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Nick Coghlanbb0996c2006-09-03 01:20:46 +00007What's New in Python 2.6 alpha 1?
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Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00009
Guido van Rossum901464f2007-12-08 04:38:23 +000010*Release date: XX-XXX-2008*
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +000011
12Core and builtins
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14
Eric Smitha73fbe72008-02-23 03:09:44 +000015- Added the future_builtins module, which contains hex() and oct().
16 These are the PEP 3127 version of these functions, designed to be
17 compatible with the hex() and oct() builtins from Python 3.0. They
18 differ slightly in their output formats from the existing, unchanged
19 Python 2.6 builtins. The expected usage of the future_builtins
20 module is:
21 from future_builtins import hex, oct
22
Eric Smith7ef40bf2008-02-20 23:34:22 +000023- Issue #1600: Modifed PyOS_ascii_formatd to use at most 2 digit
24 exponents for exponents with absolute value < 100. Follows C99
25 standard. This is a change on Windows, which would use 3 digits.
26 Also, added 'n' to the formats that PyOS_ascii_formatd understands,
27 so that any alterations it does to the resulting string will be
28 available in stringlib/formatter.h (for float.__format__).
29
Eric Smith5a3c1352008-02-19 13:21:56 +000030- Implemented PEP 3101, Advanced String Formatting. This adds a new
31 builtin format(); a format() method for str and unicode; a
32 __format__() method to object, str, unicode, int, long, float, and
33 datetime; the class string.Formatter; and the C API
34 PyObject_Format().
35
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc632fad32008-02-16 20:55:24 +000036- Fixed several potential crashes, all caused by specially crafted __del__
37 methods exploiting objects in temporarily inconsistent state.
38
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc60d6c7f2008-02-15 21:22:45 +000039- Issue #2115: Important speedup in setting __slot__ attributes. Also
40 prevent a possible crash: an Abstract Base Class would try to access a slot
41 on a registered virtual subclass.
42
Christian Heimes2f0da532008-02-15 06:57:08 +000043- Fixed repr() and str() of complex numbers with infinity or nan as real or
44 imaginary part.
45
Christian Heimes3b718a72008-02-14 12:47:33 +000046- Clear all free list during a gc.collect() of the highest generation in order
47 to allow pymalloc to free more arenas. Python may give back memory to the
48 OS earlier.
49
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcb01aa432008-02-08 00:56:02 +000050- Issue #2045: Fix an infinite recursion triggered when printing a subclass of
51 collections.defaultdict, if its default_factory is set to a bound method.
52
Christian Heimesf75dbef2008-02-08 00:11:31 +000053- Fixed a minor memory leak in dictobject.c. The content of the free
54 list was not freed on interpreter shutdown.
55
Christian Heimes6075a822008-02-06 12:44:34 +000056- Limit free list of method and builtin function objects to 256 entries
57 each.
58
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc578a8ca2008-02-04 20:53:14 +000059- Patch #1953: Added ``sys._compact_freelists()`` and the C API functions
60 ``PyInt_CompactFreeList`` and ``PyFloat_CompactFreeList``
Christian Heimes422051a2008-02-04 18:00:12 +000061 to compact the internal free lists of pre-allocted ints and floats.
62
Christian Heimes951cc0f2008-01-31 23:08:23 +000063- Bug #1983: Fixed return type of fork(), fork1() and forkpty() calls.
64 Python expected the return type int but the fork familie returns pi_t.
65
Mark Dickinson105be772008-01-31 22:17:37 +000066- Issue #1678380: Fix a bug that identifies 0j and -0j when they appear
67 in the same code unit.
68
Raymond Hettinger5b07ebc2008-02-07 00:54:20 +000069- Issue #2025 : Add tuple.count() and tuple.index() methods to comply with
70 the collections.Sequence API.
71
Christian Heimes4d4f2702008-01-30 11:32:37 +000072- Patch #1970 by Antoine Pitrou: Speedup unicode whitespace and linebreak
73 detection
74
Christian Heimes422051a2008-02-04 18:00:12 +000075- Added ``PyType_ClearCache()`` and ``sys._clear_type_cache`` to clear the
Christian Heimes908caac2008-01-27 23:34:59 +000076 internal lookup cache for ref leak tests.
77
Georg Brandl0cdf9a32008-01-26 14:14:20 +000078- Patch #1473257: generator objects gain a gi_code attribute. This is the
79 same object as the func_code attribute of the function that produced the
80 generator.
81
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc31eaafe2008-01-24 22:59:25 +000082- Issue #1920: "while 0" statements were completely removed by the compiler,
83 even in the presence of an "else" clause, which is supposed to be run when
84 the condition is false. Now the compiler correctly emits bytecode for the
85 "else" suite.
86
Guido van Rossumeead05f2008-01-24 18:21:02 +000087- A few crashers fixed: weakref_in_del.py (issue #1377858);
88 loosing_dict_ref.py (issue #1303614, test67.py);
89 borrowed_ref_[34].py (not in tracker).
90
Vinay Sajipd7cf32e2008-01-24 12:43:33 +000091- Issue #1069410: The "can't load dll" message box on Windows is
Christian Heimesb2302ba2008-01-23 17:15:06 +000092 suppressed while an extension is loaded by calling SetErrorMode in
93 dynload_win.c. The error is still reported properly.
94
Christian Heimes082c9b02008-01-23 14:20:50 +000095- Bug #1915: Python compiles with --enable-unicode=no again. However
96 several extension methods and modules do not work without unicode
97 support.
98
Georg Brandl26543b12008-01-21 18:36:51 +000099- Issue #1882: when compiling code from a string, encoding cookies in the
100 second line of code were not always recognized correctly.
101
Georg Brandl14404b62008-01-19 19:27:05 +0000102- Issue #1679: "0x" was taken as a valid integer literal.
103
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +0000104- Issue #1865: ``bytes`` as an alias for ``str`` and b"" as an alias "" were
Christian Heimes288e89a2008-01-18 18:24:07 +0000105 added.
106
Christian Heimesc94e2b52008-01-14 04:13:37 +0000107- sys.float_info / PyFloat_GetInfo: The floating point information
108 object was converted from a dict to a specialized structseq object.
109
Christian Heimesf31b69f2008-01-14 03:42:48 +0000110- Patch #1816: Added sys.flags structseq. It exposes the status of most
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +0000111 command line arguments and PYTHON* environment variables.
Christian Heimesf31b69f2008-01-14 03:42:48 +0000112
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +0000113- Objects/structseq.c: Implemented new structseq representation. The patch
Christian Heimesf31b69f2008-01-14 03:42:48 +0000114 makes structseqs (e.g. the return value of os.stat) more readable.
Christian Heimes9c201962008-01-14 03:33:52 +0000115
Amaury Forgeot d'Arce4c270c2008-01-14 00:29:41 +0000116- Patch #1700288: added a type attribute cache that caches method accesses,
117 resulting in speedups in heavily object-oriented code.
118
Neal Norwitz3fc15b82008-01-10 05:42:58 +0000119- Bug #1776: __import__() no longer accepts filenames on any platform.
120 The first parameter to __import__() must be a valid module name.
Christian Heimes3403f152008-01-09 19:56:33 +0000121
Georg Brandlaed6c662008-01-07 17:25:53 +0000122- Patch #1668: renamed THREADDEBUG envvar to PYTHONTHREADDEBUG.
123
Georg Brandl2da0fce2008-01-07 17:09:35 +0000124- Patch #602345: Add -B command line option, PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE envvar
125 and sys.dont_write_bytecode attribute. All these can be set to forbid Python
126 to attempt to write compiled bytecode files.
127
Amaury Forgeot d'Arce0b76952008-01-04 02:04:15 +0000128- Improve some exception messages when Windows fails to load an extension
129 module. Now we get for example '%1 is not a valid Win32 application' instead
130 of 'error code 193'.
131
Christian Heimes8267d1d2008-01-04 00:37:34 +0000132- Bug #1481296: Fixed long(float('nan'))!=0L.
133
Christian Heimeseebb79c2008-01-03 22:32:26 +0000134- Issue #1640: Added math.isinf(x), math.isnan(x) and math.copysign(x, y)
135 functions.
Christian Heimese2ca4242008-01-03 20:23:15 +0000136
Christian Heimes0a8143f2007-12-18 23:22:54 +0000137- Issue #1635: Platform independent creation and representation of NaN
138 and INF. float("nan"), float("inf") and float("-inf") now work on every
139 platform with IEEE 754 semantics.
140
Raymond Hettingerfd7ed402007-12-18 21:24:09 +0000141- Compiler now generates simpler and faster code for dictionary literals.
142 The oparg for BUILD_MAP now indicates an estimated dictionary size.
143 There is a new opcode, STORE_MAP, for adding entries to the dictionary.
144
Christian Heimesdb3d6cb2007-12-16 21:39:43 +0000145- Issue #1638: %zd configure test fails on Linux
146
Christian Heimes90e10e72007-12-14 02:35:23 +0000147- Issue #1620: New property decorator syntax was modifying the decorator
148 in place instead of creating a new decorator object.
149
Skip Montanaro26015492007-12-08 15:33:24 +0000150- Issue #1538: Avoid copying string in split/rsplit if the split
151 char is not found.
152
Andrew M. Kuchling395fe442007-12-05 13:27:20 +0000153- Issue #1553: An erroneous __length_hint__ can make list() raise a
Christian Heimes7cc1c6f2007-12-05 12:52:34 +0000154 SystemError.
155
Nick Coghlanef01d822007-12-03 12:55:17 +0000156- PEP 366: Allow explicit relative imports when executing modules
157 inside packages with the -m switch via a new module level
158 __package__ attribute.
159
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcbe49a902007-11-30 20:37:22 +0000160- Issue #1402: Fix a crash on exit, when another thread is still running, and
161 if the deallocation of its frames somehow calls the PyGILState_Ensure() /
162 PyGILState_Release() functions.
163
Christian Heimes28104c52007-11-27 23:16:44 +0000164- Expose the Py_Py3kWarningFlag as sys.py3kwarning.
165
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +0000166- Issue #1445: Fix a SystemError when accessing the ``cell_contents``
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcce7d10c2007-11-24 13:44:17 +0000167 attribute of an empty cell object.
168
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcf57375a2007-11-21 01:38:26 +0000169- Issue #1460: The utf-7 incremental decoder did not accept truncated input.
170 It now correctly saves its state between chunks of data.
171
Nick Coghlan327a39b2007-11-18 11:56:28 +0000172- Patch #1739468: Directories and zipfiles containing a __main__.py file can
173 now be directly executed by passing their name to the interpreter. The
174 directory/zipfile is automatically inserted as the first entry in sys.path.
175
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc0d75f092007-11-13 21:54:28 +0000176- Issue #1265: Fix a problem with sys.settrace, if the tracing function uses a
177 generator expression when at the same time the executed code is closing a
178 paused generator.
179
Raymond Hettinger1760c8a2007-11-08 02:52:43 +0000180- sets and frozensets now have an isdisjoint() method.
181
Raymond Hettinger3f8caa32007-10-24 01:28:33 +0000182- optimize the performance of builtin.sum().
183
Neal Norwitz44f326e2007-10-05 05:29:17 +0000184- Fix warnings found by the new version of the Coverity checker.
185
Raymond Hettinger8f669372007-10-03 21:18:11 +0000186- The enumerate() builtin function is no longer bounded to sequences smaller
187 than LONG_MAX. Formerly, it raised an OverflowError. Now, automatically
188 shifts from ints to longs.
189
Brett Cannon0b14f242007-09-30 19:45:10 +0000190- Issue #1686386: Tuple's tp_repr did not take into account the possibility of
191 having a self-referential tuple, which is possible from C code. Nor did
192 object's tp_str consider that a type's tp_str could do something that could
193 lead to an inifinite recursion. Py_ReprEnter() and Py_EnterRecursiveCall(),
194 respectively, fixed the issues.
195
Brett Cannon01531592007-09-17 03:28:34 +0000196- Issue #1164: It was possible to trigger deadlock when using the 'print'
197 statement to write to a file since the GIL was not released as needed. Now
198 PyObject_Print() does the right thing along with various tp_print
199 implementations of the built-in types and those in the collections module.
200
Brett Cannon4c20bc42007-09-11 21:02:28 +0000201- Issue #1147: Exceptions were directly allowing string exceptions in their
202 throw() method even though string exceptions no longer allowed.
203
Brett Cannona0c05512007-09-10 21:38:27 +0000204- Issue #1096: Prevent a segfault from getting the repr of a very deeply nested
205 list by using the recursion counter.
206
Brett Cannon1e534b52007-09-07 04:18:30 +0000207- Issue #1202533: Fix infinite recursion calls triggered by calls to
208 PyObject_Call() never calling back out to Python code to trigger recursion
209 depth updates/checks. Required the creation of a static RuntimeError
210 instance in case normalizing an exception put the recursion check value past
211 its limit. Fixes crashers infinite_rec_(1|2|4|5).py.
212
Martin v. Löwisa5136192007-09-04 14:19:28 +0000213- Patch #1031213: Decode source line in SyntaxErrors back to its original source
214 encoding.
215
Georg Brandl7c3b50d2007-07-12 08:38:00 +0000216- Patch #1673759: add a missing overflow check when formatting floats
217 with %G.
218
Neal Norwitzdb2b1b32007-06-11 07:36:24 +0000219- Prevent expandtabs() on string and unicode objects from causing a segfault
220 when a large width is passed on 32-bit platforms.
Neal Norwitz7dbd2a32007-06-09 03:36:34 +0000221
Martin v. Löwisda587ab2007-06-08 17:29:20 +0000222- Bug #1733488: Fix compilation of bufferobject.c on AIX.
223
Georg Brandl25497a12007-06-01 19:20:27 +0000224- Bug #1722485: remove docstrings again when running with -OO.
Georg Brandla5ea6892007-06-01 11:33:33 +0000225
Neal Norwitz0ac60192007-05-27 04:08:54 +0000226- Add new attribute names for function objects. All the func_* become
227 __*__ attributes. (Some already existed, e.g., __doc__ and __name__.)
228
Neal Norwitz8b2bfbc2007-05-23 06:35:32 +0000229- Add -3 option to the interpreter to warn about features that are
230 deprecated and will be changed/removed in Python 3.0.
231
Georg Brandl2134e752007-05-21 20:34:16 +0000232- Patch #1686487: you can now pass any mapping after '**' in function
233 calls.
234
Collin Winter62903052007-05-18 23:11:24 +0000235- except clauses may now be spelled either "except E, target:" or
236 "except E as target:". This is to provide forwards compatibility with
237 Python 3.0.
238
Brett Cannon229cee22007-05-05 01:34:02 +0000239- Deprecate BaseException.message as per PEP 352.
240
Armin Rigo9790a272007-05-02 19:23:31 +0000241- Bug #1303614: don't expose object's __dict__ when the dict is
242 inherited from a builtin base.
243
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +0000244- When __slots__ are set to a unicode string, make it work the same as
Neal Norwitzcbd9ee62007-04-14 05:25:50 +0000245 setting a plain string, ie don't expand to single letter identifiers.
246
Raymond Hettinger13936692007-04-11 18:40:58 +0000247- Request #1191699: Slices can now be pickled.
248
Raymond Hettinger4db5fe92007-04-12 04:10:00 +0000249- Request #1193128: str.translate() now allows a None argument for
250 translations that only remove characters without re-mapping the
251 remaining characters.
252
Georg Brandl5cb76c12007-03-21 09:00:39 +0000253- Patch #1682205: a TypeError while unpacking an iterable is no longer
254 masked by a generic one with the message "unpack non-sequence".
255
Neal Norwitzaa754b72007-03-21 06:39:48 +0000256- Remove unused file Python/fmod.c.
257
Guido van Rossum143b5642007-03-23 04:58:42 +0000258- Bug #1683368: The object.__init__() and object.__new__() methods are
259 now stricter in rejecting excess arguments. The only time when
260 either allows excess arguments is when it is not overridden and the
261 other one is. For backwards compatibility, when both are
262 overridden, it is a deprecation warning (for now; maybe a Py3k
Guido van Rossum234b1ff2007-03-23 19:39:01 +0000263 warning later). Also, type.__init__() insists on the same signature
264 as supported by type.__new__().
Guido van Rossum143b5642007-03-23 04:58:42 +0000265
Georg Brandl2b869942007-03-17 16:08:45 +0000266- Patch #1675423: PyComplex_AsCComplex() now tries to convert an object
267 to complex using its __complex__() method before falling back to the
268 __float__() method. Therefore, the functions in the cmath module now
269 can operate on objects that define a __complex__() method.
270
Žiga Seilnacht6f2d09c2007-03-16 11:59:38 +0000271- Patch #1623563: allow __class__ assignment for classes with __slots__.
272 The old and the new class are still required to have the same slot names.
273
Collin Winter77c67bd2007-03-16 04:11:30 +0000274- Patch #1642547: Fix an error/crash when encountering syntax errors in
275 complex if statements.
276
Žiga Seilnacht20f43d32007-03-15 11:44:55 +0000277- Patch #1462488: Python no longer segfaults when ``object.__reduce_ex__()``
278 is called with an object that is faking its type.
279
Žiga Seilnacht71436f02007-03-14 12:24:09 +0000280- Patch #1680015: Don't modify __slots__ tuple if it contains an unicode
281 name.
282
Georg Brandl5240d742007-03-13 20:46:32 +0000283- Patch #1444529: the builtin compile() now accepts keyword arguments.
284
Georg Brandl7b9c5552007-03-12 14:30:05 +0000285- Bug #1678647: write a newline after printing an exception in any
286 case, even when converting the value to a string failed.
287
Georg Brandl871f1bc2007-03-12 13:17:36 +0000288- The dir() function has been extended to call the __dir__() method on
289 its argument, if it exists. If not, it will work like before. This allows
290 customizing the output of dir() in the presence of a __getattr__().
291
Collin Winter276887b2007-03-12 16:11:39 +0000292- Patch #922167: Python no longer segfaults when faced with infinitely
293 self-recursive reload() calls (as reported by bug #742342).
294
Žiga Seilnacht89032082007-03-11 15:54:54 +0000295- Patch #1675981: remove unreachable code from ``type.__new__()`` method.
296
Collin Wintere38051d2007-03-09 20:33:07 +0000297- Patch #1491866: change the complex() constructor to allow parthensized
298 forms. This means complex(repr(x)) now works instead of raising a
299 ValueError.
300
Georg Brandlaa2321b2007-03-07 00:40:28 +0000301- Patch #703779: unset __file__ in __main__ after running a file. This
302 makes the filenames the warning module prints much more sensible when
303 a PYTHONSTARTUP file is used.
304
Georg Brandl49aafc92007-03-07 00:34:46 +0000305- Variant of patch #697613: don't exit the interpreter on a SystemExit
306 exception if the -i command line option or PYTHONINSPECT environment
307 variable is given, but break into the interactive interpreter just like
308 on other exceptions or normal program exit.
309
Georg Brandl00cd8182007-03-06 18:41:12 +0000310- Patch #1638879: don't accept strings with embedded NUL bytes in long().
311
Georg Brandl098cd692007-03-06 12:17:50 +0000312- Bug #1674503: close the file opened by execfile() in an error condition.
313
Georg Brandl0fca97a2007-03-05 22:28:08 +0000314- Patch #1674228: when assigning a slice (old-style), check for the
315 sq_ass_slice instead of the sq_slice slot.
316
Neal Norwitz88516a62007-02-26 22:41:45 +0000317- When printing an unraisable error, don't print exceptions. before the name.
318 This duplicates the behavior whening normally printing exceptions.
319
Martin v. Löwisfd963262007-02-09 12:19:32 +0000320- Bug #1653736: Properly discard third argument to slot_nb_inplace_power.
321
Brett Cannon129bd522007-01-30 21:34:36 +0000322- PEP 352: Raising a string exception now triggers a TypeError. Attempting to
323 catch a string exception raises DeprecationWarning.
324
Brett Cannonf5bee302007-01-23 23:21:22 +0000325- Bug #1377858: Fix the segfaulting of the interpreter when an object created
326 a weakref on itself during a __del__ call for new-style classes (classic
327 classes still have the bug).
328
Martin v. Löwis6c5c5022007-01-23 21:11:47 +0000329- Bug #1579370: Make PyTraceBack_Here use the current thread, not the
330 frame's thread state.
331
Thomas Wouters6ed19652007-01-23 13:50:49 +0000332- patch #1630975: Fix crash when replacing sys.stdout in sitecustomize.py
333
Neal Norwitz72cd02c2007-01-05 05:25:22 +0000334- Prevent seg fault on shutdown which could occur if an object
335 raised a warning.
336
Martin v. Löwis7b7c9d42007-01-04 21:06:12 +0000337- Bug #1566280: Explicitly invoke threading._shutdown from Py_Main,
338 to avoid relying on atexit.
339
Raymond Hettinger94547f72006-12-20 06:42:06 +0000340- Bug #1590891: random.randrange don't return correct value for big number
341
Georg Brandl283a1352006-11-19 08:48:30 +0000342- Patch #1586791: Better exception messages for some operations on strings,
343 tuples and lists.
344
Martin v. Löwis056dac12006-11-12 18:24:26 +0000345- Bug #1067760: Deprecate passing floats to file.seek.
346
Martin v. Löwisa346c092006-11-08 06:48:36 +0000347- Bug #1591996: Correctly forward exception in instance_contains().
348
Neal Norwitz85dbec62006-11-04 19:25:22 +0000349- Bug #1588287: fix invalid assertion for `1,2` in debug builds.
350
Georg Brandlb9f4ad32006-10-29 18:31:42 +0000351- Bug #1576657: when setting a KeyError for a tuple key, make sure that
352 the tuple isn't used as the "exception arguments tuple".
353
Neal Norwitz21997af2006-10-28 21:19:07 +0000354- Bug #1565514, SystemError not raised on too many nested blocks.
355
Thomas Hellerdf08f0b2006-10-27 18:31:36 +0000356- Bug #1576174: WindowsError now displays the windows error code
357 again, no longer the posix error code.
358
Martin v. Löwisb5bc5372006-10-27 06:16:31 +0000359- Patch #1549049: Support long values in structmember, issue warnings
360 if the assigned value for structmember fields gets truncated.
361
Neal Norwitzcbeb6872006-10-14 21:33:38 +0000362- Update the peephole optimizer to remove more dead code (jumps after returns)
363 and inline unconditional jumps to returns.
364
Georg Brandl2c1375c2006-10-12 11:27:59 +0000365- Bug #1545497: when given an explicit base, int() did ignore NULs
366 embedded in the string to convert.
367
Georg Brandl846f73a2006-10-08 07:11:54 +0000368- Bug #1569998: break inside a try statement (outside a loop) is now
369 recognized and rejected.
370
Armin Rigo7ccbca92006-10-04 12:17:45 +0000371- list.pop(x) accepts any object x following the __index__ protocol.
372
Armin Rigo7ccbca92006-10-04 12:17:45 +0000373- A number of places, including integer negation and absolute value,
374 were fixed to not rely on undefined behaviour of the C compiler
375 anymore.
Martin v. Löwis820d6ac2006-10-04 05:47:34 +0000376
Georg Brandl3267d282006-09-30 09:03:42 +0000377- Bug #1566800: make sure that EnvironmentError can be called with any
378 number of arguments, as was the case in Python 2.4.
379
Georg Brandl5d59c092006-09-30 08:43:30 +0000380- Patch #1567691: super() and new.instancemethod() now don't accept
381 keyword arguments any more (previously they accepted them, but didn't
382 use them).
383
Georg Brandla10d3af2006-09-24 12:35:36 +0000384- Fix a bug in the parser's future statement handling that led to "with"
385 not being recognized as a keyword after, e.g., this statement:
386 from __future__ import division, with_statement
387
Neal Norwitz3a230172006-09-22 08:18:10 +0000388- Bug #1557232: fix seg fault with def f((((x)))) and def f(((x),)).
389
Neal Norwitz4a8fbdb2006-09-22 08:16:26 +0000390- Fix %zd string formatting on Mac OS X so it prints negative numbers.
391
Brett Cannonf6aa86e2006-09-20 18:43:13 +0000392- Allow exception instances to be directly sliced again.
393
Brett Cannon9adeab72006-09-20 18:34:28 +0000394- Bug #1551432: Exceptions do not define an explicit __unicode__ method. This
395 allows calling unicode() on exceptions classes directly to succeed.
396
Georg Brandl4e933132006-09-06 20:05:58 +0000397- Bug #1542051: Exceptions now correctly call PyObject_GC_UnTrack.
398 Also make sure that every exception class has __module__ set to
399 'exceptions'.
400
Georg Brandl98775df2006-09-06 06:09:31 +0000401- Bug #1550983: emit better error messages for erroneous relative
402 imports (if not in package and if beyond toplevel package).
403
Tim Petersc10c9d02006-09-05 02:18:09 +0000404- Overflow checking code in integer division ran afoul of new gcc
405 optimizations. Changed to be more standard-conforming.
406
Neal Norwitz4f096d92006-08-21 19:47:08 +0000407- Patch #1542451: disallow continue anywhere under a finally.
408
Neal Norwitza22975f2006-09-05 02:24:03 +0000409- Patch #1546288: fix seg fault in dict_equal due to ref counting bug.
410
Neal Norwitzd34e4272006-09-05 02:36:20 +0000411- The return tuple from str.rpartition(sep) is (tail, sep, head) where
412 head is the original string if sep was not found.
413
Neal Norwitzdac090d2006-09-05 03:53:08 +0000414- Bug #1520864: unpacking singleton tuples in list comprehensions and
415 generator expressions (x for x, in ... ) works again. Fixing this problem
416 required changing the .pyc magic number. This means that .pyc files
417 generated before 2.5c2 will be regenerated.
418
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +0000419- ``with`` and ``as`` are now keywords.
Neal Norwitzca460d92006-09-06 06:28:06 +0000420
Jeremy Hyltonc5ceb252007-02-25 15:57:45 +0000421- Bug #1664966: Fix crash in exec if Unicode filename can't be decoded.
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +0000422
Guido van Rossumcad37242008-01-15 17:59:29 +0000423- Issue #1537: Changed GeneratorExit's base class from Exception to
424 BaseException.
Christian Heimes44eeaec2007-12-03 20:01:02 +0000425
Gregory P. Smith95cd5c02008-01-22 01:20:42 +0000426- Fix Issue #1703448: A joined thread could show up in the
427 threading.enumerate() list after the join() for a brief period until
428 it actually exited.
429
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +0000430
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +0000431Library
432-------
433
Guido van Rossum8bc09652008-02-21 18:18:37 +0000434- Removed uses of dict.has_key() from distutils, and uses of
435 callable() from copy_reg.py, so the interpreter now starts up
436 without warnings when '-3' is given. More work like this needs to
437 be done in the rest of the stdlib.
438
Facundo Batista759bfc62008-02-18 03:43:43 +0000439- Issue #1916. Added isgenerator() and isgeneratorfunction() to inspect.py.
440
Facundo Batistad14600e2008-02-18 12:48:43 +0000441- #1224: Fixed bad url parsing when path begins with double slash.
442
Thomas Hellera06a1a82008-02-13 20:21:53 +0000443- ctypes instances that are not or do not contain pointers can now be
444 pickled.
445
Martin v. Löwisdad88dc2008-02-12 18:47:34 +0000446- Patch #1966: Break infinite loop in httplib when the servers
447 implements the chunked encoding incorrectly.
448
Mark Dickinsond058cd22008-02-10 21:29:51 +0000449- Rename rational.py to fractions.py and the rational.Rational class
450 to fractions.Fraction, to avoid the name clash with the abstract
451 base class numbers.Rational. See discussion in issue #1682.
452
Raymond Hettingerda614dc2008-02-10 20:35:16 +0000453- The pickletools module now provides an optimize() function
454 that eliminates unused PUT opcodes from a pickle string.
455
Nick Coghlanac094dc2008-02-10 07:32:52 +0000456- #2021: Allow tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile and SpooledTemporaryFile
457 to be used in with statements by correctly supporting the context
458 management protocol.
459
Mark Dickinson2fc92632008-02-06 22:10:50 +0000460- #1979: Add rich comparisons to Decimal, and make Decimal comparisons
461 involving a NaN follow the IEEE 754 standard.
462
Lars Gustäbel0192e432008-02-05 11:51:40 +0000463- #2004: tarfile.py: Use mode 0700 for temporary directories and default
464 permissions for missing directories.
465
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc6fd03bb2008-02-04 21:45:05 +0000466- #175006: The debugger used to skip the condition of a "while" statement
467 after the first iteration. Now it correctly steps on the expression, and
468 breakpoints on the "while" statement are honored on each loop.
469
Vinay Sajipd7cf32e2008-01-24 12:43:33 +0000470- #1765140: add an optional delay argument to FileHandler and its
471 subclasses. Defaults to false (existing behaviour), but if true,
472 defers opening the file until the first call to emit().
473
Raymond Hettingerc226c312008-01-23 00:04:40 +0000474- The pprint module now supports sets and frozensets.
475
Gregory P. Smithc64386b2008-01-22 00:19:41 +0000476- #1221598: add optional callbacks to ftplib.FTP's storbinary() and
477 storlines() methods. (Contributed by Phil Schwartz)
478
Georg Brandlf2dae0e2008-01-21 21:05:49 +0000479- #1715: include sub-extension modules in pydoc's text output.
480
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +0000481- #1836: fix an off-by-one bug in TimedRotatingHandler's rollover
482 time calculation.
483
484- #1021: fix a bug to allow basicConfig to accept NOTSET as a level.
485
486- #932563: add LoggerAdapter convenience class to make it easier to add
487 contextual information in logging output.
488
489- #1760556: fix a bug to avoid FileHandler throwing an exception in
490 flush().
491
Georg Brandl50160152008-01-21 17:42:40 +0000492- Bug #1530959: distutils' build command now uses different build directory
493 when building extension modules against versions of Python compiled
494 with ``--with-pydebug``.
495
Georg Brandl864de822008-01-21 16:34:07 +0000496- #1555501: move plistlib from plat-mac directory to general library.
497
Georg Brandl66e73632008-01-21 10:24:59 +0000498- #1269: fix a bug in pstats.add_callers() and add a unit test file for
499 pstats.
500
Georg Brandl52353982008-01-20 14:17:42 +0000501- #1669: don't allow shutil.rmtree() to be called on a symlink to a
502 directory.
503
Georg Brandld5e6cf22008-01-20 12:18:17 +0000504- #1664522: in urllib, don't read non-existing directories in ftp mode,
505 returning a 0-byte file -- raise an IOError instead.
506
Georg Brandl22350112008-01-20 12:05:43 +0000507- #856047: respect the ``no_proxy`` environment variable when using the
508 ``http_proxy`` etc. environment variables in urllib.
509
Georg Brandl9b0d46d2008-01-20 11:43:03 +0000510- #1178141: add a getcode() method to the addinfourls that urllib.open()
511 returns so that you can retrieve the HTTP status code.
512
Gregory P. Smithf25680a2008-01-20 01:26:04 +0000513- Issue #1003: Fix zipfile decryption check, it would fail zip files
514 with extended local headers.
515
Gregory P. Smith350d03b2008-01-19 23:10:52 +0000516- #1189216: Fix the zipfile module to work on archives with headers
517 past the 2**31 byte boundary.
518
Gregory P. Smithb9ba0752008-01-19 21:00:37 +0000519- #1336: fix a race condition in subprocess.Popen if the garbage
520 collector kicked in at the wrong time that would cause the process
521 to hang when the child wrote to stderr.
522
Georg Brandlc6fde722008-01-19 19:48:19 +0000523- #1146: fix how textwrap breaks a long word that would start in the
524 last column of a line.
525
Skip Montanaro562133b2008-01-19 18:47:24 +0000526- #1693149: trace.py --ignore-module - accept multiple comma-separated
527 modules to be given.
528
Facundo Batista2b1b1952008-01-19 12:32:27 +0000529- #1822: MIMEMultipart.is_multipart() behaves correctly for a just-created
530 (and empty) instance. Thanks Jonathan Share.
531
Raymond Hettinger44bd6c02008-01-17 19:31:38 +0000532- #1861: Added an attribute to the sched module which returns an ordered
533 list of upcoming events (displayed as named tuples).
534
Raymond Hettinger3ad2acc82008-01-16 23:49:35 +0000535- #1837: The queue module now also supports a LIFO queue and a priority queue.
536
Andrew M. Kuchling4a2762d2008-01-20 00:00:38 +0000537- Patch #1048820: Add insert-mode editing to curses.textpad.Textbox
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +0000538 (patch by Stefan Wehr). Also, fix an off-by-one bug in
Andrew M. Kuchling4a2762d2008-01-20 00:00:38 +0000539 Textbox.gather().
540
Thomas Heller02ec2892008-01-16 19:37:33 +0000541- Issue #1831: ctypes now raises a TypeError if conflicting positional
542 and named arguments are passed to a Structure or Union initializer.
Thomas Heller415c1e32008-01-16 19:45:51 +0000543 When too many positional arguments are passed, also a TypeError is
544 raised instead of a ValueError.
Thomas Heller02ec2892008-01-16 19:37:33 +0000545
Thomas Heller902d3072008-01-16 19:16:27 +0000546- Convert the internal ctypes array type cache to a WeakValueDict so
547 that array types do not live longer than needed.
548
Guido van Rossumcad37242008-01-15 17:59:29 +0000549- Issue #1786: pdb should use its own stdin/stdout around an exec call
550 and when creating a recursive instance.
551
Raymond Hettinger351e1a32008-01-14 22:58:05 +0000552- Issue #1698398 Zipfile.printdir() crashed because the format string
553 expected a tuple type of length six instead of time.struct_time object.
554
Mark Dickinson59bc20b2008-01-12 01:56:00 +0000555- Issue #1780: The Decimal constructor now accepts arbitrary leading
556 and trailing whitespace when constructing from a string.
557 Context.create_decimal no longer accepts trailing newlines.
558
Georg Brandl2f32c392008-01-11 09:20:58 +0000559- Decimal.as_tuple(), difflib.find_longest_match() and inspect functions
560 that returned a tuple now return a named tuple.
561
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +0000562- Doctest now returns results as a named tuple for readability:
Raymond Hettingerfff4e6e2008-01-11 01:25:54 +0000563 (0, 7) --> TestResults(failed=0, attempted=7)
564
Facundo Batista4473d222008-01-08 21:10:12 +0000565- Issue #846388. re.match is interruptible now, which is particularly
566 good for long regular expression matches.
567
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +0000568- pyexpat, patch #1137: allow setting buffer_size attribute
Andrew M. Kuchlinge0a49b62008-01-08 14:30:55 +0000569 on Parser objects to set the character data buffer size.
570
Facundo Batista52b25792008-01-08 12:25:20 +0000571- Issue #1757: The hash of a Decimal instance is no longer affected by
572 the current context.
573
Georg Brandl62416bc2008-01-07 18:47:44 +0000574- Patch #467924: add ZipFile.extract() and ZipFile.extractall() in the
575 zipfile module.
576
Christian Heimesfb2d25a2008-01-07 16:12:44 +0000577- Issue #1646: Make socket support the TIPC protocol.
578
Georg Brandl183a0842008-01-06 14:27:15 +0000579- Bug #1742: return os.curdir from os.path.relpath() if both arguments are
580 equal instead of raising an exception.
581
Guido van Rossumc6a04c22008-01-05 22:19:06 +0000582- Patch #1637: fix urlparse for URLs like 'http://x.com?arg=/foo'.
583
Guido van Rossumced4eb02008-01-05 01:21:57 +0000584- Patch #1698: allow '@' in username parsed by urlparse.py.
585
Lars Gustäbel2ee1c762008-01-04 14:00:33 +0000586- Issue #1735: TarFile.extractall() now correctly sets directory permissions
587 and times.
588
Christian Heimes06875612008-01-04 13:21:07 +0000589- Bug #1713: posixpath.ismount() claims symlink to a mountpoint is a mountpoint.
590
Christian Heimes06131882008-01-04 00:04:52 +0000591- Bug #1687: Fxed plistlib.py restricts <integer> to Python int when writing
592
Guido van Rossumae04c332008-01-03 19:12:44 +0000593- Issue #1700: Regular expression inline flags incorrectly handle certain
594 unicode characters.
595
Jeffrey Yasskin2f3c16b2008-01-03 02:21:52 +0000596- Issue #1689: PEP 3141, numeric abstract base classes.
597
Martin v. Löwis84b9aab2008-01-01 21:09:07 +0000598- Tk issue #1851526: Return results from Python callbacks to Tcl as
599 Tcl objects.
600
Thomas Heller153038e2007-12-18 19:00:34 +0000601- Issue #1642: Fix segfault in ctypes when trying to delete attributes.
602
Martin v. Löwis6b449f42007-12-03 19:20:02 +0000603- Issue #1727780: Support loading pickles of random.Random objects created
604 on 32-bit systems on 64-bit systems, and vice versa. As a consequence
605 of the change, Random pickles created by Python 2.6 cannot be loaded
606 in Python 2.5.
607
Christian Heimesc654fc22007-12-03 13:55:16 +0000608- Issue #1455: The distutils package now supports VS 2005 and VS 2008 for
609 both the msvccompiler and cygwincompiler.
610
Lars Gustäbel77b2d632007-12-01 21:02:12 +0000611- Issue #1531: tarfile.py: Read fileobj from the current offset, do not
612 seek to the start.
613
Christian Heimesdfdfaab2007-12-01 11:20:10 +0000614- Issue #1534: Added a dictionary sys.float_info with information about the
615 internal floating point type to the sys module.
616
Skip Montanaro58a6f442007-11-24 14:30:47 +0000617- Issue 1429818: patch for trace and doctest modules so they play nicely
618 together.
619
Brett Cannon43e53f82007-11-21 00:47:36 +0000620- doctest made a bad assumption that a package's __loader__.get_data()
621 method used universal newlines.
622
Nick Coghlan90b858e2007-11-07 11:57:51 +0000623- Issue #1705170: contextlib.contextmanager was still swallowing
624 StopIteration in some cases. This should no longer happen.
625
Thomas Heller486b1b02007-11-02 19:10:24 +0000626- Issue #1292: On alpha, arm, ppc, and s390 linux systems the
627 --with-system-ffi configure option defaults to "yes".
628
Hye-Shik Changa838a802007-10-28 11:19:02 +0000629- IN module for FreeBSD 8 is added and preexisting FreeBSD 6 and 7
630 files are updated.
631
Georg Brandl1a94ec22007-10-24 21:40:38 +0000632- Issues #1181, #1287: unsetenv() is now called when the os.environ.pop()
633 and os.environ.clear() methods are used.
634
Thomas Heller91ac4222007-10-19 18:11:41 +0000635- ctypes will now work correctly on 32-bit systems when Python is
636 configured with --with-system-ffi.
637
Thomas Heller7fee6dd2007-10-11 19:51:32 +0000638- Patch #1203: ctypes now does work on OS X when Python is built with
Georg Brandl1a94ec22007-10-24 21:40:38 +0000639 --disable-toolbox-glue.
Thomas Heller7fee6dd2007-10-11 19:51:32 +0000640
Raymond Hettingera7fc4b12007-10-05 02:47:07 +0000641- collections.deque() now supports a "maxlen" argument.
642
Raymond Hettinger50e90e22007-10-04 00:20:27 +0000643- itertools.count() is no longer bounded to LONG_MAX. Formerly, it raised
644 an OverflowError. Now, automatically shifts from ints to longs.
645
Raymond Hettingerc5705a82008-02-22 19:50:06 +0000646- Added itertools.product() which forms the Cartesian product of
647 the input iterables.
648
Georg Brandlaff85e22007-09-20 16:06:07 +0000649- Patch #1541463: optimize performance of cgi.FieldStorage operations.
650
Facundo Batistab67da232007-09-17 16:26:50 +0000651- Decimal is fully updated to the latest Decimal Specification (v1.66).
652
Georg Brandl8fd3ecf2007-09-12 19:00:07 +0000653- Bug #1153: repr.repr() now doesn't require set and dictionary items
654 to be orderable to properly represent them.
655
Thomas Heller2825b2e2007-09-07 06:32:17 +0000656- A 'c_longdouble' type was added to the ctypes module.
657
Martin v. Löwis7dcb83c2007-08-30 19:04:09 +0000658- Bug #1709599: Run test_1565150 only if the file system is NTFS.
659
Skip Montanaro3e275362007-08-29 01:33:45 +0000660- When encountering a password-protected robots.txt file the RobotFileParser
661 no longer prompts interactively for a username and password (bug 813986).
662
Lars Gustäbel0f4a14b2007-08-28 12:31:09 +0000663- TarFile.__init__() no longer fails if no name argument is passed and
664 the fileobj argument has no usable name attribute (e.g. StringIO).
665
Guido van Rossum95f1a1b2007-08-27 20:52:10 +0000666- The functools module now provides 'reduce', for forward compatibility
667 with Python 3000.
668
Guido van Rossum4f2c3dd2007-08-25 15:08:43 +0000669- Server-side SSL support and cert verification added, by Bill Janssen.
670
Bill Janssenf413fb02007-08-30 18:08:06 +0000671- socket.ssl deprecated; use new ssl module instead.
672
Georg Brandl8ec57542007-08-24 06:10:01 +0000673- uuid creation is now threadsafe.
674
Hye-Shik Chang23901042007-08-20 06:49:18 +0000675- EUC-KR codec now handles the cheot-ga-keut composed make-up hangul
676 syllables.
677
Hye-Shik Changf3e93a02007-08-04 04:10:18 +0000678- GB18030 codec now can encode additional two-byte characters that
679 are missing in GBK.
680
Walter Dörwald6e390802007-08-17 16:41:28 +0000681- Add new codecs for UTF-32, UTF-32-LE and UTF-32-BE.
682
Martin v. Löwisf1e0b3f2007-07-28 07:03:05 +0000683- Bug #1704793: Return UTF-16 pair if unicodedata.lookup cannot
684 represent the result in a single character.
685
Martin v. Löwisf25e35b2007-07-27 18:28:22 +0000686- Bug #978833: Close https sockets by releasing the _ssl object.
687
Martin v. Löwis254b8f92007-07-25 16:24:23 +0000688- Change location of the package index to pypi.python.org/pypi
689
Thomas Hellerfa704c62007-07-13 17:12:23 +0000690- Bug #1701409: Fix a segfault in printing ctypes.c_char_p and
691 ctypes.c_wchar_p when they point to an invalid location. As a
692 sideeffect the representation of these instances has changed.
693
Lars Gustäbel104490e2007-06-18 11:42:11 +0000694- tarfile.py: Added "exclude" keyword argument to TarFile.add().
695
Neal Norwitzc161cb92007-06-11 07:29:43 +0000696- Bug #1734723: Fix repr.Repr() so it doesn't ignore the maxtuple attribute.
697
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +0000698- The urlopen function of urllib2 now has an optional timeout parameter (note
Facundo Batista10951d52007-06-06 17:15:23 +0000699 that it actually works with HTTP, HTTPS, FTP and FTPS connections).
700
Facundo Batista92493122007-06-06 15:13:37 +0000701- In ftplib, the FTP.ntransfercmd method, when in passive mode, now uses
702 the socket.create_connection function, using the timeout specified at
703 connection time.
704
Hye-Shik Chang9b541402007-06-05 18:58:51 +0000705- Bug #1728403: Fix a bug that CJKCodecs StreamReader hangs when it
706 reads a file that ends with incomplete sequence and sizehint argument
707 for .read() is specified.
708
Brett Cannonf7188ce2007-06-03 23:13:41 +0000709- Bug #1730389: Change time.strptime() to use ``\s+`` instead of ``\s*`` when
710 matching spaces in the specified format argument.
711
Neal Norwitz4a700bb2007-06-01 07:29:12 +0000712- SF 1668596/1720897: distutils now copies data files
713 even if package_dir is empty.
714
Brett Cannonc2aa09a2007-05-31 19:20:00 +0000715- sha now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
716
Brett Cannon7eec2172007-05-30 22:24:28 +0000717- md5 now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
718
Gregory P. Smithe1ac4f12007-11-06 00:19:03 +0000719- Issue1385: The hmac module now computes the correct hmac when using hashes
720 with a block size other than 64 bytes (such as sha384 and sha512).
721
Brett Cannonc249bda2007-05-30 21:48:58 +0000722- mimify now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
723
Brett Cannon90134c92007-05-30 20:46:26 +0000724- MimeWriter now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
725
Lars Gustäbela0fcb932007-05-27 19:49:30 +0000726- tarfile.py: Improved unicode support. Unicode input names are now
727 officially supported. Added "errors" argument to the TarFile class.
728
Facundo Batista711a54e2007-05-24 17:50:54 +0000729- urllib.ftpwrapper class now accepts an optional timeout.
730
Georg Brandlc90bc752007-05-24 16:49:29 +0000731- shlex.split() now has an optional "posix" parameter.
732
Brett Cannon41bf2fa2007-05-20 23:57:38 +0000733- The posixfile module now raises a DeprecationWarning.
734
Brett Cannond75f0432007-05-16 22:42:29 +0000735- Remove the gopherlib module. This also leads to the removal of gopher
736 support in urllib/urllib2.
737
Neal Norwitzb1a9b372007-05-16 20:05:11 +0000738- Fix bug in marshal where bad data would cause a segfault due to
739 lack of an infinite recursion check.
740
Neal Norwitze0e70a42007-05-16 05:06:33 +0000741- Removed plat-freebsd2 and plat-freebsd3 directories (and IN.py in
742 the directories).
743
Georg Brandla09a96a2007-05-15 20:19:34 +0000744- HTML-escape the plain traceback in cgitb's HTML output, to prevent
745 the traceback inadvertently or maliciously closing the comment and
746 injecting HTML into the error page.
747
Neal Norwitz42dd86b2007-05-11 06:57:33 +0000748- The popen2 module and os.popen* are deprecated. Use the subprocess module.
749
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +0000750- Added an optional credentials argument to SMTPHandler, for use with SMTP
751 servers which require authentication.
752
753- Patch #1695948: Added optional timeout parameter to SocketHandler.
754
755- Bug #1652788: Minor fix for currentframe.
756
757- Patch #1598415: Added WatchedFileHandler to better support external
758 log file rotation using e.g. newsyslog or logrotate. This handler is
759 only useful in Unix/Linux environments.
760
Georg Brandlfb4b3b72007-04-24 15:27:13 +0000761- Bug #1706381: Specifying the SWIG option "-c++" in the setup.py file
762 (as opposed to the command line) will now write file names ending in
763 ".cpp" too.
764
Facundo Batistad918a652007-04-24 13:54:38 +0000765- As specified in RFC 2616, an HTTP response like 2xx indicates that
766 the client's request was successfully received, understood, and accepted.
Facundo Batista673debf2007-09-19 14:02:03 +0000767 Now in these cases no error is raised in urllib (issue #1177) and urllib2.
Facundo Batistad918a652007-04-24 13:54:38 +0000768
Brett Cannonc6906652007-04-01 18:47:27 +0000769- Bug #1290505: time.strptime's internal cache of locale information is now
770 properly recreated when the locale is changed.
771
Neal Norwitz8f35f442007-04-01 18:24:22 +0000772- Patch #1685563: remove (don't add) duplicate paths in distutils.MSVCCompiler.
773
Facundo Batistab6a5c9d2007-03-29 18:22:35 +0000774- Added a timeout parameter to the constructor of other protocols
775 (telnetlib, ftplib, smtplib and poplib). This is second part of the
776 work started with create_connection() and timeout in httplib, and
777 closes patch #723312.
778
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +0000779- Patch #1676823: Added create_connection() to socket.py, which may be
780 called with a timeout, and use it from httplib (whose HTTPConnection
Facundo Batista70f996b2007-05-21 17:32:32 +0000781 and HTTPSConnection now accept an optional timeout).
Facundo Batista07c78be2007-03-23 18:54:07 +0000782
Martin v. Löwis0af33882007-03-23 13:27:15 +0000783- Bug #978833: Revert r50844, as it broke _socketobject.dup.
784
Žiga Seilnacht7492e422007-03-21 20:07:56 +0000785- Bug #1675967: re patterns pickled with Python 2.4 and earlier can
786 now be unpickled with Python 2.5 and newer.
787
Collin Wintera8785cc2007-03-19 18:52:08 +0000788- Patch #1630118: add a SpooledTemporaryFile class to tempfile.py.
789
Georg Brandlcae9f3d2007-03-21 09:10:29 +0000790- Patch #1273829: os.walk() now has a "followlinks" parameter. If set to
791 True (which is not the default), it visits symlinks pointing to
792 directories.
793
Georg Brandl8f06d022007-03-16 07:55:09 +0000794- Bug #1681228: the webbrowser module now correctly uses the default
795 GNOME or KDE browser, depending on whether there is a session of one
796 of those present. Also, it tries the Windows default browser before
797 trying Mozilla variants.
798
Collin Winter6f187742007-03-16 22:16:08 +0000799- Patch #1339796: add a relpath() function to os.path.
800
Georg Brandlab1f4672007-03-15 07:41:30 +0000801- Patch #1681153: the wave module now closes a file object it opened if
802 initialization failed.
803
Georg Brandlf66b6032007-03-14 08:27:52 +0000804- Bug #767111: fix long-standing bug in urllib which caused an
805 AttributeError instead of an IOError when the server's response didn't
806 contain a valid HTTP status line.
807
Georg Brandl03b90d82007-03-13 22:07:36 +0000808- Patch #957650: "%var%" environment variable references are now properly
809 expanded in ntpath.expandvars(), also "~user" home directory references
810 are recognized and handled on Windows.
811
Georg Brandlb6ae6aa2007-03-13 21:58:44 +0000812- Patch #1429539: pdb now correctly initializes the __main__ module for
813 the debugged script, which means that imports from __main__ work
814 correctly now.
815
Georg Brandlbad6f192007-03-13 21:32:56 +0000816- The nonobvious commands.getstatus() function is now deprecated.
817
Georg Brandl8e84c652007-03-13 21:08:15 +0000818- Patch #1393667: pdb now has a "run" command which restarts the debugged
819 Python program, optionally with different arguments.
820
Thomas Heller5dc4fe02007-03-13 20:42:52 +0000821- Patch #1649190: Adding support for _Bool to ctypes as c_bool.
822
Georg Brandl8441f152007-03-13 20:02:57 +0000823- Patch #1530482: add pydoc.render_doc() which returns the documentation
824 for a thing instead of paging it to stdout, which pydoc.doc() does.
825
Georg Brandld9bef352007-03-13 19:32:21 +0000826- Patch #1533909: the timeit module now accepts callables in addition to
827 strings for the code to time and the setup code. Also added two
828 convenience functions for instantiating a Timer and calling its methods.
829
Georg Brandl35ef9c12007-03-13 18:31:49 +0000830- Patch #1537850: tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile now has a "delete" parameter
831 which can be set to False to prevent the default delete-on-close
832 behavior.
833
Georg Brandl9e6b4702007-03-13 18:15:41 +0000834- Patch #1581073: add a flag to textwrap that prevents the dropping of
835 whitespace while wrapping.
836
Georg Brandl92a6bae2007-03-13 17:43:32 +0000837- Patch #1603688: ConfigParser.SafeConfigParser now checks values that
838 are set for invalid interpolation sequences that would lead to errors
839 on reading back those values.
840
Lars Gustäbelc64e4022007-03-13 10:47:19 +0000841- Added support for the POSIX.1-2001 (pax) format to tarfile.py. Extended
842 and cleaned up the test suite. Added a new testtar.tar.
843
Martin v. Löwisbdd0f392007-03-13 10:24:00 +0000844- Patch #1449244: Support Unicode strings in
845 email.message.Message.{set_charset,get_content_charset}.
846
Georg Brandlb6a87542007-03-13 10:06:48 +0000847- Patch #1542681: add entries for "with", "as" and "CONTEXTMANAGERS" to
848 pydoc's help keywords.
849
Georg Brandl4ffc8f52007-03-13 09:41:31 +0000850- Patch #1555098: use str.join() instead of repeated string
851 concatenation in robotparser.
852
Georg Brandl94fe3f52007-03-13 09:32:11 +0000853- Patch #1635454: the csv.DictWriter class now includes the offending
854 field names in its exception message if you try to write a record with
855 a dictionary containing fields not in the CSV field names list.
856
Georg Brandlceede5c2007-03-13 08:14:27 +0000857- Patch #1668100: urllib2 now correctly raises URLError instead of
858 OSError if accessing a local file via the file:// protocol fails.
859
Martin v. Löwis2681beb2007-03-12 11:01:10 +0000860- Patch #1677862: Require a space or tab after import in .pth files.
861
Collin Winter2faa9e12007-03-11 16:00:20 +0000862- Patch #1192590: Fix pdb's "ignore" and "condition" commands so they trap
863 the IndexError caused by passing in an invalid breakpoint number.
864
Collin Winterae041062007-03-10 14:41:48 +0000865- Patch #1599845: Add an option to disable the implicit calls to server_bind()
866 and server_activate() in the constructors for TCPServer, SimpleXMLRPCServer
867 and DocXMLRPCServer.
868
Collin Winter22c42ba2007-03-10 02:51:26 +0000869- Bug #1531963: Make SocketServer.TCPServer's server_address always
Collin Winterfaaa2042007-03-10 03:35:34 +0000870 be equal to calling getsockname() on the server's socket. Fixed by
871 patch #1545011.
Collin Winter22c42ba2007-03-10 02:51:26 +0000872
Andrew M. Kuchlinge45a77a2008-01-19 16:26:13 +0000873- Patch #742598: Add .timeout attribute to SocketServer that calls
874 .handle_timeout() when no requests are received.
875
Thomas Heller2456a3c2007-03-09 20:39:22 +0000876- Bug #1651235: When a tuple was passed to a ctypes function call,
877 Python would crash instead of raising an error.
878
Thomas Hellerc2f77252007-03-09 19:21:28 +0000879- Bug #1646630: ctypes.string_at(buf, 0) and ctypes.wstring_at(buf, 0)
880 returned string up to the first NUL character.
881
Martin v. Löwis1190a382007-03-09 15:35:55 +0000882- Patch #957003: Implement smtplib.LMTP.
883
Collin Winterfb728de2007-03-09 03:26:32 +0000884- Patch #1481079: add support for HTTP_REFERER to CGIHTTPServer.
885
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +0000886- Patch #1675424: Added tests for uncovered code in the zipfile module.
887 The KeyError raised by Zipfile.getinfo for nonexistent names now has
Georg Brandl4b3ab6f2007-07-12 09:59:22 +0000888 a descriptive message.
889
Martin v. Löwis05c075d2007-03-07 11:04:33 +0000890- Bug #1115886: os.path.splitext('.cshrc') gives now ('.cshrc', '').
891
Georg Brandl9caadf82007-03-08 18:37:31 +0000892- unittest now verifies more of its assumptions. In particular, TestCase
893 and TestSuite subclasses (not instances) are no longer accepted in
894 TestSuite.addTest(). This should cause no incompatibility since it
895 never made sense with ordinary subclasses -- the failure just occurred
896 later, with a more cumbersome exception.
897
Georg Brandld0a96252007-03-07 09:21:06 +0000898- Patch #787789: allow to pass custom TestRunner instances to unittest's
899 main() function.
900
Georg Brandl15c5ce92007-03-07 09:09:40 +0000901- Patches #1550273, #1550272: fix a few bugs in unittest and add a
902 comprehensive test suite for the module.
903
Georg Brandl71ff6462007-03-07 08:31:51 +0000904- Patch #1001604: glob.glob() now returns unicode filenames if it was
905 given a unicode argument and os.listdir() returns unicode filenames.
906
Skip Montanarod1287322007-03-06 15:41:38 +0000907- Patch #1673619: setup.py identifies extension modules it doesn't know how
908 to build and those it knows how to build but that fail to build.
909
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +0000910- Patch #912410: Replace HTML entity references for attribute values
Martin v. Löwisab8a6bb2007-03-06 14:43:00 +0000911 in HTMLParser.
912
Georg Brandlff432e62007-03-06 13:37:45 +0000913- Patch #1663234: you can now run doctest on test files and modules
914 using "python -m doctest [-v] filename ...".
915
Martin v. Löwis3eb76482007-03-06 10:41:24 +0000916- Patch #1121142: Implement ZipFile.open.
917
Skip Montanarof694b1b2007-03-04 20:54:12 +0000918- Taught setup.py how to locate Berkeley DB on Macs using MacPorts.
919
Raymond Hettinger00166c52007-02-19 04:08:43 +0000920- Added heapq.merge() for merging sorted input streams.
921
Raymond Hettingercd3c1082007-10-23 21:23:07 +0000922- Added collections.namedtuple() for assigning field names to tuples.
Raymond Hettingerc37e5e02007-03-01 06:16:43 +0000923
Raymond Hettingerd36862c2007-02-21 05:20:38 +0000924- Added itertools.izip_longest().
925
Brett Cannon971a0122007-02-15 22:54:39 +0000926- Have the encoding package's search function dynamically import using absolute
927 import semantics.
928
Lars Gustäbel5b1a7852007-02-13 16:09:24 +0000929- Patch #1647484: Renamed GzipFile's filename attribute to name.
930
Martin v. Löwis84f6de92007-02-13 10:10:39 +0000931- Patch #1517891: Mode 'a' for ZipFile now creates the file if it
932 doesn't exist.
933
Martin v. Löwisc6d626e2007-02-13 09:49:38 +0000934- Patch #698833: Support file decryption in zipfile.
935
Martin v. Löwis07aa3ed2007-02-13 08:34:45 +0000936- Patch #685268: Consider a package's __path__ in imputil.
937
Martin v. Löwis2bad58f2007-02-12 12:21:10 +0000938- Patch 1463026: Support default namespace in XMLGenerator.
939
Skip Montanaro691acf22007-02-11 18:24:37 +0000940- Patch 1571379: Make trace's --ignore-dir facility work in the face of
941 relative directory names.
942
Neal Norwitz72d9eec2007-03-15 04:41:20 +0000943- Bug #1600860: Search for shared python library in LIBDIR,
944 not lib/python/config, on "linux" and "gnu" systems.
Martin v. Löwis0a203262007-02-09 12:36:48 +0000945
Lars Gustäbel3f8aca12007-02-06 18:38:13 +0000946- Patch #1652681: tarfile.py: create nonexistent files in append mode and
947 allow appending to empty files.
948
Peter Astrand5f9c6ae2007-02-06 15:37:50 +0000949- Bug #1124861: Automatically create pipes if GetStdHandle fails in
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +0000950 subprocess.
Peter Astrand5f9c6ae2007-02-06 15:37:50 +0000951
Georg Brandl4ba9e5b2007-01-27 17:59:42 +0000952- Patch #1634778: add missing encoding aliases for iso8859_15 and
953 iso8859_16.
954
Georg Brandlab496842007-01-27 17:43:02 +0000955- Patch #1638243: the compiler package is now able to correctly compile
956 a with statement; previously, executing code containing a with statement
957 compiled by the compiler package crashed the interpreter.
958
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +0000959- Bug #1643943: Fix time.strptime's support for the %U directive.
960
Lars Gustäbel0713a682007-02-19 09:54:47 +0000961- Patch #1507247: tarfile.py: use current umask for intermediate
962 directories.
963
Georg Brandldd7b0522007-01-21 10:35:10 +0000964- Patch #1627441: close sockets properly in urllib2.
965
Sjoerd Mullender33a0a062007-01-16 16:42:38 +0000966- Bug #494589: make ntpath.expandvars behave according to its docstring.
967
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +0000968- Changed platform module API python_version_tuple() to actually
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +0000969 return a tuple (it used to return a list).
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +0000970
971- Added new platform module APIs python_branch(), python_revision(),
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +0000972 python_implementation() and linux_distribution().
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +0000973
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +0000974- Added support for IronPython and Jython to the platform module.
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +0000975
Brett Cannon093b6702007-01-13 00:29:49 +0000976- The sets module has been deprecated. Use the built-in set/frozenset types
977 instead.
978
Thomas Heller6fd45492007-01-12 20:21:53 +0000979- Bug #1610795: make ctypes.util.find_library work on BSD systems.
980
Thomas Heller8138c262007-01-11 21:18:56 +0000981- Fixes for 64-bit Windows: In ctypes.wintypes, correct the
982 definitions of HANDLE, WPARAM, LPARAM data types. Make
983 parameterless foreign function calls work.
984
Thomas Hellerfb9d7872007-01-10 20:12:13 +0000985- The version number of the ctypes package changed to "1.1.0".
986
Vinay Sajipab41c102007-01-09 14:51:36 +0000987- Bug #1627575: logging: Added _open() method to FileHandler which can
988 be used to reopen files. The FileHandler instance now saves the
989 encoding (which can be None) in an attribute called "encoding".
990
Vinay Sajipc9137262007-01-08 18:52:36 +0000991- Bug #411881: logging.handlers: bare except clause removed from
992 SMTPHandler.emit. Now, only ImportError is trapped.
993
994- Bug #411881: logging.handlers: bare except clause removed from
995 SocketHandler.createSocket. Now, only socket.error is trapped.
996
997- Bug #411881: logging: bare except clause removed from LogRecord.__init__.
998 Now, only ValueError, TypeError and AttributeError are trapped.
999
Lars Gustäbela7ba6fc2006-12-27 10:30:46 +00001000- Patch #1504073: Fix tarfile.open() for mode "r" with a fileobj argument.
1001
Andrew M. Kuchling71662322006-12-27 03:31:24 +00001002- Patch #1182394 from Shane Holloway: speed up HMAC.hexdigest.
1003
Lars Gustäbela4b23812006-12-23 17:57:23 +00001004- Patch #1262036: Prevent TarFiles from being added to themselves under
1005 certain conditions.
1006
Lars Gustäbel6baa5022006-12-23 16:40:13 +00001007- Patch #1230446: tarfile.py: fix ExFileObject so that read() and tell()
1008 work correctly together with readline().
1009
Georg Brandlebbeed72006-12-19 22:06:46 +00001010- Patch #1484695: The tarfile module now raises a HeaderError exception
1011 if a buffer given to frombuf() is invalid.
1012
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00001013- Bug #1503765: Fix a problem in logging.config with spaces in comma-
1014 separated lists read from logging config files.
1015
1016- Patch #1604907: Fix problems in logging.handlers caused at logging shutdown
1017 when syslog handlers fail to initialize because of syslogd problems.
1018
Neal Norwitz72d9eec2007-03-15 04:41:20 +00001019- Patch #1608267: fix a race condition in os.makedirs() if the directory
Georg Brandlb1307432006-12-09 09:08:29 +00001020 to be created is already there.
1021
Georg Brandl87fa5592006-12-06 22:21:18 +00001022- Patch #1610437: fix a tarfile bug with long filename headers.
1023
Martin v. Löwisa00bcac2006-12-03 12:01:53 +00001024- Patch #1371075: Make ConfigParser accept optional dict type
1025 for ordering, sorting, etc.
1026
Thomas Helleref583a42006-11-28 20:21:54 +00001027- Bug #1563807: _ctypes built on AIX fails with ld ffi error.
1028
Thomas Heller25d208b2006-11-24 18:45:39 +00001029- Bug #1598620: A ctypes Structure cannot contain itself.
1030
Martin v. Löwis07529352006-11-19 18:51:54 +00001031- Patch #1070046: Marshal new-style objects like InstanceType
1032 in xmlrpclib.
1033
Martin v. Löwiscffcc8b2006-11-19 10:41:41 +00001034- cStringIO.truncate(-1) now raises an IOError, like StringIO and
1035 regular files.
1036
Martin v. Löwisbba003e2006-11-18 18:42:11 +00001037- Patch #1472877: Fix Tix subwidget name resolution.
1038
Martin v. Löwisef5fd3e2006-11-18 18:05:35 +00001039- Patch #1594554: Always close a tkSimpleDialog on ok(), even
1040 if an exception occurs.
1041
Martin v. Löwisc73a4a42006-11-18 18:00:23 +00001042- Patch #1538878: Don't make tkSimpleDialog dialogs transient if
1043 the parent window is withdrawn.
1044
Georg Brandl54082112006-11-16 16:50:59 +00001045- Bug #1597824: return the registered function from atexit.register()
1046 to facilitate usage as a decorator.
1047
Martin v. Löwis45cd4ff2006-11-12 18:56:03 +00001048- Patch #1360200: Use unmangled_version RPM spec field to deal with
1049 file name mangling.
1050
Martin v. Löwis36cbc082006-11-12 18:48:13 +00001051- Patch #1359217: Process 2xx response in an ftplib transfer
1052 that precedes an 1xx response.
1053
Martin v. Löwis065f0c82006-11-12 10:41:39 +00001054- Patch #1355023: support whence argument for GzipFile.seek.
1055
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00001056- Patch #1065257: Support passing open files as body in
Martin v. Löwis040a9272006-11-12 10:32:47 +00001057 HTTPConnection.request().
1058
Andrew M. Kuchlinga3e5d372006-11-09 13:27:07 +00001059- Bug #1569790: mailbox.py: Maildir.get_folder() and MH.get_folder()
1060 weren't passing the message factory on to newly created Maildir/MH
1061 objects.
1062
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00001063- Patch #1514543: mailbox.py: In the Maildir class, report errors if there's
Andrew M. Kuchling77c7ac22006-11-10 13:14:01 +00001064 a filename clash instead of possibly losing a message. (Patch by David
Andrew M. Kuchling978d8282006-11-09 21:16:46 +00001065 Watson.)
1066
Andrew M. Kuchlingb5686da2006-11-09 13:51:14 +00001067- Patch #1514544: Try to ensure that messages/indexes have been physically
1068 written to disk after calling .flush() or .close(). (Patch by David
1069 Watson.)
1070
Guido van Rossumaf16ece2008-02-21 19:46:35 +00001071- Patch #1592250: Add elide argument to Tkinter.Text.search.
Martin v. Löwis038cad72006-11-09 11:27:32 +00001072
Guido van Rossumaf16ece2008-02-21 19:46:35 +00001073- Patch #838546: Make terminal become controlling in pty.fork().
Martin v. Löwisb2bba732006-11-09 11:06:03 +00001074
Martin v. Löwis5361e9a2006-11-08 07:35:55 +00001075- Patch #1351744: Add askyesnocancel helper for tkMessageBox.
1076
Martin v. Löwis5310e502006-11-04 18:14:06 +00001077- Patch #1060577: Extract list of RPM files from spec file in
Guido van Rossumaf16ece2008-02-21 19:46:35 +00001078 bdist_rpm.
Martin v. Löwis5310e502006-11-04 18:14:06 +00001079
Georg Brandl2c9838e2006-10-29 14:39:09 +00001080- Bug #1586613: fix zlib and bz2 codecs' incremental en/decoders.
1081
Georg Brandl3354f282006-10-29 09:16:12 +00001082- Patch #1583880: fix tarfile's problems with long names and posix/
1083 GNU modes.
1084
Georg Brandl5addf702006-10-29 08:53:06 +00001085- Bug #1586448: the compiler module now emits the same bytecode for
1086 list comprehensions as the builtin compiler, using the LIST_APPEND
1087 opcode.
1088
Georg Brandl8f99f812006-10-29 08:39:22 +00001089- Fix codecs.EncodedFile which did not use file_encoding in 2.5.0, and
1090 fix all codecs file wrappers to work correctly with the "with"
1091 statement (bug #1586513).
1092
Thomas Heller112d1a62006-10-27 19:05:53 +00001093- Lib/modulefinder.py now handles absolute and relative imports
1094 correctly.
1095
Martin v. Löwisee82c0e2006-10-27 07:13:28 +00001096- Patch #1567274: Support SMTP over TLS.
1097
Martin v. Löwis1b2f6272006-10-22 10:55:15 +00001098- Patch #1560695: Add .note.GNU-stack to ctypes' sysv.S so that
1099 ctypes isn't considered as requiring executable stacks.
1100
Thomas Hellerd2ea4a22006-10-17 19:30:48 +00001101- ctypes callback functions only support 'fundamental' data types as
1102 result type. Raise an error when something else is used. This is a
1103 partial fix for Bug #1574584.
1104
Brett Cannond80e0c82006-10-16 03:09:52 +00001105- Fix turtle so that time.sleep is imported for the entire library. Allows
1106 the demo2 function to be executed on its own instead of only when the
1107 module is run as a script.
1108
Georg Brandld0761532006-10-12 07:57:21 +00001109- Bug #813342: Start the IDLE subprocess with -Qnew if the parent
1110 is started with that option.
1111
Martin v. Löwisf43893a2006-10-09 20:44:25 +00001112- Bug #1565150: Fix subsecond processing for os.utime on Windows.
1113
Martin v. Löwis8b274262006-10-04 15:25:28 +00001114- Support for MSVC 8 was added to bdist_wininst.
1115
Georg Brandla92979a2006-09-30 11:22:28 +00001116- Bug #1446043: correctly raise a LookupError if an encoding name given
1117 to encodings.search_function() contains a dot.
1118
Georg Brandl154324a2006-09-30 11:06:47 +00001119- Bug #1560617: in pyclbr, return full module name not only for classes,
1120 but also for functions.
1121
Georg Brandl05b3c452006-09-30 10:58:01 +00001122- Bug #1457823: cgi.(Sv)FormContentDict's constructor now takes
1123 keep_blank_values and strict_parsing keyword arguments.
1124
Georg Brandl8d1e5bf2006-09-30 09:13:21 +00001125- Bug #1566602: correct failure of posixpath unittest when $HOME ends
1126 with a slash.
1127
Georg Brandl8c667452006-09-30 07:31:57 +00001128- Bug #1565661: in webbrowser, split() the command for the default
1129 GNOME browser in case it is a command with args.
1130
Brett Cannon11b35352006-09-26 23:38:24 +00001131- Made the error message for time.strptime when the data data and format do
1132 match be more clear.
1133
Georg Brandlc7986ce2006-09-24 12:50:24 +00001134- Fix a bug in traceback.format_exception_only() that led to an error
1135 being raised when print_exc() was called without an exception set.
1136 In version 2.4, this printed "None", restored that behavior.
1137
Georg Brandl2c94bf72006-09-24 10:36:01 +00001138- Make webbrowser.BackgroundBrowser usable in Windows (it wasn't because
1139 the close_fds arg to subprocess.Popen is not supported).
1140
Neal Norwitzbcc119a2006-09-11 04:24:09 +00001141- Reverted patch #1504333 to sgmllib because it introduced an infinite loop.
1142
Nick Coghlanb3c18f82006-09-08 10:04:38 +00001143- Patch #1553314: Fix the inspect.py slowdown that was hurting IPython & SAGE
1144 by adding smarter caching in inspect.getmodule()
1145
Georg Brandl4e933132006-09-06 20:05:58 +00001146- Fix missing import of the types module in logging.config.
1147
Nick Coghlanbb0996c2006-09-03 01:20:46 +00001148- Patch #1550886: Fix decimal module context management implementation
Neal Norwitza22975f2006-09-05 02:24:03 +00001149 to match the localcontext() example from PEP 343.
Nick Coghlanbb0996c2006-09-03 01:20:46 +00001150
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00001151- Bug #1545341: The 'classifier' keyword argument to the Distutils setup()
Andrew M. Kuchling99994792006-10-09 17:10:12 +00001152 function now accepts tuples as well as lists.
1153
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00001154- Bug #1541863: uuid.uuid1 failed to generate unique identifiers
1155 on systems with low clock resolution.
1156
Gustavo Niemeyerc36bede2006-09-07 00:48:33 +00001157- Bug #1531862: Do not close standard file descriptors in subprocess.
1158
Matthias Klosea398e2d2007-01-11 11:44:04 +00001159- idle: Honor the "Cancel" action in the save dialog (Debian bug #299092).
1160
Walter Dörwald42348272007-04-12 10:35:00 +00001161- Fix utf-8-sig incremental decoder, which didn't recognise a BOM when the
Guido van Rossumaf16ece2008-02-21 19:46:35 +00001162 first chunk fed to the decoder started with a BOM, but was longer than 3
1163 bytes.
Georg Brandl27562782006-10-27 20:39:43 +00001164
Walter Dörwald84a3efe2007-06-13 16:57:12 +00001165- The implementation of UnicodeError objects has been simplified (start and end
1166 attributes are now stored directly as Py_ssize_t members).
1167
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00001168- Issue829951: In the smtplib module, SMTP.starttls() now complies with
Gregory P. Smith2b3ba582008-01-17 08:03:17 +00001169 RFC 3207 and forgets any knowledge obtained from the server not obtained
1170 from the TLS negotiation itself. Patch contributed by Bill Fenner.
1171
Gregory P. Smithbde4ae42008-01-17 08:35:49 +00001172- Issue1339: The smtplib.SMTP class has been refactored a bit such
1173 that the SMTP.starttls() caller no longer needs to call ehlo()
1174 beforehand. SMTP.starttls() now raises an exception of the server
1175 does not claim to support starttls. Adds the SMTP.ehlo_or_helo_if_needed()
1176 method. Patch contributed by Bill Fenner.
1177
Georg Brandl29604a12008-01-26 14:03:47 +00001178
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00001179Extension Modules
1180-----------------
1181
Facundo Batistae1396882008-02-17 18:59:29 +00001182- #2112: mmap.error is now a subclass of EnvironmentError and not a
1183 direct EnvironmentError
1184
Christian Heimes7adfad82008-02-15 08:20:11 +00001185- Bug #2111: mmap segfaults when trying to write a block opened with PROT_READ
1186
Georg Brandl0a40ffb2008-02-13 07:20:22 +00001187- #2063: correct order of utime and stime in os.times() result on Windows.
1188
Martin v. Löwise0d30ef2008-02-12 13:47:26 +00001189- Patch #1736: Fix file name handling of _msi.FCICreate.
1190
Hye-Shik Chang01612e72008-02-08 17:10:20 +00001191- Updated ``big5hkscs`` codec to the HKSCS revision of 2004.
1192
Georg Brandl29604a12008-01-26 14:03:47 +00001193- #1940: make it possible to use curses.filter() before curses.initscr()
1194 as the documentation says.
1195
Christian Heimes7f39c9f2008-01-25 12:18:43 +00001196- Backport of _fileio module from Python 3.0.
1197
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00001198- #1087741: mmap.mmap is now a class, not a factory function. It is also
Georg Brandl5ca3fd82008-01-21 14:18:14 +00001199 subclassable now.
1200
Georg Brandl56112892008-01-20 13:59:46 +00001201- Patch #1648: added ``sys.getprofile()`` and ``sys.gettrace()``.
1202
Georg Brandl309501a2008-01-19 20:22:13 +00001203- Patch #1663329: added ``os.closerange()`` function to quickly close a range
1204 of file descriptors without considering errors.
1205
Andrew M. Kuchling5c60bfc2008-01-19 18:18:41 +00001206- Patch 976880: ``mmap`` objects now have an ``rfind`` method that
1207 works as expected. ``mmap.find`` also takes an optional ``end``
1208 parameter.
1209
Fred Draked4e56132008-01-09 03:11:28 +00001210- _winreg's HKEY object has gained __enter__ and __exit__ methods to support
1211 the context manager protocol. The _winreg module also gained a new function
Christian Heimesb39a7562008-01-08 15:46:10 +00001212 ``ExpandEnvironmentStrings`` to expand REG_EXPAND_SZ keys.
1213
Raymond Hettinger47317092008-01-17 03:02:14 +00001214- itertools.starmap() now accepts any iterable input. Previously, it required
1215 the function inputs to be tuples.
1216
Christian Heimesfb2d25a2008-01-07 16:12:44 +00001217- Issue #1646: Make socket support TIPC. The socket module now has support
1218 for TIPC under Linux, see http://tipc.sf.net/ for more information.
1219
Christian Heimes04ae9162008-01-04 15:23:30 +00001220- Added interface for Windows' WSAIoctl to socket object and added an example
1221 for a simple network sniffer.
1222
Guido van Rossum076d9ee2008-01-03 23:54:04 +00001223- Bug #1301: Bad assert in _tkinter fixed.
1224
Christian Heimescdaa2cb2007-12-31 14:47:07 +00001225- Added bdist_wininst executable for VS 2008.
1226
Raymond Hettingeradf9ffd2007-12-13 00:08:37 +00001227- Bug #1604: collections.deque.__init__(iterable) now clears any prior contents
1228 before adding elements from the iterable. This fix brings the behavior into
1229 line with that for list.__init__().
1230
Christian Heimes7c7f6af2007-12-10 15:12:41 +00001231- Added wide char functions to msvcrt module: getwch, getwche, putwch and
1232 ungetwch. The functions accept or return unicode.
1233
Martin v. Löwis69233e82007-12-04 08:39:16 +00001234- os.access now returns True on Windows for any existing directory.
1235
Christian Heimes28104c52007-11-27 23:16:44 +00001236- Added warnpy3k function to the warnings module.
1237
Raymond Hettinger12e94202007-11-07 01:13:09 +00001238- Marshal.dumps() now expects exact type matches for int, long, float, complex,
1239 tuple, list, dict, set, and frozenset. Formerly, it would silently miscode
1240 subclasses of those types. Now, it raises a ValueError instead.
1241
Martin v. Löwis58bd49f2007-09-04 13:13:14 +00001242- Patch #1388440: Add set_completion_display_matches_hook and
1243 get_completion_type to readline.
1244
Thomas Helleref4fff32007-07-13 17:46:54 +00001245- Bug #1649098: Avoid declaration of zero-sized array declaration in
1246 structure.
1247
Brett Cannondc48b742007-05-20 07:09:50 +00001248- Removed the rgbimg module; been deprecated since Python 2.5.
1249
Neal Norwitz59f58aa2007-05-19 03:48:47 +00001250- Bug #1721309: prevent bsddb module from freeing random memory.
1251
Gregory P. Smith82eafe62007-10-18 17:17:57 +00001252- Bug #1233: fix bsddb.dbshelve.DBShelf append method to work as
1253 intended for RECNO databases.
1254
Gregory P. Smithec10a4a2007-11-05 02:32:26 +00001255- pybsddb.sf.net Bug #477182: Load the database flags at database open
1256 time so that opening a database previously created with the DB_DUP or
1257 DB_DUPSORT flag set will keep the proper behavior on subsequent opens.
1258 Specifically: dictionary assignment to a DB object will replace all
1259 values for a given key when the database allows duplicate values.
1260 DB users should use DB.put(k, v) when they want to store duplicates; not
1261 DB[k] = v.
1262
Gregory P. Smithac11e022007-11-05 02:56:31 +00001263- Add the bsddb.db.DBEnv.lock_id_free method.
1264
Martin v. Löwis3bf573f2007-04-04 18:30:36 +00001265- Bug #1686475: Support stat'ing open files on Windows again.
1266
Georg Brandl4aef7272007-03-13 22:49:43 +00001267- Patch #1185447: binascii.b2a_qp() now correctly quotes binary characters
1268 with ASCII value less than 32. Also, it correctly quotes dots only if
1269 they occur on a single line, as opposed to the previous behavior of
1270 quoting dots if they are the second character of any line.
1271
Georg Brandla47337f2007-03-13 12:34:25 +00001272- Bug #1622896: fix a rare corner case where the bz2 module raised an
1273 error in spite of a succesful compression.
1274
Georg Brandl40c62612007-03-06 18:59:11 +00001275- Patch #1654417: make operator.{get,set,del}slice use the full range
1276 of Py_ssize_t.
1277
Guido van Rossum2054ee92007-03-06 15:50:01 +00001278- Patch #1646728: datetime.fromtimestamp fails with negative
1279 fractional times. With unittest.
1280
Martin v. Löwis382abef2007-02-19 10:55:19 +00001281- Patch #1490190: posixmodule now includes os.chflags() and os.lchflags()
1282 functions on platforms where the underlying system calls are available.
1283
Georg Brandl983d1002007-02-15 11:29:04 +00001284- Patch #1494140: Add documentation for the new struct.Struct object.
1285
Martin v. Löwis45423a72007-02-14 10:07:37 +00001286- Patch #1432399: Support the HCI protocol for bluetooth sockets
1287
Martin v. Löwisb1cc1d42007-02-13 12:14:19 +00001288- Patch #1657276: Make NETLINK_DNRTMSG conditional.
1289
Martin v. Löwis4c11a922007-02-08 09:13:36 +00001290- Bug #1653736: Complain about keyword arguments to time.isoformat.
1291
Georg Brandlb84c1372007-01-21 10:28:43 +00001292- Bug #1486663: don't reject keyword arguments for subclasses of builtin
1293 types.
1294
Martin v. Löwisaef4c6b2007-01-21 09:33:07 +00001295- Patch #1610575: The struct module now supports the 't' code, for
1296 C99 _Bool.
1297
Guido van Rossumbb2cc692007-01-14 17:03:32 +00001298- Patch #1635058: ensure that htonl and friends never accept or
1299 return negative numbers, per the underlying C implementation.
1300
Martin v. Löwis046c4d12006-12-03 11:23:45 +00001301- Patch #1544279: Improve thread-safety of the socket module by moving
1302 the sock_addr_t storage out of the socket object.
1303
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00001304- Patch #1019808: fix bug that causes an incorrect error to be returned
Andrew M. Kuchling060e6852008-01-19 20:47:59 +00001305 when a socket timeout is set and a connection attempt fails.
1306
Neal Norwitz45e230a2006-11-19 21:26:53 +00001307- Speed up function calls into the math module.
1308
Georg Brandl25aabf42006-11-16 17:08:45 +00001309- Bug #1588217: don't parse "= " as a soft line break in binascii's
1310 a2b_qp() function, instead leave it in the string as quopri.decode()
1311 does.
1312
Neal Norwitz4fe44232006-11-21 05:26:22 +00001313- Bug #1599782: Fix segfault on bsddb.db.DB().type().
1314
Martin v. Löwis012bc722006-10-15 09:43:39 +00001315- Bug #1567666: Emulate GetFileAttributesExA for Win95.
1316
Martin v. Löwis18aaa562006-10-15 08:43:33 +00001317- Patch #1576166: Support os.utime for directories on Windows NT+.
1318
Georg Brandl412a9ea2006-10-09 19:03:06 +00001319- Patch #1572724: fix typo ('=' instead of '==') in _msi.c.
1320
Hye-Shik Changb7883462006-10-08 13:48:34 +00001321- Bug #1572832: fix a bug in ISO-2022 codecs which may cause segfault
1322 when encoding non-BMP unicode characters.
1323
Georg Brandl4ddfcd32006-09-30 11:17:34 +00001324- Bug #1556784: allow format strings longer than 127 characters in
1325 datetime's strftime function.
1326
Jack Diederichd10a0f72006-09-21 20:34:49 +00001327- Fix itertools.count(n) to work with negative numbers again.
1328
Martin v. Löwis43fd99c2006-09-16 17:36:37 +00001329- RLIMIT_SBSIZE was added to the resource module where available.
1330
Georg Brandl74bb7832006-09-06 06:03:59 +00001331- Bug #1551427: fix a wrong NULL pointer check in the win32 version
1332 of os.urandom().
1333
Neal Norwitz6aefa912006-09-02 02:50:35 +00001334- Bug #1548092: fix curses.tparm seg fault on invalid input.
1335
Andrew M. Kuchling62182c82008-01-08 14:56:02 +00001336- Patch #1114: fix curses module compilation on 64-bit AIX, & possibly
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00001337 other 64-bit LP64 platforms where attr_t is not the same size as a long.
Andrew M. Kuchling62182c82008-01-08 14:56:02 +00001338 (Contributed by Luke Mewburn.)
1339
Neal Norwitz69e88972006-09-02 02:58:13 +00001340- Bug #1550714: fix SystemError from itertools.tee on negative value for n.
1341
Hye-Shik Chang199f1db2006-09-05 12:07:09 +00001342- Fixed a few bugs on cjkcodecs:
1343 - gbk and gb18030 codec now handle U+30FB KATAKANA MIDDLE DOT correctly.
1344 - iso2022_jp_2 codec now encodes into G0 for KS X 1001, GB2312
1345 codepoints to conform the standard.
Hye-Shik Chang2cad3e92006-09-05 12:14:57 +00001346 - iso2022_jp_3 and iso2022_jp_2004 codec can encode JIS X 0213:2
Hye-Shik Chang199f1db2006-09-05 12:07:09 +00001347 codepoints now.
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00001348
Andrew M. Kuchling43889c02006-09-27 16:37:30 +00001349- Bug #1552726: in readline.c, avoid repeatedly polling in interactive
1350 mode by only placing a timeout on the select() if an input hook has
1351 been defined. This prevents an interactive Python from waking up 10
1352 times per second. Patch by Richard Boulton.
1353
Gregory P. Smithf09c6262007-03-17 22:33:35 +00001354- fixed a bug with bsddb.DB.stat: the flags and txn keyword arguments
1355 were transposed.
1356
Matthias Klose691632f2007-09-03 23:33:04 +00001357- Added support for linking the bsddb module against BerkeleyDB 4.5.x
1358 and 4.6.x.
Gregory P. Smith8b96a352007-01-05 01:59:42 +00001359
Walter Dörwald8537c302007-03-06 21:15:24 +00001360- Bug #1633621: if curses.resizeterm() or curses.resize_term() is called,
1361 update _curses.LINES, _curses.COLS, curses.LINES and curses.COLS.
Andrew M. Kuchling43889c02006-09-27 16:37:30 +00001362
Matthias Klosee19e0c22007-04-03 04:35:59 +00001363- Fix an off-by-one bug in locale.strxfrm().
1364
Matthias Klose38336402007-09-04 20:46:02 +00001365- Fix libffi configure for hppa*-*-linux* | parisc*-*-linux*.
1366
Matthias Klose9afb9852007-10-24 20:00:44 +00001367- Build using system ffi library on arm*-linux*.
1368
Christian Heimes3f065a42007-11-21 01:17:28 +00001369- Bug #1372: zlibmodule.c: int overflow in PyZlib_decompress
Matthias Klosee19e0c22007-04-03 04:35:59 +00001370
Gregory P. Smitheeed5b72008-02-03 07:20:53 +00001371- bsddb module: Fix memory leak when using database cursors on
1372 databases without a DBEnv.
1373
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00001374Tests
1375-----
1376
Brett Cannonf9db8a32008-02-17 01:59:18 +00001377- Refactor test_logging to use doctest.
1378
Georg Brandlb7090772008-02-05 19:58:17 +00001379- Refactor test_profile and test_cprofile to use the same code to profile.
1380
Brett Cannondbed7a72007-08-23 14:53:17 +00001381- Make test_runpy reentrant by fixing _check_module to clear out any module
1382 being tested. Was causing an error by __import__ doing a reload on the
1383 second run and thus suppressing bytecode recreation.
1384
Brett Cannonea2835a2007-03-14 21:44:15 +00001385- Capture socket connection resets and timeouts in test_socket_ssl and
1386 test_urllib2net and raise test.test_support.ResourceDenied.
Brett Cannoned001842007-03-14 21:40:13 +00001387
Martin v. Löwiscd1210a2007-03-14 20:02:31 +00001388- Patch #1559413: Fix test_cmd_line if sys.executable contains a space.
1389
Brett Cannona30fcb42007-03-08 23:58:11 +00001390- Added test.test_support.TransientResource which is a context manager to
1391 surround calls to resources that are not guaranteed to work even if
1392 test.test_support.requires says that the resource should exist.
1393
Brett Cannone05e6b02007-01-29 04:41:44 +00001394- Added a test for slicing of an exception.
1395
Brett Cannon92d54d52007-01-04 00:23:49 +00001396- Added test.test_support.EnvironmentVarGuard. It's a class that provides a
1397 context manager so that one can temporarily set or unset environment
1398 variables.
1399
Thomas Heller112d1a62006-10-27 19:05:53 +00001400- Added some tests for modulefinder.
1401
Brett Cannon373d90b2006-10-03 23:23:14 +00001402- Converted test_imp to use unittest.
1403
Neal Norwitz919d5cc2006-09-05 02:35:08 +00001404- Fix bsddb test_basics.test06_Transactions to check the version
1405 number properly.
1406
Walter Dörwalde6dae6c2007-04-03 18:33:29 +00001407- test.test_support.catch_warning is a new context manager that can be used
1408 to catch the warnings issued by the warning framework.
1409
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00001410
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00001411Tools
1412-----
1413
Facundo Batistaf88a0772008-02-17 16:21:13 +00001414- Tools/scripts/reindent.py now creates the backup file using shutil.copy
1415 to preserve user/group and permissions. Added also a --nobackup option
1416 to not create the backup if the user is concerned regarding this. Check
1417 issue 1050828 for more details.
1418
Christian Heimesbd865db2008-01-18 11:58:50 +00001419- Tools/scripts/win_add2path.py was added. The simple script modifes the
1420 PATH environment var of the HKCU tree and adds the python bin and script
1421 directory.
1422
Skip Montanaro3e275362007-08-29 01:33:45 +00001423- Tools/18n/pygettext.py was added to the list of scripts installed by
1424 Tools/scripts/setup.py (tracker item 642309).
1425
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00001426- Added IronPython and Jython support to pybench (part of which
1427 was patch #1563844)
1428
1429- Made some minor changes to pybench output to allow the user
1430 to see which Python version is running pybench
1431
1432- Added support for the new platform module feature
1433 platform.python_implementation(); this will now be saved
1434 in the benchmark pickle
1435
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00001436
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00001437Documentation
1438-------------
1439
Vinay Sajipd7cf32e2008-01-24 12:43:33 +00001440- RFE #1765140: Updated documentation on FileHandler and subclasses to
1441 include new optional delay argument.
1442
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00001443- Bug #932563: Added section on getting contextual information into logging
1444 output, and added documentation for the new LoggerAdapter class.
1445
1446- Bug #1295: Added information about caching of formatted exception
1447 information in the LogRecord by Formatter.format().
1448
Georg Brandl9467bc52007-07-12 09:37:49 +00001449- Bug #1637365: add subsection about "__name__ == __main__" to the
1450 Python tutorial.
1451
Georg Brandl3dc6e902007-04-25 06:24:59 +00001452- Patch #1698768: updated the "using Python on the Mac" intro.
1453
Brett Cannon55a18642007-04-08 04:29:32 +00001454- Bug #1569057: Document that calling file.next() when the file is open for
1455 writing is undefined.
1456
Žiga Seilnachtc64ad482007-03-24 14:24:26 +00001457- Patch #1489771: the syntax rules in Python Reference Manual were
1458 updated to reflect the current Python syntax.
1459
Martin v. Löwis2f401d72007-03-23 10:35:49 +00001460- Patch #1686451: Fix return type for
1461 PySequence_{Count,Index,Fast_GET_SIZE}.
1462
Georg Brandl0692a262007-03-13 07:50:57 +00001463- Patch #1679379: add documentation for fnmatch.translate().
1464
Collin Winterb7b2b4e2007-03-09 18:09:10 +00001465- Bug #1629566: clarify the docs on the return values of parsedate()
1466 and parsedate_tz() in email.utils and rfc822.
1467
Georg Brandld28b9fc2007-03-06 10:02:47 +00001468- Patch #1671450: add a section about subclassing builtin types to the
1469 "extending and embedding" tutorial.
1470
Georg Brandlb26b1c62007-01-17 21:19:58 +00001471- Bug #1629125: fix wrong data type (int -> Py_ssize_t) in PyDict_Next
1472 docs.
1473
Georg Brandla4c8e322006-10-12 08:22:53 +00001474- Bug #1565919: document set types in the Language Reference.
1475
Georg Brandl44a7b3a2006-09-30 12:02:57 +00001476- Bug #1546052: clarify that PyString_FromString(AndSize) copies the
1477 string pointed to by its parameter.
1478
Georg Brandlfb257732006-09-30 09:06:45 +00001479- Bug #1566663: remove obsolete example from datetime docs.
1480
Georg Brandl648c1102006-08-18 07:27:59 +00001481- Bug #1541682: Fix example in the "Refcount details" API docs.
1482 Additionally, remove a faulty example showing PySequence_SetItem applied
1483 to a newly created list object and add notes that this isn't a good idea.
1484
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00001485
Georg Brandl27562782006-10-27 20:39:43 +00001486Tools/Demos
1487-----------
1488
1489- Patch #1552024: add decorator support to unparse.py demo script.
Marc-André Lemburg96148682006-09-06 20:40:22 +00001490
Brett Cannonc8939d22006-09-20 19:28:35 +00001491- Make auto-generated python.vim file list built-ins and exceptions in
1492 alphatbetical order. Makes output more deterministic and easier to tell if
1493 the file is stale or not.
1494
Marc-André Lemburg96148682006-09-06 20:40:22 +00001495- Bug #1546372: Fixed small bugglet in pybench that caused a missing
1496 file not to get reported properly.
1497
1498
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00001499Build
1500-----
1501
Brett Cannon70c0c022008-02-03 09:59:21 +00001502- Have the search path for building extensions follow the declared order in
1503 $CPPFLAGS and $LDFLAGS when adding directories from those environment
1504 variables.
1505
Christian Heimes951cc0f2008-01-31 23:08:23 +00001506- Bug #1983: Added a check to pyport to verify that sizeof(pid_t) is
1507 smaller or equal sizeof(long).
1508
Christian Heimescba36bb2008-01-30 22:54:18 +00001509- Bug #1234: Fixed semaphore errors on AIX 5.2
1510
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00001511- Issue #1726: Remove Python/atof.c from PCBuild/pythoncore.vcproj
1512
1513- Removed PCbuild8/ directory and added a new build directory for VS 2005
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00001514 based on the VS 2008 build directory to PC/VS8.0. The script
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00001515 PCbuild/vs8to9.py was added to sync changes from PCbuild to PC/VS8.0.
1516
1517- Moved PCbuild/ directory for VS 2003 to PC/VS7.1 and renamed PCBuild9/
1518 directory to PCBuild/.
1519
Martin v. Löwiscb78de62007-12-29 18:49:21 +00001520- Bug #1699: Define _BSD_SOURCE only on OpenBSD.
1521
Guido van Rossum7c862f82007-12-13 20:50:10 +00001522- Bug #1608: use -fwrapv when GCC supports it. This is important,
1523 newer GCC versions may optimize away overflow buffer overflow checks
1524 without this option!
1525
Martin v. Löwis63bf1492007-11-12 05:14:05 +00001526- Patch #1418: Make the AC_REPLACE_FUNCS object files actually work.
1527
Raymond Hettingerdc1d1ba2007-11-07 02:45:46 +00001528- Add a FAST_LOOPS build option that speeds-up looping by trading away
1529 periodic threadstate and signal checking in tight loops. By default,
1530 this option is turned-off. It should only be enabled in debugged,
1531 performance critical applications.
1532
Martin v. Löwisd44a4e92007-09-05 11:47:34 +00001533- Patch #786737: Allow building in a tree of symlinks pointing to
1534 a readonly source.
1535
Martin v. Löwis8bc77e42007-09-01 06:36:03 +00001536- Bug #1737210: Change Manufacturer of Windows installer to PSF.
1537
Martin v. Löwis75c23bd2007-08-30 18:25:47 +00001538- Bug #1746880: Correctly install DLLs into system32 folder on Win64.
1539
Martin v. Löwis76760b02007-07-31 19:57:56 +00001540- Define _BSD_SOURCE, to get access to POSIX extensions on OpenBSD 4.1+.
1541
Brett Cannon19fab762007-06-02 03:02:29 +00001542- Stop supporting AtheOS and cause a build error in configure for the platform.
1543
Georg Brandldb846032007-03-31 18:56:11 +00001544- Bug #1655392: don't add -L/usr/lib/pythonX.Y/config to the LDFLAGS
1545 returned by python-config if Python was built with --enable-shared
1546 because that prevented the shared library from being used.
1547
Georg Brandl18c47f62007-03-13 10:19:22 +00001548- Patch #1569798: fix a bug in distutils when building Python from a
1549 directory within sys.exec_prefix.
1550
Martin v. Löwiseb623572007-03-12 10:50:39 +00001551- Bug #1675511: Use -Kpic instead of -xcode=pic32 on Solaris/x86.
1552
Martin v. Löwis4d542ec2006-11-25 15:39:19 +00001553- Disable _XOPEN_SOURCE on NetBSD 1.x.
1554
Martin v. Löwisaac13162006-10-19 10:58:46 +00001555- configure now checks whether gcc supports the PyArg_ParseTuple format
1556 attribute.
1557
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00001558- Bug #1578513: Cross compilation was broken by a change to configure.
Martin v. Löwisfefbc202006-10-17 18:59:23 +00001559 Repair so that it's back to how it was in 2.4.3.
1560
Martin v. Löwisc9e82f62006-10-15 07:54:40 +00001561- Patch #1576954: Update VC6 build directory; remove redundant
1562 files in VC7.
1563
Martin v. Löwisebe26702006-10-02 14:55:51 +00001564- Bug #1568842: Fix test for uintptr_t.
1565
Neal Norwitz4bc2c092006-09-05 02:57:01 +00001566- Patch #1540470, for OpenBSD 4.0.
1567
Matthias Klosed149d0c2006-12-03 17:16:41 +00001568- Fix build failure on kfreebsd and on the hurd.
1569
Matthias Kloseebde1492006-12-09 12:15:27 +00001570- Fix the build of the library reference in info format.
1571
Matthias Kloseeb8ff672007-08-02 21:33:13 +00001572- Allow Emacs 22 for building the documentation in info format.
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00001573
Matthias Klose642ac852007-09-04 18:17:36 +00001574- Makefile.pre.in(buildbottest): Run an optional script pybuildbot.identify
1575 to include some information about the build environment.
1576
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00001577
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00001578C API
1579-----
1580
Christian Heimes5b970ad2008-02-06 13:33:44 +00001581- Unified naming convention for free lists and their limits. All free lists
1582 in Object/ are named ``free_list``, the counter ``numfree`` and the upper
1583 limit is a macro ``PyName_MAXFREELIST`` inside an #ifndef block.
1584
Amaury Forgeot d'Arccab3d982008-02-03 22:51:43 +00001585- ``PySet_Add()`` can now modify a newly created frozenset. Similarly to
1586 ``PyTuple_SetItem``, it can be used to populate a brand new frozenset; but
1587 it does not steal a reference to the added item.
1588
1589- Added ``PySet_Check()`` and ``PyFrozenSet_Check()`` to the set API.
1590
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00001591- Backport of PyUnicode_FromString(), _FromStringAndSize(), _Format and
1592 _FormatV from Python 3.0. Made PyLong_AsSsize_t and PyLong_FromSsize_t
1593 public functions.
1594
1595- Patch #1720595: add T_BOOL to the range of structmember types.
1596
1597- Issue #1534: Added ``PyFloat_GetMax()``, ``PyFloat_GetMin()`` and
1598 ``PyFloat_GetInfo()`` to the float API.
1599
1600- Issue #1521: On 64bit platforms, using PyArgs_ParseTuple with the t# of w#
1601 format code incorrectly truncated the length to an int, even when
1602 PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN is set. The str.decode method used to return incorrect
1603 results with huge strings.
1604
1605- Issue #1629: Renamed Py_Size, Py_Type and Py_Refcnt to Py_SIZE, Py_TYPE
1606 and Py_REFCNT.
1607
1608- PEP 3123: Provide forward compatibility with Python 3.0, while keeping
1609 backwards compatibility. Add Py_Refcnt, Py_Type, Py_Size, and
1610 PyVarObject_HEAD_INIT.
1611
1612- Py_ssize_t fields work in structmember when HAVE_LONG_LONG is not defined.
1613
1614- Patch #1733960: Allow T_LONGLONG to accept ints.
1615
1616- T_PYSSIZET can now be used in PyMemberDef lists for Py_ssize_t members.
1617
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00001618- Added a new API function ``PyImport_ImportModuleNoBlock``.
1619
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00001620- Bug #1637022: Prefix AST symbols with _Py_.
1621
1622- Fix some leftovers from the conversion from int to Py_ssize_t
1623 (relevant to strings and sequences of more than 2**31 items).
1624
1625- Make _PyGILState_NoteThreadState() static, it was not used anywhere
1626 outside of pystate.c and should not be necessary.
1627
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00001628- ``PyImport_Import`` and ``PyImport_ImportModule`` now always do absolute
1629 imports. In earlier versions they might have used relative imports under
1630 some conditions.
1631
Andrew M. Kuchlingadc60ab2008-01-04 02:26:00 +00001632- Added case insensitive comparison methods ``PyOS_stricmp(char*, char*)``
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00001633 and ``PyOS_strnicmp(char*, char*, Py_ssize_t)``.
1634
Neal Norwitz8a267062006-08-19 04:25:29 +00001635- Bug #1542693: remove semi-colon at end of PyImport_ImportModuleEx macro
1636 so it can be used as an expression.
1637
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00001638
Martin v. Löwis2607e6c2006-11-21 18:20:25 +00001639Windows
1640-------
1641
Christian Heimes95d64472008-02-09 19:55:22 +00001642- Patch #1706: Drop support for Win9x, WinME and NT4. Python now requires
1643 Windows 2000 or greater. The _WINVER and NTDDI_VERSION macros are set to
1644 Win2k for x86/32bit builds and WinXP for AMD64 builds.
1645
Martin v. Löwis2607e6c2006-11-21 18:20:25 +00001646- Conditionalize definition of _CRT_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE
1647 and _CRT_NONSTDC_NO_DEPRECATE.
1648
Martin v. Löwisd476a402007-10-12 08:56:52 +00001649- Bug #1216: Restore support for Visual Studio 2002.
1650
Martin v. Löwis2607e6c2006-11-21 18:20:25 +00001651
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00001652Mac
1653---
1654
Brett Cannonf0cb1d72007-05-31 20:01:11 +00001655- cfmfile now raises a DeprecationWarning.
1656
Brett Cannon791d56f2007-05-31 19:40:42 +00001657- buildtools now raises a DeprecationWarning.
1658
Brett Cannon5e263512007-05-20 23:17:38 +00001659- Removed the macfs module. It had been deprecated since Python 2.5. This
1660 lead to the deprecation of macostools.touched() as it relied solely on macfs
1661 and was a no-op under OS X.
1662
Skip Montanaroe5d7f7f2002-09-20 14:16:59 +00001663----
1664
1665**(For information about older versions, consult the HISTORY file.)**