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Michael Foord83d35762010-06-10 16:32:00 +00007What's New in Python 2.7 release candidate 2?
8=============================================
Benjamin Peterson2f3d9f92010-06-06 02:09:33 +00009
10*Release date: XXXX-XX-XX*
11
12Core and Builtins
13-----------------
14
Nick Coghlan8842c352010-06-13 06:50:39 +000015- Issue #8202: Previous change to ``sys.argv[0]`` handling for -m command line
16 option reverted due to unintended side effects on handling of ``sys.path``.
17 See tracker issue for details.
18
Antoine Pitroucca3a3f2010-06-11 21:42:26 +000019- Issue #8941: decoding big endian UTF-32 data in UCS-2 builds could crash
20 the interpreter with characters outside the Basic Multilingual Plane
21 (higher than 0x10000).
22
Benjamin Petersonfa4c59f2010-06-08 14:53:29 +000023- In the unicode/str.format(), raise a ValueError when indexes to arguments are
24 too large.
Benjamin Peterson13e934a2010-06-07 22:23:23 +000025
Benjamin Peterson2f3d9f92010-06-06 02:09:33 +000026Library
27-------
Mark Dickinsone979ec82010-06-13 10:50:29 +000028
Thomas Hellerf1800992010-06-21 14:00:24 +000029- Issue #8959: fix regression caused by using unmodified libffi
30 library on Windows. ctypes does now again check the stack before
31 and after calling foreign functions.
32
R. David Murraydf1cf302010-06-17 01:36:52 +000033- Issue #8720: fix regression caused by fix for #4050 by making getsourcefile
34 smart enough to find source files in the linecache.
35
Mark Dickinsone979ec82010-06-13 10:50:29 +000036- Issue #8986: math.erfc was incorrectly raising OverflowError for
37 values between -27.3 and -30.0 on some platforms.
38
Vinay Sajip936efc72010-06-11 22:56:50 +000039- Issue #8924: logging: Improved error handling for Unicode in exception text.
Benjamin Peterson2f3d9f92010-06-06 02:09:33 +000040
Michael Foord83d35762010-06-10 16:32:00 +000041- Issue #8948: cleanup functions and class / module setups and teardowns are
42 now honored in unittest debug methods.
43
Tarek Ziadé770fd152010-06-06 20:05:20 +000044Documentation
45-------------
46
47- Issues #8909: Added the size of the bitmap used in the installer created by
48 distutils' bdist_wininst. Patch by Anatoly Techtonik.
49
Victor Stinnerb65bd2e2010-06-11 19:22:28 +000050Misc
51----
52
53- Issue #8362: Add maintainers.rst: list of module maintainers
54
Benjamin Peterson2f3d9f92010-06-06 02:09:33 +000055
Antoine Pitrou6001b0b2010-05-09 18:32:48 +000056What's New in Python 2.7 Release Candidate 1?
57=============================================
Benjamin Peterson534b8de2010-05-08 18:53:42 +000058
Benjamin Peterson77d534e2010-06-06 00:22:09 +000059*Release date: 2010-06-05*
Benjamin Peterson534b8de2010-05-08 18:53:42 +000060
61Core and Builtins
62-----------------
63
Ezio Melottiab2eb0e2010-06-05 19:21:32 +000064- Issue #8271: during the decoding of an invalid UTF-8 byte sequence, only the
65 start byte and the continuation byte(s) are now considered invalid, instead
66 of the number of bytes specified by the start byte.
67 E.g.: '\xf1\x80AB'.decode('utf-8', 'replace') now returns u'\ufffdAB' and
68 replaces with U+FFFD only the start byte ('\xf1') and the continuation byte
69 ('\x80') even if '\xf1' is the start byte of a 4-bytes sequence.
70 Previous versions returned a single u'\ufffd'.
71
Mark Dickinson23f0d6b2010-06-05 11:52:24 +000072- Issue #8627: Remove bogus "Overriding __cmp__ blocks inheritance of
Mark Dickinsone4b83e02010-06-05 12:14:43 +000073 __hash__ in 3.x" warning. Also fix "XXX undetected error" that
74 arises from the "Overriding __eq__ blocks inheritance ..." warning
75 when turned into an exception: in this case the exception simply
76 gets ignored.
Mark Dickinson23f0d6b2010-06-05 11:52:24 +000077
Mark Dickinson4ca7c3c2010-05-30 13:18:10 +000078- Issue #8748: Fix two issues with comparisons between complex and integer
79 objects. (1) The comparison could incorrectly return True in some cases
80 (2**53+1 == complex(2**53) == 2**53), breaking transivity of equality.
81 (2) The comparison raised an OverflowError for large integers, leading
82 to unpredictable exceptions when combining integers and complex objects
83 in sets or dicts.
84
Mark Dickinson81336372010-05-30 12:12:25 +000085- Issue #5211: Implicit coercion for the complex type is now completely
86 removed. (Coercion for arithmetic operations was already removed in 2.7
87 alpha 4, but coercion for rich comparisons was accidentally left in.)
88
Victor Stinnerc49dfcc2010-05-25 22:30:32 +000089- Issue #3798: Write sys.exit() message to sys.stderr to use stderr encoding
90 and error handler, instead of writing to the C stderr file in utf-8
91
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +000092- Issue #7902: When using explicit relative import syntax, don't try implicit
93 relative import semantics.
Brett Cannoneb3cd302010-05-20 18:37:55 +000094
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +000095- Issue #7079: Fix a possible crash when closing a file object while using it
96 from another thread. Patch by Daniel Stutzbach.
Antoine Pitrou83137c22010-05-17 19:56:59 +000097
Victor Stinnerb65bd2e2010-06-11 19:22:28 +000098- Issue #8868: Fix that ensures that python scripts have access to the
Ronald Oussoren27c72e92010-06-02 03:47:14 +000099 Window Server again in a framework build on MacOSX 10.5 or earlier.
100
Antoine Pitrou6a265602010-05-21 17:12:38 +0000101C-API
102-----
103
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000104- Issue #5753: A new C API function, :cfunc:`PySys_SetArgvEx`, allows embedders
105 of the interpreter to set sys.argv without also modifying sys.path. This
106 helps fix `CVE-2008-5983
Antoine Pitrou6a265602010-05-21 17:12:38 +0000107 <http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-5983>`_.
108
Benjamin Peterson534b8de2010-05-08 18:53:42 +0000109Library
110-------
111
Michael Foordd8918592010-06-05 19:51:38 +0000112- Issue #8302: SkipTest in unittest.TestCase.setUpClass or setUpModule is now
113 reported as a skip rather than an error.
114
115- Issue #8351: Excessively large diffs due to
116 unittest.TestCase.assertSequenceEqual are no longer included in failure
117 reports.
118
Alexander Belopolsky3b818bf2010-06-05 14:54:26 +0000119- Issue #8899: time.struct_time now has class and atribute docstrings.
120
R. David Murraye7e505b2010-06-04 19:51:06 +0000121- Issue #4487: email now accepts as charset aliases all codec aliases
122 accepted by the codecs module.
123
Martin v. Löwiseba67c02010-06-04 19:39:07 +0000124- Issue #6470: Drop UNC prefix in FixTk.
125
R. David Murray61746d52010-06-03 15:43:20 +0000126- Issue #5610: feedparser no longer eats extra characters at the end of
127 a body part if the body part ends with a \r\n.
128
Lars Gustäbel2ee9c6f2010-06-03 09:56:22 +0000129- Issue #8833: tarfile created hard link entries with a size field != 0 by
130 mistake.
131
R. David Murray52dcd452010-06-02 22:03:15 +0000132- Issue #1368247: set_charset (and therefore MIMEText) now automatically
133 encodes a unicode _payload to the output_charset.
134
Alexander Belopolsky9292ee02010-05-27 20:55:27 +0000135- Issue #7150: Raise OverflowError if the result of adding or subtracting
136 timedelta from date or datetime falls outside of the MINYEAR:MAXYEAR range.
137
Victor Stinner04ee3372010-05-24 21:37:28 +0000138- Issue #6662: Fix parsing of malformatted charref (&#bad;), patch written by
139 Fredrik Håård
Victor Stinner554a3b82010-05-24 21:33:24 +0000140
Georg Brandlf0757a22010-05-24 21:29:07 +0000141- Issue #8016: Add the CP858 codec.
142
Georg Brandl5d0ca2c2010-05-22 11:29:19 +0000143- Issue #3924: Ignore cookies with invalid "version" field in cookielib.
144
Victor Stinner7df55da2010-05-22 13:37:56 +0000145- Issue #6268: Fix seek() method of codecs.open(), don't read or write the BOM
146 twice after seek(0). Fix also reset() method of codecs, UTF-16, UTF-32 and
147 StreamWriter classes.
Victor Stinner262be5e2010-05-22 02:11:07 +0000148
Victor Stinnerd6703b52010-05-21 22:50:28 +0000149- Issue #5640: Fix Shift-JIS incremental encoder for error handlers different
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000150 than 'strict'.
Victor Stinnerd6703b52010-05-21 22:50:28 +0000151
Benjamin Peterson266e4542010-05-21 21:31:24 +0000152- Issue #8782: Add a trailing newline in linecache.updatecache to the last line
153 of files without one.
154
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000155- Issue #8729: Return NotImplemented from ``collections.Mapping.__eq__()`` when
Benjamin Petersoneb318d32010-05-21 20:51:45 +0000156 comparing to a non-mapping.
157
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000158- Issue #8759: Fix user paths in sysconfig for posix and os2 schemes.
Tarek Ziadé8f692272010-05-19 22:20:14 +0000159
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000160- Issue #1285086: Speed up ``urllib.quote()`` and urllib.unquote for simple
161 cases.
Florent Xiclunaaf87f9f2010-05-17 13:35:09 +0000162
Tarek Ziadé422545f2010-05-17 10:06:20 +0000163- Issue #8688: Distutils now recalculates MANIFEST everytime.
164
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000165- Issue #5099: The ``__del__()`` method of ``subprocess.Popen`` (and the methods
166 it calls) referenced global objects, causing errors to pop up during
167 interpreter shutdown.
Brett Cannon42a0ba72010-05-14 00:21:48 +0000168
Mark Dickinson932e1622010-05-10 16:07:42 +0000169Extension Modules
170-----------------
171
Stefan Krah449aa862010-06-03 12:39:50 +0000172- Issue #7384: If the system readline library is linked against ncurses,
173 the curses module must be linked against ncurses as well. Otherwise it
174 is not safe to load both the readline and curses modules in an application.
175
Brian Curtinb64c89b2010-05-25 15:06:15 +0000176- Issue #2810: Fix cases where the Windows registry API returns
177 ERROR_MORE_DATA, requiring a re-try in order to get the complete result.
178
Mark Dickinson932e1622010-05-10 16:07:42 +0000179- Issue #8674: Fixed a number of incorrect or undefined-behaviour-inducing
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000180 overflow checks in the ``audioop`` module.
Benjamin Peterson534b8de2010-05-08 18:53:42 +0000181
Brett Cannonda9af752010-05-13 23:59:41 +0000182Tests
183-----
184
R. David Murray4653fb52010-06-03 20:19:25 +0000185- Issue #8889: test_support.transient_internet rewritten so that the new
186 checks also work on FreeBSD, which lacks EAI_NODATA.
187
188- Issue #8835: test_support.transient_internet() catches gaierror(EAI_NONAME)
Victor Stinner03883622010-05-27 22:29:48 +0000189 and gaierror(EAI_NODATA)
190
Victor Stinner708c0722010-05-26 17:25:28 +0000191- Issue #7449: Skip test_socketserver if threading support is disabled
192
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000193- On darwin, ``test_site`` assumed that a framework build was being used,
194 leading to a failure where four directories were expected for site-packages
195 instead of two in a non-framework build.
Brett Cannonda9af752010-05-13 23:59:41 +0000196
Martin v. Löwisb41afb52010-05-28 15:28:47 +0000197Build
198-----
199
Martin v. Löwis16b2a5e2010-06-04 19:15:32 +0000200- Display installer warning that Windows 2000 won't be supported in future
201 releases.
202
Victor Stinnerb65bd2e2010-06-11 19:22:28 +0000203- Issues #1759169, #8864: Drop _XOPEN_SOURCE on Solaris, define it for
Martin v. Löwis26eec582010-06-04 17:18:42 +0000204 multiprocessing only.
Brett Cannonda9af752010-05-13 23:59:41 +0000205
Martin v. Löwis5aafc172010-06-04 18:04:42 +0000206Tools/Demos
207-----------
208
209- Issue #5464: Implement plural forms in msgfmt.py.
210
211
Antoine Pitrouab5ce722010-04-11 22:45:47 +0000212What's New in Python 2.7 beta 2?
213================================
Benjamin Peterson12409062010-04-10 18:53:58 +0000214
Benjamin Petersonc2516072010-05-08 17:08:17 +0000215*Release date: 2010-05-08*
Benjamin Peterson12409062010-04-10 18:53:58 +0000216
217Core and Builtins
218-----------------
219
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000220- Run Clang 2.7's static analyzer for ``Objects/`` and ``Python/``.
Brett Cannon5fb89df2010-05-05 20:54:53 +0000221
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000222- Issue #1533: Fix inconsistency in range function argument processing: any
223 non-float non-integer argument is now converted to an integer (if possible)
224 using its __int__ method. Previously, only small arguments were treated this
225 way; larger arguments (those whose __int__ was outside the range of a C long)
226 would produce a TypeError.
Mark Dickinsona8d26682010-05-04 16:18:25 +0000227
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000228- Issue #8202: ``sys.argv[0]`` is now set to '-m' instead of '-c' when searching
229 for the module file to be executed with the -m command line option.
Nick Coghlanc5e44852010-04-28 14:51:08 +0000230
Brett Cannon19949692010-04-25 22:33:36 +0000231- Issue #7319: When -Q is used, do not silence DeprecationWarning.
232
Antoine Pitrou18e63fb2010-04-21 22:53:29 +0000233- Issue #7332: Remove the 16KB stack-based buffer in
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000234 ``PyMarshal_ReadLastObjectFromFile``, which doesn't bring any noticeable
Antoine Pitrou18e63fb2010-04-21 22:53:29 +0000235 benefit compared to the dynamic memory allocation fallback. Patch by
236 Charles-François Natali.
237
Benjamin Peterson821a8ea2010-04-16 22:35:38 +0000238- Issue #8417: Raise an OverflowError when an integer larger than sys.maxsize is
239 passed to bytearray.
240
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000241- Issue #7072: ``isspace(0xa0)`` is true on Mac OS X.
Ronald Oussoren37805e52010-04-18 13:47:49 +0000242
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000243- Issue #8404: Fix set operations on dictionary views.
Alexandre Vassalotti268e4872010-05-04 03:21:51 +0000244
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000245- Issue #8084: PEP 370 now conforms to system conventions for framework builds
246 on MacOS X. That is, ``python setup.py install --user`` will install into
247 ``~/Library/Python/2.7`` instead of ``~/.local``.
Ronald Oussoren2f88bfd2010-05-08 10:29:06 +0000248
Benjamin Peterson12409062010-04-10 18:53:58 +0000249Library
250-------
251
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000252- Issue #8681: Make the zlib module's error messages more informative when the
253 zlib itself doesn't give any detailed explanation.
Antoine Pitroufc3bfad2010-05-11 23:42:28 +0000254
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000255- Issue #8571: Fix an internal error when compressing or decompressing a chunk
256 larger than 1GB with the zlib module's compressor and decompressor objects.
Antoine Pitrou3843cd82010-05-07 16:50:34 +0000257
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000258- Issue #8573: asyncore ``_strerror()`` function might throw ValueError.
Giampaolo Rodolàf7454fa2010-05-06 17:57:06 +0000259
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000260- Issue #8483: asyncore.dispatcher's __getattr__ method produced confusing error
261 messages when accessing undefined class attributes because of the cheap
262 inheritance with the underlying socket object. The cheap inheritance has been
263 deprecated.
Giampaolo Rodolàf7454fa2010-05-06 17:57:06 +0000264
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000265- Issue #4265: ``shutil.copyfile()`` was leaking file descriptors when disk
266 fills. Patch by Tres Seaver.
Tarek Ziadé38f81222010-05-05 22:15:31 +0000267
Barry Warsaw8efa8672010-05-05 16:17:22 +0000268- Issue #7755: Use an unencumbered audio file for tests.
269
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000270- Issue #8621: ``uuid.uuid4()`` returned the same sequence of values in the
271 parent and any children created using ``os.fork`` on Mac OS X 10.6.
Ronald Oussoren33206962010-05-05 14:48:37 +0000272
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000273- Issue #8313: ``traceback.format_exception_only()`` encodes unicode message to
274 ASCII with backslashreplace error handler if ``str(value)`` failed.
Victor Stinner926fd4e2010-05-05 12:40:49 +0000275
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000276- Issue #8567: Fix precedence of signals in Decimal module: when a Decimal
277 operation raises multiple signals and more than one of those signals is
278 trapped, the specification determines the order in which the signals should be
279 handled. In many cases this order wasn't being followed, leading to the wrong
280 Python exception being raised.
Mark Dickinson4f96f5f2010-05-04 14:25:50 +0000281
Antoine Pitrouf7fd8e42010-05-03 16:25:33 +0000282- Issue #7865: The close() method of :mod:`io` objects should not swallow
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000283 exceptions raised by the implicit flush(). Also ensure that calling close()
284 several times is supported. Patch by Pascal Chambon.
Antoine Pitrouf7fd8e42010-05-03 16:25:33 +0000285
Vinay Sajip27a13702010-05-03 15:11:53 +0000286- Issue #8576: logging updated to remove usage of find_unused_port().
287
Antoine Pitrou951919f2010-05-02 19:51:14 +0000288- Issue #4687: Fix accuracy of garbage collection runtimes displayed with
289 gc.DEBUG_STATS.
290
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000291- Issue #8354: The siginterrupt setting is now preserved for all signals, not
292 just SIGCHLD.
Jean-Paul Calderonee54ddf12010-05-08 20:06:02 +0000293
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000294- Issue #7192: ``webbrowser.get("firefox")`` now works on Mac OS X, as does
295 ``webbrowser.get("safari")``.
Ronald Oussoren4ef1c7e2010-05-02 09:48:21 +0000296
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000297- Issue #8577: ``distutils.sysconfig.get_python_inc()`` now makes a difference
Tarek Ziadéa5cd1822010-04-30 12:15:12 +0000298 between the build dir and the source dir when looking for "python.h" or
299 "Include".
300
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000301- Issue #8464: tarfile no longer creates files with execute permissions set when
302 mode="w|" is used.
Lars Gustäbel5c4c4612010-04-29 15:23:38 +0000303
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000304- Issue #7834: Fix connect() of Bluetooth L2CAP sockets with recent versions of
305 the Linux kernel. Patch by Yaniv Aknin.
Antoine Pitrouf56a2882010-04-29 10:05:40 +0000306
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000307- Issue #6312: Fix http HEAD request when the transfer encoding is chunked. It
308 should correctly return an empty response now.
Senthil Kumaraned9204342010-04-28 17:20:43 +0000309
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000310- Issue #7490: To facilitate sharing of doctests between 2.x and 3.x test
311 suites, the ``IGNORE_EXCEPTION_DETAIL`` directive now also ignores the module
312 location of the raised exception. Based on initial patch by Lennart Regebro.
Nick Coghlandfb45df2010-04-28 14:29:06 +0000313
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000314- Issue #8086: In :func:`ssl.DER_cert_to_PEM_cert()`, fix missing newline before
315 the certificate footer. Patch by Kyle VanderBeek.
Antoine Pitrou4c7bcf12010-04-27 22:03:37 +0000316
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000317- Issue #8546: Reject None given as the buffering argument to ``_pyio.open()``.
Benjamin Petersona9bd6d52010-04-27 21:01:54 +0000318
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000319- Issue #8549: Fix compiling the _ssl extension under AIX. Patch by Sridhar
320 Ratnakumar.
Antoine Pitrou1dc6b082010-04-27 19:09:59 +0000321
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000322- Issue #6656: Fix locale.format_string to handle escaped percents and mappings.
R. David Murray3939dcd2010-04-26 21:17:14 +0000323
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000324- Issue #2302: Fix a race condition in SocketServer.BaseServer.shutdown, where
325 the method could block indefinitely if called just before the event loop
326 started running. This also fixes the occasional freezes witnessed in
327 test_httpservers.
Antoine Pitroua6240402010-04-25 21:40:32 +0000328
Antoine Pitroufc69af12010-04-24 20:04:58 +0000329- Issue #5103: SSL handshake would ignore the socket timeout and block
330 indefinitely if the other end didn't respond.
331
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000332- The do_handshake() method of SSL objects now adjusts the blocking mode of the
333 SSL structure if necessary (as other methods already do).
Antoine Pitrou4d3e3722010-04-24 19:57:01 +0000334
Georg Brandl4341e542010-04-24 09:08:10 +0000335- Issue #7507: Quote "!" in pipes.quote(); it is special to some shells.
336
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000337- Issue #5238: Calling makefile() on an SSL object would prevent the underlying
338 socket from being closed until all objects get truely destroyed.
Antoine Pitroub558f172010-04-23 23:25:45 +0000339
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000340- Issue #7943: Fix circular reference created when instantiating an SSL socket.
341 Initial patch by Péter Szabó.
Antoine Pitroudfb299b2010-04-23 22:54:59 +0000342
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000343- Issue #8451: Syslog module now uses basename(sys.argv[0]) instead of the
344 string "python" as the *ident*. openlog() arguments are all optional and
345 keywords.
Sean Reifscheiderf6ce3cb2010-04-23 08:31:55 +0000346
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000347- Issue #8108: Fix the unwrap() method of SSL objects when the socket has a
348 non-infinite timeout. Also make that method friendlier with applications
Antoine Pitroua5c4b552010-04-22 23:33:02 +0000349 wanting to continue using the socket in clear-text mode, by disabling
350 OpenSSL's internal readahead. Thanks to Darryl Miles for guidance.
351
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000352- Issue #8484: Load all ciphers and digest algorithms when initializing the _ssl
353 extension, such that verification of some SSL certificates doesn't fail
354 because of an "unknown algorithm".
Antoine Pitrouc715a9e2010-04-21 19:28:03 +0000355
Victor Stinnera92e81b2010-04-20 22:28:31 +0000356- Issue #8437: Fix test_gdb failures, patch written by Dave Malcolm
357
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000358- Issue #4814: The timeout parameter is now applied also for connections
359 resulting from PORT/EPRT commands.
Giampaolo Rodolà607f7c02010-04-19 21:46:28 +0000360
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000361- Issue #8463: Add missing reference to bztar in shutil's documentation.
Tarek Ziadé8a12f942010-04-19 21:28:21 +0000362
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000363- Issue #8438: Remove reference to the missing "surrogateescape" encoding error
364 handler from the new IO library.
Antoine Pitrou7c587bf2010-04-19 18:52:43 +0000365
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000366- Issue #3817: ftplib.FTP.abort() method now considers 225 a valid response code
367 as stated in RFC-959 at chapter 5.4.
Giampaolo Rodolàcf445fc2010-04-18 12:55:03 +0000368
Martin v. Löwis24f09fd2010-04-17 22:40:40 +0000369- Issue #8279: Fix test_gdb failures.
370
Antoine Pitrou0a6373c2010-04-17 17:10:38 +0000371- Issue #8322: Add a *ciphers* argument to SSL sockets, so as to change the
372 available cipher list. Helps fix test_ssl with OpenSSL 1.0.0.
373
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000374- Issue #2987: RFC 2732 support for urlparse (IPv6 addresses). Patch by Tony
Senthil Kumaran8c6d9d72010-04-16 02:46:46 +0000375 Locke and Hans Ulrich Niedermann.
376
R. David Murray1a14d3d2010-04-12 16:35:19 +0000377- Issue #7585: difflib context and unified diffs now place a tab between
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000378 filename and date, conforming to the 'standards' they were originally designed
379 to follow. This improves compatibility with patch tools.
R. David Murray1a14d3d2010-04-12 16:35:19 +0000380
R. David Murray27ef9372010-04-12 14:26:06 +0000381- Issue #7472: Fixed typo in email.encoders module; messages using ISO-2022
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000382 character sets will now consistently use a Content-Transfer-Encoding of 7bit
383 rather than sometimes being marked as 8bit.
R. David Murray27ef9372010-04-12 14:26:06 +0000384
Martin v. Löwis7f7765c2010-04-12 05:18:16 +0000385- Issue #8330: Fix expected output in test_gdb.
386
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000387- Issue #8374: Update the internal alias table in the :mod:`locale` module to
388 cover recent locale changes and additions.
Antoine Pitrouab5ce722010-04-11 22:45:47 +0000389
Matthias Klose8a96d202010-04-21 22:18:52 +0000390Extension Modules
391-----------------
392
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000393- Issue #8644: Improved accuracy of ``timedelta.total_seconds()``.
Mark Dickinson7000e9e2010-05-09 09:30:06 +0000394
Brett Cannon945df9a2010-05-04 01:04:53 +0000395- Use Clang 2.7's static analyzer to find places to clean up some code.
396
Matthias Klose8a96d202010-04-21 22:18:52 +0000397- Build the ossaudio extension on GNU/kFreeBSD.
398
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000399- On Windows, ctypes does no longer check the stack before and after calling a
400 foreign function. This allows to use the unmodified libffi library.
Thomas Heller06a7e202010-05-04 18:44:42 +0000401
Antoine Pitroua5c4b552010-04-22 23:33:02 +0000402Tests
403-----
404
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000405- Issue #8672: Add a zlib test ensuring that an incomplete stream can be handled
406 by a decompressor object without errors (it returns incomplete uncompressed
407 data).
Antoine Pitrou37ffc3e2010-05-11 23:32:31 +0000408
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000409- Issue #8490: asyncore now has a more solid test suite which actually tests its
410 API.
Giampaolo Rodolàff46d6e2010-05-10 15:33:22 +0000411
Antoine Pitrou54f9f832010-04-30 23:08:48 +0000412- Issue #8576: Remove use of find_unused_port() in test_smtplib and
413 test_multiprocessing. Patch by Paul Moore.
414
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000415- Issue #7449: Fix many tests to support Python compiled without thread support.
416 Patches written by Jerry Seutter.
Victor Stinnerd9d147b2010-04-27 21:46:03 +0000417
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000418- Issue #8108: test_ftplib's non-blocking SSL server now has proper handling of
419 SSL shutdowns.
Antoine Pitroua5c4b552010-04-22 23:33:02 +0000420
Matthias Klose5183ebd2010-04-24 16:38:36 +0000421Build
422-----
423
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000424- Issue #8625: Turn off optimization in ``--with-pydebug`` builds with gcc.
Mark Dickinsond2f3e3f2010-05-05 22:23:58 +0000425 (Optimization was unintentionally turned on in gcc --with-pydebug builds in
426 2.7 beta1 as a result of the issue #1628484 fix, combined with autoconf's
427 strange choice of default CFLAGS produced by AC_PROG_CC for gcc.)
428
Matthias Klose5183ebd2010-04-24 16:38:36 +0000429- Issue #8509: Fix quoting in help strings and code snippets in configure.in.
430
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000431- Issue #3646: It is now easily possible to install a Python framework into your
432 home directory on Mac OS X, see Mac/README for more information.
Ronald Oussoren01d149f2010-04-30 11:20:14 +0000433
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000434- Issue #8510: Update to autoconf 2.65.
Matthias Klosea0bea5d2010-05-08 10:00:28 +0000435
Brett Cannonc1f5c2f2010-05-02 21:51:23 +0000436Misc
437----
438
439- Update the Vim syntax highlight file.
440
Benjamin Peterson12409062010-04-10 18:53:58 +0000441
Benjamin Peterson5da7e7c2010-03-06 22:44:07 +0000442What's New in Python 2.7 beta 1?
443================================
444
Benjamin Petersonfbac6c12010-04-10 16:22:05 +0000445*Release date: 2010-04-10*
Benjamin Peterson5da7e7c2010-03-06 22:44:07 +0000446
447Core and Builtins
448-----------------
449
Philip Jenveyaebbaeb2010-04-06 23:24:45 +0000450- Issue #7301: Add environment variable $PYTHONWARNINGS.
451
Benjamin Peterson3a1dfa22010-04-06 21:50:00 +0000452- Issue #8329: Don't return the same lists from select.select when no fds are
453 changed.
454
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000455- Issue #8259: ``1L << (2**31)`` no longer produces an 'outrageous shift error'
Mark Dickinson82791672010-04-06 16:47:55 +0000456 on 64-bit machines. The shift count for either left or right shift is
457 permitted to be up to sys.maxsize.
458
Benjamin Peterson4ceeeb02010-04-03 22:48:51 +0000459- Ensure that tokenization of identifiers is not affected by locale.
460
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000461- Issue #1222585: Added LDCXXSHARED for C++ support. Patch by Arfrever.
Tarek Ziadé00002952010-04-03 08:37:59 +0000462
Benjamin Peterson1c7c11e2010-04-03 01:28:57 +0000463- Raise a TypeError when trying to delete a T_STRING_INPLACE struct member.
464
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000465- Issue #7994: Issue a PendingDeprecationWarning if object.__format__ is called
466 with a non-empty format string. This is an effort to future-proof user
467 code. If a derived class does not currently implement __format__ but later
468 adds its own __format__, it would most likely break user code that had
469 supplied a format string. This will be changed to a DeprecationWaring in
470 Python 3.3 and it will be an error in Python 3.4.
Eric Smithd44b2fc2010-04-02 12:30:56 +0000471
Antoine Pitroua57df2c2010-03-31 21:32:15 +0000472- Issue #8268: Old-style classes (not just instances) now support weak
473 references.
474
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000475- Issue #8211: Save/restore CFLAGS around AC_PROG_CC in configure.in, in case it
476 is set.
Victor Stinner6cbf90f2010-03-25 00:21:53 +0000477
Victor Stinnerc7790ed2010-03-22 12:36:28 +0000478- Issue #1583863: An unicode subclass can now override the __unicode__ method
Victor Stinner95affc42010-03-22 12:24:37 +0000479
Benjamin Peterson96545892010-03-21 20:21:00 +0000480- Issue #6474: Make error message from passing an inadequate number of keyword
481 arguments to a function correct.
482
Benjamin Peterson0dee9c12010-03-17 20:41:42 +0000483- Issue #8164: Don't allow lambda functions to have a docstring.
484
Victor Stinner66644262010-03-10 22:30:19 +0000485- Issue #3137: Don't ignore errors at startup, especially a keyboard interrupt
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000486 (SIGINT). If an error occurs while importing the site module, the error is
487 printed and Python exits. Initialize the GIL before importing the site
Victor Stinner66644262010-03-10 22:30:19 +0000488 module.
489
Collin Winter001a3952010-03-18 21:54:01 +0000490- Code objects now support weak references.
491
Benjamin Peterson5da7e7c2010-03-06 22:44:07 +0000492Library
493-------
494
R. David Murray661303f2010-04-13 20:57:40 +0000495- Issue #5277: Fix quote counting when parsing RFC 2231 encoded parameters.
496
Antoine Pitrouf9de5342010-04-05 21:35:07 +0000497- Issue #8321: Give access to OpenSSL version numbers from the `ssl` module,
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000498 using the new attributes `ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION`, `ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION_INFO` and
499 `ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION_NUMBER`.
Antoine Pitrouf9de5342010-04-05 21:35:07 +0000500
Benjamin Peterson76a23c12010-04-04 23:23:22 +0000501- Issue #8310: Allow dis to examine new style classes.
502
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000503- Issue #8257: The Decimal construct now accepts a float instance directly,
504 converting that float to a Decimal of equal value:
Mark Dickinson8a950712010-04-03 15:47:46 +0000505
506 >>> Decimal(1.1)
507 Decimal('1.100000000000000088817841970012523233890533447265625')
508
Raymond Hettinger34c35b22010-04-03 10:22:00 +0000509- collections.Counter() now supports a subtract() method.
510
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000511- The functools module now has a total_ordering() class decorator to simplify
512 the specification of rich comparisons.
Raymond Hettingera551f312010-04-04 18:34:45 +0000513
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000514- The functools module also adds cmp_to_key() as a tool to transition old-style
515 comparison functions to new-style key-functions.
Raymond Hettingera551f312010-04-04 18:34:45 +0000516
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000517- Issue #8294: The Fraction constructor now accepts Decimal and float instances
518 directly.
Mark Dickinson7c63eee2010-04-02 22:27:36 +0000519
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000520- Issue #7279: Comparisons involving a Decimal signaling NaN now signal
521 InvalidOperation instead of returning False. (Comparisons involving a quiet
522 NaN are unchanged.) Also, Decimal quiet NaNs are now hashable; Decimal
523 signaling NaNs remain unhashable.
Mark Dickinsone096e822010-04-02 10:17:07 +0000524
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000525- Issue #2531: Comparison operations between floats and Decimal instances now
526 return a result based on the numeric values of the operands; previously they
527 returned an arbitrary result based on the relative ordering of id(float) and
528 id(Decimal).
Mark Dickinson99d80962010-04-02 08:53:22 +0000529
Barry Warsawf7f2d6f2010-03-31 21:07:16 +0000530- Issue #8233: When run as a script, py_compile.py optionally takes a single
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000531 argument `-` which tells it to read files to compile from stdin. Each line is
532 read on demand and the named file is compiled immediately. (Original patch by
533 Piotr Ożarowski).
Barry Warsawf7f2d6f2010-03-31 21:07:16 +0000534
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000535- Issue #3135: Add ``inspect.getcallargs()``, which binds arguments to a
536 function like a normal call.
Benjamin Peterson7e213252010-03-30 17:58:13 +0000537
Florent Xicluna58b65662010-03-30 16:29:03 +0000538- Backwards incompatible change: Unicode codepoints line tabulation (0x0B) and
539 form feed (0x0C) are now considered linebreaks, as specified in Unicode
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000540 Standard Annex #14. See issue #7643. http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr14/
Florent Xicluna22b24382010-03-30 08:24:06 +0000541
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000542- Comparisons using one of <, <=, >, >= between a complex instance and a
543 Fractions instance now raise TypeError instead of returning True/False. This
544 makes Fraction <=> complex comparisons consistent with int <=> complex, float
545 <=> complex, and complex <=> complex comparisons.
Mark Dickinson9588d992010-03-27 11:14:37 +0000546
Michael Foorde6410c52010-03-29 20:04:23 +0000547- Addition of ``WeakSet`` to the ``weakref`` module.
548
Vinay Sajipb0623d62010-03-24 14:31:21 +0000549- logging: Added LOG_FTP to SysLogHandler and updated documentation.
550
Florent Xicluna176cda12010-03-22 22:52:11 +0000551- Issue #8205: Remove the "Modules" directory from sys.path when Python is
552 running from the build directory (POSIX only).
553
Florent Xiclunae1f4c922010-03-22 22:45:50 +0000554- Issue #7667: Fix doctest failures with non-ASCII paths.
555
Antoine Pitrou513d9ae2010-03-22 19:59:46 +0000556- Issue #7512: shutil.copystat() could raise an OSError when the filesystem
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000557 didn't support chflags() (for example ZFS under FreeBSD). The error is now
558 silenced.
Antoine Pitrou513d9ae2010-03-22 19:59:46 +0000559
Florent Xicluna9e7a4c92010-03-22 16:07:38 +0000560- Issue #7703: ctypes supports both buffer() and memoryview(). The former is
561 deprecated.
562
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000563- Issue #7860: platform.uname now reports the correct 'machine' type when Python
564 is running in WOW64 mode on 64 bit Windows.
R. David Murrayc9d1a782010-03-22 15:55:09 +0000565
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000566- logging: Added getChild utility method to Logger and added isEnabledFor method
567 to LoggerAdapter.
Vinay Sajip804899b2010-03-22 15:29:01 +0000568
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000569- Issue #8201: logging: Handle situation of non-ASCII and Unicode logger names
570 existing at the same time, causing a Unicode error when configuration code
571 attempted to sort the existing loggers.
Vinay Sajip31e928e2010-03-22 13:02:28 +0000572
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000573- Issue #8200: logging: Handle errors when multiprocessing is not fully loaded
574 when logging occurs.
Vinay Sajip3017a7b2010-03-22 12:33:08 +0000575
Antoine Pitroueee91cd2010-03-26 19:27:16 +0000576- Issue #3890, #8222: Fix recv() and recv_into() on non-blocking SSL sockets.
577 Also, enable the SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY flag on SSL sockets, so that blocking
578 reads and writes are always retried by OpenSSL itself.
Antoine Pitrou448da712010-03-21 19:33:38 +0000579
Florent Xiclunacf82fa62010-03-21 12:27:20 +0000580- Issue #8179: Fix macpath.realpath() on a non-existing path.
581
Florent Xicluna2e0a53f2010-03-18 21:50:06 +0000582- Issue #8024: Update the Unicode database to 5.2.
583
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000584- Issue #8104: socket.recv_into() and socket.recvfrom_into() now support writing
585 into objects supporting the new buffer API, for example bytearrays or
586 memoryviews.
Antoine Pitroud7b731d2010-03-17 22:45:39 +0000587
Matthias Klose8b411682010-03-16 10:48:52 +0000588- Issue #4961: Inconsistent/wrong result of askyesno function in tkMessageBox
589 with Tcl/Tk-8.5.
590
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000591- Issue #8140: Extend compileall to compile single files. Add -i option.
Matthias Kloseb13d04c2010-03-15 17:44:12 +0000592
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000593- Issue #7356: ctypes.util: Make parsing of ldconfig output independent of the
594 locale.
Matthias Klose358e7ff2010-03-15 13:42:23 +0000595
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000596- Issue #7774: Set sys.executable to an empty string if ``argv[0]`` has been set
597 to an non existent program name and Python is unable to retrieve the real
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000598 program name.
Victor Stinner75227342010-03-12 14:30:26 +0000599
Vinay Sajipecfa08f2010-03-12 09:16:10 +0000600- Issue #8117: logging: Improved algorithm for computing initial rollover time
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000601 for ``TimedRotatingFileHandler`` by using the modification time of an existing
602 log file to compute the next rollover time. If the log file does not exist,
603 the current time is used as the basis for the computation.
Vinay Sajip9098ee42010-03-12 06:01:21 +0000604
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000605- Issue #6472: The ``xml.etree`` package is updated to ElementTree 1.3. The
Florent Xicluna3e8c1892010-03-11 14:36:19 +0000606 cElementTree module is updated too.
607
Florent Xicluna85677612010-03-10 23:58:42 +0000608- Issue #7880: Fix sysconfig when the python executable is a symbolic link.
609
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000610- Issue #7624: Fix ``isinstance(foo(), collections.Callable)`` for old-style
Florent Xicluna47627d52010-03-08 15:20:28 +0000611 classes.
612
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000613- Issue #7143: email: ``get_payload()`` used to strip any trailing newline from
614 a base64 transfer-encoded payload *after* decoding it; it no longer does.
615 This is a behavior change, so email's minor version number is now bumped, to
616 version 4.0.2, for the 2.7 release.
R. David Murray4617e502010-03-08 02:04:06 +0000617
Larry Hastings3b958e32010-04-02 11:18:17 +0000618- Issue #8235: _socket: Add the constant ``SO_SETFIB``. SO_SETFIB is
619 a socket option available on FreeBSD 7.1 and newer.
620
Michael Foorda04c7a02010-04-02 22:55:59 +0000621- Issue #8038: unittest.TestCase.assertNotRegexpMatches
622
623- Addition of -b command line option to unittest for buffering stdout / stderr
624 during test runs.
625
Victor Stinnerdb990922010-05-15 21:00:59 +0000626- Issue #1220212: Added os.kill support for Windows, including support for
Brian Curtin85108e62010-04-02 23:31:28 +0000627 sending CTRL+C and CTRL+BREAK events to console subprocesses.
628
Mark Dickinson154b7ad2010-03-07 16:24:45 +0000629Extension Modules
630-----------------
631
Martin v. Löwis16ea5482010-04-07 11:01:46 +0000632- Issue #8314: Fix unsigned long long bug in libffi on Sparc v8.
633
Matthias Klosee9fbf2b2010-03-19 14:45:06 +0000634- Issue #1039, #8154: Fix os.execlp() crash with missing 2nd argument.
635
Jesus Cea6557aac2010-03-22 14:22:26 +0000636- Issue #8156: bsddb module updated to version 4.8.4.
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000637 http://www.jcea.es/programacion/pybsddb.htm#bsddb3-4.8.4. This update drops
638 support for Berkeley DB 4.0, and adds support for 4.8.
Matthias Klose54cc5392010-03-15 12:46:18 +0000639
Jesus Cea616de772010-04-28 10:32:30 +0000640- Issue #3928: os.mknod() now available in Solaris, also.
641
Matthias Klose817acef2010-03-15 00:02:36 +0000642- Issue #8142: Update libffi to the 3.0.9 release.
643
Mark Dickinson4846a8e2010-04-03 14:05:10 +0000644- Issue #8300: When passing a non-integer argument to struct.pack with any
645 integer format code, struct.pack first attempts to convert the non-integer
646 using its __index__ method. If that method is non-existent or raises
647 TypeError it goes on to try the __int__ method, as described below.
648
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000649- Issue #1530559: When passing a non-integer argument to struct.pack with *any*
650 integer format code (one of 'bBhHiIlLqQ'), struct.pack attempts to use the
651 argument's __int__ method to convert to an integer before packing. It also
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000652 produces a DeprecationWarning in this case. (In Python 2.6, the behaviour was
653 inconsistent: __int__ was used for some integer codes but not for others, and
654 the set of integer codes for which it was used differed between native packing
655 and standard packing.)
Mark Dickinson154b7ad2010-03-07 16:24:45 +0000656
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000657- Issue #7347: _winreg: Add CreateKeyEx and DeleteKeyEx, as well as fix a bug in
658 the return value of QueryReflectionKey.
Brian Curtin19479fa2010-04-02 21:51:37 +0000659
Antoine Pitrou02b3f0a2010-03-13 21:21:30 +0000660Tools/Demos
661-----------
662
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000663- Issue #7993: Add a test of IO packet processing bandwidth to ccbench. It
664 measures the number of UDP packets processed per second depending on the
665 number of background CPU-bound Python threads.
Benjamin Peterson5da7e7c2010-03-06 22:44:07 +0000666
Collin Wintera70f3492010-03-19 00:08:44 +0000667- python-config now supports multiple options on the same command line.
668
Benjamin Peterson11d93232010-03-14 14:24:31 +0000669Build
670-----
671
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000672- Issue #8032: For gdb7, a python-gdb.py file is added to the build, allowing to
673 use advanced gdb features when debugging Python.
Martin v. Löwisbf0dfb32010-04-01 07:40:51 +0000674
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000675- Issue #1628484: The Makefile doesn't ignore the CFLAGS environment variable
676 anymore. It also forwards the LDFLAGS settings to the linker when building a
677 shared library.
Antoine Pitrouf83b3082010-03-21 19:19:41 +0000678
Martin v. Löwis24e4e162010-03-15 13:00:17 +0000679- Issue #6716: Quote -x arguments of compileall in MSI installer.
680
Benjamin Peterson11d93232010-03-14 14:24:31 +0000681- Issue #7705: Fix linking on FreeBSD.
682
Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven6d22cfc2010-04-07 16:34:08 +0000683- Make sure that the FreeBSD build of the included libffi uses the proper
684 assembly file.
685
Larry Hastings402b73f2010-03-25 00:54:54 +0000686C-API
687-----
688
Antoine Pitrou76c86492010-04-01 16:42:11 +0000689- Issue #8276: PyEval_CallObject() is now only available in macro form. The
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000690 function declaration, which was kept for backwards compatibility reasons, is
691 now removed (the macro was introduced in 1997!).
Antoine Pitrou76c86492010-04-01 16:42:11 +0000692
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000693- Issue #7992: A replacement PyCObject API, PyCapsule, has been backported from
694 Python 3.1. All existing Python CObjects in the main distribution have been
695 converted to capsules. To address backwards-compatibility concerns,
696 PyCObject_AsVoidPtr() was changed to understand capsules.
Larry Hastings402b73f2010-03-25 00:54:54 +0000697
Florent Xicluna3cc8f212010-03-15 18:08:58 +0000698Tests
699-----
700
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000701- Issue #3864: Skip three test_signal tests on freebsd6 because they fail if any
702 thread was previously started, most likely due to a platform bug.
R. David Murraye0e8a872010-04-17 05:26:26 +0000703
Antoine Pitrouab5ce722010-04-11 22:45:47 +0000704- Issue #8348: Fix test ftp url in test_urllib2net.
705
706- Issue #8204: Fix test_ttk notebook test by forcing focus.
707
708- Issue #8344: Fix test_ttk bug on FreeBSD.
709
Antoine Pitrou3b4c9892010-04-06 17:21:09 +0000710- Issue #8193: Fix test_zlib failure with zlib 1.2.4.
711
Antoine Pitrou6032c252010-03-30 18:49:45 +0000712- Issue #8248: Add some tests for the bool type. Patch by Gregory Nofi.
713
Florent Xicluna75c66762010-03-30 16:31:14 +0000714- Issue #8263: Now regrtest.py will report a failure if it receives a
715 KeyboardInterrupt (SIGINT).
716
Florent Xicluna8aa5a582010-03-25 20:33:49 +0000717- Issue #8180 and #8207: Fix test_pep277 on OS X and add more tests for special
718 Unicode normalization cases.
Florent Xicluna77a88492010-03-21 18:00:38 +0000719
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +0000720- Issue #7783: test.test_support.open_urlresource invalidates the outdated files
721 from the local cache.
Florent Xicluna3cc8f212010-03-15 18:08:58 +0000722
R. David Murray4617e502010-03-08 02:04:06 +0000723
Benjamin Peterson2d798ac2010-02-06 18:26:27 +0000724What's New in Python 2.7 alpha 4?
725=================================
726
Benjamin Peterson8e7c1172010-03-06 20:34:14 +0000727*Release date: 2010-03-06*
Benjamin Peterson2d798ac2010-02-06 18:26:27 +0000728
729Core and Builtins
730-----------------
731
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000732- Issue #7544: Preallocate thread memory before creating the thread to avoid a
733 fatal error in low memory condition.
Victor Stinner71fb87e2010-03-03 23:20:25 +0000734
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000735- Issue #7820: The parser tokenizer restores all bytes in the right if the BOM
736 check fails.
Victor Stinnerd23d3932010-03-02 23:20:02 +0000737
Eric Smith2d9856d2010-02-24 14:15:36 +0000738- Issue #7309: Fix unchecked attribute access when converting
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000739 UnicodeEncodeError, UnicodeDecodeError, and UnicodeTranslateError to strings.
Eric Smith2d9856d2010-02-24 14:15:36 +0000740
Ezio Melotti32125152010-02-25 17:36:04 +0000741- Issue #7649: "u'%c' % char" now behaves like "u'%s' % char" and raises a
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000742 UnicodeDecodeError if 'char' is a byte string that can't be decoded using the
743 default encoding.
Victor Stinnerf20f9c22010-02-23 23:16:07 +0000744
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000745- Issue #6902: Fix problem with built-in types format incorrectly with 0
746 padding.
Eric Smith87bcb242010-02-23 00:11:16 +0000747
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000748- Issue #2560: Remove an unnecessary 'for' loop from ``my_fgets()`` in
Andrew M. Kuchlingb64d6132010-02-22 22:48:41 +0000749 Parser/myreadline.c.
750
Eric Smithf32d4ac2010-02-22 18:33:47 +0000751- Issue #7988: Fix default alignment to be right aligned for
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000752 ``complex.__format__``. Now it matches other numeric types.
Eric Smithf32d4ac2010-02-22 18:33:47 +0000753
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000754- Issue #5211: The complex type no longer uses implicit coercion in mixed-type
755 binary arithmetic operations.
Mark Dickinson82b34c52010-02-21 12:57:35 +0000756
Benjamin Peterson2d798ac2010-02-06 18:26:27 +0000757Library
758-------
759
Florent Xicluna0b9a18a2010-03-06 11:01:08 +0000760- Issue #6906: Tk should not set Unicode environment variables on Windows.
761
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000762- Issue #1054943: Fix ``unicodedata.normalize('NFC', text)`` for the Public
Ezio Melotti8122bdd2010-03-14 10:13:49 +0000763 Review Issue #29 (http://unicode.org/review/pr-29.html).
Victor Stinner7c924ec2010-03-04 12:09:33 +0000764
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000765- Issue #7494: Fix a crash in ``_lsprof`` (cProfile) after clearing the profiler,
Victor Stinner56a51532010-03-04 00:10:12 +0000766 reset also the pointer to the current pointer context.
767
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000768- Issue #7232: Add support for the context manager protocol to the
769 ``tarfile.TarFile`` class.
Lars Gustäbel64581042010-03-03 11:55:48 +0000770
Barry Warsaw08a8fb32010-03-01 21:46:51 +0000771- Issue #7250: Fix info leak of os.environ across multi-run uses of
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000772 ``wsgiref.handlers.CGIHandler``.
Barry Warsaw08a8fb32010-03-01 21:46:51 +0000773
Florent Xiclunae7901c52010-03-01 20:45:01 +0000774- Issue #1729305: Fix doctest to handle encode error with "backslashreplace".
Florent Xicluna2a903b22010-02-27 13:31:23 +0000775
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000776- Issue #691291: ``codecs.open()`` should not convert end of lines on reading
777 and writing.
Florent Xicluna82aa01f2010-02-27 11:19:18 +0000778
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000779- Issue #7975: Correct regression in dict methods supported by bsddb.dbshelve.
R. David Murray48605be2010-02-24 02:31:27 +0000780
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000781- Issue #7959: ctypes callback functions are now registered correctly with the
782 cycle garbage collector.
Thomas Heller92bd0592010-02-23 20:11:44 +0000783
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000784- Issue #7970: ``email.Generator.flatten`` now correctly flattens
785 message/rfc822 messages parsed by ``email.Parser.HeaderParser``.
R. David Murray51f12042010-02-21 04:23:00 +0000786
Ezio Melotti4cc80ca2010-02-20 08:09:39 +0000787- Issue #3426: ``os.path.abspath`` now returns unicode when its arg is unicode.
788
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000789- Issue #7633: In the decimal module, ``Context`` class methods (with the
790 exception of canonical and is_canonical) now accept instances of int and long
791 wherever a Decimal instance is accepted, and implicitly convert that argument
792 to Decimal. Previously only some arguments were converted.
Mark Dickinson6d8effb2010-02-18 14:27:02 +0000793
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000794- Issue #6003: Add an argument to ``zipfile.Zipfile.writestr`` to specify the
795 compression type.
Ezio Melotti8f6a2872010-02-10 21:40:33 +0000796
Michael Foorddb43b5a2010-02-10 14:25:12 +0000797- Issue #7893: ``unittest.TextTestResult`` is made public and a ``resultclass``
798 argument added to the TextTestRunner constructor allowing a different result
799 class to be used without having to subclass.
Ezio Melotti8f6a2872010-02-10 21:40:33 +0000800
Ezio Melotti4cc80ca2010-02-20 08:09:39 +0000801- Issue #7588: ``unittest.TextTestResult.getDescription`` now includes the test
Michael Foorddb43b5a2010-02-10 14:25:12 +0000802 name in failure reports even if the test has a docstring.
Ronald Oussorendd25e862010-02-07 20:18:02 +0000803
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000804- Issue #5801: Remove spurious empty lines in wsgiref.
Tarek Ziadéb8708a22010-02-23 05:53:05 +0000805
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000806- Issue #1537721: Add a ``writeheader()`` method to ``csv.DictWriter``.
Dirkjan Ochtman86148172010-02-23 21:09:52 +0000807
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000808- Issue #7427: Improve the representation of httplib.BadStatusLine exceptions.
Dirkjan Ochtmanebc73dc2010-02-24 04:49:00 +0000809
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000810- Issue #7481: When a ``threading.Thread`` failed to start it would leave the
811 instance stuck in initial state and present in ``threading.enumerate()``.
Gregory P. Smith613c7a52010-02-28 18:36:09 +0000812
Gregory P. Smithcce211f2010-03-01 00:05:08 +0000813- Issue #1068268: The subprocess module now handles EINTR in internal
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000814 ``os.waitpid()`` and ``os.read()`` system calls where appropriate.
Gregory P. Smithcce211f2010-03-01 00:05:08 +0000815
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000816- Issue #6729: Add ``ctypes.c_ssize_t`` to represent ssize_t.
Gregory P. Smith3c699d32010-03-01 04:56:12 +0000817
Steven Betharde9330e72010-03-02 08:38:09 +0000818- Issue #6247: The argparse module has been added to the standard library.
819
Martin v. Löwis413fabc2010-02-18 09:22:20 +0000820Extension Modules
821-----------------
822
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000823- The sqlite3 module was updated to pysqlite 2.6.0. This fixes several obscure
Gerhard Häring3bbb6722010-03-05 09:12:37 +0000824 bugs and allows loading SQLite extensions from shared libraries.
825
Florent Xiclunae7901c52010-03-01 20:45:01 +0000826- Issue #7808: Fix reference leaks in _bsddb and related tests.
827
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000828- Issue #6544: Fix a reference leak in the kqueue implementation's error
Georg Brandlea370a92010-02-23 21:48:57 +0000829 handling.
830
Martin v. Löwis413fabc2010-02-18 09:22:20 +0000831- Stop providing crtassem.h symbols when compiling with Visual Studio 2010, as
832 msvcr100.dll is not a platform assembly anymore.
Benjamin Peterson2d798ac2010-02-06 18:26:27 +0000833
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000834- Issue #7242: On Solaris 9 and earlier calling ``os.fork()`` from within a
Gregory P. Smith9e5d1322010-03-01 01:22:39 +0000835 thread could raise an incorrect RuntimeError about not holding the import
836 lock. The import lock is now reinitialized after fork.
837
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000838- Issue #7999: ``os.setreuid()`` and ``os.setregid()`` would refuse to accept a
839 -1 parameter on some platforms such as OS X.
Gregory P. Smith6a65f852010-03-01 05:43:43 +0000840
Ezio Melotti8f6a2872010-02-10 21:40:33 +0000841Tests
842-----
843
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000844- Issue #7849: The utility ``test.test_support.check_warnings()`` verifies if
845 warnings are effectively raised. A new utility ``check_py3k_warnings()`` is
846 available.
Florent Xicluna6de9e932010-03-07 12:18:33 +0000847
Florent Xicluna985478d2010-03-06 18:52:52 +0000848- The four path modules (genericpath, macpath, ntpath, posixpath) share a
849 common TestCase for some tests: test_genericpath.CommonTest.
850
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000851- Print platform information when running the whole test suite, or using the
852 ``--verbose`` flag.
Florent Xicluna58526412010-03-06 17:24:36 +0000853
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000854- Issue #767675: Enable test_pep277 on POSIX platforms with Unicode-friendly
Florent Xiclunac0a9d412010-03-02 22:34:11 +0000855 filesystem encoding.
Florent Xicluna2db61fb2010-03-02 21:34:45 +0000856
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000857- Issue #6292: For the moment at least, the test suite runs cleanly if python
R. David Murrayf28fd242010-02-23 00:24:49 +0000858 is run with the -OO flag. Tests requiring docstrings are skipped.
859
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000860- Issue #7712: test_support gained a new ``temp_cwd`` context manager which is
861 now also used by regrtest to run all the tests in a temporary directory. The
862 original CWD is saved in ``test.test_support.SAVEDCWD``. Thanks to Florent
863 Xicluna who helped with the patch.
Ezio Melotti8f6a2872010-02-10 21:40:33 +0000864
Martin v. Löwis5e2dd862010-02-15 08:32:00 +0000865Build
866-----
867
Martin v. Löwis7875ef62010-02-15 21:41:12 +0000868- Issue #3920, #7903: Define _BSD_SOURCE on OpenBSD 4.4 through 4.9.
Martin v. Löwis5e2dd862010-02-15 08:32:00 +0000869
Ezio Melotti8f6a2872010-02-10 21:40:33 +0000870
Benjamin Petersondd6d92a2010-01-09 17:30:31 +0000871What's New in Python 2.7 alpha 3?
872=================================
873
Benjamin Petersona7be9d22010-02-06 16:37:32 +0000874*Release date: 2010-02-06*
Benjamin Petersondd6d92a2010-01-09 17:30:31 +0000875
876Core and Builtins
877-----------------
878
Antoine Pitroubb445a12010-02-05 17:05:54 +0000879- Issue #5677: Explicitly forbid write operations on read-only file objects,
880 and read operations on write-only file objects. On Windows, the system C
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000881 library would return a bogus result; on Solaris, it was possible to crash the
882 interpreter. Patch by Stefan Krah.
Antoine Pitroubb445a12010-02-05 17:05:54 +0000883
Barry Warsawb1e66ee2010-02-05 18:45:25 +0000884- Issue #7853: Normalize exceptions before they are passed to a context
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000885 manager's ``__exit__()`` method.
Benjamin Peterson565d7852010-02-05 02:12:14 +0000886
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000887- Issue #7385: Fix a crash in ``PyMemoryView_FromObject()`` when
888 ``PyObject_GetBuffer()`` fails. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
Antoine Pitrou526e4212010-02-02 22:36:17 +0000889
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000890- Issue #7819: Check ``sys.call_tracing()`` arguments types.
Victor Stinnerb4b0a292010-01-31 22:32:15 +0000891
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000892- Issue #7788: Fix an interpreter crash produced by deleting a list slice with
893 very large step value.
Mark Dickinson36ecd672010-01-29 17:11:39 +0000894
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000895- Issue #7766: Change ``sys.getwindowsversion()`` return value to a named tuple
896 and add the additional members returned in an OSVERSIONINFOEX structure. The
897 new members are service_pack_major, service_pack_minor, suite_mask, and
898 product_type.
Eric Smithee931b72010-01-27 00:28:29 +0000899
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000900- Issue #7561: Operations on empty bytearrays (such as ``int(bytearray())``)
901 could crash in many places because of the ``PyByteArray_AS_STRING()`` macro
902 returning NULL. The macro now returns a statically allocated empty string
903 instead.
Antoine Pitroue80a6a42010-01-17 12:26:20 +0000904
Antoine Pitrou64672132010-01-13 07:55:48 +0000905- Issue #7622: Improve the split(), rsplit(), splitlines() and replace()
906 methods of bytes, bytearray and unicode objects by using a common
907 implementation based on stringlib's fast search. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
908
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000909- Issue #7632: Fix various str -> float conversion bugs present in 2.7 alpha 2,
910 including:
Mark Dickinson8efef5c2010-01-12 22:23:56 +0000911
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000912 (1) a serious 'wrong output' bug that could occur for long (> 40 digit) input
913 strings,
914 (2) a crash in dtoa.c that occurred in debug builds when parsing certain long
915 numeric strings corresponding to subnormal values,
916 (3) a memory leak for some values large enough to cause overflow, and
917 (4) a number of flaws that could lead to incorrectly rounded results.
918
919- Issue #7319, #7770: Silence ``DeprecationWarning`` by default when the -3
920 option is not used.
Brett Cannon6fdd3dc2010-01-10 02:56:19 +0000921
Alexandre Vassalottiee936a22010-01-09 23:35:54 +0000922- Issue #2335: Backport set literals syntax from Python 3.x.
923
Alexandre Vassalotti7a8df802010-01-11 23:13:49 +0000924- Issue #2333: Backport set and dict comprehensions syntax from Python 3.x.
925
Alexandre Vassalotti69eb5162010-01-11 23:17:10 +0000926- Issue #1967: Backport dictionary views from Python 3.x.
927
Benjamin Petersondd6d92a2010-01-09 17:30:31 +0000928Library
929-------
930
R. David Murray63e4fd72010-02-10 22:42:04 +0000931- Issue #7835: shelve should no longer produce mysterious warnings during
932 interpreter shutdown.
933
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000934- Issue #2746: Don't escape ampersands and angle brackets ("&", "<", ">") in
935 XML processing instructions and comments. These raw characters are allowed
936 by the XML specification, and are necessary when outputting e.g. PHP code in
937 a processing instruction. Patch by Neil Muller.
Antoine Pitrou42fb6ab2010-02-09 17:08:05 +0000938
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000939- Issue #7869: logging: Improved diagnostic for format-time errors.
Vinay Sajip64e8b972010-02-07 12:56:54 +0000940
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000941- Issue #7868: logging: Added loggerClass attribute to Manager.
Vinay Sajip657514a2010-02-07 01:37:08 +0000942
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000943- Issue #7851: logging: Clarification on logging configuration files.
Vinay Sajip0e6e97d2010-02-04 20:23:45 +0000944
Antoine Pitroud840e512010-02-04 20:20:18 +0000945- Issue #4772: Raise a ValueError when an unknown Bluetooth protocol is
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000946 specified, rather than fall through to AF_PACKET (in the ``socket`` module).
Antoine Pitroud840e512010-02-04 20:20:18 +0000947 Also, raise ValueError rather than TypeError when an unknown TIPC address
948 type is specified. Patch by Brian Curtin.
949
Vinay Sajip28c382f2010-02-04 18:48:53 +0000950- logging: Implemented PEP 391.
951
Antoine Pitrouf3fa0742010-01-31 22:26:04 +0000952- Issue #6939: Fix file I/O objects in the `io` module to keep the original
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000953 file position when calling `truncate()`. It would previously change the file
954 position to the given argument, which goes against the tradition of
Antoine Pitrouf3fa0742010-01-31 22:26:04 +0000955 ftruncate() and other truncation APIs. Patch by Pascal Chambon.
956
Benjamin Petersone06f7112010-01-28 02:15:02 +0000957- UserDict is now a new-style class.
958
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000959- Issue #7610: Reworked implementation of the internal ``zipfile.ZipExtFile``
960 class used to represent files stored inside an archive. The new
961 implementation is significantly faster and can be wrapped in a
962 ``io.BufferedReader`` object for more speedups. It also solves an issue
963 where interleaved calls to ``read()`` and ``readline()`` give wrong results.
964 Patch by Nir Aides.
Antoine Pitrou94c33eb2010-01-27 20:59:50 +0000965
Benjamin Peterson2deb5c72010-01-27 02:16:42 +0000966- Issue #7792: Registering non-classes to ABCs raised an obscure error.
967
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000968- Removed the deprecated functions ``verify()`` and ``vereq()`` from
969 Lib/test/test_support.py.
Ezio Melotti82230f92010-01-25 12:37:02 +0000970
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000971- Issue #7773: Fix an UnboundLocalError in ``platform.linux_distribution()``
972 when the release file is empty.
Benjamin Petersona43f34c2010-01-25 03:31:13 +0000973
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000974- Issue #7748: Since unicode values are supported for some metadata options in
975 Distutils, the DistributionMetadata get_* methods will now return an utf-8
976 encoded string for them. This ensures that the upload and register commands
977 send the correct values to PyPI without any error.
Tarek Ziadéf14c7fc2010-01-24 00:33:32 +0000978
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000979- Issue #1670765: Prevent ``email.generator.Generator`` from re-wrapping
R. David Murrayed44dfa2010-01-16 05:15:17 +0000980 headers in multipart/signed MIME parts, which fixes one of the sources of
981 invalid modifications to such parts by Generator.
982
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000983- Issue #7701: Fix crash in ``binascii.b2a_uu()`` in debug mode when given a
Antoine Pitrouc391ad02010-01-15 00:18:00 +0000984 1-byte argument. Patch by Victor Stinner.
985
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000986- Issue #3299: Fix possible crash in the _sre module when given bad argument
987 values in debug mode. Patch by Victor Stinner.
Antoine Pitrouefdddd32010-01-14 17:25:24 +0000988
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000989- Issue #7703: Add support for the new buffer API to functions of the binascii
990 module. Backported from py3k by Florent Xicluna, with some additional tests.
Antoine Pitroufd3a60d2010-01-14 16:27:09 +0000991
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000992- Issue #2846: Add support for gzip.GzipFile reading zero-padded files. Patch
993 by Brian Curtin.
Antoine Pitrou5a9112c2010-01-13 14:32:10 +0000994
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000995- Issue #5827: Make sure that normpath preserves unicode. Initial patch by
996 Matt Giuca.
Ezio Melottib5689de2010-01-12 03:32:05 +0000997
Tarek Ziadédc0f4872010-01-11 22:50:29 +0000998- Issue #5372: Drop the reuse of .o files in Distutils' ccompiler (since
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +0000999 Extension extra options may change the output without changing the .c file).
1000 Initial patch by Collin Winter.
Tarek Ziadédc0f4872010-01-11 22:50:29 +00001001
Matthias Klose0d948ac2010-01-22 00:39:04 +00001002Extension Modules
1003-----------------
1004
1005- Expat: Fix DoS via XML document with malformed UTF-8 sequences
1006 (CVE_2009_3560).
1007
Antoine Pitrou8c510e72010-01-13 11:47:49 +00001008Build
1009-----
1010
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001011- Issue #7632: When Py_USING_MEMORY_DEBUGGER is defined, disable the private
1012 memory allocation scheme in dtoa.c and use PyMem_Malloc and PyMem_Free
1013 instead. Also disable caching of powers of 5.
Mark Dickinson9481c572010-01-17 20:57:56 +00001014
Ronald Oussorena55af9a2010-01-17 16:25:57 +00001015- Issue #7658: Ensure that the new pythonw executable works on OSX 10.4
1016
1017- Issue #7714: Use ``gcc -dumpversion`` to detect the version of GCC on
1018 MacOSX.
1019
Antoine Pitrou8c510e72010-01-13 11:47:49 +00001020- Issue #7661: Allow ctypes to be built from a non-ASCII directory path.
1021 Patch by Florent Xicluna.
1022
Antoine Pitrouc07336c2010-01-18 21:15:21 +00001023Tools/Demos
1024-----------
1025
1026- iobench (a file I/O benchmark) and ccbench (a concurrency benchmark) were
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001027 added to the ``Tools`` directory. They were previously living in the
Antoine Pitrouc07336c2010-01-18 21:15:21 +00001028 sandbox.
1029
R. David Murrayce6e4b02010-02-06 04:27:21 +00001030Tests
1031-----
1032
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001033- issue #7728: test_timeout was changed to use ``test_support.bind_port()``
R. David Murrayce6e4b02010-02-06 04:27:21 +00001034 instead of a hard coded port.
1035
Matthias Klose626d92a2010-01-31 16:05:13 +00001036Documentation
1037-------------
Victor Stinnerf20f9c22010-02-23 23:16:07 +00001038
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001039- Updated "Using Python" documentation to include description of CPython's -J,
1040 -U and -X options.
Barry Warsawb1e66ee2010-02-05 18:45:25 +00001041
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001042- Updated Python manual page (options -B, -O0, -s, environment variables
Matthias Klose626d92a2010-01-31 16:05:13 +00001043 PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE, PYTHONNOUSERSITE).
1044
Benjamin Petersondd6d92a2010-01-09 17:30:31 +00001045
Benjamin Peterson4f51baf2009-12-05 18:40:02 +00001046What's New in Python 2.7 alpha 2?
1047=================================
1048
Benjamin Petersonaa7e51f2010-01-09 16:34:06 +00001049*Release date: 2010-01-09*
Benjamin Peterson4f51baf2009-12-05 18:40:02 +00001050
1051Core and Builtins
1052-----------------
1053
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001054- The ``__complex__()`` method is now looked up on the class of instances to
1055 make it consistent with other special methods.
Benjamin Petersonecdae192010-01-04 00:43:01 +00001056
Antoine Pitrou5b7139a2010-01-02 21:12:58 +00001057- Issue #7462: Implement the stringlib fast search algorithm for the `rfind`,
1058 `rindex`, `rsplit` and `rpartition` methods. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
1059
Mark Dickinson1b34d252010-01-01 17:27:30 +00001060- Issue #5080: A number of functions and methods previously produced a
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001061 DeprecationWarning when passed a float argument where an integer was expected.
1062 These functions and methods now raise TypeError instead. The majority of the
1063 effects of this change are in the extension modules, but some core functions
1064 and methods are affected: notably the 'chr', 'range' and 'xrange' builtins,
1065 and many unicode/str methods.
Mark Dickinson1b34d252010-01-01 17:27:30 +00001066
Benjamin Peterson0f02d392009-12-30 19:34:10 +00001067- Issue #7604: Deleting an unset slotted attribute did not raise an
1068 AttributeError.
1069
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001070- Issue #7534: Fix handling of IEEE specials (infinities, nans, negative zero)
1071 in ** operator. The behaviour now conforms to that described in C99 Annex F.
Mark Dickinson99d652e2009-12-30 12:12:23 +00001072
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001073- Issue #7579: The msvcrt module now has docstrings for all its functions.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcc8a2ce72009-12-29 23:06:17 +00001074
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc8645a5c2009-12-29 22:03:38 +00001075- Issue #7413: Passing '\0' as the separator to datetime.datetime.isoformat()
1076 used to drop the time part of the result.
1077
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001078- Issue #1811: Improve accuracy and cross-platform consistency for true division
1079 of integers: the result of a/b is now correctly rounded for ints a and b (at
1080 least on IEEE 754 platforms), and in particular does not depend on the
1081 internal representation of a long.
Mark Dickinson46572832009-12-27 14:55:57 +00001082
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001083- Issue #6108: ``unicode(exception)`` and ``str(exception)`` should return the
1084 same message when only ``__str__()`` (and not ``__unicode__()``) is overridden
1085 in the subclass.
Ezio Melottif84caf42009-12-24 22:25:17 +00001086
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001087- Issue #6834: Replace the implementation for the 'python' and 'pythonw'
Ronald Oussoren92919a62009-12-24 13:30:58 +00001088 executables on OSX.
1089
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001090 These executables now work properly with the arch(1) command: ``arch -ppc
1091 python`` will start a universal binary version of python in PPC mode (unlike
1092 previous releases).
Ronald Oussoren92919a62009-12-24 13:30:58 +00001093
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001094- Issue #1680159: Unicode coercion during an 'in' operation no longer masks the
1095 underlying error when the coercion fails for the left hand operand.
R. David Murray0a0a1a82009-12-14 16:28:26 +00001096
Benjamin Peterson4895af42009-12-13 16:36:53 +00001097- Issue #7491: Metaclass's __cmp__ method was ignored.
1098
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001099- Issue #7466: Segmentation fault when the garbage collector is called in the
1100 middle of populating a tuple. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
Antoine Pitrou2a08b422009-12-13 16:18:14 +00001101
R. David Murrayc7298ff2009-12-14 21:57:39 +00001102
Benjamin Peterson4f51baf2009-12-05 18:40:02 +00001103Library
1104-------
1105
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001106- Issue #6963: Added "maxtasksperchild" argument to ``multiprocessing.Pool``,
1107 allowing for a maximum number of tasks within the pool to be completed by the
1108 worker before that worker is terminated, and a new one created to replace it.
Jesse Noller654ade32010-01-27 03:05:57 +00001109
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001110- Issue #7617: Make sure distutils.unixccompiler.UnixCCompiler recognizes gcc
1111 when it has a fully qualified configuration prefix. Initial patch by
1112 Arfrever.
Tarek Ziadéc25417f2010-01-08 23:42:23 +00001113
Antoine Pitrou80157252010-01-08 19:20:17 +00001114- Issue #7092: Remove py3k warning when importing cPickle. 2to3 handles
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001115 renaming of `cPickle` to `pickle`. The warning was annoying since there's no
1116 alternative to cPickle if you care about performance. Patch by Florent
Antoine Pitrou80157252010-01-08 19:20:17 +00001117 Xicluna.
1118
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001119- Issue #7455: Fix possible crash in cPickle on invalid input. Patch by Victor
1120 Stinner.
Antoine Pitrou0d423b82010-01-07 17:46:49 +00001121
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001122- Issue #7092: Fix the DeprecationWarnings emitted by the standard library when
1123 using the -3 flag. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
Antoine Pitroub9d49632010-01-04 23:22:44 +00001124
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001125- Issue #7471: Improve the performance of GzipFile's buffering mechanism, and
1126 make it implement the ``io.BufferedIOBase`` ABC to allow for further speedups
1127 by wrapping it in an ``io.BufferedReader``. Patch by Nir Aides.
Antoine Pitrou673ddf92010-01-03 22:29:56 +00001128
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001129- Issue #3972: ``httplib.HTTPConnection`` now accepts an optional source_address
Gregory P. Smith9d325212010-01-03 02:06:07 +00001130 parameter to allow specifying where your connections come from.
1131
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001132- ``socket.create_connection()`` now accepts an optional source_address
1133 parameter.
Gregory P. Smith79a3eb12010-01-03 01:29:44 +00001134
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001135- Issue #5511: ``zipfile.ZipFile`` can now be used as a context manager.
Ezio Melotti569e61f2009-12-30 06:14:51 +00001136 Initial patch by Brian Curtin.
1137
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001138- Distutils now correctly identifies the build architecture as "x86_64" when
1139 building on OSX 10.6 without "-arch" flags.
Ronald Oussorenca8e7ec2009-12-24 14:50:35 +00001140
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001141- Issue #7556: Distutils' msvc9compiler now opens the MSVC Manifest file in text
1142 mode.
Tarek Ziadé0479eb52009-12-21 23:37:44 +00001143
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001144- Issue #7552: Removed line feed in the base64 Authorization header in the
1145 Distutils upload command to avoid an error when PyPI reads it. This occurs on
1146 long passwords. Initial patch by JP St. Pierre.
Tarek Ziadé2421d562009-12-20 23:23:34 +00001147
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001148- Issue #7231: urllib2 cannot handle https with proxy requiring auth. Patch by
1149 Tatsuhiro Tsujikawa.
Senthil Kumaran7713acf2009-12-20 06:05:13 +00001150
Benjamin Petersonddd392c2009-12-13 19:19:07 +00001151- Issue #7349: Make methods of file objects in the io module accept None as an
1152 argument where file-like objects (ie StringIO and BytesIO) accept them to mean
1153 the same as passing no argument.
1154
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001155- Issue #7348: ``StringIO.StringIO.readline(-1)`` now acts as if it got no
1156 argument like other file objects.
Benjamin Petersonc4771d22009-12-13 17:31:31 +00001157
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001158- Issue #7357: tarfile no longer suppresses fatal extraction errors by default.
Lars Gustäbel92ca7562009-12-13 11:32:27 +00001159
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001160- Issue #7470: logging: Fix bug in Unicode encoding fallback.
Vinay Sajip5cc4e2a2009-12-11 09:16:01 +00001161
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001162- Issue #5949: Fixed IMAP4_SSL hang when the IMAP server response is missing
1163 proper end-of-line termination.
R. David Murray93321f32009-12-09 15:15:31 +00001164
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001165- Issue #7457: Added a read_pkg_file method to
1166 ``distutils.dist.DistributionMetadata``.
Benjamin Peterson4f51baf2009-12-05 18:40:02 +00001167
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001168- Issue #3745: Undo the 2.7a1 change to have hashlib to reject unicode and non
1169 buffer API supporting objects as input. That behavior is for 3.x only.
Gregory P. Smithfe32d302010-01-02 22:42:50 +00001170
Georg Brandl740cdc32009-12-28 08:34:58 +00001171C-API
1172-----
1173
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001174- Issue #7767: New function ``PyLong_AsLongLongAndOverflow()`` added, analogous
1175 to ``PyLong_AsLongAndOverflow()``.
Mark Dickinsona36507c2010-01-30 10:08:33 +00001176
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001177- Issue #5080: The argument parsing functions ``PyArg_ParseTuple()``,
1178 ``PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords()``, ``PyArg_VaParse()``,
1179 ``PyArg_VaParseTupleAndKeywords()`` and ``PyArg_Parse()`` no longer accept
1180 float arguments for integer format codes (other than 'L'): previously an
1181 attempt to pass a float resulted in a DeprecationWarning; now it gives a
1182 TypeError. For the 'L' format code (which previously had no warning) there is
1183 now a DeprecationWarning.
Mark Dickinson1b34d252010-01-01 17:27:30 +00001184
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001185- Issue #7033: Function ``PyErr_NewExceptionWithDoc()`` added.
Georg Brandl740cdc32009-12-28 08:34:58 +00001186
Martin v. Löwisb4261d52009-12-21 19:29:59 +00001187Build
1188-----
1189
Benjamin Petersonedfe72f2010-01-01 15:21:13 +00001190- Issue #6491: Allow --with-dbmliborder to specify that no dbms will be built.
1191
Benjamin Petersonb4abef62010-01-01 15:18:38 +00001192- Issue #6943: Use pkg-config to find the libffi headers when the
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001193 ``--with-system-ffi`` flag is used.
Benjamin Petersonb4abef62010-01-01 15:18:38 +00001194
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001195- Issue #7609: Add a ``--with-system-expat`` option that causes the system's
1196 expat library to be used for the pyexpat module instead of the one included
1197 with Python.
Benjamin Peterson2c196742009-12-31 03:17:18 +00001198
Benjamin Peterson500ce232009-12-30 02:58:50 +00001199- Issue #7589: Only build the nis module when the correct header files are
1200 found.
1201
Martin v. Löwisf477b932010-01-02 09:25:21 +00001202- Switch to OpenSSL 0.9.8l and sqlite 3.6.21 on Windows.
R. David Murray93321f32009-12-09 15:15:31 +00001203
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001204- Issue #7541: when using ``python-config`` with a framework install the
1205 compiler might use the wrong library.
Ronald Oussorenb5afe542009-12-24 14:17:19 +00001206
R. David Murrayc7298ff2009-12-14 21:57:39 +00001207Tests
1208-----
1209
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001210- Issue #7376: Instead of running a self-test (which was failing) when called
R. David Murray77e48ba2009-12-20 16:46:06 +00001211 with no arguments, doctest.py now gives a usage message.
1212
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001213- Issue #7396: Fix regrtest -s, which was broken by the -j enhancement.
R. David Murray98e3df32009-12-16 11:49:46 +00001214
R. David Murrayc7298ff2009-12-14 21:57:39 +00001215- Issue #7498: test_multiprocessing now uses test_support.find_unused_port
1216 instead of a hardcoded port number in test_rapid_restart.
1217
1218
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +00001219What's New in Python 2.7 alpha 1
1220================================
1221
Benjamin Peterson3513c872009-12-05 18:48:13 +00001222*Release date: 2009-12-05*
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +00001223
1224Core and Builtins
1225-----------------
1226
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001227- Issue #7419: ``locale.setlocale()`` could crash the interpreter on Windows
1228 when called with invalid values.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd7288712009-12-01 21:51:04 +00001229
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001230- Issue #3382: 'F' formatting for float and complex now convert the result to
1231 upper case. This only affects 'inf' and 'nan', since 'f' no longer converts
1232 to 'g' for large values.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd7288712009-12-01 21:51:04 +00001233
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001234- Remove switch from "%f" formatting to "%g" formatting for floats larger than
1235 1e50 in absolute value.
Mark Dickinson9dd5e162009-11-23 20:54:09 +00001236
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001237- Remove restrictions on precision when formatting floats. E.g., "%.120g" %
1238 1e-100 used to raise OverflowError, but now gives the requested 120
1239 significant digits instead.
Mark Dickinson18cfada2009-11-23 18:46:41 +00001240
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001241- Add Py3k warnings for parameter names in parentheses.
Benjamin Peterson89b1a5c2009-11-19 22:58:01 +00001242
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001243- Issue #7362: Give a proper error message for ``def f((x)=3): pass``.
Benjamin Peterson89b1a5c2009-11-19 22:58:01 +00001244
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001245- Issue #7085: Fix crash when importing some extensions in a thread on MacOSX
1246 10.6.
Ronald Oussoren315cd0c2009-11-19 16:25:21 +00001247
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001248- Issue #7117: ``repr(x)`` for a float x returns a result based on the shortest
1249 decimal string that's guaranteed to round back to x under correct rounding
1250 (with round-half-to-even rounding mode). Previously it gave a string based on
1251 rounding x to 17 decimal digits. repr(x) for a complex number behaves
1252 similarly. On platforms where the correctly-rounded strtod and dtoa code is
1253 not supported (see below), repr is unchanged.
Mark Dickinsonb678de82009-11-19 18:41:49 +00001254
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001255- Issue #7117: On almost all platforms: float-to-string and string-to-float
1256 conversions within Python are now correctly rounded. Places these conversions
1257 occur include: str for floats and complex numbers; the float and complex
1258 constructors; old-style and new-style numeric formatting; serialization and
1259 deserialization of floats and complex numbers using marshal, pickle and json;
1260 parsing of float and imaginary literals in Python code; Decimal-to-float
1261 conversion.
Mark Dickinsonb678de82009-11-19 18:41:49 +00001262
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001263 The conversions use a Python-adapted version of David Gay's well-known dtoa.c,
1264 providing correctly-rounded strtod and dtoa C functions. This code is
1265 supported on Windows, and on Unix-like platforms using gcc, icc or suncc as
1266 the C compiler. There may be a small number of platforms on which correct
1267 operation of this code cannot be guaranteed, so the code is not used: notably,
1268 this applies to platforms where the C double format is not IEEE 754 binary64,
1269 and to platforms on x86 hardware where the x87 FPU is set to 64-bit precision
1270 and Python's configure script is unable to determine how to change the FPU
1271 precision. On these platforms conversions use the platform strtod and dtoa,
1272 as before.
Mark Dickinsonb678de82009-11-19 18:41:49 +00001273
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001274- Issue #7117: Backport round implementation from Python 3.x. ``round()`` now
1275 uses the correctly-rounded string <-> float conversions described above (when
1276 available), and so produces correctly rounded results that will display nicely
1277 under the float repr. There are two related small changes: (1) round now
1278 accepts any class with an ``__index__()`` method for its second argument (but
1279 no longer accepts floats for the second argument), and (2) an excessively
1280 large second integer argument (e.g., ``round(1.234, 10**100)``) no longer
1281 raises an exception.
Mark Dickinsonbd15a062009-11-18 19:33:35 +00001282
Philip Jenveyfab8be22009-11-17 02:42:26 +00001283- Issue #1757126: Fix the cyrillic-asian alias for the ptcp154 encoding.
1284
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001285- Fix several issues with ``compile()``. The input can now contain Windows and
1286 Mac newlines and is no longer required to end in a newline.
Benjamin Petersone36199b2009-11-12 23:39:44 +00001287
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001288- Remove length limitation when constructing a complex number from a unicode
1289 string.
Mark Dickinsonc04c7c52009-10-26 22:28:14 +00001290
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001291- Issue #7244: ``itertools.izip_longest()`` no longer ignores exceptions raised
1292 during the formation of an output tuple.
Raymond Hettingerfa7dadd2009-11-01 20:45:16 +00001293
Mark Dickinson8d87dc02009-10-25 20:39:06 +00001294- Issue #1087418: Boost performance of bitwise operations for longs.
1295
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001296- Issue #1722344: ``threading._shutdown()`` is now called in ``Py_Finalize()``,
1297 which fixes the problem of some exceptions being thrown at shutdown when the
1298 interpreter is killed. Patch by Adam Olsen.
Antoine Pitrouefb60c02009-10-20 21:29:37 +00001299
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001300- Issue #7168: Document ``PyFloat_AsString()`` and ``PyFloat_AsReprString()``,
1301 and note that they are unsafe and deprecated.
Eric Smithc12781a2009-10-19 14:38:14 +00001302
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001303- Issue #7120: logging: Remove import of multiprocessing which is causing crash
1304 in GAE.
Vinay Sajip03d5c342009-10-16 14:06:44 +00001305
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001306- Issue #7140: The ``__dict__`` of a module should not be cleared unless the
1307 module is the only object holding a reference to it.
Benjamin Peterson196b0922009-10-15 15:44:46 +00001308
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001309- Issue #1754094: Improve the stack depth calculation in the compiler. There
1310 should be no other effect than a small decrease in memory use. Patch by
1311 Christopher Tur Lesniewski-Laas.
Neil Schemenauer7fdd1cb2009-10-14 17:17:14 +00001312
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001313- Issue #7084: Fix a (very unlikely) crash when printing a list from one thread,
1314 and mutating it from another one. Patch by Scott Dial.
Antoine Pitroubeaf6a02009-10-11 21:03:26 +00001315
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd0052d12009-10-06 19:56:32 +00001316- Issue #1571184: The Unicode database contains properties for more characters.
1317 The tables for code points representing numeric values, white spaces or line
1318 breaks are now generated from the official Unicode Character Database files,
1319 and include information from the Unihan.txt file.
1320
Benjamin Peterson7adbb5a2009-10-03 20:23:24 +00001321- Issue #7050: Fix a SystemError when trying to use unpacking and augmented
1322 assignment.
1323
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001324- Issue #5329: Fix ``os.popen*`` regression from 2.5 with commands as a sequence
1325 running through the shell. Patch by Jean-Paul Calderone and Jani Hakala.
Philip Jenvey8b902042009-09-29 19:10:15 +00001326
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001327- Issue #7019: Raise ValueError when unmarshalling bad long data, instead of
1328 producing internally inconsistent Python longs.
Mark Dickinson7e7a3ec2009-09-29 19:01:06 +00001329
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001330- Issue #6990: Fix ``threading.local`` subclasses leaving old state around after
1331 a reference cycle GC which could be recycled by new locals.
Philip Jenveydbf3b252009-09-29 04:32:44 +00001332
Benjamin Peterson9db55402009-09-18 21:47:27 +00001333- Issue #6300: unicode.encode, unicode.decode, str.decode, and str.encode now
Benjamin Peterson332d7212009-09-18 21:14:55 +00001334 take keyword arguments.
1335
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001336- Issue #6922: Fix an infinite loop when trying to decode an invalid UTF-32
1337 stream with a non-raising error handler like "replace" or "ignore".
Georg Brandle9741f32009-09-17 11:28:09 +00001338
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001339- Issue #6713: Improve performance of base 10 int -> string and long -> string
1340 conversions.
Mark Dickinsonaa2adc82009-09-16 22:10:56 +00001341
Thomas Wouters2920adb2009-09-16 20:36:34 +00001342- Issue #1590864: Fix potential deadlock when mixing threads and fork().
1343
Georg Brandl0674d3f2009-09-16 20:30:09 +00001344- Issue #6844: Do not emit DeprecationWarnings when accessing a "message"
1345 attribute on exceptions that was set explicitly.
1346
Mark Dickinsonc8a7c7c2009-09-06 10:03:31 +00001347- Issue #6846: Fix bug where bytearray.pop() returns negative integers.
1348
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001349- ``classmethod()`` no longer checks if its argument is callable.
Benjamin Peterson6fcf9b52009-09-01 22:27:57 +00001350
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001351- Issue #6750: A text file opened with ``io.open()`` could duplicate its output
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfff896b2009-08-29 18:14:40 +00001352 when writing from multiple threads at the same time.
1353
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001354- Issue #6704: Improve the col_offset in AST for "for" statements with a target
1355 of tuple unpacking.
Benjamin Petersonc0ba8282009-08-15 22:59:21 +00001356
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001357- Issue #6707: ``dir()`` on an uninitialized module caused a crash.
Benjamin Peterson4c6e8082009-08-15 13:16:38 +00001358
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001359- Issue #6540: Fixed crash for ``bytearray.translate()`` with invalid parameters.
Georg Brandlec812ca2009-07-22 11:57:15 +00001360
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001361- Issue #6573: ``set.union()`` stopped processing inputs if an instance of self
Raymond Hettingerc2b9e1a2009-07-27 20:32:04 +00001362 occurred in the argument chain.
1363
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc9d11fef2009-07-13 20:03:21 +00001364- Issue #1616979: Added the cp720 (Arabic DOS) encoding.
1365
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001366- Issue #6070: On posix platforms import no longer copies the execute bit from
1367 the .py file to the .pyc file if it is set. Patch by Marco N.
R. David Murray23a736a2009-07-07 01:06:13 +00001368
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001369- Issue #4618: When unicode arguments are passed to ``print()``, the default
Benjamin Peterson753d1622009-07-02 18:16:45 +00001370 separator and end should be unicode also.
1371
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00001372- Issue #6119: Fixed an incorrect Py3k warning about order comparisons of
1373 built-in functions and methods.
Benjamin Peterson1bf47652009-07-02 17:06:17 +00001374
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001375- Issue #6347: Include inttypes.h as well as stdint.h in pyport.h. This fixes a
1376 build failure on HP-UX: int32_t and uint32_t are defined in inttypes.h instead
1377 of stdint.h on that platform.
Mark Dickinson2f865b92009-06-30 15:32:30 +00001378
Hirokazu Yamamotoa3c56092009-06-28 10:23:00 +00001379- Issue #4856: Remove checks for win NT.
1380
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc595f7a52009-06-25 22:29:29 +00001381- Issue #2016: Fixed a crash in a corner case where the dictionary of keyword
1382 arguments could be modified during the function call setup.
1383
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc14fc6732009-06-23 21:09:09 +00001384- Removed the ipaddr module.
1385
Raymond Hettinger62641e92009-06-23 20:59:43 +00001386- Issue #6329: Fixed iteration for memoryview objects (it was being blocked
1387 because it wasn't recognized as a sequence).
1388
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001389- Issue #6289: Encoding errors from ``compile()`` were being masked.
Benjamin Peterson08a0bbc2009-06-16 00:29:31 +00001390
Benjamin Petersona72be3b2009-06-13 20:23:33 +00001391- When no module is given in a relative import, the module field of the
1392 ImportFrom AST node is now None instead of an empty string.
1393
Benjamin Peterson565e1b62009-06-13 03:46:30 +00001394- Assignment to None using import statements now raises a SyntaxError.
1395
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001396- Issue #4547: When debugging a very large function, it was not always possible
1397 to update the lineno attribute of the current frame.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcb02ceda2009-06-01 20:53:18 +00001398
Antoine Pitrou46dbe272009-05-30 21:27:00 +00001399- Issue #5330: C functions called with keyword arguments were not reported by
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001400 the various profiling modules (profile, cProfile). Patch by Hagen Fürstenau.
Antoine Pitrou46dbe272009-05-30 21:27:00 +00001401
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001402- Issue #5982: staticmethod and classmethod now expose the wrapped function with
1403 ``__func__``.
Raymond Hettinger578a2282009-05-29 04:58:52 +00001404
Raymond Hettinger822b87f2009-05-29 01:46:48 +00001405- Added support for multiple context managers in the same with-statement.
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001406 Deprecated ``contextlib.nested()`` which is no longer needed.
Georg Brandl944f6842009-05-25 21:02:56 +00001407
Benjamin Peterson1880d8b2009-05-25 13:13:44 +00001408- Issue #6101: A new opcode, SETUP_WITH, has been added to speed up the with
1409 statement and correctly lookup the __enter__ and __exit__ special methods.
1410
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001411- Issue #5829: complex("1e500") no longer raises OverflowError. This makes it
1412 consistent with float("1e500") and interpretation of real and imaginary
1413 literals.
Mark Dickinsona4e0efa2009-05-20 18:43:07 +00001414
Hirokazu Yamamotoa4f90182009-05-17 02:58:36 +00001415- Issue #3527: Removed Py_WIN_WIDE_FILENAMES which is not used any more.
1416
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001417- ``__instancecheck__()`` and ``__subclasscheck__()`` are now completely ignored
1418 on classic classes and instances.
Benjamin Petersoneb9fb2c2009-05-16 22:46:11 +00001419
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001420- Issue #5994: The marshal module now has docstrings.
R. David Murray525cffc2009-05-13 13:07:14 +00001421
Mark Dickinsonb1d45852009-05-11 15:33:08 +00001422- Issue #5981: Fix three minor inf/nan issues in float.fromhex:
Mark Dickinsonb1d45852009-05-11 15:33:08 +00001423
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001424 (1) inf and nan strings with trailing whitespace were incorrectly rejected;
1425 (2) parsing of strings representing infinities and nans was locale aware; and
1426 (3) the interpretation of fromhex('-nan') didn't match that of float('-nan').
Eric Smitha985a3a2009-05-05 18:26:08 +00001427
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001428- Issue #5920: For ``float.__format__()``, change the behavior with the empty
1429 presentation type (that is, not one of 'e', 'f', 'g', or 'n') to be like 'g'
1430 but with at least one decimal point and with a default precision
1431 of 12. Previously, the behavior the same but with a default precision of 6.
1432 This more closely matches ``str()``, and reduces surprises when adding
1433 alignment flags to the empty presentation type. This also affects the new
1434 complex.__format__ in the same way.
1435
1436- Issue #5890: In subclasses of 'property' the __doc__ attribute was shadowed by
1437 classtype's, even if it was None. property now inserts the __doc__ into the
1438 subclass instance __dict__.
R. David Murray7ba8e1c2009-05-04 22:16:24 +00001439
Antoine Pitrou653dece2009-05-04 18:32:32 +00001440- Issue #4426: The UTF-7 decoder was too strict and didn't accept some legal
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001441 sequences. Patch by Nick Barnes and Victor Stinner.
Antoine Pitrou653dece2009-05-04 18:32:32 +00001442
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001443- Issue #1588: Add complex.__format__. For example, ``format(complex(1, 2./3),
1444 '.5')`` now produces a sensible result.
Eric Smith9139cc62009-04-30 00:58:58 +00001445
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001446- Issue #5864: Fix empty format code formatting for floats so that it never
1447 gives more than the requested number of significant digits.
Mark Dickinson92fcc9c2009-04-29 20:41:00 +00001448
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001449- Issue #5793: Rationalize isdigit / isalpha / tolower, etc. Includes new
1450 Py_ISDIGIT / Py_ISALPHA / Py_TOLOWER, etc. in pctypes.h.
Eric Smithcac7af62009-04-27 19:04:37 +00001451
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001452- Issue #4971: Fix titlecase for characters that are their own titlecase, but
1453 not their own uppercase.
Martin v. Löwis99f27792009-04-26 00:53:18 +00001454
Eric Smith068f0652009-04-25 21:40:15 +00001455- Issue #5835: Deprecate PyOS_ascii_formatd and replace it with
1456 _PyOS_double_to_string or PyOS_double_to_string.
1457
Benjamin Peterson5083dc52009-04-25 00:41:22 +00001458- Issue #5283: Setting __class__ in __del__ caused a segfault.
1459
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001460- Issue #5816: ``complex(repr(z))`` now recovers z exactly, even when z involves
1461 nans, infs or negative zeros.
Mark Dickinson95bc9802009-04-24 12:46:53 +00001462
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001463- Implement PEP 378, Format Specifier for Thousands Separator, for floats, ints,
1464 and longs.
Eric Smithaca19e62009-04-22 13:29:05 +00001465
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001466- Issue #5515: 'n' formatting for ints, longs, and floats handles leading zero
1467 formatting poorly.
Eric Smithaca19e62009-04-22 13:29:05 +00001468
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001469- Issue #5772: For float.__format__, don't add a trailing ".0" if we're using no
1470 type code and we have an exponent.
Eric Smithaca19e62009-04-22 13:29:05 +00001471
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001472- Issue #3166: Make long -> float (and int -> float) conversions correctly
1473 rounded.
Mark Dickinson6736cf82009-04-20 21:13:33 +00001474
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001475- Issue #5787: ``object.__getattribute__(some_type, "__bases__")`` segfaulted on
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00001476 some built-in types.
Benjamin Petersond4d400c2009-04-18 20:12:47 +00001477
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001478- Issue #1869: Fix a couple of minor round() issues. ``round(5e15+1)`` was
1479 giving 5e15+2; ``round(-0.0)`` was losing the sign of the zero.
Mark Dickinson1bdf7e92009-04-18 14:59:42 +00001480
Benjamin Peterson99d36f12009-04-15 21:26:36 +00001481- Issue #5759: float() didn't call __float__ on str subclasses.
1482
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001483- Issue #5704: The "-3" command-line option now implies "-t".
Georg Brandl3c4a5462009-04-12 12:08:12 +00001484
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001485- Issue #2170: Refactored ``xml.dom.minidom.normalize``, increasing both its
1486 clarity and its speed.
R. David Murray0374a822009-04-09 21:54:50 +00001487
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001488- Issue #2396: The memoryview object was backported from Python 3.1.
Antoine Pitrou789be0c2009-04-02 21:18:34 +00001489
Georg Brandld3f03fa2009-04-02 18:09:04 +00001490- Fix a problem in PyErr_NormalizeException that leads to "undetected errors"
1491 when hitting the recursion limit under certain circumstances.
1492
Brett Cannon15ba4da2009-04-01 18:03:59 +00001493- Issue #1665206: Remove the last eager import in _warnings.c and make it lazy.
1494
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001495- Issue #4865: On MacOSX /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages is added to the end
1496 sys.path, for compatibility with the system install of Python.
Ronald Oussorene0154ed2009-03-30 23:10:35 +00001497
Antoine Pitrouf8387af2009-03-23 18:41:45 +00001498- Issue #4688: Add a heuristic so that tuples and dicts containing only
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001499 untrackable objects are not tracked by the garbage collector. This can reduce
1500 the size of collections and therefore the garbage collection overhead on
1501 long-running programs, depending on their particular use of datatypes.
Antoine Pitrouf8387af2009-03-23 18:41:45 +00001502
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001503- Issue #5512: Rewrite PyLong long division algorithm (x_divrem) to improve its
1504 performance. Long divisions and remainder operations are now between 50% and
1505 150% faster.
Mark Dickinson0b666bf2009-03-23 18:25:13 +00001506
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001507- Issue #4258: Make it possible to use base 2**30 instead of base 2**15 for the
1508 internal representation of integers, for performance reasons. Base 2**30 is
1509 enabled by default on 64-bit machines. Add --enable-big-digits option to
1510 configure, which overrides the default. Add sys.long_info structseq to
1511 provide information about the internal format.
Mark Dickinsonefc82f72009-03-20 15:51:55 +00001512
Benjamin Peterson6ffe8522009-03-18 20:52:15 +00001513- Issue #4034: Fix weird attribute error messages of the traceback object. (As a
1514 result traceback.__members__ no longer exists.)
1515
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001516- Issue #4474: PyUnicode_FromWideChar now converts characters outside the BMP to
1517 surrogate pairs, on systems with sizeof(wchar_t) == 4 and sizeof(Py_UNICODE)
1518 == 2.
Mark Dickinson6b265f12009-03-18 16:07:26 +00001519
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001520- Issue #5237: Allow auto-numbered fields in str.format(). For example: ``'{}
1521 {}'.format(1, 2) == '1 2'``.
Eric Smith6f42edb2009-03-14 11:57:26 +00001522
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001523- Issue #3652: Make the 'line' argument for ``warnings.showwarning()`` a
Brett Cannon6c4cff02009-03-11 04:51:06 +00001524 requirement. Means the DeprecationWarning from Python 2.6 can go away.
1525
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001526- Issue #5247: Improve error message when unknown format codes are used when
1527 using ``str.format()`` with str, unicode, long, int, and float arguments.
Eric Smithe9fb6862009-02-20 14:02:36 +00001528
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001529- Running Python with the -3 option now also warns about classic division for
1530 ints and longs.
Raymond Hettinger08259e82009-02-18 23:10:19 +00001531
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001532- Issue #5260: Long integers now consume less memory: average saving is 2 bytes
1533 per long on a 32-bit system and 6 bytes per long on a 64-bit system.
Mark Dickinson2ffb26f2009-02-15 10:13:41 +00001534
Antoine Pitrou76a4b892009-02-13 13:52:33 +00001535- Issue #5186: Reduce hash collisions for objects with no __hash__ method by
1536 rotating the object pointer by 4 bits to the right.
1537
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001538- Issue #4575: Fix Py_IS_INFINITY macro to work correctly on x87 FPUs: it now
1539 forces its argument to double before testing for infinity.
Mark Dickinsonc97c9092009-02-09 14:18:43 +00001540
Benjamin Petersone18ef192009-01-20 14:21:16 +00001541- Issue #4978: Passing keyword arguments as unicode strings is now allowed.
1542
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +00001543- Issue #1242657: the __len__() and __length_hint__() calls in several tools
Raymond Hettingerb5163702009-02-02 21:50:13 +00001544 were suppressing all exceptions. These include list(), filter(), map(),
1545 zip(), and bytearray().
1546
Benjamin Peterson596d3062009-01-19 15:42:23 +00001547- os.ftruncate raises OSErrors instead of IOErrors for consistency with other os
1548 functions.
1549
Benjamin Peterson5848d1f2009-01-19 00:08:08 +00001550- Issue #4991: Passing invalid file descriptors to io.FileIO now raises an
1551 OSError.
1552
Amaury Forgeot d'Arca18392a2009-01-13 23:19:08 +00001553- Issue #4807: Port the _winreg module to Windows CE.
1554
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001555- Issue #4935: The overflow checking code in the expandtabs() method common to
1556 str, bytes and bytearray could be optimized away by the compiler, letting the
1557 interpreter segfault instead of raising an error.
Antoine Pitrouc2f02212009-01-13 23:13:52 +00001558
Amaury Forgeot d'Arca40d5732009-01-12 23:36:55 +00001559- Issue #3720: Fix a crash when an iterator modifies its class and removes its
1560 __next__ method.
1561
Martin v. Löwise3422fa2009-01-12 08:11:24 +00001562- Issue #4893: Use NT threading on CE.
1563
Martin v. Löwis1b3bef22009-01-12 07:57:11 +00001564- Issue #4915: Port sysmodule to Windows CE.
1565
Antoine Pitrou4c5ecb72009-01-09 21:40:55 +00001566- Issue #4074: Change the criteria for doing a full garbage collection (i.e.
1567 collecting the oldest generation) so that allocating lots of objects without
1568 destroying them does not show quadratic performance. Based on a proposal by
Benjamin Petersond50a5d52009-07-13 00:03:20 +00001569 Martin von Löwis at
Antoine Pitrou4c5ecb72009-01-09 21:40:55 +00001570 http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2008-June/080579.html.
1571
Martin v. Löwisb90304a2009-01-07 18:40:40 +00001572- Issue #4850: Change COUNT_ALLOCS variables to Py_ssize_t.
1573
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001574- Issue #1180193: When importing a module from a .pyc (or .pyo) file with an
1575 existing .py counterpart, override the co_filename attributes of all code
1576 objects if the original filename is obsolete (which can happen if the file has
1577 been renamed, moved, or if it is accessed through different paths). Patch by
1578 Ziga Seilnacht and Jean-Paul Calderone.
Antoine Pitroue96d4ea2009-01-06 18:10:47 +00001579
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001580- Issue #4075: Use ``OutputDebugStringW()`` in Py_FatalError.
Martin v. Löwis5344c992009-01-02 20:32:55 +00001581
Hirokazu Yamamoto99a1b202009-01-01 15:45:39 +00001582- Issue #4797: IOError.filename was not set when _fileio.FileIO failed to open
1583 file with `str' filename on Windows.
1584
Antoine Pitrouaa687902009-01-01 14:11:22 +00001585- Issue #3680: Reference cycles created through a dict, set or deque iterator
1586 did not get collected.
1587
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001588- Issue #4701: PyObject_Hash now implicitly calls PyType_Ready on types where
1589 the tp_hash and tp_dict slots are both NULL.
Nick Coghlan180e4002008-12-30 01:18:48 +00001590
Benjamin Peterson7af65562008-12-29 17:56:58 +00001591- Issue #4764: With io.open, IOError.filename is set when trying to open a
1592 directory on POSIX systems.
1593
Benjamin Petersonfe231b02008-12-29 17:47:42 +00001594- Issue #4764: IOError.filename is set when trying to open a directory on POSIX
1595 systems.
1596
Georg Brandl6425a2f2008-12-28 11:54:53 +00001597- Issue #4759: None is now allowed as the first argument of
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001598 ``bytearray.translate()``. It was always allowed for ``bytes.translate()``.
Georg Brandl6425a2f2008-12-28 11:54:53 +00001599
Skip Montanarof205c132008-12-23 03:30:15 +00001600- Added test case to ensure attempts to read from a file opened for writing
1601 fail.
1602
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001603- Issue #2467: gc.DEBUG_STATS reported invalid elapsed times. Also, always print
1604 elapsed times, not only when some objects are uncollectable/unreachable.
1605 Original patch by Neil Schemenauer.
Antoine Pitrou73c0e652008-12-17 22:46:54 +00001606
Mark Dickinson1a707982008-12-17 16:14:37 +00001607- Issue #3439: Add a bit_length method to int and long.
1608
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001609- Issue #2183: Simplify and optimize bytecode for list comprehensions. Original
1610 patch by Neal Norwitz.
Antoine Pitroud0c35152008-12-17 00:38:28 +00001611
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001612- Issue #4597: Fixed exception handling when the __exit__ function of a context
1613 manager returns a value that cannot be converted to a bool.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcad9b5992008-12-10 23:22:49 +00001614
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001615- Issue #4597: Fixed several opcodes that weren't always propagating exceptions.
Jeffrey Yasskinffd42cf2008-12-10 07:35:02 +00001616
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001617- Issue #4445: Replace ``sizeof(PyStringObject)`` with
1618 ``offsetof(PyStringObject, ob_sval) + 1`` when allocating memory for str
1619 instances. On a typical machine this saves 3 bytes of memory (on average) per
1620 string allocation.
Mark Dickinson826f3fe2008-12-05 21:55:28 +00001621
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcdc619012008-11-22 20:01:18 +00001622- Issue #3996: On Windows, the PyOS_CheckStack function would cause the
1623 interpreter to abort ("Fatal Python error: Could not reset the stack!")
1624 instead of throwing a MemoryError.
1625
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001626- Issue #3689: The list reversed iterator now supports __length_hint__ instead
1627 of __len__. Behavior now matches other reversed iterators.
Raymond Hettinger7989a4d2008-12-03 15:42:10 +00001628
Benjamin Petersonc078f922008-11-21 22:27:24 +00001629- Issue #4367: Python would segfault during compiling when the unicodedata
1630 module couldn't be imported and \N escapes were present.
1631
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001632- Issue #4233: Changed semantic of ``_fileio.FileIO``'s ``close()`` method on
1633 file objects with closefd=False. The file descriptor is still kept open but
1634 the file object behaves like a closed file. The ``FileIO`` object also got a
1635 new readonly attribute ``closefd``.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc32265652008-11-20 23:34:31 +00001636
Benjamin Peterson46cc6d12008-11-19 21:49:09 +00001637- Issue #4348: Some bytearray methods returned that didn't cause any change to
1638 the bytearray, returned the same bytearray instead of a copy.
1639
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001640- Issue #4317: Fixed a crash in the ``imageop.rgb2rgb8()`` function.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc7cfe7ea2008-11-18 22:19:37 +00001641
Benjamin Peterson273c2332008-11-17 22:39:09 +00001642- Issue #4230: If ``__getattr__`` is a descriptor, it now functions correctly.
1643
Benjamin Peterson6624a9f2008-11-03 15:14:51 +00001644- Issue #4048: The parser module now correctly validates relative imports.
1645
Benjamin Petersondcee09d2008-10-31 02:16:05 +00001646- Issue #4225: ``from __future__ import unicode_literals`` didn't work in an
1647 exec statement.
1648
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001649- Issue #4176: Fixed a crash when pickling an object which ``__reduce__`` method
1650 does not return iterators for the 4th and 5th items.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc69a9c5b2008-10-30 21:18:34 +00001651
Benjamin Petersonbdca9422008-10-26 20:21:13 +00001652- Issue #4209: Enabling unicode_literals and the print_function in the same
1653 __future__ import didn't work.
1654
Benjamin Peterson399b1fe2008-10-25 02:53:28 +00001655- Using ``nonlocal`` as a variable name will now raise a Py3k SyntaxWarning
Georg Brandl7fb00ad2008-10-25 07:00:52 +00001656 because it is a reserved word in 3.x.
Benjamin Peterson399b1fe2008-10-25 02:53:28 +00001657
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001658- On windows, ``os.chdir()`` given unicode was not working if
1659 GetCurrentDirectoryW returned a path longer than MAX_PATH. (But It's doubtful
1660 this code path is really executed because I cannot move to such directory on
1661 win2k)
Hirokazu Yamamoto10a018c2008-10-09 10:00:30 +00001662
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001663- Issue #4069: When ``set.remove(element)`` is used with a set element, the
1664 element is temporarily replaced with an equivalent frozenset. But the
1665 eventual KeyError would always report the empty ``frozenset()`` as the missing
1666 key. Now it correctly refers to the initial element.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd78b9dc2008-10-07 20:32:10 +00001667
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001668- Issue #4509: Various issues surrounding resize of bytearray objects to which
1669 there are buffer exports.
Antoine Pitrouae5bece2008-12-06 21:29:24 +00001670
Benjamin Peterson8d5934b2008-12-27 18:24:11 +00001671- Issue #4748: Lambda generators no longer return a value.
1672
Kristján Valur Jónsson6220e412009-01-12 09:20:34 +00001673- Issue #3582: Use native TLS functions on Windows
1674
Gregory P. Smithae91d092009-03-02 05:13:57 +00001675- The re.sub(), re.subn() and re.split() functions now accept a flags parameter.
1676
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001677- Issue #3845: In PyRun_SimpleFileExFlags avoid invalid memory access with short
1678 file names.
Matthias Kloseedb5e1e2009-04-04 14:18:13 +00001679
Matthias Klose91a3b9e2009-04-05 21:19:13 +00001680- Issue #1113244: Py_XINCREF, Py_DECREF, Py_XDECREF: Add `do { ... } while (0)'
1681 to avoid compiler warnings.
Matthias Klose0610e082009-04-05 12:43:08 +00001682
Gregory P. Smith2b3eb372009-04-05 23:48:26 +00001683- Issue #5705: os.setuid() would not accept values > 2**31-1 but pwd.getpwnam()
1684 returned them on 64bit platforms.
1685
Walter Dörwalded960ac2009-05-03 22:36:33 +00001686- Issue #5108: Handle %s like %S and %R in PyUnicode_FromFormatV(): Call
1687 PyUnicode_DecodeUTF8() once, remember the result and output it in a second
1688 step. This avoids problems with counting UTF-8 bytes that ignores the effect
1689 of using the replace error handler in PyUnicode_DecodeUTF8().
1690
Walter Dörwald726ba8e2009-05-06 14:32:35 +00001691- Issue #3739: The unicode-internal encoder now reports the number of characters
1692 consumed like any other encoder (instead of the number of bytes).
1693
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001694- Issue #2422: When compiled with the ``--with-valgrind`` option, the pymalloc
1695 allocator will be automatically disabled when running under Valgrind. This
1696 gives improved memory leak detection when running under Valgrind, while taking
1697 advantage of pymalloc at other times.
Benjamin Peterson91c12eb2009-12-03 02:52:39 +00001698
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +00001699Library
1700-------
Benjamin Petersonb3dd5482009-02-26 19:07:18 +00001701
Raymond Hettinger5f516ed2010-04-03 18:10:37 +00001702- Add count() and reverse() methods to collections.deque().
Raymond Hettingera5fd24e2009-12-10 06:42:54 +00001703
Raymond Hettinger0b3263b2009-12-10 06:00:33 +00001704- Fix variations of extending deques: d.extend(d) d.extendleft(d) d+=d
1705
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001706- Issue #6986: Fix crash in the JSON C accelerator when called with the wrong
1707 parameter types. Patch by Victor Stinner.
Antoine Pitrou187177f2009-12-08 15:40:51 +00001708
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001709- logging: Added optional "secure" parameter to SMTPHandler, to enable use of
Vinay Sajip48305662009-12-06 17:57:11 +00001710 TLS with authentication credentials.
1711
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001712- Issue #1923: Fixed the removal of meaningful spaces when PKG-INFO is generated
1713 in Distutils. Patch by Stephen Emslie.
Tarek Ziadé4f383172009-12-06 09:22:40 +00001714
Martin v. Löwisc218a2f2009-12-03 20:53:51 +00001715- Issue #4120: Drop reference to CRT from manifest when building extensions with
1716 msvc9compiler.
1717
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001718- Issue #7333: The ``posix`` module gains an ``initgroups()`` function providing
1719 access to the initgroups(3) C library call on Unix systems which implement it.
1720 Patch by Jean-Paul Calderone.
Antoine Pitrou30b3b352009-12-02 20:37:54 +00001721
Tarek Ziadéa5076a22009-11-29 22:20:30 +00001722- Issue #7408: Fixed distutils.tests.sdist so it doesn't check for group
1723 ownership when the group is not forced, because the group may be different
1724 from the user's group and inherit from its container when the test is run.
1725
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001726- Issue #1515: Enable use of deepcopy() with instance methods. Patch by Robert
1727 Collins.
Antoine Pitroud16f57b2009-11-28 15:55:58 +00001728
Vinay Sajip01801d12009-11-27 14:03:36 +00001729- Issue #7403: logging: Fixed possible race condition in lock creation.
1730
Antoine Pitrouacbe3bd2009-11-27 13:18:34 +00001731- Issue #6845: Add restart support for binary upload in ftplib. The
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001732 ``storbinary()`` method of FTP and FTP_TLS objects gains an optional "rest"
Antoine Pitrouacbe3bd2009-11-27 13:18:34 +00001733 argument. Patch by Pablo Mouzo.
1734
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001735- Issue #5788: ``datetime.timedelta`` objects get a new ``total_seconds()``
1736 method returning the total number of seconds in the duration. Patch by Brian
1737 Quinlan.
Antoine Pitroubcfaf802009-11-25 22:59:36 +00001738
Vinay Sajipc470d682009-11-25 09:03:30 +00001739- Issue #6615: logging: Used weakrefs in internal handler list.
1740
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001741- Issue #1488943: ``difflib.Differ`` doesn't always add hints for tab
1742 characters.
Senthil Kumaran5c456e62009-11-23 18:41:31 +00001743
Lars Gustäbeldd866d52009-11-22 18:30:53 +00001744- Issue #6123: tarfile now opens empty archives correctly and consistently
1745 raises ReadError on empty files.
1746
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001747- Issue #7354: distutils.tests.test_msvc9compiler - dragfullwindows can be 2.
Tarek Ziadé39de1fc2009-11-19 05:33:16 +00001748
Ezio Melotti3373a3a2010-01-16 18:38:01 +00001749- Issue #5037: Proxy the __unicode__ special method to __unicode__ instead of
1750 __str__.
Benjamin Petersondc3c2392009-11-19 03:00:02 +00001751
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001752- Issue #7341: Close the internal file object in the TarFile constructor in case
1753 of an error.
Lars Gustäbel355538e2009-11-18 20:24:54 +00001754
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001755- Issue #7293: ``distutils.test_msvc9compiler`` is fixed to work on any fresh
1756 Windows box. Help provided by David Bolen.
Tarek Ziadéacccafc2009-11-18 08:46:56 +00001757
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001758- Issue #7328: pydoc no longer corrupts sys.path when run with the '-m' switch.
Nick Coghlan11db64e2009-11-15 22:36:47 +00001759
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001760- Issue #2054: ftplib now provides an FTP_TLS class to do secure FTP using TLS
1761 or SSL. Patch by Giampaolo Rodola'.
Antoine Pitrouccd5e022009-11-15 17:22:09 +00001762
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001763- Issue #4969: The mimetypes module now reads the MIME database from the
1764 registry under Windows. Patch by Gabriel Genellina.
Antoine Pitroud5b34d42009-11-15 14:10:48 +00001765
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001766- Issue #6816: runpy now provides a run_path function that allows Python code to
1767 execute file paths that refer to source or compiled Python files as well as
1768 zipfiles, directories and other valid sys.path entries that contain a
Nick Coghlan49868cb2009-11-15 07:30:34 +00001769 __main__.py file. This allows applications that run other Python scripts to
1770 support the same flexibility as the CPython command line itself.
1771
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001772- Issue #7318: multiprocessing now uses a timeout when it fails to establish a
1773 connection with another process, rather than looping endlessly. The default
1774 timeout is 20 seconds, which should be amply sufficient for local connections.
Antoine Pitrouc562ca42009-11-13 22:31:18 +00001775
Antoine Pitrou0734c632009-11-10 20:49:30 +00001776- Issue #7197: Allow unittest.TextTestRunner objects to be pickled and
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001777 unpickled. This fixes crashes under Windows when trying to run
Antoine Pitrou0734c632009-11-10 20:49:30 +00001778 test_multiprocessing in verbose mode.
1779
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001780- Issue #7282: Fix a memory leak when an RLock was used in a thread other than
1781 those started through ``threading.Thread`` (for example, using
1782 ``thread.start_new_thread()``.
Antoine Pitroud7158d42009-11-09 16:00:11 +00001783
Antoine Pitrou99c160b2009-11-05 13:42:29 +00001784- Issue #7264: Fix a possible deadlock when deallocating thread-local objects
1785 which are part of a reference cycle.
1786
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001787- Issue #7211: Allow 64-bit values for the ``ident`` and ``data`` fields of
1788 kevent objects on 64-bit systems. Patch by Michael Broghton.
Antoine Pitrou323b9da2009-11-04 19:25:14 +00001789
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001790- Issue #6896: ``mailbox.Maildir`` now invalidates its internal cache each time
Antoine Pitrouaec41242009-11-02 11:34:27 +00001791 a modification is done through it. This fixes inconsistencies and test
1792 failures on systems with slightly bogus mtime behaviour.
1793
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001794- Issue #7246 & Issue #7208: getpass now properly flushes input before reading
1795 from stdin so that existing input does not confuse it and lead to incorrect
1796 entry or an IOError. It also properly flushes it afterwards to avoid the
1797 terminal echoing the input afterwards on OSes such as Solaris.
Gregory P. Smith38f5d8f2009-11-01 18:33:55 +00001798
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001799- Issue #7233: Fix a number of two-argument Decimal methods to make sure that
1800 they accept an int or long as the second argument. Also fix buggy handling of
1801 large arguments (those with coefficient longer than the current precision) in
1802 shift and rotate.
Mark Dickinson0c673122009-10-29 12:04:00 +00001803
Lars Gustäbel8c06ccc2009-10-29 09:15:00 +00001804- Issue #4750: Store the basename of the original filename in the gzip FNAME
1805 header as required by RFC 1952.
1806
Tarek Ziadé40b998b2009-10-27 23:06:10 +00001807- Issue #1180: Added a new global option to ignore ~/.pydistutils.cfg in
1808 Distutils.
1809
Tarek Ziadéd24cab82009-10-27 21:20:27 +00001810- Issue #7218: Fix test_site for win32, the directory comparison was done with
1811 an uppercase.
1812
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001813- Issue #7205: Fix a possible deadlock when using a BZ2File object from several
1814 threads at once.
Antoine Pitroudd629662009-10-27 17:41:58 +00001815
Tarek Ziadéb9c1cfc2009-10-24 15:10:37 +00001816- Issue #7071: byte-compilation in Distutils is now done with respect to
1817 sys.dont_write_bytecode.
1818
Vinay Sajipc470d682009-11-25 09:03:30 +00001819- Issue #7066: archive_util.make_archive now restores the cwd if an error is
Tarek Ziadé672422a2009-10-24 13:29:44 +00001820 raised. Initial patch by Ezio Melotti.
1821
Antoine Pitroufa94e802009-10-24 12:23:18 +00001822- Issue #6218: io.StringIO and io.BytesIO instances are now picklable with
1823 protocol 2.
1824
Vinay Sajip5ac65282009-10-21 20:22:14 +00001825- Issue #7077: logging: SysLogHandler now treats Unicode as per RFC 5424.
1826
Mark Dickinsona7a52ab2009-10-20 13:33:03 +00001827- Issue #7099: Decimal.is_normal now returns True for numbers with exponent
1828 larger than emax.
1829
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001830- Issue #5833: Fix extra space character in readline completion with the GNU
1831 readline library version 6.0.
Antoine Pitroue0899802009-10-19 18:20:21 +00001832
Antoine Pitrou5ba84912009-10-19 17:59:07 +00001833- Issue #7133: SSL objects now support the new buffer API.
1834
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001835- Issue #7149: urllib fails on OSX in the proxy detection code.
Ronald Oussoren31802d02009-10-18 07:07:00 +00001836
Benjamin Petersonc63457b2009-10-15 03:06:55 +00001837- Issue #7069: Make inspect.isabstract() return a boolean.
1838
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001839- Add support to the ``ihooks`` module for relative imports.
Neil Schemenauere6039f02009-10-14 19:23:53 +00001840
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001841- Issue #6894: Fixed the issue urllib2 doesn't respect "no_proxy" environment.
Senthil Kumaran27468662009-10-11 02:00:07 +00001842
Vinay Sajip1c77b7f2009-10-10 20:32:36 +00001843- Issue #7086: Added TCP support to SysLogHandler, and tidied up some
1844 anachronisms in the code which were a relic of 1.5.2 compatibility.
Vinay Sajip03d5c342009-10-16 14:06:44 +00001845
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001846- Issue #7082: When falling back to the MIME 'name' parameter, the correct place
1847 to look for it is the Content-Type header.
R. David Murray0c8bee62009-10-09 21:50:54 +00001848
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001849- Issue #7048: Force Decimal.logb to round its result when that result is too
1850 large to fit in the current precision.
Mark Dickinson15ae41c2009-10-07 19:22:05 +00001851
Vinay Sajip03d5c342009-10-16 14:06:44 +00001852- Issue #6516: Added owner/group support when creating tar archives in
Tarek Ziadé1b486712009-10-02 23:49:48 +00001853 Distutils.
1854
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001855- Issue #7031: Add ``TestCase.assert(Not)IsInstance()`` methods.
Georg Brandl12fafe62009-10-01 21:02:39 +00001856
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001857- Issue #6790: Make it possible again to pass an ``array.array`` to
1858 ``httplib.HTTPConnection.send``. Patch by Kirk McDonald.
Antoine Pitrou72481782009-09-29 17:48:18 +00001859
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001860- Issue #6236, #6348: Fix various failures in the `io` module under AIX and
1861 other platforms, when using a non-gcc compiler. Patch by egreen.
Antoine Pitrou2a466582009-09-21 21:17:48 +00001862
Tarek Ziadé99773352009-09-21 13:41:08 +00001863- Issue #6954: Fixed crash when using DISTUTILS_DEBUG flag in Distutils.
1864
Ronald Oussoren51f06332009-09-20 10:31:22 +00001865- Issue #6851: Fix urllib.urlopen crash on secondairy threads on OSX 10.6
1866
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001867- Issue #4606: Passing 'None' if ctypes argtype is set to POINTER(...) does now
1868 always result in NULL.
Thomas Heller6be522b2009-09-18 20:05:44 +00001869
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001870- Issue #5042: ctypes Structure sub-subclass does now initialize correctly with
1871 base class positional arguments.
Thomas Heller7a352c02009-09-18 18:55:17 +00001872
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001873- Issue #6938: Fix a TypeError in string formatting of a multiprocessing debug
1874 message.
Georg Brandlc40e60e2009-09-18 09:18:27 +00001875
Matthias Klose924eab62009-09-13 15:09:24 +00001876- Issue #6635: Fix profiler printing usage message.
1877
Lars Gustäbel21121e62009-09-12 10:28:15 +00001878- Issue #6856: Add a filter keyword argument to TarFile.add().
1879
Tarek Ziadébed26a32009-09-09 08:14:20 +00001880- Issue #6163: Fixed HP-UX runtime library dir options in
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001881 distutils.unixcompiler. Initial patch by Sridhar Ratnakumar and Michael
1882 Haubenwallner.
Tarek Ziadébed26a32009-09-09 08:14:20 +00001883
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001884- Issue #6857: Default format() alignment should be '>' for Decimal instances.
Mark Dickinson5cfa8042009-09-08 20:20:19 +00001885
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001886- Issue #6795: int(Decimal('nan')) now raises ValueError instead of returning
1887 NaN or raising InvalidContext. Also, fix infinite recursion in
1888 long(Decimal('nan')).
Mark Dickinson968f1692009-09-07 18:04:58 +00001889
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001890- Issue #6850: Fix bug in Decimal._parse_format_specifier for formats with no
1891 type specifier.
Mark Dickinson491ea552009-09-07 16:17:41 +00001892
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001893- Issue #4937: plat-mac/bundlebuilder refers to non-existing version.plist.
Ronald Oussoren626faeb2009-09-06 12:23:18 +00001894
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001895- Issue #6838: Use a list to accumulate the value instead of repeatedly
1896 concatenating strings in httplib's HTTPResponse._read_chunked providing a
1897 significant speed increase when downloading large files servend with a
1898 Transfer-Encoding of 'chunked'.
Chris Withers7f3ea6a2009-09-04 16:32:22 +00001899
Georg Brandld22b9512009-09-04 08:17:04 +00001900- Issue #5275: In Cookie's Cookie.load(), properly handle non-string arguments
1901 as documented.
1902
Georg Brandl2e1308f2009-09-04 06:59:20 +00001903- Issue #2666: Handle BROWSER environment variable properly for unknown browser
1904 names in the webbrowser module.
1905
Lars Gustäbelf7cda522009-08-28 19:23:44 +00001906- Issue #6054: Do not normalize stored pathnames in tarfile.
1907
Mark Dickinson7a7739d2009-08-28 13:25:02 +00001908- Issue #6794: Fix Decimal.compare_total and Decimal.compare_total_mag: NaN
1909 payloads are now ordered by integer value rather than lexicographically.
1910
Tarek Ziadé764fc232009-08-20 21:23:13 +00001911- Issue #6693: New functions in site.py to get user/global site packages paths.
1912
Gregory P. Smith4e63d542009-08-20 09:39:38 +00001913- The thread.lock type now supports weak references.
1914
Guilherme Polo7b50c4f2009-08-18 14:46:57 +00001915- Issue #1356969: Add missing info methods in Tix.HList.
1916
Guilherme Polo6b3c7092009-08-18 14:23:00 +00001917- Issue #1522587: New constants and methods for the Tix.Grid widget.
1918
Guilherme Polo6c823f82009-08-18 13:29:20 +00001919- Issue #1250469: Fix the return value of Tix.PanedWindow.panes.
1920
Guilherme Polod3e6e4b2009-08-18 13:23:08 +00001921- Issue #1119673: Do not override Tkinter.Text methods when creating a
1922 ScrolledText.
1923
Gregory P. Smithb98d6b22009-08-16 18:52:58 +00001924- Issue #6665: Fix fnmatch to properly match filenames with newlines in them.
1925
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001926- Issue #1135: Add the XView and YView mix-ins to avoid duplicating the xview*
1927 and yview* methods.
Guilherme Poloe45f0172009-08-14 14:36:45 +00001928
Antoine Pitrou20e1f932009-08-06 20:18:29 +00001929- Issue #6629: Fix a data corruption issue in the new `io` package, which could
1930 occur when writing to a BufferedRandom object (e.g. a file opened in "rb+" or
1931 "wb+" mode) after having buffered a certain amount of data for reading. This
1932 bug was not present in the pure Python implementation.
1933
Jesse Noller8497efe2009-08-06 02:05:56 +00001934- Issue #4660: If a multiprocessing.JoinableQueue.put() was preempted, it was
1935 possible to get a spurious 'task_done() called too many times' error.
1936
Gregory P. Smithc4ad0342009-08-13 18:54:50 +00001937- Issue #1628205: Socket file objects returned by socket.socket.makefile() now
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001938 properly handles EINTR within the read, readline, write & flush methods. The
1939 socket.sendall() method now properly handles interrupted system calls.
Gregory P. Smithc4ad0342009-08-13 18:54:50 +00001940
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001941- Issue #6595: The Decimal constructor now allows arbitrary Unicode decimal
1942 digits in input, as recommended by the standard. Previously it was restricted
1943 to accepting [0-9].
Mark Dickinson4326ad82009-08-02 10:59:36 +00001944
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc3e5b0272009-07-28 22:15:30 +00001945- Issue #6511: ZipFile now raises BadZipfile (instead of an IOError) when
1946 opening an empty or very small file.
1947
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc74b30162009-07-23 19:26:02 +00001948- Issue #6553: Fixed a crash in cPickle.load(), when given a file-like object
1949 containing incomplete data.
1950
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001951- Issue #6545: Removed assert statements in distutils.Extension, so the behavior
1952 is similar when used with -O.
Tarek Ziadéaf2406f2009-07-22 08:55:19 +00001953
Benjamin Petersond7b0eeb2009-07-19 20:18:21 +00001954- unittest has been split up into a package. All old names should still work.
1955
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001956- Issue #6431: Make Fraction type return NotImplemented when it doesn't know how
1957 to handle a comparison without loss of precision. Also add correct handling
1958 of infinities and nans for comparisons with float.
Mark Dickinson88a0a2e2009-07-18 15:18:18 +00001959
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc74b30162009-07-23 19:26:02 +00001960- Issue #6415: Fixed warnings.warn segfault on bad formatted string.
Hirokazu Yamamoto1a3d0852009-07-17 06:26:54 +00001961
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001962- Issue #6466: Now distutils.cygwinccompiler and distutils.emxccompiler uses the
1963 same refactored function to get gcc/ld/dllwrap versions numbers. It's
1964 ``distutils.util.get_compiler_versions()``. Added deprecation warnings for
1965 the obsolete get_versions() functions.
Tarek Ziadéa99dedf2009-07-16 15:35:45 +00001966
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001967- Issue #6433: Fixed issues with multiprocessing.pool.map hanging on empty list.
Jesse Noller7530e472009-07-16 14:23:04 +00001968
Vinay Sajipcbb24b32009-07-13 11:21:05 +00001969- Issue #6314: logging: Extra checks on the "level" argument in more places.
1970
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc74b8d332009-07-11 14:33:51 +00001971- Issue #2622: Fixed an ImportError when importing email.messsage from a
1972 standalone application built with py2exe or py2app.
1973
Vinay Sajipcbb24b32009-07-13 11:21:05 +00001974- Issue #6455: Fixed test_build_ext under win32.
Tarek Ziadé8c400012009-07-10 09:10:33 +00001975
Vinay Sajipcbb24b32009-07-13 11:21:05 +00001976- Issue #6377: Enabled the compiler option, and deprecate its usage as an
Tarek Ziadée670e5a2009-07-06 12:50:46 +00001977 attribute.
1978
Tarek Ziadé63f17382009-07-04 02:02:41 +00001979- Issue #6413: Fixed the log level in distutils.dist for announce.
1980
Gregory P. Smithc197d0a2009-07-04 01:55:11 +00001981- Issue #3392: The subprocess communicate() method no longer fails in select()
1982 when file descriptors are large; communicate() now uses poll() when possible.
1983
Tarek Ziadé65ec61e2009-07-03 08:22:56 +00001984- Issue #6403: Fixed package path usage in build_ext.
1985
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001986- Issues #5155, #5313, #5331: multiprocessing.Process._bootstrap was
Jesse Noller1b90efb2009-06-30 17:11:52 +00001987 unconditionally calling "os.close(sys.stdin.fileno())" resulting in file
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001988 descriptor errors.
Jesse Noller1b90efb2009-06-30 17:11:52 +00001989
Vinay Sajipcbb24b32009-07-13 11:21:05 +00001990- Issue #6365: Distutils build_ext inplace mode was copying the compiled
Tarek Ziadé3fbcc602009-06-29 16:13:39 +00001991 extension in a subdirectory if the extension name had dots.
1992
Hirokazu Yamamoto99ebc632009-06-29 14:29:31 +00001993- Issue #6344: Fixed a crash of mmap.read() when passed a negative argument.
1994
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001995- Issue #5230: pydoc would report no documentation found if a module generated a
1996 'not found' import error when loaded; it now reports the import errors.
R. David Murrayef087da2009-06-23 18:02:46 +00001997 Thanks to Lucas Prado Melo for initial fix and collaboration on the tests.
1998
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001999- Issue #6314: ``logging.basicConfig()`` performs extra checks on the "level"
Vinay Sajip603fb6d2009-06-21 17:37:27 +00002000 argument.
2001
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002002- Issue #6164: Added an AIX specific linker argument in Distutils unixcompiler.
2003 Original patch by Sridhar Ratnakumar.
Tarek Ziadé439bf932009-06-20 13:57:20 +00002004
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002005- Issue #6274: Fixed possible file descriptors leak in subprocess.py.
Facundo Batista8c826b72009-06-19 18:02:28 +00002006
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc5fe420e2009-06-18 22:32:50 +00002007- Issue #6189: Restored compatibility of subprocess.py with Python 2.2.
2008
Tarek Ziadéfdefc0a2009-06-16 07:29:52 +00002009- Issue #6287: Added the license field in Distutils documentation.
2010
Tarek Ziadéa1cc0402009-06-15 23:30:13 +00002011- Issue #6286: Now Distutils upload command is based on urllib2 instead of
2012 httplib, allowing the usage of http_proxy.
2013
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002014- Issue #6271: mmap tried to close invalid file handle (-1) for anonymous maps
2015 on Unix.
Hirokazu Yamamoto983a4652009-06-14 03:53:55 +00002016
Antoine Pitrou19690592009-06-12 20:14:08 +00002017- Issue #6215: All bug fixes and enhancements from the Python 3.1 io library
2018 (including the fast C implementation) have been backported to the standard
2019 ``io`` module.
2020
Martin v. Löwis2dcd7a02009-06-12 17:28:31 +00002021- Issue #6258: Support AMD64 in bdist_msi.
2022
Vinay Sajip334ffe82010-01-15 23:27:05 +00002023- Issue #6252: Fixed bug in next rollover time computation in
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00002024 TimedRotatingFileHandler.
2025
Tarek Ziadéc7498f52009-06-11 09:13:36 +00002026- Issue #6263: Fixed syntax error in distutils.cygwincompiler.
2027
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002028- Issue #5201: distutils.sysconfig.parse_makefile() now understands ``$$`` in
2029 Makefiles. This prevents compile errors when using syntax like:
2030 ``LDFLAGS='-rpath=\$$LIB:/some/other/path'``. Patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
Tarek Ziadé25d2bae2009-06-11 08:12:20 +00002031
Georg Brandle6632b42009-06-04 08:58:32 +00002032- Issue #5767: Removed sgmlop support from xmlrpclib.
2033
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002034- Issue #6131: test_modulefinder leaked when run after test_distutils. Patch by
2035 Hirokazu Yamamoto.
Tarek Ziadé3e3eace2009-05-29 08:08:07 +00002036
Tarek Ziadé9e5d2dc2009-05-28 12:53:54 +00002037- Issue #6048: Now Distutils uses the tarfile module in archive_util.
2038
Raymond Hettingerb4d2d312009-05-29 01:36:26 +00002039- Issue #5150: IDLE's format menu now has an option to strip trailing
2040 whitespace.
2041
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002042- Issue #6121: pydoc now ignores leading and trailing spaces in the argument to
2043 the 'help' function.
R. David Murrayd67ea7d2009-05-27 20:07:21 +00002044
Benjamin Peterson176a56c2009-05-25 00:48:58 +00002045- In unittest, using a skipping decorator on a class is now equivalent to
2046 skipping every test on the class. The ClassTestSuite class has been removed.
2047
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002048- Issue #6050: Don't fail extracting a directory from a zipfile if the directory
2049 already exists.
Martin v. Löwis0b09c422009-05-24 19:30:52 +00002050
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002051- Issue #5311: bdist_msi can now build packages that do not depend on a specific
2052 Python version.
Martin v. Löwis53b578e2009-05-24 19:10:52 +00002053
Antoine Pitroud49e3752009-05-24 15:40:09 +00002054- Issue #1309352: fcntl now converts its third arguments to a C `long` rather
2055 than an int, which makes some operations possible under 64-bit Linux (e.g.
2056 DN_MULTISHOT with F_NOTIFY).
2057
Senthil Kumarane266f252009-05-24 09:14:50 +00002058- Issue #1424152: Fix for httplib, urllib2 to support SSL while working through
2059 proxy. Original patch by Christopher Li, changes made by Senthil Kumaran.
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00002060
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002061- Issue #1983: Fix functions taking or returning a process identifier to use the
2062 dedicated C type ``pid_t`` instead of a C ``int``. Some platforms have a
2063 process identifier type wider than the standard C integer type.
Antoine Pitrou5e858fe2009-05-23 15:37:45 +00002064
R. David Murrayad3058e2009-05-23 00:48:58 +00002065- Issue #4066: smtplib.SMTP_SSL._get_socket now correctly returns the socket.
2066 Patch by Farhan Ahmad, test by Marcin Bachry.
2067
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002068- Issue #6062: In distutils, fixed the package option of build_ext. Feedback
Tarek Ziadé7d7127d2009-05-19 16:17:21 +00002069 and tests on pywin32 by Tim Golden.
2070
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002071- Issue #6053: Fixed distutils tests on win32. Patch by Hirokazu Yamamoto.
Tarek Ziadé07bbfcc2009-05-18 12:21:26 +00002072
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002073- Issue #6046: Fixed the library extension when distutils build_ext is used in
2074 place. Initial patch by Roumen Petrov.
Tarek Ziadéfcc7f032009-05-18 08:03:37 +00002075
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00002076- Issue #6041: Now distutils `sdist` and `register` commands use `check` as a
Tarek Ziadécb768042009-05-16 16:37:06 +00002077 subcommand.
2078
Antoine Pitrou775fd662009-05-15 16:54:52 +00002079- Issue #2116: Weak references and weak dictionaries now support copy()ing and
2080 deepcopy()ing.
2081
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002082- Issue #1655: Make imaplib IPv6-capable. Patch by Derek Morr.
Antoine Pitrou52035a02009-05-15 11:50:29 +00002083
Antoine Pitrou42b5bcf2009-05-14 21:48:09 +00002084- Issue #5918: Fix a crash in the parser module.
2085
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002086- Issue #1664: Make nntplib IPv6-capable. Patch by Derek Morr.
Antoine Pitroueed30d82009-05-14 21:22:08 +00002087
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002088- Issue #6022: A test file was created in the current working directory by
Tarek Ziadécbb4f9e2009-05-14 20:14:13 +00002089 test_get_outputs in Distutils.
2090
R. David Murray996ba022009-05-13 17:14:11 +00002091- Issue #4050: inspect.findsource/getsource now raise an IOError if the 'source'
2092 file is a binary. Patch by Brodie Rao, tests by Daniel Diniz.
2093
Tarek Ziadé972480d2009-05-12 17:07:14 +00002094- Issue #5977: distutils build_ext.get_outputs was not taking into account the
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002095 inplace option. Initial patch by kxroberto.
Tarek Ziadé972480d2009-05-12 17:07:14 +00002096
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002097- Issue #5984: distutils.command.build_ext.check_extensions_list checks were
2098 broken for old-style extensions.
Tarek Ziadéd5d83422009-05-10 10:12:08 +00002099
Vinay Sajipf9b01fe2009-05-09 12:07:17 +00002100- Issue #5971: StreamHandler.handleError now swallows IOErrors which occur when
2101 trying to print a traceback.
2102
Tarek Ziadé812d7712009-05-09 10:06:00 +00002103- Issue #5976: Fixed Distutils test_check_environ.
2104
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002105- Issue #5900: Ensure RUNPATH is added to extension modules with RPATH if GNU ld
2106 is used. Original patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
Tarek Ziadée2be83d2009-05-09 08:28:53 +00002107
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002108- Issue #5941: Distutils build_clib command was not working anymore because of
2109 an incomplete costumization of the archiver command. Added ARFLAGS in the
2110 Makefile besides AR and make Distutils use it. Original patch by David
Tarek Ziadé99f660a2009-05-07 21:20:34 +00002111 Cournapeau.
2112
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002113- Issue 5955: aifc's close method did not close the file it wrapped, now it
2114 does. This also means getfp method now returns the real fp.
R. David Murrayd3bf34c2009-05-07 16:29:19 +00002115
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002116- Issue #4875: On win32, ctypes.util.find_library does no longer return
2117 directories.
Thomas Hellera57773e2009-05-05 18:55:47 +00002118
Georg Brandl4d4313d2009-05-05 08:54:11 +00002119- Issue #5142: Add the ability to skip modules while stepping to pdb.
2120
Georg Brandle3869c42009-05-05 08:30:28 +00002121- Issue #1309567: Fix linecache behavior of stripping subdirectories when
2122 looking for files given by a relative filename.
2123
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002124- Issue #5692: In ``zipfile.Zipfile``, fix wrong path calculation when
Antoine Pitrou97377bf2009-05-04 21:17:17 +00002125 extracting a file to the root directory.
2126
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002127- Issue #5913: ``os.listdir()`` should fail for empty path on windows.
Hirokazu Yamamoto406d7aa2009-05-04 05:28:39 +00002128
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002129- Issue #5084: Unpickling now interns the attribute names of pickled objects,
2130 saving memory and avoiding growth in size of subsequent pickles. Proposal and
2131 original patch by Jake McGuire.
Antoine Pitrou74309892009-05-02 21:13:23 +00002132
Antoine Pitrou1fc02312009-05-01 20:55:35 +00002133- Issue #3002: ``shutil.copyfile()`` and ``shutil.copytree()`` now raise an
2134 error when a named pipe is encountered, rather than blocking infinitely.
2135
Gregory P. Smith1d499262009-05-01 19:59:52 +00002136- Issue #3959: The ipaddr module has been added to the standard library.
2137 Contributed by Google.
2138
R. David Murray25b4add2009-04-29 13:17:37 +00002139- Issue #2245: aifc now skips chunk types it doesn't recognize, per spec.
2140
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002141- Issue #5874: distutils.tests.test_config_cmd is not locale-sensitive anymore.
Tarek Ziadéa1b91d92009-04-29 08:03:46 +00002142
Thomas Heller90c61a22009-04-28 19:23:41 +00002143- Issue #4305: ctypes should now build again on mipsel-linux-gnu
2144
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002145- Issue #1734234: Massively speedup ``unicodedata.normalize()`` when the string
2146 is already in normalized form, by performing a quick check beforehand.
Antoine Pitroue988e282009-04-27 21:53:26 +00002147 Original patch by Rauli Ruohonen.
2148
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002149- Issue #5853: Calling a function of the mimetypes module from several threads
Antoine Pitrouf2651e12009-04-27 20:50:20 +00002150 at once could hit the recursion limit if the mimetypes database hadn't been
2151 initialized before.
2152
Vinay Sajipe34d6aa2009-04-27 13:44:27 +00002153- Issue #5854: Updated __all__ to include some missing names and remove some
2154 names which should not be exported.
2155
2156- Issue #5810: Fixed Distutils test_build_scripts so it uses
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002157 ``sysconfig.get_config_vars()``.
Tarek Ziadébcddf672009-04-25 12:51:59 +00002158
Tarek Ziadéd567c382009-04-25 12:38:08 +00002159- Issue #4951: Fixed failure in test_httpservers.
2160
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002161- Issue #3102: All global symbols that the _ctypes extension defines are now
2162 prefixed with 'Py' or '_ctypes'.
Thomas Heller5c6af802009-04-24 20:31:47 +00002163
Thomas Hellerec21ccd2009-04-24 20:00:41 +00002164- Issue #5041: ctypes does now allow pickling wide character.
2165
Mark Dickinson4af8e742009-04-24 13:56:07 +00002166- Issue #5812: For the two-argument form of the Fraction constructor,
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002167 ``Fraction(m, n)``, m and n are permitted to be arbitrary Rational instances.
Mark Dickinson4af8e742009-04-24 13:56:07 +00002168
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002169- Issue #5812: Fraction('1e6') is valid: more generally, any string that's valid
2170 for float() is now valid for Fraction(), with the exception of strings
2171 representing NaNs and infinities.
Mark Dickinson8100bd82009-04-22 18:15:25 +00002172
Tarek Ziadé31559b62009-04-20 14:29:42 +00002173- Issue #5795: Fixed test_distutils failure on Debian ppc.
2174
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +00002175- Issue #5768: Fixed bug in Unicode output logic and test case for same.
2176
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002177- Issue #1161031: Fix readwrite select flag handling: POLLPRI now results in a
2178 handle_expt_event call, not handle_read_event, and POLLERR and POLLNVAL now
2179 call handle_close, not handle_expt_event. Also, dispatcher now has an
2180 'ignore_log_types' attribute for suppressing log messages, which is set to
2181 'warning' by default.
R. David Murrayabc26602009-04-13 16:56:32 +00002182
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002183- Issue #5607: Fixed Distutils test_get_platform for Mac OS X fat binaries.
Tarek Ziadé156c31a2009-04-13 12:34:01 +00002184
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002185- Issue #5741: Don't disallow "%%" (which is an escape for "%") when setting a
2186 value in SafeConfigParser.
Georg Brandl21cf5ee2009-04-12 17:24:11 +00002187
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002188- Issue #5732: Added a new command in Distutils: check.
Tarek Ziadé942825f2009-04-11 14:55:07 +00002189
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +00002190- Issue #5731: Distutils bdist_wininst no longer worked on non-Windows
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002191 platforms. Initial patch by Paul Moore.
Tarek Ziadéad958262009-04-09 21:36:44 +00002192
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002193- Issue #2254: Fix CGIHTTPServer information disclosure. Relative paths are now
2194 collapsed within the url properly before looking in cgi_directories.
Gregory P. Smith923ba362009-04-06 06:33:26 +00002195
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002196- Issue #5095: Added bdist_msi to the list of bdist supported formats. Initial
2197 fix by Steven Bethard.
Tarek Ziadé64408fb2009-04-05 22:51:09 +00002198
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002199- Issue #1491431: Fixed distutils.filelist.glob_to_re for edge cases. Initial
2200 fix by Wayne Davison.
Tarek Ziadéfaa6b122009-04-05 21:44:08 +00002201
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002202- Issue #5693: TestSuite.__iter__ can now be consistently overridden in
2203 subclasses.
Michael Foordf2dfef12009-04-05 19:19:28 +00002204
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002205- Issue #5694: Removed spurious test output in Distutils (test_clean).
Tarek Ziadé453d9532009-04-05 18:31:24 +00002206
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +00002207- Issue #5471: Fix os.path.expanduser() for $HOME set to '/'.
Georg Brandl3f0ef202009-04-05 14:48:49 +00002208
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002209- Issue #1326077: Fix the formatting of SyntaxErrors by the traceback module.
Georg Brandl1956d5c2009-04-05 14:25:41 +00002210
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002211- Issue #1726172: Fix IndexError in the case of and empty response in ftplib.
Georg Brandl50ba6e12009-04-05 10:48:47 +00002212
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002213- Issue #2625: Added missing iteritems() call to the for loop in
R. David Murray52720c52009-04-02 14:05:35 +00002214 mailbox.MH.get_message().
2215
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002216- Issue #5585: Add the ability to call an initializer to
2217 mulitiprocessing.manager so that users can install custom handlers/etc.
Jesse Noller7152f6d2009-04-02 05:17:26 +00002218
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002219- Issue #3551: Patch multiprocessing to raise a proper exception if the size of
2220 the object when writefile is called causes a ERROR_NO_SYSTEM_RESOURCES. Added
2221 docs to note the limitation.
Jesse Noller5053fbb2009-04-02 04:22:09 +00002222
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002223- unittest.assertNotEqual() now uses the inequality operator (!=) instead of the
2224 equality operator.
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00002225
2226- Issue #6001: Test discovery for unittest. Implemented in
Michael Foordb4a81c82009-05-29 20:33:46 +00002227 unittest.TestLoader.discover and from the command line.
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +00002228
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002229- Issue #5679: The methods unittest.TestCase.addCleanup and doCleanups were
2230 added. addCleanup allows you to add cleanup functions that will be called
Michael Foord07ef4872009-05-02 22:43:34 +00002231 unconditionally (after setUp if setUp fails, otherwise after tearDown). This
2232 allows for much simpler resource allocation and deallocation during tests.
2233
2234- Issue #3379: unittest.main now takes an optional exit argument. If False main
2235 doesn't call sys.exit allowing it to be used from the interactive interpreter.
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00002236
2237- Issue #5995: unittest.main now takes an optional verbosity argument allowing
Michael Foord5d31e052009-05-11 17:59:43 +00002238 test modules to be run with a higher than default verbosity.
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00002239
2240- Issue #5995: A fix to allow you to run "python -m unittest test_module" or
Michael Foord5d31e052009-05-11 17:59:43 +00002241 "python -m unittest test_module.TestClass" from the command line.
Michael Foord07ef4872009-05-02 22:43:34 +00002242
2243- Issue #5728: unittest.TestResult has new startTestRun and stopTestRun methods;
2244 called immediately before and after a test run.
2245
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002246- Issue #5663: Better failure messages for unittest asserts. Default assertTrue
Michael Foord345b2fe2009-04-02 03:20:38 +00002247 and assertFalse messages are now useful. TestCase has a longMessage attribute.
2248 This defaults to False, but if set to True useful error messages are shown in
2249 addition to explicit messages passed to assert methods.
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +00002250
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002251- Issue #3110: Add additional protect around SEM_VALUE_MAX for multiprocessing.
Jesse Nollerb502bc72009-04-02 02:32:55 +00002252
Georg Brandl58b8b952009-04-01 21:54:21 +00002253- In Pdb, prevent the reassignment of __builtin__._ by sys.displayhook on
2254 printing out values.
2255
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002256- Issue #4572: Added SEEK_* symbolic constants to io module.
Georg Brandl5942b912009-04-01 21:05:44 +00002257
Brett Cannonad078a02009-04-01 16:00:34 +00002258- Issue #1665206 (partially): Move imports in cgitb to the top of the module
2259 instead of performing them in functions. Helps prevent import deadlocking in
2260 threads.
2261
Raymond Hettinger66c4a6b2009-04-01 18:50:56 +00002262- Issue #5647: MutableSet.__iand__() no longer mutates self during iteration.
2263
Georg Brandle92d4b62009-04-01 04:21:14 +00002264- Actually make the SimpleXMLRPCServer CGI handler work.
2265
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002266- Issue #2522: locale.format() now checks its first argument to ensure it has
R. David Murraya83da352009-04-01 03:21:43 +00002267 been passed only one pattern, avoiding mysterious errors where it appeared
2268 that it was failing to do localization.
2269
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002270- Issue #5583: Added optional extensions in Distutils. Initial patch by Georg
Tarek Ziadé9e47ce42009-03-31 22:27:23 +00002271 Brandl.
2272
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002273- Issue #5619: Multiprocessing children disobey the debug flag and causes popups
2274 on windows buildbots. Patch applied to work around this issue.
Jesse Noller42f9b4e2009-03-31 22:20:35 +00002275
Benjamin Petersond906ea62009-03-31 21:34:42 +00002276- Issue #5632: Thread.ident was None for the main thread and threads not created
2277 with the threading module.
2278
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002279- Issue #5400: Added patch for multiprocessing on netbsd compilation/support.
Jesse Noller1f0a5552009-03-31 18:27:14 +00002280
Hirokazu Yamamoto9d2ee5d2009-03-31 13:13:05 +00002281- Issue #5387: Fixed mmap.move crash by integer overflow.
2282
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002283- Issue #5261: Patch multiprocessing's semaphore.c to support context manager
2284 use: "with multiprocessing.Lock()" works now.
Jesse Noller82eb5902009-03-30 23:29:31 +00002285
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +00002286- Issue #5177: Multiprocessing's SocketListener class now uses
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002287 socket.SO_REUSEADDR on all connections so that the user no longer needs to
2288 wait 120 seconds for the socket to expire.
Jesse Noller459a6482009-03-30 15:50:42 +00002289
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002290- Adjusted _tkinter to compile without warnings when WITH_THREAD is not defined
2291 (part of issue #5035).
Guilherme Polo1972d162009-03-27 21:43:08 +00002292
Marc-André Lemburgcbdf15b2009-03-25 19:45:33 +00002293- Issue #5561: Removed the sys.version_info shortcuts from platform's
2294 python_version() and python_version_tuple() since they produced different
2295 output compared to previous Python versions.
2296
Benjamin Peterson692428e2009-03-23 21:50:21 +00002297- Issue #1034053: unittest now supports skipping tests and expected failures.
2298
Gregory P. Smith28399852009-03-31 16:54:10 +00002299- The unittest.TestCase.assertRaises() method now returns a context manager when
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002300 not given a callable so that code to be tested can be written inline using a
2301 with statement.
Gregory P. Smith28399852009-03-31 16:54:10 +00002302
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002303- Issue #2578: The unittest.TestCase.assertEqual() now displays the differences
2304 in lists, tuples, dicts and sets on failure. Many new handy type and
2305 comparison specific assert* methods have been added that fail with error
2306 messages actually useful for debugging. Contributed in part by Google.
Gregory P. Smith28399852009-03-31 16:54:10 +00002307
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002308- Issue #5068: Fixed the tarfile._BZ2Proxy.read() method that would loop forever
2309 on incomplete input. That caused tarfile.open() to hang when used with mode
2310 'r' or 'r:bz2' and a fileobj argument that contained no data or partial bzip2
2311 compressed data.
Lars Gustäbel2020a592009-03-22 20:09:33 +00002312
Benjamin Petersonb364bfe2009-03-22 17:45:11 +00002313- Issue #5536: urllib.urlretrieve makes sure to close the file it's writing to
2314 even if an exception occurs.
2315
Raymond Hettinger91852ca2009-03-19 19:19:03 +00002316- Issue #5381: Added object_pairs_hook to the json module. This allows
2317 OrderedDicts to be built by the decoder.
2318
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002319- Issue #2110: Add support for thousands separator and 'n' type specifier to
2320 ``Decimal.__format__()``.
Mark Dickinson277859d2009-03-17 23:03:46 +00002321
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002322- Fix Decimal.__format__ bug that swapped the meanings of the '<' and '>'
2323 alignment characters.
Mark Dickinsonb065e522009-03-17 18:01:03 +00002324
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002325- Issue #1222: ``locale.format()`` bug when the thousands separator is a space
Antoine Pitroufeeafff2009-03-14 00:07:21 +00002326 character.
2327
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002328- Issue #5472: Fixed distutils.test_util tear down. Original patch by Tim
2329 Golden.
Tarek Ziadé61585c22009-03-11 12:48:04 +00002330
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002331- collections.deque objects now have a read-only attribute called maxlen.
Raymond Hettinger56411aa2009-03-10 12:50:59 +00002332
Guilherme Polo15d57652009-03-07 02:14:38 +00002333- Issue #2638: Show a window constructed with tkSimpleDialog.Dialog only after
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002334 it is has been populated and properly configured in order to prevent window
2335 flashing.
Guilherme Polo15d57652009-03-07 02:14:38 +00002336
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002337- Issue #4792: Prevent a segfault in _tkinter by using the guaranteed to be safe
2338 interp argument given to the PythonCmd in place of the Tcl interpreter taken
2339 from a PythonCmd_ClientData.
Guilherme Polo3768b2f2009-03-07 01:47:49 +00002340
Guilherme Polo6d6c1fd2009-03-07 01:19:12 +00002341- Issue #5193: Guarantee that Tkinter.Text.search returns a string.
2342
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002343- Issue #5394: Removed > 2.3 syntax from distutils.msvc9compiler.
Tarek Ziadé943b24e2009-03-07 00:32:45 +00002344 Original patch by Akira Kitada.
2345
Hirokazu Yamamoto264fc122009-03-05 14:21:12 +00002346- Issue #5385: Fixed mmap crash after resize failure on windows.
2347
Hirokazu Yamamotoeacbbdf2009-03-03 22:18:14 +00002348- Issue #5179: Fixed subprocess handle leak on failure on windows.
2349
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002350- PEP 372: Added collections.OrderedDict().
Raymond Hettingerbc512d32009-03-03 04:45:34 +00002351
Raymond Hettinger88a91642009-03-03 04:51:24 +00002352- The _asdict() for method for namedtuples now returns an OrderedDict().
2353
Raymond Hettingere89b8e92009-03-03 05:00:37 +00002354- The configparser module now defaults to using an ordered dictionary.
2355
Benjamin Peterson7d49bba2009-03-02 22:41:42 +00002356- Issue #4308: httplib.IncompleteRead's repr doesn't include all of the data all
2357 ready received.
2358
Benjamin Petersonad58b7c2009-03-02 03:35:12 +00002359- Issue #5401: Fixed a performance problem in mimetypes when ``from mimetypes
2360 import guess_extension`` was used.
2361
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002362- Issue #1733986: Fixed mmap crash on Windows in accessing elements of second
2363 map object with same tagname but larger size than first map.
Hirokazu Yamamotob0e10c72009-02-28 12:13:07 +00002364
Hirokazu Yamamotof2dc8852009-02-28 10:31:54 +00002365- Issue #5386: mmap.write_byte didn't check map size, so it could cause buffer
2366 overrun.
2367
Tarek Ziadé73347352009-02-28 10:08:02 +00002368- Issue #1533164: Installed but not listed *.pyo was breaking Distutils
2369 bdist_rpm command.
2370
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002371- Issue #5378: Added --quiet option to Distutils bdist_rpm command.
Tarek Ziadé73347352009-02-28 10:08:02 +00002372
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002373- Issue #5052: Make Distutils compatible with 2.3 again.
Tarek Ziadédda92f72009-02-27 12:53:34 +00002374
Benjamin Petersonb3dd5482009-02-26 19:07:18 +00002375- Deprecated methods of symtable.Symbol have been removed: is_keywordarg(),
2376 is_vararg(), and is_in_tuple().
2377
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002378- Issue #5316: Fixed buildbot failures introduced by multiple inheritance in
2379 Distutils tests.
Tarek Ziadée3bc0ef2009-02-25 22:29:27 +00002380
Vinay Sajip1a0d2be2009-02-19 12:31:32 +00002381- Issue #5287: Add exception handling around findCaller() call to help out
2382 IronPython.
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +00002383
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002384- Issue #5282: Fixed mmap resize on 32bit Windows and Unix. When ``offset >
2385 0``, the file was resized to wrong size.
Hirokazu Yamamoto17a837e2009-02-17 13:17:26 +00002386
Hirokazu Yamamotof6bbd0e2009-02-17 10:12:10 +00002387- Issue #5292: Fixed mmap crash on its boundary access m[len(m)].
2388
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002389- Issue #2279: distutils.sdist.add_defaults now add files from the package_data
2390 and the data_files metadata.
Tarek Ziadé7dd53392009-02-16 21:38:01 +00002391
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002392- Issue #5257: Refactored all tests in distutils, so they use
Tarek Ziadé13699002009-02-14 14:10:23 +00002393 support.TempdirManager, to avoid writing in the tests directory.
2394
Tarek Ziadé2432b0b2009-02-13 23:00:43 +00002395- Issue #4524: distutils build_script command failed with --with-suffix=3.
2396 Initial patch by Amaury Forgeot d'Arc.
2397
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002398- Issue #2461: Added tests for distutils.util.
Tarek Ziadé275958a2009-02-13 22:22:03 +00002399
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002400- Issue #1008086: Fixed socket.inet_aton() to always return 4 bytes even on LP64
2401 platforms (most 64-bit Linux, bsd, unix systems).
Gregory P. Smith3605b5c2009-02-11 23:45:25 +00002402
Thomas Heller3689ae22009-02-10 18:43:01 +00002403- Issue #5203: Fixed ctypes segfaults when passing a unicode string to a
2404 function without argtypes (only occurs if HAVE_USABLE_WCHAR_T is false).
2405
Tarek Ziadé74fbf602009-02-10 12:31:09 +00002406- Issue #3386: distutils.sysconfig.get_python_lib prefix argument was ignored
2407 under NT and OS2. Patch by Philip Jenvey.
2408
Brett Cannon28d10882009-02-10 02:07:38 +00002409- Issue #5128: Make compileall properly inspect bytecode to determine if needs
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002410 to be recreated. This avoids a timing hole thanks to the old reliance on the
Brett Cannon28d10882009-02-10 02:07:38 +00002411 ctime of the files involved.
2412
Guilherme Poloa66cf5b2009-02-09 20:50:27 +00002413- Issue #5122: Synchronize tk load failure check to prevent a potential
2414 deadlock.
2415
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002416- Issue #1818: collections.namedtuple() now supports a keyword argument 'rename'
2417 which lets invalid fieldnames be automatically converted to positional names
2418 in the form, _1, _2, ...
Raymond Hettinger322daea2009-02-10 01:24:05 +00002419
Guilherme Polod2ea0332009-02-09 16:41:09 +00002420- Issue #4890: Handle empty text search pattern in Tkinter.Text.search.
2421
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002422- Issue #5170: Fixed Unicode output bug in logging and added test case. This is
2423 a regression which did not occur in 2.5.
Vinay Sajipb20af942009-02-08 19:06:08 +00002424
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002425- Issue #4512 (part 2): Promote ``ZipImporter._get_filename()`` to be a public
2426 documented method ``ZipImporter.get_filename()``.
Nick Coghlan0194f5b2009-02-08 03:17:00 +00002427
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002428- Issue #4195: The ``runpy`` module (and the ``-m`` switch) now support the
2429 execution of packages by looking for and executing a ``__main__`` submodule
2430 when a package name is supplied. Initial patch by Andi Vajda.
Nick Coghland39600e2009-02-08 01:26:34 +00002431
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002432- Issue #1731706: Call Tcl_ConditionFinalize for Tcl_Conditions that will not be
2433 used again (this requires Tcl/Tk 8.3.1), also fix a memory leak in Tkapp_Call
2434 when calling from a thread different than the one that created the Tcl
2435 interpreter. Patch by Robert Hancock.
Guilherme Polo14ff18d2009-02-06 22:26:22 +00002436
Vinay Sajipb20af942009-02-08 19:06:08 +00002437- Issue #1520877: Now distutils.sysconfig reads $AR from the
Tarek Ziadé05adf072009-02-06 01:15:51 +00002438 environment/Makefile. Patch by Douglas Greiman.
2439
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002440- Issue #4285: Change sys.version_info to be a named tuple. Patch by Ross
2441 Light.
Eric Smith81fe0932009-02-06 00:48:26 +00002442
Tarek Ziadéd5eb9852009-02-06 00:31:59 +00002443- Issue #1276768: The verbose option was not used in the code of
2444 distutils.file_util and distutils.dir_util.
2445
Vinay Sajipb20af942009-02-08 19:06:08 +00002446- Issue #5132: Fixed trouble building extensions under Solaris with
Tarek Ziadé0d4fd342009-02-05 22:52:52 +00002447 --enabled-shared activated. Initial patch by Dave Peterson.
2448
Guilherme Polod7bb4d42009-02-02 21:14:14 +00002449- Issue #1581476: Always use the Tcl global namespace when calling into Tcl.
2450
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002451- Issue #2047: shutil.move() could believe that its destination path was inside
2452 its source path if it began with the same letters (e.g. "src" vs. "src.new").
Antoine Pitrou707c5932009-01-29 20:19:34 +00002453
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002454- Issue #4920: Fixed .next() vs .__next__() issues in the ABCs for Iterator and
2455 MutableSet.
Raymond Hettingerf779e6f2009-01-28 23:02:26 +00002456
Guilherme Polocda93aa2009-01-28 13:09:03 +00002457- Added the ttk module. See issue #2983: Ttk support for Tkinter.
2458
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002459- Issue #5021: doctest.testfile() did not create __name__ and
Raymond Hettingerecf252a2009-01-27 10:03:04 +00002460 collections.namedtuple() relied on __name__ being defined.
2461
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002462- Backport importlib from Python 3.1. Only the import_module() function has been
2463 backported to help facilitate transitions from 2.7 to 3.1.
Brett Cannon93881c62009-01-26 01:16:50 +00002464
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002465- Issue #1885: distutils: When running sdist with --formats=tar,gztar the tar
2466 file was overriden by the gztar one.
Tarek Ziadéaaedcef2009-01-25 23:34:00 +00002467
Tarek Ziadéef249b12009-01-25 18:19:25 +00002468- Issue #4863: distutils.mwerkscompiler has been removed.
2469
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002470- Added new itertools functions: combinations_with_replacement() and compress().
Raymond Hettinger2bcb8e92009-01-25 21:04:14 +00002471
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002472- Issue #5032: Added a step argument to itertools.count() and allowed
2473 non-integer arguments.
Raymond Hettinger31c769c2009-02-12 05:39:46 +00002474
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002475- Fix and properly document the multiprocessing module's logging support, expose
2476 the internal levels and provide proper usage examples.
Jesse Nollerb5a4b0a2009-01-25 03:36:13 +00002477
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002478- Issue #1672332: Fix unpickling of subnormal floats, which was
Mark Dickinsona3ecd2c2009-01-24 16:40:29 +00002479 producing a ValueError on some platforms.
2480
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002481- Issue #3881: Help Tcl to load even when started through the unreadable local
2482 symlink to "Program Files" on Vista.
Martin v. Löwisf081e1c2009-01-24 15:47:27 +00002483
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002484- Issue #4710: Extract directories properly in the zipfile module; allow adding
2485 directories to a zipfile.
Martin v. Löwis0dfcfc82009-01-24 14:00:33 +00002486
Vinay Sajipb20af942009-02-08 19:06:08 +00002487- Issue #3807: _multiprocessing build fails when configure is passed
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002488 --without-threads argument. When this occurs, _multiprocessing will be
2489 disabled, and not compiled.
Jesse Nollerf6da8d12009-01-23 14:04:41 +00002490
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002491- Issue #5008: When a file is opened in append mode with the new IO library, do
2492 an explicit seek to the end of file (so that e.g. tell() returns the file size
2493 rather than 0). This is consistent with the behaviour of the traditional 2.x
2494 file object.
Antoine Pitroue741cc62009-01-21 00:45:36 +00002495
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +00002496- Issue #5013: Fixed a bug in FileHandler which occurred when the delay
2497 parameter was set.
2498
Raymond Hettinger933d3a72009-01-20 20:34:19 +00002499- Issue #4998: The memory saving effect of __slots__ had been lost on Fractions
2500 which inherited from numbers.py which did not have __slots__ defined. The
Mark Dickinson39c6f7f2009-02-12 17:55:42 +00002501 numbers hierarchy now has its own __slots__ declarations.
Raymond Hettinger933d3a72009-01-20 20:34:19 +00002502
Jesse Noller9a5b2ad2009-01-19 15:12:22 +00002503- Issue #3321: _multiprocessing.Connection() doesn't check handle; added checks
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002504 for *nix machines for negative handles and large int handles. Without this
2505 check it is possible to segfault the interpreter.
Jesse Noller9a5b2ad2009-01-19 15:12:22 +00002506
Jesse Noller6ab22152009-01-18 02:45:38 +00002507- Issue #4449: AssertionError in mp_benchmarks.py, caused by an underlying issue
2508 in sharedctypes.py.
2509
Benjamin Peterson5e5fbb62009-01-17 22:27:54 +00002510- Issue #1225107: inspect.isclass() returned True for instances with a custom
2511 __getattr__.
2512
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002513- Issue #3997: Zipfiles generated with more than 65536 files could not be opened
2514 with other applications.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd25f87a2009-01-17 16:40:17 +00002515
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002516- Issue #1162154: ``inspect.getmembers()`` now skips attributes that raise
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcb54447f2009-01-13 23:39:22 +00002517 AttributeError, e.g. a __slots__ attribute which has not been set.
2518
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002519- Issue #1696199: Add collections.Counter() for rapid and convenient counting.
Raymond Hettingerf94d7fa2009-01-12 22:58:41 +00002520
Antoine Pitroubd4b5f22009-01-10 16:15:24 +00002521- Issue #3860: GzipFile and BZ2File now support the context manager protocol.
2522
Antoine Pitrouf0d2c3f2009-01-04 21:29:23 +00002523- Issue #4272: Add an optional argument to the GzipFile constructor to override
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002524 the timestamp in the gzip stream. The default value remains the current time.
2525 The information can be used by e.g. gunzip when decompressing. Patch by
Antoine Pitrouf0d2c3f2009-01-04 21:29:23 +00002526 Jacques Frechet.
2527
Mark Dickinson514d4832009-01-04 21:25:40 +00002528- Restore Python 2.3 compatibility for decimal.py.
2529
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +00002530- Issue #1702551: distutils sdist was not excluding VCS directories under
Tarek Ziadé85d6fb52009-01-04 00:04:49 +00002531 Windows. Inital solution by Guy Dalberto.
2532
Guilherme Poloe7f14032009-01-03 21:51:09 +00002533- The _tkinter module functions "createfilehandler", "deletefilehandler",
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002534 "createtimerhandler", "mainloop", "dooneevent" and "quit" have been deprecated
2535 for removal in 3.x
Guilherme Poloe7f14032009-01-03 21:51:09 +00002536
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002537- Issue #4796: Added Decimal.from_float() and
2538 Context.create_decimal_from_float() to the decimal module.
Raymond Hettingerf4d85972009-01-03 19:02:23 +00002539
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002540- Issue #4812: Add missing underscore prefix to some internal-use-only constants
2541 in the decimal module. (Dec_0 becomes _Dec_0, etc.)
Mark Dickinsonc5de0962009-01-02 23:07:08 +00002542
Benjamin Peterson8ad09a42008-12-31 23:48:39 +00002543- Issue #4795: inspect.isgeneratorfunction() returns False instead of None when
2544 the function is not a generator.
2545
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002546- Issue #4702: Throwing a DistutilsPlatformError instead of IOError in case no
2547 MSVC compiler is found under Windows. Original patch by Philip Jenvey.
Tarek Ziadéb1a85412008-12-30 23:03:41 +00002548
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002549- Issue #4646: distutils was choking on empty options arg in the setup function.
2550 Original patch by Thomas Heller.
Tarek Ziadéc13acb12008-12-29 22:23:53 +00002551
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002552- Fractions.from_float() no longer loses precision for integers too big to cast
2553 as floats.
Georg Brandlfe427892009-01-03 22:03:11 +00002554
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002555- Issue #4790: The nsmallest() and nlargest() functions in the heapq module did
2556 unnecessary work in the common case where no key function was specified.
Georg Brandlfe427892009-01-03 22:03:11 +00002557
Martin v. Löwis732479f2008-12-29 16:22:25 +00002558- Issue #3767: Convert Tk object to string in tkColorChooser.
2559
Martin v. Löwise2eb2b42008-12-29 15:51:01 +00002560- Issue #3248: Allow placing ScrolledText in a PanedWindow.
2561
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002562- Issue #4444: Allow assertRaises() to be used as a context handler, so that the
2563 code under test can be written inline if more practical.
Antoine Pitrou697ca3d2008-12-28 14:09:36 +00002564
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002565- Issue #4739: Add pydoc help topics for symbols, so that e.g. help('@') works
2566 as expected in the interactive environment.
Georg Brandlc3a98032008-12-27 18:20:04 +00002567
Antoine Pitrou6f193e02008-12-27 15:43:12 +00002568- Issue #4756: zipfile.is_zipfile() now supports file-like objects. Patch by
2569 Gabriel Genellina.
2570
Tarek Ziadée4c75bb2008-12-24 19:10:05 +00002571- Issue #4400: .pypirc default generated file was broken in distutils.
2572
Benjamin Peterson54686e32008-12-24 15:10:27 +00002573- Issue #4736: io.BufferedRWPair's closed property now functions properly.
2574
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002575- Issue #3954: Fix a potential SystemError in _hotshot.logreader error handling.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc31949b92008-12-15 21:47:57 +00002576
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002577- Issue #4574: Fix a crash in io.IncrementalNewlineDecoder when a carriage
2578 return encodes to more than one byte in the source encoding (e.g. UTF-16) and
2579 gets split on a chunk boundary.
Antoine Pitrou655fbf12008-12-14 17:40:51 +00002580
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002581- Issue #4223: inspect.getsource() will now correctly display source code for
2582 packages loaded via zipimport (or any other conformant PEP 302
Nick Coghlana2053472008-12-14 10:54:50 +00002583 loader). Original patch by Alexander Belopolsky.
2584
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002585- Issue #4201: pdb can now access and display source code loaded via zipimport
2586 (or any other conformant PEP 302 loader). Original patch by Alexander
2587 Belopolsky.
Nick Coghlana2053472008-12-14 10:54:50 +00002588
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002589- Issue #4197: Doctests in modules loaded via zipimport (or any other PEP 302
2590 conformant loader) will now work correctly in most cases (they are still
2591 subject to the constraints that exist for all code running from inside a
2592 module loaded via a PEP 302 loader and attempting to perform IO operations
2593 based on __file__). Original patch by Alexander Belopolsky.
Nick Coghlana2053472008-12-14 10:54:50 +00002594
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002595- Issues #4082 and #4512: Add runpy support to zipimport in a manner that allows
2596 backporting to maintenance branches. Original patch by Alexander Belopolsky.
Nick Coghlana2053472008-12-14 10:54:50 +00002597
Antoine Pitrou74af3bb2008-12-13 23:12:30 +00002598- Issue #4163: Use unicode-friendly word splitting in the textwrap functions
2599 when given an unicode string.
2600
Lars Gustäbel3b027422008-12-12 13:58:03 +00002601- Issue #4616: TarFile.utime(): Restore directory times on Windows.
2602
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002603- Issue #4084: Fix max, min, max_mag and min_mag Decimal methods to give correct
2604 results in the case where one argument is a quiet NaN and the other is a
2605 finite number that requires rounding.
Facundo Batistae29d4352008-12-11 04:19:46 +00002606
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002607- Issue #1030250: Distutils created directories even when run with the --dry-run
2608 option.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc240028c2008-12-11 00:03:42 +00002609
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002610- Issue #4483: _dbm module now builds on systems with gdbm & gdbm_compat libs.
Skip Montanaro45313fe2008-12-06 17:43:30 +00002611
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002612- Issue #4529: Fix the parser module's validation of try-except-finally
Georg Brandlfe879e82008-12-05 12:09:41 +00002613 statements.
2614
Georg Brandla07435d2008-12-05 09:23:14 +00002615- Issue #4458: getopt.gnu_getopt() now recognizes a single "-" as an argument,
2616 not a malformed option.
2617
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002618- Added the subprocess.check_output() convenience function to get output from a
2619 subprocess on success or raise an exception on error.
Gregory P. Smith97f49f42008-12-04 20:21:09 +00002620
Fred Drake52481032008-12-04 18:25:17 +00002621- Issue #1055234: cgi.parse_header(): Fixed parsing of header parameters to
2622 support unusual filenames (such as those containing semi-colons) in
2623 Content-Disposition headers.
2624
Vinay Sajip6831d6b2008-12-04 20:32:18 +00002625- Issue #4384: Added logging integration with warnings module using
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002626 captureWarnings(). This change includes a NullHandler which does nothing; it
2627 will be of use to library developers who want to avoid the "No handlers could
2628 be found for logger XXX" message which can appear if the library user doesn't
2629 configure logging.
Vinay Sajip213faca2008-12-03 23:22:58 +00002630
Christian Heimesaa674712008-11-28 11:02:32 +00002631- Issue #3741: DISTUTILS_USE_SDK set causes msvc9compiler.py to raise an
2632 exception.
2633
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002634- Issue #4363: The uuid.uuid1() and uuid.uuid4() functions now work even if the
2635 ctypes module is not present.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd4294172008-11-21 22:05:48 +00002636
Benjamin Petersonbfc51562008-11-22 01:59:15 +00002637- FileIO's mode attribute now always includes ``"b"``.
2638
Martin v. Löwisbb9b1f12008-11-19 09:09:41 +00002639- Issue #4116: Resolve member name conflict in ScrolledCanvas.__init__.
2640
Brett Cannone3d0bf72008-11-15 22:40:44 +00002641- httplib.HTTPConnection.putheader() now accepts an arbitrary number of values
2642 for any header, matching what the documentation has claimed for a while.
2643
Hirokazu Yamamotob9828f62008-11-03 18:03:06 +00002644- Issue #3774: Fixed an error when create a Tkinter menu item without command
2645 and then remove it.
2646
Thomas Heller1fac5a42008-10-30 20:18:13 +00002647- Fixed a modulefinder crash on certain relative imports.
2648
Benjamin Petersonc18574c2008-10-22 21:16:34 +00002649- Issue #4150: Pdb's "up" command now works for generator frames in post-mortem
2650 debugging.
2651
Benjamin Petersone4dc1752008-10-21 22:20:31 +00002652- Issue #4092: Return ArgInfo as promised in the documentation from
2653 inspect.getargvalues.
2654
Georg Brandlf3776a12008-10-08 18:47:17 +00002655- Issue #3935: Properly support list subclasses in bisect's C implementation.
2656
Martin v. Löwis96a9f232008-10-06 15:15:40 +00002657- Issue #4014: Don't claim that Python has an Alpha release status, in addition
2658 to claiming it is Mature.
2659
Alexandre Vassalotti6067f782008-12-27 07:13:01 +00002660- Issue #4730: Fixed the cPickle module to handle correctly astral characters
2661 when protocol 0 is used.
2662
Ronald Oussoren0238497e2009-01-02 14:10:20 +00002663- Issue #1594: MacOS.GetCreatorAndType now always returns a big-endian result,
2664 to be consistent with Apple tools.
2665
Ronald Oussoren63b74fe2009-01-02 14:46:19 +00002666- Issue #900949: plat-mac/videoreader.py no longer relies on a non-existing
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +00002667 module.
Ronald Oussoren63b74fe2009-01-02 14:46:19 +00002668
Ronald Oussoren7f8cbf02009-01-02 14:48:17 +00002669- Issue #16278952: plat-mac/videoreader.py now correctly imports MediaDescr
2670
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002671- Issue #1737832: plat-mac/EasyDialog.py no longer uses the broken aepack
Ronald Oussoren919697c2009-01-02 14:52:09 +00002672 module.
2673
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002674- Issue #1149804: macostools.mkdirs now even works when another process creates
2675 one of the needed subdirectories.
Ronald Oussorenabcc1682009-01-02 15:00:05 +00002676
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002677- Issue #900506: added --no-zipimport flag to the bundlebuilder script.
Ronald Oussoren072bb402009-01-02 15:25:36 +00002678
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002679- Issue #841800: bundlebuilder now works with 'python -O'.
Ronald Oussoren072bb402009-01-02 15:25:36 +00002680
Matthias Klose43723e22009-01-10 17:00:42 +00002681- Issue #4861: ctypes.util.find_library(): Robustify. Fix library detection on
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002682 biarch systems. Try to rely on ldconfig only, without using objdump and gcc.
Matthias Klose43723e22009-01-10 17:00:42 +00002683
Gregory P. Smithde1a8b72009-01-31 22:57:30 +00002684- Issue #5104: The socket module now raises OverflowError when 16-bit port and
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002685 protocol numbers are supplied outside the allowed 0-65536 range on bind() and
2686 getservbyport().
Gregory P. Smithde1a8b72009-01-31 22:57:30 +00002687
Neil Schemenauer92c3b212009-02-07 00:54:41 +00002688- Issue #999042: The Python compiler now handles explict global statements
2689 correctly (should be assigned using STORE_GLOBAL opcode).
2690
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002691- Issue #2703: SimpleXMLRPCDispatcher.__init__: Provide default values for new
2692 arguments introduced in 2.5.
Matthias Klosea5d58c82009-04-05 21:00:48 +00002693
Walter Dörwald5d98ec72009-04-25 14:03:16 +00002694- Issue #5828 (Invalid behavior of unicode.lower): Fixed bogus logic in
2695 makeunicodedata.py and regenerated the Unicode database (This fixes
2696 u'\u1d79'.lower() == '\x00').
2697
Jeroen Ruigrok van der Wervenb87b3342009-05-08 14:11:23 +00002698- Windows locale mapping updated to Vista.
2699
Antoine Pitroue555f582008-12-27 20:34:52 +00002700Tools/Demos
2701-----------
2702
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002703- Ttk demos added in Demo/tkinter/ttk/.
Guilherme Polo4eae0782009-01-28 15:56:01 +00002704
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002705- Issue #4677: Add two list comprehension tests to pybench.
Antoine Pitroue555f582008-12-27 20:34:52 +00002706
Brett Cannon60b15d22008-10-06 22:44:37 +00002707Build
2708-----
2709
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002710- Issue #6603: Change READ_TIMESTAMP macro in ceval.c so that it compiles
2711 correctly under gcc on x86-64. This fixes a reported problem with the
2712 --with-tsc build on x86-64.
Mark Dickinson504a1512009-10-31 10:11:28 +00002713
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002714- Add 2 new options to ``--with-universal-archs`` on MacOSX: ``intel`` builds a
2715 distribution with ``i386`` and ``x86_64`` architectures, while ``3-way``
2716 builds a distribution with the ``ppc``, ``i386`` and ``x86_64`` architectures.
Vinay Sajip03d5c342009-10-16 14:06:44 +00002717
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002718- Issue #6802: Fix build issues on MacOSX 10.6.
Ronald Oussoren25967582009-09-06 10:00:26 +00002719
Guilherme Polo1ce2d532009-08-16 14:38:57 +00002720- Issue #6244: Allow detect_tkinter to look for Tcl/Tk 8.6.
2721
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002722- Issue 5390: Add uninstall icon independent of whether file extensions are
2723 installed.
Martin v. Löwisecb4f952009-06-28 09:32:39 +00002724
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002725- Issue 5809: Specifying both --enable-framework and --enable-shared is an
2726 error. Configure now explicity tells you about this.
Ronald Oussoren450d5612009-06-08 21:12:41 +00002727
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002728- Issue #3585: Add pkg-config support. It creates a python-2.7.pc file and a
2729 python.pc symlink in the $(LIBDIR)/pkgconfig directory. Patch by Clinton Roy.
Antoine Pitrouf2caeed2009-05-24 20:23:57 +00002730
Benjamin Petersone5afa3b2009-05-23 19:24:37 +00002731- Issue #6094: Build correctly with Subversion 1.7.
2732
Martin v. Löwis588b54b2009-05-05 16:10:16 +00002733- Issue #5847: Remove -n switch on "Edit with IDLE" menu item.
2734
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002735- Issue #5726: Make Modules/ld_so_aix return the actual exit code of the linker,
2736 rather than always exit successfully. Patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
Antoine Pitrou3fd4ea92009-05-01 21:16:14 +00002737
Matthias Klose10cbe482009-04-29 17:18:19 +00002738- Issue #4587: Add configure option --with-dbmliborder=db1:db2:... to specify
Vinay Sajipf9b01fe2009-05-09 12:07:17 +00002739 the order that backends for the dbm extension are checked.
Matthias Klose10cbe482009-04-29 17:18:19 +00002740
Matthias Klose8ad554f2009-02-22 23:14:26 +00002741- Link the shared python library with $(MODLIBS).
2742
Martin v. Löwisa3e3cb72009-02-10 13:09:19 +00002743- Issue #5134: Silence compiler warnings when compiling sqlite with VC++.
2744
Martin v. Löwisfee1c7f2009-02-02 14:23:16 +00002745- Issue #4494: Fix build with Py_NO_ENABLE_SHARED on Windows.
2746
Martin v. Löwiseefda272009-01-11 09:43:55 +00002747- Issue #4895: Use _strdup on Windows CE.
2748
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002749- Issue #4472: ``configure --enable-shared`` now works on OSX.
Ronald Oussorenf7d54052009-01-02 10:48:31 +00002750
Benjamin Petersonfd9633e2008-12-28 15:37:31 +00002751- Issues #4728 and #4060: WORDS_BIGEDIAN is now correct in Universal builds.
2752
Martin v. Löwiscb6c3592008-11-30 11:08:26 +00002753- Issue #4389: Add icon to the uninstall entry in "add-and-remove-programs".
2754
Martin v. Löwis63470982008-11-19 13:51:44 +00002755- Issue #4289: Remove Cancel button from AdvancedDlg.
2756
Martin v. Löwis3d6f8ff2008-11-07 18:51:50 +00002757- Issue #1656675: Register a drop handler for .py* files on Windows.
2758
Martin v. Löwis692c2f82008-11-06 16:43:00 +00002759- Issue #4120: Exclude manifest from extension modules in VS2008.
2760
Martin v. Löwis0f3e7692008-10-17 13:43:01 +00002761- Issue #4091: Install pythonxy.dll in system32 again.
2762
Martin v. Löwiseba774b2008-10-13 11:23:35 +00002763- Issue #4018: Disable "for me" installations on Vista.
2764
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002765- Issue #3758: Add ``patchcheck`` build target to ``.PHONY``.
Brett Cannon60b15d22008-10-06 22:44:37 +00002766
Martin v. Löwisbb86d832008-11-04 20:40:09 +00002767- Issue #4204: Fixed module build errors on FreeBSD 4.
2768
Tarek Ziadéc4a4aeb2009-08-21 14:28:38 +00002769Documentation
2770-------------
2771
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002772- Issue #6556: Fixed the Distutils configuration files location explanation for
2773 Windows.
Tarek Ziadéc4a4aeb2009-08-21 14:28:38 +00002774
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002775- Issue #6801: symmetric_difference_update also accepts ``|``. Thanks to Carl
2776 Chenet.
Tarek Ziadé3092ed92009-08-29 13:33:21 +00002777
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc07d539d2008-10-14 21:47:22 +00002778C-API
2779-----
2780
Mark Dickinsone31d3002009-12-21 11:21:25 +00002781- Issue #7528: Add PyLong_AsLongAndOverflow (backported from py3k).
2782
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002783- Issue #7228: Add '%lld' and '%llu' support to PyString_FromFormat(V) and
2784 PyErr_Format, on machines with HAVE_LONG_LONG defined.
Mark Dickinson82864d12009-11-15 16:18:58 +00002785
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002786- Add new C-API function PyOS_string_to_double, and deprecated PyOS_ascii_atof
2787 and PyOS_ascii_strtod.
Mark Dickinson09823a22009-10-31 09:42:39 +00002788
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002789- Removed _PyOS_double_to_string. Use PyOS_double_to_string instead. This is in
2790 preparation for (but not strictly related to) issue #7117, short float repr.
Mark Dickinsonba26b392009-10-31 09:28:12 +00002791
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002792- Issue #6624: PyArg_ParseTuple with "s" format when parsing argument with NULL:
2793 Bogus TypeError detail string.
Sean Reifscheider9279e7d2009-08-01 23:54:55 +00002794
Jeffrey Yasskinf7f858d2009-05-08 22:23:21 +00002795- Issue #5954: Add a PyFrame_GetLineNumber() function to replace most uses of
2796 PyCode_Addr2Line().
2797
Jeffrey Yasskin1aa47002009-05-08 21:51:06 +00002798- Issue #5959: Add a PyCode_NewEmpty() function to create a new empty code
2799 object at a specified file, function, and line number.
2800
Brett Cannonc4f90eb2009-04-02 03:17:39 +00002801- Issue #1419652: Change the first argument to PyImport_AppendInittab() to
2802 ``const char *`` as the string is stored beyond the call.
2803
Benjamin Peterson5781f322009-02-16 21:09:09 +00002804- Some PyBytes_* aliases have been removed because they don't exist in 3.x.
2805
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002806- Issue #5175: PyLong_AsUnsignedLongLong now raises OverflowError for negative
2807 arguments. Previously, it raised TypeError.
Mark Dickinson4015f622009-02-10 15:46:50 +00002808
Benjamin Petersoncf2ce242008-12-22 20:52:53 +00002809- Issue #4720: The format for PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords can begin with '|'.
2810
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002811- Issue #3632: From the gdb debugger, the 'pyo' macro can now be called when the
2812 GIL is released, or owned by another thread.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc3538a312008-12-15 22:29:14 +00002813
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc07d539d2008-10-14 21:47:22 +00002814- Issue #4122: On Windows, fix a compilation error when using the
2815 Py_UNICODE_ISSPACE macro in an extension module.
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +00002816
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002817- Issue #4293: Py_AddPendingCall() is now thread safe and can be used for
Kristján Valur Jónssonc22ab182009-01-12 09:24:04 +00002818 asynchronous notifications to python from any thread. Documentation added.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc07d539d2008-10-14 21:47:22 +00002819
Benjamin Peterson9dfe6a82008-11-24 04:09:03 +00002820Extension Modules
2821-----------------
2822
Martin v. Löwis50ea4562009-11-27 13:56:01 +00002823- Issue #6508: Add posix.{getresuid,getresgid,setresuid,setresgid}.
2824
Mark Dickinson3d830822009-10-08 15:54:10 +00002825- Issue #7078: Set struct.__doc__ from _struct.__doc__.
2826
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002827- Issue #3366: Add erf, erfc, expm1, gamma, lgamma functions to math module.
Mark Dickinsonb93fff02009-09-28 18:54:55 +00002828
Brett Cannon4d947432009-09-22 00:29:48 +00002829- Issue #6823: Allow time.strftime() to accept a tuple with a isdst field
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002830 outside of the range of [-1, 1] by normalizing the value to within that range.
Brett Cannon4d947432009-09-22 00:29:48 +00002831
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002832- Issue #6877: Make it possible to link the readline extension to libedit on
2833 OSX.
Ronald Oussoren9f20d9d2009-09-20 14:18:15 +00002834
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002835- Issue #6944: Fix a SystemError when socket.getnameinfo() was called with
2836 something other than a tuple as first argument.
Georg Brandlab849892009-09-19 07:35:07 +00002837
Benjamin Peterson7f6d0832009-09-08 23:04:22 +00002838- Issue #6865: Fix reference counting issue in the initialization of the pwd
2839 module.
2840
Mark Dickinson6b3f1ef2009-09-06 21:21:05 +00002841- Issue #6848: Fix curses module build failure on OS X 10.6.
2842
Brett Cannon764465f2009-08-13 19:27:12 +00002843- Fix a segfault in expat when given a specially crafted input lead to the
Matthias Klose3b0f9b02010-01-22 00:34:48 +00002844 tokenizer not stopping. CVE-2009-3720.
Brett Cannon764465f2009-08-13 19:27:12 +00002845
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002846- Issue #6561: '\d' in a regex now matches only characters with Unicode category
2847 'Nd' (Number, Decimal Digit). Previously it also matched characters with
2848 category 'No'.
Mark Dickinsonfe67bd92009-07-28 20:35:03 +00002849
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002850- Issue #1523: Remove deprecated overflow wrapping for struct.pack with an
2851 integer format code ('bBhHiIlLqQ'). Packing an out-of-range integer now
2852 consistently raises struct.error.
Mark Dickinson5fd3af22009-07-07 15:08:28 +00002853
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002854- Issues #1530559, #1741130: Fix various struct.pack inconsistencies for the
2855 integer formats ('bBhHiIlLqQ'). In the following, '*' represents any of '=',
2856 '<', '>'.
Mark Dickinson463dc4b2009-07-05 10:01:24 +00002857
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002858 - Packing a float now always gives a Deprecation Warning. Previously it
2859 only warned for 'I', 'L', '*B', '*H', '*I', '*L'.
Mark Dickinson463dc4b2009-07-05 10:01:24 +00002860
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002861 - If x is not an int, long or float, then packing x will always result in
2862 struct.error. Previously an x with an __int__ method could be packed by
2863 'b', 'B', 'h', 'H', 'i', 'l', '*b', '*h' ,'*i', '*l', and an x with a
2864 __long__ method could be packed by 'q', 'Q', '*q', '*Q'; for x with
2865 neither __int__ nor __long__, TypeError used to be raised (with a
2866 confusing error message) for 'I', 'L', '*B', '*H', '*I', '*L', and
2867 struct.error in other cases.
Mark Dickinson463dc4b2009-07-05 10:01:24 +00002868
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002869 Note: as of Python 2.7 beta 1, the above is out of date. In 2.7 beta 1, any
2870 argument with an __int__ method can be packed, but use of this feature
2871 triggers a DeprecationWarning.
Mark Dickinson154b7ad2010-03-07 16:24:45 +00002872
Martin v. Löwis4f16d3b2009-05-29 15:58:08 +00002873- Issue #4873: Fix resource leaks in error cases of pwd and grp.
2874
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002875- Issue #4751: For hashlib algorithms provided by OpenSSL, the Python GIL is now
2876 released during computation on data lengths >= 2048 bytes.
Gregory P. Smithd02eeda2009-05-04 00:16:49 +00002877
Gregory P. Smithea388262009-02-13 03:00:00 +00002878- Issue #3745: Fix hashlib to always reject unicode and non buffer-api
2879 supporting objects as input no matter how it was compiled (built in
Gregory P. Smithfe32d302010-01-02 22:42:50 +00002880 implementations or external openssl library). NOTE: Undone in 2.7a2.
Gregory P. Smithea388262009-02-13 03:00:00 +00002881
Mark Dickinsona200dd52009-01-15 15:17:43 +00002882- Issue #4397: Fix occasional test_socket failure on OS X.
Mark Dickinsone82cdae2009-01-15 14:54:37 +00002883
Martin v. Löwisb3b7d852009-01-11 09:26:54 +00002884- Issue #4279: Fix build of parsermodule under Cygwin.
2885
Martin v. Löwis9ac49272009-01-02 20:40:14 +00002886- Issue #4051: Prevent conflict of UNICODE macros in cPickle.
2887
Georg Brandl6269fec2009-01-01 12:15:31 +00002888- Issue #4228: Pack negative values the same way as 2.4 in struct's L format.
2889
Martin v. Löwis03824e42008-12-29 18:17:34 +00002890- Issue #1040026: Fix os.times result on systems where HZ is incorrect.
2891
Mark Dickinson4c96fa52008-12-11 19:28:08 +00002892- Issues #3167, #3682: Fix test_math failures for log, log10 on Solaris,
2893 OpenBSD.
2894
Martin v. Löwisbcb017f2008-11-30 19:28:27 +00002895- Issue #4365: Add crtassem.h constants to the msvcrt module.
2896
Benjamin Peterson9dfe6a82008-11-24 04:09:03 +00002897- Issue #4396: The parser module now correctly validates the with statement.
2898
Jack Diederichd60c29e2009-03-31 23:46:48 +00002899- Issue #5228: Make functools.partial objects can now be pickled.
2900
Guilherme Polob1a98de2009-01-28 20:03:26 +00002901Tests
2902-----
2903
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002904- Issue #7431: Use TESTFN in test_linecache instead of trying to create a file
2905 in the Lib/test directory, which might be read-only for the user running the
2906 tests.
R. David Murray820b0ea2009-12-03 23:57:59 +00002907
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002908- Issue #7324: Add a sanity check to regrtest argument parsing to catch the case
2909 of an option with no handler.
R. David Murrayda826892009-11-15 00:04:32 +00002910
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002911- Issue #7312: Add a -F flag to run the selected tests in a loop until a test
2912 fails. Can be combined with -j.
R. David Murray7f7eea62009-11-14 15:18:22 +00002913
Antoine Pitrou310c9fe2009-11-11 20:55:07 +00002914- Issue #7295: Do not use a hardcoded file name in test_tarfile.
2915
Antoine Pitrouc98efe02009-11-06 22:34:35 +00002916- Issue #7270: Add some dedicated unit tests for multi-thread synchronization
2917 primitives such as Lock, RLock, Condition, Event and Semaphore.
2918
Antoine Pitrou59c44f32009-10-30 17:07:08 +00002919- Issue #7222: Make thread "reaping" more reliable so that reference
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002920 leak-chasing test runs give sensible results. The previous method of reaping
2921 threads could return successfully while some Thread objects were still
2922 referenced. This also introduces a new private function: ``thread._count()``.
Antoine Pitrou59c44f32009-10-30 17:07:08 +00002923
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002924- Issue #7151: Fixed regrtest -j so that output to stderr from a test no longer
2925 runs the risk of causing the worker thread to fail.
R. David Murray282396f2009-10-18 21:12:37 +00002926
Antoine Pitrou58d2f262009-10-10 20:52:11 +00002927- Issue #7055: test___all__ now greedily detects all modules which have an
2928 __all__ attribute, rather than using a hardcoded and incomplete list.
2929
R. David Murray14dcd432009-10-14 13:58:07 +00002930- Issue #7058: Added save/restore for things like sys.argv and cwd to
2931 runtest_inner in regrtest, with warnings if the called test modifies them,
2932 and a new section in the summary report at the end.
R. David Murrayabe3d3e2009-10-05 17:03:09 +00002933
Mark Dickinson245d9152009-10-04 18:38:39 +00002934- Issue #7042: Fix test_signal (test_itimer_virtual) failure on OS X 10.6.
2935
Brett Cannone7e941e2009-09-03 21:25:21 +00002936- Issue #6806: test_platform failed under OS X 10.6.0 because ``sw_ver`` leaves
2937 off the trailing 0 in the version number.
2938
Guilherme Polo7f146ab2009-06-21 17:22:50 +00002939- Issue #5450: Moved tests involving loading tk from Lib/test/test_tcl to
2940 Lib/lib-tk/test/test_tkinter/test_loadtk. With this, these tests demonstrate
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002941 the same behaviour as test_ttkguionly (and now also test_tk) which is to skip
2942 the tests if DISPLAY is defined but can't be used.
Guilherme Polo7f146ab2009-06-21 17:22:50 +00002943
Antoine Pitrou4698d992009-05-31 14:20:14 +00002944- Issue #6152: New option '-j'/'--multiprocess' for regrtest allows running
2945 regression tests in parallel, shortening the total runtime.
2946
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002947- Issue #5354: New test support function import_fresh_module() makes it easy to
2948 import both normal and optimised versions of modules. test_heapq and
2949 test_warnings have been adjusted to use it, tests for other modules with both
2950 C and Python implementations in the stdlib can be adjusted to use it over
2951 time.
Nick Coghlan5533ff62009-04-22 15:26:04 +00002952
Brett Cannonce3d2212009-04-01 20:25:48 +00002953- Fix test_warnings to no longer reset the warnings filter.
2954
Brett Cannon2da4d622009-04-01 19:57:10 +00002955- Fix test_logging to no longer reset the warnings filter.
2956
Georg Brandld8fb6ac2009-04-01 00:04:33 +00002957- Issue #5635: Fix running test_sys with tracing enabled.
2958
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002959- regrtest no longer treats ImportError as equivalent to SkipTest. Imports that
2960 should cause a test to be skipped are now done using import_module from test
2961 support, which does the conversion.
R. David Murray41448c52009-03-31 19:57:24 +00002962
Guilherme Polob1a98de2009-01-28 20:03:26 +00002963- Issue #5083: New 'gui' resource for regrtest.
2964
Walter Dörwalda1453172009-04-25 12:15:07 +00002965- Issue #5837: Certain sequences of calls to set() and unset() for
2966 support.EnvironmentVarGuard objects restored the environment variables
2967 incorrectly on __exit__.
2968
Alexandre Vassalotti999ecc02009-07-15 18:19:47 +00002969- Issue #2389: Array objects are now pickled in a portable manner.
2970
Brett Cannon813c43a2009-11-08 21:35:28 +00002971Misc
2972----
2973
2974- Issue #5611: Auto-detect whether a C file uses tabs or spaces in Vim.
2975
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +00002976
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +00002977What's New in Python 2.6 final
2978==============================
2979
Barry Warsawafa14362008-10-01 21:46:40 +00002980*Release date: 01-Oct-2008*
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +00002981
2982Core and Builtins
2983-----------------
2984
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfc5ea392008-09-26 22:34:08 +00002985- Issue #3967: Fixed a crash in the count() and find() methods of string-like
2986 objects, when the "start" parameter is a huge value.
2987
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc17617a02008-09-25 20:52:56 +00002988- Issue #3965: Fixed a crash on Windows when open() is given an invalid
2989 filename or mode, and the filename is a unicode string.
2990
Martin v. Löwise86b07c2008-09-25 04:12:50 +00002991- Bug #3951: Py_USING_MEMORY_DEBUGGER should not be enabled by default.
2992
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +00002993Library
2994-------
2995
Martin v. Löwise563aa42008-09-29 22:09:07 +00002996- Issue #3965: Allow repeated calls to turtle.Screen, by making it a
2997 true singleton object.
2998
Brett Cannonb2d61bd2008-09-29 03:41:21 +00002999- Issue #3895: It was possible to crash the interpreter when an external timer
3000 was used with cProfile that returned an object that could not be converted
3001 into a float.
3002
Benjamin Peterson22d3c922008-09-25 20:35:45 +00003003- Issue #3950: Made turtle respect scale factors.
3004
Thomas Hellera85c95d2008-09-24 18:26:05 +00003005- Issue #3547: Fixed ctypes structures bitfields of varying integer
3006 sizes.
3007
Benjamin Peterson2c7470d2008-09-21 21:27:51 +00003008- Issue #3879: A regression in urllib.getproxies_enviroment was fixed.
3009
Gregory P. Smith08067492008-09-30 20:41:13 +00003010- Issue #3863: Disabled a unit test of fork being called from a thread
3011 when running on platforms known to exhibit OS bugs when attempting that.
3012
Martin v. Löwis175d0072008-09-19 15:21:07 +00003013Build
3014-----
3015
Martin v. Löwisd69c9042008-10-01 11:19:50 +00003016- Bug #3989: Package the 2to3 script (as 2to3.py) in the Windows
3017 installer.
3018
Martin v. Löwis175d0072008-09-19 15:21:07 +00003019- Bug #3887: Package x64 version of CRT for AMD64 Windows binaries.
3020
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +00003021
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +00003022What's New in Python 2.6 release candidate 2?
3023=============================================
3024
Barry Warsaw6af16192008-09-18 04:33:43 +00003025*Release date: 17-Sep-2008*
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +00003026
3027Core and Builtins
3028-----------------
3029
Benjamin Peterson8c2b7dc2008-09-18 01:22:16 +00003030Extension Modules
3031-----------------
3032
Benjamin Peterson8d77d442008-09-30 01:31:49 +00003033- Security Issue #2: imageop did not validate arguments correctly and could
3034 segfault as a result.
3035
Benjamin Peterson8c2b7dc2008-09-18 01:22:16 +00003036- Issue #3886: Possible integer overflows in the _hashopenssl module were
3037 closed.
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +00003038
Antoine Pitrou3c9f5412008-09-13 20:30:30 +00003039Tools/Demos
3040-----------
3041
Georg Brandl2bd92a52009-10-11 21:10:07 +00003042- Issue #3850: recursion tests in Tools/scripts/find_recursion_limit.py can raise
Antoine Pitrou3c9f5412008-09-13 20:30:30 +00003043 AttributeError instead of RuntimeError, depending in which C API call
3044 exactly the recursion limit is exceeded. Consequently, both exception types
3045 are caught and silenced.
3046
Martin v. Löwis4eb18f92008-09-14 20:22:39 +00003047Build
3048-----
3049
3050- Issue #3617: Include a licensing statement regarding the Microsoft
3051 C runtime in the Windows installer.
3052
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +00003053
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +00003054What's New in Python 2.6 release candidate 1?
3055=============================================
3056
Barry Warsaw1e62aec2008-09-12 23:25:57 +00003057*Release date: 12-Sep-2008*
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +00003058
3059Core and Builtins
3060-----------------
3061
Martin v. Löwis9fa5a282008-09-11 06:53:30 +00003062- Issue #3642: Suppress warning in obmalloc when size_t is larger than uint.
3063
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc05e34492008-09-10 22:04:45 +00003064- Issue #3743: In a few places, PY_FORMAT_SIZE_T was incorrectly used with
3065 PyString_FromFormat or PyErr_Format to display size_t values. The macro
3066 PY_FORMAT_SIZE_T is designed to select the correct format for the OS
3067 ``printf`` function, whereas PyString_FromFormat has an independent
3068 implementation and uses "%zd" on all platforms for size_t values.
3069 This makes a difference on win64, where ``printf`` needs "%Id" to display
3070 64bit values.
3071
Benjamin Peterson97179b02008-09-09 20:55:01 +00003072- Issue #3634: _weakref.ref(Exception).__init__() gave invalid return value on
3073 error.
3074
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd3ffb892008-09-09 07:24:30 +00003075- Issue #3777: long() applied to a float object now always return a long
3076 object; previously an int would be returned for small values. the __long__
3077 method is allowed to return either an int or a long, but the behaviour of
3078 float objects should not change to respect backward compatibility.
3079
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc3571fbf2008-09-01 19:52:00 +00003080- Issue #3751: str.rpartition would perform a left-partition when called with
3081 a unicode argument.
3082
Benjamin Peterson17f03ca2008-09-01 14:18:30 +00003083- Issue #3683: Fix compilation when --without-threads is given.
3084
Antoine Pitroud4ae97b2008-08-29 18:39:48 +00003085- Issue #3668: Fix a memory leak with the "s*" argument parser in
Vinay Sajip35e3b032008-09-01 14:33:59 +00003086 PyArg_ParseTuple and friends, which occurred when the argument for "s*"
Antoine Pitroud4ae97b2008-08-29 18:39:48 +00003087 was correctly parsed but parsing of subsequent arguments failed.
3088
Vinay Sajip35e3b032008-09-01 14:33:59 +00003089- Issue #2534: speed up isinstance() and issubclass() by 50-70%, so as to
Antoine Pitrou0668c622008-08-26 22:42:08 +00003090 match Python 2.5 speed despite the __instancecheck__ / __subclasscheck__
3091 mechanism. In the process, fix a bug where isinstance() and issubclass(),
3092 when given a tuple of classes as second argument, were looking up
3093 __instancecheck__ / __subclasscheck__ on the tuple rather than on each
3094 type object.
3095
Neal Norwitz18aa3882008-08-24 05:04:52 +00003096- Fix crashes on memory allocation failure found with failmalloc.
3097
3098- Fix memory leaks found with valgrind and update suppressions file.
3099
3100- Fix compiler warnings in opt mode which would lead to invalid memory reads.
3101
3102- Fix problem using wrong name in decimal module reported by pychecker.
3103
Christian Heimes7d4c3172008-08-22 19:47:25 +00003104- Silenced another compiler warning about a used but not defined
3105 function 'stringlib_contains_obj'.
3106
Benjamin Peterson712ee922008-08-24 18:10:20 +00003107- Added warnings on the use of ``__getslice__``, ``__setslice__``, or
3108 ``__delslice__``.
3109
Gregory P. Smith2bb25cc2008-09-02 05:29:51 +00003110- Issue #3678: Correctly pass LDFLAGS and LDLAST to the linker on shared
3111 library targets in the Makefile.
3112
Gregory P. Smith980b99b2008-09-07 05:15:18 +00003113- Issue #1204: The configure script now tests for additional libraries
3114 that may be required when linking against readline. This fixes issues
3115 with x86_64 builds on some platforms (a few Linux flavors and OpenBSD).
3116
Benjamin Peterson14cb6bc2008-08-26 17:08:40 +00003117C-API
3118-----
3119
3120- Aliased PyObject_Bytes to PyObject_Str.
3121
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +00003122Library
3123-------
3124
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc24cb3822008-09-11 20:56:13 +00003125- Issue #3640: Pickling a list or a dict uses less local variables, to reduce
3126 stack usage in the case of deeply nested objects.
3127
Guido van Rossume3c4fd92008-09-10 14:27:00 +00003128- Issue #3629: Fix sre "bytecode" validator for an end case.
3129
Martin v. Löwis24329ba2008-09-10 13:38:12 +00003130- Issue #3811: The Unicode database was updated to 5.1.
3131
Nick Coghland2e09382008-09-11 12:11:06 +00003132- Issue #3781: Further warnings.catch_warnings() cleanup to prevent
3133 silent misbehaviour when a single instance is nested in multiple
3134 with statements, or when the methods are invoked in the wrong order.
3135
Vinay Sajip844f7412008-09-09 13:42:08 +00003136- Issue #3809: Fixed spurious 'test.blah' file left behind by test_logging.
3137
Nick Coghland2e09382008-09-11 12:11:06 +00003138- Issue #3781: Clean up the API for warnings.catch_warnings() by having it
Brett Cannon672237d2008-09-09 00:49:16 +00003139 return a list or None rather than a custom object.
3140
Benjamin Peterson6ac7d7c2008-09-06 19:28:11 +00003141- Issue #1638033: Cookie.Morsel gained the httponly attribute.
3142
Antoine Pitrouebcd0ce2008-09-05 23:30:23 +00003143- Issue #3535: zipfile couldn't read some zip files larger than 2GB.
3144
3145- Issue #3776: Deprecate the bsddb package for removal in 3.0.
Brett Cannon32476fc2008-09-05 18:33:51 +00003146
Hirokazu Yamamoto42e459e2008-09-04 14:25:30 +00003147- Issue #3762: platform.architecture() fails if python is lanched via
3148 its symbolic link.
3149
Vinay Sajip65d66e12008-09-04 07:31:21 +00003150- Issue #3772: Fixed regression problem in StreamHandler.emit().
3151
Facundo Batistac585df92008-09-03 22:35:50 +00003152- Issue 600362: Relocated parse_qs() and parse_qsl(), from the cgi module
3153 to the urlparse one. Added a PendingDeprecationWarning in the old
3154 module, it will be deprecated in the future.
3155
Marc-André Lemburgb339b2a2008-09-03 11:13:56 +00003156- Issue #2562: Fix distutils PKG-INFO writing logic to allow having
3157 non-ascii characters and Unicode in setup.py meta-data.
3158
3159- Issue #3726: Allow spaces in separators in logging configuration files.
Vinay Sajip6a2fd812008-09-03 09:20:05 +00003160
Marc-André Lemburg31a0a142008-09-02 12:11:19 +00003161- Issue #3719: platform.architecture() fails if there are spaces in the
3162 path to the Python binary.
3163
Brett Cannon1eaf0742008-09-02 01:25:16 +00003164- Issue 3602: Moved test.test_support.catch_warning() to
3165 warnings.catch_warnings() along with some API cleanup. Expanding the tests
3166 for catch_warnings() also led to an improvement in the raising of a
3167 DeprecationWarning related to warnings.warn_explicit().
3168
Benjamin Peterson973e6c22008-09-01 23:12:58 +00003169- The deprecation warnings for the old camelCase threading API were removed.
3170
Vinay Sajip35e3b032008-09-01 14:33:59 +00003171- logging: fixed lack of use of encoding attribute specified on a stream.
3172
Christian Heimesa27a62e2008-08-22 19:55:54 +00003173- Silenced a trivial compiler warning in the sqlite module.
3174
Christian Heimes1cc69632008-08-22 20:10:27 +00003175- Fixed two format strings in the _collections module.
3176
Benjamin Peterson17f03ca2008-09-01 14:18:30 +00003177- Issue #3703: _fileio.FileIO gave unhelpful error message when trying to open a
3178 directory.
Benjamin Petersonf22c26e2008-09-01 14:13:43 +00003179
Gregory P. Smithd7122032008-09-02 05:36:11 +00003180- Issue #3708: os.urandom no longer goes into an infinite loop when passed a
3181 non-integer floating point number.
3182
Vinay Sajip65d66e12008-09-04 07:31:21 +00003183- Issue #3110: multiprocessing fails to compiel on solaris 10 due to missing
Jesse Nollerb814d6a2008-09-03 18:10:30 +00003184 SEM_VALUE_MAX.
3185
Benjamin Peterson37346b22008-08-23 20:27:43 +00003186Extension Modules
3187-----------------
3188
Jesse Noller438195f2009-01-18 21:04:36 +00003189- Issue #4301: Patch the logging module to add processName support, remove
3190 _check_logger_class from multiprocessing.
3191
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc293924b2008-09-02 23:19:56 +00003192- Issue #2975: When compiling several extension modules with Visual Studio 2008
3193 from the same python interpreter, some environment variables would grow
3194 without limit.
3195
Benjamin Peterson37346b22008-08-23 20:27:43 +00003196- Issue #3643: Added a few more checks to _testcapi to prevent segfaults by
3197 exploitation of poor argument checking.
3198
Gerhard Häringef2276b2008-09-12 13:54:06 +00003199- sqlite3: Changed docstring of iterdump() to mark method as "Non-standard".
3200
Gerhard Häring6e1afcf2008-09-12 18:58:57 +00003201- Issue #3103: Reduced globals symbols used by sqlite3 module and made sure all
3202 remaining ones have "pysqlite_" prefix.
3203
Gerhard Häringe6872eb2008-09-12 22:33:22 +00003204- Issue #3846: Release the GIL during sqlite3_prepare calls. This improves
3205 concurrent access to the same SQLite database from multiple
3206 threads/processes.
3207
Brett Cannona0b74442008-09-03 22:45:11 +00003208Tests
3209-----
3210
Nick Coghland2e09382008-09-11 12:11:06 +00003211- Issue #3781: Add test.test_support.check_warnings() as a convenience
3212 wrapper for warnings.catch_warnings() that makes it easier to check
3213 that expected warning messages are being reported.
3214
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfeb8cad2008-09-06 20:53:51 +00003215- Issue #3796: Some tests functions were not enabled in test_float.
3216
3217- Issue #3768: Move test_py3kwarn over to the new API for catch_warnings().
Brett Cannona0b74442008-09-03 22:45:11 +00003218
Brett Cannoncdeb24b2008-09-05 22:59:17 +00003219Build
3220-----
3221
Martin v. Löwisab0b29b2008-09-13 08:11:57 +00003222- Issue #3833: Use a different upgrade code for Win64 installers.
3223
Martin v. Löwis3f5fda82008-09-08 13:50:10 +00003224- Issue #2271: Set SecureCustomProperties so that installation will properly
3225 use the TARGETDIR even for unprivileged users.
3226
Martin v. Löwis67543a92008-09-08 12:02:45 +00003227- Allow passing the MSI file name to merge.py.
3228
Vinay Sajip844f7412008-09-09 13:42:08 +00003229- Issue #3758: Rename the 'check' target to 'patchcheck' so as to not clash
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfeb8cad2008-09-06 20:53:51 +00003230 with GNU build target guidelines.
Brett Cannoncdeb24b2008-09-05 22:59:17 +00003231
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +00003232
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00003233What's New in Python 2.6 beta 3?
3234================================
3235
Barry Warsaw07a4a382008-08-21 01:15:08 +00003236*Release date: 20-Aug-2008*
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00003237
3238Core and Builtins
3239-----------------
3240
Guido van Rossumf8402962008-08-20 15:01:50 +00003241- Issue #1878: Remove Py_TPFLAGS_HAVE_VERSION_TAG from
3242 Py_TPFLAGS_DEFAULT when not building the core. This means 3rd party
3243 extensions do not automatically benefit from the class attribute
3244 cache; they will have to explicitly add Py_TPFLAGS_HAVE_VERSION_TAG
3245 to their tp_flags field if they care. This is a backwards
3246 compatibility feature; in 3.0, all types will use the cache by
3247 default.
3248
Benjamin Petersonf647dc12008-08-20 01:27:30 +00003249- Keyword arguments can now follow starred arguments. (``f(a, *args,
3250 keyword=23)`` is now valid syntax.)
3251
Thomas Heller0ad5ae02008-08-19 19:25:04 +00003252- ctypes function pointers that are COM methods have a boolean True
3253 value again.
3254
Martin v. Löwisf91d46a2008-08-12 14:49:50 +00003255- Issue #3139: Make buffer-interface thread-safe wrt. PyArg_ParseTuple,
3256 by denying s# to parse objects that have a releasebuffer procedure,
3257 and introducing s*.
3258
Georg Brandl1e13ea92008-08-11 09:07:59 +00003259- Issue #3537: Fix an assertion failure when an empty but presized dict
3260 object was stored in the freelist.
3261
Mark Dickinsonb6467572008-08-04 21:30:09 +00003262- Issue #1481296: Make long(float('nan')) and int(float('nan')) raise
3263 ValueError consistently across platforms.
3264
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc39fd6722008-07-31 21:28:03 +00003265- Issue #3479: On platforms where sizeof(int) is smaller than sizeof(long)
3266 (64bit Unix, for example), unichr() would truncate its argument and return
3267 u'\x00' for unichr(2**32). Now it properly raises an OverflowError.
3268
Neal Norwitze7d8be82008-07-31 17:17:14 +00003269- Apply security patches from Apple.
3270
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc246daed2008-07-31 00:42:16 +00003271- Issue #2542: Now that issubclass() may call arbitrary code, ensure that
3272 PyErr_ExceptionMatches returns 0 when an exception occurs there.
3273
Antoine Pitrou92f82162008-07-25 22:22:08 +00003274- Issue #1819: function calls with several named parameters are now on
3275 average 35% faster (as measured by pybench).
3276
Amaury Forgeot d'Arce4921fe2008-07-21 22:00:38 +00003277- Issue #2378: An unexpected UnboundLocalError or NameError could appear when
3278 the python debugger steps into a class statement: the free variables (local
3279 variables defined in an outer scope) would be deleted from the outer scope.
3280
Gregory P. Smith0470bab2008-07-22 04:46:32 +00003281- Issue #2620: Overflow checking when allocating or reallocating memory
3282 was not always being done properly in some python types and extension
3283 modules. PyMem_MALLOC, PyMem_REALLOC, PyMem_NEW and PyMem_RESIZE have
3284 all been updated to perform better checks and places in the code that
3285 would previously leak memory on the error path when such an allocation
3286 failed have been fixed.
3287
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00003288Library
3289-------
3290
Hirokazu Yamamoto838c79f2008-08-20 13:14:07 +00003291- Issue #3612: Added some missing basic types in ctypes.wintypes.
3292
Benjamin Petersone977ad42008-08-20 01:42:01 +00003293- The methods ``is_in_tuple()``, ``is_vararg()``, and ``is_keywordarg()`` of
3294 symtable.Symbol have been deprecated for removal in 3.0 and the next release.
3295
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc351ffb82008-08-18 19:23:47 +00003296- Issue #2234: distutils failed for some versions of the cygwin compiler. The
3297 version reported by these tools does not necessarily follow the python
3298 version numbering scheme, so the module is less strict when parsing it.
3299
Nick Coghlanf70385a2008-08-18 12:42:46 +00003300- Issue #2235: Added Py3k warnings for types which will become unhashable
3301 under the stricter __hash__ inheritance rules in 3.0. Several types
3302 which did not meet the rules for hash invariants and were already
3303 unhashable in 3.0 have now been explicitly flagged as unhashable in
3304 2.6 as well (collections.Mapping, collections.Set, unittest.TestSuite,
3305 xml.dom.minidom.NamedNodeMap, numbers.Number, UserList.UserList)
3306
Brett Cannon88f801d2008-08-18 00:46:22 +00003307- Update __all__ for cookielib, csv, os, urllib2, and weakref to include things
3308 imported into the module but exposed as part of the module's API.
3309
Brett Cannon7b96f072008-08-18 00:41:11 +00003310- Remove an unneeded import of abc.ABCMeta from 'inspect'.
3311
Brett Cannon46225e72008-08-18 00:36:52 +00003312- Remove unneeded imports of 'sys' and 'warnings' from 'io'.
3313
Brett Cannon25c9d6a2008-08-17 22:10:11 +00003314- Remove unneeded imports of 'warnings' from shelve, filecmp, and dummy_thread.
3315
Hirokazu Yamamoto41a81eb2008-08-17 13:10:46 +00003316- Issue #3575: Incremental decoder's decode function now takes bytearray
3317 by using 's*' instead of 't#'.
3318
Mark Dickinson3e4caeb2009-02-21 20:27:01 +00003319- Issue #2222: Fixed reference leak when occurred os.rename()
Hirokazu Yamamoto7f30a682008-08-17 09:46:56 +00003320 fails unicode conversion on 2nd parameter. (windows only)
3321
Facundo Batista94f243a2008-08-17 03:38:39 +00003322- Issue 2464. urllib2 now supports a malformation in the URL received
3323 in a redirect.
3324
Brett Cannonabe423e2008-08-16 21:47:07 +00003325- Silence the DeprecationWarning raised when importing mimetools in
Brett Cannon721b1452008-08-16 22:00:27 +00003326 BaseHTTPServer, cgi (and rfc822), httplib.
Brett Cannonabe423e2008-08-16 21:47:07 +00003327
Facundo Batistaeb90b782008-08-16 14:44:07 +00003328- Issue #2776: fixed small issue when handling an URL with double slash
3329 after a 302 response in the case of not going through a proxy.
3330
Antoine Pitroub90a8be2008-08-15 21:03:21 +00003331- Issue #2676: in the email package, content-type parsing was hanging on
3332 pathological input because of quadratic or exponential behaviour of a
3333 regular expression.
3334
Antoine Pitrou11ec65d2008-08-14 21:04:30 +00003335- Issue #3476: binary buffered reading through the new "io" library is now
3336 thread-safe.
3337
Brett Cannonbf3157b2008-08-14 05:00:03 +00003338- Silence the DeprecationWarning of rfc822 when it is imported by mimetools
3339 since mimetools itself is deprecated. Because modules are cached, all
3340 subsequent imports of rfc822 will not raise a visible DeprecationWarning.
3341
Antoine Pitrou9fcd4b32008-08-11 17:21:36 +00003342- Issue #3134: shutil referenced undefined WindowsError symbol.
3343
Robert Schuppenies14646332008-08-10 11:01:53 +00003344- Issue #1342811: Fix leak in Tkinter.Menu.delete. Commands associated to
3345 menu entries were not deleted.
3346
Brett Cannon83e81842008-08-09 23:30:55 +00003347- Copied the implementation of reduce() to _functools.reduce() to have a
3348 version that did not raise a DeprecationWarning under -3.
3349
Antoine Pitrou76b8bee2008-08-09 17:27:23 +00003350- Issue #3205: When iterating over a BZ2File fails allocating memory, raise
3351 a MemoryError rather than silently stop the iteration.
3352
Guido van Rossum59ce9012008-08-09 14:55:34 +00003353- Issue #3487: sre "bytecode" validator. Passing invalid "re-bytecode"
3354 to _sre.compile() will now be rejected. This should not affect anybody
3355 since the re.compile() function never generates invalid re-bytecode.
3356
Skip Montanaroa032bf42008-08-08 22:52:51 +00003357- Issue #3436: Make csv.DictReader's fieldnames attribute a property so that
3358 upon first access it can be automatically initialized from the csv file if
3359 it wasn't initialized during instantiation.
3360
Brett Cannon3aa2a492008-08-06 22:28:09 +00003361- Issue #2338: Create imp.reload() to help with transitioning to Python 3.0 as
3362 the reload() built-in has been removed.
3363
Brett Cannon7e30b672008-08-04 21:52:25 +00003364- Changed code in the following modules/packages to remove warnings raised
Brett Cannonc1b76e42008-08-09 23:06:16 +00003365 while running under the ``-3`` flag: aifc, asynchat, asyncore, bdb, bsddb,
Brett Cannon047e4a92008-08-17 04:16:04 +00003366 ConfigParser, cookielib, csv, difflib, distutils, DocXMLRPCServer, email,
3367 filecmp, fileinput, inspect, logging, modulefinder, pdb, pickle, profile,
3368 pstats, pydoc, re, rlcompleter, SimpleXMLRPCServer, shelve, socket,
3369 subprocess, sqlite3, tarfile, Tkinter, test.test_support, textwrap,
3370 threading, tokenize, traceback, urlparse, wsgiref, xml, xmlrpclib.
Brett Cannon7e30b672008-08-04 21:52:25 +00003371
Lars Gustäbel727bd0b2008-08-02 11:26:39 +00003372- Issue #3039: Fix tarfile.TarFileCompat.writestr() which always
3373 raised an AttributeError.
3374
Benjamin Peterson01a24322008-07-28 23:35:27 +00003375- Issue #2523: Fix quadratic behaviour when read()ing a binary file without
Antoine Pitroude781a42008-08-09 12:43:23 +00003376 asking for a specific length. This problem only affected files opened
3377 using the new "io" module, not the built-in open() function.
Benjamin Peterson01a24322008-07-28 23:35:27 +00003378
Mark Dickinsonfe84cce2008-07-27 06:39:07 +00003379- Issue #3449: Update decimal module to use most recent specification
3380 (v. 1.68) and tests (v. 2.58) from IBM.
3381
Skip Montanarof9ac43f2008-07-27 00:50:41 +00003382- Issue 3437: Bug fix in robotparser parsing of Allow: lines.
3383
Raymond Hettinger8c664e82008-07-25 18:43:33 +00003384- Issue 1592: Improve error reporting when operations are attempted
3385 on a closed shelf.
3386
Georg Brandlf9efabb2008-07-23 15:16:45 +00003387- Deprecate the "ast" parser function aliases.
3388
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00003389- Issue #3120: On 64-bit Windows the subprocess module was truncating handles.
3390
3391- Issue #3303: Fix a crash in locale.strcoll() when calling it with
3392 invalid arguments.
3393
3394- Issue #3302: Fix several crashes when calling locale's gettext functions
3395 with None arguments.
3396
3397- Issue #3389: Allow resolving dotted names for handlers in logging
3398 configuration files.
3399
3400- Deprecate the sunaudio module for removal in Python 3.0.
3401
Antoine Pitrou5fdfa3e2008-07-25 19:42:26 +00003402- Issue #3394: zipfile.writestr sets external attributes when passed a
3403 file name rather than a ZipInfo instance, so files are extracted with
3404 mode 0600 rather than 000 under Unix.
3405
Gregory P. Smitha36f8fe2008-08-04 00:13:29 +00003406- Issue #1857: subprocess.Popen.poll gained an additional _deadstate keyword
3407 argument in python 2.5, this broke code that subclassed Popen to include its
3408 own poll method. Fixed my moving _deadstate to an _internal_poll method.
3409
Martin v. Löwis8dbf3642008-08-01 14:10:26 +00003410Build
3411-----
3412
3413- Generate the PatternGrammar pickle during "make install".
3414
Nick Coghlan2a0c2b12008-08-04 12:47:17 +00003415Documentation
3416-------------
3417
Nick Coghlan6e8fef02008-08-18 13:14:22 +00003418- Issue #2235: the C API function PyObject_HashNotImplemented and its
3419 interaction with the tp_hash slot (added in 2.6b2) are now documented
3420
Nick Coghlan2a0c2b12008-08-04 12:47:17 +00003421- Issue #643841: The language reference now provides more detailed
3422 coverage of the lookup process for special methods. The disclaimers
3423 regarding lack of coverage of new-style classes have also been
3424 removed, since the coverage is now fairly reasonable.
3425
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00003426
Raymond Hettingere3ae6552008-06-20 04:18:15 +00003427What's New in Python 2.6 beta 2?
3428================================
3429
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00003430*Release date: 17-Jul-2008*
3431
Raymond Hettingere3ae6552008-06-20 04:18:15 +00003432Core and Builtins
3433-----------------
3434
Georg Brandl3e483f62008-07-16 22:57:41 +00003435- Issue #3156: Fix inconsistent behavior of the bytearray type: all
3436 its methods now allow for items objects that can be converted to
3437 an integer using operator.index().
3438
Mark Dickinson64b7e502008-07-16 09:40:03 +00003439- Issue #3360: Fix incorrect parsing of '020000000000.0', which
3440 produced a ValueError instead of giving the correct float.
3441
Eric Smitha5fa5a22008-07-16 00:11:49 +00003442- Issue #3083: Add alternate (#) formatting for bin, oct, hex output
3443 for str.format(). This adds the prefix 0b, 0o, or 0x, respectively.
3444
Mark Dickinson7103aa42008-07-15 19:08:33 +00003445- Issue #3008: the float type has a new instance method 'float.hex'
3446 and a new class method 'float.fromhex' to convert floating-point
3447 numbers to and from hexadecimal strings, respectively.
3448
Nick Coghlan6d6bd442008-07-15 15:40:22 +00003449- Issue #2235: __hash__ is once again inherited by default. To allow
3450 collections.Hashable to remain meaningful in the presence of the
3451 default hash implementation (object.__hash__), it is now possible
3452 to explicit block inheritance of hash by setting __hash__=None at
3453 the Python level, or tp_hash=PyObject_HashNotImplemented at the C
3454 level.
3455
Nick Coghlanb028f502008-07-13 14:52:36 +00003456- Issue #3221: Issue a RuntimeWarning instead of raising SystemError if
3457 the parent module cannot be found while performing an absolute import.
3458 This means that an incorrectly defined __package__ attribute will
3459 now only prevent relative imports in that module rather than causing
3460 all imports from that module to fail.
3461
Nick Coghlan14ff9942008-07-08 14:21:42 +00003462- Issue #2517: Allow unicode messages in Exceptions again by correctly
3463 bypassing the instance dictionary when looking up __unicode__ on
3464 new-style classes.
3465
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcbdd941f2008-07-01 20:38:04 +00003466- Issue #3242: Fix a crash inside the print statement, if sys.stdout is
3467 set to a custom object whose write() method happens to install
3468 another file in sys.stdout.
3469
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc1f40c8a2008-06-30 22:42:40 +00003470- Issue #3088: Corrected a race condition in classes derived from
3471 threading.local: the first member set by a thread could be saved in
3472 another thread's dictionary.
3473
Mark Dickinson1ec2fcd2008-06-20 14:53:43 +00003474- Issue #3004: Minor change to slice.indices(): the start and stop
3475 arguments are now treated identically, making the behaviour easier
3476 to describe and understand. For example, slice(None, -10,
3477 1).indices(9) now returns (0, 0, 1) instead of (0, -1, 1), and
3478 slice(None, 10, -1).indices(10) returns (9, 9, -1) instead of (9,
3479 10, -1).
3480
Georg Brandl278fc502008-07-19 12:46:12 +00003481- Issue #3219: Calling a function with repeated keyword arguments,
3482 f(a=2, a=23), would not cause a syntax error. This was a regression
3483 from 2.4 caused by the switch to the new compiler.
Benjamin Peterson175e4d92008-07-01 19:34:52 +00003484
Georg Brandl278fc502008-07-19 12:46:12 +00003485- Issue #2862: Make int and float freelist management consistent with
3486 other freelists. Changes their CompactFreeList apis into
3487 ClearFreeList apis and calls them via gc.collect().
Gregory P. Smith2fe77062008-07-06 03:35:58 +00003488
Brett Cannon8bb8fa52008-07-02 01:57:08 +00003489Library
3490-------
3491
Thomas Heller57adf222008-08-14 19:10:48 +00003492- Issue #3554: ctypes.string_at and ctypes.wstring_at did call Python
3493 api functions without holding the GIL, which could lead to a fatal
3494 error when they failed.
3495
Martin v. Löwisaabf4042008-08-02 07:20:25 +00003496- Issue #799428: Fix Tkinter.Misc._nametowidget to unwrap Tcl command objects.
3497
Jesse Noller7fb96402008-07-17 21:01:05 +00003498- Issue #3395: fix reference in test_multiprocessing to old debugInfo method
3499
Georg Brandla24869a2008-07-16 22:33:18 +00003500- Issue #3312: Fix two crashes in sqlite3.
3501
Georg Brandl86cbf812008-07-16 21:31:41 +00003502- Issue #1608818: Fix misbehavior in os.listdir() if readdir() fails.
3503
Jesse Noller13e9d582008-07-16 14:32:36 +00003504- Issue #3125: Remove copy_reg in multiprocessing and replace it with
3505 ForkingPickler.register() to resolve conflict with ctypes.
3506
Vinay Sajip51e65192008-07-18 09:01:10 +00003507- Issue #3090: Fixed ARCHFLAGS parsing on OS/X
Jesse Noller13e9d582008-07-16 14:32:36 +00003508
Thomas Heller880f5292008-07-15 19:39:38 +00003509- Issue #3313: Fixed a crash when a failed dlopen() call does not set
3510 a valid dlerror() message.
3511
Thomas Heller2bad6572008-07-15 17:19:50 +00003512- Issue #3258: Fixed a crash when a ctypes POINTER type to an
3513 incomplete structure was created.
3514
Brett Cannon3d0b9f02008-07-13 01:15:07 +00003515- Issue #3339: dummy_thread.acquire() should not return None.
3516
Raymond Hettingerb01713e2008-07-10 14:34:57 +00003517- Issue #3285: Fractions from_float() and from_decimal() accept Integral arguments.
3518
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +00003519- Issue #3301: Bisect module behaved badly when lo was negative.
Raymond Hettinger3cd1e422008-07-10 14:03:19 +00003520
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc0f7cddc2008-07-06 21:34:39 +00003521- Issue #839496: SimpleHTTPServer used to open text files in text mode. This is
3522 both unnecessary (HTTP allows text content to be sent in several forms) and
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +00003523 wrong because the actual transmitted size could differ from the
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc0f7cddc2008-07-06 21:34:39 +00003524 content-length. The problem had been corrected in the 2.4 branch, but never
3525 merged into trunk.
3526
Georg Brandle78fbcc2008-07-05 10:13:36 +00003527- Issue #2663: add filtering capability to shutil.copytree().
3528
Martin v. Löwis8c436412008-07-03 12:51:14 +00003529- Issue #1622: Correct interpretation of various ZIP header fields.
3530
3531- Issue #1526: Allow more than 64k files to be added to Zip64 file.
3532
3533- Issue #1746: Correct handling of zipfile archive comments (previously
3534 archives with comments over 4k were flagged as invalid). Allow writing
Vinay Sajip51e65192008-07-18 09:01:10 +00003535 Zip files with archives by setting the 'comment' attribute of a ZipFile.
Martin v. Löwis8c436412008-07-03 12:51:14 +00003536
Vinay Sajip51e65192008-07-18 09:01:10 +00003537- Issue #449227: The rlcompleter module now adds "(" to callable objects
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +00003538 when completed.
Facundo Batista66c52772008-07-02 16:52:55 +00003539
Nick Coghlanc060b0e2008-07-02 13:09:19 +00003540- Issue #3190: Pydoc now hides the automatic module attribute __package__ (the
3541 handling is now the same as that of other special attributes like __name__).
3542
Brett Cannon8bb8fa52008-07-02 01:57:08 +00003543- Issue #2885 (partial): The urllib.urlopen() function has been deprecated for
3544 removal in Python 3.0 in favor of urllib2.urlopen().
3545
Gregory P. Smithf4140642008-07-06 07:16:40 +00003546- Issue #2113: Fix error in subprocess.Popen if the select system call is
3547 interrupted by a signal.
3548
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +00003549- Issue #3309: Fix bz2.BZFile iterator to release its internal lock
Gregory P. Smith3b1e6b22008-07-07 04:31:58 +00003550 properly when raising an exception due to the bz2file being closed.
3551 Prevents a deadlock.
3552
Gregory P. Smithc4691ec2008-07-07 05:09:12 +00003553- Issue #3094: httplib.HTTPSConnection Host: headers no longer include the
3554 redundant ":443" port number designation when the connection is using the
3555 default https port (443).
3556
Gregory P. Smithdb3409c2008-07-17 03:13:05 +00003557- Issue #874900: after an os.fork() call the threading module state is cleaned
3558 up in the child process to prevent deadlock and report proper thread counts
3559 if the new process uses the threading module.
3560
Nick Coghlan38469e22008-07-13 12:23:47 +00003561Tests
3562-----
3563
3564- test.test_support.catch_warning now keeps track of all warnings it sees
3565 and is now better documented. Explicit unit tests for this context manager
3566 have been added to test_warnings.
3567
Martin v. Löwisd84fd952008-06-30 06:57:39 +00003568Build
3569-----
3570
3571- Issue #3215: Build sqlite3 as sqlite3.dll, not sqlite3.pyd.
3572
Brett Cannon8bb8fa52008-07-02 01:57:08 +00003573
Brett Cannon97aa1ae2008-07-11 00:12:52 +00003574Documentation
3575-------------
3576
Brett Cannonfeef51d2008-07-11 00:50:01 +00003577- Document that robotparser has been renamed to urllib.robotparser in
Brett Cannon963ffdb2008-07-11 00:48:57 +00003578 Python 3.0.
3579
Brett Cannonf6afa332008-07-11 00:16:30 +00003580- Document that urlparse has been renamed to urllib.parse in Python 3.0.
3581
Brett Cannon97aa1ae2008-07-11 00:12:52 +00003582- Document that urllib2 is split across multiple modules and renamed in
3583 Python 3.0.
3584
3585- Document that urllib is split across multiple modules and renamed in
3586 Python 3.0.
3587
3588
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00003589What's New in Python 2.6 beta 1?
3590================================
3591
Barry Warsawb5d17402008-06-19 01:48:07 +00003592*Release date: 18-June-2008*
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00003593
3594Core and Builtins
3595-----------------
3596
Brett Cannondea1b562008-06-27 00:31:13 +00003597- Issue #3211: warnings.warn_explicit() did not guard against its 'registry'
3598 argument being anything other than a dict or None. Also fixed a bug in error
3599 handling when 'message' and 'category' were both set to None, triggering a
3600 bus error.
3601
Amaury Forgeot d'Arca8919fe2008-06-16 19:12:42 +00003602- Issue #3100: Corrected a crash on deallocation of a subclassed weakref which
3603 holds the last (strong) reference to its referent.
3604
Georg Brandl89f48872008-06-11 18:55:38 +00003605- Add future_builtins.ascii().
3606
Raymond Hettinger5c4d3d02008-06-09 13:07:27 +00003607- Several set methods now accept multiple arguments: update(), union(),
Raymond Hettinger4267be62008-06-11 10:30:54 +00003608 intersection(), intersection_update(), difference(), and difference_update().
Raymond Hettingeree4bcad2008-06-09 08:33:37 +00003609
Robert Schuppenies51df0642008-06-01 16:16:17 +00003610- Issue #2898: Added sys.getsizeof() to retrieve size of objects in bytes.
3611
Martin v. Löwis99815892008-06-01 07:20:46 +00003612- New environment variable PYTHONIOENCODING.
3613
Martin v. Löwis4dd019f2008-05-20 08:11:19 +00003614- Patch #2488: Add sys.maxsize.
3615
Georg Brandla9916b52008-05-17 22:11:54 +00003616- Issue #2353: file.xreadlines() now emits a Py3k warning.
3617
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003618- Issue #2863: generators now have a ``gen.__name__`` attribute that
3619 equals ``gen.gi_code.co_name``, like ``func.__name___`` that equals
3620 ``func.func_code.co_name``. The repr() of a generator now also
3621 contains this name.
Georg Brandlc91210c2008-05-15 15:08:32 +00003622
Georg Brandlbd85eb12008-05-14 06:34:15 +00003623- Issue #2831: enumerate() now has a ``start`` argument.
3624
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003625- Issue #2801: fix bug in the float.is_integer method where a
3626 ValueError was sometimes incorrectly raised.
Mark Dickinsone81c3762008-05-09 16:14:15 +00003627
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003628- Issue #2790: sys.flags was not properly exposing its bytes_warning
3629 attribute.
Brett Cannon3c1d50a2008-05-08 20:23:54 +00003630
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003631- Issue #2196: hasattr() now lets exceptions which do not inherit
3632 Exception (KeyboardInterrupt, and SystemExit) propagate instead of
3633 ignoring them.
Benjamin Petersonb9030f42008-05-12 00:41:23 +00003634
Gregory P. Smith9d534572008-06-11 07:41:16 +00003635- Added checks for integer overflows, contributed by Google. Some are
3636 only available if asserts are left in the code, in cases where they
3637 can't be triggered from Python code.
3638
3639
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00003640Extension Modules
3641-----------------
Guido van Rossum84b1e0f2008-08-20 14:57:20 +00003642- Issue #1179: [CVE-2007-4965] Integer overflow in imageop module.
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00003643
Raymond Hettinger305480c2008-06-16 01:42:40 +00003644- Issue #3116: marshal.dumps() had quadratic behavior for strings > 32Mb.
3645
Andrew M. Kuchling2126bab2008-06-22 13:39:11 +00003646- Issue #2138: Add factorial() to the math module.
Raymond Hettingerecbdd2e2008-06-09 06:54:45 +00003647
Raymond Hettinger6d7702e2008-05-31 03:24:31 +00003648- The heapq module does comparisons using LT instead of LE. This
3649 makes its implementation match that used by list.sort().
3650
Mark Dickinson99dfe922008-05-23 01:35:30 +00003651- Issue #2819: add full-precision summation function to math module,
3652 based on Hettinger's ASPN Python Cookbook recipe.
3653
Georg Brandl88659b02008-05-20 08:40:43 +00003654- Issue #2592: delegate nb_index and the floor/truediv slots in
3655 weakref.proxy.
3656
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003657- Support os.O_ASYNC and fcntl.FASYNC if the constants exist on the
3658 platform.
Georg Brandl5049a852008-05-16 13:10:15 +00003659
Brett Cannon044616a2008-05-15 02:33:55 +00003660- Support for Windows 9x has been removed from the winsound module.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcf9b54c22008-05-12 21:30:24 +00003661
Jesus Cea09c01782008-09-28 23:24:19 +00003662- bsddb module updated to version 4.7.3.
Jesus Cea4907d272008-08-31 14:00:51 +00003663 http://www.jcea.es/programacion/pybsddb.htm#bsddb3-4.7.3. This
3664 code should be compatible with Python 3.0.
Jesus Ceaef9764f2008-05-13 18:45:46 +00003665
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003666- Issue #2858: Fix potential memory corruption when
3667 bsddb.db.DBEnv.lock_get and other bsddb.db object constructors
3668 raised an exception.
Gregory P. Smith664782e2008-05-17 06:12:02 +00003669
Gregory P. Smith5d7d6c32008-05-25 08:32:04 +00003670- Issue #2669: bsddb/__init__.py iteration no longer silently fails when
3671 the database has changed size during iteration. It now raises a
3672 RuntimeError in the same manner as a dictionary.
3673
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003674- Issue #2870: cmathmodule.c compile error.
Christian Heimes0bd23c02008-05-16 10:23:31 +00003675
Benjamin Petersond8a89722008-08-18 16:40:03 +00003676- Added a threading.Thread.ident property.
Gregory P. Smith8856dda2008-06-01 23:48:47 +00003677
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00003678Library
3679-------
3680
Vinay Sajip1e022682008-06-29 21:27:15 +00003681- logging.config: Removed out-of-date comment in _install_handlers and
3682 used issubclass in place of equality comparison of classes.
3683
Facundo Batista5596b0c2008-06-22 13:36:20 +00003684- Issue #2722: Now the os.getcwd() supports very long path names.
3685
Facundo Batista2da91c32008-06-21 17:43:56 +00003686- Issue #2888: Fixed the behaviour of pprint when working with nested
3687 structures, to match the behaviour of 2.5 and 3.0 (now follows the common
3688 sense).
3689
Facundo Batistaa6a4d502008-06-21 18:58:04 +00003690- Issue #1817: cgi now correctly handles the querystring on POST requests
3691
Vinay Sajip8dc20fd2008-06-19 22:41:08 +00003692- Issue #3136: fileConfig()'s disabling of old loggers is now conditional via
3693 an optional disable_existing_loggers parameter, but the default value is
3694 such that the old behaviour is preserved. Thanks to Leandro Lucarella for
3695 the patch.
3696
Vinay Sajip9828b7e2008-06-17 11:04:02 +00003697- Issue #3126: StreamHandler and FileHandler check before calling "flush" and
3698 "close" that the stream object has these, using hasattr (thanks to bobf for
3699 the patch).
3700
Benjamin Peterson5c0be322008-06-13 15:11:50 +00003701- Issue #2912: platform.uname now tries to determine unknown information even if
3702 os.uname exists.
3703
Benjamin Peterson26305a02008-06-12 22:33:06 +00003704- The rfc822 module has been deprecated for removal in 3.0.
3705
Benjamin Petersona03722f2008-06-12 14:23:49 +00003706- The mimetools module has been deprecated for removal in 3.0.
3707
Thomas Heller1cec7aa2008-06-10 14:07:12 +00003708- The ctypes.byref function now takes an optional second parameter
3709 which allows to specify an offset in bytes for the constructed
3710 pointer-like object.
3711
Georg Brandl8509db52008-06-10 07:45:28 +00003712- Added the ast module.
3713
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00003714- Added the multiprocessing module, PEP 371.
Benjamin Peterson6f7ae692008-06-11 20:04:30 +00003715
Georg Brandl7be19aa2008-06-07 15:59:10 +00003716- Factored out the indentation cleaning from inspect.getdoc() into
3717 inspect.cleandoc() to ease standalone use.
3718
Thomas Hellerfbb9c0b2008-06-06 08:33:46 +00003719- Issue #1798: Add ctypes calling convention that allows safe access
3720 to errno.
3721
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00003722- Issue #2404: ctypes objects support the new pep3118 buffer interface.
Thomas Heller59475e92008-06-05 17:52:59 +00003723
Vinay Sajip9828b7e2008-06-17 11:04:02 +00003724- Patch #2125: Add GetInteger and GetString methods for
Martin v. Löwisffe62ed2008-06-02 08:40:06 +00003725 msilib.Record objects.
3726
Gregory P. Smith137d8242008-06-02 04:05:52 +00003727- Issue #2782: The datetime module's strftime methods now accept
3728 unicode format strings just as time.strftime always has.
3729
Georg Brandlac19d852008-06-01 21:19:14 +00003730- The sgmllib and htmllib modules have been deprecated for removal
3731 in Python 3.0.
3732
3733- Issue #3011: locale module alias table was updated to the latest
3734 version from the X.org locale.alias file.
Marc-André Lemburgadff65b2008-05-30 20:52:18 +00003735
Thomas Heller9287acf2008-05-29 19:42:34 +00003736- Issue #1797 (partial fix): ctypes NULL function pointers have a
3737 False boolean value now.
3738
Georg Brandld0b592f2008-05-29 07:45:26 +00003739- Issue #2985: Allow 64-bit integer responses (``<i8>``) in XMLRPC
3740 transfers.
3741
3742- Issue #2877: The UserString.MutableString class has been removed in
3743 Python 3.0.
Brett Cannonabb34fe2008-05-29 05:08:50 +00003744
Lars Gustäbelb1a54a32008-05-27 12:39:23 +00003745- Do not close external file objects passed to tarfile.open(mode='w:bz2')
3746 when the TarFile is closed.
3747
Georg Brandle08e3d02008-05-25 08:07:37 +00003748- Issue #2959: For consistency with other file-like objects, gzip's
3749 GzipFile.close() can now be called multiple times without raising
3750 an exception.
3751
Martin v. Löwis27e4a172008-05-23 15:18:28 +00003752- Issue #1390: Raise ValueError in toxml when an invalid comment would
3753 otherwise be produced.
3754
Vinay Sajipc0128832008-05-20 15:37:22 +00003755- Issue #2914: TimedRotatingFileHandler now takes an optional keyword
3756 argument "utc" to use UTC time rather than local time.
3757
3758- Issue #2929: TimedRotatingFileHandler was using the wrong path when
3759 deleting old log files (filename only instead of full path).
3760
Georg Brandl112aa502008-05-20 08:25:48 +00003761- Issue #1775025: You can now specify zipfile members to open(),
3762 read() or extract() via a ZipInfo instance. This allows handling
3763 duplicate filenames in zipfiles.
3764
Georg Brandl28fdfa92008-05-17 17:57:01 +00003765- Issue #961805: Fix Text.edit_modified() in Tkinter.
3766
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003767- Issue #1793: Function ctypes.util.find_msvcrt() added that returns
Thomas Heller95ba13f2008-05-16 20:06:31 +00003768 the name of the C runtime library that Python uses.
3769 ctypes.util.find_library(name) now call this function when name is
3770 'm' or 'c'.
3771
Brett Cannonfa40bbf2008-05-16 00:50:02 +00003772- The statvfs module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
3773
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003774- The sunaudiodev and SUNAUDIODEV modules have been deprecated for
3775 removal in Python 3.0.
3776
3777- The WAIT module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
3778 3.0.
3779
3780- The torgb module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
3781 3.0.
3782
3783- The SV module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
3784 3.0.
3785
3786- The readcd module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
Brett Cannon22248172008-05-16 00:10:24 +00003787 Python 3.0.
3788
Brett Cannon11ae6e72008-05-15 03:49:00 +00003789- The panelparser module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
3790 Python 3.0.
3791
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003792- The panel module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
3793 3.0.
Brett Cannon7e375862008-05-15 03:46:27 +00003794
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003795- The jpeg module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
3796 3.0.
Brett Cannon89f5d9c2008-05-15 03:44:00 +00003797
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003798- The IOCTL module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
3799 3.0.
Brett Cannond8c41ec2008-05-15 03:41:55 +00003800
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003801- The IN module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
3802 3.0.
Brett Cannon6328b292008-05-15 03:36:13 +00003803
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003804- The imgfile module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
Brett Cannon178582e2008-05-15 03:20:36 +00003805 Python 3.0.
3806
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003807- The GLWS module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
3808 3.0.
Brett Cannon72ccc402008-05-15 03:17:24 +00003809
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003810- The GET module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
3811 3.0.
Brett Cannon2773b6f2008-05-15 03:14:57 +00003812
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003813- The fm module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
3814 3.0.
3815
3816- The FL, flp, and fl modules from IRIX have been deprecated for
3817 removal in Python 3.0.
3818
3819- The FILE module on IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
3820 3.0.
3821
3822- The ERRNO module on IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
3823 3.0.
3824
3825- The DEVICE, GL, gl, and cgen modules (which indirectly includes
3826 cgensupport) have been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
Brett Cannon044616a2008-05-15 02:33:55 +00003827
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003828- The CL, CL_old, and cl modules for IRIX have been deprecated for
3829 removal in Python 3.0.
3830
3831- The cdplayer module for IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
Brett Cannon650f5162008-05-14 21:12:12 +00003832 Python 3.0.
3833
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003834- The cddb module for IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
3835 3.0.
Brett Cannon9eebe492008-05-14 20:34:22 +00003836
Brett Cannonddf949f2008-05-14 20:31:38 +00003837- The cd and CD modules for IRIX have been deprecated for removal in
3838 Python 3.0.
3839
Brett Cannon34721d52008-05-14 01:08:21 +00003840- The al and AL modules for IRIX have been deprecated for removal in
3841 Python 3.0.
3842
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003843- Issue #1713041: fix pprint's handling of maximum depth.
Georg Brandl23da6e62008-05-12 16:26:52 +00003844
Brett Cannonbb141bb2008-05-12 03:47:47 +00003845- The timing module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
3846
Brett Cannonac861b52008-05-12 03:45:59 +00003847- The sv module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
3848
Brett Cannon43e5ef42008-05-12 03:19:20 +00003849- The multifile module has been deprecated as per PEP 4.
3850
Brett Cannon42bfa902008-05-12 00:08:34 +00003851- The imageop module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
3852
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003853- Issue #2250: Exceptions raised during evaluation of names in
3854 rlcompleter's ``Completer.complete()`` method are now caught and
3855 ignored.
Georg Brandl627a6662008-05-11 21:03:42 +00003856
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003857- Issue #2659: Added ``break_on_hyphens`` option to textwrap
3858 TextWrapper class.
Georg Brandl6f95ae52008-05-11 10:42:28 +00003859
Brett Cannon2a869132008-05-11 03:01:47 +00003860- The mhlib module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
3861
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003862- The linuxaudiodev module has been deprecated for removal in Python
3863 3.0.
Brett Cannondf0a7172008-05-11 00:50:51 +00003864
Brett Cannon27508d42008-05-10 22:45:07 +00003865- The ihooks module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
3866
Brett Cannonfe598512008-05-10 22:11:45 +00003867- The fpformat module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
3868
Brett Cannone35a3a12008-05-10 21:22:43 +00003869- The dl module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
3870
Brett Cannond5a09852008-05-10 03:14:32 +00003871- The Canvas module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
3872
Brett Cannon6192df12008-05-10 02:58:26 +00003873- The compiler package has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
3874
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003875- The Bastion and rexec modules have been deprecated for removal in
3876 Python 3.0.
Brett Cannoncda73a42008-05-10 02:53:46 +00003877
Brett Cannon768d44f2008-05-10 02:47:54 +00003878- The bsddb185 module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
3879
Brett Cannon9ac39742008-05-09 22:51:58 +00003880- The pure module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
3881
Mark Dickinsonf8476c12008-05-09 17:54:23 +00003882- Issue #2487: change the semantics of math.ldexp(x, n) when n is too
3883 large to fit in a C long. ldexp(x, n) now returns a zero (with
3884 suitable sign) if n is large and negative; previously, it raised
3885 OverflowError.
3886
Brett Cannonfa24d9a2008-05-09 05:32:42 +00003887- The toaiff module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
3888
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003889- The test.testall module has been deprecated for removal in Python
3890 3.0.
Brett Cannon3c759142008-05-09 05:25:37 +00003891
Brett Cannond7265d62008-05-09 05:18:40 +00003892- The new module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
3893
Brett Cannone3b19402008-05-08 20:36:09 +00003894- The user module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
3895
Brett Cannon6071cc82008-05-08 19:52:45 +00003896- The stringold module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
3897
3898- The mutex module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
Brett Cannon9d441822008-05-08 19:26:08 +00003899
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00003900- The imputil module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
3901
Brett Cannoncae4f5f2008-05-08 20:24:43 +00003902- test.test_support.catch_warning() gained a 'record' argument.
3903
Benjamin Peterson0893a0a2008-05-09 00:27:01 +00003904- os.path.walk is deprecated in favor of os.walk.
3905
Georg Brandl9020ff82008-05-11 14:17:13 +00003906- pdb gained the "until" command.
Benjamin Peterson98353942008-05-11 14:13:25 +00003907
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003908- The Mac Modules (including Carbon) have been deprecated for removal
3909 in Python 3.0.
Benjamin Peterson23681932008-05-12 21:42:13 +00003910
Vinay Sajip9828b7e2008-06-17 11:04:02 +00003911- Library: on MacOS X you can now set ``ARCHFLAGS`` in the shell
Ronald Oussoren5640ce22008-06-05 12:58:24 +00003912 environment to control the '-arch' flags that are used to build
3913 an extension. This was added for compatibility with Apple's build
3914 of Python.
3915
3916- The bundled OSX-specific copy of libbffi is now in sync with the version
3917 shipped with PyObjC 2.0 and includes support for x86_64 and ppc64 platforms.
3918
Georg Brandl25c34082008-08-18 23:09:49 +00003919- The threading module gained aliases for names that will be removed in the
3920 3.x series.
Benjamin Peterson0fbcf692008-06-11 17:27:50 +00003921
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00003922Build
3923-----
3924
Martin v. Löwiscc0f2b22008-06-13 18:12:51 +00003925- The Windows installer now includes Tk 8.5, bzip2 1.0.5, and SQLite 3.5.9.
Martin v. Löwis76307312008-06-12 18:52:00 +00003926
Martin v. Löwis8c255e42008-05-23 15:06:50 +00003927- Patch #1722225: Support QNX 6.
3928
Brett Cannonb61d8012008-05-11 23:39:04 +00003929- ``Lib/lib-old`` is now added to sys.path.
3930
Ronald Oussoren5640ce22008-06-05 12:58:24 +00003931- On MacOS X it is now possible to install the framework in 64-bit
3932 mode or even as a 4-way universal binary (that is, PPC, i386,
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00003933 PPC64 and x86_64 support in one binary).
Ronald Oussoren5640ce22008-06-05 12:58:24 +00003934
3935 This is controlled by the configure argument ``--with-universal-archs``:
3936
3937 - ``--with-universal-archs=all``: install 4-way universal
3938
3939 - ``--with-universal-archs=32-bit``: install 2-way universal, 32-bit (the default)
3940
3941 - ``--with-universal-archs=64-bit``: install 2-way universal, 64-bit
3942
3943 This option should be used in combination with ``--enable-universalsdk=``.
3944
3945 NOTE: 64-bit and 4-way builds are only suppported on Mac OS X 10.5 (or later).
3946
3947
Christian Heimes7a990612008-05-26 13:15:11 +00003948C API
3949-----
3950
Georg Brandl74a1dea2008-05-28 11:21:39 +00003951- Add ``PyType_Modified()`` as a public API to clear the type cache.
3952
3953- The PyBytes functions have been renamed to PyByteArray.
Christian Heimes7a990612008-05-26 13:15:11 +00003954
3955- The PyString functions have been renamed to PyBytes. A batch of
3956 defines were added so that the linker still sees the original
3957 PyString names.
3958
Georg Brandl5e7b1c02008-05-16 17:40:23 +00003959
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00003960What's New in Python 2.6 alpha 3?
Barry Warsaw65475fd2008-03-01 17:11:41 +00003961=================================
3962
Barry Warsaw6cc79402008-05-08 13:16:19 +00003963*Release date: 08-May-2008*
Barry Warsaw65475fd2008-03-01 17:11:41 +00003964
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd21fb4c2008-03-05 01:50:33 +00003965Core and builtins
3966-----------------
Georg Brandl80055f62008-03-25 07:56:27 +00003967
Georg Brandl28e08732008-04-30 19:47:09 +00003968- Issue #2719: backported the ``next()`` builtin from Python 3.
3969
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003970- Issue #2681: The octal literal ``0o8`` was incorrecly acctepted. Now
3971 it properly raises a SyntaxError.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc52167212008-04-24 18:07:05 +00003972
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003973- Issue #2617: Reserved -J and -X arguments for Jython, IronPython and
3974 other implementations of Python.
Christian Heimes7a98d272008-04-12 13:03:03 +00003975
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003976- Implemented PEP 370: Per user site-packages directory.
Christian Heimesaf748c32008-05-06 22:41:46 +00003977
Andrew M. Kuchling46d6b682008-04-30 16:19:55 +00003978Extension Modules
3979-----------------
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00003980
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003981- Issue #2670: Fix a failure in urllib2.build_opener(), when passed
3982 two handlers that derive the same default base class.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc96865852008-04-22 21:14:41 +00003983
Christian Heimese74c8f22008-04-19 02:23:57 +00003984- Added kill, terminate and send_signal(sig) to subprocess.Popen.
3985
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003986- Added phase(z) -> phi, polar(z) -> r, phi and rect(r, phi) -> z to
3987 the cmath module.
Christian Heimes6f341092008-04-18 23:13:07 +00003988
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003989- Four new methods were added to the math and cmath modules: acosh,
3990 asinh, atanh and log1p.
Christian Heimes6f341092008-04-18 23:13:07 +00003991
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003992- zlib.decompressobj().flush(value) no longer crashes the interpreter
3993 when passed a value less than or equal to zero.
Gregory P. Smith671c5d92008-04-09 18:18:43 +00003994
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003995- Issue #1631171: Re-implement the 'warnings' module in C (the
3996 original Python code has been kept as backup). This will allow for
3997 using the 'warning's machinery in such places as the parser where
3998 use of pure Python code is not possible. Both the ``showarning()``
3999 and ``formatwarning()`` gain an optional 'line' argument which is
4000 not called by default for backwards-compatibility reasons. Setting
4001 ``warnings.showwarning()`` to an implementation that lacks support
4002 for the ``line`` argument will raise a DeprecationWarning.
Brett Cannone9746892008-04-12 23:44:07 +00004003
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00004004Library
4005-------
4006
Brett Cannonf8436822008-05-06 23:41:32 +00004007- The audiodev module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
4008
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004009- Issue #2750: Add the 'json' package. Based on simplejson 1.9 and
4010 contributed by Bob Ippolito.
Brett Cannon4b964f92008-05-05 20:21:38 +00004011
Martin v. Löwis471617d2008-05-05 17:16:58 +00004012- Issue #1734346: Support Unicode file names for zipfiles.
4013
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004014- Issue #2581: distutils: Vista UAC/elevation support for
4015 bdist_wininst.
Mark Hammond7c5c8e62008-05-02 12:48:15 +00004016
Mark Dickinsonfe536f52008-04-25 16:59:09 +00004017- Issue #2635: Fix bug in 'fix_sentence_endings' textwrap.fill option,
4018 where an extra space was added after a word containing (but not
4019 ending in) '.', '!' or '?'.
4020
Thomas Heller6ad5fbb2008-04-25 15:44:16 +00004021- Add from_buffer() and from_buffer_copy() class methods to ctypes
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00004022 data types.
Thomas Heller6ad5fbb2008-04-25 15:44:16 +00004023
Neal Norwitz2b0bea52008-04-25 03:40:17 +00004024- Issue #2682: ctypes callback functions no longer contain a cyclic
Thomas Hellerbf027c42008-04-24 18:14:19 +00004025 reference to themselves.
4026
Gregory P. Smithd59fefb2008-04-22 08:11:33 +00004027- The getpass module has been improved on Unix. It now uses /dev/tty
4028 by default and uses stderr instead of stdout. A GetPassWarning is
4029 issued when input echo cannot be controlled.
Gregory P. Smith41e30182008-04-21 21:31:08 +00004030
Skip Montanarob131f042008-04-18 20:35:46 +00004031- Issue #2014: Allow XML-RPC datetime objects to have dates before
4032 1900-01-01.
4033
Nick Coghlan106fc482008-04-15 10:25:31 +00004034- Issue #2439: Added new function pkgutil.get_data(), which is a
4035 convenience wrapper for the PEP 302 get_data() API.
4036
Thomas Heller046e6a42008-04-14 16:10:07 +00004037- Issue #2616: The ctypes.pointer() and ctypes.POINTER() functions are
4038 now implemented in C for better performance.
4039
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004040- Issue #2408: The ``_types`` module, which was used as in
4041 implementation detail of the public ``types`` module, has been
4042 removed and replaced by pure python code.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc02f33b42008-04-08 23:10:07 +00004043
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004044- Issue #2513: distutils on Windows is now capable of cross-compiling
Mark Hammond495cf992008-04-07 01:53:39 +00004045 extension modules between 32 and 64 bit platforms. See the distutls
4046 build documentation for more information.
4047
Gregory P. Smithaa63d0d2008-04-06 23:11:17 +00004048- Issue #815646: Individual file objects may now be used from multiple
4049 threads at once without fear of crashing the Python interpreter. If
4050 file.close() is called while an object is in use by another thread
4051 an IOError exception will be raised and the file will not be closed.
4052
Thomas Hellerf7906482008-04-04 19:43:25 +00004053- The bundled libffi copy is now in sync with the recently released
4054 libffi3.0.5 version, apart from some small changes to
4055 Modules/_ctypes/libffi/configure.ac.
4056
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004057- Issue #2385: distutils.core.run_script() makes __file__ available,
4058 so the controlled environment will more closely mirror the typical
4059 script environment. This supports setup.py scripts that refer to
4060 data files.
Fred Drake46c58c12008-04-04 05:41:30 +00004061
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00004062Tests
4063-----
Trent Nelsone41b0062008-04-08 23:47:30 +00004064
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004065- Issue #2550: The approach used by client/server code for obtaining
4066 ports to listen on in network-oriented tests has been refined in an
4067 effort to facilitate running multiple instances of the entire
4068 regression test suite in parallel without issue.
4069 test_support.bind_port() has been fixed such that it will always
4070 return a unique port -- which wasn't always the case with the
4071 previous implementation, especially if socket options had been set
4072 that affected address reuse (i.e. SO_REUSEADDR, SO_REUSEPORT). The
4073 new implementation of bind_port() will actually raise an exception
4074 if it is passed an AF_INET/SOCK_STREAM socket with either the
4075 SO_REUSEADDR or SO_REUSEPORT socket option set. Furthermore, if
4076 available, bind_port() will set the SO_EXCLUSIVEADDRUSE option on
4077 the socket it's been passed. This currently only applies to
4078 Windows. This option prevents any other sockets from binding to the
4079 host/port we've bound to, thus removing the possibility of the
4080 'non-deterministic' behaviour, as Microsoft puts it, that occurs
4081 when a second SOCK_STREAM socket binds and accepts to a host/port
4082 that's already been bound by another socket. The optional preferred
4083 port parameter to bind_port() has been removed. Under no
4084 circumstances should tests be hard coding ports!
4085
4086 test_support.find_unused_port() has also been introduced, which will
4087 pass a temporary socket object to bind_port() in order to obtain an
4088 unused port. The temporary socket object is then closed and
4089 deleted, and the port is returned. This method should only be used
4090 for obtaining an unused port in order to pass to an external program
4091 (i.e. the -accept [port] argument to openssl's s_server mode) or as
4092 a parameter to a server-oriented class that doesn't give you direct
4093 access to the underlying socket used.
4094
4095 Finally, test_support.HOST has been introduced, which should be used
4096 for the host argument of any relevant socket calls (i.e. bind and
4097 connect).
Trent Nelsone41b0062008-04-08 23:47:30 +00004098
4099 The following tests were updated to following the new conventions:
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004100 test_socket, test_smtplib, test_asyncore, test_ssl, test_httplib,
Trent Nelsone41b0062008-04-08 23:47:30 +00004101 test_poplib, test_ftplib, test_telnetlib, test_socketserver,
4102 test_asynchat and test_socket_ssl.
4103
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004104 It is now possible for multiple instances of the regression test
4105 suite to run in parallel without issue.
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00004106
4107Build
4108-----
4109
Mark Dickinson65134662008-04-25 16:11:04 +00004110- Issue #1496032: On alpha, use -mieee when gcc is the compiler.
4111
Thomas Hellerdc96a772008-04-04 10:07:55 +00004112- Issue #2544: On HP-UX systems, use 'gcc -shared' for linking when
4113 gcc is used as compiler.
4114
Ronald Oussoren580c7fe2008-05-02 19:45:11 +00004115- Issue #2573: On MacOS X it is now possible to install the framework
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004116 with a different name using --with-framework-name=NAME.
Ronald Oussoren580c7fe2008-05-02 19:45:11 +00004117
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00004118C API
4119-----
4120
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004121- Added implementation of copysign, acosh, asinh, atanh and log1p to
4122 the new files Include/pymath.h and Python/pymath.h for platforms
4123 which provide the functions through their libm. The files also
4124 contains several helpers and constants for math.
Christian Heimes6f341092008-04-18 23:13:07 +00004125
Benjamin Petersondacde0d2008-05-26 17:43:53 +00004126- Added a new convenience macro, PyErr_WarnPy3k, for issuing Py3k warnings.
Benjamin Petersona692c4d2008-04-27 02:28:02 +00004127
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00004128
4129What's New in Python 2.6 alpha 2?
4130=================================
4131
4132*Release date: 02-Apr-2008*
4133
4134Core and builtins
4135-----------------
4136
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004137- Issue #1733757: The interpreter would hang on shutdown if the
4138 tracing function set by sys.settrace is still active and happens to
4139 call threading.currentThread().
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd7a26512008-04-03 23:07:55 +00004140
Georg Brandl91e0cda2008-03-29 01:50:06 +00004141- Patch #1442: properly report exceptions when the PYTHONSTARTUP file
4142 cannot be executed.
4143
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc69b747b2008-03-28 20:30:50 +00004144- The compilation of a class nested in another class used to leak one
4145 reference on the outer class name.
4146
Georg Brandlfc8eef32008-03-28 12:11:56 +00004147- Patch #1810: compile() can now compile _ast trees as returned by
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004148 ``compile(..., PyCF_ONLY_AST)``.
Georg Brandlfc8eef32008-03-28 12:11:56 +00004149
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004150- Patch #2426: Added sqlite3.Connection.iterdump method to allow easy
4151 dumping of databases. Contributed by Paul Kippes at PyCon 2008.
Gregory P. Smithb9803422008-03-28 08:32:09 +00004152
Georg Brandldeaf2ca2008-03-27 13:27:31 +00004153- Patch #2477: Added from __future__ import unicode_literals.
Christian Heimes3c608332008-03-26 22:01:37 +00004154
Christian Heimes8c78cc32008-03-26 12:53:58 +00004155- Added backport of bytearray type.
4156
Georg Brandl80055f62008-03-25 07:56:27 +00004157- Issue #2355: add Py3k warning for buffer().
4158
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc9a0d3462008-03-23 09:55:29 +00004159- Issue #1477: With narrow Unicode builds, the unicode escape sequence
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004160 \Uxxxxxxxx did not accept values outside the Basic Multilingual
4161 Plane. This affected raw unicode literals and the
4162 'raw-unicode-escape' codec. Now UTF-16 surrogates are generated in
4163 this case, like normal unicode literals and the 'unicode-escape'
4164 codec.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc9a0d3462008-03-23 09:55:29 +00004165
Georg Brandl65bb42d2008-03-21 20:38:24 +00004166- Issue #2348: add Py3k warning for file.softspace.
4167
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004168- Issue #2346/#2347: add Py3k warnings for __methods__ and
4169 __members__.
Georg Brandl07e56812008-03-21 20:21:46 +00004170
Georg Brandl5a444242008-03-21 20:11:46 +00004171- Issue #2358: Add a Py3k warning on sys.exc_clear() usage.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd21fb4c2008-03-05 01:50:33 +00004172
Martin v. Löwisa4d77892008-03-19 04:39:13 +00004173- Issue #2400: Allow relative imports to "import *".
4174
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004175- Issue #1745: Backport print function with ``from __future__ import
4176 print_function``.
Eric Smith7c478942008-03-18 23:45:49 +00004177
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004178- Issue #2332: add new attribute names for instance method objects.
4179 The two changes are: im_self -> __self__ and im_func -> __func__
Neal Norwitzb1d3d962008-03-18 04:46:00 +00004180
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004181- Issue #2379: Raise a Py3K warning for __getitem__ or __getslice__ on
Guido van Rossum6d91be32008-03-18 04:42:22 +00004182 exception instances.
4183
Guido van Rossum04edb522008-03-18 02:49:46 +00004184- Issue #2371: Add a Py3k warning when catching an exception that
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004185 doesn't derive from BaseException.
4186
4187- Issue #2341: Add a Py3k warning when raising an exception that
4188 doesn't derive from BaseException.
Guido van Rossum04edb522008-03-18 02:49:46 +00004189
Neal Norwitz419fd492008-03-17 20:22:43 +00004190- Issue #2321: use pymalloc for unicode object string data to reduce
4191 memory usage in some circumstances.
4192
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004193- PEP 3127: octal literals now start with "0o". Old-style octal
4194 literals are still valid. There are binary literals with a prefix of
4195 "0b". This also affects int(x, 0).
Eric Smith0aed07a2008-03-17 19:43:40 +00004196
Georg Brandl1e7c3752008-03-25 08:37:23 +00004197- Issue #2359: Adding deprecation warnings for array.{read,write}.
4198
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004199- Issue #1779871: GNU gcc can now build Python on OS X because the
Jeffrey Yasskin1b4e45b2008-03-17 14:40:53 +00004200 flags -Wno-long-double, -no-cpp-precomp, and -mno-fused-madd are no
4201 longer passed.
4202
Neal Norwitz400aeda2008-03-15 22:03:18 +00004203- Add a warning when asserting a non-empty tuple which is always true.
4204
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004205- Issue #2179: speed up with statement execution by storing the exit
4206 method on the stack instead of in a temporary variable (patch by
4207 Jeffrey Yaskin)
Nick Coghlan7af53be2008-03-07 14:13:28 +00004208
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004209- Issue #2238: Some syntax errors in *args and **kwargs expressions
4210 could give bogus error messages.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd21fb4c2008-03-05 01:50:33 +00004211
Sean Reifscheider68fa8e62008-03-20 00:50:07 +00004212- Issue #2143: Fix embedded readline() hang on SSL socket EOF.
4213
Andrew M. Kuchling46d6b682008-04-30 16:19:55 +00004214Extension Modules
4215-----------------
Martin v. Löwisaef18b12008-03-24 13:31:16 +00004216
4217- Patch #2240: Implement signal.setitimer and signal.getitimer.
4218
Thomas Heller78b8f442008-03-05 14:53:39 +00004219Library
4220-------
4221
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004222- Issue #2315: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now accounts
4223 for daylight savings time in calculating the next rollover.
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00004224
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004225- Issue #2316: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now
4226 calculates rollovers correctly even when nothing is logged for a
4227 while.
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00004228
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004229- Issue #2317: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now uses
4230 improved logic for removing old files.
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00004231
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004232- Issue #2495: tokenize.untokenize now inserts a space between two
4233 consecutive string literals; previously, ["" ""] was rendered as
4234 [""""], which is incorrect python code.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcda0c0252008-03-27 23:23:54 +00004235
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004236- Issue #2248: return the result of the QUIT command. from
4237 SMTP.quit().
Georg Brandldeaf2ca2008-03-27 13:27:31 +00004238
Christian Heimes8c78cc32008-03-26 12:53:58 +00004239- Backport of Python 3.0's io module.
4240
Mark Dickinson8e85ffa2008-03-25 18:47:59 +00004241- Issue #2482: Make sure that the coefficient of a Decimal is always
4242 stored as a str instance, not as a unicode instance. This ensures
4243 that str(Decimal) is always an instance of str.
4244
Mark Dickinson3b24ccb2008-03-25 14:33:23 +00004245- Issue #2478: fix failure of decimal.Decimal(0).sqrt()
4246
Georg Brandl77354cf2008-03-21 20:01:51 +00004247- Issue #2432: give DictReader the dialect and line_num attributes
4248 advertised in the docs.
4249
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004250- Issue #2460: Make Ellipsis object copyable.
Raymond Hettingerb72233c2008-03-24 08:17:39 +00004251
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004252- Issue #1681432: Add triangular distribution to the random module
Raymond Hettingerbbc50ea2008-03-23 13:32:32 +00004253
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004254- Issue #2136: urllib2's auth handler now allows single-quoted realms
4255 in the WWW-Authenticate header.
Georg Brandl33124322008-03-21 19:54:00 +00004256
Marc-André Lemburga1867752008-03-20 18:08:00 +00004257- Issue #2434: Enhanced platform.win32_ver() to also work on Python
4258 installation which do not have the win32all package installed.
4259
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004260- Added support to platform.uname() to also report the machine and
4261 processor information on Windows XP and later. As a result,
Marc-André Lemburga1867752008-03-20 18:08:00 +00004262 platform.machine() and platform.processor() will report this
4263 information as well.
4264
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004265- The library implementing the 2to3 conversion, lib2to3, was added to
4266 the standard distribution.
Martin v. Löwis5e37bae2008-03-19 04:43:46 +00004267
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004268- Issue #1747858: Fix chown to work with large uid's and gid's on
4269 64-bit platforms.
Gregory P. Smith37f3f432008-03-18 20:40:01 +00004270
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004271- Issue #1202: zlib.crc32 and zlib.adler32 no longer return different
4272 values on 32-bit vs. 64-bit python interpreters. Both were correct,
4273 but they now both return a signed integer object for consistency.
Gregory P. Smithf48f9d32008-03-17 18:48:05 +00004274
Skip Montanaro32ed8c22008-03-15 16:07:11 +00004275- Issue #1158: add %f format (fractions of a second represented as
4276 microseconds) to datetime objects. Understood by both strptime and
4277 strftime.
4278
Mark Dickinsonc23b8a72008-03-14 14:23:37 +00004279- Issue #705836: struct.pack(">f", x) now raises OverflowError on all
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004280 platforms when x is too large to fit into an IEEE 754 float;
4281 previously it only raised OverflowError on non IEEE 754 platforms.
Mark Dickinsonc23b8a72008-03-14 14:23:37 +00004282
Andrew M. Kuchlingaac5c862008-05-11 14:00:00 +00004283- Issues #2166, #1741 and #1531505: now distutils deals with HOME
4284 correctly under win32
4285
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004286- Patch #1858: distutils: added multiple server support in .pypirc
Andrew M. Kuchlingaac5c862008-05-11 14:00:00 +00004287
Facundo Batistac54aec12008-03-08 16:50:27 +00004288- Issue #1106316: pdb.post_mortem()'s parameter, "traceback", is now
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004289 optional: it defaults to the traceback of the exception that is
4290 currently being handled (is mandatory to be in the middle of an
4291 exception, otherwise it raises ValueError).
Facundo Batistac54aec12008-03-08 16:50:27 +00004292
Jeffrey Yasskine75f59a2008-03-07 06:22:15 +00004293- Issue #1193577: A .shutdown() method has been added to SocketServers
4294 which terminates the .serve_forever() loop.
4295
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004296- Issue #2220: handle rlcompleter attribute match failure more
4297 gracefully.
Georg Brandl98aa8052008-03-06 07:45:52 +00004298
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004299- Issue #2225: py_compile, when executed as a script, now returns a
4300 non- zero status code if not all files could be compiled
4301 successfully.
Georg Brandla7bd27f2008-03-06 07:41:16 +00004302
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004303- Bug #1725737: In distutils' sdist, exclude RCS, CVS etc. also in the
Georg Brandl810ea292008-03-06 07:34:52 +00004304 root directory, and also exclude .hg, .git, .bzr, and _darcs.
4305
Thomas Hellerf3c05592008-03-05 15:34:29 +00004306- Issue #1872: The struct module typecode for _Bool has been changed
4307 from 't' to '?'.
4308
Thomas Heller78b8f442008-03-05 14:53:39 +00004309- The bundled libffi copy is now in sync with the recently released
4310 libffi3.0.4 version, apart from some small changes to
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004311 Modules/_ctypes/libffi/configure.ac. On OS X, preconfigured libffi
4312 files are used. On all linux systems the --with-system-ffi
4313 configure option defaults to "yes".
Thomas Heller78b8f442008-03-05 14:53:39 +00004314
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004315- Issue #1577: shutil.move() now calls os.rename() if the destination
4316 is a directory instead of copying-then-remove-source.
Sean Reifscheider493894c2008-03-18 17:24:12 +00004317
Martin v. Löwisd2bbe522008-03-06 06:55:22 +00004318Tests
4319-----
4320
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004321- test_nis no longer fails when test.test_support.verbose is true and
4322 NIS is not set up on the testing machine.
Brett Cannon7919d982008-03-19 16:50:13 +00004323
Brett Cannona5573b32008-03-18 04:16:06 +00004324- Output comparison tests are no longer supported.
4325
Brett Cannonb7ec8e52008-03-18 03:46:22 +00004326- Rewrite test_errno to use unittest and no longer be a no-op.
4327
Brett Cannon0bb79502008-03-18 01:58:56 +00004328- GHOP 234: Convert test_extcall to doctest.
4329
Brett Cannonba17cfc2008-03-18 01:50:25 +00004330- GHOP 290: Convert test_dbm and test_dummy_threading to unittest.
4331
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004332- GHOP 293: Convert test_strftime, test_getargs, and test_pep247 to
4333 unittest.
Brett Cannon6eeaddc2008-03-18 01:00:07 +00004334
Brett Cannon1f5182b2008-03-13 21:09:28 +00004335- Issue #2055: Convert test_fcntl to unittest.
4336
Brett Cannon4a6e8d62008-03-13 21:02:16 +00004337- Issue 1960: Convert test_gdbm to unittest.
4338
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004339- GHOP 294: Convert test_contains, test_crypt, and test_select to
4340 unittest.
Brett Cannon2e0f9f32008-03-13 20:47:41 +00004341
Brett Cannonb8d37352008-03-13 20:33:10 +00004342- GHOP 238: Convert test_tokenize to use doctest.
4343
Brett Cannon66865d22008-03-13 20:27:00 +00004344- GHOP 237: Rewrite test_thread using unittest.
4345
Martin v. Löwisd2bbe522008-03-06 06:55:22 +00004346- Patch #2232: os.tmpfile might fail on Windows if the user has no
4347 permission to create files in the root directory.
4348
Martin v. Löwisbf7b0b72008-03-14 13:56:09 +00004349Build
4350-----
4351
Martin v. Löwiscdbc9772008-03-24 12:57:53 +00004352- A new script 2to3 is now installed, to run the 2.x to 3.x converter.
4353
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004354- Python/memmove.c and Python/strerror.c have been removed; both
4355 functions are in the C89 standard library.
Brett Cannonaa5778d2008-03-18 04:09:00 +00004356
Martin v. Löwisbf7b0b72008-03-14 13:56:09 +00004357- Patch #2284: Add -x64 option to rt.bat.
Barry Warsaw65475fd2008-03-01 17:11:41 +00004358
Christian Heimes3c608332008-03-26 22:01:37 +00004359C API
4360-----
4361
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00004362- Patch #2477: Added PyParser_ParseFileFlagsEx() and
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004363 PyParser_ParseStringFlagsFilenameEx().
4364
Christian Heimes3c608332008-03-26 22:01:37 +00004365
Nick Coghlanbb0996c2006-09-03 01:20:46 +00004366What's New in Python 2.6 alpha 1?
4367=================================
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00004368
Barry Warsaw7c075232008-03-01 02:53:36 +00004369*Release date: 29-Feb-2008*
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00004370
4371Core and builtins
4372-----------------
4373
Fred Drakea8ee94b2008-03-01 02:45:07 +00004374- Issue #2051: pyc and pyo files are no longer created with permission
Barry Warsaw52973612008-03-01 02:23:38 +00004375 644. The mode is now inherited from the py file.
Christian Heimes40346852008-02-23 17:52:07 +00004376
Georg Brandlad61bc82008-02-23 15:11:18 +00004377- Issue #2067: file.__exit__() now calls subclasses' close() method.
4378
4379- Patch #1759: Backport of PEP 3129 class decorators.
Christian Heimes5224d282008-02-23 15:01:05 +00004380
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00004381- Issue #1881: An internal parser limit has been increased. Also see
Facundo Batistafc2d0102008-02-23 12:01:13 +00004382 issue 215555 for a discussion.
4383
Eric Smitha73fbe72008-02-23 03:09:44 +00004384- Added the future_builtins module, which contains hex() and oct().
4385 These are the PEP 3127 version of these functions, designed to be
4386 compatible with the hex() and oct() builtins from Python 3.0. They
4387 differ slightly in their output formats from the existing, unchanged
4388 Python 2.6 builtins. The expected usage of the future_builtins
4389 module is:
4390 from future_builtins import hex, oct
4391
Eric Smith7ef40bf2008-02-20 23:34:22 +00004392- Issue #1600: Modifed PyOS_ascii_formatd to use at most 2 digit
4393 exponents for exponents with absolute value < 100. Follows C99
4394 standard. This is a change on Windows, which would use 3 digits.
4395 Also, added 'n' to the formats that PyOS_ascii_formatd understands,
4396 so that any alterations it does to the resulting string will be
4397 available in stringlib/formatter.h (for float.__format__).
4398
Eric Smith5a3c1352008-02-19 13:21:56 +00004399- Implemented PEP 3101, Advanced String Formatting. This adds a new
4400 builtin format(); a format() method for str and unicode; a
4401 __format__() method to object, str, unicode, int, long, float, and
4402 datetime; the class string.Formatter; and the C API
4403 PyObject_Format().
4404
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004405- Fixed several potential crashes, all caused by specially crafted
4406 __del__ methods exploiting objects in temporarily inconsistent
4407 state.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc632fad32008-02-16 20:55:24 +00004408
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00004409- Issue #2115: Important speedup in setting __slot__ attributes. Also
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004410 prevent a possible crash: an Abstract Base Class would try to access
4411 a slot on a registered virtual subclass.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc60d6c7f2008-02-15 21:22:45 +00004412
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004413- Fixed repr() and str() of complex numbers with infinity or nan as
4414 real or imaginary part.
Christian Heimes2f0da532008-02-15 06:57:08 +00004415
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004416- Clear all free lists during a gc.collect() of the highest generation
4417 in order to allow pymalloc to free more arenas. Python may give back
4418 memory to the OS earlier.
Christian Heimes3b718a72008-02-14 12:47:33 +00004419
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004420- Issue #2045: Fix an infinite recursion triggered when printing a
4421 subclass of collections.defaultdict, if its default_factory is set
4422 to a bound method.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcb01aa432008-02-08 00:56:02 +00004423
Christian Heimesf75dbef2008-02-08 00:11:31 +00004424- Fixed a minor memory leak in dictobject.c. The content of the free
4425 list was not freed on interpreter shutdown.
4426
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00004427- Limit free list of method and built-in function objects to 256
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004428 entries each.
Christian Heimes6075a822008-02-06 12:44:34 +00004429
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004430- Patch #1953: Added ``sys._compact_freelists()`` and the C API
4431 functions ``PyInt_CompactFreeList`` and ``PyFloat_CompactFreeList``
Christian Heimes422051a2008-02-04 18:00:12 +00004432 to compact the internal free lists of pre-allocted ints and floats.
4433
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004434- Issue #1983: Fixed return type of fork(), fork1() and forkpty()
4435 calls. Python expected the return type int but the fork familie
4436 returns pi_t.
Christian Heimes951cc0f2008-01-31 23:08:23 +00004437
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004438- Issue #1678380: Fix a bug that identifies 0j and -0j when they
4439 appear in the same code unit.
Mark Dickinson105be772008-01-31 22:17:37 +00004440
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004441- Issue #2025: Add tuple.count() and tuple.index() methods to comply
4442 with the collections.Sequence API.
Raymond Hettinger5b07ebc2008-02-07 00:54:20 +00004443
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004444- Patch #1970 by Antoine Pitrou: Speedup unicode whitespace and
4445 linebreak detection
Christian Heimes4d4f2702008-01-30 11:32:37 +00004446
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004447- Added ``PyType_ClearCache()`` and ``sys._clear_type_cache`` to clear
4448 the internal lookup cache for ref leak tests.
Christian Heimes908caac2008-01-27 23:34:59 +00004449
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004450- Patch #1473257: generator objects gain a gi_code attribute. This is
4451 the same object as the func_code attribute of the function that
4452 produced the generator.
Georg Brandl0cdf9a32008-01-26 14:14:20 +00004453
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004454- Issue #1920: "while 0" statements were completely removed by the
4455 compiler, even in the presence of an "else" clause, which is
4456 supposed to be run when the condition is false. Now the compiler
4457 correctly emits bytecode for the "else" suite.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc31eaafe2008-01-24 22:59:25 +00004458
Guido van Rossumeead05f2008-01-24 18:21:02 +00004459- A few crashers fixed: weakref_in_del.py (issue #1377858);
4460 loosing_dict_ref.py (issue #1303614, test67.py);
4461 borrowed_ref_[34].py (not in tracker).
4462
Vinay Sajipd7cf32e2008-01-24 12:43:33 +00004463- Issue #1069410: The "can't load dll" message box on Windows is
Christian Heimesb2302ba2008-01-23 17:15:06 +00004464 suppressed while an extension is loaded by calling SetErrorMode in
4465 dynload_win.c. The error is still reported properly.
4466
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004467- Issue #1915: Python compiles with --enable-unicode=no again. However
Christian Heimes082c9b02008-01-23 14:20:50 +00004468 several extension methods and modules do not work without unicode
4469 support.
4470
Georg Brandl26543b12008-01-21 18:36:51 +00004471- Issue #1882: when compiling code from a string, encoding cookies in the
4472 second line of code were not always recognized correctly.
4473
Georg Brandl14404b62008-01-19 19:27:05 +00004474- Issue #1679: "0x" was taken as a valid integer literal.
4475
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00004476- Issue #1865: ``bytes`` as an alias for ``str`` and b"" as an alias "" were
Christian Heimes288e89a2008-01-18 18:24:07 +00004477 added.
4478
Christian Heimesc94e2b52008-01-14 04:13:37 +00004479- sys.float_info / PyFloat_GetInfo: The floating point information
4480 object was converted from a dict to a specialized structseq object.
4481
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004482- Patch #1816: Added sys.flags structseq. It exposes the status of
4483 most command line arguments and PYTHON* environment variables.
Christian Heimesf31b69f2008-01-14 03:42:48 +00004484
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004485- Objects/structseq.c: Implemented new structseq representation. The
4486 patch makes structseqs (e.g. the return value of os.stat) more
4487 readable.
Christian Heimes9c201962008-01-14 03:33:52 +00004488
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004489- Patch #1700288: added a type attribute cache that caches method
4490 accesses, resulting in speedups in heavily object-oriented code.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arce4c270c2008-01-14 00:29:41 +00004491
Neal Norwitz3fc15b82008-01-10 05:42:58 +00004492- Bug #1776: __import__() no longer accepts filenames on any platform.
4493 The first parameter to __import__() must be a valid module name.
Christian Heimes3403f152008-01-09 19:56:33 +00004494
Georg Brandlaed6c662008-01-07 17:25:53 +00004495- Patch #1668: renamed THREADDEBUG envvar to PYTHONTHREADDEBUG.
4496
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004497- Patch #602345: Add -B command line option, PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE
4498 envvar and sys.dont_write_bytecode attribute. All these can be set
4499 to forbid Python to attempt to write compiled bytecode files.
Georg Brandl2da0fce2008-01-07 17:09:35 +00004500
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004501- Improve some exception messages when Windows fails to load an
4502 extension module. Now we get for example '%1 is not a valid Win32
4503 application' instead of 'error code 193'.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arce0b76952008-01-04 02:04:15 +00004504
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004505- Bug #1481296: Fixed long(float('nan')) != 0L.
Christian Heimes8267d1d2008-01-04 00:37:34 +00004506
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004507- Issue #1640: Added math.isinf(x), math.isnan(x) and math.copysign(x,
4508 y) functions.
Christian Heimese2ca4242008-01-03 20:23:15 +00004509
Christian Heimes0a8143f2007-12-18 23:22:54 +00004510- Issue #1635: Platform independent creation and representation of NaN
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004511 and INF. float("nan"), float("inf") and float("-inf") now work on
4512 every platform with IEEE 754 semantics.
Christian Heimes0a8143f2007-12-18 23:22:54 +00004513
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004514- Compiler now generates simpler and faster code for dictionary
4515 literals. The oparg for BUILD_MAP now indicates an estimated
4516 dictionary size. There is a new opcode, STORE_MAP, for adding
4517 entries to the dictionary.
Raymond Hettingerfd7ed402007-12-18 21:24:09 +00004518
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004519- Issue #1638: %zd configure test fails on Linux.
Christian Heimesdb3d6cb2007-12-16 21:39:43 +00004520
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004521- Issue #1620: New property decorator syntax was modifying the
4522 decorator in place instead of creating a new decorator object.
Christian Heimes90e10e72007-12-14 02:35:23 +00004523
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004524- Issue #1538: Avoid copying string in split/rsplit if the split char
4525 is not found.
Skip Montanaro26015492007-12-08 15:33:24 +00004526
Andrew M. Kuchling395fe442007-12-05 13:27:20 +00004527- Issue #1553: An erroneous __length_hint__ can make list() raise a
Christian Heimes7cc1c6f2007-12-05 12:52:34 +00004528 SystemError.
4529
Nick Coghlanef01d822007-12-03 12:55:17 +00004530- PEP 366: Allow explicit relative imports when executing modules
4531 inside packages with the -m switch via a new module level
4532 __package__ attribute.
4533
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004534- Issue #1402: Fix a crash on exit, when another thread is still
4535 running, and if the deallocation of its frames somehow calls the
4536 PyGILState_Ensure() / PyGILState_Release() functions.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcbe49a902007-11-30 20:37:22 +00004537
Christian Heimes28104c52007-11-27 23:16:44 +00004538- Expose the Py_Py3kWarningFlag as sys.py3kwarning.
4539
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00004540- Issue #1445: Fix a SystemError when accessing the ``cell_contents``
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcce7d10c2007-11-24 13:44:17 +00004541 attribute of an empty cell object.
4542
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004543- Issue #1460: The utf-7 incremental decoder did not accept truncated
4544 input. It now correctly saves its state between chunks of data.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcf57375a2007-11-21 01:38:26 +00004545
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004546- Patch #1739468: Directories and zipfiles containing a __main__.py
4547 file can now be directly executed by passing their name to the
4548 interpreter. The directory/zipfile is automatically inserted as the
4549 first entry in sys.path.
Nick Coghlan327a39b2007-11-18 11:56:28 +00004550
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004551- Issue #1265: Fix a problem with sys.settrace, if the tracing
4552 function uses a generator expression when at the same time the
4553 executed code is closing a paused generator.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc0d75f092007-11-13 21:54:28 +00004554
Raymond Hettinger1760c8a2007-11-08 02:52:43 +00004555- sets and frozensets now have an isdisjoint() method.
4556
Raymond Hettinger3f8caa32007-10-24 01:28:33 +00004557- optimize the performance of builtin.sum().
4558
Neal Norwitz44f326e2007-10-05 05:29:17 +00004559- Fix warnings found by the new version of the Coverity checker.
4560
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00004561- The enumerate() built-in function is no longer bounded to sequences
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004562 smaller than LONG_MAX. Formerly, it raised an OverflowError. Now,
4563 automatically shifts from ints to longs.
Raymond Hettinger8f669372007-10-03 21:18:11 +00004564
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004565- Issue #1686386: Tuple's tp_repr did not take into account the
4566 possibility of having a self-referential tuple, which is possible
4567 from C code. Nor did object's tp_str consider that a type's tp_str
4568 could do something that could lead to an inifinite recursion.
4569 Py_ReprEnter() and Py_EnterRecursiveCall(), respectively, fixed the
4570 issues.
Brett Cannon0b14f242007-09-30 19:45:10 +00004571
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004572- Issue #1164: It was possible to trigger deadlock when using the
4573 'print' statement to write to a file since the GIL was not released
4574 as needed. Now PyObject_Print() does the right thing along with
4575 various tp_print implementations of the built-in types and those in
4576 the collections module.
Brett Cannon01531592007-09-17 03:28:34 +00004577
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004578- Issue #1147: Exceptions were directly allowing string exceptions in
4579 their throw() method even though string exceptions no longer
4580 allowed.
Brett Cannon4c20bc42007-09-11 21:02:28 +00004581
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004582- Issue #1096: Prevent a segfault from getting the repr of a very
4583 deeply nested list by using the recursion counter.
Brett Cannona0c05512007-09-10 21:38:27 +00004584
Brett Cannon1e534b52007-09-07 04:18:30 +00004585- Issue #1202533: Fix infinite recursion calls triggered by calls to
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004586 PyObject_Call() never calling back out to Python code to trigger
4587 recursion depth updates/checks. Required the creation of a static
4588 RuntimeError instance in case normalizing an exception put the
4589 recursion check value past its limit. Fixes crashers
4590 infinite_rec_(1|2|4|5).py.
Brett Cannon1e534b52007-09-07 04:18:30 +00004591
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004592- Patch #1031213: Decode source line in SyntaxErrors back to its
4593 original source encoding.
Martin v. Löwisa5136192007-09-04 14:19:28 +00004594
Georg Brandl7c3b50d2007-07-12 08:38:00 +00004595- Patch #1673759: add a missing overflow check when formatting floats
4596 with %G.
4597
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004598- Prevent expandtabs() on string and unicode objects from causing a
4599 segfault when a large width is passed on 32-bit platforms.
Neal Norwitz7dbd2a32007-06-09 03:36:34 +00004600
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004601- Issue #1733488: Fix compilation of bufferobject.c on AIX.
Martin v. Löwisda587ab2007-06-08 17:29:20 +00004602
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004603- Issue #1722485: remove docstrings again when running with -OO.
Georg Brandla5ea6892007-06-01 11:33:33 +00004604
Neal Norwitz0ac60192007-05-27 04:08:54 +00004605- Add new attribute names for function objects. All the func_* become
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004606 __*__ attributes. (Some already existed, e.g., __doc__ and
4607 __name__.)
Neal Norwitz0ac60192007-05-27 04:08:54 +00004608
Neal Norwitz8b2bfbc2007-05-23 06:35:32 +00004609- Add -3 option to the interpreter to warn about features that are
4610 deprecated and will be changed/removed in Python 3.0.
4611
Georg Brandl2134e752007-05-21 20:34:16 +00004612- Patch #1686487: you can now pass any mapping after '**' in function
4613 calls.
4614
Collin Winter62903052007-05-18 23:11:24 +00004615- except clauses may now be spelled either "except E, target:" or
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004616 "except E as target:". This is to provide forwards compatibility
4617 with Python 3.0.
Collin Winter62903052007-05-18 23:11:24 +00004618
Brett Cannon229cee22007-05-05 01:34:02 +00004619- Deprecate BaseException.message as per PEP 352.
4620
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004621- Issue #1303614: don't expose object's __dict__ when the dict is
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00004622 inherited from a built-in base.
Armin Rigo9790a272007-05-02 19:23:31 +00004623
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00004624- When __slots__ are set to a unicode string, make it work the same as
Neal Norwitzcbd9ee62007-04-14 05:25:50 +00004625 setting a plain string, ie don't expand to single letter identifiers.
4626
Raymond Hettinger13936692007-04-11 18:40:58 +00004627- Request #1191699: Slices can now be pickled.
4628
Raymond Hettinger4db5fe92007-04-12 04:10:00 +00004629- Request #1193128: str.translate() now allows a None argument for
4630 translations that only remove characters without re-mapping the
4631 remaining characters.
4632
Georg Brandl5cb76c12007-03-21 09:00:39 +00004633- Patch #1682205: a TypeError while unpacking an iterable is no longer
4634 masked by a generic one with the message "unpack non-sequence".
4635
Neal Norwitzaa754b72007-03-21 06:39:48 +00004636- Remove unused file Python/fmod.c.
4637
Guido van Rossum143b5642007-03-23 04:58:42 +00004638- Bug #1683368: The object.__init__() and object.__new__() methods are
4639 now stricter in rejecting excess arguments. The only time when
4640 either allows excess arguments is when it is not overridden and the
4641 other one is. For backwards compatibility, when both are
4642 overridden, it is a deprecation warning (for now; maybe a Py3k
Guido van Rossum234b1ff2007-03-23 19:39:01 +00004643 warning later). Also, type.__init__() insists on the same signature
4644 as supported by type.__new__().
Guido van Rossum143b5642007-03-23 04:58:42 +00004645
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004646- Patch #1675423: PyComplex_AsCComplex() now tries to convert an
4647 object to complex using its __complex__() method before falling back
4648 to the __float__() method. Therefore, the functions in the cmath
4649 module now can operate on objects that define a __complex__()
4650 method.
Georg Brandl2b869942007-03-17 16:08:45 +00004651
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004652- Patch #1623563: allow __class__ assignment for classes with
4653 __slots__. The old and the new class are still required to have the
4654 same slot names.
Žiga Seilnacht6f2d09c2007-03-16 11:59:38 +00004655
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004656- Patch #1642547: Fix an error/crash when encountering syntax errors
4657 in complex if statements.
Collin Winter77c67bd2007-03-16 04:11:30 +00004658
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004659- Patch #1462488: Python no longer segfaults when
4660 ``object.__reduce_ex__()`` is called with an object that is faking
4661 its type.
Žiga Seilnacht20f43d32007-03-15 11:44:55 +00004662
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004663- Patch #1680015: Don't modify __slots__ tuple if it contains an
4664 unicode name.
Žiga Seilnacht71436f02007-03-14 12:24:09 +00004665
Georg Brandl5240d742007-03-13 20:46:32 +00004666- Patch #1444529: the builtin compile() now accepts keyword arguments.
4667
Georg Brandl7b9c5552007-03-12 14:30:05 +00004668- Bug #1678647: write a newline after printing an exception in any
4669 case, even when converting the value to a string failed.
4670
Georg Brandl871f1bc2007-03-12 13:17:36 +00004671- The dir() function has been extended to call the __dir__() method on
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004672 its argument, if it exists. If not, it will work like before. This
4673 allows customizing the output of dir() in the presence of a
4674 __getattr__().
Georg Brandl871f1bc2007-03-12 13:17:36 +00004675
Collin Winter276887b2007-03-12 16:11:39 +00004676- Patch #922167: Python no longer segfaults when faced with infinitely
4677 self-recursive reload() calls (as reported by bug #742342).
4678
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004679- Patch #1675981: remove unreachable code from ``type.__new__()``
4680 method.
Žiga Seilnacht89032082007-03-11 15:54:54 +00004681
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004682- Patch #1491866: change the complex() constructor to allow
4683 parthensized forms. This means complex(repr(x)) now works instead of
4684 raising a ValueError.
Collin Wintere38051d2007-03-09 20:33:07 +00004685
Georg Brandlaa2321b2007-03-07 00:40:28 +00004686- Patch #703779: unset __file__ in __main__ after running a file. This
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004687 makes the filenames the warning module prints much more sensible
4688 when a PYTHONSTARTUP file is used.
Georg Brandlaa2321b2007-03-07 00:40:28 +00004689
Georg Brandl49aafc92007-03-07 00:34:46 +00004690- Variant of patch #697613: don't exit the interpreter on a SystemExit
4691 exception if the -i command line option or PYTHONINSPECT environment
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004692 variable is given, but break into the interactive interpreter just
4693 like on other exceptions or normal program exit.
Georg Brandl49aafc92007-03-07 00:34:46 +00004694
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004695- Patch #1638879: don't accept strings with embedded NUL bytes in
4696 long().
Georg Brandl00cd8182007-03-06 18:41:12 +00004697
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004698- Bug #1674503: close the file opened by execfile() in an error
4699 condition.
Georg Brandl098cd692007-03-06 12:17:50 +00004700
Georg Brandl0fca97a2007-03-05 22:28:08 +00004701- Patch #1674228: when assigning a slice (old-style), check for the
4702 sq_ass_slice instead of the sq_slice slot.
4703
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004704- When printing an unraisable error, don't print exceptions. before
4705 the name. This duplicates the behavior whening normally printing
4706 exceptions.
Neal Norwitz88516a62007-02-26 22:41:45 +00004707
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004708- Bug #1653736: Properly discard third argument to
4709 slot_nb_inplace_power.
Martin v. Löwisfd963262007-02-09 12:19:32 +00004710
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004711- PEP 352: Raising a string exception now triggers a TypeError.
4712 Attempting to catch a string exception raises DeprecationWarning.
Brett Cannon129bd522007-01-30 21:34:36 +00004713
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004714- Bug #1377858: Fix the segfaulting of the interpreter when an object
4715 created a weakref on itself during a __del__ call for new-style
4716 classes (classic classes still have the bug).
Brett Cannonf5bee302007-01-23 23:21:22 +00004717
Martin v. Löwis6c5c5022007-01-23 21:11:47 +00004718- Bug #1579370: Make PyTraceBack_Here use the current thread, not the
4719 frame's thread state.
4720
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004721- patch #1630975: Fix crash when replacing sys.stdout in
4722 sitecustomize.py.
Thomas Wouters6ed19652007-01-23 13:50:49 +00004723
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004724- Prevent seg fault on shutdown which could occur if an object raised
4725 a warning.
Neal Norwitz72cd02c2007-01-05 05:25:22 +00004726
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004727- Bug #1566280: Explicitly invoke threading._shutdown from Py_Main, to
4728 avoid relying on atexit.
Martin v. Löwis7b7c9d42007-01-04 21:06:12 +00004729
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004730- Bug #1590891: random.randrange don't return correct value for big
4731 number.
Raymond Hettinger94547f72006-12-20 06:42:06 +00004732
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004733- Patch #1586791: Better exception messages for some operations on
4734 strings, tuples and lists.
Georg Brandl283a1352006-11-19 08:48:30 +00004735
Martin v. Löwis056dac12006-11-12 18:24:26 +00004736- Bug #1067760: Deprecate passing floats to file.seek.
4737
Martin v. Löwisa346c092006-11-08 06:48:36 +00004738- Bug #1591996: Correctly forward exception in instance_contains().
4739
Neal Norwitz85dbec62006-11-04 19:25:22 +00004740- Bug #1588287: fix invalid assertion for `1,2` in debug builds.
4741
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004742- Bug #1576657: when setting a KeyError for a tuple key, make sure
4743 that the tuple isn't used as the "exception arguments tuple".
Georg Brandlb9f4ad32006-10-29 18:31:42 +00004744
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004745- Bug #1565514: SystemError not raised on too many nested blocks.
Neal Norwitz21997af2006-10-28 21:19:07 +00004746
Thomas Hellerdf08f0b2006-10-27 18:31:36 +00004747- Bug #1576174: WindowsError now displays the windows error code
4748 again, no longer the posix error code.
4749
Martin v. Löwisb5bc5372006-10-27 06:16:31 +00004750- Patch #1549049: Support long values in structmember, issue warnings
4751 if the assigned value for structmember fields gets truncated.
4752
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004753- Update the peephole optimizer to remove more dead code (jumps after
4754 returns) and inline unconditional jumps to returns.
Neal Norwitzcbeb6872006-10-14 21:33:38 +00004755
Georg Brandl2c1375c2006-10-12 11:27:59 +00004756- Bug #1545497: when given an explicit base, int() did ignore NULs
4757 embedded in the string to convert.
4758
Georg Brandl846f73a2006-10-08 07:11:54 +00004759- Bug #1569998: break inside a try statement (outside a loop) is now
4760 recognized and rejected.
4761
Armin Rigo7ccbca92006-10-04 12:17:45 +00004762- list.pop(x) accepts any object x following the __index__ protocol.
4763
Armin Rigo7ccbca92006-10-04 12:17:45 +00004764- A number of places, including integer negation and absolute value,
4765 were fixed to not rely on undefined behaviour of the C compiler
4766 anymore.
Martin v. Löwis820d6ac2006-10-04 05:47:34 +00004767
Georg Brandl3267d282006-09-30 09:03:42 +00004768- Bug #1566800: make sure that EnvironmentError can be called with any
4769 number of arguments, as was the case in Python 2.4.
4770
Georg Brandl5d59c092006-09-30 08:43:30 +00004771- Patch #1567691: super() and new.instancemethod() now don't accept
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004772 keyword arguments any more (previously they accepted them, but
4773 didn't use them).
Georg Brandl5d59c092006-09-30 08:43:30 +00004774
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004775- Fix a bug in the parser's future statement handling that led to
4776 "with" not being recognized as a keyword after, e.g., this
4777 statement: from __future__ import division, with_statement
Georg Brandla10d3af2006-09-24 12:35:36 +00004778
Neal Norwitz3a230172006-09-22 08:18:10 +00004779- Bug #1557232: fix seg fault with def f((((x)))) and def f(((x),)).
4780
Neal Norwitz4a8fbdb2006-09-22 08:16:26 +00004781- Fix %zd string formatting on Mac OS X so it prints negative numbers.
4782
Brett Cannonf6aa86e2006-09-20 18:43:13 +00004783- Allow exception instances to be directly sliced again.
4784
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004785- Bug #1551432: Exceptions do not define an explicit __unicode__
4786 method. This allows calling unicode() on exceptions classes
4787 directly to succeed.
Brett Cannon9adeab72006-09-20 18:34:28 +00004788
Georg Brandl4e933132006-09-06 20:05:58 +00004789- Bug #1542051: Exceptions now correctly call PyObject_GC_UnTrack.
4790 Also make sure that every exception class has __module__ set to
4791 'exceptions'.
4792
Georg Brandl98775df2006-09-06 06:09:31 +00004793- Bug #1550983: emit better error messages for erroneous relative
4794 imports (if not in package and if beyond toplevel package).
4795
Tim Petersc10c9d02006-09-05 02:18:09 +00004796- Overflow checking code in integer division ran afoul of new gcc
4797 optimizations. Changed to be more standard-conforming.
4798
Neal Norwitz4f096d92006-08-21 19:47:08 +00004799- Patch #1542451: disallow continue anywhere under a finally.
4800
Neal Norwitza22975f2006-09-05 02:24:03 +00004801- Patch #1546288: fix seg fault in dict_equal due to ref counting bug.
4802
Neal Norwitzd34e4272006-09-05 02:36:20 +00004803- The return tuple from str.rpartition(sep) is (tail, sep, head) where
4804 head is the original string if sep was not found.
4805
Neal Norwitzdac090d2006-09-05 03:53:08 +00004806- Bug #1520864: unpacking singleton tuples in list comprehensions and
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004807 generator expressions (x for x, in ... ) works again. Fixing this
4808 problem required changing the .pyc magic number. This means that
4809 .pyc files generated before 2.5c2 will be regenerated.
Neal Norwitzdac090d2006-09-05 03:53:08 +00004810
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00004811- ``with`` and ``as`` are now keywords.
Neal Norwitzca460d92006-09-06 06:28:06 +00004812
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004813- Bug #1664966: Fix crash in exec if Unicode filename can't be
4814 decoded.
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00004815
Guido van Rossumcad37242008-01-15 17:59:29 +00004816- Issue #1537: Changed GeneratorExit's base class from Exception to
4817 BaseException.
Christian Heimes44eeaec2007-12-03 20:01:02 +00004818
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004819- Issue #1703448: A joined thread could show up in the
Gregory P. Smith95cd5c02008-01-22 01:20:42 +00004820 threading.enumerate() list after the join() for a brief period until
4821 it actually exited.
4822
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00004823
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00004824Library
4825-------
4826
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004827- Patch #2274: Add heapq.heappushpop().
Raymond Hettinger53bdf092008-03-13 19:03:51 +00004828
Christian Heimes608c1d82008-03-03 18:28:04 +00004829- Add inspect.isabstract(object) to fix bug #2223
4830
Mark Dickinson1ddf1d82008-02-29 02:16:37 +00004831- Add a __format__ method to Decimal, to support PEP 3101.
4832
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004833- Add a timing parameter when using trace.Trace to print out
4834 timestamps.
Neal Norwitzca376612008-02-26 08:21:28 +00004835
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004836- Issue #1627: httplib now ignores negative Content-Length headers.
Georg Brandl8c460d52008-02-24 00:14:24 +00004837
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004838- Issue #900744: If an invalid chunked-encoding header is sent by a
4839 server, httplib will now raise IncompleteRead and close the
4840 connection instead of raising ValueError.
Georg Brandl23635032008-02-24 00:03:22 +00004841
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004842- Issue #1492: The content type of BaseHTTPServer error messages can
4843 now be overridden.
Georg Brandl16479232008-02-23 15:02:28 +00004844
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004845- Issue #1781: ConfigParser now does not let you add the "default" section
Facundo Batistab12f0b52008-02-23 12:46:10 +00004846 (ignore-case)
4847
Guido van Rossum8bc09652008-02-21 18:18:37 +00004848- Removed uses of dict.has_key() from distutils, and uses of
4849 callable() from copy_reg.py, so the interpreter now starts up
4850 without warnings when '-3' is given. More work like this needs to
4851 be done in the rest of the stdlib.
4852
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004853- Issue #1916: added isgenerator() and isgeneratorfunction() to
4854 inspect.py.
Facundo Batista759bfc62008-02-18 03:43:43 +00004855
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004856- Issue #1224: Fixed bad url parsing when path begins with double
4857 slash.
Facundo Batistad14600e2008-02-18 12:48:43 +00004858
Thomas Hellera06a1a82008-02-13 20:21:53 +00004859- ctypes instances that are not or do not contain pointers can now be
4860 pickled.
4861
Martin v. Löwisdad88dc2008-02-12 18:47:34 +00004862- Patch #1966: Break infinite loop in httplib when the servers
4863 implements the chunked encoding incorrectly.
4864
Mark Dickinsond058cd22008-02-10 21:29:51 +00004865- Rename rational.py to fractions.py and the rational.Rational class
4866 to fractions.Fraction, to avoid the name clash with the abstract
4867 base class numbers.Rational. See discussion in issue #1682.
4868
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004869- The pickletools module now provides an optimize() function that
4870 eliminates unused PUT opcodes from a pickle string.
Raymond Hettingerda614dc2008-02-10 20:35:16 +00004871
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004872- Patch #2021: Allow tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile and
4873 SpooledTemporaryFile to be used in with statements by correctly
4874 supporting the context management protocol.
Nick Coghlanac094dc2008-02-10 07:32:52 +00004875
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004876- Patch #1979: Add rich comparisons to Decimal, and make Decimal
4877 comparisons involving a NaN follow the IEEE 754 standard.
Mark Dickinson2fc92632008-02-06 22:10:50 +00004878
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004879- Issue #2004: tarfile.py: Use mode 0700 for temporary directories and
4880 default permissions for missing directories.
Lars Gustäbel0192e432008-02-05 11:51:40 +00004881
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004882- Issue #175006: The debugger used to skip the condition of a "while"
4883 statement after the first iteration. Now it correctly steps on the
4884 expression, and breakpoints on the "while" statement are honored on
4885 each loop.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc6fd03bb2008-02-04 21:45:05 +00004886
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004887- Issue #1765140: add an optional delay argument to FileHandler and
4888 its subclasses. Defaults to false (existing behaviour), but if true,
Vinay Sajipd7cf32e2008-01-24 12:43:33 +00004889 defers opening the file until the first call to emit().
4890
Raymond Hettingerc226c312008-01-23 00:04:40 +00004891- The pprint module now supports sets and frozensets.
4892
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004893- Issue #1221598: add optional callbacks to ftplib.FTP's storbinary()
4894 and storlines() methods. (Contributed by Phil Schwartz)
Gregory P. Smithc64386b2008-01-22 00:19:41 +00004895
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004896- Issue #1715: include sub-extension modules in pydoc's text output.
Georg Brandlf2dae0e2008-01-21 21:05:49 +00004897
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004898- Issue #1836: fix an off-by-one bug in TimedRotatingHandler's
4899 rollover time calculation.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00004900
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004901- Issue #1021: fix a bug to allow basicConfig to accept NOTSET as a
4902 level.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00004903
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004904- Issue #932563: add LoggerAdapter convenience class to make it easier
4905 to add contextual information in logging output.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00004906
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004907- Issue #1760556: fix a bug to avoid FileHandler throwing an exception
4908 in flush().
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00004909
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004910- Bug #1530959: distutils' build command now uses different build
4911 directory when building extension modules against versions of Python
4912 compiled with ``--with-pydebug``.
Georg Brandl50160152008-01-21 17:42:40 +00004913
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004914- Issue #1555501: move plistlib from plat-mac directory to general
4915 library.
Georg Brandl864de822008-01-21 16:34:07 +00004916
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004917- Issue #1269: fix a bug in pstats.add_callers() and add a unit test
4918 file for pstats.
Georg Brandl66e73632008-01-21 10:24:59 +00004919
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004920- Issue #1669: don't allow shutil.rmtree() to be called on a symlink
4921 to a directory.
Georg Brandl52353982008-01-20 14:17:42 +00004922
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004923- Issue #1664522: in urllib, don't read non-existing directories in
4924 ftp mode, returning a 0-byte file -- raise an IOError instead.
Georg Brandld5e6cf22008-01-20 12:18:17 +00004925
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004926- Issue #856047: respect the ``no_proxy`` environment variable when
4927 using the ``http_proxy`` etc. environment variables in urllib.
Georg Brandl22350112008-01-20 12:05:43 +00004928
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004929- Issue #1178141: add a getcode() method to the addinfourls that
4930 urllib.open() returns so that you can retrieve the HTTP status code.
Georg Brandl9b0d46d2008-01-20 11:43:03 +00004931
Gregory P. Smithf25680a2008-01-20 01:26:04 +00004932- Issue #1003: Fix zipfile decryption check, it would fail zip files
4933 with extended local headers.
4934
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004935- Issue #1189216: Fix the zipfile module to work on archives with
4936 headers past the 2**31 byte boundary.
Gregory P. Smith350d03b2008-01-19 23:10:52 +00004937
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004938- Issue #1336: fix a race condition in subprocess.Popen if the garbage
Gregory P. Smithb9ba0752008-01-19 21:00:37 +00004939 collector kicked in at the wrong time that would cause the process
4940 to hang when the child wrote to stderr.
4941
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004942- Issue #1146: fix how textwrap breaks a long word that would start in
4943 the last column of a line.
Georg Brandlc6fde722008-01-19 19:48:19 +00004944
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004945- Issue #1693149: trace.py --ignore-module - accept multiple
4946 comma-separated modules to be given.
Skip Montanaro562133b2008-01-19 18:47:24 +00004947
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004948- Issue #1822: MIMEMultipart.is_multipart() behaves correctly for a
4949 just-created (and empty) instance. Thanks Jonathan Share.
Facundo Batista2b1b1952008-01-19 12:32:27 +00004950
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004951- Issue #1861: Added an attribute to the sched module which returns an
4952 ordered list of upcoming events (displayed as named tuples).
Raymond Hettinger44bd6c02008-01-17 19:31:38 +00004953
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004954- Issue #1837: The queue module now also supports a LIFO queue and a
4955 priority queue.
Raymond Hettinger3ad2acc82008-01-16 23:49:35 +00004956
Andrew M. Kuchling4a2762d2008-01-20 00:00:38 +00004957- Patch #1048820: Add insert-mode editing to curses.textpad.Textbox
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00004958 (patch by Stefan Wehr). Also, fix an off-by-one bug in
Andrew M. Kuchling4a2762d2008-01-20 00:00:38 +00004959 Textbox.gather().
4960
Thomas Heller02ec2892008-01-16 19:37:33 +00004961- Issue #1831: ctypes now raises a TypeError if conflicting positional
4962 and named arguments are passed to a Structure or Union initializer.
Thomas Heller415c1e32008-01-16 19:45:51 +00004963 When too many positional arguments are passed, also a TypeError is
4964 raised instead of a ValueError.
Thomas Heller02ec2892008-01-16 19:37:33 +00004965
Thomas Heller902d3072008-01-16 19:16:27 +00004966- Convert the internal ctypes array type cache to a WeakValueDict so
4967 that array types do not live longer than needed.
4968
Guido van Rossumcad37242008-01-15 17:59:29 +00004969- Issue #1786: pdb should use its own stdin/stdout around an exec call
4970 and when creating a recursive instance.
4971
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004972- Issue #1698398: ZipFile.printdir() crashed because the format string
4973 expected a tuple type of length six instead of time.struct_time
4974 object.
Raymond Hettinger351e1a32008-01-14 22:58:05 +00004975
Mark Dickinson59bc20b2008-01-12 01:56:00 +00004976- Issue #1780: The Decimal constructor now accepts arbitrary leading
4977 and trailing whitespace when constructing from a string.
4978 Context.create_decimal no longer accepts trailing newlines.
4979
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004980- Decimal.as_tuple(), difflib.find_longest_match() and inspect
4981 functions that returned a tuple now return a named tuple.
Georg Brandl2f32c392008-01-11 09:20:58 +00004982
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00004983- Doctest now returns results as a named tuple for readability:
Raymond Hettingerfff4e6e2008-01-11 01:25:54 +00004984 (0, 7) --> TestResults(failed=0, attempted=7)
4985
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004986- Issue #846388:q re.match is interruptible now, which is particularly
Facundo Batista4473d222008-01-08 21:10:12 +00004987 good for long regular expression matches.
4988
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004989- Patch #1137: allow setting buffer_size attribute on pyexpat Parser
4990 objects to set the character data buffer size.
Andrew M. Kuchlinge0a49b62008-01-08 14:30:55 +00004991
Facundo Batista52b25792008-01-08 12:25:20 +00004992- Issue #1757: The hash of a Decimal instance is no longer affected by
4993 the current context.
4994
Georg Brandl62416bc2008-01-07 18:47:44 +00004995- Patch #467924: add ZipFile.extract() and ZipFile.extractall() in the
4996 zipfile module.
4997
Christian Heimesfb2d25a2008-01-07 16:12:44 +00004998- Issue #1646: Make socket support the TIPC protocol.
4999
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005000- Bug #1742: return os.curdir from os.path.relpath() if both arguments
5001 are equal instead of raising an exception.
Georg Brandl183a0842008-01-06 14:27:15 +00005002
Guido van Rossumc6a04c22008-01-05 22:19:06 +00005003- Patch #1637: fix urlparse for URLs like 'http://x.com?arg=/foo'.
5004
Guido van Rossumced4eb02008-01-05 01:21:57 +00005005- Patch #1698: allow '@' in username parsed by urlparse.py.
5006
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005007- Issue #1735: TarFile.extractall() now correctly sets directory
5008 permissions and times.
Lars Gustäbel2ee1c762008-01-04 14:00:33 +00005009
Christian Heimes06875612008-01-04 13:21:07 +00005010- Bug #1713: posixpath.ismount() claims symlink to a mountpoint is a mountpoint.
5011
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005012- Bug #1687: Fxed plistlib.py restricts <integer> to Python int when
5013 writing
Christian Heimes06131882008-01-04 00:04:52 +00005014
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005015- Issue #1700: Regular expression inline flags incorrectly handle
5016 certain unicode characters.
Guido van Rossumae04c332008-01-03 19:12:44 +00005017
Jeffrey Yasskin2f3c16b2008-01-03 02:21:52 +00005018- Issue #1689: PEP 3141, numeric abstract base classes.
5019
Martin v. Löwis84b9aab2008-01-01 21:09:07 +00005020- Tk issue #1851526: Return results from Python callbacks to Tcl as
5021 Tcl objects.
5022
Thomas Heller153038e2007-12-18 19:00:34 +00005023- Issue #1642: Fix segfault in ctypes when trying to delete attributes.
5024
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005025- Issue #1727780: Support loading pickles of random.Random objects
5026 created on 32-bit systems on 64-bit systems, and vice versa. As a
5027 consequence of the change, Random pickles created by Python 2.6
5028 cannot be loaded in Python 2.5.
Martin v. Löwis6b449f42007-12-03 19:20:02 +00005029
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005030- Issue #1455: The distutils package now supports VS 2005 and VS 2008
5031 for both the msvccompiler and cygwincompiler.
Christian Heimesc654fc22007-12-03 13:55:16 +00005032
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005033- Issue #1531: tarfile.py: Read fileobj from the current offset, do
5034 not seek to the start.
Lars Gustäbel77b2d632007-12-01 21:02:12 +00005035
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005036- Issue #1534: Added a dictionary sys.float_info with information
5037 about the internal floating point type to the sys module.
Christian Heimesdfdfaab2007-12-01 11:20:10 +00005038
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005039- Issue #1429818: patch for trace and doctest modules so they play
5040 nicely together.
Skip Montanaro58a6f442007-11-24 14:30:47 +00005041
Brett Cannon43e53f82007-11-21 00:47:36 +00005042- doctest made a bad assumption that a package's __loader__.get_data()
5043 method used universal newlines.
5044
Nick Coghlan90b858e2007-11-07 11:57:51 +00005045- Issue #1705170: contextlib.contextmanager was still swallowing
5046 StopIteration in some cases. This should no longer happen.
5047
Thomas Heller486b1b02007-11-02 19:10:24 +00005048- Issue #1292: On alpha, arm, ppc, and s390 linux systems the
5049 --with-system-ffi configure option defaults to "yes".
5050
Hye-Shik Changa838a802007-10-28 11:19:02 +00005051- IN module for FreeBSD 8 is added and preexisting FreeBSD 6 and 7
5052 files are updated.
5053
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005054- Issues #1181, #1287: unsetenv() is now called when the
5055 os.environ.pop() and os.environ.clear() methods are used.
Georg Brandl1a94ec22007-10-24 21:40:38 +00005056
Thomas Heller91ac4222007-10-19 18:11:41 +00005057- ctypes will now work correctly on 32-bit systems when Python is
5058 configured with --with-system-ffi.
5059
Thomas Heller7fee6dd2007-10-11 19:51:32 +00005060- Patch #1203: ctypes now does work on OS X when Python is built with
Georg Brandl1a94ec22007-10-24 21:40:38 +00005061 --disable-toolbox-glue.
Thomas Heller7fee6dd2007-10-11 19:51:32 +00005062
Raymond Hettingera7fc4b12007-10-05 02:47:07 +00005063- collections.deque() now supports a "maxlen" argument.
5064
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005065- itertools.count() is no longer bounded to LONG_MAX. Formerly, it
5066 raised an OverflowError. Now, automatically shifts from ints to
5067 longs.
Raymond Hettinger50e90e22007-10-04 00:20:27 +00005068
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005069- Added itertools.product() which forms the Cartesian product of the
5070 input iterables.
Raymond Hettingerc5705a82008-02-22 19:50:06 +00005071
Raymond Hettinger66f91ea2008-03-05 20:59:58 +00005072- Added itertools.combinations() and itertools.permutations().
Raymond Hettinger93e804d2008-02-26 23:40:50 +00005073
Georg Brandlaff85e22007-09-20 16:06:07 +00005074- Patch #1541463: optimize performance of cgi.FieldStorage operations.
5075
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005076- Decimal is fully updated to the latest Decimal Specification
5077 (v1.66).
Facundo Batistab67da232007-09-17 16:26:50 +00005078
Georg Brandl8fd3ecf2007-09-12 19:00:07 +00005079- Bug #1153: repr.repr() now doesn't require set and dictionary items
5080 to be orderable to properly represent them.
5081
Thomas Heller2825b2e2007-09-07 06:32:17 +00005082- A 'c_longdouble' type was added to the ctypes module.
5083
Martin v. Löwis7dcb83c2007-08-30 19:04:09 +00005084- Bug #1709599: Run test_1565150 only if the file system is NTFS.
5085
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005086- When encountering a password-protected robots.txt file the
5087 RobotFileParser no longer prompts interactively for a username and
5088 password (bug 813986).
Skip Montanaro3e275362007-08-29 01:33:45 +00005089
Lars Gustäbel0f4a14b2007-08-28 12:31:09 +00005090- TarFile.__init__() no longer fails if no name argument is passed and
5091 the fileobj argument has no usable name attribute (e.g. StringIO).
5092
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005093- The functools module now provides 'reduce', for forward
5094 compatibility with Python 3000.
Guido van Rossum95f1a1b2007-08-27 20:52:10 +00005095
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005096- Server-side SSL support and cert verification added, by Bill
5097 Janssen.
Guido van Rossum4f2c3dd2007-08-25 15:08:43 +00005098
Bill Janssenf413fb02007-08-30 18:08:06 +00005099- socket.ssl deprecated; use new ssl module instead.
5100
Georg Brandl8ec57542007-08-24 06:10:01 +00005101- uuid creation is now threadsafe.
5102
Hye-Shik Chang23901042007-08-20 06:49:18 +00005103- EUC-KR codec now handles the cheot-ga-keut composed make-up hangul
5104 syllables.
5105
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005106- GB18030 codec now can encode additional two-byte characters that are
5107 missing in GBK.
Hye-Shik Changf3e93a02007-08-04 04:10:18 +00005108
Walter Dörwald6e390802007-08-17 16:41:28 +00005109- Add new codecs for UTF-32, UTF-32-LE and UTF-32-BE.
5110
Martin v. Löwisf1e0b3f2007-07-28 07:03:05 +00005111- Bug #1704793: Return UTF-16 pair if unicodedata.lookup cannot
5112 represent the result in a single character.
5113
Martin v. Löwisf25e35b2007-07-27 18:28:22 +00005114- Bug #978833: Close https sockets by releasing the _ssl object.
5115
Martin v. Löwis254b8f92007-07-25 16:24:23 +00005116- Change location of the package index to pypi.python.org/pypi
5117
Thomas Hellerfa704c62007-07-13 17:12:23 +00005118- Bug #1701409: Fix a segfault in printing ctypes.c_char_p and
5119 ctypes.c_wchar_p when they point to an invalid location. As a
5120 sideeffect the representation of these instances has changed.
5121
Lars Gustäbel104490e2007-06-18 11:42:11 +00005122- tarfile.py: Added "exclude" keyword argument to TarFile.add().
5123
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005124- Bug #1734723: Fix repr.Repr() so it doesn't ignore the maxtuple
5125 attribute.
Neal Norwitzc161cb92007-06-11 07:29:43 +00005126
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005127- The urlopen function of urllib2 now has an optional timeout
5128 parameter (note that it actually works with HTTP, HTTPS, FTP and
5129 FTPS connections).
Facundo Batista10951d52007-06-06 17:15:23 +00005130
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005131- In ftplib, the FTP.ntransfercmd method, when in passive mode, now
5132 uses the socket.create_connection function, using the timeout
5133 specified at connection time.
Facundo Batista92493122007-06-06 15:13:37 +00005134
Hye-Shik Chang9b541402007-06-05 18:58:51 +00005135- Bug #1728403: Fix a bug that CJKCodecs StreamReader hangs when it
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005136 reads a file that ends with incomplete sequence and sizehint
5137 argument for .read() is specified.
Hye-Shik Chang9b541402007-06-05 18:58:51 +00005138
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005139- Bug #1730389: Change time.strptime() to use ``\s+`` instead of
5140 ``\s*`` when matching spaces in the specified format argument.
Brett Cannonf7188ce2007-06-03 23:13:41 +00005141
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005142- Bugs #1668596/#1720897: distutils now copies data files even if
5143 package_dir is empty.
Neal Norwitz4a700bb2007-06-01 07:29:12 +00005144
Brett Cannonc2aa09a2007-05-31 19:20:00 +00005145- sha now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
5146
Brett Cannon7eec2172007-05-30 22:24:28 +00005147- md5 now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
5148
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005149- Issue #1385: The hmac module now computes the correct hmac when
5150 using hashes with a block size other than 64 bytes (such as sha384
5151 and sha512).
Gregory P. Smithe1ac4f12007-11-06 00:19:03 +00005152
Brett Cannonc249bda2007-05-30 21:48:58 +00005153- mimify now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
5154
Brett Cannon90134c92007-05-30 20:46:26 +00005155- MimeWriter now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
5156
Lars Gustäbela0fcb932007-05-27 19:49:30 +00005157- tarfile.py: Improved unicode support. Unicode input names are now
5158 officially supported. Added "errors" argument to the TarFile class.
5159
Facundo Batista711a54e2007-05-24 17:50:54 +00005160- urllib.ftpwrapper class now accepts an optional timeout.
5161
Georg Brandlc90bc752007-05-24 16:49:29 +00005162- shlex.split() now has an optional "posix" parameter.
5163
Brett Cannon41bf2fa2007-05-20 23:57:38 +00005164- The posixfile module now raises a DeprecationWarning.
5165
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005166- Remove the gopherlib module. This also leads to the removal of
5167 gopher support in urllib/urllib2.
Brett Cannond75f0432007-05-16 22:42:29 +00005168
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005169- Fix bug in marshal where bad data would cause a segfault due to lack
5170 of an infinite recursion check.
Neal Norwitzb1a9b372007-05-16 20:05:11 +00005171
Neal Norwitze0e70a42007-05-16 05:06:33 +00005172- Removed plat-freebsd2 and plat-freebsd3 directories (and IN.py in
5173 the directories).
5174
Georg Brandla09a96a2007-05-15 20:19:34 +00005175- HTML-escape the plain traceback in cgitb's HTML output, to prevent
5176 the traceback inadvertently or maliciously closing the comment and
5177 injecting HTML into the error page.
5178
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005179- The popen2 module and os.popen* are deprecated. Use the subprocess
5180 module.
Neal Norwitz42dd86b2007-05-11 06:57:33 +00005181
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005182- Added an optional credentials argument to SMTPHandler, for use with
5183 SMTP servers which require authentication.
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00005184
5185- Patch #1695948: Added optional timeout parameter to SocketHandler.
5186
5187- Bug #1652788: Minor fix for currentframe.
5188
5189- Patch #1598415: Added WatchedFileHandler to better support external
5190 log file rotation using e.g. newsyslog or logrotate. This handler is
5191 only useful in Unix/Linux environments.
5192
Georg Brandlfb4b3b72007-04-24 15:27:13 +00005193- Bug #1706381: Specifying the SWIG option "-c++" in the setup.py file
5194 (as opposed to the command line) will now write file names ending in
5195 ".cpp" too.
5196
Facundo Batistad918a652007-04-24 13:54:38 +00005197- As specified in RFC 2616, an HTTP response like 2xx indicates that
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005198 the client's request was successfully received, understood, and
5199 accepted. Now in these cases no error is raised in urllib (issue
5200 #1177) and urllib2.
Facundo Batistad918a652007-04-24 13:54:38 +00005201
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005202- Bug #1290505: time.strptime's internal cache of locale information
5203 is now properly recreated when the locale is changed.
Brett Cannonc6906652007-04-01 18:47:27 +00005204
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005205- Patch #1685563: remove (don't add) duplicate paths in
5206 distutils.MSVCCompiler.
Neal Norwitz8f35f442007-04-01 18:24:22 +00005207
Facundo Batistab6a5c9d2007-03-29 18:22:35 +00005208- Added a timeout parameter to the constructor of other protocols
5209 (telnetlib, ftplib, smtplib and poplib). This is second part of the
5210 work started with create_connection() and timeout in httplib, and
5211 closes patch #723312.
5212
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00005213- Patch #1676823: Added create_connection() to socket.py, which may be
5214 called with a timeout, and use it from httplib (whose HTTPConnection
Facundo Batista70f996b2007-05-21 17:32:32 +00005215 and HTTPSConnection now accept an optional timeout).
Facundo Batista07c78be2007-03-23 18:54:07 +00005216
Martin v. Löwis0af33882007-03-23 13:27:15 +00005217- Bug #978833: Revert r50844, as it broke _socketobject.dup.
5218
Žiga Seilnacht7492e422007-03-21 20:07:56 +00005219- Bug #1675967: re patterns pickled with Python 2.4 and earlier can
5220 now be unpickled with Python 2.5 and newer.
5221
Collin Wintera8785cc2007-03-19 18:52:08 +00005222- Patch #1630118: add a SpooledTemporaryFile class to tempfile.py.
5223
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005224- Patch #1273829: os.walk() now has a "followlinks" parameter. If set
5225 to True (which is not the default), it visits symlinks pointing to
Georg Brandlcae9f3d2007-03-21 09:10:29 +00005226 directories.
5227
Georg Brandl8f06d022007-03-16 07:55:09 +00005228- Bug #1681228: the webbrowser module now correctly uses the default
5229 GNOME or KDE browser, depending on whether there is a session of one
5230 of those present. Also, it tries the Windows default browser before
5231 trying Mozilla variants.
5232
Collin Winter6f187742007-03-16 22:16:08 +00005233- Patch #1339796: add a relpath() function to os.path.
5234
Georg Brandlab1f4672007-03-15 07:41:30 +00005235- Patch #1681153: the wave module now closes a file object it opened if
5236 initialization failed.
5237
Georg Brandlf66b6032007-03-14 08:27:52 +00005238- Bug #767111: fix long-standing bug in urllib which caused an
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005239 AttributeError instead of an IOError when the server's response
5240 didn't contain a valid HTTP status line.
Georg Brandlf66b6032007-03-14 08:27:52 +00005241
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005242- Patch #957650: "%var%" environment variable references are now
5243 properly expanded in ntpath.expandvars(), also "~user" home
5244 directory references are recognized and handled on Windows.
Georg Brandl03b90d82007-03-13 22:07:36 +00005245
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005246- Patch #1429539: pdb now correctly initializes the __main__ module
5247 for the debugged script, which means that imports from __main__ work
Georg Brandlb6ae6aa2007-03-13 21:58:44 +00005248 correctly now.
5249
Georg Brandlbad6f192007-03-13 21:32:56 +00005250- The nonobvious commands.getstatus() function is now deprecated.
5251
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005252- Patch #1393667: pdb now has a "run" command which restarts the
5253 debugged Python program, optionally with different arguments.
Georg Brandl8e84c652007-03-13 21:08:15 +00005254
Thomas Heller5dc4fe02007-03-13 20:42:52 +00005255- Patch #1649190: Adding support for _Bool to ctypes as c_bool.
5256
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005257- Patch #1530482: add pydoc.render_doc() which returns the
5258 documentation for a thing instead of paging it to stdout, which
5259 pydoc.doc() does.
Georg Brandl8441f152007-03-13 20:02:57 +00005260
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005261- Patch #1533909: the timeit module now accepts callables in addition
5262 to strings for the code to time and the setup code. Also added two
5263 convenience functions for instantiating a Timer and calling its
5264 methods.
Georg Brandld9bef352007-03-13 19:32:21 +00005265
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005266- Patch #1537850: tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile now has a "delete"
5267 parameter which can be set to False to prevent the default
5268 delete-on-close behavior.
Georg Brandl35ef9c12007-03-13 18:31:49 +00005269
Georg Brandl9e6b4702007-03-13 18:15:41 +00005270- Patch #1581073: add a flag to textwrap that prevents the dropping of
5271 whitespace while wrapping.
5272
Georg Brandl92a6bae2007-03-13 17:43:32 +00005273- Patch #1603688: ConfigParser.SafeConfigParser now checks values that
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005274 are set for invalid interpolation sequences that would lead to
5275 errors on reading back those values.
Georg Brandl92a6bae2007-03-13 17:43:32 +00005276
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005277- Added support for the POSIX.1-2001 (pax) format to
5278 tarfile.py. Extended and cleaned up the test suite. Added a new
5279 testtar.tar.
Lars Gustäbelc64e4022007-03-13 10:47:19 +00005280
Martin v. Löwisbdd0f392007-03-13 10:24:00 +00005281- Patch #1449244: Support Unicode strings in
5282 email.message.Message.{set_charset,get_content_charset}.
5283
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005284- Patch #1542681: add entries for "with", "as" and "CONTEXTMANAGERS"
5285 to pydoc's help keywords.
Georg Brandlb6a87542007-03-13 10:06:48 +00005286
Georg Brandl4ffc8f52007-03-13 09:41:31 +00005287- Patch #1555098: use str.join() instead of repeated string
5288 concatenation in robotparser.
5289
Georg Brandl94fe3f52007-03-13 09:32:11 +00005290- Patch #1635454: the csv.DictWriter class now includes the offending
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005291 field names in its exception message if you try to write a record
5292 with a dictionary containing fields not in the CSV field names list.
Georg Brandl94fe3f52007-03-13 09:32:11 +00005293
Georg Brandlceede5c2007-03-13 08:14:27 +00005294- Patch #1668100: urllib2 now correctly raises URLError instead of
5295 OSError if accessing a local file via the file:// protocol fails.
5296
Martin v. Löwis2681beb2007-03-12 11:01:10 +00005297- Patch #1677862: Require a space or tab after import in .pth files.
5298
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005299- Patch #1192590: Fix pdb's "ignore" and "condition" commands so they
5300 trap the IndexError caused by passing in an invalid breakpoint
5301 number.
Collin Winter2faa9e12007-03-11 16:00:20 +00005302
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005303- Patch #1599845: Add an option to disable the implicit calls to
5304 server_bind() and server_activate() in the constructors for
5305 TCPServer, SimpleXMLRPCServer and DocXMLRPCServer.
Collin Winterae041062007-03-10 14:41:48 +00005306
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005307- Bug #1531963: Make SocketServer.TCPServer's server_address always be
5308 equal to calling getsockname() on the server's socket. Fixed by
Collin Winterfaaa2042007-03-10 03:35:34 +00005309 patch #1545011.
Collin Winter22c42ba2007-03-10 02:51:26 +00005310
Andrew M. Kuchlinge45a77a2008-01-19 16:26:13 +00005311- Patch #742598: Add .timeout attribute to SocketServer that calls
5312 .handle_timeout() when no requests are received.
5313
Thomas Heller2456a3c2007-03-09 20:39:22 +00005314- Bug #1651235: When a tuple was passed to a ctypes function call,
5315 Python would crash instead of raising an error.
5316
Thomas Hellerc2f77252007-03-09 19:21:28 +00005317- Bug #1646630: ctypes.string_at(buf, 0) and ctypes.wstring_at(buf, 0)
5318 returned string up to the first NUL character.
5319
Martin v. Löwis1190a382007-03-09 15:35:55 +00005320- Patch #957003: Implement smtplib.LMTP.
5321
Collin Winterfb728de2007-03-09 03:26:32 +00005322- Patch #1481079: add support for HTTP_REFERER to CGIHTTPServer.
5323
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005324- Patch #1675424: Added tests for uncovered code in the zipfile
5325 module. The KeyError raised by Zipfile.getinfo for nonexistent
5326 names now has a descriptive message.
Georg Brandl4b3ab6f2007-07-12 09:59:22 +00005327
Martin v. Löwis05c075d2007-03-07 11:04:33 +00005328- Bug #1115886: os.path.splitext('.cshrc') gives now ('.cshrc', '').
5329
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005330- unittest now verifies more of its assumptions. In particular,
5331 TestCase and TestSuite subclasses (not instances) are no longer
5332 accepted in TestSuite.addTest(). This should cause no
5333 incompatibility since it never made sense with ordinary subclasses
5334 -- the failure just occurred later, with a more cumbersome
5335 exception.
Georg Brandl9caadf82007-03-08 18:37:31 +00005336
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005337- Patch #787789: allow to pass custom TestRunner instances to
5338 unittest's main() function.
Georg Brandld0a96252007-03-07 09:21:06 +00005339
Georg Brandl15c5ce92007-03-07 09:09:40 +00005340- Patches #1550273, #1550272: fix a few bugs in unittest and add a
5341 comprehensive test suite for the module.
5342
Georg Brandl71ff6462007-03-07 08:31:51 +00005343- Patch #1001604: glob.glob() now returns unicode filenames if it was
5344 given a unicode argument and os.listdir() returns unicode filenames.
5345
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005346- Patch #1673619: setup.py identifies extension modules it doesn't
5347 know how to build and those it knows how to build but that fail to
5348 build.
Skip Montanarod1287322007-03-06 15:41:38 +00005349
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00005350- Patch #912410: Replace HTML entity references for attribute values
Martin v. Löwisab8a6bb2007-03-06 14:43:00 +00005351 in HTMLParser.
5352
Georg Brandlff432e62007-03-06 13:37:45 +00005353- Patch #1663234: you can now run doctest on test files and modules
5354 using "python -m doctest [-v] filename ...".
5355
Martin v. Löwis3eb76482007-03-06 10:41:24 +00005356- Patch #1121142: Implement ZipFile.open.
5357
Skip Montanarof694b1b2007-03-04 20:54:12 +00005358- Taught setup.py how to locate Berkeley DB on Macs using MacPorts.
5359
Raymond Hettinger00166c52007-02-19 04:08:43 +00005360- Added heapq.merge() for merging sorted input streams.
5361
Raymond Hettingercd3c1082007-10-23 21:23:07 +00005362- Added collections.namedtuple() for assigning field names to tuples.
Raymond Hettingerc37e5e02007-03-01 06:16:43 +00005363
Raymond Hettingerd36862c2007-02-21 05:20:38 +00005364- Added itertools.izip_longest().
5365
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005366- Have the encoding package's search function dynamically import using
5367 absolute import semantics.
Brett Cannon971a0122007-02-15 22:54:39 +00005368
Lars Gustäbel5b1a7852007-02-13 16:09:24 +00005369- Patch #1647484: Renamed GzipFile's filename attribute to name.
5370
Martin v. Löwis84f6de92007-02-13 10:10:39 +00005371- Patch #1517891: Mode 'a' for ZipFile now creates the file if it
5372 doesn't exist.
5373
Martin v. Löwisc6d626e2007-02-13 09:49:38 +00005374- Patch #698833: Support file decryption in zipfile.
5375
Martin v. Löwis07aa3ed2007-02-13 08:34:45 +00005376- Patch #685268: Consider a package's __path__ in imputil.
5377
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005378- Patch #1463026: Support default namespace in XMLGenerator.
Martin v. Löwis2bad58f2007-02-12 12:21:10 +00005379
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005380- Patch #1571379: Make trace's --ignore-dir facility work in the face
5381 of relative directory names.
Skip Montanaro691acf22007-02-11 18:24:37 +00005382
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005383- Bug #1600860: Search for shared python library in LIBDIR, not
5384 lib/python/config, on "linux" and "gnu" systems.
Martin v. Löwis0a203262007-02-09 12:36:48 +00005385
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005386- Patch #1652681: tarfile.py: create nonexistent files in append mode
5387 and allow appending to empty files.
Lars Gustäbel3f8aca12007-02-06 18:38:13 +00005388
Peter Astrand5f9c6ae2007-02-06 15:37:50 +00005389- Bug #1124861: Automatically create pipes if GetStdHandle fails in
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00005390 subprocess.
Peter Astrand5f9c6ae2007-02-06 15:37:50 +00005391
Georg Brandl4ba9e5b2007-01-27 17:59:42 +00005392- Patch #1634778: add missing encoding aliases for iso8859_15 and
5393 iso8859_16.
5394
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005395- Patch #1638243: the compiler package is now able to correctly
5396 compile a with statement; previously, executing code containing a
5397 with statement compiled by the compiler package crashed the
5398 interpreter.
Georg Brandlab496842007-01-27 17:43:02 +00005399
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00005400- Bug #1643943: Fix time.strptime's support for the %U directive.
5401
Lars Gustäbel0713a682007-02-19 09:54:47 +00005402- Patch #1507247: tarfile.py: use current umask for intermediate
5403 directories.
5404
Georg Brandldd7b0522007-01-21 10:35:10 +00005405- Patch #1627441: close sockets properly in urllib2.
5406
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005407- Bug #494589: make ntpath.expandvars behave according to its
5408 docstring.
Sjoerd Mullender33a0a062007-01-16 16:42:38 +00005409
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00005410- Changed platform module API python_version_tuple() to actually
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00005411 return a tuple (it used to return a list).
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00005412
5413- Added new platform module APIs python_branch(), python_revision(),
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00005414 python_implementation() and linux_distribution().
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00005415
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00005416- Added support for IronPython and Jython to the platform module.
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00005417
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005418- The sets module has been deprecated. Use the built-in set/frozenset
5419 types instead.
Brett Cannon093b6702007-01-13 00:29:49 +00005420
Thomas Heller6fd45492007-01-12 20:21:53 +00005421- Bug #1610795: make ctypes.util.find_library work on BSD systems.
5422
Thomas Heller8138c262007-01-11 21:18:56 +00005423- Fixes for 64-bit Windows: In ctypes.wintypes, correct the
5424 definitions of HANDLE, WPARAM, LPARAM data types. Make
5425 parameterless foreign function calls work.
5426
Thomas Hellerfb9d7872007-01-10 20:12:13 +00005427- The version number of the ctypes package changed to "1.1.0".
5428
Vinay Sajipab41c102007-01-09 14:51:36 +00005429- Bug #1627575: logging: Added _open() method to FileHandler which can
5430 be used to reopen files. The FileHandler instance now saves the
5431 encoding (which can be None) in an attribute called "encoding".
5432
Vinay Sajipc9137262007-01-08 18:52:36 +00005433- Bug #411881: logging.handlers: bare except clause removed from
5434 SMTPHandler.emit. Now, only ImportError is trapped.
5435
5436- Bug #411881: logging.handlers: bare except clause removed from
5437 SocketHandler.createSocket. Now, only socket.error is trapped.
5438
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005439- Bug #411881: logging: bare except clause removed from
5440 LogRecord.__init__. Now, only ValueError, TypeError and
5441 AttributeError are trapped.
Vinay Sajipc9137262007-01-08 18:52:36 +00005442
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005443- Patch #1504073: Fix tarfile.open() for mode "r" with a fileobj
5444 argument.
Lars Gustäbela7ba6fc2006-12-27 10:30:46 +00005445
Andrew M. Kuchling71662322006-12-27 03:31:24 +00005446- Patch #1182394 from Shane Holloway: speed up HMAC.hexdigest.
5447
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005448- Patch #1262036: Prevent TarFiles from being added to themselves
5449 under certain conditions.
Lars Gustäbela4b23812006-12-23 17:57:23 +00005450
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005451- Patch #1230446: tarfile.py: fix ExFileObject so that read() and
5452 tell() work correctly together with readline().
Lars Gustäbel6baa5022006-12-23 16:40:13 +00005453
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005454- Patch #1484695: The tarfile module now raises a HeaderError
5455 exception if a buffer given to frombuf() is invalid.
Georg Brandlebbeed72006-12-19 22:06:46 +00005456
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00005457- Bug #1503765: Fix a problem in logging.config with spaces in comma-
5458 separated lists read from logging config files.
5459
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005460- Patch #1604907: Fix problems in logging.handlers caused at logging
5461 shutdown when syslog handlers fail to initialize because of syslogd
5462 problems.
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00005463
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005464- Patch #1608267: fix a race condition in os.makedirs() if the
5465 directory to be created is already there.
Georg Brandlb1307432006-12-09 09:08:29 +00005466
Georg Brandl87fa5592006-12-06 22:21:18 +00005467- Patch #1610437: fix a tarfile bug with long filename headers.
5468
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005469- Patch #1371075: Make ConfigParser accept optional dict type for
5470 ordering, sorting, etc.
Martin v. Löwisa00bcac2006-12-03 12:01:53 +00005471
Thomas Helleref583a42006-11-28 20:21:54 +00005472- Bug #1563807: _ctypes built on AIX fails with ld ffi error.
5473
Thomas Heller25d208b2006-11-24 18:45:39 +00005474- Bug #1598620: A ctypes Structure cannot contain itself.
5475
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005476- Patch #1070046: Marshal new-style objects like InstanceType in
5477 xmlrpclib.
Martin v. Löwis07529352006-11-19 18:51:54 +00005478
Martin v. Löwiscffcc8b2006-11-19 10:41:41 +00005479- cStringIO.truncate(-1) now raises an IOError, like StringIO and
5480 regular files.
5481
Martin v. Löwisbba003e2006-11-18 18:42:11 +00005482- Patch #1472877: Fix Tix subwidget name resolution.
5483
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005484- Patch #1594554: Always close a tkSimpleDialog on ok(), even if an
5485 exception occurs.
Martin v. Löwisef5fd3e2006-11-18 18:05:35 +00005486
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005487- Patch #1538878: Don't make tkSimpleDialog dialogs transient if the
5488 parent window is withdrawn.
Martin v. Löwisc73a4a42006-11-18 18:00:23 +00005489
Georg Brandl54082112006-11-16 16:50:59 +00005490- Bug #1597824: return the registered function from atexit.register()
5491 to facilitate usage as a decorator.
5492
Martin v. Löwis45cd4ff2006-11-12 18:56:03 +00005493- Patch #1360200: Use unmangled_version RPM spec field to deal with
5494 file name mangling.
5495
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005496- Patch #1359217: Process 2xx response in an ftplib transfer that
5497 precedes an 1xx response.
Martin v. Löwis36cbc082006-11-12 18:48:13 +00005498
Martin v. Löwis065f0c82006-11-12 10:41:39 +00005499- Patch #1355023: support whence argument for GzipFile.seek.
5500
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00005501- Patch #1065257: Support passing open files as body in
Martin v. Löwis040a9272006-11-12 10:32:47 +00005502 HTTPConnection.request().
5503
Andrew M. Kuchlinga3e5d372006-11-09 13:27:07 +00005504- Bug #1569790: mailbox.py: Maildir.get_folder() and MH.get_folder()
5505 weren't passing the message factory on to newly created Maildir/MH
5506 objects.
5507
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005508- Patch #1514543: mailbox.py: In the Maildir class, report errors if
5509 there's a filename clash instead of possibly losing a message.
5510 (Patch by David Watson.)
Andrew M. Kuchling978d8282006-11-09 21:16:46 +00005511
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005512- Patch #1514544: Try to ensure that messages/indexes have been
5513 physically written to disk after calling .flush() or
5514 .close(). (Patch by David Watson.)
Andrew M. Kuchlingb5686da2006-11-09 13:51:14 +00005515
Guido van Rossumaf16ece2008-02-21 19:46:35 +00005516- Patch #1592250: Add elide argument to Tkinter.Text.search.
Martin v. Löwis038cad72006-11-09 11:27:32 +00005517
Guido van Rossumaf16ece2008-02-21 19:46:35 +00005518- Patch #838546: Make terminal become controlling in pty.fork().
Martin v. Löwisb2bba732006-11-09 11:06:03 +00005519
Martin v. Löwis5361e9a2006-11-08 07:35:55 +00005520- Patch #1351744: Add askyesnocancel helper for tkMessageBox.
5521
Martin v. Löwis5310e502006-11-04 18:14:06 +00005522- Patch #1060577: Extract list of RPM files from spec file in
Guido van Rossumaf16ece2008-02-21 19:46:35 +00005523 bdist_rpm.
Martin v. Löwis5310e502006-11-04 18:14:06 +00005524
Georg Brandl2c9838e2006-10-29 14:39:09 +00005525- Bug #1586613: fix zlib and bz2 codecs' incremental en/decoders.
5526
Georg Brandl3354f282006-10-29 09:16:12 +00005527- Patch #1583880: fix tarfile's problems with long names and posix/
5528 GNU modes.
5529
Georg Brandl5addf702006-10-29 08:53:06 +00005530- Bug #1586448: the compiler module now emits the same bytecode for
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00005531 list comprehensions as the built-in compiler, using the LIST_APPEND
Georg Brandl5addf702006-10-29 08:53:06 +00005532 opcode.
5533
Georg Brandl8f99f812006-10-29 08:39:22 +00005534- Fix codecs.EncodedFile which did not use file_encoding in 2.5.0, and
5535 fix all codecs file wrappers to work correctly with the "with"
5536 statement (bug #1586513).
5537
Thomas Heller112d1a62006-10-27 19:05:53 +00005538- Lib/modulefinder.py now handles absolute and relative imports
5539 correctly.
5540
Martin v. Löwisee82c0e2006-10-27 07:13:28 +00005541- Patch #1567274: Support SMTP over TLS.
5542
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005543- Patch #1560695: Add .note.GNU-stack to ctypes' sysv.S so that ctypes
5544 isn't considered as requiring executable stacks.
Martin v. Löwis1b2f6272006-10-22 10:55:15 +00005545
Thomas Hellerd2ea4a22006-10-17 19:30:48 +00005546- ctypes callback functions only support 'fundamental' data types as
5547 result type. Raise an error when something else is used. This is a
5548 partial fix for Bug #1574584.
5549
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005550- Fix turtle so that time.sleep is imported for the entire library.
5551 Allows the demo2 function to be executed on its own instead of only
5552 when the module is run as a script.
Brett Cannond80e0c82006-10-16 03:09:52 +00005553
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005554- Bug #813342: Start the IDLE subprocess with -Qnew if the parent is
5555 started with that option.
Georg Brandld0761532006-10-12 07:57:21 +00005556
Martin v. Löwisf43893a2006-10-09 20:44:25 +00005557- Bug #1565150: Fix subsecond processing for os.utime on Windows.
5558
Martin v. Löwis8b274262006-10-04 15:25:28 +00005559- Support for MSVC 8 was added to bdist_wininst.
5560
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005561- Bug #1446043: correctly raise a LookupError if an encoding name
5562 given to encodings.search_function() contains a dot.
Georg Brandla92979a2006-09-30 11:22:28 +00005563
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005564- Bug #1560617: in pyclbr, return full module name not only for
5565 classes, but also for functions.
Georg Brandl154324a2006-09-30 11:06:47 +00005566
Georg Brandl05b3c452006-09-30 10:58:01 +00005567- Bug #1457823: cgi.(Sv)FormContentDict's constructor now takes
5568 keep_blank_values and strict_parsing keyword arguments.
5569
Georg Brandl8d1e5bf2006-09-30 09:13:21 +00005570- Bug #1566602: correct failure of posixpath unittest when $HOME ends
5571 with a slash.
5572
Georg Brandl8c667452006-09-30 07:31:57 +00005573- Bug #1565661: in webbrowser, split() the command for the default
5574 GNOME browser in case it is a command with args.
5575
Georg Brandl5a85d5c2009-06-24 06:41:19 +00005576- Made the error message for time.strptime when the data and
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005577 format do match be more clear.
Brett Cannon11b35352006-09-26 23:38:24 +00005578
Georg Brandlc7986ce2006-09-24 12:50:24 +00005579- Fix a bug in traceback.format_exception_only() that led to an error
5580 being raised when print_exc() was called without an exception set.
5581 In version 2.4, this printed "None", restored that behavior.
5582
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005583- Make webbrowser.BackgroundBrowser usable in Windows (it wasn't
5584 because the close_fds arg to subprocess.Popen is not supported).
Georg Brandl2c94bf72006-09-24 10:36:01 +00005585
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005586- Reverted patch #1504333 to sgmllib because it introduced an infinite
5587 loop.
Neal Norwitzbcc119a2006-09-11 04:24:09 +00005588
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005589- Patch #1553314: Fix the inspect.py slowdown that was hurting IPython
5590 & SAGE by adding smarter caching in inspect.getmodule()
Nick Coghlanb3c18f82006-09-08 10:04:38 +00005591
Georg Brandl4e933132006-09-06 20:05:58 +00005592- Fix missing import of the types module in logging.config.
5593
Nick Coghlanbb0996c2006-09-03 01:20:46 +00005594- Patch #1550886: Fix decimal module context management implementation
Neal Norwitza22975f2006-09-05 02:24:03 +00005595 to match the localcontext() example from PEP 343.
Nick Coghlanbb0996c2006-09-03 01:20:46 +00005596
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005597- Bug #1545341: The 'classifier' keyword argument to the Distutils
5598 setup() function now accepts tuples as well as lists.
Andrew M. Kuchling99994792006-10-09 17:10:12 +00005599
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005600- Bug #1541863: uuid.uuid1 failed to generate unique identifiers on
5601 systems with low clock resolution.
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00005602
Gustavo Niemeyerc36bede2006-09-07 00:48:33 +00005603- Bug #1531862: Do not close standard file descriptors in subprocess.
5604
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005605- idle: Honor the "Cancel" action in the save dialog (Debian bug
5606 #299092).
Matthias Klosea398e2d2007-01-11 11:44:04 +00005607
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005608- Fix utf-8-sig incremental decoder, which didn't recognise a BOM when
5609 the first chunk fed to the decoder started with a BOM, but was
5610 longer than 3 bytes.
Georg Brandl27562782006-10-27 20:39:43 +00005611
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005612- The implementation of UnicodeError objects has been simplified
5613 (start and end attributes are now stored directly as Py_ssize_t
5614 members).
Walter Dörwald84a3efe2007-06-13 16:57:12 +00005615
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005616- Issue #829951: In the smtplib module, SMTP.starttls() now complies
5617 with RFC 3207 and forgets any knowledge obtained from the server not
5618 obtained from the TLS negotiation itself. Patch contributed by Bill
5619 Fenner.
Gregory P. Smith2b3ba582008-01-17 08:03:17 +00005620
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005621- Issue #1339: The smtplib.SMTP class has been refactored a bit such
Gregory P. Smithbde4ae42008-01-17 08:35:49 +00005622 that the SMTP.starttls() caller no longer needs to call ehlo()
5623 beforehand. SMTP.starttls() now raises an exception of the server
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005624 does not claim to support starttls. Adds the
5625 SMTP.ehlo_or_helo_if_needed() method. Patch contributed by Bill
5626 Fenner.
Gregory P. Smithbde4ae42008-01-17 08:35:49 +00005627
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005628- Patch #1089358: Add signal.siginterrupt, a wrapper around
5629 siginterrupt(3).
Georg Brandl29604a12008-01-26 14:03:47 +00005630
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00005631Extension Modules
5632-----------------
5633
Georg Brandl392c6fc2008-05-25 07:25:25 +00005634- Patch #1657: added select.epoll and select.kqueue.
Christian Heimes0e9ab5f2008-03-21 23:49:44 +00005635
Georg Brandlebcfd112008-02-23 23:04:35 +00005636- Patch #1506171: added operator.methodcaller().
5637
Georg Brandle2065c62008-02-23 23:02:23 +00005638- Patch #1826: operator.attrgetter() now supports dotted attribute paths.
5639
Georg Brandl392c6fc2008-05-25 07:25:25 +00005640- Patch #1957: syslogmodule: Release GIL when calling syslog(3).
Christian Heimesf0476e82008-02-23 17:42:31 +00005641
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005642- Bug #2112: mmap.error is now a subclass of EnvironmentError and not
5643 a direct EnvironmentError.
Facundo Batistae1396882008-02-17 18:59:29 +00005644
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005645- Bug #2111: mmap segfaults when trying to write a block opened with
5646 PROT_READ.
Christian Heimes7adfad82008-02-15 08:20:11 +00005647
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005648- Bug #2063: correct order of utime and stime in os.times() result on
5649 Windows.
Georg Brandl0a40ffb2008-02-13 07:20:22 +00005650
Martin v. Löwise0d30ef2008-02-12 13:47:26 +00005651- Patch #1736: Fix file name handling of _msi.FCICreate.
5652
Hye-Shik Chang01612e72008-02-08 17:10:20 +00005653- Updated ``big5hkscs`` codec to the HKSCS revision of 2004.
5654
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005655- Issue #1940: make it possible to use curses.filter() before
5656 curses.initscr() as the documentation says.
Georg Brandl29604a12008-01-26 14:03:47 +00005657
Christian Heimes7f39c9f2008-01-25 12:18:43 +00005658- Backport of _fileio module from Python 3.0.
5659
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005660- Patch #1087741: mmap.mmap is now a class, not a factory function. It
5661 is also subclassable now.
Georg Brandl5ca3fd82008-01-21 14:18:14 +00005662
Georg Brandl56112892008-01-20 13:59:46 +00005663- Patch #1648: added ``sys.getprofile()`` and ``sys.gettrace()``.
5664
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005665- Patch #1663329: added ``os.closerange()`` function to quickly close
5666 a range of file descriptors without considering errors.
Georg Brandl309501a2008-01-19 20:22:13 +00005667
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005668- Patch #976880: ``mmap`` objects now have an ``rfind`` method that
Andrew M. Kuchling5c60bfc2008-01-19 18:18:41 +00005669 works as expected. ``mmap.find`` also takes an optional ``end``
5670 parameter.
5671
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005672- _winreg's HKEY object has gained __enter__ and __exit__ methods to
5673 support the context manager protocol. The _winreg module also
5674 gained a new function ``ExpandEnvironmentStrings`` to expand
5675 REG_EXPAND_SZ keys.
Christian Heimesb39a7562008-01-08 15:46:10 +00005676
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005677- itertools.starmap() now accepts any iterable input. Previously, it
5678 required the function inputs to be tuples.
Raymond Hettinger47317092008-01-17 03:02:14 +00005679
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005680- itertools.chain() now has an alternate constructor,
5681 chain.from_iterable().
Raymond Hettingerb4cbc982008-02-28 22:46:41 +00005682
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005683- Issue #1646: Make socket support TIPC. The socket module now has
5684 support for TIPC under Linux, see http://tipc.sf.net/ for more
5685 information.
Christian Heimesfb2d25a2008-01-07 16:12:44 +00005686
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005687- Added interface for Windows' WSAIoctl to socket object and added an
5688 example for a simple network sniffer.
Christian Heimes04ae9162008-01-04 15:23:30 +00005689
Guido van Rossum076d9ee2008-01-03 23:54:04 +00005690- Bug #1301: Bad assert in _tkinter fixed.
5691
Christian Heimescdaa2cb2007-12-31 14:47:07 +00005692- Added bdist_wininst executable for VS 2008.
5693
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005694- Bug #1604: collections.deque.__init__(iterable) now clears any prior
5695 contents before adding elements from the iterable. This fix brings
5696 the behavior into line with that for list.__init__().
Raymond Hettingeradf9ffd2007-12-13 00:08:37 +00005697
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005698- Added wide char functions to msvcrt module: getwch, getwche, putwch
5699 and ungetwch. The functions accept or return unicode.
Christian Heimes7c7f6af2007-12-10 15:12:41 +00005700
Martin v. Löwis69233e82007-12-04 08:39:16 +00005701- os.access now returns True on Windows for any existing directory.
5702
Christian Heimes28104c52007-11-27 23:16:44 +00005703- Added warnpy3k function to the warnings module.
5704
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005705- Marshal.dumps() now expects exact type matches for int, long, float,
5706 complex, tuple, list, dict, set, and frozenset. Formerly, it would
5707 silently miscode subclasses of those types. Now, it raises a
5708 ValueError instead.
Raymond Hettinger12e94202007-11-07 01:13:09 +00005709
Martin v. Löwis58bd49f2007-09-04 13:13:14 +00005710- Patch #1388440: Add set_completion_display_matches_hook and
5711 get_completion_type to readline.
5712
Thomas Helleref4fff32007-07-13 17:46:54 +00005713- Bug #1649098: Avoid declaration of zero-sized array declaration in
5714 structure.
5715
Brett Cannondc48b742007-05-20 07:09:50 +00005716- Removed the rgbimg module; been deprecated since Python 2.5.
5717
Neal Norwitz59f58aa2007-05-19 03:48:47 +00005718- Bug #1721309: prevent bsddb module from freeing random memory.
5719
Gregory P. Smith82eafe62007-10-18 17:17:57 +00005720- Bug #1233: fix bsddb.dbshelve.DBShelf append method to work as
5721 intended for RECNO databases.
5722
Gregory P. Smithec10a4a2007-11-05 02:32:26 +00005723- pybsddb.sf.net Bug #477182: Load the database flags at database open
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005724 time so that opening a database previously created with the DB_DUP
5725 or DB_DUPSORT flag set will keep the proper behavior on subsequent
5726 opens. Specifically: dictionary assignment to a DB object will
5727 replace all values for a given key when the database allows
5728 duplicate values. DB users should use DB.put(k, v) when they want
5729 to store duplicates; not DB[k] = v.
Gregory P. Smithec10a4a2007-11-05 02:32:26 +00005730
Gregory P. Smithac11e022007-11-05 02:56:31 +00005731- Add the bsddb.db.DBEnv.lock_id_free method.
5732
Martin v. Löwis3bf573f2007-04-04 18:30:36 +00005733- Bug #1686475: Support stat'ing open files on Windows again.
5734
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005735- Patch #1185447: binascii.b2a_qp() now correctly quotes binary
5736 characters with ASCII value less than 32. Also, it correctly quotes
5737 dots only if they occur on a single line, as opposed to the previous
5738 behavior of quoting dots if they are the second character of any
5739 line.
Georg Brandl4aef7272007-03-13 22:49:43 +00005740
Georg Brandla47337f2007-03-13 12:34:25 +00005741- Bug #1622896: fix a rare corner case where the bz2 module raised an
5742 error in spite of a succesful compression.
5743
Georg Brandl40c62612007-03-06 18:59:11 +00005744- Patch #1654417: make operator.{get,set,del}slice use the full range
5745 of Py_ssize_t.
5746
Guido van Rossum2054ee92007-03-06 15:50:01 +00005747- Patch #1646728: datetime.fromtimestamp fails with negative
5748 fractional times. With unittest.
5749
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005750- Patch #1490190: posixmodule now includes os.chflags() and
5751 os.lchflags() functions on platforms where the underlying system
5752 calls are available.
Martin v. Löwis382abef2007-02-19 10:55:19 +00005753
Georg Brandl983d1002007-02-15 11:29:04 +00005754- Patch #1494140: Add documentation for the new struct.Struct object.
5755
Martin v. Löwis45423a72007-02-14 10:07:37 +00005756- Patch #1432399: Support the HCI protocol for bluetooth sockets
5757
Martin v. Löwisb1cc1d42007-02-13 12:14:19 +00005758- Patch #1657276: Make NETLINK_DNRTMSG conditional.
5759
Martin v. Löwis4c11a922007-02-08 09:13:36 +00005760- Bug #1653736: Complain about keyword arguments to time.isoformat.
5761
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005762- Bug #1486663: don't reject keyword arguments for subclasses of
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00005763 built-in types.
Georg Brandlb84c1372007-01-21 10:28:43 +00005764
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005765- Patch #1610575: The struct module now supports the 't' code, for C99
5766 _Bool.
Martin v. Löwisaef4c6b2007-01-21 09:33:07 +00005767
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005768- Patch #1635058: ensure that htonl and friends never accept or return
5769 negative numbers, per the underlying C implementation.
Guido van Rossumbb2cc692007-01-14 17:03:32 +00005770
Martin v. Löwis046c4d12006-12-03 11:23:45 +00005771- Patch #1544279: Improve thread-safety of the socket module by moving
5772 the sock_addr_t storage out of the socket object.
5773
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005774- Patch #1019808: fix bug that causes an incorrect error to be
5775 returned when a socket timeout is set and a connection attempt
5776 fails.
Andrew M. Kuchling060e6852008-01-19 20:47:59 +00005777
Neal Norwitz45e230a2006-11-19 21:26:53 +00005778- Speed up function calls into the math module.
5779
Georg Brandl25aabf42006-11-16 17:08:45 +00005780- Bug #1588217: don't parse "= " as a soft line break in binascii's
5781 a2b_qp() function, instead leave it in the string as quopri.decode()
5782 does.
5783
Neal Norwitz4fe44232006-11-21 05:26:22 +00005784- Bug #1599782: Fix segfault on bsddb.db.DB().type().
5785
Martin v. Löwis012bc722006-10-15 09:43:39 +00005786- Bug #1567666: Emulate GetFileAttributesExA for Win95.
5787
Martin v. Löwis18aaa562006-10-15 08:43:33 +00005788- Patch #1576166: Support os.utime for directories on Windows NT+.
5789
Georg Brandl412a9ea2006-10-09 19:03:06 +00005790- Patch #1572724: fix typo ('=' instead of '==') in _msi.c.
5791
Hye-Shik Changb7883462006-10-08 13:48:34 +00005792- Bug #1572832: fix a bug in ISO-2022 codecs which may cause segfault
5793 when encoding non-BMP unicode characters.
5794
Georg Brandl4ddfcd32006-09-30 11:17:34 +00005795- Bug #1556784: allow format strings longer than 127 characters in
5796 datetime's strftime function.
5797
Jack Diederichd10a0f72006-09-21 20:34:49 +00005798- Fix itertools.count(n) to work with negative numbers again.
5799
Martin v. Löwis43fd99c2006-09-16 17:36:37 +00005800- RLIMIT_SBSIZE was added to the resource module where available.
5801
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005802- Bug #1551427: fix a wrong NULL pointer check in the win32 version of
5803 os.urandom().
Georg Brandl74bb7832006-09-06 06:03:59 +00005804
Neal Norwitz6aefa912006-09-02 02:50:35 +00005805- Bug #1548092: fix curses.tparm seg fault on invalid input.
5806
Andrew M. Kuchling62182c82008-01-08 14:56:02 +00005807- Patch #1114: fix curses module compilation on 64-bit AIX, & possibly
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005808 other 64-bit LP64 platforms where attr_t is not the same size as a
5809 long. (Contributed by Luke Mewburn.)
Andrew M. Kuchling62182c82008-01-08 14:56:02 +00005810
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005811- Bug #1550714: fix SystemError from itertools.tee on negative value
5812 for n.
Neal Norwitz69e88972006-09-02 02:58:13 +00005813
Hye-Shik Chang199f1db2006-09-05 12:07:09 +00005814- Fixed a few bugs on cjkcodecs:
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005815 - gbk and gb18030 codec now handle U+30FB KATAKANA MIDDLE DOT
5816 correctly.
Hye-Shik Chang199f1db2006-09-05 12:07:09 +00005817 - iso2022_jp_2 codec now encodes into G0 for KS X 1001, GB2312
5818 codepoints to conform the standard.
Hye-Shik Chang2cad3e92006-09-05 12:14:57 +00005819 - iso2022_jp_3 and iso2022_jp_2004 codec can encode JIS X 0213:2
Hye-Shik Chang199f1db2006-09-05 12:07:09 +00005820 codepoints now.
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00005821
Andrew M. Kuchling43889c02006-09-27 16:37:30 +00005822- Bug #1552726: in readline.c, avoid repeatedly polling in interactive
5823 mode by only placing a timeout on the select() if an input hook has
5824 been defined. This prevents an interactive Python from waking up 10
5825 times per second. Patch by Richard Boulton.
5826
Gregory P. Smithf09c6262007-03-17 22:33:35 +00005827- fixed a bug with bsddb.DB.stat: the flags and txn keyword arguments
5828 were transposed.
5829
Jesus Cea4907d272008-08-31 14:00:51 +00005830- Added support for linking the bsddb module against BerkeleyDB 4.5.x,
5831 4.6.x and 4.7.x.
Gregory P. Smith8b96a352007-01-05 01:59:42 +00005832
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005833- Bug #1633621: if curses.resizeterm() or curses.resize_term() is
5834 called, update _curses.LINES, _curses.COLS, curses.LINES and
5835 curses.COLS.
Andrew M. Kuchling43889c02006-09-27 16:37:30 +00005836
Matthias Klosee19e0c22007-04-03 04:35:59 +00005837- Fix an off-by-one bug in locale.strxfrm().
5838
Matthias Klose38336402007-09-04 20:46:02 +00005839- Fix libffi configure for hppa*-*-linux* | parisc*-*-linux*.
5840
Matthias Klose9afb9852007-10-24 20:00:44 +00005841- Build using system ffi library on arm*-linux*.
5842
Christian Heimes3f065a42007-11-21 01:17:28 +00005843- Bug #1372: zlibmodule.c: int overflow in PyZlib_decompress
Matthias Klosee19e0c22007-04-03 04:35:59 +00005844
Gregory P. Smitheeed5b72008-02-03 07:20:53 +00005845- bsddb module: Fix memory leak when using database cursors on
5846 databases without a DBEnv.
5847
Gerhard Häring11ab8072008-03-02 13:12:27 +00005848- The sqlite3 module was updated to pysqlite 2.4.1.
5849
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00005850Tests
5851-----
5852
Brett Cannon56c4deb2008-03-03 00:38:58 +00005853- Refactor test_logging to use unittest.
Brett Cannonf9db8a32008-02-17 01:59:18 +00005854
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005855- Refactor test_profile and test_cprofile to use the same code to
5856 profile.
Georg Brandlb7090772008-02-05 19:58:17 +00005857
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005858- Make test_runpy reentrant by fixing _check_module to clear out any
5859 module being tested. Was causing an error by __import__ doing a
5860 reload on the second run and thus suppressing bytecode recreation.
Brett Cannondbed7a72007-08-23 14:53:17 +00005861
Brett Cannonea2835a2007-03-14 21:44:15 +00005862- Capture socket connection resets and timeouts in test_socket_ssl and
5863 test_urllib2net and raise test.test_support.ResourceDenied.
Brett Cannoned001842007-03-14 21:40:13 +00005864
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005865- Patch #1559413: Fix test_cmd_line if sys.executable contains a
5866 space.
Martin v. Löwiscd1210a2007-03-14 20:02:31 +00005867
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005868- Added test.test_support.TransientResource which is a context manager
5869 to surround calls to resources that are not guaranteed to work even
5870 if test.test_support.requires says that the resource should exist.
Brett Cannona30fcb42007-03-08 23:58:11 +00005871
Brett Cannone05e6b02007-01-29 04:41:44 +00005872- Added a test for slicing of an exception.
5873
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005874- Added test.test_support.EnvironmentVarGuard. It's a class that
5875 provides a context manager so that one can temporarily set or unset
5876 environment variables.
Brett Cannon92d54d52007-01-04 00:23:49 +00005877
Thomas Heller112d1a62006-10-27 19:05:53 +00005878- Added some tests for modulefinder.
5879
Brett Cannon373d90b2006-10-03 23:23:14 +00005880- Converted test_imp to use unittest.
5881
Neal Norwitz919d5cc2006-09-05 02:35:08 +00005882- Fix bsddb test_basics.test06_Transactions to check the version
5883 number properly.
5884
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005885- test.test_support.catch_warning is a new context manager that can be
5886 used to catch the warnings issued by the warning framework.
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00005887
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00005888Tools
5889-----
5890
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005891- Tools/scripts/reindent.py now creates the backup file using
5892 shutil.copy to preserve user/group and permissions. Added also a
5893 --nobackup option to not create the backup if the user is concerned
5894 regarding this. Check issue 1050828 for more details.
Facundo Batistaf88a0772008-02-17 16:21:13 +00005895
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005896- Tools/scripts/win_add2path.py was added. The simple script modifes
5897 the PATH environment var of the HKCU tree and adds the python bin
5898 and script directory.
Christian Heimesbd865db2008-01-18 11:58:50 +00005899
Skip Montanaro3e275362007-08-29 01:33:45 +00005900- Tools/18n/pygettext.py was added to the list of scripts installed by
5901 Tools/scripts/setup.py (tracker item 642309).
5902
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005903- Added IronPython and Jython support to pybench (part of which was
5904 patch #1563844).
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00005905
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005906- Made some minor changes to pybench output to allow the user to see
5907 which Python version is running pybench.
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00005908
5909- Added support for the new platform module feature
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005910 platform.python_implementation(); this will now be saved in the
5911 benchmark pickle.
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00005912
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00005913
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00005914Documentation
5915-------------
5916
Vinay Sajipd7cf32e2008-01-24 12:43:33 +00005917- RFE #1765140: Updated documentation on FileHandler and subclasses to
5918 include new optional delay argument.
5919
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005920- Bug #932563: Added section on getting contextual information into
5921 logging output, and added documentation for the new LoggerAdapter
5922 class.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00005923
5924- Bug #1295: Added information about caching of formatted exception
5925 information in the LogRecord by Formatter.format().
5926
Georg Brandl9467bc52007-07-12 09:37:49 +00005927- Bug #1637365: add subsection about "__name__ == __main__" to the
5928 Python tutorial.
5929
Georg Brandl3dc6e902007-04-25 06:24:59 +00005930- Patch #1698768: updated the "using Python on the Mac" intro.
5931
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005932- Bug #1569057: Document that calling file.next() when the file is
5933 open for writing is undefined.
Brett Cannon55a18642007-04-08 04:29:32 +00005934
Žiga Seilnachtc64ad482007-03-24 14:24:26 +00005935- Patch #1489771: the syntax rules in Python Reference Manual were
5936 updated to reflect the current Python syntax.
5937
Martin v. Löwis2f401d72007-03-23 10:35:49 +00005938- Patch #1686451: Fix return type for
5939 PySequence_{Count,Index,Fast_GET_SIZE}.
5940
Georg Brandl0692a262007-03-13 07:50:57 +00005941- Patch #1679379: add documentation for fnmatch.translate().
5942
Collin Winterb7b2b4e2007-03-09 18:09:10 +00005943- Bug #1629566: clarify the docs on the return values of parsedate()
5944 and parsedate_tz() in email.utils and rfc822.
5945
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00005946- Patch #1671450: add a section about subclassing built-in types to the
Georg Brandld28b9fc2007-03-06 10:02:47 +00005947 "extending and embedding" tutorial.
5948
Georg Brandlb26b1c62007-01-17 21:19:58 +00005949- Bug #1629125: fix wrong data type (int -> Py_ssize_t) in PyDict_Next
5950 docs.
5951
Georg Brandla4c8e322006-10-12 08:22:53 +00005952- Bug #1565919: document set types in the Language Reference.
5953
Georg Brandl44a7b3a2006-09-30 12:02:57 +00005954- Bug #1546052: clarify that PyString_FromString(AndSize) copies the
5955 string pointed to by its parameter.
5956
Georg Brandlfb257732006-09-30 09:06:45 +00005957- Bug #1566663: remove obsolete example from datetime docs.
5958
Georg Brandl648c1102006-08-18 07:27:59 +00005959- Bug #1541682: Fix example in the "Refcount details" API docs.
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005960 Additionally, remove a faulty example showing PySequence_SetItem
5961 applied to a newly created list object and add notes that this isn't
5962 a good idea.
Georg Brandl648c1102006-08-18 07:27:59 +00005963
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00005964
Georg Brandl27562782006-10-27 20:39:43 +00005965Tools/Demos
5966-----------
5967
5968- Patch #1552024: add decorator support to unparse.py demo script.
Marc-André Lemburg96148682006-09-06 20:40:22 +00005969
Brett Cannonc8939d22006-09-20 19:28:35 +00005970- Make auto-generated python.vim file list built-ins and exceptions in
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005971 alphatbetical order. Makes output more deterministic and easier to
5972 tell if the file is stale or not.
Brett Cannonc8939d22006-09-20 19:28:35 +00005973
Marc-André Lemburg96148682006-09-06 20:40:22 +00005974- Bug #1546372: Fixed small bugglet in pybench that caused a missing
5975 file not to get reported properly.
5976
5977
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00005978Build
5979-----
5980
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005981- Have the search path for building extensions follow the declared
5982 order in $CPPFLAGS and $LDFLAGS when adding directories from those
5983 environment variables.
Brett Cannon70c0c022008-02-03 09:59:21 +00005984
Christian Heimes951cc0f2008-01-31 23:08:23 +00005985- Bug #1983: Added a check to pyport to verify that sizeof(pid_t) is
5986 smaller or equal sizeof(long).
5987
Christian Heimescba36bb2008-01-30 22:54:18 +00005988- Bug #1234: Fixed semaphore errors on AIX 5.2
5989
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005990- Issue #1726: Remove Python/atof.c from PCBuild/pythoncore.vcproj.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00005991
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005992- Removed PCbuild8/ directory and added a new build directory for VS
5993 2005 based on the VS 2008 build directory to PC/VS8.0. The script
5994 PCbuild/vs8to9.py was added to sync changes from PCbuild to
5995 PC/VS8.0.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00005996
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005997- Moved PCbuild/ directory for VS 2003 to PC/VS7.1 and renamed
5998 PCBuild9/ directory to PCBuild/.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00005999
Martin v. Löwiscb78de62007-12-29 18:49:21 +00006000- Bug #1699: Define _BSD_SOURCE only on OpenBSD.
6001
Guido van Rossum7c862f82007-12-13 20:50:10 +00006002- Bug #1608: use -fwrapv when GCC supports it. This is important,
6003 newer GCC versions may optimize away overflow buffer overflow checks
6004 without this option!
6005
Martin v. Löwis63bf1492007-11-12 05:14:05 +00006006- Patch #1418: Make the AC_REPLACE_FUNCS object files actually work.
6007
Raymond Hettingerdc1d1ba2007-11-07 02:45:46 +00006008- Add a FAST_LOOPS build option that speeds-up looping by trading away
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006009 periodic threadstate and signal checking in tight loops. By
6010 default, this option is turned-off. It should only be enabled in
6011 debugged, performance critical applications.
Raymond Hettingerdc1d1ba2007-11-07 02:45:46 +00006012
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006013- Patch #786737: Allow building in a tree of symlinks pointing to a
6014 readonly source.
Martin v. Löwisd44a4e92007-09-05 11:47:34 +00006015
Martin v. Löwis8bc77e42007-09-01 06:36:03 +00006016- Bug #1737210: Change Manufacturer of Windows installer to PSF.
6017
Martin v. Löwis75c23bd2007-08-30 18:25:47 +00006018- Bug #1746880: Correctly install DLLs into system32 folder on Win64.
6019
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006020- Define _BSD_SOURCE, to get access to POSIX extensions on OpenBSD
6021 4.1+.
Martin v. Löwis76760b02007-07-31 19:57:56 +00006022
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006023- Stop supporting AtheOS and cause a build error in configure for the
6024 platform.
Brett Cannon19fab762007-06-02 03:02:29 +00006025
Georg Brandldb846032007-03-31 18:56:11 +00006026- Bug #1655392: don't add -L/usr/lib/pythonX.Y/config to the LDFLAGS
6027 returned by python-config if Python was built with --enable-shared
6028 because that prevented the shared library from being used.
6029
Georg Brandl18c47f62007-03-13 10:19:22 +00006030- Patch #1569798: fix a bug in distutils when building Python from a
6031 directory within sys.exec_prefix.
6032
Martin v. Löwiseb623572007-03-12 10:50:39 +00006033- Bug #1675511: Use -Kpic instead of -xcode=pic32 on Solaris/x86.
6034
Martin v. Löwis4d542ec2006-11-25 15:39:19 +00006035- Disable _XOPEN_SOURCE on NetBSD 1.x.
6036
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006037- configure now checks whether gcc supports the PyArg_ParseTuple
6038 format attribute.
Martin v. Löwisaac13162006-10-19 10:58:46 +00006039
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00006040- Bug #1578513: Cross compilation was broken by a change to configure.
Martin v. Löwisfefbc202006-10-17 18:59:23 +00006041 Repair so that it's back to how it was in 2.4.3.
6042
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006043- Patch #1576954: Update VC6 build directory; remove redundant files
6044 in VC7.
Martin v. Löwisc9e82f62006-10-15 07:54:40 +00006045
Martin v. Löwisebe26702006-10-02 14:55:51 +00006046- Bug #1568842: Fix test for uintptr_t.
6047
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006048- Patch #1540470: for OpenBSD 4.0.
Neal Norwitz4bc2c092006-09-05 02:57:01 +00006049
Matthias Klosed149d0c2006-12-03 17:16:41 +00006050- Fix build failure on kfreebsd and on the hurd.
6051
Matthias Kloseebde1492006-12-09 12:15:27 +00006052- Fix the build of the library reference in info format.
6053
Matthias Kloseeb8ff672007-08-02 21:33:13 +00006054- Allow Emacs 22 for building the documentation in info format.
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00006055
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006056- Makefile.pre.in(buildbottest): Run an optional script
6057 pybuildbot.identify to include some information about the build
6058 environment.
Matthias Klose642ac852007-09-04 18:17:36 +00006059
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00006060
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00006061C API
6062-----
6063
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006064- Unified naming convention for free lists and their limits. All free
6065 lists in Object/ are named ``free_list``, the counter ``numfree``
6066 and the upper limit is a macro ``PyName_MAXFREELIST`` inside an
6067 #ifndef block.
Christian Heimes5b970ad2008-02-06 13:33:44 +00006068
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006069- ``PySet_Add()`` can now modify a newly created frozenset. Similarly
6070 to ``PyTuple_SetItem``, it can be used to populate a brand new
6071 frozenset; but it does not steal a reference to the added item.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arccab3d982008-02-03 22:51:43 +00006072
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00006073- Added ``PySet_Check()`` and ``PyFrozenSet_Check()`` to the set API.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arccab3d982008-02-03 22:51:43 +00006074
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006075- Backport of PyUnicode_FromString(), _FromStringAndSize(), _Format
6076 and _FormatV from Python 3.0. Made PyLong_AsSsize_t and
6077 PyLong_FromSsize_t public functions.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00006078
6079- Patch #1720595: add T_BOOL to the range of structmember types.
6080
6081- Issue #1534: Added ``PyFloat_GetMax()``, ``PyFloat_GetMin()`` and
6082 ``PyFloat_GetInfo()`` to the float API.
6083
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006084- Issue #1521: On 64bit platforms, using PyArgs_ParseTuple with the t#
6085 of w# format code incorrectly truncated the length to an int, even
6086 when PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN is set. The str.decode method used to return
6087 incorrect results with huge strings.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00006088
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006089- Issue #1629: Renamed Py_Size, Py_Type and Py_Refcnt to Py_SIZE,
6090 Py_TYPE and Py_REFCNT.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00006091
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006092- PEP 3123: Provide forward compatibility with Python 3.0, while
6093 keeping backwards compatibility. Add Py_Refcnt, Py_Type, Py_Size,
6094 and PyVarObject_HEAD_INIT.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00006095
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006096- Py_ssize_t fields work in structmember when HAVE_LONG_LONG is not
6097 defined.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00006098
6099- Patch #1733960: Allow T_LONGLONG to accept ints.
6100
6101- T_PYSSIZET can now be used in PyMemberDef lists for Py_ssize_t members.
6102
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00006103- Added a new API function ``PyImport_ImportModuleNoBlock``.
6104
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00006105- Bug #1637022: Prefix AST symbols with _Py_.
6106
6107- Fix some leftovers from the conversion from int to Py_ssize_t
6108 (relevant to strings and sequences of more than 2**31 items).
6109
6110- Make _PyGILState_NoteThreadState() static, it was not used anywhere
6111 outside of pystate.c and should not be necessary.
6112
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006113- ``PyImport_Import`` and ``PyImport_ImportModule`` now always do
6114 absolute imports. In earlier versions they might have used relative
6115 imports under some conditions.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00006116
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006117- Added case insensitive comparison methods ``PyOS_stricmp(char*,
6118 char*)`` and ``PyOS_strnicmp(char*, char*, Py_ssize_t)``.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00006119
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006120- Bug #1542693: remove semi-colon at end of PyImport_ImportModuleEx
6121 macro so it can be used as an expression.
Neal Norwitz8a267062006-08-19 04:25:29 +00006122
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00006123
Martin v. Löwis2607e6c2006-11-21 18:20:25 +00006124Windows
6125-------
6126
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006127- Patch #1706: Drop support for Win9x, WinME and NT4. Python now
6128 requires Windows 2000 or greater. The _WINVER and NTDDI_VERSION
6129 macros are set to Win2k for x86/32bit builds and WinXP for AMD64
6130 builds.
Christian Heimes95d64472008-02-09 19:55:22 +00006131
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006132- Conditionalize definition of _CRT_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE and
6133 _CRT_NONSTDC_NO_DEPRECATE.
Martin v. Löwis2607e6c2006-11-21 18:20:25 +00006134
Martin v. Löwisd476a402007-10-12 08:56:52 +00006135- Bug #1216: Restore support for Visual Studio 2002.
6136
Martin v. Löwis2607e6c2006-11-21 18:20:25 +00006137
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00006138Mac
6139---
6140
Brett Cannonf0cb1d72007-05-31 20:01:11 +00006141- cfmfile now raises a DeprecationWarning.
6142
Brett Cannon791d56f2007-05-31 19:40:42 +00006143- buildtools now raises a DeprecationWarning.
6144
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006145- Removed the macfs module. It had been deprecated since Python 2.5.
6146 This lead to the deprecation of macostools.touched() as it relied
6147 solely on macfs and was a no-op under OS X.
Brett Cannon5e263512007-05-20 23:17:38 +00006148
Skip Montanaroe5d7f7f2002-09-20 14:16:59 +00006149----
6150
6151**(For information about older versions, consult the HISTORY file.)**