg Brandl7c3b50d2007-07-12 08:38:00 +00004307- Patch #1673759: add a missing overflow check when formatting floats
4308 with %G.
4309
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004310- Prevent expandtabs() on string and unicode objects from causing a
4311 segfault when a large width is passed on 32-bit platforms.
Neal Norwitz7dbd2a32007-06-09 03:36:34 +00004312
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004313- Issue #1733488: Fix compilation of bufferobject.c on AIX.
Martin v. Löwisda587ab2007-06-08 17:29:20 +00004314
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004315- Issue #1722485: remove docstrings again when running with -OO.
Georg Brandla5ea6892007-06-01 11:33:33 +00004316
Neal Norwitz0ac60192007-05-27 04:08:54 +00004317- Add new attribute names for function objects. All the func_* become
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004318 __*__ attributes. (Some already existed, e.g., __doc__ and
4319 __name__.)
Neal Norwitz0ac60192007-05-27 04:08:54 +00004320
Neal Norwitz8b2bfbc2007-05-23 06:35:32 +00004321- Add -3 option to the interpreter to warn about features that are
4322 deprecated and will be changed/removed in Python 3.0.
4323
Georg Brandl2134e752007-05-21 20:34:16 +00004324- Patch #1686487: you can now pass any mapping after '**' in function
4325 calls.
4326
Collin Winter62903052007-05-18 23:11:24 +00004327- except clauses may now be spelled either "except E, target:" or
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004328 "except E as target:". This is to provide forwards compatibility
4329 with Python 3.0.
Collin Winter62903052007-05-18 23:11:24 +00004330
Brett Cannon229cee22007-05-05 01:34:02 +00004331- Deprecate BaseException.message as per PEP 352.
4332
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004333- Issue #1303614: don't expose object's __dict__ when the dict is
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00004334 inherited from a built-in base.
Armin Rigo9790a272007-05-02 19:23:31 +00004335
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00004336- When __slots__ are set to a unicode string, make it work the same as
Neal Norwitzcbd9ee62007-04-14 05:25:50 +00004337 setting a plain string, ie don't expand to single letter identifiers.
4338
Raymond Hettinger13936692007-04-11 18:40:58 +00004339- Request #1191699: Slices can now be pickled.
4340
Raymond Hettinger4db5fe92007-04-12 04:10:00 +00004341- Request #1193128: str.translate() now allows a None argument for
4342 translations that only remove characters without re-mapping the
4343 remaining characters.
4344
Georg Brandl5cb76c12007-03-21 09:00:39 +00004345- Patch #1682205: a TypeError while unpacking an iterable is no longer
4346 masked by a generic one with the message "unpack non-sequence".
4347
Neal Norwitzaa754b72007-03-21 06:39:48 +00004348- Remove unused file Python/fmod.c.
4349
Guido van Rossum143b5642007-03-23 04:58:42 +00004350- Bug #1683368: The object.__init__() and object.__new__() methods are
4351 now stricter in rejecting excess arguments. The only time when
4352 either allows excess arguments is when it is not overridden and the
4353 other one is. For backwards compatibility, when both are
4354 overridden, it is a deprecation warning (for now; maybe a Py3k
Guido van Rossum234b1ff2007-03-23 19:39:01 +00004355 warning later). Also, type.__init__() insists on the same signature
4356 as supported by type.__new__().
Guido van Rossum143b5642007-03-23 04:58:42 +00004357
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004358- Patch #1675423: PyComplex_AsCComplex() now tries to convert an
4359 object to complex using its __complex__() method before falling back
4360 to the __float__() method. Therefore, the functions in the cmath
4361 module now can operate on objects that define a __complex__()
4362 method.
Georg Brandl2b869942007-03-17 16:08:45 +00004363
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004364- Patch #1623563: allow __class__ assignment for classes with
4365 __slots__. The old and the new class are still required to have the
4366 same slot names.
Žiga Seilnacht6f2d09c2007-03-16 11:59:38 +00004367
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004368- Patch #1642547: Fix an error/crash when encountering syntax errors
4369 in complex if statements.
Collin Winter77c67bd2007-03-16 04:11:30 +00004370
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004371- Patch #1462488: Python no longer segfaults when
4372 ``object.__reduce_ex__()`` is called with an object that is faking
4373 its type.
Žiga Seilnacht20f43d32007-03-15 11:44:55 +00004374
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004375- Patch #1680015: Don't modify __slots__ tuple if it contains an
4376 unicode name.
Žiga Seilnacht71436f02007-03-14 12:24:09 +00004377
Georg Brandl5240d742007-03-13 20:46:32 +00004378- Patch #1444529: the builtin compile() now accepts keyword arguments.
4379
Georg Brandl7b9c5552007-03-12 14:30:05 +00004380- Bug #1678647: write a newline after printing an exception in any
4381 case, even when converting the value to a string failed.
4382
Georg Brandl871f1bc2007-03-12 13:17:36 +00004383- The dir() function has been extended to call the __dir__() method on
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004384 its argument, if it exists. If not, it will work like before. This
4385 allows customizing the output of dir() in the presence of a
4386 __getattr__().
Georg Brandl871f1bc2007-03-12 13:17:36 +00004387
Collin Winter276887b2007-03-12 16:11:39 +00004388- Patch #922167: Python no longer segfaults when faced with infinitely
4389 self-recursive reload() calls (as reported by bug #742342).
4390
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004391- Patch #1675981: remove unreachable code from ``type.__new__()``
4392 method.
Žiga Seilnacht89032082007-03-11 15:54:54 +00004393
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004394- Patch #1491866: change the complex() constructor to allow
4395 parthensized forms. This means complex(repr(x)) now works instead of
4396 raising a ValueError.
Collin Wintere38051d2007-03-09 20:33:07 +00004397
Georg Brandlaa2321b2007-03-07 00:40:28 +00004398- Patch #703779: unset __file__ in __main__ after running a file. This
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004399 makes the filenames the warning module prints much more sensible
4400 when a PYTHONSTARTUP file is used.
Georg Brandlaa2321b2007-03-07 00:40:28 +00004401
Georg Brandl49aafc92007-03-07 00:34:46 +00004402- Variant of patch #697613: don't exit the interpreter on a SystemExit
4403 exception if the -i command line option or PYTHONINSPECT environment
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004404 variable is given, but break into the interactive interpreter just
4405 like on other exceptions or normal program exit.
Georg Brandl49aafc92007-03-07 00:34:46 +00004406
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004407- Patch #1638879: don't accept strings with embedded NUL bytes in
4408 long().
Georg Brandl00cd8182007-03-06 18:41:12 +00004409
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004410- Bug #1674503: close the file opened by execfile() in an error
4411 condition.
Georg Brandl098cd692007-03-06 12:17:50 +00004412
Georg Brandl0fca97a2007-03-05 22:28:08 +00004413- Patch #1674228: when assigning a slice (old-style), check for the
4414 sq_ass_slice instead of the sq_slice slot.
4415
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004416- When printing an unraisable error, don't print exceptions. before
4417 the name. This duplicates the behavior whening normally printing
4418 exceptions.
Neal Norwitz88516a62007-02-26 22:41:45 +00004419
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004420- Bug #1653736: Properly discard third argument to
4421 slot_nb_inplace_power.
Martin v. Löwisfd963262007-02-09 12:19:32 +00004422
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004423- PEP 352: Raising a string exception now triggers a TypeError.
4424 Attempting to catch a string exception raises DeprecationWarning.
Brett Cannon129bd522007-01-30 21:34:36 +00004425
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004426- Bug #1377858: Fix the segfaulting of the interpreter when an object
4427 created a weakref on itself during a __del__ call for new-style
4428 classes (classic classes still have the bug).
Brett Cannonf5bee302007-01-23 23:21:22 +00004429
Martin v. Löwis6c5c5022007-01-23 21:11:47 +00004430- Bug #1579370: Make PyTraceBack_Here use the current thread, not the
4431 frame's thread state.
4432
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004433- patch #1630975: Fix crash when replacing sys.stdout in
4434 sitecustomize.py.
Thomas Wouters6ed19652007-01-23 13:50:49 +00004435
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004436- Prevent seg fault on shutdown which could occur if an object raised
4437 a warning.
Neal Norwitz72cd02c2007-01-05 05:25:22 +00004438
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004439- Bug #1566280: Explicitly invoke threading._shutdown from Py_Main, to
4440 avoid relying on atexit.
Martin v. Löwis7b7c9d42007-01-04 21:06:12 +00004441
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004442- Bug #1590891: random.randrange don't return correct value for big
4443 number.
Raymond Hettinger94547f72006-12-20 06:42:06 +00004444
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004445- Patch #1586791: Better exception messages for some operations on
4446 strings, tuples and lists.
Georg Brandl283a1352006-11-19 08:48:30 +00004447
Martin v. Löwis056dac12006-11-12 18:24:26 +00004448- Bug #1067760: Deprecate passing floats to file.seek.
4449
Martin v. Löwisa346c092006-11-08 06:48:36 +00004450- Bug #1591996: Correctly forward exception in instance_contains().
4451
Neal Norwitz85dbec62006-11-04 19:25:22 +00004452- Bug #1588287: fix invalid assertion for `1,2` in debug builds.
4453
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004454- Bug #1576657: when setting a KeyError for a tuple key, make sure
4455 that the tuple isn't used as the "exception arguments tuple".
Georg Brandlb9f4ad32006-10-29 18:31:42 +00004456
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004457- Bug #1565514: SystemError not raised on too many nested blocks.
Neal Norwitz21997af2006-10-28 21:19:07 +00004458
Thomas Hellerdf08f0b2006-10-27 18:31:36 +00004459- Bug #1576174: WindowsError now displays the windows error code
4460 again, no longer the posix error code.
4461
Martin v. Löwisb5bc5372006-10-27 06:16:31 +00004462- Patch #1549049: Support long values in structmember, issue warnings
4463 if the assigned value for structmember fields gets truncated.
4464
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004465- Update the peephole optimizer to remove more dead code (jumps after
4466 returns) and inline unconditional jumps to returns.
Neal Norwitzcbeb6872006-10-14 21:33:38 +00004467
Georg Brandl2c1375c2006-10-12 11:27:59 +00004468- Bug #1545497: when given an explicit base, int() did ignore NULs
4469 embedded in the string to convert.
4470
Georg Brandl846f73a2006-10-08 07:11:54 +00004471- Bug #1569998: break inside a try statement (outside a loop) is now
4472 recognized and rejected.
4473
Armin Rigo7ccbca92006-10-04 12:17:45 +00004474- list.pop(x) accepts any object x following the __index__ protocol.
4475
Armin Rigo7ccbca92006-10-04 12:17:45 +00004476- A number of places, including integer negation and absolute value,
4477 were fixed to not rely on undefined behaviour of the C compiler
4478 anymore.
Martin v. Löwis820d6ac2006-10-04 05:47:34 +00004479
Georg Brandl3267d282006-09-30 09:03:42 +00004480- Bug #1566800: make sure that EnvironmentError can be called with any
4481 number of arguments, as was the case in Python 2.4.
4482
Georg Brandl5d59c092006-09-30 08:43:30 +00004483- Patch #1567691: super() and new.instancemethod() now don't accept
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004484 keyword arguments any more (previously they accepted them, but
4485 didn't use them).
Georg Brandl5d59c092006-09-30 08:43:30 +00004486
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004487- Fix a bug in the parser's future statement handling that led to
4488 "with" not being recognized as a keyword after, e.g., this
4489 statement: from __future__ import division, with_statement
Georg Brandla10d3af2006-09-24 12:35:36 +00004490
Neal Norwitz3a230172006-09-22 08:18:10 +00004491- Bug #1557232: fix seg fault with def f((((x)))) and def f(((x),)).
4492
Neal Norwitz4a8fbdb2006-09-22 08:16:26 +00004493- Fix %zd string formatting on Mac OS X so it prints negative numbers.
4494
Brett Cannonf6aa86e2006-09-20 18:43:13 +00004495- Allow exception instances to be directly sliced again.
4496
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004497- Bug #1551432: Exceptions do not define an explicit __unicode__
4498 method. This allows calling unicode() on exceptions classes
4499 directly to succeed.
Brett Cannon9adeab72006-09-20 18:34:28 +00004500
Georg Brandl4e933132006-09-06 20:05:58 +00004501- Bug #1542051: Exceptions now correctly call PyObject_GC_UnTrack.
4502 Also make sure that every exception class has __module__ set to
4503 'exceptions'.
4504
Georg Brandl98775df2006-09-06 06:09:31 +00004505- Bug #1550983: emit better error messages for erroneous relative
4506 imports (if not in package and if beyond toplevel package).
4507
Tim Petersc10c9d02006-09-05 02:18:09 +00004508- Overflow checking code in integer division ran afoul of new gcc
4509 optimizations. Changed to be more standard-conforming.
4510
Neal Norwitz4f096d92006-08-21 19:47:08 +00004511- Patch #1542451: disallow continue anywhere under a finally.
4512
Neal Norwitza22975f2006-09-05 02:24:03 +00004513- Patch #1546288: fix seg fault in dict_equal due to ref counting bug.
4514
Neal Norwitzd34e4272006-09-05 02:36:20 +00004515- The return tuple from str.rpartition(sep) is (tail, sep, head) where
4516 head is the original string if sep was not found.
4517
Neal Norwitzdac090d2006-09-05 03:53:08 +00004518- Bug #1520864: unpacking singleton tuples in list comprehensions and
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004519 generator expressions (x for x, in ... ) works again. Fixing this
4520 problem required changing the .pyc magic number. This means that
4521 .pyc files generated before 2.5c2 will be regenerated.
Neal Norwitzdac090d2006-09-05 03:53:08 +00004522
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00004523- ``with`` and ``as`` are now keywords.
Neal Norwitzca460d92006-09-06 06:28:06 +00004524
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004525- Bug #1664966: Fix crash in exec if Unicode filename can't be
4526 decoded.
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00004527
Guido van Rossumcad37242008-01-15 17:59:29 +00004528- Issue #1537: Changed GeneratorExit's base class from Exception to
4529 BaseException.
Christian Heimes44eeaec2007-12-03 20:01:02 +00004530
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004531- Issue #1703448: A joined thread could show up in the
Gregory P. Smith95cd5c02008-01-22 01:20:42 +00004532 threading.enumerate() list after the join() for a brief period until
4533 it actually exited.
4534
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00004535
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00004536Library
4537-------
4538
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004539- Patch #2274: Add heapq.heappushpop().
Raymond Hettinger53bdf092008-03-13 19:03:51 +00004540
Christian Heimes608c1d82008-03-03 18:28:04 +00004541- Add inspect.isabstract(object) to fix bug #2223
4542
Mark Dickinson1ddf1d82008-02-29 02:16:37 +00004543- Add a __format__ method to Decimal, to support PEP 3101.
4544
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004545- Add a timing parameter when using trace.Trace to print out
4546 timestamps.
Neal Norwitzca376612008-02-26 08:21:28 +00004547
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004548- Issue #1627: httplib now ignores negative Content-Length headers.
Georg Brandl8c460d52008-02-24 00:14:24 +00004549
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004550- Issue #900744: If an invalid chunked-encoding header is sent by a
4551 server, httplib will now raise IncompleteRead and close the
4552 connection instead of raising ValueError.
Georg Brandl23635032008-02-24 00:03:22 +00004553
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004554- Issue #1492: The content type of BaseHTTPServer error messages can
4555 now be overridden.
Georg Brandl16479232008-02-23 15:02:28 +00004556
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004557- Issue #1781: ConfigParser now does not let you add the "default" section
Facundo Batistab12f0b52008-02-23 12:46:10 +00004558 (ignore-case)
4559
Guido van Rossum8bc09652008-02-21 18:18:37 +00004560- Removed uses of dict.has_key() from distutils, and uses of
4561 callable() from copy_reg.py, so the interpreter now starts up
4562 without warnings when '-3' is given. More work like this needs to
4563 be done in the rest of the stdlib.
4564
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004565- Issue #1916: added isgenerator() and isgeneratorfunction() to
4566 inspect.py.
Facundo Batista759bfc62008-02-18 03:43:43 +00004567
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004568- Issue #1224: Fixed bad url parsing when path begins with double
4569 slash.
Facundo Batistad14600e2008-02-18 12:48:43 +00004570
Thomas Hellera06a1a82008-02-13 20:21:53 +00004571- ctypes instances that are not or do not contain pointers can now be
4572 pickled.
4573
Martin v. Löwisdad88dc2008-02-12 18:47:34 +00004574- Patch #1966: Break infinite loop in httplib when the servers
4575 implements the chunked encoding incorrectly.
4576
Mark Dickinsond058cd22008-02-10 21:29:51 +00004577- Rename rational.py to fractions.py and the rational.Rational class
4578 to fractions.Fraction, to avoid the name clash with the abstract
4579 base class numbers.Rational. See discussion in issue #1682.
4580
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004581- The pickletools module now provides an optimize() function that
4582 eliminates unused PUT opcodes from a pickle string.
Raymond Hettingerda614dc2008-02-10 20:35:16 +00004583
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004584- Patch #2021: Allow tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile and
4585 SpooledTemporaryFile to be used in with statements by correctly
4586 supporting the context management protocol.
Nick Coghlanac094dc2008-02-10 07:32:52 +00004587
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004588- Patch #1979: Add rich comparisons to Decimal, and make Decimal
4589 comparisons involving a NaN follow the IEEE 754 standard.
Mark Dickinson2fc92632008-02-06 22:10:50 +00004590
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004591- Issue #2004: tarfile.py: Use mode 0700 for temporary directories and
4592 default permissions for missing directories.
Lars Gustäbel0192e432008-02-05 11:51:40 +00004593
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004594- Issue #175006: The debugger used to skip the condition of a "while"
4595 statement after the first iteration. Now it correctly steps on the
4596 expression, and breakpoints on the "while" statement are honored on
4597 each loop.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc6fd03bb2008-02-04 21:45:05 +00004598
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004599- Issue #1765140: add an optional delay argument to FileHandler and
4600 its subclasses. Defaults to false (existing behaviour), but if true,
Vinay Sajipd7cf32e2008-01-24 12:43:33 +00004601 defers opening the file until the first call to emit().
4602
Raymond Hettingerc226c312008-01-23 00:04:40 +00004603- The pprint module now supports sets and frozensets.
4604
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004605- Issue #1221598: add optional callbacks to ftplib.FTP's storbinary()
4606 and storlines() methods. (Contributed by Phil Schwartz)
Gregory P. Smithc64386b2008-01-22 00:19:41 +00004607
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004608- Issue #1715: include sub-extension modules in pydoc's text output.
Georg Brandlf2dae0e2008-01-21 21:05:49 +00004609
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004610- Issue #1836: fix an off-by-one bug in TimedRotatingHandler's
4611 rollover time calculation.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00004612
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004613- Issue #1021: fix a bug to allow basicConfig to accept NOTSET as a
4614 level.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00004615
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004616- Issue #932563: add LoggerAdapter convenience class to make it easier
4617 to add contextual information in logging output.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00004618
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004619- Issue #1760556: fix a bug to avoid FileHandler throwing an exception
4620 in flush().
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00004621
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004622- Bug #1530959: distutils' build command now uses different build
4623 directory when building extension modules against versions of Python
4624 compiled with ``--with-pydebug``.
Georg Brandl50160152008-01-21 17:42:40 +00004625
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004626- Issue #1555501: move plistlib from plat-mac directory to general
4627 library.
Georg Brandl864de822008-01-21 16:34:07 +00004628
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004629- Issue #1269: fix a bug in pstats.add_callers() and add a unit test
4630 file for pstats.
Georg Brandl66e73632008-01-21 10:24:59 +00004631
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004632- Issue #1669: don't allow shutil.rmtree() to be called on a symlink
4633 to a directory.
Georg Brandl52353982008-01-20 14:17:42 +00004634
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004635- Issue #1664522: in urllib, don't read non-existing directories in
4636 ftp mode, returning a 0-byte file -- raise an IOError instead.
Georg Brandld5e6cf22008-01-20 12:18:17 +00004637
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004638- Issue #856047: respect the ``no_proxy`` environment variable when
4639 using the ``http_proxy`` etc. environment variables in urllib.
Georg Brandl22350112008-01-20 12:05:43 +00004640
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004641- Issue #1178141: add a getcode() method to the addinfourls that
4642 urllib.open() returns so that you can retrieve the HTTP status code.
Georg Brandl9b0d46d2008-01-20 11:43:03 +00004643
Gregory P. Smithf25680a2008-01-20 01:26:04 +00004644- Issue #1003: Fix zipfile decryption check, it would fail zip files
4645 with extended local headers.
4646
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004647- Issue #1189216: Fix the zipfile module to work on archives with
4648 headers past the 2**31 byte boundary.
Gregory P. Smith350d03b2008-01-19 23:10:52 +00004649
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004650- Issue #1336: fix a race condition in subprocess.Popen if the garbage
Gregory P. Smithb9ba0752008-01-19 21:00:37 +00004651 collector kicked in at the wrong time that would cause the process
4652 to hang when the child wrote to stderr.
4653
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004654- Issue #1146: fix how textwrap breaks a long word that would start in
4655 the last column of a line.
Georg Brandlc6fde722008-01-19 19:48:19 +00004656
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004657- Issue #1693149: trace.py --ignore-module - accept multiple
4658 comma-separated modules to be given.
Skip Montanaro562133b2008-01-19 18:47:24 +00004659
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004660- Issue #1822: MIMEMultipart.is_multipart() behaves correctly for a
4661 just-created (and empty) instance. Thanks Jonathan Share.
Facundo Batista2b1b1952008-01-19 12:32:27 +00004662
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004663- Issue #1861: Added an attribute to the sched module which returns an
4664 ordered list of upcoming events (displayed as named tuples).
Raymond Hettinger44bd6c02008-01-17 19:31:38 +00004665
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004666- Issue #1837: The queue module now also supports a LIFO queue and a
4667 priority queue.
Raymond Hettinger3ad2acc82008-01-16 23:49:35 +00004668
Andrew M. Kuchling4a2762d2008-01-20 00:00:38 +00004669- Patch #1048820: Add insert-mode editing to curses.textpad.Textbox
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00004670 (patch by Stefan Wehr). Also, fix an off-by-one bug in
Andrew M. Kuchling4a2762d2008-01-20 00:00:38 +00004671 Textbox.gather().
4672
Thomas Heller02ec2892008-01-16 19:37:33 +00004673- Issue #1831: ctypes now raises a TypeError if conflicting positional
4674 and named arguments are passed to a Structure or Union initializer.
Thomas Heller415c1e32008-01-16 19:45:51 +00004675 When too many positional arguments are passed, also a TypeError is
4676 raised instead of a ValueError.
Thomas Heller02ec2892008-01-16 19:37:33 +00004677
Thomas Heller902d3072008-01-16 19:16:27 +00004678- Convert the internal ctypes array type cache to a WeakValueDict so
4679 that array types do not live longer than needed.
4680
Guido van Rossumcad37242008-01-15 17:59:29 +00004681- Issue #1786: pdb should use its own stdin/stdout around an exec call
4682 and when creating a recursive instance.
4683
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004684- Issue #1698398: ZipFile.printdir() crashed because the format string
4685 expected a tuple type of length six instead of time.struct_time
4686 object.
Raymond Hettinger351e1a32008-01-14 22:58:05 +00004687
Mark Dickinson59bc20b2008-01-12 01:56:00 +00004688- Issue #1780: The Decimal constructor now accepts arbitrary leading
4689 and trailing whitespace when constructing from a string.
4690 Context.create_decimal no longer accepts trailing newlines.
4691
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004692- Decimal.as_tuple(), difflib.find_longest_match() and inspect
4693 functions that returned a tuple now return a named tuple.
Georg Brandl2f32c392008-01-11 09:20:58 +00004694
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00004695- Doctest now returns results as a named tuple for readability:
Raymond Hettingerfff4e6e2008-01-11 01:25:54 +00004696 (0, 7) --> TestResults(failed=0, attempted=7)
4697
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004698- Issue #846388:q re.match is interruptible now, which is particularly
Facundo Batista4473d222008-01-08 21:10:12 +00004699 good for long regular expression matches.
4700
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004701- Patch #1137: allow setting buffer_size attribute on pyexpat Parser
4702 objects to set the character data buffer size.
Andrew M. Kuchlinge0a49b62008-01-08 14:30:55 +00004703
Facundo Batista52b25792008-01-08 12:25:20 +00004704- Issue #1757: The hash of a Decimal instance is no longer affected by
4705 the current context.
4706
Georg Brandl62416bc2008-01-07 18:47:44 +00004707- Patch #467924: add ZipFile.extract() and ZipFile.extractall() in the
4708 zipfile module.
4709
Christian Heimesfb2d25a2008-01-07 16:12:44 +00004710- Issue #1646: Make socket support the TIPC protocol.
4711
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004712- Bug #1742: return os.curdir from os.path.relpath() if both arguments
4713 are equal instead of raising an exception.
Georg Brandl183a0842008-01-06 14:27:15 +00004714
Guido van Rossumc6a04c22008-01-05 22:19:06 +00004715- Patch #1637: fix urlparse for URLs like 'http://x.com?arg=/foo'.
4716
Guido van Rossumced4eb02008-01-05 01:21:57 +00004717- Patch #1698: allow '@' in username parsed by urlparse.py.
4718
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004719- Issue #1735: TarFile.extractall() now correctly sets directory
4720 permissions and times.
Lars Gustäbel2ee1c762008-01-04 14:00:33 +00004721
Christian Heimes06875612008-01-04 13:21:07 +00004722- Bug #1713: posixpath.ismount() claims symlink to a mountpoint is a mountpoint.
4723
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004724- Bug #1687: Fxed plistlib.py restricts <integer> to Python int when
4725 writing
Christian Heimes06131882008-01-04 00:04:52 +00004726
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004727- Issue #1700: Regular expression inline flags incorrectly handle
4728 certain unicode characters.
Guido van Rossumae04c332008-01-03 19:12:44 +00004729
Jeffrey Yasskin2f3c16b2008-01-03 02:21:52 +00004730- Issue #1689: PEP 3141, numeric abstract base classes.
4731
Martin v. Löwis84b9aab2008-01-01 21:09:07 +00004732- Tk issue #1851526: Return results from Python callbacks to Tcl as
4733 Tcl objects.
4734
Thomas Heller153038e2007-12-18 19:00:34 +00004735- Issue #1642: Fix segfault in ctypes when trying to delete attributes.
4736
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004737- Issue #1727780: Support loading pickles of random.Random objects
4738 created on 32-bit systems on 64-bit systems, and vice versa. As a
4739 consequence of the change, Random pickles created by Python 2.6
4740 cannot be loaded in Python 2.5.
Martin v. Löwis6b449f42007-12-03 19:20:02 +00004741
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004742- Issue #1455: The distutils package now supports VS 2005 and VS 2008
4743 for both the msvccompiler and cygwincompiler.
Christian Heimesc654fc22007-12-03 13:55:16 +00004744
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004745- Issue #1531: tarfile.py: Read fileobj from the current offset, do
4746 not seek to the start.
Lars Gustäbel77b2d632007-12-01 21:02:12 +00004747
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004748- Issue #1534: Added a dictionary sys.float_info with information
4749 about the internal floating point type to the sys module.
Christian Heimesdfdfaab2007-12-01 11:20:10 +00004750
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004751- Issue #1429818: patch for trace and doctest modules so they play
4752 nicely together.
Skip Montanaro58a6f442007-11-24 14:30:47 +00004753
Brett Cannon43e53f82007-11-21 00:47:36 +00004754- doctest made a bad assumption that a package's __loader__.get_data()
4755 method used universal newlines.
4756
Nick Coghlan90b858e2007-11-07 11:57:51 +00004757- Issue #1705170: contextlib.contextmanager was still swallowing
4758 StopIteration in some cases. This should no longer happen.
4759
Thomas Heller486b1b02007-11-02 19:10:24 +00004760- Issue #1292: On alpha, arm, ppc, and s390 linux systems the
4761 --with-system-ffi configure option defaults to "yes".
4762
Hye-Shik Changa838a802007-10-28 11:19:02 +00004763- IN module for FreeBSD 8 is added and preexisting FreeBSD 6 and 7
4764 files are updated.
4765
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004766- Issues #1181, #1287: unsetenv() is now called when the
4767 os.environ.pop() and os.environ.clear() methods are used.
Georg Brandl1a94ec22007-10-24 21:40:38 +00004768
Thomas Heller91ac4222007-10-19 18:11:41 +00004769- ctypes will now work correctly on 32-bit systems when Python is
4770 configured with --with-system-ffi.
4771
Thomas Heller7fee6dd2007-10-11 19:51:32 +00004772- Patch #1203: ctypes now does work on OS X when Python is built with
Georg Brandl1a94ec22007-10-24 21:40:38 +00004773 --disable-toolbox-glue.
Thomas Heller7fee6dd2007-10-11 19:51:32 +00004774
Raymond Hettingera7fc4b12007-10-05 02:47:07 +00004775- collections.deque() now supports a "maxlen" argument.
4776
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004777- itertools.count() is no longer bounded to LONG_MAX. Formerly, it
4778 raised an OverflowError. Now, automatically shifts from ints to
4779 longs.
Raymond Hettinger50e90e22007-10-04 00:20:27 +00004780
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004781- Added itertools.product() which forms the Cartesian product of the
4782 input iterables.
Raymond Hettingerc5705a82008-02-22 19:50:06 +00004783
Raymond Hettinger66f91ea2008-03-05 20:59:58 +00004784- Added itertools.combinations() and itertools.permutations().
Raymond Hettinger93e804d2008-02-26 23:40:50 +00004785
Georg Brandlaff85e22007-09-20 16:06:07 +00004786- Patch #1541463: optimize performance of cgi.FieldStorage operations.
4787
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004788- Decimal is fully updated to the latest Decimal Specification
4789 (v1.66).
Facundo Batistab67da232007-09-17 16:26:50 +00004790
Georg Brandl8fd3ecf2007-09-12 19:00:07 +00004791- Bug #1153: repr.repr() now doesn't require set and dictionary items
4792 to be orderable to properly represent them.
4793
Thomas Heller2825b2e2007-09-07 06:32:17 +00004794- A 'c_longdouble' type was added to the ctypes module.
4795
Martin v. Löwis7dcb83c2007-08-30 19:04:09 +00004796- Bug #1709599: Run test_1565150 only if the file system is NTFS.
4797
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004798- When encountering a password-protected robots.txt file the
4799 RobotFileParser no longer prompts interactively for a username and
4800 password (bug 813986).
Skip Montanaro3e275362007-08-29 01:33:45 +00004801
Lars Gustäbel0f4a14b2007-08-28 12:31:09 +00004802- TarFile.__init__() no longer fails if no name argument is passed and
4803 the fileobj argument has no usable name attribute (e.g. StringIO).
4804
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004805- The functools module now provides 'reduce', for forward
4806 compatibility with Python 3000.
Guido van Rossum95f1a1b2007-08-27 20:52:10 +00004807
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004808- Server-side SSL support and cert verification added, by Bill
4809 Janssen.
Guido van Rossum4f2c3dd2007-08-25 15:08:43 +00004810
Bill Janssenf413fb02007-08-30 18:08:06 +00004811- socket.ssl deprecated; use new ssl module instead.
4812
Georg Brandl8ec57542007-08-24 06:10:01 +00004813- uuid creation is now threadsafe.
4814
Hye-Shik Chang23901042007-08-20 06:49:18 +00004815- EUC-KR codec now handles the cheot-ga-keut composed make-up hangul
4816 syllables.
4817
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004818- GB18030 codec now can encode additional two-byte characters that are
4819 missing in GBK.
Hye-Shik Changf3e93a02007-08-04 04:10:18 +00004820
Walter Dörwald6e390802007-08-17 16:41:28 +00004821- Add new codecs for UTF-32, UTF-32-LE and UTF-32-BE.
4822
Martin v. Löwisf1e0b3f2007-07-28 07:03:05 +00004823- Bug #1704793: Return UTF-16 pair if unicodedata.lookup cannot
4824 represent the result in a single character.
4825
Martin v. Löwisf25e35b2007-07-27 18:28:22 +00004826- Bug #978833: Close https sockets by releasing the _ssl object.
4827
Martin v. Löwis254b8f92007-07-25 16:24:23 +00004828- Change location of the package index to pypi.python.org/pypi
4829
Thomas Hellerfa704c62007-07-13 17:12:23 +00004830- Bug #1701409: Fix a segfault in printing ctypes.c_char_p and
4831 ctypes.c_wchar_p when they point to an invalid location. As a
4832 sideeffect the representation of these instances has changed.
4833
Lars Gustäbel104490e2007-06-18 11:42:11 +00004834- tarfile.py: Added "exclude" keyword argument to TarFile.add().
4835
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004836- Bug #1734723: Fix repr.Repr() so it doesn't ignore the maxtuple
4837 attribute.
Neal Norwitzc161cb92007-06-11 07:29:43 +00004838
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004839- The urlopen function of urllib2 now has an optional timeout
4840 parameter (note that it actually works with HTTP, HTTPS, FTP and
4841 FTPS connections).
Facundo Batista10951d52007-06-06 17:15:23 +00004842
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004843- In ftplib, the FTP.ntransfercmd method, when in passive mode, now
4844 uses the socket.create_connection function, using the timeout
4845 specified at connection time.
Facundo Batista92493122007-06-06 15:13:37 +00004846
Hye-Shik Chang9b541402007-06-05 18:58:51 +00004847- Bug #1728403: Fix a bug that CJKCodecs StreamReader hangs when it
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004848 reads a file that ends with incomplete sequence and sizehint
4849 argument for .read() is specified.
Hye-Shik Chang9b541402007-06-05 18:58:51 +00004850
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004851- Bug #1730389: Change time.strptime() to use ``\s+`` instead of
4852 ``\s*`` when matching spaces in the specified format argument.
Brett Cannonf7188ce2007-06-03 23:13:41 +00004853
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004854- Bugs #1668596/#1720897: distutils now copies data files even if
4855 package_dir is empty.
Neal Norwitz4a700bb2007-06-01 07:29:12 +00004856
Brett Cannonc2aa09a2007-05-31 19:20:00 +00004857- sha now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
4858
Brett Cannon7eec2172007-05-30 22:24:28 +00004859- md5 now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
4860
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004861- Issue #1385: The hmac module now computes the correct hmac when
4862 using hashes with a block size other than 64 bytes (such as sha384
4863 and sha512).
Gregory P. Smithe1ac4f12007-11-06 00:19:03 +00004864
Brett Cannonc249bda2007-05-30 21:48:58 +00004865- mimify now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
4866
Brett Cannon90134c92007-05-30 20:46:26 +00004867- MimeWriter now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
4868
Lars Gustäbela0fcb932007-05-27 19:49:30 +00004869- tarfile.py: Improved unicode support. Unicode input names are now
4870 officially supported. Added "errors" argument to the TarFile class.
4871
Facundo Batista711a54e2007-05-24 17:50:54 +00004872- urllib.ftpwrapper class now accepts an optional timeout.
4873
Georg Brandlc90bc752007-05-24 16:49:29 +00004874- shlex.split() now has an optional "posix" parameter.
4875
Brett Cannon41bf2fa2007-05-20 23:57:38 +00004876- The posixfile module now raises a DeprecationWarning.
4877
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004878- Remove the gopherlib module. This also leads to the removal of
4879 gopher support in urllib/urllib2.
Brett Cannond75f0432007-05-16 22:42:29 +00004880
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004881- Fix bug in marshal where bad data would cause a segfault due to lack
4882 of an infinite recursion check.
Neal Norwitzb1a9b372007-05-16 20:05:11 +00004883
Neal Norwitze0e70a42007-05-16 05:06:33 +00004884- Removed plat-freebsd2 and plat-freebsd3 directories (and IN.py in
4885 the directories).
4886
Georg Brandla09a96a2007-05-15 20:19:34 +00004887- HTML-escape the plain traceback in cgitb's HTML output, to prevent
4888 the traceback inadvertently or maliciously closing the comment and
4889 injecting HTML into the error page.
4890
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004891- The popen2 module and os.popen* are deprecated. Use the subprocess
4892 module.
Neal Norwitz42dd86b2007-05-11 06:57:33 +00004893
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004894- Added an optional credentials argument to SMTPHandler, for use with
4895 SMTP servers which require authentication.
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00004896
4897- Patch #1695948: Added optional timeout parameter to SocketHandler.
4898
4899- Bug #1652788: Minor fix for currentframe.
4900
4901- Patch #1598415: Added WatchedFileHandler to better support external
4902 log file rotation using e.g. newsyslog or logrotate. This handler is
4903 only useful in Unix/Linux environments.
4904
Georg Brandlfb4b3b72007-04-24 15:27:13 +00004905- Bug #1706381: Specifying the SWIG option "-c++" in the setup.py file
4906 (as opposed to the command line) will now write file names ending in
4907 ".cpp" too.
4908
Facundo Batistad918a652007-04-24 13:54:38 +00004909- As specified in RFC 2616, an HTTP response like 2xx indicates that
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004910 the client's request was successfully received, understood, and
4911 accepted. Now in these cases no error is raised in urllib (issue
4912 #1177) and urllib2.
Facundo Batistad918a652007-04-24 13:54:38 +00004913
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004914- Bug #1290505: time.strptime's internal cache of locale information
4915 is now properly recreated when the locale is changed.
Brett Cannonc6906652007-04-01 18:47:27 +00004916
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004917- Patch #1685563: remove (don't add) duplicate paths in
4918 distutils.MSVCCompiler.
Neal Norwitz8f35f442007-04-01 18:24:22 +00004919
Facundo Batistab6a5c9d2007-03-29 18:22:35 +00004920- Added a timeout parameter to the constructor of other protocols
4921 (telnetlib, ftplib, smtplib and poplib). This is second part of the
4922 work started with create_connection() and timeout in httplib, and
4923 closes patch #723312.
4924
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00004925- Patch #1676823: Added create_connection() to socket.py, which may be
4926 called with a timeout, and use it from httplib (whose HTTPConnection
Facundo Batista70f996b2007-05-21 17:32:32 +00004927 and HTTPSConnection now accept an optional timeout).
Facundo Batista07c78be2007-03-23 18:54:07 +00004928
Martin v. Löwis0af33882007-03-23 13:27:15 +00004929- Bug #978833: Revert r50844, as it broke _socketobject.dup.
4930
Žiga Seilnacht7492e422007-03-21 20:07:56 +00004931- Bug #1675967: re patterns pickled with Python 2.4 and earlier can
4932 now be unpickled with Python 2.5 and newer.
4933
Collin Wintera8785cc2007-03-19 18:52:08 +00004934- Patch #1630118: add a SpooledTemporaryFile class to tempfile.py.
4935
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004936- Patch #1273829: os.walk() now has a "followlinks" parameter. If set
4937 to True (which is not the default), it visits symlinks pointing to
Georg Brandlcae9f3d2007-03-21 09:10:29 +00004938 directories.
4939
Georg Brandl8f06d022007-03-16 07:55:09 +00004940- Bug #1681228: the webbrowser module now correctly uses the default
4941 GNOME or KDE browser, depending on whether there is a session of one
4942 of those present. Also, it tries the Windows default browser before
4943 trying Mozilla variants.
4944
Collin Winter6f187742007-03-16 22:16:08 +00004945- Patch #1339796: add a relpath() function to os.path.
4946
Georg Brandlab1f4672007-03-15 07:41:30 +00004947- Patch #1681153: the wave module now closes a file object it opened if
4948 initialization failed.
4949
Georg Brandlf66b6032007-03-14 08:27:52 +00004950- Bug #767111: fix long-standing bug in urllib which caused an
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004951 AttributeError instead of an IOError when the server's response
4952 didn't contain a valid HTTP status line.
Georg Brandlf66b6032007-03-14 08:27:52 +00004953
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004954- Patch #957650: "%var%" environment variable references are now
4955 properly expanded in ntpath.expandvars(), also "~user" home
4956 directory references are recognized and handled on Windows.
Georg Brandl03b90d82007-03-13 22:07:36 +00004957
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004958- Patch #1429539: pdb now correctly initializes the __main__ module
4959 for the debugged script, which means that imports from __main__ work
Georg Brandlb6ae6aa2007-03-13 21:58:44 +00004960 correctly now.
4961
Georg Brandlbad6f192007-03-13 21:32:56 +00004962- The nonobvious commands.getstatus() function is now deprecated.
4963
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004964- Patch #1393667: pdb now has a "run" command which restarts the
4965 debugged Python program, optionally with different arguments.
Georg Brandl8e84c652007-03-13 21:08:15 +00004966
Thomas Heller5dc4fe02007-03-13 20:42:52 +00004967- Patch #1649190: Adding support for _Bool to ctypes as c_bool.
4968
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004969- Patch #1530482: add pydoc.render_doc() which returns the
4970 documentation for a thing instead of paging it to stdout, which
4971 pydoc.doc() does.
Georg Brandl8441f152007-03-13 20:02:57 +00004972
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004973- Patch #1533909: the timeit module now accepts callables in addition
4974 to strings for the code to time and the setup code. Also added two
4975 convenience functions for instantiating a Timer and calling its
4976 methods.
Georg Brandld9bef352007-03-13 19:32:21 +00004977
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004978- Patch #1537850: tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile now has a "delete"
4979 parameter which can be set to False to prevent the default
4980 delete-on-close behavior.
Georg Brandl35ef9c12007-03-13 18:31:49 +00004981
Georg Brandl9e6b4702007-03-13 18:15:41 +00004982- Patch #1581073: add a flag to textwrap that prevents the dropping of
4983 whitespace while wrapping.
4984
Georg Brandl92a6bae2007-03-13 17:43:32 +00004985- Patch #1603688: ConfigParser.SafeConfigParser now checks values that
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004986 are set for invalid interpolation sequences that would lead to
4987 errors on reading back those values.
Georg Brandl92a6bae2007-03-13 17:43:32 +00004988
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004989- Added support for the POSIX.1-2001 (pax) format to
4990 tarfile.py. Extended and cleaned up the test suite. Added a new
4991 testtar.tar.
Lars Gustäbelc64e4022007-03-13 10:47:19 +00004992
Martin v. Löwisbdd0f392007-03-13 10:24:00 +00004993- Patch #1449244: Support Unicode strings in
4994 email.message.Message.{set_charset,get_content_charset}.
4995
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004996- Patch #1542681: add entries for "with", "as" and "CONTEXTMANAGERS"
4997 to pydoc's help keywords.
Georg Brandlb6a87542007-03-13 10:06:48 +00004998
Georg Brandl4ffc8f52007-03-13 09:41:31 +00004999- Patch #1555098: use str.join() instead of repeated string
5000 concatenation in robotparser.
5001
Georg Brandl94fe3f52007-03-13 09:32:11 +00005002- Patch #1635454: the csv.DictWriter class now includes the offending
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005003 field names in its exception message if you try to write a record
5004 with a dictionary containing fields not in the CSV field names list.
Georg Brandl94fe3f52007-03-13 09:32:11 +00005005
Georg Brandlceede5c2007-03-13 08:14:27 +00005006- Patch #1668100: urllib2 now correctly raises URLError instead of
5007 OSError if accessing a local file via the file:// protocol fails.
5008
Martin v. Löwis2681beb2007-03-12 11:01:10 +00005009- Patch #1677862: Require a space or tab after import in .pth files.
5010
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005011- Patch #1192590: Fix pdb's "ignore" and "condition" commands so they
5012 trap the IndexError caused by passing in an invalid breakpoint
5013 number.
Collin Winter2faa9e12007-03-11 16:00:20 +00005014
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005015- Patch #1599845: Add an option to disable the implicit calls to
5016 server_bind() and server_activate() in the constructors for
5017 TCPServer, SimpleXMLRPCServer and DocXMLRPCServer.
Collin Winterae041062007-03-10 14:41:48 +00005018
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005019- Bug #1531963: Make SocketServer.TCPServer's server_address always be
5020 equal to calling getsockname() on the server's socket. Fixed by
Collin Winterfaaa2042007-03-10 03:35:34 +00005021 patch #1545011.
Collin Winter22c42ba2007-03-10 02:51:26 +00005022
Andrew M. Kuchlinge45a77a2008-01-19 16:26:13 +00005023- Patch #742598: Add .timeout attribute to SocketServer that calls
5024 .handle_timeout() when no requests are received.
5025
Thomas Heller2456a3c2007-03-09 20:39:22 +00005026- Bug #1651235: When a tuple was passed to a ctypes function call,
5027 Python would crash instead of raising an error.
5028
Thomas Hellerc2f77252007-03-09 19:21:28 +00005029- Bug #1646630: ctypes.string_at(buf, 0) and ctypes.wstring_at(buf, 0)
5030 returned string up to the first NUL character.
5031
Martin v. Löwis1190a382007-03-09 15:35:55 +00005032- Patch #957003: Implement smtplib.LMTP.
5033
Collin Winterfb728de2007-03-09 03:26:32 +00005034- Patch #1481079: add support for HTTP_REFERER to CGIHTTPServer.
5035
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005036- Patch #1675424: Added tests for uncovered code in the zipfile
5037 module. The KeyError raised by Zipfile.getinfo for nonexistent
5038 names now has a descriptive message.
Georg Brandl4b3ab6f2007-07-12 09:59:22 +00005039
Martin v. Löwis05c075d2007-03-07 11:04:33 +00005040- Bug #1115886: os.path.splitext('.cshrc') gives now ('.cshrc', '').
5041
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005042- unittest now verifies more of its assumptions. In particular,
5043 TestCase and TestSuite subclasses (not instances) are no longer
5044 accepted in TestSuite.addTest(). This should cause no
5045 incompatibility since it never made sense with ordinary subclasses
5046 -- the failure just occurred later, with a more cumbersome
5047 exception.
Georg Brandl9caadf82007-03-08 18:37:31 +00005048
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005049- Patch #787789: allow to pass custom TestRunner instances to
5050 unittest's main() function.
Georg Brandld0a96252007-03-07 09:21:06 +00005051
Georg Brandl15c5ce92007-03-07 09:09:40 +00005052- Patches #1550273, #1550272: fix a few bugs in unittest and add a
5053 comprehensive test suite for the module.
5054
Georg Brandl71ff6462007-03-07 08:31:51 +00005055- Patch #1001604: glob.glob() now returns unicode filenames if it was
5056 given a unicode argument and os.listdir() returns unicode filenames.
5057
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005058- Patch #1673619: setup.py identifies extension modules it doesn't
5059 know how to build and those it knows how to build but that fail to
5060 build.
Skip Montanarod1287322007-03-06 15:41:38 +00005061
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00005062- Patch #912410: Replace HTML entity references for attribute values
Martin v. Löwisab8a6bb2007-03-06 14:43:00 +00005063 in HTMLParser.
5064
Georg Brandlff432e62007-03-06 13:37:45 +00005065- Patch #1663234: you can now run doctest on test files and modules
5066 using "python -m doctest [-v] filename ...".
5067
Martin v. Löwis3eb76482007-03-06 10:41:24 +00005068- Patch #1121142: Implement ZipFile.open.
5069
Skip Montanarof694b1b2007-03-04 20:54:12 +00005070- Taught setup.py how to locate Berkeley DB on Macs using MacPorts.
5071
Raymond Hettinger00166c52007-02-19 04:08:43 +00005072- Added heapq.merge() for merging sorted input streams.
5073
Raymond Hettingercd3c1082007-10-23 21:23:07 +00005074- Added collections.namedtuple() for assigning field names to tuples.
Raymond Hettingerc37e5e02007-03-01 06:16:43 +00005075
Raymond Hettingerd36862c2007-02-21 05:20:38 +00005076- Added itertools.izip_longest().
5077
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005078- Have the encoding package's search function dynamically import using
5079 absolute import semantics.
Brett Cannon971a0122007-02-15 22:54:39 +00005080
Lars Gustäbel5b1a7852007-02-13 16:09:24 +00005081- Patch #1647484: Renamed GzipFile's filename attribute to name.
5082
Martin v. Löwis84f6de92007-02-13 10:10:39 +00005083- Patch #1517891: Mode 'a' for ZipFile now creates the file if it
5084 doesn't exist.
5085
Martin v. Löwisc6d626e2007-02-13 09:49:38 +00005086- Patch #698833: Support file decryption in zipfile.
5087
Martin v. Löwis07aa3ed2007-02-13 08:34:45 +00005088- Patch #685268: Consider a package's __path__ in imputil.
5089
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005090- Patch #1463026: Support default namespace in XMLGenerator.
Martin v. Löwis2bad58f2007-02-12 12:21:10 +00005091
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005092- Patch #1571379: Make trace's --ignore-dir facility work in the face
5093 of relative directory names.
Skip Montanaro691acf22007-02-11 18:24:37 +00005094
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005095- Bug #1600860: Search for shared python library in LIBDIR, not
5096 lib/python/config, on "linux" and "gnu" systems.
Martin v. Löwis0a203262007-02-09 12:36:48 +00005097
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005098- Patch #1652681: tarfile.py: create nonexistent files in append mode
5099 and allow appending to empty files.
Lars Gustäbel3f8aca12007-02-06 18:38:13 +00005100
Peter Astrand5f9c6ae2007-02-06 15:37:50 +00005101- Bug #1124861: Automatically create pipes if GetStdHandle fails in
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00005102 subprocess.
Peter Astrand5f9c6ae2007-02-06 15:37:50 +00005103
Georg Brandl4ba9e5b2007-01-27 17:59:42 +00005104- Patch #1634778: add missing encoding aliases for iso8859_15 and
5105 iso8859_16.
5106
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005107- Patch #1638243: the compiler package is now able to correctly
5108 compile a with statement; previously, executing code containing a
5109 with statement compiled by the compiler package crashed the
5110 interpreter.
Georg Brandlab496842007-01-27 17:43:02 +00005111
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00005112- Bug #1643943: Fix time.strptime's support for the %U directive.
5113
Lars Gustäbel0713a682007-02-19 09:54:47 +00005114- Patch #1507247: tarfile.py: use current umask for intermediate
5115 directories.
5116
Georg Brandldd7b0522007-01-21 10:35:10 +00005117- Patch #1627441: close sockets properly in urllib2.
5118
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005119- Bug #494589: make ntpath.expandvars behave according to its
5120 docstring.
Sjoerd Mullender33a0a062007-01-16 16:42:38 +00005121
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00005122- Changed platform module API python_version_tuple() to actually
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00005123 return a tuple (it used to return a list).
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00005124
5125- Added new platform module APIs python_branch(), python_revision(),
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00005126 python_implementation() and linux_distribution().
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00005127
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00005128- Added support for IronPython and Jython to the platform module.
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00005129
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005130- The sets module has been deprecated. Use the built-in set/frozenset
5131 types instead.
Brett Cannon093b6702007-01-13 00:29:49 +00005132
Thomas Heller6fd45492007-01-12 20:21:53 +00005133- Bug #1610795: make ctypes.util.find_library work on BSD systems.
5134
Thomas Heller8138c262007-01-11 21:18:56 +00005135- Fixes for 64-bit Windows: In ctypes.wintypes, correct the
5136 definitions of HANDLE, WPARAM, LPARAM data types. Make
5137 parameterless foreign function calls work.
5138
Thomas Hellerfb9d7872007-01-10 20:12:13 +00005139- The version number of the ctypes package changed to "1.1.0".
5140
Vinay Sajipab41c102007-01-09 14:51:36 +00005141- Bug #1627575: logging: Added _open() method to FileHandler which can
5142 be used to reopen files. The FileHandler instance now saves the
5143 encoding (which can be None) in an attribute called "encoding".
5144
Vinay Sajipc9137262007-01-08 18:52:36 +00005145- Bug #411881: logging.handlers: bare except clause removed from
5146 SMTPHandler.emit. Now, only ImportError is trapped.
5147
5148- Bug #411881: logging.handlers: bare except clause removed from
5149 SocketHandler.createSocket. Now, only socket.error is trapped.
5150
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005151- Bug #411881: logging: bare except clause removed from
5152 LogRecord.__init__. Now, only ValueError, TypeError and
5153 AttributeError are trapped.
Vinay Sajipc9137262007-01-08 18:52:36 +00005154
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005155- Patch #1504073: Fix tarfile.open() for mode "r" with a fileobj
5156 argument.
Lars Gustäbela7ba6fc2006-12-27 10:30:46 +00005157
Andrew M. Kuchling71662322006-12-27 03:31:24 +00005158- Patch #1182394 from Shane Holloway: speed up HMAC.hexdigest.
5159
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005160- Patch #1262036: Prevent TarFiles from being added to themselves
5161 under certain conditions.
Lars Gustäbela4b23812006-12-23 17:57:23 +00005162
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005163- Patch #1230446: tarfile.py: fix ExFileObject so that read() and
5164 tell() work correctly together with readline().
Lars Gustäbel6baa5022006-12-23 16:40:13 +00005165
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005166- Patch #1484695: The tarfile module now raises a HeaderError
5167 exception if a buffer given to frombuf() is invalid.
Georg Brandlebbeed72006-12-19 22:06:46 +00005168
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00005169- Bug #1503765: Fix a problem in logging.config with spaces in comma-
5170 separated lists read from logging config files.
5171
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005172- Patch #1604907: Fix problems in logging.handlers caused at logging
5173 shutdown when syslog handlers fail to initialize because of syslogd
5174 problems.
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00005175
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005176- Patch #1608267: fix a race condition in os.makedirs() if the
5177 directory to be created is already there.
Georg Brandlb1307432006-12-09 09:08:29 +00005178
Georg Brandl87fa5592006-12-06 22:21:18 +00005179- Patch #1610437: fix a tarfile bug with long filename headers.
5180
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005181- Patch #1371075: Make ConfigParser accept optional dict type for
5182 ordering, sorting, etc.
Martin v. Löwisa00bcac2006-12-03 12:01:53 +00005183
Thomas Helleref583a42006-11-28 20:21:54 +00005184- Bug #1563807: _ctypes built on AIX fails with ld ffi error.
5185
Thomas Heller25d208b2006-11-24 18:45:39 +00005186- Bug #1598620: A ctypes Structure cannot contain itself.
5187
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005188- Patch #1070046: Marshal new-style objects like InstanceType in
5189 xmlrpclib.
Martin v. Löwis07529352006-11-19 18:51:54 +00005190
Martin v. Löwiscffcc8b2006-11-19 10:41:41 +00005191- cStringIO.truncate(-1) now raises an IOError, like StringIO and
5192 regular files.
5193
Martin v. Löwisbba003e2006-11-18 18:42:11 +00005194- Patch #1472877: Fix Tix subwidget name resolution.
5195
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005196- Patch #1594554: Always close a tkSimpleDialog on ok(), even if an
5197 exception occurs.
Martin v. Löwisef5fd3e2006-11-18 18:05:35 +00005198
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005199- Patch #1538878: Don't make tkSimpleDialog dialogs transient if the
5200 parent window is withdrawn.
Martin v. Löwisc73a4a42006-11-18 18:00:23 +00005201
Georg Brandl54082112006-11-16 16:50:59 +00005202- Bug #1597824: return the registered function from atexit.register()
5203 to facilitate usage as a decorator.
5204
Martin v. Löwis45cd4ff2006-11-12 18:56:03 +00005205- Patch #1360200: Use unmangled_version RPM spec field to deal with
5206 file name mangling.
5207
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005208- Patch #1359217: Process 2xx response in an ftplib transfer that
5209 precedes an 1xx response.
Martin v. Löwis36cbc082006-11-12 18:48:13 +00005210
Martin v. Löwis065f0c82006-11-12 10:41:39 +00005211- Patch #1355023: support whence argument for GzipFile.seek.
5212
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00005213- Patch #1065257: Support passing open files as body in
Martin v. Löwis040a9272006-11-12 10:32:47 +00005214 HTTPConnection.request().
5215
Andrew M. Kuchlinga3e5d372006-11-09 13:27:07 +00005216- Bug #1569790: mailbox.py: Maildir.get_folder() and MH.get_folder()
5217 weren't passing the message factory on to newly created Maildir/MH
5218 objects.
5219
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005220- Patch #1514543: mailbox.py: In the Maildir class, report errors if
5221 there's a filename clash instead of possibly losing a message.
5222 (Patch by David Watson.)
Andrew M. Kuchling978d8282006-11-09 21:16:46 +00005223
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005224- Patch #1514544: Try to ensure that messages/indexes have been
5225 physically written to disk after calling .flush() or
5226 .close(). (Patch by David Watson.)
Andrew M. Kuchlingb5686da2006-11-09 13:51:14 +00005227
Guido van Rossumaf16ece2008-02-21 19:46:35 +00005228- Patch #1592250: Add elide argument to Tkinter.Text.search.
Martin v. Löwis038cad72006-11-09 11:27:32 +00005229
Guido van Rossumaf16ece2008-02-21 19:46:35 +00005230- Patch #838546: Make terminal become controlling in pty.fork().
Martin v. Löwisb2bba732006-11-09 11:06:03 +00005231
Martin v. Löwis5361e9a2006-11-08 07:35:55 +00005232- Patch #1351744: Add askyesnocancel helper for tkMessageBox.
5233
Martin v. Löwis5310e502006-11-04 18:14:06 +00005234- Patch #1060577: Extract list of RPM files from spec file in
Guido van Rossumaf16ece2008-02-21 19:46:35 +00005235 bdist_rpm.
Martin v. Löwis5310e502006-11-04 18:14:06 +00005236
Georg Brandl2c9838e2006-10-29 14:39:09 +00005237- Bug #1586613: fix zlib and bz2 codecs' incremental en/decoders.
5238
Georg Brandl3354f282006-10-29 09:16:12 +00005239- Patch #1583880: fix tarfile's problems with long names and posix/
5240 GNU modes.
5241
Georg Brandl5addf702006-10-29 08:53:06 +00005242- Bug #1586448: the compiler module now emits the same bytecode for
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00005243 list comprehensions as the built-in compiler, using the LIST_APPEND
Georg Brandl5addf702006-10-29 08:53:06 +00005244 opcode.
5245
Georg Brandl8f99f812006-10-29 08:39:22 +00005246- Fix codecs.EncodedFile which did not use file_encoding in 2.5.0, and
5247 fix all codecs file wrappers to work correctly with the "with"
5248 statement (bug #1586513).
5249
Thomas Heller112d1a62006-10-27 19:05:53 +00005250- Lib/modulefinder.py now handles absolute and relative imports
5251 correctly.
5252
Martin v. Löwisee82c0e2006-10-27 07:13:28 +00005253- Patch #1567274: Support SMTP over TLS.
5254
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005255- Patch #1560695: Add .note.GNU-stack to ctypes' sysv.S so that ctypes
5256 isn't considered as requiring executable stacks.
Martin v. Löwis1b2f6272006-10-22 10:55:15 +00005257
Thomas Hellerd2ea4a22006-10-17 19:30:48 +00005258- ctypes callback functions only support 'fundamental' data types as
5259 result type. Raise an error when something else is used. This is a
5260 partial fix for Bug #1574584.
5261
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005262- Fix turtle so that time.sleep is imported for the entire library.
5263 Allows the demo2 function to be executed on its own instead of only
5264 when the module is run as a script.
Brett Cannond80e0c82006-10-16 03:09:52 +00005265
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005266- Bug #813342: Start the IDLE subprocess with -Qnew if the parent is
5267 started with that option.
Georg Brandld0761532006-10-12 07:57:21 +00005268
Martin v. Löwisf43893a2006-10-09 20:44:25 +00005269- Bug #1565150: Fix subsecond processing for os.utime on Windows.
5270
Martin v. Löwis8b274262006-10-04 15:25:28 +00005271- Support for MSVC 8 was added to bdist_wininst.
5272
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005273- Bug #1446043: correctly raise a LookupError if an encoding name
5274 given to encodings.search_function() contains a dot.
Georg Brandla92979a2006-09-30 11:22:28 +00005275
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005276- Bug #1560617: in pyclbr, return full module name not only for
5277 classes, but also for functions.
Georg Brandl154324a2006-09-30 11:06:47 +00005278
Georg Brandl05b3c452006-09-30 10:58:01 +00005279- Bug #1457823: cgi.(Sv)FormContentDict's constructor now takes
5280 keep_blank_values and strict_parsing keyword arguments.
5281
Georg Brandl8d1e5bf2006-09-30 09:13:21 +00005282- Bug #1566602: correct failure of posixpath unittest when $HOME ends
5283 with a slash.
5284
Georg Brandl8c667452006-09-30 07:31:57 +00005285- Bug #1565661: in webbrowser, split() the command for the default
5286 GNOME browser in case it is a command with args.
5287
Georg Brandl5a85d5c2009-06-24 06:41:19 +00005288- Made the error message for time.strptime when the data and
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005289 format do match be more clear.
Brett Cannon11b35352006-09-26 23:38:24 +00005290
Georg Brandlc7986ce2006-09-24 12:50:24 +00005291- Fix a bug in traceback.format_exception_only() that led to an error
5292 being raised when print_exc() was called without an exception set.
5293 In version 2.4, this printed "None", restored that behavior.
5294
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005295- Make webbrowser.BackgroundBrowser usable in Windows (it wasn't
5296 because the close_fds arg to subprocess.Popen is not supported).
Georg Brandl2c94bf72006-09-24 10:36:01 +00005297
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005298- Reverted patch #1504333 to sgmllib because it introduced an infinite
5299 loop.
Neal Norwitzbcc119a2006-09-11 04:24:09 +00005300
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005301- Patch #1553314: Fix the inspect.py slowdown that was hurting IPython
5302 & SAGE by adding smarter caching in inspect.getmodule()
Nick Coghlanb3c18f82006-09-08 10:04:38 +00005303
Georg Brandl4e933132006-09-06 20:05:58 +00005304- Fix missing import of the types module in logging.config.
5305
Nick Coghlanbb0996c2006-09-03 01:20:46 +00005306- Patch #1550886: Fix decimal module context management implementation
Neal Norwitza22975f2006-09-05 02:24:03 +00005307 to match the localcontext() example from PEP 343.
Nick Coghlanbb0996c2006-09-03 01:20:46 +00005308
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005309- Bug #1545341: The 'classifier' keyword argument to the Distutils
5310 setup() function now accepts tuples as well as lists.
Andrew M. Kuchling99994792006-10-09 17:10:12 +00005311
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005312- Bug #1541863: uuid.uuid1 failed to generate unique identifiers on
5313 systems with low clock resolution.
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00005314
Gustavo Niemeyerc36bede2006-09-07 00:48:33 +00005315- Bug #1531862: Do not close standard file descriptors in subprocess.
5316
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005317- idle: Honor the "Cancel" action in the save dialog (Debian bug
5318 #299092).
Matthias Klosea398e2d2007-01-11 11:44:04 +00005319
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005320- Fix utf-8-sig incremental decoder, which didn't recognise a BOM when
5321 the first chunk fed to the decoder started with a BOM, but was
5322 longer than 3 bytes.
Georg Brandl27562782006-10-27 20:39:43 +00005323
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005324- The implementation of UnicodeError objects has been simplified
5325 (start and end attributes are now stored directly as Py_ssize_t
5326 members).
Walter Dörwald84a3efe2007-06-13 16:57:12 +00005327
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005328- Issue #829951: In the smtplib module, SMTP.starttls() now complies
5329 with RFC 3207 and forgets any knowledge obtained from the server not
5330 obtained from the TLS negotiation itself. Patch contributed by Bill
5331 Fenner.
Gregory P. Smith2b3ba582008-01-17 08:03:17 +00005332
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005333- Issue #1339: The smtplib.SMTP class has been refactored a bit such
Gregory P. Smithbde4ae42008-01-17 08:35:49 +00005334 that the SMTP.starttls() caller no longer needs to call ehlo()
5335 beforehand. SMTP.starttls() now raises an exception of the server
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005336 does not claim to support starttls. Adds the
5337 SMTP.ehlo_or_helo_if_needed() method. Patch contributed by Bill
5338 Fenner.
Gregory P. Smithbde4ae42008-01-17 08:35:49 +00005339
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005340- Patch #1089358: Add signal.siginterrupt, a wrapper around
5341 siginterrupt(3).
Georg Brandl29604a12008-01-26 14:03:47 +00005342
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00005343Extension Modules
5344-----------------
5345
Georg Brandl392c6fc2008-05-25 07:25:25 +00005346- Patch #1657: added select.epoll and select.kqueue.
Christian Heimes0e9ab5f2008-03-21 23:49:44 +00005347
Georg Brandlebcfd112008-02-23 23:04:35 +00005348- Patch #1506171: added operator.methodcaller().
5349
Georg Brandle2065c62008-02-23 23:02:23 +00005350- Patch #1826: operator.attrgetter() now supports dotted attribute paths.
5351
Georg Brandl392c6fc2008-05-25 07:25:25 +00005352- Patch #1957: syslogmodule: Release GIL when calling syslog(3).
Christian Heimesf0476e82008-02-23 17:42:31 +00005353
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005354- Bug #2112: mmap.error is now a subclass of EnvironmentError and not
5355 a direct EnvironmentError.
Facundo Batistae1396882008-02-17 18:59:29 +00005356
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005357- Bug #2111: mmap segfaults when trying to write a block opened with
5358 PROT_READ.
Christian Heimes7adfad82008-02-15 08:20:11 +00005359
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005360- Bug #2063: correct order of utime and stime in os.times() result on
5361 Windows.
Georg Brandl0a40ffb2008-02-13 07:20:22 +00005362
Martin v. Löwise0d30ef2008-02-12 13:47:26 +00005363- Patch #1736: Fix file name handling of _msi.FCICreate.
5364
Hye-Shik Chang01612e72008-02-08 17:10:20 +00005365- Updated ``big5hkscs`` codec to the HKSCS revision of 2004.
5366
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005367- Issue #1940: make it possible to use curses.filter() before
5368 curses.initscr() as the documentation says.
Georg Brandl29604a12008-01-26 14:03:47 +00005369
Christian Heimes7f39c9f2008-01-25 12:18:43 +00005370- Backport of _fileio module from Python 3.0.
5371
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005372- Patch #1087741: mmap.mmap is now a class, not a factory function. It
5373 is also subclassable now.
Georg Brandl5ca3fd82008-01-21 14:18:14 +00005374
Georg Brandl56112892008-01-20 13:59:46 +00005375- Patch #1648: added ``sys.getprofile()`` and ``sys.gettrace()``.
5376
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005377- Patch #1663329: added ``os.closerange()`` function to quickly close
5378 a range of file descriptors without considering errors.
Georg Brandl309501a2008-01-19 20:22:13 +00005379
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005380- Patch #976880: ``mmap`` objects now have an ``rfind`` method that
Andrew M. Kuchling5c60bfc2008-01-19 18:18:41 +00005381 works as expected. ``mmap.find`` also takes an optional ``end``
5382 parameter.
5383
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005384- _winreg's HKEY object has gained __enter__ and __exit__ methods to
5385 support the context manager protocol. The _winreg module also
5386 gained a new function ``ExpandEnvironmentStrings`` to expand
5387 REG_EXPAND_SZ keys.
Christian Heimesb39a7562008-01-08 15:46:10 +00005388
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005389- itertools.starmap() now accepts any iterable input. Previously, it
5390 required the function inputs to be tuples.
Raymond Hettinger47317092008-01-17 03:02:14 +00005391
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005392- itertools.chain() now has an alternate constructor,
5393 chain.from_iterable().
Raymond Hettingerb4cbc982008-02-28 22:46:41 +00005394
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005395- Issue #1646: Make socket support TIPC. The socket module now has
5396 support for TIPC under Linux, see http://tipc.sf.net/ for more
5397 information.
Christian Heimesfb2d25a2008-01-07 16:12:44 +00005398
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005399- Added interface for Windows' WSAIoctl to socket object and added an
5400 example for a simple network sniffer.
Christian Heimes04ae9162008-01-04 15:23:30 +00005401
Guido van Rossum076d9ee2008-01-03 23:54:04 +00005402- Bug #1301: Bad assert in _tkinter fixed.
5403
Christian Heimescdaa2cb2007-12-31 14:47:07 +00005404- Added bdist_wininst executable for VS 2008.
5405
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005406- Bug #1604: collections.deque.__init__(iterable) now clears any prior
5407 contents before adding elements from the iterable. This fix brings
5408 the behavior into line with that for list.__init__().
Raymond Hettingeradf9ffd2007-12-13 00:08:37 +00005409
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005410- Added wide char functions to msvcrt module: getwch, getwche, putwch
5411 and ungetwch. The functions accept or return unicode.
Christian Heimes7c7f6af2007-12-10 15:12:41 +00005412
Martin v. Löwis69233e82007-12-04 08:39:16 +00005413- os.access now returns True on Windows for any existing directory.
5414
Christian Heimes28104c52007-11-27 23:16:44 +00005415- Added warnpy3k function to the warnings module.
5416
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005417- Marshal.dumps() now expects exact type matches for int, long, float,
5418 complex, tuple, list, dict, set, and frozenset. Formerly, it would
5419 silently miscode subclasses of those types. Now, it raises a
5420 ValueError instead.
Raymond Hettinger12e94202007-11-07 01:13:09 +00005421
Martin v. Löwis58bd49f2007-09-04 13:13:14 +00005422- Patch #1388440: Add set_completion_display_matches_hook and
5423 get_completion_type to readline.
5424
Thomas Helleref4fff32007-07-13 17:46:54 +00005425- Bug #1649098: Avoid declaration of zero-sized array declaration in
5426 structure.
5427
Brett Cannondc48b742007-05-20 07:09:50 +00005428- Removed the rgbimg module; been deprecated since Python 2.5.
5429
Neal Norwitz59f58aa2007-05-19 03:48:47 +00005430- Bug #1721309: prevent bsddb module from freeing random memory.
5431
Gregory P. Smith82eafe62007-10-18 17:17:57 +00005432- Bug #1233: fix bsddb.dbshelve.DBShelf append method to work as
5433 intended for RECNO databases.
5434
Gregory P. Smithec10a4a2007-11-05 02:32:26 +00005435- pybsddb.sf.net Bug #477182: Load the database flags at database open
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005436 time so that opening a database previously created with the DB_DUP
5437 or DB_DUPSORT flag set will keep the proper behavior on subsequent
5438 opens. Specifically: dictionary assignment to a DB object will
5439 replace all values for a given key when the database allows
5440 duplicate values. DB users should use DB.put(k, v) when they want
5441 to store duplicates; not DB[k] = v.
Gregory P. Smithec10a4a2007-11-05 02:32:26 +00005442
Gregory P. Smithac11e022007-11-05 02:56:31 +00005443- Add the bsddb.db.DBEnv.lock_id_free method.
5444
Martin v. Löwis3bf573f2007-04-04 18:30:36 +00005445- Bug #1686475: Support stat'ing open files on Windows again.
5446
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005447- Patch #1185447: binascii.b2a_qp() now correctly quotes binary
5448 characters with ASCII value less than 32. Also, it correctly quotes
5449 dots only if they occur on a single line, as opposed to the previous
5450 behavior of quoting dots if they are the second character of any
5451 line.
Georg Brandl4aef7272007-03-13 22:49:43 +00005452
Georg Brandla47337f2007-03-13 12:34:25 +00005453- Bug #1622896: fix a rare corner case where the bz2 module raised an
5454 error in spite of a succesful compression.
5455
Georg Brandl40c62612007-03-06 18:59:11 +00005456- Patch #1654417: make operator.{get,set,del}slice use the full range
5457 of Py_ssize_t.
5458
Guido van Rossum2054ee92007-03-06 15:50:01 +00005459- Patch #1646728: datetime.fromtimestamp fails with negative
5460 fractional times. With unittest.
5461
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005462- Patch #1490190: posixmodule now includes os.chflags() and
5463 os.lchflags() functions on platforms where the underlying system
5464 calls are available.
Martin v. Löwis382abef2007-02-19 10:55:19 +00005465
Georg Brandl983d1002007-02-15 11:29:04 +00005466- Patch #1494140: Add documentation for the new struct.Struct object.
5467
Martin v. Löwis45423a72007-02-14 10:07:37 +00005468- Patch #1432399: Support the HCI protocol for bluetooth sockets
5469
Martin v. Löwisb1cc1d42007-02-13 12:14:19 +00005470- Patch #1657276: Make NETLINK_DNRTMSG conditional.
5471
Martin v. Löwis4c11a922007-02-08 09:13:36 +00005472- Bug #1653736: Complain about keyword arguments to time.isoformat.
5473
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005474- Bug #1486663: don't reject keyword arguments for subclasses of
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00005475 built-in types.
Georg Brandlb84c1372007-01-21 10:28:43 +00005476
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005477- Patch #1610575: The struct module now supports the 't' code, for C99
5478 _Bool.
Martin v. Löwisaef4c6b2007-01-21 09:33:07 +00005479
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005480- Patch #1635058: ensure that htonl and friends never accept or return
5481 negative numbers, per the underlying C implementation.
Guido van Rossumbb2cc692007-01-14 17:03:32 +00005482
Martin v. Löwis046c4d12006-12-03 11:23:45 +00005483- Patch #1544279: Improve thread-safety of the socket module by moving
5484 the sock_addr_t storage out of the socket object.
5485
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005486- Patch #1019808: fix bug that causes an incorrect error to be
5487 returned when a socket timeout is set and a connection attempt
5488 fails.
Andrew M. Kuchling060e6852008-01-19 20:47:59 +00005489
Neal Norwitz45e230a2006-11-19 21:26:53 +00005490- Speed up function calls into the math module.
5491
Georg Brandl25aabf42006-11-16 17:08:45 +00005492- Bug #1588217: don't parse "= " as a soft line break in binascii's
5493 a2b_qp() function, instead leave it in the string as quopri.decode()
5494 does.
5495
Neal Norwitz4fe44232006-11-21 05:26:22 +00005496- Bug #1599782: Fix segfault on bsddb.db.DB().type().
5497
Martin v. Löwis012bc722006-10-15 09:43:39 +00005498- Bug #1567666: Emulate GetFileAttributesExA for Win95.
5499
Martin v. Löwis18aaa562006-10-15 08:43:33 +00005500- Patch #1576166: Support os.utime for directories on Windows NT+.
5501
Georg Brandl412a9ea2006-10-09 19:03:06 +00005502- Patch #1572724: fix typo ('=' instead of '==') in _msi.c.
5503
Hye-Shik Changb7883462006-10-08 13:48:34 +00005504- Bug #1572832: fix a bug in ISO-2022 codecs which may cause segfault
5505 when encoding non-BMP unicode characters.
5506
Georg Brandl4ddfcd32006-09-30 11:17:34 +00005507- Bug #1556784: allow format strings longer than 127 characters in
5508 datetime's strftime function.
5509
Jack Diederichd10a0f72006-09-21 20:34:49 +00005510- Fix itertools.count(n) to work with negative numbers again.
5511
Martin v. Löwis43fd99c2006-09-16 17:36:37 +00005512- RLIMIT_SBSIZE was added to the resource module where available.
5513
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005514- Bug #1551427: fix a wrong NULL pointer check in the win32 version of
5515 os.urandom().
Georg Brandl74bb7832006-09-06 06:03:59 +00005516
Neal Norwitz6aefa912006-09-02 02:50:35 +00005517- Bug #1548092: fix curses.tparm seg fault on invalid input.
5518
Andrew M. Kuchling62182c82008-01-08 14:56:02 +00005519- Patch #1114: fix curses module compilation on 64-bit AIX, & possibly
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005520 other 64-bit LP64 platforms where attr_t is not the same size as a
5521 long. (Contributed by Luke Mewburn.)
Andrew M. Kuchling62182c82008-01-08 14:56:02 +00005522
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005523- Bug #1550714: fix SystemError from itertools.tee on negative value
5524 for n.
Neal Norwitz69e88972006-09-02 02:58:13 +00005525
Hye-Shik Chang199f1db2006-09-05 12:07:09 +00005526- Fixed a few bugs on cjkcodecs:
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005527 - gbk and gb18030 codec now handle U+30FB KATAKANA MIDDLE DOT
5528 correctly.
Hye-Shik Chang199f1db2006-09-05 12:07:09 +00005529 - iso2022_jp_2 codec now encodes into G0 for KS X 1001, GB2312
5530 codepoints to conform the standard.
Hye-Shik Chang2cad3e92006-09-05 12:14:57 +00005531 - iso2022_jp_3 and iso2022_jp_2004 codec can encode JIS X 0213:2
Hye-Shik Chang199f1db2006-09-05 12:07:09 +00005532 codepoints now.
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00005533
Andrew M. Kuchling43889c02006-09-27 16:37:30 +00005534- Bug #1552726: in readline.c, avoid repeatedly polling in interactive
5535 mode by only placing a timeout on the select() if an input hook has
5536 been defined. This prevents an interactive Python from waking up 10
5537 times per second. Patch by Richard Boulton.
5538
Gregory P. Smithf09c6262007-03-17 22:33:35 +00005539- fixed a bug with bsddb.DB.stat: the flags and txn keyword arguments
5540 were transposed.
5541
Jesus Cea4907d272008-08-31 14:00:51 +00005542- Added support for linking the bsddb module against BerkeleyDB 4.5.x,
5543 4.6.x and 4.7.x.
Gregory P. Smith8b96a352007-01-05 01:59:42 +00005544
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005545- Bug #1633621: if curses.resizeterm() or curses.resize_term() is
5546 called, update _curses.LINES, _curses.COLS, curses.LINES and
5547 curses.COLS.
Andrew M. Kuchling43889c02006-09-27 16:37:30 +00005548
Matthias Klosee19e0c22007-04-03 04:35:59 +00005549- Fix an off-by-one bug in locale.strxfrm().
5550
Matthias Klose38336402007-09-04 20:46:02 +00005551- Fix libffi configure for hppa*-*-linux* | parisc*-*-linux*.
5552
Matthias Klose9afb9852007-10-24 20:00:44 +00005553- Build using system ffi library on arm*-linux*.
5554
Christian Heimes3f065a42007-11-21 01:17:28 +00005555- Bug #1372: zlibmodule.c: int overflow in PyZlib_decompress
Matthias Klosee19e0c22007-04-03 04:35:59 +00005556
Gregory P. Smitheeed5b72008-02-03 07:20:53 +00005557- bsddb module: Fix memory leak when using database cursors on
5558 databases without a DBEnv.
5559
Gerhard Häring11ab8072008-03-02 13:12:27 +00005560- The sqlite3 module was updated to pysqlite 2.4.1.
5561
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00005562Tests
5563-----
5564
Brett Cannon56c4deb2008-03-03 00:38:58 +00005565- Refactor test_logging to use unittest.
Brett Cannonf9db8a32008-02-17 01:59:18 +00005566
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005567- Refactor test_profile and test_cprofile to use the same code to
5568 profile.
Georg Brandlb7090772008-02-05 19:58:17 +00005569
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005570- Make test_runpy reentrant by fixing _check_module to clear out any
5571 module being tested. Was causing an error by __import__ doing a
5572 reload on the second run and thus suppressing bytecode recreation.
Brett Cannondbed7a72007-08-23 14:53:17 +00005573
Brett Cannonea2835a2007-03-14 21:44:15 +00005574- Capture socket connection resets and timeouts in test_socket_ssl and
5575 test_urllib2net and raise test.test_support.ResourceDenied.
Brett Cannoned001842007-03-14 21:40:13 +00005576
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005577- Patch #1559413: Fix test_cmd_line if sys.executable contains a
5578 space.
Martin v. Löwiscd1210a2007-03-14 20:02:31 +00005579
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005580- Added test.test_support.TransientResource which is a context manager
5581 to surround calls to resources that are not guaranteed to work even
5582 if test.test_support.requires says that the resource should exist.
Brett Cannona30fcb42007-03-08 23:58:11 +00005583
Brett Cannone05e6b02007-01-29 04:41:44 +00005584- Added a test for slicing of an exception.
5585
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005586- Added test.test_support.EnvironmentVarGuard. It's a class that
5587 provides a context manager so that one can temporarily set or unset
5588 environment variables.
Brett Cannon92d54d52007-01-04 00:23:49 +00005589
Thomas Heller112d1a62006-10-27 19:05:53 +00005590- Added some tests for modulefinder.
5591
Brett Cannon373d90b2006-10-03 23:23:14 +00005592- Converted test_imp to use unittest.
5593
Neal Norwitz919d5cc2006-09-05 02:35:08 +00005594- Fix bsddb test_basics.test06_Transactions to check the version
5595 number properly.
5596
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005597- test.test_support.catch_warning is a new context manager that can be
5598 used to catch the warnings issued by the warning framework.
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00005599
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00005600Tools
5601-----
5602
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005603- Tools/scripts/reindent.py now creates the backup file using
5604 shutil.copy to preserve user/group and permissions. Added also a
5605 --nobackup option to not create the backup if the user is concerned
5606 regarding this. Check issue 1050828 for more details.
Facundo Batistaf88a0772008-02-17 16:21:13 +00005607
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005608- Tools/scripts/win_add2path.py was added. The simple script modifes
5609 the PATH environment var of the HKCU tree and adds the python bin
5610 and script directory.
Christian Heimesbd865db2008-01-18 11:58:50 +00005611
Skip Montanaro3e275362007-08-29 01:33:45 +00005612- Tools/18n/pygettext.py was added to the list of scripts installed by
5613 Tools/scripts/setup.py (tracker item 642309).
5614
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005615- Added IronPython and Jython support to pybench (part of which was
5616 patch #1563844).
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00005617
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005618- Made some minor changes to pybench output to allow the user to see
5619 which Python version is running pybench.
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00005620
5621- Added support for the new platform module feature
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005622 platform.python_implementation(); this will now be saved in the
5623 benchmark pickle.
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00005624
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00005625
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00005626Documentation
5627-------------
5628
Vinay Sajipd7cf32e2008-01-24 12:43:33 +00005629- RFE #1765140: Updated documentation on FileHandler and subclasses to
5630 include new optional delay argument.
5631
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005632- Bug #932563: Added section on getting contextual information into
5633 logging output, and added documentation for the new LoggerAdapter
5634 class.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00005635
5636- Bug #1295: Added information about caching of formatted exception
5637 information in the LogRecord by Formatter.format().
5638
Georg Brandl9467bc52007-07-12 09:37:49 +00005639- Bug #1637365: add subsection about "__name__ == __main__" to the
5640 Python tutorial.
5641
Georg Brandl3dc6e902007-04-25 06:24:59 +00005642- Patch #1698768: updated the "using Python on the Mac" intro.
5643
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005644- Bug #1569057: Document that calling file.next() when the file is
5645 open for writing is undefined.
Brett Cannon55a18642007-04-08 04:29:32 +00005646
Žiga Seilnachtc64ad482007-03-24 14:24:26 +00005647- Patch #1489771: the syntax rules in Python Reference Manual were
5648 updated to reflect the current Python syntax.
5649
Martin v. Löwis2f401d72007-03-23 10:35:49 +00005650- Patch #1686451: Fix return type for
5651 PySequence_{Count,Index,Fast_GET_SIZE}.
5652
Georg Brandl0692a262007-03-13 07:50:57 +00005653- Patch #1679379: add documentation for fnmatch.translate().
5654
Collin Winterb7b2b4e2007-03-09 18:09:10 +00005655- Bug #1629566: clarify the docs on the return values of parsedate()
5656 and parsedate_tz() in email.utils and rfc822.
5657
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00005658- Patch #1671450: add a section about subclassing built-in types to the
Georg Brandld28b9fc2007-03-06 10:02:47 +00005659 "extending and embedding" tutorial.
5660
Georg Brandlb26b1c62007-01-17 21:19:58 +00005661- Bug #1629125: fix wrong data type (int -> Py_ssize_t) in PyDict_Next
5662 docs.
5663
Georg Brandla4c8e322006-10-12 08:22:53 +00005664- Bug #1565919: document set types in the Language Reference.
5665
Georg Brandl44a7b3a2006-09-30 12:02:57 +00005666- Bug #1546052: clarify that PyString_FromString(AndSize) copies the
5667 string pointed to by its parameter.
5668
Georg Brandlfb257732006-09-30 09:06:45 +00005669- Bug #1566663: remove obsolete example from datetime docs.
5670
Georg Brandl648c1102006-08-18 07:27:59 +00005671- Bug #1541682: Fix example in the "Refcount details" API docs.
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005672 Additionally, remove a faulty example showing PySequence_SetItem
5673 applied to a newly created list object and add notes that this isn't
5674 a good idea.
Georg Brandl648c1102006-08-18 07:27:59 +00005675
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00005676
Georg Brandl27562782006-10-27 20:39:43 +00005677Tools/Demos
5678-----------
5679
5680- Patch #1552024: add decorator support to unparse.py demo script.
Marc-André Lemburg96148682006-09-06 20:40:22 +00005681
Brett Cannonc8939d22006-09-20 19:28:35 +00005682- Make auto-generated python.vim file list built-ins and exceptions in
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005683 alphatbetical order. Makes output more deterministic and easier to
5684 tell if the file is stale or not.
Brett Cannonc8939d22006-09-20 19:28:35 +00005685
Marc-André Lemburg96148682006-09-06 20:40:22 +00005686- Bug #1546372: Fixed small bugglet in pybench that caused a missing
5687 file not to get reported properly.
5688
5689
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00005690Build
5691-----
5692
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005693- Have the search path for building extensions follow the declared
5694 order in $CPPFLAGS and $LDFLAGS when adding directories from those
5695 environment variables.
Brett Cannon70c0c022008-02-03 09:59:21 +00005696
Christian Heimes951cc0f2008-01-31 23:08:23 +00005697- Bug #1983: Added a check to pyport to verify that sizeof(pid_t) is
5698 smaller or equal sizeof(long).
5699
Christian Heimescba36bb2008-01-30 22:54:18 +00005700- Bug #1234: Fixed semaphore errors on AIX 5.2
5701
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005702- Issue #1726: Remove Python/atof.c from PCBuild/pythoncore.vcproj.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00005703
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005704- Removed PCbuild8/ directory and added a new build directory for VS
5705 2005 based on the VS 2008 build directory to PC/VS8.0. The script
5706 PCbuild/vs8to9.py was added to sync changes from PCbuild to
5707 PC/VS8.0.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00005708
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005709- Moved PCbuild/ directory for VS 2003 to PC/VS7.1 and renamed
5710 PCBuild9/ directory to PCBuild/.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00005711
Martin v. Löwiscb78de62007-12-29 18:49:21 +00005712- Bug #1699: Define _BSD_SOURCE only on OpenBSD.
5713
Guido van Rossum7c862f82007-12-13 20:50:10 +00005714- Bug #1608: use -fwrapv when GCC supports it. This is important,
5715 newer GCC versions may optimize away overflow buffer overflow checks
5716 without this option!
5717
Martin v. Löwis63bf1492007-11-12 05:14:05 +00005718- Patch #1418: Make the AC_REPLACE_FUNCS object files actually work.
5719
Raymond Hettingerdc1d1ba2007-11-07 02:45:46 +00005720- Add a FAST_LOOPS build option that speeds-up looping by trading away
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005721 periodic threadstate and signal checking in tight loops. By
5722 default, this option is turned-off. It should only be enabled in
5723 debugged, performance critical applications.
Raymond Hettingerdc1d1ba2007-11-07 02:45:46 +00005724
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005725- Patch #786737: Allow building in a tree of symlinks pointing to a
5726 readonly source.
Martin v. Löwisd44a4e92007-09-05 11:47:34 +00005727
Martin v. Löwis8bc77e42007-09-01 06:36:03 +00005728- Bug #1737210: Change Manufacturer of Windows installer to PSF.
5729
Martin v. Löwis75c23bd2007-08-30 18:25:47 +00005730- Bug #1746880: Correctly install DLLs into system32 folder on Win64.
5731
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005732- Define _BSD_SOURCE, to get access to POSIX extensions on OpenBSD
5733 4.1+.
Martin v. Löwis76760b02007-07-31 19:57:56 +00005734
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005735- Stop supporting AtheOS and cause a build error in configure for the
5736 platform.
Brett Cannon19fab762007-06-02 03:02:29 +00005737
Georg Brandldb846032007-03-31 18:56:11 +00005738- Bug #1655392: don't add -L/usr/lib/pythonX.Y/config to the LDFLAGS
5739 returned by python-config if Python was built with --enable-shared
5740 because that prevented the shared library from being used.
5741
Georg Brandl18c47f62007-03-13 10:19:22 +00005742- Patch #1569798: fix a bug in distutils when building Python from a
5743 directory within sys.exec_prefix.
5744
Martin v. Löwiseb623572007-03-12 10:50:39 +00005745- Bug #1675511: Use -Kpic instead of -xcode=pic32 on Solaris/x86.
5746
Martin v. Löwis4d542ec2006-11-25 15:39:19 +00005747- Disable _XOPEN_SOURCE on NetBSD 1.x.
5748
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005749- configure now checks whether gcc supports the PyArg_ParseTuple
5750 format attribute.
Martin v. Löwisaac13162006-10-19 10:58:46 +00005751
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00005752- Bug #1578513: Cross compilation was broken by a change to configure.
Martin v. Löwisfefbc202006-10-17 18:59:23 +00005753 Repair so that it's back to how it was in 2.4.3.
5754
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005755- Patch #1576954: Update VC6 build directory; remove redundant files
5756 in VC7.
Martin v. Löwisc9e82f62006-10-15 07:54:40 +00005757
Martin v. Löwisebe26702006-10-02 14:55:51 +00005758- Bug #1568842: Fix test for uintptr_t.
5759
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005760- Patch #1540470: for OpenBSD 4.0.
Neal Norwitz4bc2c092006-09-05 02:57:01 +00005761
Matthias Klosed149d0c2006-12-03 17:16:41 +00005762- Fix build failure on kfreebsd and on the hurd.
5763
Matthias Kloseebde1492006-12-09 12:15:27 +00005764- Fix the build of the library reference in info format.
5765
Matthias Kloseeb8ff672007-08-02 21:33:13 +00005766- Allow Emacs 22 for building the documentation in info format.
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00005767
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005768- Makefile.pre.in(buildbottest): Run an optional script
5769 pybuildbot.identify to include some information about the build
5770 environment.
Matthias Klose642ac852007-09-04 18:17:36 +00005771
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00005772
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00005773C API
5774-----
5775
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005776- Unified naming convention for free lists and their limits. All free
5777 lists in Object/ are named ``free_list``, the counter ``numfree``
5778 and the upper limit is a macro ``PyName_MAXFREELIST`` inside an
5779 #ifndef block.
Christian Heimes5b970ad2008-02-06 13:33:44 +00005780
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005781- ``PySet_Add()`` can now modify a newly created frozenset. Similarly
5782 to ``PyTuple_SetItem``, it can be used to populate a brand new
5783 frozenset; but it does not steal a reference to the added item.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arccab3d982008-02-03 22:51:43 +00005784
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00005785- Added ``PySet_Check()`` and ``PyFrozenSet_Check()`` to the set API.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arccab3d982008-02-03 22:51:43 +00005786
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005787- Backport of PyUnicode_FromString(), _FromStringAndSize(), _Format
5788 and _FormatV from Python 3.0. Made PyLong_AsSsize_t and
5789 PyLong_FromSsize_t public functions.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00005790
5791- Patch #1720595: add T_BOOL to the range of structmember types.
5792
5793- Issue #1534: Added ``PyFloat_GetMax()``, ``PyFloat_GetMin()`` and
5794 ``PyFloat_GetInfo()`` to the float API.
5795
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005796- Issue #1521: On 64bit platforms, using PyArgs_ParseTuple with the t#
5797 of w# format code incorrectly truncated the length to an int, even
5798 when PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN is set. The str.decode method used to return
5799 incorrect results with huge strings.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00005800
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005801- Issue #1629: Renamed Py_Size, Py_Type and Py_Refcnt to Py_SIZE,
5802 Py_TYPE and Py_REFCNT.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00005803
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005804- PEP 3123: Provide forward compatibility with Python 3.0, while
5805 keeping backwards compatibility. Add Py_Refcnt, Py_Type, Py_Size,
5806 and PyVarObject_HEAD_INIT.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00005807
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005808- Py_ssize_t fields work in structmember when HAVE_LONG_LONG is not
5809 defined.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00005810
5811- Patch #1733960: Allow T_LONGLONG to accept ints.
5812
5813- T_PYSSIZET can now be used in PyMemberDef lists for Py_ssize_t members.
5814
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00005815- Added a new API function ``PyImport_ImportModuleNoBlock``.
5816
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00005817- Bug #1637022: Prefix AST symbols with _Py_.
5818
5819- Fix some leftovers from the conversion from int to Py_ssize_t
5820 (relevant to strings and sequences of more than 2**31 items).
5821
5822- Make _PyGILState_NoteThreadState() static, it was not used anywhere
5823 outside of pystate.c and should not be necessary.
5824
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005825- ``PyImport_Import`` and ``PyImport_ImportModule`` now always do
5826 absolute imports. In earlier versions they might have used relative
5827 imports under some conditions.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00005828
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005829- Added case insensitive comparison methods ``PyOS_stricmp(char*,
5830 char*)`` and ``PyOS_strnicmp(char*, char*, Py_ssize_t)``.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00005831
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005832- Bug #1542693: remove semi-colon at end of PyImport_ImportModuleEx
5833 macro so it can be used as an expression.
Neal Norwitz8a267062006-08-19 04:25:29 +00005834
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00005835
Martin v. Löwis2607e6c2006-11-21 18:20:25 +00005836Windows
5837-------
5838
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005839- Patch #1706: Drop support for Win9x, WinME and NT4. Python now
5840 requires Windows 2000 or greater. The _WINVER and NTDDI_VERSION
5841 macros are set to Win2k for x86/32bit builds and WinXP for AMD64
5842 builds.
Christian Heimes95d64472008-02-09 19:55:22 +00005843
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005844- Conditionalize definition of _CRT_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE and
5845 _CRT_NONSTDC_NO_DEPRECATE.
Martin v. Löwis2607e6c2006-11-21 18:20:25 +00005846
Martin v. Löwisd476a402007-10-12 08:56:52 +00005847- Bug #1216: Restore support for Visual Studio 2002.
5848
Martin v. Löwis2607e6c2006-11-21 18:20:25 +00005849
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00005850Mac
5851---
5852
Brett Cannonf0cb1d72007-05-31 20:01:11 +00005853- cfmfile now raises a DeprecationWarning.
5854
Brett Cannon791d56f2007-05-31 19:40:42 +00005855- buildtools now raises a DeprecationWarning.
5856
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005857- Removed the macfs module. It had been deprecated since Python 2.5.
5858 This lead to the deprecation of macostools.touched() as it relied
5859 solely on macfs and was a no-op under OS X.
Brett Cannon5e263512007-05-20 23:17:38 +00005860
Skip Montanaroe5d7f7f2002-09-20 14:16:59 +00005861----
5862
5863**(For information about older versions, consult the HISTORY file.)**